The effect of radiation is cumulative over the years -- and on to succeeding generations.

Without losing the distinctive undertow of Brahmsian rhythm, the pacing is firm and the over-all performance has a tightly knit quality that makes for maximum cumulative effect.

It is not enough in accounting for this feeling to analyze it into the wickedness of individual people added together to produce a cumulative effect.

Despite this, the cumulative effect of additional species in an ecosystem is not linear — additional species may enhance nitrogen retention, for example, but beyond some level of species richness, additional species may have little additive effect.

Since absorption is cumulative, the color effect intensifies with increasing thickness or if internal reflections cause the light to take a longer path through the ice.

The total cumulative effect of inheritance on stratification outcomes takes three forms.

The physics principle behind orbital resonance is similar in concept to pushing a child on a swing, where the orbit and the swing both have a natural frequency, and the other body doing the " pushing " will act in periodic repetition to have a cumulative effect on the motion.

Quantitative analysis is used to determine a cumulative effect of these event chains on the project schedule.

In this context, QoS is the acceptable cumulative effect on subscriber satisfaction of all imperfections affecting the service.

The rationale was that a farmer's growing " his own wheat " can have a substantial cumulative effect on interstate commerce, because if all farmers were to exceed their production quotas, a significant amount of wheat would either not be sold on the market or would be bought from other producers.

Over a long length of fiber, the cumulative effect is to create jitter, i. e. mode partition noise.

The cumulative effect of these dynamics is that by the beginning of the twentieth century the Plains tribes were almost completely acculturated into the larger ethnic Han group, and had experienced nearly total language shift from their respective Formosan languages to Chinese.

The danger of Ragwort is that the toxin can have a cumulative effect.

: The cumulative effect of dominance in the air, land, maritime, and space domains and information environment that permits the conduct of joint operations without effective opposition or prohibitive interference.

Until his collapse he had not considered himself an alcoholic, although he noted that " it was the cumulative effect over the years that had done the damage.

who stated that the blurring effect was overestimated by Lieu and Hillman by factors of between 10 < sup > 15 </ sup > and 10 < sup > 30 </ sup >, and thus the observations are very much less effective in constraining theory: " the cumulative effects of spacetime fluctuations on the phase coherence of light certain theories of ' foamy ' spacetime are too small to be observable ".

The cumulative effect is objective, textural and highly controlled, with the strongest possible value contrasts in the medium.

Due to the cumulative effect of a host of errors which in and of themselves would not have condemned the mission to failure, the royal family was thwarted in its escape when the king was recognized in the town of Sainte-Menehould, by a postmaster named Jean-Baptiste Drouet.

The cumulative effect of these divisions was to make the Alliance appear less credible as a potential government in the eyes of the electorate.

As it was the cumulative effect on all three divisions, when all the cash resources which would otherwise have been available had been invested unprofitably in the Caribbean, meant that the position progressively deteriorated and rendered the collapse in August 1974 unavoidable.

This process was, of course, very slow, but its cumulative effect over centuries was to undermine the integrity of Gaelic in the areas affected, areas which later became known collectively as the Lowlands, though to a large extent Galloway and Carrick, where Galwegian Gaelic survived into the 17th century, were not affected as much as elsewhere until very late.

However, the cumulative effect of stalled sovereignty negotiations, the British Nationality Act 1981 ( which would deprive many Islanders of their rights as full British citizens ), the announced withdrawal of, the shelving of plans to rebuild the Royal Marine barracks at Moody Brook, and the proposed closure of the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken on South Georgia, was to convince Argentina that Britain had no future interest in the Islands.

Then the cumulative effect of ethanol appears and the drinker becomes inebriated rather quickly.

On such voyages, cumulative errors in dead reckoning frequently led to shipwrecks and lost lives.

However, tiny arithmetic errors from the limited accuracy of a computer's math are cumulative, which limits the accuracy of this approach.

Dead reckoning, using best estimates of speed and direction, is subject to cumulative errors.

As each estimate of position is relative to the previous one, errors are cumulative.

However, long MD simulations are mathematically ill-conditioned, generating cumulative errors in numerical integration that can be minimized with proper selection of algorithms and parameters, but not eliminated entirely.

Another reason for the use of code names and code phrases in the military is that they transmit with a lower level of cumulative errors over a walkie-talkie or radio link than actual names.

In 2006, Dr. Wolfgang E. Krumbein, ( Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg ), having analyzed the ossuary, concluded that the Israeli Antiquities Authority's conclusion "... originate from a series of errors, biases, mistaken premises, use of inappropriate methodology, mistaken geochemistry, defective error control, reliance on unconfirmed data, disregard of information ( such as the cleaning and preservation actions performed the ossuary, and the use of a comparative isotope methodology despite the fact that the ossuary inscription fail to meet the cumulative prerequisite conditions for such tests and comparisons.

