" The concept's originators later dropped the notion that government contact had to be about a public issue to be protected by the Right to Petition the Government, as provided in the First Amendment.

The latter notion then, Lévi-Strauss suggests, is the result of regular contact between Europeans and native cultures.

They generalize to commutative algebra the notion of size inherent in consideration of the degree of a pole or multiplicity of a zero in complex analysis, the degree of divisibility of a number by a prime number in number theory, and the geometrical concept of contact between two algebraic or analytic varieties in algebraic geometry.

The Cartan geometry of S consists of a copy of the model space G / H at each point of S ( with a marked point of contact ) together with a notion of " parallel transport " along curves which identifies these copies using elements of G. This notion of parallel transport is generic in the intuitive sense that the point of contact always moves along the curve.

This notion of parallel transport of tangent vectors, by affine transformations, along a curve has a characteristic feature: the point of contact of the tangent plane with the surface always moves with the curve under parallel translation ( i. e., as the tangent plane is rolled along the surface, the point of contact moves ).

... the play is a masterly summation of all the themes that have long obsessed Pinter: the fallibility of memory, the co-existence in one man of brute strength and sensitivity, the ultimate unknowability of women, the notion that all human contact is a battle between who and whom.

Contradicting the Social Democratic ideologists Lothar Rădăceanu and Şerban Voinea ( whom he accused of having lost contact with the working class ), Pătrăşcanu theorized that the Romanian petite bourgeoisie was shrinking under pressure from successful capitalists, while rejecting the notion that civil servants belonged to the middle class.

He conceptualizes the undercaste as “ a population of such low status as to be shunned by the rest of the society, with opportunities for contact with others of higher status and upward mobility even more limited than those of the people today described as an underclass .” Gans admits hesitation in advancing a notion of undercaste – another umbrella term “ open to anyone who wishes to place new meaning, or a variety of stereotypes, accusations and stigmas under it ” – but argues that undercaste is nevertheless a suitable term worthy of replacing the politically charged language of the underclass.

In 1926 Minkowski defended his dissertation, " La notion de perte de contact avec la réalité et ses applications en psychopathologie " (" The Notion of Loss of Contact with Reality and its Applications in Psychopathology ") and began work at St. Anne's Hospital for the Insane in Paris.

Following on from his dissertation, La notion de perte de contact avec la réalité ( The Loss of Contact with Reality ), his work on schizophrenia claimed that schizophrenic patients display a " loss of vital contact with reality " whereby normal subjects, by contrast, experience life as a " lived syncronism " or what he called " syntony " ( a notion which describes contact with reality previously put forward by Ernst Kretschmer ).

This wrong notion changed when in January 1998, a group of scuba divers led by Romir Aglugub – a PADI diving instructor, discovered its presence, and interacted and came in contact with the Whale Sharks.

While the historical notion of a profilometer was a device similar to a phonograph that measures a surface as the surface is moved relative to the contact profilometer's stylus, this notion is changing with the emergence of numerous non-contact profilometery techniques.

There is a haunting resemblance between the notion of cause in Copernicus and in Freud.

important to distinguish between the notion of algorithm, i. e. procedure and the notion of function computable by algorithm, i. e. mapping yielded by procedure.

In such an environment ( as opposed to smooth curves ) Mandelbrot asserts " coastline length turns out to be an elusive notion that slips between the fingers of those who want to grasp it.

The theory also introduced the notion of an order parameter to distinguish between ordered phases.

Due to the similarities between the Chinese and Indian philosophies, the notion of chakras was quickly blended into Chinese practices such as acupuncture and belief in ki.

Internal colonialism is a notion of uneven structural power between areas of a nation state.

This notion can be extended to any interaction between the impinging particle and the atoms in the target.

A typical legal rationale for protecting the consumer is based on the notion of policing market failures and inefficiencies, such as inequalities of bargaining power between a consumer and a business.

The notion of objects as real is not expelled by phenomenology, but " bracketed " as a way in which we regard objects instead of a feature that inheres in an object's essence founded in the relation between the object and the perceiver.

In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had " much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols ", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire.

In practice, the difference between a mathematical function and the notion of a function used in imperative programming is that imperative functions can have side effects that may change the value of program state.

The notion that hell was below the earth is stated clearly in early Christian tradition by the belief, still recited by most Christians in the Apostolic and Athanasian creeds, that Christ " descended into hell " between his death and resurrection.

The philosopher Martin Buber underlined the difference between the Freudian notion of guilt, based on internal conflicts, and existential guilt, based on actual harm done to others.

