If, however, we are seeking the optimal R-stage policy for a given feed state, only one search for a maximum is required at the final step.

If the problem is enlarged to require a complete coverage of feed states, Af operations are needed by the dynamic program and Af by the direct search.

If T is the total `` length '' of the process, its feed state may be denoted by a vector p(T) and the product state by p(Q).

If you want to raise feed or carry out some enterprise on a larger scale, you'll need more land.

If the snake were to become scarce, this would affect birds of prey and other predators that feed on it.

An army officer was quoted in the New York Times of 18 July 1982 as telling an audience of indigenous Guatemalans in Cunén that: " If you are with us, we'll feed you ; if not, we'll kill you.

If captive female hamsters are left for extended periods ( three weeks or more ) with their litter, they may cannibalize the litter, so the litter must be removed by the time the young can feed and drink independently.

If current trends of soil degradation continue in Africa, the continent might be able to feed just 25 % of its population by 2025, according to UNU's Ghana-based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.

If a cow is left unmilked just once she is likely to reduce milk-production almost immediately and the rest of the season may see her dried off ( giving no milk ) and still consuming feed for no production.

If he let the flock feed on a field of crops, he had to pay damages fourfold ; if he turned them into standing crops when they ought to have been folded, he paid twelvefold.

If a carcass is infested with maggots, many of the Nicrophorinae will abandon the carcass while members of Silphinae will feed on the maggots.

If a Rete contains no beta network, alpha nodes feed tokens, each containing a single WME, directly to p-nodes.

He wrote, " Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

If the female starts another nest, the male alone will feed the fledged young.

If the bees see the colored card as a shade of gray, then they will confuse the blue card with at least one of the gray-toned cards ; bees arriving to feed will visit more than one card in the array.

If insects have access, maggots hatch and begin to feed on the body ’ s tissues.

* If the pressure in the train line is higher than that of the reservoir, the triple valve connects the train line to the reservoir feed, causing the air pressure in the reservoir to increase.

* ( If you try to feed the bird :) It's not hungry ( it's merely pinin ' for the fjords ).

Ríos Montt is best known outside Guatemala for heading a military regime ( 1982 – 1983 ) that was responsible for having defeated the guerrillas through the " guns and beans " campaign, maintaining " If you are with us, we ’ ll feed you, if not, we ’ ll kill you ".

My position was indescribably painful, for I had no funds left, and women came to me crying: ' If you will not feed my child, throw it in the river.

If a coil is made using coaxial cable near to the feed point of a balanced antenna, then the RF current that flows on the outer surface of the coaxial cable can be attenuated.

If turkeys are to feed, drink, dust-bathe, etc., simultaneously, then to avoid causing frustration, resources and space must be available in large quantities.

If the tube is to remain in place then a tube position check is recommended before each feed and at least once per day.

In the early movement, the savage race " That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me " ( 5 ) echoes Hamlet's soliloquy: " What is a man, / If his chief good and market of his time / Be but to sleep and feed?

If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.

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.

If the site is on a reservoir, the level of the water at various seasons as it affects recreation should be studied.

If you are considering a part-time farm where the water must be provided by a well, find out if there is a good well on the farm or the probable cost of having one drilled.

`` If it ain't an idea '', she said, `` how comes it you can drink beer but not water ''??

If a water absorbing swale for each yard is combined with permeable concrete streets, storm drains can be omitted from the neighbourhood.

If the boat floats, the mass of the boat ( plus contents ) as a whole divided by the volume below the waterline is equal to the density of water ( 1 kg / l ).

Hood replied that he would take careful soundings as he advanced to test the depth of the water, and that " If you will allow the honour of leading you into battle, I will keep the lead going.

If the cord is twisted up tightly on itself and then the bucket is released, it begins to spin rapidly, not only with respect to the experimenter, but also in relation to the water it contains.

If sugars are heated so that all water of crystallisation is driven off, then caramelization starts, with the sugar undergoing thermal decomposition with the formation of carbon, and other breakdown products producing caramel.

If hypertonic therapy continues or is too rapid, the extracellular tonicity will continue to drive water out of the brain's cells, leading to cellular dysfunction and the condition of central pontine myelinolysis.

If the average density ( including any air below the waterline ) of an object is less than water it will float in water and if it is more than water's it will sink in water.

If an explosive molecule contains just enough oxygen to convert all of its carbon to carbon dioxide, all of its hydrogen to water, and all of its metal to metal oxide with no excess, the molecule is said to have a zero oxygen balance.

If water is evaporated too quickly, the membrane dries, resistance across it increases, and eventually it will crack, creating a gas " short circuit " where hydrogen and oxygen combine directly, generating heat that will damage the fuel cell.

If the water is evaporated too slowly, the electrodes will flood, preventing the reactants from reaching the catalyst and stopping the reaction.

If the pane is not a good insulator ( such as a single pane window ), water vapour condenses on the glass forming patterns.

If the indoor air is very humid, rather than moderately so, water will first condense in small droplets and then freeze into clear ice.

If the pores are filled with water, then the water must be squeezed out of the pores to allow volumetric compression of the soil ; this process is called consolidation.

If a saline solution is used instead of water, a purer protein is obtained, with certain harmless impurities going into solution with the starch.

If gelatin is put into contact with cold water, some of the material dissolves, but not all.

If too much water and not enough air surrounds the plants roots, it is possible to gradually lower the medium's water-retention capability by mixing in increasing quantities of perlite.

If all water flow has stopped, the loaded waste valve reopens against the now static head, which allows the process to begin again.