Mathematics, the science of structure, order, and relation that has evolved from elemental practices of counting, measuring, and describing the shapes of objects.
Todd's father, Irma Newell Hart, had grown disillusioned with farming, how the demanding but largely elemental practices he had inherited had given way to a modern, highly technical business.
Given that half of the world's population now lives in cities, and a third of those in slums, Aravena's practice, Elemental, is one of the most relevant architectural firms working today.
Another version again is the display by the Chilean practice Elemental, which describe its attempts to improve the copper-mining town of Calama, a place of exceptional climatic and social brutality.
His own work on low-cost housing in Latin America has earned him the position of poster boy for activist architects, but his practice, Elemental, is as obsessed with achieving the perfect finish of poured concrete on its expensive commercial buildings as it is with revolutionising models of affordable housing.
How to differentiate between competing diagnoses of disease due to TB or aerobic bacteria (such as Enterobacteriaceae) in hematological patients with febrile neutropenia is elemental in clinical practice.
Five seasons ago, Louisville's Dan McDonnell, who entered this season ranked sixth nationally in winning percentage among active college coaches, began dedicating dozens of hours during his spring practices to elemental fielding and throwing mechanics.
Mokshadharma also describes an early practice of elemental meditation.
Previous studies have identified differences in Hg isotopic composition in human biomarkers that can be used to distinguish between exposure to elemental gaseous Hg from dental practices and gold mining and exposure to MeHg in seafood.
These practices include sprinkling elemental mercury in the home, in cars, or around babies and carrying capsules of mercury as amulets to bring good luck or love (Johnson 1999; U.S. EPA 2002).
However, exposure to inorganic forms of mercury can also occur such as during inhalation of vapors from accidental spills, in workplace activities (e.g., the manufacture of chloralkali compounds and mercury-containing devices), from dental amalgams, or from ritualistic or cultural practices that involve elemental mercury [ Agency for Toxicological Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) 1999].
