To increase the uniformity of Unix, AT & T and leading BSD Unix vendor Sun Microsystems started work in 1987 on a unified system.

A review of practices in other states regarding fiscal uniformity is pertinent to this report.

Hogarth, for example, thinks that beauty consists of ( 1 ) fitness of the parts to some design ; ( 2 ) variety in as many ways as possible ; ( 3 ) uniformity, regularity or symmetry, which is only beautiful when it helps to preserve the character of fitness ; ( 4 ) simplicity or distinctness, which gives pleasure not in itself, but through its enabling the eye to enjoy variety with ease ; ( 5 ) intricacy, which provides employment for our active energies, leading the eye on " a wanton kind of chase "; and ( 6 ) quantity or magnitude, which draws our attention and produces admiration and awe.

Nevertheless, there is a meaningful degree of uniformity in written English within the United Kingdom, and this could be described by the term British English.

The culture is characterised by a high degree of sophistication in the production of metal and ceramic artefacts, as well as of uniformity over a vast area.

In order to work, and as pointed out by Roger Penrose from 1986 on, inflation requires extremely specific initial conditions of its own, so that the problem ( or pseudoproblem ) of initial conditions is not solved: “ There is something fundamentally misconceived about trying to explain the uniformity of the early universe as resulting from a thermalization process.

He explained that this is one of the most important analects: " If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.

The relative uniformity of organisation and practice is undoubtedly due to the influence of a booklet, written early in Christadelphian history, called A Guide to the Formation and Conduct of Christadelphian Ecclesias.

With regard to ( 1 ), Hume argues that the uniformity principle cannot be demonstrated, as it is " consistent and conceivable " that nature might stop being regular.

Isotropy is uniformity in all orientations ; it is derived from the Greek isos ( ίσος, equal ) and tropos ( τρόπος, manner ).

Conflicts are born from the absence of moral uniformity found in man in his natural state, i. e. the absence of the definition of what is right ( 是 shì ) and what is wrong ( 非 fēi ).

On October 25, 1791 Washington appealed a third time to Congress, " A uniformity of the weights and measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the Constitution and if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to the public council than conducive to the public convenience.

The purpose of the book is a partial fulfillment of the statutory responsibility for " cooperation with the states in securing uniformity of weights and measures laws and methods of inspection.

Thus, at a general level, there is a large degree of uniformity amongst all Orthodox Jews.

OBE is a loosely bound collection of ideas, with little uniformity in the way it is implemented from case to case.

The writer Sandra Miesel ( 1978 ) has argued that Anderson's overarching theme is the struggle against entropy and the heat death of the universe, a condition of perfect uniformity where nothing can happen.

There is a general recognition that there is a need for an international law of contracts: for example, many nations have ratified the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods, the Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations offers less specialized uniformity, and there is support for the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, a private restatement, all of which represent continuing efforts to produce international standards as the internet and other technologies encourage ever more interstate commerce.

One problem with this approach is that it is unknown whether quantum gravity will actually conform to a simple and elegant theory, as it should resolve the dual conundrums of special relativity with regard to the uniformity of acceleration and gravity, and general relativity with regard to spacetime curvature.

Given a completely regular space X there is usually more than one uniformity on X that is compatible with the topology of X.

However, uniformity in this matter had not yet been fully achieved when the Montanist movement began ; Polycarp, for example, was a quartodeciman, and St. Irenaeus convinced the Pope to refrain from making the issue of the date of Easter a divisive one.

For example, goods may be manufactured in State A, warehoused in State B, sold from State C and delivered in State D. The UCC therefore achieved the goal of substantial uniformity in commercial laws and, at the same time, allowed the states the flexibility to meet local circumstances by modifying the UCC's text as enacted in each state.

This has successfully achieved a high level of uniformity in the religious and social practices of Sikhism throughout the world.

If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of the shame, and moreover will become good.

Such secondary realizations were used and described as ' ET ', with an awareness that the time scales based on the atomic clocks were not identical to that defined by the primary ephemeris time standard, but rather, an improvement over it on account of their closer approximation to uniformity.

When testing a hash function, the uniformity of the distribution of hash values can be evaluated by the chi-squared test.

This shield uniformity was facilitated by the custom of separating the king's cattle into herds based on their coat colours.

According to design investigations, luminaires with full cutoff distributions ( as opposed to cutoff or semi cutoff, compared here ) have to be closer together to meet the same light level, uniformity and glare requirements specified by the IESNA.

This indicates that, in roadway installations, over-illumination or poor uniformity produced by full cutoff fixtures may be more detrimental than direct uplight created by fewer cutoff or semi-cutoff fixtures.

This magnet creates a very strong magnetic field which varies in uniformity by as much as 40 %.

Furthermore, the ' diversity ' of claims made by various disciplines begins to lack any unifying principle or intuition as objects of study become more and more specialized due to the emphasis on specificity, precision and uniformity of reference that competitive, database-oriented research implies.

This uniformity can be explained by detailed fluid-mechanical modelling, which shows that the resist moves much faster at the top of the layer than at the bottom, where viscous forces bind the resist to the wafer surface.

Lovett was impressed by such things as the aesthetic beauty of the uniformity of the architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, a theme which was adopted by the Institute, as well as the residential college system at Cambridge University in England, which was added to the Institute several decades later.

While some styles and themes recur more often than others in its fiction, the stories are marked less by uniformity than by variety, and they have ranged from Updike's introspective domestic narratives to the surrealism of Donald Barthelme, and from parochial accounts of the lives of neurotic New Yorkers to stories set in a wide range of locations and eras and translated from many languages.

: Gould simplified the issue, noting that Lyell's " uniformity of process " was also an assumption: " As such, it is another a priori methodological assumption shared by all scientists and not a statement about the empirical world.

: Gould explained Hutton's view of uniformity of rate ; mountain ranges or grand canyons are built by accumulation of nearly insensible changes added up through vast time.

Academic work on organizational dress by Rafaeli & Pratt ( 1993 ) referred to uniformity ( homogeneity ) of dress as one dimension, and conspicuousness as a second.

Usually this principle is used in fields and subjects in which a certain general steadiness or uniformity of the system has been considered a relevant value by the legislator.

Though the tuning varies greatly, there does exist some uniformity to contour when same melody heard on different kulintang sets.

On-board electronic tuning, availability, uniformity, and frugal costs facilitated performances by guitar ensembles like Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft students.

The Revenue Act does not violate the uniformity clause of Article I, section 8 of the US Constitution.

The uniformity of the plasma owes itself to the homogeneous source of secondary avalanche electrons described in the mechanism section, below.

The new design included a number of features that advanced the state of the art in the driver section, including the multi-pass design in the main amplifiers, and 18 beamlines ( up from 10 ) that were split into 288 " beamlets " as they entered the target area in order to improve the uniformity of illumination.

For the sake of conceptual uniformity, this section uses the tobacco cessation as the chief example ; however, since nicotine and other psychoactive substances such as cocaine activate similar psychopharmacological pathways, an emotion regulation approach may be similarly applicable to a wider array of substances of abuse.

The new design included a number of features that advanced the state of the art in the driver section, including the multi-pass design in the main amplifiers, and 18 beamlines ( up from 10 ) that were split into 288 " beamlets " as they entered the target area in order to improve the uniformity of illumination.