The object of the exercise was to hold off the SNP while retaining as many as possible of Labour's Scottish pocket boroughs at Westminster.
Tough terms on oil contracts, including the Libyan government's retaining as much as 90 percent of revenue generated from oil sales, also have put off international investors.
Questions are already being asked about how hospitals will manage to hire more A&E nurses given that many are already having trouble recruiting and retaining as many as they need at a time of growing demand for A&E care.
Highly absorbent, retaining as much as 16 to 18 percent of its weight in moisture, wool becomes warmer to the wearer as it absorbs moisture from the air, thus adjusting its moisture content and, consequently, its weight, in response to atmospheric conditions.
Attempts are being made to decrease the thermal conductivity of concrete composites while retaining as much as possible of the mechanical strength.
The central idea of PCA is to reduce the dimensionality of a data set in which there are a large number of correlated variables, while retaining as much as possible the total information.
Smaller assays were found to contain more dissimilar molecules, and the value of 8 was chosen as a trade-off between retaining as much data as possible and reducing the number of dissimilar molecules retained.
PCA is a very powerful technique used to reduce the dimensionality of a data set consisting of a large number of interrelated variables while retaining as much as possible the variability presented in a data set (Zhang et al. 2009).
The central idea of principal component analysis (PCA) is to reduce the dimensionality of a dataset consisting of a large number of variables while retaining as much as possible of the variation present in the dataset.
The fundamental idea of PCA is to reduce the dimensionality of a data set consisting of multiple variables, while retaining as much as possible the existing variation in the data set.
Preliminary experiments indicated that retaining as few as three components could lead to an animation which would be acceptable, in the sense that it would capture the basic speech gestures and would filter out almost all the speaker-specific gestures.
