If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.

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 we attribute its apparent rate of rotation entirely to rotation in an inertial frame, a different " flatness " is predicted than if we suppose part of this rotation actually is due to rotation of the Universe and should not be included in the rotation of the galaxy itself.

If the two nations went to war, Adams predicted the president of the United States would use his war powers to abolish slavery.

If an individual coin toss or the roll of dice is considered to be a random event, then if repeated many times the sequence of random events will exhibit certain patterns, which can be studied and predicted.

If the vapor pressure is less than predicted ( a negative deviation ), fewer molecules of each component than expected have left the solution in the presence of the other component, indicating that the forces between unlike molecules are stronger.

If successful, the fast ignition approach could dramatically lower the total amount of energy needed to be delivered to the target ; whereas NIF uses UV beams of 2 MJ, HiPER's driver is 200 kJ and heater 70 kJ, yet the predicted fusion gains are nevertheless even higher than on NIF.

If the upper air is warmer than predicted by the adiabatic lapse rate (), then when a parcel of air rises and expands, it will arrive at the new height at a lower temperature than its surroundings.

If, on the contrary, the upper air is cooler than predicted by the adiabatic lapse rate, then when the air parcel rises to its new height it will have a higher temperature and a lower density than its surroundings, and will continue to accelerate upward.

If the three arguments of a typical ditransitive verb are labeled D ( for Donor ; the subject of a verb like " to give " in English ), T ( for Theme ; normally the direct object of ditransitive verb in English ) and R ( for Recipient, normally the indirect object in English ), these can be aligned with the Agent and Patient of monotransitive verbs and the Subject of intransitive verbs in several ways, which are not predicted by whether the language is accusative, ergative, or active.

If there is little plasticity, the phenotype of an organism can be reliably predicted from knowledge of the genotype, regardless of environmental peculiarities during development.

If not accurately predicted at the planning stage, this extra traffic may lead to the new road becoming congested sooner than anticipated.

If the model were true, the evidence would be exactly as likely as predicted by the current state of belief.

If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 2 < sup > 64 </ sup >− 1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years or 18, 446, 744, 073, 709, 551, 615 turns to finish, much longer than the predicted lifespan of the sun.

If most of the time the substantial portion of the references aggregate into clusters, and if the shape of this system of clusters can be well predicted, then it can be used for speed optimization.

If the law of one price is not true for a certain commodity, the price levels will not differ enough from the level predicted by PPP.

If this revolutionary digital paradigm shift presumed that old media would be increasingly replaced by new media, the convergence paradigm that is currently emerging suggests that new and old media would interact in more complex ways than previously predicted.

If the Large Hadron Collider and other major particle physics experiments fail to detect supersymmetric partners or evidence of extra dimensions, many versions of string theory which had predicted certain low mass superpartners to existing particles may need to be significantly revised.

If there is a mismatch between the body and its predicted position, perhaps due to obstructions or other cognitive disruption, no feeling of agency occurs.

If models can be expressed as transfer functions or in terms of state-space parameters then smoothed, filtered and predicted data estimates can be calculated.

If a peer group holds to a strong social norm, member will behave in ways predicted by their gender roles, but if there is not a unanimous peer agreement gender roles do not correlate with behavior

He predicted: " If wisely executed, it will be a light over this country and this age.

If the entire oil-in-place of 1. 8 trillion barrels were to be burnt, the predicted global mean temperature increase is 0. 24 to 0. 50 ° C.

If forecasted high and / or low temperatures are predicted to be within less than a 10 degree range and / or weather conditions are forecast to have little change over some or all of the final 5 days of the forecast period, the conditions may be rounded up, for example: " Tuesday through Friday: Partly cloudy, lows in the lower 70s and highs in the upper 90s ".

" If the half-life of a nuclide is comparable to, or greater than, the Earth's age ( 4. 5 billion years ), a significant amount will have survived since the formation of the Solar System, and then is said to be primordial.

If you ’ ve scrolled so a color legend is not in view, allowing your cursor to dwell over a cell will cause a pop-up text box to indicate that isotope ’ s half-life.

If a cell has a colored border, information on the isomer ’ s half-life is included in the pop-up text box when your cursor dwells over the cell.

If a substance is efficiently eliminated in the host, for example, then Haber's Law breaks down in the limit of t approaching the order of the half-life of the drug, rewriting the equation as the integral ∫ Cdt = constant for arbitrary varying C and elapsed time T. It is very convenient, however, because its relationship between and appears as a straight line in a log-log plot.

If one wishes to stop taking an SSRI medication, one method is to switch to a long half-life medication such as fluoxetine for several days at a relatively low dose and then stop taking any SSRI altogether.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

If the input light distribution falls beyond the visible range, Af as expected, since Af.

Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".

If it falls on a Saturday, any businesses normally closed that day will generally dedicate the following Monday as a day off.

If for instance there had been a wire walker the reprise would involve two chairs with a piece of rope between and the clown trying to imitate the artiste by trying to walk between them with the resulting falls and cascades bringing laughter from the audience.

If one falls on a strong beat, it is to be immediately resolved.

If the blood sugar level falls too low the liver converts a storage of glycogen into glucose and releases it into the bloodstream, to prevent the person going into a diabetic coma, for a short period of time.

The Council of Trent decreed: " If anyone shall say that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he who falls and sins was never truly justified ; or, on the contrary, that throughout his whole life he can avoid all sins even venial sins, except by a special privilege of God, as the Church holds in regard to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema.

If this date falls on a Friday, the observance is moved to the previous Thursday.

If it falls on a Sunday, observance is moved to the following Monday.

If the cannonball is fired with sufficient velocity, the ground curves away from the ball at least as much as the ball falls — so the ball never strikes the ground.

If the Supreme Court finds any referred part unconstitutional, the entire bill falls.

If no party introduces new evidence the case stands or falls just by the prima facie evidence or lack thereof.

If a feast day falls on a Sunday it is always combined with the hymns for Sunday ( unless it is a Great Feast of the Lord ).

If the skateboarder falls, the skateboard may roll or fly into another person.

If by accident a gouger falls from a hill, it can easily be captured or starves to death.

If a piece falls into the center square, the game is over.

If the sides of the flattened loop are pulled away from each other, the flattened loop ends pull out of the half hitches and the knot falls apart, but if the free ends

If the Great Feast of the Annunciation falls during Great Lent, then fish, wine and oil are permitted on that day.

If the air temperature is not low enough to keep the precipitation frozen, it falls as lake-effect rain.

If a person has no children capable of asking, the responsibility falls to their spouse, or another participant.

If he uses thirty seconds to move, the difference between the clocks reaches one minute, and the time flag falls to indicate that he loses by time.

If the third card's value falls between the first two, the player will receive a payoff according to the spread ; otherwise the bet is lost.

If the combined ratio falls below 3. 2 or so, production ceases to be economically viable and some factories cease extraction of butter and powder and trade exclusively in cocoa liquor.