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If it is a derivative work, then the program's terms must allow for " modification for the customer's own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications.
In The Origin of Species, he wrote, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Darwin concludes: " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
If the check reveals conflicting modifications, the committing transaction rolls back.
* January-Thomas Spring Rice, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies writes " If coming events should constrain the British Legislature to interpose its supreme authority to appease the internal dissensions of the Colony, it would then, indeed, become my duty to submit for the consideration of Parliament, some modifications of the charters of the Canadas, not however, for introducing institutions inconsistent with monarchy, but to preserve and cement their connection with the Mother Country, adhering ever to the spirit of the British Constitution, and confining within their legitimate bounds the rights and privileges of His Majesty's subjects.
If it wanted to change the habeas statute, it could make all sorts of refined modifications about issues that we know nothing whatever about because we have only lawyers before us, we have no witnesses, we have no cross-examination, we have no investigative staff.
If we made m modifications, then each access operation has O ( logm ) slowdown resulting from the cost of finding the nearest modification in the array.
If a sufficient number of fish return, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service will explore options for a more permanent solution which may include modifications to the dam.
Common modifications include: whirlpool ( the ball must be passed clockwise or anti clockwise until king or queen says end whirlpool ), No returns ( If the player passes a ball back to a server who has said no returns is out ), Pass back soft ( pass back the ball with a low amount of push pressure.
If the Pioneer anomaly had been a gravitational effect due to some long-range modifications of the known laws of gravity, it did not affect the orbital motions of the major natural bodies in the same way ( in particular those moving in the regions in which the Pioneer anomaly manifested itself in its presently known form ).
If modifications cause the engine to run moderately lean, there will be a slight increase in fuel economy, sometimes at the expense of increased NO < sub > x </ sub > emissions, much higher exhaust gas temperatures, and sometimes a slight increase in power that can quickly turn into misfires and a drastic loss of power, as well as potential engine damage, at ultra-lean air-to-fuel ratios.
If modifications cause the engine to run rich, then there will be a slight increase in power to a point ( after which the engine starts flooding from too much unburned fuel ), but at the cost of decreased fuel economy, and an increase in unburned hydrocarbons in the exhaust which causes overheating of the catalytic converter.

If and theory
If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.
If a single test fails, then the theory is falsified.
If the first theory is correct ( see above ), then the absence of cavalry removed the main Athenian tactical disadvantage, and the threat of being outflanked made it imperative to attack.
If the second theory is correct, this raises the further question of why the Persians, having hesitated for several days, then attacked.
If the wave function is regarded as ontologically real, and collapse is entirely rejected, a many worlds theory results.
If wave function collapse is regarded as ontologically real as well, an objective collapse theory is obtained.
If one axiomatizes relations instead of functions, one obtains the theory of allegories.
If the program is given to someone who speaks only English to execute the instructions of the program by hand, then in theory, the English speaker would also be able to carry on a conversation in written Chinese.
If we consider the thesis and its converse as definition, then the hypothesis is an hypothesis about the application of the mathematical theory developed from the definition.
If, after that, they breach the order, proceedings can be started and in theory the person involved can be sent to prison.
The well-known historian of physics, C. P. Snow, says about him, " If Fermi had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering Rutherford's atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom.
If the ideological approach is concerned with broad movements and the effects of the world around the filmmaker, then the auteur theory is diametrically opposed to it, celebrating the individual, usually in the person of the filmmaker, and how his personal decisions, thoughts, and style manifest themselves in the material.
If confirmed, this would imply special relativity is an approximation to a more general theory, but since the relevant comparison would ( by definition ) be outside the observable universe, it is difficult to imagine ( much less construct ) experiments to test this hypothesis.
If this sounds indulgent, it allows simultaneity, absolute space and time and a deterministic universe ( along with decoherence theory ) whilst the status-quo permits time travel / causality paradoxes, subjectivity in the measurement process and multiple universes.
If the field of scalars of the vector space has characteristic p, and if p divides the order of the group, then this is called modular representation theory ; this special case has very different properties.
If the group is neither abelian nor compact, no general satisfactory theory is currently known.
If no value of the rotation parameter is successful and theory is not within observational error, a modification of physical law is considered.
If, after a few thousand generations, the bacteria evolved the bacterial flagellum, then Behe believes that this would refute his theory.
If the underlying manifold is supersymmetric, the resulting theory is a supersymmetric Yang – Mills theory.
In arithmetic and number theory, the least common multiple ( also called the lowest common multiple or smallest common multiple ) of two integers a and b, usually denoted by LCM ( a, b ), is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both a and b. If either a or b is 0, LCM ( a, b ) is defined to be zero.
If there were such a number then the theory would be inconsistent, contrary to the consistency hypothesis.
If the lift coefficient for a wing at a specified angle of attack is known ( or estimated using a method such as thin airfoil theory ), then the lift produced for specific flow conditions can be determined using the following equation:

If and other
If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.
`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.
If, the editors sometimes, dozed and printed pretentious, New, York-mind, dross, they, also printed, Malraux,, Silone,, Chiaromonte,, Gide, Bellow,, Robert Lowell, Francis Fergusson, Mary McCarthy, Delmore Schwartz, Mailer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Eleanor Clark,, and a host of, other good writers.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
If there is time after the warning, the basement shielding could be improved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, dirt, books, magazines, or other heavy material.
If we sit here reading editorials and looking at public-opinion polls and other reports that cross our desks, we should realize that this is raw, undigested opinion expressed in the absence of leadership.
If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.
If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.
If the check is not good and the April 15 or other due date deadline elapses, additions to the tax may be incurred.
If you hold property for the production of rents or royalties you subtract, in computing Adjusted Gross Income, ordinary and necessary expenses and certain other deductions attributable to the property.
If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.
Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.
If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.
If A is the major axis of an ellipsoid and B and C are the other two axes, the radius of curvature in the ab plane at the end of the axis Af, and the difference in pressure along the A and B axes is Af.
If, in a certain part of the range, it starts life 1 foot longer than do any of the other ( relatively large ) giants, and reaches maturity at, let us guess, 18 inches longer than the others, a quadrupling of the maturity length would result in a maximum of ( nearly ) 40 feet.
If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.
If the succession is a matter of public record, certificates of the Secretaries of State or other public officials having custody of the documents will suffice ; ;
If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.
If, on the other hand, it is not settled, or while it is being debated and resolved, does the Federal government have a responsibility in situations like that in Prince Edward County??
If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.
If a child does lose his first teeth prematurely because of decay -- and if no preventive steps are taken -- the other teeth may shift out of position, become overcrowded and malformed.
If communication with an entity on the `` other side '' is taking place, this too may assume the form of clairvoyant symbolism.
If you have a year-round, full-time job you can't expect to grow much more than your family uses -- unless other members of the family do a good deal of the work or you hire help.
If you can't tell, get help from your county agricultural agent or other local specialist.
If he moved, he would be in the path of the other car.

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