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Major areas of current research include trying to determine why some large earthquakes do not generate tsunamis while other smaller ones do ; trying to accurately forecast the passage of tsunamis across the oceans ; and also to forecast how tsunami waves would interact with specific shorelines.
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Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.
Major mines and mining areas in the outback include opals at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, metals at Broken Hill, Tennant Creek, Olympic Dam and the remote Challenger Mine.
Major metropolitan areas in most European countries are usually served by extensive commuter / suburban rail systems.
A DBMS implements solutions ( see Major functional areas above ) to the database usability requirements above.
Major investments were completed in areas such as transportation ( new streets, tramway lines and the Piłsudski Bridge ), residential development ( many new houses, particularly in Bydgoskie Przedmieście ) and public buildings.
Major areas of epidemiological study include disease etiology, outbreak investigation, disease surveillance and screening, biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials.
Major planters transported black slaves from coastal areas to work as laborers ; others were brought into the area for sale by slave traders from the Upper South.
Major areas of investigation included: how to use this novel platform to effectively meet its scientific goals, how to make such massively parallel machines more usable, and how to achieve performance targets at a reasonable cost, through novel machine architectures.
This is because franchising does not have strong territorial requirements as in the Major Leagues ; the teams used to locate in clustered metropolitan areas in Japan's center ( Tokyo, Nagoya ) and south ( Osaka, Fukuoka ) areas.
On February 20, 2012, It has been announced by both the city of Aguadilla Major and the Secretary of commerce that the Airport will be designated a " free zone " as many other airports in the U. S., a move believed to improve the development of the airport and surrounding areas.
Major thoroughfares include Avenue Van Horne and chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, with avenue Bernard and avenue Laurier as the principal shopping and dining areas.
The Major Diagnostic Categories ( MDC ) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses ( from ICD-9-CM ) into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas.
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The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.
The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.
Other authors who used the name were Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of its revived form.
Allan Huber " Bud " Selig (; born July 30, 1934 ) is the ninth and current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, having served in that capacity since 1992 as the acting commissioner, and as the official commissioner since 1998.
Major international credit rating organizations have dropped Colombian sovereign debt below investment grade, primarily as a result of large fiscal deficits, which current policies are seeking to close.
The current NDF Sergeant Major has been listed as Warrant Officer Class 1 ( WO1 ) Isak Nankela, He took over from Namibian Navy WO1 D. J.
They were one of only two current Major League teams to never have a pitcher throw a no-hitter, the other being the San Diego Padres.
The history of the Athletics Major League Baseball franchise spans the period from 1901 to the present day, having begun in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City in 1955 and then to its current home in Oakland, California in 1968.
* " Major math problem is believed solved ", Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2006 explains the current Millennium Prize situation.
The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.
The modern tennis court owes its design to Major Walter Clopton Wingfield who, in 1873, patented a court much the same as the current one for his stické tennis ( sphairistike ).
Historically, the city is situated at the heart of the Armenian Highland, in Kotayk canton ( Kotayk gavar, not to be confused with the current Kotayk Province ) of Ayrarat province, within Armenia Major.
For professional baseball's founding year, Major League Baseball ( professional baseball's current official organization ) uses 1869 — the year the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was established — and held official celebrations for professional baseball's 100th anniversary in 1969 and its 125th anniversary in 1994, both of which were commemorated with league-wide shoulder patches.
* The Bill James Handbook ( 2003 – present ) provides past-season statistics and next-season projections for Major League players and teams, and career data for all current Major League players.
" However, the FDA determined in December 2008 that the rTMS device was sufficiently similar to existing devices that did not require a premarket approval application and allowed the device to be marketed in accordance with Section 510 ( k ) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for " the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adult patients who have failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from one prior antidepressant medication at or above the minimal effective dose and duration in the current episode ".
* Jim Colborn: Former Major League Baseball pitcher and current pitching coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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