Amdahl's law, also known as Amdahl's argument, is named after computer architect Gene Amdahl, and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall system when only part of the system is improved.

During this period the US considered the defense of the US as a part of reducing the overall damage inflicted in a full nuclear exchange.

Inadequate payments, fuel and spare part shortages and the disbandment of many capable units led to an overall drop in combat readiness, morale and discipline.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

Some sections of the old Fenway Park were to be preserved ( mainly the original Green Monster and the third base side of the park ) as part of the overall new layout.

Partly due to the lower overall weight of the system components ; and partly because the natural stability of the aircraft can be relaxed, slightly for a transport aircraft and more for a maneuverable fighter, which means that the stability surfaces that are part of the aircraft structure can therefore be made smaller.

After the Challenger accident, a study considered additional shielding and eventually rejected it, in part because such a design significantly increased the overall risk of mission failure and only shifted the other risks around ( for example, if a failure on orbit had occurred, additional shielding would have significantly increased the consequences of a ground impact ).

This was a part of the overall effort being made in Broken Hill to devise a practical and profitable method to use the newly developed froth flotation process to treat these tailings and recover the zinc.

During the 1970s and ‘ 80s rural poverty did decline, particularly in the Malayan Peninsula, but critics of the government ’ s policy contend that this was mainly due to the growth of overall national prosperity ( due in large part to the discovery of important oil and gas reserves ) and migration of rural people to the cities rather than to state intervention.

Some kinds of changes are a part of the everyday routine of information processing and adhere to a predefined procedure, which reduces the overall level of risk to the processing environment.

As a result, this inequality becomes part of the overall social structure.

The use of untranslated Klingon words interspersed with conversation translated into English was commonplace in later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, when Klingons became a more important part of the series ' overall story-arcs.

Garry Wills believes that Davis was underrated as an actress overall because her constrained part in Hellcats was her most widely seen performance.

Therefore, though the petroleum sector is important, it remains in fact a small part of the country's overall vibrant and diversified economy.

ANNs are frequently used in reinforcement learning as part of the overall algorithm.

In November 1992, President Bush assigned responsibility for overall training, management, leadership, coordination and support for U. S. Open Skies observation missions to the On-Site Inspection Agency ( OSIA ), now a part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency ( DTRA ).

In Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese poetry, the visual presentation of finely calligraphed poems has played an important part in the overall effect of many poems.

The highway was built as part of an overall plan to improve transport facilities in southern Balochistan.

In 1898, Palmyra was annexed to the United States along with the overall annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, and on June 14, 1900, Palmyra became part of the new Territory of Hawaii.

The Reichskonkordat, signed on 20 July 1933, between Germany and the Holy See, while thus a part of an overall Vatican policy, was controversial from its beginning.

As part of its overall program of naval modernization, the PLA Navy is moving towards the development of a blue-water navy.

As part of its overall program of naval modernization, the PLAN has a long-term plan of developing a blue water navy.

External networks must be carefully considered as part of the overall security strategy.

Also, Willis, although very much a part of early radical feminism and continuing to hold that it played a necessary role in placing feminism on the political agenda, later criticised its inability " to integrate a feminist perspective with an overall radical politics ," while viewing this limitation as inevitable in the historical context of the times.

By May 1969 Britain ’ s current account position was in surplus, thanks to a growth in exports, a drop in overall consumption and, in part, the Inland Revenue correcting a previous underestimation in export figures.

The use of the soroban is still taught in Japanese primary schools as part of mathematics, primarily as an aid to faster mental calculation.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

The two Chinese parties nominally formed a united front to oppose the Japanese in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ), which became a part of World War II.

DeVos and Wagatsuma observe that a systematic and extensive caste system was part of the Japanese society.

But even in Japan, a figure such as the benshi, the live narrator who was a major part of Japanese silent cinema, found his acting career was ending.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

Most Japanese people traveled on foot until the later part of the 19th century.

Although road fatalities have been decreasing due in part to stricter enforcement of drink driving laws, 2004 still saw 7, 358 deaths on Japanese roads.

Indian Navy | Indian, Japanese and US naval warships take part in a military exercise near Bōsō Peninsula in 2007.

The Ryūkyūan languages, spoken in Okinawa and the Amami Islands ( politically part of Kagoshima ), are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family ; not only is each language unintelligible to Japanese speakers, but most are unintelligible to those who speak other Ryūkyūan languages.

* 1869 – The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

Examples of these such as Tempura, aburaage, satsumaage are now part of established traditional Japanese cuisine.

As a part of the 1872 Iwakura Mission Mr. Abbott was given guardianship of Shige Nagai, a Japanese girl sent to the United States to be educated.

Ribbentrop for his part, who valued Japanese friendship far more than Chinese friendship, argued that Germany and Japan should sign the pact even without Chinese participation.

In return, the Germans received little thanks from the Japanese, who refused to allow any new German businesses to be set up in the part of China they had occupied, and continued with their policy of attempting to exclude all existing German ( together with all other Western ) businesses from Japanese-occupied China.

Samurai warriors, as part of bushido, could perform ritual suicide, or seppuku, with a tantō, a common Japanese knife.

Kana are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji ().

Amae ( 甘え ), a Japanese word meaning " indulgent dependence ," is part of the child-rearing culture of Japan.

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, representing a ¥ 406 billion market in Japan in 2007 ( approximately $ 3. 6 billion ) and ¥ 420 billion ($ 5. 5 billion ) in 2009.