Small cracks were sealed with wood ash, which was strewn over them the first time the aqueduct was set in operation.

Small pegs were put in the holes which swelled and sealed when wet.

Queer ( Queer Collaborations ), Education, Women ’ s and Small & Regional conferences are also held annually to develop policy specific to those areas, ( although the Women's conference, Nowsa, and Queer collaborations are autonomous from NUS ).

The small schools movement, also known as the Small Schools Initiative, in the United States of America holds that many high schools are too large and should be reorganized into smaller, autonomous schools of no more than 400 students, and optimally under 200.

* Small modular reactor

The Toshiba 4S ( Super Safe, Small and Simple ) is a micro nuclear reactor design.

The most recent meeting with the NRC took place on August 8, 2008, at which time the NRC's staff met with representatives of Toshiba and Westinghouse for a pre-application presentation of a Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table ( PIRT ) for the Toshiba 4S ( Super-Safe, Small and Simple ) reactor.

During the week of October 16, 2009, persons or organizations unknown submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the USNRC requesting that " documents related to the Super-Safe, Small and Simple ( 4s ) Nuclear Reactor from Toshiba Corporation particularly related to possible placement in Galena, Alaska, including tech info on reactor, safety assessments, nuclear material security, etc.

Purpose of this inventory is to include all eligible productive facilities in SBA's facilities register so that the small business concerns may have an opportunity to avail themselves of the services authorized by the Congress in establishing the Small Business Administration.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

Small particle sizes lead to enormous surface areas, and this effect is greatly amplified in colloids.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

The Small Deep Space Transponder ( SDST ) is a compact and light weight radio communications system.

Small changes in the vector field will only produce small changes in the Poincaré map and these small changes will reflect in small changes in the position of the eigenvalues of J in the complex plane, implying that the map is still hyperbolic.

Small changes may produce no qualitative changes in the phase space until a special value μ < sub > 0 </ sub > is reached.

Moller International continues to develop the Skycar M400, which is powered by four pairs of in-tandem Wankel rotary engines, and is approaching the problems of satellite-navigation, incorporated in the proposed Small Aircraft Transportation System.

Additionally outside the region, FSM is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Alliance of Small Island States, the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the G-77, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the IMF, the International Olympic Committee, the ITU, the NAM and the World Meteorological Organization.

Small displacement, crankcase-scavenged two-stroke engines have been less fuel-efficient than other types of engines when the fuel is mixed with the air prior to scavenging allowing some of it to escape out of the exhaust port.

Kiribati is a member of the Alliance of Small Island States ( AOSIS ), an intergovernmental organization of low-lying coastal and small Island countries.

Established in 1990, the main purpose of the alliance is to consolidate the voices of Small Island Developing States ( SIDS ) to address global warming.

A small business is " An independently owned and operated business that is not dominant in its field of operation and conforms to standards set by the Small Business Administration or by state law regarding number of employees and yearly income called also small business concern.

The rule is named after the 17th-century French mathematician Guillaume de l ' Hôpital, who published the rule in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes ( literal translation: Analysis of the Infinitely Small for the Understanding of Curved Lines ) ( 1696 ), the first textbook on differential calculus.

Completely caseless ammunition was also studied on several occasions, notably the German 4. 7 mm designs, and this concept is now being continued with the Lightweight Small Arms Technologies Program.

The Nirvana song " Rainbow Chaser " is thought to be the first-ever British recording to feature the audio effect known as phasing or flanging throughout an entire track, as distinct from occasionally within a song such as the Small Faces in " Itchycoo Park ".

Still, to quote the same reference: " Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book Small Gods.

The Book of Omni is notable also for being the last of the books contained on the Small Plates of Nephi, one of two major divisions of the gold plates which Joseph Smith, Jr. translated to obtain the Book of Mormon.

* A young female penguin, variously identified as " Small Child " or " Little Girl ," who is apparently Pokey's sister

Small, isolated peaks are numerous, and it is here that the only lakes of any size are found.

Small animals such as crabs, snails frogs and small lizards and snakes may supplement the diet, with such protein-rich food often being broken down and fed to the young.

* Vaccinium microcarpum or Oxycoccus microcarpus ( Small Cranberry ) occurs in northern North America, northern Europe and northern Asia, and differs from V. oxycoccos in the leaves being more triangular, and the flower stems hairless.

Small, stable specimens such as carbon nanotubes, diatom frustules and small mineral crystals ( asbestos fibres, for example ) require no special treatment before being examined in the electron microscope.

In the same year James Watt visited Birmingham on the recommendation of his business patron John Roebuck, being shown around the Soho Manufactory by Small and Darwin in Boulton's absence.

Small Wankel engines are being found increasingly in other roles, such as go-karts, personal water craft and auxiliary power units for aircraft.

The SOIC ( Small Outline IC ), a surface-mount package which is currently very popular, particularly in consumer electronics and personal computers, is essentially a shrunk version of the standard IC PDIP, the fundamental difference which makes it an SMT device being a second bend in the leads to flatten them parallel to the bottom plane of the plastic housing.

Small and light, the buckler was easily carried by being hung from a belt ; it gave little protection from missiles and was reserved for hand-to-hand combat.

Small operations took place in the Ypres salient in 1916, some being German initiatives to distract the Allies from the preparations for the offensive at Verdun and later to try to divert Allied attention from the Battle of the Somme.

Small or medium-sized cars are used for ordinary patrol work, with larger and more powerful vehicles being used for emergency response, highway patrol, and special services.

Smaller weapons such as the Raytheon Griffin and Small Tactical Munition are being developed as a less indiscriminate alternative, and development is underway on the still smaller, US Navy-developed Spike missile.

Small shops selling bijou items are increasingly being priced out of the area and replaced by national ( and international ) chains, although many boutiques remain.

A town named Weed is also mentioned in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men ( first published 1937 ) as being the town that George Milton and Lennie Small are fleeing from at the beginning of the book.

Small plane service can be found at Lawrence Municipal Airport and the Merrimack Valley Seaplane Base, with the nearest national service being at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, and the nearest international service being at Logan International Airport.

Beaufort has been named by some sources as one of " America's Best Art Towns ", including being ranked the No. 14 Small City Arts Destination by American Style Magazine in 2008 and one of America's top 100 art towns by author John Villani in his 2005 book The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums, Festivals, Lodging and Dining.

Small planes from across the USA, and even Mexico, landed at Lago Vista's Rusty Allen Airport to pick up essential supplies which were directed to outlying communities not initially being served by government agency relief efforts.

After being mobilized during the war he escaped German and Russian forces and made his way to England, where he was a part of the " Polish design team " at Enfield Lock's Royal Small Arms Factory.

Small Faces are also acknowledged as being one of the biggest original influences on the Britpop movement of the 1990s.

Especially the SMEs ( Small and medium enterprises ) were more or less technically closed out of the EDFACT not being designed for them.

He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs on 8 September 1781, his life being saved by an escaped slave named Tony Small ( nicknamed ' Faithful Tony ').

Small groups of bereaved Japanese families also have made pilgrimages to Kwajalein on a semi-annual basis since the 1990s, the first of these groups being the Japan Marshall Islands War-Bereaved Families Association, which negotiated its visit with the U. S. Army as far back as 1964 and made its first visit in 1975 at the invitation of the Kwajalein Missile Range.