In the latter case a sample of data from such a distribution can be used to construct an estimate of its variance: in the simplest cases this estimate can be the sample variance, defined below.

Critics of the latter idea point out that the half-life of Pu-240 is 6, 560 years and Pu-239 is 24, 110 years, and thus the relative enrichment of one isotope to the other with time occurs with a half-life of 9, 000 years ( that is, it takes 9000 years for the fraction of Pu-240 in a sample of mixed plutonium isotopes, to spontaneously decrease by half — a typical enrichment needed to turn reactor-grade into weapons-grade Pu ).

The former comprises disambiguating the occurrences of a small sample of target words which were previously selected, while in the latter all the words in a piece of running text need to be disambiguated.

However, in the latter case, the applied electric field changes the molar absorption coefficient of the sample, which can be measured using traditional absorption or emission spectroscopic methods.

Calculation of the maximum life span in the latter sense depends upon initial sample size.

The former can be achieved by the use of a modulation technique, whereas the latter can be obtained by placing the gas inside a cavity in which the light passes through the sample several times, thus increasing the interaction length.

The general form of rejection sampling assumes that the board is not necessarily rectangular but is shaped according to some distribution that we know how to sample from ( e. g. using inversion sampling ), and which is at least as high at every point as the distribution we want to sample from, so that the former completely encloses the latter.

The only published studies of Korandje based on first-hand data are Cancel ( 1908 ), a 45-page article by a French lieutenant covering basic grammar and vocabulary and a couple of sample texts ; Champault ( 1969 ), an anthropological study containing some incidental linguistically relevant materials such as sentences and rhymes ; Tilmatine ( 1991, 1996 ), an article ( published in German, then reworked in French ) revisiting Cancel and Champault and adding about a page of new data recorded by the author ; and Souag ( 2010a, 2010b ), the former arguing the case for Western Berber loans in the lexicon, the latter studying the effect of contact with Berber and Arabic on its grammar.

The latter is a common alternative to digoxigenin, and the two are used together for labelling two genes in one sample.

The former absorbs X-rays emitted from the sample and converts this energy into heat ; the latter measures the subsequent change in temperature due to the influx of heat ( in essence, a thermometer ).

He wrote: "… worsted of colour to make sashes of the latter I have got sample of from my neighbour which will send home ".

Although turbidity purports to measure approximately the same water quality property as TSS, the latter is more useful because it provides an actual weight of the particulate material present in the sample.

Interested in Hydro-Man and his ability to change his molecules into water, Warren finds a sample of Hydro-Man's DNA at the scene where he evaporated and creates a clone of the latter.

The latter includes various sample template-modified creatures, an extensive list of hit location tables, area of effect maps for various powers, and a creature summary table.

In the latter job, he helped to set up the England and Wales Longitudinal Survey, which monitors the health, address changes and fertility of a 1 % sample of the population of England and Wales over time for statistical purposes.

The latter includes a sample passenger train in NYC livery, although the two coaches are actually of Illinois Central heritage.

The former applies largely to the case of isotropic interactions ( independent of sample orientation in a magnetic field ) and the latter to the case of anisotropic interactions ( spectra dependent on sample orientation in a magnetic field ).

They are mentioned as taking part in Oleg's expeditions in 907 and in Igor's expeditions in 944, the latter year being the last reference to Tivertsi in early East Slavic manuscripts.

Candida infections of the latter category are also referred to as candidemia and are usually confined to severely immunocompromised persons, such as cancer, transplant, and AIDS patients, as well as nontrauma emergency surgery patients.

In this latter usage, a militia is a body of private persons who respond to an emergency threat to public safety, usually one that requires an armed response, but which can also include ordinary law enforcement or disaster responses.

In this latter view, mind, instead of referring to an entity, refers to a collection of mental events experienced by a person ; society refers to a collection of persons with some shared characteristics, and geometry refers to a collection of a specific kind of intellectual activity.

These latter approaches permit joint scaling of persons and assessment items, which provides a basis for mapping of developmental continua by allowing descriptions of the skills displayed at various points along a continuum.

