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means and individual
What then is the status of such questions as: is society the ground of human existence or a means to an individual goal??
The photocathode sensitivities S, phosphor efficiencies P, and anode potentials V of the individual stages shall be distinguished by means of subscripts 1, and 2, in the text, where required.
consequently an experienced children's librarian at headquarters conducts a guidance program designed to promote well-planned library activities, cooperating with the children's librarians in member libraries by means of individual conferences, workshops, and frequent visits.
The Austrian School of economics is a school of economic thought positing that the only appropriate means to understand economic events is by logically studying the intentions of individual economic decision-makers, based on certain fundamental truths.
As with all phobias, the strength of the associations means the individual must not actively pursue the consequences, and outsiders should not in any way undermine and " play " with the phobia in the meantime.
Ásatrú groups and the individual Ásatrúarmenn have no universal means of practice.
In the Philippines, amok also means unreasoning murderous rage by an individual.
This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand from an object to see it — with corrective lenses — with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from.
The BBWAA does not offer a clear-cut definition of what " most valuable " means, instead leaving the judgement to the individual voters.
Transmission of Y. pestis to an uninfected individual is possible by any of the following means.
What this means is that God will give humanity such things as reason and compassion but this applies to all and not individual intervention.
The word despotism means to " rule in the fashion of a despot " and does not necessarily require a singular " despot ", an individual.
But while martyrs ' days ( usually the individual dates of martyrdom ) were celebrated on fixed dates in the local solar calendar, the date of Easter was fixed by means of the local Jewish lunisolar calendar.
In laboratory conditions, the interactions of individual electrons can be observed by means of particle detectors, which allow measurement of specific properties such as energy, spin and charge.
A central proposition of existentialism is that existence precedes essence, which means that the most important consideration for the individual is the fact that he or she is an individual — an independently acting and responsible conscious being (" existence ")— rather than what labels, roles, stereotypes, definitions, or other preconceived categories the individual fits (" essence ").
Constraint-induced movement therapy is based on the idea that a person with an impairment ( physical or communicative ) develops a " learned nonuse " by compensating for the lost function with other means such as using an unaffected limb by a paralyzed individual or drawing by a patient with aphasia.
The boldest, most radical notion in the book is [...] the belief that the individual can and should proceed toward truth by means of his own powers of perception and reasoning ; and that he can in this way discover truths previously unknown.
Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.
Another author stated that " the practice of evidence-based medicine means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research ".
Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists, describing fascist corporatism, said that " it means a nation organized as the human body, with each organ performing its individual function but working in harmony with the whole ".
This means that the value of individual social assets that Bourdieu points to depend on the current " social capital " as defined above.
Rorty in particular elaborates further on this, claiming that the individual, the community, the human body as a whole have a ' means by which they know the world ' ( this entails language, culture, semiotic systems, mathematics, science etc .).

means and atoms
This means that the size, charge, and other chemical properties of the atoms and molecules attempting to cross it will determine whether they succeed in doing so.
All of the heavy elements that are derived solely through artificial means are radioactive, with very short half-lives ; if any atoms of these elements were present at the formation of Earth, they are extremely likely to have already decayed, and if present in novae, have been in quantities too small to have been noted.
For the study of the mechanical behavior of solids and fluids these are assumed to be continuous bodies, which means that the matter fills the entire region of space it occupies, despite the fact that matter is made of atoms, has voids, and is discrete.
; thus a " co-valent bond ", in essence, means that the atoms share " valence ", such as is discussed in valence bond theory.
; cis: A cis configuration means that adjacent hydrogen atoms are on the same side of the double bond.
; trans: A trans configuration, by contrast, means that the next two hydrogen atoms are bound to opposite sides of the double bond.
Historically, the hadrons ( mesons and baryons such as the proton and neutron ) and even whole atoms were once regarded as elementary particles ( indeed, the word " atom " means " indivisible ").
They are thus extremely energetic, which means that they can ionize neutral atoms.
In most lasers this medium consists of population of atoms which have been excited into such a state by means of an outside light source, or an electrical field which supplies energy for atoms to absorb and be transformed into their excited states.
The prefix " poly -" means " many ," in Greek, but even ions of two atoms are commonly referred to as polyatomic.
The opposite also applies ; for instance, 96 % of the element Indium in nature is the In-115 radioisotope, but it is considered non-toxic in pure metal form and mainly like a stable element because its multi-trillion-year half-life means that a relatively minuscule portion of its atoms decay per unit of time.
In this field it is customary to quote percentages by mass, so that 25 % helium-4 means that helium-4 atoms account for 25 % of the mass, but only about 8 % of the atoms would be helium-4 atoms.
* Surface tension: The condensation of a material means that the atoms, ions or molecules are more stable if they are surrounded by other similar species.
Chemical bonds between atoms in a molecule form because they make the situation more stable for the involved atoms, which generally means the sum energy level for the involved atoms in the molecule is lower than if the atoms were not so bonded.
All intermolecular / van der Waals forces are anisotropic ( except those between two noble gas atoms ), which means that they depend on the relative orientation of the molecules.
In this scenario macroscopic objects can come-into-being move through space and pass into not-being by means of the coming together and moving apart of their constituent atoms.
This is due to the large distance between atoms in a gas: fewer collisions between atoms means less conduction.

means and can
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.

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