* Audio quality: phonograph discs, Vitaphone's in particular, had superior dynamic range to most sound-on-film processes of the day, at least during the first few playings ; while sound-on-film tended to have better frequency response, this was outweighed by greater distortion and noise

In high quality modern amplifiers the open loop response is at least 20 kHz, canceling TIM distortion.

Suppose we want to transmit information about a source to the user with a distortion not exceeding D. Rate – distortion theory tells us that at least R ( D ) bits / symbol of information from the source must reach the user.

Comparisons between original scientific reports and derivative science journalism and popular science typically reveal at least some level of distortion and oversimplification which can often be quite dramatic, even with politically neutral scientific topics.

In all spectrum analyzers we want to have information with the least distortion possible.

One tile located at the corners of Talcahuano and Santa Fé streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since at least 1996 is damaged and unreadable, apparently broken up by traffic-induced surface distortion of the asphalt on which it was laid, which softens during the hot summer.

The rate of 120 was chosen as the least common multiple of 24 frame / s ( cinema ) and 30 frame / s ( NTSC TV ), and allows for less distortion when movies are viewed due to the elimination of telecine ( 3: 2 pulldown ).

Phototypesetting suffered ( at least in its early days ) from many problems relating to optical distortion and misalignment.

The design of the cartilage-crescent excision means to produce a closing incision will lay at the junction of the conchal floor and the posterior conchal wall — where it is least noticeable, and causes minimal distortion of the normal contours of the ear.

In contrast to Nightwish's current bass player, Marco Hietala, Sami has never used any overdrive or distortion, at least on recordings or recorded live shows available.

Another is the " framing-effects hypothesis ", which says that the difference in the separation or gap of the horizontal lines from the framing converging lines may determine, or at least contribute to the magnitude of the distortion.

::" An official perfect game occurs when a pitcher ( or pitchers ) retires each batter on the opposing team during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings.

When an interrupt occurs, the hardware automatically switches a part of the context ( at least enough to allow the handler to return to the interrupted code ).

* 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6. 8 and 6. 6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.

Frost occurs when the temperatures are at least below ; rain is more common and falls mostly in the winter and spring.

* 1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.

The extreme in polyploidy occurs in the fern genus Ophioglossum, the adder's-tongues, in which polyploidy results in chromosome counts in the hundreds, or, in at least one case, well over one thousand.

Experimental results have demonstrated that effects due to entanglement travel at least thousands of times faster than the speed of light, and that when measurements of the entangled particles are made in moving relativistic reference frames, in which each respective measurement occurs before the other, the measurement results remain correlated.

A person's major sleep episode is relatively inefficient and inadequate when it occurs at the " wrong " time of day ; one should be asleep at least six hours before the lowest body temperature.

The burial trenches have been evaluated to be secure for at least 600 years before the first pinhole penetration of some lead containment areas of the reactor compartment packages occurs, and several thousand years before leakage becomes possible.

** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

The absence of such a division in living amphibian species may be at least partly due to the amount of respiration that occurs through the skin in such species ; thus, the blood returned to the heart through the vena cavae is, in fact, already partially oxygenated.

In the many-worlds interpretation ( MWI ), one of the mainstream interpretations of quantum mechanics, there are an infinite number of universes and every possible quantum outcome occurs in at least one universe.

The surface temperature is at least () because Triton's nitrogen ice is in the warmer, hexagonal crystalline state, and the phase transition between hexagonal and cubic nitrogen ice occurs at that temperature.

Females reach maturity in twenty to twenty-four months, and males around twelve months ( although they do not usually mate until at least three years old ), and mating occurs throughout the year.

A study on capsaicin production in fruits of C. chinense showed that capsaicinoids are produced only in the epidermal cells of the interlocular septa of pungent fruits, that blister formation only occurs as a result of capsaicinoid accumulation, and that pungency and blister formation are controlled by a single locus, Pun1, for which there exist at least two recessive alleles that result in non-pungency of C. chinense fruits.

When a patient has at least one HEXA copy that still enables some level of hexosaminidase A activity, a later onset disease form occurs.

The auditory system response occurs at least from 200 MHz to at least 3 GHz.

) known to occur at least whenever a certain character ( M ) occurs.

Apomixis occurs in at least 33 families of flowering plants, and has evolved multiple times from sexual relatives.

A special case of Generalized least squares called weighted least squares occurs when all the off-diagonal entries of Ω ( the correlation matrix of the residuals ) are 0.

The given name " Esunertus " (" strength of Esus ") occurs at least once as an epithet of Mercury on a dedicatory inscription.

Measurable snowfall occurs an average of eight days per year with at least an inch of snow being received on five of those days.

Snow depth of at least an inch occurs an average of 15 days a year.

But it at least offered him a chance for living.

sufficiently, at least, to get them back into town.

Not without a face-saving respite of at least a few minutes.

It seemed long, at least to Tom Brannon.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Or at least not to Joyce.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

I'll be soaking for at least half an hour ''.

`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

His assumption seems to be that any such friends, being tolerable humans, must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at least partly in sympathy with his views.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.

And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.