If anticonvulsants fail to control seizure activity, neurosurgery may be an option to remove or disconnect the abnormal cells from the rest of the brain ( depending on where the cortical dysplasia is located and the safety of the surgery relative to continued seizures ).

If an unusual event occurs ( the learned sequence fails ), the " exception cells " should fire, propagating up the cortical hierarchy to the hippocampus, the repository of new memories.

" If there are two nearby neurons that often produce an impulse simultaneously, their cortical maps may become one.

If the edge thresholding is applied to just the gradient magnitude image, the resulting edges will in general be thick and some type of edge thinning post-processing is necessary.

# If Hough transforms are used to detect lines and ellipses, then thinning could give much better results.

# If the edge happens to be the boundary of a region, then thinning could easily give the image parameters like perimeter without much algebra.

If these clouds are present in the morning or early afternoon they show a significant instability in the atmosphere likely leading to storms later in the day ( if cloud is thickening, if thinning can lead to calm weather ).

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If appropriate proportions of three primary pigments are mixed, the result reflects so little light as to be called " black ".

If the term has nonetheless retained a certain consistency in its use across these fields and would-be movements, it perhaps reflects the word ’ s position in general English usage: though the standard dictionary definition of irreal gives it the same meaning as unreal, irreal is very rarely used in comparison with unreal.

* If θ > θ < sub > c </ sub >, the entire ray reflects from the boundary.

If the photon reflects, the surface's bidirectional reflectance distribution function is used to determine the ratio of reflected radiance.

If this reflects the god that El refers to in the biblical text concerning Balaam, and the connection between Balaam and Baal Peor is accurate, then Baal Peor can be identified as Shamash.

If a corresponding hypothesis test is performed, the confidence level corresponds with the level of significance, i. e. a 95 % confidence interval reflects a significance level of 0. 05, and the confidence interval contains the parameter values that, when tested, should not be rejected with the same sample.

If we let Him — for we can prevent Him, if we choose — He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly ( though, of course, on a smaller scale ) His own boundless power and delight and goodness.

If this reflects more colourism ( some Brazilians perceive straightened afro-textured hair as ridiculous in a risible way, especially in a man, which is often labeled as viadagem, or a greater politicization with respect to race relations and racism, varies greatly with the person.

At the fishing hole with his friends, Abner lazily reflects that if he could be anyone in the world, he'd rather be himself (" If I had my Druthers ").

If V is defined in terms of the line integral, the ambiguity of V reflects the freedom in the choice of the reference point

If something material happens with the company ( change of CEO, change of auditing firm, destruction of a significant number of company assets ), the SEC requires that the company soon issue an 8-K filing that reflects these changed conditions ( see Regulation FD ).

If Earth falls to the Wyrm, the spirit world ( which reflects reality in large part ) will fall as well.

If this happens, one says that " invariants do not separate the orbits ", and the algebra A reflects the topological quotient space X / G rather imperfectly.

Archaize: If thine style of writing reflects an age long gone, and a world unfamiliar to the modern reader, then thou art indeed a master of the quill and the ink.

The lovers are able to derive some comfort from this, believing that their love will remain intact even when they are arrested and tortured: " If the object was not to stay alive but to stay human ," Winston reflects, " what difference it ultimately make?

If any album reflects a real period of transition for an artist, it's this one.

If the edifice really reflects some original features of Tatar architecture, then its design should have certainly influenced that of the Kremlin towers in Moscow.

If the wording reflects the language of the editor, it points toward editorial reworking of a text, while if it is unused or avoided language, then it points toward being part of an earlier source.

If the voltage changes by a large enough amount, an all-or-none electrochemical pulse called an action potential is generated, which travels rapidly along the cell's axon, and activates synaptic connections with other cells when it arrives.

If the third order neuron ( the last of three neurons in the pathway which ultimately discharges norepinephrine into the synaptic cleft ) is intact, then the amphetamine causes neurotransmitter vesicle release, thus releasing norepinephrine into the synaptic cleft and resulting in robust mydriasis of the affected pupil.

If possible, it is desirable to use a pruning algorithm to reduce the number of pairs of triangles we need to check.

If much more than the desired number of palette colors are entered into the octree, its size can be continually reduced by seeking out a bottom-level node and averaging its bit data up into a leaf node, pruning part of the tree.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

If internal responsibility suggests acceptance of the socialist ideal of equality, then external responsibility implies adherence to principles of ideological supranationalism.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

If the President of the United States really feels he won himself a `` lousy job '', then heaven help us all.

If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 per annum, then somebody is going to hang, it follows that the more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

`` If they are here, then surely I have the right to be here '', Rousseau said.

If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.