The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) provided a smaller and cheaper means of quick and accurate fixation for target acquisition devices.

In his critique of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Lomborg stated: " Global warming is by no means our main environmental threat.

SMS as used on modern handsets originated from radio telegraphy in radio memo pagers using standardized phone protocols and later defined as part of the Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ) series of standards in 1985 as a means of sending messages of up to 160 characters, to and from GSM mobile handsets.

Examples of a one-way time transfer system are the clock on a church or town building and the ringing of their time-indication bells ; time balls, radio clock signals such as LORAN, DCF77 and MSF ; and finally the Global Positioning System which uses multiple one-way time transfers from different satellites, with positional information and other advanced means of delay compensations to allow receiver compensation of time and position information in real time.

The number of instrument approaches based on the use of the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) is rapidly increasing and may eventually be the primary means for instrument landings.

Public Citizen aims to make sure that the government remains one by the people, for the people and in that attempt leads the charge “ against undemocratic trade agreements that advance the interests of mega-corporations at the expense of citizens worldwide .” As a means of fulfilling that mission, Public Citizen has five policy groups that work hard on behalf of the people: The Congress Watch division, the Energy Program, Global Trade Watch, the Health Research Group and their Litigation Group.

Near the end of the 20th century the advent of satellite-based Global Positioning Systems ( GPS ) provided yet another means for any individual to determine true north accurately.

According to the Kyodo News, in March 2010 PRC officials told US officials that they consider the South China Sea a " core interest " on par with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang In July 2010 the Communist Party-controlled Global Times stated that " China will never waive its right to protect its core interest with military means " and a Ministry of Defense spokesman said that " China has indisputable sovereignty of the South Sea and China has sufficient historical and legal backing " to underpin its claims.

Global thermodynamic equilibrium ( GTE ) means that those intensive parameters are homogeneous throughout the whole system, while local thermodynamic equilibrium ( LTE ) means that those intensive parameters are varying in space and time, but are varying so slowly that, for any point, one can assume thermodynamic equilibrium in some neighborhood about that point.

Global means of or referring to a globe and may also refer to:

However, the size of the radar antenna is limited by the small diameter of missiles, limiting its range which typically means such missiles are launched at a predicted future location of the target, often relying on separate guidance systems such as Global Positioning System, inertial guidance, or a mid-course update from either the launching aircraft or other system that can communicate with the missile to get the missile close to the target.

At the 2007 World Assembly, six strategic priorities were re-affirmed: Evangelism & Mission, Global Partnership, Leadership Development & Formación ( a Spanish word which means well-rounded development ), Governance of IFES & National Movements, Integral Approach to Ministry and Fund Development.

Another increasingly popular means of obtaining the time is through Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receivers.

This means that, instead of the Global Title routing, lower level MTP routing will be used for this message from this point on.

Increasingly, local ( e. g., Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital ), national ( e. g., American Cancer Society ) and global ( e. g., Global Business Assist, British Red Cross, Asha for Education, World Vision ) charities and humanitarian organizations encourage sponsored participation in the event as a means of fund raising.

Today, the most accurate means of maritime speed measurement comes from Doppler measurement, either derived acoustically by use of Doppler Sonar or radio interferometrically by Doppler measurement of satellite signals such as those from Global Positioning System ( GPS ).

The Manchurian Candidate ( 2004 ): For a means of mind control, the presidential hopeful Raymond Shaw unknowingly has a chip implanted in his head by Manchurian Global, a fictional geopolitical organization aimed at making parts of the government sleeper cells, or puppets for their monetary advancement.

" Netzer " is an acronym in Hebrew for Reform Zionist Youth ( Noar Tsioini Reformi, נוער ציוני רפורמי ), and Netzer Olami means ' Global Netzer '.

This means that the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik ( DIE ) is in the same league as the US-based Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development as well as the UK-based Overseas Development Institute and Chatham House.

" In recent years, the magazine took special interest to issues pertaining to Global Warming and environmental protection by means of economic policy.

The Jigu Maul ( literally means " Global village ") is established in August 1985, as the first dark boat ride in South Korea and shows worldwide traditions, cultural customs, sceneries with dolls and iconic miniatures from more than 18 countries such as it's a Small World at Disneyland Park in California.

The " Declaration Toward a Global Ethic " from the Parliament of the World ’ s Religions ( 1993 ) proclaimed the Golden Rule (" We must treat others as we wish others to treat us ") as the common principle for many religions.

* RSA Vision webcast – " RSA / WWF Series on Global Challenges and the Values we Live By " – Peter Singer on ethics, engagement and civil society

The Global Language Monitor doubted that Beijing's attempt to eradicate Chinglish could succeed ; noting that " we share the charm and joy of the Olympic Games " is found on the official website of the Beijing Olympics.

Andrew Revkin coined the term Anthrocene in his book Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast ( 1992 ), in which he wrote, " we are entering an age that might someday be referred to as, say, the Anthrocene.

The Party's most recently released environmental document – the CPUSA National Committee's " 2008 Global Warming Report "– takes note of the necessity of " major changes in how we live, move, produce, grow, and market.

