These modulants are inflectors of roots to allow them to serve as descriptors, and modulation is desirable because the root form may be retrieved without the modulant when making a generic search.

This has changed in recent years: on the one hand, bivariant K-theories were defined by the author for other categories of algebras [Doc. Math. 2 (1997), 139–182 (electronic); MR1456322 (98h: 19006)]; on the other hand, the local cyclic homology theory by M. Puschnigg works for small algebras and C^*-algebras alike […] .

Some churches also have an altar stone, a separate stone set into the mensa containing a relic of a saint, although this is becoming extremely rare.

Total fundoplication and cardiopexy were performed as described by D'Netto et al .