Without efforts to damp this noise, it can approach 130 decibels ( dB ) with strong fields ( see also the subsection on acoustic noise ).

Without power the headsets function like a regular headset, without active noise cancellation, or do not function at all.

Without a noise gate, the microphone for a specific instrument such as the floor tom will also pick up signal from nearby drums or cymbals.

Without randomness, or noise, the problem would be deterministic and estimation would not be needed.

Without a pruning state, the signal to noise ratio of CNS mechanism would not be able to operate with maximum effectiveness, and learning would be detrimental to animal survival.

Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??

Without the decay of a sense of objective reference ( except as the imitation of mystery ), the stress on subjective invention would never have been stimulated into being.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

Without public scrutiny the deliberations of public agencies would no doubt be conducted more speedily.

Without these massive trucks highways would still be just an idea of the future.

Without math the men who are continually seeking the causes of and the reasons for the many things that make the world go 'round would not have any means of analyzing, standardizing, and communicating the things they discover and learn.

Without it she would have been drab and limp.

Without RIMAs or the MAOI of MAO-A, DMT would be oxidised ( and thus rendered biologically inactive ) by monoamine oxidase enzymes in the digestive tract.

Without the contrast of light, the figures would blend in with its surrounding environment.

Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation ( addition, multiplication, shift, etc.

Without using the term, 1920 saw the first rule that would be referred to today as defensive indifference, as stolen bases would not be credited, unless an effort was made to stop the runner by the defense.

Without this double feedback, the system would still be bistable, but would not be able to tolerate such a wide range of concentrations.

Without a significant amount of memory, a computer would merely be able to perform fixed operations and immediately output the result.

Without adequate roads, the traffic would get rather jammed during the summer months.

Without Salic Law, upon the death of John I, the crown would have passed to his half-sister, Joan ( later Joan II of Navarre ).

Without them, they would be unable to obtain any nutritional value from plants.

If only layer C changes, we should find a way to avoid re-blending all of the layers when computing F. Without any special considerations, four full-image blends would need to occur.

Without an Afghan say in the matter, the Joint Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission agreed the Russians would relinquish the farthest territory captured in their advance but retain Panjdeh.

Without it, household behavior would be unaffected by uncertain employment and income prospects, financial and capital markets would reduce to exchange of a single instrument in each market period, and there would be no communications industry.

Without money to facilitate easy comparisons, non-market socialism lacks any way to compare different goods and services and would have to rely on calculation in kind.

Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

Since the 1980s issues of power, such as those examined in Eric Wolf's Europe and the People Without History, have been central to the discipline.

Without denying its shortcomings, they have lauded its democratic stability.

Without direct impressions of a metaphysical " self ", he concluded that humans have no actual conception of the self, only of a bundle of sensations associated with the self.

Without any effort, Munch had a steady stream of female models, some of whom he may have had sexual relations with, and who were the subjects of numerous nude paintings.

Without his work in the early ' 30s, Churchill would not have had the tools to take on the Germans.

Without his support, the senate might have remained too frightened to even meet.

Without intension of some sort, words can have no meaning.

Without some earlier ones, such as the spinning jenny and flying shuttle in the textile industry and the smelting of pig iron with coke, these achievements might have been impossible.

Without Virginia, a new convention might have been held and a new constitution written in a much more polarized atmosphere, since the constitution did not specify what would happen if it was only partially ratified.

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Without the Preface, the two stanzas form two different poems that have some relationship to each other but lack unity.

Without their help, the expedition would have starved to death or become hopelessly lost in the Rocky Mountains.

Without labor, it would not have been acquired .”

Without Stevenson, Sterne might have been a more decorous parish priest, but then might never have written Tristram Shandy.

" Without the help of Doña Marina ," he writes, " we would not have understood the language of New Spain and Mexico.

" Paisley added, " Without him, the biggest antitrust case we've ever had would not have been.