With the availability of primary sources, such as the those in Nag Hammadi library, the identity of Abrasax remains unclear.

The United States Department of Agriculture and its myriad agencies such as the Agricultural Marketing Service are the primary sources of regulatory activity, although other administrative bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency play a significant regulatory role as well.

Old Khmer is attested by many primary sources and has been studied in depth by a few scholars, most notably Saveros Pou, Phillip Jenner and Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow.

Many cavers carry two or more sources of light-one as primary and the others as backup in case the first fails.

One of the primary sources of acetyl-CoA is sugars that are broken down by glycolysis to produce pyruvate that in turn is decarboxylated by the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase generating acetyl-CoA according to the following reaction scheme:

The few primary sources disagree on what precisely occurred.

Nonetheless, these lost primary sources, along with the works of Seneca and Philo, were the basis of surviving secondary and tertiary histories on Caligula written by the next generations of historians.

Islamic primary sources, the Quran and the Sunnah, declare concubinage permitted ( Halal ) under strict conditions.

If the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

While the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

The project " involves extracting and analysing detailed information from primary sources, including contemporary chronicles, cartularies, necrologies and testaments.

* Canada in the Making-a comprehensive history of the Canadian Constitution with digitized primary sources.

A collection of primary sources, some on Catharism.

Light from the corona comes from three primary sources, which are called by different names although all of them share the same volume of space.

Strabo's version looks to be the most authoritative as he had access to first hand primary sources on the sanctuaries of Artemis, i. e. the priest of Artemis Artemidoros of Ephesus.

The popularity of the term deconstruction combined with the technical difficulty of Derrida's primary material on deconstruction and his reluctance to elaborate his understanding of the term has meant that many secondary sources have attempted to give a more straightforward explanation than Derrida himself ever attempted.

The historical background of Philippians is traditionally gathered from two main primary New Testament sources: ( 1 ) informative internal data from the letter itself and ( 2 ) related information garnered from the rest of the New Testament Canon.

Other primary information is derived from external historical sources related to the chronological connections between Paul's association with Philippi, its political and economical setting, and its social and religio-philosophical context as well.

Elizabeth I and Her Age ( Norton Critical Editions ) ( 2009 ); 700pp ; primary and secondary sources, with an emphasis on literature

After the Emperor's death ( c. 337 ), Eusebius wrote the Life of Constantine, an important historical work because of eye witness accounts and the use of primary sources.

The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organized religion.

Reliable conclusions are based on the quality of sources, ideally original records, the information within those sources, ideally primary or firsthand information, and the evidence that can be drawn, directly or indirectly, from that information.

:( According to George Hills, there are no primary sources that could explain whether such a demolition was requested or authorized by any Spanish or British authority.

Also, resulting greenhouse gas emissions, chiefly carbon dioxide, from the widespread use of engines in the modern industrialized world is contributing to the global greenhouse effect – a primary concern regarding global warming.

States are the primary collectors of data on franchising companies and enforce laws and regulations regarding their presence and their spread in their jurisdictions.

Al-Libi has been identified as the primary source of faulty prewar intelligence regarding chemical weapons training between Iraq and al Qaeda that was used by the Bush Administration to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Although Wittgenstein largely disregarded Aristotle ( Ray Monk's biography suggests that he never read Aristotle at all ) it seems that they shared some anti-Platonist views on the universal / particular issue regarding primary substances.

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ( 500-428 BCE ) in Asia Minor, also maintained the existence of an ordering principle as well as a material substance, and while regarding the latter as an infinite multitude of imperishable primary elements ; he conceived divine reason or Mind ( nous ) as ordering them.

Accompanying this rise was an increase in the number of alters, rising from only the primary and one alter personality in most cases, to an average of 13 in the mid-1980s ( the increase in both number of cases and number of alters within each case are both factors in professional skepticism regarding the diagnosis ).

: Step 7: Make inferences from steps 1 – 6 regarding possible primary illocutions.

This work is the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner.

One of their primary concerns is regarding the child ’ s seating and positioning in the school environment.

The Ecumenical Patriarch has no direct jurisdiction outside the Patriarchate of Constantinople granted to him in Orthodox canonical literature, but his primary function regarding the whole Orthodox Church is one of dealing with relations between autocephalous and autonomous churches.

The primary functions of the Department of Education are to " establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights.

This concern of " appropriation " is not unique, with similar criticisms having been raised about Catholic narratives regarding other convert victims of the Holocaust —" making it seem that the Church, not the Jewish people, was the primary victim of Nazi genocide ".

Of note regarding the DNC's proposed 2008 Presidential primary election schedule is that it contrasted with the Republican National Committee's ( RNC ) rules regarding Presidential primary elections.

A widely used definition is: “ A conflict of interest is a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgment or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest .” Primary interest refers to the principal goals of the profession or activity, such as the protection of clients, the health of patients, the integrity of research, and the duties of public office.

There is no special reason to doubt the authority of the information that the sagas supply regarding the very beginning of the settlement, but they cannot be treated as primary evidence for the history of Norse Greenland because they embody the literary preoccupations of writers and audiences in medieval Iceland that are not always reliable.

According to the American Bar Association outline on Online Transaction Management, the primary points of US Federal and State statutes enacted regarding digital signatures has been to " prevent conflicting and overly burdensome local regulation and to establish that electronic writings satisfy the traditional requirements associated with paper documents.

The dramatic and blood curdling accounts of Histoire were incorporated as a primary source into many other volumes, notably Joseph Hansen's Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolung im Mittelalter (" Sources and investigations regarding the history of the witch craze and the witch hunts in the Middle Ages "), which in turn became the source for many other works.

In 2001, there was a dispute on Wikipedia regarding the addition of primary source material, leading to edit wars over their inclusion or deletion.

The primary responsibility of the Institute of Marine Research is to provide advice to national authorities, society and industry regarding questions related to the ecosystems of the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea and the Norwegian coastal zone and in the field of aquaculture.

The Public Advocate's primary responsibility is to ease public relations with the government, investigate complaints regarding city agencies, mediate disputes between city agencies and citizens, serve as the city's ombudsman and advise the mayor on community relations.

The primary goals were to clarify terms regarding patents and allow for multiple licensing.