When subjected to an electromagnetic field the paramagnetic particles change spacing, modifying their color and reflective properties.

When modifying suspension bridges engineers have to be constantly aware of the distribution of weight.

When discussing general relativity, it refers to the result of modifying Newtonian physics to incorporate special relativity.

When the target site is hemimethylated, the complex acts as a maintenance methyltransferase, modifying the DNA so that both strands become methylated.

When early pioneers began migrating to the western United States, there were no catch limits on fish and no laws preventing people from modifying fish habitats to meet human needs for water, food, and safety.

When a gunsmith does a ' trigger job ' to improve the quality and release of a trigger pull, most often the work includes modifying the sear, such as polishing it, lapping etc.

When modifying the International Nonproprietary Name of a pharmaceutical substance containing the group or anion, the correct spelling is mesilate ( as in imatinib mesilate, the mesylate salt of imatinib ).

When introduced, the blood cholesterol lowering effect was achieved by modifying the triacylglycerol ( TAG ) profile of the fat used in the margarine: an increased level of poly-unsaturated fatty acids ( PUFA ) reduces the blood cholesterol level ( see e. g. A. Keys et al., Serum cholesterol response to changes in the diet.

When a portion of index is locked by a transaction, other transactions may be blocked from accessing this index portion ( blocked from modifying, and even from reading it, depending on lock type and needed operation ).

When modifying source ports, PAT devices typically remove source port randomness implemented by nameservers and stub resolvers.

When modifying these fishing conventions in 1928, according to the activities of Soviet Fishing Organizations, citizens were subject to substantial reductions.

; Reddendo singula singulis (" refers only to the last "): When a list of words has a modifying phrase at the end, the phrase refers only to the last, e. g., firemen, policemen, and doctors in a hospital.

When modifying art in his computer, he uses Photoshop.

When operating in “ 2600 ” mode to play Atari 2600 titles, the 7800 uses a Television Interface Adapter ( TIA ) chip to generate graphics and sound.

When this hydrological link is not present, the Black Sea is a lake, operating independent of the global ocean system.

When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.

When Data General introduced the Data General Nova, a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS operating system on its own hardware clone.

When a program needs memory, it requests it from the operating system.

When the cache client ( a CPU, web browser, operating system ) needs to access a datum presumed to exist in the backing store, it first checks the cache.

When a transition between user mode and kernel mode is required in an operating system, a context switch is not necessary ; a mode transition is not by itself a context switch.

When the code is executed, the platform-specific VES will compile the CIL to the machine language according to the specific hardware and operating system.

When an application makes a request that requires a domain name lookup, such programs send a resolution request to the DNS resolver in the local operating system, which in turn handles the communications required.

Though attractive in many cases, a general-purpose DBMS is not always the optimal solution: When certain applications are pervasive with many operating instances, each with many users, a general-purpose DBMS may introduce unnecessary overhead and too large " footprint " ( too large amount of unnecessary, unutilized software code ).

When the 4GL was first introduced, a disparate mix of hardware and operating systems mandated custom application development support that was specific to the system in order to ensure sales.

Le Laboratoire des Hallucinations, by André de Lorde: When a doctor finds his wife's lover in his operating room, he performs a graphic brain surgery rendering the adulterer a hallucinating semi-zombie.

When the IBM PC was introduced, IBM sold its operating system as an unbundled ( but necessary ) option.

When privacy extensions are enabled, the operating system generates ephemeral IP addresses by concatenating a randomly generated host identifier with the assigned network prefix.

When free and open source Unix-like operating systems such as GNU / Linux and 386BSD became available in the early 1990s many volunteer software developers abandoned MINIX in favor of these.

When Mach was first being seriously used in the 2. x versions, performance was slower than traditional monolithic operating systems, perhaps as much as 25 %.

When Mach 3 attempted to move most of the operating system into user-space, the overhead became higher still: benchmarks between Mach and Ultrix on a MIPS R3000 showed a performance hit as great as 67 % on some workloads.

When Richard Stallman and the GNU team were implementing POSIX for the GNU operating system, they objected to this on the grounds that most people think in terms of 1024 byte ( or 1 KiB ) blocks.

