Thus, a child's Skeletal Age `` dots '' may be classified as `` advanced '' when they appear above the middle curve, `` moderate '' when they appear immediately above or below the middle curve, and `` delayed '' when they appear below the lower curve.

Thus, the white middle and lower classes are arrayed against the Negro middle and lower classes.

Thus while Persian-speakers were concentrated on the lower rungs of the work force, managers tended to be brought in from some distance.

Thus Lewis and Clark had first to travel the lower Missouri to the Mandan country in North Dakota.

Thus lower cost liquid lubricants may be used.

Thus enhanced electrotonic coupling results in lower tonic activity of the coupled cells while increasing rhythmicity.

Thus, for example, MOVEI A, 3 ( C ) adds 3 to the 18 lower bits of register C and puts the result in register A, without touching memory.

Thus, when these stars expand and cool, they do not brighten as much as lower mass stars ; however, they were much brighter than lower mass stars to begin with, and are thus still brighter than the red giants formed from less massive stars.

" Thus, a lesion at the T8 level will produce pain radiating from the spine laterally along the lower costal margins.

Thus in strong alkali at high pH, it forms the dually charged full urate ion, but at biological pH or in the presence of carbonic acid or carbonate ions, it forms the singly charged hydrogen or acid urate ion as its pKa < sub > 1 </ sub > is lower than the pKa < sub > 1 </ sub > of carbonic acid.

Thus, reducing the current by a factor of 2 will lower the energy lost to conductor resistance by a factor of 4.

Thus, if in this example the composer actually wanted the note a semitone lower than G-natural, he might put first a natural sign to cancel the previous G-sharp, then the flat.

Thus, any exciting frequency lower than the cutoff frequency will attenuate, rather than propagate.

Thus it was the preferred choice of that era for a high-speed backbone, but FDDI has since been effectively obsolesced by fast Ethernet which offered the same 100 Mbit / s speeds, but at a much lower cost and, since 1998, by Gigabit Ethernet due to its speed, and even lower cost, and ubiquity.

Thus range encoding can achieve greater compression ratios than the one-bit-per-symbol lower bound on Huffman encoding and it does not suffer the inefficiencies that Huffman does when dealing with probabilities that are not exact powers of two.

Thus the two justices would have adjudicated the case and upheld the lower court opinion striking down the ban on corporate and union spending.

Thus, the Maasai, according to their own oral history, migrated south from the lower Nile valley north of Lake Turkana in about the 15th century, arriving in a long trunk of land stretching from what is now northern Kenya to what is now central Tanzania during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Thus when there is a wide temperature differential between the hot and cold reservoirs, the COP is lower ( worse ).

Thus, Barbadian manufacturers must compete with those from other regional economies, whose wage costs and other overheads are usually much lower.

Thus, it was explained by the early 1950s that Kryptonians were powerless on their own planet, and would gain super powers only within a lower gravity environment.

Thus, according to the standard quantum-theoretic viewpoint, none of this energy can be withdrawn without altering the system to a different form in which the system has a lower zero-point energy.

Thus while defenders argue that the three-prong test embodies the maxim that " opportunity drives interest ", critics argue that the three-prong test goes beyond Title IX original purpose of preventing discrimination, and instead amounts to an exercise in which athletic opportunities are taken away from male students and given to female students, despite the comparatively lower interest levels of those female students.

Thus, although the agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative, and many of the policies suggested for nations in the earlier stages remain relevant, the basic purpose of American economic policy during the later stages of development should be to assure that movement into a stage of self-sustaining growth is not prevented by lack of foreign exchange.

Thus Af denotes the state of the feed to the R-stage process, and Af the state of the product from the last stage.

Thus, in the immemorial way -- in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not -- was the stage set for tragedy at Bari.

Thus, typically, the first stage of a Communist takeover is to `` neutralize '' a country.

Thus, for example, in the ( still used ) local North American subdivision paleontologist finding fragments of the trilobite Olenellus would identify the beds as being from the Waucoban Stage whereas fragments of a later trilobite such as Elrathia would identify the stage as Albertan.

Thus, the eight items of the path are not to be understood as stages, in which each stage is completed before moving on to the next.

Thus, the initial stage of Ebola is not very contagious since its victims experience only internal hemorrhaging.

) Thus the main sequence represents the primary hydrogen-burning stage of a star's lifetime.

Thus, many modern pumps have a molecular drag stage such as a Holweck or Gaede mechanism near the exhaust to reduce the size of backing pump required.

Thus, motivations and actions for characters will change based on who is present on stage.

Thus, in the beginning of the 18th century, a French travel writer, the Baron de Lahontan, who had actually lived among the Huron Indians, put potentially dangerously radical Deist and egalitarian arguments in the mouth of a Canadian Indian, Adario, who was perhaps the most striking and significant figure of the " good " ( or " noble ") savage, as we understand it now, to make his appearance on the historical stage: Adario sings the praises of Natural Religion.

Thus, from an early stage in its history, when used as a label for various groups of people, the term " Latin " has had purely legal and cultural meanings, not ethnic.

Thus this concept has played a prominent role on the world stage and in world history.

Thus it can form the input stage of a touch-sensitive switch.

Thus, Eliade argues, modern man can learn to see his historical ordeals, even death, as necessary initiations into the next stage of one's existence.

Thus began the career of Dumas fils as a dramatist, which was not only more renowned than that of his father during his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century.

Thus, traditional societies, historical societies, religious societies, either in the East or in the West ( be they tribal, Bedouin, civilized Muslim or non-Muslim societies, in whatever social or cultural stage of civilization they may be ) have all been directly or indirectly influenced by these thoughts, intellectual currents and even new social realities.

Thus ' there is often a movement from dealing with the persona at the start ... to the ego at the second stage, to the shadow as the third stage, to the anima or animus, to the self as the final stage.

Thus he came to sing alongside the great soprano castrato Farinelli, and their meeting on stage ( in the pasticcio Artaserse ) led to a famous incident, reported by the music historian Charles Burney.

Thus a TEM stage may provide four degrees of freedom for the motion of the specimen.

Thus the stage was set for Emperor Maurice to establish the Exarchates to deal with the constantly evolving situation of the provinces.

Thus, Chiang had sent a large number of troops into positions in which they could neither defend properly, without the combined support of the army, nor defend with any real purpose, setting the stage for the last great struggle of the Warlord Era.

Thus the stage was set for the great war, for which the epic of Mahabharata is known most of all.