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In practice, considerable pre-processing of the data is required — correction for random coincidences, estimation and subtraction of scattered photons, detector dead-time correction ( after the detection of a photon, the detector must " cool down " again ) and detector-sensitivity correction ( for both inherent detector sensitivity and changes in sensitivity due to angle of incidence ).
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This practice can lead to the controversial question of which research group actually discovered an element, a question that has delayed naming of elements with atomic number of 104 and higher for a considerable time.
The discovery in 1823 of Q1 — whose existence had been quite unsuspected — caused considerable interest and excitement, raising many questions of editorial practice and interpretation.
Lutenistic practice has reached considerable heights in recent years, thanks to a growing number of world-class lutenists: Robert Barto, Eduardo Egüez, Edin Karamazov, Nigel North, Christopher Wilson, Luca Pianca, Pascal Monteilhet, Lex van Sante, Ariel Abramovich, Evangelina Mascardi, Luciano Contini, Hopkinson Smith, Yasunori Imamura, Paul O ' Dette, Jozef van Wissem et alii.
In practice, the failure of African archaeologists either to keep this distinction in mind, or to explain which one they mean, contributes to the considerable equivocation already present in the literature.
In practice, the presidential nominee has considerable influence on the decision, and in the 20th century it became customary for that person to select a preferred running mate, who is then nominated and accepted by the convention.
In 1717 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu observed the practice in Istanbul and attempted to popularize it in Britain, but encountered considerable resistance.
There is considerable debate about the propriety of a money dance in English-speaking countries, where the practice is frowned upon because making guests pay for dancing or socializing with the bridal couple seems inhospitable, greedy, or distasteful.
Companies can avoid paying fees to investment banks by using a direct public offering, though this is not common practice as it incurs other legal costs and can take up considerable management time.
Chroniclers have noticed the right of Ælfwynn so precisely as to leave no doubt concerning her claim ; and this fact is of considerable value in showing that, contrary to the practice of other Germanic peoples, the sovereign authority amongst the Anglo-Saxons might descend to a female ; or, according to the Anglo-Saxon expression, which the French have adopted, " fall to the spindle side ".
The captains of the Dithmarschen class ships and Kriegsmarine warships and submarines were trained in transferring goods and fuel from the Dithmarschen ships to the warships / submarines at open sea, a most difficult operation that required considerable practice.
The Eleusinian Mysteries are believed to be of considerable antiquity, deriving from religious practice of the Mycenaean period and thus predating the Greek Dark Ages.
Although the practice initially enjoyed considerable support from Chinese officialdom, by the mid-to late-1990s, the Communist Party and public security organs increasingly viewed Falun Gong as a potential threat due to its size, independence from the state, and spiritual teachings.
In any case, Grand Lodges have limited jurisdiction over their member Lodges, and where there is no prescribed ritual Lodges may thus have considerable freedom of practice.
In practice, there is considerable overlap between the work of ecologists and other environmental scientists.
Heidenheim also divided each weekly Sabbath reading into seven sections ( seven people should be called up each Sabbath ), as there had been considerable variation in practice about where to make the divisions, and his divisions are now accepted by nearly all Ashkenazi communities.
However, there were cases in Medieval Europe where a city which grew to prominence and transferred to its cathedral the remains of a famous saint who had lived and was buried elsewhere, and made him or her the city's patron saint – such a practice conferring considerable prestige on the city concerned.
Of considerable relevance to understanding the nature of Canadian Paramedic practice, the reader must appreciate the considerable degree of inter-provincial variation.
Typical high school bands will find this grade requiring a considerable amount of practice / rehearsal.
The commissioners appear consistently to have instructed houses to re-introduce the strict practice of common dining and cloistered living, urging that those unable to comply should be encouraged to leave ; and considerable numbers appear to have taken the opportunity at this stage to be released from their monastic vows, so as to make a life elsewhere.
Rigging, however, requires considerable skill and practice to do safely.
In practice, there is considerable ambiguity and uncertainty in such cases, and decisions may in retrospect appear irrational that were, at the time, reasonable to the economic actors involved and in the context of their own incentives.
* It's long ( which is a considerable virtue in theory ) and requires a good typist ( which is an overwhelming problem for most people in actual practice ).
Despite persistent efforts, most learners of a second language will never become fully native-like in it, although with practice considerable fluency can be achieved.
practice and data
In practice, " statistical models " and observational data are useful for suggesting hypotheses that should be treated very cautiously by the public.
In practice, the state is stored in one or more data structures.
" His influence endures and practice of statistical testing of data remains one of the methods of archaeoastronomy.
In practice most video codecs also use audio compression techniques in parallel to compress the separate, but combined data streams.
This practice can add extra difficulty when debugging DNS issues, as it obscures the freshness of data, and / or what data comes from which cache.
In practice usually a given DBMS uses the same data model for both the external and the conceptual levels ( e. g., relational model ).
In practice, the accumulation of evidence for or against any particular theory involves planned research designs for the collection of empirical data, and academic rigor plays a large part of judging the merits of research design.
In practice, the collection of true and timely actual cost data can be the most difficult aspect of EVM.
Triangulation, the practice of cross-checking findings with multiple data sources, is highly valued in qualitative research.
Aday also stated, however, that the data used in his study may have come late enough in the war to be consistent with accepted practice.
The difference in speed can be substantial, especially for long data sets where N may be in the thousands or millions — in practice, the computation time can be reduced by several orders of magnitude in such cases, and the improvement is roughly proportional to N / log ( N ).
The practice of ' remote loading '— including data, such as images, directly from other sites — is usually frowned upon because of the use of bandwidth and computing power required from the remote computer system ( see bandwidth theft ).
In practice this means that even on a correctly configured web server eavesdroppers can still infer the IP address and port number of the web server ( sometimes even the domain name e. g. www. example. org, but not rest of the URL ) that one is communicating with as well as the amount ( data transferred ) and duration ( length of session ) of the communication, though not the content of the communication.
Heapsort typically runs faster in practice on machines with small or slow data caches.
In practice, the statistic requires a relatively large number of data points to properly reject the null hypothesis.
However, a second definition and usage has historically been in practice in many fields of computer science and information technology, which defines the prefix kilo when used with byte or bit units of data as 1024 ( 2 < sup > 10 </ sup >); this is due to the mathematical coincidence that Thus, in these fields 1 kilobyte is equal to 1 kibibyte, a new unit standardized as part of the binary prefixes to resolve the ambiguity.
There can be many purposes for such a record, such as recording evidence to verify the effectiveness of specific procedures ( per the scientific method that Aleister Crowley claimed should be applied to the practice of magick ) or to ensure that data may propagate beyond the lifetime of the magician.
In practice, if the engineer can manually remove irrelevant features from the input data, this is likely to improve the accuracy of the learned function.
In part because of such long retention times, as well as growing Internet upload speeds, Usenet is also used by individual users to store backup data in a practice called Usenet backup, or uBackup.
Though the term DHT is commonly used to refer to the structured overlay, in practice, DHT is a data structure implemented on top of a structured overlay.
The best current practice ( BCP ) subseries collects administrative documents and other texts which are considered as official rules and not only informational, but which do not affect over the wire data.
Scientists include theoreticians who mainly develop new models to explain existing data and predict new results, and experimentalists who mainly test models by making measurements — though in practice the division between these activities is not clear-cut, and many scientists perform both tasks.
In order to serialize accesses between data records on a loosely coupled system, a practice known as Record locking must be used.
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