The number of moults varies between species ; growth is also very variable and may take a few weeks to some months depending on food availability and weather conditions.

The naiad stage may last from several months to several years, with a number of moults along the way.

As S approaches T the square will be outside C and therefore both Af and Af must cross C an odd number of times as S varies from zero to T.

The Centimorgan is also often used to imply distance along a chromosome, but the number of base pairs it corresponds to varies widely.

The threshold is indexed biannually in March and September, and varies according to the number of dependants the bankrupt has.

The number of years varies depending on the company issuing the report, but the report will eventually cease to record that information.

The specific object varies with each game and can include taking as many tricks as possible, taking as many scoring cards ( or as few penalty cards ) within the tricks won as possible, taking as few tricks as possible, or taking an exact number of tricks.

Subfolders can contain still more files and folders and so on, thus building a tree-like structure in which one " master folder " ( or " root folder " — the name varies from one operating system to another ) can contain any number of levels of other folders and files.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

The number of Standing Committee members varies and has tended to increase over time.

The number of adherents to the various smaller groups of Christadelphians varies from approximately 1, 850 members ( the Unamended Christadelphians as of 2006 ) to groups made up of little more than one or two immediate families.

Chimpanzees mate throughout the year, although the number of females in estrus varies seasonally in a group.

The number of nuclei in the cyst varies from 1 to 8 among species and is one of the characteristics used to tell species apart.

The number and definition of factors varies, depending on theoretical purpose, empirical emphasis, or school of economics.

The number of harp strings varies greatly, depending on the type of guitar and also the player's personal preference.

Accuracy on machine guns varies based on a wide number of factors from design to manufacturing tolerances, most of which have been improved over time.

For internal combustion engines in the form of jet engines, the power output varies drastically with airspeed and a less variable measure is used: thrust specific fuel consumption ( TSFC ), which is the number of pounds of propellant needed to generate impulses that measure a pound force-hour.

United States: In the United States the privately held company R. R. Bowker is the responsible entity, and there is a charge, which varies depending upon the number of ISBNs purchased, with prices ranging from $ 125. 00 for a single number.

The number of B channels for PRI varies according to the nation: in North America and Japan it is 23B + 1D, with an aggregate bit rate of 1. 544 Mbit / s ( T1 ); in Europe, India and Australia it is 30B + 1D, with an aggregate bit rate of 2. 048 Mbit / s ( E1 ).

The total number of Kashubians varies depending on one's definition.

The number of Rashad languages, also called Tegali – Tagoi, varies among descriptions, from two ( Williamson & Blench 2000 ), three ( Ethnologue ), to eight ( Blench ms ).

The species are not clearly distinct and estimates of the number of species varies from 13 to 18.

The number of mitochondria in a cell varies widely by organism and tissue type.

The number of rules observed varies with the order ; Theravada bhikkhus follow around 227 rules.

Mach number varies by the composition of the surrounding medium and also by local conditions, especially temperature and pressure.

In addition, production machinery must in many cases be designed to handle with equal efficiency both natural fibers and the increasing number of synthetics, as well as blends.

Actually, there are a number of individual-contributor positions in both operating departments and in the company-wide `` services '' operation that are filled by men with successful managerial experience who are currently broadening their capabilities.

Since practical washing procedures are both lengthy and expensive, a number of laboratory tests have been developed for the numerical evaluation of detergents.

These were increased both in number and in size, contained prominent nucleoli, and were distributed throughout the fiber ( Figs. 2 - 5 ).

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

Telephone orders distort the picture: the suburbanite naturally calls a local rather than a central-city number if both are listed in an advertisement, especially if the local call eliminates city sales tax.

The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.

The beneficiaries of this administration were a number of huge cartels in which both individuals and the Belgian government itself held stock.

Indeed, mathematically speaking, it was both functionally and symbolically the most important number in the entire diagram.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

In the 5th century BC we often hear of the assembly sitting as a court of judgment itself for trials of political importance and it is not a coincidence that 6000 is the number both for the full quorum for the assembly and for the annual pool from which jurors were picked for particular trials.

A number of companies responded, both existing communications vendors like Hayes and Cisco Systems, as well as newly formed companies like Kinetics.

Lookup, insertion, and deletion all take O ( log n ) time in both the average and worst cases, where n is the number of nodes in the tree prior to the operation.

He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour ( usually combined ), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare ( 1502 ) and the Great Piece of Turf ( 1503, both also Albertina ).

A number of these organizations are striving to foster positive relationships between the Arab and Jewish populations: The Harduf Waldorf school includes both Jewish and Arab faculty and students, and has extensive contact with the surrounding Arab communities.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

However, managing and displaying a large number of sprites required much more CPU time ( both directly and indirectly since the MARIA would halt the CPU when drawing sprites ) than consoles with hardware sprites and backgrounds.

Two whole numbers m and n are called coprime if their greatest common divisor is 1 ; i. e., if there is no prime number that divides both of them.

It is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Western Orthodoxy.

A number of bridges, both for military and commercial purposes, were constructed by the Mughal administration in India.

The curator of invertebrate palaeontology, Desmond Collins, identified a number of additional outcrops, stratigraphically both higher and lower than the original Walcott quarry.

In both the Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the number of participants from any one country have caused some controversy because they sometimes result in excluding elite world level players from the strongest badminton nations.

For a number of years ( both before and during the Inprise name ) Borland suffered from serious financial losses and very poor public image.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.