Sentence examples for arbitrary rates from inspiring English sources

She described taxi dispatchers cursing at employees over the intercom; rude and nasty drivers; and arbitrary rates that seemed to vary with the time of day, the drunkenness level of student passengers and the number of people in the cab.

The application of such algorithms towards solving the joint NC and scheduling problem with arbitrary rates is then promising[26].

For fixed arbitrary rates of the users, the total transmitted energy is minimized subject to a delay constraint.

Among the questions remaining one can mention the statics and dynamics of systems with arbitrary rates, as well as the possible existence of phase transitions.

Moreover, raw 802.11 frames are exposed by the driver, allowing to control most of the node's functionality at the application level; for example, it is possible to get per-packet signal and noise readings and to send broadcast frames at arbitrary rates.

While the same optimality properties cannot be claimed for source-splitting by linear transforms, the aforementioned observation still provides us the motivation to take a similar approach in practically realizing the DTCs which can operate at arbitrary rates, by using only WZ quantizers.

The ASA (American Standards Association) scale is an arbitrary rating of film speed; that is, the sensitivity of the film to light.

But rules ought to be reasonable, hardly the case with this capricious and arbitrary rating system (no to sex but yes to violence, vulgarity and Chevy Chase).

"We don't like the idea that there are good and bad foods out there, and these sort of arbitrary rating systems," said John Faulkner, director of brand communication at the Campbell Soup Company.

It can be imagined that neutron capture could proceed at an arbitrary rate, giving a mixture of the two processes, but, when the possible sites where neutron-capture reactions could take place are considered, it appears that a fairly clean-cut division between the two processes can be made.

But we are worried that Senate Democrats, who could vote on the issue as early as this week, will oppose a permanent solution for 100 percent of loans and instead will merely extend the existing, arbitrary rate for a minority of loans, and for just two years — a politically easy move that will only hurt students in the long run.