After extensive antimicrobial testing according to the Agency ’ s stringent test protocols, 355 copper alloys, including many brasses, were found to kill more than 99. 9 % of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), E. coli O157: H7, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci ( VRE ) within two hours of contact.

The stated rationale for cryonics is that people who are considered dead by current legal or medical definitions may not necessarily be dead according to the more stringent information-theoretic definition of death.

Chianti that meets more stringent requirements ( lower yield, higher alcohol content and dry extract ) may be labelled as Chianti Superiore, although Chianti from the " Classico " sub-area is not allowed in any event to be labelled as " Superiore ".

On March 25, 2010, Defense Secretary Gates announced new rules mandating that only flag officers could initiate discharge proceedings and imposing more stringent rules of evidence on discharge proceedings.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

" Explosive economic and industrial growth in China has led to significant environmental degradation, and China is currently in the process of developing more stringent legal controls.

Furthermore in many cases federal laws allow for more stringent regulation by states, and of transfer of certain federally mandated responsibilities from federal to state control.

It thus satisfies a more stringent general principle of relativity, namely that the laws of physics are the same for all observers.

Certain countries such as the United Kingdom are unaffected as they maintain more stringent gun control laws than those effectively set as a minimum by the European Union.

Finally the 1753 Marriage Act, aimed at suppressing clandestine marriages by introducing more stringent conditions for validity, effectively ended the handfasting custom in England.

Haredi Judaism is less accommodating to modernity and has less interest in non-Jewish disciplines, and it may be distinguished from Modern Orthodox Judaism in practice by its styles of dress and more stringent practices.

This article will in general employ the more stringent, traditional sense of " Japanese food ".

Some effects thought to be paranormal, for example the effects of Kirlian photography ( thought by some to represent a human aura ), disappeared under more stringent controls, leaving those avenues of research at dead-ends.

A further source of provocation was an Athenian decree, issued in 433 / 2 BC, imposing stringent trade sanctions on Megarian citizens ( once more a Spartan ally after the conclusion of the First Peloponnesian War ).

Similarly, the more stringent requirements for password strength, e. g. " have a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters and digits " or " change it monthly ", the greater the degree to which users will subvert the system.

Some of the more stringent policy enforcement measures can pose a risk of alienating users, possibly decreasing security as a result.

Today, trichinellosis infections from eating pork are relatively uncommon, at least in the United States, due to more stringent health laws, better refrigeration, and public awareness of the dangers of eating undercooked meat.

Although no plague cases ever came to England all those years, the restrictions on traffic became more and more stringent ( following the movements of medical dogma ), and in 1788 a very oppressive Quarantine Act was passed, with provisions affecting cargoes in particular.

* 4th Edition Released ( March 31, 2009 ) — more stringent interoperability requirements, more flexible data persistence.

In a theocracy, the divine will's primate over human laws is even more stringent as it makes political authority subservient to the religious leadership.

With heavy political lobbying, the Compromise of 1850, passed by Congress after the Mexican-American War, stipulated a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law.

Search warrants were also expanded, with the Act amending Title III of the Stored Communications Access Act to allow the FBI to gain access to stored voicemail through a search warrant, rather than through the more stringent wiretap laws.

Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.

As Athens attracted an increasing number of resident aliens ( metics ), this shift in the definition of citizen worked to keep the immigrant population more sharply distinguished politically.

For planets, comets and asteroids a different definition of absolute magnitude is used which is more meaningful for nonstellar objects.

He also provided an algebraic definition of fundamental groups of schemes and more generally the main structures of a categorical Galois theory.

However, today the definition of the role of conservation has widened and would more accurately be described as that of ethical stewardship.

This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base and are still among the more common bases.

More recent IUPAC recommendations now suggest the newer term " hydronium " be used in favor of the older accepted term " oxonium " to illustrate reaction mechanisms such as those defined in the Brønsted – Lowry and solvent system definitions more clearly, with the Arrhenius definition serving as a simple general outline of acid – base character.

It is a more restricted definition of a plate appearance.

A less strict and more practically useful definition will refer to the frequencies where the frequency function is small.

Bodybuilders prepare for competition through a combination of dehydration, fat loss, oils, and tanning ( or tanning lotions ) which combined with lighting make the definition of the muscle group more distinct.

A more abstract definition, which is equivalent but more easily generalized to infinite-dimensional spaces, is to say that bras are linear functionals on kets, i. e. operators that input a ket and output a complex number.

The following definition remains even more mysterious:

Legally the definition varied from state to state, and was more flexible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before the American Civil War.

Whenever a confusion between the two kinds of definitions might arise it can be avoided by referring to the more general definition and by reintroducing the erased parameter: writing B < sub > m </ sub >( 0 ) in the first case and B < sub > m </ sub >( 1 ) in the second will unambiguously denote the value in question.

Whether these were consisted only of Goths is rather unlikely so the name " Scythians " by which the Greek sources called them ( a geographical definition ) seems more appropriate.

An unrelated definition of Vice Chair describes an executive who is higher ranking or has more seniority than Executive Vice President.

" According to this definition, celibacy ( even short-term celibacy that is pursued for non-religious reasons ) is much more than not having sex.

This more subtle definition exhibits compact spaces as generalizations of finite sets.

In addition, this article discusses the definition for the more general case of functions between two metric spaces.

But his definition of cultural imperialism stresses spreading the values of tolerance and openness to cultural change in order to avoid war and conflict between cultures as well as expanding accepted technological and legal standards to provide free traders with enough security to do business with more countries.

Omnivores also consume both animal and non-animal food, and apart from the more general definition, there is no clearly defined ratio of plant to animal material that would distinguish a facultative carnivore from an omnivore, or an omnivore from a facultative herbivore, for that matter.

If we define tangent covectors in terms of equivalence classes of smooth maps vanishing at a point then the definition of the pullback is even more straightforward.

Unlike the Muslim world, which has a geo-political and cultural definition that provides a primary identifier for a large swath of the world, Christendom is more complex.