Continuing technical problems involved in the use of this fuel, coupled with significant improvements in aircraft range through other means, have now raised serious questions about the value of the high-energy fuel program.

There is another means which should show the direction and relative value of the stresses in viscoelastic fluids that is not mentioned as such in the literature, and that is the shape of the suspended drops of low viscosity fluids in shear fields.

This value may be reduced to 4.6 percent by means of a ( very thin ) glass layer of index 1.5.

The multiplication operation is defined as: multiplication by 1 means no change, multiplication by 2 means shifting to the left, and multiplication by 3 means shifting to the left and then performing xor with the initial unshifted value.

A value of 0 means that the pixel does not have any coverage information and is transparent ; i. e. there was no color contribution from any geometry because the geometry did not overlap this pixel.

A value of 1 means that the pixel is opaque because the geometry completely overlapped the pixel.

Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

The rite performed by them is thus seen as having the same by no means negligible value of any other form of prayer offered for the sick or dying.

When bearing off, a player may also move a lower die roll before the higher even if that means ' the full value of the higher die ' is not fully utilized.

Money was primarily a standardized medium of exchange, and final means of payment, that serves to measure the value of all goods and commodities in a standard of value.

A negative value means that the actual direction of current through that circuit element is opposite that of the chosen reference direction.

Therefore, more robust means of estimating the central value x < sub > 0 </ sub > and the scaling parameter γ are needed.

This means that the value of the coin is decreed by government fiat ( law ), and thus is determined by the free market only inasmuch as national currencies are subjected to various types of foreign exchange markets in international trade.

If the initial value of a polynomial ( and of its finite differences ) is calculated by some means for some value of X, the difference engine can calculate any number of nearby values, using the method generally known as the method of finite differences.

Using the DPV formula above ( FV =$ 150, 000, i = 0. 05, n = 3 ), that means that the value of $ 150, 000 received in three years actually has a present value of $ 129, 576 ( rounded off ).

An electric field has the special property that it is conservative, which means that the path taken by the test charge is irrelevant: all paths between two specified points expend the same energy, and thus a unique value for potential difference may be stated.

If the parameter is the bull's-eye of a target, and the arrows are estimates, then a relatively high absolute value for the bias means the average position of the arrows is off-target, and a relatively low absolute bias means the average position of the arrows is on target.

Bloch said it is related to the Frankish term * fehu-ôd, in which * fehu means " cattle " and-ôd means " goods ", implying " a moveable object of value.

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.

This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.

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 ".

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 .).

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 ''.

In the university milieu of scholarship and research, of social diversity, of new ideas and varied and wide-ranging interests, `` socialization '' into a campus culture apparently means heightened appreciation of the idea of a liberal education in the arts and sciences.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

After all, social life in the group of the bees is by no means general, although it certainly is a striking feature.

It is conceived that one of the means to attain this social distance is that of physical and social isolation.

By means of this social control, deviance is either eliminated or somehow made compatible with the function of the social group.

Confused and divided though this tradition may be, it is an important part of the social and cultural heritage of the group, and acts as a means of socialization, particularly for members of the rural community.

But another cause may lie in the experience of so many new postwar faculty members with their own use of education as a means of social advancement.

This means that the antennae of the congregation are extended into the community, picking up the wave lengths of those who will fit into the social and economic level of the congregation ; ;

the lay ministry is a means to recruit like-minded people who will strengthen the social class nucleus of the congregation.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

A deeper criticism of Green archaeoastronomy is that while it can answer whether there was likely to be an interest in astronomy in past times, its lack of a social element means that it struggles to answer why people would be interested, which makes it of limited use to people asking questions about the society of the past.

Humans evaluate the acceptability of behavior using social norms and regulate behavior by means of social control.

Complications occurs for terms such as UFO, which literally means " unidentified flying object " but connotes alien spacecraft, a concept also associated with some conspiracy theories, and thus possessing a certain social stigma.

They are taking form in independent bookstores, coffeehouses, local pubs, and through new and innovative means to create the social capital needed to foster the sense and spirit of community.

Castes become a means to block social mobility.

While previous wars were fought for social, religious, even cultural reasons, Clausewitz taught that war is merely " a continuation of politics by other means.

Critical psychology challenges mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychological understandings in more progressive ways, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating psychopathology.

Instead, radical psychologists examined the role of society in causing and treating problems and looked towards social change as an alternative to therapy to treat mental illness and as a means of preventing psychopathology.

That means a social rule changes over time within the same society.

Finally, as schools become a means for social reconstruction, our educations must be given the proper equipment to help perform this task and guide their students.

Here, we are told, ' We need to go beyond the pleasure principle, the reality principle, and repetition compulsion to ... the fantasy principle ' - ' not, as Freud did, reduce fantasies to wishes ... consider all other imaginable emotions '; and thus envisage emotional fantasies as a possible means of moving beyond stereotypes to more nuanced forms of personal and social relating.