His first novel, The Tall Dolores, published in 1953, introduced Ed Noon PI.

His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.

He was to co-drive in a Triumph 2500 PI for the British Leyland team in the 1970 London-Mexico rally, but had to turn it down due to movie commitments.

The 1927 six-cylinder Grand Renault models NM, PI and PZ introduced the new three spring rear suspension that considerably aided road holding that was needed as with some body styles over was possible.

' According to the PI character played by Morgan, Charest had all the characteristics to become Prime Minister of Canada except that he was not born by a virgin.

He was the Principal Investigator ( PI ) on the Spacelab 3 mission NASA Drop Dynamics ( DDM ) experiments, PI on the NASA SPAR Flight Experiment # 77-18 " Dynamics of Liquid Bubble ," PI on the NASA SPAR Flight Experiment # 76-20 " Containerless Processing Technology ," and PI on the Department of Energy Experiment " Spherical Shell Technology.

The initial Stag design was based around the saloon's 2. 5-litre engine, and Harry Webster intended the Stag, large saloons and estate cars to use a new Triumph-designed overhead cam ( OHC ) 2. 5-litre fuel injected ( PI ) V8.

Under the direction of Harry Webster's successor, Spen King in 1968, the new Triumph OHC 2. 5 PI V8 was enlarged to 2997 cc ( 3. 0 litres ) to increase torque.

She was the Principal Investigator ( PI ) on a series of SpaceHab / Biorack experiments, which examined the regulation of osteoblast ( bone cell ) growth.

In PI 201a Wittgenstein explicitly states the rule-following paradox: " This was our paradox: no course of action could be determined by a rule, because any course of action can be made out to accord with the rule ".

The EIT PI, Jean-Pierre Delaboudiniere, was forced to scrounge funding and resources from several locations to construct and launch the instrument.

It was codified in the 1898 Prussian Instructions for libraries, or Preußische Instruktionen ( PI ).

In its complaint, PI said that Google's claim that its face blurring system would result in a few misses was a " gross underestimation " and meant that the data used by Street View would fall under the UK's Data Protection Act 1998, which requires that subjects give permission for the use of information concerning them.

From 1989 to 1996 she was Project Leader / PI, Renaissance Experimental Lab, at the NCSA.

* Misc bugs: ASL constant PI was 3.

It was formed, established, equipped, coached and trained by a team of UNMIK professional specialized instructors who worked within that field in their native countries ( 1 ) " French PI ", ( 1 ) " Egyptian HRF ", ( 1 ) " German SEK " and ( 1 ) " Bulgarian SP OPS " trainers, in addition to ( 1 ) " US CPU " trainer, ( 1 ) " Danish PT " coach, and ( 1 ) German GSG-9 operator.

This project was developed and implemented by French military Gendarmerie Nationale members: Officer and NCO's from PI ( Intervention Platoon ).

When the theory of distributions was still not widely known nor used, property above was formulated by saying that the convolution of the function ' with a given function belonging to a proper Hilbert or Banach space converges as ε → 0 to this last one: this is exactly what Friedrichs did .< ref > See, properties PI, PII, PIII and their consequence PIII < sub > 0 </ sub >.</ ref > This also clarifies why mollifiers are related to approximate identities.

The concept was intended " to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or a form of life " ( PI 23 ).

During their honeymoon, he was cast by Margaret Doversola for a role on Raven which was being shot in Hawaii on the old Magnum, PI studio lot.

The compare and compute functions are completed within the controller which may be completed electronically through a Proportional Control, PI Controller, PID Controller, Bistable, Hysteretic control or Programmable logic controller.

Business insurance can take a number of different forms, such as the various kinds of professional liability insurance, also called professional indemnity ( PI ), which are discussed below under that name ; and the business owner's policy ( BOP ), which packages into one policy many of the kinds of coverage that a business owner needs, in a way analogous to how homeowners ' insurance packages the coverages that a homeowner needs.

IPIU also offers their own unique PI Union License which monitors the professional conduct of the agent, and assists all newcomers in obtaining their own state issued private investigator agency license in a matter of weeks through a sponsorship program of other willing licensed private investigators.

