In the mathematical field of order theory, given two elements a and b of a partially ordered set, one says that b covers a, and writes a <: b or b :> a, if a < b and there is no element c such that a < c < b. In other words, b covers a if b is greater than a and minimal with this property, or equivalently if a is smaller than b and maximal with this property.

A partially ordered set with a least element is called atomic if every non-zero element b > 0 has an atom a below it, i. e. b ≥ a :> 0.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

`` Why '', he replied, `` it is perfectly simple ; ;

Why, then, with these voluntary barricades and some state laws barring liquor ads, is it necessary to seek congressional action??

Why should I be spinning just because the goddamn log is spinning??

Why should the `` practical adhesion '' of a coating as assessed by a knife method change, initially increasing rather rapidly and then decreasing stepwise to very low values as the knife is forced through a coating of increasing thickness??

Why is it so different in regard to birth control??

And the second question is: Why don't those who now live here move out??

`` Why is that ''??

Why they went with Aster, and not the more well known Tulip is unknown, perhaps they thought it would be to presumptuous, or perhaps the fact that " Aster " is also a Dutch girls name has something to do with it.

Another question of the same character: " Why the boastful claim: ' What nation on earth is like Thy people Israel ' ( II Sam.

*" Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language ", a popular criticism of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal.

*" Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language " – By Brian Kernighan, AT & T Bell Labs, 2 April 1981

* Video ( Princeton University, September 7, 2003 )-" Assembly for the Class of 2007: ' D is for Digital and Why It Matters '"

The over-riding and oft-asked question asked in the book of Job is, " Why do the righteous suffer?

Why Shakespeare's Banquo is so different from the character described by Holinshed and Boece is not known, though critics have proposed several possible explanations.

Some of the driving research questions in studying how the brain itself processes language include: ( 1 ) To what extent is linguistic knowledge innate or learned ?, ( 2 ) Why is it more difficult for adults to acquire a second-language than it is for infants to acquire their first-language ?, and ( 3 ) How are humans able to understand novel sentences?

Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.

* Why the death penalty is needed

" He formulated the cosmological argument succinctly: " Why is there something rather than nothing?

Why is it so difficult sometimes to get employees up to date on rapidly developing new technology?

" The prophet Nathan confronts David, saying: " Why have you despised the word of God, to do what is evil in his sight?

Why buy the cow, when consumers can get the milk for free?

Why would two street musicians have a cow, after all?

With Hulbert, she recorded such numbers as " Why has a cow got four legs ".

Why didn't you go there ''??

`` Why not you ''??

Why should I??

Why had I registered??

Barton said harshly, `` Why did you do that ''??

Why did these yokels still wear boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in years??

`` Why single me out on this permit deal ''??

`` Why did you do it -- why did you hit him ''??

`` Why ain't you playin' ball ''??

`` Why didn't he want you to get hitched ''??

Why does Wisman's ever-changing code always mesh with the fragments in possession of the button pushers??

Why should this be so??

`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.

Type 1, is represented by the cow, sheep, and pig ; ;

Three quarters to 1 acre of good land is enough for raising fruits and vegetables for home use, and for a small flock of chickens, a cow, and two pigs.

Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

An alternative strategy is to try to cow other players into submission with a high opening bid.

The manufacturing sector is confined to some light industry, which is mainly involved in processing primary products and the cow production of consumer goods.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

Since the Belgian Blue ’ s bone structure is the same as a normal cow, however holding a greater amount of muscle, causes them to have a greater meat to bone ratio.

* A cow that is black.

CJD is at times called a human form of mad cow disease ( bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE ) even though classic CJD is not related to BSE ; however, given that BSE is believed to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt – Jakob ( vCJD ) disease in humans, the two are often confused.

Dairy cows can only produce milk after having calved, and so every dairy cow is allowed to produce one calf each year throughout her productive life.

for the Terrified, which was originally set up in Wedmore in 1999, is based in an old cow shed on the school's grounds.

Cow tipping or cow pushing is the purported activity of sneaking up on a sleeping, upright cow and pushing it over for one's entertainment.

As cattle do not sleep standing up and they are quite capable of avoiding or resisting attempts to tip them, cow tipping is a myth.

A variety of calculations have been performed to determine if cow tipping is physically possible.

A study led by Margo Lillie, a doctor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, concludes that cow tipping — by a single person — is impossible.

Harding stated that Cheddar cheese is " not made in the field, nor in the byre, nor even in the cow, it is made in the dairy ".

One section states that if a man purchases a cow that is found to be pregnant, then he is the owner both of the cow and the calf that is born from it.