** Affective filter, an impediment to learning or acquisition caused by negative emotional (" affective ") responses to one's environment.

The acquisition of T-72s has caused significant controversy.

After some shakeups in the management caused by a recent acquisition from Rosoboronexport, AvtoVAZ is currently in talks with Renault to negotiate a CKD assembly of the Renault Logan.

Skilful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target has caused the word hunting to be used in the vernacular as a metaphor, as in treasure hunting, " bargain hunting ", and even " hunting down corruption and waste ".

California's acquisition by the United States under the terms of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the defeat of Mexico in the Mexican – American War caused further American westward expansion into Mexico intensified with the California Gold Rush, beginning in 1849.

Off-season free agent acquisition Sean Avery caused a media uproar over comments he made to a Canadian reporter about ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert and her then-current relationship with Flames ' defenseman Dion Phaneuf before a game in Calgary.

Asbestos-related litigation from the Kellogg acquisition caused the company to book more than US $ 4. 0 billion in losses from 2002 through 2004.

It is interesting to note that this monumental change in attitude had been caused by the reputations of map makers and not by the acquisition of photographic evidence.

The acquisition caused Khosrowshahi to step down as president.

A partial white heritage also gave light-skinned blacks more economic value and caused them to be viewed as smarter and superior to dark-skinned blacks, allowing more advantages in a white-dominated society, such as broader opportunities for education and the acquisition of land and property

Finally, tensions boiled over when O ' Banion cheated Torrio out of $ 500, 000 in a brewery acquisition deal and caused Torrio's arrest.

Analysts generally believe that debt related to the acquisition of Hills Department Stores, at the same time as the tightened credit markets of 2001, caused the bankruptcy.

The Swedish acquisition of northeastern Estonia, including Reval, at the conclusion of the Livonian War, caused the Swedish crown to lose interest in building up a competitor to Reval, and Helsingfors languished as a forgotten village for decades thereafter.

The postwar flood was caused by various factors including high prices for cotton, the elimination of Indian titles to much land, new and improved roads, and the acquisition of new direct outlets to the Gulf of Mexico.

Certain developments, such as the acquisition of lands from Arab owners for Jewish settlements, leading to the eviction of the fellaheen from the lands which they cultivated as tenant farmers, aggravated the tension between the parties and caused the Arab population in the region of Palestine to feel dispossessed of their lands.

Because the term transformation had another sense in animal cell biology ( a genetic change allowing long-term propagation in culture, or acquisition of properties typical of cancer cells ), the term transfection acquired, for animal cells, its present meaning of a change in cell properties caused by introduction of DNA.

In 1991, Toomey resigned from the firm when it was acquired by Deutsche Bank in order to avoid the decreased flexibility and entrepreneurship that the acquisition would have caused.

Meanwhile, Borland was going through some serious problems caused by the Ashton-Tate acquisition.

After the acquisition, the parent company ( Travelers Group, and later Citigroup ) proved culturally averse to the volatile profits and losses caused by proprietary trading, instead preferring slower and more steady growth.

Proponents of this model argue that this explains the development of uncontrolled addictive behavior, which is not motivated by the hedonic value that caused acquisition of the habit in the first place.

However, BA's unilateral decision to force everyone working for its short haul operation at Gatwick to take a pay cut caused bitter feelings towards the company, among both former Dan-Air staff as well as BA's existing employees at Gatwick who were already working for its short haul operation there prior to Dan-Air's acquisition.

Likewise the acquisition of a line so remote from its main area of operation, and of doubtful profitability, caused heated discussion and the resignation of several directors, who felt that the company should rather secure its territory and develop services in Kent, as the LB & SCR was doing in Sussex.

The acquisition caused the station, along with a number of other former Metromedia outlets, to suddenly adopt a more sophisticated look for a network that at the time, did not exist.

Bain, along with partners Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, would later negotiate a lower price ($ 8. 5 billion ) when the initial stages of the subprime mortgage crisis caused lenders to seek to renegotiate the terms of the acquisition financing.

For a long time, Bismarck had refused to give in widespread public demands to give Germany " a place in the sun " through the acquisition of overseas colonies.

When the NTS acquired the land it was regarded as protecting the foreshore from the widespread acquisition by shipyards.

These charges were made about 1 year after the Metropolitan Police Service reopened its dormant investigation into phone hacking, about 3 years after the then Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee that " no additional evidence has come to light ," 5 years after News International executives began claiming that phone hacking was the work of a single " rogue reporter, 10 years after The Guardian began reporting that the Met had evidence of widespread illegal acquisition of confidential information, and 13 years after the Met began accumulating " boxloads " of that evidence, including information sources for News of the World journalists, but kept it unexamined in trash bags at Scotland Yard.

Though many prescriptive grammarians disagree with the acquisition of new meaning, many feel it has become so widespread, and lacking an alternative ( other than the generic one ) that it may be considered standard usage.

The Durand collection's 1825 acquisition added " ceramics, enamels, and stained glass ", and 800 pieces were given by Pierre Révoil.

When linguists study the lexicon, they consider such things as what constitutes a word ; the word-concept relationship ; lexical access and lexical access failure ; how a word's phonology, syntax, and meaning intersect ; the morphology-word relationship ; vocabulary structure within a given language ; language use ( that is, pragmatics ); language acquisition ; the history and evolution of words ( i. e. etymology ); and the relationships between words, often studied within philosophy of language.

During the same period, companies found that servers based on microcomputer designs could be deployed at a fraction of the acquisition price and offer local users much greater control over their own systems given the IT policies and practices at that time.

And, given the ability for the right brand choices to drive preference and earn a price premium, the future success of a merger or acquisition depends on making wise brand choices.

On top of wrong allocation of finances, large bribes are given to and received by officials ( or their families ) in charge of choosing contractors for the jobs, like in the recent Suvarnabhumi Airport project, where a car park contractor allegedly gave $ 250 million USD to an the prime minister's sister in order to secure acquisition of the job.

* Simple data acquisition features to record maximum and minimum readings over a given period, or to take a number of samples at fixed intervals.

Assets are recorded at the amount of cash or cash equivalents paid or the fair value of the consideration given to acquire them at the time of their acquisition.

In the order of acquisition of our knowledge, causality precedes substance, or rather both are given us in each other, and are contemporaneous in consciousness.

The team will consider all possible outcomes from any given potential merger or acquisition and attempt to project if the action is likely to result in positive growth or could possibly impair the company permanently.

For cross-sectional research, the knowledge gap hypothesis expects that “ at any given time, there should be a higher correlation between acquisition of knowledge and education for topics highly publicized in the media than for topics less highly publicized.

Different reasons have been given for this such as the presence of family members is more prominent early in life and limits acquisition and facilitates the removal of clutter.

He received his old number, # 81, given to him by free-agent acquisition wide receiver Antonio Bryant in exchange for an undisclosed sum of money to be donated to a charity of Bryant's choice.

The respondents were given 16 statement through an electronic survey and asked “ to rate their level of agreement with specific reasons for using Facebook groups, including information acquisition about campus / community, entertainment / recreation, social interaction with friends and family, and peer pressure / self satisfaction .” The Likert scale indicated the 1 was strongly agree and 6 was strongly disagree.

Several factors make up the quality of a given sensor's information acquisition, but assessing quality can become quite complex when the end product combines the data from multiple sensors.

Nevertheless, those who are well-connected in Korean society are sometimes said to have " yangban " connections, and though these claims may have some merit, such references are not usually intended to suggest any real yangban lineage or ancestry ( though given the fact that many descendants of those in the yangban class live today, and that the changing fortunes of those in that class rendered so many individuals of " former " yangban status, it is not a stretch to assume that many, if not most, Koreans today have at least some connection to the yangban class, if not any direct descent ; in addition, the acquisition / outright theft of clan lineage records or jokbo during tumultuous times in Korea's history has thrown some doubt on to the veracity of some claims of yangban descent ).

Although rejected on June 20, it is the first serious U. S. Navy consideration given to acquisition of an aviation ship since the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

* Purchase prize or acquisition prize: a monetary prize given in an art competition in exchange for the winning work.

The very largest of all purchases of dollars in the history of 1976 was when the West German government achieved an almost 3 billion dollar acquisition ( a figure given as 2. 75 billion in total by The Statesman: Volume 18 1974 → ), this event indicated the impossibility of the balancing of exchange stabilities by the measures of control used at the time and the monetary system and the foreign exchange markets in " West " Germany and other countries within Europe closed for two weeks ( during February and, or, March of 1973.

Although Cromwell had previously been interested in the possible acquisition of Hispaniola, the expedition's commanders were given the freedom to determine their own priorities in the circumstances they faced on arrival.

The portrait was given to the National Portrait Gallery, London on its foundation in 1856 and it is listed as number one in its collection, being its first acquisition.

In many cases the talent acquisition person is linked directly to a company's executive management, given the potential positive impact a company can benefit from by getting high performing sales people into the business, whilst removing the same performing sales people from competitors.

Reprise was heavily in debt at the time of the takeover, and the Warner Records management team was reportedly dismayed at their balance sheet being pushed back into the red by the acquisition, but they were given no choice in the matter — Ben Kalmenson, a Warner Bros. company director and close aide to Jack Warner, summoned the label's directors to a meeting in New York and explicitly told them that both he and Warner wanted the deal and that they expected them to vote in favor of it.

This prompted Professor Mitra to propose the following hypothesis: The acquisition of basic computing skills by any set of children can be achieved through incidental learning provided the learners are given access to a suitable computing facility, with entertaining and motivating content and some minimal ( human ) guidance.

As a result of the acquisition of the fine new ship, the role of the ' Cutty Sark ' diminished, and with the approval of the original donor, Mrs Dowman, she was given to the nation through the National Maritime Museum.