If is a closed bounded interval, we also allow the possibility ( this convention makes it possible to talk about " closed " simple curves, see below ).

With this alternate sign convention for work, the first law for a closed system may be written:

A predestination paradox ( also called causal loop, causality loop, and, less frequently, closed loop or closed time loop ) is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction.

When the voting is closed, a final head count is conducted, and each precinct apportions delegates to the county convention.

Before the convention closed, he became convinced that the new government would have too much power over state governments and would threaten individual rights.

Lane finally forces Glass to drive out to the convention site to trace the agent, but the Bethesda office building where the convention supposedly took place is closed on Sundays, and the nearby restaurant where he claims they ate dinner closes at 3 p. m.

After that date, the old terminal was closed and it was later turned into a convention center.

The Stardust took over the closed Royal Nevada hotel-casino, remodeled the showroom, and converted it into a convention center and high-roller suite.

Upon entry into force, some of these conventions were closed for ratification and becoming a party to this convention automatically resulted in denunciation of the older ones.

FedCon is not to be confused with FedCon USA, a similar convention in Dallas, United States, in June 2008 which licensed the name but closed mid-convention due to poor attendance.

Shortly after the 2003 convention at the Regal ( attendance 5, 000 ), the Regal closed and the convention had to find yet another new location.

The building remained closed until investigations by the contractors were completed on March 9, the fault was repaired, and the convention center reopened.

* 1872 – The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

When the Republicans in June 1896 nominated former Ohio Governor William McKinley for president and passed at his request a platform strongly supporting the gold standard, a number of " Silver Republicans " walked out of the convention.

In 1880, the Ohio legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate ; in that same year, the leading Republican presidential contenders – Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine and John Sherman – failed to garner the requisite support at their convention.

He was nominated by the party convention and then elected an Ohio state senator in 1859, serving until 1861.

Following the decision by party leaders in 1855 not to press the slavery issue, the convention had to decide how to deal with the Ohio Party, which was vocally anti-slavery.

President Theodore Roosevelt, in his " Charter of Democracy " speech to the 1912 Ohio constitutional convention, stated " I believe in the Initiative and Referendum, which should be used not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative.

Originally organized on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio, and officially declared at a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874.

The industrialist was successfully opposed by Cowles at the local convention, but was elected a delegate at-large from Ohio at the state convention.

At the national convention, Hanna joined forces in support of Sherman with another delegate at-large from Ohio, former Cincinnati judge Joseph B. Foraker, whose rise in state and national politics over the next 20 years would parallel Hanna's.

B. Morrow contradicted Foraker's account, stating: " I was at the convention in 1888 and know Senator Foraker he later became brought great scandal to the Ohio people who were there and to the delegates with his secret work with Mr. Blaine's friends ... Mr. Hanna became thoroughly angered at what he thought was Senator Foraker's bad faith.

When McKinley led the delegation of Republican dignitaries sent to formally advise Harrison of his convention triumph, the President, angered over the " profusion of McKinley buttons, placards and streamers that littered path to victory ", had only a cold formal greeting for the Ohio governor.

Despite the opposition of Illinois ' Republican political machine, Dawes and Hanna were able to secure all but a few of Illinois ' delegates for McKinley, giving the former Ohio governor a strong advantage going into the convention.

On April 25, 2004, at a Buffy fan convention in Cleveland, Ohio, he announced that he had voluntarily entered rehab for alcoholism.

Midwestcon is a science fiction convention held annually in the Cincinnati, Ohio area by the Cincinnati Fantasy Group.

At a May, 1919 convention in Ohio he announced the publication of a new magazine, The Golden Age ( later renamed Awake !).

Beginning with an eight-day convention at Cedar Point, Ohio, in September 1922 Rutherford, launched a series of major international conventions under the theme " Advertise the King and Kingdom ", attracting crowds of up to 20, 000.

The convention was formed at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1961, in a separation from the older National Baptist Convention, U. S. A., Inc. ( NBCUSA ).

Convinced that no accommodation with the leadership of the Knights of Labor was possible, the heads of the five labor organizations which issued the call for the April 1886 conference issued a new call for a convention to be held December 8, 1886 in Columbus, Ohio in order to construct " an American federation of alliance of all national and international trade unions.

He was recognized as a national honorary member in 1930, and presented with the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award at the national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1954.

