Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

In connection with our continuing development of new and more efficient mill machinery, a sounder U. S. income tax policy on depreciation of production equipment, enabling the mills to charge off the cost of new machines on a more realistic basis, could, if adopted, have favorable effects on Leesona's business in the next few years.

The next phase in the development of Cuyp ’ s increasingly amalgamated style is due to the influence of Jan Both.

The result was not actually a democracy or a real civic state, but he enabled the development of a fully democratic government, which would emerge in the next generation as the demos realized its power.

The next thirty years were marked by small scale revolts against French rule and the development of a plantation-style economy.

The next step in development was rifle shaped stocks that allowed better aiming.

The next development was the worship of the products of agriculture, from which he contends the cults of Demeter and Dionysus arose.

Some of the major national development projects include the New Kabul City next to the capital, the Ghazi Amanullah Khan City east of Jalalabad, and the Aino Mena in Kandahar.

In the next few years various others took part in this development of animated cartoons in the United States and elsewhere.

Only in the upward development of the soul do human beings find happiness in this life and the next, for if the soul is unhappy, a person will be miserable regardless of how materially wealthy he or she may be.

The modeled highway construction emphasized hope for the future as it served as a proposed solution to traffic congestion of the day, and demonstrated the probable development of traffic in proportion to the automotive growth of the next twenty years.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the development of the Westrex single-groove stereophonic record cutterhead led to the next wave of home-audio improvement, and in common parlance, stereo displaced hi-fi.

The next major development came from behavioral psychology in American university research.

Punishment for communicating about a development pertinent to the next day's stock price might seem to be an act of censorship.

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

The next important development in jazz guitar came in the mid to late-1930s with the advent of electrical amplification.

The perfection of the invention required much more development work before it could be routinely used by others, but this was carried out over the next few years.

The city market, in existence since 1909, was approved to be sold for a multi-building mixed-use development called MarketPlace, right next to the current market on the adjacent riverfront.

Furthermore the human experience of time itself was altered, with the development of electric telegraph from 1837, and the adoption of standard time by British railway companies from 1845, and in the rest of the world over the next fifty years.

The university was designed in the Brutalist style and developed by the renowned town planner Walter Abraham who also oversaw the next 20 years of planning and development for the university.

The next development was the paper pad system.

It soon became clear to many of those involved in PET development that a circular or cylindrical array of detectors was the logical next step in PET instrumentation.

Following recent discoveries and oil fields currently under development, Congo's oil production is expected to continue to rise significantly in the next few years.

Poaching and the absence of fires, which had been the result of human activity, set the stage for the development of dense woodlands and thickets over the next 30 – 50 years.

The next technology used optical storage.

Kurzweil's next major business venture began in 1978, when Kurzweil Computer Products began selling a commercial version of the optical character recognition computer program.

*** Holographic Versatile Disc ( HVD ), a next generation ultra-high-density optical disc format replacement for Blu-ray

Mugabi underwent optical surgery the next day to repair his injury.

* In a jurisdiction using an optical scan voting system, voters choose by filling an oval or by completing an arrow on the printed ballot next to their chosen candidate or referendum position.

Due to the difficult weather conditions, the guns ' optical sights were ineffective: the first salvo fell short of the target and the next ones overshot it.

For the next 24 hours, a series of subtle optical measurements will be made in the area surrounding this phenomenon where a fluid acts like both a liquid and a gas.

Over the next sixty years, this growing company became a manufacturer of optical lenses ( including those for the first Canon cameras ) and equipment used in cameras, binoculars, microscopes and inspection equipment.

Researchers are employing molecular mechanics and electronic structure calculations to predict the optical and transport properties of molecules that could become the next generation of solar cell materials.

* On September 7, 2005 Samsung confirmed their next generation of optical drives will support Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD discs.

Over the next few years, both X-ray and optical emission from this remnant were also detected, and in 2010 the H. E. S. S.

These other two telescopes roughly belong to the same next generation of optical ground-based telescopes.

Today's most important industries are the machine industry, the automotive industry, the electrical industry, the fine & micro mechanical, watch & electronic industries, next to the optical and metal construction's.

It is borne out also by the absence of any developed theory about how sin passes from one generation to the next.

Corpuscularianism stayed a dominant theory over the next several hundred years.

The discovery of this particle the next year removed the last two objections to his theory.

Bradley eventually developed the explanation of aberration in about September 1728 and his theory was presented to the Royal Society in mid January the next year.

The cell theory, first developed in 1839 by Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann, states that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, that all cells come from preexisting cells, that vital functions of an organism occur within cells, and that all cells contain the hereditary information necessary for regulating cell functions and for transmitting information to the next generation of cells.

Control theory made significant strides in the next 100 years.

His theory substantially comprised two statements: first, that animal organs and behaviour can change according to the way they are used ; and second, that those characteristics can transmit from one generation to the next ( the example of the giraffe whose neck becomes longer while trying to reach the upper leaves of a tree is well-known ).

The theory shows what Marx called a " coherence " in human history, because each generation inherits the productive forces developed previously and in turn further develops them before passing them on to the next generation.

In return, John promised not to visit England for the next three years, thereby in theory giving Richard adequate time to conduct a successful crusade and return from the Levant without fear of John seizing power.

His next work, Ancient Judaism was an attempt to prove this theory.

Where it differs from a " true " axiomatic set theory book is its character: there are no long-winded discussions of axiomatic minutiae, and there is next to nothing about advanced topics like large cardinals.

Chapter VI begins by saying the next three chapters will address possible objections to the theory, the first being that often no intermediate forms between closely related species are found, though the theory implies such forms must have existed.

Around 1960, Ray Solomonoff founded the theory of universal inductive inference, the theory of prediction based on observations ; for example, predicting the next symbol based upon a given series of symbols.

These properties are explained by the theory that the common isotope helium-4 forms a Bose – Einstein condensate ( see next section ) in the superfluid state.

Solomonoff's Inductive inference is the theory of prediction based on observations ; for example, predicting the next symbol based upon a given series of symbols.

This sealed the fate of de Broglie's theory for the next two decades.

However, the theory is usually applied only when the probability distribution of the next step depends non-trivially on the current state.

Claude Shannon's development of information theory during World War II provided the next big step in understanding how much information could be reliably communicated through noisy channels.

Childe's next work, The Bronze Age ( 1930 ), dealt with the titular Bronze Age in Europe, and displayed his increasing acceptance of Marxist theory in understanding how society functioned and changed.

Though Thomson conducted no new experiments, over the next two years he became increasingly dissatisfied with Carnot's theory and convinced of Joule's.

In the next two centuries workers in the theory of errors and in statistics found many different ways of implementing least squares.

His theory became an educational requirement for the next fifty years.