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His works include solo performance pieces such as Endangered Species, TransDadaExpress, and Shofar ; radio works such as Crystal Psalms, Un Altro Ferragosto, I Dreamt John Cage Yodeling at the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, and Living Room Music ; large scale musical choreographic works such as Oh Brass on the Grass Alas, for 300 amateur brass-band musicians, and the Maritime Rites series of performances on and near water ; sound installation works such as Magic Carpet, Floor Plan, The Twentieth Century, and Gardening with John ; chamber music such as For Cornelius for piano, the trio Schtyx, the string quartet VSTO, the saxophone quartet Electric Rags II, the percussion quartet THEME PARK, a series of works for chorus SATB, and the work for chamber orchestra and video Circus Maximus ; and many collaborative dance and theater works.
Living Machine systems have yet to be made on a comparable scale to conventional treatment plants, and this “ biology of scale ” could bring benefits or drawbacks in efficiency.
Black Country Living Landscape is a major initiative of the Trust that aims to be the first practical application of the principles of landscape scale conservation to an urban area.
The scale that they are charged on depends on whether they utilize “ Long Term Care ” or “ Assisted Living .” For example, commencing in January 2010 seniors living in British Columbia ’ s government subsidized “ Long Term Care ” ( also called “ Residential Care ”) will pay 80 % of their after tax income unless their After Tax Income is less than $ 16, 500.
In Living Ethics methodology this major principle is extended up to universal scale and is considered as cosmic principle of teaching and knowledge in evolution process.

scale and Machine
The December edition of The Games Machine magazine revealed the scale of the problem.
Best known for her use of interactive and algorithmic logic as part of the compositional process, Spiegel worked with Buchla and Electronic Music Laboratories synthesizers and subsequently many early, often experimental and prototype-level music and image generation systems, including GROOVE system ( 1973-78 ), Alles Machine ( 1977 ) and Max Mathews's RTSked and John R. Pierce tunings ( 1984, later known as the Bohlen-Pierce scale ) at Bell Labs, the alphaSyntauri for Apple II ( 1978-81 ), the McLeyvier ( 1981-85 ).
Recent developments in small scale CNC have been enabled, in large part, by the Enhanced Machine Controller project from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), an agency of the US Government's Department of Commerce.
In July 2005 the Austrian art group monochrom placed the planets true to scale ( sun, 4 meters in diameter at Machine Gallery, Alvarado Street, near Echo Park ) throughout the Los Angeles cityscape.
* Street Machine ( 1 / 10 scale ' road ' pan car )
It is black with a mahogany body, single-ply white pickguard, set-in 27 " scale mahogany neck w / mirror Machine Head logo on headstock, Gibson mirror truss rod cover, 24-jumbo-fret ebony fingerboard, Sperzel locking tuners, mirror block inlays, EMG 81 ( bridge ) & EMG HA ( neck ) pickups, single custom Machine Head logo speed knob on push / pull pot that controls volume & pickup selection.
* ESP SP120 V-Shaped Baritone Prototype-Black, mahogany body, single-ply white pickguard, set-in 27 " scale mahogany neck with 1990s 3x3 Horizon headstock, 24-jumbo-fret ebony fingerboard, Sperzel locking tuners, pearl Machine Head logo inlays from frets 1-9, pearl diamond inlays from 12th-24th frets, EMG-81 ( bridge ) & EMG-60 ( neck ) pickups, single knob on push / pull pot that controls volume & pickup selection.
* Road To The Beach: The Edge ( 2004 )-Large scale production with visual performance, giant sand castles, dancing diggers in a performance called Machine Dance, and extreme sports performed on the beach at Watergate Bay, Cornwall along with 1000 children and adults from the local community.

