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.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

To proceed from one stage to the next a sufficient number of feed states must be investigated to allow for interpolation ; ;

If we consider a process in which the outcome of one stage is known before passage to the next, then the principle of optimality shows that the policy in subsequent stages should be optimal with respect to the outcome of the first.

The discussion of the optimal policy when the outcome of one stage is not known before passing to the next is a very much more difficult matter.

The next stage ahead is that of making it thoroughly at home in the local community.

In the next stage, the scientists asked the participants some questions about type and frequency of their altruistic or helping behaviours.

At next stage, universe was created.

After transfers were completed, the crew would sleep before jettisoning the empty lunar module ascent stage the next day, when it was to be crashed intentionally into the lunar surface.

The next day, after final checks were completed, the expended LM ascent stage was jettisoned.

The crew's next task, after jettisoning the Lunar Module ascent stage, was to release a sub-satellite into lunar orbit from the CSM's Scientific Instrument Bay.

Across the street was Tammany Hall, and next to it Tony Pastor's, where stars of the stage were born.

Often the passage from one world or stage to the next is impelled by inner forces, a process of germination or gestation from earlier, embryonic forms.

* Signal conditioning, manipulating an analog signal in such a way that it meets the requirements of the next stage

The alien technology that accelerated the evolution of ape-like hominids at the start of the story has now advanced Bowman to the next stage of human evolution.

Thus, the eight items of the path are not to be understood as stages, in which each stage is completed before moving on to the next.

Banks would play in ten of the next 12 internationals as England tried to qualify for the 1972 European Championships but lost yet again to West Germany prior to the finals stage.

* Multi-cache: This variation consists of multiple discoveries of one or more intermediate points containing the coordinates for the next stage ; the final stage contains the log book and trade items.

The European Commission had some difficulty funding the project's next stage, after several allegedly " per annum " sales projection graphs for the project were exposed in November 2001 as " cumulative " projections ( which for each year projected, necessarily included all previous years of sales ).

Some of the complicated processors use a pipeline of instruction registers where each stage of the pipeline does part of the decoding, preparation or execution and then passes it to the next stage for its step.

Following his performance of Richard III on May 12, the Boston Transcript < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > review the next day called Booth " the most promising young actor on the American stage ".

But Orton, still on an absolute high, proceeded over the next ten months to revise The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp for the stage as a double called Crimes of Passion ; wrote Funeral Games ; wrote the screenplay Up Against It for the Beatles ; and worked on What the Butler Saw.

Between 9, 500 and 9, 100 BP, during the transgression of Ancylus Lake, the next freshwater stage of the Baltic, Ladoga certainly became part of it, even if they hadn't been connected immediately before.

But this was a controversial tour and its ramifications had an adverse impact on Trueman's international career during the next few years.

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.

The next development in optical theory came in 1899 when Max Planck correctly modelled blackbody radiation by assuming that the exchange of energy between light and matter only occurred in discrete amounts he called quanta.

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.