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...INTRODUCTION . . . . . . 1 FUNDING, AIRPOWER, AND POWER PROJECTION . . . . 2 CRITERIA . . . 4 FIXED-COST COMPOSITION OF EACH AIRPOWER INSTRUMENT . . . . . 8 ORDNANCE LOAD . . . . 12 ORDNANCE FLEXIBILITY . . . 16 MISSION FLEXIBILITY . . . . . 18 ANALYSIS . . . . . . 23 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . 26 NOTES . . . . . 29...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 FIXED-COST COMPOSITION OF EACH AIRPOWER INSTRUMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...Air craft Wing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5 Cost Comparison of Airpower Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... Or dnance and Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 9 Comparative Analysis of Airpower Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 ... ... politically. This analysis starts by assuming an equal monetary investment in each mili­tary instrument and then compar es each instrument’s abi... ...attle gr oup, a package of312 theater aircraft, and 38 B-2s. Power pr ojection means that the instrumentwill enable American for ces to defeat the mil... ... Office of Air Force History, 1983), 130. 26. A more accurate comparison of weapon systems is measuring their ef fectivenessagainst particular targ... ...The Future of Airpower (New York: Holmes & Mier Pub., Inc., 1986),24. 53. Joshua M. Epstein, Measuring Military Power: The Soviet Air Thr eat to Eu...

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...in, the PSYOP field and PSYOP applications . This book clarifies the value of PSYOP as a cost-effective weapon and incorporates it as a psychological instrument of US military and political power, especially given our present budgetary constraints. The authors contribute to the understanding of psychological operations by presenting diverse articles that portray the value...

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...itary faces a dynamic and unpredictable world. PSYOP willremain a valuable instrument in our overall defense posture andwill be a key asset in the ful... ... of PSYOP as a cost-effective weapon andincorporates it as a psychological instrument of US military andpolitical power, especially given our present ... ...componentis inherent in every use of the diplomatic, economic, andmilitary instruments of national power, he urges a rethinkingof the role of politica... ...lliam F . Johnston focuses attention on psychologicaloperations as a vital instrument in national liberation wars . Hebelieves governments of countrie... ... LORDwarfare and their relationships to other instruments ofnational power. One problem is the general tendency to use t... ...n andthe field, between media product and field need. 19 Weaknesses in measuring the effect of USIA programs werestated by another senior off... ...he mechanismsby which these meanings are formed, perpetuated, andchanged. Measuring the effects of a PSYOP campaign is a mostcomplex and frustrating ...

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...ar in Vietnam: Reevaluating Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169 C. D. Coulthard-Clark Airpower as a National Instrument: The Arab-Israeli Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 R. A. Mason It Was a Bit of a Close Call: Some Thoughts on the South Atlantic War . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 R. G. Funnell Airpower in Peripheral Confli...

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...iiiEssay PageAirpower as a National Instrument:The Arab-Israeli Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...e Defence of the United Kingdom (London: HMSO,1957), 37. 12. Alfred Price, Instruments of Darkness: The History of ElectronicWarfare (London: Macdonal... ...re skilled in manytasks that had not even existed in 1939, and the weapons,instruments, or tools they used had been tested and proven indemanding serv... ...own. Thebombing campaign was in this sense a military conflict, notjust an instrument of economic warfare. With the introductionof long-range strategi... ... WORLD WAR II: THE BOMBING OF GERMANYoffensive was a blunt instrument. The antisubmarine cam-paign and the use of heavy aircraft over ... ...IR 1914–1994and payload—are increasingly less relevant or satisfactorythan measuring the overall systemic benefits that the syner-gistic packaging of ...

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...PREFACE In 1894, equipped with a set of anthropometric Instruments obtained on loan from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, I commenced an investigation of the tribes of the Nilgiri hills, the Todas, Kotas, and Badagas, bringing down on myself the unofficial criticism that "anthropol...

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...lve feet, and Brahmans by coming within thirty-six feet; but an Asari with his measuring rod in his hand has the privilege of approaching very near, a... ...HURSTON, C.I.E. PREFACE In 1894, equipped with a set of anthropometric Instruments obtained on loanfrom the Asiatic Society of Bengal, I comme... ..., butabsolutely refused to submit to the operation on the plea that the height-measuringstandard was the gallows. The similarity of the ward Boyan to ... ...nts, was viewed with markedsuspicion, on the ground that I was an army tailor, measuring for sepoy's clothing. Theuntimely death of a Native o... ...ogress of aGovernment anthropologist. I may, when in camp, so far as measuringoperations are concerned draw a perfect and absolute blank for... ...owl, etc. Its days,however, must be counted as past. Tradition states that the instrument played aconsiderable part in the Poligar wars of the last ce... ... TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIA A character, with which I am very familiar, when measuring the heads of allsorts and conditions of natives of Southern I... ...und the bride's neck by the bridegroom's sister,while the conch shell (musical instrument), is blown. On the same day the bride isconducted to the hom... ... hisprofessional visits as Vythian or physician, with his knapsack of surgical instruments andcutaneous drugs tucked under his arm. “By long pract...

