The wall follows typical Mycenaean convention in that it followed the natural contour of the terrain and its gate was arranged obliquely, with a parapet and tower overhanging the incomers ' right-hand side, thus facilitating defense.

In any case, this article follows ISO 31-11 and the standard convention in mathematical logic, which make 0 a natural number .</ ref >

CL follows the older Lisp convention of using the symbols T and NIL, with NIL standing also for the empty list.

This tradition follows a familiar ironic convention: the oracle that predicts accurately after all.

In what follows, an expression of the form is considered by convention to be equal to zero whenever This is justified because for any logarithmic base.

This kenning follows a convention whereby the name of any god is combined with some male attribute ( e. g. war or weaponry ) to produce a kenning for " man ".

This follows a convention in which arms are called the land ( or any sort of surface ) of the hawk.

Naming in Dutch follows the same convention as in German, with blokfluit naming the recorder and dwarsfluit the flute.

( Note that the choice of signs for above follows the space-like convention (−+++).

By the time the convention began, a Senate sub-committee had tallied the monies spent by the various candidates, with totals as follows: Wood —$ 1. 8 million ; Lowden —$ 414, 000 ; Johnson —$ 194, 000 ; and Harding —$ 114, 000 ; the committed delegate count at the opening gavel was: Wood — 124 ; Johnson — 112 ; Lowden — 72 ; Harding — 39.

The components of proper motion by convention are arrived at as follows.

In practice, the Crown follows the convention of exercising its prerogative on the advice of its chief advisor, the prime minister.

Europe typically follows the plus cylinder convention while the US typically follows the minus cylinder convention.

k < sub >–</ sub > – k < sub >+</ sub >, and it follows the sign convention of natural optical activity.

The notation convention chosen here ( with W < sub > 0 </ sub > and W < sub >− 1 </ sub >) follows the canonical reference on the Lambert-W function by Corless, Gonnet, Hare, Jeffrey and Knuth.

The heraldic convention in the United Kingdom is as follows:

Secondary infertility is not present if there has been a change of partners ( this follows tautologically from the convention of speaking of couples, rather than individuals, as being infertile ; if there is a change of partners, then a new couple is created, with its own chances to be infertile.

The word " Rani " means " queen " in the Hindi language, and " The Rani " follows the naming convention for other renegade timelords, such as " The Doctor ," " The Monk ," " The War Chief ," and " The Master.

A common convention in English language mathematics literature is to use row vectors of probabilities and right stochastic matrices rather than column vectors of probabilities and left stochastic matrices ; this article follows that convention.

Naming convention follows Frutiger Stones.

Following the convention of particle physicists, elementary particles refer to objects such as electrons and photons as it is well known that these types of particles display wave-like properties as well.

Quantum physicists also use this convention of handedness because it is consistent with their convention of handedness for a particle ’ s spin.

This is the convention used by essentially all physicists and originates in Dirac's bra-ket notation in quantum mechanics.

By convention, top quarks have a topness of + 1 and top antiquarks have a topness of − 1. The term " topness " is rarely used ; most physicists simply refer to " the number of top quarks " and " the number of top antiquarks ".

Today some physicists want to adopt a new convention.

In the instance just cited, using the handedness convention of physicists, the light is considered left-handed / counter-clockwise circularly polarized.

In such cases a common convention is to use the " elsewhere condition " to decide which allophone will stand for the phoneme.

This can be mitigated somewhat by insistence on using CNAME records indicating service rather than actual machine names to refer to the service, but there is no way of guaranteeing that users will follow such a convention.

That convention, which is still in practical force, treats the straits as an international shipping lane, but Turkey retains the right to restrict the naval traffic of non-Black Sea nations ( such as Greece, a traditional enemy, or Algeria ).

For a work to be considered pirated, its illegitimate use must have occurred in a nation that has domestic copyright laws and / or adheres to a bilateral treaty or established international convention such as the Berne Convention or WIPO Copyright Treaty.

The convention also offers decision-makers guidance based on the precautionary principle that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat.

This convention, however, is not always followed, and not explained to the average person clearly ( and is sometimes ambiguous, such as at the beginning of a sentence ).

Another popular convention is to use filename extensions ; for instance, if CGI scripts are consistently given the extension < tt >. cgi </ tt >, the web server can be configured to interpret all such files as CGI scripts.

Another form of collation is radical-and-stroke sorting, used for non-alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji, whose thousands of symbols defy ordering by convention.

In a social context, a convention may retain the character of an " unwritten " law of custom ( for example, the manner in which people greet each other, such as by shaking each other's hands ).

In physical sciences, numerical values ( such as constants, quantities, or scales of measurement ) are called conventional if they do not represent a measured property of nature, but originate in a convention, for example an average of many measurements, agreed between the scientists working with these values.

The term convention is also used in international law to refer to certain formal statements of principle such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This, in part, explains the constant references to values and principles that are " necessary in a democratic society " throughout the Convention, despite the fact that such principles are not in any way defined within the convention itself.

The advent of popular use of the internet caused a boom in fan creations in Glorantha, supported by some unofficial business ventures, such as Reaching Moon Megacorp, and a lively convention scene.

The distinction between organic and inorganic compounds is only a matter of convention, and there are several compounds that have been classified either way, such as:

Madison pointed out that a limited government would be created, and that the powers delegated ‘ to the federal government are few and defined .” Madison persuaded prominent figures such as George Mason and Edmund Randolph, who had refused to endorse the constitution at the convention, to change their position and support it at the ratifying convention.

Meta-ethical relativists, in general, believe that the descriptive properties of terms such as " good ", " bad ", " right ", and " wrong " do not stand subject to universal truth conditions, but only to societal convention and personal preference.

It took Van Buren and his partisan friends a decade and a half to form the Democratic Party ; many elements, such as the national convention, were borrowed from other parties.

The 1961 convention prohibits cultivation and trade of naturally-occurring drugs such as cannabis ; the 1971 treaty bans the manufacture and trafficking of synthetic drugs such as barbiturates and amphetamines ; and the 1988 convention requires states to criminalize illicit drug possession:

Some types of more complicated rhyming schemes have developed names of their own, separate from the " a-b-c " convention, such as the ottava rima and terza rima.

and such that the degree of r is smaller than the degree of g ( using the convention that the polynomial 0 has a negative degree ).