This conference marked the beginning of a worldwide effort to perform research in this field, which soon led to the development of practical applications for these unique materials.

As part of his overarching effort to understand the unique development of the Western world, Weber produced a detailed general study of the city as the characteristic locus of the social and economic relations, political arrangements, and ideas that eventually came to define the West.

Some critics have also tried to apply the theory to individual works, but the effort to find unique structures in individual literary works runs counter to the structuralist program and has an affinity with New Criticism.

And suppose that because of your unique abilities, you can do job A twice over ( 100 % extra output ) in the same effort as it would take you to do job B.

In effort to be sensitive to the diverse preferences and experiences of student and faculty, these courses are designed to be taught with respect for the unique spiritual journey of each individual, regardless of religious identification.

Stuart A. Wright, an American sociologist and author, asserts that apostasy is a unique phenomenon and a distinct type of religious defection, in which the apostate is a defector " who is aligned with an oppositional coalition in an effort to broaden the dispute, and embraces public claims-making activities to attack his or her former group.

This method saves time and effort and allows administrators to focus on unique distinctions that each system must bear.

Its plot concerns Supergirl, Superman's cousin, leaving her isolated Kryptonian community of Argo City for Earth in an effort to retrieve the unique " Omegahedron ", which has fallen into the hands of the evil witch Selena ( Faye Dunaway ).

Additions continue to be made, including a 14-rank echo division in 2008, in an effort to broaden the resources necessary to play repertoire of many styles and periods, and to restore those stops unique to the instrument as Hope-Jones conceived it.

The commission is unique in that it is a non-political joint effort between the city and Board of Education.

The technology can enable collaboration, lending itself to sharing and augmenting by a creative effort similar to the open source movement, and the creative commons in which users can collaborate in a project to create unique pieces of art.

The entire album was remastered and Townsend began remixing the band's original 1976 four-track pre-production demos and portions of the album's original 24-track masters for the bonus disc, in an effort to give listeners a new a unique way of hearing some of the album's tracks.

GamesRadar editor Brett Elston commented that Blastoise is “ hecka cool ” and “ well worth the effort .” GamesRadar editor Brett Elston compared Blastoise to Charizard, stating that while Charizard plays the " safe route " in being a dragon, Blastoise takes a more unique form by being a giant turtle with water cannons coming out of its shell.

Versatile Vehicle Architecture ( VVA ) is an effort by the Lotus car manufacturing company to reduce the investment needed for producing unique, niche-market cars by sharing a number of common components.

The German federal state of Bavaria has promoted language diversity in the past in an effort to preserve its unique culture.

Missouri pioneered a unique way of selecting judges for its state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals in an effort to remove some of the partisan politics from the selection process.

Only by breaking out of the bigoted attachment to one's own religious belief system and making the effort to study the doctrines of other religions can a human being penetrate to the universal underlying meaning lying behind each unique cultural and historical expression of religion.

During the recording process a considerable amount of time was spent finalizing each songs production, in particular the album's drum tracks, in an effort to give it a unique feel.

Between 1980 and 1982 a major effort was made in the design of the Little England theme Park in Orlando, Florida to construct a major and unique jousting stadium.

Regression backwards to the safety of the womb is a unique schizoid phenomenon and represents the most intense form of schizoid defensive withdrawal in an effort to find safety and to avoid destruction by external reality.

A third interpretation is that David represents Donatello's effort to create a unique version of the male nude, to exercise artistic license rather than copy the classical models that had thus far been the sources for the depiction of the male nude in Renaissance art.

A unique feature of this period is the emotional ( and sometimes active ) attachment of poets with national freedom struggle, their effort to understand and imbibe the vast spirit of a magnificent ancient culture and their towering genius which grossly overshadowed all the literary ' talked abouts ' of next seven decades.

Present at this unique musical event were Kaiser Wilhelm, Dom Pedro II of Brazil, King Ludwig ( who attended in secret, probably to avoid the Kaiser ), and other members of the nobility, as well as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who committed much effort to helping his then good friend Wagner establish the festival, and such accomplished composers as Anton Bruckner, Edvard Grieg, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Franz Liszt.

