While there is no single definition of a distributed system, the following defining properties are commonly used:

* Niall Lucy points to the impossibility of defining the term at all, noting that: " While in a sense it is impossibly difficult to define, the impossibility has less to do with the adoption of a position or the assertion of a choice on deconstruction ’ s part than with the impossibility of every ‘ is ’ as such.

While the terms may differ from industry to industry, the actual stages typically follow common steps to problem solving —" defining the problem, weighing options, choosing a path, implementation and evaluation.

While there is no authoritative list of the defining characteristics of the screwball comedy genre, films considered to be definitive of the genre usually feature farcical situations, a combination of slapstick with fast-paced repartee and show the struggle between economic classes.

While civil law systems have traditionally put great pains in defining the notion of private property, how it may be acquired, transferred, or lost, socialist law systems provide for most property to be owned by the state or by agricultural co-operatives, and having special courts and laws for state enterprises.

While many of the root meanings for the idea of a " general systems theory " might have been lost in the translation and many were led to believe that the systems theorists had articulated nothing but a pseudoscience, systems theory became a nomenclature that early investigators used to describe the interdependence of relationships in organization by defining a new way of thinking about science and scientific paradigms.

While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words " fundamental freedoms " and " human rights " appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states.

While in Con's wireframe model, it does not include information about inside and outside boundary surfaces. Now-a-days in mechanical design wireframe models are used in defining complex solid objects.

While the term meantone temperament refers primarily to the tempering of 5-limit musical intervals, optimum values for the 5-limit also work well for the 7-limit, defining septimal meantone temperament.

While cultural universals are by definition part of the mores of every society ( hence also called " empty universals "), the customary norms specific to a given society are a defining aspect of the cultural identity of a ethnicity or a nation.

While overtone techniques are not a defining feature of yoik, individuals sometimes utilize overtones in the production of yoik.

An alternative definition uses job security as the measure of formality, defining participants in the informal economy as those ' who do not have employment security, work security and social security .” While both of these definitions imply a lack of choice or agency in involvement with the informal economy, participation may also be driven by a wish to avoid regulation or taxation.

While imprisoned for having taken part in a nonviolent protest, Dr. King wrote the now famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, a defining treatise in his cause against segregation.

While these guidelines can be violated, by committing too many violations one risks departing from the defining features of the dance.

While MIDI 1. 0 by itself provides a communications protocol which ensures that different instruments can interoperate at a fundamental level ( e. g., that pressing keys on a MIDI keyboard will cause an attached MIDI sound module to play musical notes ), GM goes further in two ways: it requires that all GM-compatible synthesizers meet a certain minimal set of features, such as being able to play at least 24 notes simultaneously ( polyphony ), and it attaches specific interpretations to many parameters and control messages which were left under-specified in the MIDI 1. 0 spec, such as defining instrument sounds for each of the 128 possible program numbers.

While differences in the electoral system play their role in defining the number of parties and their influence once in power ( proportional, first past the post, etc.

While defining race is controversial,

While the government issues directives defining what can be published, it does not prevent, and in fact encourages outlets to compete for viewers and advertising.

While lacking any of the defining structural characteristics-agency ; self-maintenance ; I-ness ; Self Transcendence-of the previous two holons, Artifacts are useful to include in a comprehensive scheme due to their potential to replicate aspects of and profoundly affect ( via, say interpretation ) the previously described holons.

While much can be said about the commercial use of the waterway, the recreational facilities that line its shore also contributed to defining its character.

While financial institutions are among the most aggressive in defining FCPA best practices, manufacturing, retailing and energy industries are highly active in managing FCPA compliance programs.

While many approaches to defining butoh — as with any performative tradition — will focus on formalism or semantic layers, another approach is to focus on physical technique.

While this endpoint is not realistic because most materials will fail before reaching it, it is practical, in that small fractions of the defining load will operate in exactly the same ratio.

While alpine glaciers are a defining feature of the Cascade Range as a whole, this is especially true of the North Cascades.

While overlooking the town Johnny asks her her opinion about what makes a person, and what happens to a person if their most defining trait is taken from them, in this case Johnny's ability to paint ( similar to Devi's current case ).

While abrasive, grindcore achieved a measure of mainstream visibility.

While the traffic management benefits of migrating to MPLS are quite valuable ( better reliability, increased performance ), there is a significant loss of visibility and access into the MPLS cloud for IT departments.

While this means that his name and ideas lack the visibility of a Marx,

While improving visibility and illumination inside the box, these were vulnerable to damage.

While MSU students and alumni often refer to the Spartan statue as Sparty, the incarnation of Sparty with national visibility is that of a costumed mascot who appears at athletic events and other university-related functions.

While it can be brought on by disturbances or disease within the vestibular system, it is more typically a temporary condition resulting from flight into poor weather conditions with low or no visibility.