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....26 SECTION II THE POLITICAL DIMENSION 3 GRAND NATIONAL STRATEGY . . . . . . . . . . 31 Vital National Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Instruments of National Power . . . . . . . . . .42 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 4 THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OF GRAND STRATEGY . ...

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... 31 Vital National Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Instruments of National Power . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...tional secu-rity strategy—clear and realistic objectives, coordinated use of thevarious instruments of national power, appropriately equippedand train... ... After identifying and assessing national objectives, strate-gists must determine which instruments of national power arenecessary to achieve the obje... ...hich instruments of national power arenecessary to achieve the objectives and how those instrumentsare to be used. Grand national strategy (grand stra... ...trategy) can beusefully defined as the art of coordinating the development anduse of the instruments of national power to achieve national se-curity ob... ...dent andunderexperienced practitioners who attempt to “ladle the fog ofwar with precise measuring cups,” a legendary (perhaps apoc-ryphal) comment att...

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...Geometry predicates nothing about relations of real things, but only geometry together with the purport of physical laws can do so... The idea of the measuring rod and the idea of the clock contained with it in the theory of relativity do not find their exact correspondence in the real world. It is also clear that the solid body and the clock do not in the conceptual edifi...

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...together with the purport of physical laws can do so... The idea of the measuring rod and the idea of the clock contained with it in the theory ... ...e with a radar at that point and programs the probe tomeasure its speed by measuring the distance to passing asteroids andcomets. Since it’s a thought... ...but never beyond, the velocityof light. Time dilation has been verified by measuring the lifetimes ofunstable particles in cosmic ray debr... ...es particle A; because B is the opposite, the act of measuring A instantaneously tells B what to be; therefore those in... ...tance between particles A and B as much as theuniverse allows it, and then measuring particle A.3. An Open Question now: If the space is infinite... ...e can also draw an 95analogy to a stringed musical instrument, with the speed of light beinganalogous not to the speed of soun...

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... LIQUIDITY OF SHORT-TERM ASETS AND LIQUIDITY RATIO ANALYSIS LONG-TERM DEBT-PAYING ABILITY AND DEBT RATIO ANALYSIS DUPONT ANALYSIS AS A METHOD OF MEASURING COMPANY’S PROFITABILITY FORECASTING FINANCIAL DISTRESS WITH ALTMAN Z-SCORE MODEL FINANCIAL RATING ANALYSIS APPENDIX ...

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...NALYSIS 26DUPONT ANALYSIS AS A METHOD OF MEASURING COMPANY’S PROFITABILITY 30FORECASTIN... ...s that can bemade during the analysis of the company’s financial report is measuring a chance of its www.finstanon.com ... ...the highest liquidity. Treasury bills,bank deposits and other money market instruments are also included to this entry of thestatement of financial po... ... Receivable Turnover (Times) Basically, this indicator is measuring the number of days between the date credit salehas been made and ... ...he calculation of the cash conversion cycle includes thefollowing:  measuring the time, needed by a firm to get materials, produce and sell the... ... firm to get materials, produce and sell the ready product;  measuring the time, needed by a firm to collect the cash for goods sold (ac...

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...other leading economies have be-gun to advance their cybersecurity regimes rapidly. Accordingly, cyber regulation has become the principal government instrument employed to interfere with increasingly network-oriented value creation and other online activities. The peculiarities of China’s cybersecurity regime, the management of national and cross-border information flows,...

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... rapidly. Accordingly, cyber regulation has becomethe principal government instrument employed to interfere with increasingly network-oriented value c... ...t high-tech market. Indeed,the cybersecurity regime has become the primary instrument used to maintain govern-ment control over online political, cult... ...60876.html.30 Vas Taras, Julie Rowney, and Piers Steel, “Half a Century of Measuring Culture: Review of Approaches,Challenges, and Limitations Based o... ...iew of Approaches,Challenges, and Limitations Based on the Analysis of 121 Instruments for Quantifying Culture,” Journal ofInternational Management 15... ... 31equipment, computers and office equipment, medical equipment, measuring instru-ments and equipment, and optical and photographic equipmen... ... Materials 3.53 SOEBiomedicine and high- Shinva Medical Instrument 1.68 SOEperformance medical devices China Nationa... ... 391proach to defining and measuring culture. “Trompenaars’ model of national cultural dif-ferences”3 ... ...le 2.15, the5 Vas Taras, Julie Rowney, and Piers Steel, “Half a Century of Measuring Culture: Review of Approaches,Challenges, and Limitations Based o... ...res and Organizations, pp. 346–349.13 Vas Taras et al., “Half a Century of Measuring Culture,” p. 358.394organizational values promoted by the Chinese...