* Loss of significance, cumulative errors incurred when doing calculations with floating-point numbers

Thus the mechanism did a kind of directional dead reckoning, which is inherently prone to cumulative errors and uncertainties.

* The potential for the cumulative effect of small errors or weaknesses to become material.

Ozone in the stratosphere deflects harmful solar radiation, but ground level ozone has well-studied and cumulative deleterious health effects.

The cumulative total of construction contracts for the first ten months of 1961 amounted to $634,517,000, a 4 per cent increase compared to the corresponding period of last year.

The European Commission had some difficulty funding the project's next stage, after several allegedly " per annum " sales projection graphs for the project were exposed in November 2001 as " cumulative " projections ( which for each year projected, necessarily included all previous years of sales ).

All musculoskeletal events occurring by 6 weeks resolved, usually within 30 days of end of treatment. The cumulative rates for arthropathy reporting at one year was 13. 7 % of the ciprofloxacin patients and 9. 5 % of patients in the control group.

In 1984, Discovery became the third operational orbiter following Columbia and Challenger, and made its final touchdown at Kennedy Space Center on March 9, 2011 at 10: 57: 17 CST, having spent a cumulative total of one full year ( 365 days ) in space.

Contestants accumulate a number of points over the course of the year ( often " season ") and their cumulative total after all meetings have been concluded determines the world champion.

This sharp drop in usage was followed by large and successively larger drops in new breast cancer diagnoses, at six months, one year, and 18 months after the drop in Premarin and Prempro prescriptions, for a cumulative 15 % drop by the end of 2003.

In addition to the basic salary, sekitori wrestlers also receive additional bonus income, called mochikyukin, six times a year ( once every tournament, or basho ) based on the cumulative performance in their career to date.

The Staggers Act was one of three major deregulation laws passed by Congress in a two year period, as the cumulative result of efforts to reform transport regulation begun in 1971, during the Richard Nixon Administration.

LSE ranked 3rd overall in the Sunday Times University Guide cumulative ranking over a ten year period ( 1997 – 2007 ), and ranked 4th in the Complete University Guide 2012.

There are restrictions on investing in ISAs in each tax year ( 6 April to the following 5 April ) which affect the type of ISA that may be opened and the cumulative amount of investment during the course of that year.

Feige calculates that since 1964, " the cumulative seigniorage earnings accruing to the U. S. by virtue of the currency held by foreigners amounted to $ 167 -$ 185 billion and over the past two decades seigniorage revenues from foreigners have averaged $ 6 -$ 7 billion dollars per year ".

Almost of oil and of gas-well gas were produced in the county in 2000 ; by the end of that year a cumulative total of of oil had been produced from county lands since 1945.

Realignments in the EMS were fairly frequent, averaging about one a year in the 1980s, and the Irish pound depreciated steadily against the Deutsche Mark ( DEM ), anchor of the system, reaching a cumulative depreciation of 34 percent at its low point in 1993.

The non-recoverers remained more or less unchanged between days 5 and 50 after the catastrophe, but suffered a net negative cumulative impact of almost 15 % on their stock price up to one year afterwards.

The referendum imposes a fourteen year cumulative term limit for the president of Syria.

This gives a more accurate picture of any given year ’ s most popular tracks, as a song that hypothetically spent nine weeks at number one in March could possibly have earned fewer cumulative points than a song that spent six weeks at number three in January.

Songs at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November / December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked on the following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart-years, but often are ranked lower than they would have been had the peak occurred in a single year.

A registrant who receives this classification will be exempt from military training and service during his first year's residence in the US, but will become liable for service following his cumulative one year residence.

A life-table analysis of these data revealed that the cumulative risk of developing leukemia or MDS by the end of the 8th year of Neupogen treatment in a patient with congenital neutropenia was 16. 5 % ( 95 % C. I.

In the year ending September 1, 2009, the court had 1, 002 cumulative filings and disposed of 1, 033 cases.

The calculated 99. 9 % availability rate means that the link may be down for a cumulative total of ten or more hours per year as the peaks of rain storms pass over the area.

Initially issued as a temporary badge, officers and enlisted personnel demonstrating outstanding performance of duty and meeting all eligibility requirements can be processed after one complete year ( 365 days cumulative ) of assignment and receive a certificate authorizing permanent wear of the badge.

These accidents are tabulated in the B. A. R. D., or Boating Accident Reporting Database, which is published each year by the U. S. Coast Guard based on the cumulative records of the National Association of Boating Law Administrators ( NASBLA ).