Thyroid hormone ( TH ) includes thyroxine ( T4 ) and triiodothyronine ( T3 ), which increase the rate of cellular metabolism.

Thyroid iodine uptake blockade with potassium iodide is used in nuclear medicine scintigraphy and therapy with some radioiodinated compounds that are not targeted to the thyroid, such as iobenguane ( MIBG ), which used to image or treat neural tissue tumors, or iodinated fibrinognen, which is used in fibrinogen scans to investigate clotting.

* Function ( biology ), explaining why a feature survived selection

* Function ( computer science ), or subroutine, a portion of code within a larger program, performs a specific task

* Function ( engineering ), related to the selected property of a system

* Function ( language ), in linguistics, a way of achieving an aim using language

* Function ( mathematics ), an abstract entity that associates an input to a corresponding output according to some rule

* Function ( E-40 song ), a 2012 song by American rapper E-40 featuring YG, iAmSu & Problem

Tests and measures include, but are not limited to, those that assess: a. Aerobic Capacity / Endurance, b. Anthropometric Characteristics, c. Arousal, Attention, and Cognition, d. Assistive and Adaptive Devices, e. Circulation ( Arterial, Venous, Lymphatic ), f. Cranial and Peripheral Nerve Integrity, g. Environmental, Home, and Work ( Job / School / Play ) Barriers, h. Ergonomics and Body Mechanics, i. Gait, Locomotion, and Balance, j. Integumentary Integrity, k. Joint Integrity and Mobility, l. Motor Function ( Motor Control and Motor Learning ), m. Muscle Performance ( including Strength, Power, and Endurance ), n. Neuromotor Development and Sensory Integration, o. Orthotic, Protective, and Supportive Devices, p. Pain, q. Posture, r. Prosthetic Requirements, s. Range of Motion ( including Muscle Length ), t. Reflex Integrity, u. Self-Care and Home Management ( including activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living ), v. Sensory Integrity, w. Ventilation and Respiration / Gas Exchange, x.

* Kuhn, T. " A Function for Thought Experiments ", in The Essential Tension ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979 ), pp. 240 –

A standardized control programming language, IEC 61131-3 ( a suite of 5 programming languages including Function Block, Ladder, Structured Text, Sequence Function Charts and Instruction List ), is frequently used to create programs which run on these RTUs and PLCs.

The other nine units in ENIAC were the Initiating Unit ( which started and stopped the machine ), the Cycling Unit ( used for synchronizing the other units ), the Master Programmer ( which controlled " loop " sequencing ), the Reader ( which controlled an IBM punched card reader ), the Printer ( which controlled an IBM punched card punch ), the Constant Transmitter, and three Function Tables.

* A Private Function ( screenplay ), 1986

** Function composition ( computer science ), an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones

An MFP ( Multi Function Product / Printer / Peripheral ), multifunctional, all-in-one ( AIO ), or Multifunction Device ( MFD ), is an office machine which incorporates the functionality of multiple devices in one, so as to have a smaller footprint in a home or small business setting ( the SOHO market segment ), or to provide centralized document management / distribution / production in a large-office setting.

In Courage under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior ( 1993 ), Stockdale credits Epictetus with helping him endure seven and a half years in a North Vietnamese military prison — including torture — and four years in solitary confinement.

On his return he established a private medical practice and small laboratory in Berlin-Steglitz, and in 1891 received a call from Robert Koch to join the staff at his Berlin Institute of Infectious Diseases, where in 1896 a new institute was established for Ehrlich ’ s specialization, the Institute for Serum Research and Testing ( Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung ), whose director he became.

The Inside Intuit book, says ( page 22, 1984 ), "... in the first instance of the Usability Testing that later became standard industry practice, LeFevre recruited people off the streets ... and timed their Kwik-Chek ( Quicken ) usage with a stopwatch.

Another commonly used tool for CDC Field Engineers during testing was MALET ( Maintenance Application Language for Equipment Testing ), which was used to stress test components and devices after repairs and / or servicing by engineers.

Not linked in the menu are scans of the first drafts of the scripts for six episodes ( Tomkinson's Schooldays, The Testing of Eric Olthwaite, Murder at Moorstone Manor, Across the Andes by Frog, The Curse of the Claw, and Whinfrey's Last Case ), type-written with Palin's handwritten comments and changes in the margin.

