The decision reached in 1938-39 was made after the accumulation of a large amount of data and thorough study thereof.

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

The returns from companies classified as large businesses were set aside and not used because they were not relevant to a study of the opinions and practices of small firms.

He also composed one large scale instrumental work in 1815 intended as a study in late classical orchestration: Twenty-Six Variations for the Orchestra on a Theme called La Folia di Spagna.

Dürer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hände ( English: Praying Hands, c. 1508 Albertina, Vienna ), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.

In a large clinical study, one of the agents in the ACE inhibitor class, ramipril ( Altace ), demonstrated an ability to reduce the mortality rates of patients who suffered a myocardial infarction, and to slow the subsequent development of heart failure.

The remainder form the study collection which ranges in size from beads to large sculptures.

Of a study of 518 cyclists, a large majority reported at least one overuse injury, with over one third requiring medical treatment.

The area of study examines issues such as how each major form of business entity may be formed, operated, and dissolved ; the degree to which limited liability protects investors ; the extent to which a business can be held liable for the acts of an agent of the business ; the relative advantages and disadvantages of different types of business organizations, and the structures established by governments to monitor the buying and selling of ownership interests in large corporations.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

An important study of this figure is James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, which traces the dying god theme through a large number of myths.

The study notes that maximum benefit may be seen when the information worker is spending large proportions of their time reading text ( which is not necessarily the case for the majority of computer users today ).

In addition to RNA and DNA a large number of artificial nucleic acid analogues have also been created to study the proprieties of nucleic acids, or for use in biotechnology.

A large prospective study followed a group of 715 homosexual men in the Vancouver, Canada area ; approximately half were HIV-seropositive or became so during the follow-up period, and the remainder were HIV-seronegative.

The short wavelength of these matter waves makes them ideally suited to study the atomic crystal structure of solids and large molecules like proteins.

The sub-disciplines can overlap, for example, in the growth of power electronics, and the study of behavior of large electrical grids.

For example, it explains experts ' ability to recall large amounts of material displayed for only brief study intervals, provided that the material comes from their domain of expertise.

The facilities at the centre, initially labelled ESDAC ( European Space Data Acquisition Centre ), were essentially a large mainframe computer or computers, which was made available both to its in-house staff and to visiting scientists and fellows who wished to use them to analyse and study the recovered data.

The large number of surviving manuscripts of The Reckoning of Time, copied to meet the Carolingian requirement that all priests should study the computus, indicates that many, if not most, priests were exposed to the idea of the sphericity of the Earth.

Writing to The Times, Hayek said, " May one who has devoted a large part of his life to the study of the history and the principles of liberalism point out that a party that keeps a socialist government in power has lost all title to the name ' Liberal '.

In another study, two large samples of Spanish children were assessed with a 30-year gap.

The twelve resident halls surround Eisenhower hall in the center, a non-residential building which contains a late night diner called Ike's ( open until 4am ), a large study lounge, a handful of small group study rooms, HDTV lounge with a pool table and vending machines.

Each apartment is fully furnished, and each floor of every building contains at least two large study rooms ( in some cases three ).

A 2006 study showed a large portion of adults who experienced sibling incest abuse have distorted or disturbed beliefs ( such as that the act was " normal ") both about their own experience and the subject of sexual abuse in general.

On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

( When you see him, you'll notice his habit of fingering, I might almost say, stroking a large mole with black hairs on it, by his right temple.

Before this, many of its families were assigned to the old order Liliales: a very large order containing almost all monocots with colourful tepals and without starch in their endosperm.

During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.

By October 1993, Armenian forces succeeded in occupying almost all of former NKAO, Lachin and large areas in southwestern Azerbaijan.

Though their holding-power-to-weight ratio is significantly lower than admiralty pattern anchors, their ease of handling and stowage aboard large ships led to almost universal adoption.

After gathering a large coalition of peoples, Alboin crossed the Julian Alps in 568, entering an almost undefended Italy.

As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.

A lift will take visitors almost to the top – to the attic, where there is a small museum which contains large models of the Arc and tells its story from the time of its construction.

* Have a playback buffer between the network and the codec, one large enough to tide the codec over almost all the jitter in the data.

Although it has only 6. 14 percent of Alaska's land area, it is larger than the state of Maine, and almost as large as the state of Indiana.

The harbour had two large basins, now almost choked with sand.

A large portion of its nearly 2, 000 T-55 tanks fell into disrepair, and eventually almost all of them were scrapped or sold to other countries.

This was a large increase with the number of cell phones almost doubling from the 250, 000 in use in 2006.

Indeed, scientific consensus is that the breeding population of such an animal would be so large that it would account for many more purported sightings than currently occur, making the existence of such an animal an almost certain impossibility.

Bra-ket notation is widespread in quantum mechanics: almost every phenomenon that is explained using quantum mechanics — including a large portion of modern physics — is usually explained with the help of bra-ket notation.

The coffin, almost buried in flowers, had been put in the large room.

A contrasting view is that in large public companies it is upper management and not boards that wield practical power, because boards delegate nearly all of their power to the top executive employees, adopting their recommendations almost without fail.

Dominant features are the large, almost centrally located, Tonle Sap ( Great Lake ) and the Mekong River, which traverses the country from north to south and is the 12th longest river in the world.

Côte d ' Ivoire's terrain can generally be described as a large plateau rising gradually from sea level in the south to almost 500 m elevation in the north.

Mammals came to occupy almost every available niche ( both marine and terrestrial ), and some also grew very large, attaining sizes not seen in most of today's mammals.

In 721, the emir of Córdoba had built up a strong army from Morocco, Yemen, and Syria to conquer Aquitaine, the large duchy in the southwest of Gaul, nominally under Frankish sovereignty, but in practice almost independent in the hands of the Odo the Great, the Duke of Aquitaine, since the Merovingian kings had lost power.

Practically, such a matrix is almost singular, and the computation of its inverse, or solution of a linear system of equations is prone to large numerical errors.