During the recording process a considerable amount of time was spent finalizing each songs production, in particular the album's drum tracks, in an effort to give the album a unique feel.

According to text in the official Vineyard Statement of Faith released in 1994, an effort to create a common Statement of Faith had been underway since 1983, but took 10 + years to complete because: " On one hand, we felt obliged to set forth our biblical and historically orthodox beliefs, on the other hand, we wanted to describe the values and priorities that make the Vineyard unique within the context of Evangelicalism.

Although Arne imitated many elements of Italian opera, he was perhaps the only English composer at that time who was able to move beyond the Italian influences and create his own unique and distinctly English voice.

The remaining pieces all move like standard chess queens, but have unique methods of capture.

This software allows thousands of unique characters to move autonomously.

The original plans called for the dam to employ a unique method for moving ships ; the ships would move into locks located at the lower and upper ends of the dam and then cranes with cables would move the ships from one lock to the next.

The puzzle positions are seldom similar to positions from actual play, and the challenge is not to find a winning move, but rather to find the ( usually unique ) move which forces checkmate as rapidly as possible.

In הכהנים והלוים HaKohanim vHaLeviim ( 1940 ), The Priests and the Levites, he stressed that members of these groups exist in the realm between history ( below ) and redemption ( above ), and must act in a unique way to help move others to prayer and action, and help bring an end to suffering.

It is one of the giant working breeds, but is unique in that its general conformation must be so well balanced that it never appears clumsy, and shall move with a long reach and powerful drive.

The game's unique graphical style is said to have resulted from a conflict with Nintendo's internal evaluation committee ; impressed by the recently released Donkey Kong Country, which sported pre-rendered graphics, they ordered the game's producer, Shigeru Miyamoto, to move the visuals in this direction.

In 1932 in a bold move during the Great Depression it acquired unique Bullet cars in an attempt to revive business.

For example, Sam Loyd devised the problem: " Construct a game which ends with black delivering discovered checkmate on move four " ( published in Le Sphinx, 1866 ; the solution is 1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 h5 3. Kg3 h4 + 4. Kg4 d5 #); while all White moves are unique ( see Beauty in chess problems below ), the Black ones aren't. Black mating on move 5 by change to knight.

A unique problem is: " Construct a game with black b-pawn checkmating on move four " ( from Shortest construction tasks map in External links section ; the unique solution is 1. d4 c6 2. Kd2 Qa5 + 3. Kd3 Qa3 + 4. Kc4 b5 #).

* The first move of the problem's solution ( the key move or key ) must be unique.

* Ideally, in directmates, there should be a unique White move after each Black move.

Although The exception to the code was granted as a " special and unique case " and was described by The New York Times at the time as " an unprecedented move that will not, however, set a precedent ", in his 2008 study of films during that era, Pictures at a Revolution, author Mark Harris wrote that the MPAA's action was " the first of a series of injuries to the Production Code that would prove fatal within three years.

The project saw several hundred Japanese families move to the area and led to the establishment of a unique educational experiment in the form of a Japanese / Australian combined curriculum at the Commercial Road Primary School.

While it is not clear when precisely the church was further raised to the status of cathedral, a unique move in a city with an existing cathedral, it was probably after 1192, and Comyn's successor as Archbishop, Henry de Loundres, was elected in 1212 by the chapters of both Christ Church and St Patrick's, this election being recognised by Pope Innocent III.

The eponymous hero has the unique talent of being able to move between parallels purely by force of will, and is aided by Rose Wylde, a telepath whose many incarnations across the parallels are able to communicate with one another.

" In a unique and unusual move however, Bishop Owens became the only sitting leader of the church to be removed from the office of Presiding Bishop through the electoral process.

The body of some deep water holothurians, such as Enypniastes eximia, Peniagone leander and Paelopatides confundens, is made of a tough gelatinous tissue with unique properties that makes the animals able to control their own buoyancy, making it possible for them to either live on the ocean floor or to actively swim or float over it in order to move to new locations,