The executive order signed in 1996 to turn off Selective Availability in 2000 was proposed by the US Secretary of Defense, William Perry, because of the widespread growth of differential GPS services to improve civilian accuracy and eliminate the US military advantage.

One of the reasons given for developing Galileo as an independent system was that position information from GPS can be made significantly inaccurate by the deliberate application of universal Selective Availability ( SA ) by the US military ; this was enabled until 2000, and can be re-enabled at any time.

Availability of channels is regulated by country, constrained in part by how each country allocates radio spectrum to various services.

Availability was severely limited, however, by the difficulty of manufacturing large quantities of penicillin and by the rapid renal clearance of the drug, necessitating frequent dosing.

Availability measures are classified by either the time interval of interest or the mechanisms for the system downtime.

( Availability of specific activities can vary by programme ) With a number of students coming from various communities, diversity is promoted for understanding of individuals with different backgrounds and cultures.

* Application Interface Specification, a technical specification defined by the Service Availability Forum

* Water Availability by waste water recycling and rainwater harvesting to eliminate shortages ;

As these definitions suggested, only Availability and Reliability are quantifiable by direct measurements whilst others are more subjective.

Russell Hopfenberg has written at least two papers attempting to prove Quinn's ideas, one paper with David Pimentel entitled, " Human Population Numbers as a Function of Food Supply ," and another, " Human Carrying Capacity is Determined by Food Availability.

Availability of free open source scripts and extensions created by users using the built-in object oriented scripting language Avenue is another reason.

** Seasonal brews ( Alcohol by Volume / Availability )

Some Shelf Managers support the Hardware Platform Interface, a technical specification defined by the Service Availability Forum.

# Availability of car rental by the hour or more if the driver has a valid driving license.

Availability relates to information being available when required by the business process now and in the future.

* Water Use and Availability in the Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck River Basins, North-Central Rhode Island, by Mark T. Nimiroski and Emily C. Wild, United States Geological Survey.

The JTF-GNO functions in accordance with Unified Command Plan 2002 ( Change 2 ) and the Joint Concept of Operations for GIG NetOps, assuring Global Information Superiority by achieving the three assurances outlined in the Joint Concept of Operations for GIG NetOps: Assured System and Network Availability, Assured Information Protection, and Assured Information Delivery.

He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses, the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy, the ethics committee of the American Society of Gene Therapy, and the special advisory panel to the National Institute of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.

Availability of WYSIWYG (" what you see is what you get ") publishing software supplanted much use of these languages among casual users, though serious publishing work still uses markup to specify the non-visual structure of texts, and WYSIWYG editors now usually save documents in a markup-language-based format.

Availability of functions and subroutines depends on the implementation ; the versions available on the TI-82-descended calculators do not even support a GOSUB-like function, though it is possible to call programs from within each other and share variables between programs.

Availability of food depends on the airline.

Availability of brands depends on an individual state's liquor laws, resulting in some beers being available in some places and others not.

Geocaching was conceived shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 2, 2000, because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located.

Though Selective Availability capability still exists, on 19 September 2007 the US Department of Defense announced that newer GPS satellites would not be capable of implementing Selective Availability ;

After a series of preliminary " release candidates ," version 2. 0 GA ( General Availability ) was released on 15 May 2010. eComStation version 2. 1 GA was released on May 20, 2011.

Availability of sports can depend on location and season.

Criminal Investigators work additional hours and receive an additional 25 % Law Enforcement Availability Pay on top of their base pay.

United States Department of Agriculture Geospatial Data Availability for Haiti ( February 2007 ) ( Study on availability of commercial imagery in 2007 which summarizes collection systems and data products.

“ Effect of Lime Treatment on in vitro Availability of Essential Amino Acids and Solubility of Protein Fracturing in Corn .” Agricultural and Food Chemistry 6. 10 ( 1958 ): 774-778.

( Availability is sometimes not mentioned, on the principle that it is a simple function of reliability and maintainability.

Until the new second-generation Globalstar satellite constellation is operational, Globalstar is offering its Optimum Satellite Availability T-tool ( OSAT ) on its Internet site, which subscribers may use to predict when one or more unaffected satellites will be overhead at any specific geographic location.

Availability never fell under 90 % and the final report stated, " It has not been possible to prove any disadvantage in the " S " inability to fire on the move.

" Building a Responsibility Model Including Accountability, Capability and Commitment ", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ), Fukuoka, 2009.

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The whole sub-class had steam heating boilers fitted, had the Blue Star Electro-Pneumatic multiple-working controls as found on many other BR classes, and were classified as Route Availability 5.

Availability also relates to failure and recovery from it ( see Recovery from failure and disaster below ): Upon failure and during recovery normal availability changes, and special measures are needed to satisfy availability requirements.

Availability of knowledge to the elite had always been obvious, yet provision of networking devices, even wireless gadget sign-outs from libraries, made availability of information an expectation of most persons.

Availability of a system is typically measured as a factor of its reliability-as reliability increases, so does availability.

Availability is the goal of most system users, and reliability engineering and maintainability provide the means to assure that availability performance requirements are achieved.

Availability gives a clear overview of the end-to-end availability of the system.

# Outcome Availability – availability of positive and negative investment outcomes

# Risk Availability – availability of financial risk

* DAG, Database Availability Group, a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 high availability technology

Availability of raw materials: for example, availability may cap the amount of gold that can be produced in a country regardless of price.

Availability / cost — The availability and cost of the sand is very important because for every ton of metal poured, three to six tons of sand is required.