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second and key
In the second game of the Falcons 1999 season, running back Jamaal Anderson, who had been a key player in the Falcons ' 1998 success, suffered a season-ending knee injury.
There are two key challenges: first, many patients have impaired circulation in their extremities, and second, they have difficulty curing infections in limbs with poor vasculation ( blood circulation ).
An inverted file or inverted index of a first file, by a field in this file ( the inversion field ), is a second file in which this field is the key.
A record in the second file includes a key and pointers to records in the first file where the inversion field has the value of the key.
Field lines emanating from stationary charges have several key properties: first, that they originate at positive charges and terminate at negative charges ; second, that they must enter any good conductor at right angles, and third, that they may never cross nor close in on themselves.
On his second visit early in the following year, he remained at Ephesus " three years ," for he found it was the key to the western provinces of Asia Minor.
The Marlins also lost key parts of their second championship team, Ugueth Urbina and Iván Rodríguez left via free agency ( signed by the Detroit Tigers ).
While the first is far shorter than the second, it sets out the basic themes and provides an interpretive key for understanding the entire book.
* Lindisfarne plays a key role in " Conqueror ", the second book of the Time's Tapestry series by Stephen Baxter.
In this case, the analogy applies both to the form of the words and to their meaning: in each pair, the first word means " one of X ", while the second " two or more of X ", and the difference is always the plural form-s affixed to the second word, signaling the key distinction between singular and plural entities.
By determining the timing between the activation of the first and second switches, the velocity of a key press can be determined — greatly improving the performance dynamic of a keyboard.
According to the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to " key in " text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically.
* In the second book of the Danger Boy series of time travel tales, written by Mark London Williams, Dragon Sword, Peenemünde becomes a key setting in this and in the further novels.
The second was from the mid-20th century when the discovery of vast oil deposits propelled it into a key economic and geo-political role.
The switching is accomplished by pressing the Scroll Lock key twice, and then selecting either the " up " arrow key to select the first computer, or the " down " arrow key to select the second computer connected to the switch.
An example of a simple key scheme, which provides a second level of protection, is to write the unmodified or modified password in the top or bottom of the message ; or the distribution of the password sign on the entire length of the steganographic channel.
Accordingly, the performance of container processing will be lower than in the case of the first and the second key schemes.
The Raiders then marched 90 yards to the Vikings 7-yard line ( the key play being a 35-yard run by Clarence Davis ), but had to settle for a field goal from Mann, giving them a 3 – 0 lead 48 seconds into the second quarter.
But New York lost another key player for the season when rookie running back Rodney Hampton, the team's second leading rusher during the regular season with 455 yards, suffered a broken leg.
Cowboy defensive lineman Jimmie Jones made two key plays, however ; a second down tackle on Thomas for a one yard loss and a 13-yard sack on third down ; to push the ball back to the 22-yard line and force Buffalo to punt ; a poor, 29 yard kick which the Cowboys recovered at their own 49 yard line.

second and factor
A second factor which enters into the practical measurement of the instrumentally determined cutting force is the frictional resistance caused by the bottom of the knife against the substrate.
This second attitude of communication, referred to as the constitutive model or constructionist view, focuses on how an individual communicates as the determining factor of the way the message will be interpreted.
The factor g ′( 10 ) in the chain rule is the velocity of the skydiver ten seconds after his jump, and it is expressed in meters per second.
The second biggest factor affecting the sound produced by a drum is the tension at which the drum head is held against the shell of the drum.
A conversion factor is required to change from foot lbs / second to kilowatts:
:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."
This uncertainty is currently one limiting factor in laboratory realisations of the metre, and it is several orders of magnitude poorer than that of the second, based upon the caesium fountain atomic clock ().
The second factor is that the energy of the transmitted pulse is spread over a wide frequency spectrum, which makes necessary its receiver to have a corresponding wide selectivity.
The second factor in such an analysis ( such as Eysenck's T-factor ) is the second best explanation for the spread of the data, which is, by definition, drawn at right angles to the first factor.
Thus, one would expect to find a factor that roughly corresponds to " left " and " right ", as this is the dominant framing for politics in our society, but the basis of Eysenck's " tough / tender-minded " thesis ( the second, " T "- factor ) may well represent nothing beyond an abstract mathematical construct.
A second factor was the passing of the radicalism of the 1960s in art as well as life.
If they factor out of the calculation the fact that the light-time delay of the transmission is increasing at a rate of 0. 8 seconds per second, both can work out that the other twin is aging slower, at 60 % rate.
The first factor, I < sub > 1 </ sub >, is the single-slit result, which modulates the more rapidly varying second factor that depends upon the number of slits and their spacing.
In the second 1865 match, this time at Lord's, the Gentlemen finally ended their losing streak and won by 8 wickets, but it was E. M. Grace, not W. G., who was the key factor with 11 wickets in the match.
The second major factor was the rise of the neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian empires.
In formal terms, this means that the cosmic scale factor has a positive second derivative, so that the velocity at which a distant galaxy is receding from us should be continuously increasing with time.
In a two factor transaction, the presented credential and a second factor are needed for access to be granted ; another factor can be a PIN, a second credential, operator intervention, or a biometric input.

