On the other hand, raising the interest rate is often used in times of high economic growth as a contra-cyclical device to keep the economy from overheating and avoid market bubbles.

On October 26, 2001, the sale, purchase, or manufacture of any device that has no commercial purpose other than disabling Macrovision copy protection was made illegal under section 1201 ( a ) of the same controversial act.

On Monday, October 9, 2006, North Korea has announced that it had successfully detonated a nuclear device underground at 10: 36 am local time without any radiation leak.

On the basis that a device that could help in any situation was very limiting for the script, Nathan-Turner decided that it would not return.

On 7 September 1972, Indira Gandhi authorized the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ( BARC ) to manufacture a nuclear device and prepare it for a test.

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data called nibbles read from each track to find the data sectors.

On January 25, 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device ".

On one occasion his device indicated that an earthquake had occurred in the northwest.

On August 6, 1945, a uranium gun-type device ( code name " Little Boy ") was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

On the other hand, a demultiplexer ( or demux ) is a device taking a single input signal and selecting one of many data-output-lines, which is connected to the single input.

On System / 370 and some later systems, the functions of the switches and the LOAD button are simulated using selectable areas on the screen of a graphics console, often an IBM 2250-like device or an IBM 3270-like device.

On August 12, 1953, the Soviets detonated their RDS-6s device, which incorporated the Sloika design that had been developed by Andrei Sakharov and Vitaly Ginzburg.

On March 1, 1954, this advantage was realized in the " shrimp " device of Castle Bravo, which produced the largest American test explosion and provided a prototype for nearly all subsequent thermonuclear weapons.

On October 29, 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the device in a package sent from Yemen and found on a US-bound cargo plane was designed to go off on the aircraft.

On 11 June 1914, a lady's handbag, containing an explosive device, was hung on the back of King Edward's Chair.

On Star Trek: Voyager, the Prime Directive was used more than once as a plot device as well, and on more than one occasion, Captain Kathryn Janeway also applied the Prime Directive to a situation which clearly did not involve a pre-warp civilization.

* Doppler On Wheels, an experimental portable Doppler radar device used for meteorological research

On instruments with stoppable strings, such as the violin or guitar, the player can shorten the vibrating length of the string, using their fingers directly ( or more rarely through some mechanical device, as in the nyckelharpa or the hurdy gurdy ).

On the other hand, activation-critical electronics within the weapon, such as capacitors, are selected so that they will fail before the safety device in the event of damage, ensuring that the weapon fails safe.

On NT operating systems, the PE format is used for EXE, DLL, SYS ( device driver ), and other file types.

On depressing a lever the propellant gas forced the flammable oil into and through a rubber tube and over a simple igniting wick device in a steel nozzle.

The flywheel as a general mechanical device for equalizing the speed of rotation is, according to the American medievalist Lynn White, recorded in the De diversibus artibus ( On various arts ) of the German artisan Theophilus Presbyter ( ca.

On July 7, 2010, Borders opened an eBook store to allow books to be directly downloaded to an e-reader device or a Borders eReader app for the desktop, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, or Android.

On the most primitive level.

On the right window, at eye level, in smaller print but also in gold, was Gonzalez, Prop., and under that, Se Habla Espanol.

On the local level, compacts continue to grab a larger share of the market at the expense of lower-priced standard models and foreign cars.

On a more abstract level, model theoretic arguments hold that a given set of symbols in a theory can be mapped onto any number of sets of real-world objects — each set being a " model " of the theory — providing the interrelationships between the objects are the same.

On a population level, if many realisations of a bistable system are considered ( e. g. many bistable cells ( speciation )), one typically observes bimodal distributions.

On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.

On one hand it provides a common view of the database, independent of different external view structures, and on the other hand it is uncomplicated by details of how the data is stored or managed ( internal level ).

On top of it the external level, various views of the database, are designed according to ( possibly completely different ) needs of specific end-user types.

On this level, the term indicates a lack of satisfaction, a sense that things never measure up to our expectations or standards.

* On this level, the term indicates a lack of satisfaction, a sense that things never measure up to our expectations or standards.

On another level, the one-piece catsuit accentuated and exaggerated the sexualized female form, providing visual access to a woman's body, while simultaneously obstructing physical penetrative access.

On one simple level is the question, Did he do it, or didn ’ t he?

On November 30, 2010, the SADR and El Salvador upgrade their relations to ambassadorial level.

On the institutional level, big corporations and financial institutions use the internet to exchange financial data to facilitate domestic and international business.

On the state legislative level, Ellensburg is in the 13th district.

On the congressional level, Ellensburg is located in Washington's 4th congressional district and is represented by Republican Doc Hastings, but it is expected to be moved into Washington's 8th congressional district for the 2012 general election and beyond.

On the most basic level, electronegativity is determined by factors like the nuclear charge ( the more protons an atom has, the more " pull " it will have on negative electrons ) and the number / location of other electrons present in the atomic shells ( the more electrons an atom has, the farther from the nucleus the valence electrons will be, and as a result the less positive charge they will experience — both because of their increased distance from the nucleus, and because the other electrons in the lower energy core orbitals will act to shield the valence electrons from the positively charged nucleus ).

On the simplest level, the oxidizer may itself be an oxidizing element, such as gaseous or liquid oxygen.

On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "

On a molecular level, there is no strict boundary between the liquid state and the vapor state.

On the human level this meant that all members of society should cooperate and coexist ; on the cosmic level it meant that all of the forces of nature — the gods — should continue to function in balance.

On the local level, a butcher may commonly break down larger animal meat into smaller manageable cuts, and pre-wrap them for commercial sale or wrap them to order in butcher paper.

On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence.