The player's disadvantage is a result of the casino not paying winning wagers according to the game's " true odds ", which are the payouts that would be expected considering the odds of a wager either winning or losing.

Ethical egoism can be understood as a consequentialist theory according to which the consequences for the individual agent are taken to matter more than any other result.

The United Church of Christ ( UCC ) is the result of a union constructed according to congregationalist theory between the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.

A brief famine of an unknown size occurred, perhaps caused by this financial crisis, but according to Suetonius a result of Caligula's seizure of public carriages, according to Seneca because grain imports were disturbed by Caligula using boats for a pontoon bridge.

The result of a die roll is determined by the way it is thrown, according to the laws of classical mechanics ; they are made random by uncertainty due to factors like movements in the thrower's hand.

The result of each die is added ( dice which reach their maximum value are thrown again, adding each maximum to the tally, along with the final result below maximum ) and compared to a value decided by the game master / storyteller according to the difficulty of the task.

Whichever axis she uses, she has a 50 % probability of obtaining "+" and 50 % probability of obtaining "−", completely at random ; according to quantum mechanics, it is fundamentally impossible for her to influence what result she gets.

It concluded that risks were limited and had reduced as a result inter alia of larger margins being required by counterparty banks, but might change rapidly according to market conditions.

The shallowest section of Lake Erie is the western basin where depths average only ; as a result, " the slightest breeze can kick up lively waves ," according to a New York Times reporter in 2004.

The negative result can be explained by Lorentz's theory, according to which the electromagnetic momentum compensates the momentum due to Earth's motion.

100 ), where, according to Murphy, as a result of the Jewish worship of one God, " pagan mythology fell into contempt.

The result is that the number of fission reactions increases exponentially, according to the equation, where t is the elapsed time.

The second shortcoming, related to the first, is that in quantum mechanics there is no mechanism to describe particle creation and annihilation ; this is crucial for describing phenomena such as pair production which result from the conversion between mass and energy according to the relativistic relation E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup >.

More recent research in this vein is the research made by John Lucy describing how usage of the categories of grammatical number and of numeral classifiers in the Mayan language Yucatec result in Mayan speakers classifying objects according to material rather than to shape as preferred by speakers of English.

Major differences between software engineering and other engineering disciplines, according to some researchers, result from the costs of fabrication.

Germain used this result to prove the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem for all odd primes p < 100, but according to Andrea del Centina, “ she had actually shown that it holds for every exponent p < 197 .” L. E. Dickson later used Germain's theorem to prove Fermat's Last Theorem for odd primes less than 1700.

In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance alone, according to a pre-determined threshold probability, the significance level.

Yet Adorno continued to resist blanket condemnations of the protest movement which would have only strengthened the reactionary thesis according to which political irrationalism was the result of Adorno's teaching.

The result of us relying and living our life according to our own understanding is that, from that moment ( the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil ) on, we are to rationally consider what to believe and filter with our natural understanding, rather than accepting what is good directly in our will, which was depicted of the Most Ancient people by Adam.

This result appears puzzling because each twin sees the other twin as traveling, and so, according to a naive application of time dilation, each should paradoxically find the other to have aged more slowly.

As a result of extensive international consultations, which have underlined the importance of according a high priority to activities in Africa, the University for Peace ( UPEACE ) officially launched its Africa Programme in January 2002.

In 1873 according to a regulation of the Imperial German government, school lessons at public schools inside Germany had to be hold in German, as a result the Polish language was forbidden in all schools in Warmia, including Polish schools founded already in the sixteenth century.

Chilean economist and philosopher Manfred Max-Neef has also argued fundamental human needs are non-hierarchical, and are ontologically universal and invariant in nature — part of the condition of being human ; poverty, he argues, may result from any one of these needs being frustrated, denied or unfulfilled.

As a result of the popularity of both the club and Germinal beyond the anarchist scene, Rocker befriended many prominent non-anarchist Jews in London, among them the Zionist philosopher Ber Borochov.

As a result of his public debate with Baron Devlin on the role of the criminal law in enforcing moral norms, British legal philosopher H. L. A.

In the 9th century, Al-Jahiz, an Afro-Arab Islamic philosopher attempted to explain the origins of different human skin colors, particularly black skin, which he believed to be the result of the environment.

As a result, there is substantial disagreement over matters that are normally taken for granted: in which discipline he worked ( was he a philosopher or literary critic?

