There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.

There remained only the delicate task of maneuvering the laws through the labyrinth of Palace politics and making a small number of policy decisions.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

A small number of pockets of land on the right-hand side of the river Dragonja in Istria have remained under Croatian jurisdiction after the river was re-routed after the Second World War.

Digamma ( or wau, uppercase, lowercase ; as a numeral: stigma, ϛ ) ( compare sigma ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which originally stood for the sound and later remained in use only as a symbol for the number " 6 ".

The fish community of this lake has remained stable over a long period until a number of introduced species | introductions in the 1970s restructured its food web.

The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs ' " Love Is All Around " performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 in the British charts for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth ( now twelfth ) biggest selling single of all time in Britain.

The number has varied slightly but remained roughly stable since then, with 759 clubs participating in 2010 – 11, a record 763 in 2011-12 and 758 for 2012-13.

The inflectional categories of the Greek verb have likewise remained largely the same over the course of the language's history, though with significant changes in the number of distinctions within each category and their morphological expression.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

Although they remained married until Holt's death in 1967, Zara's memoirs confirmed longstanding rumours that Holt had a number of extramarital affairs.

These laws decreased the number of child labourers ; however, child labour remained in Europe and the United States up to the 20th century.

The number of working days lost in the country due to strikes rose sharply to more than 25, 000, 000 in 1984, though most of these were miners on strike, and from then on the number of working days lost in Britain due to strikes remained in the low millions.

A very serious narcotic habit can develop in a matter of weeks, whereas iatrogenic morphine addiction rates have, according to a number of studies, remained nearly constant at one case in 150 to 200 for at least two centuries.

A number of continental European émigrés to Britain and the United States — including Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar — encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their students remained at odds with the analytic establishment.

Although the number of cellular phones has grown enormously, surpassing that for standard ( i. e., landline ) telephones in 2003, the overall ratio of phones per capita has nonetheless remained much smaller than it is for the developed countries.

Since the destruction of the Second Temple, and ( therefore ) the cessation of the daily and seasonal temple ceremonies and sacrifices, Kohanim in traditional Judaism ( Orthodox Judaism and to some extent, Conservative Judaism ) continue to perform a number of priestly ceremonies and roles such as the Pidyon HaBen ( redemption of a first-born son ) ceremony and the Priestly Blessing, and have remained subject, particularly in Orthodox Judaism, to a number of restrictions, such as restrictions on certain marriages and ritual purity ( see Kohanic disqualifications ).

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

Nonetheless, a small number of farms remained.

For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.

There must be a fixed number n of repeated trials.

Experiment without a fixed number of trials.

Here the number of trials is a random variable, not a fixed number.

Therefore, given any positive integer n, it produces a string with Kolmogorov complexity at least as great as n. The program itself has a fixed length U. The input to the program GenerateComplexString is an integer n. Here, the size of n is measured by the number of bits required to represent n, which is log < sub > 2 </ sub >( n ).

The axopods are fixed in number.

In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.

The eastern parts of Berlin have many Plattenbauten, reminders of Eastern Bloc ambitions to create complete residential areas that had fixed ratios of shops, kindergartens and schools to the number of inhabitants.

In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal ( BCD ) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each decimal digit is represented by a fixed number of bits, usually four or eight, although other sizes ( such as six bits ) have been used historically.

Bézier curves are also used in the time domain, particularly in animation and interface design, e. g., a Bézier curve can be used to specify the velocity over time of an object such as an icon moving from A to B, rather than simply moving at a fixed number of pixels per step.

The CPU requires a fixed number of clock ticks ( or clock cycles ) to execute each instruction.

In the United States, the term for most existing works is a fixed number of years after the date of creation or publication.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

* There are a small, fixed number of keywords, including a full set of flow of control primitives:,,,, and.

The number of pentamers is fixed but the number of hexamers can vary.

*"( B. 1 ) ( Boundedness ) There is a fixed bound on the number of symbolic configurations a computor can immediately recognize.

*"( B. 2 ) ( Boundedness ) There is a fixed bound on the number of internal states a computor can be in.

The simplest checksum algorithm is the so-called longitudinal parity check, which breaks the data into " words " with a fixed number n of bits, and then computes the exclusive or of all those words.

At the primary school level Corsican is taught up to a fixed number of hours per week ( three in the year 2000 ) and is a voluntary subject at the secondary school level, but is required at the University of Corsica.

A record is a value that contains other values, typically in fixed number and sequence and typically indexed by names.

The color of a pixel is represented by a fixed number of bits.

The number of elements in a sequence is not fixed ( i. e. the size of the vector / array does not have to be declared ).

In the Sanskrit oral tradition, there was much emphasis on how long ( L ) syllables mix with the short ( S ), and counting the different patterns of L and S within a given fixed length results in the Fibonacci numbers ; the number of patterns that are m short syllables long is the Fibonacci number F < sub > m + 1 </ sub >.