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The stepping disks are an outgrowth and improvement of the transfer booth technology used by humans and other Known Space races.
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Several limitations to stepping disks are mentioned in the Ringworld novels.
* Near instant point-to-point teleportation is possible with transfer booths ( on Earth ) and stepping disks ( on the Puppeteer homeworld ); on Earth, people's sense of place and global position has been lost due to instantaneous travel ; cities and cultures have blended together.
Puppeteers use a much more elegant and sophisticated booth-less " open " version in the form of stepping disks, which require no enclosure.
When investigating odd occurrences inside the Mansion, Colossus located one of stepping disks that Illyana had magically bound to the school.
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* Note that most ancient Roman sources are quite critical of Agrippina the Younger, because she was seen as stepping outside the conservative Roman ideals regarding the roles of women in society.
Upon stepping onto the surface, Young expressed his sentiments about being there: " There you are: Mysterious and Unknown Descartes.
" The tales that comprise a fragment are closely related and contain internal indications of their order of presentation, usually with one character speaking to and then stepping aside for another character.
Such devices are typically detonated automatically by way of pressure from the target stepping or driving on it, though other detonation mechanisms may be possible.
In the pre-Crisis continuity, Lex Luthor's driving ambitions are to kill Superman and enslave Earth as a stepping stone to dominating the universe.
A good stepping stone leads to many others, so some of the most powerful results in mathematics are known as lemmata, such as Bézout's lemma, Urysohn's lemma, Dehn's lemma, Euclid's lemma, Farkas ' lemma, Fatou's lemma, Gauss's lemma, Nakayama's lemma, Poincaré's lemma, Riesz's lemma, Schwarz's lemma, Itō's lemma and Zorn's lemma.
Due to a still-tangible faith in the viability of the state socialist system, most socialist groups of that period emphasised the importance of political action through party organisations as a means of bringing about socialism ; in syndicalism, trade unions are thus seen as simply a stepping stone to common ownership.
SAM images are obtained by stepping a focused electron beam across a sample surface and measuring the intensity of the Auger peak above the background of scattered electrons.
In Islamic traditions, women are required to wear long, loose, non-transparent outer dress when stepping out of the home.
Usually, a company logo, alphanumeric codes and sometimes words are printed on top of the package to identify its manufacturer and type, when it was made ( usually as a year and a week number ), sometimes where it was made, and other proprietary information ( perhaps revision numbers, manufacturing plant codes, or stepping ID codes.
What sets Rococo apart from Baroque the most is the way the pawns work ; they are called cannonball pawns and move like a King, stepping 1 square in all directions, or leap over any adjacent piece ( friend or foe ).
As Hawkins ( 1972 ) explains, the hypercomplex numbers are stepping stones to learning about Lie groups and group representation theory.
In the beginning, students are taught the gwun mah ( quadrilateral pole stance ), in addition to stepping and punching exercises.
The members of Laibach are notorious for rarely stepping out of character.
" Or I would say, " They are stepping on the animals, crushing them like grapes, and they don't care.
Other options are culverts, stepping stones, and shallow fords.
Those six basic stepping techniques are:
White is the stepping stone from extremely rural areas of Georgia, to areas just south of White that are considered urban or urbanizing.
But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken and characters enter or leave a room by stepping ' through ' a wall onto the fore-stage.
Additionally, Chandler describes the advance as also a British development of the platoon firing system in which troops mounting an attack continue to advance to give fire by stepping out ahead of the rest of the marching battalion, when they are done and reloading the other platoons advance ahead of them and give fire in turn.
The group has four main goals which center on promoting the use of advanced directives and stepping in when the wishes of the patient are not being honored.
Switched reluctance motors are very large stepping motors with a reduced pole count, and generally are closed-loop commutated.
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Overall though, the fans agreed that apart from these minor issues, Studio Liverpool had redeveloped the brand as a stepping stone for improvement for the inevitable release of the 2006 edition.
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The UW Colleges is also frequently used as a stepping stone in order to transfer to another institution in the University of Wisconsin System.
