This often creates a discrepancy between contemporary usage and that which has been accepted, over time, as being correct.

Since the 1920s this discrepancy has been explained by the presence of isotopes ; the atomic mass of any isotope is very close to satisfying the whole number rule, with the mass defect caused by differing binding energies being significantly smaller.

The apparent discrepancy between the Irish and English versions of the Constitution has discouraged Presidents from contemplating the use of the power.

This discrepancy has been called " the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics!

He believed that anomie is common when the surrounding society has undergone significant changes in its economic fortunes, whether for good or for worse and, more generally, when there is a significant discrepancy between the ideological theories and values commonly professed and what was actually achievable in everyday life.

In each case, the state capitalist country has a low income discrepancy ( and therefore would score high in that regard ), but lower per capita incomes than a large majority of their neighboring counterpart.

The discrepancy is due to carelessness in assessing the year, which is, with little trouble, validly interpretable ; having been ( as implied by some other entries here ) a remarkable scholar, his entire life has been ( by himself, therefore ) well-chronicled.

The reservation has been recognized by New York State but not the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs — a discrepancy which has defined the lines in proposals for the reservation to introduce Indian gaming.

It has been pointed out that there is a discrepancy between how international adoptions are regarded (" saving a child ") and how international marriages are regarded (" buying a wife ").

Welch has stated that he is not concerned with the discrepancy between the salaries of top-paid CEOs and those of average workers.

The simulation accounted for flat galaxy rotation curves without dark matter ( the discrepancy between observed galaxy rotation curves and those simulated based on gravity alone has to be accounted for by introducing dark matter ).

The reason for this discrepancy has been widely attributed to Driesch separating the two blastomeres completely rather than just killing one as Roux had done.

A balance isn't always reflected in reported figures for the current and capital accounts, which might, for example, report a surplus for both accounts, but when this happens it always means something has been missed — most commonly, the operations of the country's central bank — and what has been missed is recorded in the statistical discrepancy term ( the balancing item ).

The main premise of this theory is that satisfaction is determined by a discrepancy between what one wants in a job and what one has in a job.

Recent research has focused on the eradication of helminths to explain this discrepancy.

Joyce has persuaded the Treasury to change the child benefit regulations to remove a discrepancy that disadvantaged young Scottish FE students relative to their peers in the rest of the UK.

He has also suggested that a change in how courses were measured after the 1981 race attributed to the discrepancy in the course length.

In mathematics, a low-discrepancy sequence is a sequence with the property that for all values of N, its subsequence x < sub > 1 </ sub >, ..., x < sub > N </ sub > has a low discrepancy.

Various definitions exist for the term parricide, with the biggest discrepancy being whether or not the killing has to be defined as a murder ( usually killing with malice aforethought ) to qualify as a parricide.

However, a growing discrepancy between demand for organs and their availability from DBDs has led to a re-examination of using non-heart beating donors, donors after circulatory death ( DCDs ), and many centres are now using such donors to expand their potential pool of organs.

It has been suggested that this discrepancy may be due to larger skull size in males, but this theory has been refuted by intracranial data from female cats, which still show more delta activity.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

Similar measurements are being initiated to resolve a large discrepancy in the heat of formation of another important combustion product, beryllium fluoride.

This large discrepancy demonstrates the inadequacies of the experimental methods and the lack of understanding of the various phenomena involved.

As an example, if one was trying to profit from a price discrepancy between IBM on the NYSE and IBM on the London Stock Exchange, they may purchase a large number of shares on the NYSE and find that they cannot simultaneously sell on the LSE.

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 >.

In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius ' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius.

the large discrepancy between the number of ravens and

The main reason for this livestock traffic was the large cost discrepancy between livestock in the midwest and at the end of the trail in California, Oregon, or Montana.

The accumulation of large amounts of PIXE data from other laboratories around the world in the ensuing decades was sufficient by 2008 to show that the Cahill figures for all elements in the inks of the map and its companion documents are at least a thousand times too small, so the discrepancy is due to their mistake.

This discrepancy can be accounted for by a large amount of dark matter that permeates the galaxy and extends into the galaxy's halo.

The reason for this rather large discrepancy is not known, although she may have misheard or mis-remembered " 14 miles " as " 40 miles ".

Between the reset dates this value may be different than N, but the discrepancy cannot be very large since the δ will be 3 or 6 months.

a large vessel of water placed in an elevated position ; to the bottom of this vessel was soldered a pipe of small diameter giving a thin jet of water, which we collected in a small glass during the time of each descent, whether for the whole length of the channel or for a part of its length ; the water thus collected was weighed, after each descent, on a very accurate balance ; the differences and ratios of these weights gave us the differences and ratios of the times, and this with such accuracy that although the operation was repeated many, many times, there was no appreciable discrepancy in the results.

The majority of BIID sufferers are white middle-aged males, although this discrepancy may not be nearly as large as previously thought.

The INR was introduced in the early 1980s when it turned out that there was a large degree of variation between the various prothrombin time assays, a discrepancy mainly due to problems with the purity of the thromboplastin ( tissue factor ) concentrate.

The discrepancy was because, owing to the urgency with which the congress met, a large number of the organizations were unable to send delegates in time ; and the organizations in the territories then occupied by the Germans were unable to send delegates at all.

If there is a sufficiently large difference the arbitraging program will attempt to buy the relatively cheap level ( whether that is the basket of stocks which make up the index or the index future ) and sell the relatively expensive product, making money from the price discrepancy.

Many rural schools argue the current classification structure favors schools in larger cities, especially in Classes 5A and 4A, where the discrepancy between the classificaiton numbers is quite large.

" As the hard scientific data came in, it became more certain that genetic differences ( heredity ) played a large role in the discrepancy.

They also wished to put the inverse-square law of gravitation to the test, and for a time in the 1740s it was seriously doubted, on account of what was then thought to be a large discrepancy between the Newton-theoretical and the observed rates in the motion of the lunar apogee.

According to records, there was a large discrepancy between the number of headrights issued and the number of new residents in the colonies.

If this large discrepancy must be attributed to more than fictitious issuing, a final explanation suggests that people had accumulated and saved headrights.

# Finally, assess whether the maximum discrepancy is large enough to be statistically significant, thus requiring rejection of the null hypothesis.