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DC-balanced waveforms are useful in communications systems, since they can be used over AC-coupled electrical connections to avoid voltage imbalance problems and charge accumulation between connected systems or components.
All of the components of a coaxial system should have the same impedance to avoid internal reflections at connections between components.
A way to avoid this multitude of direct connections is to connect each processor to just a few others.
His political connections, however, helped him avoid inquiries and courts martial into the debacle.
This effect is most drastic when the TCP connection has a single outstanding segment, when it is able to avoid an RTO timeout ; this is often the case for interactive connections ( such as remote logins ) and transactional protocols ( such as HTTP requests, the conversational phase of SMTP, or SQL requests ).
To avoid this problem, modern browsers either open multiple connections simultaneously or reuse one connection for all files requested from a particular web server.
Meanwhile, the ramps to and from southbound US 101 provide connections to collector / distributor roads leading directly to San Francisco International Airport, allowing traffic between the Interstate and the airport to avoid merging with the main traffic lanes of US Highway 101.
It is common to see static routes defined for these connections in order to avoid extra service charges.
The term is pejorative, with the connotation that such units were havens for those with connections who wished to avoid conscription into more dangerous duty while still gaining the prestige afforded in the United States to military service.
League of Rights publications now warn their readers to avoid the CEC, citing attacks on the British Royal Family for supposed drug connections and LaRouche's criminal convictions.
Nunavut, like the Northwest Territories, is one of the few jurisdictions in the world where non-rectangular licence plates can be found ; which soon may change as the Nunavut government is considering a license plate design change to avoid confusion with that of the Northwest Territories once more road connections and highways are built.
To avoid this problem, modern browsers either open multiple connections simultaneously or reuse one connection for all files requested from a particular web server.
Cable termination and connections must be done properly to avoid arcing also, and soldering is not recommended.
Gross ' ability to avoid being found criminally liable for the murders he is alleged to be involved in may reflect a combination of luck and political connections, more than a bona fide lack of guilt in this crime.

avoid and South
It was known as Anderson Station until the post office was established in November 1855 and the government changed the name of the station from “ Anderson ” to “ Andersonville ” in order to avoid confusion with the post office in Anderson, South Carolina.
The North Vietnamese moved deeper into Cambodia to avoid US and South Vietnamese raids.
: What does seem nowadays proved is that the British troops who had landed on the South Mole area raised their flag to signal their presence to the ships, and avoid being fired upon by their own side.
To avoid gas shortages due to Ukrainian pipeline shutdowns like the one in January 2009, Hungary participates both in the Nabucco and the South Stream gas pipeline projects.
Gigging through Georgia and South Carolina, they again changed their name to the Toccoa Band to avoid confusion with two other groups who shared the Avons moniker.
On March 1, Davis appointed General P. G. T. Beauregard to command all Confederate troops in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, where state officials prepared to take possession of Fort Sumter ; Beauregard was to prepare his forces but avoid an attack on the fort.
South Korea had maintained a Sunshine policy towards North Korea since the 1990s, stressing Korean reunification and thus often going to great lengths to avoid antagonizing the leadership of the country.
To reduce voyage times, Tranz Rail proposed to relocate the South Island terminal of its services to Clifford Bay in Marlborough, which would also avoid a steep section of railway.
The main strategic concern of the United States at that time was to avoid the emergence a left-wing regime in Paraguay, which would be ideally situated at the heart of the South American continent to provide a haven for radicals and a base for revolutionary activities around the hemisphere.
South Korea was one of the few developed countries that was able to avoid a recession during the global financial crisis, and its economic growth rate will reach 6. 1 % in 2010, a sharp recovery from economic growth rates of 2. 3 % in 2008 and 0. 2 % in 2009 when the global financial crisis hit.
Despite the global financial crisis, the South Korean economy, helped by timely stimulus measures and strong domestic consumption of products that compensated for a drop in exports, was able to avoid a recession unlike most industrialized economies, posting positive economic growth for two consecutive years of the crisis.
A North / South orientation is generally desirable for outdoor courts to avoid background glare at dawn or dusk.
* " central route ", to avoid the worst of the Rocky Mountains by following the Platte River in Nebraska and the South Pass in Wyoming, much of the path of the Oregon Trail, or
Greenaway's family left South Wales when he was three years old ( they had moved there originally to avoid the Blitz ) and settled in Chingford, Essex, England.
The canal was named after King William I of the Netherlands, with " South " added to avoid confusion with two other canals commissioned by and named after the King: the Willemsvaart near Zwolle and the Noord-Willemskanaal in the province of Groningen.
The court house was centrally located in the city of Washington, modern-day Fayetteville ( renamed to avoid confusion with Washington, Arkansas in South Arkansas ).
South leads the nine, West has to cover in order to avoid an endplay and the
Written by Affleck and Damon, and with Damon in the title role, the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, a genius who is forced to see a therapist ( Williams ) and study advanced mathematics with a renowned professor ( Skarsgård ) in order to avoid jail time.
Some South American urban guerrillas as the Tupamaros and Montoneros called them " miguelitos " and used these as a tactic to avoid pursuit after ambushes.
In the Sui Dynasty, North China was in a period of war and discontent, and many people moved southwards to avoid war, forming the first mass migration of Han people into the South.
In this resolution the Security Council wrote: Welcomes the proposal that a meeting of experts be convened for the purpose of devising a system of controls to facilitate the implementation of the measures contained in Resolution 1173 ( 1998 ), including arrangements that would allow for increased transparency and accountability in the control of diamonds from their point of origin to the bourses, emphasizes that it is important that, in devising such controls, every effort be made to avoid inflicting collateral damage on the legitimate diamond trade, and welcomes the intention of the Republic of South Africa to host a relevant conference this year
Television, using power from the electrical grid, tunes its rate in order to avoid interference with the alternating current being supplied – in North America, some Central and South American countries, Taiwan, Korea, part of Japan, the Philippines and a few other countries this is 60 video fields per second to match the 60 Hz power, while in most other countries it is 50 fields per second to match the 50 Hz power.
During the years of Transvaal self-government, no-one could avoid the predominant political debate of the day: South African unification.

