Decoupling mechanisms reduce a utility company's financial risk from reducing sales, due to conservation, weather and economic conditions.

Decoupling is used in the study of U statistics, where decoupling should not be confused with Hoeffding's decomposition, however.

Decoupling is part of the unbundling of the services previously provided by traditional full service advertising agencies, which originally began with the creation of standalone media buying agencies such as Zenith from Saatchi & Saatchi Group in the ' 80's and Mindshare from WPP group in the ' 90's.

* Decoupling or filtering at critical points such as cable entries and high-speed switches, using RF chokes and / or RC elements.

Transformed Social Interaction: Decoupling Representation from Behavior and Form in Collaborative Virtual Environments.

* Two Curves, One Price: Pricing & Hedging Interest Rate Derivatives Decoupling Forwarding and Discounting Yield Curves, Bianchetti M., Risk Magazine, August 2010.

Glau also guest starred as herself in the 2009 episode " The Terminator Decoupling " from the second season of the CBS situation comedy The Big Bang Theory.

Decoupling lowers or minimizes Coupling.

Decoupling in advertising is the process whereby advertisers buy services direct from suppliers which were previously sub-contractors to their advertising agencies.

Decoupling is discussed in " Magic and Logic " www. magicandlogic. co. uk, the booklet prepared for the Value Framework Steering Group which is a joint venture by the UK trade bodies CIPS, IPA and ISBA.

Drinking alcohol suppresses his anxiety, allowing him to speak ; however, this is a placebo effect, as seen in " The Terminator Decoupling ", in which he speaks to the actress Summer Glau while drinking beer that was, unbeknownst to him, non-alcoholic.

* Decoupling the build process from specific IDEs.

Decoupling the sender from communications sent was a fundamental advance of the Actor model enabling asynchronous communication and control structures as patterns of passing messages.

`` You see, first of all and in a sense as the source of all other ills, the unshakeable American commitment to the principle of unconditional surrender: The tendency to view any war in which we might be involved not as a means of achieving limited objectives in the way of changes in a given status quo, but as a struggle to the death between total virtue and total evil, with the result that the war had absolutely to be fought to the complete destruction of the enemy's power, no matter what disadvantages or complications this might involve for the more distant future ''.

As expected, the groups behind these movements, as well as many others in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s all turned to class actions as a means for achieving their goals.

James, who was supportive of Frederick, and had been seeking marriage between the new Prince of Wales and the Spanish Infanta, Maria Anna of Spain, since Prince Henry's death, began to see the Spanish Match as a possible means of achieving peace in Europe.

* Distributism as a means of achieving third way economics, a paper for the Secular Party of Australia written by Richard Howard of the Humanist Society of New South Wales

By many, education is understood to be a means of overcoming handicaps, achieving greater equality and acquiring wealth and status for all ( Sargent 1994 ).

In the October 1917 elections, the Social Democrats lost their absolute majority, which radicalized the labour movement and decreased support for relying on parliamentary means of achieving its aims.

By the 1970s, the Brotherhood had renounced violence as a means of achieving its goals.

Some of these Christian unions have had some ties to centrist or conservative political movements and some do not regard strikes as acceptable political means for achieving employees ' goals.

Gandhian economics places importance to means of achieving the aim of development and this means must be non-violent, ethical and truthful in all economic spheres.

Rand acknowledged the importance of emotion for human beings, but she maintained that emotions are a consequence of the conscious or subconscious ideas that a person already accepts, not a means of achieving awareness of reality.

Thus, engaging in the commercial world is a legitimate means to achieving a livelihood, but individuals should participate in modern society as little as possible.

Since the state controls the means of coercion, and given the dependence of many groups in civil society on the state for achieving any goals they may espouse, state personnel can to some extent impose their own preferences on civil society.

It means resolving the conflict between the various competing goals, and involves the simultaneous pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity famously known as three dimensions ( triple bottom line ) with the resultant vector being technology, hence it is a continually evolving process ; the ' journey ' ( the process of achieving sustainability ) is of course vitally important, but only as a means of getting to the destination ( the desired future state ).

" Understanding science " may be such a good, being both worthwhile in and of itself, and as a means of achieving other goods.

This led to the concept of " cap and trade " as a means of achieving the " least cost solution " for a given level of abatement.

However, the term " Sufi " is applied to Muslim mystics who, as a means of achieving union with Allah, adopted ascetic practices including wearing a garment made of coarse wool called " sf ".

Throughout history, many groups have resorted to assassination as a means of achieving political ends.

The complementary roles of national and subnational actors are determined by analyzing the most effective ways and means of achieving a desired objective ".

The primary means of achieving this is by dismissing the batting side by getting all ten of the opposition wickets as quickly as possible.

There are three distinct means of achieving this aim: by bowling the ball on a consistently good line and length, by bowling with sufficient pace that the batsman struggles to react to the delivery, or by bowling the ball in such a way that it has lateral movement as it approaches the batsman, either in the air or off the ground.

But soon other means of achieving application compatibility were proven to be more significant.

Although the revolutionary leaders agreed on the need for radical change, they differed on the means of achieving it.

It is no longer to be a goal without means of achieving it, without means of verifying its progress, without means of keeping the peace.

In turn, higher fertility rates for this population provide a means of increasing the numerical quantity of the population, allowing for the possibility of greater stability and unity.

Furthermore, the Commission set up the Council for Financial Aid to Education as a means of encouraging private business to increase its support of private higher education.

This notation means that the corresponding Slater determinants have a clear higher weight in the configuration interaction expansion.

For him, " probability " means a higher chance of occurring, and brings about a higher degree of subjective expectation in the viewer.

When bearing off, a player may also move a lower die roll before the higher even if that means ' the full value of the higher die ' is not fully utilized.

Substituting this into the definition of the derivative via a difference quotient and taking limits means that the higher order terms – and higher – become negligible, and yields the formula interpreted as

In metallic solids, electric charge flows by means of electrons, from lower to higher electrical potential.

Their higher hardness means they are much less susceptible to wear and can offer more than triple lifetimes.

This means that for the same energy to be imparted to the arrow ( or bolt ), the crossbow has to have a much higher draw weight.

The average GPA for admission is typically about 3. 25, which means that a large portion of students enter with GPAs of 3. 8 and higher.

In the context of the above architecture it means that changes made at a certain level do not affect definitions and software developed with higher level interfaces, and are being incorporated at the higher level automatically.

Manufacturing variances means that not all Dragons are able to function at this higher speed, and use of this POKE can cause some units to crash or run highly unstable, though with no permanent damage.

The absence of a stably annealed ends also means that the ligation efficiency is lowered, requiring a higher ligase concentration to be used.

This sometimes means a happier ending or less ambiguity, or excluding scenes that would give a higher age limit, but more often means that the film is simply shortened to provide more screenings per day.

An unamplified acoustic bass's tone is limited by the frequency responsiveness of the instrument's hollow body, which means that the very low pitches may not be as loud as the higher pitches.

This increase in demand means more workers are needed, and then AD will be shifted from AD2 to AD3, but this time much less is produced than in the previous shift, but the price level has risen from P2 to P3, a much higher increase in price than in the previous shift.

Electromagnetic-type ionizing radiation extends from the extreme ultraviolet to all higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths, which means that all X-rays and gamma rays are ionizing radiation.

: < 1 means that the cost of completing the work is higher than planned ( bad );

This means that the concert flute is one of the highest common orchestral instruments, with the exception of the piccolo, which plays an octave higher.

Research on the relationship between original learning and forgetting shows that higher degree of original learning means lowering forgetting.