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This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.
Assistive Technology for Cognition ( ATC ) is the use of technology ( usually high tech ) to augment and assistive cognitive processes such as attention, memory, self-regulation, navigation, emotion recognition and management, planning, and sequencing activity.
( It is probable that, under the classical tutelage of Asser, Alfred utilised the design of Greek and Roman warships, with high sides, designed for fighting rather than for navigation.
The cockpit of an aircraft is a typical location for avionic equipment, including control, monitoring, communication, navigation, weather, and anti-collision systems.
* Altimeter-barometer-compass, a set of sensors common in consumer navigation devices for outdoor activities.
The official aeronautical navigation charts for the area show Groom Lake but omit the airport facilities.
In 1870 he was appointed a member of the commission for drawing up a maritime and commercial code, and the navigation law of 1882 is mainly his work.
It is used in those fields which require a unit for the expression of small angles, such as astronomy, ophthalmology, navigation and marksmanship.
In the beginning, it was available for navigation, in Delhi, erstwhile Gurgaon, Mathura and Agra Districts, and Bharatpur State.
Later, navigation was stopped in 1904 and the canal has since then, been exclusively used for irrigation purposes only.
The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara ( which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea.
It is a highly dangerous point for ship navigation.
Classically, beacons were fires lit at well-known locations on hills or high places, used either as lighthouses for navigation at sea, or for signalling over land that enemy troops were approaching, in order to alert defenses.
* Bearing ( navigation ), a term for direction
The narrow early industrial canals, however, have ceased to carry significant amounts of trade and many have been abandoned to navigation, but may still be used as a system for transportation of untreated water.
Main inland waterways are the Magdalena – Cauca River system, which is navigable for 1, 500 kilometers ; the Atrato, which is navigable for 687 kilometers ; the Orinoco system of more than five navigable rivers, which total more than 4, 000 kilometers of potential navigation ( mainly through Venezuela ); and the Amazonas system, which has four main rivers totaling 3, 000 navigable kilometers ( mainly through Brazil ).
These charts may have been in use by the beginning of the Common Era for purposes of navigation.
* Marine chronometer, a timekeeper used for celestial navigation
IMS was generally similar in concept to Codasyl, but used a strict hierarchy for its model of data navigation instead of Codasyl's network model.
Because DOM supports navigation in any direction ( e. g., parent and previous sibling ) and allows for arbitrary modifications, an implementation must at least buffer the document that has been read so far ( or some parsed form of it ).
As was the case with LORAN C, its primary use was for ship navigation in coastal waters.

for and aids
It also maintains shops for the design and fabrication of exhibits, training aids and instruments and libraries for the loan of films and teaching lantern slide sets.
Yet certain aids were valuable and quite credibly necessary for reciting long stretches of verse without a pause.
Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.
The Germanic poet had such aids in the kennings, which provided for the difficulties of alliteration ; ;
With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.
The works that have survived are in treatise form and were not, for the most part, intended for widespread publication, as they are generally thought to be lecture aids for his students.
This imagery is used for everything from navigational aids, search and rescue, and target acquisition.
This places the BRP in the notable position of being one of the first products to allow other game companies to develop games or game aids for their work.
In the simplest mechanical extensions, there are no mechanical aids attached to the fingerboard extension except a locking nut for the " E " note.
On the other hand, one of those who criticized Haeckel's drawings, Michael Richardson, has argued that " Haeckel's much-criticized drawings are important as phylogenetic hypotheses, teaching aids, and evidence for evolution ".
Psychic Miki Saegusa, who also heads an institution for intuitive children, aids him in his research.
In sequential order, treatment is designed for patients to realize their altered perception of vertical, use visual aids for feedback about body orientation, learn the movements necessary to reach proper vertical position, and maintain vertical body position while performing other activities.
However, this cost may be overwhelmed by the short term benefit of higher infectiousness if transmission is linked to virulence, as it is for instance in the case of cholera ( the explosive diarrhea aids the bacterium in finding new hosts ) or many respiratory infections ( sneezing and coughing create infectious aerosols ).
However, there are still minimum weather conditions that must be present in order for the aircraft to take off and land ; these will vary according to the kind of operation, the type of navigation aids available, the location and height of terrain and obstructions in the vicinity of the airport, equipment on the aircraft, and the qualifications of the crew.
Labour demand is a derived demand ; that is, hiring labour is not desired for its own sake but rather because it aids in producing output, which contributes to an employer's revenue and hence profits.
As the wood suffers dimensional changes through age and loss of humidity, it must as closely as possible retain a circular cross-section in order to function properly, as there are no gears or other mechanical aids for tuning the instrument.
Alternative compositions exist for different uses, e. g. triethylaluminium, a pyrophoric compound that aids ignition.
It has been speculated that some features that distinguish poetry from prose, such as meter, alliteration and kennings, once served as memory aids for bards who recited traditional tales.
For example, the pasteurization standards for cream differ from the standards for fluid milk, and the standards for pasteurizing cheese are designed to preserve the phosphatase enzyme, which aids in cutting.

for and give
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
`` I will give Mr. Roy his due for this dive.
Once inside the luxuriosly-upholstered landau, she drew the curtains and proceeded to give the startled youth the kind of physical examination usually reserved for army inductees.
I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.
It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
Most avant-garde creators, true to their interest in the self-sufficiency of pure movement, have tended to dress their dancers in simple lines and solid colors ( often black ) and to give them a bare cyclorama for a setting.
Instead of giving themselves spontaneously to the orgiastic release that jazz can give them, they undergo psychoanalysis or flirt with mysticism or turn to prostitutes for satisfaction.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
As a groundwork for the proposal I give some attention to the first task enumerated above, the clarification of goal.
Altogether, the list will give us considerable variety in attitudes and some typical ones, for these critics range all the way from censors to those who consider art above ethics, all the way from Plato to Poe.
For a time, urging Breasted to give up his public relations work and take up writing instead, he hoped to persuade him to become his assistant in research for the labor novel ; ;
The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know.
Why should Congress even consider allowing such a sum for that which can give no protection??
Now he is apparently expected to give up his evenings -- and Sundays, too, for this is coming.
Therefore, give Him your affection and store up His love for you.
But there will be still other countries where, despite the inadequacy of the level of self-help, we shall deem it wise, for political or military reasons, to give substantial economic assistance.
Armed Forces Day is the annual report on this investment, a public presentation designed to give our own people, and the people of other lands who stand with us for peace with freedom and justice, the best possible opportunity to see and understand what we have and why we have it.
Congress should then be asked to give the Peace Corps a firm legislative foundation for the next fiscal year.
An Advisory Council of outstanding public figures with experience in world affairs should be formed to give the program continuing guidance and to afford a focal point for public understanding.
The physical education program for men recognizes the value of participation in competitive sports in the development of the individual student and aims to give every man an opportunity to enter some form of athletic competition, either intercollegiate or intramural.
As I have indicated above, I base this feeling on a belief that current weakness in the market for consumer durable goods may continue through the early months of the year, but will give way to a sufficiently strong recovery later on to bring the full-year figures close to those of 1960 ; ;
The answers they give can often pave the way to performance increases and, quite often, are necessary for completing entry blanks for different events.

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