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.

* Samarium-neodymium dating is useful for determining the age relationships of rocks and meteorites.

Stereochemistry includes methods for determining and describing these relationships ; the effect on the physical or biological properties these relationships impart upon the molecules in question, and the manner in which these relationships influence the reactivity of the molecules in question ( dynamic stereochemistry ).

The practice of assigning patrilineal and matrilineal names to offspring for the purpose of tracing ancestry or determining inheritance and other relationships may be giving way to a 21st century preference for self-assigned or quality-assigned names as replacements for birth given names.

Noyes often used his own judgment in determining the partnerships that would form, and would often encourage relationships between the non-devout and the devout in the community, in the hopes that the attitudes and behaviors of the devout would influence the non-devout.

This makes determining relationships with other higher taxa through morphological comparison problematic.

Linear programming ( LP, or linear optimization ) is a mathematical method for determining a way to achieve the best outcome ( such as maximum profit or lowest cost ) in a given mathematical model for some list of requirements represented as linear relationships.

Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, set design, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the story world.

Loneliness is a common theme in Fassbinder's work, together with the idea that power becomes a determining factor in all human relationships.

Application of molecular biology to compare nucleic acid sequences is seen as the definitive basis for determining homologies and relationships in modern taxonomy.

The influence of such people in a culture that did not arrange marriages, and in which economic relationships ( e. g. " being able to support a family ", " good prospects ") played a larger role in determining if a ( male ) suitor was acceptable, is difficult to determine.

Disciplines within arachnology include naming species and determining their evolutionary relationships to one another ( taxonomy and systematics ), studying how they interact with other members of their species and / or their environment ( behavioural ecology ), or how they are distributed in different regions and habitats ( faunistics ).

# Build an item-item matrix determining relationships between pairs of items

A difficulty inherent in determining what species are in Devils Lake versus Lake Winnipeg results from spatial relationships.

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 ).

: In the enfolded implicate order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of dependence or independence of different elements.

Within the relational model the final step can generally be broken down into two further steps, that of determining the grouping of information within the system, generally determining what are the basic objects about which information is being stored, and then determining the relationships between these groups of information, or objects.

Most sociologists recognize that proximal causality is the first type of power humans experience ; however, while factors such as family relationships may initially be meaningful, they are not as permanent, underlying, or determining as other factors such as institutions and social networks ( Naiman 2008: 5 ).

* January 9-Government of India resolves not to create new guaranteed railway companies, thus determining future relationships between private enterprise and state in railway development.

Some scientific studies show that intimacy is a factor in determining lifespan, and some informal studies have shown that frequent sex can improve intimate relationships.

Finally, in 1267, a treaty was signed in Badajoz, determining that the southern border between Castile and Portugal should be the River Guadiana, as it is today.

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 ".

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

For cases where electrons are shared ( covalent bonds ) between atoms with large differences in electronegativity, the electron is assigned to the atom with the largest electronegativity in determining the oxidation state.

However, it has been stressed that accurate differentiation between generalized and partial seizures is especially important in determining the appropriate treatment.

Described as “ the determining moment in Fellini ’ s life ”, he enjoyed steady employment between 1939 and 1942, interacting with writers, gagmen, and scriptwriters that eventually led to opportunities in show business and cinema.

Some parallels can be drawn between the general election in parliamentary systems and the biennial elections determining all House seats, although there is no analogue to " calling early elections " in the U. S., and the members of the elected U. S. Senate face elections of only one-third at a time at two year intervals including during a general election.

A work by Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo points out differences between heroism and altruism, and they offer evidence that observers ' perceptions of unjustified risk plays a role, above and beyond risk type, in determining the ascription of heroic status.

On any interpretation of the fallacy, in determining whether the relativist fallacy has been committed, one should distinguish between things which are true for a particular person, and things which are true about that person.

Addressing this problem requires understanding the relation between freedom and causation, and determining whether the laws of nature are causally deterministic.

By determining the timing between the activation of the first and second switches, the velocity of a key press can be determined — greatly improving the performance dynamic of a keyboard.

The attractive forces between polymer chains play a large part in determining a polymer's properties.

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.

He is an agnostic, which he claims to be a major determining factor for the story development process, with him drawing parallels between his characters and himself.

In determining international borders between sovereign states, self-determination has yielded to a number of other principles.

Archimedes saw weight as a quality opposed to buoyancy, with the conflict between the two determining if an object sinks or floats.

After the voyage, the data is found to be inaccurate in determining the distance between the Sun and Earth.

* 1267 – King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign a treaty determining the southern border between Portugal and Spain as the Guadiana River, a border that remains to this day.

An example of a time interval that is excluded when determining character interval is any time added between the end of a stop signal and the beginning of the next start signal to accommodate changing transmission conditions, such as a change in data signaling rate or buffering requirements.

Note that this method of determining the key of the instrument is different from the method used to determine the key of a chromatic instrument, which is based on the relationship between notes on a score and sounded pitch.

* February 16 – King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign the Badajoz Convention, determining the border between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kingdom of Leon, and ensuring Portuguese sovereignty over Algarve.

The book also offered advice on how to distinguish between a drowning ( water in the lungs ) and strangulation ( broken neck cartilage ), along with other evidence from examining corpses on determining if a death was caused by murder, suicide or an accident.