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 imagined feats making part of the legend of Mike Fink, it may have also been woven from two ( or more ) men with the same name.

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 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 helping to prevent the movement of the British to the west, Valley Forge also obstructed the trade between Howe's forces and the farmers, thus threatening the vital subsistence of the redcoats and rendering their foraging to obtain necessary supplies extremely hazardous.

Besides iodine and tellurium, later several other pairs of elements ( such as argon and potassium, cobalt and nickel ) were known to have nearly identical or reversed atomic weights, leaving their placement in the periodic table by chemical properties to be in violation of known physical properties.

Besides living together under continuous observation, which is the major attraction of the contest, the program relies on four basic props: The stripped-bare, back-to-basics environment in which they live, the evictions, the weekly tasks and competitions set by Big Brother and the " Diary / Confession Room ", in which the housemates individually convey their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations and reveal their nominees for eviction.

Besides, French doctrine and jurisprudence traditionally allow pictures incorporating a copyrighted work as long as their presence is incidental or accessory to the main represented subject, a reasoning akin to the de minimis rule.

Besides their obligations as obedient and nonpolitical inhabitants of the Grand Duchy, and participants in the political battle against the Tsar, workers had begun to ask for and then demand their civil rights in Finnish society.

Besides these, the thirty three departments, and schools have their own libraries.

Besides those grown for their edible leaves, some are grown for decorative foliage, such as coleus.

Besides material characterization, the material scientist / engineer also deals with the extraction of materials and their conversion into useful forms.

Besides their shape, handmade and machine-made matza are distinctively different.

Besides their names, they might otherwise be identical.

Besides, the concentration analysis for both protactinium-231 ( half-life 32, 750 years ) and thorium-230 ( half-life 75, 380 years ) allows to improve the accuracy compared to when only one isotope is measured ; this double-isotope method is also weakly sensitive to inhomogeneities in the spatial distribution of the isotopes and to variations in their precipitation rate.

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 the renovation of various buildings, projects such as the reconstruction of the pavement of the streets and squares ( reversing them to their historical appearance ), and the introduction of new plants, trees and objects of ' small architecture ', are underway.

Besides on-campus libraries, the UC system also maintains two regional library facilities ( one each for Northern and Southern California ), which each accept older items from all UC campus libraries in their respective region.

Besides, its members came from noble families, and had amassed considerable fortune due to their services in the route to the Holy Land.

Besides the additional liturgical celebrations described below, Orthodox Christians are expected to pay closer attention to and increase their private prayer.

Besides such collections and individual tales, in China, Taoist philosophers such as Liezi and Zhuangzi recounted fairy tales in their philosophical works.

Besides the interest attached to these Selinuntine metopes from their important bearing on the history of Greek sculpture, the remains of these temples are of value as affording the most unequivocal testimony to the use of painting, both for the architectural decoration of the temples, and as applied to the sculptures with which they were adorned.

Besides discouraging animals that eat live prey, playing possum also convinces some large animals that the opossum is no threat to their young.

Besides the FIDE standard algebraic notation ( abbreviation: SAN ) already described, several similar systems are in use for their own particular advantages.

Besides discovering and naming many of the rivers and mountains in the Intermountain West and Pacific Northwest they often kept diaries of their travels and were available as guides and consultants when the trail started to become open for general travel.

Besides or replacing the demonym, some cities and villages have collective nicknames for their inhabitants.

Besides Andalusia, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia, which identified themselves as nationalities, other communities have also taken that denomination in accordance to their historical regional identity, such as the Valencian Community, the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and Aragon.