In the SI system, use of prefixes for powers of 1, 000 is preferred and all other multiples discouraged.

The trans form is preferred overwhelmingly in most peptide bonds ( roughly 1000: 1 ratio in trans: cis populations ).

* Transitivity – if action a < sub > 1 </ sub > is preferred to a < sub > 2 </ sub >, and action a < sub > 2 </ sub > is preferred to a < sub > 3 </ sub >, then a < sub > 1 </ sub > is preferred to a < sub > 3 </ sub >.

Their patents included two other major interrelated innovations: one concerning the use of parallel connected, instead of series connected, utilization loads, the other concerning the ability to have high turns ratio transformers such that the supply network voltage could be much higher ( initially 1, 400 to 2, 000 V ) than the voltage of utilization loads ( 100 V initially preferred ).

In the matrix a ' 1 ' indicates that the runner is preferred over the ' opponent ', while a ' 0 ' indicates that the runner is defeated.

That is, if each point on I < sub > 2 </ sub > is ( strictly ) preferred to each point on I < sub > 1 </ sub >, and each point on I < sub > 3 </ sub > is preferred to each point on I < sub > 2 </ sub >, each point on I < sub > 3 </ sub > is preferred to each point on I < sub > 1 </ sub >.

A square size approximately 1. 25 to 1. 3 times the size of the base of the king is preferred ( the base of the king should be about 78 % as wide as the size of the squares ).

American Stores raised its bid for Jewel's preferred stock, increasing the total bid to $ 1. 15 billion in cash and securities.

At that tournament he wore the number 1 shirt, as Argentina's policy at the time was to number their players alphabetically by surname, with an exception made so Diego Maradona could wear his preferred number 10.

< http :// cmr. asm. org / cgi / content / full / 17 / 1 / 107 # The % 20Parasite % 20and % 20Its % 20Life % 20Cycle ></ ref > In the case of alternative treatment using just chemotherapy, albendazole is preferred with an adult dosage of 400 mg orally, twice a day for 1 – 5 months and a pediatric dosage of 15 mg / kg / day ( max.

The display configuration dialog in 4. 8 supports RandR 1. 2, detecting screens automatically and allowing users to pick their preferred display resolution, refresh rate and display rotation.

The ideal inline skate bearing has the following features: 1 ) a proven brand ( such as SKF, NTN, etc ) 2 ) dirt-proof or water-proof seals ( preferred ) 3 ) abec-1 rating for more dirt tolerance if any type of contamination should enter the bearing race and 4 ) be lubricated with a very light grease or gel that will not leak out of the bearing and will protect the race if any water should get in.

Although specialized and experienced amateur astronomers tend to acquire more specialized and more powerful equipment over time, relatively simple equipment is often preferred for certain tasks.

Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.

This was the preferred method for protein consumption over animal husbandry, as it required much more work to defend the kept animals against American Indians or the French.

In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.

In Scotland, the eldest sister is preferred over younger sisters ; sisters are not considered equal co-heirs.

Long-term trials have shown continued effectiveness without the development of tolerance, and, in addition, unlike benzodiazepines, it does not disrupt sleep architecture and produces less severe cognitive and psychomotor impairment ; it also has a low potential for abuse and dependence and may be preferred over the benzodiazepines for these reasons.

In 1994, the biopic Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, alleged that Wood and the filmmakers stole the mechanical octopus ( previously used in the film Wake of the Red Witch ) from the Republic Studios backlot, while failing to steal the motor which enabled the prop to move realistically, although, by the director's admission, the film preferred narrative interest over historical accuracy.

This taste for structural clarity worked its way into the world of music, moving away from the layered polyphony of the Baroque period, towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony — a combination called homophony — was preferred.

The Wu Xing are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device for systems with five stages ; hence the preferred translation of " movements ", " phases " or " steps " over " elements.

The Wu Xing were mainly used as memory tools, hence the preferred translation of " movements ", " phases " or " steps " over " elements ".

Franklin D. Roosevelt, through General Stilwell, privately made it clear that they preferred that the French not reacquire French Indochina ( modern day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos ) after the war was over.

Capable men who would lead well were preferred over an ineffectual heir.

He firmly identifies Camelot with Winchester, an identification that remained popular over the centuries, though it was rejected by Malory's own editor, William Caxton, who preferred a Welsh location.

During aggressive encounters, displays are preferred over attacks.

In English, the words Daoism and Taoism ( or ) are the subject of an ongoing controversy over the preferred romanization for naming this native Chinese philosophy and Chinese religion.

In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

In the succession, children of the empress were preferred over sons of secondary consorts.

The former Soviet Union, for example, preferred human sources over research in open sources, while the United States has tended to emphasize technological methods such as SIGINT and IMINT.

