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We may want to harbour the inconsistency until we are better able to resolve it.
Civilian governments arguably more consolidated than at any time in history, have been able to move the security agenda forward in many ways previously unimaginable.
We have also been able to synthesize code for a large number of mixture problems.
An artificial connection with the main river channel is open only during peak discharges and during this time, fish are able to enter the oxbow.
The diporpa must be able to recognize its fusion partner and, at the same time, avoid the immune response of the fish host.
Although the resulting programming model is not general, it is able to describe a wide range of numerical algorithms.
Animals which are debilitated, less active and less aggressive on the one hand but also less able to assess risk will be more vulnerable.
In the end, though, it was able to maintain power because of its control of the government.
In a warmer climate, the agent might not be able to withstand the environmental changes, resulting in the decay of its virulence.
Good photomultipliers are able to respond to single photons, so the corresponding requirement in the optical range is one photon per bit.
A 106 km telescope would be able to see free oxygen lines in planetary atmospheres near the pseudo event horizon.
There are three main groups of compound potentially able to provide transport across bilayer membrane.
Co-operators need to be able to identify other co-operators, and to detect cheaters.
Non-endemic countries should be able to confirm plague to prevent outbreaks due to imported cases.
In our study, we were able to discriminate between isolates of the same serotype.
What is the physics behind being able to live in these environments ?
By using two-beam inter ference, it is possible to create periodic density structures able to trap light and to generate relativistic ionization fronts.
Besides, if the source loses its symmetry, the second member of the hierarchy is able to take it into account.
First, we must ask what we might be able to reconstruct.
They may not be able to identify experts as metallurgists or to characterize the parameters of metallurgy as a field of inquiry.
The second is how reformers during periods of minority presidentialism were able overcome the veto points of powerful actors.
Thereafter, he was able to defuse religious friction for much of the rest of his reign.
In the future we will not be able to maintain a large army.
The former engendered the latter, but the latter was also able to influence the former.
Individuals are able to acquire genetic information as they choose, given that insurers are not able to gain access to any such test results.
The hospital is not able to extract all of the rents, because it is bargaining with the insurer on a range of services.
Vulnerable children need the services of competent and confident practitioners able to use their initiative whilst taking account of legal duties and policy guidelines.
Further specification of these and other conditions is required if we are to identify when agents are able to alter institutions.
He is thus able to rely on statistical determinism in the formulation of his results even if there is not individual determinism.
In particular, the user should be able to volunteer information, as well as to provide information in response to system questions.
Duration analysis is able to maintain these non-exiting candidacies in the dataset by treating them as right censored.
In addition, voters must be able to assess whether the politicians actually are engaging in malfeasance.
In any event, most justice theorists seem to be able to get by without raising these deep ontological questions.
Furthermore, we are able to build up a new coalition model to describe alignment and competition among a group of actors.
What extra information do we need in order to be able to compute pabs downwards?
The most important is that it offers an attractive salary and incentives package which is able to attract and retain the best.
When the servers are generalists, we were able to completely characterize the optimal policy in almost all cases.
What was important was being able to function in comfort with as little pain as possible.
We are not able to find evidence of a significant impact for the education variable.
A patient suffering from a severe, incurable physical illness is not able anymore to make decisions on his own.
A patient suffering from severe, incurable physical illness is not able to make decisions on his own.
They were also willing to engage in developing their own practice and delivering integrated care when they were able to influence the development agenda.
I haven't been able to lead a normal life with my children and my wife.
However, all three practices were able to use it to ease the cost and time pressures associated with new work.
Only through progress will the subject be able to detach him or herself from the reality which s\\he had previously attributed to them.
Previously he was able to neutralize the problem of evil, and arrive at a favourable assessment of the probability of theism, without considering an afterlife.
Though the body may be unresponsive after the trauma, the soul should still be able to think throughout this period.
The logical argument is able to be challenged by the greater-good hypothesis.
If there were anything 'geometrically mysterious ' about the shape, we would be able to categorize the relevant features using the categories already noted.
Robots need to be aware of the social space of interaction, and need to be able to act within it.
Reports and surveys also to be able to check whether their owners had paid the charge.
To prevent my being able to cite such cases, introduce constraints aimed at eliminating those misidentifications.
In this case, we are able to formulate a correspondence model between camera image plane and space.
Most subjects tested were able to adapt their steering strategy to the subtask demands.
Indicating the able-bodied subject has full use of their limb.
In order to achieve its objectives, the mobile robot must be able to plan a collision-free trajectory among the obstacles of the environment.
The results show that the new controller is able to reject all the disturbances with the same effectiveness.
120 example, and so be able to run an accident or crime investigation more efficiently.
Figure 9 demonstrates how the situation assessment system is able to detect a change in the excavation situation and adjust the bucket trajectory.
Likewise, if we know the purpose of the universe, we should be able to make at least some progress towards reverse-engineering it.
All that is required is that one be able to rout challenges to reliability.
I wouldn't expect him to be able to take my unusual experience as seriously as his own experiences.
Moreover, if the idea is right, it ought to be able to explain why, for instance, an antigen repertoire is not larger or smaller.
They will therefore be able to pair and mate with their parental species, resulting in back crossing.
There seems, however, to be a significant difference in the ability of the hybrid to be able to do this with the different parental species.
Not being able to leave has its costs f or carers; so, too, did encouraging a "parade of people" through the house.
In addition, it has been proposed that fish leucocytes are able to induce death of a target organism by apoptosis.
Ensuring that children are healthy and able to learn is now recognized as an essential component of an effective education system.
She may be able to make a go of it, but it will be incredibly more diff icult.
Able to carry on normal activity; minor sig ns or sy mptoms.
If he remained oversedated, drug dependent, he would not be able to marshal his energ ies to work with us on his treatment.
They were able to acknowledge their own distress, especially when caring for patients with difficult problems and total suffering.
Of course, only the ablest could succeed in this particularly extreme example of what we might now call pupil-directed learning.
In vain would they assemble for this purpose the wisest statisticians, the most expert merchants, the most skilled manufacturers, and the ablest administrators.
Poets and novelists see the situation differently, and so, indeed, do many students, who tend to want something different from what their ablest teachers wish to give them.
Are we able to recognize when someone is dying?
Patients who are not able to be upright do not get light-headed or dizzy.
First, it must be able to be manufactured at reasonable cost and administered safely and conveniently.
Only then will we be able to fully unravel the factors that solve this fascinating mystery.
We are then able to perform standard comparison tests.
We estimate that our approach has a specificity of 84%, as we were able to detect antisense transcription over 33 of 39 regions queried.
In addition, auditors should provide recommendations for corrective action if auditors are able to sufficiently develop the findings.
Unless one is able to identify the specificity of poetry, they argue, there is no way of evaluating poetry as poetry.
While these writers may not have been able to win support for their economic programmes, their cultural criticism became highly influential.
The former employs a code of manners through which he is able to relate to the object of his desire without simply consuming it.
To be able to draw its graph a poet must first of all feel it in himself.
Without making comparisons we would not be able to experience anything at all.
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