Factors often provide their clients four key services: information on the creditworthiness of their prospective customers domestic and international, and, in nonrecourse factoring, acceptance of the credit risk for " approved " accounts ; maintain the history of payments by customers ( i. e., accounts receivable ledger ); daily management reports on collections ; and, make the actual collection calls.

Factors such as sex, age, population size or other variables may make the equations invalid and unusable, and,, Durnin and Wormersley's equations remain only estimates of a person's true level of fatness.

Factors that make driving more difficult include poor lighting conditions ( dawn and dusk are the most common ); inclement weather ( ice, rain, snow, fog, etc.

Factors affecting the arrival time of pulses at the Earth by more than a few hundred nanoseconds can be easily detected and used to make precise measurements.

Factors that make a quick kick more likely:

Factors tending to make an act adjudicative in nature:

It appears that the first quantitative evaluation of energy quality was in 1975 in the acceptance speech for the Prize Institute la Vie in Paris, which contained a table of “ Energy Quality Factors ”, or the kilocalories of sunlight energy required to make a kilocalorie of a higher quality energy.

Factors such as the reuse of materials and resources as well as a lesser need to involve energy, both in terms of labor and machine powered, can effectively decrease the monetary funds needed for companies to establish sites.

University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt argues in his paper, Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do not, that available data indicate that neither stricter gun control laws nor more liberal concealed carry laws have had any significant effect on the decline in crime in the 1990s.

Factors to be considered include comparability of tested and independent items, reliability of available data and assumptions under the method, and validation of the results of the method by other methods.

Factors in designing also include subjective qualities such as: genius loci ( the special site qualities to emphasize ); client's needs and preferences ; desirable plants and elements to retain on site, modify, or replace, and available to use as borrowed scenery from beyond ; artistic composition from perspectives of both looking upon and being in the * gardens ; spatial development and definition ; plant palettes in designed layouts, and artistic focal points for enjoyment.

* Team Resource Management, Strategies based on Human Factors for the best use of all available

Factors in choice may include the number of people involved, space and weight considerations, the quality of available water, personal taste and preferences, and fuel availability.

... Factors relating to the assessment of best available technology shall take into account the age of equipment and facilities involved, the process employed, the engineering aspects of the application of various types of control techniques, process changes, the cost of achieving such effluent reduction, non-water quality environmental impact ( including energy requirements ), and such other factors as the Administrator deems appropriate.

Factors hindering full-speed electronic collection include significant non-participation, entailing lines in manual lanes and disorderly traffic patterns as the electronic-and manual-collection cars " sort themselves out " into their respective lanes ; problems with pursuing toll evaders ; need, in at least some current ( barrier ) systems, to confine vehicles in lanes, while interacting with the collection devices, and the dangers of high-speed collisions with the confinement structures ; vehicle hazards to toll employees present in some electronic-collection areas ; the fact that in some areas at some times, long lines form even to pass through the electronic-collection lanes ; and costs and other issues raised when retrofitting existing toll collection facilities.

A 2007 field study revealed little correlation between the abundance of fruit bodies and presence of its mycelia below ground, even when soil samples were taken from directly beneath the mushroom ; the study concluded " Factors triggering formation of mycorrhizae and fructification of porcini appear to be too complex to be simply explained on the basis of the amount of fungal mycelia in the soil.

Factors such as altitude, aspect and sunlight exposure can have a pronounced effect not only one the resulting quality of the wine but also whether or not the Riesling grape will even ripen at all.

Factors such as momentum, damage, enemy aggressiveness and even kick out and reversal rates will be affected.

A study to appear at the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society showed that when a user dialog appears, the primary goal of users is typically to get rid of them as soon as possible even without any analysis of the causes for the dialog appearance.

Factors such as temperature, humidity, rain, and snow among others should be considered by the manufacturer when designing an outdoor UPS system.

Factors including one's speed made good and the nature of heading and other course changes, and the navigator's judgment determine when dead reckoning positions are calculated.

Factors that should be taken into consideration when designing a control program include the susceptibility of malaria vectors to insecticides and the preferred feeding and resting location of adult mosquitoes.

Factors in designing include objective qualities ; such as the climate and microclimates ; topography and orientation, site drainage and groundwater recharge ; municipal and resource building codes, soils and irrigation, human and vehicular access and circulation, recreational amenities ( i. e.: sports and water ), furnishings and lighting, native plant habitat botany when present, property safety and security, construction detailing, and other measurable considerations.

Factors to consider when calculating NEG is the type of energy, the way energy is used and acquired, and the methods used to store or transport the energy.

* Factors to consider when deploying Microsoft's Office Communications Server ( OCS ) 2007

Factors that would help this stage along include finding a sympathetic landlord or employer to aid in the slow process of cutting ties to the street life world.

Factors sometimes cited for this include faith in the common law's protection of rights and a belief that a powerful Senate would effectively resist overzealous governments.

Factors associated with the increase of these conditions and illnesses appear to be, paradoxically, things which many people would regard as improvements in their lives.

Factors that contribute to inconsistency: features of the individual or the situation that can affect test scores but have nothing to do with the attribute being measured

Factors such as easier access to water and food may have to do with the white-headed capuchin's less extensive use of tools.

Factors irrelevant to the assessed material ( such as handwriting and clarity of presentation ) do not come into play in a multiple-choice assessment, and so the candidate is graded purely on their knowledge of the topic.

Factors such as nutritional requirements and physical environments which have so far not been examined will become important.

Factors which may predispose someone to developing sinusitis include: allergies ; structural abnormalities, such as a deviated septum, small sinus ostia or a concha bullosa ; nasal polyps ; carrying the cystic fibrosis gene, though research is still tentative ; and prior bouts of sinusitis, because each instance may result in increased inflammation of the nasal or sinus mucosa and potentially further narrow the nasal passageways.

Factors may be invariant if they are absent and don't exist in the population ( e. g. no one has access to a particular antibiotic ), or because they are omni-present ( e. g. if everyone is drinking coffee ).

' Factors of production ' may also refer specifically to the ' primary factors ', which are stocks including land, labor ( the ability to work ), and capital goods applied to production.

* Raymond Cattell's research propagated a two-tiered personality structure with sixteen " primary factors " ( 16 Personality Factors ) and five " secondary factors.

Factors that might cause the tissue to grow in some women but not in others need to be studied, and some of the possible causes below may provide some explanation, e. g., hereditary factors, toxins, or a compromised immune system.

Factors known to cause micropsia include traumatic brain injury, swelling of the cornea, epilepsy, migraines, prescription and illicit drug use, retinal edema, macular degeneration, central serous chorioretinopathy, brain lesions, and psychological factors.

Factors that acutely affect leptin levels are also factors that influence other markers of inflammation, e. g., testosterone, sleep, emotional stress, caloric restriction, and body fat levels.

* Cachectic syndrome maintained by tumor-derived factors: Factors, such as lipid mobilizing factor extracted from the urine of cachectic patients, were suspected to induce protein degradation in skeletal muscle by upregulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway and lipolysis in adipocytes.

Factors that cause asphalt concrete to deteriorate over time mostly fall into one of two categories: Environmental factors and traffic loads.

* Factors affecting the amount and quality of eumelanin and / or phaeomelanin pigment expression ( such as theorized rufousing factors )

* Factors to clear up residual striping ( hypothetical Chaos, Confusion, Unconfused, Erase, and Roan factors ).

In Factors the muncher seeks to ingest the factors of a given number, in Primes he craves prime numbers, and in the Equality and Inequality modes the muncher devours expressions such as 2 + 4 which are equivalent or not equivalent ( respectively ) to the designated number.

The Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors ( IEHF-formerly The Ergonomics Society ) is the UK-based professional society for ergonomists, human factors specialist and those involved in user-centred design.

* AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors includes vehicle emission factors

Factors investigated have included occupation ( i. e. exposure to chemicals in specific industries ), smoking, alcohol consumption, use of medicinal drugs during pregnancy and birth factors ; however, results have been inconclusive.

The model assesses the individual's relative independence and potential for independence in ALs ,( considering their lifespan, development, and the five key factors ( see Factors below )) on a continuum ranging from complete dependence to complete independence in order to determine what interventions will lead to increased independence as well as what ongoing support is or will be required to compensate for dependency.

* Predisposing Factors – This section describes internal and external factors that increase the chances of a patient developing the sleep disorder.