Credit for naming the first probe has been attributed to Stephen A. Saliga, who had been assigned to the Air Force Orientation Group, Wright-Patterson AFB, as chief designer of Air Force exhibits.

USNO also has an " Alternate Master Clock " site in Colorado Springs, CO which, with the " Master Clock ", provides precise time to the GPS satellite constellation run by the U. S. Air Force ; and it performs radio VLBI-based positions of quasars with numerous global collaborators, in order to produce Earth Orientation parameters.

The LOT has been revised twice -- once by the original creators ( LOT-R ) and also by Chang, Maydeu-Olivares, and D ' Zurilla as the Extended Life Orientation Test ( ELOT ).

The majority of activities involving students are officially the responsibility of the Division of Student Affairs, but over the years, Student Government Association has become the sole funding source of Student Life, Campus Reservations and New Student Orientation.

Orientation is defined as the awareness of self in relation to one ’ s surroundings Often orientation is examined by distinguishing whether a person has a sense of time, place, and person.

There has also been a 2011 update to the 6th edition which contains significant updates in the chapters on Sexual Orientation, Birth Control, Gender Bending, Premature Ejaculation, and Chapter 74, which was renamed " The Panty-Dropping Pill, Patch and Shot.

A cadet who has successfully completed NLCC Orientation and passes directly on to the NSCC after a minimum of one year of service in the NLCC will go into the NSCC at a higher grade ( E2-T ).

AUSA has over 100 affiliated clubs, two bars on campus ( Shadows and Toasted ), University Book Shop, the StudentCard discount card, Student Job Search on campus, market days and events such as Orientation, Re-Orientation, Summer Shakespeare, End of Daze, Capping week, Womensfest, Cultural Mosaic, Blues Awards and Ecofest.

* Orientation Sensor — used to detect whether the body of the robot has fallen over.

Right-wing authoritarianism has been found to correlate only slightly with Social Dominance Orientation ( SDO ).

* HomO, short name of the Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation

On July 22, 2010, a " Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in Our Community " was released.

Orientation also should take into consideration other structures and features on the site, neighbouring property, vehicle and pedestrian traffic and prevailing winds.

The " Resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and Change Efforts " also advises that parents, guardians, young people and their families avoid sexual orientation treatments that portray homosexuality as a mental illness or developmental disorder and instead seek psychotherapy, social support and educational services " that provide accurate information on sexual orientation and sexuality, increase family and school support and reduce rejection of sexual minority youth.

The Principle 3 of The Yogyakarta Principles on The Application of International Human Rights Law In Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity states that " Person of diverse sexual orientation and gender identities shall enjoy legal capacity in all aspects of life.

* COPP Position Statement on Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation ( Reparative or Conversion Therapies )

See separate articles on Kinsey scale and Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

* Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Marriage

* Resolution on Sexual Orientation, Parents, and Children

There are many opportunities for leadership development on campus, including positions as a Resident Assistant ( RA ), as an Orientation Leader ( OL ), on the school's student Judicial Board, as a Multicultural Academic Peer Program ( MAPP ) Mentor, within the active Student Government Association ( SGA ), and among the various Programs Boards.

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There is a cabinet-level Ministry of Culture and Islamic Orientation and a High Council of Islam, consisting of six imams, which, at the Government's request, advises on the conformance of legislation to Islamic precepts.

* Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation, or Ombudsmannen mot diskriminering på grund av sexuell läggning ( HomO ).

* Orientation Board ( OB ) – welcomes the incoming students beginning on move-in day and throughout the year.

* introduce the 2007 Sexual Orientation Regulations, protections against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the provision of goods and services secured through the Equality Act 2006.

Mr Wilshire voted against homosexual couples being allowed to adopt children in 2002, against the Civil Partnership Bill of 2004, which granted a legal relationship for same-sex couples and against Equality Act ( Sexual Orientation ) in 2007, which outlawed discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities, services, education and public functions on the grounds of sexual orientation.

These dimensions of religion were measured on the Religious Orientation Scale of Allport and Ross ( 1967 ).

An example is the Religious Orientation Scale of Allport and Ross, which measures how respondents stand on intrinsic and extrinsic religion as described by Allport.

* External Orientation: focuses on the importance of parties that are neither voters nor competitors, including media, interest groups, and lobbyists.

Orientation in thinking links very much with direction of thought: on what basis does our thought path determine the way we act?

* The Military Orientation of the Roman Emperors Septimius Severus to Gallienus ( 146 – 268 C. E.

Psychologist Felicia Pratto and her colleagues have found evidence to support the idea that a high Social Dominance Orientation ( SDO ) is strongly correlated with conservative political views, and opposition to social engineering to promote equality, though Pratto's findings have been highly controversial.

X-Stop was shown to block sites such as the Quaker web site, the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law, the Heritage Foundation, and parts of The Ethical Spectacle.

During the 1993 policy debate, the National Defense Research Institute prepared a study for the Office of the Secretary of Defense published as Sexual Orientation and U. S. Military Personnel Policy: Options and Assessment.

To promote inclusion of LGBT members and clergy, the Reform movement established the Institute for Judaism and Sexual Orientation at Hebrew Union College.

# Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation: The dominant mass-media outlets are large firms which are run for profit.

Douglas Haldeman writes in " Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy for Gay Men and Lesbians: A Scientific Examination " that early behavioral forms of conversion therapy mainly employed aversive conditioning techniques, involving electric shock and nausea-inducing drugs during presentation of same-sex erotic images.

Haldeman writes in " Gay Rights, Patient Rights: The Implications of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy " that aversive treatments sometimes involved the application of electric shock to the hands and / or genitals, or nausea-inducing drugs, administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli, while less cruel methods included masturbatory reconditioning, visualization, and social skills training.

200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation ", a study of attempts to change homosexual orientation through ex-gay ministries and conversion therapy, at the American Psychiatric Association's convention in New Orleans.

Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroeder found in " Changing Sexual Orientation: A Consumer's Report ", a peer-reviewed study of 150 respondents published in 2002, that 88 % of participants failed to achieve a sustained change in their sexual behavior and 3 % reported changing their orientation to heterosexual.

* Facts About Changing Sexual Orientation: Dr. Gregory M. Herek University of California, Davis

Under the UK Employment Equality ( Sexual Orientation ) Regulations 2003, as explained by Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, " workers or job applicants must not be treated less favourably because of their sexual orientation, their perceived sexual orientation or because they associate with someone of a particular sexual orientation.

C .; Weinrich, J. D., Definition and Measurement of Sexual Orientation, in Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, vol.

* A pentagon ( triangle atop a rectangle ), as in the illustration used for the Orientation section above, represents a flat hand, where all fingers are straight and in contact.