The studies were key sources of evidence for a number of UK Government inquiries such as the Plowden Committee on Primary Education ( 1967 ), the Warnock Committee on Children with Special Educational Needs ( 1978 ), the Finer Committee on One Parent Families ( 1966 – 74 ), the Acheson Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health ( 1998 ) and the Moser Committee on Adult Basic Skills ( 1997 – 99 ).

The Commission Against Corruption of the Macau was established with the Special Administrative Region in 1999 after China resumes sovereignty, pursuant to article 59 of the its Basic Law and modelled after the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong.

Other parastatals are the responsibility of the Office of the Presidency, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Federal Civil Service Commission.

The Independent Communications Authority ( ICASA ) currently licenses more than 400 independent operators with the Electronic Communications Network License ( with the ability to self-provision ) as well as issuing Electronic Communications Service Licenses for service deployment over infrastructure in the retail domain.

* Report: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites Berkman Center for Internet and Society Report on DDOS

* Inter Press Service – Israel-Palestine: Holy Land, Unholy War Independent coverage of the Middle East conflicts

The term includes the four types of NDPB ( executive, advisory, tribunal and Independent Monitoring Boards ) but excludes public corporations, National Health Service ( NHS ) bodies and public broadcasters ( BBC, Channel 4 and S4C ).

* IPS Inter Press Service Independent news on press freedom around the world

* Independent Review of the Fire Service

* Independent Review of the Fire Service, at FRSOnline

Following TWW's loss of contract, the Teledu Cymru name was once again utilised by the Independent Television Service for Wales and the West that ran the franchise until HTV could begin broadcasting.

* Independent Television Service for Wales and the West

Following the intervention of the ITA, a temporary service was set up — Independent Television Service for Wales and the West, broadcasting from the old TWW Pontcanna studios in Cardiff, and staffed by former TWW workers, until Harlech ( soon renamed " HTV ") was ready to take over its franchise early, on 20 May 1968.

* Independent Television Service for Wales and the West

Community Service peaked at number 160 on the Billboard 200, number five on the Top Electronic Albums chart, and number 15 on the Top Independent Albums chart.

The Office of the Independent Counsel is not to be confused with the U. S. Office of Special Counsel ( OSC ) which is a permanent independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority come from three federal statutes, the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the Hatch Act.

Promises was shot between 1995 and 2000 and was produced in association with the Independent Television Service with partial funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Independent Schools not affiliated to the ISC in England may be inspected by either School Inspection Service or Bridge Schools ' Trust.

Under the leadership of Major General Nikolai Mikhailov from 1976 to 1993 as Overall Director of Music of the Military Bands Service of the Ministry of National Defense of the USSR, what would become the modern military bands of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Russian Federation were born and rose to greatness and international appeal.

* Select Committee on Religious Offences in England and Wales Written Evidence Submission from Searchlight Information Services by Gerry Gable, vice chair of the Independent Advisory Group to the Diversity Directorate of the Metropolitan Police Service at Scotland Yard.

* Independent Television Service ( ITVS ) and Tracy Droz Tragos for " Be Good, Smile Pretty " on PBS

The Independent Pilots Association ( IPA ) is the collective bargaining unit for the more than 2800 airline pilots of United Parcel Service.

Special forces operations were undertaken by the British Special Air Service, Special Boat Sections, Guards Independent Parachute Company, Gurkha Independent Parachute Company, patrol companies of the Parachute Regiment ( C Company 2nd and D Company 3rd Battalions ), the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and the New Zealand Rangers.

In 1996 he was the Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Public Order and the National Intelligence Service, and is November 1996 became President of the United Independent Albanian Trade Unions.

Inapproximability has been a fruitful area of research in computational complexity theory since the 1990 result of Feige, Goldwasser, Lovasz, Safra and Szegedy on the inapproximability of Independent Set.

proved the PCP theorem a year later, it has now been shown that Johnson's 1974 approximation algorithms for Max SAT, Set Cover, Independent Set and Coloring all achieve the optimal approximation ratio, assuming P != NP.

They are involved in collecting and reporting information to government bodies ( for example, in the USA, the United States Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ), to the public ( e. g., Common Data Set, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities's University-College Accountability Network ), and various college guide publishers ( e. g., U. S. News & World Report and College Board ).

* ITU-T Recommendation Q. 1902. 1: Bearer Independent Call Control protocol ( Capability Set 2 ): Functional description

Although now out of print, the album and its 1984 follow up Set the Fire were re-released in 1997 on the compilation album, Sound of Truth: The Independent Collection.

" Set Up For A Fall " won Best Pop Song of 2006 at the Independent Artist Company.

* IEEE 1284. 1-1997: Transport Independent Printer / System Interface-a protocol for returning printer configuration and status

The second broad category carries user packets over 1 or more channels and is exemplified by the IEEE 802. 3 family of Media Independent Interfaces and the Optical Internetworking Forum family of System Packet Interfaces.

The second broad category carries user packets over 1 or more channels and is exemplified by the IEEE 802. 3 family of Media Independent Interfaces and the Optical Internetworking Forum family of System Packet Interfaces.

In 2010, IEEE Spectrum was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Science / Technology Coverage.

* IEEE 1284. 1 TIPSI ( Transport Independent Printer Systems Interface )

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

Independent art schools granting degrees must, naturally, follow this with academic accreditation by the appropriate regional group.

-- Principals of the 13 schools in the Denton Independent School District have been re-elected for the 1961-62 session upon the recommendation of Supt. Chester O. Strickland.

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

* 2012 – The Independent State of Azawad is declared.

Armenia is interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS, a group of 12 former Soviet republics ) and with members of the international community on environmental issues.

For the most part however, Armenia is considered one of the more pro-democratic nations in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Armenia doesn't seem to be interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( a group of 12 former Soviet republics ) or with members of the international community on environmental issues.

Armenia is a member of more than 40 different international organizations including the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Trade Organization and La Francophonie.

His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent unaffiliated with the Anglican Church.

* 1941 – World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.

Most of the city is served by the Austin Independent School District.

This apostolic succession is recognized by Unity Catholic Church, an Independent Catholic Church.

Independent battalions were also deployed as ' stiffeners ' for infantry divisions, and the StuG III's anti-tank capabilities contributed greatly to the German's ability to draw out World War II after they had lost the strategic initiative.

He first joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 then had in the interim joined a Masonic Lodge and become extremely active in the affairs of the organization, being elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859.

* 1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.

The Independent review of the 1995 National Theatre revival praised the production, writing " For three hours of gloriously barbed bliss and bewitchment, Sean Mathias's production establishes the show as a minor miracle of astringent worldly wisdom and one that is haunted by less earthy intimations.

In March 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray determined that there was no credible evidence of any crime.

Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

Dubstep producer Skream, is quoted in an interview with The Independent in September 2011 as saying " The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush.

Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Old Catholic, Independent Catholic Churches, and in the Assyrian Church of the East, bishops claim apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles.

Bishops form the leadership in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church, the Independent Catholic Churches, the Independent Anglican Churches, and certain other, smaller, denominations.