His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

it is only a matter of adjusting accounting methods, careful fiscal planning and management, or some like combination of techniques.

The first capability is represented by a combination of manned bombers, carrier-based aircraft, and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles.

The first step is a comprehensive self study made by faculty, by outside consultants, or by a combination of the two.

To determine car speed for a given combination of engine speed, gear ratio, and tire size, the formula is: Af.

To determine engine speed for a given combination of the other three factors the formula is: Af.

To determine the rear axle gear ratio for a combination of the other three factors, the formula is: Af.

This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.

For the case of Jupiter, the radio emission spectrum is definitely not like the spectrum of a black-body radiator, and it seems very likely that the radiation reaching the earth is a combination of thermal radiation from the atmosphere and non-thermal components.

The major postwar development is the certainty that these elements should not be considered singly but in combination and as being mutually supporting.

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

The person using these tests must determine which combination of procedures is practical for any specific item in order to evaluate the dimensional changes of textile fabrics or garments after laundering procedures commonly used in the home or commercial laundry.

A gyro-stabilized platform system, using restrained gyros, is well suited for automatic leveling because of the characteristics of the gyro-platform-servo combination.

Thus if the gyro and platform-controller combination maintains the platform with zero angular deviation about the **yf axis, the system can be rotated with an angular velocity Af if a torque is supplied to the gyro output axis Aj.

The answer is that it was a combination of circumstances.

The potato chip industry these days is growing, not only as a result of population increase and public acceptance of convenience foods, but also because of a combination of circumstances that has led to growth by merger.

The present company is a combination of several smaller ones that date back to 1834.

Black and white is her favorite color combination along with lively glowing pinks, reds, blues and greens.

And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire tool so you won't tell, a combination like ham and eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old maid too.

; Experimental unit: The entity to which a specific treatment combination is applied.

a marvelous arrangement, for it provides exactly what the bee queens need to make their beebread, a combination of honey and pollen with which the young of all species are fed.

If five judges then the highest and lowest scores are discarded and the middle three are summed and multiplied by the degree of difficulty ( DD ), which is determined from a combination of the moves undertaken, in which position and from what height ).

Although genetics plays a large role in the appearance and behavior of organisms, it is the combination of genetics with what an organism experiences that determines the ultimate outcome.

So typically, one refers to an individual's genotype with regard to a particular gene of interest and, in polyploid individuals, it refers to what combination of alleles the individual carries ( see homozygous, heterozygous ).

Trying a range of bullets and a variety of powders will determine what combination of bullet and powder gives the most consistent velocities and accuracies.

Even if we don't know exactly what is going to come next, we can be fairly certain that, for example, there will be many more e's than z's, or that the combination ' qu ' will be much more common than any other combination with a ' q ' in it and the combination ' th ' will be more common than ' z ', ' q ', or ' qu '.

This was based on a combination of mid-20th-century ideas of central planning / state control and what he considered basic African values: mutual aid, trust and loyalty to the community.

While the theory of combining multiple arts into one art is quite old, and has been revived periodically, the postmodern manifestation is often in combination with performance art, where the dramatic subtext is removed, and what is left is the specific statements of the artist in question or the conceptual statement of their action.

PET scans are increasingly read alongside CT or magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) scans, with the combination ( called " co-registration ") giving both anatomic and metabolic information ( i. e., what the structure is, and what it is doing biochemically ).

The combination of eight wheels on the trailer and ten wheels on the tractor is what led to the moniker " eighteen wheeler ".

Fascist propaganda of this sort, Adorno wrote, " simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today ’ s standardized mass culture who have been robbed to a great extent of their autonomy and spontaneity " The result of these labors, the 1950 study The Authoritarian Personality was pioneering in its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting and evaluating data as well as its development of the F-scale.

Vector graphics editors typically allow rotation, movement ( without rotation ), mirroring, stretching, skewing, affine transformations, changing of z-order ( loosely, what's in front of what ) and combination of primitives into more complex objects.

") is an obvious parallel to the French " Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité "-with the republican sentiment of the original replaced in the Belgian version by the promotion of constitutional monarchy ( the combination of " The King " and "( the ) Law " is what produces " Liberty ").

Because of their ability to harness the power of what is essentially a continuous nuclear fission explosion, NSWRs would have both very high thrust and very high exhaust velocity, a rare combination of traits in the rocket world, meaning that the rocket would be able to accelerate quickly as well as be extremely efficient in terms of propellant usage.

Indeed, about ten per cent of people with dementia have what is known as " mixed dementia ", which may be a combination of Alzheimer's disease and multi-infarct dementia.

Additionally, identify project success criteria that may not be captured by those goals and constraints ; for example, using performance tests to evaluate what combination of configuration settings will result in the most desirable performance characteristics.

Under the ISU Judging System, jump sequences are worth 80 % of what they would be worth if the same jumps were executed in combination, and in some cases carry less value than just doing the most difficult jump in the sequence as a solo jump.

There is no consensus on what caused this shift, though it is thought to be combination of climatic and political changes that brought an end to the city-state network.

One Republican Minnesota state legislator was clear about what his party was trying to do: " We don't propose to allow the Democrats to make allies of the Populists, Prohibitionists, or any other party, and get up combination tickets against us.

Research has so far failed to determine what causes it, but the weight of evidence is tentatively leaning towards CCD being a syndrome rather than a disease as it seems to be caused by a combination of various contributing factors rather than a single pathogen or poison.

Freud developed his concept of the super-ego from an earlier combination of the ego ideal and the " special psychical agency which performs the task of seeing that narcissistic satisfaction from the ego ideal is ensured ... what we call our ' conscience '.

* In December 2005, the Tribune eliminated 28 editorial positions through a combination of buyouts and layoffs, including what were believed to be the first layoffs in the paper's history.