simple: U. S. Electoral College

All U. S. States – other than Maine and Nebraska – use a winner-take-all form of simple plurality, first-past-the-post voting to determine the electors appointed to the Electoral College.

simple: Alternative medicine

simple: Alternative

Alternative techniques for airway management and delivery of oxygen, volatile anesthetics or other breathing gases include the laryngeal mask airway, i-gel, cuffed oropharyngeal airway, continuous positive airway pressure ( CPAP mask ), nasal BiPAP mask, simple face mask, and nasal cannula.

simple: Alternative metal

Interpreting the results of an LCA is not as simple as " 3 is better than 2, therefore Alternative A is the best choice "!

simple: Alternative Press

The Book of Alternative Services of the Anglican Church of Canada provides a simple version of Evening Prayer.

Alternative versions of the song-varying from simple remixes of the basic vocal track, to a full cover version by Belgian techno group Dynamite-were also at numbers seven and ten in Belgium, and at number two in the Netherlands.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

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.

Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

Catholics who were truly Christians longed for the simple penance of days gone by.

Here briefly in this humble tribute I have sought for some simple and succinct summation that would define the immense service of this patriot to his country.

They should provide for simple recreation.

They should know simple exercises that could prepare less fortunate children for the sports we will demand be taught.

Recently many doctors have installed ultrasonic vibration machines for deep massage of bruises, contusions, and simple bursitis.

Af appeared to be well suited for the study of these matters, since it is a normal paramagnet, with three unpaired electrons on the chromium, its crystal structure is very simple, and the unknown position of the hydrogen in the strong Af bond provides structural interest.

We are reporting these investigations here briefly because of their relevancy to problems of the study of apparently simple exchange reactions of chlorine and because the results furnish some information on the activation energy for abstraction of chlorine atoms from carbon tetrachloride.

In considering roleplaying for analysis we enter a more complex area, since we are now no longer dealing with a simple over-all decision but rather with the examination and evaluation of many elements seen in dynamic functioning.

Thomas also presents a simple equation for deriving an index of persistence, which weights not only the number of stems ( ' roots ' ) per meaning, but their relative frequency.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.

It is a simple matter, for one so disposed, to take a work like The Sane Society and shred it into odds and ends.

The simple time-temperature equivalence valid for many amorphous systems did not hold here.

A simple process for the preparation of nearly monodisperse polystyrene of predictable molecular weight has been developed.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

But his is still a simple life relatively free of the female presence or influence, and he must go far, even though he may go fast, for sophisticated pleasures.

simple: Labour

simple: John Smith ( Labour Party leader )

The Norwegian Labour Party, which controlled a simple majority of seats in the Norwegian Parliament orchestrated this change.

During the passage of the Scotland Act 1978 through Parliament, an amendment introduced by Labour MP George Cunningham ( a Scottish politician who represented an English seat ) added a further requirement that the approval at the referendum be by 40 % of Scotland's total registered electorate, rather than by a simple majority.

In the midst of the 1992 general election campaign, on 24 March, Labour ran a Party Election Broadcast about a five year old girl with glue ear who waited a year for the simple operation to insert vents.

In part, the Economists own editorial stance was a simple reflection of attitudes within the UK in general, and of its two major political parties through the middle to late 20th century ( Conservative and Labour ), resisting the surrender of sovereignty to a supranational institution for as long as possible, and attempting to preserve the UK's self-image of a world power.

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

simple: Social Security

simple: Social class

Social scientists have identified hunter-gatherer societies, nomadic pastoral societies, horticulturalist or simple farming societies, and intensive agricultural societies, also called civilizations.

simple: Social contract

simple: Social Darwinism

simple: Social capital

simple: Social Security ( United States )

simple: Social justice

simple: Social Democratic Party of Germany

simple: Social equality

simple: Social status

simple: Social studies

simple: Social realism

Social norms are enforced by informal social sanctions, ranging from simple expressions of disapproval ( mild ) to shunning or vandalism ( severe ).

While most avoid the tedious tasks of reading Spencer's massive volumes ( filled as they are with long passages explicating the organic analogy, with reference to cells, simple organisms, animals, humans and society ), there are some important insights that have quietly influenced many contemporary theorists, including Talcott Parsons, in his early work " The Structure of Social Action " ( 1937 ).

simple: Social network

simple: International Institute of Social History

simple: Social Democratic Party ( Romania )

Social Insurance Numbers can be validated through a simple check digit process called the Luhn Algorithm.

is a simple checksum formula used to validate a variety of identification numbers, such as credit card numbers, IMEI numbers, National Provider Identifier numbers in US and Canadian Social Insurance Numbers.

simple: Category: Social sciences

simple: Social engineering

simple: Social liberalism

* " The personal principle wants to organize nations not in territorial bodies but in simple association of persons ", in Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question, 1907.