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... 21. COFFEE CULTIVATION 22. COTTON MANUFACTURE 23. COCOANUT FIBRE AND MANUFACTURES 24. BOATS AND FISHING 25. INDIAN MUSIC 26. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 27. DISTILLATION AND EXCISE 28. POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION IN FORMER TIMES 29. SLAVERY 30. CHRISTIAN WORK AMONG THE SLAVE CASTES 31. SERPENT WORSHIP 32. HINDU CASTE AND POLLUTION 33. RECENT...

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...han European drinks. END of QUOTE QUOTE European Missionaries have been instrumental in gradually awakening the liberated bondman to a sense o... ...hroughout Travancore, these Christian churches, emblems of true religion and instruments of vast moral and social improvement, frequently occur. END... ...FE in TRAVANCORE where he was............... European Missionaries have been instrumental in gradually awakening the liberated bondman to a sense of... ...ducated engineer. QUOTE: In Travancore and South India, the Vina is the instrument which is learnt by ladies of high caste in the seclusion of ... ...p here, as everywhere. Shanar Christians consider it degrading to play these instruments, and hire a lower caste to do it for them END of QUOTE ... ...n, and rising but a few inches abovethe surface of the water, to the largest, measuring perhaps 43 feet long by 3¾ in width.The commonest size for a p...

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... the terrain. .....................73 The influence of the terrain in the battle’s (re)action..................73 Non-Assignment 2: Fast methods of measuring distances on the terrain ...........74 Measuring the distance with the foot.......................74 Measuring the distance by comparison.......................75 Determining the distance using a ruler. ............

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........................................... 73 Non-Assignment 2: Fast methods of measuring distances on the terrain ....................................... ...ring distances on the terrain ............................................74 Measuring the distance with the foot...................................... ............................................................................ 74 Measuring the distance by comparison...................................... ...he alarm systemless and shelters, - Repair the technical materials and instruments, - Participate to the local activities and eliminat... ...national forces, making the anti-defense a national cause. The state is not an instrument of theentire people and the direction of social construction... ...preparedness of the population for anti-defense. The army is not the principal instrumentfor anti-defense. Of its power depends the durability, the co... ... maps contain only the form, size, and paths.Non-Assignment 2: Fast methods of measuring distances on the terrain For measuring the distances on the ... ... fire, or when the distance that mustbe determined is perpendicular on a river.Measuring the distance with the foot The length of the foot varies wit... ... 90 - The materials and the instruments that come in contact with the skin must be sterile, ...

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... were limited. For knowing a man truly, besides one person’s ability, other person’s help is needed in many cases, sometimes even the machine and the measuring appliance and so on are needed....

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... pausing as he was playing on his lute, while it was yettwanging, laid the instrument aside, and said “My wishes, aredifferent from the cherished purp... ...ged.”Confucius, having come to Wû-ch'ang, heard there the sound ofstringed instruments and singing. Well pleased and smiling, he said:“Why use an ox k... ...r person’s help is needed in manycases, sometimes even the machine and the measuring appliance andso on are needed.Commentary on Neutrosophic Part 3Wi... ...eeded.Commentary on Neutrosophic Part 3With the aid of the machine and the measuring appliance tounderstand a person, it is simply impossible in the t...

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...What is the measuring device that says what writings get to be part of the Bible? Do individual people get to tell God “These are the writings I think should be in the Bible, and so these writings are the only thing I need to base my spi...

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...de, there is at least two references to the number 6 and possibly a third (instruments). In 1 Kings 10:14 the gold earnings of Solomon in a year we... ... though, is that king Nevuchadnetstsar would have had to acquired a unique instrument (like perhapslisted in Daniel 3:5) from Greece, and then used th... ...d Daniyyei'l use an Aramaic word transliterated from Greek to describe and instrument which was mostlikely not unique from the Hebrew culture (it prob... ...k root origin can only stand if king Nevuchadnetstsar acquired that unique instrument and used thetransliteration of the word. Then Daniyyei'l would h... ... Chapter 20 The Bible20.1 What is the Bible? What is the measuring device that says what writings get to be part of the Bible? Do in...

