One of the earliest weapons devised by man, the spear was originally simply a sharpened stick.
Although there is evidence that many early civilizations devised standards of measurement and some tools for measuring, the Egyptian cubit is generally recognized as having been the most ubiquitous standard of linear measurement in the ancient world.
One of the show's most valuable lessons is that the art of dynastic Egypt was able to suspend nature in such perfect stasis in part because the art of early Egypt devised so many lively ways to distill and abbreviate it or to precisely depict it.
These advances have metamorphosed from the early studies devised primarily to investigate factors affecting the carious process to the present designs that evaluate growth, pathogenicity, metabolism and mineralization of dental plaque under highly controlled conditions.
Attempting to circumvent the patent, Glenn Curtiss and other early aviators devised ailerons to emulate lateral control described in the patent and demonstrated by the Wrights in their public flights.
An example of an early model devised to capture cell cycle regulation and unequal division of mass among progeny cells, is the model by Kimmel et al. [ 5] (Fig. 1), which considers the dynamics of the distribution of the total mass of cell RNA in a growing cell population.
Similar models had been devised earlier by the English physicist Douglas R. Hartree to describe the cloud of electrons around the nucleus.
After an earlier executive team devised an innovative way to display AOL search results, which are powered by Google, Mr. Grant and Mr. Falco decided to roll back the changes and mimic Google's presentation of 10 links on a page.
We showed that Langmuir isotherms, devised earlier for previous generations of Affymetrix GeneChips, accurately capture the non-linear relation between measured intensity and concentration for both U133Plus2 and HuEx 1.0 arrays.
Many scientists believe the best hope of progress, maybe the only hope, lies in detecting the disease early and devising treatments to stop it before brain damage becomes extensive.
