Given that the bulk of family chores fell to women, and that they were five times more likely than men to head a single-parent family, the shortcomings of Finland's child day-care system affected women more than it did men.

Given these, a new term Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally for the latest part of this epoch since approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence, of human impacts have been found on the Earth and its ecosystems ; these impacts may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species.

Given that the coiled texture is the natural state of some African Americans ' hair, or perceived as being more " African ", this simple style is now often seen as a sign of self-acceptance and an affirmation that the beauty norms of the ( eurocentric ) dominant culture are not absolute.

Given the choice between nylon and gut, many luthiers prefer to use gut, as it conforms more readily to the sharp angle at the edge of the fingerboard.

" Given a memex, a scholar could create her own knowledge tools as connections within reams of information, share these tools, and use complexes of tools to create yet more sophisticated knowledge that could in turn be deployed toward this work.

Given fixed resources, it is often better to spend more time collecting additional training data and more informative features than it is to spend extra time tuning the learning algorithms.

Given the complexity of NLP problems, it is often difficult to predict performance only on the basis of glass-box evaluation, but this type of evaluation is more informative with respect to error analysis or future developments of a system.

Given these issues, Microsoft started to work in parallel on a version of Windows which was more future-oriented and more portable.

Given the poorly understood nature of the endocannabinoid system, it will take many more generations of progress to even scratch the surface of the extraordinarily complex mechanisms that control neurological development / degeneration.

Given its dimensions ( 10, 000 kilometers in diameter ) it is more like Banks ' Culture Orbitals ( though much smaller ) than Niven's behemoth.

" Given that science continually seeks to adjust its theories structurally to fit the facts, i. e., adjusts its maps to fit the territory, and thus advances more rapidly than any other field, he believed that the key to understanding sanity would be found in the study of the methods of science ( and the study of structure as revealed by science ).

Given ailing William III's reluctance to remarry, inclusion of Sophia in the line of succession was becoming more likely.

Given the number of homes, it seems likely that no more than fifty people lived in Skara Brae at any given time.

Given a completely regular space X there is usually more than one uniformity on X that is compatible with the topology of X.

Given time, the simple mixture of sand, silt, and clay will evolve into a soil profile which consists of two or more layers called horizons that differ in one or more properties such as texture, structure, colour, porosity, consistency, and reaction.

Given the same set of resources, IS-IS can support more routers in an area than OSPF.

Given that multiple people often consume food from the same source, it is common for more than a single person to be affected simultaneously.

Given a fixed physical relationship in space between the different individual microphone transducer array elements, simultaneous DSP ( digital signal processor ) processing of the signals from each of the individual microphone array elements can create one or more " virtual " microphones.

Given the biogeography and appearance of the subgenus Olor it seems likely that these are of a more recent origin, as evidence shows by their modern ranges ( which were mostly uninhabitable during the last ice age ) and great similarity between the taxa.

Given that A. florea is more widely distributed and A. andreniformis is considerably more aggressive, honey is – if at all – usually harvested from the former only.

Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

Given that the dispute with Pizarro over Cuzco had kept intensifying, Almagro spent a great deal of time and money equipping a company of 500 men for a new exploration south of Peru.

Given the magnitude of the disaster, reconstruction and economic recovery will remain the primary focus of the Salvadoran Government for some time to come.

Given the limited budget for schools, it is claimed that a voucher system would weaken public schools while at the same time not necessarily providing enough money for people to attend private schools.

Given the state at some initial time ( t = 0 ), we can solve it to obtain the state at any subsequent time.

Given these two assumptions, the coordinates of the same event ( a point in space and time ) described in two inertial reference frames are related by a Galilean transformation.

Given sufficient travel time and engineering work, both unmanned and generational interstellar travel seem possible, though present considerable technological and economic challenges are unlikely to be met in the near future, particularly for manned probes.

Given the repeated failures and frustrations of workers ' revolutions and movements, Marx also sought to understand capitalism, and spent a great deal of time in the reading room of the British Museum studying and reflecting on the works of political economists and on economic data.

Given two secondary stations, the time difference ( TD ) between the primary and first secondary identifies one curve, and the time difference between the primary and second secondary identifies another curve, the intersections of which will determine a geographic point in relation to the position of the three stations.

Given that the cost of replacing an executive can run over 100 % of his or her annual salary, any investment of time and energy in re-recruitment will likely pay for itself many times over if it helps a business retain just a handful of key players that would have otherwise left.

Given enough time and repeated exposure to the antibiotic, a population of antibiotic-resistant bacteria will emerge.

Given printing practices at the time ( which included type-setting from dictation ), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same.

Given time t, the source produces ωt oscillations.

Given prevailing views on homosexuality at the time, circulation of the diaries helped undermine support for clemency for Casement.

Given their wide historical distribution, red wolves probably utilized a large suite of habitat types at one time.

Given that by this time it was common for castles to be built in stone, and that many barons had expanded or refortified their castles, this was not an easy task.

Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass will eventually convert entirely to rust and disintegrate.

Given the medieval medicine's main theory of humorism, spices and herbs were indispensable to balance " humors " in food, a daily basis for good health at a time of recurrent pandemics.

" Given enough time, these formations can meet and fuse to create columns of calcium carbonate.

Given only a short time to prepare, Wei was only able to demonstrate Viola's equivalent capabilities for local rather than remote files at the 2003 Eolas v. Microsoft trial, and thus fell short of proving prior art to the court's satisfaction.

Given that menudo is time and labor intensive to prepare — the tripe takes hours to cook ( or else it is extremely tough ), and many ingredients and side dishes ( such as salsa ) need to be cut and cooked — the dish is often prepared communally and eaten at a feast ; documents from the Works Progress Administration indicate that in the 1930s, among ( migrant ) workers in Arizona, menudo parties were held regularly to celebrate births, Christmas, and other occasions.

Given the uniqueness of the style in modern Japan, the Sumo Association employs specialist hairdressers called tokoyama to cut and prepare sumo wrestlers ' hair.