MPC runs the BigHornMountainExpress. com as a rural Community News Site, as well as an Educational Website ( teaching seniors, students and anybody else how to write about the arts, their community and small business advice ).

However, after their teething problems were sorted out, they have since been the most reliable fleet of EMUs in the United Kingdom, winning Best Modern Era EMU at the Golden Spanners Awards from 2005 to 2007, for an average annual miles per casualty ( MPC ) figure of 43, 180 in 2005, 37, 391 in 2006, and 45, 459 in 2007 ( defined as the number of miles a train runs before a defect develops causing 5 minutes or longer delay ).

In May and June, MPC runs Outdoor Education programs for school groups.

It has, since March 2009, also provided the mechanism by which the Bank's policy of quantitative easing ( QE ) is achieved, under the auspices of the MPC.

He also has a high level of influence over the appointment of the Bank's Governor and Deputy Governors, and has the right of consultation over the appointment of the two remaining MPC members from within the Bank.

The Model Penal Code ( MPC ) is another ALI statutory formulation that has been widely accepted throughout the United States.

Although some specialists consider an increased number of polymorphonuclear white blood cells on endocervical Gram stain as being useful in the diagnosis of MPC, this criterion has not been standardized, has a low positive-predictive value ( PPV ), and is not available in some settings.

MPC declared bankruptcy in November 2008 and has ceased operations.

MPC has built-in codecs for MPEG-2 video with support for subtitles and codecs for LPCM, MP2, 3GP, AC3, and DTS audio.

For instance, after the open source DirectShow decoding filter ffdshow has been installed, fast and high quality decoding and postprocessing of the MPEG-4 ASP, H. 264, and Flash Video formats is available in MPC.

The sub-problem of MPC that has received special attention by researchers because of its close relation to many cryptographic tasks is referred to as secure two-party computation ( 2PC ) or just as Secure function evaluation ( SFE ).

In the past, MPC has been under suspicion of violating multiple patents ( MP2, PNS, subband ).

According to the developers of MPC, all patented code has been removed and it is now believed to be free of patent encumbrance.

Despite being optimized for 100 % transparency at moderately high bitrates, MPC has scored highly on many 128 kbit / s tests.

Model Predictive Control, or MPC, is an advanced method of process control that has been in use in the process industries such as chemical plants and oil refineries since the 1980s.

Much academic research has been done to find fast methods of solution of Euler-Lagrange type equations, to understand the global stability properties of MPC's local optimization, and in general to improve the MPC method.

Criticism of the MPC has centred around its predominant focus on inflation to the detriment of growth and employment.

The MPC500 is the first MPC that only has 12 velocity sensitive rubber pads.

It has one stereo output, making it the only MPC currently in production that does not have assignable outputs.

It also has a new effect ( FX ) engine with 4 FX buses where 2 FX are available per bus, and is considered by Akai to be its flagship MPC.

The MPC5000 using OS 2. 0 now has the most features of any previous MPC to date, just above the MPC4000.

Extensive work has gone into optimizing each codec, with FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, APE, TTA, MPC, Wavpack, ATRAC3, Cook and WMA Pro among the fastest known integer implementations for those formats.

The company has been sold twice since the original Micron / ZEOS transaction, and the final instance of the company, MPC Corporation, ceased business operations on December 31, 2008.

* mpc-Musepack or MPC ( formerly known as MPEGplus, MPEG + or MP +) is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160 – 180 kbit / s.

Under the MPC standard, which represents the modern trend, a defendant is not responsible for criminal conduct " if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.

The most important standing committee is the Mark Protection Committee ( MPC ), which is responsible for maintaining the society's trademarks and domain names.

MPC is a non-profit community organization dedicated to helping regional community and small businesses grow and prosper through free and low cost community services using both print and online media journalism focused on the needs of rural communities.

The MPC is also working to create a community learning or community college course certification in running a rural community news service and for developing citizen journalists of all ages and backgrounds.

The marginal propensity to consume ( MPC ) is the fraction of a change in disposable income that is consumed.

For example, if disposable income rises by $ 100, and $ 65 of that $ 100 is consumed, the MPC is 65 %.

CAIR is also a member of the American Muslim Political Coordination Council ( AMPCC ), created in 1999, along with the American Muslim Alliance ( AMA ), American Muslim Council ( AMC ), and Muslim Public Affairs Council ( MPC ).

This is reflected by the large variety of grooveboxes available, ranging from Roland's lower-end MC and SP products with include basic sequencing and sampling capabilities, to Akai's flagship MPC 4000 and 5000, Yamaha's RS7000 or Roland's own MV-8800 which include features such as high-end sampling, high-polyphony synthesizers, and extensive sequencing, connection and storage possibilities.

* is marginal propensity to consume ( MPC )

When no mens rea is specified, under the Model Penal Code or MPC, the default mens rea requirement is recklessness, which the MPC defines as " when a person consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk with respect to a material element ".

Typically, a person ’ s MPC ( marginal propensity to consume ) is relatively high during young adulthood, decreases during the middle-age years, and increases when the person is near or in retirement.

The Methodist Protestant Church ( MPC ) is a regional Church body which was officially formed in 1828 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, remaining Wesleyan in doctrine and worship, but adopting congregational governance.

" Phrase sampling " aims to simplify this, particularly on interfaces such as the 16 pads on the Akai MPC series: the fact that each pad is actually a note is hidden from the user.

Also starting in 1973, MPC experimented with a line of cars it called " Standard O ," which were scaled to 1: 48 ( most postwar Lionel and MPC production was undersize for O scale ).

The MPC had eight PC expansion slots, with one filled by its video card.

MPC also contains an improved MPEG splitter that supports playback of VCDs and SVCDs using its VCD / SVCD / XCD Reader.

On September 4, 2007 Gateway announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to sell its professional business segment to MPC Corporation.

The Military Policy Committee ( MPC ) supported Bush's arguments and restricted the classified information to what Britain could succeed to develop its atomic weapons program even if it slows down the American efforts for nuclear weapons.

For some reason, about half of its discoveries are credited by the Minor Planet Center ( MPC ) to " BAO Schmidt " and the other half to " Beijing Schmidt ".

It began to license its designs to model car manufacturers such as Aurora, Revell, MPC, and AMT, which spread the Barris name into every hobby, department, and discount store in the United States and also into the minds of millions of eager model builders.

The MPC are asked to keep the Consumer Price Index at 2 %, a task it was successful in from its creation until 2007.

The Act also set out the responsibilities of the MPC: it would meet monthly ; its membership comprise the Governor, two Deputy Governors, two of the Bank's Executive Directors and four members appointed by the Chancellor.

In its first ten years, the MPC kept interest rates relatively stable between 3. 5 % and 7. 5 %.

The MPC is still the third largest party in Mizoram, but is far surpassed by its rivals, the Mizo National Front and Indian National Congress.

Over the following decades, under the leadership of directors Gordon Stewart and Hildy Leverton, MPC increasingly specialized in Christian spiritual development through canoe tripping, which remains a key feature of its summer programming.

The formation is headed by the Command Headquarters which oversees its daily operations, and supported by four units specialising in the various specific operational responsibilities of the SAF MPC.