The brigade's new recruits, approximately a tenth the number that Meagher had hoped to raise, joined the unit at Tennallytown, Maryland, in time to march in pursuit of the Confederates.

Once the men had reported back, the brigade was split up, with the 2 / 11th Infantry Battalion being sent to Western Australia to undertake garrison duty while the brigade's other infantry battalions and the divisional cavalry regiment were sent to the Northern Territory to bolster its defences in the wake of Japanese successes.

He held the rank of Major and was head of the brigade's " G-Operations and Intelligence " section directly and oversaw the two other branches, " A-Administration " and " Q-Quartermaster ".

Thomas tried hard to have his cavalry ready for the test it was to meet, but his plans were wrecked when it was forced into a campaign without optimum mobility and with its commander stripped from it.

Hanoi had underestimated the strategic mobility of the allied forces, which allowed them to redeploy at will to threatened areas ; their battle plan was too complex and difficult to coordinate, which was amply demonstrated by the 30 January attacks ; their violation of the principle of mass, attacking everywhere instead of concentrating their forces on a few specific targets, allowed their forces to be defeated piecemeal ; the launching of massed attacks headlong into the teeth of vastly superior firepower ; and last, but not least, the incorrect assumptions upon which the entire campaign was based.

After an online " Critter Vote ", the Saw-whet Owl became the new star of Telus ' mobility campaign in the summer of 2011.

Clausel took part in the Peninsular campaigns of 1810 and 1811, including the Torres Vedras campaign, and under Marmont he did excellent service in re-establishing the discipline, efficiency and mobility of the army, which had suffered severely in the retreat from Torres Vedras.

During the 2005 general election campaign, Russell was satirised on British television by Bremner, Bird and Fortune for his " war " on mobility scooters for OAPs.

Within several months it was sent to Vietnam and the concept of air mobility became bound up with the challenges of that campaign, especially its varied terrain-the jungles, mountains, and rivers which complicated ground movement.

The main idea behind this campaign is to encourage the use of alternative forms of transport and travel and to raise awareness within the community of what is at stake with regards to long term mobility in towns and the risks connected with pollution.

This is particularly so in Chad, where the openness of the terrain, marginal rainfall, frequent drought and famine, and low population densities have encouraged physical and linguistic mobility.

The mobility and shock value of the cavalry was greatly appreciated and exploited in armed forces in the Ancient and Middle Ages ; some forces were mostly cavalry, particularly in nomadic societies of Asia, notably the Mongol armies.

Riding to battle had two key advantages: it reduced fatigue, particularly when the elite soldiers wore armour ( as was increasingly the case in the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman empire ); and it gave the soldiers more mobility to react to the raids of the enemy, particularly the Muslim invasions which reached Europe in 711.

Relatively sessile benthos, or bottom-dwelling creatures, are particularly vulnerable because of their lack of mobility, though large fish kills are not uncommon.

The term ' developing ' implies mobility and does not acknowledge that development may be in decline or static in some countries, particularly in southern African states worst affected by HIV / AIDS.

Semiconducting silicon-germanium ' alloys ' have however been growing in use, particularly for wireless communication devices ; these alloys exploit the higher carrier mobility of germanium.

The Charter's unifying purpose was particularly important to the mobility and language rights.

These innovations he based on functional grounds: the block size, to enable the creation of a quiet interior open space ( 60 m by 60 m ) and allow ample sunlight and ventilation to its perimeter buildings ; the rectilinear geometry, the wide streets and boulevards to sustain high mobility and the truncated corners to facilitate turning of carts and coaches and particularly vehicles on fixed rails.

A thick suit is stiff, so mobility is restricted ; at a certain thickness the suit would become impractical, which is why drysuits must be worn in particularly cold environments.

In general they were a herding society which possessed certain military advantages that sedentary societies did not have, particularly mobility.

These conveniently placed remote controls may particularly benefit any individual with limited mobility or requiring assistance.

In particularly cold conditions, long-sleeved shirts and tights can be worn to retain warmth without losing mobility.

In this respect, social mobility is an important political issue, particularly in countries committed to a liberal vision of equal opportunity for all citizens.

The third, the segmented assimilation model theorizes that structural barriers, such as poor urban schools, cut off access to employment and other opportunities — obstacles that often are particularly severe in the case of the most disadvantaged members of immigrant groups, and such impediments can lead to stagnant or downward mobility, even as the children of other immigrants follow divergent paths toward classic straight-line assimilation.

Currently videotelephony is particularly useful to the deaf and speech-impaired who can use them with sign language and also with a video relay service, and well as to those with mobility issues or those who are located in distant places and are in need of telemedical or tele-educational services.

While such classic mechanisms are important locally, as with inorganic amorphous semiconductors, tunnelling, localized states, mobility gaps, and phonon-assisted hopping also significantly contribute to conduction, particularly in polyacetylenes.

With greater mobility and prosperity, Chinese, particularly students, began to test their mettle and visit in the 1980s.

However, the increased mobility of early trolleys, as well as the shear number and diversity of people moving to Louisville, saw a shift in focus as areas like Phoenix Hill, Russell and what is now Old Louisville began to be built on the edges of downtown, particularly after the city annexed those areas in 1868.

However, they are particularly useful to the deaf and speech-impaired who can use them with sign language and also with a video relay service, and are becoming increasingly popular for distance education, telemedicine and to those with mobility issues.

Based on quantitative analyses of the first large national survey of social mobility in the United States, the book elegantly depicts the process by which parents transmit their social standing to their children, particularly through affecting the children ’ s education.

