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In another study, two large samples of Spanish children were assessed with a 30-year gap.
The music itself is rather basic — church music at the time placed a large gap between written and performance practice — embellishments were largely placed in the hands of the performers ' tastes, although the Vatican score itself was altered largely by performers and visitors over the years.
Most ( though not all, see Mott insulator ) insulators have a large band gap.
This occurs because the " valence " band containing the highest energy electrons is full, and a large energy gap separates this band from the next band above it.
Step height from platform to train is up to, and there can be a large gap between the train and curved platforms.
Some economic experts have argued that the development gap between China and other emerging economies such as Brazil, Argentina and India can be attributed to a large extent to China's early focus on ambitious infrastructure projects, notably mass transport and transit related projects.
Further wrangles effectively brought work on the north side of Leipziger Platz to a complete stop for several years ; even now there are some " fake facades " where completed new buildings should be, while a long-running dispute over who owned the Wertheim department store site ( or had claims to the revenue from its sale by the government ), has to this day left another large gap in the central Berlin cityscape that is only now finally being redeveloped.
The gap in Réunion between the well-off and the poor is large and accounts for the persistent social tensions.
Towards the end of the 19th Century, San Marino experienced economic depression: a large increase in the birth rate coupled with a widening of the gap between agricultural and industrial development led people to seek their fortunes in more industrialised countries.
After 1985 the government chose to fill the gap between decreasing revenues and mushrooming military expenditures by printing large amounts of paper money.
The transmission coefficient for FTIR is highly sensitive to the spacing between the high index media ( the function is approximately exponential until the gap is almost closed ), so this effect has often been used to modulate optical transmission and reflection with a large dynamic range.
To prevent this, the leading rider may choose to accelerate quickly before the last lap, hoping to catch his opponent off guard and establish a large enough gap to negate the aerodynamic effect or to keep the speed high enough to prevent his opponent from completing a pass.
This makes Executive Orders ( and Debt of Honor ) around 1999 but this makes the gap with the previous books too large ).
Critics acknowledge that, whereas in the Anglo-Saxon cultures there is a large tradition of scientists writing popular books, such tradition was absent for a long period in the German and French languages, with journalists often filling the gap.
In the early stages of the war, the U-boats were extremely effective in destroying Allied shipping, initially in the mid-Atlantic, where there was a large gap in air cover.
Hertz had been surprised to find that it was not necessary to discharge large batteries through one of these spirals in order to obtain sparks in the other ; that small Leyden jars amply sufficed for this purpose, and that even the discharge of a small induction coil would do, provided it had to spring across a spark gap.
With a squadron of three other ships Bougainville ended up well ahead of the rest of the French line ; by 3: 45 pm the gap was large enough that the British could have cut his squadron off from the rest of the French fleet.
In addition to gap in farming system technology and knowledge, some large wheat grain producing countries have significant losses after harvest at the farm and because of poor roads, inadequate storage technologies, inefficient supply chains and farmer's inability to bring the produce into retail markets dominated by small shopkeepers.
Susan Carroll, the author of Women Voters and the Gender Gap, states that the increase of women influence on political behaviors is due to four main categories: women outnumber men among voters ; significant efforts are underway to increase registration and turnout among women ; a gender gap is evident in the 2004 election as it has been in every presidential election since 1980 ; and women constitute a disproportionately large share of the undecided voters who will make their decision late in the campaign.
The " D " shaped electrode s are enclosed in a flat vacuum chamber, which is installed in a narrow gap between the two magnet # Modelling magnets | poles of a large magnet.
Requirements of this application are high speed, a long service life, a relatively large gap between the print head and the substrate, and low operating cost.
Like in triboluminescence, if the charge separation results in a large enough electric potential, a discharge across the gap and through the bath gas between the interfaces can occur.
In order for a current to flow, a relatively large amount of energy must be furnished to an electron for it to leap across this forbidden gap and into the conduction band.
* There is a large gap in midtown Manhattan before Post Road resumes its course north of Central Park
The policy shift toward agricultural production created a gap in income distribution, as the majority of those who worked in agriculture laboured on tiny plots, while the majority of the land was in large estates.

large and middle
Waddell, the newspaperman, was a fellow in his middle forties, with a graying crewcut, heavy-framed glasses, and a large jaw padded with fat.
First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.
For instance, a local society in the middle of a large city may have regular meetings with speakers, focusing less on observing the night sky if the membership is less able to observe due to factors such as light pollution.
The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.
The cantillation signs for the large poetic section in the middle of the Book of Job differ from those of most of the biblical books, using a system shared with it only by Psalms and Proverbs.
A principal keep similar to Craigievar Castle's is the middle of the castle, while a large turret ed country house is attached
Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city center, and the middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km ( 10 miles ) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters — people who travel on a daily basis.
He built a large racetrack known as the circus of Gaius and Nero and had an Egyptian obelisk ( now known as the Vatican Obelisk ) transported by sea and erected in the middle of Rome.
The NEXTSTEP operating system further developed the idea, incorporating a feature whereby the right or middle mouse button brought the main menu ( which was vertical and automatically changed depending on context ) to the location of the mouse, thereby eliminating the need to move the mouse pointer all the way across the large ( for the time ) NextStep screen.
A small but affluent middle class can afford to shop at the former, while the large impoverished rural community resorts to buying small amounts of daily essentials from colmados ( small stores that often double as bars ).
LaGuardia's win was based on a complex coalition of regular Republicans ( mostly middle class Germans in the boroughs outside Manhattan ), a minority of reform-minded Democrats, some Socialists, a large proportion of middle-class Jews, and the great majority of Italians.
A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families.
* 1996 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England.
It contrasts with the Western-style dinners at home, where each individual takes helpings from the large tureens and plates of food presented at the middle of the dining table.
The country's climate is influenced chiefly by the mountains, Kyrgyzstan's position near the middle of the Eurasian landmass, and the absence of any body of water large enough to influence weather patterns.
Constructed from large blocks of light-coloured stone, the tower was made up of three stages: a lower square section with a central core, a middle octagonal section, and, at the top, a circular section.
A bath building is being excavated about 35 meters to the northeast of the hippodrome ; a large portion of it appears to have been dedicated to a cistern, and large stone basins from the middle of the structure have been uncovered
Mustafa was out-manoeuvered in the middle of the field and his troops, whose confidence in his person and cause he had lost by his violence and incapacity, passed over in large numbers to Murad II.
The idea that the Middle Ages was a " middle " phase between two other large scale periodizing concepts, Ancient and Modern, still persists.
Phrenology's success was also due in part because it was introduced at a time when scientific lectures were becoming a form of middle class entertainment, exposing a large demographic of people to phrenological ideas who wouldn't have been exposed otherwise.
When it was first discovered, scientists estimated that the largest Quetzalcoatlus fossils came from an individual with a wingspan as large as 15. 9 meters ( 52. 2 feet ), choosing the middle of three extrapolations from the proportions of other pterosaurs that gave an estimate of 11, 15. 5 and 21 meters respectively ( 36 feet, 50. 85 feet, 68. 9 feet ).
The lowest part of this model is example of the local network in the middle and large cities.
His best-known miracle is said to have taken place when he was preaching in the middle of a large crowd at the Synod of Brefi: the village of Llanddewi Brefi is said to stand on the spot where the ground on which he stood is reputed to have risen up to form a small hill.
The issues raised were complex and there was a large middle ground.

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