Given the objectivity and lowered costs of satellite-based land cover analysis, it appears likely that remote sensing technology will be an integral part of assessing the extent and damage of deforestation in the basin.

Given that ipê trees typically grow in densities of only one or two trees per acre, large areas of forest must be searched and cut down to create paths to harvest and fill orders for boardwalks and, to a lesser extent, homeowner decks.

Given a presheaf, a natural question to ask is to what extent its sections over an open set U are specified by their restrictions to smaller open sets V < sub > i </ sub > of an open cover of U. A presheaf is separated if its sections are " locally determined ": whenever two sections over U coincide when restricted to each of V < sub > i </ sub >, the two sections are identical.

Given the editorial style of the books, it is not surprising that they were ( and to some extent remain ) controversial within the numerical analysis community.

Given that field experiments necessarily take place in a specific geographic and political setting, the extent to which findings can be extrapolated to formulate a general theory regarding economic behavior is a concern.

Given the fact-based nature of certain sentence enhancements under the Guidelines — drug quantity, firearm enhancements, and extent of injury or loss to the victim — there was no reason juries could not make those determinations.

Given the extent of the parish, it is bounded by several other parishes and villages.

Given his relatively high station, Arao acted as the representative of the plotters to some extent, hoping to enlist the aid of Minister of War Korechika Anami.

Given the central role under the Constitution of the Soviet Union, the party controlled all tiers of government and social institutions in the Soviet Union.

Given the size of Merchant's capital outlay — including construction in Boswell of the world's largest tipple, a central business district and a high school — the company planned big things for Boswell.

Given his prestige, Rundstedt was a central figure in the Blomberg – Fritsch Affair which engulfed the German Army in early 1938.

Given its central location, Athlone is a natural hub for transport, with frequent bus and rail schedules.

Given that much of the first half of the novel focuses on the initial encounter, blossoming friendship and eventual estrangement of these central characters, this issue continues to pique the curiosity of readers.

Given no central organizational structure for Hinduism itself as a religion, various deviations from these norms do exist.

Given that G. atlantica is a small and G. stehlini a giant species, and that it is also not known when exactly the later evolved its large size, the ancestral lizards which colonized the central and western islands may have been still small or already large.

Given the city's central position in both Israeli nationalism ( Zionism ) and Palestinian nationalism, the selectivity required to summarise more than 5, 000 years of inhabited history is often influenced by ideological bias or background ( see Historiography and nationalism ).

Given central simple algebras A and B, one can look at the their tensor product A ⊗ B as a K-algebra ( see tensor product of R-algebras ).

Given two central simple algebras A ~ M ( n, S ) and B ~ M ( m, T ) over the same field F, A and B are called similar ( or Brauer equivalent ) if their division rings S and T are isomorphic.

Given the Likert Scale's ordinal basis, summarizing the central tendency of responses from a Likert scale by using either the median or the mode is best, with ‘ spread ’ measured by quartiles or percentiles.

Given the central role of TNF-alpha in many diseases, etanercept is being studied as treatment for a number of these disease, including over 150 clinical trials.

Given Zemlya i Volya's failures in its propaganda efforts among the peasants in the movements " to the people " in the early 1870s, Narodnaya Volya turned its energies against the central government.

Given such a choice of scale, a central representation of the Heisenberg group is a map of-algebras which is the formal way of saying that it sends the center to a chosen scale.

Given the central role the epic played over the centuries in Tibetan folk culture, Tibetan Buddhism has incorporated elements from it and interpreted them in religious terms.

Given Boston's natural and manmade geography, individuals from other neighborhoods in Boston must access the city's social center via one of the various bridges or tunnels that lead into central Boston.

# Given that rocky planets were ( at the time Rare Earth was written ) thought to form closer to their central stars, the planet probably forms too close to the star to lie within the habitable zone.

* Given, David R .-Vegetation on heated soils at Karapiti, central North Island, New Zealand, and its relation to ground temperature in New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1980, vol.

Given its central location, Ambato is an important industrial hub for Ecuador.

Given its status as a central bank, it is, however, governed by a number of special provisions, as laid down in the Nationalbank Act.

Given that VEGF plays a central role in the symptoms of POEMS syndrome, some have tried bevacizumab ( Avastin ), a monoclonal antibody directed against VEGF.

Together with Gary Breen, he formed an impressive central defensive partnership in front of Shay Given.

Barron noted: Given the central position he occupied in the intelligence-gathering network for the Mid-Ulster region, this RUC officer's interview with the Inquiry was disappointing.

Given the weakness of these pretexts, party chairman Gennadii Beliakov ascribed the rejection to the central government ’ s fears that the party would not be loyal to the president.

Given their strategic location in the North Atlantic, the Faroes could have proved useful to Germany in the Battle of the Atlantic, possibly as a submarine base.

Given its small domestic market but favourable location and a superb transport and communications base, Namibia is a leading advocate of regional economic integration.

* Named entity recognition ( NER ): Given a stream of text, determine which items in the text map to proper names, such as people or places, and what the type of each such name is ( e. g. person, location, organization ).

Given good viewing conditions, Thuban is relatively easy to spot in the night sky, due to its location in relation to the Big Dipper asterism of Ursa Major.

Given a sample of wood, the variation of the tree ring growths provides not only a match by year, it can also match location because the climate across a continent is not consistent.

Given its location, Perth was perfectly placed to become a key transport centre with the coming of the railways, and its first station was built in 1848.

Given City Hall's attractive location and park atmosphere, weddings are regularly performed on the lawn.

Given its location at the base of the Black Hills and its proximity to the High Plains, the climate in Spearfish is highly variable at any time of the year.

Given the dynamic nature of the seafloor, changes in the location of shoals and bars may cause the locus of beach or cliff erosion to change position along the shore.

Given its location toward the south end of campus, this building was temporarily " South Hall " but was later changed as a dedication to Rev.

* Point location: Given a partitioning of the space into cells, produce a data structure that efficiently tells in which cell a query point is located.

Given the variety of approaches, Economic Geography has taken to many different subject matters, including: the location of industries, economies of agglomeration ( also known as " linkages "), transportation, international trade, economic development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy ( tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction ), and globalization.

Given its limited attendance and location, this kurultai was of questionable validity.

Given the finite supply of natural resources at any specific cost and location, agriculture that is inefficient or damaging to needed resources may eventually exhaust the available resources or the ability to afford and acquire them.

Given the university's location in Nashville, many of its alumni become involved in the music industry.

: Given a random galaxy in a location, the correlation function describes the probability that another galaxy will be found within a given distance.

Given the coastal location, the town is also served by an RNLI lifeboat station and a HM Coastguard post.

Given its island location, the risk of severe frost is negated by the surrounding waters.

Given its location, Saint-Nazaire has a long tradition of fishing and shipbuilding.

Given its location, timber and Brazil-nuts make up important trades, as do petroleum refining, soap manufacturing, and chemical industries.

Given its privileged location, lately it has been considered as the Pacific Door of Colombia.

Given its rural location, much of the focus of the school has been on undergraduate studies in education and agriculture, although many other courses of study are offered, particularly in the liberal arts, and in recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on business, engineering, and music.

Given the village's rich history, coastal location and close proximity to eastern U. S. cities, Cabot Cove was transformed from a small, sleepy fishing village to a tourist destination for the people coming from New York.