In the USA most patients receive bilateral ECT.

For this reason all contact lenses, even purely cosmetic ones, are classified as medical devices in many countries ( USA, UK ).

A collection of tagging devices used in the United States between 1970 and 1990, and a summary of their early history, with photographs, is housed at the Archives of the History of American Psychology, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA.

Currently (), the three cochlear implant devices approved for use in the U. S. are manufactured by Cochlear Limited ( Australia ), Advanced Bionics ( USA, a division of Sonova ) and MED-EL ( Austria ).

All versions of the Hiptop were developed in close partnership with T-Mobile, although carrier-specific features were either removed or added for each carrier, such as the addition of MMS for SunCom and Telstra hiptop 2 users, where the feature was not available on T-Mobile USA devices until the Sidekick LX in 2007.

T-Mobile USA suspended sales of the Sidekick Slide on Friday evening, November 16, 2007, after Motorola confirmed that some devices inadvertently powered off when the slide door on the front side of the phone was opened or closed.

Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Boise, Idaho, USA, best known for producing many forms of semiconductor devices.

Section 216 of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act expanded the definition of a pen register to include devices or programs that provide an analogous function with internet communications.

In the USA these devices are more commonly called baluns by people using them.

These were followed by the glass-encapsulated OC70 and OC80 series ( the output devices were metal encapsulated to facilitate heatsinking ), which were produced in large numbers and copied by other companies, such as Valvo ( another Philips subsidiary ), Intermetall and Siemens in Germany, and Amperex in the USA.

" The same devices had been distributed in nine other cities across the USA without provoking a similar reaction.

Countries that cannot guarantee the use of the escape devices were banned from exporting shrimp to the USA.

* Super Bowl XLVI – It was also streamed live online, both to computers ( via NFL. com and NBCSports. com ) and mobile devices ( via Verizon Wireless's NFL Mobile app ), the first legal online streaming of a Super Bowl telecast in the USA.

In 1943 he visited the USA and Canada to advise on trainers and to help set up similar training devices in the USA.

When two companies ( one from Switzerland, ' idQuantique ', and another from the USA, ' MagiQTech ') released practical communication devices based upon the rules of quantum mechanics, the need for a secure network capable of utilizing quantum principles was realized.

Ambient Devices, Inc. is a privately held company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA that designs and markets various ambient devices for display of information ranging from weather to traffic reports to stock quotes.

The best-preserved examples of the stone and adobe dwellings are in National Parks ( USA ), such as Chaco Canyon or Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

There are two main strains of contemporary Germanic Paganism known as Ásatrú, originating near-simultaneously in Iceland (, 1972 ) and the USA ( Asatru Free Assembly, 1974 ).

There are notable differences of emphasis between Ásatrú as practiced in the USA and in Scandinavia.

Also, owing to its antimicrobial / algaecidal properties that prevent biofouling, in conjunction with its strong structural and corrosion-resistant benefits for marine environments, brass alloy netting cages are currently being deployed in commercial-scale aquaculture operations in Asia, South America, and the USA.

In practice, " extraordinary " circumstance have included disagreeing with Episcopalian views of the episcopate, and as a result, ELCA pastors ordained by other pastors are not permitted to be deployed to Episcopal Churches ( they can, however, serve in Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, Reformed Church in America, and Moravian Church congregations, as the ELCA is in full communion with these denominations ).

The latter criteria are typically used in Europe and other regions while the DSM criteria are used in the USA and other regions, as well as prevailing in research studies.

Corporate entities are legally considered as persons in USA and in most nations.

Their benefit is in the right to purchase the new stock, which are valuable because the new issues are consistently underpriced to USA mutual bank conversions.

The largest reserves are found in the USA, Russia, China, India and Australia.

Examples of species listed on Appendix III and the countries that listed them are the two-toed sloth ( Choloepus hoffmanni ) by Costa Rica, African civet ( Civettictis civetta ) by Botswana, and the alligator snapping turtle ( Macrochelys temminckii ) by the USA.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

The films Primary and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment ( both produced by Robert Drew ), Harlan County, USA ( directed by Barbara Kopple ), Dont Look Back ( D. A. Pennebaker ), Lonely Boy ( Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor ) are all frequently deemed cinéma vérité films.

Jazz Impressions of the USA ( 1956, Morello's debut with the group ), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia ( 1958 ), Jazz Impressions of Japan ( 1964 ), and Jazz Impressions of New York ( 1964 ) are less well-known albums, but all are brilliant examples of the quartet's studio work, and they produced Brubeck standards such as " Summer Song ," " Brandenburg Gate ," " Koto Song ," and " Theme From Mr. Broadway.

