A rigid bar beneath the center of the instrument is pressed upward by an adjustable spring, and engages a long felt pad against the sharps and the naturals.

The center engages faculty, students, and members of the community as well as its own staff and fellows in ethical discussions in a number of focus areas, including business, health care, and biotechnology, character education, government, global leadership, technology, and emerging issues in ethics.

The center also engages in community outreach and public education efforts addressing cancer.

A 1942 eyewitness description spoke of " a low grove of dead and decaying kou trees " on a very shallow hill at the island's center, but 58 years later ( 2000 ) a visitor accompanying a scientific expedition reported seeing " a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree " and some traces of building ruins.

No energy can reach the center of the cavern, which corresponds to no point a finite distance away from Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology.

A drill, Gardner says, would lengthen as it traveled away from the cavern and eventually pass through the " point at infinity " corresponding to the center of the Earth in the widely accepted scientific cosmology.

For example, COBOL is still strong in the corporate data center, often on large mainframes ; Fortran in scientific and engineering applications ; and C in embedded applications and operating systems.

While the nature of these objects was controversial until as recently as the early 1980s, there is now a scientific consensus that a quasar is a compact region in the center of a massive galaxy surrounding its central supermassive black hole.

To support its concentration of computing power, the NCCS has installed high-speed fiber-optic networks to expedite data movement, a scientific visualization center that enables researchers to analyze their simulation results quickly and comprehensively, and a high-performance data archiving and retrieval system.

Fulvio Fraticelli, scientific director of Rome's zoo, has said " Generally, the horn is on one side ( of the head ) rather than being at the center.

Erice hosts important scientific meetings at the Ettore Majorana center, organised by the controversial astrophysicist Antonino Zichichi.

In 1917, solar astronomer George Ellery Hale convinced Millikan to begin spending several months each year at the Throop College of Technology, a small academic institution in Pasadena, California that Hale wished to transform into a major center for scientific research and education.

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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky () is the city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultural center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

From the 1950s through the present, Berkeley Lab has maintained its status as a major international center for physics research, and has also diversified its research program into almost every realm of scientific investigation.

The oldest in Siberia educative, scientific and innovative center: there are 9 universities, 15 research institutes, 6 business incubators and technology development special economic zone.

There are 25 scientific R & D institutions focusing on telecommunications, radio technology, theoretical and applied physics, and 33 higher educational institutions, among them are Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod Technical University, as well as Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Information Technologies ( former MERA Networks training center ), that focuses on information technologies, software development, system administration, telecommunications, cellular networks, Internet technologies, and IT management.

Adelard also displays original thought of a scientific bent, raising the question of the shape of the Earth ( he believed it round ) and the question of how it remains stationary in space, and also the interesting question of how far a rock would fall if a hole were drilled through the Earth and a rock dropped through it, see center of gravity.

Izhevsk is the scientific and cultural center of the Udmurt Republic.

New Harmony became known as a center for advances in education and scientific research.

Although Robert Owen's vision of New Harmony as an advance in social reform was not realized, the town did become a scientific center of national significance, especially in the natural sciences, most notably geology.

MSFC was given responsibility for the design, development, and construction of the telescope, while Goddard Space Flight Center ( GFC ) was to control the scientific instrument and the ground-control center.

In 1918, a scientific survey established that the geographic center of what was then the United States ( now the contiguous " Lower 48 " states ) lies near the town and a monument was subsequently erected at the site.

Buzzards Bay is home to the National Marine Life Center, a marine animal hospital, science, and education center dedicated to rehabilitating for release stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises, and small whales, and to advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health and conservation.

It is the site of several famous marine science institutions, including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Research Center, NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center ( which started the Woods Hole scientific community in 1871 ), a USGS coastal and marine geology center, and the home campus of the Sea Education Association.

In 1731, Benjamin Franklin established the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first library owned by a group of public citizens, which quickly expanded beyond the realm of books and became a center of scientific experiment, and which hosted public exhibitions of scientific experiments.

The research center of the University's School of Business and Public Administration is prepared to undertake the analysis Dr. Ellis has been talking about.

In Managua, Nicaragua, the Albertus Magnus International Institute, a business and economic development research center, was founded in 2004.

Johnson & Johnson gave more than $ 700, 000 to a research center that was headed by Biederman from 2002 to 2005, where research was conducted, in part, on Risperdal, the company's antipsychotic drug.

The center for U. S. military biological warfare research was Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) owned by NASA and operated as a division of Caltech through a contract between NASA and Caltech.

* Gulf Coast Carbon Center University of Texas at Austin research center that investigates geologic storage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide in the Gulf Coast region.

* Centre for Research on Energy Security ( CeRES ), an Indian research center on geopolitic and energy

The founding of the University of Missouri in 1839 established the city as a center of education and research.

* Center for Computational Chemistry, research center in the department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia

The Dead Sea area has become a major center for health research and treatment for several reasons.

* Level II-2: Evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies, preferably from more than one center or research group.

* Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas, a research center in Greece

A special control center is constructed underneath the island to ensure the monsters stay secure, and serve as a research facility to study them.

He spent the summer of 1866 at the University of Göttingen, then and later a center for mathematical research.

Carver taught there for 47 years, developing the department into a strong research center and working with two additional college presidents during his tenure.

Though quiet by nature, he took the uncharacteristic step of urging Xerox executives to keep their California research center, Xerox PARC, afloat when the parent company was suspicious that its research center would amount to little.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in Pasadena, California.

JPL is a federally funded research and development center ( FFRDC ) managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA.

* Arché ( research center )

A Chlamydomonas genetic stock center exists at Duke University, and an international Chlamydomonas research interest group meets on a regular basis to discuss research results.