Except for the case of " pathological " game trees ( which seem to be quite rare in practice ), increasing the search depth ( i. e., the number of plies searched ) generally improves the chance of picking the best move.

Stopping nicotine use and smoking several weeks before and several weeks after surgery cleans the body and improves the chance of an uneventful recovery.

Collecting the platelets from a single donor also simplifies human leukocyte antigen ( HLA ) matching, which improves the chance of a successful transfusion.

Unlike R < sup > 2 </ sup >, the adjusted R < sup > 2 </ sup > increases only if the new term improves the model more than would be expected by chance.

It may alternately lead to the ballhandler being momentarily without a defender, and thus free to pass to any open teammate, or take an uncontested shot, which greatly improves the chance of scoring, again with the chance of drawing a foul as the screened defender hurries to get back into the play.

Judia is a hunter ; her bow skills aren't that good at first, but after a chance encounter with Iruga, she improves a great deal.

Although the extent-based nature of XFS and the delayed allocation strategy it uses significantly improves the file system's resistance to fragmentation problems, XFS provides a filesystem defragmentation utility (, short for XFS filesystem reorganizer ) that can defragment the files on a mounted and active XFS filesystem.

SMB2 uses 32 or 64-bit wide storage fields, and 128 bits in the case of file-handles, thereby removing previous constraints on block sizes, which improves performance with large file transfers over fast networks.

The maildir storage format made popular by qmail and the Courier Mail Server improves upon several features first shown in MH: a separate file per message, a separate directory per mail " folder ," and exploitation of hardlinks and other advanced filesystem features for improved performance in space and time.

* Version 3. 5. 2 released in November 1997, improves support of HFS + file system.

This improves stability, speed and allows a better file management.

As flexibility improves, the feet will move closer to the hands and the bridge rise higher.

If one picks optimally ( in terms of the achieved speed-up ) what to improve, then one will see monotonically decreasing improvements as one improves.

Drexler argues that we may need to wait until our conventional nanotechnology improves before solving these issues: " Molecular manufacturing will result from a series of advances in molecular machine systems, much as the first Moon landing resulted from a series of advances in liquid-fuel rocket systems.

For example in draw poker, if you have two pairs, and your opponent is drawing for a straight or flush, you are said to have a made hand because even though you will be drawing a card just as he will, you can win even if you do not draw a card that improves your hand, while he cannot win unless he improves.

As the timing resolution improves, the signal-to-noise ratio ( SNR ) of the image will improve, requiring fewer events to achieve the same image quality.

In signing the law, Bush expressed concerns about the constitutionality of parts of the legislation but concluded, " I believe that this legislation, although far from perfect, will improve the current financing system for Federal campaigns … Taken as a whole, this bill improves the current system of financing for Federal campaigns, and therefore I have signed it into law.

This will not change the mathematical result, but it improves efficiency.

The more information provided by a member improves the chances that someone will find the member trustworthy enough to be their host or guest.

New energy efficiency regulations being proposed in many countries will require variable backlighting — this also improves the perceived contrast range highly desirable for LCD TV sets.

If the innovation creates a value added capable to shift the ranking of the adopter within a group of Customers, when the adopter improves his own ranking, he will worsen everyone else's ranking.

It will help IT professionals select a remote control solution that increases productivity and customer satisfaction, as well as enhances the flexibility of the IT organization and improves the company ’ s risk profile.

However, as the sailor improves, a battened sail will provide greater stability in stronger winds.

As car technology improves, more features will be added to cars and these features will most likely distract a driver.

For partitions with relatively little write activity, defragmentation performance greatly improves after the first defragmentation, since the defragmenter will need to defragment only a small number of new files in the future.

At each iteration, hill climbing will adjust a single element in and determine whether the change improves the value of.

However, as the peat soil is gradually elevated by the accumulation of organic matter, and the fertility of the site improves, Balsam Fir and Eastern Arborvitae Thuja occidentalis will eventually replace Black Spruce and Tamarack.

These times are hardware limited, and as hardware improves RTLinux will also improve.

He develops an analytical theory of tides, deduces the mass of the moon, improves calculation of cosmic orbits, and predicts that Saturn's rings will be found to rotate.

No economic activity will increase social welfare unless it improves the position of the society member that is the worst off.

Appropriate color conversion filters are used to compensate for the effects of lighting not balanced for the film stock's rated color temperature ( usually 3200 K for professional tungstens and 5500 K for daylight ): e. g., the 80A blue filter used with film for daylight use corrects the perceived orange / reddish cast of incandescent photographic photoflood lighting ( for which the usual photographic term is " tungsten lighting "), and significantly improves the stronger cast produced by lower-temperature household incandescent lighting, while the 85B will correct the bluish cast of daylight photographs on tungsten film.

The dysprosium substitution may also be useful in other applications, as it improves the corrosion resistance of the magnets.

It improves Dirichlet's theorem on prime numbers in arithmetic progressions, by showing that by averaging over the modulus over a range, the mean error is much less than can be proved in a given case.

This greatly improves the viability of the Galileo project: " The EU's executive had previously said that if agreement was not reached by January 2008, the long-troubled project would essentially be dead.

The latest vehicles, like the Patria AMV, have been designed with an emphasis on modularity that improves their ability to be repaired in the field.

The sidestick saves weight, improves movement and visibility in the cockpit and may be safer in an accident than the traditional " control yoke ".

The performance of linear search improves if the desired value is more likely to be near the beginning of the list than to its end.

MySQL Workbench is available in two editions, the regular free and open source Community Edition which may be downloaded from the MySQL website, and the proprietary Standard Edition which extends and improves the feature set of the Community Edition.

High quality oolong can be steeped several times from the same leaves and, unlike other teas, it improves with rebrewing: it is common to steep the same leaves three to five times, the third or fourth steeping usually being considered the best.

The non-functional measurement that improves is that refactored code can be processed by standard synthesis tools, while the original code cannot.

IEEE 802. 1aq ( Shortest Path Bridging SPB ) allows all paths to be active with multiple equal cost paths, provides much larger layer 2 topologies ( up to 16 million compared to the 4096 VLANs limit ), faster convergence times, and improves the use of the mesh topologies through increase bandwidth and redundancy between all devices by allowing traffic to load share across all paths of a mesh network.

This improves reliability which is important in Metropolitan Area Networks ( MAN ), where repairs may take longer than in a LAN and wifi because the damage may be inaccessible.

The SNR improves as the square root of the averaging time, and hence the SNR in this example can be improved to 10 by averaging for 50 seconds.

This improves the probability of the message to be delivered.

The conversion to YCbCr provides two benefits: first, it improves compressibility by providing decorrelation of the color signals ; and second, it separates the luma signal, which is perceptually much more important, from the chroma signal, which is less perceptually important and which can be represented at lower resolution to achieve more efficient data compression.

This technology improves to be the superior lighting technology with up to 150 lm / W with good color rendering and 20. 000h life at very high lumen maintenance

Some take the view that even though it may not be what the composer envisioned, vibrato adds an emotional depth which improves the sound of the music.

It may be that economic growth improves the quality of life up to a point, after which it doesn't improve the quality of life, but rather obstructs sustainable living.

A further improvement may be found in canoes with a straighter hull profile aft and rocker forward which improves tracking.

First production variants had inertial guidance, later variants featured GPS guidance, which improves CEP accuracy to 190 – 250 m. Range is estimated to be between 1, 300 and 1, 600 km.

Piper spokesman Mark Miller stated company regretted the pain caused by the layoffs and indicated the employees would be rehired when the economy improves.

But if a project improves the efficiency of future work, there can be a net benefit.