The sequencing of the rice ( Oryza sativa ) genome, its relatively small genome, and a large international research community have made rice an important cereal / grass / monocot model.

* Orton Cone Box Show, a biennial international ceramic art exhibition for small work

# Community organizations: range from informal family or kinship networks, to more formal incorporated associations, political decision making structures, economic enterprises, or professional associations at a small, national or international scale.

Historically, the international community would have targeted weak states for territorial absorption or colonial domination or, alternatively, such states would fragment into pieces small enough to be effectively administered and secured by a local power.

According to international conventions governing the laws of war, small arms are defined ( with some exceptions ) as firearms which fire a projectile not in excess of 15 mm ( 0. 60 inches ) in diameter.

Except for small sections of the borders with Israel and Syria, Jordan's international boundaries do not follow well-defined natural features of the terrain.

Once a small Persian Gulf sheikhdom known locally as a center for pearl diving and boat construction, Kuwait came to international prominence in the post-World War II era largely because of its enormous oil revenues.

The small village of Herräng in Sweden ( north of Stockholm ) has unofficially become the international mecca of Lindy Hop thanks to the annual Herräng Dance Camp formerly run by the Rhythm Hot Shots then passed on to new owners and operational team, with an attendance from around 40 countries.

Lindy Hop tends to be concentrated in small local scenes in cities in each of these countries, although regional, national, and international dance events bring dancers from many of these scenes together.

Its application to join that international organisation was refused in 1920 due to its small size.

As Luxembourg's domestic market is relatively small, the country's financial centre is predominantly international.

The Forum has a small, but highly active pool of professional members contributing to space endeavours, mostly in cooperation with other national as well as international space organizations.

This new law provoked a small international incident, as its implementation actually preceded any public notification of such a law, resulting in the prolonged imprisonment of a large group of meteorite hunters primarily from Russia, but whose party also consisted of members from the U. S. as well as several other European countries.

Poker has gained in popularity since the beginning of the twentieth century, and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of mostly male enthusiasts, to a widely popular spectator activity with international audiences and multi-million dollar tournament prizes.

The river forms a small part of the international boundary between Brazil and Peru.

His case study looked at IEEE-488, an international standard set by the leading US standards body ; it led to a failure of small automation systems using the IEEE-488 standard ( which codified a proprietary communications standard HP-IB ).

There is a small airfield located in Domagnano right next to the border ; there is also an international heliport located in Borgo Maggiore.

The company provides a broad range of financial services to international organisations, as well as to both large and small businesses and private individuals.

There are frequent charter flights from Aberdeen to Scatsta near Sullom Voe, which are used to transport oilfield workers and this small terminal has the fifth largest number of international passengers in Scotland.

There are many satellite links too, but these now provide a relatively small part of the international bandwidth.

Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

Most show jumpers are tall horses, over, usually of Warmblood or Thoroughbred breeding, though horses as small as have been on the Olympic teams of various nations and carried riders to Olympic and other international medals.

Italy and Japan lacked industrial capacity ; their economies were small, dependent on international trade, and dependent on external sources of fuel and other industrial resources.

Due in no small part to the influence of transnational economic bodies such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the G7, G8, G20, and trade agreements between nations with differing degrees of industrialization such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, the European Union, AFTA, ACTA and TPP, regions of economic exchange have become more integrated across the world than ever before and supply chains for vital commodities and products previously maintained within national borders have became distributed across international lines.

Reed maintains a 10: 1 student-to-faculty ratio, and its small classes emphasize a " conference " style, in which the teacher often acts as a mediator for discussion rather than a lecturer.

Today Trento thrives on commerce, services, tourism, high-quality agriculture and food industry ( including wine, fruit ), as a research and conference center thanks to a small but renowned university

The Global Ecovillage Network, formed by a group of about 25 people, from various countries, who had attended the Findhorn conference, crystallized the event by linking hundreds of small projects from around the world, who had with similar goals but had formerly operated without knowledge of each other.

" Malick, at a news conference coinciding with the film's festival debut, called Kit " so desensitized that can regard the gun with which he shoots people as a kind of magic wand that eliminates small nuisances.

In 2006 he was a featured speaker in a public service campaign sponsored by a UN conference to focus attention on trade of illicit arms, especially of small arms and light weapons.

Unoccupied for a long period of time, it was torn down in 2004, except for a small portion of the original building, which was preserved and renovated to be used as a conference center and, possibly, as a museum.

Scranton held a press conference in which he was reassuring, yet confusing, about this possibility, stating that though there had been a " small release of radiation ... no increase in normal radiation levels " had been detected.

The small town is now known primarily for the Dillard House, a regionally well-known inn, restaurant and conference center that serves traditional southern fare.

Charles Robertson's estate is now the Banbury Center, a small conference center, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Also a French province before the Revolution ( and Spanish before the Thirty Years ' War ), Roussillon derived its name from Ruscino ( Rosceliona, Castel Rossello ), a small fortified place near modern-day Perpignan where Gaulish chieftains met to consider Hannibal's request for a conference.

In response to such concerns, Brown's chief of staff, B. T. Collins, staged a news conference during which he publicly drank a small glass of malathion.

A conference committee is appointed when the two chambers cannot agree on the same wording of a proposal, and consists of a small number of legislators from each chamber.

Entered from the Great Lawn and from the Alumni Walk, the Center houses two academic wings for programs in the arts ( 1P ) ( Studio Art, Art History, Dance, Dramatic Arts, Music, Music Technology, and Photography ) as well as superb public spaces: the 440-seat Clara and Arleigh B. Williamson Theatre, the 900-seat Marlene Springer Concert Hall, a recital hall, a lab theater, lecture halls, two art galleries, and a small conference center with a view of the magnificent, although now dormant, volcano which may or may not erupt within the next 50 years.

In this sense, the term meeting covers a lecture ( one presentation ), seminar ( typically several presentations, small audience, one day ), conference ( mid-size, one or more days ), congress ( large, several days ), exhibition or trade show ( with manned stands being visited by passers-by ), workshop ( smaller, with active participants ), training course, team-building session and kick-off event.

The conference was founded in 1915 and it consists of twelve small private schools which are located in Southern California and organized into nine athletic programs.

Diana Brydon begins her introduction to the Frank Davey ' festschrift issue ' of Studies in Canadian Literature: ' In 1974, Frank Davey's conference paper ' Surviving the Paraphrase ' took the small world of Canadian literary criticism by storm.

* Presidents ' Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division III athletic conference of small private colleges

Behind the Presidential Study is a small conference room called the Study Conference Room.

This location consists of six classrooms, two offices, a small conference room, a small dinette, a student work room, and a wireless broadband network.

" Of course, it was difficult to write contemporary English history while living ( as he later said ) " in the far parts of Germany, where few friends, no conference, small information could be had.

From its small beginning and official launch in 1992, Williams and the ICBL dramatically achieved the campaign ’ s goal of an international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines during a diplomatic conference held in Oslo in September 1997.

Shorinji Kempo is practiced at doin ( dojo with small altar ) private gym, public gym, conference room, athletic fields, parks, etc.

In 1999, Father Heinnrich Pfeiffer announced at a press conference in Rome that he had found the Veil in a church of the Capuchin monastery, in the small village of Manoppello, Italy, where it had been since 1660.