Quantitative symbols give a visual measure of the relative size / importance / number that a symbol represents and to symbolize this data on a map, there are two major classes of symbols used for portraying quantitative properties.

Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.

The importance of visual input for balance is illustrated by its being harder to stand on one foot with eyes closed than with eyes open.

AFI has also been granted responsibility for influencing the rise of the visual element of rock bands in the 2000s ; in a December 2006 article, Revolver Magazine wrote that " AFI have increased the importance of a band's visual identity and the flair for the theatrical ," adding that " when a group like Panic!

In his first publication, he had also stressed the importance of the subject concentrating both vision and thought, referring to " the continued fixation of the mental and visual eye " as a means of engaging a natural physiological mechanism that was already hard-wired into each human being:

" This is reflective of the fact that none of the traditional methods provided a quantitative means for ascertaining the relative importance of the underlying criteria of concept choices as a means for identifying the visual and verbal expressions of the concepts which best communicate the benefits sought by the consumer.

* It emphasises the importance of residuals analysis in linear regression as the residuals manifest an outlier that is not apparent in a visual inspection of the raw data.

The Gallery aims to enhance enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts of both Irish and international importance.

Adriaan de Groot concurred with Alfred Binet that visual memory and visual perception are important attributors and that problem-solving ability is of paramount importance.

For example, in diagnosing a hallucination, the fact that a person experiences visual phenomena when no sensory stimuli account for it ( form ) assumes more importance than what the patient sees ( content ).

The museum has recently been refurbished and visitors can expect a " hands on ", audio visual family orientated experience showing the history and importance of the town.

Nielsen has been criticized by some graphic designers for failing to balance the importance of other user experience considerations such as typography, readability, visual cues for hierarchy and importance, and eye appeal.

Perceptually uniform means that a change of the same amount in a color value should produce a change of about the same visual importance.

After the Hungarians became Christians in the 11th century, the importance of these icons became purely visual and symbolic.

Graham has been sometimes termed the " Picasso of Dance ," in that her importance and influence to modern dance can be considered equivalent to what Pablo Picasso was to modern visual arts.

This system should not be understood as an attempt to convey any visual reality in the connection between the sections at different scales, whose size is dictated by their relative importance.

This provides visual interest and variety, adding greater importance to the flanking buildings.

The fovea is responsible for sharp central vision ( also called foveal vision ), which is necessary in humans for reading, watching, driving, and any activity where visual detail is of primary importance.

Bats rely heavily on echolocation to detect their prey, such that their auditory system might well be equivalent both in importance and perceptual nature to the human visual system.

The outlying moorland landscape of the site is of increasing importance for its visual quality and for nature conservation.

Image: Bedroom of the emperor. jpg | A baldachin in Empire style simply adds visual importance to a daybed.

This, combined with their post-battle rewards, prompted them to raise Alaric " on a shield " and proclaim him king ; according to Jordanes ( a Gothic historian of varying importance, depending upon who is asked ), both the new king and his people decided " rather to seek new kingdoms by their own work, than to slumber in peaceful subjection to the rule of others.

The crucial differences with the previous wave can be seen in the downward shift in melodies, increasing durations of movements, the acceptance of Mozart and Haydn as paradigmatic, the greater use of keyboard resources, the shift from " vocal " writing to " pianistic " writing, the growing pull of the minor and of modal ambiguity, and the increasing importance of varying accompanying figures to bring " texture " forward as an element in music.

The economy embarked on various stages of development during which the public and private sectors played roles varying in relative importance as follows:

After having been assured by James that all rumours about a French alliance were malevolent fabrications, Dijkvelt returned to the Republic, with letters of varying importance from leading English statesmen.

Karate styles place varying importance on kihon.

It has been suggested that in North America and Eurasia Caribou and wild reindeer " may well be the species of single greatest importance in the entire anthropological literature on hunting " ( see also Reindeer Age ), although the varying importance of different species would depend on the geographic location.

Documents from the 18th century show some writers capitalizing all nouns, and others capitalizing certain nouns based on varying ideas of their importance in the discussion.

When they are less clear, greater importance is placed on varying the tempo during the course of the music to give " shape " to the music.

" A mythic map of Australia would show thousands of characters, varying in their importance, but all in some way connected with the land.

On stage, she had roles of varying importance in Frank Wedekind's Pandora's Box, William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah and Misalliance.

Distrusting " morality ," which he describes as varying from culture to culture, often contradictory and hypocritical, Gurdjieff greatly stressed the importance of conscience.

As part of Christ's story the good thief often appears in cinematic portrayals though with varying degrees of importance.

Social class is sometimes presented as a description of how members of the society have sorted themselves along a continuum of positions varying in importance, influence, prestige, and compensation.

of a classless society propose various means to achieve and maintain it and attach varying degrees of importance to it as an end in their overall programs / philosophy.

eight standing Cabinet Committees exist, of varying importance:

There were many other people who were involved with varying importance and different influences in the early years, from Lena Lamont, part of Sheena Govan's circle, who lived in her caravan with her family and who shunned publicity to those whom Peter Caddy met as he traveled in British New Age circles: among them Robert Ogilvie Crombie ( ROC ); Sir George Trevelyan who formed the Wrekin Trust ; Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, Liebie Pugh, and Joan Hartnell-Beavis.

It is of great importance in horticulture, with several hundred named cultivars of varying crown shape, growth rates and foliage colour having been selected for garden planting.

Chamaecyparis thyoides is of some importance in horticulture, with several cultivars of varying crown shape, growth rates and foliage color having been selected for garden planting.

There are 27 Nakshatras in the Hindu panchangam and a million or more temples in Kerala, and this combination creates numerous possibilities for auspicious occasions, with each temple having varying importance for the different stars.

Kohn's minority challenge to behavioral interventions does illustrate the importance of factors beyond learning theory when trying to promote improved outcomes for FAS, and supports a more multi-model approach that can be found in varying degrees within the advocacy model and neurobehavioral approach.

He played roles of varying importance in three novels, Crambo, Mills, and No Earth for Foxes.

Each of these methodologies focus on different aspects of the salons, and thus have varying analyses of the salons ’ importance in terms of French history and the Enlightenment as a whole. A Reading in the Salon of Mme Geoffrin, 1755 Major historiographical debates focus on the relationship between the salons and the public sphere, as well as the role of women within the salons.

There were a number of manors within the parish, of varying size and importance, each with its own lord, who owed feudal service to his own overlord, but exercised authority over his tenants.

Of the seven cosmical bodies which, by their continually varying relative positions and distances apart, have ever since the remotest antiquity been distinguished from the " unwandering orbs " of the heaven of the " fixed stars ", which to all sensible appearance preserve their relative positions and distances unchanged, five only — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — wear the appearance of stars —" cinque stellas errantes "— while the Sun and Moon, from the size of their disks, their importance to man, and the place assigned to them in mythological systems, were classed apart.