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There are national exceptions to local housing codes it for manufactured housing, and the interstate commerce concerns associated with non-uniformity would be genuine if they actually came up veryoften.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Will Climate Bill Give Us a National Building Code? 2009

As Frege's remarks suggest, one way to underpin an argument against the use of enumerative induction in mathematics is via some sort of non-uniformity principle: in the absence of proof, we should not expect numbers (in general) to share any interesting properties.

Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics Baker, Alan 2009

Second, non-uniformity has the potential to impact the competitive balance of the league.

Gabriel A. Feldman: Dwayne Bowe and the NFL's StarCaps Saga 2009

A researcher at SUNY Binghamton reports that he can tell which camera took any given photo by matching the photo's unique "weak noise-like pattern of pixel-to-pixel non-uniformity."

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Factors contributing to field inefficiency are percolation beneath the reach of the plant root system, evaporation from areas not occupied by the crop, seepage from distribution furrows, spillage from the end of the field, and non-uniformity in distribution of water on the field (i.e. some areas receiving more than sufficient and some less).

Chapter 7 1995

· The drawbacks of random rubble masonry, common in many hilly areas, are the excessive use of stones, mortar and labour, also its non-uniformity and the risk of water penetration.

Chapter 9 1988

Other difficulties with our system of marketing are non-uniformity of the grades, the packages, or the fruit itself.

Apple Growing M. C. Burritt

It is certainly true that the observer in the railway carriage experiences a jerk forwards as a result of the application of the brake, and that he recognises in this the non-uniformity of motion (retardation) of the carriage.

Chapter 20. The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity 1920

But, again, Lord Rayleigh, lending support to Professor Langley's argument, points out that the apparent cause of soaring may be the non-uniformity of the wind.

The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation John Mackenzie Bacon 1875

His earliest suspicions of non-uniformity in the proper motion of Sirius dated from 1834; they extended to Procyon in

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874