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...that the difficulty isnot the complexity of the social environment, but the instrumental obsolescence to observe,interpret and manage that complexity ... ...versities,demonstrating how neutrosophy and its methods are consolidated as instruments of analysis,inference and research validation.[1] M. L. VÁZQ... ...scussion From now on, this section contains the results and discussion for measuring the emotional intelligence instudents of The Autonomous Universi... ...lated to the management of intrapersonal and interpersonalintelligence. The instrument was applied to 245 students of the full-time teaching modality,... ...ue: Social Neutrosophy in Latin America}, Vol. 34, 2020 293 Method for measuring workplace stress This section describes the design of the stres... ...of the natural language, which isan advantage considering the difficulty to measuring in a numerical scale. A scoring function s: [0, 1]3 → [0, 3]is ... ...x is called Capacity to Overcome Stress Situations (COSS), which consistsin measuring the degree to which the individual has characteristics of his/he... ...rse). Given these clarifications, below we describe the proposed method of measuring the stress level of a workerin a specific workplace: 1. The wo... ...overed a total of 122 Law professionalsand the questionnaire was used as an instrument.3.1 TOPSIS, Technique of Preference Sorted by Similarity to an ...

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...avior of material entities (clocks, ray, light, geodesic, etc.) from spacetime. (Grünbaum 2012) Respectively, spacetime measurement always depends on measuring instruments chosen as measurement standards, and metric relations involve the chosen standards. It follows that the metric relations between the material content of spacetime are not explained by the spacetime metri...

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...spacetime. (Grünbaum 2012) Respectively, spacetime measurement always depends on measuring instruments chosenas measurement standards, and metric r... ... (Grünbaum 2012) Respectively, spacetime measurement always depends on measuring instruments chosenas measurement standards, and metric relations i...

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...Chapter 1: Standard of Living Definition Chapter 2: Money, Wealth, and Value Chapter 3: Environment and Standard of Living Chapter 4: Measuring Standard of Living Chapter 5: Nordic Model Chapter 6: Swiss Democracy Chapter 7: What Is Capitalism? Chapter 8: Liberalization in Modern Countries Chapter 9: Free Markets or Fossil Fuels? Chapter 10: Markets ...

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...cates Wealth and Income...................................................... 39 Measuring GDP......................................................... ...vironment and Standard of Living .................................... 60Chapter 4: Measuring Standard of Living ......................................... ...to have higherper capita GDPs than poorer ones, excluding some destitute countries.Measuring GDPOne way to determine GDP is to add up everyone’s incom... ...read?Would every machine and place of production have a joule meter attachedto it, measuring the amount of energy required to produce every type ofpro... ...ustrialRevolution in the 1800s when we first started using fossil fuels. We’vebeen measuring the average temperature of the Earth for a long time. But... ...ant when he wrotethat socialism is “abolition of property” and that “factories and instruments 9of production” are “owned by... ...rs, trucks, motorcycles, aircraft, spacecraft,kitchenware, sporting goods, musical instruments, fossil fuels, books,gems, and much more.12 ... ...t. But suppose I say there is an invisible pencil that cannot be detected byhuman instruments, cannot be felt, and cannot be broken. That is an unfal... ... Shrinking MachinesIn 1997, researchers at Cornell University built musical instruments thesize of red blood cells.1 A few years later, scienti...

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...oisture for field use was found to be promising in initial tests, though more development and testing is needed to achieve a lighter, more convenient instrument with validation across a wider range of hide samples. With the emphasis on the methodology and scientific information for improving the quality of cattle hides through tracing back to the origins of problems in th...

