While working for the CTC, Erlang was presented with the classic problem of determining how many circuits were needed to provide an acceptable telephone service.

While static gauge pressure is of primary importance to determining net loads on pipe walls, dynamic pressure is used to measure flow rates and airspeed.

While the standards for determining whether a body of knowledge, methodology, or practice is scientific can vary from field to field, a number of basic principles are widely agreed upon by scientists.

While not truly a unit of capacity, a refrigeration system's coefficient of performance ( CoP ) is very important in determining a system's overall efficiency.

While of critical importance to the historian, methods of determining chronology are used in most disciplines of science, especially astronomy, geology, paleontology and archaeology.

While the astrolabe could be useful for determining latitude on land, it was an awkward instrument for use on the heaving deck of a ship or in wind.

While the validity of the existence of paranormal phenomena is controversial and debated passionately by both proponents of the paranormal and by skeptics, surveys are useful in determining the beliefs of people in regards to paranormal phenomena.

While Ronsard and Jean-Antoine de Baïf were most influenced by Greek models, du Bellay was more especially a Latinist, and perhaps his preference for a language so nearly connected with his own had some part in determining the more national and familiar note of his poetry.

While the test offered by Hand does not encompass all the criteria available above, juries in a negligence case might well still be instructed to take the other factors into consideration in determining whether the defendant was negligent.

While green ethicists have been most forthright about it, and have developed theories of Gaia philosophy, biophilia, bioregionalism that reflect it, the questions are now universally recognized as central in determining value, e. g. the economic " value of Earth " to humans as a whole, or the " value of life " that is neither whole-Earth nor human.

While this perspective suggests that the technology drives – and therefore is a determining factor – in the process of globalization, arguments involving technological determinism are generally frowned upon by mainstream media studies.

While the media can act as a reinforcing agent, opinion leaders have a more changing or determining role in an individual ’ s opinion or action.

While traditional IMINT and SIGINT are not considered to be MASINT efforts, images and signals from other intelligence-gathering processes can be further examined through the MASINT discipline, such as determining the depth of buried assets in imagery gathered through the IMINT process.

While computing the star height of a regular expression is easy, determining the star height of a language can be sometimes tricky.

While the tools and order used in Six Sigma require a process to be in place and functioning, DFSS has the objective of determining the needs of customers and the business, and driving those needs into the product solution so created.

While the average life expectancy for Canadians was 80. 34 years compared with 78. 6 years for residents of the US, simply comparing the life expectancy of two groups with different racial makeup and different obesity rates is likely not an effective way of determining which healthcare system is superior.

While countries outside the NATO command structure ( including some NATO member countries such as France ) do not strictly fall into this classification structure and there may be incidences of overlap ( particularly in ranks between countries ) the codes still provide a useful gauge in determining what ranks are broadly equivalent.

While sea surface temperature is important for tropical cyclogenesis, it is also important in determining the formation of sea fog and sea breezes.

While the constitution allows limited flexibility in determining this system, it has not changed since the return of democracy.

While many one-off custom automobiles had been made before, the Y-job was the first car built by a mass manufacturer for the sole purpose of determining the public's reaction to new design ideas.

While countries outside the NATO command structure do not strictly fall into this classification structure and there may be incidences of overlap ( particularly in OR ranks between countries ), the codes still provide a useful gauge in determining what ranks are broadly equivalent.

While countries outside the NATO command structure ( including some NATO member countries such as France ) do not strictly fall into this classification structure and there may be incidences of overlap ( particularly in OR ranks between countries ) the codes still provide a useful gauge in determining what ranks are broadly equivalent.

While a seemingly a simple concept, determining the first appearance may be complex ; comic book fans are infamously nitpicky about such matters.

While steric effects are still important in determining the outcome of a Lewis acid catalyzed ene reaction, electronic effects are also significant, since in such a reaction, there will be a considerable positive charge developed at the central carbon of the ene.

While on a recital tour in New Zealand ( 1895 ) he began to realise the wider significance of head carriage for overall physical functioning.

While their coordinate distance ( comoving distance ) remains constant, the physical distance between two such comoving points expands proportionally with the scale factor of the Universe.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

'" While it is sometimes claimed that the Church of Scientology no longer stands by Hubbard's claims that Dianetics can treat physical conditions, it still publishes them: "... when the knee injuries of the past are located and discharged, the arthritis ceases, no other injury takes its place and the person is finished with arthritis of the knee.

While often simplistically summarised as " aboutness " or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, Brentano defined it as the main characteristic of mental phenomena, by which they could be distinguished from physical phenomena.

The EPR paper ends by saying: While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists.

While the vassal performed military service in exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical labour in return for protection.

While it may be mathematically possible to construct such a system, it is not clear what additional explanatory power or physical insight such a system would provide, assuming that it does indeed accord with existing empirical data.

While a hike up the Snake Path on the eastern side of the mountain ( access via the Dead Sea Highway ) is considered part of the " Masada experience ," a cable car operates at the site for those who wish to avoid the physical exertion.

While on the one hand most simulators will be limited from being unable to simulate much other hardware in a system, they can exercise conditions that may otherwise be hard to reproduce at will in the physical implementation, and can be the quickest way to debug and analyze problems.

While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning.

While most other necklaces are simply referred to by their physical measurement, pearl necklaces are named by how low they hang when worn around the neck.

While there are many different types of physical therapy, the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties list eight specialist certifications.

While ATMs ( as well as the remote memory systems discussed below ) use the card merely to identify the associated account and record changes in a central database, stored value systems make a physical alteration to the card to reflect the new balance after a call.

While some people believe in the physical and emotional benefits of owning a pet, scientists are currently working to verify these ideas with medical studies.

While the observation of objects in space, known as astronomy, predates reliable recorded history, it was the development of large and relatively efficient rockets during the early 20th century that allowed physical space exploration to become a reality.

While middle-class workers may " suffer alienating conditions " or " lack of job satisfaction ", blue-collar workers are more apt to suffer alienating, often routine, work with obvious physical health hazards, injury, and even death.

" While physical destruction as a method is self-explanatory, its targets are nuanced, reflecting objects to which the saboteur has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

While she was positive about the aesthetic of the film, writing that " much of it was beautiful ," she took great issue with its re-imagining of the moral sense of the books and greater focus on physical violence.

While lifting weights with Joseph, they discover that his physical strength is far beyond what he previously thought and Joseph begins to idolize his father and believe he is a superhero.

While the efficiency of digital waveguide synthesis made physical modelling feasible on common DSP hardware and native processors, the convincing emulation of physical instruments often requires the introduction of non-linear elements, scattering junctions, etc.

While not purely a hardware synth, the DS-XG sound cards based on the Yamaha YMF-7 # 4 family of audio chipsets ( including 724, 744, 754, and 764 ), including the Yamaha WaveForce 192 ( SW192XG ) as well as many from other manufacturers and even some PC motherboards with such an audio chipset, included hardware-assisted software VL physical modelling ( like a VL70m or PLG-VL, and compatible with same ) along with the Yamaha XG, wave audio, and 3D gaming sound capabilities of the chipset.

While Recreative Science had attempted to include more physical sciences such as astronomy and archaeology, the Intellectual Observer broadened itself further to include literature and art as well.