Each of those tickets was of great value to its rightful recipient.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.

Reflecting the largest percentage of high-end sets such as consoles and combinations since 1953, dollar value of home entertainment electronics in 1960 was about $1.9 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in 1959.

The temperature dependent value of **ye was taken from Ref. 7.

Its value was Af from the above data.

A single value of the thermal relaxation time Af at room temperature was measured by the progressive saturation method.

The value of Af estimated at 470 gauss was Af microseconds.

The value derived was 16 microseconds.

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

The value of the elections was lost, both as an experiment in increased political participation and as a reliable indicator of commercial interest, as shown in Table 1.

Likewise, Kant formulated the nebular hypothesis, according to which the solar system was evolved from a rotating mass of incandescent gas, nearly a half century before its scientific value was made plain by Laplace in his Systeme Du Monde.

In rejecting any claim to the value of the slave property, Palfrey was giving up close to $7,000.

The value of products from these industries was 15.8 billion dollars, of which about one-third was created by manufacturing processes.

Not included was the value of seed oil in paints and varnishes or the value of the coffee and chocolate industries that are based on imported seed or seed products.

He was well aware that some inventors and their allies used their patents solely for nuisance value.

Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test accord.

In 1825, the Boston house carpenters' strike for a ten-hour day was denounced by the organized employers, who declared: `` It is considered that all combinations by any classes of citizens intended to effect the value of labor tend to convert all its branches into monopolies ''.

The fact that Sloan was an extrovert, concerned primarily with what he saw, adds greatly to the value of his art as a human chronicle.

The half-life of this decay was initially determined at 17 hours, which was close to the presently accepted value of 16. 02 h.

This close approximation to the modern value of − 273. 15 ° C for the zero of the air-thermometer was further improved upon in 1779 by Johann Heinrich Lambert, who observed that − 270 ° C might be regarded as absolute cold.

In 2003, Matt Stephens and Doug Rosenberg published Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP which questioned the value of the XP process and suggested ways in which it could be improved.

In agriculture, genetically engineered crops are created to possess several desirable traits, such as resistance to pests, herbicides, or harsh environmental conditions, improved product shelf life, and increased nutritional value.

For ordered lists that must be accessed sequentially, such as linked lists or files with variable-length records lacking an index, the average performance can be improved by giving up at the first element which is greater than the unmatched target value, rather than examining the entire list.

Social capital has been used at various times to explain superior managerial performance, improved performance of functionally diverse groups, the value derived from strategic alliances, and enhanced supply chain relations.

More recently, improved technology has made it possible to probe the value of α at much larger distances and to a much greater accuracy.

Later in his career, as defenses improved playing zone and the bump and run was refined, Hayes ' value as an erstwhile decoy rather than a deep threat diminished.

Together with improvements to Brixton Road by the local turnpike trust this greatly improved road communications with central London, and the value of the local landholdings.

This in turn can have a positive impact on a company ’ s asset value ( Van der Deldt, 1997 ) and can lead to improved public perceptions of the business, placing them in a better position to operate in the international marketplace ( Potoki & Prakash 1997 ; Sheldon 1997 ).

They distrusted the Catholic rural majority because of their disloyalty towards the Hanoverian state, and “ their apparent lack of enthusiasm for the kinds of improved farming that promised to raise the future value of landed property .” The municipal leaders ( mostly Protestant merchants and members of the landed gentry ), however, paid closer attention to the state of urban and rural artisans and tradespeople because of their salutary effect on the commercial economy on which the landowners depended.

Logistics is generally a cost centre service activity, but provides value via improved efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Colt historian Herbert Houze wrote that Colt championed the concept of modernism before the word was coined, he pioneered the use of celebrity endorsements to promote his products, he introduced the adjective " new and improved " to advertising and demonstrated the commercial value of brand-name recognition as the word for " revolver " in French is Le Colt.

The figures shown in brackets are VA value added a measure of how pupils ' performance has improved, and AGG aggregate score the sum of the percentages of pupils achieving the expected levels in English, maths and science ( thus the maximum possible is 300 ).

* Implement new and improved business practices: Take the leading edge practices and develop implementation plans which include identification of specific opportunities, funding the project and selling the ideas to the organization for the purpose of gaining demonstrated value from the process.

This is the case of a company controlled by a few families, few heirs who in turn have identified among them a worthy successor, a strong name also is associated with the adequacy enough to drive its growth, the ability to run the organization, understanding market and commitment which means only a part of the family patrimony is also a source of value to society, other shareholders, customers, suppliers and even their own employees ( stakeholders ). this will help in improved succession planning.

The benefits of native pollinators may result in forest owners demanding payment for their contribution in the improved crop results-a simple example of the economic value of ecological services.

As described above, a skiplist is capable of fast Θ ( log n ) insertion and removal of values from a sorted sequence, but it has only slow Θ ( n ) lookups of values at a given position in the sequence ( i. e. return the 500th value ); however, with a minor modification the speed of random access indexed lookups can be improved to Θ ( log n ).

A land value tax would not overly penalize those who had already bought and improved land, and would also be less disruptive and controversial in a country where land titles have already been granted.

In the Mediterranean, improved tactics reduced the value of the elephant in battle, while their availability in the wild also decreased.

In management literature today, the greatest use of the term " scientific management " is with reference to the work of Taylor and his disciples (" classical ", implying " no longer current, but still respected for its seminal value ") in contrast to newer, improved iterations of efficiency-seeking methods.

Two and three-parameter IRT models adjust item discrimination, ensuring improved data-model fit, so fit statistics lack the confirmatory diagnostic value found in one-parameter models, where the idealized model is specified in advance.

Indeed, recent improved astronomical techniques have found that a positive value of is needed to explain the accelerating universe.

When only one of the stimulus dimensions varied, while the other was held at its rewarded value, discrimination improved on the variable stimulus, and later tests showed that discrimination had also gotten worse on the alternative stimulus dimension.

Additional efforts focus on a variety of agricultural aspects such as proper seed storage, natural resource management, value chains, the benefits of using improved seed, and appropriate machine use and access.