However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

To avoid the possibility of local usurpations, to facilitate a more efficient collection of taxes and supplies, and to ease the enforcement of the law, Diocletian doubled the number of provinces from fifty to almost one hundred.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

Northwest Orient's Seattle operations manager, Al Lee, approached the aircraft in street clothes ( to avoid the possibility that Cooper might mistake his airline uniform for that of a police officer ) and delivered the cash-filled knapsack and parachutes to Mucklow via the aft stairs.

Another common house rule is that the bottom card of the deck is never given as a replacement, to avoid the possibility of someone who might have seen it during the deal using that information.

A " mixed " control system such as the latter is not desirable and modern FBW aircraft normally avoid it by having more independent FBW channels, thereby reducing the possibility of overall failure to minuscule levels that are acceptable to the independent regulatory and safety authority responsible for aircraft design, testing and certification before operational service.

He also argued that the current framework is moral, both because proving mamzer status sufficiently beyond all doubt is already so difficult that it is rare, and because the mere existence and possibility of mamzerut status, even if rarely enforced, creates an important incentive for divorcing parties to obtain a get ( Jewish religious divorce ) to avoid the sin of adultery.

Not entering a business to avoid the risk of loss also avoids the possibility of earning profits.

A pipe should be allowed to cool before removing the stem to avoid the possibility of warping it.

Chevron said that one way to keep enjoying what they were doing was to avoid making a new album, although he did say that there still is a possibility in the future for new music, but certainly not in the near future.

Fiber Bragg grating temperature sensors are used within nuclear power facilities to monitor reactor core temperatures and avoid the possibility of nuclear meltdowns.

He said that the test would " allow us to avoid the possibility of a brain-dead candidate ".

To avoid the possibility of people stepping on each other's toes, the server only accepts changes made to the most recent version of a file.

Condition number six is required to avoid cooperation breakdown through backwards induction — a possibility suggested by game theoretical models.

In his Memoirs, Sherman noted political pressures in 1864 – 1865 to encourage the escape of slaves, in part to avoid the possibility that "' able-bodied slaves will be called into the military service of the rebels.

Care must therefore be taken to avoid them unless they are compensated by another valuable asset, such as the possibility to develop an attack.

Ian Hacking noted that traditional " Dutch book " arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

This flag is based on the Coat of arms of Luxembourg and is used as the ensign to avoid the possibility of Luxembourg's ensign being confused for that of the Netherlands.

Most dramatically, the Galileo space probe was deliberately destroyed at the end of its mission by crashing it into Jupiter, to avoid the possibility of contaminating the Jovian moon Europa with bacteria from Earth.

( This was to avoid, as one possibility, Britain's expulsion from the Commonwealth.

While many myths indicate Zeus and Leda to be the parents of Helen of Troy, the author of the compilation of myth called Bibliotheke notes the possibility of Nemesis being the mother of Helen ; Nemesis, to avoid Zeus, turns into a goose, but he turns into a swan and mates with her.

To avoid the possibility of the aether wind being blocked by solid walls, his mountaintop observations used a special shed with thin walls, mainly of canvas.

Salem officially became a city on December 31, 1967, to avoid the possibility of annexation into the city of Roanoke.

Beginning with the capture of an agent named Owens, codenamed Snow, MI5 began to offer enemy agents the chance to avoid prosecution ( and thus the possibility of the death penalty ) if they would work as British double-agents.

Immediately after obtaining the throne, he had his younger brother strangled to avoid a plot.

North Korea tried to avoid becoming embroiled in the Sino-Soviet split, obtaining aid from both the Soviet Union and China and trying to avoid dependence on either.

The Hats managed to avoid this prospect by obtaining precedence for the succession question.

Consequently this technique can serve as a means of obtaining the highly focused knowledge that is often not elicited in Joint Requirements Development sessions, where the stakeholder's attention is compelled to assume a more cross-functional context, and the desire to avoid controversy may limit the stakeholders willingness to contribute.

In practice, to avoid the bureaucracy in obtaining an entry visa – again, a process common to most modern states – it was simply easier to enter East Berlin on a day visa and then have an extension arranged at a Reisebüro office in the city.

You can also retrieve your health level to avoid getting killed and having " Game Over " by obtaining " Chinese Meatbuns " that at first, look like onions like in any other game in the so far successful Dynasty Warriors franchise.

