that the inspiration for The Quill was an article in the August 1980 issue of Practical Computing by Ken Reed in which Reed described the use of a database to produce an adventure game.

* Practical joker ( person ), someone who sets up a situation to produce a humorous physical outcome at the expense of a target

Practical systems introduce reverse FM modulation on the receive signal using digital signal processing before the Fast Fourier Transform process is used to produce the spectrum.

Practical filters have non-flat frequency or phase response in the pass band and incomplete suppression of the signal elsewhere, as a sinc waveform has an infinite response to a signal, in both the positive and negative time directions, which is impossible to perform in real time – it would require infinite delay.

Practical adjustments were made to the locations recommended by the Office of the Interim Commissioner for many functions in 1999 and 2000, but many other positions were assigned to communities on a community development rather than a functional basis.

Neither the Federal Aviation Administration's Practical Test Standards nor its Airplane Flying Handbook discuss touch-and-goes, they note.

Practical switches fall short of this ideal, and have resistance, limits on the current and voltage they can handle, finite switching time, etc.

Practical capacitors and inductors as used in electric circuits are not ideal components with only capacitance or inductance.

* Practical ideal types

In his book Rethinking Life and Death, as well as in Practical Ethics, Singer asserts that, if we take the premises at face value, the argument is deductively valid.

Supporters of Cooper's methods point to the near-universal use of his system in the International Practical Shooting Confederation and other forms of action shooting, while Applegate's supporters point to police incidents where officers trained in Cooper's methods discharge many rounds at close range ( most measured in tens of feet ( 3 m ) or less ) with few ( if any ) disabling hits.

The letter entailed three reasons for killing the bill: ( 1 ) The Constitution does not allow for a separate, sovereign, race-based government ; ( 2 ) Practical issues have not been addressed such as how businesses could fairly compete with each other if one must for example pay state taxes and another must not ; ( 3 ) Historical commitments do not support such a bill.

Practical experience with mail also suggests an undergarment of some sort would have been worn between the mail and the regular tunic, to protect the latter from dirt and excessive wear, but the descriptions of the effect of axes in the Sagas indicate such garments were lightly padded if at all.

Practical considerations have also led the courts to refuse to second-guess unions ' decisions: if a court or jury could substitute its judgment as to whether a particular grievance had merit, then unions could not function, since their decisions would rarely be final in any practical sense.

Practical applications for electricity however remained few, and it would not be until the late nineteenth century that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use.

The library would cover ' Divinity and Morals, History, Voyages and Travels, Agriculture in all its branches, Mineralogy and Practical Mechanics '.

Practical and economically sensible muon-catalyzed d-t nuclear fusion would go a long way toward reducing the production of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide ( CO < sub > 2 </ sub >), by reducing or even eliminating the need to burn fossil fuels and biomass that contain carbon, for example.

Almost indestructible and superhumanly strong, each villain is programmed with specific weapons and weaknesses based on that villain's " theme "; e. g., " Killshot's " Achilles ' Heel was being sprayed with water, The Boss ' weak link was red ink, The Evil Shirley's was dirt and she would be wiped out by having a house fall on her, The Camp Counselor would get burned by being hit with charcoal and would be killed-off by an arrow shot right through his own bulls-eye, The Practical Joker could only be defeated by his master prank being foiled, The Motivational Speaker killed people with a device that ejected audiocassettes that bound and crushed them with audiotape, and he could only be destroyed by eating his own words.

At one point he lived with a tribe of indigenous people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia, learning the healing secrets which would later form the foundation of his medical treatise, Occult Medicine and Practical Magic.

In Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry, author Scott Huler relates that Dalrymple's voyages had convinced him that a standard scale for measuring the speed of wind at sea would be of great value to sailors, and that he had included Smeaton's scale in his work Practical Navigation, which was written around 1790 but never published.

Practical experiments with the full-scale reconstruction Olympias has shown that there was insufficient space, while moving or rolling seats would have been highly impractical to construct with ancient methods.

What distinguishes DRIE from RIE is etch depth: Practical etch depths for RIE ( as used in IC manufacturing ) would be limited to around 10 µm at a rate up to 1 µm / min, while DRIE can etch features much greater, up to 600 µm or more with rates up to 20 µm / min or more in some applications.

Practical DSD converter implementations were pioneered by Andreas Koch and Ed Meitner, the original founders of EMM Labs.

The phrase Toike Oike, variously pronounced toy-kee-oyk or toyk-oyk, is derived from an Irish janitor named Graham who was employed in the original School of Practical Science building.

Its original name was The Ladies Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper, but she dropped the last three words in 1886, and it became the Ladies Home Journal.

