Historian Ronald Hutton has argued that there is no necessary correlation between the worship of female deities and relative levels of social or legal egalitarianism, noting the late classical Greek and Roman religions, in which goddesses played important roles.

Sedimentation coefficients were computed as Af values and relative amounts of the various components were calculated from the Schlieren patterns.

However the loss of Culloden, the relative sizes of Orient and Leander and the participation in the action by two of the French frigates and several smaller vessels, as well as the theoretical strength of the French position, leads most historians to the conclusion that the French were marginally more powerful.

The constellations Leo and Orion are shown in the positions they were in relative to the Sun during the flight.

Photographs were taken and witness reports seem to be in relative agreement that the creature was canine in appearance, but in widely published photos seemed unlike any dog or wolf in the area.

Nearly all the descriptive words used to justify the genus division were relative terms without a reference measure, and the argument did not take into account the size differences between the species, which can be considerable.

By treating the extra acceleration terms due to the rotation of the frame as if they were forces, subtracting them from the physical forces, it's possible to treat the second time derivative of position ( relative to the rotating frame ) as absolute acceleration.

The assemblages were three-dimensional variations of the collage – the assembly of everyday objects to produce meaningful or meaningless ( relative to the war ) pieces of work including war objects and trash.

Appointments by influence were common in the navy at this time, but the significance of Beatty's choice lay in Seymour's relative inexperience as a signals officer, which later resulted in difficulties in battle.

The speed of light and other EMR predicted by Maxwell's equations did not appear unless the equations were modified in a way first suggested by FitzGerald and Lorentz ( see history of special relativity ), or else otherwise it would depend on the speed of observer relative to the " medium " ( called luminiferous aether ) which supposedly " carried " the electromagnetic wave ( in a manner analogous to the way air carries sound waves ).

If these three home construction projects were measured with the same PV valuations, the relative schedule performance of the projects can be easily compared.

Thematically, film noirs were most exceptional for the relative frequency with which they centered on women of questionable virtue — a focus that had become rare in Hollywood films after the mid-1930s and the end of the pre-Code era.

For the first 150 years of geology, biostratigraphy and superposition were the only means for determining the relative age of rocks.

The " relative " coordinates in the following table were found by scaling the luminous reflectance relative to the flag ’ s " white ".

In his opinion, those born between the periods of 1947-1966 were the Baby Boomers, where in Canada they were the largest boom of the industrialized world ( relative to population ).

Methods for relative dating were developed when geology first emerged as a formal science.

Scores were expressed as percentages of a perfect maximum score and decreased as the tournament Category increased, thereby reflecting the strength of a player's opposition and the relative difficulty of the task.

Although there was no " golden time " of " toleration " of Catholics, which Father Garnet had hoped for, James's reign was nevertheless a period of relative leniency for Catholics, and few were subject to prosecution.

With inflation hitting 33 percent in 1990, there was, in fact, a negative real interest rate, but this situation reversed in 1991 when rates were high relative to inflation.

These were questions of the relative power of the monarch and Parliament and to what extent one should control the other.

In Newton's time the fixed stars were invoked as a reference frame, supposedly at rest relative to absolute space.

In reference frames that were either at rest with respect to the fixed stars or in uniform translation relative to these stars, Newton's laws of motion were supposed to hold.

The adrenal glands are named for their location relative to the kidneys.

) It is named as such, because the nitrogen atom is attached to the β-carbon relative to the carbonyl.

: A few examples of named Bronze Age cultures in Europe in roughly relative order.

The example above shows a notation named " type-image-svg " that references the standard public FPI and the system identifier ( the standard URI ) of an SVG 1. 1 document, instead of specifying just a system identifier as in the first example ( which was a relative URI interpreted locally as a MIME type ).

The Doppler effect ( or Doppler shift ), named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who proposed it in 1842 in Prague, is the change in frequency of a wave ( or other periodic event ) for an observer moving relative to its source.

He was named after the English radical politician John Wilkes, a distant relative.

through his marriage to his maternal relative Valide Sultan Safiye Sultan, originally named Sofia Baffo, a Venetian noblewoman, mother of Mehmed III.

However, because of her relative small size and an inability to be trained to lead the team out of a tunnel, Faith was replaced by a augur hawk named Taima before the start of the 2005 season.

When he died, Julian had left behind one surviving relative, a maternal cousin named Procopius.

Offa exerted himself to ensure that his son Ecgfrith of Mercia would succeed him, but after his death in July 796, Ecgfrith survived for only five more months, and the kingdom passed to a distant relative named Coenwulf in December 796.

However, more recent research — which takes into account church and school records in addition to the will of a relative — has suggested that he was originally named Leon Bismark.

There it was decided to remove the current guardian of Bolesław, a noble named Wojslaw who was a relative of Sieciech, and arrange for an expedition against the Palatine.

Mike Keenan, a relative unknown at the time, was hired in 1984 to coach the team, and named second-year player Dave Poulin team captain.

The Doppler effect ( or Doppler shift ), named after Austrian physicist Christian Doppler who proposed it in 1842, is the difference between the observed frequency and the emitted frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the waves.

It was not until 1766 that it was named Hillsborough, after the Earl of Hillsborough, the British secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon.

He was first to introduce surface drive on a Vee hull ( propeller hub above the water line ) to model boating which he named " SPD " ( surface planing drive ) as well as numerous products and developments relative to gasoline powered model boating.

However, the yo-yo would remain in relative obscurity until 1928 when a Filipino American named Pedro Flores opened the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California.

It was named for Judge Oakley of Dutchess County, New York, a relative of one of its citizens.

The community was named for R. H. Boone, a relative of Daniel Boone, the early American pioneer.

But on September 3, 1774, it was incorporated as Warner, named after Jonathan Warner, a leading Portsmouth citizen, namesake of the Warner House and relative of Governor John Wentworth.

The Department is named to commemorate British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish for contributions to science and his relative William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, who served as Chancellor of the University and donated money for the construction of the laboratory.

It was named for Cleora Ann Lundy, a relative of the postmaster.

During 1442 a local noble named Sir Rowland Standish ( a relative of Myles Standish, Mayflower passenger and military commander of Plymouth Colony ), who had fought at Agincourt, brought back to Chorley the skull and bones of Saint Lawrence and interred them at an altar at the parish church.

Another problem is that naming people was considered rude in Heian court society, so none of the characters are named within the work ; instead, the narrator refers to men often by their rank or their station in life, and to women often by the color of their clothing, or by the words used at a meeting, or by the rank of a prominent male relative.