From this doctors can read heart rate, change in diameter, pressure, and effective heart power.

Thus, if public pressure sets the effective limit to the price that the industry may charge, this pressure is itself a function of the wage rate.

In this model, then, the industry is presumed to realize that they could successfully resist a change in the basic wage rate, but since such a change is the only effective means to raising prices they may, in circumstances to be spelled out in Part 2, below, find it to their advantage to allow the wage rise.

Blowfish provides a good encryption rate in software and no effective cryptanalysis of it has been found to date.

Therefore, as clock rate increases, so does heat dissipation, causing the CPU to require more effective cooling solutions.

The effect of the field in this case is to reduce the effective binding energy of the atom to the surface and to give, in effect, a greatly increased evaporation rate relative to that expected at that temperature at zero fields.

; Compressibility: The rate of change of volume with effective stress.

The devaluation of the currency ( in order to support exports ), without effective stabilization measures, such as indexation of wages, provoked an extremely high inflation rate, that in 1991 reached 35 % and slightly decreased until 1994, growing again in 1995.

Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks.

Using an example of " 75 % effective ", an article in American Family Physician explains the effectiveness calculation thus: ... these numbers do not translate into a pregnancy rate of 25 percent.

The top corporate tax rate has been cut to 18 percent from 20 percent, effective January 2005.

However, their very poor rate of fire ( which often meant that only one shot was fired in the course of an entire battle ) and their inaccuracy made them more of a psychological force multiplier than an effective anti-personnel weapon.

It used a rotating color wheel, reduced the number of scan lines from 525 to 405, and increased the field rate from 60 to 144, but had an effective frame rate of only 24 frames per second.

Manfred Eigen showed that the heterodimer model requires PrP < sup > Sc </ sup > to be an extraordinarily effective catalyst, increasing the rate of the conversion reaction by a factor of around 10 < sup > 15 </ sup >.

Since the incubation period of prion diseases is so long, an effective drug does not need to eliminate all prions, but simply needs to slow down the rate of exponential growth.

The eventual bipartisan 1986 act aimed to be revenue-neutral: while it reduced the top marginal rate, it also partially " cleaned up " the tax base by curbing tax loopholes, preferences, and exceptions, thus raising the effective tax on activities previously specially favored by the code.

According to William A. Niskanen, one of the architects of Reaganomics, " Reagan delivered on each of his four major policy objectives, although not to the extent that he and his supporters had hoped ", and notes that the most substantial change was in the tax code, where the top marginal individual income tax rate fell from 70. 1 % to 28. 4 %, and there was a " major reversal in the tax treatment of business income ", with effect of " reducing the tax bias among types of investment but increasing the average effective tax rate on new investment ".

Key realizations made during World War II, notably the fact that most small-arms engagements occurred within 100 yards ( 90 meters ), and that a high rate of fire was generally more effective than the slower but more accurate fire, ( such as provided by bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles ) were some of the key causes for the development of the assault rifle.

This rule says a short-term effective population size ( N < sub > e </ sub >) of 50 is needed to prevent an unacceptable rate of inbreeding, while a long ‐ term N < sub > e </ sub > of 500 is required to maintain overall genetic variability.

In the United States, Tax Freedom Day for 2010 is April 3, for a total average effective tax rate of 26. 9 percent of the nation's income.

In 1900, Tax Freedom Day arrived January 22, for an effective average total tax rate of 5. 9 percent of the nation's income.

An important distinction when talking about tax rates is to distinguish between the marginal rate and the effective ( average ) rate.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.

From that time to this my religious concern is that I might give effective help to the bringing in of God's kingdom on earth.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.

Yet it is plainly time to make a start, and to be effective the first move should be highly dramatic, without being fanatical.

External aid can be effective only if it is a complement to self-help.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

The Merchant Marine is the `` Fourth Arm of Defense '', for a strong and effective American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of our Nation.

The effective recognition of excellence and its nurture has to be learned and is not learned in a day, nor even in a year.

