If we consider a process in which the outcome of one stage is known before passage to the next, then the principle of optimality shows that the policy in subsequent stages should be optimal with respect to the outcome of the first.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

" If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans ", he said.

If so, these ostraka provide an example of organized groups attempting to influence the outcome of ostracisms.

If we assemble a deck of 52 playing cards with no jokers, and draw a single card from the deck, then the sample space is a 52-element set, as each card is a possible outcome.

If one throws a die once, it is difficult to predict the outcome, but if we repeat this experiment many times, we will see that the number of times each result occurs divided by the number of throws will eventually stabilize towards a specific value.

If one is aggrieved by the judicial outcome of an action and wishes to appeal, he may be forever barred from doing so if he fails to meet the deadline by which his appeal may be filed.

If the outcome is the element of the elementary event of two pips on the first die and five on the second, then both of the events of " 7 pips " and " odd number of pips " have also happened.

If a probability distribution depends on a parameter, one may on the one hand consider — for a given value of the parameter — the probability ( density ) of the different outcomes, and on the other hand consider — for a given outcome — the probability ( density ) this outcome has occurred for different values of the parameter.

If the tossup would have affected the outcome of the game then the question is held for reevaluation, at which time points are adjusted if necessary.

If the accused admits to having a motive consistent with the elements of foresight and desire, this will add to the level of probability that the actual outcome was intended ( it makes the prosecution case more credible ).

If we were all pure do-gooders, perhaps following Sidgwick, that would not constitute the outcome that would maximize happiness.

If all we care about is average happiness, we are forced to conclude that an extremely small population, say ten people, over the course of human history is the best outcome if we assume that these ten people ( Adam and Eve et al.

If there are multiple options with the same outcome, perfect play is sometimes considered the fastest method leading to a good result, or the slowest method leading to a bad result.

If the individual chooses that outcome which has the maximum chance of being satisfactory, then this individual's behavior is theoretically indistinguishable from that of an optimizing individual under certain conditions

; Touch-ups: If a scarification does not heal to yield a prescribed outcome, secondary scarifications may be conducted.

If at this time we turn our eyes to Tudela, we will see an outcome of the fight so unexpected and disastrous.

If it is obviously the outcome of immense learning on the part of its author, it is no less manifestly the result of the speculations and researches of many laborious predecessors in all departments of history, theology and philosophy.

If a party wins more local seats than its proportion of the total vote justifies, the size of the Landtag increases so that the total outcome is fully proportional to the votes, with other parties receiving additional list seats to achieve that.

If we were examining the effect of two variables, gender and premature birth, on health outcomes, we would describe any difference in health outcome scores between genders as a main effect.

Historian Bernard Bailyn wrote of Hutchinson, " If there was one person in America whose actions might have altered the outcome the protests and disputes preceding the American Revolutionary War, it was he.

If the predictor model has a significantly smaller deviance ( c. f chi-square using the difference in degrees of freedom of the two models ), then one can conclude that there is a significant association between the " predictor " and the outcome.

If this isolation is not provided the programs outcome are possibly erroneous.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

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 they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

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 he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

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 he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

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

If evolutionary processes are blind to the difference between function F being performed by conscious organism O and non-conscious organism O *, it is unclear what adaptive advantage consciousness could provide.

If so, it is unclear how much Tatian may have borrowed from this previous author in determining his own narrative sequence of Gospel elements.

If an inmate is in jail and invoked Miranda on one case, it is unclear whether this extends to any other cases that they may be charged with while in custody.

If such forms represent a Welsh version of Bernicia, it is unclear why Welsh would need to borrow a ' foreign ' name for the area, so the former hypothesis is usually accepted, although no etymological analysis has produced a consensus.

If the dispute arises because some aspect of the constitution is ambiguous or unclear, the ultimate resolution of the crisis often establishes a precedent for the future.

If the symptoms are increased, it is unclear if these patients were diarrhea predominant ( which can be exacerbated by insoluble fiber ), or if the increase is temporary before benefit occurs.

If the statement seems unclear, that's because it is.

If so, the rogue planet would have had to eject immediately ; it is unclear how likely this situation might be.

If Marx is understood to be consistent about his emphasis on historical circumstance, it is unclear how the relevance of his theory of permanent revolution should be evaluated in times in which the social revolution is not expected to be imminent.

If a passage is unclear or an assertion seems questionable, the copy editor may ask the writer to clarify it.

If the object is not homogenous, then the measurement result may include changes in both quantity and quality but their respective shares will remain unclear.

If descendants of Grand Duke Dmitri's marriage with Audrey Emery are considered ineligible to succeed to the ducal Holstein claim, it is unclear which, if any, of the various male-line branches descended from the Imperial Romanovs remain eligible.

According to Associate Professor Henry E. Hale of Harvard University, one thing that remains unclear about the " FSB did it " theory: If the motive was to get an FSB-friendly man installed as president, why would the FSB have preferred Putin, a little-known " upstart " who had leapt to the post of FSB director through outside political channels, to Primakov, who was certainly senior in stature and pedigree and who was also widely reputed to have a KGB past?

If this were the case, it is unclear whether the phonetic transposition was an error on the part of the writers, to whom the name may have been only spoken, or if it is deliberately intended to have happened in the realm of the fictional Andromeda universe.

If the cause for the low platelet count remains unclear, a bone marrow biopsy is usually recommended, to differentiate whether the low platelet count is due to decreased production or peripheral destruction.

If the original arrangement is unclear or even unhelpful in terms of accessing the collection, it is not usually rearranged to something that makes more sense.

If diagnosis remains unclear after history, examination and basic investigations as above then more advanced investigations may reveal a diagnosis.

If it is unclear which line is fastest, two paddlers simultaneously float the different options and see which boat moves ahead.

If the cause for the high platelet count remains unclear, bone marrow biopsy is often undertaken, to differentiate whether the high platelet count is reactive or essential.

If these elements could actually be observed, they would likely be observed to have similar chemical properties, but the effect of the closeness of the 5g and 6f ( and possibly also the 7d and 8p ) subshells is unclear and difficult to predict because of the relativistic and quantum effects.

If it is unclear why alkaline phosphatase is elevated, isoenzyme studies using electrophoresis can confirm the source of the ALP.

If the domain is unclear, but reasonably believed to exist, it is better to put the page into the root: category: mathematics, where it will have a better chance of spotting and classification.

If these elements could actually be observed, they would likely be observed to have similar chemical properties, but the effect of the closeness of the 5g and 6f ( and possibly also the 7d and 8p ) subshells is unclear and difficult to predict because of the relativistic and quantum effects.

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