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Determine the ratio that the amount being allotted is to the sum of the products for all the States.
An example of the overall standards applied is the 20-to-1 ratio established for the determination of that degree of cochannel interference which is regarded as objectionable.
A cylinder's compression ratio is computed by comparing the cylinder's volume, or its displacement, with the total volume of the cylinder and its combustion chamber.
The compression ratio is 10 to 1.
To determine car speed for a given combination of engine speed, gear ratio, and tire size, the formula is: Af.
To determine the rear axle gear ratio for a combination of the other three factors, the formula is: Af.
The ratio of the measured antenna temperature change during a drift scan across the moon to the average brightness temperature of the moon over the antenna beam ( assuming that the brightness temperature of the sky is negligible ) was found, by graphical integration of the antenna directivity diagram, to be 0.85.
A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.
It will be seen that where the scope is similar, the Athabascan ratios come out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4: 5 ) except for verbs, where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower.
They might, for example, plot it exactly as is, or they might make ten day moving averages of it, or longer moving averages, or they might simply plot the ratio of odd-lot purchases to odd-lot sales.
The gallium / germanium ratio is higher than that for ordinary igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary matter as a result of selective volatilization of the components of the tektite.
Graph in Fig. 1, p. 392, indicates how the ratio of compressive strength to density varies as the latter is increased or decreased.
For circular fibers in a closely packed hexagonal array, the packing efficiency is given by: Af where Af, and 0.906 is the ratio of the area of a circle to that of the circumscribed hexagon.
It is defined as the ratio of reflected radiation from the surface to incident radiation upon it.
significance of the experiment is determined by a ratio of two
This ratio is independent of several possible alterations
Using the F-distribution is a natural candidate because the test statistic is the ratio of two scaled sums of squares each of which follows a scaled chi-squared distribution.

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), a small increase in engine power can rapidly increase its power-to-weight ratio, giving it a remarkable boost.
Neutron scattering also has the remarkable property that the solvent can be made invisible by adjusting the ratio of normal water, H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, and heavy water, D < sub > 2 </ sub > O.
This work contains a remarkable geometrical proposition to the effect that the ratio of the area of any arbitrary sector of a circle to that of the inscribed or circumscribed regular polygons is not expressible by a finite number of terms.
After a decline in political importance, the town rose in prominence as a religious center with numerous monasteries and a remarkable ratio of churches to citizens: at one point, forty churches for four hundred families.
He had tremendous discipline at the plate, compiling a remarkable 1. 90 walk-to-strikeout ratio ( 644-to-591 ), with a. 371 on base percentage and a. 445 slugging average for a combined. 816 OPS.
It had an efficient high-lift airfoil giving it a glide ratio of 10: 1, which was remarkable for a hang glider ( Rogallo wings were hardly more than steerable parachutes with glide ratios of around 3: 1 ).
Currently, the gender ratio is remarkable.
This remarkable string of success made for a staggering 56 % success ratio at the Majors, a higher number of wins than any other pipe band during this time by almost double.

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# They burn with a sooty yellow flame because of the high carbon-hydrogen ratio.
Note that this pressure increase is more than a simple 10: 1 compression ratio would indicate ; this is because the gas is not only compressed, but the work done to compress the gas has also heated the gas and the hotter gas will have a greater pressure even if the volume had not changed.
Photomultiplier tubes are the most frequently used detectors in LS AAS, although solid state detectors might be preferred because of their better signal-to-noise ratio.
Because of this, and because of the use of additional devices in the spectrometer, the signal-to-noise ratio of background-corrected signals is always significantly inferior compared to uncorrected signals.
Vermicomposting has gained popularity in both these industrial and domestic settings because, as compared to conventional composting, it provides a way to compost organic materials more quickly ( as defined by a higher rate of carbon-to-nitrogen ratio increase ) and to attain products that have lower salinity levels that are therefore more beneficial to plant mediums.
Also included in the seafood mix are some so-called trash fish that would not sell at market because of their high bone to meat ratio or required complicated cooking methods.
A high compression ratio is desirable because it allows an engine to extract more mechanical energy from a given mass of air-fuel mixture due to its higher thermal efficiency.
It is sometimes called the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height.
He began to increasingly focus on performing and later claimed: " With time I became disenchanted with teaching because the ratio of girls to boys was more than ten to one, and once the girls reached sixteen the dropout rate was very high.
Also because of the short range of the strong binding force, large stable nuclei must contain proportionally more neutrons than do the lightest elements, which are most stable with a 1 to 1 ratio of protons and neutrons.
Fission products have, on average, about the same ratio of neutrons and protons as their parent nucleus, and are therefore usually unstable to beta decay ( which changes neutrons to protons ) because they have proportionally too many neutrons compared to stable isotopes of similar mass.
However, X-Pro peptide groups tend to have a roughly 3: 1 ratio, presumably because the symmetry between the and atoms of proline makes the cis and trans isomers nearly equal in energy ( See figure, below ).
Today, skyscrapers are an increasingly common sight where land is expensive, as in the centres of big cities, because they provide such a high ratio of rentable floor space per unit area of land.
Shell form design tends to be preferred for extra high voltage and higher MVA applications because, though more labor intensive to manufacture, shell form transformers are characterized as having inherently better kVA-to-weight ratio, better short-circuit strength characteristics and higher immunity to transit damage.
The exhaust is, however, relatively low in NOx emissions, as combustion temperatures are lower than in other engines, and also because of some inherent Exhaust Gas Recirculation-EGR-in early engines ; the higher the combustion temperature is, the higher the NOx emissions are ( sir Harry Ricardo proved in the 20's that for every 1 % increase of the proportion of exhaust gas in the admission mix, there's a 45ยบ F reduction in flame temperature ); this allowed Mazda to meet the United States Clean Air Act of 1970 in 1973 with a simple and inexpensive ' thermal reactor ' ( an enlarged open chamber in the exhaust manifold ) by paradoxically enriching the air-fuel ratio to the point where the unburned hydrocarbons ( HC ) in the exhaust would support complete combustion in the thermal reactor ; while piston-engine cars required expensive catalytic converters to deal with both unburned hydrocarbons and NOx emissions.
The interwar partially backed gold standard was inherently unstable, because of the conflict between ( a ) the expansion of sterling and dollar liabilities to foreign central banks, and ( b ) the resulting deterioration in the reserve ratio of the Bank of England, and U. S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Banks.
Such is the case with the operational transconductance amplifier, which has an open-loop gain ( transconductance ) in Siemens ( mhos ), because the gain is a ratio of the output current to the input voltage.
Humans, in any case, are not appropriate prey because the shark's digestion is too slow to cope with a human's high ratio of bone to muscle and fat.
In general, because the ratio of the typical tie rod's length to its cross section is usually very large, it would buckle under the action of compressive forces.
This is thought to be because chalcedony is extremely finely grained ( cryptocrystalline ), and so has a very high surface area to volume ratio.
The fertility rates can also give a misleading impression that a population is growing faster than it in fact is, because measurement of fertility rates only involves the reproductive rate of women, and does not adjust for the sex ratio.
This is possible because the vapor rising from a boiling fluid generally has a ratio of components different from that in the liquid.
Over the long-term, Medicare faces significant financial challenges because of rising overall health care costs, increasing enrollment as the population ages, and a decreasing ratio of workers to enrollees.

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