Preventing amputations is a critical task.

Attributed to Immanuel Kant, the critical philosophy movement sees the primary task of philosophy as criticism rather than justification of knowledge ; criticism, for Kant, meant judging as to the possibilities of knowledge before advancing to knowledge itself ( from the Greek kritike ( techne ), or " art of judgment ").

The initial, and perhaps even sole task of philosophers, according to this view, is not to establish and demonstrate theories about reality, but rather to subject all theories — including those about philosophy itself — to critical review, and measure their validity by how well they withstand criticism.

* David B. Allison is an early translator of Derrida and states in the introduction to his translation of Speech and Phenomena that: signifies a project of critical thought whose task is to locate and ' take apart ' those concepts which serve as the axioms or rules for a period of thought, those concepts which command the unfolding of an entire epoch of metaphysics.

Separation of duties ensures that an individual can not complete a critical task by himself.

The critical response time, sometimes called the flyback time, is the time it takes to queue a new ready task and restore the state of the highest priority task to running.

While interrupts are masked, the current task has exclusive use of the CPU since no other task or interrupt can take control, so the critical section is protected.

When the task exits its critical section, it must unmask interrupts ; pending interrupts, if any, will then execute.

It is sometimes a difficult task to identify which part of the system represents this critical path, and some test tools include ( or can have add-ons that provide ) instrumentation that runs on the server ( agents ) and report transaction times, database access times, network overhead, and other server monitors, which can be analyzed together with the raw performance statistics.

One task which they can fulfill quite usefully is the study of the critical methods of science " ( Ibid., p. 335 ).

With a single instruction the 8051 can switch register banks as opposed to the time consuming task of transferring the critical registers to the stack or designated RAM locations.

A critical task in setting up a business is to conduct research in order to validate, assess and develop the ideas or business concepts in addition to opportunities to establish further and deeper understanding on the ideas or business concepts as well as their commercial potential.

Besides writing critical code in assembly language, he would write C code to perform the same task in several different ways and then examine the compiler output to see which produced the most efficient assembly code.

Viewed in this way, solipsism seems only to have found a facile way to avoid the more difficult task of a critical analysis of what is ' real ' and what isn't, and what ' reality ' means.

The IBM task force assembled to develop the PC decided that critical components of the machine, including the operating system, would come from outside vendors.

The textual critic's task, therefore, is to sort through the variants, eliminating those most likely to be un-original, hence establishing a " critical text ", or critical edition, that is intended to best approximate the original.

This is in contrast to the more traditional critical path and PERT methods, which emphasize task order and rigid scheduling.

The " extra " duration of each task on the critical chain — the difference between the " safe " durations and the 50 % durations — is gathered together in a buffer at the end of the project.

Because task durations have been planned at the 50 % probability duration, there is pressure on the resources to complete critical chain tasks as quickly as possible, overcoming student's syndrome and Parkinson's Law.

More generally, this philosophical syncretism was set out at the expense of some of the doctrines included within it, and it is possible that Steuco ’ s critical faculties were not up to the task he had set himself.

It has been utilized in PERT, critical path method ( CPM ) and other project management / control systems to describe the statistical distributions of the time to completion and the cost of a task.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

The critical, rigorous examinations of Nicholas of Cusa and Nicholas of Oresme provided the context ( a late medieval context ) for Nicholas Copernicus' own work.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

Mr. McKinley examined everything with critical care, seeking something material to blame for his son's illness.

Two data centers have been established for the collection, indexing, critical evaluation, and dissemination of bibliographies and critical values in the fields of transition probabilities and collision cross sections.

This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.

It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

In considering BW defense, it must be recognized that a number of critical meterological parameters must be met for an aerosol to exhibit optimum effect.

At certain critical stages, and only for sound diagnostic reasons, it may be important to accompany family members in their use of these resources if their problem-solving behavior is to be constructive rather than defeating.

Woodward, for example, has emphasized the `` need for a broad spectrum of services, including very brief services in connection with critical situations ''.

Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.

The third time was on the floor of the Beverly Hilton ballroom and for the critical eyes and tongues of judges.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

It is no common thing for a listener ( critical or otherwise ) to hear a singer `` live '' for the first time only after he has died.

" We believe that the ability to perceive other people's actions as meaningful is critical for altruism ", said lead study investigator Dharol Tankersley.

