In the GE plan, a number of individual contributors have positions and compensation higher than those of many managers.

`` We also do a number of things to build up the prestige of the engineer as a ' professional ' and also to give public recognition to individual technical competence.

The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

There sit men who make moving averages of weekly volume, monthly averages of price-earnings ratios, ratios of the number of advances to the number of declines, ratios of an individual stock's performance to overall market performance, ratios of rising price volume to falling price volume, odd-lot indices, and what not.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

Because individual classes of foods differ in their requirements for preservation, a number of methods have been developed over the years involving one or a combination of procedures such as dehydration, fermentation, salting, chemical treatment, canning, refrigeration, and freezing.

It should be added, however, that a number of individual Orthodox theologians hold that under no circumstances would it be possible to recognise the validity of Anglican Orders.

In this situation, there are a number of strategic reasons why an individual player might select one hotel chain over another to be the one that remains on the board.

A number of genetic disorders are caused when an individual inherits two recessive alleles for a single-gene trait.

All amniotes have a broadly similar arrangement to that of humans, albeit with a number of individual variations.

In a healthy individual, the number of CD4 + lymphocytes is in balance with the cells generated by the bone marrow ; however, in HIV-positive patients, this balance is lost due to an inability of the bone marrow to regenerate CD4 + cells.

In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.

Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

The double-muscling phenotype is a heritable condition which results in the increased number of muscle fibers ( hyperplasia ) rather than the normal enlargement of individual muscle fibers ( hypertrophy ).

As the playing time for each individual game is short, it is often played in matches, where victory is awarded to the first player to reach a certain number of points.

Each terrestrial ecoregion has a specific EcoID, format XXnnNN ( XX is the ecozone, nn is the biome number, NN is the individual number ).

As microelectronic technology advanced, an increasing number of transistors were placed on ICs, thus decreasing the quantity of individual ICs needed for a complete CPU.

Instruction level parallelism ( ILP ) seeks to increase the rate at which instructions are executed within a CPU ( that is, to increase the utilization of on-die execution resources ), and thread level parallelism ( TLP ) purposes to increase the number of threads ( effectively individual programs ) that a CPU can execute simultaneously.

The event consists of a number of individual contra dances, divided by a scattering of other partner dances, perhaps one or more waltzes, schottisches, polkas, or Swedish hambos.

Another approach would be to study the firings of individual neurons while a person is trying to remember the phone number.

For example, a court might certify a case for class treatment where a number of individual bond-holders sue to determine whether they may convert their bonds to common stock.

The Modules consisted of a number of individual electronic components and germanium transistors mounted to a circuit board, the actual circuits being based on those from the TX-2.

It can also be inherited in some families and so on, and recent studies have identified a number of genes that may predispose an individual to developing dyslexia.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Computer programs, known as " anagram servers ", " anagram solvers " or " anagrammers ", offer a much faster route to creating anagrams, and a large number of these programs are available on the Internet.

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched television episodes of all time.

In the U. S., an increasing number of undergraduate programs are also becoming recognized by ABET as accredited bioengineering / biomedical engineering programs.

At the intersection between community development and community building are a number of programs and organizations with community development tools.

Because many outstanding problems in number theory, such as Goldbach's conjecture are equivalent to solving the halting problem for special programs ( which would basically search for counter-examples and halt if one is found ), knowing enough bits of Chaitin's constant would also imply knowing the answer to these problems.

Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart, the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game, with Division I programs – the highest level – playing in huge stadiums, six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100, 000.

Cygwin consists of a library that implements the POSIX system call API in terms of Win32 system calls, a GNU development toolchain ( including GCC and GDB ) to allow software development, and a large number of application programs equivalent to those on Unix systems.

This contributed to the development of a number of alternative name server and resolver programs.

This vision includes establishing a University College to foster both in-depth and wide-interest, society-interest driven education for upcoming engineers ; establishing a combined Graduate School to manage the graduate programs ; an increase of the student body by 50 percent ; a 50 percent increase in the number of annual Ph. D graduations ; an increase of knowledge valorisation to a campus-wide score of 4. 2 ; increasing the international position of the university to within the top-100 universities ; and increasing the embedding of the university within the city and the Brainport region by transforming the campus into a high-grade science park with laboratories, housing facilities for 700 students and researchers and supporting facilities.

The university started a number of postgraduate designer programs together with the other Dutch technical universities in 1986.

The university hosts a number of other educational programs that are in some way related to the main educational programs.

The early 1980s also saw a number of experimental " hyperediting " functions in word processors and hypermedia programs, many of whose features and terminology were later analogous to the World Wide Web.

Pseudorandom number generators are widely available in computer language libraries and application programs.

Admission into I – O psychology PhD programs is highly competitive given that many programs accept a small number of applicants every year.

As a schoolmaster, he had published a considerable number of pedagogic and philological programs.