This " check yes or no " approach means approval voting is one of the simplest voting systems to use.

This means that when judges try cases they must check to see if similar cases have been tried by a court previously.

As a means to check the opposition, the military authority created the Korean Central Intelligence Agency ( KCIA ) in June 1961, with Kim Jong-pil, a relative of Park, as its first director.

This means that clients may check out and compare versions with either a blank or simple published password ( e. g., " anoncvs "); only the check-in of changes requires a personal account and password in these scenarios.

As the metadata is always in a consistent state after a file system check, corruption here means that contents of files are merged in unexpected ways with the contained file system's metadata.

The popular Hilton HHonors guest loyalty program was featured in the 2009 film Up in the Air as means of product placement in which various characters present their branded Hilton HHonors membership cards to check in to Hilton hotels throughout the film.

By means of an error detection code, such as a checksum, the transport protocol may check that the data is not corrupted, and verify correct receipt by sending an ACK or NACK message to the sender.

But his moral superiority was reduced too by the violent means, included fratricides, by which he intended to suppress it or check them, which at times veered in the extremely despotic and unpredictable, even by the standards of his age.

Shooting rabbits is one of the most common control methods and can successfully be used to keep already low populations in check whilst providing food for people or pets, though large scale eradication requires different means.

Leases will need to be periodically renewed, to check a service is still alive, which means if a service fails or becomes unreachable, it can be timed out.

* Shearing interferometer, in optics, a simple and very common means to check the collimation of beams by observing interference

Vehicles equipped with OBD-II diagnostic systems are designed to alert the driver to a misfire condition by means of flashing the " check engine " light on the dashboard.

One can check for the presence of ANAs in blood serum by means of a laboratory test.

* " To wand " is a colloquial verb that means to check something with a handheld metal detector, such as at the airport and high security buildings.

The mission's stated objectives were to " check and improve scientific and technical methods and means of studying geological features of the Earth's surface in the interests of the national economies of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic.

Swan upping is a means of establishing a swan census and today also serves to check the health of swans.

That it is an orthogonal matrix means that its rows are a set of orthogonal unit vectors ( so they are an orthonormal basis ) as are its columns, making it simple to spot and check if a matrix is a valid rotation matrix.

* The Employment Act of 1946 created a clear legal obligation on the part of the federal government to use all practical means ‘ to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power .’ The Act also established “ the basic core of machinery for such economic planning – the Council of Economic Advisers working directly for the President, and the joint Committee on the Economic report in Congress .” Under the Employment Act, within two decades following its passage, swift measures taken by the Federal Reserve authorities and by the administration in charge held in check four recessions, those of 1948-49, 1953 – 54, 1957 – 58, and 1960-61.

The term " checkmate " also has origins in the term " check ", which means temporarily stop, and which also is in the chessplaying context related to the term " chess ", which derives from the French word " echecs ", which is derived from the alternating black and white pattern of an eschequier, or counting table, a pattern which was duplicated in larger form in some countries on the floor of the exchequer, a central bank, and whence such related terms as " checkers " and " checkered " were brought about.

One bell means that another check stand needs to be opened.

* They provide a means for users to specify input to computational systems that is easier to read and check than plain text input and output from computational systems that is easy to understand or ready for publication.

Index checking means that, in all expressions indexing an array, first check the index value against the bounds of the array which were established when the array was defined, and should an index be out of bounds, further execution is suspended via some sort of error.

Using different weights on neighboring numbers means that most transpositions change the check digit ; however, because all weights differ by an even number, this does not catch transpositions of two digits that differ by 5, ( 0 and 5, 1 and 6, 2 and 7, 3 and 8, 4 and 9 ), since the 2 and 5 multiply to yield 10.

* Check bill ( means I want to get a check in a restaurant );

If students forget what a phrase means, they can glance at the board and check the meaning at any time.

“ Rational behavior, in economics, means that individuals maximize thier utility function under the constraints they face ( e. g., their budget constraint, limited choices, ...) in pursuit of their self-interest.

This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent ; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion ; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him / her to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

These three constraints are often competing constraints: increased scope typically means increased time and increased cost, a tight time constraint could mean increased costs and reduced scope, and a tight budget could mean increased time and reduced scope.

