Gravimetric analysis involves determining the amount of material present by weighing the sample before and / or after some transformation.

Digitalis is an example of a drug derived from a plant that was formerly used by folklorists and herbalists ; herbalists have largely abandoned its use because of its narrow therapeutic index and the difficulty of determining the amount of active drug in herbal preparations.

The amount of debt is also a major consideration in determining a company's health.

In chemistry, neutron activation analysis ( NAA ) is a nuclear process used for determining the concentrations of elements in a vast amount of materials.

This can be reduced somewhat by using a binary space partitioning tree to reduce the amount of time spent determining which patches are completely hidden from others in complex scenes ; but even so, the time spent to determine the form factor still typically scales as n log n. New methods include adaptive integration

Bioassays are conducted by determining the amount of preparation of unknown potency required to produce a definite effect on suitable test animals or organs or tissue under standard conditions.

The process for determining the amount of the automatic cuts was found unconstitutional in the case of Bowsher v. Synar, and Congress enacted a reworked version of the law in 1987.

When determining CADR, the amount of airflow in a space is taken into account.

Salivary gland function can be tested by collecting saliva and determining the amount produced in a five minute period.

However, it has not been proven that no computationally cheap way of determining the best move in a chess position exists, nor even that a traditional alpha-beta-searcher running on present-day computing hardware could not solve the initial position in an acceptable amount of time.

It has been mathematically proven that generalized chess ( chess played with an arbitrarily large number of pieces on an arbitrarily large chessboard ) is EXPTIME-complete, meaning that determining the winning side in an arbitrary position of generalized chess provably takes exponential time in the worst case ; however, this theoretical result gives no lower bound on the amount of work required to solve ordinary 8x8 chess.

A significant amount of research has focused on determining the processes that initiate tooth development.

The main challenge in implementing the OCW initiative had not been faculty resistance, but rather, the logistical challenges presented by determining ownership and obtaining publication permission for the massive amount of intellectual property items that are embedded in the course materials of MIT's faculty, in addition to the time and technical effort required to convert the educational materials to an online format.

For example, determining the volume of a sphere requires a significant amount of integral calculus ; but, having done this once, mathematicians can produce a formula to describe the volume in terms of some other parameter ( the radius for example ).

A saccharometer is a hydrometer used for determining the amount of sugar in a solution, invented by Thomas Thomson.

The settlement was affirmed on April 21, 2008, with the court saying, " the trial court did not abuse its discretion in approving the amended class action settlement agreement, approving the notice given to class members, or determining the amount of fees.

As the House Rules limit the amount of floor debate on any given bill the committees play an important function in determining the final content and format of the bill.

The catchment is the most significant factor determining the amount or likelihood of flooding.

For example, László Polgár set out to raise his children to be chess players, and all three of his daughters went on to become world-class players ( two of whom are grandmasters ), emphasizing the potency a child's environment can have in determining the pursuits toward which a child's energy will be directed, and showing that an incredible amount of skill can be developed through suitable training.

An example would be determining the amount of carbon present in the soil based on landform over a landscape, derived from GIS maps, vegetation types, and rainfall data for a region.

The original plan for the airborne operations had called for all three to employ parachutists, but in May Montgomery altered the plan ; after determining that airborne troops would be a considerable distance from Allied ground forces, he believed that the force sent to capture Syracuse would be served best by gliders in order to provide them with the maximum possible amount of firepower.

The CRBC's regulatory responsibilities included determining the number, location and transmitting power of radio stations as well as the amount of time spent carrying local and national programming.

This is the problem of determining a curve on which a weighted particle will fall to a fixed point in a fixed amount of time, independent of the starting point.

This means that you first need to figure out the total allowable miscellaneous itemized deductions, etc., before determining any limits on the total amount of deductions.

Sometimes the factor charges the seller ( the factor's " client ") both a discount fee, for the factor's assumption of credit risk and other services provided, as well as interest on the factor's advance, based on how long the advance, often treated as a loan ( repaid by set-off against the factor's purchase obligation, when the account is collected ), is outstanding .< Ref Name =" CPA "> J. G. Siegel, N. Dauber & J. K. Shim, " The Vest Pocket CPA ", Wiley, 2005 .</ ref > The factor also estimates the amount that may not be collected due to non-payment, and makes accommodation for this in pricing, when determining the purchase price to be paid to the seller.