( Outraged at his treatment by Lincoln, Ohio Democrats by a vote of 411-11 nominated Vallandigham for governor at their June 11 convention.

* Twinsburg, Ohio, location of an annual twin convention

In 1886, as the relations between the trade union movement and the Knights of Labor worsened, McGuire and other union leaders called for a convention to be held at Columbus, Ohio on December 8.

The chapter naming convention is composed of the top level subnational division of that chapter's host institution, and a Greek letter in alphabetical order from when the charter was originally issued.

As a result, there have been rare instances when the chapter naming convention may not appear to be consistent with the charter dates.

In 1933 FFA members from the local chapter arrived at the national convention in blue corduroy jackets with the FFA emblem on the back.

At a Washington, D. C. convention in 1935, Rutherford rejected Russell's teaching that the " great company " of Revelation 7: 9 was a " secondary spiritual class " composed of millions of Christians who would be resurrected to heaven apart from the 144, 000 " elect ", and instead argued that the " great multitude ", the " sheep " of Matthew 25 and the " Jonadabs " of 2 Kings chapter 10 all picture the people who could potentially survive Armageddon and receive everlasting human life on earth if they became Jehovah's Witnesses before it began.

Oxford: Claredon Press, 1964-1984 ) there is an academic convention of quoting the Enneads by first mentioning the number of Ennead ( usually in Romans from I to VI ), the number of treatise within each Ennead ( in arabics from 1 to 9 ), the number of chapter ( in arabics also ), and the line ( s ) in one of the mentioned editions.

At the 2005 convention, the fraternity adopted " Vision 2025 ," a plan to transform Delta Sigma Phi into " America's Leading Fraternity " by the year 2025 with aggressive goals for leadership training, alumni involvement, and new chapter development.

Beta Club, Mu Alpha Theta, and the Junior Classical League always attend their club's state convention, often sweeping many awards for their chapter.

By book publishing convention, the first page of a book, and sometimes of each section and chapter of a book, is a recto page, and hence all recto pages will have odd numbers and all verso pages will have even numbers.

In 1963 when McGraw-Hill published Differential Geometry by Heinrich Guggenheimer of the University of Minnesota, he uses the row vector convention in chapter 5, " Introduction to transformation groups " ( eqs.

Warfield was made an honorary member of the Delta Lambda chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at Ball State University in 1961, and awarded the Fraternity's Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award in 1976 at its national convention in Evansville, Indiana.

Upon learning that the Dartmouth delegation to Theta Chi's national convention later that year planned to raise questions about the clause, the Alpha Theta chapter was derecognized by the national organization on July 25, 1952.

The Brunonian ( Brown University ) chapter first initiated women into its local membership in November, 1973 and this was followed by a proposal at the 1974 national convention to either allow individual chapters to admit women or to do so fraternity-wide.

The Southern California state also added the American School in Honduras as a chapter in 2006 and the school's chapter attended the annual Congress convention.

The COCP is group of chapter presidents that go to one meeting at every convention to discuss the on goings of their chapter and problems that they face. In the New Jersey Region of the Mid Atlantic State, the Secretary of the COCP is responsible for cohosting the 5 meetings with the Vice Mayor and creates the rules for Chapter Challenge, a game for chapters to try and outperform each other in terms of convention delegations, speakers and moderators, activism activities, and other things that enhance the JSA experience.

The first such chapter was North Carolina Xi at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which was responsible only to the general convention, the last was Tennessee Omega at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.

The Massachusetts State Legislature authorized the BCEC under chapter 152 of the Acts of 1997, which also provided for redevelopment of the Springfield, Massachusetts convention center among other actions designed to balance the impact across the state.

When the book is divided into numbered chapters, by convention the introduction and any other front-matter sections are unnumbered and precede chapter 1.

The Gaylaxian Science Fiction Society ( GSFS ) is the New England – based chapter of the Network, which organized the original convention and continues to be a driving force behind many of the Gaylaxicons.

The Gaylaxian Science Fiction Society ( GSFS ) is the New England – based chapter of the Network, which organized the original convention in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1988, and continues to be a driving force behind many of the Gaylaxicons.

The convention was hosted by the Beta Chi chapter at the University of Virginia, and the convention and concert were co-sponsored by the Universities of Rutgers, Maryland, and Pittsburgh.