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According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte would denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively ( consistent with SI ), while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte,
Some linguists, such as John DeFrancis and J. Marshall Unger have argued that genuine ideographic writing systems with the same capacities as natural languages do not exist.
However, many of Darwin's early supporters ( such as Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Lyell ) did not agree that the origin of the mental capacities and the moral sensibilities of humans could be explained by natural selection.
These theories, championed by the likes of Noam Chomsky and others, include innatism and Psychological nativism, in which a child is born prepared in some manner with these capacities, as opposed to other theories in which language is simply learned as other cognitive skills, including such mundane motor skills as learning to ride a bike.
Under such a theory of grammar, the input, combined with both general and language-specific learning capacities, might be sufficient for acquisition.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines racism as the “ belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races ” and the expression of such prejudice, while the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular racial group, and alternatively that it is also the prejudice based on such a belief.
Recent studies have investigated clay's absorption capacities in various applications, such as the removal of heavy metals from waste water and air purification.
Instead of a codified classification as the pragmatic application of genre, the new genre idea insists that " human agents not only have the creative capacities to reproduce past action, such as action embedded in genres, but also can respond to changes in their environment, and in turn change that environment, to produce under-determined and possibly unprecedented action, such as by modifying genres " ( Killoran 72 ).
A device that could check a billion billion ( 10 < sup > 18 </ sup >) AES keys per second ( if such a device could ever be made-as of 2012, supercomputers have computing capacities of 20 Peta-FLOPS, see Titan.
Development of rationally sound instructional procedures must take into account learner characteristics such as initiate capacities, experimental maturity, and current knowledge states.
It has few words that expose the compiler behaviour and therefore naturally offers genericity capacities which, however, are not referred to as such in most Forth texts.
Such intelligence may be scientific, technical, tactical, diplomatic, or sociological but these changes are analyzed in combination with known facts about the area in question, such as geography, demographics, and industrial capacities.
Examples of such extensive thermodynamic properties, which are dependent on the size of the thermodynamic system in question, include volume ( V ), internal energy ( U ), enthalpy ( H ), entropy ( S ), Gibbs free energy ( G ), Helmholtz free energy ( A ), and heat capacities ( C < sub > v </ sub > and C < sub > p </ sub >) ( in the sense of thermal mass ).
The theory proceeds via the device of an ideally virtuous agent: such an agent has two connected capacities.
A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and less formally by different cultures in different times and places.
The larger capacities are renowned for their immense torque ( having such large pistons ), but a downside of this is that they are not very smooth running or high-revving, and lack balance shafts.
They offer very high price-performance for network users who require high performance, such as Google, which has dark network capacities for video and search data, or wish to operate their own network for security or other commercial reasons.
The notion that the cerebral cortex is divided into functionally distinct cortices now known to be responsible for capacities such as touch ( somatosensory cortex ), movement ( motor cortex ), and vision ( visual cortex ), was first proposed by Franz Joseph Gall in 1810.
In order to promote this process, a set of new policy instruments were implemented, such as CQAF ( Common Quality Assurance Framework ) and replacement EQARF ( European Quality Assurance Reference framework ), which shall allow for EC-wide comparison of QA in VET and building the capacities for a common quality assurance policy and quality culture in VET throughout Europe.
He also served in special capacities where judicial experience was needed, such as boundary disputes between states.
Until the 19th century, race was thought by many to constitute an immutable and distinct type or species which shared particular racial characteristics, such as body constitution, temperament and mental capacities.
The original curriculum was a two-week summer program that included activities such as " hiking, camping, training in handling of firearms, archery, tennis, white water rafting and other healthy outdoor activities " as well as instruction on " the goals and doctrines of Creativity and how they could best serve their own race in various capacities of leadership.

such and are
I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.
such are simply not within his bounded province.
We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.
We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.
Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
Not discussed here are some military problems of modern times such as undersea warfare, where the surveillance, sending, transmitting, and receiving are all so inadequate that networks and decision making are not the bottlenecks.
The reasons for this experience are rooted in the metaphysical characteristics of such a change.
I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
Granted, such `` functional '' images are subject to human error ; ;
No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literature would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them.
Still, we must remember that we cannot construct and justify generalizations of this sort unless we are ready to consider many special instances of influence moving between such areas as theology, philosophy, political thought, and literature.
We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.
Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.
Other conceivable goals, such as character-education and social adjustment, are of secondary importance to them.
A variety of data are assembled to bear upon such alleged changes as diminished puritan morality, work-success ethic, individualism, achievement, lessened emphasis on future-time orientation in favor of sociability, moral relativism, consideration and tolerance, conformity, hedonistic present-time orientation.
Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.
Classic mythology and Christianity are such architectures of the imagination.
Concepts such as grace, damnation, purgation, blasphemy, or the chain of being, which are everywhere implicit in classic and Shakespearean tragedy, lose their vitality.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

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