Given the ( particularly modern ) prevalence of crowd events, and the potential safety issues associated with such large gatherings of people, the topic is receiving increasing attention from agencies responsible for crowd management and also from governments.

Given the prevalence of-assa place-names and words scattered around all sides of the Aegean Sea, this possessive suffix was sometimes considered evidence of a shared non-Indo-European language or an Aegean Sprachbund preceding the arrivals of Luwians and Greeks.

Given the prevalence of disapproval as a tool of government, including the criminal law and diplomatic relations, some fail to see voting as a positive and voluntary choice of a desirable outcome.

Given the prevalence of crowd events, and the potential safety issues associated with such large gatherings of people, the topic is receiving increasing attention from agencies responsible for crowd management and also from governments.

Given that less than 10 % of these will have neurological involvement, and possibly later on in their disease course, neurosarcoidosis has a prevalence of less than 4 per 100, 000.

Given that K ' ak ' Tiliw Chan Chaak was five years old when he acceded, it is most likely that his mother Lady Six Sky was de facto ruler of the Saal / Naranjo polity for some time, ruling in his name through the young king's childhood.

Given the predictable timeline of childhood behavior, he proposed " libido development " as a model of normal childhood sexual development, wherein the child progresses through five psychosexual stages — ( i ) the oral, ( ii ) the anal, ( iii ) the phallic, ( iv ) the latent, and ( v ) the genital — in which the source pleasure is in a different erogenous zone.

Given his parents ' busy jobs as studio chiefs, Tian was raised primarily by his grandmother, though his parents ' positions also allowed him to live a relatively comfortable childhood.

Given the reputation of oat grain to have invigorating properties and the obvious connection between plant seeds and human " seed ", it is not surprising that the meaning of the phrase shifted towards more or less explicitly referring to the destructive sexual liaisons of an unmarried young male, possibly resulting in unwanted children born out of wedlock.

Given the more widespread social use, in the English language, of the word condom, it is interesting to note that the town is located on the river Baïse ; baise, without the diaeresis, is a French vulgarism for a sexual act.

Given this lack of semantic transparency, researchers, outreach workers, critical theorists and LGBT activists have proposed and use terms such as institutionalized homophobia, state (- sponsored ) homophobia, sexual prejudice, anti-gay bigotry, straight privilege, The Straight Mind ( a collection of essays by French writer Monique Wittig ), heterosexual bias, compulsory heterosexuality or the much lesser known terms heterocentrism, homonegativity, and from gender theory and queer theory, heteronormativity.

Given the consistent failures in this research literature to disprove the null hypothesis, the burden of empirical proof is on those who argue that the children of sexual minority parents are worse off than the children of heterosexual parents.

Given Ireland's ( Northern Protestant and Southern Catholic ) historically conservative sexual values, Magdalene asylums were a generally accepted social institution until well into the second half of the 20th century.

Given criticisms of the current DSM classification, a new disorder combining the characteristics of HSDD and sexual arousal disorder has been proposed for the next version of the DSM ( the DSM-V, due to be published in 2013 ).

Given the alleged " heterosexual " nature of marriage, La Forest argued that sexual orientation is inextricably relevant to the objective of the impugned Act and is not, therefore, tantamount to discrimination under Section 15 of the Charter.

Given this potential for teratogenicity, the manufacturers advise that the male sexual partner should also use adequate protection.

Given that psychologists, such as Elizabeth Loftus, have shown that it is possible to implant false memories in individuals, it is possible to ' come to doubt the validity of therapeutically recovered memories of sexual abuse ... confabulations '.

Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).

Given its " blue-water " bias, the navy is even less inclined to become involved in counterdrug operations than the army or air force.

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

Given good circumstances one might be able to discern the result of some human activity such as the changing of the Netherlands ' coast or the partial drying out of the Aral Sea, but even that would not be easy.

Given high enough cooling rates and appropriate alloy composition, metallic bonding can occur even in glasses with an amorphous structure.

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 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 the limitations of older hardware, and even today's relative limitations, a fetch of a program, be it a single 4K record or many, is expensive.

Given the current size of the Web, even large search engines cover only a portion of the publicly available part.

Given the low efficiency of the laser amplification process ( about 1 to 1. 5 %), and the losses in generation ( steam-driven turbine systems are typically about 35 % efficient ), fusion gains would have to be on the order of 350 just to break even.

Given this sense of caution among key members of the British cabinet and of the army, it is even harder to understand why the British government went against the advice of its generals ( such as Wolsely ) to send substantial reinforcements to South Africa before war broke out.

Given their long range, high survivability and ability to carry many medium-and long-range nuclear missiles, submarines were credible and effective means for full-scale retaliation even after a massive first strike.

Given the financial health of the Press, Cannan ceased to regard scholarly books or even the Dictionary as impossible liabilities.

Given this, it is quite natural and convenient to designate a general sequence a < sub > n </ sub > by by the formal expression, even though the latter is not an expression formed by the operations of addition and multiplication defined above ( from which only finite sums can be constructed ).

Given the grim circumstances, Chiang's staff and even Chiang himself also resigned themselves to this reality.

Given the number of unpleasant, harmful or even fatal consequences of coming out in world societies, it is questionable to call being closeted a choice.

Given the range of his office-holding both regionally and at court, he did not need to draw ruinously on his own resources to dispense patronage on a grand scale and he was active in the arbitration of local disputes ; even state matters were regularly referred for his personal adjudication.

Given that their favorite prey are often mammals or birds that hesitate to fly, unsurprisingly most of their prey is killed on the ground and some prey may even pursued on foot for a short distance by the eagle.

Given this inherent distortion, it is not unusual for a television or video projector to truthfully claim a linear contrast ratio ( difference between darkest and brightest output levels ) of 1000: 1 or greater, equivalent to 10 bits of audio precision even though it may only accept signals with 8-bit precision and use an LCD panel that only represents 6 or 7 bits per channel.

When the measure was sent in May to the parliament they said " Given the damage it produces on those rules which allow the life in community, ensure the dignity of the person and equality between sexes, this practice, even if it is voluntary, cannot be tolerated in any public place ".

Dr. Tennison states: " Given the account of Elliot Paul, and given that Lead Belly witnessed boogie-woogie in 1899 in the Arklatex ; and given the North to South migration of the Thomas family ; and given the Texas & Pacific headquarters in Marshall in the early 1870s ; and given that Harrison County had the largest slave population in the state of Texas ; and given the fact that the best-documented and largest-scale turpentine camps in Texas did not occur until after 1900 in Southeast Texas, it is most probable that boogie-woogie spread from Northeast to Southeast Texas, rather than from Southeast to Northeast Texas, or by having developed diffusely with an even density over all of the Piney Woods of East Texas.

Given that war is one of the worst evils suffered by mankind, the adherents of the School reasoned that it ought to be resorted to only when it was necessary in order to prevent an even greater evil.

Given the morphological distinctness of the Cape Verde birds and the fact that the Cape Verde population was isolated from other populations of Red Kites, it cannot be conclusively resolved at this time whether the Cape Verde population was not a distinct subspecies ( as M. migrans fasciicauda ) or even species that frequently absorbed stragglers from the migrating European populations into its gene pool.

Given that even players with poor chess knowledge can use the strongest computer programs to analyse their games, the gap between the beginner and master player has narrowed in recent years.