That world was in scale with my own smallness.

The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

An objective scale was developed for rating school neighborhoods from these data.

The rating scale of compulsivity was constructed by first perusing the interview records, categorizing all evidence related to compulsivity, then arranging a distribution of such information apart from the case records.

Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.

The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

The Bessemer process was able to produce the first large scale manufacture of steel.

On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

It followed from the principles on which this scale was constructed that its zero was placed at − 273. 15 ° C, at almost precisely the same point as the zero of the air-thermometer.

Computer methods are utilised to rebuild a three dimensional view of the sample, prior to it being evaporated, providing atomic scale information on the structure of a sample, as well as providing the type atomic species information.

Although machines capable of performing all four arithmetic functions existed prior to the 19th century, the refinement of manufacturing and fabrication processes during the eve of the industrial revolution made large scale production of more compact and modern units possible.

In addition, technological changes prior to the merger movement within companies increased the efficient size of plants with capital intensive assembly lines allowing for economies of scale.

Kenneth Waltz has argued that nuclear weapons have helped keep an uneasy peace, and further nuclear weapon proliferation might even help avoid the large scale conventional wars that were so common prior to their invention at the end of World War II.

It was largely by this method ( mixed-race Bermudians being added to the number of Blacks, rather than added to the number of Whites or being defined as a separate demographic group ) that Coloured ( subsequently redefined in the twentieth century as Black ) Bermudians came to outnumber White Bermudians by the end of the 19th century, despite starting off at a numerical disadvantage, and despite low Black immigration prior to the latter 19th century ( other contributing factors included the scale of White relative to Black emigration in the 17th and 18th centuries, the greater mortality of Whites from disease in the late 17th century, and large-scale West Indian immigration, which began, like Portuguese immigration, in the 19th century to provide labourers for the new export agriculture industry and expansion of the Royal Naval Dockyard.

In recent years, Rod Stewart has concentrated on reintroducing the " Great American Songbook " to a large scale audience in the same manner Linda Ronstadt did twenty years prior.

Coincidentally, a large scale simplification of the laws in France occurred just prior to the beginning of the trial.

Elmer M. Sheridan founded the town in 1914, and named it prior to large scale citrus growing.

A few examples of 120MHz parts also exist, but they have early production dates indicating that they may have been produced prior to IBM's decision to scale back clock speeds.

The most important characteristics of the blues is its use of the blue scale, with a flatted or indeterminate third, as well as the typically lamenting lyrics ; though both of these elements had existed in African American folk music prior to the 20th century, the codified form of modern blues ( such as with the AAB structure ) did not exist until the early 20th century.

A full scale basin analysis is usually carried out prior to defining leads and prospects for future drilling.

A connected theory, accelerating moment release ( AMR ), claims that the seismicity rate accelerates in a well-behaved way prior to major earthquakes, and that it might provide a helpful tool for earthquake prediction on the scale of days to years.

He predicted that the question of political philosophy had been answered, that large scale wars over fundamental values would no longer arise since " all prior contradictions are resolved and all human needs satisfied.

* Repositioning NSDL for the Next Generation of Digital Learning-NSDL's present work is building on and leveraging the successes and lessons of current and prior work ( NSDL network partners collaborations ; STEM Exchange ; Learning Registry collaboration ; Learning Application Readiness ; Common Core Mathematics collection ) to bring pilot level projects to scale and to integrate new capacities in NSDL's value to STEM education.

It was demolished in the 1960s prior to the advent of conservation legislation, to make way for the construction of the Vinyards shopping centre and the Marrable House office block, both constructed with a ' scale, form, layout and architecture ' that Chelmsford Council now considers to ' jar with its historic surroundings '.

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

At 5: 04 p. m., just prior to Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics, the Loma Prieta earthquake ( which measured 7. 1 on the Richter scale ) hit.

