Their possessions consisted of cattle and gold, because these were the only things they could carry about with them everywhere according to circumstances and shift where they chose.

By choosing widely separated keys, one could employ one dimple as a ' shift ' key to allow both letters and numbers to be produced.

With eleven keys in a 3 / 4 / 4 arrangement, 43 symbols could be arranged allowing for lowercase text, numbers and a modest number of punctuation symbols to be represented along with a ' shift ' function for accessing uppercase letters.

A description of how the device could be used as a shift register and as a linear and area imaging devices was described in this first entry.

Within hours they realized that, because of the Doppler effect, they could pinpoint where the satellite was along its orbit from the Doppler shift.

Others recount that Watt determined that a pony could lift an average per minute over a four-hour working shift.

The ability of corporations to shift their supply chains from one country to another with relative ease could be the starting gun for a " regulatory race to the bottom ", whereby nation states are forced into a merciless downward spiral, not only slashing tax rates and public services with it but also laws that in the short term cost employers money.

Pubs near London's Smithfield market, Billingsgate fish market and Covent Garden fruit and flower market could stay open 24 hours a day since Victorian times to provide a service to the shift working employees of the markets.

That could document an ancient shift, from viewing prophets as seers for hire to viewing them as moral teachers.

Kuhn used the duck-rabbit optical illusion to demonstrate the way in which a paradigm shift could cause one to see the same information in an entirely different way.

Thus, it could be argued that it caused or was itself part of a " paradigm shift " in the history and sociology of science.

Since the 1860s, the river has been mostly locked in its channel, which once could shift hundreds of feet or even several miles in a year because of floods.

For decades, such matte shots had to be done " locked-down " so that neither the matted subject nor the background could shift their camera perspective at all.

The shift from the largely public displays of dissection in anatomy theatres to dissections carried out in classrooms meant that there was a drastic change in who could observe a dissection.

So the shift from prosection to dissection meant a reduction in the number of people that could benefit from a single cadaver.

He found that the discharge caused a fluorescent glow to form on the glass walls of the vacuum tube, and that the glow could be made to shift by applying an electromagnet to the tube, thus creating a magnetic field.

A crucial result was the shift of the parties to reliance on funding from business, since they could no longer depend on patronage hopefuls.

SAM, being a methyl group donor necessary for DNMT activity, could further shift epigenetic control of gene expression.

According to the journalist Paul Routledge, Donald Bruce, a former MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary and adviser to Bevan, had told him that Bevan's shift on the disarmament issue was the result of discussions with the Soviet government where they advised him to push for British retention of nuclear weapons so they could possibly be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the United States.

As frontiers once more shift in Eastern Europe and families flee in Bosnia, he could hardly have chosen a better moment to deliver it.

Later, 6-bit codes became common to avoid the figures vs. character errors that could occur when Baudot's shift character was corrupted.

So in this case, the compiler cannot optimize division by two by replacing it by a bit shift, when the dividend could possibly be negative.

The single demonstrated a style shift advised by Red Rhino's Tony Perrin who had convinced Cocker that he " could write commercial songs like Wham !".

It had a strange shift pattern: the first was back on the left, the second and third were inline, and the fourth ( or the S ) could be engaged only by turning the lever to the right from the third.

If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.

Require each employee to work his last shift both before and after the holiday to be eligible for pay.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.

No one anticipates any radical shift in this situation, but questions concerning reading habits, the availability of such data and the places where it is discussed must surely be raised.

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.

Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation ( addition, multiplication, shift, etc.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

The crucial differences with the previous wave can be seen in the downward shift in melodies, increasing durations of movements, the acceptance of Mozart and Haydn as paradigmatic, the greater use of keyboard resources, the shift from " vocal " writing to " pianistic " writing, the growing pull of the minor and of modal ambiguity, and the increasing importance of varying accompanying figures to bring " texture " forward as an element in music.

Braille, like Baudot, uses a number symbol and a shift symbol, which may be repeated for shift lock, to fit numbers and upper case into the 31 codes that 6 bits offer.

*"( L. 2 ) ( Locality ) A computor can shift attention from one symbolic configuration to another one, but the new observed configurations must be within a bounded distance of the immediately previously observed configuration.

This came to be known as Tenebrism, the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value.

