Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).

Clifford Adams based UseModWiki on the code of AtisWiki by Marcus Denker.

Adams and the National Reading Panel advocate for a comprehensive reading program that includes several different sub-skills, based on scientific research.

The plot was based on the August 1933 short story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title.

He was also a slave trader, with a business based on Adams Street in Memphis.

The South Bank Show revealed that Adams based Chronotis ' rooms on the rooms he occupied in his third year at university.

Likewise, Richard's room – filled with Macintosh computers and synthesisers – was based on Adams ' own flat ( visited and photographed by Hi-Fi Choice Magazine ).

The book has been adapted for stage performance as Dirk and in 2005, some fans of Douglas Adams produced an amateur radio series based on the first book.

* Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic ( 1997 ), ISBN 0-330-35446-9 – a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams.

Mid-Columbia Libraries, an intercounty library system serving Benton, Franklin, and Adams Counties, is based in Kennewick, Washington, and operates four public branch libraries in the Tri-Cities, and seven branch libraries in the surrounding area.

The Barbados Air Wing consists of one Cessna 402 aircraft based at Grantley Adams International Airport.

This article is originally based on material from Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940

On 16 April 1992, after eight years in court in Massachusetts, Gail Grandchamp of North Adams, Massachusetts won her battle to become a boxer, as a state Superior Court judge ruled it was illegal to deny someone a chance to box based on gender.

Located in central Washington and based in Yakima, the Grand Columbia Council serves the Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Kittitas, Okanogan, Yakima and portions of Adams, Benton, Ferry and Klickitat Counties.

Hillsboro is also the site featured in the movie Patch Adams where Dr. Patch Adams purchased land in West Virginia to build a medical clinic based on his philosophy of doctor-patient interaction.

His carelessness in keeping account of his receipts and expenditures, and the differences between himself and Arthur Lee regarding the contracts with Beaumarchais, eventually led to his recall and replacement by John Adams as ambassador to France on November 21, 1777 and was expected to face charges based on Lee's complaints and on his having promised the foreign officers commissions outranking American officers.

* The Good Doctor Bodkin Adams ( 1986 ): this was a TV docu-drama based on the 1957 trial of John Bodkin Adams, played by West ; Adams was controversially acquitted of murdering an elderly female patient, but is thought to have been Britain's second worst serial killer.

Corben did the cover of Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell, Jim Steinman's, Bad for Good and a movie poster ( based on a drawing by Neal Adams ) for the Brian De Palma film Phantom of the Paradise.

From a recommendation, writer Jerry Caplin, a. k. a. Jerry Capp, brother of Li ' l Abner creator Al Capp, invited Adams to draw samples for Capp's proposed Ben Casey comic strip, based on the popular television medical-drama series.

Adams later said that writer Elliot Caplin, brother of Al Capp and Jerry Capp, offered Adams the job of drawing a comic strip based on author Robin Moore's The Green Berets, but that Adams, who opposed the war, suggested longtime DC Comics war-comics artist Joe Kubert, who landed that assignment.

The book's sharp comments on John Adams led to a heated correspondence and a breach in their friendship that lasted until 1812.

According to Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, this was done on Adams ' request, who wanted nothing to do with the publisher, and took action to keep his name off the book's cover.

Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University, suggests that Manji's book " a fresh and convincing message to the coming generation .”, while Andrew Sullivan, in a book review for The New York Times called Manji " courageous " and opined that the book's spirit is " long overdue ".

This cover was one of a series of four that incorporated the 42 Puzzle, designed by the book's author, Douglas Adams.

In the book, Adams asserted that existing scientific research supported that phonics is an effective method for teaching students to read at the word level.

Billed as the " World's Smartest Human ," Adams responds to often unusual inquiries with abrasive humor ( often directed against the questioner ), and at times exhaustive research into obscure and arcane issues, urban legends, and the like.

These actions were formalized by the incorporation of Organic Reactions in Illinois on August 1, 1942, for educational and research purposes, with Roger Adams, Harold R. Snyder, Werner E. Bachmann, John R. Johnson, and Louis F. Fieser as directors, and by the appearance later that year of Volume 1.

Researcher Charles C. Adams studied the lingo in the 1960s and wrote a doctoral dissertation based on his research.

During the war, there were also a few cases of Mass Observation ( MO ) doing research on commission for government authorities trying to shape recruiting and war propaganda: Mary Adams, for example, employed MO on commission for the Ministry of Information.

Utilizing extensive archival research, and broad consultation, including 27 original interviews with key industry players involved with the AFI since the 1950s ( including Dr George Miller, Phillip Adams and Barry Jones ), the book makes a major contribution to Australian screen history through the testimony of those who were there, observers and historians, who offer readers an understanding of Australian film history from a never before told AFI ‘ insiders ’ perspective.

In May 2008, research published by Adams and Cotti in the Journal of Public Economics examined statistics of drunken-driving fatalities and accidents in areas where smoke-free laws have been implemented in bars and found that fatal drunken-driving accidents increased by about 13 percent, or about 2. 5 such accidents per year for a typical county of 680, 000.

Motor learning research often considers variables that contribute to motor program formation ( i. e., underlying skilled motor behaviour ), the sensitivity of error-detection processes ( Adams, 1971 ; Schmidt, 1975 ), and the strength of movement schemas ( see motor program ; Schmidt, 1975 ).

Once fascinated by the Adams / Harris case, he applied those skills to his research on the film.

* The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Ibuprofen, derived from propanoic acid by the research arm of Boots UK ( Andrew R. M. Dunlop with Stewart Adams, John Nicholson, Vonleigh Simmons, Jeff Wilson and Colin Burrows ), is patented.

Earlier research carried out by John Adams in 1981 had suggested that there was no correlation between the passing of seat belt legislation and the total reductions in injuries or fatalities based on comparisons between states with and without seat belt laws.

Adams corrects several flaws and errors in previous research on Toussaint by

68, The Bobbsey Twins on the Sun-Moon Cruise, was the result of a research trip for a proposed Nancy Drew book: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams and Nancy Axelrad ( her personal assistant at the time ) took an actual eclipse cruise but, when they returned, the publisher was more interested in a new Bobbsey title.

The Adams Prize is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and St John's College to a young, UK based mathematician for first-class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.

The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, an accelerator physics research institute comprising researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Oxford is named in his honour.

Jerry McKee Adams, FAA, FRS ( born 17 June 1940 ) is a molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy, led him and his wife, Professor Suzanne Cory, to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in Australia, and to successfully clone mammalian genes.

Various women's groups contacted Adams when the song became popular, which led to his publishing a series of books of photos, with all proceeds going to breast cancer research.

It is also the location of the fictional Lawson Park vivisection research facility in the animated film of the Richard Adams ' book The Plague Dogs from which the two dogs escape.