Indices Sentence Examples

A volume of elaborate indices was edited by I.

Shadows were used as indices of the sun's position, in combination with angular divisions.

The indices of refraction are not high, the mean index being about I.

The refractive indices for different wave lengths must be known for each kind of glass made use of.

This suggests that we should write; la as a l l3; and we find that the use of fractional indices in this way satisfies the laws of integral indices.

This combination of circumstances has given the Graptoloidea a paramount stratigraphical importance as palaeontological indices of the detailed sequence and correlation of the Lower Palaeozoic rocks in general.

But the point need not be discussed further here, since both percentage and absolute indices of unsteadiness have risen of late years.

The database contains two indices which control access to it.

The files and indices of the English Historical Review, Historische Zeitschrift, Revue historique, or American Historical Review will alone reveal the strength and character of historical research in the later 19th century.

In the same way, by dividing by powers of so we may get negative indices.

His analysis was predicated on the assumption that there are no indices for purely mis purposes.

Commonly these indices would use albumin and markers of immune status, such as total lymphocyte count, to screen patients.

The indices are machined directly into the bezel without the use of bezel inserts, which can corrode or come loose at deep depths.

As these indices represent discontinuous data, it would be preferable to use the negative binomial or the Poisson distribution.

As judged by bootstrap proportions, decay indices, and leaf stabilities, well-supported relationships of the Indian caecilians are recovered from the alignment.

Some aspects of the synoptic climatology of the British Isles as measured by simple indices.

The indices are obtained from the Office for National Statistics MM17 ' Price index numbers for current cost accounting ' .

Then dissimilarity between two shots is defined based upon the dissimilarity indices for all image pairs in the two shots.

When using collateral texts to generate keyword indices the robustness of any index will depend on the contents of the source text.

All three wards were within the worst 10% in the country on health deprivation indices.

A more C-like syntax for specifying vector indices is also available.

The corresponding refractive indices are the lengths of these axes.

The biological sample taken at the test site provides an Observed Fauna from which biotic indices are also calculated.

This paper describes the first of a family of new geomagnetic indices aimed at meeting two requirements.

Sixteen objects (31 %) have a power-law continuum with spectral indices -2.3 - -0.9 that flatten to -1.1 - 0.0 at 20.

Genotypes of SARS patients were also tested for association with clinical outcome measures as well as hematological and biochemical laboratory indices.

Benchmark indices presented in the report are sourced from the compiler of the indices.

Figure 11 October CET was well predicted by a model including all three PSC indices.

This was observed throughout the study for preservation and fragmentation indices.

Cited Half-Life Another factor derived from citation indices is the cited half-life of the journal.

Dentists ' ability to differentiate between patients by caries indices varied widely.

That, we propose, is why the Protestant isolation indices stayed so stable between 1911 and 1981, while the Catholic indices rose.

The FTSE 100 has seriously underperformed other major indices since Labor came to power.

In the Indices to xxxiii.

In optical systems composed of lenses, the position, magnitude and errors of the image depend upon the refractive indices of the glass employed (see Lens, and above, " Monochromatic Aberration ").

Merit indices of material properties are deduced, and optimal materials are selected on the basis of these criteria.

However, since the FTSE-100 is 90% of the UK stock market anyway, these other indices are small fry by comparison.

Red blood cell (RBC) indices are calculations derived from the complete blood count that aid in the diagnosis and classification of anemia.

Measurements needed to calculate indices are the red blood cell count, hemoglobin, and hematocrit.

The mechanisms by which anemia occurs will alter the RBC indices in a predictable manner.

Therefore, the RBC indices permit the physician to narrow down the possible causes of an anemia.

The RDW aids in differentiating anemias that have similar indices.

The indices are used to help in the differential diagnosis of anemia.

Also called red cell absolute values or erythrocyte indices.

Each site has different information, but in general there are many free public records online, including vital records, census indices and military rolls.

It also holds microfilm indices of marriage records for some counties for 1862 to 1900.

The only completed lexicon (apart from the Indices of Naudet, 1832, and Weise, 1838) is that of Pareus (2nd ed., 1634).

The explanation of this change in the direction of indices of steadiness cannot be proved to consist in any peculiarity in the supplies of recent years.

Then a+a = as = a; hence numerical coefficients and indices are not required.

In the preface to this work, which is dedicated to one Dionysius, Diophantus explains his notation, naming the square, cube and fourth powers, dynamis, cubus, dynamodinimus, and so on, according to the sum in the indices.

He possessed clear ideas of indices and the generation of powers, of the negative roots of equations and their geometrical interpretation, and was the first to use the term imaginary roots.

Moreover, his association with glass manufacture led him to study the refractive indices of different kinds of glass; he further undertook abstruse researches on electrostatic capacity, the phenomena of the residual charge, and other problems arising out of Clerk Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory.

