While conventional chemistry uses inexact processes obtaining inexact results, and biology exploits inexact processes to obtain definitive results, molecular nanotechnology would employ original definitive processes to obtain definitive results.

While the entire metaplot has always been meant to be altered as each play group sees fit, Ascension provided multiple possible endings, with none of them being definitive ( though one was meant to resolve the metaplot ).

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 fire and forget missiles have definitive advantages in terms of guidance and operator safety, and include abilities such as top attack mode, older missiles continue in use, both in the front line armies of less developed countries, and in reserve service the world over, due to their lower cost or existing stockpiles of less advanced weapons.

While leader of the SWP James P. Cannon later said that he did not believe the split to be definitive and final, the two groups did not reunite.

While the context is not definitive, Taliesin also implies it, in his Marwnad Rhun () that laments the death of Maelgwn's son Rhun, where he says that Rhun's death is " the fall of the court and girdle of Cunedda ".

While no definitive number of Roman troops exists, all sources agree that the Carthaginian army faced a considerably larger foe.

While most medical professionals agree that delays in definitive care are undesirable, recent peer reviewed literature casts doubt on the validity of the ' golden hour ' as it appears to lack a scientific basis.

While the Paris Peace Conference had not made a definitive ruling in regard to the Poland's eastern border, it issued a provisional boundary in December 1919 – the Curzon line – as an attempt to define the territories that had an " indisputably Polish ethnic majority "; the participants did not feel competent to make a certain judgement on the competing claims.

While some nations are widely considered to be great powers, there is no definitive list of them.

While there have been other cases linked to the same dust cloud that emanated from ground zero, a spot precariously close to Stuyvesant, there is no definitive evidence that such cases have directly affected the Stuyvesant community.

While the region of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River was technically part of Tennessee at its statehood in 1796, it did not come under definitive American control until it was obtained in a series of cessions by the Chickasaw Indians in 1818, an acquisition known as the Jackson Purchase, named for Andrew Jackson, one of the officials involved.

While they have not been kept in captivity long enough for a definitive life span determination, they are thought to live for 7-10 years or more.

While there is no definitive standard, most web frameworks allow multiple values to be associated with a single field:

While a definitive " early " track listing has not been disclosed, it is believed to be approximately as follows:

While culture of the organism remains the definitive diagnostic standard, its slow growing nature can lead to delays in treatment of up to several weeks.

While scientific experiments performed by Clementine and Lunar Prospector could indicate the presence of water in the polar craters, the current evidence is far from definitive.

While Rysher Entertainment has never released a definitive statement, it is generally believed that this well-above-average cost coupled with a poorly chosen time slot formed the reasons for the show's commercial failure.

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 2½ stars stating " Though While We're Young was a definitive recording for Abercrombie's vaunted trio, this CD simply offers a different slant.

While Brook assumes this makes Obadiah Bulan's grandson, the Hebrew phrase is less definitive and may allude to a more remote descent.

While not a sequel ( the novel ’ s controversial ending was allowed to remain definitive and the fates of the heroines Sugar and Agnes were left undisclosed ), the stories offered additional perspectives on some of the characters ’ past and future lives.

While not definitive upon the matter, the Valdemar Companion does not show any settlement, village, town or city which is found " amongst " the Tayledras Vales.

While living in Venice Salieri continued his musical studies with the organist and opera composer Giovanni Battista Pescetti, then following Pescetti's sudden death he studied with the opera singer Ferdinando Pacini or Pasini.

While his assertion was not initially well-received, later intensive field studies of fossil beds lent weight to his claim.

While a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago ( 1945 – 57 ), Rogers helped to establish a counseling center connected with the university and there conducted studies to determine the effectiveness of his methods.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

While living at the Cecil House, Edward's daily studies consisted of dancing instruction, French, Latin, cosmography, writing exercises, drawing, and common prayers.

While there has been a flowering of new historical approaches and microscopic studies there has been much less attention to the pre-1960 staple of teaching, the development of one's own nation state and its values and practices.

" While most other modern critics have little positive to say about the story's writing, Ralph 124C 41 + is still considered an " essential text for all studies of science fiction.

While comparatively few studies of this type have been performed, results from these suggest that some of the most readily isolated and studied genera may not in fact be significant in the in-situ community.

While medication for bipolar disorder is important to manage symptoms of mania and depression, studies show relying on medications alone is not the most effective method of treatment.

While at Wharton, Milken was influenced by credit studies authored by W. Braddock Hickman, a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, who noted that a portfolio of non-investment grade bonds offered " risk-adjusted " returns greater than that of an investment grade portfolio.

" While insisting on strict adherence to Jewish beliefs and practices, he held that Jews should attempt to engage and influence the modern world, and encouraged those secular studies compatible with Torah thought.

While the classes range in topic, each is based on a curriculum of cultural studies.

While data from in vitro experiments suggest many dissimilar roles, studies on PrP knockout mice have provided only limited information because these animals exhibit only minor abnormalities.

While this technique does not prove colocalization of a compartment of known density and the protein of interest, it does increase the likelihood, and is more amenable to large-scale studies.

While political science implies use of the scientific method, political studies implies a broader approach, although the naming of degree courses does not necessarily reflect their content.

While most of a Pteranodon flight would have depended on soaring, like long-winged seabirds, it probably required an occasional active, rapid burst of flapping, and studies of Pteranodon wing loading ( the strength of the wings vs. the weight of the body ) indicate that they were capable of substantial flapping flight, contrary to some earlier suggestions that they were so big they could only glide.

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 some studies have historically found extremely low weight estimates for Quetzalcoatlus, as low as for a 10-meter individual, a majority of estimates published since the 2000s have been higher, and the tend toward.

While the aims and scope of these two journals overlap in many respects, Social Epistemology is more open to science studies in addition to philosophy, while " the principal style Episteme is that of analytical philosophy ".

While major questions still surround the biochemical pathway for the transformation of vitamin K < sub > 1 </ sub > to MK4, studies demonstrate the conversion is not dependent on gut bacteria, as it occurs in germ-free rats and in parenterally-administered K < sub > 1 </ sub > in rats.

While each study used different methodology, their results must be taken seriously and further studies are warranted.

While studies, sketches, and improvisations exist ( particularly of Composition II ), a Nazi raid on the Bauhaus in the 1930s resulted in the confiscation of Kandinsky's first three Compositions.

While the general prognosis is favorable, current studies indicate that West Nile Fever can often be more severe than previously recognized, with studies of various recent outbreaks indicating that it may take as long as 60 – 90 days to recover.