Although these effects may be either beneficial or detrimental, the location of the area is crucial in determining the extent of the impact that abiotic stress will have.

Dendrites play a critical role in integrating these synaptic inputs and in determining the extent to which action potentials are produced by the neuron.

Many states refer to some extent to federal concepts for determining taxable income.

Assessing how well someone engages in reasoning is the project of determining the extent to which the person is rational or acts rationally.

These two criteria overlap to an extent, which means that often no single aspect of syntactic form is always decisive in determining how the clause functions.

The age and underlying health of the man, the extent of metastasis, appearance under the microscope and response of the cancer to initial treatment are important in determining the outcome of the disease.

To date, few Chobham armour-protected tanks have been defeated by enemy fire in combat ; the relevance of individual cases of lost tanks for determining the protective qualities of Chobham armour is difficult to ascertain as the extent to which such tanks are protected by ceramic modules is undisclosed.

To plan, map, and execute the surgical correction of a nasal defect or deformity, the structure of the external nose is divided into nine ( 9 ) aesthetic nasal subunits, and six ( 6 ) aesthetic nasal segments, which provide the plastic surgeon with the measures for determining the size, extent, and topographic locale of the nasal defect or deformity.

Therefore, the trade off between the return the firm earns on investment in production and the cost of utilizing a factor is crucial in determining both the extent factoring is used and the quantity of cash the firm holds on hand.

* determining which sites warrant further investigation to assess the nature and extent of the risks to the human health and environment ;

Over the course of two and a half years, under the guise of religious pilgrimages, he made several long trips, surveying the extent of the Tsangpo and surrounding region, determining that thw two rivers were indeed one and the same.

As a girl and young woman, hair, body, and color were society's trinity in determining female beauty and identity, the cultural and value-laden gang of three that formed the boundaries and determined the extent of women's visibility, influence, and importance.

The issue of establishing minority groups, and determining the extent of privileges they might derive from their status, is the subject of some debate.

An important unresolved issue in determining the time and place where the Niger – Congo languages originated and their range prior to recorded history is this language family's relationship to the Kordofanian languages spoken now spoken in the Nuba mountains of Sudan, which is not contiguous with the remainder of the Niger – Congo language speaking region and is at the northeasternmost extent of the current Niger – Congo linguistic region.

Staging, determining the extent of the disease, is done with the Rai staging system or the Binet classification ( see details < ref name =" NCI-CLL-page2 ">

This involves determining the extent of the deposit as well as the purity of the ore.

Sweeps months ( November, February, May, and to a lesser extent July ) are important landmarks in the television year — ratings earned during these periods determining advertising rates until the next sweeps period, therefore shows often have their most exciting plot developments happen during sweeps.

Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States ( 1928 ) that Congressional delegation of legislative authority is an implied power of Congress that is constitutional so long as Congress provides an " intelligible principle " to guide the executive branch: "' In determining what Congress may do in seeking assistance from another branch, the extent and character of that assistance must be fixed according to common sense and the inherent necessities of the government co-ordination.

Charge delocalization in anions is an important factor determining their reactivity ( generally: the higher the extent of delocalization the lower the reactivity ) and, specifically, the acid strength of their conjugate acids.

In relation to the meaning of a construct, quantity involves two semantic dimensions: 1. extension or extent ( determining the specific classes or individual instances indicated by the construct ) 2. intension ( content or comprehension or definition ) measuring all the implications ( relationships and associations involved in a construct, its intrinsic, inherent, internal, built-in, and constitutional implicit meanings and relations ).

Measuring the extent of an urban area helps in analyzing population density and urban sprawl, and in determining urban and rural populations.

:" The modern -- decentered -- understanding of the world has opened up different dimensions of validity ; to the extent that each dimension of validity has its own standards of truth and falsity and its own modes of justification for determining these, one may say that what has been opened up are dimensions of rationality " ( Cooke, 1994 ).

They centred on situations in which economic information is asymmetrical or incomplete, determining the extent to which they should affect the optimal rate of saving in an economy.

The actual statute defines false advertising as a " means of advertisement other than labeling, which is misleading in a material respect ; and in determining whether an advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account ( among other things ) not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the commodity to which the advertisement relates under the conditions prescribed in said advertisement, or under such conditions as are customary or usual.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

The observational data determining the concentration distribution have a range of error which is magnified in the extension into the micrometeorite region.

Three methods for determining the dimensional restorability characteristics are established for those textiles which require restoration by ironing or wearing after laundering.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

The relative size of each atom in the mix plays a primary role in determining which mechanism will occur.

The depth of water is necessary for determining scope, which is the ratio of length of cable to the depth measured from the highest point ( usually the anchor roller or bow chock ) to the seabed.

Analytical chemistry has been important since the early days of chemistry, providing methods for determining which elements and chemicals are present in the object in question.

One of his more famous works, the Summa which is important because of is its system for determining if a war is just.

Undervolting is a process of determining the lowest voltage at which a CPU can remain stable at a given clock speed.

These poles and zone-lines, whilst inducing fluctuations in data density in the reconstructed datasets, which can prove problematic during post-analysis, are critical for determining information such as angular magnification, as the crystallographic relationships between features are typically well known.

The benefit of the doubt is always given to the pitcher in determining which bases would have been reached by errorless play.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.

The length and requirements for copyright duration are subject to change by legislation, and since the early 20th century there have been a number of adjustments made in various countries, which can make determining the duration of a given copyright somewhat difficult.

Gauss's method involved determining a conic section in space, given one focus ( the Sun ) and the conic's intersection with three given lines ( lines of sight from the Earth, which is itself moving on an ellipse, to the planet ) and given the time it takes the planet to traverse the arcs determined by these lines ( from which the lengths of the arcs can be calculated by Kepler's Second Law ).

An important aspect of census enumerations is determining which individuals can be counted from which cannot be counted.

* Synchronization: Since digital information is conveyed by the sequence in which symbols are ordered, all digital schemes have some method for determining the beginning of a sequence.

Patterning is important for determining which cells develop into which organs.