scale and systems
When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.
Measurements of the effects of the cosmic microwave background radiation in the dynamics of distant astrophysical systems in 2000 proved the Copernican principle on a cosmological scale.
The two systems differ only in the scale of two out of the three base units ( centimetre versus metre and gram versus kilogram, respectively ), while the third unit ( second as the unit of time ) is the same in both systems.
Expressing a CGS derived unit in terms of the SI base units, or vice versa, requires combining the scale factors that relate the two systems:
* possibly, to contribute to a unification of legal systems, of a smaller or larger scale ( cf.
The second cornerstone of the Fermi paradox is a rejoinder to the argument by scale: given intelligent life's ability to overcome scarcity, and its tendency to colonize new habitats, it seems likely that at least some civilizations would be technologically advanced, seek out new resources in space and then colonize first their own star system and subsequently the surrounding star systems.
While the earlier era was characterized by a dramatic use of the major and minor scale systems, impressionist music tended to make more use of dissonance.
The introduction of web search engines has boosted the need for very large scale retrieval systems even further.
They were the first organised body of martial arts on a global scale to sanction fights, create ranking systems, and institute a development programme.
systems are inherently difficult to integrate and scale because the parameters
Battery power is used by many garden railway and larger scale systems because of the difficulty in obtaining reliable power supply through the rails outdoors and because the high power consumption and thus current draw of large scale garden models is more easily and safely met with rechargeable batteries.
In addition to describing the motion of atomic level phenomena, quantum mechanics is useful in understanding some large scale phenomenon such as superfluidity, superconductivity, and biological systems, including the function of smell receptors and the structures of proteins.
Neodymium glass solid-state lasers are used in extremely high power ( terawatt scale ), high energy ( megajoules ) multiple beam systems for inertial confinement fusion.
* List of grid scale energy storage systems Currently being used today.
As large scale information systems become more common, there is so much information stored in many databases worldwide that an individual has no practical means of knowing of or controlling all of the information about themselves that others may have hold or access.
* Tom Leggett ( Aug. 1, 2000 ) New life for Schrödinger's cat, Physics World, UK Experiments at two universities claim to observe superposition in large scale systems
Thanks to the cache coherence of the distributed shared memory, SN systems scale along several axes at once: as CPU count increases, so does memory capacity, I / O capacity, and system bisection bandwidth.
Initially, the program focused on large scale systems designed to defeat a Soviet offensive strike.
In 1993, the Clinton administration further shifted the focus to ground-based interceptor missiles and theater scale systems, forming the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ( BMDO ) and closing the SDIO.
For large scale complex systems, hundreds if not thousands of maintenance actions can result from the failure analysis.
Simple examples of such systems have been demonstrated at the macro scale.
Before Linux 2. 6. 33, ReiserFS heavily used the big kernel lock ( BKL ) — a global kernel-wide lock — which does not scale very well for systems with multiple cores, as the critical code parts are only ever executed by one core at a time.
* IP reader systems scale easily: there is no need to install new main or sub-controllers.

scale and ranges
Aalto's wide field of design activity ranges from the large scale of city planning and architecture to interior design, furniture and glassware design and painting.
Approximate fractals found in nature display self-similarity over extended, but finite, scale ranges.
Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees and herbaceous plants, to residential yards including lawns and foundation plantings, to plants in large or small containers grown inside or outside.
Pipe longevity also depends on the thickness of zinc in the original galvanization, which ranges on a scale from G40 to G210, and whether the pipe was galvanized on both the inside and outside, or just the outside.
The piece ranges from utilizing mysterious harmonies in long tones to full scale march feels.
The most known weathering scale, used for stone meteorites, ranges from W0 ( pristine state ) to W6 ( heavy alteration ).
It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.
Some trebuchets were small and operated by a very small crew ; however, unlike the onager, it was possible to build the trebuchet on a gigantic scale: such giants could hurl enormous rocks at huge ranges.
The similar TORRO scale ranges from a T0 for extremely weak tornadoes to T11 for the most powerful known tornadoes.
The similar TORRO scale ranges from a T0 for extremely weak tornadoes to T11 for the most powerful known tornadoes.
Resolution of analog multimeters is limited by the width of the scale pointer, parallax, vibration of the pointer, the accuracy of printing of scales, zero calibration, number of ranges, and errors due to non-horizontal use of the mechanical display.
He wanted to " knock away the props " by attacking Germany's allies-he argued for the sending of British troops to Greece ( this was done-the Salonika expedition-although not on the scale that Lloyd George had wanted, and mountain ranges made his suggestions of grand Balkan offensives impractical ) and for the sending of machine guns to Romania ( insufficient were available ).
His work was characterised by the removal of all unnecessary ornamentation, inflating geometric forms to a huge scale and repeating elements such as columns in huge ranges.
Wheel hardness is measured on the A scale ( see Durometer ) and usually ranges between 72A-93A ( higher numbers are harder ).
When values that span large ranges need to be plotted, a logarithmic scale can provide a means of viewing the data that allows the values to be determined from the graph.
By comparison, values of y less than 10 are difficult to determine from the figure below, where they are plotted on a linear scale, thus confirming the earlier assertion that values spanning large ranges are more easily read from a logarithmically scaled graph.
At the time Fujita derived the scale, little information was available on damage caused by wind, so the original scale presented little more than educated guesses at wind speed ranges for specific tiers of damage.
Searches have been done from very short ranges, to municipal scales, to the scale of the Earth, the sun, and dark matter at the center of the galaxy.
In general, the peaks in the Rocky Mountains tend to be fairly gentle and rounded relative to those found in other mountain ranges of comparable scale.
For her all conversations are on a continuum, a gray scale that ranges from the highest, purest forms of dialogue to the lowest command-and-control conversations.
Reference ranges for blood tests | Reference ranges for the blood content of estradiol during the menstrual cycle-The ranges denoted By biological stage may be used in closely monitored menstrual cycles in regard to other markers of its biological progression, with the time scale being compressed or stretched to how much faster or slower, respectively, the cycle progresses compared to an average cycle.
-The ranges denoted Inter-cycle variability are more appropriate to use in unmonitored cycles with only the beginning of menstruation known, but where the woman accurately knows her average cycle lengths and time of ovulation, and that they are somewhat averagely regular, with the time scale being compressed or stretched to how much a woman's average cycle length is shorter or longer, respectively, than the average of the population.

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