He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

It is obvious that the careful choice of photocathode which maximizes Af for a given input E ( in the case of the second stage, for the first phosphor screen emission ) is very important.

Peanuts are the world's second most important legume.

Three elements have been important in holding the Communion together: First, the shared ecclesial structure of the component churches, manifested in an episcopal polity maintained through the apostolic succession of bishops and synodical government ; second, the principle of belief expressed in worship, investing importance in approved prayer books and their rubrics ; and third, the historical documents and standard divines that have influenced the ethos of the Communion.

They are a set of axioms strong enough to prove many important facts about number theory and they allowed Gödel to establish his famous second incompleteness theorem.

The second and much more formidable host of crusaders gradually made its way to Constantinople, led in sections by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond IV of Toulouse and other important members of the western nobility.

cAMP ( cyclic adenosine monophosphate ) is an important molecule in eukaryotic signal transduction, a so-called second messenger.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

The second important berkelium isotope, berkelium-247, is an alpha-emitter, as are most actinide isotopes.

A major modification to Noth's theory was made in 1973 by the American scholar Frank M. Cross, to the effect that two editions of the history could be distinguished, the first and more important from the court of king Josiah in the late 7th century, and the second Noth's 6th century Exilic history, and other scholars have detected many more authors / editors than either Noth or Cross allowed for.

Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.

The second, larger inventory is the Regional Inventory ( RI ), which is broken down by county and contains both those pubs listed in the NI and other pubs that are not eligible for the NI, due to reasons such as having been overly modified, but are still considered historically important, or have particular architectural value.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans ( due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones ), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place ( behind mining ) in terms of export earnings.

In 1917, Tzara wrote a second Dada manifesto considered one of the most important Dada writings, which was published in 1918.

The determinant provides important information when the matrix is that of the coefficients of a system of linear equations, or when it corresponds to a linear transformation of a vector space: in the first case the system has a unique solution if and only if the determinant is nonzero, while in the second case that same condition means that the transformation has an inverse operation.

The second half of the 20th century also saw the publication of several encyclopedias that were notable for synthesizing important topics in specific fields, often by means of new works authored by significant researchers.

A second important aspect of the practice of endocrinology is distinguishing human variation from disease.

An important aspect of the second law of electrolysis is electroplating which together with the first law of electrolysis, has a significant number of applications in the industry, as when used to protect metals to avoid corrosion.

This fact has several important consequences in science: first, it prohibits " perpetual motion " machines ; and second, it implies the arrow of entropy has the same direction as the arrow of time.

His Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen ( Anatomy of human embryos ) employs a series of his most important drawings chronicling developing embryos from the end of the second week through the end of the second month of pregnancy.

These stars often made several films a year, and their productions remained important for morale purposes during the second world war.

Stages were very important in the 19th and early 20th century as they were the major tool available for dating rock beds until the development of seismology and radioactive dating in the second half of the 20th Century.

The output from the benchmark is the number of Dhrystones per second ( the number of iterations of the main code loop per second ).

It specified two net bit rates of 1 or 2 megabits per second ( Mbit / s ), plus forward error correction code.

In addition, the < operator returns its second argument if it succeeds, allowing things like < code > if a < b < c </ code >, a common type of comparison that in most languages must be written as a disjunction of two inequalities like < code > if a < b && b < c </ code >.

The second byte is for the ICMP code.

The basic format is an 80-bit code that gives the time of day to the second, and the frame number within the second.

MIDI Clock is based on tempo, but SMPTE time code is based on frames per second, and is independent of tempo.

The first vector was the starting stack address, and the second was the starting code address.

The following ID of identifies this is a time code type message, and the second indicates it's a full-time code message.

In a way, architecture documents are third derivative from the code ( design document being second derivative, and code documents being first ).

Since TPF can run as a second level guest under IBM's z / VM, a user can employ the VM trace facility to closely follow the execution of code.

The code had a dual meaning: first to signal slaves to prepare to escape and second to give clues and indicate directions on the journey.

This gave the codebreakers the best possible source material in their attempts to decrypt the code being used for the second leg, having supplied the original text.

He issued the oldest surviving English code of laws apart from those of the kingdom of Kent, and established a second West Saxon bishopric at Sherborne, covering the territories west of Selwood Forest.

Joshua starts an attempt to launch a second strike, however, using a brute force attack to obtain the launch code for the U. S. nuclear missiles.

The second heaviest losses were during the U. S. Army's final offensive of the war, operation Dewey Canyon II ( Dewey Canyon II was an operation in support of the ARVN Lam San 719 Operation, in which the code 719 meant the year 1971 along Route 9 ), when the cavalry's remaining Sheridan Squadrons met near disaster on the Lao border during the early months of 1971, in particular the 1st Squadron of the 1st Cavalry Regt.

In zoological code ( ICZN ), the second part of the name is a " specific name ", or in the botanical code ( ICN ) a " specific epithet ".

It is the unit of symbol rate, also known as baud rate or modulation rate ; the number of distinct symbol changes ( signaling events ) made to the transmission medium per second in a digitally modulated signal or a line code.