* Phospholipase C, an enzyme which cleaves PI ( 4, 5 ) P2 to form IP3 and diacylglycerol

Frequently an ASC will have various subcommittees ( such as a but not limitied to Hospitals and Institutions ( H & I ), Public Information ( PI ), Activities, Website, Outreach, Policy, Literature, Literature Review, Newsletter, Recovery By Mail and Convention ) which are led by subcommittee leaders that are elected by the entire ASC.

There is a difference in the theoretical approach which comes down to the use of a medical model in Janov's work and a holistic or educational model in PI.

Since the result, the sum of all angles, can add up to 0 or 2 * PI ( or multiples of 2 * PI ) only, it is sufficient to track through which quadrants the polygon winds, as it turns around the test point, which makes the winding number algorithm comparable in speed to counting the boundary crossings.

As the receivership proceeded, the management and employees of PI formed a new company, Pictorius, which acquired the assets of PI.

In medicine, protease inhibitor is often used interchangeably with alpha 1-antitrypsin ( A1AT, which is abbreviated PI for this reason ).

One parameter to quantify this difference is pulsatility index ( PI ), which is equal to the difference between the peak systolic velocity and the minimum diastolic velocity divided by the mean velocity during the cardiac cycle.

They noted that most researchers were using acute methods of cholesterol depletion, which disrupt the rafts, but also disrupt another lipid known as PI ( 4, 5 ) P < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Meetings of the group, which took the name Privacy International ( PI ), were held throughout that year in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, and members agreed to work toward the establishment of new forms of privacy advocacy at the international level.

( PI: Klaus Biemann, MIT ) The Gas Chromatograph — Mass Spectrometer ( GCMS ) is a device that separates vapor components chemically via a gas chromatograph and then feeds the result into a mass spectrometer, which measures the molecular weight of each chemical.

In addition, DAG is also converted into CDP-DAG, which is a precursor for phosphatidylglycerol ( PG ), phosphatidylinositol ( PI ) and phosphoinositides ( PIP, PIP < sub > 2 </ sub >, PIP < sub > 3 </ sub >).

This is useful for control of cellular signaling because the di-phosphorylated phosphoinositide PIP < sub > 2 </ sub > is only phosphorylated by the family of enzymes, PI 3-kinases ( phosphoinositide 3-kinase or PI3-K ), and only upon receipt of chemical messengers which tell the cell to begin the growth process.

Wittgenstein used the term " language-game " to designate forms of language simpler than the entirety of a language itself, " consisting of language and the actions into which it is woven " ( PI 7 ), and connected by family resemblance ( Familienähnlichkeit ).

The PI remained in production until 1960.

Old Houses along the Parade Ground at Fort Stotsenburg, PI. Although some were built as early as 1903, all the houses along Wirt Davis Avenue, oringally called Officers ' Row, were completed by 1904.

Europeans who broke any of these rules were often " PI ' ed " ( declared Prohibited Immigrants and deported ).

It is alleged that many Triumphs of this era were unreliable, especially the 2. 5 PI ( petrol injection ) with its fuel injection problems.

These were the invasion of Sicily ( Operation HUSKY, 9-13 JUL 1943 ), 1st Air Commando Group in Burma ( Operation THURSDAY, MAR-MAY 1944 ), Normandy invasion ( Operation NEPTUNE ( airborne phase of Operation OVERLORD, 6-8 JUN 1944 ), invasion of southern France ( Operation DRAGOON, 15 AUG 1944 ), invasion of Netherlands ( Operation MARKET, airborne phase of MARKET-GARDEN, 17-23 SEP 1944 ), re-supply of Bastogne ( a flight on 25 DEC 1944 and Operation REPULSE, 26-27 DEC 1944 ), Rhine River crossing at Wesel ( Operation VARSITY, 24 MAR 1945 ), and finally, at Aparri, Luzon, PI ( Operation GYPSY, 23 JUN 1945 ).

Since the address expansion is done in the PPG or in the wireless network, the behaviour between the PI and the PPG is identical to behaviour as if the address were not expanded.

They were also tasked with checking PI reports which would eventually be related to assessment reports of attacks on German industry.