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and allowed little initiative in early play and work patterns -- then in adolescence her normal degree of vanity, sensitivity, and preoccupation with whether others find her appearance and behavior acceptable, will be compounded.
After it both resume normal play.
When four or fewer players play, a normal 32-card deck without jokers, with ranks ranging from ace to seven, is used.
The goalkeeper may participate in the normal play of his team mates.
There is a set of probability distributions used in multivariate analyses that play a similar role to the corresponding set of distributions that are used in univariate analysis when the normal distribution is appropriate to a dataset.
The game was divided into a series of missions with some having the player play on-foot as in a normal first person shooter while also having missions where the player could select through a variety of Mecha ( referred to as " MCAs " in the game ).
Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").
Nim can also be played as a normal play game, which means that the person who makes the last move ( i. e., who takes the last object ) wins.
This is called normal play because most games follow this convention, even though Nim usually does not.
Normal play Nim ( or more precisely the system of nimbers ) is fundamental to the Sprague-Grundy theorem, which essentially says that in normal play every impartial game is equivalent to a Nim heap that yields the same outcome when played in parallel with other normal play impartial games ( see disjunctive sum ).
While all normal play impartial games can be assigned a nim value, that is not the case under the misère convention.
In a game that starts with heaps of three, four, and five, the first player will win with optimal play, whether the misère or normal play convention is followed.
In normal play, the winning strategy is to finish every move with a Nim-sum of 0.
When played as a misère game, Nim strategy is different only when the normal play move would leave no heap of size two or larger.
In that case, the correct move is to leave an odd number of heaps of size one ( in normal play, the correct move would be to leave an even number of such heaps ).
0 2 1 011 < sub > 2 </ sub >= 3 < sub > 10 </ sub > The normal play strategy would be to take 1 from B, leaving an even number ( 2 )
Proof: If there is no possible move, then the lemma is vacuously true ( and the first player loses the normal play game by definition ).

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normal ) strategy: if it is even ( resp.
In a normal Nim game, the player making the first move has a winning strategy if and only if the nim-sum of the sizes of the heaps is nonzero.
At liftoff the engine typically burns both fuels, gradually changing the mixture over altitude in order to keep the exhaust plume " tuned " ( a strategy similar in concept to the plug nozzle but using a normal bell ), eventually switching entirely to LH2 once the kerosene is burned off.
Most of the criticism was over Taylor's arguments for appeasement as a rational political strategy, his mechanistic portrayal of a world destined for another world war by post-war settlement of 1918 – 1919, his depiction of the Second World War as an " accident " caused by diplomatic blunders, his portrayal of Hitler as a " normal leader " and what many considered his flippant dismissal of Nazi ideology as a motivating force.
In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal.
Freud's didactic strategy in his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality was to construct a bridge between the " perversions " and " normal " sexuality.
This need not always be an effective strategy, because some flowers that are of such a shape that they favour pollinators that pass by their anthers and stigmata on the way to the nectar, may get robbed by ants that are small enough to bypass the normal channels, or by short-tongued bees that bite through the bases of deep corolla tubes to abstract nectar at the end opposite to the anthers and stigma.
American Coots have a mixed reproductive strategy, and conspecific brood parasitism is a common reproductive method in American Coot females outside of normal nesting.
The team members in the ( normal ) escort cars will continuously remotely retrieve data from the solar car about its condition and use these data as input for prior developed computer programs to work out the best driving strategy.
By December normal operations of the instrument was suspended, although a mitigation strategy allows the instrument to continue making most of its intended observations.
Some languages use relative clauses of this type with the normal strategy of embedding the relative clause next to the head noun.
This is also the normal strategy in Turkish, which has sentences equivalent to " I ate the potato of Hasan's giving to Sina " ( in place of " I ate the potato that Hasan gave to Sina ").
The subsequent strategy will have to address these-since the normal approach to strategy deriving from scenarios is one which aims to minimise risk by being ' robust ' ( that is it will safely cope with all the alternative outcomes of these ' life and death ' issues ) rather than aiming for performance ( profit ) maximisation by gambling on one outcome.
The game interface is reminiscent of normal real-time strategy ( RTS ) games: the player uses a mouse, represented in-game as a hand, to interact with a bar on the left-hand side of the screen, allowing him to select which rooms to build and which spells to cast.
Response correspondences for all 2x2 normal form games can be drawn with a line for each player in a unit square strategy space.
While the authors argued that the Fallujah cluster's inclusion could be justified as a normal part of the sampling strategy ( the authors noted that other " hotspots " like Najaf had not ended up being surveyed ), and the authors presented two sets of results in some cases ( one set including the Fallujah data and one not ), the article, and most press coverage of the article, stresses the data that excluded the Fallujah cluster.
The first team to employ a version of the no-huddle approach as the normal offensive play strategy was the 1988 Cincinnati Bengals under Sam Wyche with Boomer Esiason as the quarterback.
A successful strategy should increase the odds of winning in order to produce long term profits from a pursuit which under normal circumstances will only ever result in a long term loss.
Perhaps, as the polypill strategy becomes widely adopted, people over 55 with a " normal "

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`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
It is good to know that Georgia will continue to have sufficient electrical power not only to meet the demands of normal growth but to encourage a more rapid rate of industrialization.
Fortunately, there is a nursery school which he has been able to attend, with a group of normal children.
`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.
At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.
These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.
This is a normal governmental procedure which reflects more accurately cost-accounting principles.
By this scheme, pulling one signal to clear locks all the other switch and signal levers in safe positions until the first signal is again restored to normal.
A tire must be inflated to its normal hot operating pressure and the car must be loaded to its operating weight when this measurement is made.
A cross-section of a normal lower human leg is shown in Fig. 8 with the various parts labeled.
The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference Af and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear.
Af appeared to be well suited for the study of these matters, since it is a normal paramagnet, with three unpaired electrons on the chromium, its crystal structure is very simple, and the unknown position of the hydrogen in the strong Af bond provides structural interest.
The Af layers are stacked normal to the ( 111 ) axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer, in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers.
The bond angles and distances are all within the expected limits and the volume per oxygen is about normal.
It is very unlikely that either of these anacondas was growing at a normal rate.
the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.
In man the normal level of iodine in the diet and the level necessary to prevent development of goitre is about 100 **ymg per day.
In the presence of a low iodine intake, thyroglobulin labelled in vivo with Af is found to contain more mono-iodotyrosine than normal, the amounts of di-iodotyrosine and iodothyronines being correspondingly reduced.
Second, what is its concentration in normal circumstances and in what circumstances will this concentration depart from the normal level and in which direction??
Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.
In both conditions the emotional and perceptual sensitivity is diminished, but no depression occurs such as is seen clinically or may be produced in normal persons by drugs.

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