The unweighted means can be easily produced by assuming that all weights equal 1 / n.

Europe ’ s expansion into territorial imperialism had much to do with the great economic benefit from collecting resources from colonies, in combination with assuming political control often by military means.

The advent of a classless society, the abolition of private property, society collectively assuming many of the roles traditionally assigned to mothers and wives, and women becoming integrated into industrial work has been promoted as the means to achieve women's emancipation.

Treaties can be loosely compared to contracts: both are means of willing parties assuming obligations among themselves, and a party to either that fails to live up to their obligations can be held liable under international law.

" This means two-thirds of those members present — assuming that a quorum exists at the time that the vote is cast — and not necessarily a two-thirds vote of the entire membership elected and serving in the two houses of Congress.

: If we are justified in assuming that the scope of the generalization ' All ravens are black ' can be restricted to ravens, then this means that we have some outside information which we can rely on concerning the factual situation.

Petitio ( from peto ), in the post-classical context in which the phrase arose, means " assuming " or " postulating ," but in the older classical sense means " petition ," " request ," or " beseeching.

Literally petitio principii means " assuming the premise " or " assuming the original point ," or, alternately, " a request for the beginning or premise ;" that is, the premise depends on the truth of the very matter in question.

When gametes first fuse at fertilisation, the chromosomes donated by the parents are combined, and, in humans, this means that ( 2²² ) ² = 17. 6x10 < sup > 12 </ sup > chromosomally different zygotes are possible for the non-sex chromosomes, even assuming no chromosomal crossover.

On the other hand, the usage of standard protocols and security techniques means that standard security improvements are applicable to the SCADA systems, assuming they receive timely maintenance and updates.

The Dilbert principle, by contrast, assumes that hierarchy just serves as a means for removing the incompetent to " higher " positions where they will be unable to cause damage to the workflow, assuming that the upper echelons of an organization have little relevance to its actual production, and that the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder.

Thus, supervenience allows one to hold that " high-level phenomena " ( like those of economics, psychology, or aesthetics ) depend, ultimately, on physical substance, without assuming that one can study those high-level phenomena using means appropriate to physics.

The GPUs of the most powerful class typically interface with the motherboard by means of an expansion slot such as PCI Express ( PCIe ) or Accelerated Graphics Port ( AGP ) and can usually be replaced or upgraded with relative ease, assuming the motherboard is capable of supporting the upgrade.

This means the reported number of heads never exceeds 16 ( 0-15 ), the number of sectors can be 255 ( 1-255 ; though 63 is often the largest used ) and the number of cylinders can be as large as 65, 536 ( 0-65535 ), limiting disk size to 128 GiB (≈ 137. 4 GB ), assuming 512 byte sectors.

Andrew said he was " confident " that there was no shoot to kill policy in operation and that MI5 had made a mistake in assuming that McCann, Savage and Farrell were carrying a means of causing an explosion when shot.

Grothendieck, with Bombieri, showed the depth of the motivic approach by producing a conditional ( very short and elegant ) proof of the Weil conjectures ( which are proven by different means by Deligne ), assuming the standard conjectures to hold.

Obtaining an authorization means that the insurer is obligated to pay for the service, assuming it matches what was authorized.

It also means that, unlike other races such as the Vulcans and Andorians, the Romulans were able to resist the Terran Empire and to survive the mirror equivalent of the Earth-Romulan War, assuming that one took place to begin with.

Assuming that the landowner has correctly identified the host tree ( s ) and symptom ( s ), has submitted a sample to a local authority to send to an approved laboratory for testing, and has received confirmation that the tree ( s ) are indeed infected with P. ramorum — or, alternatively, assuming that the landowner knows that P. ramorum-infected trees are nearby and wants to protect the resources on his or her property — he or she can attempt control by cultural ( individual-tree ), chemical, or silvicultural ( stand-level ) means.

This means that the thrower, assuming he is throwing the same way every time, must either choose a specific distance for each type of throw or, more practically, make slight adjustments to placement of the knife in the hand as well as angle of release and rotation of the wrist.

