Initially used as an anticonvulsant, sodium valproate has become a commonly prescribed treatment, and is effective in treating manic episodes.

Initially they used and re-used wooden tablets with prepared ground for these drawings.

Initially, the Ramsay family coat of arms was used to identify Dalhousie but over time, the seal evolved with the number of amalgamations the university went through.

Initially, Dylan used a Scheme-like prefix syntax, which is based on s-expressions:

Initially, Milne thought Shepard's style was not what he wanted, but used him to illustrate his book of poems When We Were Very Young.

Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power.

Initially, some users of the Kazaa network were users of the Morpheus client program, formerly made available by MusicCity, but once the official Kazaa client became more widespread, Kazaa developers used its automatic update ability to shut out Morpheus clients by changing the protocol in February 2002, when Morpheus developers failed to pay license fees.

Initially he used the name Tadashi Ishihara before changing it when he secured the lead role in Rodan ( 1956 ).

Initially, the AMD K6 processors used a Pentium II-based performance rating ( PR2 ) to designate their speed.

Initially, letterboxing was limited to several key sequences of a film ( e. g., opening and closing credits ), but later it was used for the entire film.

Initially, civil aviation schools within Germany were used, yet only light trainers could be used in order to maintain the façade that the trainees were going to fly with civil airlines such as Deutsche Luft Hansa.

Initially, wheeled APCs ( e. g. the BTR-152 ) were used, some of which lacked overhead protection and were therefore vulnerable to artillery fire.

Initially these shutters were made from a cloth material ( which was in later years often rubberised ), but some manufacturers used other materials instead.

Initially makeup was limited to white skin with blackened eyes ; but as filming progressed mortician's wax was used to simulate wounds and decay to make the zombies more frightening.

Initially, the term ' theory of everything ' was used with an ironic connotation to refer to various overgeneralized theories.

Initially, there was outcry by national newspapers and some viewers regarding the UK licence fee being used to fund such a potentially high jackpot prize.

Initially, German Enigma messages were the main source, with those of the German airforce predominating, as they used radio more, and their operators were particularly ill-disciplined.

Initially the Network Walkman was a series of digital music players that used flash memory to hold their data.

Initially, the Portuguese developed the concept of fetishism to refer to the objects used in religious cults by West African natives.

Initially, in the days of the SS-50 and SS-50C, bus systems such as SWTPC, Gimix, and Smoke Signal Broadcasting, OS-9 was used more as a general purpose microcomputer operating system, and had a large, active hobbyist user population, and industrial and embedded system users.

Initially used for measuring star light, it was employed for the infrared detection of airplanes in the early stages of World War II.

*; Polikarpov Po-2: Initially Po-2s were used for training ( between 1 and 18 December 1942 ), later were used for liaison and courier duties.

Initially, T1 used Alternate Mark Inversion ( AMI ) to reduce frequency bandwidth and eliminate the DC component of the signal.

Initially the WRAC retained the separate ATS ranking system.

Initially, the pantheon of deities was not ordered, but later Mesopotamian theologians came up with the concept of ranking the deities in order of importance.

Initially, Truman named the Secretary of State as the ranking member of the Council in his absence and expected the Department of State to play the major role in formulating policy recommendations.

Initially The Box proved a huge hit, ranking as Australia's second most popular show in 1974.

Initially, his collaboration met with scepticism, fearing his ' repentance ' could be a ruse to escape the harsh prison terms reserved for ranking Mafia bosses.

Initially a study of systems of polynomial equations in several variables, the subject of algebraic geometry starts where equation solving leaves off, and it becomes even more important to understand the intrinsic properties of the totality of solutions of a system of equations, than to find a specific solution ; this leads into some of the deepest areas in all of mathematics, both conceptually and in terms of technique.

Initially the RTL description in VHDL or Verilog is simulated by creating test benches to simulate the system and observe results.

Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax ( a combination of " free ", " freak ", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system ), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds ' directory linux.

Initially it is impossible to find any mention of specific bugs on Microsoft's website, but later he notices that Microsoft has instated a system similar to the Debian one, though sugar-coated so as to not ruin the vision demanded by its customers.

Initially, the ( AES ) home system was only available for rent to commercial establishments, such as hotel chains, bars and restaurants, and other venues.

Initially, the system of atoms is at thermal equilibrium, and the majority of the atoms will be in the ground state, i. e., N < sub > 1 </ sub > ≈ N, N < sub > 2 </ sub > ≈ N < sub > 3 </ sub > ≈ 0.

Initially published in 1987 at USENIX, the BRL-CAD ray-tracer is the first known implementation of a parallel network distributed ray-tracing system that achieved several frames per second in rendering performance.

Initially its value was fixed, so that 1 SDR = 1 US dollar, but this was abandoned in favor of a currency basket after the 1973 collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates.

Initially, the three-age system as it was developed by Thomsen and his contemporaries in Scandinavia, such as Sven Nilsson and J. J. A.

Initially it was claimed by David Cameron that Adams had accepted the title but Downing Street has since apologised for this and Adams has publicly rejected the title stating, " I have had no truck whatsoever with these antiquated and quite bizarre aspects of the British parliamentary system ".

Initially, the new staff system appeared more ambitious on paper than in practice ; the increase in the size of the staff was quite modest at the start.

Initially installed in 17 U. S. theaters, the Sensurround system used large subwoofers which were driven by racks of 500 watt amplifiers which were triggered by control tones printed on one of the audio tracks on the film.

Initially, Habyarimana abolished the quota system, winning him favour among Tutsi.

Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Register's creation, as well as any other historic sites in the National Park system.

Initially an interconnected fluid system was planned, similar to the one that Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton were working on in the mid-1950s at Alvis.

Initially, in that system, the Moon had been seen to be the eye of Horus, the sky god, which had been semi-blinded ( thus darker ) in a fight against Set, the other eye being the Sun.

Initially it was intended that the Exemplar would be binary-compatible with HP's HP-UX operating system but eventually it was decided to port HP-UX to the platform and sell the platform as standalone servers.

Initially, Venevisión broadcast live because they hadn't yet installed the videotape system.

Initially trains had to be ferried across the river between Marquette and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in order to continue their journey, but this system came to an end when Prairie du Chien businessman John Lawler had a permanent pontoon bridge built to connect the two cities ' rail lines.

Initially, no system of authority existed in the colony ; there were no courts, jails or police.

Initially developed by Palm, Inc. in January 2009 as the Palm OS, webOS was purchased by HP to be their proprietary operating system running on the Linux kernel.

Initially the owners and some Long Island officials wanted the Motor Parkway integrated into the state parkway system, despite its narrow roadway and steep bridges not meeting new standards.

Initially, before any payments, the present value of the system is just the endowment principal ().