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Citizens reported as " killed " must submit themselves for termination by stepping inside a disintegration booth.
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This technology was to provide a stepping stone to the development of electronic calculators.
In March 2008, Gilchrist announced that he was stepping down as the candidate in order to pursue his business interests consisting of alternative energy projects including a proposed waste-to-energy facility in Ghana and an advanced recycling technology for municipalities in Canada.
The technology was considered a stepping stone to true high definition optical disc formats ( HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc ) and Microsoft never intended the discs to be played on anything but personal computers.
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An undergraduate history degree is often used as a stepping stone to graduate studies in business or law.
In mathematics, a lemma ( plural lemmata or lemmas ) from the Greek λῆμμα ( lemma, “ anything which is received, such as a gift, profit, or a bribe ”) is a proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result rather than as a statement of interest by itself.
Garfield was conflicted – he was sure that he could better serve in Congress than in camp, but he was determined that his military position not be used as a stepping stone to political advancement.
The United States obtained portions of a Purple machine from the Japanese Embassy in Germany following Germany's defeat in 1945 ( see image above ) and discovered that the Japanese had used precisely the same " stepping switch " in its construction that Leo Rosen of SIS had chosen when building a " duplicate " ( or Purple analog machine ) in Washington in 1939 and 1940.
The " stepping switch " was a standard element used in automatic telephone exchanges in countries like the United States, Canada, the UK and Japan, whose large cities had good dial-telephone systems.
Each stage can be used as a stepping stone for the next stage.
Later, a few vintage clocks even used a form of stepping switch to drive Nixie tubes.
Note however that a sentence reflecting a supposed understanding of the actions of others, such as one that contains a statement like " he or she never believed ..." or " those others " is already stepping outside of the solipsist's subjective viewpoint, and so misleading when used to illustrate a solipsistic view of death.
The 600 m is also used as an early season stepping stone by 800 m runners before they have reached full race fitness.
The TV camera consisted of a vidicon tube, 25 and 100 mm focal length lenses, shutters, polarizing filters ( as opposed to color filters used on the previous Surveyor cameras ), and iris mounted nearly vertically and surmounted by a mirror that could be adjusted by stepping motors to move in both azimuth and elevation.
Many Northwestern alumni have used these productions as stepping stones to successful television and film careers.
When approaching the first hurdle, athletes try to avoid Stutter stepping ( a term used to refer to the cutting of stride length before reaching a hurdle ).
It used a curious variation of lock stepping.
* Live and Let DieRoss Kananga as James Bond used four crocodiles as stepping stones to reach safety on the other side.
In the International style of Tango, " heel leads " ( stepping first onto the heel, then the whole foot ) are used for forward steps.
Though not immediately stepping down after losing power to Partido Popular's Jose Maria Aznar in 1996, he was ousted following a controversy regarding illegal means used in the struggle against the ETA during his government.
Thousands of planes used BW1 as a stepping stone on their way from the aircraft factories in North America to the battlegrounds of Europe.
In the thirteenth century the Mamluke ruler Baibars used it as a stepping stone on his climb to power.
For instance, Pope Callixtus III, head of the Borgia family, made two of his nephews cardinals ; one of them, Rodrigo, later used his position as a cardinal as a stepping stone to the papacy, becoming Pope Alexander VI.
* Heraclitan: The Greek philosopher Heraclitus used the metaphor of a river to speak of change thus, " On those stepping into rivers staying the same other and other waters flow " ( DK22B12 ).
Although the difficulty of the course precludes world-record pace performances, winners of the Honolulu Marathon have used it as a stepping stone to greater achievements.
It is an alternative to other descent methods such as plunge stepping, and may be used to expedite a descent, or simply for the thrill.
Scholars either dismissed it as a prank or felt unable to identify a sustainable historical context, and the stone was returned to Ohman, who is said to have placed it face down near the door of his granary as a " stepping stone " which he also used for straightening out nails.
King Sancho I, with the support of Crusader forces used Lagos as a stepping stone to attack the fortress of Alvôr.
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