Asimov did once say that these encapsulated cities represented the kind of place in which he'd like to live ( in real life, Asimov was an agoraphobic individual who spent virtually all his time writing inside his New York City apartment ; he seldom travelled and when he did, only by train and never by airplane ).

The hijra of India ( see above ) may number as many as 2, 000, 000, and are usually described as eunuchs, although they may be more of a male-to-female transsexual individual, but have surgical castration instead of reassignment surgery, and seldom have access to hormones.

He is noted for being fluent with a wide repertory of artistic techniques and styles seldom mastered by a single individual.

Arthur Pigou said in " It must be confessed, however, that we seldom know enough to decide in what fields and to what extent the State, on account of gaps between private and public costs could interfere with individual choice.

Although the life-cycle is only about two weeks, individual patients are seldom found to have more than about a dozen mites on them.

A medium blue evening dress for officers is now seldom seen but individual branches or regiments may parade bands or " fanfares " in historic dress dating as far back as the Napoleonic period.

A medium blue evening dress for officers is now seldom seen but individual branches or regiments may parade bands or " fanfares " in historic dress dating as far back as the Napoleonic period.

There are two stocks in the North Atlantic, east and west, that seldom mix ; only one individual is known to have crossed the Atlantic, covering from Ireland to Canada.

Only a few burgage holders were entitled to vote but as most, if not all, of these holdings were held by a single individual for most of the time that Bere Alston was a parliamentary borough elections were seldom contested ( see rotten borough ).

He seldom did individual portraits ; however, he painted himself into a few interior tipi scenes, usually smoking a pipe.

For individual customers benefits of finding a superior brand are seldom great enough to justify the additional search costs that must be incurred.

It can refer to a female individual who suffers from anorexia but still has her period, someone who may be at a " healthy weight ", but who has anorexic thought patterns and behaviors, it can mean the sufferer equally participates in some anorexic as well as bulimic behaviors ( sometimes referred to as purge-type anorexia ), or to any combination of eating disorder behaviors which do not directly put them in a separate category.

Many seasons also include during individual challenges: a ' loved one ' challenge where a family member, friend or significant other of each player participates or is part of the challenge reward ; the ' Survivor Auction ' in which contestants bid against each other on luxury items and strategic advantages ; a challenge in which the winning contestant receives a car ; and a challenge that includes components of previous challenges from that season.

Typically the individual who is caring for and living with the dog participates and trains the dog, as they will be the one who will be giving the commands.

The choice of equipment is determined by the ski touring goals and to some degree, the other types of skiing the individual participates in.

While the option to look at the paper may provide comfort to an individual voter, the VVPAT does not serve as an effective check on malfunction or fraud unless a statistically relevant number of voters participates.

Community members serve as signal receivers and frequently discuss the qualities of each individual who participates in the costly display.

This also applies to the individual who initially earned the Air Search and Rescue Ribbon as a member of a ground search party and later participates in enough searches as an aircrew member.

AGF participates in a variety of activities in both individual and team sports.

The high school also participates in individual sports like cross country, track, and badminton.

Here, as in all sectors of the economy, quality and justice are both dependent on the right of the individual to deal directly with his employer if he so chooses.

In contrast, in systems of reincarnation, such as those in the Dharmic tradition, the nature of the continued existence is determined directly by the actions of the individual in the ended life, rather than through the decision of another being.

Under the time-sharing model the users were given individual computer terminals and interacted directly.

Eventually, as Christendom grew, individual congregations were no longer directly served by a bishop.

Chaosium has recently taken to marketing " monographs "— short books by individual writers with editing and layout provided out-of-house — directly to the consumer.

It is very different from telepathy in that the information is said to be gained directly from an external physical source, rather than being transferred from the mind of one individual to another.

He thus set himself to the revolutionary task of developing computer-based technologies for manipulating information directly, and also to improve individual and group processes for knowledge-work.

This may be managed directly on an individual basis, or by the assignment of individuals and privileges to groups, or ( in the most elaborate models ) through the assignment of individuals and groups to roles which are then granted entitlements.

At higher frequencies ( visible and beyond ), the effects of individual photons of the radiation begin to become important, as these now have enough energy individually directly or indirectly to damage biological molecules.

Muller & Bahadur were the first persons to observe individual atoms directly ; to do so, they used an FIM, which Muller had invented in 1951.

When you study ' historiography ' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians.

Officers in charge of individual trading posts had much responsibility because they were directly in charge of enforcing the policies made by the governor of the company.

Taxation in Hong Kong raises revenues from the sale and taxation of land and taxation on the accumulative overall economic growth but not engaged directly in industry and commerce as well as individual ( s ) for profit due to its low tax policy.

Both methods have long been promoted on the basis of lowest cost, though neither of these measurements directly, or reliably, reflects HDL particle functionality to remove cholesterol from atherosclerotic plaque and can therefore be misleading, especially on an individual patient-by-patient basis Labs use the routine dextran sulfate-Mg < sup > 2 +</ sup > precipitation method with ultracentrifugation / dextran sulfate-Mg < sup > 2 +</ sup > precipitation as reference method.

Standard line insurance companies usually charge lower premiums than excess line insurers and may sell directly to individual insureds.

Dennis Organ is often thought of as the father of OCB research and defines OCBs as " individual behavior that is discretionary, not directly or explicitly recognized by the formal reward system, and that in the aggregate promotes the effective functioning of the organization.

The invariable policy of the State has always being to break down all intermediate authorities and to deal directly with the individual.

Because individual PET scans are more expensive than " conventional " imaging with computed tomography ( CT ) and magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ), expansion of FDG-PET in cost-constrained health services will depend on proper health technology assessment ; this problem is a difficult one because structural and functional imaging often cannot be directly compared, as they provide different information.

The 19S particle in eukaryotes consists of 19 individual proteins and is divisible into two subassemblies, a 10-protein base that binds directly to the α ring of the 20S core particle, and a 9-protein lid where polyubiquitin is bound.

Certain cases, notably government suits for unpaid property taxes, proceed not against an individual but against their property directly.

In addition to referring to the overarching discipline, the term syntax is also used to refer directly to the rules and principles that govern the sentence structure of any individual language, for example in " the syntax of Modern Irish.

If the male is an Abdi Dalem royal servant, courtier or particularly " peko-peko " ( taken directly from Japanese to mean obsequious ) or even a highly formal individual, he will retreat face and head downcast, never show his side or back to his superior, and retreat backwards in the following posture: left-arm crossed against the chest, right-arm hanging and walking stooped.

The Court concluded that limits on campaign contributions " serve the basic governmental interest in safeguarding the integrity of the electoral process without directly impinging upon the rights of individual citizens and candidates to engage in political debate and discussion.

::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

However, this may not always be the case, as with victims of white collar crime, who may not be clearly identifiable or directly linked to crime against a particular individual.