What is important here is that many of the cities and towns recognize the need for improved fiscal practices and are taking the initiative to obtain them.

But even he will not last indefinitely and the above-noted new arrangements are, quite simply, made to assure qualitative continuity in the Foundation's policies and practices.

The grand jury commented on a number of other topics, among them the Atlanta and Fulton County purchasing departments which it said `` are well operated and follow generally accepted practices which inure to the best interest of both governments ''.

Ethnoarchaeology is a type of archaeology that studies the practices and material remains of living human groups in order to gain a better understanding of the evidence left behind by past human groups, who are presumed to have lived in similar ways.

Jurisdictions where alternative medical practices are sufficiently widespread may license and regulate them.

The terms ' integrative ' or ' integrated medicine ' indicate combinations of conventional and alternative medical treatments that have some scientific proof of efficacy ; such practices are viewed by advocates as the best examples of complementary medicine.

There are however, some major discrepancies between Spencer ’ s capitalist evolutionary conceptions and Andrew Carnegie ’ s capitalist practices.

It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared.

Because archaeoastronomy is about the many and various ways people interacted with the sky, there are a diverse range of sources giving information about astronomical practices.

Many of these facial disfigurings were and still are done in some parts of the world as punishment for some crimes, and as individual shame and population terror practices.

Debts that are derived from being subjected to a ban on business operations ( issued by court, commonly for tax fraud and / or fraudulent business practices ) or owed to a crime victim as compensation for damages are exempted from this and like before this process was introduced in 2006 will remain lifelong.

They have inherited aspects of pre-colonial ritual practices in the Bandas that are highly valued and still performed, giving them a distinct and very local cultural identity.

Washing of hands and surfaces, and avoidance of cross-contamination are good practices in food safety.

Effective communication practices in group and organizational settings are very important to the formation and maintenance of communities.

Rituals are not necessarily regimented or arbitrary practices, but the routines that people often engage in, knowingly or unknowingly, during the normal course of their lives.

* Farmland ; there are proposals for improvements in farming practices to reverse this.

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) (: " Chinese medicine ") is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2, 000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage ( Tui na ), exercise ( qigong ), and dietary therapy.

Public Accountants are the accountancy and control experts that are legally certified in different jurisdictions to work in public practices, certifying accounts as statutory auditors, eventually selling advice and services to other individuals and businesses.

There are no female Rabbis among the British Masorti, for example, and some Masorti congegations maintain non-egalitarian practices with regard to gender, such as the mechitza and the prohibition of women reading from the Torah, while nearly all American congregations are fully egalitarian and the American Rabbinical schools ordain women as Rabbis.

Many other " community day schools " that are not affiliated with the Solomon Schechter network take a generally Conservative approach, but unlike the Schechter schools, these schools generally have " no barriers to enrollment based on the faith of the parents or on religious practices in the home.

Students learn about fire chemistry, mitigation practices, hazardous materials identification, suppression options, and are introduced to the concept of size-up.

* Restrictive working practices ( some operators are required to follow a pre-written script )

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

When using biologically based regenerative practices, this dramatic benefit can be accomplished with no decrease in yields or farmer profits.

Regional cuisines may vary based upon food availability and trade, cooking traditions and practices, and cultural differences.

It is largely based on the British Westminster System, adopting many of its practices and precedents, but with a similar structure — House of Representatives, and Senate — to the U. S. Congress.

Humphrey based his approach on the staged evolution of a system of software development practices within an organization, rather than measuring the maturity of each separate development process independently.

The latter, which was based on earlier codes and supplemented by the commentary by Moshe Isserles that notes other practices and customs practiced by Jews in different communities, especially among Ashkenazim, is generally held to be authoritative by Orthodox Jews.

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

A variety of definitions exist: F. Stuart Chapin and coauthors define it as " the application of ecological science to resource management to promote long-term sustainability of ecosystems and the delivery of essential ecosystem goods and services ", while Norman Christensen and coauthors defined it as " management driven by explicit goals, executed by policies, protocols, and practices, and made adaptable by monitoring and research based on our best understanding of the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystem structure and function " and Peter Brussard and colleagues defined it as " managing areas at various scales in such a way that ecosystem services and biological resources are preserved while appropriate human use and options for livelihood are sustained ".

He based teaching practices on empirical evidence and measurement.

Among other practices and philosophies, Hinduism includes a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of " daily morality " based on karma, dharma, and societal norms.

** Takkanah: " positive legislation ", practices instituted by the Rabbis not based ( directly ) on the commandments

* Takkanah: " positive legislation ", practices instituted by the Rabbis not based ( directly ) on the commandments

Other speculations have been based on Scottish slaughtering practices.

) Over time, as practices develop, codes of Jewish law are written that are based on the responsa ; the most important code, the Shulchan Aruch, largely determines Orthodox religious practice today.

According to him, law is not entirely based on social facts, but includes the morally best justification for the institutional facts and practices that we intuitively regard as legal.

Adenauer was able to overcome grave French objections and created the non-nuclear " Bundeswehr " based on democratic principles and practices that met the Allies ' criteria.

This Act was created to promote employment of older persons based on their ability rather than age ; to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment ; to help employers and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age on employment because in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs ; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons ; the incidence of unemployment, especially long-term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers ; their numbers are great and growing ; and their employment problems grave ; and the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Qur ' an — which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad — and, with lesser authority than the Qur ' an, the teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts, called hadith.

The study of ancient Mesopotamian architecture is based on available archaeological evidence, pictorial representation of buildings, and texts on building practices.

During the same period, companies found that servers based on microcomputer designs could be deployed at a fraction of the acquisition price and offer local users much greater control over their own systems given the IT policies and practices at that time.

Postmodern and poststructuralist thought question the very grounds on which Western cultures have based their ' truths ': absolute knowledge and meaning, a ' decentralization ' of authorship, the accumulation of positive knowledge, historical progress, and certain ideals and practices of humanism and the Enlightenment.

* Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews have traditionally based most of their practices on the Rema, the gloss on the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Moses Isserles, reflecting differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardi custom.

* Legal interpretivism is the view, espoused mainly by Ronald Dworkin, that law is not entirely based on social facts, but includes the morally best justification for the institutional facts and practices that we intuitively regard as legal.