While man shares this procreative function with all his predecessors in the evolutionary process, he is the only animal with a true non-instinctive and conscious creative ability.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

While the complexity, size, construction, and general form of CPUs have changed enormously since 1950, it is notable that the basic design and function has not changed much at all.

While plenty is known about the healthy heart, the bulk of the study in cardiology is in the disorders of the heart and restoration, where possible, of function.

While it is always possible to directly apply the definition of the derivative to compute the derivative of a composite function, this is usually very difficult.

The EPR paper ends by saying: While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists.

While most compilers for imperative programming languages detect pure functions, and perform common-subexpression elimination for pure function calls, they cannot always do this for pre-compiled libraries, which generally do not expose this information, thus preventing optimizations that involve those external functions.

While almost none of this math goes beyond the basic functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division ( certain obscure and completely optional situations may call for a logarithmic function ), this can seem daunting to newcomers.

While IGF-2 may be primarily fetal in action it is also essential for development and function of organs such as the brain, liver and kidney.

While most modern IDEs are graphical, IDEs in use before the advent of windowing systems ( such as Microsoft Windows or X Window System ( X11 )) were text-based, using function keys or hotkeys to perform various tasks ( Turbo Pascal is a common example ).

While Lippman's journalistic philosophy might be more acceptable to government leaders, Dewey's approach is a better description of how many journalists see their role in society, and, in turn, how much of society expects journalists to function.

While the knot itself does not fail, it ceases to perform the desired function.

While at least one researcher, Michael Persinger, claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

While it is possible to define some arbitrary, ad hoc cost function, frequently a particular cost will be used, either because it has desirable properties ( such as convexity ) or because it arises naturally from a particular formulation of the problem ( e. g., in a probabilistic formulation the posterior probability of the model can be used as an inverse cost ).

While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning.

While at Xerox PARC, Merkle designed the Khufu and Khafre block ciphers, and the Snefru hash function.

While all primitive recursive functions are total, this is not true of partial recursive functions ; for example, the minimisation of the successor function is undefined.

While in mathematics all function applications are referentially transparent, in programming this is not always the case.

While the shot / reverse shot function of split screen comprises most of the running time of the film, the filmmakers also used split screen for other spatial, temporal and emotional effects.

While they may appear to have a far more important part to play, or, perhaps, an important future role, being the unit of account for the IMF has long been the main function of the SDR.

While any LTI system can be described by some transfer function or another,

While being empowered to legislate on matters, the Universal House of Justice has, since its inception, limited its exercise of this function.

While being empowered to legislate on matters, the Universal House of Justice has, since its inception in 1963, been limited in its exercise of this function.

While a student of Andrey Kolmogorov at Moscow State University and still a teenager, Arnold showed in 1957 that any continuous function of several variables can be constructed with a finite number of two-variable functions, thereby partially solving Hilbert's thirteenth problem.

While there had been previous game consoles that used cartridges, either the cartridges had no information and served the same function as flipping switches ( the Odyssey ) or the console itself was empty and the cartridge contained all of the game components.

In this case, is the smallest σ-algebra that contains the open intervals of R. While there are many Borel measures μ, the choice of Borel measure which assigns for every interval is sometimes called " the " Borel measure on R. In practice, even " the " Borel measure is not the most useful measure defined on the σ-algebra of Borel sets ; indeed, the Lebesgue measure is an extension of " the " Borel measure which possesses the crucial property that it is a complete measure ( unlike the Borel measure ).

While capital adequacy is important, it is defined and regulated by the Bank for International Settlements, and central banks in practice generally do not apply stricter rules.

While the new ex-colonial states appeared to follow the blueprint of the idealized state-centralized government, territory enclosed by defined borders, and citizenry with defined rights -, as well as accessories such as a national flag, an anthem, a seat at the United Nations and an official economic policy, they were in actuality far weaker than the Western states they were modeled after.

While often simplistically summarised as " aboutness " or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, Brentano defined it as the main characteristic of mental phenomena, by which they could be distinguished from physical phenomena.

While there is a well defined lower-limit to the length of a daitō, the upper limit is not well enforced ; a number of modern historians, swordsmiths, etc.

While Dutch is classified as a Low Franconian language, the Dutch Low Saxon varieties, which are also defined as Dutch dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language.

While the Catholic Church has a defined doctrine on original sin, it has none on the eternal fate of unbaptized infants, leaving theologians free to propose different theories, which Catholics are free to accept or reject.

While the common meaning of the word " lift " assumes that lift opposes gravity, lift in its technical sense can be in any direction since it is defined with respect to the direction of flow rather than to the direction of gravity.

While the term Lower Mainland has been recorded from the earliest period of non-native settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms.

While the above definition is the most general way to define a filter for arbitrary posets, it was originally defined for lattices only.

While much Native American spiritualism exists in a tribal-cultural continuum, and as such cannot be easily separated from tribal identity itself, certain other more clearly defined movements have arisen among " traditional " Native American practitioners, these being identifiable as " religions " in the clinical sense.

While PrP < sup > C </ sup > is structurally well-defined, PrP < sup > Sc </ sup > is certainly polydisperse and defined at a relatively poor level.

While the United States defined its interests in terms of resisting the fascist threat, Paraguayan officials believed their interests lay in economic expediency and were reluctant to antagonize Germany until the outcome of the war was no longer in doubt.

While the genome is defined by the sequence of nucleotides, the proteome cannot be limited to the sum of the sequences of the proteins present.

While polymers are often randomly constructed with massive entanglement, biopolymers often have a well defined structure.

* While SignWriting has a standardized symbol set and a defined character encoding model, SignWriting is not yet part of the Unicode standard.

While varieties of herbal teas are defined as any plant material for infusion, below is a list of common herbs:

While both musicology and ethnomusicology are defined by being ' the scholarly study of music ' they differ in their methodology and subject of research.

While the definition and scope of thealogy is currently being defined by the key scholars in the field, thealogy is generally understood as a discourse that reflects upon the meaning of Goddess and Her relationship to life forms.

** While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term " planet " was officially defined.

While from this perspective the Dirac delta can usually be manipulated as though it were a function, formally it must be defined as a distribution that is also a measure.

While interoperability was initially defined for IT systems or services and only allows for information to be exchanged ( see definition below ), a more generic definition could be this one:

While this type of plan is popular among unionized workers, Final Average Pay ( FAP ) remains the most common type of defined benefit plan offered in the United States.