The other factor in determining whether a lender will provide a consumer credit or a loan is dependent on income.

It has become the preferred and predominant measure for determining the cost of construction ( variable items valued at Historical Cost being updated ), values of housing ( historical variable real value non-monetary items being updated ) and any secured loan ( monetary item ), either private or of the Chilean government.

The 30 / 360 calculation is listed on standard loan constant charts and is now typically used by a calculator or computer in determining mortgage payments.

He teaches Carlson many different things on the job, substituting his criminal knowledge for police work, such as determining from a poorly-staged break-in that a car repair owner faked the theft of his own hubcaps with the intention of selling them on the streets, both finding the hubcaps and informing the owner that he would actually receive less for them on the street.

You also deduct 50% of the excess of net long-term capital gains over net short-term capital losses in determining Adjusted Gross Income.

OPS is also useful when determining a pitcher's level of success.

A supplementary thought experiment with the same objective of determining the occurrence of absolute rotation also was proposed by Newton: the example of observing two identical spheres in rotation about their center of gravity and tied together by a string.

There also can be a lack of determining " knowledge-appropriate " communication, as when someone uses ambiguous legal words, or medical jargon, when speaking with another person that lacks understanding in these areas.

Each one is chosen for its aesthetic effect and structural strength, and such choice can also play a significant role in determining the instrument's timbre.

It is also useful for determining the tertiary structure and quaternary structure of purified proteins, especially since it can be carried out under native solution conditions.

Their starting point in determining the date of Orthodox Easter is also 21 March, but according to the Julian reckoning, which currently corresponds to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar.

In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover ( Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar ).

A lot of time may also be spent on tasks such as discussing proposals with clients, preparing budgets and determining project schedules.

Thus, the search for extrasolar planets also includes the study of planetary habitability, which considers a wide range of factors in determining an extrasolar planet's suitability for hosting life.

Their findings also suggest that while the schemas of both novices and experts are activated by the same features of a problem statement, the experts ’ schemas contain more procedural knowledge which aid in determining which principle to apply, and novices ’ schemas contain mostly declarative knowledge which do not aid in determining methods for solution.

* Managers may also consider the economic cycle in determining whether conditions are ' right ' to buy fundamentally suitable companies.

For example, while genes play a role in determining an organism's size, the nutrition and health it experiences after inception also have a large effect.

Marx's thoughts on labour were related to the primacy he gave to the economic relation in determining the society's past, present and future ( see also economic determinism ).

This treatise ( Della pittura ) was also known in Latin as De Pictura, and it relied in its scientific content on classical optics in determining perspective as a geometric instrument of artistic and architectural representation.

Pāṇini's influence is also present in Bloomfield's approach to determining parts of speech ( Bloomfield uses the term ' form-classes ') in both Eastern Ojibwa and in the later Menomini language, published posthumously in 1962.

The term lunatic was also used by supporters of John Harrison and his marine chronometer method of determining longitude to refer to proponents of the Method of Lunar Distances, advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.

The first step of determining that morphine may affect the immune system was to establish that the opiate receptors known to be expressed on cells of the central nervous system are also expressed on cells of the immune system.

Negotiators overwhelm the other party with so much information that he or she has difficulty determining which facts are important, and which facts are diversions. Negotiators may also use technical language or jargon to mask a simple answer to a question asked by a non-expert.

He was also involved in the Balkans Campaign, parachuting into Yugoslavia to evaluate the various resistance groups operating against the Nazis, and determining after meeting with him that Tito's were the most effective.

A kicker, also called a side card, is a card in a poker hand that does not itself take part in determining the rank of the hand, but that may be used to break ties between hands of the same rank.

Additional processes, such as planning for communications and for scope management, identifying roles and responsibilities, determining what to purchase for the project and holding a kick-off meeting are also generally advisable.