At the Alphonsus, three scientific objectives were determined to be of primary interest and paramount importance: the possibility of old, pre-Imbrium impact material from within the crater's wall, the composition of the crater's interior and the possibility of past volcanic activity on the floor of the crater at several smaller " dark halo " craters.

Thus, current expected inflation reflects a weighted average of all past inflation, where the weights get smaller and smaller as we move further in the past.

The factors cited are: smaller sized ballparks than in the past, " juiced baseballs " implying that the balls are wound tighter thus travel further following contact with the bat, " watered down pitching " implying that lesser quality pitchers are up in the Major Leagues due to too many teams.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

Virtually the only possible variation is using a different reference date, in particular one less distant in the past to make the numbers smaller.

Although the Milky Way has never collided with a galaxy as large as Andromeda before, evidence of past collisions of the Milky Way with smaller dwarf galaxies is increasing.

Only about 5 % of the galaxies surveyed have been found to be truly isolated ; however, these isolated formations may have interacted and even merged with other galaxies in the past, and may still be orbited by smaller, satellite galaxies.

Several smaller store formats have been unsuccessfully tested in the past ( the " midi " concept in the early ' 90s, which was tested in Ottawa and Heerlen with 9, 300 m < sup > 2 </ sup >, or a " boutique " shop in Manhattan ).

" The most acute problems are on Europe ’ s periphery, where many smaller economies are experiencing crises strongly reminiscent of past crises in Latin America and Asia: Latvia is the new Argentina "

Despite the information available at the time, Garfield made a strong showing at the convention in 1874, commanding over two-thirds of the delegates, and then won re-election against Democratic and Independent opponents, though by a smaller margin than in the past.

While the largest of the third-party cartridge makers, Activision, survived for several more years on personal-computer platforms ( thanks to the then-legal ability to average its income and recover millions of dollars in past tax payments from the IRS ), most of the smaller software development houses supporting the Atari 2600 closed.

Not all reefs in the past were formed by corals: those in the Early Cambrian ( 542 – 513 Ma ) resulted from calcareous algae and archaeocyathids ( small animals with conical shape, probably related to sponges ) and in the Late Cretaceous ( 100 – 65 Ma ), when there also existed reefs formed by a group of bivalves called rudists ; one of the valves formed the main conical structure and the other, much smaller valve acted as a cap.

Great houses, such as the Dickinson Mansion on North Main Street in Essex Village, to the mansions of A. W. Comstock ( currently the Copper Beech Inn ) and R. H. Comstock in Ivoryton, may stand in sharp contrast to the smaller capes in Centerbrook and the factory dwellings in Ivoryton, but they are all equally important in telling us of our past.

Manufacturing, and research and development play a smaller role than in the past.

Previously Morrisville had a higher population, but with the growth in Lower Makefield over the past 30 years, Morrisville is now a much smaller place by both land area and population.

As it flows past Harringworth, the river forms two channels, with the county border following the smaller, northern channel.

( In the past, once the participant earned ten of one type of bead, he or she was awarded a larger one of the same type to represent the ten smaller ones.

The number of significantly different CPUs and operating systems used on the desktop today is much smaller than in the past.

In the past there has been conflict with commercial shellfish farmers, but studies have found that the impact of oystercatchers is much smaller than that of shore crabs.

For example, in smaller boats you will often let your sail past 90 degrees on a downwind leg and reverse the flow on the sail.

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

While no temples in the original chartered lineage of the Golden Dawn survived past the 1970s, several organizations have since revived its teachings and rituals.

In October 2009, the Swedish branch of Al-Barakat was removed from the United Nations ' list of terrorist organizations ; the company had been on the list for the past eight years, and had had its bank account funds frozen.

Some human rights organizations have documented a variety of abuses and atrocities carried out by the Sudanese government over the past several years.

Some of these organizations used other standards in the past.

During the past decades, globalization, outsourcing and information technology have enabled many organizations, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard, to successfully operate solid collaborative supply networks in which each specialized business partner focuses on only a few key strategic activities ( Scott, 1993 ).

Over the past 20 years, scholarly publications, professional and academic organizations, and graduate programs in world history have proliferated, although the WHA is still predominantly an American phenomenon.

Similarly, the viceroy administers and distributes the Governor General's Awards, and will also give out awards associated with private organizations, some of which are named for past governors general.

In the past network management mainly consisted of monitoring whether devices were up or down ; today performance management has become a crucial part of the IT team's role which brings about a host of challenges — especially for global organizations.

The life within the walls of a monastery may be supported in several ways: by manufacturing and selling goods, often agricultural products, by donations or alms, by rental or investment incomes, and by funds from other organizations within the religion, which in the past formed the traditional support of monasteries.

However, over the past hundred years or so, formal procedures that are recognized by record holders such as government departments, companies and organizations have evolved, which enable a citizen legally to change the name recorded on their passport, driving licence, tax and National Insurance records, bank and credit cards, etc., provided that " documentary evidence " of a change of name is provided.

Members of the Reserve Forces and cadet organizations join in with the marching, alongside volunteers from St John Ambulance, paramedics from the London Ambulance Service, and conflict veterans from World War II, Korea, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Iraq, other past conflicts and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan.

In the past several decades, efforts have been made by global health organizations, such as the WHO, to end the practice.

Two traditions of the sexually segregated past, sororities and the all-male Mitre Club, persisted into the 1950s as unofficial organizations but gradually faded away.

" Valcarcel also stated that other boxing sanctioning organizations had made similar errors in the past by continuing to rank another boxer after he was dead.

Over the past twenty years significant numbers of Orthodox Jewish families have moved into Cedarhurst supporting synagogues and other Jewish organizations.

Zhu used the term " patriotic organizations " to describe the triads on the record for their past history as secret societies in resisting foreign invaders and playing a key role in Chinese history.

This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to individual nations of the world, to international organizations, to past nations, and ambassadors-at-large.

With the collapse of the monarchy, many social democrats viewed previous tactical differences between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks as a thing of the past and a number of local party organizations were merged.

It is one of the newer organizations in support of assisted suicide as it has only been in operation for the past four years.

According to a study by the Aberdeen Group, there has been increasing interest in Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) business intelligence over the past years, with twice as many organizations using this deployment approach as one year ago – 15 % in 2009 compared to 7 % in 2008.

Over the past three years, more than $ 50 million have been raised to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities and other children's organizations.

The Municipal Auditorium was damaged during Hurricane Katrina, so for the past two years, the organizations have held their balls in the Sheraton and Marriott Hotels on Canal Street, rolling out a red carpet for the Rex court to cross Canal Street to attend the Meeting of the Courts.

Over the past decade, NCSF has formed several alliances with other advocacy organizations to work on projects that defend sexual freedom rights: Free Speech Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, among others.