As an example of the application of this siren, suppose that the number of revolutions of the plate, as shown by the indices, amounts to 5400 in a minute, that is, to 90 per second, then the number of vibrations per second of the note heard amounts to 90n, or (if number of holes in each plate = 8) to 720.

This quantity may readily be expressed in terms of the refractive indices for the three colours, for if A is the angle of the prism (supposed small) bc=(/1c - I)A, bD =(/ AD - OA, F - I)A, where µc, A n, µ F are the respective indices of refraction.

It is more useful than (1), as the refractive indices may be measured with a prism of any convenient angle.

Theophrastus is also named in his Indices.

His indices auctorum are, in some cases, the authorities which he has actually consulted (though in this respect they are not exhaustive); in other cases, they represent the principal writers on the subject, whose names are borrowed second-hand for his immediate authorities.

Bain's Calendars (Edinburgh, 1881-1888), are useful indices, but not infrequently need to be checked by the manuscripts.

By the use of a revolving mirror similar to that used by Sir Charles Wheatstone for measuring the rapidity of electric currents, he was enabled in 1850 to demonstrate the greater velocity of light in air than in water, and to establish that the velocity of light in different media is inversely as the refractive indices of the media.

The only refractive indices which had been measured were the optical refractive indices of a number of transparent substances.

The indices of refraction of quartz for yellow (D) light are co = I.5442 and e = I.

Since the two circular streams have different speeds, Fresnel argued that it would be possible to separate them by oblique refraction, and though the divergence is small, since the difference of their refractive indices in the case of quartz is only about o 00007, he succeeded by a suitable arrangement of alternately rightand left-handed prisms of quartz in resolving a plane-polarized stream into two distinct circularly polarized streams. A similar arrangement was used by Ernst v.

The immersion liquids in common use are water, glycerine, cedar-wood oil, monobromnaphthalene, &c. Immersion systems in which the embedding liquid, coverslip, immersion-liquid and front lens have equal refractive indices are called " homogeneous immersion systems."

What I thought was that you were prepared to use your program to calculate some difficulty indices that people might think up.

Red blood cell indices help classify types of anemia, a decrease in the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood.

Cell indices are usually calculated from tests performed on an automated electronic cell counter.

An important distinction separates true mixed crystals and crystallized double salts, for in the latter the properties are not linear functions of the properties of the components; generally there is a contraction in /10.591 volume, while the re fractive indices and other physical properties do not, in general, obey the additive law.

The refractive indices of all glasses at present available lie between 1.46 and 1 90, whereas transparent minerals are known having refractive indices lying considerably outside these limits; at least one of these, fluorite (calcium fluoride), is actually used by opticians in the construction of certain lenses, so that probably progress is to be looked for in a considerable widening of the limits of available optical materials; possibly such progress may lie in the direction of the artificial production of large mineral crystals.

Irmisch (1789-1805), with elaborate indices, but the notes are very diffuse; critical editions by I.

Experimental methods were devised for the further exact measurements of the electromagnetic velocity and numerous determinations of the dielectric constants of various solids, liquids and gases, and comparisons of these with the corresponding optical refractive indices were conducted.

It appears that Newton made the mistake of supposing that all prisms would give a spectrum of exactly the same length; the objections of his opponents led him to measure carefully the lengths of spectra formed by prisms of different angles and of different refractive indices; and it seems strange that he was not led thereby to the discovery of the different dispersive powers of different refractive substances.

Hence we may insert in the power-series numbers with fractional indices, provided that the multiplication of these numbers follows the same law.

Lord Rayleigh has pointed out that all theories are defective in that they disregard the fact that one at least of the media is dispersive, and that it is probable that finite reflection would result at the interface of media of different dispersive powers, even in the case of waves for which the refractive indices are absolutely the same.

It is clear that direct transmission through the plate at a point where the thicknesses of the prisms are d 1 and d 2 will introduce a relative retardation of (µ,; -, u o) (d l - d2) between streams polarized in planes parallel and perpendicular to the edges of the prisms,, u o, and being the ordinary and the extraordinary refractive indices; and it is hence possible by an adjustment of the thickness to reduce elliptically polarized to plane polarization at an assigned point marked off by two parallel lines.

A doubly linked pair of atoms is denoted by the sign A with the index corresponding to the side; if there are two pairs of double links, then indices corresponding to both sides are employed.

With these, or even with booms half the above length, actuating indices arranged as shown in fig.

The figures given are the partial dispersions for ordinary crown and ordinary extra dense flint glasses, styled in Messrs Schott's catalogue of optical glasses as o 60 and 0.102 respectively, having refractive indices of 1 5179 and 1.6489 for the D ray respectively, and (µ D -I)/(l F -µc) =60 2 and 33.8 respectively to indicate their dispersive powers (inverted), = v.

He constructed a map of as many as 576 of these lines, the principal of which he denoted by the letters of the alphabet from A to G; and by ascertaining their refractive indices he determined that their relative positions are constant, whether in spectra produced by the direct rays of the sun, or by the reflected light of the moon and planets.