Dedicated cross-country touring skis may have a fish-scale pattern engraved into the base of the ski to enable the ski to grip, but most types of ski require the use of sticky wax or climbing skins for their smooth surface to grip.

Dedicated drum pads such as the Roland Octapad or the DrumKAT are playable with the hands or with sticks, and are often built in the form of a drum kit.

Dedicated backscattered electron detectors are positioned above the sample in a " doughnut " type arrangement, concentric with the electron beam, maximising the solid angle of collection.

Dedicated tutoring services are available within the University of Manitoba ’ s Medicine, Engineering and Social Work ACCESS Programs.

Dedicated playing areas for boules-type games are typically large, level, rectangular courts made of flattened earth, gravel, or crushed stone, enclosed in wooden rails or back boards.

Dedicated in-house salespeople are sometimes replaced by companies who specialize in sales to bookshops, wholesalers and chain stores for a fee.

Dedicated research study centres are established on the Eastbourne and each of the three Brighton campuses.

Dolphy's compositions are the inspiration for many tribute albums, such as Oliver Lake's Prophet and Dedicated to Dolphy, Jerome Harris ' Hidden In Plain View, and Yoshihide Ōtomo's re-imagining of Out to Lunch !.

Dedicated amplifiers are also commonly used by audiophiles to drive headphones, especially those with high impedance and / or low sensitivity, or electrostatic headphones.

Dedicated industrial archaeology and industrial heritage courses are usually at post-graduate level.

Dedicated flagship Taschen bookstores are located in:

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Dedicated GPUs for portable computers are most commonly interfaced through a non-standard and often proprietary slot due to size and weight constraints.

The two largest discrete ( see " Dedicated graphics cards " above ) GPU designers, ATI and Nvidia, are beginning to pursue this approach with an array of applications.

Dedicated laptop network points and wireless network access are available on three floors of the library.

Dedicated adoption centres are of varying size and have paid staff in addition to volunteers on their team.

* Dedicated bus lanes, where buses, taxi, and private rental cars are only allowed to drive, this reduces congestion with set down, and pick up of passengers, and normal commuters

Dedicated research institutes of evolutionary linguistics are a recent phenomenon, emerging only in the 1990s.

Dedicated to community outreach, these museums offer curriculum-based education programs, docent-led tours, special evening programs, summer activities, lectures, and musical performances that are open to the public and free of charge.

Dedicated breeders and research facilities are today working on preserving and spreading what could be saved from the original stocks.

Dedicated road bicycles have drop handlebars and multiple gears, although there are single and fixed gear varieties.

Dedicated point-to-point links are not the only option for many connections between systems.

Dedicated sports bulletins are broadcast at 8am, 1pm and 5: 30pm, alongside reports within the hourly news bulletins and a scores & results service during Saturday afternoons.

Dedicated short-range communications are one-way or two-way short-to medium-range wireless communication channels specifically designed for automotive use and a corresponding set of protocols and standards.

Dedicated in 1900, the church, built in the Gothic Revival style and located at 83rd and Madison, is the oldest continuously used Presbyterian church in Arizona.

Dedicated on June 26, 1966, the library is located at 104 St. John Street, at the intersection of St. John Street and Union Street.

Dedicated by the Earl Mountbatten on 12 April 1966, Speakers ' Corner in Regina, Saskatchewan is located on the north shore of Wascana Lake.

Dedicated on December 27, 1925, the Fire Alarm Office is located at 59 The Fenway, near the intersection of Westland Avenue and Hemenway Street.

* Church of Saint Procopius – Dedicated to St. Procopius of Sázava, this three-aisled neo-Gothic church is located at Sladkovského Square in Žižkov.

* 50th Anniversary of EDSAC — Dedicated website at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

** Lakonia at Aigila: Dedicated to Demeter.

Dedicated sake barrels at Itsukushima Shrine

Dedicated ( hardware ) X terminals have become less common ; a PC or modern thin client with an X server typically provides the same functionality at the same, or lower, cost.

Dedicated vehicles were designed for the maintenance of the conveyor, which is always at a minimum height of 5 meters above the ground to avoid being flooded during monsoon periods.

Dedicated skirt and trousers hangers may not use the triangular shape at all, instead using just a rod with clips.

Dedicated, and relatively expensive, telephone recording equipment equalizes the sound at both ends from a direct tap much better.

Dedicated psychiatric care is provided at the Alberta Hospital.

Dedicated with full military honors in a ceremony on Memorial Day, 1986, the gray granite memorial sits in the center of the turnaround by the lower shelter, at the base of the flagpole.

* Lifeboat — Dedicated providers of rescue lifeboat services, usually at sea ( such as by the RNLI in the United Kingdom ).

Tiara Records, along with The Shirelles ' contract, was sold to Decca Records in 1959 for $ 4000 ; Greenberg stayed as the manager, securing performances for the group, including one at the Howard Theatre in Washington D. C. After two singles did poorly, including their first release — with Coley as lead vocalist — of " Dedicated to the One I Love ", a cover of The " 5 " Royales song of the same name, Decca returned them to Greenberg and gave up on them, considering them a one-hit act ; On Greenberg's new label, Scepter Records, they re-released " Dedicated to the One I Love " as a single, which peaked at # 89 ; Wayne Wadhams, David Nathan, and Susan Lindsay in Inside the Hits attribute the low rating to poor distribution.

During this same period they reissued " Dedicated to the One I Love ", which peaked at # 3, followed by " Mama Said ", then " Baby It's You ", written by Burt Bacharach, Luther Dixon, and Mack David, " Soldier Boy ", and " Boys ", with saxophonist King Curtis.

A few days later, at a dinner ( at the Paper Tiger Chinese restaurant in Lutterworth, Leicestershire ) with Dedicated executives, Kember and Pierce were cordial with the other guests but didn't talk with one another.

Dedicated home cinemas were called screening rooms at the time and were outfitted with 16 mm or even 35 mm projectors for showing commercial films.

Dedicated to " The Right Honourable the Lady Mary Countess of Pembroke ", we learn that Delia lived on the banks of the River Avon — not Shakespeare's one, of course, but the one which flowed through " where Delia has her seat " at Wilton in Wiltshire — and that the sonnets to her were inspired by her memory when the poet was in Italy.

The Polar Express, in which Jeter played Smokey and Steamer using motion-capture, was his final film role and the movie was dedicated to him with a statement at the very end of the credits reading, " Dedicated to the memory of Michael Jeter " with his photo next to it.