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rule and thumb
A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.
The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;
One rule of thumb: " If the largest standard deviation
This is not always true, but the rule of thumb is: Don't use Blackwood with a void unless you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing, and why you are doing it.
As a rough rule of thumb, common law systems trace their history to England, while civil law systems trace their history to Roman law and the Napoleonic Code.
As a rule of thumb, a scattering or a decay process is cosmologically important in a certain cosmological epoch if the time scale describing that process is smaller or comparable to the time scale of the expansion of the universe, which is with being the Hubble constant at that time.
According to one study, humans apply a rule of thumb by which we expect a significant event to have a significant cause.
Another epistemic " rule of thumb " that can be misapplied to a mystery involving other humans is cui bono?
As a general rule of thumb, if the condition number, then you may lose up to digits of accuracy on top of what would be lost to the numerical method due to loss of precision from arithmetic methods.
As a rule of thumb, the greater the intensity of the orange colour of the fruit or vegetable, the more β-carotene it contains.
The other way of orienting the axes is following the left hand rule, placing the left hand on the plane with the thumb pointing up.
As a result, simple distillation is usually used only to separate liquids whose boiling points differ greatly ( rule of thumb is 25 ° C ), or to separate liquids from non-volatile solids or oils.
Nevertheless, as a rule of thumb, high-performance parallel computation in a shared-memory multiprocessor uses parallel algorithms while the coordination of a large-scale distributed system uses distributed algorithms.
Indeed, that is a good rule of thumb in deconstruction.
For example, he coined the programming phrase " two or more, use a for ," alluding to the rule of thumb that when you find yourself processing more than one instance of a data structure, it is time to consider encapsulating that logic inside a loop.
As a rule of thumb, most explosives become dangerously unstable at temperatures above 70 ° C.
As such, the general rule of thumb is that cold foods ( such as dairy products ) should be kept cold and hot foods ( such as soup ) should be kept hot until storage.
One common example has to do with the phrase rule of thumb, meaning a rough measurement.
The 13 Jupiter mass ( M < sub > J </ sub >) cutoff is a rule of thumb rather than something of precise physical significance.
As a rule of thumb, if a character or symbol was not already part of a widely used data-processing character set and was also not usually provided on typewriter keyboards for a national language, it didn't get in.
From this hypothesis was derived the whole number rule, which was the rule of thumb that atomic masses were whole number multiples of the mass of hydrogen.
Comparing this yield to the observed damage produced a rule of thumb called the 5 psi lethal area rule.
The most reliable rule of thumb is that liqueurs are quite sweet and often syrupy in consistency, while liquors are not.

rule and distinguish
To distinguish abbots from bishops, it was ordained that their mitre should be made of less costly materials, and should not be ornamented with gold, a rule which was soon entirely disregarded, and that the crook of their pastoral staff ( the crosier ) should turn inwards instead of outwards, indicating that their jurisdiction was limited to their own house.
The USA is the only Western country that does not distinguish sludge-source compost from green-composts, and by default in the USA 50 % of states expect composts to comply in some manner with the federal EPA 503 rule promulgated in 1984 for sludge products.
Yet Christianity did offer certain advantages to Clovis as he fought to distinguish his rule among many competing power centers in western Europe.
Note that in cases of joint possession, the above rule does not distinguish between a situation in which only one or more jointly possessed items perform a grammatical role and a situation in which both one or more such items and a non-possessing entity independently perform that role.
Vincentius's object in the Commonitory is to provide himself, as he states, with a general rule whereby to distinguish Catholic truth from heresy ; and he commits what he has learnt, he adds, to writing, that he may have it by him for reference as a Commonitory, or Remembrancer, to refresh his memory.
For much of the 1970s, ' 80s, and ' 90s, the FCC imposed a rule requiring networks that broadcast programming on Saturday morning and Sunday nights at 7 PM / 6 PM Central to air bumpers (" We'll return after these messages ...", "... now back to our programming " and variations thereof ) to help younger audiences distinguish programs from advertisements.
Gilbert N. Lewis referred to this insight as Abegg's rule and used it to help formulate his cubical atom model and the " rule of eight " which began to distinguish between valence and valence electrons.
We can further distinguish four cases within the above rule just by examining the signs of the two terms on the right side of the equation.
Using histology on its own is insufficient, as these findings have been acknowledged not to distinguish, and even positive patch testing does not rule out the existence of an irritant form of dermatitis as well as an immunological one.
How do we, then, distinguish the use or misuse of a rule in actual cases?
Nathan Quimpo defines patrimonialism as " a type of rule in which the ruler does not distinguish between personal and public patrimony and treats matters and resources of state as his personal affair.
Under the rule the majority adopted, that finding would have to be made by a jury, yet O ' Connor found the majority's attempt to distinguish Arizona's death penalty to be " baffling.
To rule out a biogenic origin for the methane, a future probe or lander hosting a mass spectrometer will be needed, as the isotopic proportions of carbon-12 to carbon-14 in methane could distinguish between a biogenic and non-biogenic origin.
He concluded that since one cannot always distinguish dreams from reality, one cannot rule out the possibility that one is presently dreaming rather than having veridical experiences ; thus the conclusion that one is having a veridical experience is underdetermined.

rule and two
Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.
When he is away, his two brothers, Vili and Vé, rule Asaland from Asagarth.
Finally, the two brothers made peace with the mediation of the Papal Legate Gregory, and the king granted rule of Croatia and Dalmatia again to his brother.
As a rule, there are two sorts of rituals ; blót and symbel.
" After a string quartet ," Martin explains, " I do not think there is a satisfactory sound for strings until one has at least three players on each line ... as a rule two stringed instruments together create a slight " beat " which does not give a smooth sound.
In 1237 and 1244 two towns, Cölln and Berlin were founded during the rule of Otto and Johann, grandsons of Margrave Albert the Bear, ( later they were united into one city, Berlin ).
The Ascanian dynasties in the two Saxon states became extinct in 1689 and in 1422, respectively, but Ascanians continued to rule in the smaller state of Anhalt and its various subdivisions until monarchy was abolished in 1918.
In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.
If the two carbon atoms at the double bond are linked to a different number of hydrogen atoms, the halogen is found preferentially at the carbon with fewer hydrogen substituents ( Markovnikov's rule ).
* Constitution of 1937 – Getúlio Vargas suppressed a Communist uprising in 1935 and two years later ( November 10, 1937 ) used it as a pretext to establish autocratic rule.
The DH rule now constitutes the primary difference between the two leagues.
If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.
The deregulating 1986 Building Societies Act contained an anti-carpet bagger provision in the form of a two year rule.
But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the Courts found against the two year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself in order to circumvent the intent of the legislators.
The Thatcher Conservative government declined to introduce amending legislation to make good the defect in the ' two year rule '.
Though the Boers accepted British rule without resistance in 1877, they fought two wars in the late 19th century to defend their internationally recognized independent countries, the republics of the Transvaal ( the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, or ZAR ) and the Orange Free State ( OFS ), against the threat of annexation by the British Crown.
Wu Jinglian, one of China's leading economists and a longtime champion of its transition to free markets, says that it faces two starkly contrasting futures: a market economy under the rule of law or crony capitalism.
For example, the traditional common law rule through most of the 19th century was that a plaintiff could not recover for a defendant's negligent production or distribution of a harmful instrumentality unless the two were in privity of contract.
In time, a rule, known as stare decisis ( also commonly known as precedent ) developed, whereby a judge would be bound to follow the decision of an earlier judge ; he was required to adopt the earlier judge's interpretation of the law and apply the same principles promulgated by that earlier judge if the two cases had similar facts to one another.
Civilian rule was restored within one year in the first two instances.
The octet rule and VSEPR theory are two examples.
In calculus, the chain rule is a formula for computing the derivative of the composition of two or more functions.
The chain rule can be applied to composites of more than two functions.
The chain rule says that the composite of these two linear transformations is the linear transformation, and therefore it is the function that scales a vector by f ′( g ( a )) g ′( a ).

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