The current definition, sometimes known as the metric carat, was adopted in 1907 at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures, and soon afterward in many countries around the world.

The first Taiko player in the UK was Joji Hirota, soon followed by the UK's first regularly performing Taiko group, Akatsuki Daiko, set up in 1993. Notable current groups are Mugenkyo, Taiko Meantime and Kagemusha Taiko

The current widespread use of the transform came about soon after World War II although it had been used in the 19th century by Abel, Lerch, Heaviside and Bromwich.

Maria Eleonora had a definite liking for entertainment and sweetmeats, and she soon succumbed to the current fashionable craze for buffoons and dwarfs.

Cambridge, UK: CUP Archive, 1973, pp 10 </ ref > Discussions on the current state of communism and abstract ideas such as freedom and identity were also becoming more common ; soon, non-party publications began appearing, such as the trade union daily < i > Prace </ i > ( Labour ).

Managing Director Ernst Fuhrmann was also pressuring Ferdinand to approve development of the new model in light of concerns that the current flagship model at the time, the 911, was quickly reaching its maximum potential where it could soon no longer be improved upon.

Gaining sole reign of the empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 ( over of the current capitals, which had effectively been changed by Diocletian's reforms to Milan in the West, and Nicomedia in the East ) to build the city soon called Nova Roma ( New Rome ); it was later renamed Constantinople in his honor.

Durant Field was often called Oakland Airport, though the current Oakland International Airport was soon established four miles ( 6 km ) southwest.

Sun Yat-sen soon resigned from the office in favor of Yuan Shikai, who formally assumed the office of " President " ( 大總統, literally " Great President ", in contrast with the omission of ' great ' in the current title ) in 1913.

Despite her family's objections, soon they were living together, and although Hébuterne was the current love of his life, their public scenes became more renowned than Modigliani's individual drunken exhibitions.

As soon as the electrode is biased negative with respect to the plasma potential, the emitted electrons are repelled and contribute a large negative current.

The liberals soon divided into " moderates " and " progressives ", and in Catalonia a republican current began to develop ; also, inevitably, Catalans generally favored a more federal Spain.

soon after aviation began it became a requirement for an aircraft to be under the operational control of a properly trained, certified and current pilot at all times, who is responsible for the safe and legal completion of the flight.

He was soon promoted to Detective, and assumed his current role.

FÅA, Bore and Svea soon realised that a similar arrangement would be preferable to their current fragmented image, and in 1970 a big change was carried out within the organisations: Silja Line was established as a joint marketing and coordination company between FÅA, Bore and Svea, and the ships of Siljavarustamo were divided between these three.

The town was also soon enriched by the construction of a new harbor on the northern mouths of the Tiber ( which reaches the sea with a larger mouth in Ostia, Fiumara Grande, and a narrower one near to the current Fiumicino International Airport ).

The old Town Hall, ' the Catford Cathedral ' of 1875, was replaced by the current Civic Suite in 1968, soon after the merger of the metropolitan boroughs of Lewisham and Deptford.

The Chapel soon grew, received canonical status as a parish, and moved to its current bluff-top location in Dana Point, overlooking Doheny State Beach.

In 1767, soon after incorporation, the name was changed to its current spelling of Redding to better reflect its pronunciation.

This new reference may soon change the current meaning of " west side " to west of Interstate 55.

It soon moved to a former department store on West State Route 3 near Phillips St .) The current site includes 34 classrooms and numerous faculty offices in over 82, 000 conditioned sq.

Early residents, friends and relatitives soon began gathering for camp meetings ( like current day revivals ), near the south end of College Street.

Located at the current location of the Edcouch-Elsa High School, the Carlson School soon became a community center.

He is thought either to have been killed by the Fascists as soon as he landed or to have killed himself by flying out to sea and crashing his plane.

`` The police soon ceased to look upon either Bridget or Mr. Morse as in possession of guilty knowledge.

Agrippina ’ s son Drusus died of starvation being imprisoned in Rome and Nero either committed suicide soon after the trial.

He was born in Rome — in either 1475 or 1476 — the son of Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse.

Army regulations ( 606-5 ) soon included X and Y in addition to P, C, and H: the X indicating any religion not included in the first three, and the Y indicating either no religion or a choice not to list religion.

An exception to this rule occurs if one side has called a witness, but it is either understood, or soon becomes plain, that the witness is hostile to the questioner's side of the controversy.

Some of the provincial divisions required revision, and were modified either soon after 293 or early in the fourth century.

For reasons unknown, Domitian briefly exiled Domitia, and then soon recalled her, either out of love or due to rumours that he was carrying on a relationship with his niece Julia Flavia.

" Thus in the example above, Hecuba presents herself as a sophisticated intellectual describing a rationalized cosmos yet the speech is ill-matched to her audience, Menelaus ( a type of the unsophisticated listener ), and soon it is found not to suit the cosmos either ( her infant grandson is brutally murdered by the victorious Greeks ).

As soon as they disembarked at Southampton, Eleanor was taken either to Winchester Castle or Sarum Castle and held there.

He attended the lessons and the conferences of the Association of Workers organised by the French Communist Party, but he soon dropped out because he wanted to pursue a degree in either philosophy or law.

Finland's declaration of independence on 6 December 1917-though supported by most Finns and soon recognized by the Russian Bolshevist Council of People's Commissars-occurred in the context of the worsening power struggle, and therefore failed to either unite or pacify the nation.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

Glan Rhondda ( Banks of the Rhondda ), as it was known when it was composed, was first performed in the vestry of the original Capel Tabor, Maesteg, ( which later became a working men's club ), in either January or February 1856, by Elizabeth John from Pontypridd, and it soon became popular in the locality.

Even Grimm himself did not at first intend to include all the languages in his Grammar, but he soon found that Old High German postulated Gothic, and that the later stages of German could not be understood without the help of other West Germanic varieties including English, and that the rich literature of Scandinavia could not be ignored either.

However, it soon became clear that it would be impractical to have an odd number of teams per league: baseball would either have to give teams many more off-days than in the past, or interleague play would have to be extended year-round, or both.

In prokaryotes the mRNA may either be used as soon as it is produced, or be bound by a ribosome after having moved away from the nucleoid.

After his discharge, Heinlein attended a few weeks of graduate classes in mathematics and physics at the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ), but he soon quit either because of his health or from a desire to enter politics.

Accordingly, during the second half of 1941 Heydrich and his staff worked on proposals to " evacuate " all Jews from Germany and the occupied countries to labour camps, either in occupied Poland or further east in the Soviet Union, which it was assumed would soon be completely conquered.

CBS soon had more affiliates than either NBC Red or NBC Blue.

The first ploughing is given immediately after harvest, or as soon as the wheat seed is finished, either in length or across the field, as circumstances may seem to require.

As in the beat movement preceding them, and the punk movement that followed soon after, hippie symbols and iconography were purposely borrowed from either " low " or " primitive " cultures, with hippie fashion reflecting a disorderly, often vagrant style.

It also continues funding for another 18 transit projects that are either currently under construction or soon will be.

Others do not grasp their peril soon enough and either stay in their homes or start for town too late ; two thirds of the colonists perish, either from the quake or by freezing.