You might have multiple employers, where your hours, salary and assignments are contingent on the whims of others.
In early 1956, he accepted a temporary assignment to head a contingent of writers to cover the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy for Time, Inc.'s fledgling Sports Illustrated, started two years earlier by Luce.
Our approach focuses on the assignment of patients to bed contingents respecting the given patient preferences, in contrast to an assignment of patients to individual beds as carried out, for instance, by Demeester et al. [ 36].
In complex situations in which there are multiple stimuli and outcome possibilities and when the precise spatial and temporal structure of the environment is unknown, it may not be possible to rely on a system that requires contingent predictions to drive learning ("credit assignment" problem).
While this is acceptable for academic tasks which are not completed under time-constraints such as homework assignments, multitasking during time-contingent academic tasks such as an essay or in-class lecture is problematic; the student cannot make up for deficits in comprehension via repeated exposure to the text without costs to performance.
Many in-class assignments are done in teams, and your success is contingent upon the success of your peers.
TO SOLDIERS in southern Thailand, a spell with the Thai contingent in Iraq must seem like a plum assignment at the moment.
As with most contingent valuation studies, the elicitation technique is always subjected to bias and the assignment of the first bid is also a significant factor.
Patient admission and assignment is based on up to date and adaptable LoS estimates, taking into account the aggregated contingents of hospital beds, treatment priorities, patient preferences, and a linkage between clinics and wards.
