The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

It is the basis for Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ), which is used for civil timekeeping all over the Earth's surface, and for Terrestrial Time, which is used for astronomical calculations.

The latter is not to be confused with TA ( NPL ), which denotes an independent atomic time scale, not synchronised to TAI or to anything else.

Next were films such as The Winds of the Aures ( 1965 ) of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Patrol To The East ( 1972 ) of Amar Laskri, Prohibited Area of Ahmed Lallem, ( 1972 ), The Opium and the stick of Ahmed Rachedi, or The Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ) which is an Algerian-Italian film selected three times at the Oscars.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The committee debated the possibility of a shift key function ( like the Baudot code ), which would allow more than 64 codes to be represented by six bits.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

The magicians were also called " seer-doctors " ( ιατρομάντεις ), and they used an ecstatic prophetic art which was used exactly by the god Apollo at the oracles.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

The earliest Greek word for a statue is " delight " ( άγαλμα: agalma ), and the sculptors tried to create forms which would inspire such guiding vision.

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

The artists tried also to represent motion in a specific moment ( Myron ), which may be considered as the reappearance of the dormant Minoan element.

These form thirteen established families ( plus perhaps Shompen, which is poorly attested, as a fourteenth ), which have traditionally been grouped into two, as Mon – Khmer and Munda.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

They range in size from the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), which can grow to a length of, to the diminutive Thorius pennatulus from Mexico which seldom exceeds.

In the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), the interior of the globular egg cluster has been found to be up to 6 ° C ( 11 ° F ) warmer than its surroundings which is an advantage in its cool northern habitat.

Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons, gills for respiration ( external gills at first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems and large tails which they use for swimming.

1st century BCE ), shows how the distance to the Sun can be computed geometrically, using the different lengths of the noontime shadows observed at three places 1000 li apart and the assumption that the Earth is flat.

Today the fort serves as the Museo Histórico de Acapulco ( Acapulco Historical Museum ), which shows the port ’ s history from the pre-Hispanic period until independence.

He was " a former soldier and a Greek " ( miles quondam et graecus ), he tells us, and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici ( household guards ) shows that he was of noble birth.

A series of extant drawings show Dürer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve ( 1504 ), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.

It listed and quantified his public expenditure, which encompassed distributions to the people, grants of land or money to army veterans, subsidies to the aerarium ( treasury ), building of temples, religious offerings, and expenditures on theatrical shows and gladiatorial games.

An account of small cash sums received over a few days at the fort of Vindolanda circa 110 AD shows that the fort could compute revenues in cash on a daily basis, perhaps from sales of surplus supplies or goods manufactured in the camp, items dispensed to slaves such as cervesa ( beer ) and clavi caligares ( nails for boots ), as well as commodities bought by individual soldiers.

Specifically, the conceptual diagram graph 1 identifies only three boxes, two ellipses, and four arrows ( and their five labels ), whereas the picture 1 shows much more pictorial detail, with the scores of implied relationships as implicit in the picture rather than with the nine explicit details in the graph.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

The brain of a shark shows the basic components in a straightforward way, but in teleost fishes ( the great majority of existing fish species ), the forebrain has become " everted ", like a sock turned inside out.

The structure of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ), the picture shows the monomers being put together.

), which shows association with " day ", possibly with Day personified as a deity which, Grimm points out, would agree with the meaning " shining one, white one, a god " derived from the meaning of Baltic baltas, further adducing Slavic Belobog and German Berhta.

This shows in particular that is a natural number for any natural numbers n and k. There are many other combinatorial interpretations of binomial coefficients ( counting problems for which the answer is given by a binomial coefficient expression ), for instance the number of words formed of n bits ( digits 0 or 1 ) whose sum is k is given by, while the number of ways to write where every a < sub > i </ sub > is a nonnegative integer is given by.

Other important trade shows include " BaselWorld " ( watches and jewelry ), Art Basel, Orbit and Cultura.

In 1992 the Blue Angels deployed for a month-long European tour, their first in 19 years, conducting shows in Sweden, Finland, Russia ( the first foreign flight demonstration team to perform there ), Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.

The table shows the twelve most common elements in our galaxy ( estimated spectroscopically ), as measured in parts per million, by mass.

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

As well as being a regular panellist on Radio 4's Loose Ends ( 1987 – 88 ), and guest appearances on shows such as Radio 4's Kaleidoscope, in the early 1990s, Charles could be heard on the London Radio Station Kiss 100 ( Kiss FM ) as the Breakfast show presenter.

This shows that the limits of both factors exist and that they equal f ′( g ( a )) and g ′( a ), respectively.

The Bohr model of the atom fixed the problem of energy loss from radiation from a ground state ( by declaring that there was no state below this ), and more importantly explained the origin of spectral lines.

The loss, however, of a division ( mora ), destroyed by Iphicrates, neutralized these successes, and Agesilaus returned to Sparta.

He twice ran away from home without permission to hear his elder brother play violin concertos in neighboring churches on festival days ( resulting in the loss of his beloved sugar ), and he also recounted being chastised by his father after failing to greet a local priest with proper respect.

There are three reasons for this population loss: firstly, since the completion of Telli ( a large apartment complex ), the city has not had any more considerable land developments.

* Vitiligo ( or leukoderma ), patchy loss of dermal pigmentation

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

The rare case risks are extremely high because these small price differences are converted to large profits via leverage ( borrowed money ), and in the rare event of a large price move, this may yield a large loss.

According to Lowenstein ( p. 234 ), LTCM lost $ 286 million in equity pairs trading and more than half of this loss is accounted for by the Royal Dutch Shell trade.

By the 10th Revision of the WHO International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, low vision is defined as visual acuity of less than 20 / 60 ( 6 / 18 ), but equal to or better than 20 / 200 ( 6 / 60 ), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 20 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.

Blindness is defined as visual acuity of less than 20 / 400 ( 6 / 120 ), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 10 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.

On reaching 21 ( including soft 21 ), the hand is normally required to stand ; busting is an irrevocable loss and the players ' wagers are immediately forfeited to the house.

Some scholars, such as Constance B. Kuriyama, have also identified more serious underlying themes, such as greed ( The Gold Rush ) or loss ( The Kid ), in Chaplin's comedies.

Since the start of the " Special Period " in 1991 ( energy shortages caused by the loss of the Soviet Union as a trading partner ), hitchhiking and carpooling have become important parts of Cuba's transportation system and society in general.

Assuming perfect combustion conditions, such as complete combustion under adiabatic conditions ( i. e., no heat loss or gain ), the adiabatic combustion temperature can be determined.

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

This fossil species bears a combination of features that definitively mark it as a canid: teeth that include the loss of the upper third molar ( a general trend toward a more shearing bite ), and the characteristically enlarged bony bulla ( the rounded covering over the middle ear ).

About one-third of patients go on to develop digestive system damage, resulting in dilation of the digestive tract ( megacolon and megaesophagus ), accompanied by severe weight loss.

Because the act of processing results in the loss of certain vitamins and minerals ( such as magnesium ), some consider raw cacao to be a more nutritious form of chocolate.

This results in the most common side-effects of chemotherapy: myelosuppression ( decreased production of blood cells, hence also immunosuppression ), mucositis ( inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract ), and alopecia ( hair loss ).

Impairments caused by local brain tissue damage on the bleed site are also possible, including seizure, one-sided weakness ( hemiparesis ), a loss of touch sensation on one side of the body and deficits in language processing ( aphasia ).

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.