Through repeated applications of this method, the reactive mind could be " cleared " of its content having outlived its usefulness in the process of evolution ; a person who has completed this process would be " Clear ".

Later, after the usefulness of Hilbert's method was universally recognized, Gordan himself would say:

Finally, evidence-based medicine can be understood as a medical " movement " in which advocates work to popularize the method and usefulness of the practice in the public, patient communities, educational institutions and continuing education of practicing professionals.

The usefulness of this method as a means to reduce real-life interference problems is often debated, since it is perceived that spread-spectrum clocking hides rather than resolves higher radiated energy issues by simple exploitation of loopholes in EMC legislation or certification procedures.

It has been argued that the generally accepted method of justifying mathematical axioms by their usefulness in common practice can potentially undermine Zermelo's reductionist program.

Most series emphasize one or the other means of understanding and manipulating the world, but in Incarnations each method is equal in usefulness and respect.

This intuition, however, came after particular classes of quantum groups had already proved their usefulness in the study of the quantum Yang-Baxter equation and quantum inverse scattering method developed by the Leningrad School ( Ludwig Faddeev, Leon Takhtajan, Evgenii Sklyanin, Nicolai Reshetikhin and Korepin ) and related work by the Japanese School.

Despite its usefulness, the concept of a partial atomic charge is somewhat arbitrary, because it depends on the method used to delimit between one atom and the next ( in reality, atoms have no clear boundaries ).

NYU, in correspondence by memorandum, was openly unconvinced " about the usefulness of an aptitude test as a method of selecting law school students ", but was open to experimenting with the idea, as were other schools which were unconvinced.

Although this method is not sufficiently concrete to allow the actual construction of effective field theories, the gross understanding of their usefulness becomes clear through a RG analysis.

The chromatic adaptation matrix in the von Kries transform method, however, is diagonal in LMS space, thus the usefulness of a transformation matrix M between spaces.

On net balance, in spite of Controller Gerosa's opposition to the new Charter as an invasion of his office, the Controller will have the opportunity for greater usefulness to good government than he has now.

When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.

However, the potential for clozapine to cause toxic side effects, including agranulocytosis, limits its usefulness.

Its main usefulness is the treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders such as Huntington's disease and Tourette syndrome, rather than for conditions such as schizophrenia.

The college's mission, the charter stated, was to prepare students " for discharging the Offices of Life with usefulness & reputation " by providing instruction " in the Vernacular and Learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences.

The nobles despised and hated all others and took no thought for the mutual usefulness and profit of lord and men.

This is most likely due to their usefulness as pollinators and as producers of honey, their social nature, and their reputation for diligence.

* CPANTS, the CPAN Testing Service, evaluates distributions automatically for quality assurance metrics of varying usefulness and assigns them a " kwalitee " rating.

Also, the usefulness of comparative law for the sociology of law ( and vice versa ) is very large.

Once the usefulness of digitalis in regulating the human pulse was understood, it was employed for a variety of purposes, including the treatment of epilepsy and other seizure disorders, which are now considered to be inappropriate treatments.

Graph ( mathematics ) | Graphs like this are among the objects studied by discrete mathematics, for their interesting graph property | mathematical properties, their usefulness as models of real-world problems, and their importance in developing computer algorithm s.

The usefulness of speaking of patterns is to have a common terminology for discussing the situations designers already see over and over.

Ionizing radiation is hazardous to life ( hence its usefulness in sterilisation ); for this reason irradiation facilities have a heavily shielded irradiation room where the process takes place.

In addition, these warts have the unusual usefulness of being great ' shelves ' for unicycles and skateboards.

The IMAP specification has been criticised for being insufficiently strict and allowing behaviours that effectively negate its usefulness.

A yarn's usefulness for a knitting project is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and of course its look, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

The early engines were noisy and smokey, so that a considerable boost to the usefulness of the submarine came with the introduction of quieter and cleaner diesel engines in 1910, which were much more difficult for an enemy to detect.

The labor theory as an explanation for value contrasts with the subjective theory of value, which says that value of a good is not determined by how much labor was put into it but by its usefulness in satisfying a want and its scarcity.

Modern memory managers therefore provide techniques for programmers to semantically mark memory with varying levels of usefulness, which correspond to varying levels of reachability.

The usefulness of irrigation depends upon the ability to mobilize sufficient labor for the construction and maintenance of canals, and this, from the earliest period, has assisted the development of urban settlements and centralized systems of political authority.

Additionally, Accent's usefulness for research was limited because it was not UNIX-compatible, and UNIX was already the de-facto standard for almost all operating system research.

Eventually weapon makers incorporated the usefulness of the hook in a variety of different polearms and guisarme became a catch-all for any weapon that included a hook on the blade.

He imposed this notion in a map-territory analogy: " A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a " similar structure " to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

The rationale behind shareware is to give buyers the opportunity to use the program and judge its usefulness before purchasing a license for the full version of the software.

Radiopasteurization, which produces fewer adverse sensory changes in food products, has potential usefulness in prolonging the keeping qualities of fresh and refrigerated food items.

Of course, nationalism has really outlived its usefulness in a country as world-oriented as ours, and its continued existence reflects one of the major culture lags of the twentieth-century United States.

Historically, the electron volt was devised as a standard unit of measure through its usefulness in electrostatic particle accelerator sciences because a particle with charge q has an energy E = qV after passing through the potential V ; if q is quoted in integer units of the elementary charge and the terminal bias in volts, one gets an energy in eV.

Indeed, the usefulness of this area of mathematics to linguistics has borne organizations such as TextGraphs, as well as various ' Net ' projects, such as WordNet, VerbNet, and others.

Due to its usefulness, ping has been implemented on a large number of operating systems, initially BSD Unix, but later others including Windows and Mac OS X.

A pollutant is substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.

The Renaissance has a long and complex historiography, and in line with general scepticism of discrete periodizations, there has been much debate among historians reacting to the 19th-century glorification of the " Renaissance " and individual culture heroes as " Renaissance men ", questioning the usefulness of Renaissance as a term and as a historical delineation.

Its overall usefulness, however, has been limited by natural features, including a number of cataracts in the main Nile between Khartoum and the Egyptian border.

He has nothing but contempt for these human helpers, however, and proposes to use them for target practice when their usefulness is at an end.

Some equipment such as life jackets has led to debate regarding their usefulness.

This has proved to be of limited usefulness in that the inconsistencies were resolved by better observations, and in most cases trying to change BBN resulted in abundances that were more inconsistent with observations rather than less.

At first, β-lactam antibiotics were mainly active only against Gram-positive bacteria, yet the recent development of broad-spectrum β-lactam antibiotics active against various Gram-negative organisms has increased their usefulness.

Heavy use of herbicides in neotropical agricultural areas has been one of many factors implicated in limiting the usefulness of such agricultural land for wintering migratory birds.

The software engineer and writer Joel Spolsky has criticised these efforts by claiming that all abstractions are leaky — that they can never completely hide the details below ; however this does not negate the usefulness of abstraction.

At such low temperatures the clinically dead state can be sustained without serious brain injury for up to 72 hours. Longer durations are possible at lower temperatures, but the usefulness of longer procedures has not been established yet.

However, ribavirin has proven to have little if any clinical usefulness against HIV, and it can greatly increase blood levels and also toxicity of the HIV antiviral didanosine ( ddI, Videx ).

Comfrey has long been recognised by both organic gardeners and herbalists for its great usefulness and versatility ; of particular interest is the ' Bocking 14 ' cultivar of Russian Comfrey.

Modern medicine using scientific fact has proven the usefulness of these springs.