For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.

The most common unsupervised use of antihistamines in terms of volume and percentage of the total is perhaps in parallel to the medicinal use of some antihistamines to stretch out and intensify the effects of opioids and depressants.

Relative density is more easily and perhaps more accurately measured without measuring volume.

His most important work is perhaps the trilogy The Human Predicament, of which only the first two volumes, The Fox in the Attic ( 1961 ) and The Wooden Shepherdess ( 1973 ), were complete when he died ; twelve chapters, under 50 pages, of the final volume are now published.

The dam burst, and the entire volume of the lake was released in a very short time, perhaps a few days.

The concert was inspired by the myth of Myrrha in Ovid's Metamorphoses and includes excerpts from the volume that " move in and out of the music as though in a dream, or perhaps Myrrha ’ s memory of the events that shaped her fate ," as described by Kuster.

He is perhaps best known as the author of the five volume series of texts on the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky: Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky ( Boston: Shambhala, 1996, and Samuel Weiser Inc., 1996 ).

The resume, written on 7. 7m long paper using fine strokes, is an autograph of extreme importance to understand the real Minakata and perhaps the longest resume in Japan and the first resume ever known in light of the volume and quality of information it contains.

In a volume entitled Taine, historien de la Révolution française ( 1908 ), Aulard attacked the method of the eminent philosopher in criticism that was severe, perhaps unjust, but certainly well-informed.

Each volume focused on a certain genre of orchestral or choral music ( for example, Volumes I and II were devoted to ' Symphonies '; Volume III to ' Concertos '), with perhaps two or three dozen works discussed with the help of plentiful music examples.

The TP flag is used to allow the user to find only those stations that regularly broadcast traffic bulletins whereas the TA flag is used to signal an actual traffic bulletin in progress, with radio units perhaps performing other actions such as stopping a cassette tape ( so the radio can be heard ) or raising the volume during the traffic bulletin.

He did not, however, live to carry it farther than the Battle of Waterloo, and the best criticism of it is perhaps contained in the opening words of the introduction to the last volume --" l ' âge me presse " ( Age hurries me ).

Their role is to indicate the tone, structure, pace and volume of the worship songs, and perhaps even construct the order or content of the worship during performance.

The third volume of the trilogy, That Hideous Strength, is set on Earth and, perhaps inevitably, has rather a different tone from the prior two volumes ; Ransom is a key character but is " off-stage " for much of the action.

In this example, any system is uniquely specified by two parameters, such as pressure and volume, or perhaps pressure and temperature.

According to a study of anorexia nervosa patients, ferritin can be elevated during periods of acute malnourishment, perhaps due to iron going into storage as intravascular volume and thus the number of red blood cells falls.

The Healy also offers a bit more dynamic control than the McDonagh, though perhaps a bit less volume when pushed to the extreme.

International Master William Hartston called it " a superb work, perhaps the last to encase successfully the whole of chess knowledge within a single volume.

Her first volume of short stories appeared in 1925 O gors y bryniau (" From the swamp of the hills ") but perhaps her most successful book of short stories is Te yn y grug (" Tea in the heather ") ( 1959 ), a series of stories about children.

Beginning sometime in 1921 the volume number IV was added, perhaps reflecting the publications fourth year in print, though its issue numbers continued the whole number scheme.

* Mesomorphs can handle perhaps the highest volume of both cardio and resistance training

Of the three children, the eldest child Rachel's attempt to gain admittance to her mother's clan ( and to perhaps do something by herself for once in her life ) appeared on McNeil's website for collection in 2008 as Finder volume 9 ; youngest child Marcie's quest to find a certain lost book if only by writing it is the subject of volume # 4 ; while the story of middle-child Lynne has yet to be written but may complete a hypothetical " three sisters " hardcover McNeil has speculated about releasing.

It may initially have been intended to be the concluding volume, books 11 and 12 being perhaps an addition to the original scheme.

No suburban shopping-center branch -- not even Hudson's vast Northland outside Detroit -- does anything like the unit volume of business or carries anything like the variety of merchandise to be found in the home store.

