Yet though the Southern States lost the worst errors in their case, they did not lose the truth they fought for.

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

NP-completeness only refers to the run-time of the worst case instances.

In his view, the " worst case scenario " of the currency never returning to the country of origin was actually the best possible outcome: the country actually purchased its goods by exchanging them for pieces of cheaply made paper.

The fastest impacts occur at more than 80 km / s in the " worst case " scenario which the asteroid hits the earth in a retrograde parabolic orbit ( because kinetic energy scales as velocity squared, earth's gravity only contributes 1 km / s to this figure, not 11 km / s ).

Failure to do so can lead to bugs, slow performance, and at worst case, takeover by viruses and malicious software.

In the field of numerical analysis, the condition number of a function with respect to an argument measures the asymptotically worst case of how much the function can change in proportion to small changes in the argument.

Using to denote the size of the original grammar, the size blow-up in the worst case may range from to, depending on the transformation algorithm used.

Chapman's death occurred on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus, and Jones called it " the worst case of party-pooping in all history ".

Following the arrival of Europeans, La Hispaniola's indigenous population suffered near-extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas.

Introsort is an interesting alternative to heapsort that combines quicksort and heapsort to retain advantages of both: worst case speed of heapsort and average speed of quicksort.

The following time complexities are amortized ( worst-time ) time complexity for entries marked by an asterisk, and regular worst case time complexities for all other entries.

Its worst case cost is proportional to the number of elements in the list ; and so is its expected cost, if all list elements are equally likely to be searched for.

The worst case is when the value is not in the list ( or occurs only once at the end of the list ), in which case n comparisons are needed.

Minimax ( sometimes minmax ) is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case ( maximum loss ) scenario.

Eventually, in the worst case, too much of the available memory may become allocated and all or part of the system or device stops working correctly, the application fails, or the system slows down unacceptably due to thrashing.

In the worst case, old copies can literally crumble into small particles when handled.

When merging two lists of length m, there is a lower bound of 2m − 1 comparisons required in the worst case.

Arguably, the worst case is when only one party is guilty: here, the innocent one is unlikely to confess, while the guilty one is likely to confess and testify against the innocent.

A related enhancement in the Pentium is the ability to read a contiguous block from the code cache even when it is split between two cache lines ( at least 17 bytes in worst case ).

Pilots of surviving or reproduction aircraft fitted with rotary engines still find, however, that the blip switch is useful while landing rotary-engined aircraft, as it allows pilots a more reliable, quicker source of power in case it should be needed, rather than risking a sudden engine stall at the worst possible moment.

Since operations such as inserting, deleting, and finding values require worst-case time proportional to the height of the tree, this theoretical upper bound on the height allows red – black trees to be efficient in the worst case, unlike ordinary binary search trees.

The worst case occurs when all nodes in a colored binary tree are black, the best case occurs when only a third of them are black ( and the other two thirds are red nodes ).

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.

Otherwise it will be headed for bankruptcy, at worst, and at best towards starvation of other less dramatic but socially and culturally indispensable branches of learning.

Once he had abandoned himself to the very worst, once he had quieted all the dragons of worry and suspense, there wouldn't be very much for Mae to do.

" At its worst, Scheler says, " love for the small, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse to detract, etc., directed against the opposite phenomena: wealth, strength, power, largesse.

The emotional effects of anxiety may include " feelings of apprehension or dread, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness, watching ( and waiting ) for signs ( and occurrences ) of danger, and, feeling like your mind's gone blank " as well as " nightmares / bad dreams, obsessions about sensations, deja vu, a trapped in your mind feeling, and feeling like everything is scary.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Alexei's relations with his father suffered from the hatred between his father and his mother, as it was very difficult for him to feel affection for his mother's worst persecutor.

She notably spoke of her support for its reintroduction for the worst cases of murder in the aftermath of the murder of two 10-year-old girls from Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.

The heavy reliance on automobiles for transportation in Atlanta has resulted in traffic, commute, and air pollution rates that rank among the worst in the country.

As for insomnia, they may also be used on an irregular /" as-needed " basis, such as in cases where said anxiety is at its worst.

Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.

The result of all the moves was a 67 – 95 record in 2005, which tied for the worst record in franchise history, as the young players — many of whom had never been everyday players in the majors prior to that season — struggled.

In the 2004 federal election, the Conservatives had one of the worst showings in the region for a right-wing party, going back to Confederation, with the possible exception of the 1993 election.

In general, yarns become stronger with more twist ( also called worst ), longer fibers and thicker yarns ( more fibers ); for example, thinner yarns require more twist than do thicker yarns to resist breaking under tension.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

* 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1, 000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.

A neighbour recalled that " London in the forties was the worst possible place, and the worst possible time for a child to grow up in.