Whether this similarity was intentional or accidental, it may explain why the plainer fashion of placing the stars in three parallel rows was preferred by many Americans over the quincuncial style.

But by about age 12, he said he did not want to go anymore, as he preferred a scientific search for answers over religious belief.

Fruit flies are often preferred over other animals due to their short life cycle, low maintenance requirements, and relatively simple genome compared to many vertebrates.

Evaporation losses during glass melting should be considered during the selection of the raw materials, e. g., sodium selenite may be preferred over easily evaporating SeO < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Also, more readily reacting raw materials may be preferred over relatively inert ones, such as Al ( OH )< sub > 3 </ sub > over Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >.

These sets have ISO-8859-n as their preferred MIME name or, in cases where a preferred MIME name isn't specified, their canonical name.

* Chapters 8-19 regulate the Divine Office, the Godly work to which " nothing is to be preferred ", namely the eight canonical hours.

Since there is no preferred way to choose an ordered basis of a vector space, a frame bundle lacks a canonical choice of identity cross-section.

When applied to column vectors, the adjoint can be used to define the canonical inner product on: .< ref group =" note "> This ordering of the inner product ( with the conjugate-linear position on the left ), is preferred by physicists.

Many classes of manifolds have canonical volume forms: they have extra structure which allows the choice of a preferred volume form.

* Jansky radio astronomer's preferred unit – linear in power / unit area

* Negotiated Trajectories – Adding data communications to create preferred routes dynamically

The Diocletianic Persecution ( 303 – 11 ), the Empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, did not destroy the Empire's Christian community ; indeed, after 324 Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under its first Christian emperor, Constantine.

A contractor reportedly named Samuel Hoosier preferred to hire workers from Indiana during the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal ( 1826 – 1831 ) in Louisville.

After his death came Selected Poems ( 1972 ), followed by Peake's Progress in ( 1979 – though the Penguin edition of 1982, with many corrections, including a whole stanza inadvertently omitted from the hardback edition, is to be preferred ).

Early in his reign, William III ( 1689 – 1702 ) preferred " Mixed Ministries " ( or coalitions ) consisting of both Tories and Whigs.

Anne ( 1702 – 1714 ) followed this pattern but preferred Tory Cabinets.

He was ordained as a subdeacon by Pope Marinus I, followed by his being raised to the deaconate by Pope Stephen V. During the pontificate of Pope Formosus ( 891 – 896 ), he was a member of the party of nobles who supported the Emperor Lambert, who was the opponent of Formosus and the pope ’ s preferred imperial candidate, Arnulf of Carinthia.

He was proud of his Highland ancestryhis enduring nickname, Ming, came from, the Scots – and his own preferred – pronunciation of Menzies.

Also unique for Chinese bronzes is the consistent use of high tin bronze ( 17 – 21 % tin ) which is very hard and breaks if stressed too far, whereas other cultures preferred lower tin bronze ( usually 10 %), which bends if stressed too far.

With all the greatest shrines in the Christian world to choose from, it seemed that when the local Arab Christians had a problem – an illness, or something more complicated: a husband detained in an Israeli prison camp, for example – they preferred to seek the intercession of St George in his grubby little shrine at Beit Jala rather than praying at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem or the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

* The Citizen from The Citizen – Tanzania most preferred independent English Newspaper

This provides something of a passive safety measure, as removing the water from the reactor also slows the nuclear reaction down – however other methods are favored for stopping a reaction and it is preferred to keep the nuclear core covered with water so as to ensure adequate cooling.

The preferred carrier is microporous spheres of amorphous silica with a diameter of 30 – 40 mm.

The naming dispute was resolved with the 1920 plebiscites and partition, each side applying its preferred name to the part of the territory remaining in its possession – though both terms can, in principle, still refer to the entire region.

These preferred camping spots became sources of cholera in the epidemic years ( 1849 – 1855 ) as many thousands of people used the same camping spots with essentially no sewage facilities or adequate sewage treatment.

The voltage-control model requires an exponential function to be taken into account, but when it is linearized such that the transistor can be modelled as a transconductance, as in the Ebers – Moll model, design for circuits such as differential amplifiers again becomes a mostly linear problem, so the voltage-control view is often preferred.

Sowell writes that affirmative action policies encourage non-preferred groups to designate themselves as members of preferred groups ( i. e., primary beneficiaries of affirmative action ) to take advantage of group preference policies ; that they tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group ( e. g., upper and middle class blacks ), often to the detriment of the least fortunate among the non-preferred groups ( e. g., poor whites or Asians ); that they reduce the incentives of both the preferred and non-preferred to perform at their best – the former because doing so is unnecessary and the latter because it can prove futile – thereby resulting in net losses for society as a whole ; and that they increase animosity toward preferred groups.