It was seen by many in the West as a key piece in nuclear arms control, being an implicit recognition of the need to protect the nuclear balance by ensuring neither side could hope to reduce the effects of retaliation to acceptable levels.

The operation of a cipher usually depends on a piece of auxiliary information, called a key ( or, in traditional NSA parlance, a cryptovariable ).

Another key piece of evidence regarding SWS ’ s involvement in declarative memory consolidation is a finding that people with pathological conditions of sleep, such as insomnia, exhibit both reduction in Slow-Wave Sleep and also have impaired consolidation of declarative memory during sleep.

The illumination of the subject is also a key element in creating an artistic piece, and the interplay of light and shadow is a valuable method in the artist's toolbox.

A key piece of experimentally-derived information came from X-ray diffraction images that had been obtained by Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and their research student, Raymond Gosling.

As the key reaches its rest position, the string's vibrations are halted by the damper, a piece of felt attached to the top of the jack.

A key piece of the Paleologan Mannerism-the Annunciation icon from Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia.

The government faced the problem that a key piece of evidence – Lindh's confession – might be excluded from evidence as having been forced under duress ( i. e. torture ).

John Harrison, a self-educated English clockmaker then invented the marine chronometer, a key piece in solving the problem of accurately establishing longitude at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long distance sea travel.

What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies ' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure.

This system of accidentals operates in conjunction with the key signature, whose effect continues throughout an entire piece, unless canceled by another key signature.

* Name the key of a given piece of tonal music just by listening ( without reference to an external tone )

During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a key piece of evidence with a message reading, " S. F.

In cryptography, a key is a piece of information ( a parameter ) that determines the functional output of a cryptographic algorithm or cipher.

A key is often easier to protect ( it's typically a small piece of information ) than an encryption algorithm, and easier to change if compromised.

The sound on each individual tape piece was recorded at the pitch of the key to which it was assigned.

The Pacers acquired another key piece in Leandro Barbosa from the Toronto Raptors at the trade deadline, mid-season.

Finally, both Thrawn's and Karrde's ability to piece together far-reaching ( and accurate ) conclusions from the merest shreds of evidence, thus increasing the value of that evidence, mirrored the real-world advent of the Information Age and its emphasis on knowledge as a key military asset.

This key is maintained to the end of the piece.

The piece is divided into four sections, each marked by a key change initiated by the metallophone.

The singers ' normal use of the pipe is to play the initial key note or tonic of the piece to be sung.

Paul Driver comments enthusiastically on the Colin Davis and London Symphony Orchestra performance of the Inextinguishable in May 2010: " Movement boundaries have become fluid ; the expressive raison d ’ être is an evolving structure articulated by its emotional necessities rather than an externally valid architecture ; and the journey from harmonic ambiguity at the opening to a stable key at the end is no mere vehicle for carrying ideas, but the whole point of the piece.

The second section of the piece begins in the newly established key, where it remains for an indefinite period of time.

It reached a peak in between 1967 and 1969 with the Summer of Love and Woodstock Rock Festival, becoming an international musical movement and associated with a widespread counter-culture, before beginning a decline as changing attitudes, the loss of some key individuals and a back-to-basics movement, led surviving performers to move into new musical areas.

He noted that Nixon and other key figures likely to be mentioned were deceased and most of the surviving figures had testified under oath, written about or were interviewed about Watergate.

A key Parfitian question is: given the choice of surviving without psychological continuity and connectedness ( Relation R ) or dying but preserving R through the future existence of someone else, which would you choose?

Cost control, overhead reduction and a focus on profits implemented by Sporck was the key element to National surviving the price war and subsequently in 1981 becoming the first semiconductor company to reach the US $ 1 billion annual sales mark.

The name of the school from which the fob or key came was also not routinely included on the earliest models, and sometimes the only way to trace a key to a particular school's chapter is by researching the name of the recipient against surviving class records.

The Orthodox Church of Constantinople, which enjoyed greater stability within the surviving Eastern Empire was key in commissioning imagery there and glorifying Christianity.

The key surviving manuscript sources were gradually located, edited and translated, monuments identified and published, and other essential groundwork in recording stories, music and language done.

As the only surviving fellow ( aside from Mark Studdock who was deemed to have resigned ) he anticipates becoming the new Warden of Bracton College and playing a key role in the rebuilding of the university.

Some of the key neo-chimpanzee characters are eventually forced to choose between following the legal representatives of the surviving Planetary Government, or to follow their original leaders, Robert Oneagle and the young Tymbrimi Athaclena.

The good old gammel nok, the surviving leader of the nisse, sent the three bravest nisses, Hansi, Fritz and Günther, on a quest to find the winding key of the play dose, a musical box playing his life-tune.

Although several of the forms of EKE in this paper were later found to be flawed, the surviving, refined, and enhanced forms of EKE effectively make this the first method to amplify a shared password into a shared key, where the shared key may subsequently be used to provide a zero-knowledge password proof or other functions.

As the senior surviving officer, Lightoller was a key witness at both the American and British inquiries.

The three face a series of obstacles that protect the stone which includes surviving a deadly plant, catching a flying key, playing a life-sized game of Wizards Chess and choosing the correct potion to get through a magical fire.

It features extensive contemporary and archival images of many of Lautner's key buildings ( most of which are not open to the public ), excerpts from Lautner's 1986 oral history recordings, interviews with Lautner's family, colleagues and clients, Lautner archivist Frank Escher and longtime Lautner fan Frank Gehry, as well as a moving on-site reunion of the three surviving principals who built the Chemosphere — Lautner's assistant Guy Zebert, original owner Leonard Malin, and builder John de la Vaux ( who was 95 years old at the time of filming ).

Though the committee did not record minutes of its proceedings, three key surviving documents offer clues to the committee ’ s handiwork: an outline by Randolph with edits by Rutledge, extensive notes and a second draft by Wilson, also with Rutledge ’ s edits, and the committee ’ s final report to the Convention.

Although several of the first methods were flawed, the surviving and enhanced forms of EKE effectively amplify a shared password into a shared key, which can then be used for encryption and / or message authentication.

It is the oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge in the world, and a key element of the industrial heritage of England.

He corresponded voluminously with surviving Confederate statesmen and generals, including Judah Benjamin and Jubal Early, for fact checking and details on key issues.