Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images, a condition in which, for example, one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence.

Yet our state is similar to a cancer cell — with its messianism and expansionism, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, the authoritarian structure of power, with a total absence of public control in the most important decisions in domestic and foreign policy, a closed society that does not inform its citizens of anything substantial, closed to the outside world, without freedom of travel or the exchange of information.

There are two different forms of albinism: a partial lack of the melanin is known as hypomelanism, or hypomelanosis and the total absence of melanin is known as amelanism or amelanosis.

The small bits of rail lines within Kyrgyzstan, about 370 km of broad gauge in total, have little economic value in the absence of the former bulk traffic over long distances to and from such centers as Tashkent, Almaty and the cities of Russia.

If more than one charge is present, the total electric field at any point is equal to the vector sum of the separate electric fields that each point charge would create in the absence of the others.

The newly reported animals complete their life cycle in the total absence of light and oxygen, and they are less than a millimetre in size.

The total absence of agriculture in an economically strong area does not cause famine ; Arizona and other wealthy regions import the vast majority of their food, since such regions produce sufficient economic goods for trade.

Big Dumb Objects often exhibit extreme or unusual properties, or a total absence of expected properties:

Many attempts have been made to reconstruct the plot of the play, but none of them is more than hypothetical, because of the scanty remains that survive from its text and of the total absence of ancient descriptions or résumés-though it has been suggested that a part of Hyginus ' narration of the Oedipus myth might in fact derive from Euripides ' play.

In the absence of any external magnetic field, the flux in one core half cancels that in the other, and so the total flux seen by the sense coil is zero.

* Current-In the absence of two sets of stumps or objects of similar height and structure are total non availability ( where batting stumps are drawn on walls doors etc .,.

The radical politician, Henry Broadhurst, who had met both Albert Victor and his brother George, noted that they had " a total absence of affectation or haughtiness ".

Consequently, agranulocytosis is sometimes described as " no granulocytes ", but a total absence is not required for diagnosis.

The different states are called ablaut grades ; e-grade and o-grade are together " full grades ", and the total absence of any vowel is " zero grade ".

Some other major yet mostly overlooked reasons are total absence of rapid transit system, total absence of integrated urban planning for over thirty years, holes / pits / ditches on the roads eaten up by stagnant water due to absence of drainage system, the tendency of the drivers halt or park vehicles anywhere and everywhere, dilatory driving of vehicles to collect abrupt passengers, disorderly driving on roads, insufficient roads, total lack of alternative routes, mostly narrow and one-way roads, and, tendency of breaking traffic signals.

In the total absence of grid power, a so-called black start needs to be performed to bootstrap the power grid into operation.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Written evidence that the claimant and any such attorney have agreed to the amount of the attorney's fees shall be conclusive upon the Commission: Provided, however, That the total amount of the fees so agreed upon does not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

A more tenable explanation for the change in reactions is that the added knowledge and increased familiarity with the total situation made it possible for these subjects to be less guarded and to relax, since any reaction seemed acceptable to the examiner as `` normal ''.

And while no one expects total democracy on the academic scene, the scholar will be particularly sensitive to a line between first and second class citizenship drawn on any basis other than that of academic rank or professional achievement.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

Three years later it was found in nature, although it is the least abundant element in the Earth's crust among the non-transuranic elements, with an estimated total amount of less than at any given time.

A player may purchase shares in one, two, or three existing chains ( assuming at least three chains are currently in play ), in any combination up to a total of three shares.

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The advantage of this technique is that total and background absorption are measured with the same emission profile of the same lamp, so that any kind of background, including background with fine structure can be corrected accurately, unless the molecule responsible for the background is also affected by the magnetic field ; the disadvantage is the increased complexity of the spectrometer.

As measurement of total and background absorption, and correction for the latter, are strictly simultaneous ( in contrast to LS AAS ), even the fastest changes of background absorption, as they may be observed in ET AAS, do not cause any problem.

This treaty mandates cuts in deployed strategic nuclear warheads, but without actually mandating cuts to total stockpiled warheads, and without any mechanism for enforcement.

The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).

OPS adds the hitter's on base percentage ( number of times reached base by any means divided by total plate appearances ) to his slugging percentage ( total bases divided by at bats ).

An intentional walk may be signaled at any time during the batter's turn at the plate ; in these cases only enough additional intentional balls need to be thrown to bring the total to four.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

Members of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers have won the most awards of any franchise ( with 16 ), twice the total of the New York Yankees ( eight ), who have produced the most in the American League.

In total, these increases in operating costs outweigh the savings that result from declining programs and from economy measures, such as reduced numbers of units and installations, smaller inventories of major equipment, and improvements in the supply and distribution systems of the Armed Forces.

The total of these three volumes is the `` final combustion chamber volume ''.

Here no attempt is made, first to determine out-of-pocket or marginal costs and then to superimpose on these costs `` reasonably distributed '' residues of total costs.

Instead, all of the total costs are treated as variable costs, although these costs are divided into costs that are deemed to be functions of different variables.

He had two productive periods, one in the late 1860's, the other in the decade from 1910 to 1920 ( half of the dated poems are from the latter period, and these alone total about one-tenth of all Hardy's poems ).

`` In the same five year period that the United States says they ( the detectives ) were engaged in this conspiracy '', Sokol continued, `` these three young men received a total of 26 creditable mentions and many special compensations, and were nominated for the Lambert Tree award and the mayor's medal ''.

At birth, there are over 270 bones in an infant human's body, but many of these fuse together as the child grows, leaving a total of 206 separate bones in an adult.

Of these apartments, a total of 84, 675 apartments ( 87. 6 % of the total ) were permanently occupied, while 7, 916 apartments ( 8. 2 %) were seasonally occupied and 4, 049 apartments ( 4. 2 %) were empty.

A total of 404 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary died in the conflict and more than 600 were wounded but it is not clear how many of these were pre-war RIC men and how many were Black and Tans or Auxiliaries.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

In this sense they are reminiscent of the oscillatory universe proposed by Richard Chace Tolman: however in Tolman's model the total age of the universe is necessarily finite, while in these models this is not necessarily so.

In this technique, the total population is divided into these groups ( or clusters ) and a simple random sample of the groups is selected.

Eleven of these 21 unique patterns are repeated to make a total of 32 tiles in a Chinese dominoes set.

They found that these diets lowered total body mass by 8 % in the short term, over 3 – 12 months.

Diocletian, by contrast, was prodigious in his affairs: there are around 1, 200 rescripts in his name still surviving, and these probably represent only a small portion of the total issue.

Many of these appear to be fairly uniform, so by the virial theorem, the total kinetic energy should be half the total gravitational binding energy of the galaxies.

Eight species are described although many researchers believed these actually represented only three at most while some estimated there could be around twenty in total.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

The Ministry of Health recorded a total of 109, 038 medical cases related to Hurricane Mitch between October 31 and November 18, 1998 ; 23 % of these cases were respiratory infections, followed by skin ailments, diarrhea, and conjunctivitis.

Discharge in these two months accounts for 36 percent of the total annual discharge of the Euphrates, or even 60 – 70 percent according to one source, while low runoff occurs in summer and autumn.

The estimated total number of people killed in these camps is over three million: