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latter and standard
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
The latter represents a choice between any number of possible interpretations, none of which may have a standard agreed-upon meaning.
The standard ampere is most accurately realized using a watt balance, but is in practice maintained via Ohm's Law from the units of electromotive force and resistance, the volt and the ohm, since the latter two can be tied to physical phenomena that are relatively easy to reproduce, the Josephson junction and the quantum Hall effect, respectively.
The number of k-combinations from a given set S of n elements is often denoted in elementary combinatorics texts by C ( n, k ), or by a variation such as,, or even ( the latter form is standard in French, Russian, and Polish texts ).
This name later became somewhat standard in the latter part of the 20th century ( see swing revival ), presumably because it helped to distinguish the dance from other contemporary dances that share the " shag " designation ( e. g., Carolina Shag ).
# Defined-the process is defined / confirmed as a standard business process, and decomposed to levels 0, 1 and 2 ( the latter being Work Instructions ).
It was subsequently reaffirmed as the standard in 1983, 1988 ( revised as FIPS-46-1 ), 1993 ( FIPS-46-2 ), and again in 1999 ( FIPS-46-3 ), the latter prescribing " Triple DES " ( see below ).
He continued arguing how problematic it was establishing the relation between " normal ", " nonfiction or standard discourse " and " fiction ", defined as its " parasite,for part of the most originary essence of the latter is to allow fiction, the simulacrum, parasitism, to take place-and in so doing to " de-essentialize " itself as it were ”.
Examples include the Achaemenid battle standard Derafsh Kaviani, and the standards of the Roman legions such as the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion, or the dragon standard of the Sarmatians ; the latter was let fly freely in the wind, carried by a horseman, but judging from depictions it was more similar to an elongated dragon kite than to a simple flag.
The latter include standard RPG-7 warheads and home-made rockets such as the Al-Bana, Al-Batar and Al-Yasin.
* The Diminishing Bridge variation begins with the maximum hand and counts down, like the latter half of a standard game.
These have now been replaced by the defining points in the International Temperature Scale of 1990, though in practice the melting point of water is more commonly used than its triple point, the latter being more difficult to manage and thus restricted to critical standard measurement.
Both functions display prompting messages, with the former returning a standard response, and the latter returning one user-supplied text or numeric value.
As a result, the latter notation is a convenient abuse of notation, and not a standard ( Riemann or Lebesgue ) integral.
When adopting the gold standard, many European nations changed the name of their currency from Daler ( Sweden and Denmark ) or Gulden ( Austria-Hungary ) to Crown, since the former names were traditionally associated with silver coins and the latter with gold coins.
Nutmeg is a dioecious plant which is propagated sexually and asexually, the latter being the standard.
Because of the latter characteristic, this serotype cannot be isolated by using standard fecal coliform methods that include incubation at 45 ° C.
The latter are almost always mass-produced weapons, developed and constructed to a standard design out of standard components and intended to be deployed in a standard explosive device.
The kitchen was reduced to its minimums and the " work kitchen " paradigm taken to its extremes: in East Germany for instance, the standard tenement block of the model " P2 " had tiny 4 m² kitchens in the inside of the building ( no windows ), connected to the dining and living room of the 55 m² apartment and separated from the latter by a pass-through or a window.
He continued arguing how problematic it was establishing the relation between " nonfiction or standard discourse " and " fiction ", defined as its " parasite ", for " part of the most originary essence of the latter is to allow fiction, the simulacrum, parasitism, to take place — and in so doing to " de-essentialize " itself as it were.
Experimental results agree with all of the standard predictions of quantum mechanics in so far as the latter has predictions.

latter and will
When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.
This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.
`` If asked to choose between a terrible probability and a more terrible possibility, most men will choose the latter ''.
English-speaking media commentators and journalists will sometimes refer to celebrities as belonging to the A-List or state that a certain actor belongs to the B-List, the latter being a disparaging context.
Classical physics draws a distinction between particles and energy, holding that only the latter exhibit waveform characteristics, whereas quantum mechanics is based on the observation that matter has both wave and particle aspects and postulates that the state of every subatomic particle can be described by a wavefunction — a mathematical expression used to calculate the probability that the particle, if measured, will be in a given location or state of motion.
There is an apparent reference to the resurrection in the book of Job, where Job says, " I know that my redeemer lives, and that he will stand at the latter day upon the earth.
In these latter cases the faiths do not promote deference, as happens in monotheisms ; rather each suggests a path of action that will bring the practitioner into conformance with the divine law: ahimsa — ' no harm ' — for Buddhist and Hindu faiths ; de or te — ' virtuous action ' — in daoism ; and any of numerous practices of peace and love in new age thinking.
Set prior to Remembrance of the Daleks in Davros's timeline, but after in the timeline of the Doctor, the latter, accompanied by Bernice Summerfield, together with help from the Sixth Doctor, ensures that Davros will survive the wrath of the Daleks so that he can assume the title of Emperor, allowing history to take its course.
When galloping, the hind legs move around the front legs before the latter move forward, and the tail will curl up.
Ebbinghaus also described the difference between involuntary and voluntary memory, the former occurring “ with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the willand the latter being brought “ into consciousness by an exertion of the will ”.
* 927 – Æthelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain.
Aristotle's assertion that "... it will not be possible to be and not to be the same thing ", which would be written in propositional logic as ¬ ( P ∧ ¬ P ), is a statement modern logicians could call the law of excluded middle ( P ∨ ¬ P ), as distribution of the negation of Aristotle's assertion makes them equivalent, regardless that the former claims that no statement is both true and false, while the latter requires that any statement is either true or false.
Because this usage blurs the distinction between the compile-time process and the run-time process, this article will use linking for the former and loading for the latter.
Sometimes, however, a smaller firm will acquire management control of a larger and / or longer-established company and retain the name of the latter for the post-acquisition combined entity.
The two are similar in many respects, with Mary Magdalene often being viewed as a Christian antecedent of the latter, while Tahirih in her own right could be described as the spiritual return of the Magdalene ; especially given their common, shared attributes of " knowledge, steadfastness, courage, virtue and will power ", in addition to their importance within the religious movements of Christianity and the Bahá ' í Faith as female leaders.
The latter effect is due to the greater likelihood that part of the screen will occupy the viewer's peripheral vision, where sensitivity to flickering is greater.
If the latter occurs, ( Alice measures 1 ) then Bob's measurement will return 0 with certainty.
Now we only need to compute the intersection of the latter ray with our field of view, to get the pixel which our reflected light ray will hit.
If, however, a statute which did not itself contain any limitation is to be governed by another which is temporary only, the former will also be temporary and dependent upon the existence of the latter.
In the former case, the nanoparticle will appear to be in the superparamagnetic state whereas in the latter case it will appear to be “ blocked ” in its initial state.
A superparamagnetic system will show a characteristic frequency dependence: When the frequency is much higher than 1 / τ < sub > N </ sub >, there will be a different magnetic response than when the frequency is much lower than 1 / τ < sub > N </ sub >, since in the latter case, but not the former, the ferromagnetic clusters will have time to respond to the field by flipping their magnetization.

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