Before Moseley's discovery, the atomic numbers ( or elemental number ) of an element had been thought of as a semi-arbitrary sequential number, based on the sequence of atomic masses, but modified somewhat where chemists found this to be desirable, such as by the great Russian chemist, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev.

This parent name is then modified by prefixes, suffixes, and numbers to unambiguously convey the structure.

In recent years, growing numbers of grassroots and grasstop lobbies have been organized by citizen groups, representing interests such as genetically modified organisms and software piracy.

The guiding equation is modified by taking inner products in spin space to reduce the complex vectors to complex numbers.

The military had already purchased large numbers of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft which were slightly modified for use as paratroop transports in addition to their other duties.

The newest know abacus invented by Lee Kai-chen contains four decks, in which more complex operations can be made ; " multiplication and division are easier using this modified abacus and includes instructions for determining square roots and cubic roots of numbers " ( Georges ).

Line numbers of the original file appear before < tt > a </ tt >/< tt > d </ tt >/< tt > c </ tt > and those of the modified file appear after.

Agents who had been exposed had to be recalled, safe houses abandoned, phone numbers changed and operational methods modified.

The 9-9-9 format was chosen based on the ' button A ' and ' button B ' design of pre-payment coin-operated public payphones in wide use ( first introduced in 1925 ) which could be easily modified to allow free use of the 9 digit on the rotary dial in addition to the 0 digit ( then used to call the operator ), without allowing free use of numbers involving other digits ; other combinations of 9 and 0 were later used for other purposes.

The electoral system would be modified to allow black representation in the assembly to grow in line with voter numbers rather than contribution to the fisc and there would be no equal representation cap.

The modified layout assigns one number from each tens-cluster to each ring of numbers around the die.

Demand is raised to ' make plan ,' increasing ( mura ), when the " numbers " are low, which causes production to try to squeeze extra capacity from the process, which causes routines and standards to be modified or stretched.

Later in Eastern Christendom, after a process of title-inflation, multiplying the numbers of dioceses, metropolitans and ( arch ) bishops and reducing their territorial size, the use of the word was gradually modified and came to refer to the diocese of a bishop.

The station has been temporarily modified to allow it to cope with an increase in passenger numbers during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

Certain numbers of Mk. 1 were modified latter in the war and designated Mk. 1 *.

Input / output was also modified, with 5-bit numbers being output least significant digit to the right, as is typical for most numeric writing.

Until World War II, counties played differing numbers of matches and the points system had to be modified so that the ratio of points to finished games ( games minus draws ) decided the final positions.

Interpreters with build numbers > 1000 have slightly modified file formats and improved foreign language support ( resulting from a code merge with SCI0's S. OLD fork ), but are otherwise like earlier SCI1 versions.

The IBM 80 column punched card format was introduced in 1928 ; existing keypunches and other products were modified for this new format while keeping the same model numbers.

These craft, transferred by the US government in 1971 when Dr. George Borg Olivier was still Prime Minister, carried hull numbers P23 and P24 respectively and, while somewhat modified, maintained the look of the original riverine warfare boats.

During production, the sights were modified, and M1884s with serial numbers higher than 4330 also had a battle sight fitted to the backside of the sight leaf, which could be revealed by folding the leaf fully forward.

: During poker tournaments, a chip race is used to " color up " large numbers of smaller-denomination chips, and a modified deal is used to assign leftover chips.

An example of an additive function which is not σ-additive is obtained by considering μ, defined over the power set of the real numbers by the slightly modified formula

At this time it was selling in reasonable numbers to UK bus operators, but unlike other bodybuilders who could only offer the L113 with step-entrance bodies, Wright modified it by removing the middle section of the chassis and thus offered UK bus operators one of the first mainstream low-floor body / chassis combinations.

Database molecular editors such as Leatherface, RECAP and Molecule Slicer allow large numbers of molecules to be modified automatically according to rules such as ' deprotonate carboxylic acids ' or ' break exocyclic bonds ' that can be specified by the user.

In insulation, the numbers to remember are 6-4-2.

They come prepared for family fun because Americans in ever-growing numbers are learning that here is the way to a fine economical vacation that becomes a family experience of lasting importance.

The flux values are for all particles with masses greater than the given mass and are based on an estimate of the numbers of visual meteors.

The blooms of Ribes and of the willow and sloe are the places where large numbers of our early insects will assemble: honeybees, bumblebees, and other wild bees, and also various kinds of flies.

True terminal bronchioles comprise the most frequent form taken by the distal airways in types 1 and 3, although small numbers of poorly developed respiratory bronchioles are present.

If we are discussing differentiable complex-valued functions, then Af and V are complex vector spaces, and Af may be any complex numbers.

We now write Af where Af are distinct complex numbers.

The numbers of successes on the five individual shots are, then, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1.

For one thing, although considerable numbers of men have been trained, bureaucracies are still deficient in many respects ; ;

As mentioned above, where families are concentrated in larger numbers, group controls seem strongest and most effective.

There are several causes for this, one being rapid economic development with increasing numbers of of middle-class positions requiring engineering or scientific training.

In ever greater numbers, factories are locating in the suburbs or in `` industrial parks '' removed from the city's political jurisdiction.

numbers sometimes followed by letters are used so that insertions can be made.

and the latter is the total sum of all the numbers in the square, by which all the other numbers are overshadowed and in which they may be said to be absorbed.

There are increasing numbers of neighborhoods that are integrated residentially without great loss of property values, the white population having taken the initiative in preparing the areas for an appreciation of the Negroes' desire for well-kept housing, privacy, etc..

indeed, there are never fewer than eight of them on stage, and that is only for the more intimate numbers.

To pick out particular numbers is something of a problem, but one or two identifiable items are too conspicuously excellent to be missed.

`` I keep all these plays in this little black book, and I watch over a twelve-hour period to find out what numbers are repeating.

The forms on earth, are imperfect imitations ( εικών, ikon: image ) of the celestial world of numbers.

Since is the distance from a given number to the mean, one way to interpret this property is as saying that the numbers to the left of the mean are balanced by the numbers to the right of the mean.