Each switch occupies one digit position in a word, can be set on or off, and is considered as logically equivalent to an electronic switch.

That being so, no element of water on the surface has any incentive to move position, because all positions are equivalent in energy.

In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

To derive the value of the floating point number, one must multiply the significand by the base raised to the power of the exponent, equivalent to shifting the radix point from its implied position by a number of places equal to the value of the exponent — to the right if the exponent is positive or to the left if the exponent is negative.

A new position of Chief of the Imperial Naval High Command was created, being responsible for ship deployments, strategy and tactics, an equivalent to the supreme commander of the Army.

Two monosaccharides with equivalent molecular graphs ( same chain length and same carbonyl position ) may still be distinct stereoisomers, whose molecules differ in the three-dimensional arrangement of the bonds of certain atoms.

" This leaves the APA's position on brainwashing as equivalent to: more research is needed until a definitive scientific verdict can be given.

This position is the American equivalent rank to field marshal.

The game of Y is a generalization of Hex to the extent that any position on a Hex board can be represented as an equivalent position on a larger Y board.

There exists some argument among historians as to whether Rollo was a " duke " ( dux ) or whether his position was equivalent to that of a " count " under Charlemagne.

The latter position was equivalent to the head of state under the Soviet system.

Although the position is in some ways equivalent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the powers of the president pro tempore are far more limited.

The limiting short-wavelength is equivalent to ħ tending to zero because this is limiting case of increasing the wave packet localization to the definite position of the particle ( see images right ).

The equivalent position was called either Minister President ( Ministerpräsident ) or Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the GDR ( Vorsitzender des Ministerrats der DDR ).

For much of the nineteenth century the highest position was Minister-President of Austria, equivalent to Prime Minister, till the position was reinstated in 1918, with the establishment of the First Republic.

When Maximilian was succeeded by Ferdinand I ( 1503 – 1564 ) ( Archduke of Austria 1521-1564 ) the separate position of Austrian Chancellor appeared as a Österreichische Hofkanzlei, around 1526, but soon merged with the equivalent office of the Holy Roman Empire ( 1559-1620 ).

The Halakha committee of the Masorti movement ( the equivalent of Conservative Judaism ) in Israel has ruled that women do not receive such aliyot and cannot perform such functions as a valid position ( Rabbi Robert Harris, 5748 ).

This was an unofficial position known at the time as the mesazon, and equivalent to a vizier or ' prime-minister.

Every Dean of the Faculty ( equivalent to a Provost at most universities ) has always been an active-duty brigadier general, although technically, a civilian may hold the position.

Given two bodies, one with mass m < sub > 1 </ sub > and the other with mass m < sub > 2 </ sub >, the equivalent one-body problem, with the position of one body with respect to the other as the unknown, is that of a single body of mass

It is the equivalent of the rank of Queen's Counsel in the United Kingdom, which was use in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) until 1972 when Sri Lanka became a republic, when the position became that of Senior Attorney-at-Law.

Three years earlier his fame had earned him the position of lecturer on the The Four Books of Sentences — a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the twelfth century — and in 1255 he received the degree of master, the medieval equivalent of doctor.

He was then appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and was poised to attain the equivalent Cabinet position at the time of his death.

If two equivalent amplifiers are being compared, the amplifier with higher gain settings would be more sensitive as it would take less input signal to produce a given amount of power.

Egoism and altruism both contrast with ethical utilitarianism, which holds that a moral agent should treat one's self ( also known as the subject ) with no higher regard than one has for others ( as egoism does, by elevating self-interests and " the self " to a status not granted to others ), but that one also should not ( as altruism does ) sacrifice one's own interests to help others ' interests, so long as one's own interests ( i. e. one's own desires or well-being ) are substantially equivalent to the others ' interests and well-being.

There are social organizations, some international, which limit membership to people who have scores as high as or higher than the 98th percentile on some IQ test or equivalent.

Lower doses are sometimes not as effective, or do not provide an equivalent blockade effect as higher dosages can.

President Kennedy established the current decoration in 1963 through Executive Order 11085, with unique and distinctive insignia ( it was the first civilian neck-decoration and, in the grade of Awarded With Distinction, is the only U. S. sash and star decoration ), vastly expanded purpose, and far higher prestige ( some have likened the PMOF to a U. S. equivalent of a knighthood ).

The rebreather's economic use of gas, typically of oxygen per minute, allows dives of much longer duration for an equivalent gas supply than is possible with open circuit equipment where gas consumption is typically ten times higher.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 5, 2006 ' won getting the 37. 99 % of the valid votes cast 930. 802 votes equivalent to relatively higher than the two forces princiapl opisitora presented at election they were the party of the Second Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( ALN ) with the degree candidate Eduardo Montealegre Rivas who won 693. 391 votes recorded corresponding to a 28. 30 % and third place went to the Constitutionalist Liberal Party with Dr. José Rizo Castellón who earned a total 664. 225 of valid votes corresponding to 27. 11 %.

Whilst this makes the Parsons turbine much longer and heavier, the overall efficiency of a reaction turbine is slightly higher than the equivalent impulse turbine for the same thermal energy conversion.

Trucks may emit lower air pollution emissions than cars per equivalent vehicle mass, although the absolute level per vehicle distance traveled is higher, and diesel particulate matter is especially problematic for health.

This agricultural region of Western Australia is in the top nine terrestrial habitats for terrestrial biodiversity, with a higher proportion of endemic species than most other equivalent regions.

This also allows them to sustain a higher metabolic rate than most equivalent weight mammals.

Note than some species of small bats have a higher mean total morphometnc pulmonary diffusing capacity for oxygen than equivalent weight birds but this is the exception and is not the rule.

More recent statements of the theorem are sometimes careful to exclude the equality condition ; that is, the condition is if x ( t ) contains no frequencies higher than or equal to B ; this condition is equivalent to Shannon's except when the function includes a steady sinusoidal component at exactly frequency B.

Such elastic elements can release energy at a much higher rate ( higher power ) than equivalent muscle mass, thus increasing launch energy to levels beyond what muscle alone is capable of.

When the pound was returned to the gold standard after the war it was done on the basis of the pre-war gold price, which, since it was higher than equivalent price in gold, required prices to fall to realign with the higher target value of the pound.

The tandem wing has not found much favor, in particular as it still suffers from higher tip vortex drag than an equivalent monoplane.

That same year, national insurance benefits were increased by 13 %, which brought pensions as a proportion of average earnings “ up to a value equivalent to the previous high, which was reached in 1965 as a result of Labour legislation .” In order to maintain the real value of these benefits in the long term, the government introduced legislation which linked future increases in pensions to higher incomes or wages.

If the digital sensor has a higher or lower density of pixels per unit area than the film equivalent, then the amount of information captured differs correspondingly.

FRP or GRP bars have relatively higher tensile strength but lower stiffness, so that Deflections are likely to be higher than for equivalent steel-reinforced units.

NiMH cells historically had a somewhat higher self-discharge rate ( equivalent to internal leakage ) than NiCd cells.

However, bringing in of USD10, 000 or higher ( or its foreign currency equivalent ) may be brought in or out but it must be declared in writing.

While Ruffini and Abel established that the general quintic could not be solved, some particular quintics can be solved, such as ( x − 1 )< sup > 5 </ sup >= 0, and the precise criterion by which a given quintic or higher polynomial could be determined to be solvable or not was given by Évariste Galois, who showed that whether a polynomial was solvable or not was equivalent to whether or not the permutation group of its roots – in modern terms, its Galois group – had a certain structure – in modern terms, whether or not it was a solvable group.