It is because of the scale's redefinition that normal body temperature today is taken as 98. 6 degrees, whereas it was 96 degrees on Fahrenheit's original scale.

In the Brookings Institution report Dealing with Neighbourhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices ( 2001 ), Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard say that " the term ' gentrification ' is both imprecise and quite politically charged ", suggesting its redefinition as " the process by which higher income households displace lower income residents of a neighbourhood, changing the essential character and flavour of that neighbourhood ", so distinguishing it from the different socio-economic process of " neighbourhood ( or urban ) revitalization ", although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

The modern use of the term is a redefinition of the original sense.

For example, one possible proposed redefinition is " the ampere ... is such that the value of the elementary charge e ( charge on a proton ) is exactly 1. 602176487 × 10 < sup >− 19 </ sup > coulomb " This proposal is not yet accepted as part of the SI system: The SI definitions are unlikely to change until at least 2015.

But culture shock is a condition one recovers from ; it is not experienced as an authentic redefinition of the personality but as a testing of its tolerance ....

The third cycle is known as the Unraveling, when elements of individualism and fragmentation take over society, developing a troubled era which leads directly to the Fourth Turning, an era of crisis dominating society during which a redefinition of its very structure, goals, and purposes is established.

Dennett and his eliminative materialist supporters, however, respond that the aforementioned " subjective aspect " of conscious minds is nonexistent, an unscientific remnant of commonsense " folk psychology ," and that his alleged redefinition is the only coherent description of consciousness.

John Searle, for example, argues ( Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind ) that, once we discover that our water is H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, we have the choice of either redefining it as H < sub > 2 </ sub > O ( a classical reduction redefinition ) or continuing to allow the term water to refer to anything with the basic properties of water ( transparency, wetness, etc .).

Regardless of whether Person 2's statement about blood circulation is true or not, the redefinition of " mysterious " is so broad that it omits significant contrast in the level of scientific understanding between earthquakes and blood circulation.

The redefinition is not always so obvious.

The wedge strategy, as envisioned by the Discovery Institute, is designed to leave the science establishment looking close-minded in the short term with a long-term goal being a redefinition of science that centers on the removal of methodological naturalism from the philosophy of science and the scientific method, thereby allowing for supernatural explanations to be introduced as science.

Chen's notion of the CCP as a " ruling party " is central to the redefinition of the role of the Party in Jiang Zemin's Three Represents.

Some taxonomists, such as Benton ( 2004 ), have co-opted the term to fit into traditional rank-based classifications, making Sauropsida and Synapsida class-level taxa to replace the traditional Class Reptilia, while Modesto and Anderson ( 2004 ), using the PhyloCode standard, have suggested replacing the name Sauropsida with their redefinition of Reptilia, arguing that the latter is by far better known and should have priority.

" She went on to argue that " bsent consensus on the issue, or unanimity amongst scientists studying the issue, or a more prolonged period of observation of this new family structure, it is rational for the Legislature to postpone any redefinition of marriage that would include same-sex couples until such time as it is certain that redefinition will not have unintended and undesirable social consequences.

* Kingdom Protista or protists ( recognized to be paraphyletic, and thus subject to dissolution and / or redefinition ) Examples:

Most noteworthy was the redefinition of Bolivia in the Constitution as multethnic and multicultural and the first articles in Bolivia's Constitutional history enshrining indigenous rights.

The first population count was conducted in 1996, not only to update population data, but also to get municipality level data after the emergence and redefinition of new municipalities after the 1500 Population Census of 1991.

Due to a substantial redefinition of Buderim before the 2001 census, the first column records the UC / L population to 1996 and its component parts thereafter ; the second records the SLA based on time series data.

* The first major redefinition of Donna's powers came about when she took the name of Troia.

Any redefinition of the second, however, creates conflicts with anything based on its precise current definition.

In 2005 Foreman began a second chapter in his work with the introduction of the digital video and film media as dominating forces in his redefinition of ontologically hysteric theater.

The introduction of the United States Pharmacopoeia reference standard in 1952 and the redefinition and equating of the USP and international units of thyroid-stimulating activity have made it possible to compare results published by different investigators since that time.

In recent years, historians such as Harry Jaffa, Herman Belz, John Diggins, Vernon Burton and Eric Foner have stressed Lincoln's redefinition of republican values.

The continued existence of TAI was questioned in a 2007 letter from the BIPM to the ITU-R which stated " In the case of a redefinition of UTC without leap seconds, the CCTF would consider discussing the possibility of suppressing TAI, as it would remain parallel to the continuous UTC.

Policy options include regulations that reflect cost-benefit analysis or market solutions that change incentives, such as emission fees or redefinition of property rights.

* Inheritance, including multiple inheritance, renaming, redefinition, " select ", non-conforming inheritance, and other mechanisms intended to make inheritance safe.

This has been described as a psychiatric redefinition of Cesare Lombroso's theories of the ' born criminal ', conceptualised as a ' moral defect ', though Kraepelin stressed it was not yet possible to recognise them by physical characteristics.

The world paid attention to their literary redefinition of Scottishness, as they forged an image largely based on characteristics in polar opposition to those associated with England and modernity.

One 1K bank allowed redefinition of most of its 128 characters ASCII based characters in 8 × 8 pixel bitmap format.

So while the Ace had only one text video mode, redefinition of the character shapes could provide graphics in a low resolution of 64x48, and a higher resolution mode of 256x192 graphics, limited by the 128 available ( definable ) 8x8 chars.

Weber began his studies of the subject in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he argued that the redefinition of the connection between work and piety in Protestantism and especially in ascetic Protestant denominations, particularly Calvinism, shifted human effort towards rational efforts aimed at achieving economic gain.

Webster's dictionaries were a redefinition of Americanism within the context of an emergent and unstable American socio-political and cultural identity.

The increasing emphasis during the 19th century on the ethnic and racial origins of the nation, led to a redefinition of the nation state in these terms.

During autumn 1999, following the Kosovo War and the NATO bombing campaign, Đukanović ( who by now firmly held power in Montenegro as Bulatović was completely squeezed out ) drafted a document called Platforma za redefiniciju odnosa Crne Gore i Srbije ( A platform for redefinition of relations within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) calling for major changes in the division of governing responsibilities within FR Yugoslavia though still officially seeing Montenegro within a joint state with Serbia.

The redefinition and expansion of its mission would help SAC to formalize and consolidate its control over nuclear planning and strategy.

It involves transposing the words in a well-known phrase or saying to get a daffynition-like clever redefinition of a well-known word unrelated to the original phrase.

The redefinition did not quantitatively change TT, but rather made the existing definition more precise.

In Germany, " the modern way " or devotionalism caught on in the universities, requiring a redefinition of God, who was no longer a rational governing principle but an arbitrary, unknowable will that cannot be limited.

While his ideas called for the sharp redefinition of the dividing lines between the laity and the clergy, his ideas were still, by this point, reformist in nature.

Though the early literary presentations of Medea are lost, Apollonius of Rhodes, in a redefinition of epic formulas, and Euripides, in a dramatic version for a specifically Athenian audience, each employed the figure of Medea ; Seneca offered yet another tragic Medea, of witchcraft and potions, and Ovid rendered her portrait three times for a sophisticated and sceptical audience in Imperial Rome.

Beside more or less radical effects on musical language, they led to a redefinition of the concept of virtuosity in order to include new and extended instrumental techniques as well as a focus on aspects of sound that had been neglected or even ignored before such as pitch, timbre and dynamics.