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In that case failure to have the correct string starting from a particular position reduces with about 4 % the probability of a correct string starting from the next position ( i. e., for overlapping positions the events of having the correct string are not independent ; in this case there is a positive correlation between the two successes, so the chance of success after a failure is smaller than the chance of success in general ).
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In the specific case of time diffusion, we must emphasize the significance of the earlier development of mistrust when it is combined with the inevitable time crisis experienced by most ( if not all ) adolescents in our society, and with the failure of the adolescent period to provide opportunities for developing trust.
Nevertheless, he regards the case in " The Chocolate Box ", which took place in 1893, as his only actual failure of detection.
With an insurance of $ 1, 500 promised in case of failure, Sennett also allowed Chaplin to direct his own film.
In the most famous case of policy failure, Black Wednesday, George Soros arbitraged the pound sterling's relationship to the ECU and ( after making $ 2 billion himself and forcing the UK to spend over $ 8bn defending the pound ) forced it to abandon its policy.
Occasionally a database employs storage redundancy by database objects replication ( with one or more copies ) to increase data availability ( both to improve performance of simultaneous multiple end-user accesses to a same database object, and to provide resiliency in a case of partial failure of a distributed database ).
Occasionally a database employs storage redundancy by database objects replication ( with one or more copies ) to increase data availability ( both to improve performance of simultaneous multiple end-user accesses to a same database object, and to provide resiliency in a case of partial failure of a distributed database ).
Natural monopoly, or the overlapping concepts of " practical " and " technical " monopoly, is an extreme case of failure of competition as a restraint on producers.
By chance he encountered a copy of " Captain Claridge's work on the ' Water Cure ,' as practised by Priessnitz, at Graefenberg ", and " making allowances for certain exaggerations therein ", pondered the option of travelling to Graefenberg, but preferred to find something closer to home, with access to his own doctors in case of failure: " I who scarcely lived through a day without leech or potion!
Aircraft systems may be quadruplexed ( four independent channels ) to prevent loss of signals in the case of failure of one or even two channels.
Groucho's radio life was not as successful as his life on stage and in film, though historians such as Gerald Nachman and Michael Barson suggest that, in the case of the single-season Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel ( 1932 ), the failure may have been a combination of a poor time slot and the Marx Brothers ' returning to Hollywood to make another film.
It was Irving's failure as an " objective historian " not his right wing views that caused him to loose his libel case, as a " conscientious historian " would not have " deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence " to support his political views.
It also introduced the first version of System Restore, which allowed users to revert their system state to a prior " known-good " point in the case of system failure.
The case must also be inspected carefully to make sure the anvil has not been damaged, because this could result in a failure to fire.
the cause of failure of Ostwald's dilution law in the case of strong electrolytes is due to the following factors "
Such a case is a type of market failure and results in workers being paid less than their marginal value.
After being bedridden with a case of pneumonia during the fall of 1861, Martin Van Buren died of bronchial asthma and heart failure at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook at 2: 00 a. m. on July 24, 1862.
The first issues of the rifle generated considerable controversy because the gun suffered from a jamming flaw known as “ failure to extract ,” which meant that a spent cartridge case remained lodged in the chamber after a bullet flew out the muzzle.
Eichenwald referred to Whitacre's sentence as " excessive and a law enforcement failure " because Whitacre never received credit for his substantial cooperation in assisting the government with the massive price-fixing case.
The various uses of ḥuzn and hüzün thus describe melancholy from a certain vantage point, show similarities with female hysteria in the case of Avicenna's patient and in a religious context it is not unlike sloth, which by Dante was defined as " failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul ".
A relatively well understood failure of ordinary language, in terms of its inability to fully describe reality without jargon ( in this case mathematics ), is quantum mechanics.
* Recovery: In the case of a catastrophic software or hardware failure, barring excessive data corruption, the system must later recover itself into a well-defined state, though usually at the expense of some of the data currently in-use at the time.
For the sake of convenience, these failure statistics often are translated into MTBF ( in this case, installed life before failure ).
A malicious ( or erroneous ) revocation of some ( or all ) of the keys in the system is likely, or in the second case, certain, to cause a complete failure of the system.
Furthermore, a party who is unfamiliar with procedural rules may run afoul of guidelines that have nothing to do with the merits of the case, and yet the failure to follow these guidelines may severely damage the party's chances.
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Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.
The American liberal may, in the world of to-day, have a strong case ; ;
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
In this case others should not have had to raise the doubts and fears.
This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.
The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration should not have to repeat.
Our litterbug ordinances are not enforced and I have yet to read of a conviction in a littering case.
Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Comptroller General of the United States, as the case may be, shall find that any person is entitled to any such payment, after such payment shall have been received by such person, it shall be an absolute bar to recovery by any other person against the United States, its officers, agents, or employees with respect to such payment.
Undoubtedly you have read the case histories of some of his prize-winning pupils ( every pupil has a physique title of some kind or other ).
But in the case of moving targets, and targets which have limited mobility, what will their location be when it is time to destroy them??
Even so, every pool owner, in case of emergency, should have some idea of what makes things work.
Participation for the educator in this case, however, would have to be raised to full and complete membership.
If such is the case, the particles within a distance of about Af of the Earth will have, relative to the Earth, a kinetic energy less than their potential energy and they will be captured into orbits about the Earth.
These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.
Although biopsies have shown structural changes in some of the reported cases of steroid-induced weakness, this case provides the only example known to us in which necropsy afforded the opportunity for extensive study of multiple muscle groups.
In virtually every case the transferor corporation is liquidated, and its former stockholders either own outright, or have a continuing stock interest in, the assets which gave rise to the tax.
But before discussing it, I should like to record one vote of thanks to them for the clarity with which they have stated their case.
As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.
In one extreme case, cited by a Pittsburgh psychologist, an office worker's wife refused to have sexual relations with her husband unless he bought her the luxuries she demanded.
In such a case the defendant should serve as a clear example and not have to be tied to the issue by argument.
But though this characterization in no way diminished Eichmann's guilt, the Prosecutor, more deeply involved in the tactics of a criminal case than a political one, would have none of it.
All the officials on the case seem to have been afflicted with a similar myopia as far as Bridget was concerned, although records in police files contain many reports of servants who have murdered their employers.
Statistically this has represented a loss to the nation, although one must admit that in an individual case the decision in retrospect may have been a wise one.
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