While male nurses experience heightened visibility, they are more often mistaken for physicians than are female nurses, despite wearing a nurse uniform.

While the film depicted this action taking place in balmy weather and good visibility in terrain of rolling hills, it actually took place in the bitter winter of 1945 at the edge of a forest on the flat Alsatian Plain in conditions of poor visibility.

While target shooters generally prefer a matte black finish to their sights, to reduce the chance of glare and increase the contrast between the sights and the light bars, black sights don't offer good visibility with dark targets or in low light conditions, such as those often encountered in hunting, military, or self defense situations.

While surviving the accident intact, it had a profound affect on Prost who never forgot the sight of the Ferrari flying over his car, the crash firming his views on driving F1 cars in the wet where visibility was virtually zero if behind another car.

While the most popular open source and hosted applications share the advantages that institutional repositories bring to institutions, such as increased visibility and impact of research output, interoperability and availability of technical support, institutional repository advocates tend to favour open source solutions for the reason that they are by their nature more compatible with the ideology of the freedom and independence of the internet from commercial interests.

While the top of the tower is directly visible from most rooftops of Madrid, it is unclear why this site located in a depression was selected when a site located in higher terrain would have given it better visibility and coverage with reduced height from the base.

While Frank was giving Geoffrey a blood transfusion to save him, this purged the duocane from Geoffrey's system, restoring both his visibility and his sanity.

While reduced visibility in the valley was due to sulfur emissions in the past, it is now due to fine particles in the air.

While the visibility of Hinduism in Thai society has been diminished substantially during the Chakri dynasty, Hindu influences, particularly shrines to the god Brahma, continue to be seen in and around Buddhist institutions and ceremonies.

While clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.

While the civil market has had weather radar for a while, there are strict rules about using it to navigate the aircraft.

While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.

While there was a ban on using Aristotle's works as teaching texts, theologians like Alexander continued to exploit his ideas in their theology.

While most urban and suburban transport in Bulgaria is composed of buses ( using an increasing number of CNG vehicles ), around a dozen cities also have trolley bus networks.

# While a record is playing, beatmatch a new record to it, using headphones for monitoring.

While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.

While on his first cross-country tour, he appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and defied that conservative show's ban on using drums of any sort.

While seventeenth century English admiralty law allowed captains great leeway in using violence against their crew, outright murder was not permitted.

While using Cerebra and talking to Beast during the Messiah Complex storyline, Charles detects a new mutant so powerful it fries Cerebra's system.

While there were some papers from before that time, this collection documented an entire variety of finished, working audio coders, nearly all of them using perceptual ( i. e. masking ) techniques and some kind of frequency analysis and back-end noiseless coding.

While sinologists increasingly prefer the term Daoism, traditionalists continue using the well-known Taoism.

While an official movement exists in Lutheran congregations celebrate Eucharist weekly, using formal rites very similar to the Roman Catholic and " high " Anglican services, it was historically common for congregations to celebrate monthly or even quarterly.

While it establishes some common EU rules on the SE, these rules are incomplete, and the holes in the rules are to be filled in using the law of the member state in which the SE is registered.

While taxonomists using molecular phylogenetic techniques find strong support for the order, there remain questions about the morphological relationships of the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae to the rest of the order, due in part to limited research on these families.

While usually harmless, Mike is not above using underhanded tactics to get his way — in A Hole in the Heart ( series 3 ), he steals a story from Marty because viewers are responding positively to it, while in Addicted to Fame, he demands that Geoffrey's television show be cancelled because he is jealous of the attention his friend is getting.

E. W. Gilbert's version ( 1958 ) of John Snow ( physician ) | John Snow's 1855 map of the Soho cholera outbreak showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854 While the basic elements of topography and theme existed previously in cartography, the John Snow map was unique, using cartographic methods not only to depict but also to analyze clusters of geographically dependent phenomena.

* While the synoptics look forward to a future Kingdom of God ( using the term parousia, meaning " coming "), John presents an eschatology that has already been realized.

While thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were released in the spirit of glasnost, Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union was not achieved.

While the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare originate in the 20th century, irregular warfare, using elements later characteristic of modern guerrilla warfare, has existed throughout the battles of many ancient civilizations but in a smaller scale.

While visiting Lake Geneva in 1972, Arneson ran his fantasy game using the new rules, and Gygax immediately saw the potential of role-playing games.

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

While small test programs existed since the development of programmable computers, the tradition of using the phrase " Hello, world!

While most modern IDEs are graphical, IDEs in use before the advent of windowing systems ( such as Microsoft Windows or X Window System ( X11 )) were text-based, using function keys or hotkeys to perform various tasks ( Turbo Pascal is a common example ).

While salmon are usually hunted by an individual or a small group of individuals, herring are often caught using carousel feeding ; the killer whales force the herring into a tight ball by releasing bursts of bubbles or flashing their white undersides.