The Matura is a centralized affair, conducted by the AVA ( Central Evaluation Agency ) which is in charge of selecting tasks, appointing national examiners, grading the sheets ; the MoES ( Ministry of Education and Science ) does the general administration and logistics of the nationwide exams.

The Society takes no part in selecting missionaries, appointing them to their field of work, or training them for it, and does not concern itself with the administration of the missions.

On the one hand, there was a vision of God appointing the king and the bishops to be leaders, selecting them from all others and imbuing them with special characters, either through grace or in creation.

General George Washington ( 1732 – 1799 ) proved an excellent organizer and administrator, who worked successfully with Congress and the state governors, selecting and mentoring his senior officers, supporting and training his troops, and maintaining an idealistic Republican Army.

In addition to selecting works, the curator often is responsible for writing labels, catalog essays, and other supporting content for the exhibition.

In his theory he compared breeders selecting traits to natural selection from variants thrown up by " chance ", and continued to look to the countryside for supporting information.

Some organizations have experimented with other methods ( such as employee-voting models ) of selecting or reviewing managers ; but this occurs only very rarely.

Systems designers are often interested in selecting the most effective architecture or design constraints for a system, which drive its final performance.

Randomly selecting actions is known to give rise to very poor performance.

Long known as perfectionists, they often recorded take after take before selecting the player or performance that made the final cut on their albums.

Antennas are characterized by a number of performance measures which a user would be concerned with in selecting or designing an antenna for a particular application.

This was in part a response to IBM's MVS users selecting the turkey as a mascot ( hilariously chosen, according to legend, by the MVS Performance Group in the early days of MVS, when its performance was a sore topic ).

The name was chosen to indicate that the consumer was selecting a Macintosh in the center of Apple's product line: lower performance ( and price ) than the Quadra computers, but higher performance ( and price ) than the Performa computers of the time.

Industrial and organizational psychology focuses to varying degrees on the psychology of the workforce, customer, and consumer, including issues such as the psychology of recruitment, selecting employees from an applicant pool which overall includes training, performance appraisal, job satisfaction, work behavior, stress at work and management.

There was great variation in how the performance modifications were developed, with manufacturers selecting improving the carburettor such as the 1981 Ford Fiesta XR2, fuel injection as with the Peugeot 205 GTI and 309 GTI, turbocharging by Renault in the 5 GT Turbo and 11 Turbo or inserting larger engines such as the 2. 0 litre Fiat Ritmo / Fiat Strada Abarth 130 TC.

* Staging ( theatre ), the process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play or film

In the performing arts, casting ( or casting call ) is a pre-production process for selecting a cast ( a meaning of the word recorded since 1631 ) of actors, dancers, singers, models and other talent for a live or recorded performance.

The Dramat is run by a nine undergraduate member executive board which oversees the daily business of the Dramat, which includes selecting repertoire for performance and choosing or hiring directors for its productions.

* Casting ( performing arts ), a pre-production process for selecting a cast of actors and other talent for a live or recorded performance, or models for a photo shoot or showing

The knowledge of metagame trends can give the players an edge against other participants, while playing ( quickly recognizing what kind of deck opponents have to guess their likely cards and moves ) and more importantly in the deck building process, by selecting and adapting designs to do well against the popular deck types at the expense of performance against rarer ones.

# Specifying project objectives and plans including delineation of scope, budgeting, scheduling, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants.

Staging is the process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play or film.

New technologies and improvements to existing technologies are based on defining the performance requirements of the system, characterizing wastewater flow and pollutant loads, evaluating site conditions, defining performance and design boundaries, and selecting a system design that addresses these factors.

The most important distinction is between the " learning element ", which is responsible for making improvements, and the " performance element ", which is responsible for selecting external actions.

Eventually Cutler was asked to define a single RISC project in 1985, selecting Rich Witek as the chief architect.

In 1983, Poizner founded and served as chief executive officer of Strategic Mapping Inc., a software company that developed a program to display geographic data on digital maps, assisting police departments, utilities, transportation companies, banks and retailers with selecting new locations and plotting distribution logistics.

It has been theorised that such is the case in Canada as its parliament is less influential on the executive than in other countries with Westminster parliamentary systems ; particularly, Canada has fewer MPs, a higher turnover rate of MPs after each election, and an Americanised system for selecting political party leaders, leaving them accountable to the party membership rather than caucus, as is the case in the United Kingdom.

