A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.

Thus, when the Russians sent up their first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable.

He may welcome their appropriate participation in the determination of high policy, but he has a right to expect, in return, that they will leave administrative matters to the administration.

The members of the educational profession have a major voice in the determination of educational policy, their position being strongest in the universities.

A small percentage of entertainers and athletes are able to make a decent living but a vast majority will spend their careers toiling from hard work, determination, rejection and frequent unemployment.

Dachshunds are playful, but can be stubborn, and are known for their propensity for chasing small animals, birds, and tennis balls with great determination and ferocity.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

Saussure is considered one of the fathers of structuralism when he explained that terms get their meaning in reciprocal determination with other terms inside language

Though they are not called mystics, they are known for their piety toward God and their determination to live lives devoted to, and in emulation of, Him.

Other up-and-coming filmmakers allied themselves to this Oberhausen group, among them Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, Jean-Marie Straub, Wim Wenders, Werner Schroeter and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg in their rejection of the existing German film industry and their determination to build a new industry founded on artistic excellence rather than commercial dictates.

All Greeks were united, however, in their determination to liberate the Greek-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

The Romantic period focused on the ability of individual genius to transcend time and place, and use the materials from their heritage to fashion works which were beyond determination.

A pump user should be educated by their diabetes care professional about basal rate determination before beginning pump therapy.

In 1612, Galileo Galilei proposed that with sufficiently accurate knowledge of the orbits of the moons of Jupiter one could use their positions as a universal clock and this would make possible the determination of longitude, but the practical problems of the method he devised were severe and it was never used at sea.

With nearly pathological determination and high intelligence, aided by his supportive parents and their high social rank, he fashions an extraordinary military and civilian career in the Barrayaran Empire.

The parties each list their candidates according to that party's determination of priorities.

If the light yoke and sweet burden of Christ were to be preached to the most obstinate people of the Saxons with as much determination as the payment of tithes has been exacted, or as the force of the legal decree has been applied for fault of the most trifling sort imaginable, perhaps they would not be averse to their baptismal vows.

( 1988 ): The basic parameters of human information processing: their role in the determination of intelligence.

The Army's statement ended with a clear warning that the Turkish Armed Forces stood ready to intervene if the secular nature of the Turkish Constitution is compromised, stating that " the Turkish Armed Forces maintain their sound determination to carry out their duties stemming from laws to protect the unchangeable characteristics of the Republic of Turkey.

In 1964, Hückel method calculations ( using a simple linear combination of atomic orbitals ( LCAO ) method for the determination of electron energies of molecular orbitals of π electrons in conjugated hydrocarbon systems ) of molecules ranging in complexity from butadiene and benzene to ovalene, were generated on computers at Berkeley and Oxford.

The determination of molecular structure by geometry optimization became routine only after efficient methods for calculating the first derivatives of the energy with respect to all atomic coordinates became available.

From the known atomic mass of iron he calculated the molecular mass of hemoglobin to n × 16000 ( n = number of irons per hemoglobin, now known to be 4 ), the first determination of a protein's molecular mass.

The basis for determination of molecular weight according to the Staudinger method ( since replaced by the more general Mark-Houwink equation ) is the fact that relative viscosity of suspensions depends on volumetric proportion of solid particles.

* Dumas method of molecular weight determination

( Blue dextran is not recommended for Vo determination because it is heterogeneous and may give variable results ) The elution volumes of the standards are divided by the elution volume of the thyroglobulin ( Ve / Vo ) and plotted against the log of the standards ' molecular weights.

Due to the difference in size of two polymers with identical molecular weights, the absolute determination methods are, in general, more desirable.

This technique is widely used for the molecular weight determination of polysaccharides.

Genetic counseling depends on an accurate diagnosis, determination of the mode of inheritance in each family, and results of molecular genetic testing.

It is a uniquely precise tool for the determination of molecular structure in gas phase molecules.

Jean Baptiste André Dumas ( 14 July 1800 – 10 April 1884 ) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights ( relative atomic masses ) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities.

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The determination and publication of the complete genome sequences of three clinical L. pneumophila isolates in 2004 paved the way for the understanding of the molecular biology of L. pneumophila in particular and Legionella in general.

The determination of molecular structure uses a multitude of experimental methods, that include X-ray diffraction, electron diffraction, many kinds of optical spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron spin resonance, and mass spectrometry.

He is notably known for the determination of the molecular structure of the enzyme ribonuclease in 1967.

He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials.

This is often used by chemists for the determination of average molecular weight.

* Dumas method of molecular weight determination

The number average molecular weight of a polymer can be determined by gel permeation chromatography, viscometry via the ( Mark-Houwink equation ), colligative methods such as vapor pressure osmometry, end-group determination or proton NMR.

* SHAPE ( molecular biology ), an NMR-based RNA structure determination experiment

The SPR-based biosensors can be used in determination of active concentration as well as characterization of molecular interactions in terms of both affinity and chemical kinetics.

The modern understanding why metachromasy occurs was advanced by Belgian histologist Lucien Lison, who studied it between 1933 and 1936 and ascertained its value in the quantitative determination of sulfate esters of high molecular weight.