After their plan is thwarted, Galactus devours five of the Elders, assuming that his status as being who transcends Death and Eternity means that he does not have to abide by Death's vow.

In the above example, where P ( T | B ) means the probability of T given B, the base rate fallacy is committed by assuming that P ( terrorist | bell ) equals P ( bell | terrorist ) and then adding the premise that P ( bell | terrorist )=

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

Control would be limited to those rodents for which economical means of control are known.

By means of this social control, deviance is either eliminated or somehow made compatible with the function of the social group.

The efforts of various interest groups to control or influence governmental decisions, particularly when taken in conjunction with the impact of industralization, led to a concentration of attention on the legislative power and the means whereby policy could be formulated and enforced as law through bureaucratic institutions.

The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control.

Humans evaluate the acceptability of behavior using social norms and regulate behavior by means of social control.

In a Cold War setting his descriptions could hardly fail to evoke comparison to Soviet communism and the seeming willingness of Stalin and his successors to control those within the Soviet bloc by whatever means necessary.

A proposal by the U. S. to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission ( UNAEC ) to a ) extend between all nations the exchange of basic scientific information for peaceful ends ; b ) implement control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes ; c ) eliminate from national armaments atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction ; and d ) establish effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means to protect complying States against the hazards of violations and evasions.

Joseph Jordania has theorised that removing dead bodies through ritual cannibalism might been a means of predator control, aiming to eliminate predators ' and scavengers ' access to hominid ( and human ) bodies.

The only means of transportation in 60 percent of the country is via waterways, but guerrilla groups control the waterways in the south and southeast.

The addition of extra power and control connections, differential drivers, and data connections in each direction usually means that most serial buses have more conductors than the minimum of one used in 1-Wire and UNI / O.

Kings continued to attempt to control either the direct leadership of the church, or indirectly through political means for centuries.

Individuals are identified in the registry by means of a national identification number ( the so-called kennitala ), a number composed of the date of birth in the format and four additional digits, the third of which is a control digit, and the last of which indicates the century in which the person was born ( 9 for the 1900s and 0 for the 2000s ).

An encrypted VPN can also be used as means of bypassing content control software, especially if the content control software is installed on an Internet gateway or firewall.

In 1934, after Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. took control of DAT Motorcar Co., the last syllable of Datson was changed to " sun ", because " son " also means " loss " ( 損 ) in Japanese, and also to honour the sun depicted in the national flag, hence the name " Datsun ":.

Laboratory display of distillation: 1: A heating device 2: Still pot 3: Still head 4: Thermometer / Boiling point temperature 5: Condenser 6: Cooling water in 7: Cooling water out 8: Distillate / receiving flask 9: Vacuum / gas inlet 10: Still receiver 11: Heat control 12: Stirrer speed control 13: Stirrer / heat plate 14: Heating ( Oil / sand ) bath 15: Stirring means e. g. ( shown ), boiling chips or mechanical stirrer 16: Cooling bath.

Constraining database access operation execution typically means reduced performance ( rates of execution ), and thus concurrency control mechanisms are typically designed to provide the best performance possible under the constraints.

By the time DDT was introduced in the U. S., the disease had already been brought under control by a variety of other means.

Constraining database access operation execution typically means reduced performance ( rates of execution ), and thus concurrency control mechanisms are typically designed to provide the best performance possible under the constraints.

According to distributists, property ownership is a fundamental right and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of the state ( state socialism ) or by an elite of wealthy property owners ( laissez-faire capitalism ).

This helps support distributism's argument that smaller units, families if possible, ought to be in control of the means of production, rather than the large units typical of modern economies.

This led to the rise of mobsters such as the Purple Gang, who regularly traveled across the frozen river and used violence as a means to control the route known as the " Detroit-Windsor Funnel " — parodying the newly built tunnel.

Terracing is an extremely effective means of erosion control, which has been practiced for thousands of years by people all over the world.