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There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
Fortunately, it is possible to be somewhat more concrete and factual in diagnosing the involvement of values in education.
And until this protection is at least as concrete as, say, the row of hotels that bars us from our own sands at Miami Beach, those who represent us all should agree to nothing.
The roof shown here ( fig. 9 ) is a 6-inch slab of reinforced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit-run gravel.
Ventilation is provided in a concrete block basement shelter by vents in the wall and by the open entrance.
The first is the strictly scientific, which demands concrete proof and therefore may err on the conservative side by waiting for evidence in the flesh.
It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.
That community of all creation is, then, the ultimate object of our loyalty and the concrete norm of all moral judgment.
With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression.
The primary use of asphalt is in road construction, where it is used as the glue or binder mixed with aggregate particles to create asphalt concrete.
The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.
It is usually just a large block of concrete or stone at the end of the chain.
Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.
A reason for this is that allegory has an immense power of illustrating complex ideas and concepts in a digestible, concrete way.
A concrete example of a situation where an individual's sensory input might be caused by something other than what he thinks is causing it is the brain in a vat scenario.
(" the truth-values of our mathematical assertions depend on facts involving platonic entities that reside in a realm outside of space-time ") Whilst our knowledge of concrete, physical objects is based on our ability to perceive them, and therefore to causally interact with them, there is no parallel account of how mathematicians come to have knowledge of abstract objects.
With the assistance of a Brooklyn Union Gas Co. ( now National Grid ) engineering crew, he then broke through the massive concrete bulkhead wall, which is several feet thick.
On the west side of Hawkcraig Point there is a short concrete jetty that was used as part of the development of radio controlled torpedoes during World War One.
Abstraction is a process by which higher concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal (" real " or " concrete ") concepts, first principles, or other methods.

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An outdoor, aboveground fallout shelter also may be built with concrete blocks.
The sculptors derived this from observations on human beings, but they also embodied in concrete form, issues beyond the reach of ordinary thought.
( It also provoked adverse reactions, with many mathematicians seeking out more concrete areas and problems.
One might also call them bodies, or physical particulars, or concrete things, or matter, or maybe substances ( but bear in mind the word ' substance ' has some special philosophical meanings ).
However, due to the absence of reinforcement, its tensile strength was far lower than modern reinforced concrete, and its mode of application was also different:
It is uncertain where it was first discovered that a combination of hydrated non-hydraulic lime and a pozzolan produces a hydraulic mixture ( see also: Pozzolanic reaction ), but concrete made from such mixtures was first used by the Ancient Macedonians and three centuries later on a large scale by Roman engineers.
Portland cement blends are often available as inter-ground mixtures from cement manufacturers, but similar formulations are often also mixed from the ground components at the concrete mixing plant.
Because fly ash addition allows a lower concrete water content, early strength can also be maintained.
Central Plaza was also the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, until it was surpassed by CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou.
The center spans are twin steel trapezoidal girders which also support a lightweight concrete deck.
The Second Vatican Council did not speak of any of these concrete methods … This is a different standpoint than that taken under Pius XI some thirty years which was also maintained by his successor ... we can sense here a clear development in the Church, a development, which is also going on outside the Church.
The Convention also established a body called the Enterprise which is to serve as the Authority ’ s own mining operator, but no concrete steps have been taken to bring this into being.
Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophy, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.
The term " applied mathematics " also describes the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on problems, often concrete but sometimes abstract.
Another type of steel reinforcement, referred to as ladder-reinforcement, can also be embedded in horizontal mortar joints of concrete block walls.
Mica is also used as an insulator in concrete block, home attics, and can be poured into walls ( usually in retrofitting uninsulated open top walls ).
Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbours, the Teutones.
There is no mind-matter duality in this ontology, because " mind " is simply seen as an abstraction from an occasion of experience which has also a material aspect, which is of course simply another abstraction from it ; thus the mental aspect and the material aspect are abstractions from one and the same concrete occasion of experience.
However, other variations are also possible, such as slab track where the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface.
Most also used concrete, which the Romans were the first to use for bridges.
The following theorem, also referred to as the Riesz-Markov theorem, gives a concrete realisation of the dual space of C < sub > 0 </ sub >( X ), the set of continuous functions on X which vanish at infinity.

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But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.
This became a standard feature of computer languages, and the notation for grammars used in concrete descriptions of computer languages came to be known as Backus-Naur Form, after two members of the Algol language design committee.
The site of Parsons ' cremation was marked by a small concrete slab and was presided over by a large rock flake known to rock climbers as The Gram Parsons Memorial Hand Traverse.
While from a Catholic viewpoint there have been tensions concerning some developments of the practice, the Pope said, there is no denying the goodness of the intention that inspired its defence, which was to stress that man is offered the concrete possibility of uniting himself in his inner heart with God in that profound union of grace known as theosis, divinization.
These specimens are the earliest known relatives of modern salamanders, and together with the numerous other basal groups of salamanders found in the Asian fossil record, they form a concrete base of evidence for the fact that the early diversification of salamanders was well underway in Asia during the Jurassic period.
These are large reinforced buried concrete bunkers, equipped with armoured turrets containing high-precision optics that were connected with the other fortifications by field telephone and wireless transmitters ( known in French by the acronym T. S. F.
Blocks of cinder concrete ( cinder blocks or breezeblocks ), ordinary concrete ( concrete blocks ), or hollow tile are generically known as Concrete Masonry Units ( CMUs ).
A proverb ( from ) is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity.
Metaphysical realism uses repeatable entities known as universals exemplified by concrete particulars to explain the phenomenon of attribute agreement.
Archaeologically, concrete indications of Mauryan rule, such as the inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka, are known as far as Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
In concrete or steel construction, an exterior beam extending from column to column usually carrying an exterior wall load is known as a spandrel beam.
Yet little is known about Thailand before the 13th century as the literary and concrete sources are scarce and most of the knowledge about this period is gleaned from archeological evidence.
Some airfields now have a special surface known as soft concrete at the end of the runway ( stopway or blastpad ) that behaves somewhat like styrofoam, bringing the plane to a relatively rapid halt as the material disintegrates.
However, the type of a concrete object ( and hence a concrete factory ) is known by the abstract factory ; for instance, the factory may read it from a configuration file.
Ammonites from the Gandaki river in Nepal are known as saligrams, and are believed by Hindus to be a concrete manifestation of God or Vishnu.
He is known for his use of a unique orthography and incorporating visual elements in his printed poetry, and his performance of " concrete sound " poetry, sound effects, chanting, barefoot dancing and playing a maraca during his poetry readings.
This would tend to be corroborated archaeologically, as concrete indications of Mauryan influence, such as the inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka which are known to be located in, for example, Kandhahar in today's southern Afghanistan.
He became widely known for his concrete poetry while living there in the 1960s.
The most distinctive physical feature of Cairo is a painted ( white ) concrete grain elevator locally known as a " bean dryer " which is about 150 ' tall.
The Germans developed massive reinforced concrete blockhouses, some more than six stories high, which were known as Hochbunker " High Bunkers " or " Flaktürme " flak towers, on which they placed anti-aircraft artillery.

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