In cases where a metonymic shift would be otherwise revealed nearby, the whole sentence may be recast to avoid the metonymy.

The shift from a command economy to a market economy has proven to be difficult ; in particular, there were no theoretical guides for doing so before the 1990s.

In its place he established an effectively autocratic structure, a shift later epitomized in the institution's name: it would be called a consistorium (" consistory "), not a council.

This increase in demand means more workers are needed, and then AD will be shifted from AD2 to AD3, but this time much less is produced than in the previous shift, but the price level has risen from P2 to P3, a much higher increase in price than in the previous shift.

The tension may be rooted in power shift arising from the dramatic increase in oil production which has occurred since 1997.

He had seen a dry, old, yellowing hand reach out, with that painful solicitude, to touch, to rearrange, to shift aimlessly, some object worth a pfennig.

However, although this approach — the " shift ... from the quasi-historical or legendary materials ... to the folktale line of inquiry ," was seen as a step in the right direction, " The Bear's Son " tale was seen as too universal.

Iron's shift to a higher oxidation state in Hb-O < sub > 2 </ sub > decreases the atom's size, and allows it into the plane of the porphyrin ring, pulling on the coordinated histidine residue and initiating the allosteric changes seen in the globulins.

This has resulted in a shift toward reading on e-readers, smartphones, and other electronic devices rather than print media and has faced news organizations with the ongoing problem of monetizing on digital news. It remains to be seen which news organizations can make the best of the advent of digital media and whether or not print media can survive.

Another example of the shift to digital libraries can be seen in Cushing Academy ’ s decision to dispense with its library of printed books — more than 20, 000 volumes in all — and switch over entirely to digital media resources.

Colonization of Africa resulted in a cultural shift ; aboriginal sexuality was no longer seen as fluid and dynamic but binary and set for life.

So for the gravitational force — or, more generally, for any inverse square force law — the right hand side of the equation becomes a constant and the equation is seen to be the harmonic equation ( up to a shift of origin of the dependent variable ).

The early years of the 21st century have seen a shift of opinion in Scott's favour, in what cultural historian Stephanie Barczewski calls " a revision of the revisionist view ".

The first Doppler redshift was described by French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848, who pointed to the shift in spectral lines seen in stars as being due to the Doppler effect.

In recent years, Switzerland has seen a gradual shift in the party landscape.

Although Tricky stayed on in a lesser role, and Hooper again produced, the fertile dance music scene of the early ' 90s had informed the record, and it was seen as an even more significant shift away from the Wild Bunch era.

* Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River, in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class.

Cubism after 1918 can be seen as part of a wide ideological shift towards conservatism in both French society and culture.

: is the Gouy phase shift, an extra contribution to the phase that is seen in Gaussian beams.

However, the term " collective noun " is often used to mean " mass noun " ( even in some dictionaries ), because users confound two different kinds of verb number invariability: ( a ) that seen with mass nouns such as " water " or " furniture ", with which only singular verb forms are used because the constituent matter is grammatically nondiscrete ( although it may or may not be etically nondiscrete ); and ( b ) that seen with collective nouns, which is the result of the metonymical shift between the group and its ( both grammatically and etically ) discrete constituents.

However, if one looks regularly at the sky before dawn, the annual motion is very noticeable: the last stars seen to rise are not always the same, and within a week or two an upward shift can be noted.

A trade with the Toronto Raptors brought Antonio Davis and Jerome Williams in exchange for Rose and Marshall in what was seen as a major shift in team strategy from winning with athleticism to winning with hard work and defense.

This in itself can be seen as separate yet related idea or technique, due to the obvious differences in the sound of legato versus struck notes, as well as the shift in the timing of the entire arpeggio.

When the scenes were eventually cut together, the action would shift from slow to fast to slower still, giving time an elastic quality never before seen in motion pictures up to that time.

Since the 1980s, and much like Manhattan's Little Italy, due to a decrease in immigration from Italy and gentrification, the neighborhood has seen its native Italian American population rapidly shrink, while neighboring Chinatown has been rapidly expanding north into the neighborhood east of Broadway and along Stockton Street causing a major demographic shift to a mix of mostly Chinese and young professional population, although some, albeit very few, Italian Americans remain.