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...dtail), trimming off flesh and fat attached to the inner hidesurface, weighing and measuring hide thickness at neck andbelly, the width and length of ... ...-4 rpm(lot 4). 5. Residual liquid wastes after drum salting,calculated from measuring the volume left in the drumwithout hides and amount of li... ...pectively. The residual volume of liquid wastes afterdrum salting, calculated from measuring the volume left inthe drum when hides were removed plus t... ...as follows:  Weigh a hide specimen by the fine digital weighing instrument (a).  Calculate the amount of distilled water (... ...ull investigation, a preliminary study wasconducted to optimize the methodology in measuring hidesalinity. Sample salted hide pieces about 2.5 cm widt... ...ment of such a fieldtesting device. Attention needs to be paid to the design ofthe instrument to reduce its weight and ensure consistencyof operation.... ...lopment and testing is needed toachieve a lighter, more convenient instrument withvalidation across a wider range of hide sample... ...ch type of identified damage could beassessed and recorded by counting the number, measuring Thai Leather – Pakapun Skunmun ... ... for quality standards for classing of hides 2. Methodological and instrumentation innovations  Drum salt curing  ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x About the authors xiii I What do we want to preserve and why? 1 1 Foreword 3 2 Measuring the quality of life 5 2.1 Individual happiness and self-fulfillment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Individual rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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... 32 Measuring the quality o... ...e society to justify further government controls.The government strives to become a necessary instrument for preservation of our quality of life. Can... ...ine. Culture hasto 56 CHAPTER 2. MEASURING THE QUALITY OF LIFEbe wholesome to be valuabl... ...sing the products orservices they have to offer instead.8 CHAPTER 2. MEASURING THE QUALITY OF LIFE Let us review some of the... ...convicted, his property was sued by the civil forfeiture office of the provinceof Ontario as an instrument of his illegal activity. This is how the Onta... ...e, whichmakes this caricature on democracy even more abhorrent. Let us review one by one the instruments that government bureaucracy uses to suppress... ...aced, was allowed to be established becausecivil forfeiture was presented to the public as an instrument to combat organized crime. However noneof the... ...g taxes that fund public school system. On top of that you will have to buytextbooks, musical instruments, sports equipment, laboratory equipment, mus...

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...t has cognized. The causal concept of influence, and its implication of cognition (of inner or outer information, including emotions), are crucial to measuring the effort involved in volition. Influences make willing easier or harder, yet do not curtail its essential freedom. All the causal concepts used in psychological explanation – affections, appetites, instincts, habi...

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...tion(of inner or outer information, including emotions), arecrucial to measuring the effort involved in volition.Influences make wil... ...nmeasuring effort more objectively and scientifically, bymeans of physical instruments. Quantification of effort wouldthen become more precise and ver... ...s the patient feel less pain, but also the fact is measurable through instruments attached to his brain. Note also the opposite, ‘nocebo ... ...en constructed and placed there130 ourselves. Like thebody, the mind is an instrument of the soul. An instrument issomething that has some uses, thoug... ...olution, that the soul ‘evolved’ in certain forms of livingorganism, as an instrument of the body, improving the body’schances of survival and reprodu... ... station’ en route towards the final position in that move. It is not instrumental, but to be enjoyed and appreciated as it is, without anti...

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... the gravitational background radiation and testing the general relativity in the ultra-nonlinear case. Regarding the sensitivity of gravitational measuring devices, Vladimir B Braginsky states that the current level of knowledge allows us to hope that the sensitivity of the antennas can increase, and no limit of sensitivity has been set in the gravitational experiments...

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...ity in the ultra-nonlinear case. Regarding the sensitivity of gravitational measuring devices, Vladimir B Braginsky statesthat the current level of... ... suggests that researchprograms evolve from an initial state that resembles to instrumentalism, to a mature state thatresembles to realism. In particu... ...ies,through the connection between mass and acceleration, providing a means of measuring forces. InBook III of Principia, Newton identifies the centri... ...the MOND and a Sun-Earth saddle point of Newtonian gravitational potential126; measuring theMOND corrections to the precession of the perihelion of th... ...eodesics, etc.) 209. It turns out that the measurement depends on themeasuring instruments chosen as standards, and the metric relationships involve t... ...nate thediscrepancies by the hypothesis of a distorting force that affects the measuring instruments232.Reichenbach and Schlick systematized this conc... ...screpancies by the hypothesis of a distorting force that affects the measuring instruments232.Reichenbach and Schlick systematized this concept by the... ...ses.For the theories related to cosmic inflation, the most rigorous test is by measuring the size of thewaves in the spectrum of cosmic microwave back... ...it isnecessary to examine a very massive body or to construct a very sensitive instrument. The lineardragging of the frames appears by applying the RG...

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...built, lightly bronzed, and wore his long hair in a thick plait at the back. A gold chain and nose stud were unnecessary ornaments. The all-important instrument of pleasure, though, looked uninspiring. ‘She’s not going to be too thrilled with that.’ ‘No worries,’ he grinned, extracting a small syringe from his purse. An obviously well practiced jab embedded the needle ...

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...ick plait at the back. A gold chain and nose stud wereunnecessary ornaments. The all-important instrument of pleasure, though, lookeduninspiring. ‘S... ...ework, Mad began the evening meal, to which I’d been invited, and Der and Idid push-ups over a measuring cylinder full of water. Beneath his mantle of... ... double. The blokes were decked out inleather harnesses and spikes and carried whips and other instruments of torture – all fake Hell-FireClub. I was ...