This relatively high value is probably due to the small fiber diameters increasing the number of internal reflections.

However, a witness with a high level of empathic concern is likely to assume personal responsibility entirely regardless of the number of bystanders.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

Since independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Angolan students continued to be admitted every year at high schools, polytechnical institutes, and universities in Portugal, Brazil and Cuba through bilateral agreements ; in general, these students belong to the Angolan elites.

Thus although most species in the order are herbaceous, some no more than 15 cm high, there are a number of climbers ( e. g. some species of Asparagus ), as well as several genera forming trees ( e. g. Agave, Cordyline, Yucca, Dracaena ), some of which can exceed 10 m in height.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

In the mid-5th century the number of adult male citizens was perhaps as high as 60, 000, but this number fell precipitously during the Peloponnesian War.

It is formed by a widening out of the eastern axis of high ground, which becomes subdivided into a number of zones running north and south and consisting in turn of ranges, tablelands and depressions.

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

Along with some of the other major Coalition cities, Chi-Town is considered a " Mega-City " in that its entire population is housed inside one giant structure consisting of more than thirty levels, each of which are several stories high and contain a number of sub-levels.

In physics and optics, the Abbe number, also known as the V-number or constringence of a transparent material, is a measure of the material's dispersion ( variation of refractive index with wavelength ) in relation to the refractive index, with high values of V indicating low dispersion ( low chromatic aberration ).

Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

The town centre is home to a number of high street multiples, including: Greggs, Argos, Specsavers, Wilkinson's, Shoe Zone, Superdrug, Costa Coffee, JJB Sports, Cash Generator, GAME, Poundland, Timpson, Althams Travel, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Claire's, Grainger Games, Post Office, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Burton, Holland & Barrett, Dorothy Perkins, Blockbuster, WHSmith, H Samuel, Iceland, Phones 4U, Boots Opticians, Card Factory, Boots, Store Twenty One, Poundworld, Peacocks, B & M Bargains, Wetherspoons and a mix of other shops.

Considering the short conscript tour ( usually nine to ten months ), the army has a high number of conscripts: 125, 000.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

Both leagues are considered major leagues by many baseball researchers because of the perceived high caliber of play ( for a brief time anyway ) and the number of star players featured.

A number of possible reasons have been proposed, but none have been proven, and none can explain the lack of efficacy in both low TB burden countries ( US ) and high TB burden countries ( India ).

There is a simple randomized algorithm due to that runs in time where n is the number of clauses and succeeds with high probability to correctly decide 3-Sat.

In large churches where they were celebrated the services were usually grouped ; e. g. Matins and Lauds ( about 7. 30 A. M .); Prime, Terce ( High Mass ), Sext, and None ( about 10 A. M .); Vespers and Compline ( 4 P. M .); and from four to eight hours ( depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses ) are thus spent in choir.

The patterns of speciation in the Cucurbitales is diversified in a high number of species.

There are some remaining patches of dry forest high on steep mountainside including a number of endemic plant species, but these are inaccessible and hard to study.

Since after independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Cape Verdean students continued to be admitted every year at Portuguese high schools, polytechnical institutes and universities, through bilateral agreements between the Portuguese Government and the Cape Verdean Government.

Its high coordination number and softness ( tendency to form covalent bonds ) are the basis of the separation of Cs < sup >+</ sup > from other cations, as is practiced in the remediation of nuclear wastes, where < sup > 137 </ sup > Cs < sup >+</ sup > is separated from large amounts of nonradioactive K < sup >+</ sup >.

In 2006, the primary economic concerns focused on: high national debt ($ 9 trillion ), high non-bank corporate debt ($ 9 trillion ), high mortgage debt ($ 9 trillion ), high financial institution debt ($ 12 trillion ), high unfunded Medicare liability ($ 30 trillion ), high unfunded Social Security liability ($ 12 trillion ), high external debt ( amount owed to foreign lenders ) and a serious deterioration in the United States net international investment position ( NIIP ) (- 24 % of GDP ), high trade deficits, and a rise in illegal immigration.

The Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984 and the Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988 provide for penalties for illegal insider trading to be as high as three times the profit gained or the loss avoided from the illegal trading.

For example, a survey of high school students to measure teenage use of illegal drugs will be a biased sample because it does not include home-schooled students or dropouts.

This is attributed to extreme delays in marriage ( almost unparalleled in the region, with the exception of developed countries ), the prevalence of illegal abortions, and the high proportion of single, unmarried women of reproductive age ( with 25. 9 % of women aged 30 – 34 and 33. 1 % of men and women aged 25 – 34 single ).

Despite the high priority given by the Dutch government to fighting illegal drug trafficking, the Netherlands continue to be an important transit point for drugs entering Europe.

The cause was suspected to be an industrial disinfectant ( Extrasept )-95 % ethanol but also containing a highly toxic chemical-added to the vodka by the illegal traders because of its high alcohol content and low price.

Today, child and adult slavery and forced labour are illegal in most countries, as well as being against international law, but a high rate of human trafficking for labor and for sexual bondage continues, believed to affect millions of adults and children.

Illegally mining silver is now an offense punishable by death ; although illegal mining became a dangerous affair, the high demand for illegal mining also made it very lucrative, and so many chose to defy the government and continued to mine silver.

