Many such loans have been made to establish small concerns or to aid in their growth, thereby contributing substantially to community development programs.

Many computer programs contain algorithms that detail the specific instructions a computer should perform ( in a specific order ) to carry out a specified task, such as calculating employees ' paychecks or printing students ' report cards.

Many actors train at length in special programs or colleges to develop these skills, and today the vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training.

Many graphics programs thus contained their own bitmap character generator routines.

Many books of type-in programs were also available, and in particular, Ahl published versions of the original 101 BASIC games converted into the Microsoft dialect and published it from Creative Computing as " BASIC Computer Games ".

Many universities throughout the world are now providing programs in bioengineering and biotechnology ( as independent programs or specialty programs within more established engineering fields ).

Many computer programs fail to display bi-directional text correctly.

Many application programs deal principally with documents.

Many NASA based operations interact and identify each other through command programs called software.

Many CBT treatment programs for specific disorders have been evaluated for efficacy ; the health-care trend of evidence-based treatment, where specific treatments for symptom-based diagnoses are recommended, has favored CBT over other approaches such as psychodynamic treatments.

Many smaller programs, such as Rabbi Benay Lappe's SVARA yeshiva, are also led by Conservative rabbis.

Many Unix, GNU, BSD and Linux programs and packages have been ported to Cygwin, including the X Window System, K Desktop Environment 3, GNOME, Apache, and TeX.

Many departments offer honors programs requiring students seeking that distinction to engage in " independent, sustained work ," culminating in the production of a thesis.

Many of the successful programs were transitioned to the Services, such as the foundation technologies in automatic target recognition, space based sensing, propulsion, and materials that were transferred to the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( SDIO ), later known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ( BMDO ), now titled the Missile Defense Agency ( MDA ).

Many specialists claim that it is impossible to advance significant development programs with such a little public sector ( the tax burden in the United States is around 25 % of the GDP and in other developed countries of the EU it can reach around 50 %, like in Sweden ).

Many industrialized nations also began to utilize EVM in their own procurement programs.

Many conversion tables and programs exist, largely created by genealogists.

Many pulmonary rehabilitation programs therefore have begun to incorporate the harmonica.

Many of these programs were done domestically and on participants who were not informed of the study's purposes or that they would be given drugs.

Many official meetings and conferences are held ( more than 300 have been devoted to the problem of the Aral Sea alone ), but few practical programs have gone into operation.

Many logically-based program transformation techniques have been developed to assist the programmer in this process, transforming programs that are correct but inefficient into programs that are both correct and efficient.

Many computer-sequencing programs allow manipulation of the musical data such that composing for an entire orchestra of sounds is possible.

Many of the recent TV Games series of old Atari games have included either the 2600 or arcade versions of Asteroids.

Many computer scientists consider these series of computers to be technologically groundbreaking.

Many had come to prominence on the American TV series Saturday Night Live, including Bill Murray, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase.

Many more machines offered user-programmable writable control stores as an option ( including the HP 2100, DEC PDP-11 / 60 and Varian Data Machines V-70 series minicomputers ).

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

Many types of counter circuits are available as digital building blocks, for example a number of chips in the 4000 series implement different counters.

Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the reader to try to unravel.

Many other series have since been produced, some not from official supplies.

Many manufacturers, such as Hewlett Packard and Memorex, created 3270 compatible terminals, or adapted ASCII terminals such as the HP 2640 series to have a similar block-mode capability that would transmit a screen at a time, with some form validation capability.

Many aboriginal Australian languages have a series of three or four lateral approximants, as do various dialects of Irish.

Many MUDs were fashioned around the dice-rolling rules of the Dungeons & Dragons series of games.

" Many years later, when the Gundam series was finally licensed in North America, the rightsholders did come up with a unified list of " official spellings " for English-language material, and some of these spellings include Schodt's renditions, as well as the renditions to which certain North American fans were attached.

Many video games also use this concept, such as the Red Faction and Zone of the Enders series.

Many of the " packaging " innovations, such as coloured clothing, were as a result of World Series Cricket, a " rebel " series set up outside the cricketing establishment by Australian entrepreneur Kerry Packer.

Many of his popular novel series have been optioned for movies.

Many series follow the Group N regulation with a few exceptions.

Many modern players have platters with a continuous series of strobe markings machined or printed around their edge.

Many of the technologies " created " for the Star Trek universe were done so out of simple economic necessity — the transporter was created because the budget of the original series in the 1960s did not allow for expensive shots of spaceships landing on planets.

Many television shows and films have been produced which portray in-character professional wrestlers as protagonists, such as Ready to Rumble, ¡ Mucha Lucha !, Nacho Libre, and the Santo film series.

Many early PLCs did not have accompanying programming terminals that were capable of graphical representation of the logic, and so the logic was instead represented as a series of logic expressions in some version of Boolean format, similar to Boolean algebra.

Many companies produced security-oriented routers, including Cisco Systems ' PIX and ASA5500 series, Juniper's Netscreen, Watchguard's Firebox, Barracuda's variety of mail-oriented devices, and many others.

Many generalizations of the Riemann zeta function, such as Dirichlet series, Dirichlet L-functions and L-functions, are known.

Many radical feminists in Australia participated in a series of squats to establish various women's centres, and this form of action was common in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Many of these were for practical areas of life ; simultaneously, however, Steiner began an extensive series of lectures presenting his research on the successive incarnations of various individualities, and on the technique of karma research generally.

Many of the cast members, no longer working a steady job on a television series, were wary of the so-called " Star Trek curse " preventing them from finding non-Trek roles in the future.