Submarines have one of the largest ranges of capabilities in any vessel, ranging from small autonomous examples to one-or two-person vessels operating for a few hours, to vessels which can remain submerged for 6 months such as the Russian Typhoon class-the biggest submarines ever built and in use.

In the mid-1990s, Lab scientists began efforts to devise improved biodetection capabilities, leading to miniaturized and autonomous instruments that can detect biothreat agents in a few minutes instead of the days to weeks previously required for DNA analysis.

Although in 1672 this had again changed, with the English having replaced the capital ships lost, while few Dutch ships had been built and one of the five autonomous Dutch admiralties, that of Friesland, was unable to contribute many ships because that province was attacked by Münster, the Dutch successfully prevented a blockade of their coast and any landing of enemy troops, despite being outnumbered by a third by the combined Anglo-French fleet.

During the Soviet period the Khanty were one of the few indigenous minorities of Siberia to be granted an autonomy in the form of an okrug ( autonomous district ).

A few radical right-wing groups, like some of the " autonomous nationalists " of Europe or the Australian National-Anarchists have adopted " black bloc " tactics and dress.

At present, autonomous robots have seen limited commercial application, with some exceptions such as the iRobot Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner and a few lawn-mowing robots.

It is also one of few universities granted autonomous status by CHED, which likewise recognizes a number of the University's programs and departments as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development.

The organization was created in 1947 by those concerned that the structure of the new United Nations was too similar to the League of Nations which had failed to prevent World War II, both being loosely structured associations of sovereign nation-states, with few autonomous powers.

A few weeks later, the German districts voted on whether they should become an autonomous federated state, or remain incorporated with Prussia.

The Kuna live in three politically autonomous comarcas or reservations in Panama, and in a few small villages in Colombia.

For a few years, Saint-Bruno remained part of the municipality of Chambly but in 1855, as mandated by the Loi constituant en municipalités toutes paroisses de plus de 300 personnes ( Law making into a municipality every parish of more than 300 persons ), the parish municipality became fully autonomous and its two names, " Saint-Bruno " and " Montarville ", were joined into the designation we still use to this day.

" Kahn-Harris observed that " with a very few exceptions, overt Christian bands tend to be confined to their own, largely autonomous scenes.

Talk of pan-Somali unification movements for the moment took a backseat, as the Republic splintered into a few autonomous smaller regional or clan-based governing zones.

It is registered as a National Landmark by the National Historical Institute, and is one of few private higher education institutions in the Philippines that have been granted full autonomous status by the Commission on Higher Education.

Silliman is one of few private higher educational institutions in the country that have been granted full autonomous status by the Commission on Higher Education ( CHED ), the same government agency that recognized some of its programs as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development.

The newspaper celebrated 50 years of publishing in 2001 and is still one of the few completely autonomous student newspapers in Canada.

Seven kilometers from the city is the first of the eight Yaqui towns that make the autonomous territory of these people known for their independent character, because it is one of the few American ethnic groups not dominated militarily by Spanish colonialists.

With an ever increasing population and a few stays in renovated buildings ( including a bowling alley and a couple of French high schools ), it finally achieved fully autonomous status in 1988 as Heritage College.

Ionocraft capable of payloads in the order of a few grams usually need to be powered by power sources and high voltage converters weighing a few kilograms, so although its simplistic design makes it an excellent way to experiment with this technology, it is unlikely that a fully autonomous ionocraft will be made with the present construction methods.

Eighteen more nationalities had territorial enclaves ( autonomous oblasts and autonomous okrugs ) but had very few powers of self-government.

Following the outbreak of the civil war in 1991 that saw the ouster of the Barre regime, many of the few remaining political parties gave way to autonomous or semi-autonomous regional states in the northern part of the country, or fragmented into feuding militia groups in the south.

Central Philippine University is one of few private higher educational institutions in the Philippines that have been granted full autonomous status by the Commission on Higher Education ( CHED ), the same government agency that accredited some of its programs as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development.

Calves suffer from few congenital abnormalities but the Akabane virus is widely distributed in temperate to tropical regions of the world.

M51 has a smaller companion, NGC 5195, that has very few star-forming regions and thus appears yellow.

Such predictions were called into question by 1995 data that show that within regions of Southeast Asia much of the original forest has been converted to monospecific plantations, but that potentially endangered species are few and tree flora remains widespread and stable.

In some countries or regions, law stipulates that clinics may provide at most one week's worth of methadone ( up to 30 days in the USA but states may allow as few as three ), except for patients unable to visit the clinic without undue hardship due to a medical disability or infrequent exceptions made for necessary travel to areas without clinics, and this level is only reached after a few years of proper results.

Nonetheless, passenger boats are still popular in some mountainous regions, such as Western Hubei and Chongqing ( the Three Gorges area ), where railways are few and road access to many towns is inconvenient.

In the federal ( bicameral ) kingdom of Belgium, there is a curious asymmetrical constellation serving as directly elected legislatures for three " territorial " regions — Flanders ( Dutch ), Brussels ( bilingual, certain peculiarities of competence, also the only region not comprising any of the 10 provinces ) and Wallonia ( French )— and three cultural communities — Flemish ( Dutch, competent in Flanders and for the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Brussels ), Francophone ( French, for Wallonia and for Francophones in Brussels ) and German ( for speakers of that language in a few designated municipalities in the east of the Walloon Region, living alongside Francophones but under two different regimes )

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

Yet a few rare blue stars exist in globulars, thought to be formed by stellar mergers in their dense inner regions ; these stars are known as blue stragglers.

However, FIFA 96 is one of the few games with no regional lockout, meaning that it can be played on systems from other regions.

Since that point in Marvel continuity, it has been established that there are a few variations of this element which can be found in isolated regions all around the world.

Therefore, Yerevan functions similarly to the other regions of the country with a few specificities.

Over the next few decades his followers, following the Great Commission, including the apostle Paul, carried his message throughout the Greek-speaking regions of Asia Minor, eventually introducing it to Rome itself.

They also found that the warming during the 10 – 14th centuries in some regions might be comparable in magnitude to the warming of the last few decades of the 20th century which was unprecedented within the past 500 years.

A shot to the head with a powerful gun will often make the target's head explode, leaving nothing but the bloody stump of the neck remaining ; a close-range shot to the stomach with a shotgun will leave an enemy's bowels in a bloody mess, and a shot to the nether regions will cause the victims to clutch their groin in agony for a few seconds before kneeling over dead.

In the human cortex for example, we see dense local connectivity and a few very long axon projections between regions inside the cortex and to other brain regions.

Many wine regions in California give the vine an abundance of sunshine with few problems in ripening fully, which increases the likelihood of producing varietal Cabernet wines.

To date, few structural or functional markers uniquely characteristic for either of the two regions have been identified.

The " open range " tradition of requiring landowners to fence out unwanted livestock was dominant in most of the rural west until very late in the 20th century, and even today, a few isolated regions of the west still have open range statutes on the books.

Image of galaxy NGC 4945 showing the huge luminosity of the central few star clusters, suggesting there are 10 to 100 supergiant stars in each of these, packed into regions just a few parsecs across. Luminosity is generally understood as a measurement of brightness.

However, in the interests of reducing costs and improving efficiency, most networks have attempted to standardize on relatively few locations within these individual regions where they will be able to quickly and efficiently interconnect with their peering partners.

The egg stage lasts a few weeks in most butterflies but eggs laid close to winter, especially in temperate regions, go through a diapause ( resting ) stage, and the hatching may take place only in spring.