Without the constraint of requiring solution by ruler and compass alone, the problem is easily solvable by a wide variety of geometric and algebraic means, and has been solved many times in antiquity.

This also means that when all four possibilities are encoded, the overall model is not identifiable in the absence of additional constraints such as a regularization constraint.

This means that the first bit must be a 1 to satisfy the leftmost constraint.

The first of these is often expressed as the principle of counting constraints: if we have a number N of parameters to adjust ( i. e. we have N degrees of freedom ), and a constraint means we have to ' consume ' a parameter to satisfy it, then the codimension of the solution set is at most the number of constraints.

This means that s ( 3 ) of the Human Rights Act could require the court to depart from the unambiguous meaning that legislation would otherwise bear subject to the constraint that this modified interpretation must be one “ possible ” interpretation of the legislation.

* In interaction design, a behavior-shaping constraint, a means of preventing undesirable user input usually made by mistake.

The main issue before the Court was whether it was within the power of the Congress to prevent one company from acquiring numerous others through means that might have been considered legal in common law, but still posed a significant constraint on competition by mere virtue of their size and market power, as implied by the Antitrust Act.

More formally, the shadow price is the value of the Lagrange multiplier at the optimal solution, which means that it is the infinitesimal change in the objective function arising from an infinitesimal change in the constraint.

That means the nominal loop is not allowed to have its frequency value below the constraint for the same frequency, and at high frequencies the loop should not cross the Ultra High Frequency Boundary ( UHFB ), which has an oval shape in the center of the NC.

This means that the initial conditions obey a constraint, and the Cauchy surface is not of the same character as when the future and the past are disjoint.

It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.

Until tangible and mutually enforceable arms reduction measures are worked out we will not weaken the means of defending our institutions.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

This means an added burden to innumerable postmen, who already are complaining of heavy loads and low pay, and it presumably means an increased postal deficit, but, our correspondent writes, think of the additional junk mail each citizen will now be privileged to receive on a regular basis.

Recognizing the truth of the statement by the Institute of Public Administration that `` Metropolian Planning ( in Rhode Island ) means, or should mean, state planning '', the state guide plan will take into account the metropolitan nature of many of Rhode Island's problems.

In preparing the state guide plan, particular attention will be given means of strengthening the economy of the state through the development of industry and recreation.

Survivability of our strategic forces ( Polaris, mobile and hardened Minuteman, hardened Atlas and Titan, and airborne Skybolt ) means that it will take some time, perhaps weeks, to destroy a strategic force.

If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.

Any irregularity on the piston heads will make it impossible, with normal means, to determine the final combustion chamber volume because the volume displaced by the piston heads cannot be readily computed.

by means of an origin statement which refers to an actual address, the corresponding index word will be reserved.

If the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.

To the extent, then, that declining U.S. prestige means that other nations will be tempted to place their bets on an ultimate American defeat, and will thus be more vulnerable to Soviet intimidation, there is reason for concern.

The country will not change until it re-examines itself and discovers what it really means by freedom.

This means that the antennae of the congregation are extended into the community, picking up the wave lengths of those who will fit into the social and economic level of the congregation ; ;

the lay ministry is a means to recruit like-minded people who will strengthen the social class nucleus of the congregation.

and when this is done it will be found that the principles governing Christian resistance cut across the distinction between violent and non-violent means, and apply to both alike, justifying either on occasion and always limiting either action.

Interviews with several church leaders have disclosed that this development has raised the question whether the Peace Corps will be able to prevent confusion for church and state over methods, means and goals.

That means Stan Musial probably will ride the bench on the seventh anniversary of his record five-home run day against the Giants.

Since the Catholic Church expresses such desire that the Sacred Scriptures be read, the following taken from the Holy Bible ( New Catholic Edition ) will prove a means of grace and a source of great spiritual blessing.

It will continue to be important as a means of orientation to the Negro, seeking to become urbanized, as he tries to make adjustment to the urban life.

The practical definition may lead to confusion with the definition of a coulomb ( i. e., 1 amp-second ), but in practical terms this means that measures of a constant current ( e. g., the nominal flow of charge per second through a simple circuit ) will be defined in amperes ( e. g., " a 20 mA circuit ") and the flow of charge through a circuit over a period of time will be defined in coulombs ( e. g., " a variable-current circuit that flows a total of 10 coulombs over 5 seconds ").