Biotechnology ( sometimes shortened to " biotech ") is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products, and it is usually seen in agriculture, food production and medicine production.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

Carbines were usually less accurate and less powerful than the longer muskets ( and later rifles ) of the infantry, due to a shorter sight plane and lower velocity of bullets fired from the shortened barrel.

He uses the Latin " Cogito ergo sum " in the later Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 ), Part 1, article 7: "" At that time, the argument had become popularly known in the English speaking world as " the '' argument ", which is usually shortened to "" when referring to the principle virtually everywhere else.

The boot knife is nothing more than a shortened dagger that is compact enough to be worn on the lower leg, usually by means of a sheath clipped or strapped to a boot or other footwear.

One of these offices was princeps senatus, (" first man of the Senate ") and became shortened into Augustus ' chief honorific, Princeps ( usually translated as " first citizen ") form which the modern English word and title prince is descended.

Shahanshah is usually translated as king of kings or simply king for ancient rulers of the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sassanid dynasties, and often shortened to shah for rulers since the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century.

In May 1883, the 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji ( her first name was usually shortened to " Kasturba ", and affectionately to " Ba ") in an arranged child marriage, according to the custom of the region.

In Britain, a youth sub-culture emerged calling itself " modernist " ( usually shortened to Mod ), following such representative music groups as The Who and The Kinks.

:* Lateral approximants, usually shortened to lateral, are a type of approximant pronounced with the side of the tongue.

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche () or Porsche SE, a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German holding company with investments in the automotive industry.

The punk subculture is centred around listening to recordings or live concerts of a loud, aggressive genre of rock music called punk rock, usually shortened to punk.

The HE warhead detonates on impact or when the fuse runs out ; usually the fuse is set to the maximum burn of the rocket motor but it can be shortened for improvised anti aircraft purposes.

William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea (), was a stadium in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park.

Another braking feature of semi-trucks is the engine braking, which could be either compression brake ( usually shortened to " Jake brake ") or exhaust brake or combination of both.

In the UK and in US mechanical engineering, this is called moment of force shortened usually to moment.

As a result, in 1927 the United Kingdom changed its formal title to the " United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ," usually shortened to the " United Kingdom ", the " UK " or " Britain ".

Urban exploration ( often shortened as urbex or UE ) is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment.

" Tied entries usually have a jump-off over a raised and shortened course, and the course is timed ; if entries are tied for faults accumulated in the jump-off, the fastest time wins.

Of this version, about three minutes were cut for performance by Toscanini, and it is this shortened version that is usually performed.

* Just prior to the formation of the Union of South Africa, the term referred to the entire region that in 1910 was to become the Cape of Good Hope Province ( usually shortened to the Cape Province ).

The name today is usually shortened to ‘ Asti ’ in order to avoid associations with the many wines of dubious quality which are labelled as Spumante.

Volkswagen based dune buggies also appeared in relatively large numbers in the 1960s and 1970s based usually on a shortened floor pan.

They were known as the " Dinosaurs " but usually referred to as the " Dinos " until 1999, when the name was officially shortened.

* Climbers: Robot that moves up or down a vertical surface, usually on a track such as a rope or wire.

In each episode, Robot, usually with the help of his friends, gets himself into a situation brought on by his social ineptitude and others ' lack of understanding.

* Topo Gigio was also a favorite reference in the earlier seasons of the American television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, usually with the character Crow T. Robot ( performed by Trace Beaulieu ) announcing " Ladies and gentlemen, Topo Gigio!

Although Toei Company usually lets Toei Animation handle its official animation works, on occasion they may hire other companies to provide animation on their behalf, such as Sunrise for the Robot Romance Trilogy, Toei Company handled the overall production, but the animation work went to Sunrise instead.

The sections are usually devoted to fight scenes between Ricky's Robot and villains.

This usually is only referred to in pop-culture satirists like Family Guy, comedian Stephen Lynch, and Robot Chicken.

In the Super Robot Wars series of video games, Haros are rare equippable items, usually providing a large bonus to the equipping unit's stats or simply a sub-pilot of Usso Erwin ( Mobile Suit V Gundam ).

