In response to bootlegging and other economic issues of RPGs, Wizards of the Coast released an Open Gaming License adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons, known as the d20 System.

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

The result is a very balanced tone, comparable to the 00 but with greater volume and dynamic range and slightly more low-end response, without sacrificing the ergonomics of the classical style, making these body styles very popular.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

Catecholamines are derived from the amino acid tyrosine and these water-soluble hormones are the major hormones underlying the fight-or-flight response.

However, upon immunization with SRBC ( sheep red blood cells ), these mice demonstrated a deficiency in the maturation of an antibody response ; they were able to generate normal levels of IgM, but could not develop specific IgG levels.

Although these instruments have slow response time and low accuracy, they were sometimes used in measuring radio-frequency current.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

The phrase began to be used in response to the blending of sounds between these international genres and frequent misrepresentations of genre by casual fans.

Axiomatic set theory was developed in response to these early attempts to study set theory, with the goal of determining precisely what operations were allowed and when.

For instance, Microsoft Word files are normally created and modified by the Microsoft Word program in response to user commands, but the user can also move, rename, or delete these files directly by using a file manager program such as Windows Explorer ( on Windows computers ) or by command lines ( CLI ).

" As one response, legislators delegated a thousand pounds from the treasury to help the people who, under these conditions, could no longer support their families.

One of the purposes the CIA hoped to achieve by these operations was an aggressive and violent response from the Sandinista government which in turn could be used as a pretext for proper military actions.

In response to this, the remaining churches in CUIC decided in 2008 to suspend their work while they seek reconciliation with these churches.

Although no other instances of lion predation on chimpanzees have been recorded, the larger group sizes of savanna chimps may have developed as a response to threats from these big cats.

Between these is a " transduction mechanism " in which hormone binding induces allosteric modification that, in turn, produces the appropriate response.

The Galatians appear to have been receptive to the teaching of these newcomers, and the epistle is Paul's response to what he sees as their willingness to turn from his teaching.

Multiplying the impulse response shifted in time according to the arrival of each of these delta functions by the amplitude of each delta function, and summing these responses together ( according to the superposition principle, applicable to all linear systems ) yields the output waveform.

Purkinje cells in these knockout mice also exhibit a lack of GABAergic inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in response to both exogenous and endogenous GABA.

Laura Mulvey, in response to these and other criticisms, revisited the topic in “ Afterthoughts on ‘ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema ’ inspired by Duel in the Sun ” ( 1981 ).

One of the complaints about these hotlines is the response time, there is often a lag time between a property owner calling about the graffiti and the actual removal of it.

This response does not control ventilation rate at normal pO < sub > 2 </ sub >, but below normal the activity of neurons innervating these receptors increases dramatically, so much so to override the signals from central chemoreceptors in the hypothalamus, increasing pO < sub > 2 </ sub > despite a falling pCO < sub > 2 </ sub >

Strikes and other labor disturbances began to break out in response to these conditions, but most were quickly suppressed with the aid of government troops.

Hungary's foreign policy priorities, largely consistent since 1990, represent a direct response to these factors.

The simplest of these models may be linear models, but it is common to deploy non-linear components to represent some general aspects of a catchment's response without going deeply into the real physical processes involved.

A later collection of triads compiled by the 18th-century Welsh antiquarian Iolo Morganwg gives an expanded version of this tradition, including the details that Caswallawn had abducted Fflur from Caesar in Gaul, killing 6, 000 Romans, and that Caesar invaded Britain in response.

The Genevan Psalter was compiled over a number of years in the Swiss city of Geneva, a center of Protestant activity during the Reformation, in response to the teaching of John Calvin that communal singing of psalms in the vernacular language is a foundational aspect of church life.

It is also one of 38 songs included on the benefit album, Songs for Japan ( compiled in response to the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Tōhoku ), released on March 25, 2011.

