It is the only extant member of the genus Cuon, which differs from Canis by the reduced number of molars and greater number of teats.

Dentition is particularly useful in tracking ancient populations ' movements, because, although all humans have the same basic 32 teeth, there are subtle differences in the shapes of incisors, the number of grooves on molars, and extra cusps on particular teeth.

Apart from the first pair of incisors, which are long and sharp, and the chewing molars at the back of the mouth, the teeth of shrews are small and peg-like, and may be reduced in number.

Their diet is still limited, however, because most babies do not have molars or canines at this age and often have a limited number of incisors.

Within this group, both families ( Hylobatidae and Hominidae ) can be distinguished from Old World monkeys by the number of cusps on their molars ( hominoids have five — the " Y-5 " molar pattern, Old World monkeys have only four in a bilophodont pattern ).

The enamel plates of the molars are greater in number and closer together in Asian elephants.

A number of examples suggest that voiced velar stops were devoiced, especially word-initially: kánadoi, ' jaws ' (< PIE * genu -); kómbous, ' molars ' (< PIE * gombh -); within words: arkón ( Attic argós ); the Macedonian toponym Akesamenai, from the Pierian name Akesamenos ( if Akesa-is cognate to Greek agassomai, agamai, " to astonish "; cf.

The upper jaw lacked incisor and canine teeth, but possessed five low-crowned molars on each side, with the same number in the lower jaw.

There are large spaces between the four canines and the rest of the teeth, and a reduced number of premolars, to ensure that the bite goes as deeply as possible into the prey.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

The number of primitive ideas in systematically-simple theories is reduced to a minimum.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Too bad your number is in the directory ''.

The number of countries thus favorably situated is small, but their peoples constitute over half of the population of the underdeveloped world.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.

There is little doubt that the number of those who wish to serve will be far greater than our capacity to absorb them.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

In the daytime, on the other hand, since skywave transmission is relatively inefficient, it is possible to assign a substantially larger number of stations on these channels.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

In order to reduce the number of variable parameters, all experiments were made with a constant arc length of 0.5'' '' and a current of 100 Aj.

Here the number of trials is a random variable, not a fixed number.

Each performance of an n-trial binomial experiment results in some whole number from 0 through N as the value of the random variable X, where Af.

Thus we do not score the number of bull's-eyes, and the random variable is not the number of successes.

The several trials of a binomial experiment produce a new random variable X, the total number of successes, which is just the sum of the random variables associated with the single trials.

The number of successes on each shot is a value of a random variable that has values 0 or 1, and there are 5 such random variables here.

Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.

We replace r, the number of the stage from the end of the process, by t, a continuous variable which measures the `` distance '' of the point considered from the end of the process.

; Fixed effect: An effect associated with an input variable that has a limited number of levels or in which only a limited number of levels are of interest to the experimenter.

In mathematics, an algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with rational coefficients ( or equivalently — by clearing denominators — with integer coefficients ).

Typically, elements capable of variable coordination number and / or oxidation states tend to exhibit greater numbers of allotropic forms.

A number of variants deal with the number of variable assignments making the formula true.

Now setting all of the X < sub > s </ sub > equal to the unlabeled variable X, so that the product becomes, the term for each k-combination from S becomes X < sup > k </ sup >, so that the coefficient of that power in the result equals the number of such k-combinations.

Numeric character references can be in decimal format,, where is a variable number of decimal digits.

Similarly there is a hexadecimal format,, where is a variable number of hexadecimal digits.

For every real number x, the cumulative distribution function of a real-valued random variable X is given by

The most notable difference is the number of its heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads ; others show it with two or even just one ; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100.