It is a lonely, rather desolate region, but full of legendary and historic associations.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

Respecting their need, one of the major focal points of our concern is the South-Asian region.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

It is kept in each Regional office for the small firms within the region.

A significant effect discovered during the study is the existence of Prandtl numbers reaching values of more than unity in the nitrogen dissociation region.

Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.

With the growing complexity of markets and intensity of competition, sales management, whether at the district, region or headquarters level, is a tough job today -- and it will be tougher in the future.

Physicochemical investigations of anionic surfactants, including the soaps, have shown that there is little polymerization or agglomeration of the chain anions below a certain region of concentration called the critical micelle concentration.

( 2 ) In the critical micelle region, there is a rapid agglomeration or polymerization to give the micelles, which have a degree of polymerization averaging around 60 - 80.

Beyond a few million kilometers from the Earth, but still in the region of the Earth's orbit, a prediction of the flux of dust is even more unreliable.

The observational data determining the concentration distribution have a range of error which is magnified in the extension into the micrometeorite region.

We assume that average total unit cost in the relevant region of operation is constant with respect to quantity produced ( the average cost curve is horizontal, and therefore is identical with the marginal cost curve ), and is the same for every firm ( and therefore for the industry ).

The pictures of Figs. 3 and 4 show the cracking and peeling types of removal where the coating is detached by failure in a region at, or close to, the interface between coating and substrate.

An electrostatic system suffers generally from image plane curvature leading to defocusing in the peripheral image region if a flat viewing screen ( or interstage coupler ) is utilized, while a magnetic system requires accurate adjustment of the solenoid, which is heavy and bulky.

This is specified by a distribution function Af such that the probability that Af lies in some region D of the stage space is Af.

And when psychology explains glibly, `` but the subconscious mind is able to produce it '' it refers to a mental region so vaguely identified that it may embrace the entire universal mind as conceivably as part of the individual mind.

Thirdly, the South is not merely an embarrassingly backward region, but a part of this country, and what happens there concerns every one of us.

Of the nation's eight million pleasure-boat owners a sizable number have learned that late autumn is one of the loveliest seasons to be afloat -- at least in that broad balmy region that lies below America's belt line.

If the intruder persisted, a biting lunge was usually launched at either the tail region or the naso-labial grooves.

Axons are distinguished from dendrites by several features, including shape ( dendrites often taper while axons usually maintain a constant radius ), length ( dendrites are restricted to a small region around the cell body while axons can be much longer ), and function ( dendrites usually receive signals while axons usually transmit them ).

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

Also, in this region, " box cutter " usually evokes only a specific subset of these knives ( the simpler type whose body consists only of a flat sleeve stamped from sheet steel ), and " pen knife " usually evokes only a folding pocket knife.

Ballads usually use the common dialect of the people and are heavily influenced by the region in which they originate.

* Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government

The conspiracy is believed to have broad goals, usually conceived as securing control of a country, a region, or even the entire world.

* On a computer running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Unix running the X Window System, clicking the secondary mouse button ( usually the right button ) opens a context menu for the region that is under the mouse pointer.

The region of space enclosed by open system boundaries is usually called a control volume, and it may or may not correspond to physical walls.

First-class teams are usually representative of a geopolitical region such as an English county, an Australian state or a West Indian nation.

Gazpacho is usually a tomato-based, vegetable soup traditionally served cold, originating in the southern Spanish region of Andalucía.

German doughnuts ( which have no hole ) are usually balls of yeast dough with jam or other fillings, and are known as Berliner, Pfannkuchen ( only in the Berlin area ), Kreppel or Krapfen, depending on the region.

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

The highlight of the events is usually the live performance, featuring some of the best musical acts of the region on the last day of each of the editions.

In Pomerol, where Merlot usually accounts for around 80 % of the blend, the iron-clay soils of the region give Merlot more of a tannic backbone than what is found in other Bordeaux regions.

The country averages 257 cloudless days a year, and it is usually at the centre of a region of high atmospheric pressure.

In May 1883, the 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji ( her first name was usually shortened to " Kasturba ", and affectionately to " Ba ") in an arranged child marriage, according to the custom of the region.

Weber juxtaposed such Messianic prophecies ( also called ethical prophecies ), notably from the Near East region to the exemplary prophecies found on the Asiatic mainland, focused more on reaching to the educated elites and enlightening them on the proper ways to live one's life, usually with little emphasis on hard work and the material world.

Though the composition of a bocadillo varies by region, it is usually a baguette filled with salad and a choice of meats, fish ( usually tuna ), or omelette.

The early coastal factory ( trading post ) model contrasted with the system of the French, who established an extensive system of inland posts and sent traders to live among the tribes of the region.

' As such, the ' South ' is only perceived as a region when it is contrasted to or viewed from those in the North.

The name " Outer Mongolia " is contrasted with Inner Mongolia ( Dotugadu monggol, Дотоод Монгол, Dotood Mongol, ), an autonomous region of China.

Scalar fields are contrasted with other physical quantities such as vector fields, which associate a vector to every point of a region, as well as tensor fields and spinor fields.

Mainland is a name given to a large landmass in a region ( as contrasted with a nearby island or islands ), or to the largest of a group of islands in an archipelago.

However, when contrasted with foreign language, the term refers more narrowly to a language that plays a major role in a particular country or region though it may not be the first language of many people who use it.

This is contrasted with the tegmentum, which refers to the region ventral to the ventricular system.