The basic principles under which the TGN is constructed and maintained were established by the Art and Architecture Thesaurus ( AAT ) and also employed for the Union List of Artist Names ( ULAN ): Its scope includes terminology needed to catalog and retrieve information about the visual arts and architecture ; it is constructed using national and international standards for thesaurus construction ; it comprises a hierarchy with tree structures corresponding to the current and historical worlds ; it is based on terminology that is current, warranted for use by authoritative literary sources, and validated by use in the scholarly art and architectural history community ; and it is compiled and edited in response to the needs of the user community.

In response, Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, then-head of Air Material Command's intelligence and engineering divisions at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ( then Wright Field ), compiled and analyzed the data.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

move seemingly had a strictly personal political motive – that is, fear and jealousy of his cousin Ptolemy – and thus the expansion was not set about in response to pressing military or economic needs.

* Conversion disorder ( flailing and jerking of the head, often in response to severe personal stress such as physical abuse )

Canine warning system is where a seizure response dog, a form of service dog, is trained to summon help or ensure personal safety when a seizure occurs.

A seizure response dog can be trained to summon help or ensure personal safety when a seizure occurs.

Eventual Governor of Mississippi James K. Vardaman and Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina indulged in racist personal attacks in response to the invitation.

Hokusai created the " Thirty-Six Views " both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji.

Central Alarmers ( Station 155 ) is a private organization that provides fireground rehab support to firefighters ( personal relief stations and refreshments ) during large or prolonged response incidents in the central and eastern regions of the county.

* the knowledge factors: Something the user knows ( e. g., a password, pass phrase, or personal identification number ( PIN ), challenge response ( the user must answer a question ))

Some have proposed that the number of deaths was influenced by the development of risk compensation, which says that drivers adjust their behavior in response to the increased sense of personal safety wearing a seat belt provides.

In response to Palme's remarks in a meeting with the US ambassador to Sweden ahead of the Socialist International Meeting in Helsingor in January 1976, Kissinger asked the US ambassador to "(...) convey my personal appreciation to Palme for his frank presentation (...).

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, Prince offered a personal response by recording two new songs, " S. S. T.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

on May 24, 1915, the Allies of World War I, Britain, France, and Russia, jointly issued a statement explicitly announcing, for the first time, the commission of a " crime against humanity " in response to the Armenian Genocide and warned of personal responsibility for members of the Ottoman Government and their agents.

A modern phenomenon is the cultural pilgrimage, which while also about personal journey, involves a secular response.

In 12 B. C., Juba named this plant after his physician Euphorbus in response to Augustus Caesar dedicating a statue to Antonius Musa, his own personal physician.

In 12 BC, Juba named this plant after his physician Euphorbus in response to Augustus dedicating a statue to Antonius Musa, Augustus's own personal physician and Euphorbus ' brother.

Buchan put great effort into securing a positive response to the invitation sent to King George in May 1937 ; after more than a year without a reply, in June 1938 Buchan headed to the United Kingdom for personal holidays, but also to procure a decision on the possible royal tour.

In the United States, it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and " painterly looseness " of Abstract Expressionism.

Frankfurter ’ s response to Jackson ’ s systematic destruction of his Gobitis decision was one of anger, and Justices Roberts and Murphy tried to get him to revise his opinion, arguing that the first two lines were “ much too personal ”.

Studies show that both the act of telling others about good events and the response of the person with whom the event was shared have personal and interpersonal consequences, including increased positive emotions, subjective well-being, and self-esteem, and relationship benefits including intimacy, commitment, trust, liking, closeness, and stability.

This book was a detailed and personal response to the first few months of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

In response, Nick Gigler posted a bulletin through his personal MySpace and confirmed that he would not be taking part, and that he had called Jeremiah Rangel and Matt Lovato, who had confirmed that they would not be appearing with Tony either.

Sharon Churcher and Annette Witheridge, in The Daily Mail, quote one World Bank employee's statement that " Unless Riza gives up her job, this will be an impossible conflict of interest "; the observation of " a Washington insider ": " His womanizing has come home to roost ... Paul was a foreign policy hawk long before he met Shaha, but it doesn't look good to be accused of being under the thumb of your mistress "; and Wolfowitz's response: " If a personal relationship presents a potential conflict of interest, I will comply with Bank policies to resolve the issue.