Besides making travel faster, such improvements would allow greater design " safety margins " by reducing the imperative to make spacecraft lighter.

Besides additional piping and the switch between fuels, the head gasket was replaced by a much thicker one to diminish the compression ratio ( making the engine less powerful and less efficient, but able to run on kerosene ).

Besides this, in Latin America a common use is for such household tasks as cutting large foodstuffs into pieces — much as a cleaver is used — or to perform crude cutting tasks such as making simple wooden handles for other tools.

Besides making decision as which interface a packet is forwarded to, which is handled primarily via the routing table, a router also has to manage congestion, when packets arrive at a rate higher than the router can process.

Besides making him a valet, a roasting specialist, a chef, a hash-house cook, an adventurer, just as frequently dresses him up as someone else.

Besides a brief appearance of the brothers in Japan around 1994, and George making a guest-appearance in the 1990s on a concert in Japan ( including a released double-CD ) of the Graham Central Station, the duo launched an expanded US tour in 2002 which got positive, wide exposure.

Besides having advantages or disadvantages for certain races, at night most creeps fall asleep, making nighttime scouting safer ; however, the line of sight for most units is also reduced.

Besides, there are 18 million private internet users in Iran ( over 23 million when counting public /" internet cafe " users ), making the country first in the Middle East, in terms of number.

Besides making decisions about legality of delivery, appeals for wickets and general conduct of the game in a legal manner, the umpire also keeps a record of the deliveries and announces the completion of an over.

Besides making these mechanisms simpler and more reliable, this also makes it possible to record and play back an organist ’ s performance via the MIDI protocol.

Besides touring, the band found itself making their network television debut on The Jon Stewart Show and hosting MTV's 120 Minutes.

Besides farming and business, the Agikuyu were involved in small scale industries with professions such as bridge building, string making, Wire drawing, Iron Chain making and medicine.

Besides making some Unicode fonts unusable for texts involving multiple " Unihan languages ", names or other orthographically sensitive terminology might be displayed incorrectly.

Besides Aberhart, it featured actors portraying two characters of whom Aberhart had been making considerable use in presentations around the province: the Man from Mars, who expressed bewilderment that poverty could exist in the midst of plenty and that governments were doing nothing about it, and Kant B. Dunn, who brought up straw man arguments against social credit for Aberhart to dismantle.

Besides making their own recordings of regional bands and popular artists, Broadway issued scores of records from leased master including those from Emerson, Banner and later Crown.

Besides the labour strife and farm tariffs in the Prairie provinces, the Conscription Crisis of 1917 had a lasting effect on Tory fortunes by making the party virtually unelectable in Quebec.

Besides making cryptic references to Jacen's destiny, Vergere also reveals that she has spent the last fifty years with the Yuuzhan Vong in order to save the living world of Zonama Sekot, as well as to gather intelligence on the Vong themselves.

Besides brightness, VFDs have the advantages of being rugged, inexpensive, and easily configured to display a wide variety of customized messages, and unlike LCDs, VFDs are not limited by the response time of rearranging liquid crystals and are thus able to function normally in cold, even sub-zero, temperatures, making them ideal for outdoor devices in cold climates.

Besides making an excellent forage crop for livestock, clovers are a valuable survival food: they are high in proteins, widespread, and abundant.

Besides making cameos in other segments of Animaniacs ( usually as a running gag ), The Warners have made appearances elsewhere than Animaniacs.

Besides pioneering the concept of bottle design, Coty was responsible for making perfume available to a mass market.

Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, bottling lines, laboratories, and large expanses of tanks known as tank farms.

Besides making sure that the firewall settings are correct, for Windows XP hosts with more than one Ethernet interface card and a wireless WAN connection, bridging the Ethernet interface cards may help eliminating some ICS problems.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

Besides the volcanic area of the south, there are significant mud hot springs in the northern part of the island, around Beppu.

Besides brief references by non-Manichaean authors through the centuries, no original sources of " The Book of Giants " ( which is actually part six of the " Book of Enoch ") were available until the 20th century.

Besides being an anatomical structure, the axon hillock is also the part of the neuron that has the greatest density of voltage-dependent sodium channels.

