This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

Activity of MAP kinases is restricted by a number of protein phosphatases, which remove the phosphate groups that are added to specific serine or threonine residues of the kinase and are required to maintain the kinase in an active conformation.

There are examples where no maximum is attained, in which case the set of MAP estimates is empty.

NEPAD is a merger of two plans for the economic regeneration of Africa: the Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme ( MAP ), led by Former President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa in conjunction with Former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria ; and the OMEGA Plan for Africa developed by President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal.

One common rule is to pick the hypothesis that is most probable ; this is known as the maximum a posteriori or MAP decision rule.

For example, the naive Bayes classifier will make the correct MAP decision rule classification so long as the correct class is more probable than any other class.

The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a five-year program, supported by Swiss bank UBS in which the Foundation will identify and work with artists, curators and educators from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa to expand its reach in the international art world.

The value of is typically learned using maximum a posteriori ( MAP ) estimation.

Minimum quality medical service is sometimes available at the MAP Clinic in the back of the plaza.

For regular problems, where the maximum-likelihood estimator is consistent, the maximum-likelihood estimator ultimately agrees with the MAP estimator.

An example of a scientific epistemic community in action is the 1975 collectively negotiated Mediterranean Action Plan ( MAP ), a marine pollution control regime for the Mediterranean Sea developed by the United Nations Environment Programme.

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) – also known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( MAP ), and Explorer 80 – is a spacecraft which measures differences in the temperature of the Big Bang's remnant radiant heat – the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation – across the full sky.

The use of a regularization condition is equivalent to doing maximum a posteriori ( MAP ) estimation, an extension of maximum likelihood.

There is a grey market in electronics in which online retailers will sell merchandise below the manufacturer's authorized selling price, or advertise below the MAP.

However, as MAP >> RAP, and RAP is approximately 0, this can be simplified to:

However, as MAP >> RAP, and RAP is approximately 0, this can be simplified to:

A popular choice for θ is to provide maximum a posteriori ( MAP ) estimates of it by maximizing the marginal likelihood of the process ; the marginalization being done over the observed process values y.

Minimum advertised price or MAP ( also known as resale price maintenance, or RPM ) is the practice of a manufacturer providing marketing funds to a retailer contingent on the retailer advertising an end customer price at or above a specified level.

In statistics, an expectation – maximization ( EM ) algorithm is an iterative method for finding maximum likelihood or maximum a posteriori ( MAP ) estimates of parameters in statistical models, where the model depends on unobserved latent variables.

Cerebral perfusion pressure ( CPP ), the pressure of blood flowing to the brain, is normally fairly constant due to autoregulation, but for abnormal mean arterial pressure ( MAP ) or abnormal ICP the cerebral perfusion pressure is calculated by subtracting the intracranial pressure from the mean arterial pressure: CPP = MAP − ICP.

And, given probable public attitudes -- about which reasonably good estimates can be made -- what action is called for to insure necessary support??

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

A number of semiempirical estimates by various workers lead to the conclusion that the Af bond becomes symmetric when the Af bond length is about 2.4 to 2.5 A, but aside from the possible example of nickel dimethylglyoxime there have been no convincing reports of symmetric Af bonds.

These estimates indicated that the quantum yield for the exchange of chlorine with liquid carbon tetrachloride at 65-degrees is of the order of magnitude of unity.

It is still used in making current population estimates in post-census years, though the value of these estimates is open to question.

This behavior is more `` veridical '' -- or true -- than other testing behavior for some types of evaluation, and so can give quick and accurate estimates of complex functioning.

However, it is not known to either the union or the public precisely how much of a cost increase is caused by a given change in the basic wage rate, although the companies are presumed to have reliable estimates of this magnitude.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

In hindsight it is possible to discover errors in TAI, and to make better estimates of the true proper time scale.

# Closely related to the ANOVA is a linear model fit with coefficient estimates and standard errors.

Eta-squared is a biased estimator of the variance explained by the model in the population ( it estimates only the effect size in the sample ).

The UN estimates of 1. 8 million internally displaced persons ( IDPs ), while generally the accepted figure for war-affected people is 4 million.

The order is thought to have first diverged from other related monocots some 120-130 million years ago ( early in the Cretaceous period ), although given the difficulty in classifying the families involved, estimates are likely to be uncertain.

( These are estimates, depending on what is considered a language and what is considered a dialect.

Astrometry is an important step in the cosmic distance ladder because it establishes parallax distance estimates for stars in the Milky Way.

Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.

One model that estimates the properties of an electron gas at absolute zero in metals is the Fermi gas.

Official estimates of the population are of around 25, 000, while the unofficial number is upward of 200, 000 people.

The precise size of the heterogeneous group gathered by Alboin is impossible to know, and many different estimates have been made.