Certainly, in analyzing an action which truly faced such alternatives, `` it is never possible that no world would be preferable to some worlds, and there are in truth no circumstances in which the destruction of human life presents itself as a reasonable alternative ''.

The Ninth Circuit, analyzing the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ), determined that DADT had to be subjected to heightened scrutiny, meaning that there must be an " important " governmental interest at issue, that DADT must " significantly " further the governmental interest, and that there can be no less intrusive way for the government to advance that interest.

When analyzing a stock, futures contract, or currency using fundamental analysis there are two basic approaches one can use ; bottom up analysis and top down analysis.

At least since first-wave feminism in the United States, there has been interest in analyzing religion to see if and how doctrines and practices treat women unfairly, as in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible.

Non-centralism has been of particular importance to ethical naturalists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as part of their argument that normativity is a non-excisable aspect of language and that there is no way of analyzing thick moral concepts into a purely descriptive element attached to a thin moral evaluation, thus undermining any fundamental division between facts and norms.

Additionally, there are two sources of economic value that are relevant when analyzing products that display network effects:

To critics and viewers, there was no question that Jack Lord was the center of the show, and that the other actors frequently served as little more than props, standing and watching while McGarrett emoted and paced around his office, analyzing the crime.

Upon analyzing of the results of the study it was concluded that the anterior cingulate cortex is indeed involved in the modification of cognitive tasks that require attention based on the fact that there was a change in the basal firing rate of neurons in that region during simulation of such tasks.

The community was given its name by William Gragg, its first postmaster, because local scientist Wiliam Bobbitt spent time there analyzing rocks.

( 1997 ) found that when analyzing a variety of creatures ( such as particulate organic matter ( phytoplankton ), zooplankton, mysids, sprat, smelt and herring ,) there was an apparent fractionation of 2. 4 ‰ between consumers and their apparent prey.

The CBO also completed a study in 2005 analyzing a hypothetical 10 % income tax cut and concluded that under various scenarios there would be minimal offsets to the loss of revenue.

Magen Broshi, analyzing the size of L77 ( which he calls an assembly hall ), estimated that about 120 to 150 people could sit there, to which he added a few dozen candidates to the population, yielding over 170 people.

He felt that such groups judge the natural environment according to its external appearance without analyzing it any closer and assume that there are sympathetic connections and combinations of natural things ; from these ideas come lasting rules of behaviour such as taboos, respect, and social relationships.

Buttel explains the main difference between the two categories, saying that “ the application of population ecology to agroecology involves the primacy not only of analyzing agroecosystems from the perspective of the population dynamics of their constituent species, and their relationships to climate and biogeochemistry, but also there is a major emphasis placed on the role of genetics .”

When determining whether or not analyzing a sample with an AFM is appropriate, there are various advantages and disadvantages that must be considered.

Currently, there is a WSU presidential committee analyzing possibilities of creating new synergies through a re-alignment by moving departments and creating new schools.

While there is much to agree with in Le Blanc's piece, the shift to poetry, far from being remote, is an imagistic expression that complements the analyzing consciousness.

The radar system operates in two basic modes, selectable by the operator – a slow-scanning clear-air mode for analyzing air movements when there is little or no activity in the area, and a precipitation mode, with a faster scan for tracking active weather.

The theory contrasts with intrinsic theories of value that hold that there is an objectively correct value of an object that can be determined irrespective of individual value judgements, such as by analyzing the amount of labor incurred in producing the object ( see labor theory of value ).

As with the visual system, there are a number of tonotopic cortical maps, each devoted to analyzing sound in a particular way.

A 2003 study, analyzing mtDNA cytochrome b and 12S / 16S rRNA data of a number of laughingthrushes, did establish however that there is no such thing as a " representative " laughingthrush.

Third, there ’ s his arrogance and vanity, which makes him totally incapable of stopping and analyzing what he ’ s doing wrong, and thus stopping suspicion from piling on in Rolvaag ’ s mind.

Plebiscite commissioners arrived there at the end of January 1920 and after analyzing the situation declared a state of emergency in the territory on 19 May 1920.

Without math the men who are continually seeking the causes of and the reasons for the many things that make the world go 'round would not have any means of analyzing, standardizing, and communicating the things they discover and learn.

Figures 5 and 6 are examples of our method of analyzing the results for each growth center.

A variety of blood tests are available for analyzing cholesterol transport behavior, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, lipoprotein little a, homocysteine, C-reactive protein, blood sugar control: fasting, after eating or averages using glycosylated albumen or hemoglobin, myoglobin, creatine kinase, troponin, brain-type natriuretic peptide, etc.

Because of their highly ordered and repetitive structure, crystals give diffraction patterns of sharp Bragg reflection spots, and are ideal for analyzing the structure of solids.

For political reasons, analyzing these varieties as " languages " or " dialects " yields inconsistent results: British and American English, spoken by close political and military allies, are almost universally regarded as dialects of a single language, whereas the standard languages of Serbia and Croatia, which differ from each other to a similar extent as the dialects of English, are being treated by some linguists from the region as distinct languages, largely because the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies.

Petri nets and process algebras are used to model computer systems, and methods from discrete mathematics are used in analyzing VLSI electronic circuits.

These theories work from the central premise that effective learners are active agents who construct knowledge by setting goals, analyzing tasks, planning strategies and monitoring their understanding.

Much effort on behalf of those analyzing the theory currently is an attempt to clarify what these different hypotheses are, and whether they are proposals to ' test ' or ' manipulate ' outcomes.

They are extending services beyond the physical walls of a building, by providing material accessible by electronic means, and by providing the assistance of librarians in navigating and analyzing very large amounts of information with a variety of digital tools.

Gw ' otesht are capable of running many millions of complex simulations in a short amount of time, giving them the ability to plan ahead in great detail by analyzing every possible outcome.

Geomatics includes geodesy ( scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field, and other geodynamic phenomena, such as crustal motion, oceanic tides, and polar motion ) and GIS ( a computer based system for capturing, storing, analyzing and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth ) and remote sensing ( the short or large-scale acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by the use of either recording or real-time sensing devices that are not in physical or intimate contact with the object ).

Eigenvalues are closely related to vibration frequencies and are used in analyzing a famous problem: can you hear the shape of a drum ?.

Some political scientists seek to advance positive ( attempt to describe how things are, as opposed to how they should be ) theses by analyzing politics.

Because the connections are so vast in number, human interpretation of the information may not be the best way of analyzing them.

They claim that through discourse analysis, power structures may be uncovered and questioned by way of analyzing the corresponding fields of knowledge through which they are legitimated.

However, analyzing the relevant concepts and propositions, Russell proposed that what definite descriptions really express are not propositions of the subject-predicate form, but rather they express existentially quantified propositions.

H. Hill Goldsmith and Joseph Campos used emotional characteristics to define temperament, originally analyzing five emotional qualities: motor activity, anger, fearfulness, pleasure / joy, and interest / persistence, but later expanding to include other emotions.

One example, mentioned in History above, is the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project, which aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from over 100, 000 people across five continents.

The meaning of most of them remains unknown, but that of a few of them ( numbers, symbols for some of the five elements and the twelve animals that the Khitans apparently used to designate years of the sexagenary cycle ) has been established by analyzing dates in Khitan inscriptions.

According to COSO, these components provide an effective framework for describing and analyzing the internal control system implemented in an organization as required by financial regulations ( see Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ,) The five components are the following: