Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Our literature is already replete with a fantastic number of suggestions for preventive agency programming ranging from the immediately practical to the globally utopian.

As already noted in an earlier paragraph, the more familiar cost analyses of utility enterprises or utility systems divide the total costs among a number of major classes of service, such as residential, commercial, industrial power, street lighting, etc..

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

As the lights came up, Andy could see that a number of patrons were already on their way toward the exit.

No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year.

However, if the phone you are dialling these numbers from is already registered with this company it will not announce your number.

The Macintosh team had already begun work on what would become the LaserWriter, and had considered a number of other options of how to share these expensive machines and other resources.

Jobs ' earlier question to Sidhu had already sparked a number of ideas.

:" The first part of our arithmetic organ ... should be a parallel storage organ which can receive a number and add it to the one already in it, which is also able to clear its contents and which can store what it contains.

The proposed encoding does not use the lexical encoding model used in the existing ISO-IR / 169 registered character set, but instead applies the Unicode and ISO character-glyph model to the Bliss-character model already adopted by BCI, since this would significantly reduce the number of needed characters.

At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.

The most notable example of ideological coercion was the already mentioned Chinese “ Thought Reform ” campaign of 1951-52, which was unique due to both thoroughness and number of people involved.

Likewise, the Riemann hypothesis has a large number of consequences already proven.

Municipalities ( cities ): in addition to the information already described, there is information of GDP, industrial production, agricultural production, migration between cities to study or work, to live migration, inflation, employment rates, number of industries, the quantity of trade, etc.

A number of groups already have the power to bring collective or class actions: certain consumer associations, bodies legally constituted to defend the ‘ collective interest ’ and groups of injured parties.

Hubbard claimed, in an interview with the New York Times in November 1950, that " he had already submitted proof of claims made in the book to a number of scientists and associations.

The first truly epistolary novel, the Spanish " Prison of Love " ( Cárcel de amor ) ( c. 1485 ) by Diego de San Pedro, belongs to a tradition of novels in which a large number of inserted letters already dominated the narrative.

I have already almost finished emending him by collating a large number of ancient manuscripts, and this I am doing at enormous personal expense.

However, if the business has a small number of extensions, then it should instead use the more exact Engset calculation, which reflects the fact that extensions already in use will not make additional simultaneous calls.

Against this, Robinson points out that all the synoptics are agreed that, when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem in the week before his death, he already has a number of followers and disciples in the city, notably Joseph of Arimathea, and the unnamed landlord of the upper room, who knows Jesus as ' the Master '.

By packing opposition voters into districts they will already win ( increasing excess votes for winners ) and by cracking the remainder among districts where they are moved into the minority ( increasing votes for eventual losers ), the number of wasted votes among the opposition can be maximized.

That same year Finland joined the United Nations, though it had already been associated with a number of UN specialized organisations.

This early method soon proved inadequate as additional networks developed that were independent of the existing networks already designated by a network number.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

Although there were no startling developments in shotgun design this year, a number of new models and variations of existing models did hit the market.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

A number of companies responded, both existing communications vendors like Hayes and Cisco Systems, as well as newly formed companies like Kinetics.

Support was added to OS X in order to provide support for the large number of existing AppleTalk devices, notably laser printers and file shares, but alternate connection solutions common in this era, notably USB for printers, limited their demand.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.

Secondly, the number of people per household has fallen ; thus, the existing dwellings do not hold as many people.

In the past, Autodesk has estimated the total number of existing. dwg files as more than three billion.

A pitcher is only charged with the number of runners that reached base while he was pitching, and this does not include baserunners who reach base as the result of a fielder's choice play that removes an existing runner ; such a runner is charged to the pitcher whose baserunner has been removed by the fielder's choice play.

In the United States, the term for most existing works is a fixed number of years after the date of creation or publication.

In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for the existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years, such as the Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown, DuSable Park on the Near North Side, and most notably, Millennium Park in a section of one of Chicago's oldest parks, Grant Park in the Chicago Loop.

In the 13th century, Saint Thomas Aquinas provided the first systematic Christology that consistently resolved a number of the existing issues.

The standard has been created to enable home automation, security, healthcare and energy monitoring applications that are battery powered and can easily connect to the web using the large number of existing DECT enabled modems and be managed using a smartphone app.

Players win resources if they are able to fend off the pirate attack ( which depends on the number rolled by the dice, as well as the number of warships in the defending player's possession ; warships are created from using Knight cards on existing ships ), but lose resources if they are unsuccessful.

It was created to extend the existing binary-coded decimal ( BCD ) interchange code, or BCDIC, which itself was devised as an efficient means of encoding the two zone and number punches on punched cards into 6 bits.

The sale would have given Humble Oil a large number of existing Flying A stations and distributorships, as well as a refinery in California, the nation's fastest-growing gasoline market.

He analyzed a number of meteorites, and for many years wrote the digest on the literature of meteorites in the Jahresberichte über die Fortschritte der Chemie ; he possessed the best private collection of meteoric stones and irons existing.

Beliefs held " by faith " may be seen existing in a number of relationships to rationality:

* Statistics about existing units, including number, locations, and operational results, and the percentage of franchises that have been terminated, and

* 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.

At 4000 m, raising the oxygen concentration level by 5 percent via an oxygen concentrator and an existing ventilation system provides an altitude equivalent of 3000 m, which is much more tolerable for the increasing number of low-landers who work in high altitude.

There is no limit to the number of methods that can be defined and this allows for future methods to be specified without breaking existing infrastructure.