In two-stage cluster sampling, a random sampling technique is applied to the elements from each of the selected clusters.

While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.

* 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

The Earth Return Vehicle is a two-stage vehicle.

** German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

The Stinger is launched by a small ejection motor that pushes it a safe distance from the operator before engaging the main two-stage solid-fuel sustainer, which accelerates it to a maximum speed of Mach 2. 2 ( 750 m / s ).

The DF-4 " Chingyu " is China's first two-stage ballistic missile, with 5, 550-7, 000 km range and 2, 200 kg payload ( 3 Mt nuclear warhead ).

The DF-5 is a silo-based, two-stage missile, and its rocket served as the basis for the space-launch vehicle Fengbao-Tempest ( FB-1 ) used to launch satellites.

The DF-21 is a two-stage, solid-fuel, medium-range ballistic missile ( MRBM ) developed by the 2nd Aerospace Academy ( now China Changfeng Mechanics and Electronics Technology Academy ) in late 1970s.

Flow is left to right, multistage compressor on left, combustion chambers center, two-stage turbine on right

Generally speaking, visual attention is thought to operate as a two-stage process.

The two-stage central tower is not square but oblong in plan.

There is also an important services sector with two hospitals, a two-stage theatre and an eight-screen cinema.

Following the comments there is generally a two-stage process comprising the " Admissibility " stage and the " Merits " stage, however, due to the immense workload that the United Nations Human Rights Committee has, these two stages are usually undertaken simultaneously.

Large industrial states with well-developed nuclear arsenals have two-stage thermonuclear weapons, which are the most compact, scalable, and cost effective option once the necessary industrial infrastructure is built.

As with boosting, the advantages of the two-stage thermonuclear design are so great that there is little incentive not to use it, once a nation has mastered the technology.

The Jericho II is a solid fuel, two-stage long-range ballistic missile system.

In a vehicle fitted with two-stage turbocharging, it is possible to have both an intercooler ( between the two turbocharger units ) and an aftercooler ( between the second-stage turbo and the engine ).

In a vehicle fitted with two-stage turbocharging, it is possible to have both an intercooler ( between the two turbocharger units ) and an aftercooler ( between the second-stage turbo and the engine ).

According to a statement from Kim McMiller, an Associate Director of Consumer Relations, a two-stage process is used to make Oreo cookies.

The paramedian forehead flap has two disadvantages, one operational and one aesthetic: Operationally, the reconstruction of a nose with a paramedian forehead flap is a two-stage surgical procedure, which might a problem for the patient whose health ( surgical suitability ) includes significant, secondary medical risks.

Yet, bulkiness is the principal disadvantage of the nasolabial flap — except in elderly patients with atrophic cheek skin ; nonetheless, it is technically effective for patients unsuitable for a two-stage rhinoplasty with a paramedian forehead flap.

Nonetheless, the alternative surgical correction is a two-stage, superiorly based, nasolabial flap.

A concept of responsibility is in process of articulation and establishment.

An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.

According to Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

The process stipulates that the choreographer sense the quality of the initial movement he has discovered and that he feel the rightness of the quality that is to follow it.

She, too, is concerned with `` the becoming, the process of realization '', but she does not think in terms of subtle variations of spatial or temporal patterns.

In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.

But it is a clumsy and wasteful process: it can produce negative results but not much that is positive.

In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.

Within institutions there is a marked decline of the process of persuasion and the substitution of a force-fear process which masquerades as the earlier one of persuasion.

The continuing modernization of these forces is a costly but necessary process.

Social process is always anchored in past predisposition ; ;

Britain in the nineteenth century is a textbook designed `` to give the sense of continuous growth, to show how economic led to social, and social to political change, how the political events reacted on the economic and social, and how new thoughts and new ideals accompanied or directed the whole complicated process ''.

Each year another grade is added to the process, until finally all 12 grades are integrated.

But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy.

In still others which are barely on the threshold of the transition into modernity, the decade can bring significant progress in launching the slow process of developing their human resources and their basic services to the point where an expanded range of developmental activities is possible.

Aid is a long-term process

It is an answer in its way, individual and highly dramatic, to the charge that the democratic process is necessarily vicious in its campaign characteristics.

But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.

It is but part of the whole process within the Department that goes into the making of the final recommendation to the appeal board.

It was recognized years ago that the transition from daytime to nighttime propagation conditions, and vice versa, is not an instantaneous process, but takes place over periods of time from roughly 2 hours before sunset until about 2 hours after sunset, and again from roughly 2 hours before sunrise until some 2 hours after sunrise.