What I am suggesting is that when we delay, or when we fail to act, we do so intentionally and not through inadvertence or through bureaucratic or procedural difficulties.

If the temperature is controlled properly, the avocado will delay its ripening until needed.

However, there is no evidence to support this practice and it may in fact delay healing.

Audio unprocessed by reverb and delay is metaphorically referred to as " dry ", while processed audio is referred to as " wet ".

* flanger-to create an unusual sound, a delayed signal is added to the original signal with a continuously variable delay ( usually smaller than 10 ms ).

* chorus-a delayed signal is added to the original signal with a constant delay.

If the delay is too short, it will destructively interfere with the un-delayed signal and create a flanging effect.

Also, it would have increased the delay across the channel, and conversation is difficult over high-delay channels.

The Newton formula can lead one to believe that flight is more difficult than it actually is, due to this overprediction of drag and thus required thrust, and it may have contributed to a delay in human flight.

For this reason, a low dose of a benzodiazepine is often used for several weeks when initiating SSRI / SNRI therapy in order to counteract the initial anxiety caused by the drugs until the therapeutic delay of the SSRI / SNRI is finished and the drug becomes effective.

When the transaction involves a delay of weeks or months, as above, it may entail considerable risk if borrowed money is used to magnify the reward through leverage.

Because badminton players have to cover a short distance as quickly as possible, the purpose of many advanced strokes is to deceive the opponent, so that either he is tricked into believing that a different stroke is being played, or he is forced to delay his movement until he actually sees the shuttle's direction.

Experienced players will be aware of the trick and cautious not to move too early, but the attempted deception is still useful because it forces the opponent to delay his movement slightly.

It is held that Buddhas remain in the world, able to help others, so there is no point in delay.

The House is even shown live on satellite television, although in some countries, with a 10-15 minute delay to allow libelous or unacceptable content ( such as references to people who are not taking part in the program and have therefore not consented to have personal information about them broadcast ) to be removed.

This delay, absent in electronic accounting systems due to instantaneous posting into relevant accounts, is not replicated in manual systems, thus giving rise to primary books of accounts such as Sales Book, Cash Book, Bank Book, Purchase Book for recording the immediate effect of the financial transaction.

As is discussed below, the reason for the delay was probably simply that neither the Athenians nor the Persians were willing to risk battle initially.

In setting the clock period to a value well above the worst-case propagation delay, it is possible to design the entire CPU and the way it moves data around the " edges " of the rising and falling clock signal.

The last two time controls are somewhat different, as they do not rely on time delay, as explained below.

" God is my witness ," he explained, " I could have abstained longer than the weal of my country could have permitted, not my long delay bred in the breasts of many a great jealousy of my inability, as if I were a barren stock.

In November 2010, singer Avril Lavigne explained the reason for the long delay of her fourth album, Goodbye Lullaby, which she said was completed a year ago.

An echo can be explained as a wave that has been reflected by a discontinuity in the propagation medium, and returns with sufficient magnitude and delay to be perceived.

The delay may also be explained by unknown interactions with regulators, localization and phosphorylation changes.

During an appearance as a news analyst on the roundtable segment of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos on August 2, 2009, she explained why she opposed another 13-week extension of unemployment benefits: " If you put enough government cheese in front of people they are going to just keep eating it and kicking the can down the road ... people will just delay getting a job until the three weeks before the benefits run out.

Haggai and Zechariah explained the delay by the failure of Judah to rebuild the temple, and so hope of the kingdom persisted, till in the first half of the 2nd century the delay is explained in the Books of Daniel and Enoch as not because of man's shortcomings but to the counsels of God.

Acclaim explained that the game had not reached the desired quality level ; Nintendo maintained that the delay was to " add more depth to the gameplay ".

The delay was explained as being due to the release of Pokémon Gold and Silver, believing them to be enough to appease fans.

As explained by vocalist Chris Volz, the fairly lengthy delay between the release of Through the Eyes and Endangered Species was the result of 18 months of touring and, sequentially, the band's desire to not hastily release an album without being happy with its contents.

Additionally, the delay in appearance of referred pain shown in laboratory experiments can be explained due to the time required to create the central sensitization.

The award appeared in the London Gazette on 22 June 1917 ; the lengthy delay before the award being explained by the Commanding Officer, Adjutant, Sergeant Major and the Company Commander all being wounded at the time of the action for which Parker was awarded the medal.

* Other causes are excluded: the problems cannot be explained in terms of hearing loss, general developmental delay, autism, or physical difficulty in speaking

As explained by James W. Woodward, when the material conditions change, changes are occasioned in the adaptive culture, but these changes in the adaptive culture do not synchronize exactly with the change in the material culture, this delay is the culture lag.

Vijai Shankar explained the delay saying that it took time to

Thomas was initially angry at the slight, until it was explained to him that the King had worried over the chance of disorder in the kingdom if there was a delay.

As Harrison points out, " This delay in Rachmaninoff's collapse has never been, and presumably never will be, satisfactorily explained.

The delay between his appointment as co-regent and his unction, to which much importance was ascribed, is most probably explained by his coming of age, likely fourteen, in that year.

Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.

The Providence Daily Post thought that there were probably good reasons for the haste in which the trial was being conducted and that the only thing gained by a delay would be calmer feelings.

By preying on the sick, by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate, by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical care, these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity.

South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the `` pressure '' of a movie that the toneless lad was making.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

The landing delay caused by the malfunction in the Command / Service Module's main engine necessitated significant modifications to the mission schedule.

They cited the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and noted that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport — behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.

* reverse echo-a swelling effect created by reversing an audio signal and recording echo and / or delay whilst the signal runs in reverse.

A queuing delay induced by several such data packets might exceed the figure of 7. 8 ms several times over, in addition to any packet generation delay in the shorter speech packet.

This allows smoothing out the jitter, but the delay introduced by passage through the buffer would require echo cancellers even in local networks ; this was considered too expensive at the time.

1200 gave way to 2400 fairly rapidly, followed by a delay before 9, 600 became common.

Another delay followed due to a long standards process before 28. 8 was released, only to be quickly replaced by 33. 6.

# Before fading in the new track, check that the beats of two tracks match by listening to both channels together in the headphones, as the sound from the speakers can reach you with a delay.

During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.

To cross a wide valley ( where the journey delay caused by a flight of locks at either side would be unacceptable ) the centre of the valley can be spanned by an aqueduct-a famous example in Wales is the Pontcysyllte aqueduct across the valley of the River Dee.

After an appropriate delay without a return, these will then organise a search party ( usually made up by other cavers trained in cave rescues, as even professional emergency personnel are unlikely to have the skills to effect a rescue in difficult conditions ).

The next significant advance in computer memory came with acoustic delay line memory, developed by J. Presper Eckert in the early 1940s.

Chemical kinetics experiments can then be carried out in a " pump-probe " fashion using a laser to initiate the reaction ( for example by preparing one of the reagents by photolysis of a precursor ), followed by observation of that same species ( for example by laser-induced fluorescence ) after a known time delay.