When the critical section is longer than a few source code lines or involves lengthy looping, an embedded / real-time algorithm must resort to using mechanisms identical or similar to those available on general-purpose operating systems, such as semaphores and OS-supervised interprocess messaging.

When the original IBM-PC was created in 1980, there were three leading competing operating systems: PC-DOS, CP / M-86, and UCSD p-System, while Xenix was added in 1983-1984.

When a reference is made to a page by the hardware, if the page table entry for the page indicates that it is not currently in real memory, the hardware raises a page fault exception, invoking the paging supervisor component of the operating system.

When an operating system with a native windowing system hosts X in addition, the X system can either use its own normal desktop in a separate host window or it can run rootless, meaning the X desktop is hidden and the host windowing environment manages the geometry and appearance of the hosted X windows within the host screen.

When the Macedonian army approaches Thracian Chersonese ( the Gallipoli Peninsula ), an Athenian general named Diopeithes ravages this district of Thrace, thus inciting Philip's rage for operating too near one of his towns in the Chersonese.

When operating away from planetary magnetospheres, a magnetic sail would force the positively charged protons of the solar wind to curve as they passed through the magnetic field.

When compared with more modern operating systems.

When the centrifugal force term is expressed in terms of parameters of the rotating frame, replacing with, it can be seen that it is the same centrifugal force previously derived for rotating reference frames.

When first connected to a network, a host sends a link-local router solicitation multicast request for its configuration parameters ; if configured suitably, routers respond to such a request with a router advertisement packet that contains network-layer configuration parameters.

When a MIDI continuous controller number is assigned to one of these parameters, the device will respond to any messages it receives that are identified by that number.

When parameters are present, the definition actually defines a whole family of functions, one for every valid set of values of the parameters.

* Immediate updates: When dealing with the public in any capacity, laws, specifications, and parameters can change.

When comparing the predicted expansion rate of the universe as given by the tracker solutions with cosmological data, a main feature of tracker solutions is that one needs four parameters to properly describe the behavior of their equation of state, whereas it has been shown that at most a two-parameter model can optimally be constrained by mid-term future data ( horizon 2015-2020 ).

When refracted by a diffraction-limited lens, a Gaussian beam is transformed into another Gaussian beam ( characterized by a different set of parameters ), which explains why it is a convenient, widespread model in laser optics.

When operating within a set of parameters where hydrates could be formed, there are still ways to avoid their formation.

When he returned to Paris, he also went on to Russia to participate in the International Congress of Writers ' Solidarity towards the Soviet Regime ( not to be confused with the First Congress of Soviet Writers of 1934, which solidified the parameters for Socialist Realism ).

When applied to a data set and given a statistical model, maximum-likelihood estimation provides estimates for the model's parameters.

When the number of control points exceeds the minimum required to define the appropriate transformation model, iterative algorithms like RANSAC can be used to robustly estimate the parameters of a particular transformation type ( e. g. affine ) for registration of the images.

When working digitally, all parameters can simply be stored in a DAW project file and recalled instantly.

When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to cover only commissioned US Navy ships with assigned names.

When both parameters are less than one ( α < 1 and β < 1 ), this is the anti-mode: the lowest point of the probability density curve.

When estimating parameters from data, it is often necessary to compute the partial derivatives of the parameters at a given data point t ( see ):

* When the entropy ( S ) and " external parameters " ( e. g. volume ) of a closed system are held constant, the internal energy ( U ) decreases and reaches a minimum value at equilibrium.

* When the temperature ( T ) and external parameters of a closed system are held constant, the Helmholtz free energy ( F ) decreases and reaches a minimum value at equilibrium.

* When the pressure ( p ) and external parameters of a closed system are held constant, the enthalpy ( H ) decreases and reaches a minimum value at equilibrium.

* When the temperature ( T ), pressure ( p ) and external parameters of a closed system are held constant, the Gibbs free energy ( G ) decreases and reaches a minimum value at equilibrium.

When the function returns, these locals and parameters are " popped.