Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

The balance of trade, or net exports ( sometimes symbolized as NX ), is the difference between the monetary value of exports and imports of output in an economy over a certain period.

A positive balance is known as a trade surplus if it consists of exporting more than is imported ; a negative balance is referred to as a trade deficit or, informally, a trade gap.

The balance of trade is sometimes divided into a goods and a services balance.

Early understanding of the functioning of balance of trade informed the economic policies of Early Modern Europe that are grouped under the heading mercantilism.

" Similarly a systematic and coherent explanation of balance of trade was made public through Thomas Mun's c1630 " England's treasure by forraign trade, or, The balance of our forraign trade is the rule of our treasure "

The balance of trade encompasses the activity of exports and imports, like the work of this cargo ship going through the Panama Canal.

The trade balance is identical to the difference between a country's output and its domestic demand ( the difference between what goods a country produces and how many goods it buys from abroad ; this does not include money re-spent on foreign stock, nor does it factor in the concept of importing goods to produce for the domestic market ).

Measuring the balance of trade can be problematic because of problems with recording and collecting data.

As an illustration of this problem, when official data for all the world's countries are added up, exports exceed imports by almost 1 %; it appears the world is running a positive balance of trade with itself.

Factors that can affect the balance of trade include:

In addition, the trade balance is likely to differ across the business cycle.

The foregoing remarks imply that the hypothalamic balance plays a crucial role at the crossroads between physiological and pathological forms of emotion.

At the exact midpoint between the two pKa values, the trace amount of net negative and trace of net positive ions exactly balance, so that average net charge of all forms present is zero.

His abstract style emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art.

Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower ; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees, depending on their intended use on the battlefield.

The balance between these elements forms the company's capital structure.

At an advanced level, and in actual fighting, internal styles are performed quickly, but the goal is to learn to involve the entire body in every motion, to stay relaxed, with deep, controlled breathing, and to coordinate the motions of the body and the breathing accurately according to the dictates of the forms while maintaining perfect balance.

From the Renaissance, revivals of Classicism have kept alive not only the precise forms and ordered details of Greek architecture, but also its concept of architectural beauty based on balance and proportion.

Despite the healthy fear with which the worshipers ( and even the Loa themselves ) regard him, he is also viewed as a necessary evil ; there must always be a Kalfu to balance Legba, and a force of overwhelming creativity and expression, even if that expression often takes horrifying forms.

Technicians using charts search for archetypal price chart patterns, such as the well-known head and shoulders or double top / bottom reversal patterns, study technical indicators, moving averages, and look for forms such as lines of support, resistance, channels, and more obscure formations such as flags, pennants, balance days and cup and handle patterns.

He argued, for example, that a balance between oral and written forms of communication contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC.

* providing documentary and standby letter of credit, guarantees, performance bonds, securities underwriting commitments and other forms of off balance sheet exposures

The artist delicately balances the forms of the extended Holy Family and renders them using a superb balance of warm and cool colors.

The researchers said that while dance in general may be beneficial, tango uses several forms of movement especially relevant for Parkinson's disease patients including dynamic balance, turning, initiation of movement, moving at a variety of speeds and walking backward.

As boiler diameter increased, some forms were even set inside the boiler shell, with the springs housed in a recess inside and only the valves and balance lever protruding outside.

Polymorphism in natural populations is frequent ; the key feature is the occurrence together of two or more discontinuous forms of a species in some kind of balance.

The trial balance which is usually prepared using the double-entry accounting system forms the basis for preparing the financial statements.

" In the context of climate change, the term " forcing " is restricted to changes in the radiation balance of the surface-troposphere system imposed by external factors, with no changes in stratospheric dynamics, no surface and tropospheric feedbacks in operation ( i. e., no secondary effects induced because of changes in tropospheric motions or its thermodynamic state ), and no dynamically induced changes in the amount and distribution of atmospheric water ( vapour, liquid, and solid forms ).

With the recent reduction in pollution, the balance between the forms has already shifted back significantly.

In spite of the various forms of these materials, many of their properties have common physicochemical origins, such as a large number of internal degrees of freedom, weak interactions between structural elements, and a delicate balance between entropic and enthalpic contributions to the free energy.

In both cases, the bonus forms a part of the player's balance, but cannot be cashed out.

