When the expense of mechanisms to provide QoS is justified, network customers and providers can enter into a contractual agreement termed a service level agreement ( SLA ) which specifies guarantees for the ability of a network / protocol to give guaranteed performance / throughput / latency bounds based on mutually agreed measures, usually by prioritizing traffic.

East Lynne has been adapted for the stage many times ; the play was so popular that stock companies put on a performance whenever they needed guaranteed revenue.

Applications built for lower editions of DB2 are guaranteed to work on higher editions but at a higher level of performance.

* Weaker motivation for good performance at the start of the supply chain since sales are guaranteed and poor quality may be blended into other inputs at later manufacturing stages

Whereas the GSE's guaranteed the performance of their MBS's, private securitizers generally did not, and might only retain a thin slice of risk.

Germany had set two conditions for participation in the project: that the UK should place a contract for the weapon ; and that MBDA give a guaranteed level of performance, both of which were achieved by 30 April 2002.

The search performance is still guaranteed to be logarithmic.

Performer was also based on an internal scene graph, but was allowed to modify it for better speed as it saw fit, even dropping “ less important ” objects and polygons in order to maintain guaranteed performance levels.

In terms of performance the algorithm is not guaranteed to return a global optimum.

With the draw, Nakamura finished with 9 / 13 (+ 5 ), a tournament performance rating of 2879, and guaranteed at least a share of first place.

If the contractor fails to construct the building according to the specifications laid out by the contract ( most often due to the bankruptcy of the contractor ), the client is guaranteed compensation for any monetary loss up to the amount of the performance bond.

Specific performance is often guaranteed through the remedy of a right of possession, giving the plaintiff the right to take possession of the property in dispute.

* 2008-Onaro: Storage service management software which helps customers manage storage more efficiently with guaranteed service levels for availability and performance.

Whereas the GSEs guaranteed the performance of their MBS, private securitizers generally did not, and might only retain a thin slice of risk.

Berger's performance guaranteed massive crowds for the rest of the weekend but on Saturday the weather was hotter and the track a lot slower.

Verity had been advised by friends at the start of the season that he would need an exceptional performance to achieve selection on the 1932 – 33 Ashes tour of Australia ; Alan Hill believes the performance against Nottinghamshire guaranteed Verity would be chosen to tour.

To improve program performance, it may therefore be a good idea to replace simple critical sections with atomic operations for non-blocking synchronization ( as we have just done for the counter with compare-and-swap ), instead of the other way around, but unfortunately a significant improvement is not guaranteed and lock-free algorithms can easily become too complicated to be worth the effort.

" Treated to refusal " means that the manufacturer forces preservatives into the wood, until it refuses to accept more, but performance in not guaranteed.

His Wisden obituary noted that " class rather than performance guaranteed his place.

Forward-looking statement is the disclaimer that projections as to future performance are not guaranteed, and things could go otherwise.

MEAs are established based upon obstacle clearance over terrain and man-made objects, adequacy of navigation facility performance, and communications requirements, although adequate communication at the MEA is not guaranteed.

However, by continuing with a bandwidth-constraining 64-bit memory bus, S3 guaranteed this graphics card would never be a performance part under 32-bit color.

Weaker properties, such as universal hashing, are not strong enough to ensure the constant-time operation of linear probing, but one practical method of hash function generation, tabulation hashing, again leads to a guaranteed constant expected time performance despite not being 5-independent.

There is little evidence that existing public or private training programs have any great difficulty getting students to enroll in their programs, even though they must pay tuition, receive no subsistence payments, and are not guaranteed a job.

This point should be taken in consideration for implementations with a different number of rounds, as even though it increases security against an exhaustive attack, it weakens the security guaranteed by the algorithm.

Indeed, even if the photoelectric effect is the favoured reaction for a particular single-photon bound-electron interaction, the result is also subject to statistical processes and is not guaranteed, albeit the photon has certainly disappeared and a bound electron has been excited ( usually K or L shell electrons at nuclear ( gamma ray ) energies ).

Only the Praetor, who heads the Committee, is guaranteed a seat ; others, even the chairman of the Tal Shiar, must compete to be allowed in.

Fully eligible ELC students are guaranteed a spot at one of UC's undergraduate campuses, though not necessarily at their first-choice campus or even to a campus to which they applied.

Implied or unenumerated rights are rights that courts may find to exist even though not expressly guaranteed by written law or custom ; one example is the right to privacy in the United States, and the Ninth Amendment explicitly states that there are other rights that are also protected.

When civil and political rights are not guaranteed to all as part of equal protection of laws, or when such guarantees exist on paper but are not respected in practice, opposition, legal action and even social unrest may ensue.

* Market incentives for agricultural suppliers willing to respect their workers ’ human rights, even when those rights are not guaranteed by law ;

Intervals are central to interval arithmetic, a general numerical computing technique that automatically provides guaranteed enclosures for arbitrary formulas, even in the presence of uncertainties, mathematical approximations, and arithmetic roundoff.

The minor participants in the negotiations between Great Britain and France ( the Batavian Republic and Spain ) were immediately presented with faits accomplis: the preliminary agreement ceded Ceylon, and guaranteed free English shipping to the Cape of Good Hope, without the Dutch even being consulted.

In combinatorial auctions, determining the winning bidder ( s ) can be a complex process where even the bidder with the highest individual bid is not guaranteed to win.

The pact was a guaranteed, personal-services contract, so the trio would be paid even if the WFL did not survive its first season.

They were, like those babies, nearly dead from hunger ..." When Field Marshal Montgomery wanted to allot each German citizen a guaranteed diet of only 1, 000 calories a day and justified this by referring to the fact that the prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had received only 800, Gollancz wrote about starvation in Germany, pointing out that many prisoners never even received 1, 000 calories.

The Department computers assign Meche to the four-year journey even though Manny believes she should have a guaranteed spot on the " Number Nine " luxury express train due to her pureness of heart in her life.

In the versions of the sutra widely known in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan, Dharmakāra's eighteenth vow was that any being in any universe desiring to be born into Amitābha's Pure Land and calling upon his name even as few as ten times will be guaranteed rebirth there.

One solution that has been proposed for solving the issue of not having a good ' proxy ' for the risk free asset, to provide an ' observable ' risk free rate is to have some form of international guaranteed asset which would provide a guaranteed return over an indefinite time period ( possibly even into perpetuity ).

Each province is guaranteed at least one representative to the lower house, even though it may not come close to having the same population as that of other more populated legislative districts.

In the parallel systems, even the largest party will elect members from the party list, so the top list positions are guaranteed seats.

Attempting to interpret the book of Revelation, he promised the millennium in 1672, and guaranteed miraculous assistance to those who would undertake the destruction of the Pope and the house of Austria, even venturing to prophesy that Oliver Cromwell, Gustavus Adolphus, and George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania, would perform the task.

The law guaranteed freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of labour, but forbade armed assemblies and even public meetings of political societies.

Whereas states in a federal system of government ( e. g., Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States of America ) have a guaranteed constitutional existence, a devolved home rule system of government is created by ordinary legislation and can be reformed, or even abolished, by repeal or amendment of that ordinary legislation.

However, even if the proposal got through the British House of Commons ( and the first two attempts, in 1886 and 1893 did not ), the British House of Lords, with its massive unionist majority, was guaranteed to veto it.

** Most developing countries do face famine when drought occurs, so it is likely that this is the case in Country X, even if it is not guaranteed.