Since the mid-1990s, there have been many increasingly successful endeavors to commercially farm abalone for the purpose of consumption.

Since in the mid-1990s the number of supporters started to decrease, Greenpeace pioneered the use of face-to-face fundraising where fundraisers actively seek new supporters at public places, subscribing them for a monthly direct debit donation.

Since the mid-1990s, it has been largely coincident with what is now called the free software and open source movement.

Since the mid-1990s the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce, including the rise of near-instant communication by electronic mail, instant messaging, Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) " phone calls ", two-way interactive video calls, and the World Wide Web with its discussion forums, blogs, social networking, and online shopping sites.

Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop and dance music worldwide.

Since the mid-1990s, the term " kcmil " has been adopted as the " official " designation of a thousand circular mils, but the designation " MCM " still remains in wide use.

Since the mid-1990s, the Ministry of Information and Communications ( MIC ) has pursued a policy of high-speed telecommunication infrastructure as a foundation to build a “ knowledge-based society .” In the telecommunications sector, competition was allowed on an incremental basis and, in the market for value added services, full competition was allowed.

Since the mid-1990s, starspot observations have been made using increasingly powerful techniques yielding more and more detail: photometry showed starspot growth and decay and showed cyclic behavior similar to the Sun's ; spectroscopy examined the structure of starspot regions by analyzing variations in spectral line splitting due to the Zeeman Effect ; Doppler imaging showed differential rotation of spots for several stars and distributions different from the Sun's ; spectral line analysis measured the temperature range of spots and the stellar surfaces.

Since the mid-1990s, in particular due to insights from dualities shown to relate the five theories, an eleven-dimensional theory called M-theory is believed to encompass all of the previously distinct superstring theories.

Since the mid-1990s, commercial travel on Uzbekistan ’ s portion of the Amu Darya has been reduced because of low water levels.

Since the UNFCCC entered into force, the parties have been meeting annually in Conferences of the Parties ( COP ) to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Since the early and mid-1990s, many microprocessors for desktops and servers have more than one FPU.

Since the mid-1990s, women have had more choice in bra sizes ; the focus has changed from choosing bras in an average size to wearing bras that actually fit perfectly.

Since at least the mid-1990s, the term has often been replaced by Roman Catholic officials with phrases such as " other Christians ".

Since the mid-1990s, Eastman Kodak and Fujifilm have held a duopoly in the manufacture of 35 mm motion picture negative film.

Since the mid-1990s, Alenia Aermacchi has participated in programs for the supply of engine nacelles for civil aircraft.

Since the mid-1990s, with the redistribution of tapes and CDs of Round The Horne starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, and increasing academic interest, Polari has undergone something of a revival.

Since the mid-1990s, the block has again become home to a " legitimate " theatre, along with shops and restaurants that draw millions to the city every year.

Since the mid-1990s there has been a considerable warming of relations between the Communist Party and supporters of Chinese reunification as both oppose the pro-Taiwan independence bloc that was elected to executive power in Taiwan following President Lee's retirement.

Since the mid-1990s, the standard practice used of the PRC press has been to refer to ROC government as the " Taiwan authority " () and the ROC President as the " leader of the Taiwan Area " (), where both terms are not used in conjunction with quotation marks.

Since the discovery of oil there in the mid-1990s, it does not need a fictional platinum deposit for it to be of interest to financiers and mercenaries.

Since the mid-1990s, a number of wine brands have switched to alternative wine closures such as synthetic plastic stoppers, screw caps, or other closures.

" Since the mid-1990s African artists have also been very active through the super-group Africando, where African and New York musicians mix with leading African singers such as Bambino Diabate, Ricardo Lemvo, Ismael Lo and Salif Keita.

Since the mid-1990s bilingual approaches to schooling and higher education have become popular in parts of South-east Asia, especially in Thailand and Malaysia where different models have been applied, from L2 immersion ( content taught in a non-native language ) to parallel immersion, where core subjects are taught in both the mother-tongue and a second language ( usually English ).

