If used in a business application, synergy means that teamwork will produce an overall better result than if each person within the group were working toward the same goal individually.

In their guidance documents, the no-interaction default assumption is dose addition, so synergy means a mixture response that exceeds that predicted from dose addition.

ODR was born from the synergy between ADR and ICT, as a method for resolving disputes that were arising online, and for which traditional means of dispute resolution were inefficient or unavailable.

The organization ’ s commitment to enhancing the school and life experiences of Underprivileged men of color is fueled by the synergy of the college campus and the concept of graduating from high school and college as a means to survival and self-sufficiency.

Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Until this hunter-killer operation can be performed by spacecraft, manned aircraft appear to be the only means available to us.

There is often a means of locking the quill and, on larger presses, the table can be tilted.

This means that if your insured vehicle is laid up for more than 30 days, insurance can be suspended and a proportionate return of your premium made to you.

Strictly speaking, this means that the probability for each possible outcome of the experiment can be computed by multiplying together the probabilities of the possible outcomes of the single binomial trials.

By means of geographical isolation and high fertility rates, inbreeding can be fostered and the pattern of isolation from the greater society maintained.

This, however, is sufficient to show that more or less non-violent resistance and economic conflict ( if both sides are strong enough ) can be war of all against all no less than if other means are used.

Mythological concepts may by all means still be used, but they can be used responsibly only as `` symbols '' or `` ciphers '', that is, only if they are also constantly interpreted in nonmythological ( or existential ) terms.

In the absence of a truly adequate conceptuality in which the gospel can be expressed, the unavoidable need to demythologize it makes use of whatever resources are at hand -- and this usually means one or another of the various forms of `` folk religion '' current in the situation.

Watch people flock to amusement houses, cocktail lounges, and night clubs that advertise continuous entertainment, which means an endless flow of noise and frivolity by paid entertainers who are supposed to perform in those incredible ways which are designed to give men a few hours of dubious relaxation -- watch them and you can tell that many of them are running away from something.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

Not to repel injury and uphold and improve pax-ordo means not simply to accept the misshapen order and injustice that challenges it at the moment, but also to start down the steep slope along which justice can find no place whereon to stand.

And he can be on the way to Memphis, your Gratt Shafer can, and you discover you can stay alive and hate him and love him and want him even if it means you want him -- really want him -- dead.

This means the aircraft companies are going to tear into the government market, looking for anything they can get and making the competition tough.

It also means that their letters can be used as an alternative method of " numbering " ordered items, in such contexts as numbered lists.

One of his problems in life is that he can rarely find the correct words to express what he means.

Within a people, different means to accomplish the same goal can be adopted by subsets of the larger group.

The last 10 cases in the investigation of the Nov. 8 election were dismissed yesterday by Acting Judge John M. Karns, who charged that the prosecution obtained evidence `` by unfair and fundamentally illegal means ''.

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

Ludwig von Mises argued in Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth that the pricing systems in socialist economies were necessarily deficient because if a public entity owned all the means of production no rational prices could be obtained for capital goods as they were merely internal transfers of goods and not " objects of exchange ," unlike final goods.

The original production dates of some of Euripides's plays are known from ancient records, such as lists of prize-winners at the Dionysia, and approximations are obtained for the remainder by various means.

It should be noted that after Bulgaria obtained full independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1908, its monarch, who was previously styled " Knyaz ", i. e. Prince, took the traditional title of " Tsar " which in Bulgarian means King and was recognized internationally as such.

Many people partially blame the older German legal tradition of legal positivism for the ease with which Hitler obtained power in an outwardly " legal " manner, rather than by means of a coup.

West African affairs, however, by no means exhausted Lord Aberdare's energies, and it was principally through his efforts that a charter was in 1894 obtained for the Cardiff University.

Lex is later revealed to have obtained contact with the " Collector of Worlds " through unknown means and was told to say the word " Krypton " to Superman.

Government attempts to obtain incriminating statement related to the offense charged from the defendant by overt interrogation or surreptitious means is a critical stage and any information thus obtained is subject to suppression unless the government can show that an attorney was present or the defendant knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently waived his right to counsel.

By choosing different values for the parameter m, the following types of means are obtained:

Money laundering is the process of concealing the source of money obtained by illicit means.

A common use of the phrase ANN model really means the definition of a class of such functions ( where members of the class are obtained by varying parameters, connection weights, or specifics of the architecture such as the number of neurons or their connectivity ).

For one-dimensional simple harmonic motion, the equation of motion, which is a second-order linear ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients, could be obtained by means of Newton's second law and Hooke's law.

Anti-whaling organizations claim that the research program is a front for commercial whaling, that the sample size is needlessly large and that equivalent information can be obtained by non-lethal means, for example by studying samples of whale tissue ( such as skin ) or faeces.

The only means which have been placed in my power of ‘ raising the wages of colliers ’ has been by endeavouring to beat down all those restrictions upon trade which tend to reduce the price to be obtained for the product of their labour, & to lower as much as may be the taxes on the commodities which they may require for use or for consumption.

Thus the Green's function describes the influence at of the data f and g. For the case of the interior of a sphere of radius a, the Green's function may be obtained by means of a reflection ( Sommerfeld, 1949 ): the source point P at distance ρ from the center of the sphere is reflected along its radial line to a point P that is at a distance

The wind tunnel was envisioned as a means of reversing the usual paradigm: instead of the air's standing still and the aircraft moving at speed through it, the same effect would be obtained if the aircraft stood still and the air moved at speed past it.

Custom colors are obtained by means of subtractive CMY color mixing, by inserting combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow dichroic filters into the optical path of the lighting fixture.

Capital contributed by the owner or entrepreneur of a business, and obtained, for example, by means of savings or inheritance, is known as own capital or equity, whereas that which is granted by another person or institution is called borrowed capital, and this must usually be paid back with interest.

According to its authors, it was not intended to impact market gains obtained by honest means, by benefiting the consumer more than the competitors.

The soliton solutions are typically obtained by means of the inverse scattering transform and owe their stability to the integrability of the field equations.

He gradually obtained full possession of Navarre and the Basque Country, outside of the fortresses, which he had not the means to besiege.

In 1994, a new allele of reeler was obtained by means of insertional mutagenesis.

But he also praised the achievement of the CCP in bringing economic progress and prosperity ; at one point he even alluded to the Tiananmen Square massacre and take it as an example to sustain his point that freedom should be obtained through " cleverer " means, rather than mass revolutions that could result in numerous deaths.