The PLR directive has met with resistance from the side of the International Federation of Library Associations ( IFLA ).

When that program was finally achieved, in 1986, he became its founding Chair, and served as the Union's PLR representative on the Public Lending Right Commission until 2008.

A Public Lending Right ( PLR ) program, is a program intended to either compensate authors for the potential loss of sales from their works being available in public libraries, or as a governmental support of the arts, through support of works available in public libraries, such as books, music and artwork.

Some, like Germany and the Netherlands, have linked PLR to copyright legislation and have made libraries liable to pay authors for every book in their collection.

In telecommunications, a pulse link repeater ( PLR ) is a device that interfaces concatenated E and M signaling paths.

A PLR converts a ground, received from the E lead of one signal path, to − 48 Vdc, which is applied to the M lead of the concatenated signal path.

There is also a move towards having a Europe-wide PLR program administered by the European Union.

* PLR or People's Liberation and Resistance group is a fictional faction in the Battlefield franchise.

* An update ( 2002 ) on the international situation by Jim Parker ( UK PLR Offices, Stockton-on-Tees, UK )

The narrow gauge line called Paralakhemedi Light Railway ( PLR ) was established by Gajpatirajas of Paralakhemundi, the erstwhile Raja of Paralakhemedi.

Accordingly, the working of the PLR was taken over by the Bengal-Nagpur Railway in 1902.

In some countries, authors also earn income from a government scheme such as the ELR ( Educational Lending Right ) and PLR ( Public Lending Right ) schemes in Australia.

Four years later, PLR members also returned to Paraguay and began participating in the electoral process.

In many commercial carrier systems, the channel bank cards or modules have a " PLR " option that permits the direct concatenation of E & M signaling paths, without the need for separate PLR equipment.

Twenty-eight countries have a PLR program, and others are considering adopting one.

Canada, the United Kingdom, all the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand currently have PLR programs.

The first PLR program was initiated in Denmark in 1941.

The idea spread slowly from country to country and many nations ' PLR programs are quite recent developments.

PLR programs vary from country to country.

Other countries do not connect PLR to copyright.

Some PLR services are mandated solely to fund literary works of fiction, and some such as Norway, have a sliding scale paying far less to non-fiction works.

Non-image forming visual functions, independent of visual perception, include the pupillary light reflex ( PLR ) and circadian photoentrainment.

* Packet Loss Ratio or PLR typically in Network Links like MPLS, etc.

When the PLR licenses were auctioned in the early 1990s several different local stations appeared.

In 1957 he became a member of the Radical Liberation Party ( PLR ), a Christian democratic group.

There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.

Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

The SE must have a minimum subscribed capital of € 120, 000, as per article 4 ( 2 ) of the directive, subject to the provision that where a Member State requires a larger capital for companies exercising certain types of activities, the same requirement will also apply to an SE with its registered office in that Member State ( article 4 ( 3 )).

One of the impacts of this directive was that the United Kingdom amended its own legislation to replace the gallon with the litre as a primary unit of measure in trade and in the conduct of public business, effective from 30 September 1995.

The Tribunal established the legal framework for its operations by adopting the rules of procedure and evidence, as well as its rules of detention and directive for the assignment of defense counsel.

The Prime Minister and his ministers take the following pledge before the President of the RP: " Accepting the post of the Prime Minister I solemnly swear that I will faithfully follow the articles of the Constitution and other laws of the Republic of Poland, as well as the good of the Fatherland, and for me the well-being of its citizens will always be the supreme directive.

If only a certain portion of the electrical power received from the transmitter is actually radiated by the antenna ( its efficiency ) the directive gain compares the power radiated in a given direction to that reduced power, ignoring the inefficiency.

The text of a draft directive ( if subject to the co-decision process, as contentious matters usually are ) is prepared by the Commission after consultation with its own and national experts.

This may also happen when a member state has transposed a directive in theory but has failed to abide by its provisions in practice.

Furthermore, it speculates as to a possible teleological end to its development — that is, it asks if there is a design, purpose, directive principle, or finality in the processes of human history.

Each country has its own body or bodies responsible for the inspection and licencing of fertility treatment under the EU Tissues and Cells directive

A. C. Grayling in his book Among the Dead Cities makes the point that as the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942, focused on the " morale of the enemy civil population ", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF " Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries " to help them carry out the directive – the RAF were well aware that the technique was effective against cities and not against industrial targets because cities such as Coventry had been subject to such attacks by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.

The zeal to compete in this contest was such that the Uruguayan Football Association issued a directive signed by all first division team bosses on June 15, 1951 suspending its national championship from June 25 to July 27, so that a sufficiently strong Nacional team could represent the 1950 World Cup champs.

In response to an August 1942 directive, Arnold had the AWPD revise its estimates.

The directive qualities of an antenna are measured by a dimensionless parameter called its gain, which is the ratio of the power received by the antenna from a source along its beam axis to the power received by a hypothetical isotropic antenna.

Although subsequent decisions have disputed whether a particular contracting-out exercise constituted a transfer of an undertaking ( see, for example, Ayse Süzen v. Zehnacker Gebäudereinigung GmbH Krankenhausservice, Case C-13 / 95 ), in principle, employees of an enterprise outsourcing part of its activities in which they are employed may benefit from the protection offered by the directive.

The European Patent Office, which is not legally bound by any EU directive but generally adapts its regulations to new EU law, has no reason or incentive to adapt its practice of granting patents on computer-implemented inventions under certain conditions, according to its interpretation of the European Patent Convention and its Implementing Regulations.

He issued a directive, on February 1970, that ordered the Chelomei design bureau to combine its Almaz space station with Sergei Korolyov's design bureau, ( then headed by Vasili Mishin ).