second and split
A split second later, the distant crack of a rifle had sounded.
We did not dare speak to so exalted a being, but Norton aimed his camera and shot him, so to speak, on the rise, the split second between the halt and the turn.
For a split second, Nick relaxed his grip and Poet's slippery body spun completely around before Nick could stop him, holding him now from the rear.
He got hit from the blind side by the split end coming back on the second play of the game.
* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.
The very early universe, which is still poorly understood, was the split second in which the universe was so hot that particles had energies higher than those currently accessible in particle accelerators on Earth.
By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.
Typically, the time of contact where a force is applied is a split second.
The first period of Sartre's career, defined in large part by Being and Nothingness ( 1943 ), gave way to a second period -- when the world was perceived as split into communist and capitalist blocs -- of highly publicized political involvement.
In the time between the release of the band's second seven-inch EP and the Out of Step record, the band briefly split when guitarist Lyle Preslar moved to Illinois to attend college for a semester at Northwestern University, Preslar was a member of Big Black for a few tempestuous rehearsals.
A split in the Coulibaly dynasty in Ségou led to the establishment of a second Bambara state, the kingdom of Kaarta, in what is now western Mali, in 1753.
Some 26 months after the Earth Return Vehicle is originally launched from Earth, a second vehicle, the " Mars Habitat Unit ", would be launched on a 6-month long low energy transfer trajectory to Mars, and would carry a crew of four astronauts ( the minimum number required so that the team can be split in two without leaving anyone alone ).
Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote.
This imbalance would have been exceptionally small, on the order of 1 in every ( 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >) particles a split second after the Big Bang, but after most of the matter and antimatter annihilated, what was left over was all the baryonic matter in the current universe, along with a much greater number of bosons.
Some types of phospholipid can be split to produce products that function as second messengers in signal transduction.
As he was technically inside the ring for a split second before exiting again, it is sufficient to restart the count.
The issue split the Liberal Party ( a breakaway group went on to create the Liberal Unionist party ) and the bill was thrown out on the second reading, ending his government after only a few months and inaugurating another headed by Lord Salisbury.
Accounts vary on why the split occurred — executives on both sides of the split cite greed and arrogance on the part of the other side, and executives on the Andersen Consulting side maintained breach of contract when Arthur Andersen created a second consulting group, AABC ( Arthur Andersen Business Consulting ) which began to compete directly with Andersen Consulting in the marketplace.
Henny came right on time to contribute the remaining three tracks ( and the ska -/ reggae-influences ) to the second album ; 32 Jaar ( about a lovestruck, shaky-legged 32-year-old ), Smoorverliefd ( Smitten ) and De Laatste Keer ( The Last Time ), a song about breaking up and starting over ( Henny had recently split with his wife and stepsons ).
Because the opposition vote in the rest of Canada was split between the Reform Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and the New Democratic Party, the Bloc narrowly won the second largest number of seats in the House of Commons, and therefore became the official opposition.
A culture of violence rooted in the deep conflicts that split the countryside under Dutch rule would repeatedly erupt throughout the whole second half of the twentieth century.
After winning Game 7, 6 – 1, the Flyers fought Ottawa in the second round with equal vigor as they split the first four games of the series, Cechmanek earning shutouts in both wins.
The six team divisions play a split season with the first half ending in June and the second half ending in September.

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