In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

This contrasts with the Acts and Omissions Doctrine, which is upheld by some medical ethicists and some religions: it asserts there is a significant moral distinction between acts and deliberate non-actions which lead to the same outcome.

The other significant outcome of the event die is Progress cards, which replace development cards.

A significant outcome of the research was that rules inferred from toddler speech were better predictors of subsequent speech than traditional grammars.

First, as an outcome of globalization and the proliferation of multinational companies, joint ventures, strategic alliances and business partnerships, significant success factors were identified, complementing the earlier " Just-In-Time ", Lean Manufacturing and Agile manufacturing practices.

When asked about this by American Cinematographer, Spielberg said, " I think that World War II is the most significant event of the last 100 years ; the fate of the Baby Boomers and even Generation X was linked to the outcome.

The outcome was one of the most significant developments in a century of Anglo-French conflict.

The outcome of the three body problem, where the three stars are of comparable mass, is that eventually one of the three stars will be ejected from the system and, assuming no significant further perturbations, the remaining two will form a stable binary system.

In the cohort of 15, 000 people participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ( NHANES III ), waist circumference explained obesity-related health risk better than the body mass index ( or BMI ) when metabolic syndrome was taken as an outcome measure and this difference was statistically significant.

conducted a prospective, randomized, multi-center study and found no significant differences between the two groups with regard to secondary quantitative outcome measurements.

The film's German director Roland Emmerich said " these were characters I could relate to, and they were engaged in a conflict that had a significant outcome – the creation of the first modern democratic government.

However, the assumption of abuse is only rebutted where the additional expenses or adjustments for loss of income are significant enough to change the outcome of the means test.

They found that in studies with a binary outcome, meaning patients were classified as improved or not improved, the placebo group had no statistically significant improvement over the no-treatment group.

Another significant outcome was the Supreme Court's ruling in McGrain v. Daugherty ( 1927 ) which, for the first time, explicitly established that Congress had the power to compel testimony.

The Samnites would have gained significant ground in Campania by the time the Romans arrived and Valerius ' two victories could be the outcome of twin Samnite attacks on Capua and Cumae.

There were some significant differences between the opposing armies, which were to be important to the course of the battle and its outcome.

The most significant of which tend to involve anticipating market or regulatory problems associated with ignoring the comprehensive outcome of the whole process or event accounted for.

In an exponentially weighted stress test, historical periods more like the defined scenario receive a more significant weighting in the predicted outcome.

The most significant factors in determining outcome are grade ( see Hunt and Hess grade above ) and age.

If the predictor model has a significantly smaller deviance ( c. f chi-square using the difference in degrees of freedom of the two models ), then one can conclude that there is a significant association between the " predictor " and the outcome.

In 2007, Canada joined the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks, whose outcome will have a significant impact on the Canadian music industry.

In 1995 he wrote that " although not all Muslims are anti-gay, significant numbers are violently homophobic ... homophobic Muslim voters may be able to influence the outcome of elections in 20 or more marginal constituencies.

The environmental theory of the progression of OCPD proposes that, OCPD is not the outcome of some internal conflict, but instead it is a largely socially learned behavior that is the outcome from the replication and copying of significant others throughout the childhood stage.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

Instead of starting from theory and applying theory to a particular case, casuists start with the particular case itself and then ask what morally significant features ( including both theory and practical considerations ) ought to be considered for that particular case.

Rising magma also undergoes adiabatic cooling before eruption, particularly significant in the case of magmas that rise quickly from great depths such as kimberlites.

In the case of Jamaica, recent analysis of the soils showed elevated levels of cadmium suggesting that the bauxite originates from recent Miocene ash deposits from episodes of significant volcanism in Central America.

In the case of a binary CPU, a bit refers to one significant place in the numbers a CPU deals with.

CRTs have also been used as memory devices, in which case the visible light emitted from the fluoresecent material ( if any ) is not intended to have significant meaning to a visual observer ( though the visible pattern on the tube face may cryptically represent the stored data ).

The case study yielded significant results:

However, during 2006-8, several reviews of case reports and pilot studies have failed to confirm this effect, collectively indicating no statistically significant interaction between daily consumption of 250 mL cranberry juice and warfarin in the general population.

Though the model showed no significant changes to the climate in areas other than the Tropics, this may not be the case since the model has possible errors and the results are never absolutely definite.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

Industrial organization generalizes from that special case to study the strategic behavior of firms that do have significant control of price.

Equipment from the Soviet Union is being progressively replaced by more modern U. S., French, and British equipment, a significant portion of which is built under license in Egypt, such as the M1A1 Abrams tank which makes Egypt the owner of the second largest number of latest generation main battle tanks in the region after Israel, and the second after Syria in case of the older generations.

This court case set a significant precedent for patent law in the United Kingdom, in terms of Inventive step and non-obviousness.

This use of specialized handloading techniques often provides significant cost savings, especially in the case where a hunter in a family already has a full-power rifle and a new hunter in the family wishes to learn the sport.

In this instance, it is possible to put two charges of powder in a case without overflowing the case, which can lead to dangerously high pressures and a significant chance of bursting the chamber of the firearm.

The internal volume of the cartridge case, or case capacity, has a significant impact on the pressure developed during ignition, which has a great impact on the velocity of the bullet.

While a neck split during firing is not a significant danger, a split neck will render the case incapable of holding the bullet in place, so the case must be discarded or recycled as a wildcat cartridge of shorter overall length, allowing the split section to be removed.

The raisons d ' être of these charters is in most cases the presence of significant linguistic and cultural minorities, but in the case of Sicily it was to calm down separatist movements.