These groups of displaced Germans and their descendants loudly voiced their opposition to Brandt's policy, calling it " illegal " and " high treason ".

Many victimless crimes begin because of a desire to obtain illegal products or services that are in high demand.

The system appeared to be entirely workable when the project was shut down in 1965, the main reason being given that the Partial Test Ban Treaty made it illegal ( however, before the treaty, the US and Soviet Union had already detonated at least nine nuclear bombs, including thermonuclear bombs, in space, i. e., at altitudes over 100 km: see high altitude nuclear explosions ).

" He was fond of telling people a story about how he had raced at a high speed down Piccadilly in London at three o ' clock in the morning for the sheer enjoyment of it, only to be pulled over by a policeman for such illegal and potentially dangerous activity.

However, less than 72 hours before a planned election call, with the NDP riding high in the polls for its hard line against welfare recipients and aboriginal and environmental radicals, the party's provincial office was raided by Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) officers as part of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of charity bingo money, coined " Bingogate " by the media, by former provincial cabinet minister and member of parliament Dave Stupich.

From a commercial point of view, the fact that many growers in BC informally cooperate to keep quality high, while competing fiercely in an illegal business, is of interest to some in the agricultural economics community, as well as students of trademarks, agricultural policy, black markets, and agorism.

Big business was also shown as a cover for illegal activities: Rastapopoulos for example is a respected businessman who mixes with people in high places, but is also the leader of major smuggling operations: opium in The Blue Lotus and slaves in The Red Sea Sharks.

Lower caste participants consisted of mostly non-farm working immigrants, who at times were provided special privileges and held high positions in society.

Its four-year colleges offered a high quality, tuition-free education to the poor, the working class and the immigrants of New York City who met the grade requirements for matriculated status.

The all-time daily high occurred on April 17, 1907, when 11, 747 immigrants arrived.

The high percentage of Catholics is largely the result of descendants of Irish immigrants.

European and Middle Eastern immigrants began making their way to Paraguay in the decades following the Paraguayan War ( 1870 onward ), in which aftermath only 28, 000 men and 200, 000 women had survived, the reason why Paraguay had since then a high rate of illegitimate births.

The sandstone walls were erected by Scottish immigrants, employed by Hoban, as were the high relief rose and garland decorations above the north entrance and the " fish scale " pattern beneath the pediments of the window hoods.

His parents, Carl Gustavus and Gunda ( née Jacobson ) Lawrence, were both the offspring of Norwegian immigrants who had met while teaching at the high school in Canton, South Dakota, where his father was also the superintendent of schools.

The goal of Akhenaton's music is to represent the spiritual Islam which is tolerant and mystical in order to loosen the high tension in France due to the prejudice against Muslim immigrants.

The high portion of Russian immigrants in this area, which later led to ethnic tension, can be traced to the influx of agricultural workers at this time.

Since the 1970s, West Colfax Avenue through west Denver, Northeast Lakewood, Edgewater has had a high reputation and population of Mexican Americans as well as other Latino immigrants.

With the high levels of immigration from the Middle East, South Asia, Korea, China and other countries from all over the world to Australia, many authentic and high-quality restaurants are run by first and second generation immigrants from these areas.

European immigrants ( chiefly Italians, Spaniards, French and Germans ), tempted by the high wages, arrived in droves.

* Peru: The communities of Oxapampa, Pozuzo, and Villa Rica in the high jungles of the Peruvian Amazon basin were settled in the middle of the 19th century by Austrian and Prussian immigrants.

Uniondale's Black / African American population includes a high concentration of Caribbean immigrants.

At the turn of the 20th century, Wurtsboro became popular with many first-generation German and Russian immigrants from New York City, attracted to the area by its rusticity, and its resemblance to the high mountain villages in the countries from which they originated.

Allowing high levels of immigration, it is argued, will inevitably lead to widespread poverty and other forms of disadvantage among immigrants.

However, given the high tourist traffic stemming from its proximity to the Empire State Building, Garment District, Flower District, among many others, it was an ideal place to which Korean immigrants could move.

Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City to Italian immigrants Sophia and Salvadore Petrillo, Dorothy became pregnant while still in high school, resulting in a marriage to Stanley Zbornak in order to legitimize the baby.

While high unemployment and housing foreclosures of the recession have played a key role in the trend, Pew Research Center exec VP and co-author of its multigenerational household study Paul Taylor said it has been growing over several decades, fueled by demographic and cultural shifts such as the rising number of immigrants and the rising average age of young-adult marriages.

Successive waves of immigration from the former Soviet Union over the decades has made the Richmond home to a high concentration of Russian, Ukrainian, and Eastern European immigrants.

Due to the high concentration of first-generation immigrant families in the inner city of Chicago during the early 20th century, many prominent early studies in urban sociology focused upon the transmission of immigrants ' native culture roles and norms into new and developing environments.

The building of the dam and the powerhouses and the creation of Williston Lake provided economic opportunities to the high number of workers who found employment with BC Hydro or one of the subcontractors ; these workers included members of the local first nations, non-native residents, non-residents, and immigrants.

The city has a population of 80, 200 which includes a high proportion of immigrants arriving since 1990, notably from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union.