It was this fear which explained the development of a priestly caste whose function in society was to mollify and appease the angry deities.

In spite of normal thyroid function tests, a trial of propylthiouracil, 400 mg. daily for one week, was given but served only to intensify muscle weakness.

The actual function of patristic communism was adequately set forth by St. Gregory almost a millenium before More wrote Utopia.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

Bake was waiting to report that Lou DuVol had been sobered up to the point where he could function efficiently.

In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.

In classical times, his strong function in popular religion was to keep away evil, and was therefore called " apotropaios " ( αποτρέπω: to divert ) and " alexikakos " ( αλέξω-κακό: defend, throw away the evil ).

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

With de Broglie's suggestion of the existence of electron matter waves in 1924, and for a short time before the full 1926 Schrödinger equation treatment of hydrogen like atom, a Bohr electron " wavelength " could be seen to be a function of its momentum, and thus a Bohr orbiting electron was seen to orbit in a circle at a multiple of its half-wavelength ( this historically incorrect Bohr model is still occasionally taught to students ).

It is uncertain what the actual role and function of Abraxas was in the Basilidian system, as our authorities often show no direct acquaintance with the doctrines of Basilides himself.

The Grashaus was the former city hall before the present building took over this function.

Although its function is unknown, it has been often suggested that the jewel was one of the æstels — pointers for reading — that Alfred ordered sent to every bishopric accompanying a copy of his translation of the Pastoral Care.

Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Applications could not directly address video memory in this mode without modification, so it was incompatible with most games, although there is no inherent reason why a game could not be written to function in shadow mode.

Later, after encountering Soviet tanks, it was refitted with a high-velocity anti-tank gun, enabling it to function as a tank destroyer.

In retrospect the name change was unfortunate, not only because the Greek roots alone do not reveal the anode's function any more, but more importantly because, as we now know, the Earth's magnetic field direction on which the " anode " term is based is subject to reversals whereas the current direction convention on which the " eisode " term was based has no reason to change in the future.

Sometimes it was necessary to re-think the structure of the problem so that the computer would function satisfactorily.

In On the Infinite, David Hilbert hypothesized that the Ackermann function was not primitive recursive, but it was Ackermann, Hilbert ’ s personal secretary and former student, who actually proved the hypothesis in his paper On Hilbert ’ s Construction of the Real Numbers.

Banks and other clearing houses employ automation equipment that relies on the magnetic flux from these specially printed characters to function properly.

The photocathode contains combinations of materials such as caesium, rubidium and antimony specially selected to provide a low work function, so when illuminated even by very low levels of light, the photocathode readily releases electrons.

He was specially chosen by the king to fill the high office of aposentador mayor, which imposed on him the duty of looking after the quarters occupied by the court — a responsible function which was no sinecure and one which interfered with the exercise of his art.

Similarly, an identifier bound to a recursive function is also technically a free variable within its own body but is treated specially.

In " conventional ", i. e. single-dispatch object-oriented programming languages, when invoking a method (" sending a message " in Smalltalk, " calling a member function " in C ++), one of its arguments is treated specially and used to determine which of the ( potentially many ) methods of that name is to be applied.

As per Government of India service tax rules under Finance Act 1997, the definition of Shamiana is given under the clause ( 77A ) of section 65, that is: " pandal or shamiana means a place specially prepared or arranged for organizing an official, social or business function ".

The compression function can either be specially designed for hashing or be built from a block cipher.

* Nitrogen phosphorus detector ( NPD ), a form a thermionic detector where nitrogen and phosphorus alter the work function on a specially coated bead and a resulting current is measured.

The common technical usage of " information appliance " ( IA ) is more specific — i. e., an appliance that is specially designed to perform a specific user-friendly function — such as playing music, photography, or editing text.

A rolling hash is a hash function specially designed to enable this operation.

The equipment is generally expected to function well at longer ranges, even in daylight, so higher output power and specially designed optics are often a requirement.

Before 1957 he mainly worked on pure mathematics, specially on topological groups, Lie groups and generalized function theory.

Consequently, the transcribing function is often specially chosen.

Philosophy took over from this period ; on the religious function of how to conduct oneself as a result of taking a form that wasn't specially religious or ecclesiastical.

Many MTAs perform the function of an MSA as well, but there are also programs that are specially designed as MSAs without full MTA functionality.

At the private function, for which Priest specially flew back to England, Steve Priest and Brian Connolly performed together.

In compiler theory, an intrinsic function is a function available for use in a given language whose implementation is handled specially by the compiler.

Except for the Diemermeer and Amstelland, the Dutch ships were heavily armed ; many were specially built company vessels with the dual function of warship and merchantman.

This function is staffed by engineers chosen for their technical competence and who have the title, member of the technical staff.

This will result in a value Af of the objective function, and when Af is chosen correctly this will give Af, the maximum of the objective function.

In terms of the Laguerre polynomials and arbitrarily chosen parameter, the Bessel function can be expressed as

The derivative of a function at a chosen input value describes the best linear approximation of the function near that input value.

In thermionic-valve diodes, a current through the heater filament indirectly heats the thermionic cathode, another internal electrode treated with a mixture of barium and strontium oxides, which are oxides of alkaline earth metals ; these substances are chosen because they have a small work function.

Filter design consists of finding a possible transfer function that can be implemented within certain practical constraints dictated by the technology or desired complexity of the system, followed by a practical design that realizes that transfer function using the chosen technology.

When this approach is used, the hash function must be chosen so that the result has fairly uniform distribution between 0 and n − 1, for any value of n that may occur in the application.

A poorly designed hash function can make attacks feasible even if a strong password is chosen.

These n bits are the remainder of the division step, and will also be the value of the CRC function ( unless the chosen CRC specification calls for some postprocessing ).

Fermi proposed to add to this force a nonlinear component, which could be chosen to be proportional to either the square or cube of the displacement, or to a more complicated " broken linear " function.

AT & T chose the single bit per frame not to reduce the required bit rate ( 1. 544 vs 1. 6 Mbit / s ), but because AT & T Marketing worried that " if 8 bits were chosen for OA & M function, someone would then try to sell this as a voice channel and you wind up with nothing.

The size of the throat, mouth, the length of the horn, as well as the area expansion rate along it must be carefully chosen to match the drive to properly provide this transforming function over a range of frequencies ( every horn performs poorly outside its acoustic limits, at both high and low frequencies ).

In probability theory and its applications, such as statistics and cryptography, a random function is a function chosen randomly from a family of possible functions.

The derivative of a function at a chosen input value describes the rate of change of the function near that input value.

Antibiotics are absolutely necessary whenever pneumonia is suspected or there has been a noticeable decline in lung function, and are usually chosen based on the results of a sputum analysis and the patient's past response.

Once a value of x is chosen, say a, then f ( x, y ) determines a function f < sub > a </ sub > which sends y to a < sup > 2 </ sup > + ay + y < sup > 2 </ sup >:

Total vapor pressure of mixtures as a function of composition at a chosen constant temperature.

The value of the line function at this midpoint is the sole determinant of which point should be chosen.

The ROM therefore becomes equivalent to n separate logic circuits, each of which generates a chosen function of the m inputs.