* economic activity in some countries is much more difficult to measure accurately than in others ( for example, a large grey economy, widespread illiteracy, a lack of cash economy, survey access difficulties because of geographic factors or socio-political instability, very large mobility of people and assets-this is particularly the case in sub-Saharan countries ).

Tests of UIRP for economies experiencing institutional regime changes, using monthly exchange rate data for the US dollar versus the Deutsche mark and the Spanish peseta versus the British pound, have found some evidence that UIRP held when US and German regime changes were volatile, and held between Spain and the United Kingdom particularly after Spain joined the European Union in 1986 and began liberalizing capital mobility.

Adrenaline / epinephrine is well known to make myotonia worse in most individuals with the disorder, and a person with myotonia congenita may experience a sudden increase in difficulty with mobility in a particularly stressful situation during which adrenaline is released.

They are organized into four groups, in addition to the wing commander's immediate staff, in order to carry out their mission to be America's premier mobility team providing world-class air refueling, responsive airlift and airbase support to Headquarters USCENTCOM, Headquarters USSOCOM and 51 other mission partners that all call MacDill home.

The use of a rechargeable battery and a portable component pack allows a convenient household mobility for many patients during administration periods, these being typically from twelve to sixteen hours a day.

By not trying to do well in school, such students engage in a rejection of the achievement ideology – that is, the idea that working hard and studying long hours will pay off for students in the form of higher wages or upward social mobility.

* United States in 2011 The government Department of Justice has amended its regulation implementing title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ), ruled that the Segway is a " Other power-driven mobility devices " and must be permitted to be used unless the covered entity can demonstrate that the class of devices cannot be operated in accordance with legitimate safety requirements.

For example, the province of Alberta uses the title " Emergency Medical Technician ", or ' EMT ' for the Primary Care Paramedic and ' Paramedic ' only for those qualified as Advanced Care Paramedics Advanced Life Support ( ALS ) providers-but almost all provinces are gradually moving to adopting the new titles, or have at least recognized the NOCP document as a benchmarking document to permit inter-provincial labour mobility of practitioners, regardless of how titles are specifically regulated within their own provincial systems.

The Yoruba monarchs, however, were less autocratic than those in the North, and the political and social system of the Yoruba accordingly allowed for greater upward mobility based on acquired rather than inherited wealth and title.

Earlier, in the late eighteenth century, when Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, the fourth Nawab of Awadh, attempted to grant the kshatriya title of Raja to a group of influential landed Ayodhya Kurmis, he was thwarted by a united opposition of Rajputs, who were themselves ( as described by Buchanan ), " a group of newcomers to the court, who had been peasant soldiers only a few years before ..." According to historian William Pinch: ( The ) Rajputs of Awadh, who along with brahmans constituted the main beneficiaries of what historian Richard Barnett characterizes as " Asaf's permissive program of social mobility ," were not willing to let that mobility reach beyond certain arbitrary socio-cultural boundaries.

The slight mobility of these arches when weight is applied to and removed from the foot makes walking and running more economical in terms of energy.

In time, some armoured foot knights gave up shields entirely in favour of mobility and two-handed weapons.

Frogs are an excellent example of all three trends: frog legs can be nearly twice the body length, leg muscles may account for up to twenty percent of body weight, and they have not only lengthened the foot, shin and thigh, but extended the ankle bones into another limb joint and similarly extended the hip bones and gained mobility at the sacrum for a second ' extra joint '.

The combined effect was devastating, so that British cavalry were remodelled as high mobility infantry units (' dragoons ') fighting on foot.

In 119 BC both Huo and Wei, each leading 50, 000 cavalrymen and 100, 000 footsoldiers ( in order to keep up with the mobility of the Xiongnu, many of the non-cavalry Han soldiers were mobile infantrymen who traveled on horseback but fought on foot ), and advancing along different routes, forced the chanyu and his court to flee north of the Gobi Desert.

When culs-de-sac are interconnected with foot and bike paths, as for example in Vauban, Freiburg, Village Homes, Davis, California, they can increase active modes of mobility among their residents.

In some sources, such as Anna Komnene's The Alexiad, they are described as mounted ; both Vikings and elite Anglo-Saxon warriors routinely used horses for strategic mobility even though they normally fought on foot.

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation ( TENS ) and interferential current ( IFC ) use a painless electric current and the physiological effects from low frequency electrical stimulation to relieve stiffness, improve mobility, relieve neuropathic pain, reduce oedema, and heal resistant foot ulcers.

Off-loading techniques can include the use of mobility aids ( e. g. crutches ) or foot splints.

Since the first baseman mostly stands close to his base, his mobility and throwing skills do not need to be high ; good hitters who are slow of foot are often placed at first base.

In the 17th century, dragoons were the light infantry skirmishers of their day – lightly armed mounted infantrymen who rode into battle but dismounted to fight, giving them a mobility lacking to regular foot soldiers.

Initially the unit conducted foot patrols with insertion and extraction being by helicopter, but in May 2002 the focus changed to mobility patrols using borrowed Humvees, and later motorbikes and NZ Army Pinzgauers.

The LSV, which can move at a maximum speed of 110 km / h, significantly enhances the mobility of the foot soldiers.

Marines are armoured foot soldiers that rely on their mobility and firepower to stay alive.

Their mobility also enabled them to outmaneuver enemy foot artillery units, and to act as a rearguard ( in concert with friendly cavalry ) to cover the retreat of slower units.

Bicycles can also be issued to police officers to enhance the mobility and range of foot patrols.