The most widely-read of these works is probably A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, but other notable works include The Experience of the Inner Worlds, which grew out of an association with Christian priest Anthony Duncan, and a new edition of Dion Fortune's An Introduction to Ritual Magic, to which Knight contributed a companion chapter for each of Fortune's original chapters.

Practical use of Heenan's invention was not realized until an abrasion and impact resistant coating was invented by engineer Ramon J. Ascencio of the Stimsonite Corporation, working with the original team.

* Practical reserve capacity, a value of the spare capacity for traffic at a traffic signal junction

Practical applications can also be found in signal processing of accelerations for gait analysis, in digital communications and many others.

* Practical overview of FMCW and FMICW radar signal processing www. advsolned. com

* Henry Marriott ( 1917 – 2007 ), ECG interpretation and Marriott's Practical Electrocardiography

Practical results were mixed and mingled emerged ( such as the debate surrounding the constitutional prohibition of extradition, which later was reversed ), but together with the reincorporation of some of the guerrilla groups to the legal political framework, the new Constitution inaugurated an era that was both a continuation and a gradual, but significant, departure from what had come before.

Practical devices generally use simpler chords for common characters ( e. g., Baudot ), or may have ways to make it easier to remember the chords ( e. g., Microwriter ), but the same principles apply.

* von Bismark, Friedrich Wilhelm, Graf, Beamish, North Ludlow, ( translator ), On the Uses and Application of Cavalry in War from the Text of Bismark: With Practical Examples Selected from Antient and Modern History, T. & W. Boone, London, 1855

The FBI units that reside at Quantico are the Field and Police Training Unit, Firearms Training Unit, Forensic Science Research and Training Center, Technology Services Unit ( TSU ), Investigative Training Unit, Law Enforcement Communication Unit, Leadership and Management Science Units ( LSMU ), Physical Training Unit, New Agents ' Training Unit ( NATU ), Practical Applications Unit ( PAU ), the Investigative Computer Training Unit and the " College of Analytical Studies.

ISO / IEC 20000, The Visible OPS Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps ( Full book summary ), and Information Technology Infrastructure Library all provide valuable guidance on implementing an efficient and effective change management program information security.

He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in the USSR ( now part of Belarus ) ( 1919 – 1922 ), the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1922 – 1927 ), the Kiev State Art Institute ( 1927 – 1929 ), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad ( 1930 ).

Singer's most comprehensive work, Practical Ethics ( 1979 ), analyzes in detail why and how living beings ' interests should be weighed.

), Catholic Social Justice: Theological and Practical Explorations, ( T. &.

* Jensen, Audra ( 2005 ), When Babies Read: A Practical Guide to Helping Young Children with Hyperlexia, Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism

Jumpmaster course curriculum includes Nomenclature, Sustained Airborne training pre-jump oral recitation, Written Exam, Practical Work in the Aircraft ( PWAC ), and the Jumpmaster Pre-Jump Inspection ( JMPI ).

* Nicolaisen, Jeppe ; and Hjørland, Birger ( 2007 ), Practical potentials of Bradford's law: A critical examination of the received view, Journal of Documentation, 63 ( 3 ): 359-377.

Practical applications of geomorphology include hazard assessment ( such as landslide prediction and mitigation ), river control and stream restoration, and coastal protection.

Eliot in the poem ' Jellicle Cats ' from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ( 1939 ), refers to the ' terpsichorean powers ' of Jellicle Cats as they dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon.

* Ernest McKay, Henry Wilson, Practical Radical: Portrait of a Politician, ( Port Washington, NY, London: National University Publications: Kennikat Press, 1971 ), ISBN 0-8046-9010-3

For example: " Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security ", " The art of deception " ( Kevin Mitnick ), " IT Auditing: Using Controls to Protect Information Assets " ( Chris Davis ), " Hacking exposed " ( Stuart McClure ), “ Hacking For Dummies ” ( Kevin Beaver ), “ Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century ” ( Ryan Trost ), “ FISMA Certification & Accreditation Handbook ” ( L. Taylor ), “ Computer Network Security: Theory and Practice ” ( Jie Wang ), “ A + Certification Study Guide, Sixth Edition ” ( Jane Holcombe, Charles Holcombe ), “ Investigating Digital Crime ” ( Robin P. Bryant ), “ Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems ” ( Ross J. Anderson ), “ Network Know-How: An Essential Guide for the Accidental Admin ” by John Ross, “ Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, Sixth Edition ” ( Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz ), “ Windows Server 2008 PKI and Certificate Security ” ( Brian Komar ), etc.