What we experience as " higher pitched " or " lower pitched " sounds are pressure vibrations having a higher or lower number of cycles per second.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

1859 ) chronicles the suppression of the lower presidency and puts the number of Abbreviators at that date at eleven.

The curator of invertebrate palaeontology, Desmond Collins, identified a number of additional outcrops, stratigraphically both higher and lower than the original Walcott quarry.

A substantial number of the tourists who visit the BVI are cruise ship passengers, although they produce far lower revenue per head than charter boat tourists and hotel based tourists.

Another style was to truncate the last 3 digits and append K, essentially using K as a decimal prefix similar to SI, but always truncating to the next lower whole number instead of rounding to the nearest.

On the other hand, taking a longer-term view, the number of journeys in 2002 – 3 was lower than for the 1950 – 60 period.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

More recently, the toad's toxins have been used in a number of new ways: bufotenin has been used in Japan as an aphrodisiac and a hair restorer, and in cardiac surgery in China to lower the heart rates of patients.

The benefits of the archive file are to lower the number of files for easier transfer, to reduce storage usage, or just to organize outdated files.

The power of non-state actors resulted in a lower value placed on sovereignty in the 18th and 19th centuries, which further reduced the number of civil wars.

The more reflux that is provided for a given number of theoretical plates, the better the tower's separation of lower boiling materials from higher boiling materials.

The 1200 used 1200 ns core while the 800 featured the SuperNOVA ’ s 800 ns core, explaining the somewhat confusing naming where the lower number represents the faster machine.

It is asserted that, as a result, most major academic libraries in the US do not use the DDC because the classification of works in those areas is not specific enough, although there are other reasons that may truly be more weighty, such as the much lower expense of using a unique " pre-packaged " catalog number instead of having highly skilled staff members engaging in the time-consuming development of catalog numbers.

A small number of bass players tune their strings in fifths, like a cello but an octave lower ( C-G-D-A low to high ).

The population decreased to 1, 340, 194 in January 2011, which is even lower than the number of people that lived in Estonia in 1970.

On the most basic level, electronegativity is determined by factors like the nuclear charge ( the more protons an atom has, the more " pull " it will have on negative electrons ) and the number / location of other electrons present in the atomic shells ( the more electrons an atom has, the farther from the nucleus the valence electrons will be, and as a result the less positive charge they will experience — both because of their increased distance from the nucleus, and because the other electrons in the lower energy core orbitals will act to shield the valence electrons from the positively charged nucleus ).

However, studies have shown that the removal of tuition fees at third level has increased the number of students overall and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Included amongst the remastered album tracks were unreleased songs and out-takes, including 2 new singles " Surrender " which registered on the lower end of the UK Singles Chart at number 81, some 30 years after it was written in 1976.

A harmonic is a frequency that is a whole number multiple of a lower register, or " fundamental " note of the flute.

A number of these dice are rolled, usually four at a time (" 4dF " in Fudge dice notation ), and for every plus side that comes up the result of using the Trait is considered one step higher ( e. g. from Fair to Good ) and for every minus side that comes up the result is considered one step lower.

Indeed, Winograd showed that the DFT can be computed with only irrational multiplications, leading to a proven achievable lower bound on the number of multiplications for power-of-two sizes ; unfortunately, this comes at the cost of many more additions, a tradeoff no longer favorable on modern processors with hardware multipliers.

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

Rhode Island's rate of $.07 per mile is considerably lower than reimburseable rates in the federal government and in industry nationally which approximate a $.09 per mile average.

Determine if the particular State's unadjusted allotment ( result obtained in item 11 above ) is greater than its maximum allotment, and if so lower its unadjusted allotment to its maximum allotment.

A cross-section of a normal lower human leg is shown in Fig. 8 with the various parts labeled.

There is one exception to the above statement as has been pointed out, and that is that fluids can relax by flowing into fields of lower rates of shear, so the statement should be modified by stating that the mechanics are similar.

The Af layers are stacked normal to the ( 111 ) axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer, in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers.

It is interesting to note that medium compulsives in the unstructured schools made the lowest achievement scores ( although not significantly lower ).

It will be seen that where the scope is similar, the Athabascan ratios come out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4: 5 ) except for verbs, where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower.

In so far as this goal is achieved, the society becomes more fluid, artificial barriers to social mobility are reduced, and people at the lower end of the social hierarchy share more fully in the material and cultural goods of society.

One is that whatever is ecumenical has to do with some over-all organization at `` the top '' and needs only to be understood at the so-called `` lower levels ''.

Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon said the economy is expected to advance by a whopping 8% next year, paving the way for lower taxes.

People tend to be less cooperative if they perceive that the frequency of helpers in the population is lower.

The arithmetic mean may be misinterpreted as the median to imply that most values are higher or lower than is actually the case.

A unique feature is their ability to feed by suction using only one half of the lower jaw at a time.

They differ from the cryptobranchids by having the prearticular bones in their lower jaw fused and reproduction is by internal fertilisation.

The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision.