But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

A simple illustration of such cause and effect is the case of experiencing the effects of what I cause: if I cause suffering, then as a natural consequence I will experience suffering ; if I cause happiness, then as a natural consequence I will experience happiness.

In France, Santo Daime won a court case allowing them to use the tea in early 2005 ; however, they were not allowed an exception for religious purposes, but rather for the simple reason that they did not perform chemical extractions to end up with pure DMT and harmala and the plants used were not scheduled.

For the simple case where the direction of the light beam along the line SE is perpendicular to the motion of the observer then only light emitted at an angle equal to the arc cosine of the ratio of the observer's speed to the speed of light will reach the telescope.

In the simple case of single-slot packets the master transmits in even slots and receives in odd slots ; the slave, conversely, receives in even slots and transmits in odd slots.

BRP is similar to other generic systems such as GURPS, Hero System or Savage Worlds in that it uses a simple resolution method which can be broadly applied, in this case an attempt to roll under a certain number with percentile dice.

The solution of the problem is a special case of a Steiner system, which systems play an important role in the classification of finite simple groups.

This was a spur to having primarily simple parts to play, and in the case of a resident virtuoso group, a spur to writing spectacular, idiomatic parts for certain instruments, as in the case of the Mannheim orchestra.

Each wall, the floor and the ceiling is a simple polygon, in this case, a rectangle.

The first case was done by the Gorenstein – Walter theorem which showed that the only simple groups are isomorphic to L < sub > 2 </ sub >( q ) for q odd or A < sub > 7 </ sub >, the second and third cases were done by the Alperin – Brauer – Gorenstein theorem which implies that the only simple groups are isomorphic to L < sub > 3 </ sub >( q ) or U < sub > 3 </ sub >( q ) for q odd or M < sub > 11 </ sub >, and the last case was done by Lyons who showed that U < sub > 3 </ sub >( 4 ) is the only simple possibility.

One reason for the popularity of the dissociation constant in biochemistry and pharmacology is that in the frequently encountered case where x = y = 1, K < sub > d </ sub > has a simple physical interpretation: when = K < sub > d </ sub >, = or equivalently /(+)= 1 / 2.

In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article.

In the Renaissance period the Italian doors are quite simple, their architects trusting more to the doorways for effect ; but in France and Germany the contrary is the case, the doors being elaborately carved, especially in the Louis XIV and Louis XV periods, and sometimes with architectural features such as columns and entablatures with pediment and niches, the doorway being in plain masonry.

The Nova was packaged into a single rack mount case and had enough power to do most simple computing tasks.

The Romans Road refers to a set of scriptures from Romans that Christian evangelists use to present a clear and simple case for personal salvation for each person.

All this was simple compared to D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), in which four parallel stories are intercut throughout the whole length of the film, though in this case the stories are more similar than contrasting in their nature.

It is not even rigorously proved whether DFTs truly require ( i. e., order or greater ) operations, even for the simple case of power of two sizes, although no algorithms with lower complexity are known.

A simple case of diffusion with time t in one dimension ( taken as the x-axis ) from a boundary located at position, where the concentration is maintained at a value is

The brainfuck language uses a simple machine model consisting of the program and instruction pointer, as well as an array of at least 30, 000 byte cells initialized to zero ; a movable data pointer ( initialized to point to the leftmost byte of the array ); and two streams of bytes for input and output ( most often connected to a keyboard and a monitor respectively, and using the ASCII character encoding ).

In addition, due to the development of body armor, support personnel required a compact weapon with more penetration than the traditional submachine gun, leading to the development of the personal defense weapon, or PDW, which uses rounds that have better ballistics than simple pistol rounds but less power and range than full rifle rounds.

Her signature sound uses simple arrangements with extensive multi-tracking vocals.

There is also English Ceilidh style ; a very energetic form that uses simple country dances, newly composed dances and traditional dances that were collected in the twentieth century.

Since Icon uses success or failure for all flow control, this simple code:

Lithography uses simple chemical processes to create an image.

Like the other common Russian army pistol of this era, the Makarov, the Stechkin uses a simple unlocked blow-back mechanism and the double-action trigger.

* A Mexican Mojito uses the Mexican native tequila instead of rum as a primary alcohol, and simple syrup instead of sugar for a sweetener.

The proof uses the classification of finite simple groups.

A pen ( also called a stylus ) looks like a simple ballpoint pen but uses an electronic head instead of ink.

The shapes and range of uses for ceramics and pottery expanded beyond simple vessels to store and carry to specialized cooking utensils, pot stands and rat traps.

The Playdia uses a single infrared joypad with simple controls.

In the important method known as perturbation theory, one uses the analytic result for a simple quantum mechanical model to generate a result for a more complicated model that is related to the simpler model by ( for one example ) the addition of a weak potential energy.

When detached, the Force can be made to fire, but it uses an array of simple blasters rather than the weapons it supplies to the ship.

A simple version of this kind of research uses the stimulus-response model.

The standard encoding method uses a simple translation of the fields into a byte stream.

Though SSB uses substantially less bandwidth and power, it cannot be demodulated by a simple envelope detector like standard AM.

SOAP may also be used over HTTPS ( which is the same protocol as HTTP at the application level, but uses an encrypted transport protocol underneath ) with either simple or mutual authentication ; this is the advocated WS-I method to provide web service security as stated in the WS-I Basic Profile 1. 1.

Ordinary character theory provides better arithmetic control, and uses simple CG modules to understand the structure of finite groups G. Modular representation theory uses Brauer characters to view modules as formal sums of simple modules, but is also interested in how those simple modules are joined together within composition series.

The advantage of one-way systems is that they can be technically simple and serve many receivers, as the transmitter is unaware of the receivers.

* Flap, any hinged plate often used as a cover or a simple one-way valve

While some models may have a one-way valve at the bottom of the tube which forces some of the boiling water up the tube, most operate on the simple principle that the rising bubbles will force the liquid up the tube.

A simple one-way trapdoor design has been described that is placed over the burrow for this purpose.

Nikola Tesla invented a deceptively simple one-way valve for fluids in 1916, called a Tesla valve.

Rather than limiting the possible causal relationships to simple, linear, one-way dynamics, they entertain the possibility that the causal forces may be multi-directional ( i. e. circular ) and complex.

* In an effort to avoid simple relationships between the cipher key and the subkeys, to resist such forms of cryptanalysis as related-key attacks and slide attacks, many modern ciphers use much more elaborate key schedules, algorithms that use a one-way function to generate an " expanded key " from which subkeys are drawn.

In this simple surgical procedure, a small puncture is made between the trachea and the esophagus, and a one-way air valve is inserted.

As a device intended to pass signals in one direction only, the line filters offer nothing that couldn't be done ( with the same results ) by an inexpensive signal booster-a simple one-way RF amplifier already widely available cheaply and readily for other purposes.

A simple one-way ball-type check valve, in its " open " state.