; Treatment: A treatment is a specific combination of factor levels whose effect is to be compared with other treatments.

The theory suggests that if there is an increase in the price of a good, the owners of the factor of production specific to that good will profit in real terms.

Spearman named it g for " general factor " and labelled the smaller, specific factors or abilities for specific areas s. In any collection of IQ tests, by definition the test that best measures g is the one that has the highest correlations with all the others.

Motherboards are produced in a variety of sizes and shapes called computer form factor, some of which are specific to individual computer manufacturers.

Nitrates, if a factor in a specific case, would most often be ingested by infants in high nitrate drinking water.

An alternative conception of intelligence is that cognitive capacities within individuals are a manifestation of a general component, or general intelligence factor, as well as cognitive capacity specific to a given domain.

* " Use by law enforcement personnel of an individual ’ s race or ethnicity as a factor in articulating reasonable suspicion to stop, question or arrest an individual, unless race or ethnicity is part of an identifying description of a specific suspect for a specific crime.

The Dutch relationship continues to be an important factor in the economy, with the Dutch insisting that Suriname undertake economic reforms and produce specific plans acceptable to the Dutch for projects on which aid funds could be spent.

In molecular biology and genetics, a transcription factor ( sometimes called a sequence-specific DNA-binding factor ) is a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow ( or transcription ) of genetic information from DNA to mRNA.

In 2006 and 2007 it was reported that introducing a small number of specific transcription factor genes into normal skin cells of mice or humans can turn these cells into pluripotent stem cells, known as Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.

As with every universal property, the above definition describes a balanced state of generality: The limit object L has to be general enough to allow any other cone to factor through it ; on the other hand, L has to be sufficiently specific, so that only one such factorization is possible for every cone.

) Each node in the network having a specific fixed number, of nodes connected to it at the next lower level in the hierarchy, the number, being referred to as the ' branching factor ' of the hierarchical tree. This tree has individual peripheral nodes.

A transcription factor is a protein that binds to specific non-coding DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow ( or transcription ) of genetic information from DNA to mRNA.

Since specific gene therapies cannot readily be used to treat a significant fraction of patients with retinal dystrophy, there is a major interest in developing a more generally applicable survival factor therapy.

A specific sulfenic acid, 1-propenesulfenic acid, formed when onions are cut, is rapidly rearranged by a second enzyme, called the lachrymatory factor synthase or LFS, giving syn-propanethial-S-oxide, a volatile gas known as the onion lachrymatory factor or LF.

An additional factor for all types of specific heat capacities ( including molar specific heats ) then further reflects degrees of freedom available to the atoms composing the substance, at various temperatures.

Such findings may suggest that a specific brain region, the OFC, is a key factor in understanding reactive aggression.

Although some studies have found correlations between smoking and ulcer formation, others have been more specific in exploring the risks involved and have found that smoking by itself may not be much of a risk factor unless associated with H. pylori infection.

The therapeutic approach is said to take advantage of the endogenous molecular biology of cancer cells, specifically the secretion of insulin and insulin-like growth factor, and the interaction of these biochemicals with their specific receptors.

Additionally, the political and defense communities recognized the need for a high-level Department of Defense organization to formulate and execute R & D projects that would expand the frontiers of technology beyond the immediate and specific requirements of the Military Services and their laboratories.

NO binds reversibly to a specific cysteine residue in globin ; the binding depends on the state ( R or T ) of the hemoglobin.

An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as " General Purpose " and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation.

Certain enzymes within the peroxisome, by using molecular oxygen, remove hydrogen atoms from specific organic substrates ( labeled as R ), in an oxidative reaction, producing hydrogen peroxide ( H < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 2 </ sub >, itself toxic ):

A CLUT is a specialized RAM that stores R, G, and B values that define specific colors.

Image data that uses indexed color specifies addresses within the CLUT to provide the required R, G, and B values for each specific pixel, one pixel at a time.

In Principles ( 1973 ) R. M. Hare accepts that rule utilitarianism collapses into act utilitarianism but claims that this is a result of allowing the rules to be ' as specific and un-general as we please.

Resistors are circuit elements that impede the passage of electric charge in agreement with Ohm's law, and are designed to have a specific resistance value R. In a schematic diagram the resistor is shown as a zig-zag symbol.

Since < sup > </ sup > the bulk density of a solid chemical element is strongly related to its molar mass ( usually about 3 R per mole, as noted above ), there exists noticeable inverse correlation between a solid ’ s density and its specific heat capacity on a per-mass basis.

Writing in the American Journal of International Law, professors Jonathan I. Charney and J. R. V. Prescott argued that " none of the post – World War II peace treaties explicitly ceded sovereignty over the covered territories to any specific state or government.

Defining the specific gas constant R < sub > specific </ sub > as the ratio R / M,

* A handful of Web app developers ( H & R Block, Disney, and AT & T, to name a few ) tend to use OS autodetection and other tactics to deliberately tie their Web apps to specific operating systems or browsers.

Social psychologists John R. P. French and Bertram Raven, in a now-classic study ( 1959 ), developed a schema of sources of power by which to analyse how power plays work ( or fail to work ) in a specific relationship.

This allows one to give an alternative definition of smooth manifold which makes no reference to transition maps or to a specific atlas: a smooth manifold is a diffeological space which is locally diffeomorphic to R < sup > n </ sup >.

During his stay in Berlin, R. Schneerson was assigned specific communal tasks by his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, who also requested that he write scholarly annotations to the responsa of Tzemach Tzedek.

The Mishnah may also not have recorded a specific text because of an aversion to making prayer a matter of rigor and fixed formula, an aversion that continued at least to some extent throughout the Talmudic period, as evidenced by the opinions of R. Eliezer ( Talmud Ber.

Similarly, William R. Leonard, a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, states that the health problems facing industrial societies stem not from deviations from a specific ancestral diet but from an imbalance between calories consumed and calories burned, a state of energy excess uncharacteristic of ancestral lifestyles.

According to sound historian David Simons, after Columbia took over the 30th Street Studios in the late 1940s and A & R manager Mitch Miller had tweaked it to perfection, Miller issued a standing order that the drapes and other fittings were not to be touched, and the cleaners had specific orders never to mop the bare wooden floor for fear it might alter the acoustic properties of the hall.

The term R & D or research and development refers to a specific group of activities within a business.

J. R. R. Tolkien in his 1955 lecture " English and Welsh " distinguishes the " native tongue " from the " cradle tongue ," the latter being the language one happens to learn during early childhood, while one's true " native tongue " may be different, possibly determined by an inherited linguistic taste, and may later in life be discovered by a strong emotional affinity to a specific dialect ( Tolkien personally confessed to such an affinity to the Middle English of the West Midlands in particular ).

Amino acids (,, or ) are biologically important molecules made from amine (- NH < sub > 2 </ sub >) and carboxylic acid (- COOH ) functional groups, along with a side-chain specific to each amino acid.

Using the Debye model, the specific heat and entropy of a pure crystal are proportional to T < sup > 3 </ sup >, while the enthalpy and chemical potential are proportional to T < sup > 4 </ sup >.

Other significant properties are high specific heat ( 1925 J · kg < sup >− 1 </ sup >· K < sup >− 1 </ sup >) and thermal conductivity ( 216 W · m < sup >− 1 </ sup >· K < sup >− 1 </ sup >), which make beryllium the metal with the best heat dissipation characteristics per unit weight.

According to the theorem, it is possible to expand the power ( x + y )< sup > n </ sup > into a sum involving terms of the form ax < sup > b </ sup > y < sup > c </ sup >, where the exponents b and c are nonnegative integers with, and the coefficient a of each term is a specific positive integer depending on n and b. When an exponent is zero, the corresponding power is usually omitted from the term.

Benzodiazepines share a similar chemical structure, and their effects in humans are mainly produced by the allosteric modification of a specific kind of neurotransmitter receptor, the GABA < sub > A </ sub > receptor, which increases the conductance of this inhibitory channel ; this results in the various therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of benzodiazepines.

The method combines amplification with a novel technology called Surround Optical Fiber Immunoassay ( SOFIA ) and some specific antibodies against PrP < sup > Sc </ sup >.

Calcium, with a density of 1. 55 g / cm < sup > 3 </ sup >, is the lightest of the alkaline earth metals ; magnesium ( specific gravity 1. 74 ) and beryllium ( 1. 84 ) are more dense, although lighter in atomic mass.

Their groups ( C, CC, CXC, CX < sub > 3 </ sub > C chemokines ) represent not only structurally related molecules with a special arrangement of disulfide bridges, but their target cell specificity is also diverse: CC chemokines act on monocytes ( e. g. RANTES ), CXC chemokines are neutrophil granulocyte specific ( e. g. IL-8 ).

: is ratio of specific heats ( C < sub > p </ sub >/ C < sub > v </ sub >)

The last term can also be written as μ < sub > i </ sub > dn < sub > i </ sub > ( with dn < sub > i </ sub > the number of moles of component i added to the system and, in this case, μ < sub > i </ sub > the molar chemical potential ) or as μ < sub > i </ sub > dm < sub > i </ sub > ( with dm < sub > i </ sub > the mass of component i added to the system and, in this case, μ < sub > i </ sub > the specific chemical potential ).

with k < sub > diss. GDP </ sub > being the dissociation constant of GDP, and k < sub > cat. GTP </ sub > the hydrolysis constant of GTP for the specific GTPase.