The philosopher of science Marc Ereshefsky argues that paraphyletic taxa are the result of anagenesis.

The stereotype is very old: the ancient Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius wrote that the philosopher Thales walked at night with his eyes focused on the heavens and, as a result, fell down a well.

" When a well-clothed philosopher on a bitter winter ’ s night sits in a warm room well lighted for his purpose and writes on paper with pen and ink in the arbitrary characters of a highly developed language the statement that civilisation is the result of natural laws, and that man ’ s duty is to let nature alone so that untrammeled it may work out a higher civilisation, he simply ignores every circumstance of his existence and deliberately closes his eyes to every fact within the range of his faculties.

In a commentary to Brahma Sutras ( III, 2, 38, and 41 ), a Vedantic text, Adi Sankara, an Indian philosopher who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta, argues that the original karmic actions themselves cannot bring about the proper results at some future time ; neither can super sensuous, non-intelligent qualities like adrsta — an unseen force being the metaphysical link between work and its result — by themselves mediate the appropriate, justly deserved pleasure and pain.

Illich, a philosopher, argued that the medical profession harms people through iatrogenesis, a process in which illness and social problems increase as a result of medical intervention.

Arthur Schopenhauer, largely as a result of his system of aesthetics, is perhaps the most influential recent philosopher in the history of literature ; Thomas Hardy's later novels frequently allude to Schopenhauerian themes, particularly in Jude the Obscure.

Steven Connor suggests that mondegreens are the result of the brain's constant attempts to make sense of the world by making assumptions to fill in the gaps when it cannot clearly determine what it is hearing.

The approach to childhood nutrition was criticized by a number of experts, including his co-author, Dr. Steven J. Parker, as too extreme and likely to result in nutritional deficiencies unless it is very carefully planned and executed, something that would be difficult for working parents.

In the words of Steven Brindle the result was a " great and apparently architecturally unified palace ... uniform in all sorts of ways, as to roof line, window heights, cornice line, floor and ceiling heights ", echoing older designs but without any real defensive value.

Blake is arrested and charged with murder, and an angry Steven testifies that Ted's death had been the result of malicious intent.

Steven Pinker speculated that Sigmund Freud's theories about the Oedipal complex were the result of Freud being raised by a wet-nurse, rather than his mother, because this dissociation from his mother would have prevented the Westermarck effect from taking hold.

Glashow was in the same graduating class as Steven Weinberg, whose own research, independent of Glashow's, would result in the two and Abdus Salam sharing the same 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics ( see below ).

At the start of the next season, 1990 – 91, he was named co-captain along with Steven Finn ( Sakic was captain for home games, Finn for away games ) and again passed the 100 point mark, improving to 109 points and sixth overall in the league, but would slip during 1991 – 92 to 94 points, partly as a result of missing eleven games.

* by Steven Brust in To Reign in Hell as the angel who catalyzes the dispute between Yaweh and Satan which would eventually result in the revolt in Heaven

Robin decides to get back together with Steven as a result.

The IDG is the result of collaboration between the New York City Mayor ’ s Office for People with Disabilities, the International Code Council, Steven Winter Associates and a diverse team of contributors including prominent design firms, advocates and people with disabilities.

The party's best result was in West Bromwich West, where Steven Edwards received 11. 4 % of the vote.

Battling became popular as a result of Steven Dee ’ s attitude that there is always room for improvement.

Their design is the result of input from Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat, production designer Edward Thomas, " Victory of the Daleks " writer Mark Gatiss and concept artist Peter McKinstry.

The original version of the film was longer, but executive producer Steven Spielberg claimed that there were too many gremlins, and several scenes were cut as a result.

Neurologist Steven Novella of Yale University Medical School says the cranium exhibits all of the characteristics of a child who has died as a result of congenital hydrocephalus, and the cranial deformations were the result of accumulations of cerebrospinal fluid within the skull.

One of the DTS Inc .' s initial investors was film director Steven Spielberg, who felt that theatrical sound formats up until the company's founding were no longer state of the art, and as a result were no longer optimal for use on projects where quality sound reproduction was of the utmost importance.

In June 2008, a study by Steven Deller, a University of Wisconsin-Extension professor, indicated that the plant's closure could result in a ripple effect for the county.

Chris Waddle was a more flamboyant and explosive player than Steven ( and John Barnes was similarly so against the more stoic Steve Hodge on the left flank ) but Robson often preferred the consistency and team play of Steven on the right wing and he became a frequent choice as a result.