At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume while fantasizing of even more orgiastic violence.

Note that this pressure increase is more than a simple 10: 1 compression ratio would indicate ; this is because the gas is not only compressed, but the work done to compress the gas has also heated the gas and the hotter gas will have a greater pressure even if the volume had not changed.

However, as it gains in volume from the very numerous tributary streams, large and small, that it receives en route, its velocity increases, and in the wet season reaches, even in certain stretches.

Despite its many ( serious ) limitations, including extremely low volume, it has considerable expressive power, the player being able to control attack, duration, volume, and even provide certain subtle effects of swelling of tone and a type of vibrato unique to the clavichord.

Disadvantages include a smaller volume, even though many or most unfretted instruments tend to be significantly larger than fretted instruments ; and many more strings to keep in tune.

It has been observed that a high volume of trade occurs among regions even with access to a similar technology and mix of factor inputs, including high-income countries.

This produced more economical engines with earlier four-cylinder designs rated at 40 horsepower ( 30 kW ) and six-cylinder designs rated as low as 80 horsepower ( 60 kW ), compared with the large volume V-8 American engines with power ratings in the range from 250 to 350 hp, some even over 400hp.

It is rarely used on the Amiga due to both frequency and volume being controllable in better ways, but could be used to achieve different kinds of tremolo and vibrato, and even rudimentary FM synthesis effects.

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

Tsunamis cause damage by two mechanisms: the smashing force of a wall of water travelling at high speed, and the destructive power of a large volume of water draining off the land and carrying all with it, even if the wave did not look large.

An atomic mass unit is, for roughly 40 atoms per cubic meter .</ ref > However, even if every single atom and particle could be removed from a volume, it would still not be " empty " due to vacuum fluctuations, dark energy, and other phenomena in quantum physics.

RTS games make a habit of giving a vehicle a " health bar " that generally allows it to survive even powerful single shots, but each hit reduces its health by some amount, allowing a high volume of rifle fire to knock out a well armored tank.

This is evident even from the title of Stiegler's multi-volume magnum opus, La technique et le temps ( volume one translated into English as Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus ).

In the words of the biologist George Amato, " the amount and the volume of captured turtles ... vacuumed up entire species from areas in Southeast Asia ", even as biologists still did not know how many distinct turtle species live in the region.

Some costs tend to remain the same even during busy periods, unlike variable costs, which rise and fall with volume of work.

When the metric system was introduced in France in 1795, it included units for length, area, dry volume, liquid capacity, weight or mass, and even currency, but not for time.

When it comes to the use of divine hiddenness as an objection or evidence against God, Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser in the introduction to a volume of papers dedicated to refutations of Schellenberg's argument, cite Nietzsche's question: " a god who is all-knowing and all-powerful and who does not even make sure his creatures understand his intentions — could that be a god of goodness?

Moreover, it has the same number of points as a square of area 1, as a cube of volume 1, and even as an unbounded n-dimensional Euclidean space ( see Space filling curve ).

Although historically the images generated were in the axial or transverse plane, perpendicular to the long axis of the body, modern scanners allow this volume of data to be reformatted in various planes or even as volumetric ( 3D ) representations of structures.

It is in fact jarring to find the champion of American prose Realism, William Dean Howells, introducing Pastels in Prose ( 1890 ), a volume of French prose-poems translated by Stuart Merrill and containing a Paul Margueritte pantomime, The Death of Pierrot, with words of warm praise ( and even congratulations to each poet for failing “ to saddle his reader with a moral ”).

The molar volume of solid elements is very roughly constant, and ( even more reliably ) so also is the molar heat capacity for most solid substances.

The Noodler's Ink Company even goes so far as to maintain a " zero disposable cartridge " policy and refuses to issue any cartridges due to their high levels of economic and environmental waste ( a single bottle of ink can represent a few hundred international cartridges at between 350 % and 780 % the cost of similar bottled ink on a volume / dye content comparison depending upon different brand costs ).