This fourth terminal serves to bias the transistor into operation ; it is rare to make non-trivial use of the body terminal in circuit designs, but its presence is important when setting up the physical layout of an integrated circuit.

Agarose gels are easily cast and handled compared to other matrices, because the gel setting is a physical rather than chemical change.

This specialty of physical therapy is most often found in the out-patient clinical setting.

This transformation law is considered to be built in to the notion of a tensor in a geometrical or physical setting, and the precise form of the transformation law determines the type ( or valence ) of the tensor.

The diversity of the regions is in fact the most pronounced attribute of Thailand's physical setting.

The reasons behind this are largely down to the difficulties in accurately classifying different tills, which are often classified based on inferences of the physical setting of the till rather than till fabric or particle size analysis data.

Even something as simple as a thick or thorny bush can add a layer of physical security to some premises, especially in a residential setting.

An observational study is used when it is impractical, unethical, cost-prohibitive ( or otherwise inefficient ) to fit a physical or social system into a laboratory setting, to completely control confounding factors, or to apply random assignment.

From 2004 to 2006, Stephen B. Plank and colleagues from John Hopkins University conducted a correlational study to determine the degree to which the physical appearance of the school and classroom setting influence student behavior, particularly in respect to the variables concerned in their study: fear, social disorder, and collective efficacy.

From analyses of the survey data, the researchers determined that the variables concerning their study are statistically significant to the physical conditions of the school and classroom setting.

Their physical remains were thought to strengthen soldiers in battle while their spirits became the much-feared Cihuateteo who accompanied the setting sun in the west.

The physical construction of the house required setting up four posts to represent the four cardinal directions, “ aligned almost exactly with the north-south, east-west axis.

By 1981, Limehouse shared the docklands-wide physical, social and economic decline which led to the setting up of the London Docklands Development Corporation.

Eldorado's attractive physical setting, large areas of protected open space, protective covenants, excellent elementary school, relatively reasonable housing prices and convenience to Santa Fe, have made it a popular place to live in the Santa Fe area.

Western confusion regarding magical realism is due to the "... conception of the real " created in a magical realist text: rather than explain reality using natural or physical laws, as in typical Western texts, magical realist texts create a reality "... in which the relation between incidents, characters, and setting could not be based upon or justified by their status within the physical world or their normal acceptance by bourgeois mentality.

" We are fighting a wilderness, physical and moral ," Eliot declared in setting forth his vision of the American university, " for this fight we must be trained and armed.

Even worse, there are often two sets of component outputs, one carrying interlaced video, and the other progressive, or an interlaced / progressive switch ( either a physical switch or a menu setting ).

For example, a restaurant provides a physical good ( the food ), but also provides services in the form of ambience, the setting and clearing of the table, etc.

Thomas Hobbes, under the influence of Francis Bacon, re-oriented political thought to what was most solid but also most low in man — his physical hopes and fears — setting a precedent for John Locke and the later economic approach to political thought, as in David Hume and Adam Smith.

In physics ( and mathematics ), the Lorentz group is the non-abelian group of all Lorentz transformations of Minkowski spacetime, the classical setting for all ( nongravitational ) physical phenomena.

Wollongong is noted for its heavy industry, its port activity and the quality of its physical setting, occupying a narrow coastal plain between an almost continuous chain of surf beaches and the cliffline of the rainforest-covered Illawarra escarpment.

His character and his plots remained consistent in whatever setting ; he was a populist Hercules, using his physical prowess to overcome the evil ruses of effete aristocrats and authority figures.

The physical setting is socially constructed which creates a behavior influence.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

With Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe, alienation is represented on a purely physical plane.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

It is filled with the usual personal abuse of Steele, especially of his physical appearance ; ;

Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.

This is that autistic people don't enjoy physical contact with others -- for instance, my children and I.

They think, perforce, of physical survival: everything else is secondary.

The purpose of the organization is to further the interest of women students in recreational activities as a means of promoting physical efficiency, sportsmanship, and `` play for play's sake ''.

Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.

When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.

If you have an annual or regular physical examination program, is it worth what it is costing you??

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

They do not destroy physical structures as is true of high explosives.

It is conceived that one of the means to attain this social distance is that of physical and social isolation.