This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.

Low humidity, low fuel moisture, and high winds appear to be the primary factors in determining when, where, and how large a chaparral fire burns.

The composition, moisture, and compaction of soil are all major factors in determining the erosivity of rainfall.

Thus, the search for extrasolar planets also includes the study of planetary habitability, which considers a wide range of factors in determining an extrasolar planet's suitability for hosting life.

Greatest common divisors can in principle be computed by determining the prime factorizations of the two numbers and comparing factors, as in the following example: to compute gcd ( 18, 84 ), we find the prime factorizations 18 = 2 · 3 < sup > 2 </ sup > and 84 = 2 < sup > 2 </ sup > · 3 · 7 and notice that the " overlap " of the two expressions is 2 · 3 ; so gcd ( 18, 84 ) = 6.

According to the American Psychological Association ( APA ), there are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation, but some believe that " sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors ," and that genetic factors play a " significant role " in determining a person's sexuality.

The two principal factors in determining the form of the lattice are the relative charges of the ions and their relative sizes.

In determining premiums and premium rate structures, insurers consider quantifiable factors, including location, credit scores, gender, occupation, marital status, and education level.

The major determining factors include feed cost, availability, nutrient balance and energy density required.

The two primary factors determining monopoly market power are the company's demand curve and its cost structure.

One of the main deficiencies in various factor analyses is a lack of consensus in cutting points for determining the number of latent factors.

Besides, the sexual propaganda theory only argued that mate were opportunistically lead, on the basis of various factors determining the choice such as phenotypic characteristics, apparent vigor of individual, strength of mate signals, trophic resources, territoriality etc.

The Court outlined three factors that were to be considered in determining if the sentence is excessive: "( i ) the gravity of the offense and the harshness of the penalty ; ( ii ) the sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction ; and ( iii ) the sentences imposed for commission of the same crime in other jurisdictions.

The energy and the type of the ionizing radiation emitted by a radioactive substance are also important factors in determining its threat to humans.

This history of a symbol is one of many factors in determining a particular symbol's apparent meaning.

Although genres are not always precisely definable, genre considerations are one of the most important factors in determining what a person will see or read.

The determining factors include collecting member genealogies, group histories and evidence of a continued linguistic and cultural identity (; ).

The court examines thirteen factors in determining the fair division of the property that was accumulated during the marriage and the debts of the parties.

See Restatement § 220 ( 2 ) ( setting forth a non-exhaustive list of factors relevant to determining whether a hired party is an employee ).

An individual's age, physical structure, ability to fight, willingness to use violence, and arrest record are often principal factors in determining where an individual stands in the gang hierarchy ; now money derived from criminal activity and ability to provide for the gang also impacts the individual ’ s status within the gang.

Key determining factors for local climate are proximity to the ocean, elevation, and the presence and elevation of hills or mountains to the east and west.

Other states, including Massachusetts, California, Nevada and New York have relatively vague statutes which simply list the " factors " a judge should consider when determining alimony ( see list of factors below ).

There are in The Almagest no rules for determining in advance whether a new epicycle will be required for dealing with abberations in lunar, solar, or planetary behavior.

The provisions for determining a State's unadjusted Federal share are designed to reflect the varying financial resources among the States.

Deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable in determining your Adjusted Gross Income.

Certain other deductions are not allowed in determining Adjusted Gross Income.

Three methods for determining the dimensional restorability characteristics are established for those textiles which require restoration by ironing or wearing after laundering.

In the United States, both state and federal appellate courts are usually restricted to examining whether the lower court made the correct legal determinations, rather than hearing direct evidence and determining what the facts of the case were.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

Analytical chemistry has been important since the early days of chemistry, providing methods for determining which elements and chemicals are present in the object in question.

The BoT is responsible for determining the disposition of all revenues received to ensure all services are provided in an equitable manner.

There are six requirements for determining this: authority and attitude ( in reference to who declares the war ), intention and condition ( in reference to the soldiers ), merit ( of the enemy ) and just cause.

These poles and zone-lines, whilst inducing fluctuations in data density in the reconstructed datasets, which can prove problematic during post-analysis, are critical for determining information such as angular magnification, as the crystallographic relationships between features are typically well known.

There are a number of biophysical techniques for determining sequence information.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

The length and requirements for copyright duration are subject to change by legislation, and since the early 20th century there have been a number of adjustments made in various countries, which can make determining the duration of a given copyright somewhat difficult.

Coin flipping and drawing straws are fair methods of randomly determining a player.

The ways of determining the total energy to predict molecular structures are:

Density functional theory ( DFT ) methods are often considered to be ab initio methods for determining the molecular electronic structure, even though many of the most common functionals use parameters derived from empirical data, or from more complex calculations.

The thickness or weight of the yarn is a significant factor in determining the gauge, i. e., how many stitches and rows are required to cover a given area for a given stitch pattern.

Dendrites play a critical role in integrating these synaptic inputs and in determining the extent to which action potentials are produced by the neuron.

* Synchronization: Since digital information is conveyed by the sequence in which symbols are ordered, all digital schemes have some method for determining the beginning of a sequence.

Ties are broken by determining which thrower has the longer second-best throw.

Design philosophies are usually for determining design goals.

The differential equations determining the evolution function Φ < sup > t </ sup > are often ordinary differential equations: in this case the phase space M is a finite dimensional manifold.