Smaller ( and slower ) braille embossers are more common and can be found in some libraries, universities, and specialist education centres, as well as being privately owned by some blind individuals.

As a result of these reforms Cyprus has developed into one of the world's more important international business centres.

Integrated, mini, or lifestyle systems, also known as music centres or minisystems, contain one or more sources such as a CD player, a tuner, or a cassette deck together with a preamplifier and a power amplifier in one box.

The archaeological evidence indicates a society of village-like centres, but with more limited resources and a small population.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

The university is also organised into more than 20 institutes and research centres, such as:

In general, each generation speaks a dialect of English closer to General Canadian though it is significant to note that this trend is far more pronounced in the urban centres.

Its metropolitan area is one of largest population centres in Europe, with more than 12 million inhabitants.

An important settlement for more than two millennia, Paris had become, by the 12th century, one of Europe's foremost centres of learning and the arts and the largest city in the Western world until the 18th century.

Distrustful of the traditional Benedictine order, he favoured new monastic orders, such as the Augustinians and the Cistercians, and sought to exercise more control over the larger monastic centres of Monte Cassino and Cluny Abbey.

As the railway network is more focused on plantation areas and not on population and service centres, the railways have become an enterprise generating a heavy loss.

Victoria University of Wellington has more than 40 research centres and institutes, including

** Proportional call distribution ( such as between two or more call centres or offices ).

Adolescents have suggested that sex education should be more positive with less emphasis on anatomy and scare tactics ; it should focus on negotiation skills in sexual relationships and communication ; and details of sexual health clinics should be advertised in areas that adolescents frequent ( for example, school toilets, shopping centres ).

The dominant urban centres Elberfeld ( historic commercial centre ) and Barmen ( more industrial ) have formed a unified built-up area since 1850.

" He was certainly generally regarded as inclined to more gradual and constructive reform than was Gorbachev ; most of the speculation centres around whether Andropov would have reformed the USSR in a manner which did not result in its eventual dissolution.

This diversity suggests the gradual end of the role of Wessex as a focal point and trend-setter for writers and scribes, the emergence of more distinct local scribal styles and written dialects, and a general pattern of transition of activity over the centuries that followed, as Northumbria, East Anglia, and London successively emerged as major centres of English literature, each with their own particular interests.

Peaceful conversion to Islam occurred in many islands, especially in the centres of trade, while aboriginal animism persisted in the hinterlands and more isolated islands.

Due to Saracen attacks, in the 9th century Tharros was abandoned in favor of Oristano, after more than 1800 years of occupation ; Caralis, Porto Torres and numerous other coastal centres suffered the same fate.

In 1898, in part as a response to criticisms of universities which merely served as centres for the administration of tests, and calls for research and education to be more central functions of universities, the first University of London Act was passed, reforming the University and giving it responsibility for monitoring course content and academic standards within its institutions.

UDP has an extensive network of working alliances and agreements with reowned universities, research centres, foundations and overseas organizations in more than 25 countries around the world.

Courses are split across more than thirty research centres and nineteen departments, plus a Language Centre.

Tea is more economically grown at slightly lower altitude and hence Coonoor and Kotagiri are local centres of tea cultivation and processing.

Irish monks also founded monasteries across the continent, exerting influence greater than many more ancient continental centres.

The inhabitants were partly imprisoned at the nearby Centre de Rétention of Coquelles, but many more were taken to detention centres all over France before being released and having to make the long journey back to Calais by foot.

According to the ESOPE project ( European Standard Operating Procedures of Electrochemotherapy ), the Standard Operating Procedures ( SOP ) for electrochemotherapy were prepared, based on the experience of the leading European cancer centres on electrochemotherapy.

Historically, call centres have been built on PBX equipment that is owned and hosted by the call centre operator.

In a virtual call centre model, the call centres operator does not own, operate or host the equipment that the call centre runs on.

Such a vendor may host many call centres on their equipment.

Cloud computing for call centres extends cloud computing to Software as a service, or hosted, on-demand call centres by providing application programming interfaces ( APIs ) on the call centre cloud computing platform that allow call centre functionality to be integrated with cloud-based Customer relationship management, such as Salesforce. com or Oracle CRM and leads management and other applications.

Outsourced bureau contact centres are a model of contact centre that provide services on a " pay per use " model.

The larger ships were also less likely to call on the smaller population centres such as Saint John and Halifax, preferring to travel to cities like New York and Montreal.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just the opposite was the case with little to no population concentration in major industrial centres as the predominantly rural resource-dependent Maritime economy continued on the same path as it had since European settlement on the region's shores.

Congregational worship, which usually takes place on Sunday, centres on the remembrance of the death and celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ by the taking part in the " memorial service ".

John Brinnin invited Thomas to New York, where in 1950 they embarked on a lucrative three-month tour of arts centres and campuses.

The International Festival centres on a programme of high-profile theatre productions and classical music performances, featuring international directors, conductors, theatre companies and orchestras.

The historic emphasis and poetic naturalist writings for protection was on wild places, from notable ecologists in the history of conservation biology, such as Aldo Leopold and Arthur Tansley, were far removed from urban centres where the concentration of pollution and environmental degradation is located.

It centres on decision making under uncertainty in the context of the financial markets, and the resultant economic and financial models.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

The Red Guards were partly secret groups formed in industrialized towns and industrial centres including Helsinki, Kotka, Tampere, Turku, Viipuri and the Kymenlaakso area, on the model of the domestic Red Guards built up during 1905-1906 in Finland.

The Rock was ranked 26th in a list of 69 leading finance centres around the world based on an online survey of 1, 236 business professionals, who provided a total of 18, 878 assessments.

It is this ethos that has given rise to links with young people, such as the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and PGL, and large numbers of outdoor education centres being established, as the stress on the importance of a balanced and widespread education continues to grow.

Many hedge funds are established in offshore financial centres so that no tax is charged at the fund level ( although the investors will still be subject to tax in their own jurisdictions on any increase in the value of their investments ).

In addition to focusing on knowledge, skills and computer literacy, the centres also carried out life enrichment education, which includes basic workers ’ rights and the dangers of HIV / AIDS.

The development of International English often centres on academic and scientific communities, where formal English usage is prevalent, and creative use of the language is at a minimum.

The Jamaican Government has, since the late 1990s and in cooperation with private investors, embarked on a campaign of infrastructural improvement projects, one of which includes the creation of a system of freeways, the first such access-controlled roadways of their kind on the island, connecting the main population centres of the island.