Hochschild describes how we sometimes become estranged from ourselves, partly by adopting myths ( family myths of The Second Shift, the strategies of evasion in The Time Bind, the employer's myth of the naturally loving Sri Lankan nanny in Global Woman.

: Terrorism continues to destroy the lives of people all over the world ; and this report we are releasing today, " Patterns of Global Terrorism: 2003 ," documents the sad toll that such attacks took last year.

In a November 2006 article in Australia's The Daily Telegraph, journalist Piers Akerman quoted Houghton as saying " Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen ", attributing the quotation to his 1994 book Global Warming, The Complete Briefing.

Global TV quoted one pilot telling reporters: " When we were in the air, we really didn't know what was going on.

In 2010, Humanity ’ s Team declared the 24th of October as the first Global Oneness Day ; " a day intended to inspire awareness, appreciation and celebration of life ’ s underlying Oneness, that we believe all of life is connected, in the same way that Earth Day is intended to inspire awareness, appreciation and celebration of the earth ’ s natural environment.

Like other cities in the interior of the Republic of Panama, Santiago is a city where high buildings, but edifies of great historical value as Juan Demostenes Arosemena Normal School, Santiago Apostol Cathedral, The Museum, as well more modern buildings Although skyscrapers are no longer great works of architecture, as we can mention the Omar Torrijos Herrera stadium with capacity for 7, 000 spectators, the Hotel La Hacienda, HSBC Bank, Global Bank, Public Registry, Shopping Center Galeria, Ta Transport Terminal, Convention Center Coopeve etc.

We will achieve Global Institutional Credibility for our work, as we have been anointed by an institution that many countries and presidents bow down to.

AWPS has led the way among Friends for action on what Friends call " Global Change " which we define as: " The unity, integration and the inter-connection of all change.

We will continue to work with the NetOps Community as we translate the concepts set forth in this document into doctrine, policy and joint tactics, techniques, and procedures that strengthen the operations and defense of the Global Information Grid in support of warfighter business and intelligence operations .” General James E. Cartwright, Commander, United States Strategic Command ( 2004-August 2007 )

Instead, he believes we have entered “ Global Century ” where interdependence on one another increases and where there is no such thing as “ national economy ” or “ national problem .”

( For Basic Global English see also the press releases accessible at the Basic Global English website )

* GPS ( Global Positioning System ) becomes very popular especially in the tracking of items or people, and the use in cars ( see Automotive navigation systems ).

For computer-driven prediction of Earth's climate, see Global climate model.

However, such communities often cooperate with peer villages in networks of their own ( see Global Ecovillage Network for an example ).

The uniqueness of the Seychelles ' ecology is reflected in the US $ 1. 8 million project of the Global Environment Trust Fund of the World Bank ( see Glossary ) entitled Biodiversity Conservation and Marine Pollution Abatement, that began in 1993.

Likewise, a protected area or an entire network of protected areas may lie within a larger geographic zone that is recognised as a terrestrial or marine ecoregions ( see, Global 200 ), or a crisis ecoregions for example.

Achieving the Serializability property of a distributed system's schedule ( see Distributed serializability and Global serializability ( Modular serializability )) effectively poses special challenges typically not met by most of the regular serializability mechanisms, originally designed to operate locally.

The existence of such a solution has been considered " unlikely " until 1991, and by many experts also later, due to misunderstanding of the CO solution ( see Quotations in Global serializability ).

WEFA Inc traced an interesting path ( see below for full details ) from its predecessor in 1961 ( the Economic Research Unit, discussed below ), its initial launch in 1969 ( as Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates Inc ), to its ultimate merger with DRI ( formerly Data Resources Inc .) forming Global Insight in 2001, and subsequent to that, Global Insight's acquisition in 2008 by IHS Inc.

The member parties of the Global Greens ( see for details ) are organised into four continental federations.

The views expressed in Civilising Global Capital ( see below ) alienated him from many Labor traditionalists, but his aggressive parliamentary style won him many admirers.

Warming could involve flooding of the Asian deltas ( see also eco refugees ), multiplication of extreme weather phenomena and changes in the nature and quantity of the food resources ( see Global warming and agriculture ).

* NASDAQ Global Select Market, see NASDAQ # Market tiers

In 1994 the Ecovillage Information Service was launched ( see Global Ecovillage Network link below ).

* Combined Federal Campaign, Office of Personnel Management, ( Word document, see " Global Hunger Project ", item # 1436 )

However, for all practical purposes, it is a Global affiliate except for news, which it still receives from CTV ( see below ).

At Habitat's Global Village and Discovery Center in Americus, Georgia, visitors can experience the devastating nature of poverty housing and see life-size Habitat houses from around the world.

As the engineers who built the Global Spacebridge tunnel system that transports the Autobots around Earth, the Build Team always wanted to see action on the front lines, and thanks to Optimus Prime, they got their chance.

* Ensuring India's offshoring future-Article by Diana Farrell, Sascha Stürze & Noshir Kaka based on a 12-month research project conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute on the " Emerging Global Labor Market " ( see Research section below )