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In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.
By modern convention, enclosures are numbered from the centre outwards.
The modern Philcon convention claims descent from this event.
This convention is more relaxed in modern age and now it is acceptable among friends to use the given name, but use of the family name is still common.
Through centuries of international convention, this has become the dominant rule to identifying an emperor in the modern era.
( By modern convention, the sequence begins with F < sub > 0 </ sub > = 0.
True granite according to modern petrologic convention contains both plagioclase and alkali feldspars.
The two L's do not seem to have specifically represented either name, and the order Ludwik Lazar is a modern convention.
A modern longbow's draw is typically or less, and by modern convention measured at.
However, by the time Scotland and England joined under a single parliament, English had lost the sound, so the Scots convention of using CH remained, hence the modern Scottish English loch.
A convention of the constitution, the modern Cabinet is a group of ministers who formulate policies.
The Premier is appointed by the Governor of New South Wales, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the Legislative Assembly.
Historians and archeologists dismiss this modern theory as Gods and goddesses with mythical allegories were usually portrayed, but could this remarkable vase have broken convention, and shown realism in portraiture, known solely on coins of the period, before it, in turn, was broken?
The transition of the office to its modern stature occurred primarily as a result of Franklin Roosevelt's 1940 nomination, when he captured the ability to nominate his running mate instead of leaving the nomination to the convention.
Bott states that the author of the poem was evidently unaware that this contraction of " and " is not an archaic, but a modern convention.
However, most modern algebraic geometry texts starting with Alexander Grothendieck's foundational EGA use the convention in this article .< ref > A notable exception to modern algebraic geometry texts following the conventions of this article is Commutative algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry / David Eisenbud ( 1995 ), which uses " h < sub > A </ sub >" to mean the covariant hom-functor.
This is a modern convention, however.
One advantage of this convention is in the use of modular arithmetic as implemented in modern computers.
Most classic translations, including both Douglas and Dryden, employed a rhyme scheme, a very non-Roman convention that is not usually followed in modern versions.
The sound, also not native to the language, often shifted to, as in serbisu " work " from Portuguese serviço ( also note that a modern INL convention promotes the use of serbisu for " work " and servisu for " service ").
This site is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other previous measurement points ( such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme ).
The presence of the fourth wall is an established convention of modern realistic theatre, which has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic or comedic effect when this boundary is " broken ", for example by an actor onstage speaking to the audience directly.

modern and moving
Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.
Older avionics required a pilot or navigator to plot the intersection of signals on a paper map to determine an aircraft's location ; modern systems calculate the position automatically and display it to the flight crew on moving map displays.
Self-propelled howitzers are permanently mounted on a carriage or vehicle with room for the crew and ammunition and are thus capable of moving quickly from one firing position to another, both to support the fluid nature of modern combat and to avoid counter-battery fire.
Cavalry found new success in Imperial operations ( irregular warfare ), where modern weapons were lacking and the slow moving infantry-artillery train or fixed fortifications were often ineffective against native insurgents ( unless the natives offered a fight on an equal footing, as at Tel-el-Kebir, Omdurman, etc .).
Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan ( which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively ).
The explanation for overtaking on the left, although road traffic in Britain overtakes on the right, is that, unlike modern " comb " escalators, where the end of the moving stairway is at right angles to the direction of travel, older " shunt " escalators ended with a diagonal so that the stairway finished sooner for the right foot than for the left.
Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.
Taking a different view from other modern scholars, Ulansey argues that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Greco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that amounted to discovering that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way.
Maine saw the development of societies as moving away from traditional status societies to modern contract societies.
In April 1870 he arrived at a four-row, upper case keyboard approaching the modern QWERTY standard, moving six vowels, A, E, I, O, U, and Y, to the upper row as follows:
Almost all modern military radar systems are based on phased arrays, where the small additional cost is offset by the improved reliability of a system with no moving parts.
The modern social democratic movement has abandoned the goal of moving toward a socialist economy and instead advocates for social reforms to improve capitalism, such as a welfare state and unemployment benefits.
In modern single-hose sets this problem is avoided by moving the second-stage regulator to the diver's mouthpiece.
Other experiments include, for instance, relativistic energy and momentum increase at high velocities, time dilation of moving particles, and modern searches for Lorentz violations.
Bankalar Caddesi continued to be Istanbul's main financial district until the 1990s, when most Turkish banks began moving their headquarters to the modern central business districts of Levent and Maslak.
A classic traffic roundabout is a good example, with cars moving in and out with such effective organization that some modern cities have begun replacing stoplights at problem intersections with traffic circles, and getting better results.
Carter Harrison CribIn 1915, when Harrison left office, Chicago had essentially reached its modern size in land area, and had a population of 2, 400, 000 ; the city was moving inexorably into its status as a major modern metropolis.
By the end of his short life, Sviatoslav carved out for himself the largest state in Europe, eventually moving his capital from Kiev ( modern day Ukraine ) to Pereyaslavets ( modern day Romania ) on the Danube in 969.
However these categories overlap as still cameras are often used to capture moving images in special effects work and many modern cameras can quickly switch between still and motion recording modes.
In modern history, Navarre had had three different official designs before moving to the current design.
The game is a pure platform game, relying on smooth, fast moving gameplay, colorful graphics and a popular soundtrack by Patrick Phelan which overlaps with the Lotus 3 soundtrack and has inspired several modern electro / techno remixes.
* Several modern fighter aircraft may have no ailerons on the wings but provide roll control with an all moving tailplane.

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