* 1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units ( e. g. inch, mile and ounce ) are adopted after agreement between the U. S. A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.

Specific examples of services which warrant the Purple Heart include any action against an enemy of the United States ; any action with an opposing armed force of a foreign country in which the Armed Forces of the United States are or have been engaged ; while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party ; as a result of an act of any such enemy of opposing armed forces ; or as the result of an act of any hostile foreign force.

Specific referral can be made to the International Civil Service Commission ( ICSC ) of the United Nations, an independent expert body established by the United Nations General Assembly.

: For more information in the 2004 elections see: 2004 United States presidential election: Specific issues relating to Diebold machines and practices

* Specific Area Message Encoding, a coding system within the Emergency Alert System in the United States

Specific programs are also run by the association, including those that permit recent graduates to volunteer as mentors to students, and Old Boy reunions are set up around the world by the association's fifteen branches outside of Toronto: Calgary, Halifax, Kingston, London, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver in Canada ; Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco in the United States ; London in the United Kingdom ; Hong Kong in China ; and Budapest in Hungary.

" Specific efforts to impose a " universal civilization " included Victorian era England, the Soviet Union and, currently, the United States as " the last great power to base its policies on this enlightenment thesis ", such as with the Washington Consensus.

Specific hormones used in BHRT include estrone, estradiol, progesterone ( which are available both in FDA-approved manufactured products and as pharmacy-compounded products ) testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone ( both products have more limited availability and approval in Canada and the United States ) and estriol ( which is available in Europe but is not approved in Canada and the United States ).

; Specific rivers in the United States

The university has also affiliations with King Hussein Cancer Center, which was the first Cancer Center outside of the United States to be accredited by the JCI Disease Specific Certification ( DSC )-( November 2007 ).

: D. Specific stipulations concerning Holy Places, religious buildings or sites and the rights of religious communities shall be inserted in the constitution or constitutions of any independent Palestinian State or States which may be created.

Her numerous other writings include " Educational Reform: Challenges for Psychology and Psychologists ," in Professional Psychology ( 1996 ); " Adolescent Outcomes for Hyperactive Children: Perspectives on General and Specific Patterns of Childhood Risk for Adolescent Educational, Social, and Mental Health Problems ," in American Psychologist ( 1988 ); " Persistence of Hyperactive Symptoms from Childhood to Adolescence ," in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry ( 1987 ); and " Conceptual Foundations for School Psychology: Perspectives from the Development of the School Psychology Program at Berkeley ," in Professional School Psychologist ( 1986 ).

This is acknowledged by the American Institute for Conservation who advise " Specific admission requirements differ and potential candidates are encouraged to contact the programs directly for details on prerequisites, application procedures, and program curriculum ".

: Specific regions within a country or areas in dispute among countries, such as Kashmir, are not covered, but other areas of the world whose status is disputed, such as the Spratly Islands, have entries.

Specific weaknesses in the text include: it does not stipulate guidelines for the ' non-detriment ' finding required of national Scientific Authorities ; non-detriment findings require copious amounts of information ; the ' household effects ' clause is often not rigid enough / specific enough to prevent CITES violations by means of this Article ( VII ); non-reporting from Parties means Secretariat monitoring is incomplete ; and it has no capacity to address domestic trade in listed species.

Specific or personal coercion is the most commonly considered kind.

where ( Specific mutual Information ) is the pointwise mutual information.

Specific high-temperature mica-insulated wire and cable is rated to work for up to 15 minutes in molten aluminium, glass, and steel.

Specific plot elements and features in The Hobbit that show similarities to Beowulf include the title thief as Bilbo is called by Gollum and later also by Smaug, the underground path into the mountain, and Smaug's personality which leads to the destruction of Lake-town.

Specific gravity is commonly used in industry as a simple means of obtaining information about the concentration of solutions of various materials such as brines, sugar solutions ( syrups, juices, honeys, brewers wort, must, etc.

Specific alters may react negatively to therapy, fearing the therapists goal is to eliminate the alter ( particularly those associated with illegal or violent activities ).

The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket ( VASIMR ) is an electro-magnetic thruster for spacecraft propulsion.

Specific impulse ( usually abbreviated I < sub > sp </ sub >) is a way to describe the efficiency of rocket and jet engines.

Specific impulse is a useful value to compare engines, much like miles per gallon or litres per 100 kilometres is used for cars.

Specific fuel consumption is inversely proportional to specific impulse and effective exhaust velocity.

Specific ultra-fast comparators, like the LMH7322, allow input signal to swing below the negative rail and above the positive rail, although by a narrow margin of only 0. 2 V. Differential input voltage ( the voltage between two inputs ) of a modern rail-to-rail comparator is usually limited only by the full swing of power supply.

Specific detectivity, or D *, for a photodetector is a figure of merit used to characterize performance, equal to the reciprocal of noise-equivalent power ( NEP ), normalized per unit area.

Specific detectivity is given by, where is the area of the photosensitive region of the detector.

Specific human capital refers to skills or knowledge that is useful only to a single employer or industry, whereas general human capital ( such as literacy ) is useful to all employers.

Specific works ( although this is by no means an exhaustive list ) include:

Specific humidity is a ratio of the water vapor content of the mixture to the total air content on a mass basis.

* Specific inductive capacity, abbreviated to SIC, which is more commonly known as the relative permittivity or the dielectric constant

Specific dates would be important, as would double names.

Specific plans for names, nicknames, and colors were developed by a committee of nine persons that made final reports to the School Board in December 1978.

Specific activities that involve students in attending to and demonstrating recognition of the sounds of language include waving hands when rhymes are heard, stomping feet along with alliterations, clapping the syllables in names, and slowly stretching out arms when segmenting words.

Specific names for the degrees vary across countries, and even universities within countries.

Specific exceptions are made for cases in which the addition of a period or comma could create confusion, such as the quotation of web addresses or certain types of data strings.

Specific settings include isolated forts, ranches and homesteads ; the Native American village ; or the small frontier town with its saloon, general store, livery stable and jailhouse.

Specific charges included violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act ( ARPA ), depredation and theft of government property, theft of Indian tribal property, violating the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ( NAGPRA ), and transportation of stolen property.

Specific North American examples include ( first regular season, then playoffs ):

Specific examples include: giant water bugs ( Belostomatidae ), largemouth bass ( Micropterus salmoides ), American alligator ( Alligator mississippiensis ), bullfrog ( Rana catesbeiana ), snowy egret ( Egretta thula ), and raccoon ( Procyon lotor ).

Specific projects include protecting the Ethiopian Wolf, Grevy's Zebra and endemic birds in the Galapagos Islands, finding solutions to bushmeat exploitation in West Africa, community conservation education in Africa, sustainable farming, badger ecology and behavior, and the impact of American Mink on native wildlife in Britain, Belarus and Argentina.

Specific forms of the grip are French grip, German grip, and American grip.

( 1870 – 1964 ), American pediatrician and originator of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet