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In England Rees's Cyclopaedia ( 1802 – 1819 ) contains an enormous amount in information about the industrial and scientific revolutions of the time.
The idea of the Erdős number was created by friends as a humorous tribute to the enormous output of Erdős, one of the most prolific modern writers of mathematical papers, and has become well known in scientific circles as a tongue-in-cheek measurement of mathematical prominence.
Although the rules are extremely simple, there is enormous scope for scientific play.
In Australia, enormous anecdotal and mounting scientific evidence indicates introduced carp are the cause of permanent turbidity and loss of submergent vegetation in the Murray-Darling river system, with severe consequences for river ecosystems, water quality and native fish species.
By scanning the enormous content of the Internet, some computers " know " literally every single piece of public information ( every scientific discovery, every book and movie, every public statement, etc.
The enormous accumulations of achievements of Theoretical Physics during the first three decades of the last century were behind Gaston Bachelard's declaration of his new scientific spirit or a new a philosophy of science ( or a fourth stage ).
Though less navigationally accurate than the beautiful Catalonian portolani charts of the 14th century, as a scientific work it is of enormous importance ; it may be the first terrestrial globe ever built, is tilted to spin at the correct angle, and represents an encyclopedia of the West's known world in the year 1492.
When news of the first weather forecast by the first modern computer, ENIAC, was received by Richardson in 1950, he responded that the results were an " enormous scientific advance.
The consistent inclusion of the enormous, still unmined treasures in his scientific work are yet to be incorporated in the regional geography of Asia.
La Silla has led to an enormous number of scientific discoveries, including several " firsts ".
Such people, sought by the growing number of scientific societies, wielded enormous influence on scientific development.
* In 2003, he received the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture for his pioneering contribution in the deciphering of the atomic nucleus and its components, and for his enormous scientific contribution to the development of sub-atomic physics in Israel.
Due to the importance of the scientific goals of this satellite, there was enormous support for this, and the initial phases for CryoSat-2 were approved when ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board agreed to build a copy of the spacecraft on February 23, 2006.
The Survey had an enormous scientific impact as well, being responsible for one of the first accurate measurements of a section of an arc of longitude, and for measurements of the geodesic anomaly.
His decision was seen as a repudiation of the higher court's Salinger precedent: " The grant of an injunction would ... suppress an interesting, well researched, provocative study of a figure who, claiming both scientific and religious credentials, has wielded enormous influence over millions of people.
The enormous expenditure of work this fraud would have needed makes these theories much more improbable than the coincidence in the literary works pointed out by Baldauf ( according to the scientific principle of Occam's razor ).
This century of enormous economic, social, intellectual and political transformation produced two important literary and philosophical movements: The Lumières, who questioned all existing institutions, including the church and state, and applied rationalism and scientific analysis to society ; and a very different movement, which emerged in reaction to the first movement ; the beginnings of Romanticism, which exalted the role of emotion in art and life.

enormous and economic
Throughout human history, political and economic leaders genuinely have been the cause of enormous amounts of death and misery, and they sometimes have engaged in conspiracies while at the same time promoting conspiracy theories about their targets.
The decades of Manchu conquest caused enormous loss of lives and the economic scale of China shrank drastically.
The city was at the forefront of Ireland's rapid economic expansion during the Celtic Tiger period, with enormous private sector and state development of housing, transport and business.
Rand argued that other people are an enormous value to an individual's well-being ( through education, trade and affection ), but also that this value could be fully realized only under conditions of political and economic freedom.
The 1990s led to an enormous growth in China ’ s economic welfare.
Though Panama has made enormous advances in social mobility and racial integration, it is still true that much of Panama's economic and social life is controlled by a small number of families.
Although there is little ethnic strife in Paraguay to impede social and economic progress, there is social conflict caused by underemployment and the enormous gap between the rich and the poor.
The construction produced a tremendous economic boom, as thousands of Paraguayans who had never before held a regular job went to work on the enormous dam.
The Weimar Republic, like many other European countries, had to face a severe economic downturn in the opening years of the decade, because of the enormous debt caused by the war as well as the Treaty of Versailles.
Because of its enormous economic importance, CAD has been a major driving force for research in computational geometry, computer graphics ( both hardware and software ), and discrete differential geometry.
The reason why governments, including in the US, supported nuclear weapons was that " enormous economic and financial interests are vested in the continuation and elaboration of nuclear armaments.
In fact, although they were strongly opposed to the practices of association, educated Ivoirians believed that they would achieve equality with their French peers through assimilation rather than through complete independence from France, a change that would eliminate the enormous economic advantages of remaining a French possession.
The enormous cost of the Confederate war effort took a high toll on the South's economic infrastructure.
By the end of the 1870s the stage was set for discontent among the aboriginal people of the prairies: the bison population was in serious decline ( creating enormous economic difficulties ) and, in an attempt to assert control over aboriginal settlement, the federal government often violated the terms of the treaties it had signed during the latter part of the decade.
Around 1900 the area got an enormous growth of population when a combination of reviving Catholicism and economic recovery caused high birthrates.
While considerably shrunken from its Cold War peak, it still represents a major economic force, employing thousands in high-skill, high-wage engineering positions and generating enormous amounts of tax revenue.
Fellows is surrounded on all sides by the enormous Midway-Sunset Oil Field, the third-largest oil field in the United States, and the oil and gas industry accounts for much of the area's economic activity.
The economic loss was enormous.
To overcome the difficulties of implementing ISI in small-scale economies, proponents of this economic policy, some within UNECLAC, suggested two alternatives to enlarge consumer markets: income distribution within each country, through agrarian reform and other initiatives aimed at bringing Latin America's enormous marginalized population into the consumer market, and regional integration through initiatives such as the Latin American Free Trade Association ( ALALC ), which would allow for the products of one country to be sold in another.
The financing cost of the capital expended, and the cost of providing replacement electricity during the delays, were enormous, totally invalidating the pre-construction economic case.
One of the major schemes put forward, and one which would have enormous economic benefits for the country, was the establishment of the International Financial Services Centre ( IFSC ) in Dublin.
The BCATP provided an enormous and continuing economic boost, particularly in the Western provinces that were still recovering from the decade long depression. The final report of the BCATP Supervisory Board calculated that “ more than 3, 750 members of the RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Allied nationals under RAF quotas married Canadian girls ,” many of whom remained in Canada to raise families.
" Although economic competition does have its advantages, being the driving force behind technical progress, these were " gained at the expense of an enormous waste of human life and labour, which might be avoided by regulation.
The author Robert Putnam refers to the value which comes from social networks as social capital in his book “ Bowling Alone: The collapse and Revival of American Community .” He writes that social capital “ makes an enormous difference in our lives ”, that “ a society characterized by generalized reciprocity is more efficient that a distrustful society ” and that economic sociologists have shown a minimized economic wealth if social capital is lacking.

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