ISI defined " best " as " volumes of extraordinary reflection and creativity in a traditional form, which heartens us with the knowledge that fine writing and clear-mindedness are perennially possible.

ISI published in 1999 a list of the fifty books that they consider the worst and the fifty that they consider the best, among the nonfiction books of the 20th century originally published in English.

In recent years, Numerical Recipes books have been cited in the scientific literature more than 3000 times per year according to ISI Web of Knowledge ( e. g., 3962 times in the year 2008 ).

In addition to his books, Weaver published 61 book reviews, 3 pamphlets with the ISI Press, and 35 articles, including 4 in the Georgia Review, 4 in Modern Age, 6 in National Review, and 4 in the Sewanee Review:

One of his sons is a two star general, Gen Syed Ehtasham Zamir and serving in the intelligence department, ISI, of the Pakistan army while another lives in the U. S. He published more than 50 books in Urdu.

Through its journals, lectures, seminars, books and fellowships, this is what ISI has done successfully for 36 years.

ISI Honors Fellows receive an invitation to a week-long all-expenses-paid summer conference, personal intellectual mentoring, a library of ISI books, and invites to weekend colloquia throughout the academic year.

Intercollegiate Studies Institute operates ISI Books, which publishes books on conservative issues and distributes a number of books from other publishers.

Where previous citation extraction was a manual process, citation measures could now scale up and be computed for any scholarly and scientific field and document venue, not just those selected by organizations such as ISI.

ISI competitions differ from those sanctioned by the ISU, USFSA, and other ISU-affiliated national governing bodies in several ways.

* The ISI does not have " qualifying " rounds or " qualifying " competitions: any individual member in good standing who is not considered a professional skater may enter any event open to his or her age and test level, at any competition offering age-and level-appropriate events, with the only exception being that most rinks have " in-house " competitions, confined to those who skate regularly at that rink.

The term micron and the symbol µ, representing the micrometre, were officially accepted between 1879 and 1967, but officially revoked by the ISI in 1967.

The Taliban were largely founded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) in 1994.

The ISI used the Taliban to establish a regime in Afghanistan which would be favorable to Pakistan, as they were trying to gain strategic depth.

But with the fall of Kabul to anti-Taliban forces in November 2001, ISI forces worked with and helped Taliban militias who were in full retreat.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

Pakistan's ISI and Special Service Group ( SSG ) were actively involved in the conflict.

ISI policies were enacted by countries within the Global South with the intention of producing development and self-sufficiency through the creation of an internal market.

The theories behind Latin American structuralism and ISI were organized in the works of Raúl Prebisch, Hans Singer, Celso Furtado and other structural economic thinkers, and gained prominence with the creation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ( UNECLAC or CEPAL ).

While the theorists behind ISI or Latin American structuralism were not homogeneous and did not belong to one particular school of economic thought, ISI and Latin American structuralism and the theorists who developed its economic frame work shared a basic common belief in a state-directed, centrally planned form of economic development.

The National Rural Development Program and Rural Growth Centers were tentative and belated policies aimed at diverting rural populations from moving to the few urban areas which Dr. Banda's ISI macroeconomic policies had created and were now being battered by the arrival of more and more rural people seeking better opportunities.

When the United States, during the Clinton administration, targeted al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan with cruise missiles, Slate reported that two officers of the ISI were killed.

Receiving initial funding and assistance from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) agency, the IMU began moving towards the Afghan Taliban and away from their former and more moderate IRPT allies – who were in turn backing the ethnic-Tajik Ahmad Shah Massoud and his Northern Alliance against the Taliban.

The local Mujahideen, along with fighters from several different Arab nations ( Pathan tribes from Pakistan also participated in the war ; they were supported by ISI ), eventually succeeded in forcing the Soviet Union out.

Christina Lamb thanked Marsden in the acknowledgements of her biographical book, The Sewing Circles of Herat, " Paul Marsden MP for Shrewsbury, helped rescue us from the ISI, being manhandled by Baluchistan police in the process, and kindly rearranged his whole schedule to stay in Pakistan until we were safely out.

