Glauber was prompted to do this to provide a description of the Hanbury-Brown & Twiss experiment that generated very wide baseline ( hundreds or thousands of miles ) interference patterns that could be used to determine stellar diameters.

The Hanbury-Brown and Twiss results prompted Glauber to look at higher order coherence, and he came up with a complete quantum-theoretic description of coherence to all orders in the electromagnetic field ( and a quantum-theoretic description of signal-plus-noise ).

It is probable that this description prompted early explorers to misidentify the Baja California peninsula as the island in these legends.

The explicit psychological dimension of this tale has prompted many critics to analyze it as a description of the human psyche, comparing, for instance, the House to the unconscious, and its central crack to the personality split which is called dissociative identity disorder.

Although the game was prompted by a verbal description of the arcade game Canyon Bomber ( Atari, 1977 ), it was not until many years later that Peter Calver saw the original game.

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.

The first string has a short English-language description, namely " ab 32 times ", which consists of 11 characters.

To define the Kolmogorov complexity, we must first specify a description language for strings.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.

Although bluetongue disease was already recognized in South Africa in the early 19th century, a comprehensive description of the disease was not published until the first decade of the 20th century.

The first Book of Samuel begins with a description of the prophet Samuel's birth and of how God called to him as a boy.

However, according to George Sussman, the first obvious medical description of plague in China dates to 1644.

In Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") monk and later archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen Rimbert gives the first known description of Birka.

The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova ( 1694 ).

The first attempt at a microscopic description of magnetism was by Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising through the Ising model that described magnetic materials as consisting of a periodic lattice of quantum spins that collectively acquired magnetization.

The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons.

In 1927, the first mathematically complete quantum description of a simple chemical bond, i. e. that produced by one electron in the hydrogen molecular ion, H < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup >+</ sup >, was derived by the Danish physicist Oyvind Burrau.

On-sight climbing means to attempt a rock climbing route for the first time without inspection or any form of " beta " ( such as route description, watching others climb it, etc.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

* Letter of Andrea Corsali 1516-1989: with additional material (" the first description and illustration of the Southern Cross, with speculations about Australia ...") digitised by the National Library of Australia.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.

A description of how the device could be used as a shift register and as a linear and area imaging devices was described in this first entry.

Although migration of cells was detected from the early days of the development of microscopy ( Leeuwenhoek ), erudite description of chemotaxis was first made by T W. Engelmann ( 1881 ) and W. F.

In 1912, William Mestrezat gave the first accurate description of the chemical composition of the CSF.

In 1954 Eisenhower first articulated the domino theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism.

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

Braid's original description of his induction is as follows: Braid himself later acknowledged that the hypnotic induction technique was not necessary in every case and subsequent researchers have generally found that on average it contributes less than previously expected to the effect of hypnotic suggestions ( q. v., Barber, Spanos & Chaves, 1974 ).

Matthew and Barnum Brown's 1922 description of the first known dromaeosaurid ( Dromaeosaurus albertensis ), they became the first paleontologists to exclude prosauropods from the carnivorous dinosaurs, and attempted to revive the name Goniopoda for that group, though neither of these suggestions were accepted by other scientists.

In both cases, the new Hinterland Who's Who narrative includes suggestions for conservation along with the description of the animal and its behaviour.

" A companion publication is planned, consisting of extended prefatory material, including a technical description of the source, information on the organs played by Louis Couperin, and suggestions for performance.

The original novel, on which the various films are more or less loosely based, provides a detailed and fairly authentic description of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion, which has led to ( unproven ) suggestions that P. C. Wren himself served with the legion.

He later prepared and published The Latter-day Saints ' Emigrants ' Guide, a meticulous description of the route from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake City, with suggestions for camping places.

It consists of a meticulous description of the transformation process, a narrative of its construction, and suggestions on the organizational workings on Globus Cassus.

Though nominally based on the description of the orders by Vitruvius, the author indulged freely not only in his rendering of them, but in suggestions of his own, showing how the orders might be employed in various buildings.

After listening to a broadcast, the listener writes a report with SINPO values, typically including his geographical location ( called QTH in amateur radio teminology ) in longitude and latitude, a brief description of the programme listened to, their opinion about it, suggestions if any, and so on.

There are suggestions that it is the castle of Tigani, which is the most likely as it matches the description.

The convention is named for Sam Stayman, who wrote the first published description in 1945, but its inventors were two other players: the British expert Jack Marx in 1939, who published it only in 1946, and Stayman's regular partner George Rapée in 1945.

TiVo polls its network, receiving program information including description, regular and guest actors, directors, genres, whether programs are new or repeats, and whether broadcast is in High Definition ( HD ).

There is no regular description of the Jordan in the Bible ; only scattered and indefinite references to it are given.

Although Tolkien never gave a fully complete description of the Wargs ( he simply noted that they were demonic wolves ), they do seem to have a regular wolf-appearance in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and they are regularly called " wolves.

When only an angle trisector is permitted, there is a complete description of all regular polygons which can be constructed, including above mentioned regular heptagon, triskaidecagon ( 13-gon ) and enneadecagon ( 19-gon ).

" Tehama " is believed to be an Indian word, but authorities disagree on the meaning, which has variously been reported as " high water ", " low land ", " salmon " or " shallow " — any of which would be an accurate description of a location where the river is normally shallow enough to ford, where fishermen are a common sight during the salmon run, and winter floods are a regular occurrence.

Further references to the secret schizoid come from Masud Khan, Jeffrey Seinfeld, and Philip Manfield, who gives a palpable description of an SPD individual who actually " enjoys " regular public speaking engagements, but experiences great difficulty in the breaks when audience members would attempt to engage him emotionally.

After national testing, more feedback, more development of description technique, and additional grants, DVS became a regular feature of selected PBS programming in 1990.

On December 8 the Council published a map and description of the line along with an announcement that it recognized " Poland's right to organize a regular administration of the territories of the former Russian Empire situated to the West of the line described below.

Examples of domain-specific languages include HTML, Logo for children, Verilog and VHDL hardware description languages, Mata for matrix programming, Mathematica and Maxima for symbolic mathematics, spreadsheet formulas and macros, SQL for relational database queries, YACC grammars for creating parsers, regular expressions for specifying lexers, the Generic Eclipse Modeling System for creating diagramming languages, Csound for sound and music synthesis, and the input languages of GraphViz and GrGen, software packages used for graph layout and graph rewriting.

The Egyptian historian Al-Idrisi ( d. 1251 ) developed another archaeological methodology in his book Anwar for Egyptology, which included: " reasons for the study of the importance of the pyramids ; description of the route to the site ; description of the pyramids and their inscriptions ; measuring, and checking previous measurements ; analysis of the form of the pyramid and reasons for building, with a critical review of literature ( more than 22 authorities quoted ) on the subject ; study of sediments as an indication of the flood level ; chemical analysis of clay in building material, by studying its mineral content in order to check place of origin ; regular visits to the site to see it in different conditions, and to recheck measurements ; noting stones reused at Jeremias Monastery, Saqqara as evidence of earlier dates, an observation confirmed by modern research.

Inspired by Trubetzkoy, proposed a synthesis of linguistic geography and descriptive linguistics by applying the structuralist concept of grammar to the description of regular correspondences between different varieties ; a resulting supergrammar, which he called a diasystem, would be consistent with the individual grammars of all the member dialects.

In the CD liner notes, Harrison's description of the recording done in England is revealing: " I had a regular wind-up stopwatch and I watched the film to ' spot-in ' the music with the watch.

The second officer then radios ahead to the first officer, who is still at the site of the accident, and gives them a description of the last vehicle traveling ahead at regular speeds.

This hostility is illustrated by this description of Grossman's presence in the Greenwich Village folk scene by Dylan biographer and critic Michael Gray: " He was a pudgy man with derisive eyes, with a regular table at Gerde's Folk City from which he surveyed the scene in silence, and many people loathed him.

The following is a description of those levels and one bonus level that is unlocked when the player finishes all of the regular levels.

Yale astrophysicist and Galaxy Zoo founder Kevin Schawinski, said, " We prefer to call this Galaxy Zoo citizen science because it ’ s a better description of what you ’ re doing ; you ’ re a regular citizen but you ’ re doing science.

The current version of Munchos does not fit the description of the original Munchos ; the current Munchos are, in fact, significantly thinner than the company's regular Lay's potato chips, and the chips include several tiny air pockets that form in the chip as a result of the frying process.