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Since those boards generally lacked multiplier and voltage adjustment, and normally only supported 133 MHz FSB, adjustments would still be needed for full speed operation.

Since 1988, Danish defence budgets and security policy have been set by multi-year agreements supported by a wide parliamentary majority including government and opposition parties.

Since the fall of the Taleban in 2001, Denmark has supported Afghanistan with education and democratisation.

Since the cassette port interface of the original IBM PC was never implemented on compatibles, cassette operations are not supported.

Since his rise to fame as an actor, he has continued appearing at home games, and supported the financially troubled club.

Since z / VSE 3. 1, Fibre Channel access to storage devices is supported, although only on IBM's Enterprise Storage Server ( ESS ) and its successors.

Since version 4. 0, XFree86 has supported certain accelerated 3D graphics cards via the GLX and DRI extensions.

Since the time of McCarthy, the word McCarthyism has entered American speech as a general term for a variety of practices: aggressively questioning a person's patriotism, making poorly supported accusations, using accusations of disloyalty to pressure a person to adhere to conformist politics or to discredit an opponent, subverting civil rights in the name of national security, and the use of demagoguery are all often referred to as McCarthyism.

Since WMP 9 Series, 24 bit high-resolution CDs ( HDCDs ) are also supported, if capable audio hardware is present.

Since the start of the cold war, the United States has economically and / or diplomatically supported friendly foreign governments, including many that overtly violated the civil and human rights of their own citizens and residents.

Since the first class graduated, SAMS planners have supported every major military campaign, providing " the Army with many of its top campaign planners for the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries ".

Since 2001, Oxford University Press has financially supported the Clarendon bursary, a University of Oxford graduate scholarship scheme.

Since then, the Forum has documented new insights derived from this timeline and subsequent discoveries in permanent resources including the exhibit An Uncommon Commitment to Peace, and its companion catalogue, recognized by the Library of Congress as the most accessible educational resource on the subject, a Portsmouth Peace Treaty Trail ( and map supported by the New Hampshire Division of Tourism ), a curriculum guide for grades 4-8 distributed to all school districts in New Hampshire, a series of New Hampshire Humanities Council lectures and articles on the Treaty and New Hampshire's citizen diplomacy and a variety of commemorative events.

Since the conclusion of the Second World War, Canadians have supported multilateralism abroad and socioeconomic development domestically.

Since then cocladogenesis and coadaptation on a coarse scale between wasp genera and fig sections has been supported by both morphological and molecular studies.

Since 2006, improvisational music in many forms has been supported and promoted by ISIM, the International Society for Improvised Music, founded by Ed Sarath of the University of Michigan and Sarah Weaver.

Since Torney, who was chief of staff, under the INLA's rules lacked the authority to call a ceasefire ( because he was incarcerated ), he and the two men who supported him were expelled from the INLA.

Since Apple's and Microsoft's operating systems supported different character sets in the platform related fonts, some foundries used expert fonts in a different way.

Since the 2000 presidential election, Li Ao has bitterly spoken out against pro-independence Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee, who publicly supported Chen Shui-bian.

Since 1979, Passive Solar Building Design has been a critical element of achieving zero energy by educational institution experiments, and governments around the world, including the U. S. Department of Energy, and the energy research scientists that they have supported for decades.

Since 1976, Algeria has supported the Polisario Front, a group claiming to represent the population of Western Sahara, which is based among the 90, 000 Sahrawi refugees who reside in refugee camps in Algeria.

Since October 2010, the county board of commissioners has supported a " strategic investment program " for another wind power project in Oregon, Horizon Wind Energy's proposed Antelope Ridge Wind Farm ; after delays due to concerns about the project's impact on wildlife, the project has received support from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Since 2000, parish voters have supported the Republican Party candidate in presidential elections: that year Bush-Cheney polled 2, 512 votes ( 55 percent ), compared to 2, 187 ( 45 percent ) for the Democrats Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.