To determine how effective the intervention would need to be to offset the cost of the intervention, we performed a break-even cost analysis.
To perform a break-even analysis, you'll have to make educated guesses about your expenses and revenues.
We performed a structural break test on the wheat yield data to test empirically if there was a structural break following the end of the military dictatorship in 1986.
If either of the pairs of thick or thin film readings yielded discordant results, a third, expert reader performed a tie-breaking read on both types of films.
Halfway through the performance of "Gimme More" Spears and her dancers, wearing cowboy-inspired plaid and denim outfits, performed a fragment of "Break the Ice", which was then followed by a dance routine which pays tribute to Michael Jackson and then "Piece of Me".
The Scottish play -- of that, the bagpipes in John Gromada's percussive, out-of-control score remind us -- is usually performed without a break.
Mr. Kjartansson won for his 12-hour work "Bliss," which was performed without a break at the Abrons ArtCenter on the Lower East Side from noon until midnight on Saturday.
Instead the country music duo Dang-it Bobbys played beforehand; cryptic bits of Ursula Eagly's "Garden of Earthly Delights" were performed during a break; and an excerpt from Adrienne Truscott's "genesis, no!" followed the ceremony.
It is rare enough to hear one of these demanding works in a concert, let alone all five, which were performed without a break and lasted over an hour.
Although greater rhythmic flexibility would sometimes have been welcome, the overture is as turbulent as one could want, dramatic points are consistently reinforced and Mr. Gardner shows a solid structural grasp of the opera, which, as is now customary, is performed without a break.
