Building on the recognition of the importance of information transmission, accumulation and processing in biological systems, in 1978 Paulien Hogeweg, coined the term " Bioinformatics " to refer to the study of information processes in biotic systems.

Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper defined the term in 1978 to refer to " the study of information processes in biotic systems ".

Will Eisner popularized the term " graphic novel " when he used it on the cover of the paperback edition of his work A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories in 1978.

The term exon derives from the expressed region and was coined by American biochemist Walter Gilbert in 1978: " The notion of the cistron … must be replaced by that of a transcription unit containing regions which will be lost from the mature messengerwhich I suggest we call introns ( for intragenic regions ) alternating with regions which will be expressedexons.

A term that predates the usage of file manager is directory editor, which dates back at least to 1978.

Elected to replace Nasir for a five-year presidential term in 1978 was Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, a former university lecturer and Maldivian ambassador to the United Nations ( UN ).

In 1978, Albert Frey-Wyssling suggested that the term organelle should refer only to structures that convert energy, such as centrosomes, ribosomes, and nucleoli.

In 1979 Laíno helped lead the PLRA, the PDC, Mopoco, and the legally recognized Febreristas, the latter angered by the constitutional amendment allowing Stroessner to seek yet another presidential term in 1978, into the National Accord ( Acuerdo Nacional ).

The name was chosen, among others, to avoid confusion with the term Constitution ( i. e. the Spanish Constitution of 1978 ).

In 1978, Park was elected to another term by indirect election, which was met with more demonstrations and protests.

In 1978, the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said published his influential and controversial book, Orientalism, which " would forever redefine " the word ; he used the term to describe a pervasive Western tradition, both academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the East, shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Specifically, for works published before January 1, 1978 and still in copyright on October 27, 1998, the term was extended to 95 years.

For works authored by individuals on or after January 1, 1978 ( including new works ), the copyright term was extended to equal the life of the author plus 70 years.

Even further back, in 1978 Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz coined the term groupware ; their initial 1978 definition of groupware was, “ intentional group processes plus software to support them .” Later in their article they went on to explain groupware as “ computer-mediated culture ... an embodiment of social organization in hyperspace.

No term was imposed on this designation, so Metcalf retained it until he died in office in 1978.

The term post-Keynesian was first used to refer to a distinct school of economic thought by Eichner and Kregel ( 1975 ) and by the establishment of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics in 1978.

Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.

Chiang was officially elected President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly after the term of President Yen Chia-kan on May 20, 1978.

In 1978, Balaguer sought a fourth term.

Works published prior to 1978 have no differentiation in copyright term between works made for hire and works with recognized individual creators.

It re-opened as a Webelos long term camp ( one of the first in the country ) in 1978.

In this manner, the Spanish Constitution of 1978 uses the term el castellano to define the official language of the whole State, opposed to las demás lenguas españolas ( lit.

He was also associate editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 1978 and coined the term supply-side economics in 1976.

The Council has recognized the Blue Line as valid for purposes of confirming Israel's withdrawal pursuant to resolution 425 ( 1978 ).

* 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.

* The Orange Line of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in the Washington DC area has been in service since 1978.

Other establishments in State Line include the Kent Township Fire Department, formed in 1978, which took over local fire protection responsibilities from the West Lebanon Fire Department ; in 2000, however, the department merged back with West Lebanon, which now maintains the State Line fire station.

Others followed that year, including John Kerley's Top of the Line ministry in 1978 ; the Restoration Church of God ; the Church of God ( Boise City ) in Boise City, Oklahoma ; Marvin Faulhaber's Sabbatarian group also known as Church of God ( Sabbatarian ); and the Fountain of Life Fellowship of James and Virginia Porter.

On tour in 1978, Brown and his band ( now with additional members Keith Anderson, drums, Joe Guzzo, guitar, Mike Hllinger, keyboards and Wildflower, background vocals ) played venues as diverse as New York's Bottom Line and Madison Square Garden.

In 1978, University station, on the Cross-City Line, was opened to serve the university and its hospital.

Journeys Down the Line: Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Doubleday, 1978.

This prompted Virgin Records to sign the group to its Front Line label, releasing Harder than the Rest ( 1978 ) and International Herb ( 1979 ).

* Harder Than the Rest produced by Sonia Pottinger ( 1978 ), Virgin Records / Front Line

Davies played Mog in the classic Welsh film Grand Slam ( 1978 ) and played the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series The Onedin Line ( 1971 ).

70 48 ' cars were delivered to the Blue Line in 1978 – 80 and 120 65 ' cars were delivered to the Orange Line in 1980 – 81.

Several studies showed that a South Pacific Regional Shipping Service was viable and Pacific Forum Line set sail in 1978.

The station was later expanded to accommodate the Tamagawa Railway ( 1907 ; closed 1969 ), the Tōkyō Line ( 1927 ), the Teito Shibuya Line ( 1933 ; now the Inokashira Line ), the Tōkyō Rapid Railway ( 1938 ; began through service with the Ginza Line in 1939 and formally merged in 1941 ), the Den-en-toshi Line ( 1977 ), the Hanzōmon Line ( 1978 ) and the Fukutoshin Line ( 2008 ).

* Secret History of the Dividing Line ( 1978 )

Twenty-two locomotives were built: they dominated express passenger services on the East Coast Main Line ( ECML ) particularly London – and London – Edinburgh services until 1978 when InterCity 125 ' High Speed Trains ' were introduced.

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

" It was more fully published in 1978 by political scientist Steven Brams and mathematician Peter Fishburn.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

* 1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber was assassinated, provoking a communist coup d ' état in Afghanistan.

Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.

In December 1978, there was media speculation that Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, might marry a Roman Catholic, although the rumours were never verified.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

Applesoft II, which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978.

In 1978 he was elected to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

In 1978, for Korner's 50th birthday, an all-star concert was held featuring many of his above-mentioned friends, as well as Eric Clapton, Paul Jones, Chris Farlowe, Zoot Money and others, which was later released as The Party Album, and as a video.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

It was released in the Spring of 1978, one month before her high school graduation.

Lerner's autobiography The Street Where I Live ( 1978 ), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, My Fair Lady, Gigi, and Camelot along with personal information.

Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978.

Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie ' Toty ' Mucel ( 1912 – 1978 ) and Louis ' Pilou ' Bardot ( 1896 – 1975 ).

In 1978, the Technics SL-1200MK2 turntable was released, whose comfortable and precise sliding pitch control and high torque direct drive motor made beatmatching easier and it became the standard among DJs.