If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called multidrug resistant ( MDR ) or, informally, a superbug or super bacterium.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

If several alkaloids are extracted from one plant then their names often contain suffixes " idine ", " anine ", " aline ", " inine ", etc.

If a system consists of several particles, the total angular momentum about a point can be obtained by adding ( or integrating ) all the angular momenta of the constituent particles.

* Blind author Tom Sullivan has written several inspirational books, including If You Could See What I Hear, about his life and accomplishments.

If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.

If left untreated, an episode of hypomania can last anywhere from a few days to several years.

If the second theory is correct, this raises the further question of why the Persians, having hesitated for several days, then attacked.

If so they are dispatched to available execution units, resulting in the ability for several instructions to be executed simultaneously.

If several alternatives independently evolved, they all undoubtedly rapidly converged to the TCA cycle.

If these relations are stored physically as separate disk files, completing a database query that draws information from several relations ( a join operation ) can be slow.

If several planets in the same system are discovered at the same time, the closest one to the star gets the next letter, followed by the other planets in order of orbital size.

If a player has three of a kind and several other players have drawn new cards, one strategy is to draw only one card.

If several samples have been loaded into adjacent wells in the gel, they will run parallel in individual lanes.

If a banana becomes brown, it can then be said: at one time, the banana is yellow ; several days later, the banana is not yellow, but is instead brown.

* If creatures similar to plesiosaurs lived in the waters of the Loch Ness, they would be seen very frequently as they would have to surface several times a day to breathe.

The Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral has several nihilistic themes and concepts throughout the overall storyline, with the narrator rejecting the world and the concept of God and attempting to forge his own versions ( with lines such as " God is dead / And no one cares / If there is a Hell / I'll see you there ").

If the unitary transformation is chosen correctly, several components of the combined system will evolve into approximate copies of the original system.

If they express much more than this, they are usually considered to be a hardware description language such as Verilog, VHDL, or any one of several specific languages designed for input to simulators.

" If he replies with the word " Accepto ", his reign begins at that instant, not at the inauguration ceremony several days afterward.

If any player declared " swing ", then that player must have both the high and low hands to take any part of the pot, though there are several rule variations covering the specifics.

* If leather on the side of a shoe is scored by several parallel cuts, it was caused by someone who scraped around the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud.

If the risk of asphyxiation is deemed to be high, doctors may use various devices ( such as an oropharyngeal airway, nasopharyngeal airway or endotracheal tube ) to safeguard the airway.

If successful, these effort could usher in a new era of neural computing that is a step beyond digital computing, because it depends on learning rather than programming and because it is fundamentally analog rather than digital even though the first instantiations may in fact be with CMOS digital devices.

If the two devices are far enough apart or on separate power systems, the local ground connections at either end of the cable will have differing voltages ; this difference will reduce the noise margin of the signals.

If we relax each of these three characteristics we can expand this range into a much more diverse and potentially more useful range of Ubiquitous Computing devices.

If two devices overwrote the same memory location in a conflict, and the hard disk controller relied on this location ( the HDD controller often being the 2nd conflicting device ) there was the all-too-common possibility of massive data corruption.

If they are not, it will not function properly and they will be left to their own devices.

If the bulk is connected to the source ( as is generally the case with discrete devices ) it is sometimes angled to meet up with the source leaving the transistor.

If all else fails, it should issue an INT 18h BIOS interrupt call ( followed by an INT 19h just in case INT 18h would return ) in order to give back control to the BIOS, which would then attempt to boot off other devices, attempt a remote boot via network or invoke ROM BASIC.

If done sufficiently quickly, the receiving devices will not detect that some of the circuit time was used to serve another logical communication path.

If the devices do not support the streamed format, Windows Media Player 12 transcodes the format on-the-fly.

If the embedded devices has audio and video capabilities, then the appropriate drivers and codecs will be present in the system.

If the mode 3 device is unplugged, the switch contacts maintain line connection to the other devices.

If it is necessary to connect two DTE devices ( or two DCE devices but that is more unusual ) a special cable known as a null-modem cable must be used.

If a large collection of these devices were placed in a system, half of the devices had the ring at site A and half at B at any given moment in time.

The massive sculpture entitled If VI Was IX: Roots and Branches was conceived by UK exhibit designer Neal Potter and developed by Trimpin and made largely out of musical instruments, especially guitars, which are played by electronically controlled devices.

If semiconductor devices can be fabricated in this way on large substrates, many devices could be fabricated at a fraction of the cost of traditional semiconductor manufacturing methods.

If malicious devices may exist, every network layer payload must be ciphered, so unauthorized traffic can be immediately cut off.

If multiple devices are able to master the bus, there needs to be an arbitration scheme to prevent multiple devices attempting to drive the bus simultaneously.

If devices have to be used near to their maximum power-handling capacity, and thermal runaway is possible or likely under certain conditions, improvements can usually be achieved by careful design.

If placed into a resonant circuit, avalanche diodes can act as negative resistance devices.