The series is noteworthy for introducing many of the accepted stock features of Super Robot anime genres: the first occurrence of mecha robots being piloted by a user from within a cockpit, the mechanical marvel that is the world's only hope, forgotten civilizations, power-hungry mad scientists, incompetent henchmen, lovable supporting characters ( usually younger siblings, love interests, or friends of the hero ), the scientist father or grandfather who loses his life heroically, and strangely clothed, eccentric or physically deformed villains ( the intersex Baron Ashura as one example ).

The Super Robot anime shows are usually named after the title robot ( Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Combattler V, etc.

Robot fights take place in a sturdy arena, usually constructed of steel, wood, and bulletproof clear Lexan plastic.

* " Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me ": Another popular sketch usually performed by four male cast members ( originally and usually Roy Clark ; Gordie Tapp ; Grandpa Jones and Archie Campbell ) sitting around in hillbilly garb surrounded by moonshine jugs and looking overtly miserable.

The introduction of the term Received Pronunciation is usually credited to Daniel Jones.

On the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, each episode was framed as though it were being told by an older Indy ( usually a very elderly George Hall, though one featured Harrison Ford ).

Tales about him vary on details, but he is usually said to have been born in or very near to Tregaron, in or around 1530, his mother being one Cati Jones of Tregaron.

He also has many eccentric relatives including slightly-addled Uncle Herman, or " Doc Jones ", a daffy and slightly pompous inventor whose creations usually wreak havoc on Jughead and / or his friends and his lookalike younger cousin, Souphead.

Such critics of Hanna-Barbera's style of limited animation as Chuck Jones referred to it disparagingly as " illustrated radio ," yet when one show was cancelled, the studio usually had another one ready to replace it because they were so cheap to produce.

Stax writer / producer Isaac Hayes usually stepped in on the occasions when Jones was unavailable for session work, and on several sessions Jones and Hayes played together with one on organ, the other on piano.

Broom-Stick Bunny is usually cited as Jones ' funniest Witch Hazel outing.

The DVD also featured a soundtrack for the lonely, which is an audio commentary of a completely disgusting man ( Michael Palin ) who is sitting watching the film in his flat, throughout the commentary he usually picks up the phone and talks to friends ( Terry Jones and Eric Idle ), passes gas and talks under his voice.

She continued to make occasional film appearances, usually in supporting roles, including such popular films as The Nun's Story ( 1959 ), Tom Jones ( 1963 ) and Scrooge ( 1970, as the Ghost of Christmas Past ).

Songs titled Casey Jones, usually about the crash or the driver, have been recorded by Vernon Dalhart ( Edison Disc recorded June 16, 1925 ), This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, Feverfew ( Blueboy ( band )), Tom Russell, Leonid Utyosov, Billy Murray, The New Christy Minstrels, and Skillet Lickers.

Steve Jones claims that both popular music articles and academic articles about pop music are usually written from " masculine subject positions ".

The song is usually associated with Sir Harry Secombe, who got the song to No 18 in the UK charts in 1963, but has been performed by other singers, notably Tony Bennett, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Tom Jones and Regina Belle.

Both were preceded by a naked organist, usually Terry Jones.

In 2007, Kellerman moved up to the HBO World Championship Boxing main team alongside Jim Lampley, Harold Lederman, and a rotating guest analyst, usually Roy Jones Jr. or Emmanuel Steward.

His lines are given to other characters, usually Rad or Dr. Jones, and he is often referred to as " the core ", rather than by name.

Sometimes, usually ironically, they both lose, usually when Jerry's last trap potentially backfires on him after it affects Tom ( An example is in Chuck Jones ' Filet Meow short where Jerry orders a shark to scare Tom away from eating a goldfish.

* Damont Jones: The local bully, always up to no good, who usually causes trouble with his friend Curtis.

The WFU still tended to turn to the likes of Swansea and Newport to supply the skillful back players and usually kept club half-back pairings together such as Jones and Owen of Swansea.

He has since sold the venue ( now owned by the Hughes Brothers and renamed the Hughes American Family Theatre ) and gone back to a fairly light touring schedule, which usually includes a performance with Ramona Jones and the Jones Family Band at their annual tribute to Clark's old Hee Haw co-star Grandpa Jones in Mountain View, Arkansas.