The sign of a NaN has no meaning, but it may be predictable in some circumstances.

While it assumes predictable financial flows, such predictability can be spurious.

They progressively lose their predictive value as we all accept and begin to bet on them.

There are just so many uncontrollable factors in a war that cannot be predicted even with careful consideration of all the data we can pull together.

In contrast, women who were told that their opponent was female performed as would be predicted by past ratings of performance.

Without access, the effects are predictable increased mortality, rising exposure to human rights violations, and deepening vulnerability.

We joined the consensus so as to ensure that the United Nations is provided with a realistic budget and predictable resources in the coming years.

I would say that I find that the most important aspect of democracy is indeed that one participates, exercises the rights of a democracy and votes.

The Panel notes that the letters of credit do not indicate the goods purchased with the degree of specificity that might be expected in such documents.

There are, of course, specific, identifiable dangers, but what worries us most about terrorism, for example, is its unpredictable nature.

The second type of instrument is emergency funding to deal with unforeseen events, such as natural disasters, market breakdowns, and political instability.

Such thinking goes back at least as far as Max Weber s argument that an effective business environment requires a legal structure as predictable as a clock.

For example, the EU s policy notes that foreseen flexibility rules can compensate for local climatic, cultural, or structural differences.

The Spanish Government favoured the creation of virtuous circles of cooperation, enabling all the parties concerned to collaborate, making concessions and reaping positive benefits on a non zero sum basis.

Lazarus notes the widely accepted philosophical principle that happiness depends on the background psychological status of the person...and cannot be well predicted without reference to one's expectations.

The most striking finding is that the medal count can be predicted with great accuracy from four key variables population, GDP per capita, past performance, and host status.

It should now be clear that this process is the only alternative to a return to violence, which would have incalculable consequences for the unity and the future of Côte d'Ivoire and for the stability of the entire subregion.

Second, banks assumption of excessive investment risks reflects their expectation that governments will bail them out if necessary.

6. Urges all States that have not yet signed the Treaty to sign and ratify it as soon as possible

It is evident that potential humanitarian crises can largely be anticipated and mitigated through effective preparedness action at all levels, and that enhancing WFP's ability to prepare and conduct inter agency coordination is fundamental to improved response.

On the contrary, such a refusal should be considered an acceptance of the human condition, or a wish to avoid the application of a medical procedure disproportionate to the results that can be expected, or a desire not to impose excessive expense on the family or the community.

The accelerating speed of innovation seems to be outstripping government regulators capacity to deal with risks, much less anticipate them.

There is a distribution of possible growth rates, and the forecaster is telling us just one of the outcomes that he can contemplate.

First, macroeconomic indicators will be worse than expected, with growth failing to recover as fast the consensus expects.

For example, with regard to Saudi Arabia's estimate of ecological service loss and recovery time, Iraq states that there is ample evidence in the literature that recovery of all shoreline habitat types except the high intertidal salt marshes can be expected by 1995.

Some delegations registered their expectation that the regime governing liability and compensation aspects of the topic would be cast as draft articles matching the draft articles on prevention.

But openness brings risks, many unanticipated and most under managed.

Qatari legislation does not deal with the subject referred to in this article. It leaves it up to Qatar and other States to incorporate these kinds of provisions into the bilateral agreements which they conclude between them.

The middle income countries needed predictable and consistent assistance if they were not to fall into distressing situations that would be more costly to cure than they would have been to prevent.

And, because big bubbles last for many years, predicting them means predicting many years in the future, which is a bit like predicting who will be running the government two elections from now.

You can be sure Jefferson knew what he was talking about when he said, If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was, and never will be.

Accordingly, it had placed at the disposal of IAEA and CTBTO two seismographic stations in the context of the international system for monitoring the implementation of the Treaty it called on countries which had not yet done so to sign or ratify the Treaty.

True Uncertainty or Knightian Uncertainty, which is impossible to estimate or predict statistically, such as the probability of drawing a red ball from a jar whose number of red balls is unknown as well as the number of other colored balls.

You can, however, succeed in tickling yourself through an intermediary a machine, for instance, that translates the movements of your fingers into sensations on the skin by a method indirect enough for the cerebellum to be unable to anticipate them.

When the crisis erupted owing to a downturn in the US housing market that was clearly foreseeable but willfully unforeseen the public sector had to absorb the contingent liabilities built up in the financial system.

There is no point in asking a developing country to rectify so many deficiencies within a reasonable time frame if it cannot even have access to funds on more favourable and predictable terms than those currently being offered by the international capital market.

The disaster, however, poses a much deeper challenge to how modern societies deal with regulating complex technologies. The accelerating speed of innovation seems to be outstripping government regulators capacity to deal with risks, much less anticipate them.

The EU needs a well defined energy strategy that helps to overcome the trust deficit that is hampering effective solutions. This means, first and foremost, establishing clear and predictable community rules and cost sensitive policies for the energy union.

This was a visualization done by Fernando Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, two amazing visualization designers, who looked at a weekend's worth of Twitter traffic and essentially found that a lot of these trending topics were basically segregated conversations and in ways that you wouldn't expect.

It could not be changed by distortion or made to vanish by cover up.

That is an irrefutable axiom on which there can be no debate.

In particular, the Panel finds that Kuwait overstates service levels prior to the commencement of the project, and thus inappropriately reduces the potential improvements that can reasonably be expected from the remediation measures for which awards were made in the third and fourth F4 instalments.

Finally, the Supreme Court noted that the right to damages under article 74 CISG follows the principle of foreseeability and full compensation, and that all losses, including expenses made in view of the performance of the contract and loss of profit, are to be compensated to the extent they were foreseeable at the time of the conclusion of the contract.

Using the body it could be sneezing, it could be coughing, it could be animals exactly clapping, whatever.

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