The present IUPAC definition is that affinity A is the negative partial derivative of Gibbs free energy G with respect to extent of reaction ξ at constant pressure and temperature.

An extensional definition would be a list of all past, present and future prime ministers.

In this regard, Grierson's definition of documentary as " creative treatment of actuality " has gained some acceptance, with this position at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's provocation to present " life as it is " ( that is, life filmed surreptitiously ) and " life caught unawares " ( life provoked or surprised by the camera ).

In opposition, Vice President at the Center for Inquiry, John Shook, claims that this working definition is more than adequate for science at present, and that disagreement should not immobilize the scientific study of ethics.

When parameters are present, the definition actually defines a whole family of functions, one for every valid set of values of the parameters.

Prior to 2009, the Pleistocene was defined to be 1. 805 million years ago to present, such that the present definition of the Pleistocene includes a portion of what was prior to 2009 defined as part of the Pliocene.

" However, most of the essential features of the modern definition are present in the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Polybius.

By the folklorists ' definition, all myths are religious ( or " sacred ") stories, but not all religious stories are myths: religious stories that involve the creation of the world ( e. g., the stories in Genesis ) are myths ; however, religious stories that don't explain how things came to be in their present form ( e. g., hagiographies of famous saints ) are not myths.

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.

The term ' sustainable development ' was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that " meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

That particular way of definition of entropy is largely beyond the scope of the present article, but here it may be said that it is entirely derived from the concepts of classical thermodynamics ; in particular, neither flow rates nor changes over time are admitted into the definition of the entropy of the small local region.

For the present article, the following definition will be convenient, as abstracted from the definitions of various authors.

The notion of simultaneity depends on the frame of reference ( see relativity of simultaneity ), so switching between frames requires an adjustment in the definition of the present.

They point to the impossibility of pleasing everyone as an argument against change to their definition of Wessex at the present time, though they do not rule out the possibility of change in the future if the popular will demands it.

This definition also includes the economic performance of New Zealand from 1974 – 1992 and Switzerland from 1973 to the present, although this designation for Switzerland has been controversial.

Note that this definition is tied to the critical density of the present cosmological era: the critical density changes with cosmological time, but the energy density due to the cosmological constant remains unchanged throughout the history of the universe.

CORBA uses an interface definition language ( IDL ) to specify the interfaces which objects present to the outer world.

All three factors must be present for an individual to qualify under the legal definition of Métis, but there is still a great deal of ambiguity.

At Rome, this definition was rejected in the consistory of 27 May, and Luther declared that he could accept it only provided the opposers would admit that hitherto they had taught differently from what was meant in the present instance.

assumptions about any material possibly present can be completely avoided, and Poynting's vector as well as the theorem in this definition are universally valid, in vacuum as in all kinds of material.

According to this definition, Miracles are present " in a threefold sense: in sacred history, in connection with Muhammad himself and in relation to revelation.

What underlies every definition is a Platonic Form, the common nature present in different particular things.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

The beatnik, seceding from a society that is fatally afflicted with a deathward drive, is concerned with his personal salvation in the living present.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.

Steele's purpose is to present a general defense of his political writing and a resume of the themes which had occupied him in the Englishman ; ;

Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.

Test score increases have been continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to the present.

The increase has been continuous and roughly linear from the earliest days of testing to the present.

Test score increases have been continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to the present.

In fact, in these early years, linear algebra was not generally popular with physicists in its present form.

CBTs typically present content in a linear fashion, much like reading an online book or manual.

Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany.

Around this time, linear perspective as a novel artistic tool spread not only in Italy but throughout western Europe, and quickly became standard studio practice up to and including present time.

They present the remarkable result that any linear transformation of a tensegrity is also a tensegrity.

It largely refers to a performance presented to an audience, but which does not seek to present a conventional theatrical play or a formal linear narrative, or which alternately does not seek to depict a set of fictitious characters in formal scripted interactions.

Ernest Rutherford, working in Canada and England, showed that radioactive decay can be described by a simple equation ( a linear first degree derivative equation, now called Rate equation, First-order reactions, first order kinetics, implying that a given radioactive substance has a characteristic " half-life " ( the time taken for the amount of radioactivity present in a source to diminish by half ).

Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey, then The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, Villette and even The Professor present a linear structure concerning a character who advances through life after several trials and tribulations, to find a kind of happiness in love and virtue, recalling the works of religious inspiration of the 17th century such as John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or his Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

This is primarily because, while the datasets may be highly multivariate there is strong and often linear low-rank structure present.

Ground and Sky reviews have described California as Mr. Bungle's most accessible and, while the genre shifts are still present, they are less frequent, with succinct song formats resulting in an album that The Associated Press called " surprisingly linear ".

In the 1930s, Chinese historian Jin Yufu developed a linear model of descent for the people of Manchuria and northern Korea, from the kingdoms of Buyeo, Goguryeo, and Baekje, to the present Korean nationality.

One of the demarcations in transpersonal theory is between authors who present a fairly linear and hierarchical model of human development, such as Timothy Leary and Ken Wilber, and authors who present non-linear models of human development, such as Michael Washburn and Stanislav Grof.

In contrast to Leary and Wilber, Michael Washburn and Stanislav Grof present models of human development that are not hierarchical or linear.

Data is encoded in NRZI format, and a linear feedback shift register is used to scramble the data to reduce the likelihood that long strings of zeroes or ones will be present on the interface.

This reaction is in keeping with the museum ’ s main intentions, which are not to present a linear history of Native Americans.

It is around the manor that the present village developed as a linear village lying on the old road from London to Berkhamsted and the Midlands of England.

The present article concentrates on the mathematical aspects of linear least squares problems, with discussion of the formulation and interpretation of statistical regression models, and of statistical inferences related to these are dealt with in the articles just mentioned.

One goal of the theory is to ' count constants ', for those curves: to predict the dimension of the space of special divisors ( up to linear equivalence ) of a given degree d, as a function of g, that must be present on a curve of that genus.

* Eukaryotes often have multiple origins of replication on each linear chromosome that initiate at different times ( replication timing ), with up to 100, 000 present in a single human cell.

However, part of this linear page table structure must always stay resident in physical memory, in order to prevent against circular page faults, that look for a key part of the page table that is not present in the page table, which is not present in the page table, etc.