No one can be as effective as the president in inspiring older men to welcome imaginative new teachers whose philosophy or approach to their specialties is quite different.

Really there is no reason why this fine exercise should not find its way into your leg program at all times, for the following suggestions show why it is so effective: 1.

But until we have an effective spacecraft, the answer to the hunter-killer problem is manned aircraft.

The easiest way to describe this release is to say that it reproduces an interesting and effective Steinberg performance with minimal alteration of its musical values.

Tire size can be determined in several ways but the one that is the easiest and as accurate as any is by measuring the effective radius of a wheel and tire assembly.

The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced yesterday it would reduce the total amount of its payroll by 10 per cent through salary cuts and lay-offs effective at 12:01 A.M. next Saturday.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

Recognizing that total elimination in many malaria-prone countries is currently unfeasible because there are few affordable or effective alternatives, public health use is exempt from the ban pending acceptable alternatives.

Despite being modest in number ( perhaps 7, 000 units total as of 1988 ), Lisp machines commercially pioneered many now-commonplace technologies – including effective garbage collection, laser printing, windowing systems, computer mice, high-resolution bit-mapped graphics, computer graphic rendering, and networking innovations like CHAOSNet.

For example, a camera that makes a 2048 × 1536 pixel image typically uses a few extra rows and columns of sensor elements and is commonly said to have " 3. 2 megapixels " or " 3. 3 megapixels ", depending on whether the number reported is the " effective " or the " total " pixel count ( as opposed to the 2048 × 1536 = 3, 145, 728 finished image pixels ).

Allen had been particularly effective in the playoffs, gaining a total of 375 combined yards and scoring three touchdowns.

Washington's defense was just as effective at stopping their postseason opponent's rushing attack as they had been during the regular season, limiting running backs Eric Dickerson and Wendell Tyler to a combined total of 60 rushing yards.

In his book Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film, David Hogan called it " the most affecting gore thriller of all and, in a broader view, among the most effective horror films ever made ... the driving force of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is something far more horrible than aberrant sexuality: total insanity.

Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy | ITEP estimate of the total effective tax rate for federal, state and local taxes ( personal and corporate income, payroll, property, sales, excise, estate, etc.

There are also countries – such as Portugal, South Africa, Finland, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Macedonia – that have proportional representation systems without a threshold, although the Netherlands has a rule that the first seat can never be a remainder seat, which means that there is an effective threshold of 100 % divided by the total number of seats.

A total of 35 rounds can be carried and trials have revealed that the M109L52 is 90 % as effective as the PzH 2000, while the unit price of the M109L52 is only 15 % to 30 % of the PzH 2000.

Gamma cameras and other similar detectors are highly efficient, and the tracer compounds are generally very effective at concentrating at the areas of interest, so the total amounts of radioactive material needed are very small.

The total amount of effective halogens ( chlorine and bromine ) in the stratosphere can be calculated and are known as the equivalent effective stratospheric chlorine ( EESC ).

Any truly effective damnatio memoriae would not be noticeable to later historians, since, by definition, it would entail the complete and total erasure of the individual in question from the historical record.

In astronomy, the radiation from stars and planets is sometimes characterized in terms of an effective temperature, the temperature of a black body that would emit the same total flux of electromagnetic energy.

* The most effective approach has been minimizing fat stores located inside the abdominal cavity ( visceral body fat ) in addition to minimizing total body fat.

Once in circulation, they add to the total effective purchasing power of the on-line population as in the case of local currencies.

: The program to be presented to this assembly-for general and complete disarmament under effective international control-moves to bridge the gap between those who insist on a gradual approach and those who talk only of the final and total achievement.

Mid-discharge at a load of 1 ampere, the output is about 1. 2 volts ; at 2 amperes, about 1. 15 volts ; the total effective differential internal resistance is about 0. 05 ohms.

A total of forty-five Q codes appeared in the " List of Abbreviations to be used in Radio Communications ", which was included in the Service Regulations affixed to the Third International Radiotelegraph Convention in London ( The Convention was signed on July 5, 1912, and became effective July 1, 1913.