Also, I'm lazy, and I find it easier to use the serial comma consistently rather than stop every time I come to a series and register whether or not the comma before the "and" preceding the last item is actually preventing ambiguity.
If I worked for a publication that did not use the serial comma, I would adjust — convert from orthodox to reformed — but for now I remain loyal to the serial comma, because it actually does sometimes prevent ambiguity and because I've gotten used to the way it looks.
Since the actual queue sizes, ({q^{m}_{k}}), are only updated at the end of transmission intervals, we have used ({q^{m}_{k}}) variables to prevent ambiguity about the updating during the algorithm iterations.
A particular relevance to cloud computing is to provide a consistent and readily manageable approach as early as possible to prevent ambiguity and repeated effort at a future date, the alternative being to continue on with a less useable format.
Single proteins that were annotated with both positive and negative influence in different contexts were excluded to prevent ambiguity (Supplementary Table S13).
This approach can help, for example, to prevent ambiguities when describing system interactions.
To prevent ambiguities, a reference to a principal stress should include not only the structure, but also its predominant direction.
