" It also uses sacred scripture in support of this practice, namely,, which states: " Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Archaeoastronomy is also closely associated with historical astronomy, the use of historical records of heavenly events to answer astronomical problems and the history of astronomy, which uses written records to evaluate past astronomical practice.

In practice usually a given DBMS uses the same data model for both the external and the conceptual levels ( e. g., relational model ).

zoologia ), and seeër ( now more commonly see-er ), but this practice has become far less common ; The New Yorker magazine is one of the few major publications that still uses it.

To consider the uses of hypnotism, its relation to medical practice in the present day, the advisability of giving encouragement to research into its nature and application, and the lines upon which such research might be organized.

The language syntax uses reverse Polish notation, which makes the order of operations unambiguous, but reading a program requires some practice, because one has to keep the layout of the stack in mind.

An exceedingly cheerful alien, Dr. Phlox uses many animals and various naturalistic cures to practice his trade, instead of the usual technological implements.

In many ways the Smaug episode reflects and references the dragon of Beowulf, and Tolkien uses the episode to put into practice some of the ground-breaking literary theories he had developed about the Anglo-Saxon poem and its early medieval portrayal of the dragon as having bestial intelligence.

Traditional construction uses animal glue, and internal joints are often reinforced with strips of either linen or vellum soaked in hot animal glue — a practice also employed in early plucked vihuela construction.

While these uses appear distinct, in practice they are less so.

In practice, the fuzzy rule sets usually have several antecedents that are combined using fuzzy operators, such as AND, OR, and NOT, though again the definitions tend to vary: AND, in one popular definition, simply uses the minimum weight of all the antecedents, while OR uses the maximum value.

The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another.

" In actual practice, no one ( except the FCC ) uses these channel numbers ; the frequencies are used instead.

The United States military, for example, uses hollow-point bullets in some sniper rifles for their exceptional accuracy at long ranges, and believes that the hollow-point does not result in wounds significantly different from full metal jacket ammunition in practice.

It holds assemblies at which bishops and religious superiors, elected by bishops conferences or the Union of Superiors General or appointed by the Pope vote on proposals (" propositiones ") to present for the Pope's consideration, and which in practice the Pope uses as the basis of " post-synodal apostolic exhortations " on the themes discussed.

Early transfusions used whole blood, but modern medical practice commonly uses only components of the blood, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, clotting factors, and platelets.

In 1870 Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel in Geschichte der Römischen Literatur ( A History of Roman Literature ) innovated the definitive philological classification of classical Latin based on the metaphoric uses of the ancient myth of the Ages of Man, a practice then universally current: a Golden Age and a Silver Age of classical Latin were to be presumed.

Elimination communication ( EC ) is a practice in which a caregiver uses timing, signals, cues, and intuition to address an infant's need to eliminate waste.

In practice, this energy may also be calculated from the substantial mass differences between the fuel and products, which uses previous measurement of the atomic masses of known nuclides, which always have the same mass for each species.

One point of discussion has been over the words Gildas uses to describe the Saxon's subsidies ( annonas, epimenia ), and whether they are legal terms used in a treaty of foederati, a late Roman political practice of settling allied barbarian peoples within the boundaries of the Empire to furnish troops to aid in the defence of the Empire.

Modern English uses a space to separate words, but not all languages follow this practice.

Most Hellenic polytheist groups unequivocally state that reconstructionism is not the only correct method of reviving the Hellenic religion, but do identify a practice as Hellenic only when it embraces the humanistic values and ethical virtues of the ancient Greeks, demonstrates loyalty and reverence toward the Greek gods, and uses a religious structure that would be recognizable to an ancient Greek.

Robots of the aforementioned last type directly parallel contemporary industrial robotics practice, though real-life robots do contain safety sensors and systems, in a concern for human safety ( a weak form of the First Law ; the robot is a safe tool to use, but has no " judgment ", which is implicit in Asimov's own stories ).

In its macroscopic sense, ISTAR is a practice that links several battlefield functions together to assist a combat force in employing its sensors and managing the information they gather.

In practice, remote sensing is the stand-off collection through the use of a variety of devices for gathering information on a given object or area which gives more information than sensors at individual sites might convey.

At least in one aspect Paletti was ahead of his time in F1 because he travelled with a personal medical adviser who was monitoring his blood pressure and heartbeat with small sensors attached to his body during testing and practice sessions.

In lighting practice occupancy sensors are sometime also called " presence sensors " or " vacancy sensors ".

In this case, is the smallest σ-algebra that contains the open intervals of R. While there are many Borel measures μ, the choice of Borel measure which assigns for every interval is sometimes called " the " Borel measure on R. In practice, even " the " Borel measure is not the most useful measure defined on the σ-algebra of Borel sets ; indeed, the Lebesgue measure is an extension of " the " Borel measure which possesses the crucial property that it is a complete measure ( unlike the Borel measure ).

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.

Critics felt he dismissed this source of bias, without even attempting to measure deception or self-deception ( a standard practice in self-reporting psychological tests like MMPI-2 ).

The unification of space and time is exemplified by the common practice of selecting a metric ( the measure that specifies the interval between two events in spacetime ) such that all four dimensions are measured in terms of units of distance: representing an event as ( in the Lorentz metric ) or ( in the original Minkowski metric ) where is the speed of light.

In practice, physicists often use units of measure such that ħ

In practice, the watt balance is used to measure amperes with the highest possible accuracy.

In the politics of the United States, a spoil system ( also known as a patronage system ) is a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party — as opposed to a merit system, where offices are awarded on the basis of some measure of merit, independent of political activity.

Due to the many orders of magnitude spanned by K < sub > a </ sub > values, a logarithmic measure of the acid dissociation constant is more commonly used in practice.

In practice, it is often difficult and usually considered uninformative to measure the electron saturation current experimentally.

Most sources in condemning the practice seem to be referring to a wide, slow, perceptible oscillation in pitch, usually associated with intense emotion, whereas the ideal for modern vibrato, and possibly in earlier times as well, was to imitate the natural timbre of the adult singing voice, from which a measure of vibrato ( it has since been shown ) is rarely absent.

The intentional use of a pronounced vibrato by Mediterranean tenors is a practice that has died out over the course of the past 100 years, owing in no small measure to Caruso's example.

Although in practice many were held at the Bastille as a form of punishment, legally a prisoner in the Bastille was only being detained for preventative or investigative reasons: the prison was not officially supposed to be a punitive measure in its own right.

By the same measure, departing in this from the policy of the Eastern Empire, Majorian insisted that a marriage without dowry and pre-wedding gifts trade ( the first from the bride's family to the groom, the latter in the opposite direction ) was invalid ; simultaneously ended the practice of requesting pre-wedding gifts of a value considerably higher than the dowry.

The contemporary Cuban practice is to write clave in a single measure of 4 / 4.

In later times the practice of official war hostages may be said to be confined to either securing the payment of enforced contributions or requisitions in an occupied territory and the obedience to regulations the occupying army may think fit to issue ; or as a precautionary measure, to prevent illegitimate acts of war or violence by persons not members of the recognized military forces of the enemy.