The insurgent organization Islamic State of Iraq ( ISI ) claimed that they killed PVT Fouty and SPC Jimenez and also claimed that their bodies were buried and would not be returned to their families.

A noted friend of the family, former Pakistani Air Force officer and ISI agent Khalid Khawaja spoke in their defence saying they were being unfairly targeted by Canadian authorities because of a deference to the United States, and Islamophobia.

In 1995 DSS Special Agents Jeff Riner and Bill Miller, the RSOs assigned to the U. S. Embassy in Pakistan, were present with Pakistani police and Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) when they arrested Ahmed Ramzi Yousef, who was wanted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City.

The two basic papers on this subject were among the top five chemistry and physics citations reported in ISI, Current Contents 1977 for the period of 1961 – 1977 with a total of 2450 references.

* There is a certain amount of difference in competition judging, depending upon the attitudes, policies, and general emphasis of the host rink: rinks with strong programs in the serious end of the sport tend to structure and judge ISI competitions almost as if they were ISU or USFS competitions ( emphasizing the ISI's role as a " farm system " for the serious end of the sport ), whereas rinks primarily catering to recreational skaters tend to structure and judge their competitions in such a way as to maximize the number of awards handed out ( emphaizing the ISI's role of promoting skating as a purely recreational activity ).

The 2007-2008 ISI Honors Program Summer Conferences were held in Québec City, Canada on the theme of “ Law in the Western Tradition: Common, Constitutional, Natural, and Divine .”.

With the fall of Kabul to anti-Taliban forces in November 2001, ISI forces worked with and helped Taliban militias who were in full retreat.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil "

They differ widely in cost: the ISI databases and Scopus are available by subscription ( generally to libraries ).

General Akhtar is widely praised for his crucial role as Director General of the ISI during the war.

He was asked by the Taliban to serve as their ambassador but he refused, telling friends that he felt Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) was wrongly using them.

In August 2007, RoweBots, a former partner of SCG and ISI, open sourced their pSOS + compatible version called Reliant.

Import substitution industrialization was gradually abandoned by developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s due to structural indebtedness from ISI related policies on the insistence of the IMF and World Bank through their structural adjustment programs of market-driven liberalization aimed at the Global South.

A disadvantage claimed for ISI is that the industries that it creates are inefficient and obsolete as they are not exposed to internationally competitive industries, which constitute their rivals, and that the focus on industrial development impoverishes local commodity producers, who are primarily rural.

In August 2005, ISI released rFactor, a highly modifiable sim based on their gMotor2 physics engine.

EA released their last F1 title in 2002 ( It was based on ISI rFactor engine ) after which Sony bought the exclusive FIA Formula 1 license and came out with Formula 1 Championship Edition in 2007 which did not see much success.

The ISI workers had a joke about Mahalanobis and Bose and their different priorities.

* ISI judging has an " against the book " concept, in which a skater ( or team ) who is alone in his / her / their event competes against a standard of 80 % of the possible points for first place, or 79. 9 % for second.

Thus, their error-rate performance is lower bounded by the one of orthogonal rate 1 STBCs, that provide ISI free transmissions due to orthogonality.

As director of the ISI, Akhtar holds a world prestige for masterminding the resistance network against the Soviet Union in their war to protect the fragile regime, the Communist Afghanistan.

In response to the crisis most nations abandoned their import substitution industrialization ( ISI ) models of economy and adopted an export-oriented industrialization strategy, usually the neoliberal strategy encouraged by the IMF, though there are exceptions such as Chile and Costa Rica who adopted reformist strategies.

After losing the official F1 license from Formula One Administration Ltd. to a multi-year exclusive licensing contract between FOA and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe ( publishers of the competing Formula One series on PlayStation / PlayStation 2 ), ISI developed their final release hitting stores in 2003.