Communication between users can range from text, graphical icons, visual gesture, sound, and rarely, forms using touch, voice command, and balance senses.

The matching of iaitō length, weight, and balance to the practitioner ’ s build and strength is of utmost importance to safely and correctly perform the iaidō forms ( kata ).

This balance is symbolized by the Great Mother ( Ina Kalada ) and the Great Father ( Ama Kalada ) who live in the universe and take the forms of the moon and the sun.

Required areas of study in the " general " curriculum include electricity, technical drawings, weight and balance, hydraulics and pneumatics, ground operation of aircraft, cleaning and corrosion control, basic mathematical calculations, forms and record-keeping, basic physics, maintenance manuals and publications, and applicable federal regulations.

Although no drugs act exclusively on the hypothalamus or a part of it, there is sufficient specificity to distinguish drugs which shift the hypothalamic balance to the sympathetic side from those which produce a parasympathetic dominance.

" In the foregoing part of this chapter I have endeavoured to show, even upon the principles of the commercial system, how unnecessary it is to lay extraordinary restraints upon the importation of goods from those countries with which the balance of trade is supposed to be disadvantageous.

The invisible balance or balance of trade on services is that part of the balance of trade that refers to services and other products that do not result in the transfer of physical objects.

By changing the balance it is possible to influence the anisotropy of the etching, since the chemical part is isotropic and the physical part highly anisotropic the combination can form sidewalls that have shapes from rounded to vertical.

Though expected to take part in the negotiations which led in 1648 to the Peace of Westphalia, he declined to deliberate with persons whom the Catholic Church considered heretics, and protested, when it was finally completed, against the Treaty of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) and established the balance of European power that lasted until the wars of the French Revolution ( 1789 ).

By coming down solidly on the side of Spanish interests, in part because Gregory XIV was elected due to the influence of the Spanish cardinals, the recent papal policy of trying to maintain a balance between Spain and France was abandoned.

Initially, it was fought largely as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although disputes over internal politics and the balance of power within the Empire played a significant part.

The establishment of the Centre for Sustainability in Energy & Environment ( CSEE ) is a major part of CBU ’ s commitment to growth in research, specifically in efforts to balance needs for new sources of energy and increasing environmental sustainability.

France's hegemony over continental Europe was ended and the idea of a balance of power became a part of the international order.

The interest proceeds then become part of the 401 ( k ) balance.

The decrease was brought about by the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which made the region of Maine — long part of Massachusetts — a free state to balance the pending admission of slave state Missouri.

In the context of nuclear proliferation and maintaining the balance of power, states also seek to prevent other states from acquiring nuclear weapons as part of nuclear strategy.

Getting this balance right was an important part of the two year development process, led by Ronda Dannenberg and Jackie Lauman, specialists at Miller's flagship brewery in Milwaukee.

* 1889 – Loránd Eötvös uses a torsion balance to test the weak equivalence principle to 1 part in one billion

Specific neurological symptoms usually then follow, often in the form of parkinsonism ( cogwheel rigidity, bradykinesia or slowed movements and a lack of balance are the most common parkinsonian features ) with or without a typical hand tremor, masked facial expressions, slurred speech, ataxia ( lack of coordination ) or dystonia ( twisting and repetitive movements of part of the body ).

* Description: French for noble baritone and describes a part that requires a noble bearing, smooth vocalisation and forceful declamation, all in perfect balance.

Dukakis won in part by promising to be a ' reformer ' and pledging not to increase the state's sales tax to balance the state budget.

The increasing visual beauty of his films is part of their grace and sweetness, their balance between Allen's yearning romanticism and his tough eye for the fatuous and sentimental – a balance also expressed in his best screen play yet ".

But it will have to overcome some difficulties: French economy faces a short-term slowdown ; the government tries to balance tertiary sector employment in the whole region again, because La Défense today concentrates a major part of those jobs ; and traffic is already saturated in the district, while it would need huge investments to extend transport infrastructures.

It is revealed that the Pattern, and its chaotic counterpart the Logrus, are sentient, and wish Merlin to choose a side to tip the balance of the multiverse towards one or the other-with other Pattern-and Logrus-ghosts also taking part in the " trial " to influence him one way or the other.