Williams' point is rather that the whole business of compiling balance-sheets of the utilitarian sort is incompatible with the phenomenon of agency as we know it: "the reason why utilitarianism cannot understand integrity is that it cannot coherently describe the relations between a man's projects and his actions" (UFA: 100).
Of course split condoms aren't usually an occasion to bring out the champagne - the condom manufacturers should do some serious thinking about the quality of their product - but what had me rejoicing was this reminder that having a baby isn't a matter of compiling a balance sheet of costs, benefits, and risks.
By compiling the balance sheets of a small number of currency metabolites, we were able to fully characterise the energy metabolism as predicted by the model and to identify a possibility for model refinement in NADPH metabolism.
We have demonstrated how the energy metabolism of the cell, as predicted by the model, can be characterised by compiling the balance sheets of a handful of currency metabolites.
The main sources of official data on migrants' remittances are the annual balance-of-payments records of countries, which are compiled in the Balance of payments yearbook published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (see Fig. 2).
It is not possible to compile an exact balance sheet of the devastation caused to Southern Africa by the slave trade, and historians differ in their estimation of the numbers involved and of the extent of the damage inflicted.
Ohio, with $2.7 billion in its rainy day fund, is emblematic of states compiling rainy day funds with balances of several billion dollars.
For example, van Breemen et al. (2002) compiled detailed mass balances for 16 catchments (~500 to 70,000 km2) along a latitudinal profile from Maine to Virginia, USA and made a "best guess" that terrestrial denitrification accounted for 37% of anthropogenic inputs in these watersheds (Figure 3).
An important consideration for ChIP-seq peak detection concerns the desired balance between sensitivity and specificity in compiling the final candidate peak list.
In compiling our list, we searched for cities that had a balance of cheap living and economic prosperity--places with solid job markets, but where costs aren't prohibitive.
