Another growth factor is increased consumer demand for better quality and larger quantities of fabrics that go with a rising standard of living.

The quantity and quality of water sources is often a big factor in site selection.

Water quality is also an important factor in the survival of other wildlife and plants that grow in the Columbia River drainage basin.

This thin ( often 2 or 3 mm thick ) piece of wood, strengthened by different types of internal bracing, is considered the most prominent factor in determining the sound quality of a guitar.

Studies from the United States suggest that the quality of teachers is the single most important factor affecting student performance, and that countries which score highly on international tests have multiple policies in place to ensure that the teachers they employ are as effective as possible.

The quality and quantity of the material available to decomposers is another major factor that influences the rate of decomposition.

Many luthiers consider the top the dominant factor in determining the sound quality.

The quality factor ( or Q ) of an inductor is the ratio of its inductive reactance to its resistance at a given frequency, and is a measure of its efficiency.

In a Q-switched laser, the population inversion is allowed to build up by introducing loss inside the resonator which exceeds the gain of the medium ; this can also be described as a reduction of the quality factor or ' Q ' of the cavity.

The Patents Company also established a uniform rental rate for all licensed films, thereby removing price as a factor for the exhibitor in film selection, in favor of selection made on quality, which in turn encouraged the upgrading of production values.

The sole factor that brings one " closer to the action " is the quantity and quality of participation in party activities and the ability to persuade others in attendance to give one responsibility.

More usable channels equates to more available bandwidth, which is why distance and line quality are a factor ( the higher frequencies used by DSL travel only short distances ).

The quality factor or Q factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how under-damped an oscillator or resonator is, or equivalently, characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its center frequency.

The quality factor of oscillators vary substantially from system to system.

The quality factor of atomic clocks and some high-Q lasers can reach as high as 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > and higher.

There are many alternate quantities used by physicists and engineers to describe how damped an oscillator is that are closely related to its quality factor.

Even in these situations, however, where survival is not in question, the variety and the quality of food, e. g. as presented by male to female monkeys in exchange for sex in some species, still has an impact on reproduction, however it becomes a sexual selection factor.

Variety and quality of educational opportunity, similar to but not equivalent to economic opportunity, is another factor in urban migration, as well as the opportunity to join, develop, and seek out social communities.

However, the gamma characteristics of the display device do not play a factor in the gamma encoding of images and video — they need gamma encoding to maximize the visual quality of the signal, regardless of the gamma characteristics of the display device.

His outrageous productivity is presented as a factor in the quality of his inventions ; because he always comes up with new ideas, the fact that his inventions often lack an important feature, will often cause trouble for Scrooge or Donald who have bought the invention.

The other key factor in the quality of its road holding is the very low and forward centre of gravity, provided by the position of the engine and transmission.

As with variable of size and quantity, the number of sides and quality of ink are as much of a crucial factor.

The quality of schools in Granite Bay is often cited as an important factor in the area's high home values.

Another factor that affects the timbre of the drum is the quality of the bowl's surface.

The factory continued producing clocks, known for their high quality and low price.

Most of his surviving clocks are longcase clocks being of universally high quality incorporating such features as long going, frequent use of deadbeat escarpments, six spoke wheels, high count trains, repeating, enclosed movements, and a general high standard of workmanship at least equal to that of London makers of the time.

It therefore covers a wide range of works, usually small and three-dimensional, of high quality and finish in areas of the decorative arts, such as metalwork items, with or without enamel, small carvings, statuettes and plaquettes in any material, including engraved gems, hardstone carvings, ivory carvings including Japanese netsuke and similar items, non-utilitarian porcelain and glass, and a vast range of objects that would also be classed as antiques ( or indeed antiquities ), such as small clocks, watches, gold boxes, and sometimes textiles, especially tapestries.

The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., produced about 40 million high quality watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time fuses and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957.

These clocks were the highest quality and were very expensive at the time.

During the 19th century the deadbeat form gradually took over in most quality clocks, but the anchor form is still used in a few pendulum clocks today.

The deadbeat form of the anchor escapement was initially used only in precision clocks, but due to its superior accuracy its use spread during the 19th century to most quality pendulum clocks.

They are mostly longcase clocks, the cheapest with 30-hour movements in modest oak cases, but some have high quality eight-day movements with additional features, such as showing the high tide at Bristol docks.

These latter clocks were fitted into quality cabinet maker cases and command high prices.

Until the 1980s balance wheels were used in chronometers, bank vault time locks, time fuzes for munitions, alarm clocks, kitchen timers and stopwatches, but quartz technology has taken over these applications, and the main remaining use is in quality mechanical watches.

By their quality, the clocks of Boston became a sign of status.

The power gain of an amplifier depends on the source and load impedances used as well as its voltage gain ; while an RF amplifier may have its impedances optimized for power transfer, audio and instrumentation amplifiers are normally employed with amplifier input and output impedances optimized for least loading and highest quality.

The primary example of this is in high quality RF connectors.

This explains why the quality of a preamplifier or RF amplifier is of particular importance in an amplifier chain.

RF modulators produce a relatively poor picture, as image quality is lost during both the modulation from the source device, and the demodulation in the television.

However, just as the modulation and demodulation of RF loses quality, the mixing of the various signals into the original composite signal does the same, causing a checkerboard video artifact known as dot crawl.

Nevertheless, viewing an S-VHS recording through a VCR's built-in RF modulator yields a discernible quality improvement over VHS.

Since torque limit depends only on thread quality and cleanliness, whereas the main operational requirement is good RF contact without significant steps or gaps, these values should be seen as indicative rather than critical.

The other looks exactly the same as the rest with the RF video output jack and channel select switch, but with excellent video output quality.

The performance quality of an RF anechoic chamber is determined by its lowest test frequency of operation, at which measured reflections from the internal surfaces will be the most significant compared to higher frequencies.

While a Finnish study failed to find any effect on sleep or other cognitive function from pulsed RF exposure ,< ref > most other papers have found significant effects on sleep .< ref > Two of these papers found the effect was only present when the exposure was pulsed ( amplitude modulated ), and one early paper actually found that sleep quality ( measured by the amount of participants ' broken sleep ) actually improved.