It should be noted that BPI focuses on " doing things right " more than it does on " doing the right thing ".

During periods of major depression or mania ( in BPI ), functioning was on average poor, with depression being more persistently associated with disability than mania.

In essence, BPI attempts to reduce variation and / or waste in processes, so that the desired outcome can be achieved with better utilisation of resources.

* BPI Energy, an energy company involved with coalbed methane ( CBM ) in the Illinois Basin

By 2009, Melody has been certified Gold by the BPI ( United Kingdom ) with sales of over 100, 000.

* BPI Family Bank ( with Family ) 2005 – 2006

On October 23, 2007 BREIN, together with IFPI, BPI, Dutch police, and other organizations shut down prominent Bittorrent tracker Oink's Pink Palace.

p-ANCA without nuclear extension occurs with antibodies to BPI, cathepsin G, elastase, lactoferrin and lysozyme.

c-ANCA ( atypical ) is present in 80 % of cystic fibrosis ( with BPI as the target antigen ) and also in inflammatory bowel disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis and rheumatoid arthritis ( with antibodies to multiple antigenic targets ).

In 2006 they released " a more elaborate and meandering " album, A Matter of Life and Death, which received, along with their two previous studio releases, a gold certification by the BPI.

Their second album, The Bends, was released on 13 March 1995 and became the band's first album to peak in the top 10 with it also being awarded triple-platinum status by the BPI and the CRIA.

In 1949, with the establishment of the Central Bank of the Philippines ( now the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ), BPI ( and other banks issuing Philippine currency ) lost the right to issue Philippine pesos, a right it had since the Spanish colonial era and ( with competition from other banks ) during the American colonial period.

In 1969, Ayala Corporation, which had been affiliated with BPI since its establishment in 1851, became the dominant shareholder of BPI and eventually made BPI into the flagship of Ayala's financial entities.

Starting in the 1970s, BPI has been involved with many mergers and acquisitions.

* BPI established the Philippines ' first ATM system, with its ATMs being called Express Tellers.

* BPI pioneered the concept of the banking kiosk in the Philippines, with its kiosks being called Express Banking Centers or EBCs or by its older name, the Convenience Banking Center.

* Launched BPI Express Credit Gold Mastercard with Paysafe System, the country's first EMV ( Europay, MasterCard, Visa ) compliant chip card.

* The first airline co-brand chip credit card issued in the Philippines-BPI SkyMiles MasterCard and BPI SkyMiles Platinum MasterCard with its partner Delta Air Lines.

It was also a commercial success, debuting and peaking at number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and being certified Silver by the BPI within a month of its release.

Business Process Improvement ( BPI ) is a systematic approach to help an organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results.

* Then, the BPI process owners should determine what outcomes would add value to the organization's objectives and how best to align its processes to achieve those outcomes ( TO-BE ).

While critically praised, the album was not as commercially viable as its predecessors ( though it was certified Silver by the BPI for sales of over 60, 000 copies ).

The album peaked at number 36 in the UK, but by 2005 ( 12 years after its release ) it was certified Silver by the BPI for 60, 000 copies sold.

Hot Fuss reached Number 1 in the UK in January 2005, seven months after its release, and has been classified 6x Platinum by the BPI.

" Peters was the first beautiful music syndicator to sell out its library in the late 1980s to Broadcast Programming, Inc. -- known in the industry as BPI -- which snapped up several other syndicators within the next few years.

Her debut album sold 113, 000 copies in its first week and was eventually certified two times ( 2x ) platinum in October by the BPI.

Although not a huge chart hit upon its initial release in the band's native UK ( where it peaked at # 51 ), the album was later certified " Gold " by the BPI in 1986 for 100, 000 copies sold.

It then peaked at # 53, two years after its original release, and was eventually certified " Gold " by the BPI in 1984 for 100, 000 copies sold.

While it is considered by many as an old institution, BPI is trying to promote itself as a dynamic institution that caters to its various clients, which hail from various sectors of Philippine society.

BPI also pioneered rural banking in the Philippines, as its countryside banking operations preceded that of many other banks ' rural banking operations by many years.

BPI is also known for its firsts which are listed below:

* Expressnet is also known for its Express Payment System ( EPS ), which was at first the debit card system of the BPI Express Teller ATM card.

* BPI issued its first Sustainability Report for 2008 along the Global Reporting Initiatives ( GRI ) Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, the first in the banking industry.

The album is currently certified Platinum by the BPI and, according to the biography on the official site, has sold over two million copies around the world.

The two are equivalent, as the strong BPI clearly implies the weak BPI, and the reverse implication can be achieved by using the weak BPI to find prime ideals in the appropriate quotient algebra.

In the United Kingdom the single reached number two and was certified silver by the BPI on December 1, 1990.

It stayed at number one for two weeks, remaining inside the top forty for seven weeks and the top seventy-five for fifteen weeks, and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry ( BPI ) in December 1997.

It maintained the number one position for two weeks and received a gold certification by the British Phonographic Industry ( BPI ) in January 1986.

The album did not make No. 1 in the United Kingdom like the past three albums ( two studio and 1 greatest hits ) but however made No. 5 on the UK Album Charts and only managed Gold status awarded by the BPI for sales of over 100, 000 copies in the United Kingdom.

It reached number two in the UK and was certified gold by the BPI.

Within that year, BPI also founded the BPI Direct Savings Bank, an Internet bank, which launched BPI into 21st century banking.

* The first local bank in the Philippines to introduce 24 hour branch banking called BPI Express.

* BPI is the first bank in the Philippines to make use of a call center and telephone banking, known as BPI Express Phone