Furthermore, unexpectedly rapid progress or a technological break-through on any one weapon system, in itself, often diminishes the relative importance of other competitive systems.

Notable in this category are the Jupiter and Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles, which have been successfully developed, produced, and deployed, but the relative importance of which has diminished with the increasing availability of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.

Thus, we have no part, and want none, in current discussions of the relative importance of science, the social studies, the humanities, the creative arts.

we do not even need to commit ourselves to assessing on the same inconceivable scale the relative importance of the medieval, the Renaissance, and the modern.

This is stated to emphasize the necessity for an over-all concept of submarine defense, one which would provide positions of relative importance to ASW elements based on projected potentialities.

However, although these enzymes can produce oxidants, the relative importance of the electron transfer chain to other processes that generate peroxide is unclear.

Madrid became the centre of political power whilst the colonisation of the Americas reduced the financial importance ( at least in relative terms ) of Mediterranean trade.

Functional genomic and metagenomic approaches are increasing our understanding of the relative importance of different pathways and regulatory networks to carbon flux in particular environments and for particular compounds and they will certainly accelerate the development of bioremediation technologies and biotransformation processes.

This apparently illogical situation is explained by the relative importance of the two places in historic times.

Quantitative symbols give a visual measure of the relative size / importance / number that a symbol represents and to symbolize this data on a map, there are two major classes of symbols used for portraying quantitative properties.

Typically the internal layer is optimized for top performance, in an average way that takes into account performance requirements ( possibly conflicting ) of different external views according to their relative importance.

The economy embarked on various stages of development during which the public and private sectors played roles varying in relative importance as follows:

Nationalization reduced the relative importance of the private sector.

This concerns such issues as the relative importance of market failure and government failure.

* Rank: the relative value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level etc.

The " Home charges ", payments transferred from India for administrative costs, were a lasting source of nationalist grievance, though the flow declined in relative importance over the decades to independence in 1947.

The relative importance of these two forms of jihad is a matter of controversy.

On the imports side, Mexican improvements in port efficiency would appear to be the most important factor, although for imports of transport equipment, improvements in service sector infrastructure would also be of relative importance.

Vigorous debates wage among scientists over the relative importance of genetic drift compared with natural selection.

These challenged a prevailing but largely untested view on their relative importance.

Their relative importance is however a subject of on-going discussion.

As a penalty for this indiscretion, Bismarck intended to remove Arnim from Paris and reassign him as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at İstanbul, which Arnim saw as a demotion given the relative importance of France to Germany as opposed to the Ottoman Empire.

The relative intensities of pain, then, may resemble the relative importance of that risk to our ancestors ( lack of food, too much cold, or serious injuries are felt as agony, whereas minor damage is felt as mere discomfort ).

The catalytic action of enzymes relies on several mechanisms including the molecular shape (" induced fit "), bond strain, proximity and orientation of molecules relative to the enzyme, proton donation or withdrawal ( acid / base catalysis ), electrostatic interactions and many others.

The relative strengths and ranges of the four interactions and other information are tabulated below:

Since this also results in a prediction for the relative strengths of the fundamental interactions which we observe, in particular the weak mixing angle, Grand Unification ideally reduces the number of independent input parameters, but is also constrained by observations.

Key experimental techniques in proteomics include 2D electrophoresis, which allows the separation of a large number of proteins, mass spectrometry, which allows rapid high-throughput identification of proteins and sequencing of peptides ( most often after in-gel digestion ), protein microarrays, which allow the detection of the relative levels of a large number of proteins present in a cell, and two-hybrid screening, which allows the systematic exploration of protein – protein interactions.

Because toxic interactions are defined relative to the expectation under " no interaction ", a determination of synergy ( or antagonism ) depends on what is meant by " no interaction ".

Atmospheric models calculate winds, heat transfer, radiation, relative humidity, and surface hydrology within each grid and evaluate interactions with neighboring points.

( One difficulty is the issue raised by the debate over the relative strengths of genetics and other factors ; interactions between genetics and environment may be of particular importance.

