The number of degrees of freedom DF can be partitioned in a similar way: one of these components ( that for error ) specifies a chi-squared distribution which describes the associated sum of squares, while the same is true for " treatments " if there is no treatment effect.

A similar effect can be achieved with a 1-bit alpha channel, as found in the 16-bit RGBA Highcolor mode of the Truevision TGA image file format and related TARGA and AT-Vista / NU-Vista display adapters ' Highcolor graphic mode.

This gives the effect of a simple toggle speaker similar to that seen in the 48 kB Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Auger recombination is a similar Auger effect which occurs in semiconductors.

From a strictly aerodynamic point of view, the term should refer only to those side-effects arising as a result of the changes in airflow from an incompressible fluid ( similar in effect to water ) to a compressible fluid ( acting as a gas ) as the speed of sound is approached.

In a similar way, accurate AC / DC non-contact ammeters have been constructed using Hall effect magnetic field sensors.

Pregabalin's therapeutic effect appears after 1 week of use and is similar in effectiveness to lorazepam, alprazolam, and venlafaxine, but pregabalin has demonstrated superiority by producing more consistent therapeutic effects for psychic and somatic anxiety symptoms.

Atypical antipsychotic drugs have a similar blocking effect on D < sub > 2 </ sub > receptors.

Tin has a similar effect and finds its use especially in sea water applications ( naval brasses ).

Burning mirrors achieve a similar effect by using reflecting surfaces to focus the light.

The trial showed a 64 % protective effect, which is very similar to the figure derived from other UK trials, thus arguing against the genetic variation hypothesis.

While both and combination are commonly implemented as a way of breaking the execution of a console application, they are also used for similar effect in integrated development environments.

All known forms of life are based on the same fundamental biochemical organisation: genetic information encoded in DNA, transcribed into RNA, through the effect of protein-and RNA-enzymes, then translated into proteins by ( highly similar ) ribosomes, with ATP, NADH and others as energy sources, etc.

In Asian cooking, a similar effect is obtained from a mixture of rice or corn starch and water.

According to this theory, depressed people acquire a negative schema of the world in childhood and adolescence as an effect of stressful life events, and the negative schema is activated later in life when the person encounters similar situations.

* He wouldn't be a good manager ( stressing wouldn't has a similar effect to stressing not in the version without the clitic )

It was reasoned that an agent that damaged the rapidly growing white blood cells might have a similar effect on cancer.

These are electrically very similar to Zener diodes, and are often mistakenly called Zener diodes, but break down by a different mechanism, the avalanche effect.

By analogy, the phenomenon of small events causing similar events leading to eventual catastrophe is called the domino effect.

The domino effect is a chain reaction that occurs when a small change causes a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence.

A similar effect is found in VIII. 452, where Virgil describes how the blacksmith sons of Vulcan " take up their arms with great strength one to another " in forging Aeneas ' shield:

" At its core, the gameplay is similar to classic shooter games ( such as Space Invaders ), presenting the player with the challenge of surviving while shooting every enemy in sight, but with its pseudo-3D first-person perspective giving environments a spatial representation that has a major effect on the level design and gameplay experience.

A similar effect can be achieved by drawing different tones close together ; a light edge next to a dark background will stand out to the eye, and almost appear to float above the surface.

The term " potassium-sparing " refers to an effect rather than a mechanism or location ; nonetheless, the term almost always refers to two specific classes that have their effect at similar locations:

Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.

But there is, nevertheless, always a subtle difference in the way in which supposedly similar opinions are held.

First of all there is ample area in East Greenwich already zoned in the classification similar to that which petitioner requested.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Commonly used electronic devices which are found in practically every hospital are closed-circuit TV and audio systems for internal paging and instruction, along with radiation counters, timers, and similar devices.

There may be certain items which are quite similar to a net operating loss carryover or operating deficit and whose right to survive a reorganization should perhaps be subject to the conditions applicable to those items.

In Tokyo Richard took up a life similar to that which he had lived in New York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a friend.

The Angels in turn would exercise similar restraints in respect for the natural preferences and natures of the Earthmen -- but they had no faintest notion of man's perverse habit of passing and enforcing laws which were contrary to his own preferences and violations of his nature.

It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

They are superficially similar to reptiles but, along with mammals and birds, reptiles are amniotes and no longer require water bodies in which to breed.

The first major groups of amphibians developed in the Devonian period from lobe-finned fish similar to the modern coelacanth and lungfish, which had evolved multi-jointed leg-like fins with digits that enabled them to crawl along the sea bottom.

Another problem was that the gradual identification of more and more chemically similar and indistinguishable lanthanides, which were of an uncertain number, led to inconsistency and uncertainty in the numbering of all elements at least from lutetium ( element 71 ) onwards ( hafnium was not known at this time ).

Simple words in the various dialects are very similar, but pronunciation is distinct for each and, after listening to a few spoken words it may be possible for an Austrian to realise which dialect is being spoken.

Nobel later on combined nitroglycerin with various nitrocellulose compounds, similar to collodion, but settled on a more efficient recipe combining another nitrate explosive, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a more powerful explosive than dynamite.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

Various theorists have differing, though similar, legal philosophies which are considered to fall under " anarcho-capitalism.

The Agriculturalists supported the fixing of prices, in which all similar goods, regardless of differences in quality and demand, are set at exactly the same, unchanging price.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal.

Its chemical and physical properties are so similar to that of natural amethyst that it can not be differentiated with absolute certainty without advanced gemnological testing ( which is often cost-prohibitive ).

In 2009, researchers hypothesized that smooth-edged holes found in the fossil jaws of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs such as Albertosaurus were caused by a parasite similar to Trichomonas gallinae which infects birds.

* Modified Baltic amber – gemstone subjected only to thermal or high-pressure treatment, which changed its physical properties, including the degree of transparency and color, or shaped under similar conditions out of one nugget, previously cut to the required size.

Having due regard to the magic papyri, in which many of the unintelligible names of the Abrasax-stones reappear, besides directions for making and using gems with similar figures and formulas for magical purposes, it can scarcely be doubted that many of these stones are pagan amulets and instruments of magic.