At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

At 12,000 feet, Fiedler signaled `` release '', and started the roaring pulse-jet engine -- then streaked away from beneath the Heinkel.

At the time of the movie's release, however, author J. K. Rowling said that it was her personal favorite from the series so far.

At one point following the 5200's release, Atari had planned a smaller, cost-reduced version of the Atari 5200, which would have removed the controller storage bin.

At a news conference following the letter's release, Bush said, " I make no excuses.

At the time of its release, Internet-based gaming was just beginning.

The episodes are renumbered 1 to 9, although, in fact they are episodes 1-2, 5-6, and 9-13 ( a similar fault was made on the release of At Last the 1948 Show ).

At one point it was announced that the release had been delayed to allow the inclusion of the video for " May it Be ", while the ( now defunct ) fan sites reported that a dispute over the sound quality of the release led to it being withdrawn.

At release, a javelin can reach speeds approaching 113 km / h ( 70 mph ).

At first release, Nixon in China received mostly mixed if not negative press feedback.

At first IBM described MVS as simply a new release of OS / VS2, but it was, in fact a major rewrite.

At 15 he founded a punk rock band, The Ripchords, whose sole release, an eponymous EP with four tracks, was championed by the BBC Radio One DJ John Peel.

At the time, an Ashton-Tate press release called the acquisition " the largest ever in the microcomputer software industry ".

At the time of its release, Nights into Dreams was the top-selling game for the Saturn, and was the 21st highest selling game in Japan for the year 1996.

At the time of the announcement in 1985, King was working on Misery, which he had planned to release as a Bachman book.

At the time of the game's release, this was an unorthodox mechanic.

Following the re-release of their album At First Sight, Violets Are Blue and the release of the Mushroom Soup: The Citadel Years in 2003, The Stems found themselves playing to packed houses across the country, touring Europe, playing the prestigious " Little Stevens Underground Garage Festival " in August 2005, and then at the " Come Together Festival " at Sydney ’ s Luna Park with the cream of Australia ’ s newest bands in September 2005.

At first, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment.

Paul C. also produced the Hip-House mix of " Traveling At The Speed Of Thought ", which was used as the group's first music video, and was their sole release in 1989.

At these facilities, the sewage is screened to exclude objects larger than prior to release into ocean outfalls.

At the time of its release ( 1999 ) it then boasted NW-MS70D as the smallest MP3 player on the market.

At the pleading of their wives, and for fear of sinking, Laman and Lemuel release Nephi.

At maturity, the cones usually open to release the seeds, but in some of the bird-dispersed species ( e. g. Whitebark Pine ), the seeds are only released by the bird breaking the cones open.

At the Battle of the Caudine Forks they were kept penned in without supplies, especially water, until the Senate bought their release in exchange for a half-year treaty the Romans considered humiliating, by which they provided hostages and gave up the colonies.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

At present, both the familiar cast acrylic and the newer extruded sheets are being used by sign manufacturers, with extruded now representing an estimated 10% of the total.

At the start of World War I, thousands of the French Cuirassiers rode out to engage the German Cavalry who likewise used helmets and armour.

At this time Cossa also had some links with local robber bands, often used to intimidate his rivals and attack carriages, this part of Cossa's life isn't widely known, but gave him certain influence and power in the region.

At the site of some of the protests, police have used tear gas, pepper spray, concussion grenades, rubber and wooden bullets, night sticks, water cannons, dogs, and horses to repel the protesters.

At the end of the Peloponnesian War Lysander restored the scattered remnants of the old inhabitants to the island, which was used by the Spartans as a base for operations against Athens in the Corinthian War.

At this time, Homer's poems were used as textbooks for the study of Greek.

At issue is the distinction when used computers stop being a " commodity " and become a " waste ".

At an address in Munich to the SA " old guard " on 8 November 1941 at the Buergerbrau beer cellar commemorating Hitler's 1923 failed putsch, he said that the term " blitzkrieg " was silly and never used it himself

At the World Championships, four Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance Triamterene, a diuretic used to dilute urine samples in order to mask the presence of anabolic steroids.

At this point, a water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse the rioters.

At one time, dot matrix printers were one of the more common types of printers used for general use, such as for home and small office use.

At the same time it is difficult to have an open policy towards neighbouring countries when they are used as safe haven by rebels regularly attacking Central African Republic ( C. A. R.

At various times countries have either re-stamped foreign coins, or used currency board issuing one note of currency for each note of a foreign government held, as Ecuador currently does.

At the turn of the 1st century AD, a kind of folded parchment notebook called pugillares membranei in Latin became commonly used for writing in the Roman Empire.

At this stage, the compost can be used to prepare fields or other planting areas.

At those times, the expressions were all used interchangeably with " Christian Era ", and " vulgar " meant " not regal " rather than " crudely indecent ".

At the circuit level, there are various techniques that can be used to measure current:

At the start of the game there are no cities anywhere in the world: the player controls one or two settler units, which can be used to found new cities in appropriate sites ( and those cities may build other settler units, which can go out and found new cities, thus expanding the empire ).

At times programs intentionally alter the memory used by other programs.

At the same time, Greek fortifications began to feature high towers with shuttered windows in the top, which could have been used to house anti-personnel arrow shooters, as in Aigosthena.

At first, the old Roman pagan rite was used by Christians, although modified superficially.

At the 1860 Karlsruhe Congress on atomic weights, Cannizzaro resurrected Avogadro's ideas and used them to produce a consistent table of atomic weights, which mostly agree with modern values.

At one point in its development it was intended for use with Apple's Newton computer, but the Dylan implementation did not reach sufficient maturity in time, and Newton instead used a combination of C and the NewtonScript developed by Walter Smith.

At the time, BT dictated what signalling could be used on its leased lines and, whilst it only had a minority interest in the sales of PBXs, was requested by the PBX manufacturers to produce a standard to prevent the creation of a plethora of conflicting PBX protocols being developed.