By means of charts showing wave-travel times and depths in the ocean at various locations, it is possible to estimate the rate of approach and probable time of arrival at Hawaii of a tsunami getting under way at any spot in the Pacific.

This " check yes or no " approach means approval voting is one of the simplest voting systems to use.

Mordell's theorem had an ad hoc proof ; Weil began the separation of the infinite descent argument into two types of structural approach, by means of height functions for sizing rational points, and by means of Galois cohomology, which was not to be clearly named as that for two more decades.

Daniel Dennett has argued for an approach he calls heterophenomenology, which means treating verbal reports as stories that may or may not be true, but his ideas about how to do this have not been widely adopted.

A third approach, dazzle, means confusing the predator or enemy by moving a conspicuous pattern.

The cone's taper means that a given amount of movement of the actuator makes the surfaces approach ( or recede ) much more slowly than in a disc clutch.

Some web-servers and bioinformatics prediction methods have been used for predicting the classification of GPCRs according to their amino acid sequence alone, by means of the pseudo amino acid composition approach.

In Mongolian ( Baga Holgon ) term for Hinayana also means " small " or " lesser " vehicle, while in Tibetan there are at least two words to designate the term, theg chung () meaning " small vehicle ", and theg dman () meaning " inferior vehicle " or " inferior spiritual approach ".

Scholars often note that Machiavelli glorifies instrumentality in statebuilding-an approach embodied by the saying that " the ends justify the means.

Moreover, their volatile composition means that as they repeatedly approach the Sun, radiation gradually boils the volatiles off until the comet splits or develops an insulating crust that prevents further outgassing.

While it is a slow and resource-intensive approach, it has wide applicability, giving insight into parts of the theory inaccessible by other means, in particular into the explicit forces acting between quarks and antiquarks in a meson.

However, since this approach allows for the combination of gravitational, electromagnetic and quantum effects, their coupling could potentially lead to a means of vindicating the theory, through cosmology and perhaps even experimentally.

This means that agencies cannot adopt a " one-size fits all " approach.

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means for enabling the realization and deployment of successful systems.

Antoine Faivre successfully created a taxonomy approach as a means to comparing the various traditions.

Itard wrote, " Under these circumstances his ear was not an organ for the appreciation of sounds, their articulations and their combinations ; it was nothing but a simple means of self-preservation which warned of the approach of a dangerous animal or the fall of wild fruit.

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy since Plato has misunderstood what it means for something " to be ", tending to approach this question in terms of a being, rather than asking about Being itself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein made a remark recorded by Friedrich Waismann: " To be sure, I can imagine what Heidegger means by being and anxiety " which has been construed by some commentators as sympathetic to Heidegger's philosophical approach.

Officials from the robot government approach Alquist and first order and then beg him to complete the formula, even if it means he will have to kill and dissect other Robots to do so.

Hall's approach attempted to unify the play's diversity by means of a fairy-tale topos.

* SAMPO means Speech-Act-based office Modeling approach.

Animal biosecurity is a comprehensive approach, encompassing different means of prevention and containment.

Greenpeace represents an organisation with a radical approach, but has contributed in serious ways towards understanding of critical issues, and has a science-oriented core with radicalism as a means to mediaexposure.

: From ownership on down, it's an approach the Rockies are proud of – and something they are wary about publicizing.

To the extent that real elections approach this upper bound, large elections would do so less so than small ones, because it's less likely that a large electorate has information about all the other voters than that a small electorate has.

However, when it's more important to minimize cost and increase component availability, such as with manufacturing equipment, a more bottom-up approach would be taken, and as many off-the-shelf components ( bolts, gears, bearings, etc ) would be selected as possible.

The new album brought another new look, with the band pictured on the sleeve wearing ties, pin-striped suits, and with neatly combed hair, what Rowland described as " so clean and simple ; it's a much more adult approach now ".

One has to see a painter in his own place to get an idea of his worth … Corot delves deeply into a subject: ideas come to him and he adds while working ; it's the right approach.

Stipe explained in 1984 that when he started writing lyrics they were like " simple pictures ", but after a year he grew tired of the approach and " started experimenting with lyrics that didn't make exact linear sense, and it's just gone from there.

A pseudo-holiday entirely created in the strip, it's still observed today in the form of Sadie Hawkins dances, at which women approach ( or chase after ) men.

On illegal drugs, he reiterated that they are " dangerous and harmful and it is better if people live without them ", but that he had a " realistic approach " to enforcement and would not be afraid of adopting a " radical solution if it's fully thought through, if it's workable, affordable and gets the right result ".

Although broadcast in French, la télévision québécoise has little relationship to its gallic cousin ; it's decidedly North American in its approach: a 30-minute programming grid, commercials, local stations, along with the distinction between broadcast television formed around networks of stations — which is freely available to anyone with a TV within their broadcast area — and cable television channels — which requires a subscription to receive.

" People tend to approach technology the same way, whether it's in front of them, or behind them ," Cuban joked.

His honest and open approach endears him to the elder children as a father figure ; it's discovered very easily that Marcos was very abusive to his wife and children.

The women never crossed the bridge, but because they were on the approach ramp it's clear that the police officers ' intent was to make them march into Virginia.

As with much free improvisation, poire_z's music is generally focused more on a group sound, and given the musicians ' unorthodox approach to their instruments, it's often difficult to discern who is generating any individual sound.

Overall it's a more positive approach in dealing with personal issues and socio-political issues, more positive light.

While it's not a perfect movie – Cube's character disappears for a 30-minute stretch and Singleton's approach often veers into heavy-handedness – it is nevertheless an intriguing look at the differences between races and how such differences can clash.

Pennebaker's films, usually shot with a hand-held camera, often eschew voice-over narration and interviews in favor of a " simple " portrayal of events typical of the direct cinema style Pennebaker helped popularize in the U. S. Of such an approach, Pennebaker told interviewer G. Roy Levin published in 1971 that " it's possible to go to a situation and simply film what you see there, what happens there, what goes on, and let everybody decide whether it tells them about any of these things.

The Reggio Emilia approach to preschool education was started by the schools of Reggio Emilia after World War II and it's well-known all over the world, being one of the most advanced systems at present times.

The same profile quoted Morell's catholic approach to stage assignments: " If a part is a good part and I feel I can enjoy playing it, it doesn't matter whether it's Shakespeare or modern farce ...

He feels that symbolism is a " high school " understanding of art, and that this kind of decoder ring approach is in place because it's easier to grasp and makes those that teach feel more important and esoteric.

" She reiterates the reductionist approach even as she fleshes out a model of development based not on genetic information but the way genes are “ expressed .” She notes that it's rare that one gene determines a specific structure in a specific position.

Given that experience is so totally an affective, subjective, and personal process — not an abstract — it would be ironic, it's been argued, for experience designers, when designing experiences, to approach people merely as objects of commerce or cogs in a machine.

Warriors General Manager Chris Mullin said, " He gets his points and rebounds, but I just think it's his approach to the work and his lifestyle that will be a huge benefit for our young guys.

As with previous records it differed in approach to it's predecessor, focussing on arrangements and in their words trying to create a " more soulful sound ".