Another 256-word ROM stores the exponential function as a lookup table, used to convert the logarithmic scale signal back to linear scale when required, as the final stage where the oscillator-outputs are summed together ( just prior to the DAC-output bus.

In such a case, the scale group is the natural group structure, and the corresponding prior on X is proportional to 1 / x.

Wild Weasel tactics and techniques were first developed in the Vietnam and Yom Kippur Wars, and were later integrated into the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses ( SEAD ) a plan used by US air forces to establish immediate air control, prior to possible full scale conflict.

Problems to be overcome prior to human administration include establishing what the biologically active molecule is, what role post-translational modifications have upon the function and associated difficulties in generating biologically active molecules on a large scale.

However, this scale is most accurate when applied in the seven days prior to a patient's predicted death.

Number of nations 1800 – 2003 scoring 8 or higher on Polity IV scale, another widely used measure of democracy.

' In a 2003 study about changes in environmental activism in the Crown of the Continent ( Flathead ) Ecosystem, Pedynowski noted that junk science can undermine the credibility of science over a much broader scale because misrepresentation by special interests casts doubt on more defensible claims and undermines the credibility of all research.

Transport directly to and from South Korea has been possible on a limited scale from 2003 until 2008, when a road was opened ( bus tours, no private cars ).

In 2003 Scott directed a smaller scale project, Matchstick Men, adapted from the novel by Eric Garcia and starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman.

Since 2003, many of the most important organizations in famine relief, such as the World Food Programme and the U. S. Agency for International Development, have adopted a five-level scale measuring intensity and magnitude.

The county's eastern edge, along the state line, was also the epicenter of a strong earthquake on April 29, 2003, measuring 4. 6 on the Richter scale.

The most powerful tornado of the 2003 South Dakota tornado outbreak was located around Centerville and was rated an F-4 on the Fujita scale.

It was changed to a 30-point scale in 2003, a 20-point scale in 2005, and in 2008 was changed back to 30.

This new building won a " Award of Merit " from Canadian Architect magazine in 2003, received a Gold certification from the U. S. Green Building Council and scored 46 on the LEED points scale which was, at inauguration, the highest score ever obtained in Canada.

This successful tour drew to a close in 2003 and a brand new production was developed by original producer Cameron Mackintosh on a smaller scale so that the show could be accommodated in smaller theatres.

The University of Alberta switched from a 9-point grading scale to the more common 4-point grading scale in September 2003.

Since natural selection is too slow, Gudykunst and Kim ( 2003 ) argue forcefully that creating conditions on a mass scale to inculcate this new, more developed and better kind of person is not only moral but will be a " special privilege " ( p. 389 ) for those so " trained " ( p. 359 ).

During a November 2003 field visit to Uganda, United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland stated, " I cannot find any other part of the world that is having an emergency on the scale of Uganda, that is getting such little international attention.

Konami has also released 4 " scale blind-box figures based on MGS2 released in Japan, Sons of Liberty in 2002 and Substance shortly after in 2003 ; the Substance series was eventually brought to the US and UK markets packaged on card rather than blind boxed.

Camp Julien was ready for full scale occupancy in the late summer of 2003 with the arrival of Roto 0.

Number of nations 1800 – 2003 scoring 8 or higher on Polity data series | Polity IV scale.

The University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada used the stanine system until 2003, when it switched to a 4-point scale.

More recently, in 2003, large scale renovation works were completed on both the facade of the building and the surrounding Emmet Square.

The scale of Kmara's actions grew as the November 2003 parliamentary election was approaching and many Georgians feared the government was ready to resort to election fraud.

A large scale working replica of James ( along with Thomas, Percy, Gordon, Harold and Jack ) was created by BBC Visual Effects ( UK ) for a 2003 live stage show tour.

The piece is based upon the Shepard scale concept, named after Tenney's colleague at Bell Labs psychologist Roger Shepard, though the technique which the piece uses is more properly described as a continuous Risset scale or Shepard-Risset glissando ( Polansky 2003 ).