BHF also invested £ 4 million in four new large programmes and ten cluster projects under the Hearty Lives initiative.

The British Heart Foundation ( or BHF ) is a charity organisation in Britain that funds research, education, care and awareness campaigns aimed to prevent heart diseases in humans.

BHF shops are predominantly staffed by roughly 10, 000 volunteers and each shop also has a paid staff made up of a shop manager, shop assistant and may also have a retail assistant.

In early 2010, the BHF digital checkout switchover went live, and currently most shops have new digital tills, as opposed to the old analogue tills, the new tills include bar code scanners, touch screen interface, separate till roll printer, colour printer and instant information upload to HQ.

Other annual campaigns include National Heart Month ( held throughout February ), Wear Red Day and The Big Donation as well as many other campaigns to recruit volunteers, raise awareness of BHF, sell stock and increase donations.

In December 2006 Bob played alongside his friend, former Scottish international Kenny Logan in the Dubai 7's for ' Stefan BHF ' to raise awareness for the British Heart Foundation in memory of the late Stefan Czerpak, ex England colts Newbury RFC and Richmond RFC rugby coach who died in 1998 from a heart attack.

In 2010 the BHF spent their income on Research ( 57 %), care and prevention ( 43 %).

* There are over 260 BHF Heart Nurses caring for patients across the UK.

The BHF is mainly funded by legacies and wills, accounting for 44 % of their income, the other 56 % is made up of other voluntary income ( 32 %), profit from the retail division ( 19 %) and investment income ( 5 %)

Hydrofluoric acid is commonly used as an aqueous etchant for silicon dioxide ( SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, also known as BOX for SOI ), usually in 49 % concentrated form, 5: 1, 10: 1 or 20: 1 BOE ( buffered oxide etchant ) or BHF ( Buffered HF ).

Bolivian hemorrhagic fever ( BHF ), also known as black typhus or Ordog Fever, is a hemorrhagic fever and zoonotic infectious disease originating in Bolivia after infection by Machupo virus.

Post infection ( and providing that the person survives the infection ), those that have contracted BHF are usually immune to further infection of the disease.

Their financing came from German private bank BHF Bank ( who provided borrowing facilities of £ 55m for the acquisition and redevelopment of the centre ), plus their own resources and those of their American partners Apollo Real Estate.

" Venus " was remixed and re-released by dance producers The BHF ( Bisiach Hornbostel Ferrucci ) Team in May 1990, scoring the group a Top 10 hit in the UK and Australia 21 years after the release of the original.

BHF was first identified in 1959 by a research group led by Karl Johnson, an ambisense RNA virus of the Arenaviridae family.

In February and March 2007, some 20 suspected BHF cases ( 3 fatal ) were reported to the El Servicio Departamental de Salud ( SEDES ) in Beni Department, Bolivia, and in February 2008, at least 200 suspected new cases ( 12 fatal ) were reported to SEDES.

Evidence of person-to-person transmission of BHF exists but is believed to be rare.

by the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) and the British Heart Foundation ( BHF ) in the United Kingdom.

president of the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ) ( and of the Institute of British Geographers ( IBG ) after amalgamation ) 1993 – 1997 ; president of the Anglo-Hellenic League 1978 – 1986 ; president of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust 1987-1994 ; president of the UK Crete Veterans Association 1991-2001 ; president of the British Heart Foundation ( BHF ) 1992-1995 ; chancellor of Southampton University 1984 – 1995, and has been closely associated with research and higher education.

BHF invested a net £ 48. 4 million in research during the year.

Case studies of how BHF work has helped individuals can be found in their here.

The BHF, along with Cancer Research UK, is a major backer of the anti-tobacco campaign group Action on Smoking and Health.

The BHF Retail division makes roughly £ 16 million every year accounting for 13 % of the overall income of BHF, an increase of £ 1 million from the previous year, and £ 2 million the year before that.

" In November 2011 a protest took place calling for the BHF and the University of Leeds to stop carrying out co-funded " lethal experiments " on dogs.

At his own wish Gloystein resigned from the BHF and ING in 2002 as a result of differing opinions on future business strategy in the German market.

MRC / BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol-lowering with simvastatin in 5963 people with diabetes: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.

Then we have informed a large number of our crew that when they reach the United States, they will be punished but that in the meanwhile, they may run loose and are expected to perform their jobs in good order.

British Columbia also contains a large network of provincial parks, run by BC Parks of the Ministry of Environment.

Albeit that these factors did play a large role in increasing home run thus scoring totals during this time, others that directly impact ballplayers have an equally important role.

They also run the Great British Beer Festival, a yearly event held in London at which a large selection of cask ales and ciders are tasted.

The resultant flood washed out a large gladiatorial exhibition held to commemorate the opening, causing Claudius to run for his life along with the other spectators.

Due to the large Muslim population in western China, many Chinese restaurants cater to, or are run by, Muslims.

Edmund Burke, in his ' Reflections on the Revolution in France ', argued that a government does not have the right to run up large debts and then throw the burden on the taxpayer:

It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large " community antennas " were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.

A number of large ISPs have configured their DNS servers to violate rules ( presumably to allow them to run on less-expensive hardware than a fully compliant resolver ), such as by disobeying TTLs, or by indicating that a domain name does not exist just because one of its name servers does not respond.

At the age of nine, he and his older brother Peter were sent to a large and one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk ( St. Lebuin's Church ), though some earlier biographies assert it was a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life.

Flashboards run in several parallel strings to provide a large area of plasma or ultraviolet radiation and uses the breakdown and vaporization of gaps of diamonds to produce the required plasma.

The large inflow of official assistance to FSM allows it to run a substantial trade deficit and to have a much lighter tax burden than other states in the region ( 11 % of GDP in FSM compared to 18 %- 25 % elsewhere ).

During the run of Patience, Carte built the large, modern Savoy Theatre, which became the partnership's permanent home.

Commercial hydroponics production of large plants like tomatoes, cucumber, and peppers use one form or another of run to waste hydroponics.

Telecommunications in Ireland, including postal services run by An Post, are regulated to a large extent by the Commission for Communications Regulation ( ComReg ), the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources has overall responsibility for national policy and regulation.

rather than set up small engines of motivic materials and let them run free in a kind of random play of counterpoint, I used the fabric of continually repeating cells to forge large architectonic shapes, creating a web of activity that, even within the course of a single movement, was more detailed, more varied, and knew both light and dark, serenity and turbulence.

The Delphi residential area, located in the northern part of Lund, is one of the large student housing complexes run by AF Bostäder.

But as integrated circuit technology shrank the size and cost of computers in the 1960s and early 1970s, and the memory requirements of AI programs started to exceed the address space of the most common research computer, the DEC PDP-10, researchers considered a new approach: a computer designed specifically to develop and run large artificial intelligence programs, and tailored to the semantics of the Lisp programming language.

If there were two large programs ready to run, one would have to wait until the other finished and vacated the large partition.

The two trained at Khalden, a large training facility near Kabul that was run by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.

The courses are usually run over thick wooded terrain, sometimes with large obstacles such as logs, ditches, and sudden drops.

Test, development, training, and production workload for applications and databases can run on a single machine, except for extremely large demands where the capacity of one machine might be limiting.

Merge algorithms generally run in time proportional to the sum of the lengths of the lists ; merge algorithms that operate on large numbers of lists at once will multiply the sum of the lengths of the lists by the time to figure out which of the pointers points to the lowest item, which can be accomplished with a heap-based priority queue in O ( log n ) time, for O ( m log n ) time, where n is the number of lists being merged and m is the sum of the lengths of the lists.

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