Other factors include the tendency of journalists to avoid doing original research, instead obtaining news from the same few wire services, such as Reuters and Associated Press, which themselves tend to cover the same news under the same perspective.

The group changed its name to the " Silvertone Singers " after moving to Knoxville, Tennessee and obtaining their own radio show in order to avoid confusion with another group known as the " Four Kings of Harmony.

Pseudocode, flowcharts and control tables are structured ways to express algorithms that avoid many of the ambiguities common in natural language statements.

To avoid the fall of Évora into the hands of Berber groups of the region, he ordered the destruction of its defensive towers and to lowered the walls, though a year later he decided to reconstruct it, giving its control to his ally Masud ibn Sa ' dun al-Surunbaqi.

The Baron then manipulates Hawat into his service, insuring his control over the Mentat by secretly administering to him a residual poison invented by De Vries ; to avoid death, the antidote for this poison must be taken regularly and continuously.

Although he attempted to regulate his daily routine to maintain more control over his results, his decision to avoid the use of participants sacrificed the external validity of the study despite sound internal validity.

In such cases, economists may attempt to find policies that will avoid waste, either directly by government control, indirectly by regulation that induces market participants to act in a manner consistent with optimal welfare, or by creating " missing markets " to enable efficient trading where none had previously existed.

Afraid that prosecutors might focus on the incitement charge, and that she might be sent to prison without an opportunity to argue for birth control in court, she fled to England under the alias " Bertha Watson " to avoid arrest.

The clinic received a large amount funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make donations to Sanger's causes in future decades, but generally made them anonymously to avoid public exposure of the family name, and to protect family member Nelson Rockefeller's political career since openly advocating birth control could have led to the Catholic Church opposing him politically.

Having the engine, transmission, catalytic converter ( s ) and exhaust all cramped into a small rear engine bay made emission and noise control more difficult, something Porsche was already facing problems with on the 911 and wanted to avoid.

Vying for control to avoid chaos the Crown's Ministers gained an advantage in 1706 when the Commons informally declared, " That this House will receive no petition for any sum of money relating to public Service, but what is recommended from the Crown.

To avoid these problems, plants developed mechanisms that limit sodium uptake by roots, store them in cell vacuoles, and control them over long distances ; excess sodium may also be stored in old plant tissue, limiting the damage to new growth.

One way to avoid this is to cause programs to stop executing after a fixed period of time, or to limit the power of flow control instructions.

VFR require a pilot to be able to see outside the cockpit, to control the aircraft's attitude, navigate, and avoid obstacles and other aircraft.

They were, however, able to avoid the more substantial control which Mercia exerted over smaller kingdoms.

Some MDPL messages were direct carryovers from MIDI, given more pronounceable names in order to avoid ambiguity, but most messages were new and based on a very different, although innovative control logic.

I am convinced that strict control must continue if we are to avoid the evils of a " colour question " in this country, for ourselves and for our children ".

There may be fences to avoid circumventing this access control.

* The less common reason would be a ground control station not being able to transmit ( due to transmitter failure ) or not wanting to transmit any acknowledgment ( to avoid giving away further information and putting a military mission at risk ).

Quality control emphasizes testing of products to uncover defects and reporting to management who make the decision to allow or deny product release, whereas quality assurance attempts to improve and stabilize production ( and associated processes ) to avoid, or at least minimize, issues which led to the defect ( s ) in the first place.

To avoid the dependency on Ethernet infrastructure, the UPSs can be connected directly to main control server by using GSM / GPRS channel also.

Sometimes performance optimizations were so aggressive that operating system control had to be disabled during a demo to avoid a crash or to achieve real-time rendering.

Thus, sex education may also be described as " sexuality education ", which means that it encompasses education about all aspects of sexuality, including information about family planning, reproduction ( fertilization, conception and development of the embryo and fetus, through to childbirth ), plus information about all aspects of one's sexuality including: body image, sexual orientation, sexual pleasure, values, decision making, communication, dating, relationships, sexually transmitted infections ( STIs ) and how to avoid them, and birth control methods.

Arms control treaties and agreements are often seen as a way to avoid costly arms races which would prove counter-productive to national aims and future peace.

The administration from the Government of Ukraine retains formal control of Sevastopol's life ( such as of taxation and police ) and tries to avoid confrontation with the Black Sea Fleet command and pro-Russian groups.