( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Bluntly, there never was a Ptolemaic system of astronomy.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.

He was the first of 2,800,000 called to the Army through the selective service system.

The Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not invented by the new Administration, but only made more consistent and more active.

Behind were privies, for there was no sewage system.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

As the Juniors entered the ring, Mr. Spring, the announcer, stated over the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster has held the Finals of the Junior Competition.

) This is the same system as was used in the field-sequential color-TV system which preceded the present simultaneous system.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

The magnetic resonance absorption was detected by employing a Varian model Af broad line spectrometer and the associated 12-inch electromagnet system.

-- Matheson highest purity tank chlorine was passed through a tube of resublimed Af into an evacuated Pyrex system where it was condensed with liquid air.

This chlorine-carbon tetrachloride solution was illuminated for a day following which the flask was resealed onto a vacuum system and the excess chlorine distilled off.

The numbering system used in Tables 1 and 2 and Figures 1 and 2 was continued for the 21 growth centers.

The whole system was again reviewed and reorganized in 1933.

The system was not well adapted to conditions of life in urban centers.

The system tended to break down during the war, but was reactivated ; ;

The same system, with minor modifications, was developed in Ruanda-Urundi under Belgian administration.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

A gyro-stabilized platform system, using restrained gyros, is well suited for automatic leveling because of the characteristics of the gyro-platform-servo combination.

Thus if the gyro and platform-controller combination maintains the platform with zero angular deviation about the **yf axis, the system can be rotated with an angular velocity Af if a torque is supplied to the gyro output axis Aj.

One could " hotkey " from one operating system to the next using the Alt-Tab key combination.

They quickly became the Achilles ' heel of the system because of their combination of an overly complex mechanical design with a very low-cost internal flex circuit system.

* International: country code – 359 ; submarine cable provides connectivity to Ukraine and Russia ; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system provides connectivity to Italy, Albania, and Macedonia ; satellite earth stations – 3 ( 1 Intersputnik in the Atlantic Ocean region, 2 Intelsat in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions ) ( 2007 )

When a backplane is used with a plug-in single board computer ( SBC ) or system host board ( SHB ), the combination provides the same functionality as a motherboard, providing processing power, memory, I / O and slots for plug-in cards.

In most Windows environments, the key combination brings up the system properties.

Aside from these core elements, a civilization is often marked by any combination of a number of secondary elements, including a developed transportation system, writing, standardized measurement, currency, contractual and tort-based legal systems, characteristic art and architecture, mathematics, enhanced scientific understanding, metallurgy, political structures, and organized religion.

This combination is quite popular because it can significantly reduce the cost of the system.

Originally used on gut-strung instruments, the strength of the system allowed the guitar to withstand the additional tension of steel strings when this fortunate combination arose in the early 20th century.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

Other medical innovations first introduced by Muslim physicians include the discovery of the immune system, the use of animal testing, and the combination of medicine with other sciences ( including agriculture, botany, chemistry, and pharmacology ), the first drugstores in Baghdad ( 754 ), the distinction between medicine and pharmacy by the 12th century, and the discovery of at least 2, 000 medicinal and chemical substances.

The access control mechanism a system offers will be based upon one of three approaches to access control or it may be derived from a combination of the three approaches.

His truly epochal invention was the combination of these elements into a practical system which allowed the mass production of printed books and was economically viable for printers and readers alike.

Here, Justinian resorted mainly to a combination of diplomacy and a system of defensive works.

This is always CV ( consonant onset with vowel nucleus ), such as ka, ki, etc., or V ( vowel ), such as a, i, etc., with the sole exception of the C grapheme for nasal codas usually romanised as n. This structure had some scholars label the system moraic instead of syllabic, because it requires the combination of two syllabograms to represent a CVC syllable with coda ( i. e. CVn, CVm, CVng ), a CVV syllable with complex nucleus ( i. e. multiple or expressively long vowels ), or a CCV syllable with complex onset ( i. e. including a glide, CyV, CwV ).

Another definition sees language as a formal system of signs governed by grammatical rules of combination to communicate meaning.

The greatest innovation of Linnaeus, and still the most important aspect of this system, is the general use of binomial nomenclature, the combination of a genus name and a second term, which together uniquely identify each species of organism.

Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax ( a combination of " free ", " freak ", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system ), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds ' directory linux.

In linear algebra, a basis is a set of linearly independent vectors that, in a linear combination, can represent every vector in a given vector space or free module, or, more simply put, which define a " coordinate system " ( as long as the basis is given a definite order ).

This system uses Chinese characters in a variety of functions: their usual ideographic or logographic senses ; to represent Japanese syllables phonetically ; and sometimes in a combination of these functions.

The Microvision's combination of portability and a cartridge-based system led to moderate success, with Smith Engineering grossing $ 8 million in the first year of the system's release.

" As in the natural-minor system, no combination of major or minor triads could be arranged on all seven notes of the scale while preserving the diatonic integrity of the aggregate pitch content ; the only solution that would produce a purely diatonic pitch content would involve a diminished chord, a type usually avoided in rock.

By purpose, programming languages might be considered general purpose, system programming languages, scripting languages, domain-specific languages, or concurrent / distributed languages ( or a combination of these ).