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.

At some point in the next two years they moved back to England, by 1873 settling into The Glen, a large Victorian house in Blundellsands, a seaport in Lancashire, north-west England, which was developing into a wealthy suburb of Liverpool.

Today Kista Science City is a vibrant cluster of ICT industries with more than 20 000 people involved in developing next generation 4G mobile telecommunications and Information and Communications solutions.

Ioffe asked Theremin to come to his newly founded Physical Technical Institute in Petrograd, and the next day he invited him to start work at developing measuring methods for high frequency electrical oscillations.

The next day, Viacom announced that by the end of 2008, Neopets, Inc would be renamed to NeoStudios, " which will focus on developing new virtual world gaming experiences online, while continuing to grow and evolve the existing ones.

For the next 24 hours, connective tissue develops between the developing placenta and the growing embryo.

However immediately after his discovery he did not improve it, allegedly because of an agreement to spend the next five years developing the New York City electric light and power system.

Over the next eight months following its launch, the IDA grew to 51 member states and loaned $ 101 million ($ 784. 2 million in 2012 dollars ) to four developing countries.

Over the next few years he worked on the problem of error-correction, developing an increasingly powerful array of algorithms.

Hardy is currently developing his next film, The Wrath of the Gods, which will complete The Wicker Man Trilogy.

Surveys and projections indicate that all urban growth over the next 25 years will be in developing countries.

During the next decade and a half and continuing today, NC State has focused on developing its new Centennial Campus.

Siegel continued writing poetry throughout his life, but devoted the majority of his time over the next decades to developing the philosophy he later called Aesthetic Realism.

The slowly developing village had a population of about fifty, which did not significantly increase in the next several years.

For the next seven years, he worked with host Josie Carey in unscripted live TV, developing many of the puppets, characters, and music used in his later work, such as King Friday XIII, and Curious X the Owl.

The writer used the revised outline to write the first draft of the script while the other writers worked on developing the next.

is a platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo and was the last installment in the Donkey Kong Country trilogy until Nintendo announced Retro Studios would be developing the next installment, Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Nintendo Wii.

The company would stay with that format for the next 40 years until Burger King began developing a variable speed broiler that could handle multiple items with different cooking rates and times.

The last song on the album, Shorter's " Non-Stop Home ", foreshadowed the band's developing hallmark sound ( which would be even more in evidence on their next album ).

McQuarrie spent the next several years dividing his time between rewriting studio movies ( such as Singer ’ s X-Men ) and developing a screenplay on the life of Alexander the Great, written with Peter Buchman, for Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

The next four years were devoted to the study of classical literature and Latin and Greek prose and poetry, and to developing the ability to express one's self in these languages, as well as in the vernacular, orally and in writing.

Berliner Gram-o-phone's facilities in Montreal, a complex of buildings at 1001 rue Lenoir and 1050 rue LaCasse in the St-Henri district, became home to RCA Victor Canada over the next several decades, developing and producing such high-tech products as microwave radio relay systems, communication satellites, television broadcast equipment, etc.

She spent much of the next decade travelling around the world, mountaineering in Switzerland, and developing a passion for archaeology and languages.

Armed with the new understanding that the brain has independent structures responsible for both voluntary and involuntary functions, the next steps made were in developing this new discipline called neuropsychology.

On resigning from the cabinet, Hewitt was asked by the Prime Minister to head an EU manifesto group, developing European policy for the next general election manifesto.

A Hurricane Hunters flight on August 4 reported a developing eye feature, and the next day Connie rapidly strengthened into a major hurricane.