Martin and Stendler present evidence that infants and young children can and do solve many problems at a relatively simple perceptual level simply by combining objects and counting them.

The present chunk, which does the counting, was actually one of

But perhaps the most widely discussed periodization scheme of the Middle Ages was the Six Ages of the World, where every age was a thousand years counting from Adam to the present, with the present time ( in the Middle Ages ) being the sixth and final stage.

The centre also appears to be important in chromosome counting: ensuring that random inactivation only takes place when two or more X-chromosomes are present.

Typically the developing of such a roll of film is an exercise in automatic technique in and of itself, cutting the film by counting sprocket holes alone, with no regard for the images present on the negative.

In the simplest case, the difference between two haplotypes is assessed by counting the number of locations where they have different bases: This is referred to as the number of substitutions ( other kinds of differences between haplotypes can also occur, for example the insertion of a section of nucleic acid in one haplotype that is not present in another ).

" In the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks ( not counting alternative versions of featured songs, if present ).

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Manual counting is useful in cases where automated analyzers cannot reliably count abnormal cells, such as those cells that are not present in normal patients and are only seen in peripheral blood with certain haematological conditions.

Winters are cold and sometimes long ( snow is usually present from mid-November to mid-April ), with temperatures occasionally dipping below-30 ° C, not counting the windchill.

Number judgments for larger set-sizes were referred to either as counting or estimating, depending on the number of elements present within the display, and the time given to observers in which to respond ( i. e., estimation occurs if insufficient time is available for observers to accurately count all the items present ).

* Dendrochronology is used to date a wooden object by counting the number of tree rings present in the object.

Meanwhile, the organisers of all the Grands Prix counting for the World Championship elected to run their races for Formula Two for the next two years, as Alfa Romeo had pulled out of racing and BRM were unable to present raceworthy cars-leaving no credible opposition to Ferrari other than ancient Lago-Talbots and the odd O. S. C. A ..

The 1867 edition was subsequently reprinted many times to the present day by the academic library Perrin, not counting the many English translations ( Taylor, Fleay ...), German ( Keller-Seckendorf.

Each individual present — whether student or staff — has exactly one vote, and most decisions are made by simple majority, with the vote of a child counting as much as an adult.

Even though the Cylons ultimately abandoned the Colonies, the humans couldn't return to their homeworlds, as they were now devastated nuclear wastelands and were now uninhabitable for a very long time ( as of the present day, some 150, 000 years and counting ).

Sockets are colloquially referred to by counting the number of " points " ( pointed corners of walls ) present in the shape of the nut opening.

Those who can be present include candidates and their representatives ; observers appointed by the Election Commission ; counting staff ; public servants aiding elections ; and other persons authorized by the Election Commission.

By growing and counting colonies of fecal coliform bacteria from a sample of water, the amount of bacteria originally present can be determined.

Those may then be sequenced to identify the miRNA present, as well as analysing expression levels of a given miRNA by counting the number of times it is present, similar to SAGE.

Not counting the caliph's new home region of Syria, nor Egypt ( including eastern Libya ; both only recently lost by Byzantium to the Sassanids ), these were Iraq and Mesopotamia ( both Arabized, around ancient Ctesiphon and modern Baghdad respectively around ancient Nineveh and modern Mosul ), Khuzestan around ancient Susa, still partly Arabic ), Armenia, Iberia ( i. e. Trans-Caucasian Georgia ), Arran-Schirwan ( east of it ) all three of the northern front, Azerbaijan ( a Turkic people ) and the ethnic heart of Iran ( Fars which is the eponymous home province, Djibal-the ancient Media -, Gilan, Tabaristan and Djurdjan ( all three on the Caspian Sea coast ), Kerman, Sistan and Khorasan ( including Herat in present Afghanistan ); under the Omayyad dynasty ( 661-750 ) the caliphate expanded further east, adding Sindh ( now southern Pakistan ), Zabulistan ( including Kabul and Ghazna, later the eponymous seat of a mighty break-away Ghaznavid dynasty ) and in Central Asia Tocharistan ( around Balkh ) and Transoxania ( Sogdia, Fergana and Mawara An-Nahr, with Samarkand ).

As nothing cannot be known by any means or method it must mean, in the context of the question, that a specific named object is present or not present in the observer's experience of a set of objects, conditions for which English uses " is " or " is not.

Of course, when a simple function is used to estimate data points from the original, interpolation errors are usually present ; however, depending on the problem domain and the interpolation method used, the gain in simplicity may be of greater value than the resultant loss in accuracy.

Ginzberg ’ s initiative to base halakhic decisions on law committees and not laymen is the method the Conservative movement describes as its present one till today.

Morphine ascorbate and other salts such as the tannate, citrate, and acetate, phosphate, valerate and others may be present in poppy tea depending on the method of preparation.

This method is possible during every phases of mitosis as the double membrane is present around the chromatin before the membrane fusion proteins complex can insert.

According to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, " a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

SuperMemo ( from " Super Memory ") is a learning method and software package developed by SuperMemo World and SuperMemo R & D with Piotr Wozniak in Poland from 1985 to the present.

The usual method is called " present arms "; the rifle is brought to the vertical, muzzle up, in front of center of the chest with the trigger away from the body.

All executed are kept in a list with a method of keeping a " present " marker directly after the most recently executed command.

The basic outlines of this method are still present in business school curriculum today.

A traditional method of preparation is baking, sometimes in a pie or pastry, though at present " possum pie " most often refers to a sweet confection containing no meat of any kind.

He concludes that for a historian to attempt a more objective method, one must accept that history can only aspire to a conversation of the present with the past-and that one's methods of fact gathering should be openly examined.

While envisioned by some as being a method to make it much harder to illegally copy copyrighted software, present implementations tend to focus more on providing a tamper-proof boot environment and persistent and volatile storage encryption.

In this paper, Lister advocated the use of carbolic acid ( phenol ) as a method of ensuring that any germs present were killed.

Every antiseptic, however good, is more or less toxic and irritating to a wounded surface ; as a result, in surgery, the antiseptic method has been replaced by aseptic method, which is preventative in nature and relies on keeping free from the invasion of bacteria rather than destroying them when present.

This method places the burden on the DNS system rather than the SMTP-sender to perform the load balancing, which in this case will present a list of IP addresses in a specific order to the clients querying the A record of the mail exchanger.

It has probably been the chief surrealist method from the founding of surrealism to the present day.

The typical method of utilizing an interrupt vector involves reading its present value ( the address ), storing it within the memory space of the TSR, and installing a pointer to its own code.

The Shredder Challenge consists of five separate puzzles in which the number of documents, the document subject matter and the method of shredding will be varied to present challenges of increasing difficulty.

Offering freedom from the increasingly burdensome financial requirements of high-production movie-like clips, it began as the only method for little-known indie music artists to present themselves to a wider audience, but increasingly this approach has been taken up by such major mainstream artists as R. E. M.

An article written by Sallie Burks Keith furnishes this interesting insight as to the method by which boundaries of the new county were established: " Mr. Carol Williams and three other men met at a point ( supposedly the present Court House Square ) and were to ride until six by the clock ; one north, one south, one east and the other west.

The method used is not known at present.