The Mayor is the township's executive official and is responsible for selecting the Municipal Clerk and Assessor, which are subject to confirmation by the Township Council.

Indeed, the Lisbon treaty, which entered into force in December 2009, lays down that the outcome of elections to the European Parliament must be taken into account in selecting the President of the Commission ; the Commission is in some respects the executive branch of the EU and so its president can be regarded as the EU prime minister.

New staff joined the label in late 1961 — Jim Conkling retired in the fall of that year, selecting as his successor John K. ( Mike ) Maitland, a former Capitol executive, with Joe Smith appointed as head of promotions.

He then surprised many observers by selecting John Harbaugh as his new coach, despite Harbaugh's peak of previous experience being a single year as a defensive backs coach after several successful years as the lauded special teams coach for the Philadelphia Eagles ; with a 100 % success rate of four playoff appearances in four seasons, Bisciotti and Newsome are often mentioned as one of the NFL's best owner-top executive combinations.

The communication is generally in the form of financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management ; the art lies in selecting the information that is relevant to the user and is reliable.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

As well as providing exciting sport, the tests were used for selecting borzoi breeding stock ; only the quickest and most intelligent hunting dogs went on to produce progeny.

Generally there is a method of selecting the order in which the barrels of an SST shotgun fire ; commonly this is done through manipulation of the safety, pushing to one side to select top barrel first and the other side to select bottom barrel first.

'" Towards the end of the same essay, Vertov mentions an upcoming project which seems likely to be Man with the Movie Camera, calling it an " experimental film " made without a scenario ; just three paragraphs above, Vertov mentions a scene from " Kino Pravda " which should be quite familiar to viewers of Man with the Movie Camera: the peasant works, and so does the urban woman, and so too, the woman film editor selecting the negative ...."

He argues that would be relatively easy to have created the Synoptic chronology by selecting and editing from John's chronology ; whereas expanding the Synoptic chronology to produce that found in John, would have required a wholescale rewriting of the sources.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

Functions include but are not limited to selecting, installing, and configuring a new scanner ; setting scanner-specific parameters ; scanning, reading and writing files, and fast image scaling, rotating, displaying, and printing.

; filter: Criteria to use in selecting elements within scope.

The aim is to discover a policy for selecting actions that minimizes some measure of a long-term cost ; i. e., the expected cumulative cost.

* selecting the planning team ;

Thus, Player 1 is motivated to play a balanced first four moves ; otherwise, Player 2 can easily win by selecting the side with the stronger position.

A slice can lead to another pie menu ; selecting this may center the pointer in the new menu.

Traditional quilting is a six-step process that includes: 1 ) selecting a pattern, fabrics and batting ; 2 ) measuring and cutting fabrics to the correct size to make blocks from the pattern ; 3 ) piecing ( sewing cut pieces of fabric together using a sewing machine or by hand to make blocks ) blocks together to make a finished " top "; 4 ) layering the quilt top with batting and backing, to make a " quilt sandwich "; 5 ) quilting by hand or machine through all layers of the quilt sandwich ; and 6 ) squaring up and trimming excess batting from the edges, machine sewing the binding to the front edges of the quilt and then hand-stitching the binding to the quilt backing.

In the System / 360 processors, an IPL is initiated by the computer operator by selecting the three hexadecimal digit device address ( CUu ; C = I / O Channel address, U = Control unit address and u = Device address ) followed by pressing the LOAD button.

# An algorithm that converts an input string into a seemingly random output string of the same length ( e. g., by pseudo-randomly selecting bits to invert ), thus avoiding long sequences of bits of the same value ; in this context, a randomizer is also referred to as a scrambler.

According to one version of a popular legend, an astrologer had advised King Ralambo ( 1575CE-1610CE ) to choose his successor by selecting a time when his sons were away from the capital to feign sickness and urge their return ; his kingdom would be given to the first son who returned home to him.

He also knew what were the proper roles for officials that he trusted ; for example, in 225, when selecting a chancellor, while the key officials all respected Zhang Zhao greatly and wanted him to be chancellor, Sun Quan declined, reasoning that while he respected Zhang greatly, a chancellor needed to handle all affairs of state, and Zhang, while capable, had such strong opinions that he would surely be in conflict with Sun Quan and other officials at all times.

Early in 1976, an endgame was added after each match, with the champion simply selecting a star, each of whom held an envelope with a prize ; the top prize was $ 5, 000.