Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

Very angry at Woodruff, the governor used his personal influence to have the printing contract withdrawn from The Gazette and awarded to the lowest bidder, which, by a strange coincidence, happened to be Pike's Advocate.

The narrator feels himself catching a glimpse of pre-history, learning of man's `` age-old familiarity with misfortune '', as well as his `` equally age-old ingenuity, his secret faith in endurance, however crammed with catastrophes, the same faith perhaps as the cave-men used to have in the face of famine ''.

Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.

I'm used to all three, but I think the French have the healthiest attitude ''.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

The same is true if you have itemized your deductions and later decide you should have used the Standard Deduction or Tax Table.

ICBMs have given us a capability which could be used in two different ways.

This method of computing compression ratio cannot be used accurately for engines that have pistons with either domed or irregularly shaped heads.

Don't forget -- when you take to the hills or the beach -- that your cooler, which you might have used for wine- or beer-cooling on your terrace or back yard, is indispensable for carrying liquid refreshments.

I have used a variety of heavy-weight hand-made papers, but prefer an English make, rough surface, in 400-pound weight.

We have noted how some electronic techniques, developed for the defense effort, have evenutally been used in commerce and industry.

Based on this phenomenon, a number of investigators have used this method to `` look through '' human organs.

As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.

Where Americans used to think of a single vacation each summer, they now think about how many vacations they can have.

Not all the observers have used the same procedures or made the same assumptions about the lunar brightness distribution when reducing the data, and this, together with differences in the methods of calibrating the antennae and receivers, must account for much of the disagreement in the measured radio brightness temperatures.

Forty other figures similar to 5 and 6 and the original data used in the construction of all figures and tables in this monograph have been included in the Appendix.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

Let us now put some flesh on the theoretical bones we have assembled by giving illustrations of roleplaying used for evaluation and analysis.

There have also been other algorithms based on Markov chains.

Markov chains have many applications as statistical models of real-world processes.

* Continuous-time Markov processes have a continuous index.

In his study of stochastic processes ( random processes ), especially Markov processes, Kolmogorov and the British mathematician Sydney Chapman independently developed the pivotal set of equations in the field, which have been give the name of the Chapman – Kolmogorov equations.

A stochastic process, defined via a separate argument, may be shown mathematically to have the Markov property, and as a consequence to have the properties that can be deduced from this for all Markov processes.

If represents the number of dollars you have in chips after n tosses, with, then the sequence is a Markov process.

Let denote the number of kernels which have popped up to time t. Then this is a continuous time, non-homogenous Markov process.

Hidden Markov models have been used to produce probability scores for a family of possible multiple sequence alignments for a given query set ; although early HMM-based methods produced underwhelming performance, later applications have found them especially effective in detecting remotely related sequences because they are less susceptible to noise created by conservative or semiconservative substitutions.

In statistics, the Gauss – Markov theorem, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Andrey Markov, states that in a linear regression model in which the errors have expectation zero and are uncorrelated and have equal variances, the best linear unbiased estimator ( BLUE ) of the coefficients is given by the ordinary least squares estimator.

The underlying model is a Bayesian model similar to a hidden Markov model but where the state space of the latent variables is continuous and where all latent and observed variables have Gaussian distributions.

Markov algorithms have been shown to be Turing-complete, which means that they are suitable as a general model of computation and can represent any mathematical expression from its simple notation.

A good chain will have rapid mixing — the stationary distribution is reached quickly starting from an arbitrary position — described further under Markov chain mixing time.

A Markov chain is constructed in such a way as to have the integrand as its equilibrium distribution.

Markov chain Monte Carlo methods that change dimensionality have also long been used in statistical physics applications, where for some problems a distribution that is a grand canonical ensemble is used ( e. g., when the number of molecules in a box is variable ).

Yet, though Bulgarian émigré dissident Georgi Markov wrote that " served the Soviet Union more ardently than the Soviet leaders themselves did ," in many ways he can be said to have exploited the USSR for political purposes, with Bulgaria serving a buffer between the USSR and NATO.

Both the terms " Markov property " and " strong Markov property " have been used in connection with a particular " memoryless " property of the exponential distribution.

This was a track from the Chain Lightning album that should have been the second of four with Arista.

The filmmaker purchased the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge for one dollar from the government and then gave it back to them for a dollar, " so that they wouldn't have any liability ," Hill remembers.

Chain dances of a similar type to these modern dance forms have been documented from the medieval Balkans.

Over ten heavy silver chains, some over 0. 5m long, have been found from this period ; the double-linked Whitecleuch Chain is one of only two that have a penannular ring, with symbol decoration including enamel, which shows how these were probably used as " choker " necklaces.

Chain letters have become wide spread on Myspace ( in the form of Myspace bulletins ) and YouTube ( in the form of video comments ) as well as on Facebook through messages or applications.

Feminists have criticised the subgenre: Vera Dika's Games of Terror analyzed the genre's formula and its treatment of female victims, Carol J. Clover defined the final girl in her book Men, Women and Chain Saws and Cristal Isabel Pinedo's Recreational Terror considered female spectatorship.

Among others, Steve Albini ( Shellac, Rapeman, Big Black ), Panthére, Gang Gang Dance, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Sisters of Mercy, She Wants Revenge, Henry Rollins, Joy Division / New Order, Soft Cell, Nick Cave, Cassandra Complex, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Radiohead, Kap Bambino, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Angel Corpus Christi ( covers of Dream Baby Dream and Cheree with Alan Vega guest vocals ), Michael Gira, MGMT, Sonic Boom, Loop, The Fleshtones ( both of whom have recorded cover versions of " Rocket USA "), Ric Ocasek of The Cars, Mi Ami, R. E. M.

Known as the St. Paul, Romanche, Chain, and Ascension fracture zones, these areas have with deep, easily identifiable transfrom faults and ridges.

" Rock acts that have cited The Birthday Party as an influence include LCD Soundsystem, White Zombie, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Mars Volta, Coil, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhunter, Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Melt-Banana, 16 Horsepower, Big Boys, Dinosaur Jr., and Tindersticks.

Their design may have been influenced by Marschalko János's lions at each abutment to the Széchenyi Lánchíd ( Chain Bridge ) in Budapest, installed 6 years before the Trafalgar Square lions were commissioned.

Spaggiari first denied his involvement in the break-in, then acknowledged it but claimed that he was working to fund a secret political organization named the " Catena " ( Italian for Chain ) that seems to have existed only in his fantasy.

Members Mike Down, Tim Gonzales, Barry Kellman, and Sergio Hernandez would have started a scene which shared the likes with Orange County bands " Chain of Strength " and " Inside Out " feat.

Chain stitch is an ancient craft-examples of surviving Chinese chain stitch embroidery worked in silk thread have been dated to the Warring States period ( 5th-3rd century BC ).

* Other songs entitled " Chain Gang " have been written and performed by Johnny Cash ; Bobby Scott in the 1950s ; and as a B-side song to The Blue Hearts ' single " Kiss Shite Hoshii ".

Chain dances, known as víkivaki, have been performed in Iceland since the 11th century at a variety of occasions, such as in churches and during the Christmas season.

The earliest mention of the nickname can be traced to interviews with riders of Festina in 1998 – 2000, who apparently suggested that if they had been doped above 50 %, then Riis must have been doped to at least 60 %, since he was able to win the Tour de France in 1996 ahead of the Festina rider Richard Virenque: in Willy Voet's book Breaking the Chain, he mentions that Festina's team doctor would not allow EPO to be administered if a rider's hematocrit level was near 55 %.

Testing performed in early 2009 by the Northrop-Grumman Corporation established that this compound, along with the aircraft's shape, would have rendered the Ho 229 virtually invisible to the top-end HF-band, 20-30 MHz primary signals of Britain's Chain Home early warning radar, provided the aircraft was traveling at high speed ( approximately ) at extremely low altitude ( 50 – 100 feet ).

One concept, that of Christian Western Europe, conceived of the races as constituting a hierarchical chain of life known as the Great Chain of Being, which was believed to have been created by God, in which the people thought the Christian European races were closest to God in perfection.

Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices.

Charles White, a physician and surgeon, believed that races occupied different stations in the Great Chain of Being and he tried to prove with science that human races have distinct origins from each other.

Like The Jesus and Mary Chain, " Jesus Built My Hotrod ", The Jesus Lizard, Jesus Jones ; there's just heaps of Jesus ' out there in the music world so we thought we would have that and super was kind of like a ' 90s catch word.

Chain failure is much less of a problem on hub-geared systems ( e. g. Sturmey-Archer AW ) since the parallel pins have a much bigger wearing surface in contact with the bush.