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highly
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The rather specific environmental requirements of salt weathering mean that its action is spatially highly variable .
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The period-to-period growth in offshore deposits at times has been highly variable relative to the growth in domestic deposits.
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The attitude of employers to domestic responsibilities is of considerable importance and highly variable .
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These fish are highly variable in color and pattern.
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Communication Colour is more important to fish than to mammals and birds, and in fish it is often highly variable .
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Although it was policy for all children to be welcome in council provision, in reality this was highly variable .
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Staining times in particular are highly variable , and those given herein should only be used as a starting point.
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The amount of delegation that occurs is thus highly variable and seldom entirely predictable.
infinitely
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The sensor can be adjusted through 180° horizontally and 90° vertically, so the detection zone is therefore almost infinitely variable .
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Combinations are infinitely variable and the ultimate choice of elements will be determined by the requirements of a particular application.
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cost
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In reality variable costs do not behave strictly in this manner.
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Fixed costs should be separated from variable costs.
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Where is a measure of the relative factor intensities in fixed and variable costs .
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At the same time, assume that variable costs per unit decline to $ 340.
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On many farms, there's still plenty of scope in the variable costs , believes Aubourn Farming agronomist Nick Bleach.
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Shipping and receiving costs , on the other hand, are variable costs.
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So the impact of changes in entrance charges on the frequency decision by participants is diluted by the other variable costs .
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Fixed costs and inter-divisional profit are thus transformed into variable costs.
costs
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In reality variable costs do not behave strictly in this manner.
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Fixed costs should be separated from variable costs.
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Where is a measure of the relative factor intensities in fixed and variable costs .
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At the same time, assume that variable costs per unit decline to $ 340.
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On many farms, there's still plenty of scope in the variable costs , believes Aubourn Farming agronomist Nick Bleach.
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Shipping and receiving costs , on the other hand, are variable costs.
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So the impact of changes in entrance charges on the frequency decision by participants is diluted by the other variable costs .
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Fixed costs and inter-divisional profit are thus transformed into variable costs.
factor
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In fact the most variable factor in the study of consumer demand for recreation is the tastes of the consumers.
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These variable factors include the depth of the water, its temperature and transparency, and its velocity, among others.
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Possibly the most variable factor is you, the smallholder.
interest
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At the end of the five years the society's variable interest rate will apply.
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People who are paying off a mortgage at a variable interest rate seem to have more to celebrate.
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Interest rates have edged down, and more banks are switching to variable interest rates pegged to their prime lending rate.
length
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It offers Structured Query Language and transaction management capabilities with multi-valued fields, variable length records and dynamic re-structuring.
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Binary tree to generate variable length codes Fig. 3.
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Further data formats are also provided, for variable length fixed-point binary arithmetic and fixed-length floating-point binary arithmetic.
quality
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For many years secondment has been a local activity of variable quality and quantity.
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One of the most notable features of this mosaic is its. variable quality of draughtsmanship and execution.
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With second-hand bricks you may have to accept variable quality .
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The structural formulae and figures are, however, of variable quality .
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However the research has been of variable quality , there are conflicting findings, and the full implications for practice remain unclear.
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Summary: A long, north facing wall of variable quality limestone.
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Gozitan wine is cheap but just recently has been of variable quality .
rate
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Both Kemira and Hydro have been developing systems that turn the data into variable rate fertiliser application recommendations.
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Interest rates continue to fall, giving crucial help to debtors, most of whose loans have variable rates.
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Those who pay the standard variable rate are subsidising the preferential rates enjoyed by other more cost-conscious borrowers.
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Compare and contrast fixed rate and variable rate loans. 3.
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At the beginning of the first year, the fixed rate was 13.25% at a time when the variable rate was 15.25%.
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Closer inspection of its standard variable rates reveal that its charges are pretty steep.
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At the end of the period, your loan reverts to the lender's standard variable rate .
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Then there is a variable rate loan.
speed
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Our drill had variable speed , reverse action and, of course, hammer action.
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Single, two-speed or variable speed drives are available on the new Interstore.
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Two machines already have variable speed drives.
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New chip technology that will give a variable speed drive is also being introduced with a replacement control panel.
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The transition from Romanesque to Gothic proceeded at a variable speed in differing countries.
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The only controls are a variable speed dial mounted on the top of the trigger, and a small lock-on button.
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Such a large sanding area and variable speed are luxuries that many hone improvers may find unnecessary.
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Demand for the company's products is variable .
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Medical insurance coverage in foreign countries is highly variable .
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The drill has variable speeds.
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The weather here is likely to be very variable .
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Brain maps are just as variable as faces.
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Hedgehog cacti are variable in form, but many are barrel shaped or globular.
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Information regarding variable ventilation efficacy and levels of formaldehyde and micro-organism concentrations were sought.
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The return will be variable , as building societies change the rates paid to investors.
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This process of elaborating a concept and moving toward empirical indicators is the crucial step in variable analysis.
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We now have two documents: a template of the shell text and a variable list.
II. noun
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basic
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These are an abstraction of real systems or processes which are used to represent the basic variable and constant features.
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This gives M I s, but a basis must contain 2M-1 variables , so we need among the basic variables.
