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.

In a saucepan put sufficient water to cover them, an equal amount of sugar, a sliced lemon, a tablespoonful of apricot preserve or jam, a pinch each of clove and nutmeg, and a large bay leaf.

The water inlets are large enough to permit filling the wheel to an eight-inch level in less than two minutes, and the outlet is large enough to permit discharge of this same amount of water in less than two minutes.

Cotten construed this as a veiled effort by Parkhouse to help Dallas and other large cities get money which Cotten felt could better be spent providing water for rural Texas.

He went through a gate to stand at the edge of the water and gazed at the two thin falls which dropped from large spigots high at the back of the pool.

They were the top land predators, sometimes reaching several meters in length, preying on the large insects of the period and many types of fish in the water.

Salt and water absorption occur in the large intestine, as well as mucous secretion to aid in the transport of faecal matter, which is passed out through the cloaca.

Larvae and most aquatic adult amphibians excrete the nitrogen as ammonia in large quantities of dilute urine while terrestrial species, with a greater need to conserve water, excrete the less toxic product urea.

Besides those mentioned, other large bodies of water adjacent to the Atlantic are the Caribbean Sea ; the Gulf of Mexico ; Hudson Bay ; the Arctic Ocean ; the Mediterranean Sea ; the North Sea ; the Baltic Sea and the Celtic Sea.

Within the North Atlantic, ocean currents isolate the Sargasso Sea, a large elongated body of water, with above average salinity.

Archipelagos may be found isolated in bodies of water or neighboring a large land mass.

Solar water heaters can save large amounts of fuel.

The Black Sea also receives river water from large Eurasian fluvial systems to the north of the Sea, of which the Don, Dnieper and Danube are the most significant.

Visual beacons range from small, single-pile structures to large lighthouses or light stations and can be located on land or on water.

It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.

When surfacing to breathe, the blue whale raises its shoulder and blowhole out of the water to a greater extent than other large whales, such as the fin or sei whales.

A shore, on the other hand, can refer to parts of the land which adjoin any large body of water, including oceans ( sea shore ) and lakes ( lake shore ).

Pollution can occur from a number of sources: garbage and industrial debris ; the transportation of petroleum in tankers, increasing the probability of large oil spills ; small oil spills created by large and small vessels, which flush bilge water into the ocean.

Benefits include reduced transport costs, exchange of ideas, sharing of natural resources, large local markets, and later in their development, amenities such as running water and sewage disposal.

Before being released back into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basins for up to six hours.

Taking boats through these used large amounts of water leading to conflicts with watermill owners and to correct this, the pound or chamber lock first appeared, in 10th century in China and in Europe in 1373 in Vreeswijk, Netherlands.

However, it does absorb slightly more red light than blue, giving large volumes of water a bluish tint ; increased scattering of blue light due to fine particles in the water shifts the blue color toward green, for a typically cyan net color.