Volunteers, such as those involved in GenerousGenealogists, a follow-on group similar to Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness ( now defunct ), do record lookups or take photos in their home areas for researchers who are unable to travel.

Random elements are often present, but do not usually dominate the game.

In Nine Princes in Amber Random and Corwin arrive in Arden by driving Flora's car through Shadow, but as soon as they do this they are discovered by Julian.

Random optimization ( RO ) is a family of numerical optimization methods that do not require the gradient of the problem to be optimized and RO can hence be used on functions that are not continuous or differentiable.

* Goldfinger ( 1964 ): the character Random Task modelled on Oddjob ; the dialogue " do you expect them to pay?

He quotes Holger Bech Nielsen ’ s formulation: “ We do not even know if there should exist some extremely dangerous decay of say the proton which caused eradication of the earth, because if it happens we would no longer be there to observe it and if it does not happen there is nothing to observe .” ( From: Random dynamics and relations between the number of fermion generations and the fine structure constants, Acta Pysica Polonica B, May 1989 ).

Exodus renounces the name Magneto gave him and decides to embark on a personal pilgrimage in order to do this, while some of the former Acolytes -- Amelia Voght, Random and Karima Shapandar make the decision to relocate to San Francisco.

The Bird explains the nature of probability and that some alternative Earths do exist, and persuades Random to go to one of them.

With Random stealing the ship and the Bird, they are stuck, with no immediate way to get offworld to prevent the Vogons from doing whatever it is they intend to do.

In 2005 the prestigious Library of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by Peter Straub, and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the " definitive edition " of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness ( also including " Supernatural Horror in Literature ").

A few have been filmed ( in some cases rather freely adapted ): Consider Her Ways, Random Quest, Dumb Martian, Jizzle ( filmed as Maria ) and Time to Rest ( filmed as No Place Like Earth ).

Several studies of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA ( RAPD ) and other types of genetic markers have been conducted on drug and fiber strains of Cannabis, primarily for plant breeding and forensic purposes.

Random urine creatinine levels have no standard reference ranges.

Some of the major publishers have entire divisions devoted to a single franchise, e. g. Ballantine Del Rey Lucasbooks has the exclusive rights to Star Wars in the United States ; Random House UK ( Bertelsmann )/ Century LucasBooks holds the same rights in the United Kingdom.

During their flight from Amber's troops, Random and Corwin have to fight on the stairway, killing some of their enemies by casting them beyond the rail, where they are crushed by the pressure of water.

Nucor Steel, Alcoa CSI, Raybestos Products Company, Pace Dairy Foods, and Random House have all created factories in or near Crawfordsville which provided employment to much of the population.

Numerous American and British publishers, including Random House, HarperCollins, Alfred A. Knopf and Penguin Books, also have Canadian divisions.

Random House Dictionary describes a " quack " as a " fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill " or " a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess ; a charlatan ".

Leaving Fiona to guard the Primal Pattern, Corwin goes to his tomb to meet Random and Martin, who have just arrived.

Random walks have been used in many fields: ecology, economics, psychology, computer science, physics, chemistry, and biology.

In September 2003, Shaun " Random Nut " Garriok posted an email message to the Full Disclosure email list claiming to have uncovered " malicious code " in the ES5 client.

A number of computational models based on concurrency have been developed, including the Parallel Random Access Machine and the Petri net.

Random oracles have long been considered in computational complexity theory ( e. g. Bennett & Gill ), and many schemes have been proven secure in the random oracle model, for example OAEP and PSS.

In September 2006, Random House published her first book, Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers, focusing on the ways in which various communities have helped her through the trials of her life, from her itinerant military childhood to the death of her son and her early bout with breast cancer.

Random encounters were incorporated into early role-playing video games and have been common throughout the genre.

Random encounters in rapid succession are considered undesirable as they lead to the player's perception of getting " bogged down ", but with the simple algorithm, it is possible to have an encounter from taking only one step after an encounter.

Random encounters have become less popular in video games with the passage of time, as gamers often complain that they are annoying or discouraging to exploration.

They have developed a Lagrangian Random Particle Dispersion Model that has been applied to complex coastal and inland environments.

The CIA considered buying up the entire printing of Invisible Government but this idea was rejected when Random House pointed out that if this happened they would have to print a second edition.

: Further editions have been published by Penguin ( softback, May 2007 ) and Random House ( hardback, October 2008.

Random XOR Canaries have the same vulnerabilities as Random Canaries, except that the ' read from stack ' method of getting the canary is a bit more complicated.

The out of print Random House publication of The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition is widely regarded as the most accurate and least redacted of any English language edition and is sought after on that basis by scholars and collectors.

Random variables can be classified as either discrete ( i. e. it may assume any of a specified list of exact values ) or as continuous ( i. e. it may assume any numerical value in an interval or collection of intervals ).

According to the 2012 edition of the Random House Dictionary, cognomen can mean " a surname " or " any name, especially a nickname ".

Random checks carried out by the airline after the accident showed that this was not the case ; 21 captains stated that they had witnessed their co-pilots react correctly to any stall warnings.

Random sampling can also refer to taking a number of independent observations from the same probability distribution, without involving any real population.

However, the names are currently not used in any official capacity, and, of the three, only BosWash is defined in Random House Dictionary, described there as informal.

By contrast, Webster's New World Dictionary merely cites Webster as a generic name for any American English dictionary, as does Random House's line of Webster's Dictionaries.

Random Troll for any not-very-computer-literate user.

RAM ( Random access memory ) has become a generic term for any semiconductor memory that can be written to, as well as read from, in contrast to ROM ( below ), which can only be read.

Although he had written the original treatment and all the song lyrics, Geisel regarded the finished film as a " debaculous fiasco " and omitted any mention of it in his official biography with Random House.

For a completely unknown memory access ( AKA Random access ), the relevant latency is the time to close any open row, plus the time to open the desired row, followed by the CAS latency to read data from it.

With none of his paternal family willing to assist him in any way, Random relies on his wits and the occasional support of his maternal uncle, Tom Bowling.

In addition, Moab Random has an " evacuation " rule that is a simplified form of castling: The king can move to any unoccupied first-rank square just once in the game, so long as it has not moved and is not in check.