Unlike MEDR, AIDR is dependent upon factors such as distance of the customer's network interface device from the DSLAM ( datacenter ), whereas MEDR is only a numerical representation of line quality and only includes information on what a line can physically handle — not what can actually be provided to that line.

The data throughput that can actually be presented to the end user is measured by AIDR or As Is Data Rate.

AIDR or As-Is Data Rate is a term primarily used by telephone companies to represent the level of available data throughput that can actually be provided to an end-user over copper wiring.

It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

Incumbent William Brod is opposed in his re-election bid by Barbara Njust, Miles C. Bubenik and Frank Lee.

In conferences with Nationalist China's dapper, diminutive Vice President Chen Cheng, Mr. Kennedy assured Chiang Kai-shek's emissary that the U.S. is as firmly opposed as ever to the admission of Red China to the United Nations.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

" It is often said that Korzybski opposed the use of the verb " to be ," which is an exaggeration ( see " Criticisms " below ).

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

It is thus much better equipped for fulfilling its civil roles as opposed to providing a deterrence against would-be aggressors or in defending the nation during a war.

Anisotropy () is the property of being directionally dependent, as opposed to isotropy, which implies identical properties in all directions.

There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently composed almost entirely of matter ( as opposed to a mixture of matter and antimatter ), whether there exist other places that are almost entirely composed of antimatter instead, and what sorts of technology might be possible if antimatter could be harnessed.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

He argues that Kant's " aesthetic " merely represents an experience that is the product of an elevated class habitus and scholarly leisure as opposed to other possible and equally valid " aesthetic " experiences which lay outside Kant's narrow definition.

Most luthiers and experienced players agree that a good solid top ( as opposed to laminated or plywood ) is the most important factor in the tone of the guitar.

It is an outer locative case, used just as the adessive and allative cases to denote both being on top of something and " being around the place " ( as opposed to the inner locative case, the elative, which means " from out of " or " from the inside of ").

Since “ a cappella ” singing brought a new polyphony with instrumental accompaniment, it is not surprising that Protestant reformers who opposed the instruments ( such as Calvin and Zwingli ) also opposed the polyphony.

Whether this whole process resembles animal apoptosis closely enough to warrant using the name apoptosis ( as opposed to the more general programmed cell death ) is unclear.

Many nationalist movements, such as the French National Front, Austrian Freedom Party, or the Italian Lego Nord are opposed to globalization, but argue that the alternative to globalization is the protection of the nation-state, sometimes, according to critics, in explicitly racist or fascist terms.

As opposed to that, the inquisitorial system has a judge ( or a group of judges who work together ) whose task is to investigate the case.

Drag on a flat plate is closer to being linear with the angle of inclination as opposed to acting quadratically at low angles.

that he was `` devoting an average of 100 hours a month to actual preaching publicly '', in addition to 50 to 75 hours in other ministerial duties, and that he opposed war in any form.

Though his work was widely reproduced, and over 200 copies, translations, and extracts survive today, the extent to which Vegetius affected the actual practice of warfare as opposed to its concept is unclear due to his habit of stating the obvious.

Some Western astrologers use the sidereal zodiac favoured by Indian (" jyotish ") astrologers, which is based more closely on actual positions of constellations in the heavens, as opposed to the tropical zodiac, which is a moveable format based on the seasons.

The logical classification of network topologies generally follows the same classifications as those in the physical classifications of network topologies but describes the path that the data takes between nodes being used as opposed to the actual physical connections between nodes.

Although very little is known about the actual debate ( except for Cicero's argument, which has probably been altered from its original ), the Senate majority probably opposed the death sentence for various reasons, one of which was the nobility of the accused.

Alternatively, the connotation of the word may be thought of as the set of all its possible referents ( as opposed to merely the actual ones ).

It is recommended that one weigh the actual mushrooms, as opposed to simply counting them.

The director these days is responsible for the actual production of a play, as opposed to earlier days when it was the producer who, at least in Britain until the 1950s, had this task.

Descartes and dualism aim to prove the actual existence of reality as opposed to a phantom existence ( as well as the existence of God in Descartes ' case ), using the realm of ideas merely as a starting point, but solipsism usually finds those further arguments unconvincing.

This definition of EI encompasses behavioral dispositions and self perceived abilities and is measured by self report, as opposed to the ability based model which refers to actual abilities, which have proven highly resistant to scientific measurement.

While this text would seem to suggest only limited use of the vernacular language, its reference to " particular law " ( as opposed to universal law ) and to " the competent territorial ecclesiastical authority " ( the episcopal conference ) entrusted to the latter the judgment on the actual extent of its use.

This royalty must be paid at the time of manufacturing, as opposed to royalty payments in almost all other industries, where royalties are paid upon actual sales of the product — and, importantly, are payable for games that did not sell to a consumer.

Making things worse, the State Legislature raised property tax rates, setting values at “ the highest and best use ” as opposed to the actual use of the land.

Since the actual town only has a footprint of a tenth of a square mile ( 0. 1 miles ), an attorney representing residents and businesses in the proposed annexation area who opposed being a part of such a troubled town found that previous land annexations were void due to the proper paperwork having never been filed.

Roh believed magic realism is related to, but distinctive from, surrealism, due to magic realism's focus on the material object and the actual existence of things in the world, as opposed to the more cerebral, psychological and subconscious reality that the surrealists explored.

Police are trained to repeatedly instruct targets to " breathe normally " if they complain of difficulty, as the shock of the exposure can generate considerable panic as opposed to actual physical symptoms.

He states that no evidence of massive modularity or the brain as a digital computer has been gained through actual neuroscience, as opposed to psychological studies.

They are awarded for actual retail sales ( as opposed to shipments ) of one million albums, in one of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.

Further, on the Fast Track, the actual costs of the trial, as opposed to preparatory work, are fixed.

Thus, " outlaw " is still commonly used to mean those violating the law or, by extension, those living that lifestyle, whether actual criminals evading the law or those merely opposed to " law-and-order " notions of conformity and authority ( such as the " outlaw country " music movement in the 1970s ).

The original diners ( as opposed to " dining wagons ") were actual dining cars on railways.

The actual path an object takes through spacetime, as opposed to the ones it could take, is known as the worldline.

It also equates the tathāgatagarbha ( and ālaya-vijñāna ) with nirvana, though this is concerned with the actual attainment of nirvana as opposed to nirvana as a timeless phenomenon.

They also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in late 2002 and early 2003 as part of a group that opposed Vince Russo ’ s faction Sports Entertainment Xtreme but only wrestled one actual match for the federation.

Constructivism is thus opposed to positivism, which is a philosophy that holds that the only authentic knowledge is that which is based on actual sense experience and what other individuals tell us is right and wrong.