Obviously, very slight changes in P do not change the probabilities much, and a slight lack of independence may not make an appreciable difference.

A slight change in the work schedule may cut the production of cows or chickens.

# Selection is overwhelmingly the main mechanism of change ; even slight advantages are important when continued.

The other major change in the scene is that the renamed Knights no longer demand another shrubbery, but this time that King Arthur put on a musical and take it to Broadway ( on the slight condition that it doesn't have anything to do with Andrew Lloyd Webber ).

A change in angle, albeit small, will have a detrimental effect ( especially with stereo recordings ) by creating different forces on the two groove walls, as well as a slight timing shift between left / right channels.

If the object is moving either toward or away from the transmitter, there is a slight equivalent change in the frequency of the radio waves, caused by the Doppler effect.

The slight change in line impedance caused by the introduction of a tap or splice will show up on the screen of a TDR when connected to a phone line.

The direction of rotation can be switched almost instantaneously, caused by a slight change in the position of a protein, FliG, in the rotor.

She may have owed her change of luck to the physician Jean Fernel, who had noticed slight abnormalities in the couple's sexual organs and advised them how to solve the problem.

In 2008, the format of Climax Series will have a slight change, in which the second stage will be played for 6-games, and in which the League Champion will have an extra 1-game advantage.

The album was also released in November 1963 by Capitol Records in Canada, with a slight change to the title: Beatlemania!

The word metamerism is often incorrectly used to indicate a metameric failure rather than a match, or to describe a situation in which two colors are highly metameric, and hence the metameric match is easily degraded by a slight change in conditions, such as a change in the illuminant.

He would perhaps have been the first to admit that his 8 meters and 10 % were nearly completely judgement calls, and that slight variations in either direction would change the overall date significantly.

Cocker and Dalton used this, with a slight spelling change, and the band became " Arabicus ".

Agoracritus, indignant at his defeat, made some slight alterations so as to change his Venus into a Nemesis ( the goddess of retribution or revenge ), and sold it to the people of Rhamnus on the condition that it should never be set up in Athens.

These drop-outs are audible to audiences as a change in volume level and a slight loss of fidelity and extreme high and low-end, similar to a " CD skipping ", although it is more difficult to tell in a properly calibrated auditorium.

Any slight change in the spent time would then be observed as a shift in the positions of the interference fringes.

# Natural selection is by far the main mechanism of change ; even slight advantages are important when continued.

On at least two occasions he was able to alter the exact of the railroad to suit his own interests: organizing a bend in the road so it would pass through his town of Normal and making a slight change in the survey so it would pass through the Livingston County town of Pontiac, where he had interests rather than the rival town of Richmond.

“ The Greeks ” measure the sensitivity to change of the option price under a slight change of a single parameter while holding the other parameters fixed.

This plat was amended in 1877, including a slight change to the position of Stuart Street.

Originally designed for the sterilization of plastic bottles in the beverage industry, because of the high germ reduction and the slight temperature increase the dry sterilization process is also useful for medical and pharmaceutical applications.

However, more sophisticated Autons can be created, which look and act human except for a slight plastic sheen to the skin and a flat sounding voice.

Kryten's design is mostly plastic, but there are some slight organic elements in his construction.

As a result, he now has a permanent hole in his head, filled by a plastic plug, and slight hearing loss in one ear.

The tightening of a fastener's screw thread is comparable to driving a wedge into a gap until it sticks fast through friction and slight plastic deformation.

The array was encased in a red plastic housing, bearing a slight resemblance to an overgrown touch-tone telephone.

Some commercial plastic refuges for caged rodents have a shallow, concave, rotatable disc mounted on the roof at a slight angle.

The Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system for determining which years were leap years and thus contained a 29-day February.

Lower-stakes games made a slight comeback in daytime in the early 1960s ; examples include Jeopardy!

The search was largely abandoned in the early 1990s, when a study of measurements made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft found that the irregularities observed in Uranus's orbit were due to a slight overestimation of Neptune's mass.

The Rosetta Stone was originally displayed at a slight angle from the horizontal, and rested within a metal cradle that was made for it, which involved shaving off very small portions of its sides to ensure that the cradle fitted securely.

This has made it possible to measure, say, the distance to the Moon with sub-centimeter accuracy ( see Lunar laser ranging experiment ), to measure slight movement of tectonic plates using GPS with sub-millimeter accuracy, or even to measure as slight variations in the distance between two mirrors separated by several kilometers as 10 < sup >− 18 </ sup > m — three orders of magnitude less than the size of a single atomic nucleus — see LIGO.

" circular and elliptical polarizations can be obtained using various feed arrangements or slight modifications made to the elements ... Circular polarization can be obtained if two orthogonal modes are excited with a 90 ° time-phase difference between them.

Reynolds was less enthusiastic about Raphael's panel paintings, but the slight sentimentality of these made them enormously popular in the 19th century :" We have been familiar with them from childhood onwards, through a far greater mass of reproductions than any other artist in the world has ever had ..." wrote Wölfflin, who was born in 1862, of Raphael's Madonnas.

Today Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE ), also known as the World Chess Organization, sets the standard rules, with slight modifications made by some national organizations for their own purposes.

After he showed his cabinet the document, slight alterations were made in the wording.

To the work as the last-named left it, only slight additions were made by the Saboraim.

Asimov himself made slight modifications to the first three in various books and short stories to further develop how robots would interact with humans and each other.

The Bloc made slight gains following the 2008 federal elections as they won 49 seats, one more than the amount they had before the previous parliament was dissolved.

Doctors who made an examination, certified to a slight fracture of the radius of the left arm.

His cousin reported that Whistler at that time was " slight, with a pensive, delicate face, shaded by soft brown curls … he had a somewhat foreign appearance and manner, which, aided by natural abilities, made him very charming, even at that age.

However he made a rapid recovery and was left with only a slight limp.

In some species, a slight depression is made on the detritus for maturing larvae that the adult beetles feed and protect.

Several years later, de Havilland remembered the slight and exacted her own revenge by brushing past Fontaine, who was waiting with her hand extended, because de Havilland allegedly took offense at a comment Fontaine had made about de Havilland's husband.

Later a three and a half mile section of the track was picked up and moved west a number of blocks starting at the corner of 99th St. E. and 17th Ave. E. At this corner the original track bed made a very slight bend to the south.

By creating a slight bulge in the middle of the cylinder, a ring-shaped lake can be made to form.

A scratch made at the edge of the wafer and a slight bending force causes a nearly atomically perfect mirror-like cleavage plane to form and propagate in a straight line across the wafer.

Another style of sparkling wine found in France are those made according to the methode ancestrale which skips the process of disgorgement and produces wines with slight sweetness and still containing the particles of dead yeast matter in the form of lees in the bottle.

The logo which, with slight variation, has been used since 1978. In 1978 Logan moved on, and his deputy Neil Spencer was made editor.