Although provoking a vehement reaction in the software community, and causing Richard Stallman to form the League for Programming Freedom, the expected landmark ruling never happened, as most of the issues were resolved based on a license that Apple had granted Microsoft for Windows 1. 0.

Humans rely on photochemistry for the formation of vitamin D, and vision is initiated by a photochemical reaction of rhodopsin.

An explosion is a type of spontaneous chemical reaction that, once initiated, is driven by both a large exothermic change ( great release of heat ) and a large positive entropy change ( great quantities of gases are released ) in going from reactants to products, thereby constituting a thermodynamically favorable process in addition to one that propagates very rapidly.

On 2 December 1942 he initiated the atomic age with the first self-sustaining chain reaction, after which he became known as " father of the atomic bomb ".

This reaction is initiated by GTPase-activating proteins ( GAPs ), coming from another signal transduction pathway.

* December 25 – The first artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Europe was initiated within the Soviet ( Russian ) nuclear reactor F-1.

In late 2001, as a decisive reaction to the September 11 attacks and the various corporate scandals which undermined the economy, the Greenspan-led Federal Reserve initiated a series of interest rate cuts that brought the Federal Funds rate down to 1 % in 2004.

A reaction calorimeter is a calorimeter in which a chemical reaction is initiated within a closed insulated container.

Thermite usage is hazardous due to the extremely high temperatures produced and the extreme difficulty in smothering a reaction once initiated.

Because the reaction had been initiated by trace oxygen contamination in their apparatus, the experiment was, at first, difficult to reproduce.

Once the limerent reaction has initiated, one of three varieties of bonds may form, defined over a set duration of time, in relation to the experience or non-experience of limerence.

For a thermoset polymeric matrix material, the melding event is a curing reaction that is initiated by the application of additional heat or chemical reactivity such as an organic peroxide.

The development of the theory was initiated by Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan in the 1970s, in reaction to the direction research in the area of transformational grammar had begun to take.

Vision is initiated by a photochemical reaction of rhodopsin.

In reaction to the toxic outbreaks, six states along the US east coast have initiated a monitoring program to allow for rapid response in the case of new outbreaks and to better understand the factors involved in Pfiesteria toxicity and outbreaks.

In reaction to Bouchard's stated plans, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien initiated a reference to answer the legality of a unilateral declaration of independence from a Canadian province.

The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 on December 2, 1942.

When light is absorbed by a reaction center ( either directly or passed by neighbouring pigment-antennae ), a series of oxido-reduction reactions is initiated, leading to the reduction of a terminal acceptor.

Tripartite talks between the Cuban government, the Catholic Church in Cuba and the Spanish government were initiated in spring 2010 in reaction to the controversial death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo in February 2010 following a hunger strike amid reports of massive abuse at the hands of prison staff.

The assassination of Lambrakis initiated an enormous popular reaction, and soon after, investigator Christos Sartzetakis and Attorney General P. Delaportas uncovered connections of the police and army to far-right extremists.

The review says the film is a reaction to " Mankiewicz ’ s own experiences during the communist witch hunts of the late 1940s, early 1950s which were initiated by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The Michaelis – Arbuzov reaction is initiated with the S < sub > N </ sub > 2 reaction of the nucleophilic phosphite ( 1 ) with the electrophilic alkyl halide ( 2 ) to give a phosphonium intermediate ( 3 ).

The mechanism involves complexation of iron ( III ) into the hydroxyl, followed by a radical coupling reaction of the naphthol rings initiated by iron ( III ) reducing into iron ( II ).

In reaction, some developers forked version 3. 9. 1 under the name MANA ( for Mail And News Agent ) to avoid the trademark issue and the GNU project adopted it as GNU Mana.

In reaction, the Wine project changed its license to the GNU Lesser General Public License ( LGPL ).

This project has caused some reaction from some parts of the intellectual and political world of the island.

The project abandoned fusion after concluding that it would require a fission reaction to detonate.

Fox announced on October 29, 2007 that it would commission a pilot for an American version of Spaced, a project they then scuttled in May 2008 following a generally negative reaction from the series ' creators and fans of the original show.

In reaction to protests, two city councilmembers retracted their support for the project ; The $ 2, 000, 000 statue took nearly nine years to build and was stationed in the sculptor's Mexico City warehouse.

He had failed to interest several European countries in his project but in the aftermath of the English reaction to the Company he was able to get a respectful hearing for his ideas.

The original project designed bombs with a reaction mass made of tungsten.

Schnoll gave the project to a graduate student, Anatol Zhabotinsky, who investigated the reaction in detail and succeeded in publishing his results.

Knight's reaction was to withdraw a previous US $ 30 million commitment toward the Autzen Stadium expansion project and to offer no further donations to the university.

Since ReactOS is a free and open source software development project, the claim triggered a negative reaction by the free software community ; in particular, Wine barred several now inactive developers from providing contributions and formal high level cooperation between the two projects still remains difficult.

Private reaction towards the project has been positive and Dubai has exceeded the $ 20. 9 billion private investment figure it expected on the entire project by collecting approximately $ 55 billion from the private sector for the first phase.

The project was eventually canceled by the Air Force in January 1959, seemingly out of fear of a negative public reaction and the risk to the population should anything have gone wrong with the launch.

The production of Ivy King was hurried so it would be ready if its sister project, Ivy Mike, failed in its attempt to achieve a thermonuclear reaction.

Both forks provoked a hostile reaction: the ArX fork was due to a serious dispute in direction and Lord was strongly critical of Canonical's approach to announcing the Baz project.

Inspired by the success of the song and the positive reaction to Pet Sounds, and wanting to top The Beatles ' recently-released Revolver album, Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks embarked on the Smile project, intended as an entire album using the writing and production techniques devised for " Good Vibrations.

" The primitive nature of Coit Tower would lend itself better to that sort of thing than other public buildings ," was Arthur Brown's first reaction to the project.

When Pave Knife was sent out for bid by the Air Force, it was for a firm fixed-price type of contract, it involved design, development, and manufacture of one prototype, and also a quick reaction project.

* Harold V. Lichtenberger-Member of Enrico Fermi's team at Chicago Pile-1 reactor and participant in the first artificial, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reaction there on Dec. 2, 1942 ; project engineer at Experimental Breeder Reactor I and pulled the switch at 1: 50pm on December 20, 1951, when it became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant.

About one third ( 2 tons ) of the uranium used in the first self sustaining nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago was provided by this project.

When asked in an interview about whether the film's negative critical reaction had damaged Kennedy's morale in wanting do another project like this, Kennedy replied to the interviewer ; " Yes.

The creation of this project was also largely a reaction to the National Organization for Women's vocal opposition to single-sex schools, which decried such arrangements as unacceptable modern examples of segregation.

Because of the unpopular public reaction to the project, the Korean company's permit was permanently revoked by the DENR in early July 2007.