' Whereas Christians ( who have learned that their eternal life consists in knowing the only true God, who is over all, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent ; and who have learned also that all the gods of the heathen are greedy demons, which flit around sacrifices and blood, and other sacrificial accompaniments, in order to deceive those who have not taken refuge with the God who is over all, but that the divine and holy angels of God are of a different nature and will from all the demons on earth, and that they are known to those exceedingly few persons who have carefully and intelligently investigated these matters ) will not endure a comparison to be made between them and Apollo or Zeus, or any being worshipped with odour and blood and sacrifices ; some of them, so acting from their extreme simplicity, not being able to give a reason for their conduct, but sincerely observing the precepts which they have received ; others, again, for reasons not to be lightly regarded, nay, even of a profound description, and ( as a Greek would say ) drawn from the inner nature of things ; and amongst the latter of these God is a frequent subject of conversation, and those who are honoured by God, through His only-begotten Word, with participation in His divinity, and therefore also in His name.

Before the discovery of tetracycline and chloramphenicol during the latter 1940s, as many as 30 percent of persons infected with R. rickettsii died.

The former were largely persons of middle-upper class descent, while the latter came from working class households.

In August 1954, when Horia Sima, who led the Iron Guard during its exile, was rejected by a faction inside the movement, Mircea Eliade's name was included on a list of persons who supported the latter — although this may have happened without his consent.

For example, Ukrainian immigrants from the " first wave " immigration ( 1890 – 1924 ) greatly resented the immigrants who came in the " second wave " after the Second World War, as the latter group were perceived not as " poor refugees " but as persons who had managed to leave Europe and bring considerable wealth with them.

Under most systems, only persons in the first category are dynasts, that is, potential successors to the throne ( unless the member of the latter category is also in line to the throne in their own right, a frequent occurrence in royal families which frequently intermarry ).

Upon the roof, on the outside, is the imperial, which is generally filled with six or seven persons more, and a heap of luggage, which latter also occupies the basket, and generally presents a pile, half as high again as the coach, which is secured by ropes and chains, tightened by a large iron windlass, which also constitutes another appendage of this moving mass.

The book explains that the former are in command of the latter and are the protectors, not opponents, of Buddhism-although the flaw of pride or ambition has caused them to fall onto the demon road, they remain the same basically good, dharma-abiding persons they were in life.

The activities of the Sigurimi were directed more toward political and ideological opposition than crimes against persons or property, unless the latter were sufficiently serious and widespread to threaten the regime.

The latter term is frequently used in an " All-points bulletin " issued to other law enforcement persons or agencies.

By the latter half of the nineteenth century the condition of the area had improved somewhat-the 1868 ' National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland ' describes Ratcliffe as inhabited by persons connected with shipping and having extensive warehouses, with the area ' well paved, lighted with gas, and supplied with water from the reservoir at Old Ford '.

The land of the members who leave the commune shall revert to the land fund ; preferential right to such land shall be given to the near relatives of the members who have left, or to persons designated by the latter.

This latter work studied 2, 820 persons, including 2, 094 descendants of the original six Juke sisters.

Some characteristics of statelessness could be observed amongst apostates and slaves in Islamic society, the former being persons shunned for rejecting their religious birth identity, the latter being persons separated from that identity and subsumed into an underclass role.

: Protected persons who are in occupied territory shall not be deprived, in any case or in any manner whatsoever, of the benefits of the present Convention by any change introduced, as the result of the occupation of a territory, into the institutions or government of the said territory, nor by any agreement concluded between the authorities of the occupied territories and the Occupying Power, nor by any annexation by the latter of the whole or part of the occupied territory.

The latter could deny undesirable persons the right to settle ( in this case no stamps were made in passports ).

The persons who are to take under a will are decided by different rules according as the property is movable or immovable, the former being governed by the law of the domicile, the latter by the Lex loci rei sitae.

Philips had written a series of odes to " all persons ", from Robert Walpole to the mother in the nursery, and the latter provided the occasion for Carey to exaggerate.

The name became so common that it was sometimes abbreviated Aur., and by the latter centuries of the Empire it becomes difficult to distinguish members of the gens from other persons bearing the name.