Although Princeton is a " college town ", there are other important institutions in the area, including the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), Opinion Research Corporation, Siemens Corporate Research, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sarnoff Corporation, FMC Corporation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Amrep, Church and Dwight, Berlitz International, and Dow Jones & Company.

This includes such items as: Routings, Labor and Machine Standards, Quality and Testing Standards, Pull / Work Cell and Push commands, Lot sizing techniques ( i. e. Fixed Lot Size, Lot-For-Lot, Economic Order Quantity ), Scrap Percentages, and other inputs.

Educational researcher ( Educational Testing Service, Harvard Educational Review ), editor ( Ginn & Co., Collier's Encyclopedia, Macmillan ) and business executive ( Grolier Inc .).

* SPEAK ( test ), the Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit from the Educational Testing Service

In addition, workplace related products come under the jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ), which certifies independent testing companies as Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories ( NRTL ), see.

The most notable is ASNT Level III ( established in 1976-1977 ), which is organized by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing for Level 3 NDT personnel.

American wire gauge ( AWG ), also known as the Brown & Sharpe wire gauge, is a standardized wire gauge system used since 1857 predominantly in the United States and Canada for the diameters of round, solid, nonferrous, electrically conducting wire .< ref >< abbr title =" American Society for Testing And Materials "> ASTM </ abbr > Standard B 258-02, Standard specification for standard nominal diameters and cross-sectional areas of AWG sizes of solid round wires used as electrical conductors, ASTM International, 2002 </ ref > The cross-sectional area of each gauge is an important factor for determining its current-carrying capacity.

* Stinton, Darryl ( 1996 ), Flying Qualities and Flight Testing of The Aeroplane, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford UK.

Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), founded in 1947, is the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization.

* Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners ( 1887 ), Private collection

* National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), which contributed Concept / Development Testing

* TOEFL ( Test of English as a Foreign Language ), an Educational Testing Service product, developed and used primarily for academic institutions in the USA, and now widely accepted in tertiary institutions in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, South Korea, and Ireland.

* TOEIC ( Test of English for International Communication ), an Educational Testing Service product for Business English used by 10, 000 organizations in 120 countries.

In 1933, Waffenamt Prüfwesen ( Wa Prüf, English: " Weapons Testing ") 1 / 1, under the Heereswaffenamt ( Army Weapons Department ), commenced work under the direction of Colonel / Dr.

" Testing Between Competing Models of Sharecropping ," Journal of Political Economy, ( 1987 ) 95 ( 5 ), pp. 893 – 920.

On standards published by International Organisation for Standardisation ( ISO ), IEC ( International Electrotechnical Commission ), ASTM ( American Society for Testing and Materials ), IEEE ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ), requirements with " shall " are the mandatory requirements, meaning, " must ", or " have to ".

Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates ( the top four were elected ), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818 – 1881 ), a lawyer from Rochester, New York, became an advocate for and ethnological scholar of the Iroquois.

* Brett Austin ( 1959 – 1990 ), New Zealand swimmer

* Ada ( ship ), wooden Ketch, wrecked near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Examples of such courts include the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals ( which existed from 1844 to 1947 ), the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors ( which has been renamed the Connecticut Supreme Court ), the Kentucky Court of Errors ( renamed the Kentucky Supreme Court ), and the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals ( since renamed the Supreme Court of Mississippi ).

* Atlas ( band ), a rock band from Christchurch, New Zealand

Two of the genera, Hemerocallis ( day lily ) and Phormium ( New Zealand flax ), are grown as ornamentals worldwide.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The band has been mentioned or featured in various newspapers and magazines: the Vancouver Sun, Northshore News ( Vancouver, Canada newspaper ), New Times ( Los Angeles weekly entertainment newspaper ), BLU Magazine ( underground hip hop magazine ), BAM Magazine ( Southern California ), La Banda Elastica Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Calendar section.

Various atoms and molecules as depicted in John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy ( 1808 ), one of the earliest scientific works on atomic theory

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon ( outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde ( near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument ( near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) for which the Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned, consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.

New sectors, such as precious stone processing and jewelry making and communication technologyArmentel ( left fromt the USSR era ), which is not even owned by the government or Armenian investors.

In Spanish, americano denotes geographic and cultural origin in the New World, as well as infrequently a U. S. citizen ; the adjective and noun, denoting estadounidense ( United States person ), derives from Estados Unidos de América ( United States of America ).

The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).

In New Zealand, where abalone is called pāua ( from the Māori language ), this can be a particularly awkward problem where the right to harvest pāua can be granted legally under Māori customary rights.