And it remains to be seen if the new frontier now taking form can produce the leadership and wisdom necessary to understand the current shape of events.

Many studies have observed the effects of volunteerism ( as a form of altruism ) on happiness and health and have consistently found a strong connection between volunteerism and current and future health and well-being.

The Mantissa was probably not written by Alexander in its current form, but much of the actual material may be his.

Thus, an analog signal is one represented by a continuous stream of data, in this case along an electrical circuit in the form of voltage, current or charge changes ( compare with digital signals below ).

Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.

Much of the current work in cosmology includes understanding how galaxies form in the context of the Big Bang, understanding the physics of the Universe at earlier and earlier times, and reconciling observations with the basic theory.

In their current form, Olympic and other amateur bouts are typically limited to three or four rounds, scoring is computed by points based on the number of clean blows landed, regardless of impact, and fighters wear protective headgear, reducing the number of injuries, knockdowns, and knockouts.

The doubling cube is not a die to be rolled but rather a marker, in the form of a cube with the numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 inscribed on its sides, denoting the current stake.

It was given its current form by a group of authors and editors who lived in the Persian period, called the Priestly source, and Numbers therefore reflects the program of this group.

The current government of the People's Republic of China is trying to encourage a form of market socialism.

German scientists Eilhard Wiedemann, Heinrich Hertz and Goldstein believed they were " aether waves ", some new form of electromagnetic radiation, and were separate from what carried the electric current through the tube.

Emergence myths commonly describe the creation of people and / or supernatural beings as a staged ascent or metamorphosis from nascent forms through a series of subterranean worlds to arrive at their current place and form.

Games do not have to stop at the avatar-player level, but current implementations aiming for more immersive playing space ( i. e. Laser tag ) take the form of augmented reality rather than cyberspace, fully immersive virtual realities remaining impractical.

Define the current two form

Note however that working with the current two form itself and the exterior derivative is usually easier than working with the vector field and divergence, because unlike the divergence, the exterior derivative commutes with a change of ( curvilinear ) coordinate system.

In 1887, Nikola Tesla filed a number of patents related to a competing form of power distribution known as alternating current.

Alternating current is any current that reverses direction repeatedly ; almost always this takes the form of a sine wave.

The Parliament, like the other institutions, was not designed in its current form when it first met on 10 September 1952.

Tax-credit scholarships which are in most part disbursed to current private school students or to families which made substantial donations to the scholarship fund, rather than to low-income students attempting to escape from failing schools, amount to nothing more than a mechanism to use public funds in the form of foregone taxes to support private, often religiously based, private schools.

( Note, however, that the term " powder magazine ", a store for gunpowder, as e. g. in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia, restored to its colonial form, would be well understood by current English speakers, though recognized as an archaicism.

It is difficult to compare the protocols in their current form ; the individual client choice will probably have as much an effect to an end user on either network.

Also based in London, Le Nouveau Guignol form the UK's only permanent reparatory Grand Guignol company ; plays within their current repertoire include French Guignol classics such as " The Final Kiss ", " Tics ... Or Doing the Deed ", " The Lighthouse Keepers ", " Private Room Number Six " and " The Kiss of Blood ".

The word holiday derived from the notion of " Holy Day ", and gradually evolved to its current form.

Other methods include server side sessions, hidden variables ( when the current page contains a form ), and URL-rewriting using URI-encoded parameters, e. g., < tt >/ index. php? session_id = some_unique_session_code </ tt >.

Manager Hemus, eager to end a pitching slump that has brought four losses in the five games on the current home stand, moved Gibson to the Wednesday night starting assignment.

In other words, the house-holders are encouraged to practice the five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy and non-possessiveness with their current practical limitations while the monks have to observe them very strictly.

The inner platinum ends ( DD ) of the wire receive a current from a battery of five Grove cell s and a Ruhmkorff coil of medium size.

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

The current editorial staff of the Britannica includes five Senior Editors and nine Associate Editors, supervised by Dale Hoiberg and four others.

At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.

Householders are encouraged to practice five cardinal principles of non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy, and non-possessiveness with their current practical limitations, while monks and nuns have to observe them very strictly.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

Fidler warned that according to California law, the Board of Prison Terms could later change the sentence to a lesser term ; at the time, Olson's lawyers asserted that due to discrepancies between 1970s laws and current California laws, their client would most likely serve only five years, which could turn into two years for good behavior.

According to current gedoogbeleid the possession of a maximum amount of five grams cannabis for personal use is not prosecuted.

The current understanding is that repeating nucleosomes with intervening " linker " DNA form a 10-nm-fiber, described as " beads on a string ", and have a packing ratio of about five to ten.

The current league organization divides thirty teams into two conferences of three divisions with five teams each.

But such warming could slowly raise ocean temperatures until frozen methane reservoirs below the ocean floor near coastlines ( a current target for a new energy source ) melted, expelling enough methane, among the most potent greenhouse gases, into the atmosphere to raise world temperatures an additional five degrees Celsius.

A current example of such a state is Malaysia where the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is elected every five years by the Conference of Rulers composed of the nine hereditary rulers of the Malay states.

In the current star classification system, the Morgan-Keenan system, the spectrum letter is enhanced by a number from 0 to 9 indicating tenths of the range between two star classes, so that A5 is five tenths between A0 and F0, and A2 is two tenths of the full range from A0 to F0.

With the formation of five Central Asian republics under the USSR, many Tajiks were forced to sign themselves as Uzbek to avoid persecution in current Uzbekistan.

A president is elected every five years on the principle of universal suffrage according to the current constitution.

J. P. Jasinski confirmed this theory five years later stating “ Their woodlands persistence, along with their previous moss forest histories and current occurrence adjacent to closed moss forests, indicate that they are an alternative stable state to the spruce – moss forests ”.

The current facility, which opened in 1975, has five classrooms, a kitchen, a stage, a computer room, and a craft and science room.

The IPCC has broken down current and future impacts of climate change into a range of " key vulnerabilities ", e. g., impacts affecting food supply, as well as five " reasons for concern ", shown opposite.

To date, there have been five Rectors at the UNU, Prof. Dr. Konrad Osterwalder being the current Rector since 1 September 2007.

The current taxonomy includes five species within the genera of Dekkera / Brettanomyces.

* Articles are usually between five and twenty pages and are complete descriptions of current original research findings, but there are considerable variations between scientific fields and journals – 80-page articles are not rare in mathematics or theoretical computer science.

From five initial bulls, all current European bison bulls have one of only two remaining Y-chromosomes.

For example, " a gain of five " may imply that either the voltage, current or the power is increased by a factor of five, although most often this will mean a voltage gain of five for audio and general purpose amplifiers, especially operational amplifiers, but a power gain for radio frequency amplifiers.