DTMF tones are sometimes used in caller ID systems to transfer the caller ID information, however in the USA only Bell 202 modulated FSK signaling is used to transfer the data.

In current US legal practice, in rem suits are primarily asset forfeiture cases, based on drug laws, as in USA v. $ 124, 700 ( 2006 ).

Of particular importance here were the USA states of Illinois and New York, under whose laws a large proportion of international financial contracts are made.

Several schools, faculties and universities in the Netherlands and Flanders are named after him, as is Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Nodules from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, USA, are among the best documented examples of authigenic mineralisation.

Franchisor rules imposed by the franchising authority are usually very strict in the USA and most other countries need to study them carefully to protect small or start-up franchisee in their own countries.

The remnants of this plate on the Surface of the Earth are the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer plate in the Northwestern USA / Southwestern Canada, and the Cocos Plate on the west coast of Mexico.

* Eve ( cigarette ), manufactured in the USA as a product of the Liggett Group

Methadone was first manufactured in the USA by Eli Lilly, who obtained FDA approval on August 14, 1947, for their Dolophine 5 mg and 10 mg Tablets.

( For example, when you know that the food package in front of you has the identifier " 2011-09-25T15: 42Z-MFR5-P02-243-45 ", you not only have that data, you also have the metadata that tells you that it was packaged on September 25, 2011, at 3: 42pm UTC, manufactured by Licensed Vendor Number 5, at the Peoria, IL, USA plant, in Building 2, and was the 243rd package off the line in that shift, and was inspected by Inspector Number 45.

* Commuter Cars Tango, an electric vehicle manufactured in Spokane, Washington, USA

The first similar device made in the USA didn't appear until 1985 and was manufactured by Validec.

The player piano sold globally in its heyday, and music rolls were manufactured extensively in the USA, as well as most European countries, South America, Australia and New Zealand.

Exports to the USA by 1928 had almost reduced to zero from their high point prior to WW1 when to ship back a Grand Renault or similar high class European manufactured car was common.

Indian motorcycles were manufactured from 1901 to 1953 by a company in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, initially known as the Hendee Manufacturing Company but which was renamed the Indian Manufacturing Company in 1928.

The worldwide electron microscopy community advanced with electron microscopes being manufactured in Manchester UK, the USA ( RCA ), Germany ( Siemens ) and Japan.

The Volvo Amazon is a mid-size car manufactured by Volvo Cars from 1956 to 1970 and introduced in the USA as the 122S at the New York International Auto Show in April 1959.

The Speedo brand is manufactured for and marketed in North America as Speedo USA by The Warnaco Group, Inc. under exclusive perpetual license.

However outside of the USA and countries who receive US manufactured vodka it does contain Smirnoff Vodka No. 21.

Dodgem Cars, a brand of bumper cars, were manufactured in the USA by Dodgem Cars Ltd. Billy Butlin saw them and obtained the UK franchise.

* TARAN ( Tactical Attack Radar And Navigation ) was a radar for fighter aircraft manufactured by Hughes Electronics ( USA )

The original USA 1983 game used a single side NTSC laserdisc player manufactured by Pioneer ; the other side of the disc was metal backed to prevent bending.

More common usage is in drive belts for snow mobiles manufactured by MBL USA Corporation.

Leatherman is the trade name for the line of multitools and knives manufactured and marketed by Leatherman Tool Group of Portland, Oregon, USA.

Heat exchangers, fluid handling equipment and centrifuges are manufactured in the USA.

Lyocell is manufactured by Lenzing AG in Mobile, Alabama, USA, in Grimsby, England, and in Heiligenkreuz, Burgenland, Austria.

" Dipstick " is the trade name of a profiling device manufactured by Face Construction Technologies of Norfolk, Virginia USA.

Since the gas-generator for the 12 cm sjömålsgranat m / 70 was to be manufactured by a company in the USA, the classification " secret " was removed from the patent.

Starting with this generation, all Inspire and Saber vehicles were manufactured at Honda's Marysville Auto Plant in Ohio, USA.

Piranha derivatives have been manufactured under licence by General Dynamics ( Canada ), BAE Systems Land Systems ( UK ), Komatsu ( Japan ), Cardoen and FAMAE ( Chile ), and in the USA.