Atmospheric models calculate winds, heat transfer, radiation, relative humidity, and surface hydrology within each grid and evaluate interactions with neighboring points.

Again, it is vital to understand that the results of these interactions and calculations reflect the real state of the ships as it emerges from their situation of relative motion.

According to his Monadology, all things that humans ordinarily understand as interactions between and relations among individuals ( such as their relative positions in space and time ) have their being in the mind of God but not in the Universe where we perceive them to be.

Competitive interactions with the n − 3 fatty acids affect the relative storage, mobilization, conversion and action of the n-3 and n-6 eicosanoid precursors.

It can take the form of a persistent failure to initiate or respond to most social interactions in a developmentally appropriate way — known as the " inhibited " form — or can present itself as indiscriminate sociability, such as excessive familiarity with relative strangers — known as the " disinhibited form ".

Magnetic interactions seek to align spins relative to one another.

The relative importance of top-down versus bottom-up control in kelp forest ecosystems and the strengths of trophic interactions continue to be the subject of considerable scientific investigation.

Note the relative positioning of the central tower helices, as well as the increased interactions between subunits in the R state.

AMP binding rotates the tower helices ( residues 262-278 ) of the two subunits 50 ˚ relative to one another through greater organization and intersubunit interactions.

These definitions suggest child poverty is multidimensional, relative to their current and changing living conditions and complex interactions of the body, mind and emotions are involved.

Says he, `` I may never imagine that in the struggle between personal and supra-personal responsibility it is possible to make a compromise between the ethical and the purposive in the shape of a relative ethic ; ;

Following each individual brick should be a layer of adobe mortar, recommended to be at least an inch thick to make certain there is ample strength between the brick ’ s edges and also to provide a relative moisture barrier during the seasons where the arid climate does produce rain.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

Amdahl's law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized.

where θ is the true angle SEE ′, is the apparent angle S ′ EE ′, and is the relative speed between the presumed fixed frame of reference ( such as heliocentric ) and the observer's one.

In academic use, an arbitrage involves taking advantage of differences in price of a single asset or identical cash-flows ; in common use, it is also used to refer to differences between similar assets ( relative value or convergence trades ), as in merger arbitrage.

The relative value trades may be between different issuers, different bonds issued by the same entity, or capital structure trades referencing the same asset ( in the case of revenue bonds ).

Bethlehem's average annual relative humidity is 60 % and reaches its highest rates between January and February.

These arguments, and a discussion of the distinctions between absolute and relative time, space, place and motion, appear in a Scholium at the very beginning of Newton's work, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ( 1687 ), which established the foundations of classical mechanics and introduced his law of universal gravitation, which yielded the first quantitatively adequate dynamical explanation of planetary motion.

Nevertheless, trade between the two countries has continued to expand in both absolute and relative terms for the last two hundred years, but especially following the 1988 FTA and the subsequent signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 which has since further merged the two economies.

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

Note that overuse is a relative term, and capacity varies greatly between individuals.

The relative composition of carbohydrates, secondary compounds and protein varies between plants and between the cell type and age.

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.

When waves are added together, their sum is determined by the relative phases as well as the amplitudes of the individual waves so that the summed amplitude of the waves can have any value between zero and the sum of the individual amplitudes.

For waves which do not require a medium, such as light or gravity in general relativity, only the relative difference in velocity between the observer and the source needs to be considered.

Nowadays, UT is the observed orientation of the Earth relative to an inertial reference frame formed by extra-galactic radio sources, modified by an adopted ratio between sidereal time and solar time.

And there is no contradiction between a relative affirmation and an absolute negation.

Once the fault has locked, continued relative motion between the plates leads to increasing stress and therefore, stored strain energy in the volume around the fault surface.

Using the data collected by Vesto Slipher and his ( Hubble's ) assistant Milton Humason ( a former mule-driver and janitor ), Hubble and Humason found a direct relationship between a galaxy's distance and its relative speed away from the solar system.

* Fluid friction describes the friction between layers within a viscous fluid that are moving relative to each other.

When surfaces in contact move relative to each other, the friction between the two surfaces converts kinetic energy into heat.