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The three cup anemometer was further modified by the Australian Derek Weston in 1991 to measure both wind direction and wind speed.
Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.
As a further security measure, if a user enters an incorrect PIN three times, the card may be locked out of EFTPOS and require reactivation over the phone or at a branch.
A further limitation is the inability to measure high radiation rates due to the " dead time " of the tube.
Several further properties can be derived from the definition of a countably additive measure.
A vacuum gauge is used to measure the pressure in a vacuum — which is further divided into two subcategories, high and low vacuum ( and sometimes ultra-high vacuum ).
The Iroquois, living around the Great Lakes and extending east and north, used strings or belts called wampum that served a dual function: the knots and beaded designs mnemonically chronicled tribal stories and legends, and further served as a medium of exchange and a unit of measure.
Over the next twenty years, a succession of further court decisions and federal laws, including the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and measure to end mortgage discrimination in 1975, would completely invalidate de jure racial segregation and discrimination in the U. S., although de facto segregation and discrimination have proven more resilient.
" As a further indication, of the ten best seasons for OPS, short for On-Base Plus Slugging Percentage, a popular modern measure of offensive productivity, four each were achieved by Ruth and Bonds, and two by Williams.
As a further insurance measure against both radical designs failing, in July 1947 the Air Ministry issued Specification B. 9 / 48 written around Vickers-Armstrongs ' more conservative design, later named Valiant ; work began in April 1948.
The measurement blood pressure without further specification usually refers to the systemic arterial pressure measured at a person's upper arm and is a measure of the pressure in the brachial artery, major artery in the upper arm.
Vitrolles ' new mayor Catherine Mégret ( who ran in place of her husband Bruno ) went further in one significant measure, introducing a special 5, 000 franc allowance for babies born to at least one parent of French ( or EU ) nationality.
He was further profoundly influenced by Peter Ewart's 1813 paper On the measure of moving force.
The S and NE sectors were later abolished and in 1917, as a wartime measure to improve efficiency, the districts were further subdivided with a number applied to each sub-district.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century further discoveries were made including the conclusion of the speech Against Philippides ( dealing with an indictment for the proposal of unconstitutional measure, arising out of the disputes of the Macedonian and anti-Macedonian parties at Athens ), and of the whole of Against Athenogenes ( a perfumer accused of fraud in the sale of his business ).
In 1917, as a wartime measure to improve efficiency, the districts were further subdivided with a number applied to each sub-district.
One further common complication of marketing involves the inability to measure results for a great deal of marketing initiatives.
However, it goes further in seeking not only to measure but to optimize well-being by some explicit modeling of how social capital and instructional capital can be deployed to optimize the overall value of human capital in an economy-which is itself part of an ecology.
In order to further classify the extent of dysgeusia and clinically measure the sense of taste, gustatory testing may be performed.
The prime minister's supervisory power is further limited by the lack of any formal authority to fire ministers, although a cabinet reshuffle ( rimpasto ), or sometimes even an ' individual vote of no confidence ' on the part of Parliament, may in practice provide a surrogate measure.
The situation is further complicated by the medieval practice of " allowances " whereby a unit of measure was not necessarily equal to the sum of its parts.
Renato Caccioppoli and Ennio de Giorgi used them to define measure of nonsmooth boundaries of sets ( see the entry " Caccioppoli set " for further information ).
Cooler heads were appalled: " would rather have my head cut off ", wrote a noble from the Rhineland upon hearing the news, " than have counseled such an act: the only further measure needed to cause a revolution is censorship.
The building has been restored to its original state, but does not include the tower on the roof containing the clock removed from the chapel further up the hill, which was removed as a safety measure a long time ago.
Hadley Arkes commented, in an editorial in the National Review, " hat provision went even further than the law was obliged to go, for as the American Medical Association testified during the hearings, a partial-birth abortion bore no relevance to any measure needed to advance the health of any woman.

further and economy
Its aim: To undermine further Cuba's economy.
Furthermore, if the Soviets chose to enter this new arms race, they would further cripple their economy.
' The crippled economy was further battered by prolonged and sometimes simultaneous strikes by physicians, teachers, students, truck owners, copper workers, and the small business class.
Thus the country has taken steps to diversify the economy, and to engage in further petroleum exploration.
In the context of regional economic development, further integration into the Eastern Caribbean regional economy will help enhance Grenada ’ s competitiveness and increase its scale of economy in production, marketing and distribution.
The town grew further in the 17th century when the Dutch economy as a whole entered its age of prosperity, and several canals were built connecting it indirectly to Amsterdam.
His father, based in London at the time, wanted him to further his studies in England, but the worsening economy also made this impossible.
This, combined with the U. S. air campaign against Germany ’ s synthetic oil production, finally broke the back of the German economy and thus its capacity for further resistance.
The economy has shown a considerable degree of resilience, and an environment already conducive to dynamic entrepreneurial activity has moved further toward economic freedom.
Mexico's economy was further integrated with the U. S. after the NAFTA agreement began lowering trade barriers in 1994.
Just as the economy started to recover, Mongolia was hit by a Dzud over the winter period of 2009-2010, causing many livestock to perish and thus severely affecting cashmere production which accounts for a further 7 % of the country ’ s export revenues.
Hu Jintao, president of the People's Republic of China, made an official visit to Mozambique in February 2007, during which he and Armando Guebuza, the president of Mozambique, pledged further cooperation in the areas of economy, technology, agriculture, education and sports.
Hoover further noted that, " The whole economy of Europe is interlinked with German economy through the exchange of raw materials and manufactured goods.
The country is still a recovering economy and it continues to implement further reforms, on which aid from the IMF is conditional.
The economy was in bad shape and deteriorating further.
Nevertheless, capital for further investment in the industrial sector of the economy is scarce.
The withdrawal of the British naval station in 1864 and closure of the Liberated African Station ten years later ( several hundred Africans were deported to Lagos and other places on the West African coast ) resulted in a further deterioration in the economy.
Long-run development depends upon upgrading the tourist infrastructure, attracting foreign investment, and further diversification of the economy.
In July 2009, the IMF worsened the estimates for Spain's 2009 contraction, to minus 4 % of GDP for the year ( close to the European average of minus 4. 6 %), besides, it estimated a further 0. 8 % contraction of the Spanish economy for 2010.
By that definition, a state capitalist country is one where the government controls the economy and essentially acts like a single huge corporation, extracting the surplus value from the workforce in order to invest it in further production.
While some, like Spencer, used analogy from natural selection as an argument against government intervention in the economy to benefit the poor, others, including Alfred Russel Wallace, argued that action was needed to correct social and economic inequities to level the playing field before natural selection could improve humanity further.
With the prospect of continued relocation of labor-intensive industries to economies with cheaper work forces, such as in China and Vietnam, Taiwan's future development will have to rely on further transformation to a high technology and service-oriented economy.
These developments reflect Taiwan's economic importance and its desire to become further integrated into the global economy.

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