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If x i j is the first basic variable chosen, this means putting.
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To ensure that the new basis is alternating, we will make a basic variable in row I non-basic.
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This step is repeated until basic variables have been chosen.
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Since M 3, N 4, there are 6 basic variables to be found.
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The difference equations for the basic variables are: where and.
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While some basic variables remain infeasible, the rule for selection of the variable to leave the basis needs modification.
different
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In addition to the different values that variables assume, they can either be dependent or independent.
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The second it to ask the suppliers to provide information on the correlation between different census variables and the various geodemographic systems.
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Linear regression was used for comparison with different variables .
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Other criticisms concerned the impossibility of disentangling the effects of different variables .
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The programme has examined the extent to which different variables are sensitive to changes in the level of clustering.
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In determinist terms, this is explained by the virtually infinite complexity of different constellations of different causal variables in individual cases.
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Consequently, the number of subjects varied when different explanatory variables were used.
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Similarly, there may be no control over the consequences of changing the different variables and there may be unforeseen consequences.
economic
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Thus, institutional design appears to be an important intervening variable between socio-\#economic variables and democratic performance.
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Despite this assertion some economists and bankers believe exchange rates can be forecast by examination of key economic variables .
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Leading indicator variables are particular economic variables that have a proven ability to signal the movement of the economy in advance.
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Marxists, for example, assume that in the last instance economic variables take precedence over cultural, political variables.
important
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An important variable in buyer behaviour is usage rate.
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Have you overlooked some other important variable that might affect the relationship between gender and voting?
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Thus, institutional design appears to be an important intervening variable between socio-economic variables and democratic performance.
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The relationship between these three important variables is supposed to determine the characteristics of a state of temporary equilibrium.
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In trying to summarise these findings, it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable .
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It was the fact of the experiment that was the important independent variable , not the ones that Mayo was working with.
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The most important of these variables is probably the heating of the plate margin since this will affect its thickness and strength.
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The authors explore the idea that causal attributions made by survivors about their experience are an important mediating variable .
key
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It consists of the key marketing variables that are offered to a market at a particular point in time.
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The key variable is the Labrador Current.
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One other key variable that has traditionally been used to delineate rural areas is the percentages employed in agriculture and forestry.
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Despite this assertion some economists and bankers believe exchange rates can be forecast by examination of key economic variables .
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Certain key variables highlighted by Grant and Wallace correspond to those factors considered especially crucial by the flashpoints model.
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This hazard function approach measured the impact of key exogenous variables , such as unemployment benefits, on unemployment duration.
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The original proposal documents from the firms offer key accounting variables .
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An important element of this is to have all key variables in the manufacture of these raw materials under process control.
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affect
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Summary Work goals are affected by numerous situational variables .
consider
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For gastric acid secretion, basal serum gastrin was considered in addition to these three variables .
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Before moving on to consider the different variables , the question of timing should not be overlooked.
define
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When defining a dynamic variable you describe what the variable can look like in the Type section.
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Measuring a variable is synonymous with defining that variable.
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This process is also known as operationally defining variables .
determine
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Logistic regression models were used to determine which variables significantly and independently could predict bacterial pneumonia and to adjust for potential confounders.
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Mathematical modelling can determine theoretically ideal laser variables for treating port wine stains.
identify
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Yet aposematic coloration has not always evolved among kin-grouped prey and we need to identify the variables that are of evolutionary importance.
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It also helped in identifying important variables which had not previously been thought to be particularly interesting.
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It is also the aim of the project to identify which variables influence these similarities and differences.
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Which is more important and can we clearly identify the key variable ?
include
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The models may be extended to include observable explanatory variables and simultaneity can be allowed for as in econometric models.
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Solving the pendulum problem requires one to exclude rather than include variables .
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If the algorithm is to do all we want, contexts should be allowed to include some variables too.
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The mathematics includes equations relating variables and allowing the values of some to be deduced, given the values of others.
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Birth weight and gestational age were included as continuous variables .
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However, it is argued that for cost accounting purposes it is too complex to include more than one independent variable .
measure
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Since no survey ever measures all variables , this requirement is never met in full.
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The search may lead you back to your literature where much discussion was focused on measuring variables .
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The strategy is innate, though the program must include steps for measuring the relevant variables when necessary.
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The process of describing and measuring variables is in fact a process of defining terms and concepts.
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The schedule will also include the instruments measuring your primary variables .
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The researcher is trying to determine if the definition through operationalizing the measurement of a variable validly measures that variable.
relate
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The mathematics includes equations relating variables and allowing the values of some to be deduced, given the values of others.
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There would be no need for a choice between economic objectives if they were all uniformly related to one controllable variable .
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There are too many variables to predict who will win the war.
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One variable or factor is altered at a time while all others remain constant.
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The formula attains a high mark when a diversity of variables is woven into a unified design.
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The key variable is the Labrador Current.
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The models may be extended to include observable explanatory variables and simultaneity can be allowed for as in econometric models.
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These variables are only known locally to the defining procedure or function.
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This time, extraneous variables that might affect worker productivity would be tightly controlled.
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This was used to infer values of the Census variables for households which never returned a form.