The final control element changes an input or output in the control system which affect the manipulated or controlled variable.

The independent variable is manipulated by the experimenter, and the dependent variable is measured.

The locking variable is manipulated using a test-and-set-lock ( TSL ) command.

Because ionized gas is electrically charged and so can be manipulated by a variable electrical field, it is possible to use a small sphere of plasma as a tweeter.

v is used in K to calculate the manipulated variable u.

In an experimental design similar to the previous one, another variable was manipulated: whether or not the stance of the counter-attitudinal essay fell in the latitude of acceptance or the latitude of rejection ( see Social judgment theory ).

An independent variable is also known as a " predictor variable ", " regressor ", " controlled variable " ( but see below ), " manipulated variable ", " explanatory variable ", " exposure variable " ( see reliability theory ), " risk factor " ( see medical statistics ), " feature " ( see machine learning and pattern recognition ) or an " input variable.

# The acquisition block ( 2 columns ) contains the test conditions in which some variable is manipulated ( i. e. different levels of KR applied ) and different groups receive different treatments.

Sectors could be manipulated in real-time ; their shape, heights, and slope angles being completely variable, without requiring recalculation of rendering information.

The state of the heater ( e. g. the setting of the valve allowing hot water to flow through it ) is called the manipulated variable since it is subject to control actions.

In other words, the values in a categorical variable exist on a nominal scale: they each represent a logically separate concept, and in general cannot be meaningfully ordered or otherwise manipulated as numbers would.

Any variable can be manipulated, including things that would not be possible in reality.

This is a type of variable used in many computer games and computer 3D simulation engines that can be manipulated by a text based command line interface within the game or engine, often called a console.

On some models the entire variable space could be manipulated in this fashion.

A major threat to the validity of causal inferences is confounding: Changes in the dependent variable may rather be attributed to the existence or variations in the degree of a third variable which is related to the manipulated variable.

The ' murderer ' he was hunting had never expressly killed anyone, but subtly and psychologically, he had manipulated others to kill for him.

Military action was heavily influenced by the Russian military, which inspired and manipulated the rivalry between the two neighbouring nations in order to keep both under control.

This Gladstonian concept of a harmonious Concert of Europe was opposed to and ultimately defeated by a Bismarckian system of manipulated alliances and antagonisms.

Behaviorism insisted on working only with what can be seen or manipulated and in the early views of John B. Watson, a founder of the field, nothing was inferred as to the nature of the entity that produced the behavior.

The ancient historians allege that Messalina was a nymphomaniac who was regularly unfaithful to Claudius — Tacitus states she went so far as to compete with a prostitute to see who could have the most sexual partners in a night — and manipulated his policies in order to amass wealth.

To them he was also overly trusting, and easily manipulated by his wives and freedmen.

A basic objective of the first normal form defined by Codd in 1970 was to permit data to be queried and manipulated using a " universal data sub-language " grounded in first-order logic.

The register-to-register manipulation was almost RISC-like in its bit-efficiency ; and an instruction that manipulated register data could also perform tests, shifts and even elect to discard the result.

To the futurists, cinema was an ideal art form, being a fresh medium, and able to be manipulated by speed, special effects and editing.

Although the main opposition parties claimed the elections had been manipulated, there was none of the civil disturbance that followed the 1993 election.

It was Irving's failure as an " objective historian " not his right wing views that caused him to loose his libel case, as a " conscientious historian " would not have " deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence " to support his political views.

There is some debate about whether this process was genuine, manipulated by publisher Bernarr Macfadden, or was a Gernsback scheme to begin another company.

In this vintage manipulated image, Goebbels ' stepson Harald Quandt ( who was absent due to military duty ) was added to the group portrait.

President Akayev was widely accused of having manipulated a boycott by a majority of the parliamentarians.

President Akayev was widely accused of having manipulated a boycott by a majority of the parliamentarians.

The Director of Research at Google, Monika Henzinger, was quoted ( in 2002 ) as saying, " Currently we don't trust metadata because we are afraid of being manipulated.

The Odyssey² used the standard joystick design of the 1970s and early 1980s: the original console had a moderately-sized silver controller, held in one hand, with a square housing for its eight-direction stick that was manipulated with the other hand.

She was a talking animal with a Cockney accent, and sort of a second big brother, that also manipulated and gave tasks to the housemates.

Against the Bydo, the purest form of energy was extracted from this piece, and converged into a ball-like shape and manipulated through a control rod.

However, Watson did not condone Holmes's plans when they manipulated innocent people, such as when he toyed with a young woman's heart in " The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton " although it was done with noble intentions to save many other young women from the clutches of the villainous Milverton.

This Gladstonian concept of a harmonious Concert of Europe was opposed to and ultimately defeated by the Germans with a Bismarckian system of manipulated alliances and antagonisms.

Means, a reputed con man, who was known to have fixed prosecutions, sold favors and manipulated files in the Justice Dept.

Another direction is receptor-mediated transport, where receptors in the brain used to transport nutrients are manipulated to transport drugs across the blood – brain barrier.

If a cord blood bank manufactures cord blood stem cells that are overly manipulated or the cells are used in a different basic biologic function, that product is regulated as a drug, and both cGTP and cGMP standards would apply.

If a cord blood bank manufactures cord blood stem cells that are minimally manipulated and the cells are used for the same basic biologic function and / or for use in people that are 1st or 2nd degree blood relatives, that product is regulated solely under cGTPs.

The Saint eventually learns that he is being manipulated into killing off certain crime bosses in order that The Big Fellow will not have to split a $ 17 million cache of blood money that was going to be shared among the gangsters.

Similar to functional magnetic resonance imaging, which uses changes in the magnetic properties of blood resulting from oxygenation to form an image of brain activity, NIR utilizes the changes in blood translucence resulting from oxygenation to generate a signal that can be consciously manipulated in neurofeedback sessions.