Since the 1960s, blackjack has been a high profile target of advantage players, particularly card counters, who track the profile of cards that have been dealt and adapt their wager and playing strategies accordingly.

Since most Western economies are now considered " open " with free capital movement, this essentially means that central banks may target interest rates or exchange rates with credibility, but not both at once.

Since then, radar capabilities have grown enormously and are now the primary method of target acquisition.

Since the Marxist revolution in 1978, the city has been a target of foreign-backed militant groups such as the Mujahideen, Taliban, Haqqani network, Hezbi Islami, and others.

Since the mines are buried, the ground directs the energy of the blast in a single direction — through the bottom of the target vehicle or on the track.

Since German reunification, the PDS has frequently been the target of suspicions that leading members were connected with East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi.

Since then it has been used as the target for several other experimental compilers.

Since the late 1970s, most non-musical vocoders have been implemented using linear prediction, whereby the target signal's spectral envelope ( formant ) is estimated by an all-pole IIR filter.

Since the encrypted communication occurs “ below ” the OS level, it is less vulnerable to attacks by viruses, worms, and other threats that typically target the OS level.

Since 2009, the IFC has focused on a set of development goals which its projects are expected to target.

Since the downloaded code runs from RAM, there is little space to spare, particularly for processors dedicated to seeker input processing and target analysis.

Since the advent of graphical user interfaces, Fitts's law has been applied to tasks where the user must position a mouse cursor over an on-screen target, such as a button or other widget.

Since there may be an eclipse every half draconic month, we need to find an approximation for the number of half draconic months per synodic month: so the target ratio to approximate is: SM / ( DM / 2 )

Since it has fewer moving parts and a short lock time, it has less of a chance of being thrown off target and less of a chance to malfunction.

Since she also was goddess of war, and thus had an additional association with death, it was said that she wove the bandages and shrouds worn by the mummified dead as a gift to them, and thus she began to be viewed as a protector of one of the Four sons of Horus, specifically, of Duamutef, the deification of the canopic jar storing the stomach, since the abdomen ( often mistakenly associated as the stomach ) was the most vulnerable portion of the body and a prime target during battle.

Since LyX's main target platform was Linux, he started to explore different ways to improve the graphical user interface, which ultimately led him to the KDE project.

Since in order to reach an object in orbit it is necessary to attain an extremely high velocity, their released kinetic energy alone is enough to destroy their target ; explosives are not necessary.

Since Elisabeth was famous for preferring the common man to courtiers, known for her charitable works, and considered such a blameless target, Lucheni's sanity was questioned initially.

Since many of the genes are also implicated in other autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes -- and treatments have already been developed that target these genes -- this discovery may soon lead to new treatments for the 5. 3 million Americans suffering from hair loss caused by alopecia areata.

Since the antenna is only required for a few days at Starwisp's launch and again for another few days several decades later to power it while it passes its target, Starwisp probes might be mass-produced and launched by the maser every few days.

Since the membrane has been chosen for its ability to bind protein and as both antibodies and the target are proteins, steps must be taken to prevent

Since then, the nebula has been a frequent target for HST studies.

Since cutting the edge of a target ring will result in scoring the higher score, fractions of an inch are important.

Since the time taken to travel that distance should be the same as the time needed to travel the last from Elbe to the target, when the moving hand reached zero the bombs were automatically released.

Since then, the program has been arranged so that commercials are followed by the content that is most valuable to the audience.

Since Flaherty's time both staging action and attempting to steer documentary action have come to be considered unethical amongst cinéma vérité purists, because they believe such reenactments deceive the audience.

Since the puppets are carved from wood, their facial expressions cannot change, but are stuck in the same exaggerated pose, which helps to deter any sense of realism and to distance the audience ( Crone 1065 ).

" So God said to him, ' Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked ...'" ( 1 Kings 3: 11-12 ) The Hebrew Bible also states that: " The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

Since only the poets with the best cumulative scores advance to the final round of the night, the structure assures that the audience gets to choose from whom they will hear more poetry.

Since Welk's show targeted an audience of mature, middle-aged viewers, the band would rarely play tunes from the current charts except strictly as novelty numbers.

Since the 1990s it has been the custom to sing New Zealand's national anthem in both Māori and English " God Defend New Zealand ", which has exposed the term Aotearoa to a wider audience.

Dana Aspinall also suggests that an Elizabethan audience would have been similarly taken aback by the play's harsh, misogynistic language: " Since its first appearance, some time between 1588 and 1594, Shrew has elicited a panoply of heartily supportive, ethically uneasy, or altogether disgusted responses to its rough-and-tumble treatment of the ' taming ' of the ' curst shrew ' Katherina, and obviously, of all potentially unruly wives.

Since this station is non-commercial, it is not serviced by the Arbitron rating system so there is no way to accurately measure its audience.

Since most people did not understand Latin, the implication is that these songs were composed for church choristers, or perhaps for an educated audience at the Royal courts.

Since the latter part of the nineteenth century, opera houses generally have an orchestra pit, where a large number of orchestra players may be seated at a level below the audience, so that they can play without overwhelming the singing voices.

Since these bands included The Who and The Kinks many of the tracks would have been at least familiar to his audience.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, some forms of American popular music have gained a near global audience.

Since then its format has remained largely the same, with music, chat, comedy and audience involvement in debates on topical issues.

Since its premiere on March 23, 1987, the show has become the most-watched soap in the world, with an audience of an estimated 26. 2 million viewers.

Since the pageant's peak in the early 1960s, its audience has eroded significantly.

Since then, it is the only evening newscast to increase its audience, and has now been America's most-watched evening newscast for over a decade.

Since then he has returned to the live circuit and through BBC and C4 specials and series, has rebuilt a niche audience and a reputation as an anti populist, anti " after the pub " comedian.

Since 2008, Newsweek has undergone internal and external contractions designed to shift the magazine's focus and audience while improving its finances.

Since its 2000 debut, the show has enjoyed wide critical acclaim and a steadily growing, dedicated audience that has helped it emerge from its early " cult " status.

Since it was not possible for an audience to be present during single-camera filming, there could be none of the live audience laughter that audiences had come to expect from radio comedy, and which was still offered in the many shows broadcast live with audiences laughing in the studio.

Since a Greek audience would accept this concept, his argument could concentrate on identifying this Logos with Jesus.

An audience member at a lecture by Georgi Morozov on forensic psychiatry in the Serbsky Institute asked, “ Tell us, Georgi Vasilevich, what is actually the diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia ?” Since the question was asked ironically Morozov replied ironically: “ You know, dear colleagues, this is a very peculiar disease.