Since a player cannot control another player's bids, and since all bids are non-refundable, the auction involves a considerable amount of strategizing and prioritization by players.

Bairoch points out that, due to sparse population densities that would have persisted in pre-Neolithic, hunter-gatherer societies, the amount of land that would be required to produce enough food for subsistence and trade for a large population would make it impossible to control the flow of trade.

Clutches are used whenever the transmission of power or motion needs to be controlled either in amount or over time ( e. g., electric screwdrivers limit how much torque is transmitted through use of a clutch ; clutches control whether automobiles transmit engine power to the wheels ).

Some content-control software includes time control functions that empowers parents to set the amount of time that child may spend accessing the Internet or playing games or other computer activities.

( A small amount of control is available by moving the position of the arms and by a slight hollowing of the back ).

Accelerometer pilot control ( APC ) uses an accelerometer to provide feedback on the engine's level of noise and vibration and thus instruct the ECU to inject the minimum amount of fuel that will produce quiet combustion and still provide the required power ( especially while idling ).

The highly efficient ion thruster had a sufficient amount of propellant left to perform attitude control in addition to main propulsion, thus allowing the mission to continue.

Hypoxia also occurs in healthy individuals when breathing mixtures of gases with a low oxygen content, e. g. while diving underwater especially when using closed-circuit rebreather systems that control the amount of oxygen in the supplied air.

Ashraf was able to secure peace with the Ottoman Empire in 1727, but the Russian Empire took advantage of the political unrest in Persia to seize land for themselves, limiting the amount of territory under Shah Mahmud's control.

Some restrictions preclude the South African market from following international trends, the local is restricted to local investment opportunities in terms of exchange control, the lack of regulated structures restricts the amount of exposure which the South African retirement fund industry has to hedge fund strategies and foreign investors are put off investing directly into South African hedge funds by adverse taxes and other obstacles.

It takes about the same amount of effort to achieve good glycemic control with a traditional two or three injection regimen as it does with flexible therapy: frequent glucose monitoring, attention to timing and amounts of meals.

The clinic received a large amount funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make donations to Sanger's causes in future decades, but generally made them anonymously to avoid public exposure of the family name, and to protect family member Nelson Rockefeller's political career since openly advocating birth control could have led to the Catholic Church opposing him politically.

Genome sequencing has provided a large amount of information on the genetic basis of nitrogen metabolism and its control in different cyanobacteria.

Photographers control the camera and lens to " expose " the light recording material ( such as film ) to the required amount of light to form a " latent image " ( on film ) or " raw file " ( in digital cameras ) which, after appropriate processing, is converted to a usable image.

They also are able to control blood flow to their extremities, reducing the amount of blood that gets cold, but still keeping the extremities from freezing.

In Shadowrun, corporations are effectively " ranked " by the amount of assets under their control, including material, personnel, and property, as well as profit.

The groups range from those seeking territorial units similar to Indian reservations under the United States with the least amount of independent control to the Hawaiian sovereignty movement which would have the most amount of control, The Hawaiian Sovereignty movement aims at reviving the Hawaiian nation under the Hawaiian constitution, which has retained its sovereignty while under prolonged illegal occupation since 1893.

Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

As the voltage applied to the so-called control grid ( or simply " grid ") was lowered from the cathode's voltage to somewhat more negative voltages, the amount of current from the filament to the plate would be reduced.

Most aircraft require increased pressure on the rudder pedals to achieve the same amount of rudder control at a higher speed.

In order to control the amount of dopamine in the synaptic cleft, and the amount of dopamine binding to post synaptic terminals, presynaptic dopaminergic neurons function to reuptake the excess dopamine.

During his term in parliament, the Labor government passed sweeping electoral reforms of the Legislative Council which, amongst other changes, reduced the amount of members.

Well-connected ( his father had been a member of the Legislative Council and an extensive landowner ), he was aware that a new district was to be established and purchased a substantial amount of land in the area from James Durand.

Yuan subsequently helped to gather five tons of grains and a huge amount of cloth to Mao's men, and helped to established the first military hospital in the communist base.

The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.

However, as a practicing historian, he, himself, has left few clues to the amount of professional scholarship that he used when writing history.

Don't you see the amount of money that has been invested by whites around that church??

The legislature's role in policy determination in this area for years has been confined almost solely to the amount of funds appropriated annually for the purchase and operation of vehicles.

Command has achieved the ideal amount of reverberation.

The international unit ( u. ), adopted to make possible the comparison of results from different laboratories ( Mussett and Perry, 1955 ), has been defined as the amount of activity present in 13.5 mg of the International Standard Preparation.

Section 203 of the United States Code voids an assignment of a claim against the Government unless made after it has been allowed, the amount due has been ascertained, and a warrant for its payment has been issued.

The city has sued for the full amount of the $172,400 performance bond covering the contract.

The mushrooming of FM outlets, offering concerts ( both jazz and classical ), lectures, and other special events, is a phenomenon which has had a fair amount of publicity.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

It assumes that one party has an unlimited amount of information ( usually through some kind of expertise ) and can act as the ‘ information services provider ’ ( pg 268 ) while the other party acts as the ‘ information services consumer ’ ( Bordewijk and Kaam, 1986: 268 )

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

The main advantage is the fine definition of the analog signal which has the potential for an infinite amount of signal resolution.

However, slow phosphor has the negative side-effect of causing image smearing and blurring when there is a large amount of rapid on-screen motion occurring.

This chart shows that not all fish, shellfish, or the insects that they eat can tolerate the same amount of acid ; for example, frogs can tolerate water that is more acidic ( i. e., has a lower pH ) than trout.

While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

* Indivisibility of certain goods: If a person wants to buy a certain amount of another's goods, but only has for payment one indivisible unit of another good which is worth more than what the person wants to obtain, a barter transaction cannot occur.

If an account has a debit balance, the balance amount is copied into column two ( the debit column ).

If an account has a credit balance, the amount is copied into column three ( the credit column ).

A goal of less than six months has been suggested, but due to factors such as dosage and type of benzodiazepine, reasons for prescription, lifestyle, personality, environmental stresses, and amount of available support, a year or more may be needed to withdraw.