It is perhaps best understood in relation to the notion of the ' habitus ' and ' field ', which describes the relationship between individual agents and the contextual environment.

The US Government currently has a polygraph examination entitled the " Test of Espionage and Sabotage " ( TES, contributing to the increasingly popular, though not consensus, notion, by those studying espionage and sabotage countermeasures, of the interrelationship between the two.

This is understood by both mainstream Muslims and historians to have been stated by Muhammad to emphasize upon the notion of equality between all the prophets and the law of making no distinction between any of the messengers.

He had the fanciful notion that commercial airliners would land between the huge skyscrapers.

However, he used the notion of an aether as a perfectly undetectable medium and distinguished between apparent and real time, so most historians of science argue that he failed to invent special relativity.

In his book Dell ’ Istoria della Sacra Religione et Illustrissima Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano (), written between 1594 and 1602, Giacomo Bosio endorses the notion that Maltese descended from Carthaginian.

As the course outlines of his Sorbonne lectures indicate, during this period he continues a dialogue between phenomenology and the diverse work carried out in psychology, all in order to return to the study of the acquisition of language in children, as well as to broadly take advantage of the contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to linguistics, and to work on the notion of structure through a discussion of work in psychology, linguistics and social anthropology.

In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had " much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols ", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire.

In mathematics, a metric space is a set where a notion of distance ( called a metric ) between elements of the set is defined.

These scholars argue that there is little connection between the notion of original jurisdiction and the Supreme Court, and note that the Act seems to affirm the Court's power to exercise only appellate jurisdiction.

Nazi racial policies, including the notion that people who were racially inferior had no right to live, date back to the earliest days of the party ; Hitler discusses this in Mein Kampf.

Central to these studies was the notion that statistically speaking, homosexuals suffered greater losses than many of the smaller minorities under Nazi persecution such as the Jehovah ’ s Witnesses and within the camps experienced harsher treatments and ostracization as well as execution at the hands of firing squads and the gas chambers.

* By showing that the Anschluss was enormously popular in Austria, he helped to discredit the notion of Austria as a victim of Nazi aggression brought unwillingly into the Reich.

After the end of World War II, a series of violent anti-Semitic incidents occurred throughout Europe, particularly in the Soviet-liberated East, where most of the returning Jews came back after liberation by the Allied Powers, and where the Nazi propagandists had extensively promoted the notion of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy ( see Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944 – 1946 and Anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe, 1944 – 1946 ).

These talks came to nothing however and with the Race Relations Act 1968 passed the notion of openly parading Nazi credentials in a party name had to be abandoned, leading to Jordan forming a new group to known as the British Movement.

Great allies of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States, were not interested in revealing any news that would contradict with the general notion of the Soviet Union as a liberator of Europe from Nazi evil.

Topics addressed include the Business Plot, where in 1933, General Smedley Butler exposed an alleged corporate plot against then U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt ; the tragedy of the commons ; Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning people to beware of the rising military-industrial complex ; economic externalities ; suppression of an investigative news story about Bovine Growth Hormone on a Fox News Channel affiliate television station ; the invention of the soft drink Fanta by the Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany ; the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust ( see IBM and the Holocaust ); the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel Corporation ; and in general themes of corporate social responsibility, the notion of limited liability, the corporation as a psychopath, and the corporation as a person.

The sketch, What if ?, pondered the notion of what if the comic book hero Superman had landed in Nazi Germany when he first came from Krypton.

This notion is based on a long history of conflict with ethnic Poles, first by the German-language and culture Prussians then by the united German state, starting with three partitions of Poland, germanization in the 19th and 20th centuries, and culminating in the Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 and the genocide of six million Polish citizens that ensued during the German occupation 1939 – 1945.

However, the Nazi mysticism of a communitarian " Blood community " conception radically differs from Heidegger or Foucault's criticism of the notion of the individual or collective subject.

The notion of Russian — and Slavs in general — as an " inferior race " was actively used in Nazi propaganda.

In April 2008, Loaded was forced to apologize to Heinz, after running an article that indicated incorrectly that Heinz once supplied the Nazi regime with a version of alphabet spaghetti consisting of tiny swastikas, a notion that according to The Times, is an urban legend.

Mommsen is opposed to the notion of Nazi Germany as a totalitarian state.

Broszat argued against characterizing Nazi Germany as a totalitarian regime and criticized Karl Dietrich Bracher and Ernst Nolte for advancing such a notion.

He rejected the notion that Nazi architecture was an imitation of classical models: " Those who speak of neo-classicism have not understood the spirit of our buildings.