Had it not been for the monastic scribes of Late Antiquity, most literature of Greece and Rome would have perished in Europe ; as it was, the patterns of textual survivals were shaped by their usefulness to the severely constricted literate group of Christians.

Other patterns for children with learning disabilities show a similar lack of usefulness of the WISC as a diagnostic tool.

" Brent Berlin maintains that these patterns can best be explained by the similarity of human beings ' largely unconscious appreciation of the natural affinities among groupings of plants and animals: people recognize and name a grouping of organisms quite independently of its actual or potential usefulness or symbolic significance in human society " ( 2009 ).

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Suffice it to say that the usefulness of the latter apportionment is questionable.

However, many have argued that the usefulness of these laws is vastly inadequate in terms of controlling government actions, largely because of institutional and systemic obstacles like a weak judiciary, poorly trained judges and lawyers, and corruption.

Its main usefulness is the treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders such as Huntington's disease and Tourette syndrome, rather than for conditions such as schizophrenia.

This is most likely due to their usefulness as pollinators and as producers of honey, their social nature, and their reputation for diligence.

The historic interest of the rotating bucket experiment is its usefulness in suggesting one can detect absolute rotation by observation of the shape of the surface of the water.

Also, the usefulness of comparative law for the sociology of law ( and vice versa ) is very large.

A yarn's usefulness is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and its appearance, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

A. M. Tibbetts is one of the main critics of the NCTE, claiming that ' the Committee's very approach to the misuse of language and what it calls " doublespeak " may in the long run limit its usefulness '.

: But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.

: But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.

: And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.

: Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.

Historically, the electron volt was devised as a standard unit of measure through its usefulness in electrostatic particle accelerator sciences because a particle with charge q has an energy E = qV after passing through the potential V ; if q is quoted in integer units of the elementary charge and the terminal bias in volts, one gets an energy in eV.

Ionizing radiation is hazardous to life ( hence its usefulness in sterilisation ); for this reason irradiation facilities have a heavily shielded irradiation room where the process takes place.

A yarn's usefulness for a knitting project is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and of course its look, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

Value " in use " is the usefulness of this commodity, its utility.

The labor theory as an explanation for value contrasts with the subjective theory of value, which says that value of a good is not determined by how much labor was put into it but by its usefulness in satisfying a want and its scarcity.

It is important to recognise that even the most accurate maps sacrifice a certain amount of accuracy in scale to deliver a greater visual usefulness to its user.

Its usefulness in these applications is derived from its unique electrical and thermal insulating properties and its mechanical properties, which allow it to be cut, punched, stamped, and machined to close tolerances.

On net balance, in spite of Controller Gerosa's opposition to the new Charter as an invasion of his office, the Controller will have the opportunity for greater usefulness to good government than he has now.

Other products like hydrogen peroxide have been tried out as stand-alone and in combination with chlorhexidine, due to some inconsistent results regarding its usefulness.

Unlike many other statistics, a player's OPS does not have a simple intrinsic meaning, despite its usefulness as a comparative statistic.

In addition, these warts have the unusual usefulness of being great ' shelves ' for unicycles and skateboards.

Some antique quilts made in North America have worn-out blankets or older quilts as the internal batting layer, quilted between new layers of fabric and thereby extending the usefulness of old material.

The government have recognized the usefulness in sourcing and outsourcing labor from different areas.

That an organization of this character should have outlived its usefulness and ushered in intolerable abuses, such as corruption was inevitable ; from the mid-fifteenth century protests were raised against the enormities of the court.

The experimental usefulness of these functions is restricted to conditions where certain variables ( T, and V or external p ) are held constant, although they also have theoretical importance in deriving Maxwell relations.

The DSM-IV-TR criteria for DID have been criticized for failing to capture the clinical complexity of DID, lacking usefulness in diagnosing individuals with DID ( for instance, by focusing on the two least frequent and most subtle symptoms of DID ) producing a high rate of false negatives and an excessive number of DDNOS diagnoses, for excluding possession ( seen as a cross-cultural form of DID ), and for including only two " core " symptoms of DID ( amnesia and self-alteration ) while failing to discuss hallucinations, trance-like states, somatoform, depersonalization and derealization symptoms.

Kip is thrown into a cell, later to be joined by the two human traitors, who have apparently outlived their usefulness.

* An individual buying a product that is interconnected in a network ( e. g., a video cellphone ) will increase the usefulness of such phones to other people who have a video cellphone.

Fluoxetine ( Prozac ) and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs ) have limited usefulness in treating trichotillomania, and can often have significant side effects.

However, because these different lymphomas have little in common with each other, the NHL label is of limited usefulness for doctors or patients and is slowly being abandoned.

However, ribavirin has proven to have little if any clinical usefulness against HIV, and it can greatly increase blood levels and also toxicity of the HIV antiviral didanosine ( ddI, Videx ).

This leaves some controversy as to the precise meaning of the term and its usefulness as a descriptor in the social sciences, especially as the number of different kinds of market economies have proliferated in recent years.

those circumstances upon which their justification and usefulness depend, how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience.

The descendants of Mr. Allsworth have filled many places of trust and usefulness in the county, and adorned the various walks of social life.

Whatever will remain of the old building in the future is embedded in the minds and hearts of the boys and girls who have come to maturity during the twenty-one years of its usefulness.

" That at the age of 31 he should already have held four livings and a prebendal stall testifies to the regard in which he was held by his diocesan, and the usefulness of his marriage connection.

A scene where Spock asks Kirk if they have grown so old and inflexible they have outlived their usefulness had two meanings: it was as much Nimoy asking Shatner as it was their characters.