The principal advantages of compound turbines are the reduction in size of any one casing, the confinement of the highest pressure to the smaller casing ( which may be made of stronger and more expensive materials ) and the possibility of divided flow in the low-pressure casing for the purpose of equalizing end thrusts.

Oil paint eventually became the principal medium used for creating artworks as its advantages became widely known.

The principal advantages of Council Bluffs / Omaha were that it was well north of the Civil War fighting taking place in Missouri, was the shortest route to South Pass break in the Rockies in Wyoming, and would follow a fertile river that would encourage settlement.

A dialogue entitled Erotes (" Affairs of the Heart ") and attributed to Lucian compares the merits and advantages of heterosexuality and homoeroticism, and Orestes and Pylades are presented as the principal representatives of homoerotic friendship:

A dialogue entitled Erotes (" Affairs of the Heart ") and attributed to Lucian compares the merits and advantages of heterosexuality and homoeroticism, and Orestes and Pylades are presented as the principal representatives of homoerotic friendship:

) The principal advantages that digital systems have are very uniform source fidelity, inexpensive media duplication, and direct use of the digital ' signal ' in today's popular portable storage and playback devices.

One of the principal advantages of PPM is that it is an M-ary modulation technique that can be implemented non-coherently, such that the receiver does not need to use a phase-locked loop ( PLL ) to track the phase of the carrier.

The principal advantages of an air powered vehicle are:

The principal advantages of side-by-side viewers is that there is no diminution of brightness so images may be presented at very high resolution and in full spectrum color.

The principal advantages of the formalism are that it allows the computation of off-shell amplitudes and, when a classical action is available, gives non-perturbative information that cannot be seen directly from the standard genus expansion of string scattering.

The principal design advantages of tracked over wheeled vehicles are that they are in contact with a larger surface area than would generally be the case with a wheeled vehicle, and as a result exert a much lower force per unit area on the ground being traversed than a conventional wheeled vehicle of the same weight.

Its principal advantages over other choices of antenna are its simplicity, high forward gain and the ability to operate over a wide range of frequencies.

In practice, the Rasch model has at least two principal advantages in comparison to the IRT approach.

The principal advantages of multiple static antennae are that a moving target can be characterized ( assuming the capture electronics are fast enough ), that no vehicle or motion machinery is necessary, and that antenna positions need not be derived from other, sometimes unreliable, information.

The principal advantages of UWB radar are better resolution ( a few millimeters using commercial off-the-shelf electronics ) and more spectral information of target reflectivity.

One of the principal advantages the Rankine cycle holds over others is that during the compression stage relatively little work is required to drive the pump, the working fluid being in its liquid phase at this point.

The principal advantages of camera phones are cost and compactness ; indeed for a user who carries a mobile phone anyway, the additional size and cost are negligible.

The principal advantages of these hybrid characteristics are favorable tax, accounting, and credit treatment.

Therefore, principal advantages to data driven approaches is that they can often be deployed quicker and cheaper compared to other approaches, and that they can provide system-wide coverage ( cf.

Thallium-doped sodium iodide ( NaI ( Tl )) has two principal advantages:

As we can see from this statement the principal advantages of ARPA are a reduction in the workload of bridge personnel and fuller and quicker information on selected targets.

The shortness of the road across the eastern desert and its position near the canal were the principal advantages of Arsinoe as a staple of trade.

One of the principal advantages of the larger Hercs is the greater availability of hardpoints for mounting more weapons and more equipment.

Its principal advantages include

In the summary of the principal events of the campaign compiled from the official records there are only ten days which show no fighting.

SBA works closely with the principal property disposal installations of the Federal Government in reviewing proposed sales programs and identifying those types of property that small business concerns are most likely to be interested in purchasing.

If the less developed countries are to be persuaded to adopt a long-term approach, the United States, as the principal supplier of external aid, must be prepared to give long-term commitments.

after completing the payments prescribed by paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of this subsection, to make payments, from time to time in ratable proportions, on account of the unpaid principal of all awards in the principal amount of more than $1,000, according to the proportions which the unpaid principal of such awards bear to the total amount in the fund available for distribution at the time such payments are made ; ;

Their locations in all parts of the United States, and their locations in the several kinds of educational and research institutions that are the principal homes of our intellectual and artistic strengths also are factors in the Trustees' minds.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

During summer vacation periods these records are stored in the office of the principal.

Of the various particle accelerators, the Van De Graff machines, resonant transformers, and linear accelerators are the principal ones available for commercial use.

In other countries where cereal grains are not among the principal crops of a region, starchy tubers or roots are processed for starch.

These, he said, are `` two of the principal underlying causes for family breakups leading to ADC ''.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

There are three principal families of abugidas, depending on whether vowels are indicated by modifying consonants by diacritics, distortion, or orientation.

They are derived from the characteristics of their spectroscopic lines: sharp, principal, diffuse, and fundamental, the rest being named in alphabetical order ( omitting j ).

The principal abalone farming regions are China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

His principal theological works are a commentary in three volumes on the Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ( Magister Sententiarum ), and the Summa Theologiae in two volumes.

His principal sources are the Physics ( book 7 ), Metaphysics ( book 12 ), and the Pseudo-Aristotelian On the Universe.

However we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, and if Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus, then it is unlikely that Ammonius would have been a Christian.

Aldosterone's effects are on the distal convoluted tubule and collecting duct of the kidney where it causes increased reabsorption of sodium and increased excretion of both potassium ( by principal cells ) and hydrogen ions ( by intercalated cells of the collecting duct ).

Mycenae and Tiryns are the two principal sites on which evidence of a prehistoric civilization was remarked long ago by the classical Greeks.

There are difficulties in this story, of which the following are the principal elements: