There was great uncertainty in distinguishing practices of superstition, occultism, and perfectly sound scholarly knowledge or pious ritual.

Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that considers strategic interactions between agents, one kind of uncertainty.

Because of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural differences between Yupik and Inuit peoples there is uncertainty as to the acceptance of any term encompassing all Yupik and Inuit people.

The Rankine temperature scale was created to use degree intervals the same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale, such that a temperature difference of one degree Rankine ( 1 R ) is equal to a difference of 1 ° F, except that absolute zero is 0 R – the same way that the Kelvin temperature scale matches the Celsius scale, except that absolute zero is 0 K. The Fahrenheit scale uses ( in the same manner as the later Celsius scale ) the symbol ° to denote a point on the temperature scale and the letter F to indicate the use of the Fahrenheit scale ( e. g. " Gallium melts at 85. 5763 ° F "), as well as to denote a difference between temperatures or an uncertainty in temperature ( e. g. " The output of the heat exchanger experiences an increase of 72 ° F " and " Our standard uncertainty is ± 5 ° F ").

Because the discrepancy is not fully explained, uncertainty of our prediction of UT ( rotation angle of the Earth ) may be as large as the difference between these values: 11 s / cy < sup > 2 </ sup >.

It is also important to keep in mind the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

" What is important is not so much whether Deckard is a replicant or not, but that very possibility and uncertainty further blurs the line between humans and replicants.

The characteristic size of the string loop will be a balance between the tension force, acting to make it small, and the uncertainty effect, which keeps it " stretched ".

Those who call themselves humanists are estimated to number between four and five million people worldwide in 31 countries, but there is uncertainty because of the lack of universal definition throughout censuses.

Mathematically, the uncertainty relation between position and momentum arises because the expressions of the wavefunction in the two corresponding bases are Fourier transforms of one another ( i. e., position and momentum are conjugate variables ).

The dichotomy between hard and soft science can be regarded as stemming from the increased uncertainty and vagueness connected to the inductive proofs of causal links in " softer " sciences.

* The gold standard provides fixed international exchange rates between those countries that have adopted it, and thus reduces uncertainty in international trade.

: In the following notes, wherever numeric equalities are shown in concise form, such as, the two digits between the parentheses denotes the uncertainty at 1-σ ( 1 standard deviation, 68 % confidence level ) in the two least significant digits of the significand.

The 1970s marked a time of economic uncertainty and troubled relations between the U. S. and certain Middle-Eastern countries.

There is some uncertainty as to when he first demonstrated this process in practice, however most sources identify this as between 1792 and 1794.

In his seminal work Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit University of Chicago economist Frank Knight ( 1921 ) established the important distinction between risk and uncertainty:

The distance between the zeros of this envelope is λ / 2, and the maxima of amplitude are also spaced by λ / 2 ; we thus obtain the same results as the geometrical approach, with a discrepancy of p / 2 which is the uncertainty linked to the reference that is considered: pattern 1 or pattern 2.

Given this uncertainty, between April – May 2006 at the JINR, a FLNR – PSI team conducted experiments probing the synthesis of this isotope as a daughter in the nuclear reaction < sup > 242 </ sup > Pu (< sup > 48 </ sup > Ca, 3n )< sup > 287 </ sup > Fl.

The evolutionary relationship between the members of the group is obscure, and their classification into loose tribes rather than formal subgroups reflects this uncertainty.

* L. I. Mandelshtam, I. E. Tamm " The uncertainty relation between energy and time in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics ", Izv.

The Gawain-poet had a flair for vivid pictures and dramatic situations, and found intellectual delight in pattern: combinations of qualities provides much of the enjoyment of the poems, the conflict between them some uncertainty and complexity.

To save the time of those who do not wish to distinguish between these periods of architectural uncertainty, I will henceforward use the term " Jacobethan ".

The film continually creates an ambiguity in the spatial and temporal aspects of what it shows, and creates uncertainty in the mind of the spectator about the causal relationships between events.

Indeed, Boyd noted that radical uncertainty is a necessary precondition of physical and mental vitality: all new opportunities and ideas spring from some mismatch between reality and ideas about it, as examples from the history of science, engineering and business illustrate.

The resulting uncertainty about the identity and meaning of his art has made Giorgione one of the most mysterious figures in European painting.

One of its best-known images is the Chandos portrait, the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare although there is some uncertainty about whether the painting actually is of the playwright.

Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d ' Argenteuil noted, in her Souvenirs, that if the Prince Royal died young after having fathered a male heir, the July Monarchy would be faced with the prospect and political uncertainty of a regency – for her the wisest course consisted of first marrying off the King's third son, then the fourth, then the fifth, and thus guarantee him descendants, all the while leaving several men around the throne who could take over from him if he died suddenly.

Both were relatively young in 1594, and both remained with the company until after the death of King James ; their presence provided an element of continuity across decades of changing taste and commercial uncertainty.

The high level of resource uncertainty, late weaning, and potential overlap time of suckling young all lead to violent sibling rivalry and provide a good environment for studying parent-offspring conflict.

The song evokes the widespread uncertainty regarding gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city, as well as the young man's uncertainty about taking the less-than-savory job: " Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

... the uncertainty of the economic future, the shadow of war, the atom bomb, army service for one's self or loved ones, the frustration of young people facing the future.

The shy and bookish Amy lives in a state of anguish and uncertainty, until one of her high school teachers, Martin Stone, takes an interest in this unusual, highly intelligent young woman.

A new South is emerging after the post-bellum years of hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of action from the Negro in defining his new role in the amorphously defined socio-political organizations of the white man.

At the same time, his voice betrayed uncertainty about their being here, and conveyed an appeal to whatever is reasonable, peace-loving, and dependable in everybody.

I have, within the past fifty years, come out of all uncertainty into a faith which is a dominating conviction of the Truth and about which I have not a shadow of doubt.

Presumably, if the reverse is the case and the good effect is more certain than the evil result that may be forthcoming, not only must the good and the evil be prudentially weighed and found proportionate, but also calculation of the probabilities and of the degree of certainty or uncertainty in the good or evil effect must be taken into account.

But now the task is completed and the uncertainty resolved with the opening of the English-dialogue picture at the Music Hall yesterday.

A consequence of using waveforms to describe particles is that it is mathematically impossible to obtain precise values for both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time ; this became known as the uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1926.

( Which of the two families is actually larger is unclear, owing to uncertainty about exactly how many species exist in each family ).

It is arbitrary and capricious, and it leaves humans in a state of fear and uncertainty, which ends only in death.

it was noted by Bohr that the existence of any sort of wave packet implies uncertainty in the wave frequency and wavelength, since a spread of frequencies is needed to create the packet itself.

In quantum field theory, this process is allowed only as an intermediate quantum state for times short enough that the violation of energy conservation can be accommodated by the uncertainty principle.

In the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, the following scale is used to quantify uncertainty: " virtually certain " > 99 %; " extremely likely " > 95 %; " very likely " > 90 %; " likely " > 66 %; " more likely than not " > 50 %; " about as likely as not " 33 to 66 %; " unlikely " < 33 %; " very unlikely " < 10 %; " extremely unlikely " < 5 %; " exceptionally unlikely " < 1 %.

Whilst the uncertainty in the atomic mass computed by time-of-flight methods in atom probe is sufficiently small to allow for detection of individual isotopes within a material this uncertainty may still, in some cases, confound definitive identification of atomic species.

In information theory, one bit is typically defined as the uncertainty of a binary random variable that is 0 or 1 with equal probability, or the information that is gained when the value of such a variable becomes known.

Business statistics is the science of good decision making in the face of uncertainty and is used in many disciplines such as financial analysis, econometrics, auditing, production and operations including services improvement, and marketing research.

As the only recovered fossils are of mandibles and teeth, there is some uncertainty about Gigantopithecus's locomotion.

Similarly, the Fungi ( or Myceteae ) were once considered plants but there is now uncertainty about how to classify them.

Goldstein's book comments: " We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born.

There is some uncertainty as to how Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah came to be attached to the original Isaiah: the two competing theories are either that Deutero-Isaiah was written as a continuation of Proto-Isaiah, or that it was written separately and became attached to the famous Isaiah later.