If a person is behaving in ways counter-productive to their own well-being, it is considered maladaptive.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If this is the case, one would expect that not only the various procedures just mentioned which alter the hypothalamic balance would influence emotional state and behavior but that emotion itself would act likewise.

If unaccompanied by depressive counterpart episodes or otherwise general irritability, this behavior is typically called hyperthymia, or happiness, which is, of course, perfectly normal.

If a petrol engine were to have the same compression ratio, then knocking ( self-ignition ) would occur and this would severely reduce the efficiency, whereas in a Diesel engine, the self ignition is the desired behavior.

If a person does not have much money, then they should compensate for it in different ways, such as good deeds and good behavior toward others.

If an ' extreme ' foul is committed, such as physical contact or unsportsmanlike behavior, a player may receive a 10 minute penalty or even a match misconduct.

:# If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A ( Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response ) is unrelated to it, e. g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.

If this hypothesis is correct, it also is likely that male Pteranodon played little to no part in rearing the young ; such a behavior is not found in the males of modern polygynous animals who father many offspring at the same time.

If the air contains water vapor, then cooling of the air can cause the water to condense, and the behavior is no longer that of an ideal gas.

If all surviving societies have found it necessary to impose some of the same restrictions upon the behavior of their members, this makes a strong argument that these aspects of the moral code are indispensable.

If elimination or substitution measures cannot be achieved, engineering controls and administrative controls, which seek to design safer mechanisms and coach safer human behavior, are implemented.

If we were in a public place her behavior was inappropriate, I would pick her up and go outside.

If living space become limited, rats may turn to aggressive behavior, which may result in the death of some animals, reducing the burden over the living space.

If an existing object ( or set of objects ) proves to be an inadequate model, a programmer may simply create a modified object with the correct behavior, and use that instead.

If you ask people about their purchasing behavior within the coming six or twelve months, there will be more of those who “ hope to be able to buy ”, than if consumers are asked about what they will purchase in the next three months.

If you throw a ball straight up into the air, you can predict with certainty what its general behavior will be.

If the individual chooses that outcome which has the maximum chance of being satisfactory, then this individual's behavior is theoretically indistinguishable from that of an optimizing individual under certain conditions

If solipsism is true, then practically all standards for moral behavior would seem to be meaningless.

If someone is not hungry, food will not be an effective reinforcer for behavior.

If the size, or amount, of the consequence is large enough to be worth the effort, the consequence will be more effective upon the behavior.

If the behavior is diverted or frozen midway, the person literally has no mental space for this-he is stopped in the middle of unconsciously executing a behavior that hasn't got a " middle ".

If the greater values of one variable mainly correspond with the greater values of the other variable, and the same holds for the smaller values, i. e., the variables tend to show similar behavior, the covariance is a positive number.

* If the formal specification is in an operational semantics, the observed behavior of the concrete system can be compared with the behavior of the specification ( which itself should be executable or simulateable ).

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If presented in this spirit, the response and the results will be immeasurably better.

If the carrier is only partially suppressed, a double-sideband reduced-carrier ( DSBRC ) signal results.

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

If these preliminary results prove successful in larger trials, then At-DBF2 genes can help in engineering crops that can better withstand harsh environments.

In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, then editor of The Economist, " If the economic relationships between nations are not, by one means or another, brought fairly close to balance, then there is no set of financial arrangements that can rescue the world from the impoverishing results of chaos.

If the wave function is regarded as ontologically real, and collapse is entirely rejected, a many worlds theory results.

If untreated, it results in mild to severe impairment of both physical and mental growth and development.

If the cow does react, it would take at least four people to push it over, according to the results.

If the business ' debts exceed its assets, the bankruptcy restructuring results in the company's owners being left with nothing ; instead, the owners ' rights and interests are ended and the company's creditors are left with ownership of the newly reorganized company.

If objects are seen as moving within a rotating frame, this movement results in another fictitious force, the Coriolis force ; and if the rate of rotation of the frame is changing, a third fictitious force, the Euler force is experienced.

If people are immunized broadly, herd immunity results, with a decrease in the amount of contamination in the environment.

If a reaction results in a small energy release making way for more energy releases in an expanding chain, then the system will typically collapse explosively until much or all of the stored energy has been released.

If proteins in a living cell are denatured, this results in disruption of cell activity and possibly cell death.

Many results about plane figures are proved, e. g., If a triangle has two equal angles, then the sides subtended by the angles are equal.

If instrumentation is involved, the researcher is expected to calibrate his / her instrument by applying it to known standard objects and documenting the results before applying it to unknown objects.

If a project plan contains a significant portion of LOE, and the LOE is intermixed with discrete effort, EVM results will be contaminated.

If results were left unadjusted for factors such as race, gender, and free or reduced price lunch program eligibility, private schools performed significantly better than public schools.

If a better world results, we say it is " utopian ".

If this is prepared using only oil and vinegar ( i. e. without an emulsifier ), an unstable emulsion results

If the surgery is performed on very young patients ( 2 – 5 years old ), the remaining hemisphere may acquire some rudimentary motor control of the ipsilateral body ; in older patients, paralysis results on the side of the body opposite to the part of the brain that was removed.

If this is not accounted for, results can be erroneously attributed to the phenomenon under study rather than to the method of sampling.

If the beam of light is not orthogonal ( or rather normal ) to the boundary, the change in wavelength results in a change in the direction of the beam.

In his book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question ?, Lederman writes that, although he was a chemistry major, he became fascinated with physics, because of the clarity of the logic and the unambiguous results from experimentation.

If matter and energy are seen as necessary to explain the physical world, but incapable of explaining mind, dualism results.