Besides attempting to unravel the question of why Novinha married Marcão when she really loved Libo ( Marcão was sterile, and a quick genetic scan on Jane's part reveals that Novinha's children are all, in fact, Libo's ), Ender also takes responsibility for attempting to heal the Ribeira family, and manages to adopt ( or perhaps is adopted by ) most of the children within their first meeting.

Besides full-length novels, he wrote novellas for the most part published in magazines and later in volumes of two or three stories.

Besides the cost of ameliorating damaged areas and the loss of at least part of the initial investment in them, salinization and chemicalization of land have reduced agricultural productivity in Central Asia by an estimated 20 to 25 %.

Besides these buildings which were part of the official structures of the bishopric ; an additional four parish churches were constructed in the city: the Jacobikerk ( dedicated to Saint James ), founded in the 11th century, with the current Gothic church dating back to the 14th century ; the Buurkerk ( Neighbourhood-church ) of the 11th century parish in the centre of the city ; Nicolaichurch ( dedicated to Saint Nicholas ), from the 12th century and the 13th century Geertekerk ( dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles ).

Besides heathen beliefs, part of the NSBM scene embraces an interpretation of Satanism, depicting Satan as an ancient Aryan counterpart to Yahweh, the god of the Jews and Christians.

Besides the Sheriff and the two Registers of Deeds, the Middlesex District Attorney, the Middlesex Register of Probate and the Middlesex Clerk of Courts ( which were already part of state government before the abolition of Middlesex County government ) are all elected countywide to six-year terms.

Besides the original City of Yakutat ( the urban part ), described below, the only other significant population center in the borough is the community of Icy Bay, the site of the Icy Bay Airport, in the west-central part of the borough.

Besides these five books, published around 1360, Fordun also wrote part of another book, and collected materials for bringing down the history to a later period.

Besides Nieuwpoort proper, two small villages in the Flemish polders are part of the municipality, Sint-Joris and Ramskapelle, Nieuwpoort.

Besides delaying the crossing of the Austrian left wing, this also meant that, being 30 kilometers away, Nimptsch's brigade would play no part in the battle.

The complex however includes many more attractions: Besides the Tiergarten, an orangerie erected around 1755, staple luxuries of European palaces of its type, a palm house ( replacing, by 1882, around ten earlier and smaller glass houses in the western part of the park ) is noteworthy.

Besides that this area is mostly as green as the rest of the Münsterland and historically a part of the landscape.

Besides his lecturing and literary labours, Sidgwick took an active part in the business of the university, and in many forms of social and philanthropic work.

Besides numerous pamphlets, Ferguson wrote: History of the Revolution ( 1706 ); Qualifications requisite in a Minister of State ( 1710 ); and part of the History of all the Mobs, Tumults and Insurrections in Great Britain ( London, 1715 ).

Besides biographical sketches of Defoe, Sir John Davies, Allan Ramsay, Sir David Lyndsay, Churchyard and others, prefixed to editions of their respective works, the British government paid Chalmers 500 pounds sterling to write a hostile biography of Thomas Paine, the author of the Rights of Man, that Chalmers published under the assumed name of Francis Oldys, A. M., of the University of Pennsylvania ; and a life of Ruddiman, in which considerable light is thrown on the state of literature in Scotland during the earlier part of the last century.

Besides writing a number of songs for Tucker, Shapiro became part of her stage act, playing piano on stage while she sang, and exchanging banter and wisecracks with her in between numbers.

Besides commanding a fine view of the city and a large part of the surrounding area, and being a local favorite recreational area, it hosts the Arms Museum, with a fine collection of weapons from the Middle Ages onwards ; the Risorgimento Museum, dedicated to the Italian independence wars of the XIX century ; an exhibition of model railroads ; and an astronomical observatory.

Besides film and television adaptations, the Dune franchise has been adapted into a series of computer and video games in which sandworms play a part.

Besides the separation of some groups ( Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians ) during the Age of Migration, many Vlachs could be found all over the Balkans, in Transylvania, across Carpathian Mountains as far north as Poland and as far west as the regions of Moravia ( part of the modern Czech Republic ), some went as far east as Volhynia of western Ukraine, and the present-day Croatia where the Morlachs gradually disappeared, while the Catholic and Orthodox Vlachs took Croat and Serb national identity.