avoid and African
Sexual assaults on African American women were so pervasive, particularly on the part of their white employers, that black men sought to reduce the contact between white males and black females by having the women in their family avoid doing work that was closely overseen by whites.
This was mainly because both sides tried to avoid overt involvement, which would necessitate a crash in relations with either Morocco or Algeria-the major North African players-and because neither viewed it as an important front.
South African comedy often comprises racial or stereo-type based humour, alternative comedy in South Africa tends to avoid such subject matter.
Down-low is an African American slang term that refers to a subculture of men who usually identify as heterosexual, but who have sex with men ; some avoid sharing this information even if they have female sexual partner ( s ).
In order to avoid bad publicity by refusing initiation to an African American who was an All-American athlete in addition to being an outstanding scholar, the fraternity granted the chapter an exemption.
denigrated the glorious African past and warned Nigerians and all Africans that their energies henceforth should be spent trying to avoid repeating the mistakes that have already been made.
Eventually, they were driven to Swaziland, and from there were flown to Botswana, still disguised as priests to avoid being identified by potentially pro-South African British colonial authorities ( at this time Swaziland was not independent ).
During the 1980s, African Americans began organizing environmental campaigns to avoid poisoning farm workers with pesticides, lead poisoning in inner-city children, the zoning of toxic facilities such as landfills, polluting industrial complexes, and incinerators.
During the South African GP on March 5, TV cameras captured how Tom Pryce was unable to avoid 19-year-old race marshall Frederik Jansen Van Vuuren.
In 1985, when the state of emergency was declared, Mufamadi operated underground to avoid detention, resurfacing to help organise and attend the December 1985 launch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions in Durban, where he was elected Assistant General Secretary at its inaugural rally.
Noting the lack of institutional control and perceiving his departure as mistreatment of an African American coach, blue chip high school players from Baltimore City would largely avoid Maryland until Keith Booth chose to attend Maryland in 1993.
In the South African context … we are called by the poor to a simple life-style and we cannot avoid the struggle of the outcasts and oppressed of the townships and the desperate plight of the poor .”
In the past, some of American pornography's leading white actresses were allegedly warned to avoid African American males, both on-screen and in their personal lives.
In addition, most African nations have at least some wealthy nationals, and foreign aid often allows them to avoid paying more than negligible taxes.
To date, adherence to this principle has allowed African countries to avoid border wars ; the notable exception, the Eritrean – Ethiopian War of 1998 – 2000, had its roots in a secession from an independent African country rather than a conflict between two decolonized neighbours.
A steady immigration of white people followed after the end of the Second World War, and to avoid the immediate introduction of black African rule ( commonly referred to at the time as the Wind of Change ), the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia issued the Unilateral Declaration of Independence and became the de facto independent — albeit unrecognised — state of Rhodesia.
The adoption of the name John Du Prez was to avoid confusion with the South African film composer Trevor Jones.
Nevertheless, attacks on humans are relatively rare, as the snakes usually avoid confrontation with humans and their occurrence in highly populated areas is not as common as some other African species of venomous snakes.
However, its performance prompted some African American lawyers to avoid the event.
The theory is rooted in an allegation made in the film The Maltese Double Cross and by Die Zeit that the United States government knew of the bomb and warned staff from its embassies in Helsinki and Moscow, as well as a high-level South African delegation, to avoid the flight.

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