In the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, there are three forms of Vespers: Great Vespers, Daily Vespers and Small Vespers.

Purpose of this inventory is to include all eligible productive facilities in SBA's facilities register so that the small business concerns may have an opportunity to avail themselves of the services authorized by the Congress in establishing the Small Business Administration.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

Small particle sizes lead to enormous surface areas, and this effect is greatly amplified in colloids.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

The Small Deep Space Transponder ( SDST ) is a compact and light weight radio communications system.

Small changes in the vector field will only produce small changes in the Poincaré map and these small changes will reflect in small changes in the position of the eigenvalues of J in the complex plane, implying that the map is still hyperbolic.

Small changes may produce no qualitative changes in the phase space until a special value μ < sub > 0 </ sub > is reached.

Moller International continues to develop the Skycar M400, which is powered by four pairs of in-tandem Wankel rotary engines, and is approaching the problems of satellite-navigation, incorporated in the proposed Small Aircraft Transportation System.

Additionally outside the region, FSM is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Alliance of Small Island States, the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the G-77, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the IMF, the International Olympic Committee, the ITU, the NAM and the World Meteorological Organization.

Small displacement, crankcase-scavenged two-stroke engines have been less fuel-efficient than other types of engines when the fuel is mixed with the air prior to scavenging allowing some of it to escape out of the exhaust port.

Kiribati is a member of the Alliance of Small Island States ( AOSIS ), an intergovernmental organization of low-lying coastal and small Island countries.

Established in 1990, the main purpose of the alliance is to consolidate the voices of Small Island Developing States ( SIDS ) to address global warming.

A small business is " An independently owned and operated business that is not dominant in its field of operation and conforms to standards set by the Small Business Administration or by state law regarding number of employees and yearly income called also small business concern.

The rule is named after the 17th-century French mathematician Guillaume de l ' Hôpital, who published the rule in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l ' Intelligence des Lignes Courbes ( literal translation: Analysis of the Infinitely Small for the Understanding of Curved Lines ) ( 1696 ), the first textbook on differential calculus.

Completely caseless ammunition was also studied on several occasions, notably the German 4. 7 mm designs, and this concept is now being continued with the Lightweight Small Arms Technologies Program.

The Nirvana song " Rainbow Chaser " is thought to be the first-ever British recording to feature the audio effect known as phasing or flanging throughout an entire track, as distinct from occasionally within a song such as the Small Faces in " Itchycoo Park ".

* The Small, sealed, transportable, autonomous reactor ( SSTAR ) is being primarily researched and developed in the US, intended as a fast breeder reactor that is passively safe and could be remotely shut down in case the suspicion arises that it is being tampered with.

Still, to quote the same reference: " Vorbis, on the other hand is named after the Terry Pratchett character from the book Small Gods.

The Book of Omni is notable also for being the last of the books contained on the Small Plates of Nephi, one of two major divisions of the gold plates which Joseph Smith, Jr. translated to obtain the Book of Mormon.

* A young female penguin, variously identified as " Small Child " or " Little Girl ," who is apparently Pokey's sister

Small, isolated peaks are numerous, and it is here that the only lakes of any size are found.

Small volumes of un-melted and relatively un-shocked material may be spalled at very high relative velocities from the surface of the target and from the rear of the impactor.

* Damn Small Linux, a very small Linux distribution

Small scale permineralization can produce very detailed fossils.

Small handguns can be easily concealed, thus making them a very common choice for personal protection.

Small metal parts were readily made by this means, but for large machine parts, production was very laborious and costly.

Small sections of very dark filter glass, such as a # 14 welder's glass are effective.

The SOIC ( Small Outline IC ), a surface-mount package which is currently very popular, particularly in consumer electronics and personal computers, is essentially a shrunk version of the standard IC PDIP, the fundamental difference which makes it an SMT device being a second bend in the leads to flatten them parallel to the bottom plane of the plastic housing.

Small Buddhist figures and groups were produced to a very high quality in a range of media, as was relief decoration of all sorts of objects, especially in metalwork and jade.

Small carefully chosen changes to mass distribution and local structural stiffness can be very effective in solving aeroelastic problems.

Small angle neutron scattering is in many respects very similar to small-angle X-ray scattering ( SAXS ); both techniques are jointly referred to as small-angle scattering ( SAS ).

A second self-titled album, Small Faces, followed, which, if not a major seller, was very highly regarded by other musicians and would exert a strong influence on a number of bands both at home and abroad.

Evidence of this is very apparent in several episodes, where plotlines had MacMurray's character on a business trip ( e. g. " Small Adventure ") or spending much of his time at the office ( e. g. " Soap Box Derby ").

Small appliances can be very inexpensive, such as a basic can opener or coffee maker which may cost only a few U. S. dollars, or very expensive, such as an elaborate espresso maker, which may cost several thousand U. S. dollars.

This was a very considerable advance in the practice of woofer subsystem design, and is now almost universally used by system designers when applicable, although the Theile / Small approach does not fully apply to some types of enclosure.

Small prey species such as porcupines, hares and peafowl form a very small part in their diet.

Small early attempts — such as the English Lost Colony of Roanoke — often disappeared ; everywhere the death rate of the first arrivals was very high.

The Corsican Small Tortoiseshell ( Aglais ( urticae ) ichnusa ) looks very similar ; whether it is a subspecies or a distinct species is yet to be determined.

Small spark gaps are very common in telephone switchboards, as the long phone cables are very susceptible to induced surges from lightning strikes.

Small mammals, including bats, are sometimes caught but insects are eaten only very rarely.

An alternative to some regional airline service may be the new Small Aircraft Transportation System initiative in conjunction with general aviation and VLJs ( very light jets ).

Small shops with only one analyst learned CICS optimization very slowly ( or not at all ).

Small amounts of air often get into the blood circulation accidentally during surgery and other medical procedures ( for example a bubble entering an intravenous fluid line ), but most of these air emboli enter the veins and are stopped at the lungs, and thus a venous air embolism that shows any symptoms is very rare.