Positive h and k values mean the function is translated to the positive end of its axis and negative meaning translation towards the negative end.

It does not have the duality of positive and negative volume ( while in physical space for example a room has the negative volume of usable space delineated by positive volume of walls, internet users cannot enter the screen and explore the unknown part of the internet as an extension of the space they are in ), but spatial meaning can be attributed to the relationship between different pages ( of books as well as webservers ), considering the unturned pages to be somewhere " out there.

The term Galenism has subsequently taken on both a positive and pejorative meaning as one that transformed medicine in late antiquity yet so dominated subsequent thinking as to stifle further progress.

One of the more recent citations in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive meaning, the word was originally a reference to the inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon.

Because the folkloristic meaning of " myth " is often confused with this more pejorative usage, the original unambiguous term " mythos " may be a better word to distinguish the positive definition from the negative.

The complete destruction of all meaning and all values would lead to an existence of apathy and stillness, where positive actions, affirmative actions, would be replaced by a state of reaction and destruction.

Postmodern and poststructuralist thought question the very grounds on which Western cultures have based their ' truths ': absolute knowledge and meaning, a ' decentralization ' of authorship, the accumulation of positive knowledge, historical progress, and certain ideals and practices of humanism and the Enlightenment.

Natural law is contrasted with the positive law ( meaning " man-made law ", not " good law "; cf.

" While " self-imposed alienation " was common among " drunk punks " and " gutter punks ," there was always a tension between their nihilistic outlook and the " radical leftist utopianism " of bands such as Crass, who found positive, liberating meaning in the movement.

They are generally regarded as having positive contact with the deity or deities of the religion to which they subscribe, often interpreting the meaning of events and performing the rituals of the religion.

It is explicitly concerned with the human context of the development of the individual with an emphasis on subjective meaning, a rejection of determinism, and a concern for positive growth rather than pathology.

In the rest of the English speaking world, welfare where still retains its original meaning of well being it is thus generally perceived as having positive connotations.

The term was later assigned a positive meaning in the writings of Giovanni Gentile, Italy ’ s most prominent philosopher and leading theorist of fascism.

The point: Nigga is evaluatively neutral in terms of its inherent meaning ; it may express positive, neutral or negative attitudes ;

The Latin term gloria roughly means boasting, although its English cognate-glory-has come to have an exclusively positive meaning ; historically, vain roughly meant futile, but by the 14th century had come to have the strong narcissistic undertones, of irrelevant accuracy, that it retains today.

It has a right-handed convention, meaning that coordinates are positive toward the north and toward the east in the fundamental plane.

The total number of positive divisors of is a multiplicative function, meaning that when two numbers and are relatively prime, then.

This includes cognitive or neurocognitive factors, such as the way a person perceives, thinks or feels about certain things ; or an individual's overall personality, temperament or coping style or the extent of protective factors or " positive illusions " such as optimism, personal control and a sense of meaning.

** The voltage applied to the deflection yoke is adjusted by various means ( transformers, capacitors, center-tapped windings ) so that the half-way voltage on the sawtooth's cliff is at the zero mark, meaning that a negative voltage will cause deflection in one direction, and a positive voltage deflection in the other ; thus, a center-mounted deflection yoke can use the whole screen area to depict a trace.

For example, a stubborn person may be described as being either strong-willed or pig-headed ; although these have the same literal meaning ( stubborn ), strong-willed connotes admiration for the level of someone's will ( a positive connotation ), while pig-headed connotes frustration in dealing with someone ( a negative connotation ).

Positive psychotherapy ( PPT ) works to increase positive emotions in depressed clients and enhance engagement and meaning in activities that take place in a person ’ s life.

According to this theory, the same sign has a positive or negative meaning depending on the subject's overall character and personality as revealed by the form-niveau.

However, the name " Copreus " may originally have had more positive connotations, meaning " grazier " or " man of the land ", and been associated with the ownership of cattle rather than just their dung ( κόπρος ).

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

Our central goal should be to provide the greatest positive incentive for these societies to tackle boldly the tasks which they face.

There were 49% ( 20 subjects ) who did not give a positive reaction even after they were informed of the normalcy of such a reaction and had been given a demonstration.

There were 24% ( 10 subjects ) who shifted from a negative to a positive reaction after they were reassured as to the normalcy of the Kohnstamm-positive reaction.

the attitude adopted by realtors and their associations, either negative or positive, plays a large part in the public acceptance of such measures and the degree to which they may be effectively enforced.

Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

The fact that in equivalent baseband models of communication systems, the signal spectrum consists of both negative and positive frequencies, can lead to confusion about bandwidth, since they are sometimes referred to only by the positive half, and one will occasionally see expressions such as, where is the total bandwidth ( i. e. the maximum passband bandwidth of the carrier-modulated RF signal and the minimum passband bandwidth of the physical passband channel ), and is the positive bandwidth ( the baseband bandwidth of the equivalent channel model ).

Certainly the most positive event of the 2011 season for the Orioles, was their involvement in the events that took place on September 28, when they defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-3 thanks to 9th inning heroics by both Nolan Reimold, and Robert Andino leading to a walk-off win on an Andino RBI single, and prevented them from earning the Wild Card berth.

Xunzi's opinion is that men originally just want what they instinctively want despite positive or negative results it may bring, so cultivation is needed.

However, many of them oppose abortion, as they see it as a positive liberty and violates the non-aggression principle because abortion is aggression towards the fetus.

At low pressure, there was enough space between the gas atoms that the ions could accelerate to high enough speeds that when they struck another atom they knocked electrons off of it, creating more positive ions and free electrons in a chain reaction.

In a galvanic cell, the cathode is where the positive pole is connected to allow the circuit to be completed: as the anode of the galvanic cell gives off electrons, they return from the circuit into the cell through the cathode.

These layers of fixed positive and negative charges, collectively known as the depletion layer because they are depleted of free electrons and holes.

As social media is not as widely moderated or censored as mainstream media, individuals can say anything they want about a company or brand, positive or negative.

Those raised in an environment of conditional positive regard feel worthy only if they match conditions ( what Rogers describes as conditions of worth ) that have been laid down for them by others.

Each was about the size of a brigade, and commanded by ' aging generals who have had no military training, and often not much positive experience, since they were NCOs in the Belgian Force Publique.

The field lines are the paths that a point positive charge would seek to make as it was forced to move within the field ; they are however an imaginary concept with no physical existence, and the field permeates all the intervening space between the lines.

Field lines emanating from stationary charges have several key properties: first, that they originate at positive charges and terminate at negative charges ; second, that they must enter any good conductor at right angles, and third, that they may never cross nor close in on themselves.