However, certain critical interlocutory court orders, such as the denial of a request for an interim injunction, or an order holding a person in contempt of court, can be appealed immediately although the case may otherwise not have been fully disposed of.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

The machine was, however, the first to implement three critical ideas that are still part of every modern computer:

The best use of this lightly armed fast moving cavalry was revealed at the Battle of Yarmouk ( 636 AD ) in which Khalid ibn Walid, knowing the skills of his horsemen, used them to turn the tables at every critical instance of the battle with their ability to engage, disengage, then turn back and attack again from the flank or rear.

Being as critical as they are to the overall function of the system, such heavy use would create an insurmountable bottleneck for trillions of queries placed every day.

Therefore, every educational program that desires to improve students ' outcomes in political, health and economic behavior should include a Socratically taught set of classes to teach logic and critical thinking.

As David Kaiser writes, " since the middle of the 20th century, theoretical physicists have increasingly turned to this tool to help them undertake critical calculations ," and as such " Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics ".

* Rashi's oldest daughter, Yocheved, married Meir ben Shmuel ; their four sons were: Shmuel ( Rashbam ) ( b. 1080 ), Yitzchak ( Rivam ) ( b. 1090 ), Jacob ( Rabbeinu Tam ) ( b. 1100 ), and Shlomo the Grammarian, who were among the most prolific of the Baalei Tosafos, leading rabbinic authorities who wrote critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud which appear opposite Rashi's commentary on every page of the Talmud.

The probabilities of every payout on the pay table is also critical.

If a critical section is long, then the system clock will drift every time a critical section is executed since the timer interrupt is no longer serviced, so tracking time is impossible during the critical section.

" He writes, " Magic supplies primitive man with a number of ready-made rituals, acts and beliefs, with a definite mental and practical technique which serves to bridge over the dangerous gaps in every important pursuit or critical situation.

To avoid needing unique driver software for every device made, special Common Flash Memory Interface ( CFI ) commands allow the device to identify itself and its critical operating parameters.

Building on this, and to accommodate Leonard Hayflick's idea of limited somatic cell division, Olovnikov suggested that DNA sequences are lost every time a cell / DNA replicates until the loss reaches a critical level, at which point cell division ends.

In early August 2006, a plan was announced to encrypt critical data on every laptop in the agency using disk encryption software.

Slowly the book's critical capital began to rise to the point that, in 1957, Northrop Frye described Finnegans Wake as the “ chief ironic epic of our time ” and Anthony Burgess lauded the book as " a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.

He wrote to Prevost's Adjutant General, My situation is most critical, not from anything the enemy can do, but from the disposition of the people – The Population, believe me is essentially bad – A full belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably succumb – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers, all, have imbibed the idea, and are so sluggish and indifferent in all their respective offices that the artful and active scoundrel is allowed to parade the Country without interruption, and commit all imaginable mischief ... What a change an additional regiment would make in this part of the Province!

Because our ratings were up, because of our critical attention, Joss specifically asked Jordan Levin, who was the head of The WB at the time, to give us an early pick-up because every year they wait so long to give Angel a pick-up a lot of us turn down jobs hoping that Angel will continue – he didn't want that to happen.

He was prompted to write it by three motives: ( 1 ) to satisfy the minds of students of the Law and stimulate their interest by a critical examination of the text ; ( 2 ) to justify the ways of God and discover the hidden meanings of the words of Scripture, " for in the Torah are hidden every wonder and every mystery, and in her treasures is sealed every beauty of wisdom "; ( 3 ) to soothe the minds of the students by simple explanations and pleasant words when they read the appointed sections of the Pentateuch on Sabbaths and festivals.

He is also critical of popular customs, by which every Saturday is solemnly observed in her honour, with abstinence from wine and sexual relations, while the following Lord ’ s day is characterized by heavy drinking and all kinds of entertainments.

George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on the isolated island of Jura, Scotland to describe how a man ( Winston Smith ) attempts to develop critical conscience in a totalitarian state which watches every action of the people and manipulates their thinking with a mixture of propaganda, endless war and thought control through language control ( double think and newsspeak ) to the point where prisoners look up to and even love their torturers.

He amassed information from the whole range of Greek literature, carefully appraised the value of the information given, and shows throughout every portion of it rare critical ability and insight.

Conservation has become critical on the fact that the world population has increased over the years and more food needs to be produced every year ( New Standard 1992 ).