Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

For many decades the textiles industry, the engineering industry and coal mining were the central activities of the town.

The medieval European Knights Templar ran an early prototype of a central banking system, as their promises to pay were widely respected, and many regard their activities as having laid the basis for the modern banking system.

Khrushchev also called for the Party's role to supervise local organs, economic endeavors and central government activities.

However, all these activities have died out during the 1980s, when the phone network switched to digitally controlled switchboards, causing network hacking to shift to dialing remote computers with modems, when pre-assembled inexpensive home computers were available, and when academic institutions started to give individual mass-produced workstation computers to scientists instead of using a central timesharing system.

Although neither Priestley nor Watt were to move to Birmingham for several years, both were to be in constant communication with the Birmingham members and central to the circle's activities from 1767.

The masjid jāmi, a central mosque, can play a role in religious activities such as teaching the Quran and educating future imams.

These roamed the rural borderlands of central Europe embarking on many of the same illegal activities associated with today ’ s crime organisations, with the exception of money laundering.

A central committee in San Felipe de Austin coordinated their activities.

Some of the historic buildings in central Uppsala have had to be let to other activities, as their protected status has made it impossible to make modifications necessary to meet requirements to adjust to the needs for students with disabilities.

Jamaica Station in central Queens is the hub of all railroad activities.

A central committee in San Felipe de Austin coordinated their activities.

The NCSE acts as a central information and resource clearinghouse, and helps to coordinate the activities of people fighting creationists.

However, contrary to French départements, départements in Senegal have no political power ( no departmental assembly ), and are merely local administrative structures of the central state, in charge of carrying out some administrative services as well as controlling the activities of the communes within the département.

One of the central concepts of economics is that externalities should be internalized — unless some of the benefits of this positive externality can be captured by the parties, the parties will be under-rewarded for their inventions, and systematic under-rewarding will lead to under-investment in activities that lead to inventions.

Despite this, he never became particularly active in any of its activities, and never adopted an orthodox Marxist viewpoint, refuting concepts such as class struggle which were central to Marxist thought.

The central harbour and port of the Maldives is located in Malé, the centre for all commercial activities.

Nassau County ’ s economy is very diverse, ranging from agricultural activity ( mostly in the form of tree farms ) in the west and central areas, to a variety of activities closer to Amelia Island.

The Atrium also acts as the principal hub for most day-to-day campus activities, due to its central location, linking together the Library and Robbins ' Centre Students Union, as well as connecting bridges to both the Cottrell Building and on-campus student residences.

The French dismissed Nhu from his high-ranking post, due to Diệm's nationalist activities, and he moved to the central highlands resort town of Đà Lạt and lived comfortably, editing a newspaper.

By 1968, the FYDP covered ten military areas: strategic forces, general purpose forces, intelligence and communications, airlift and sealift, guard and reserve forces, research and development, central supply and maintenance, training and medical services, administration and related activities, and support of other nations.

The main site of the university is in central Manchester and is home to most of its academic activities.

The European quarter would continue to remain the centre of the commission's activities, but the body was also looking for " additional poles outside " this central area, in order to exert a downward pressure on real estate prices, ccording to Siim Kallas, EU commissioner for administrative affairs.

During the 1990s, Deschutes County experienced the most rapid growth of any county in Oregon largely due to the availability of recreation activities year-round, and its location as the nearest population center to much of the central Cascade Range.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

( C ) Decisions of a general kind are made by the central command.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

But these are side issues to a powerful central theme.

The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen.

The central group of the Foundation's advisors are, at any one period of time, the members of our Advisory Board, consisting, now, of thirty-six men and women.

The Mecholyl and noradrenalin tests applied with certain precautions are reliable indicators of this central autonomic balance, but for the sake of correlating autonomic and clinical states, and of studying the effect of certain therapeutic procedures on central autonomic reactions, additional tests seem to be desirable.

Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.

To achieve this goal of balanced development, communications between the central government and the local communities must be such that the needs and aspirations of the people themselves are effectively taken into account.

271 - 307 ) indicate, that the concept of function in sociology has been built up from physiological and biological models, in which the notions of teleology, i.e., metaphysical purpose, are central.

Money, so important a theme elsewhere in Dickens, is here central, and hands are often associated in some way with the false values -- acquisitiveness, snobbery, self-interest, hypocrisy, toadyism, irresponsibility, injustice -- that attach to a society based upon the pursuit of wealth.

ground meats are usually prepared from scrap meats at the local level, whereas irradiation at economic volumes of production would require central processing and distribution facilities.

With few exceptions, the major denominations are rapidly losing their hold on the central city.

Admitting that main streets and the central business district should have priority, the Councilman said it is also essential that small shopping areas `` not be overlooked if our small merchants are to survive ''.

Moreover, her central figures are so busily fulfilling their multitudinous assignments that none emerges as an arresting individual in his own right or as a provocative symbol of mankind's ills.

In Britain, anthropology had a great intellectual impact, it " contributed to the erosion of Christianity, the growth of cultural relativism, an awareness of the survival of the primitive in modern life, and the replacement of diachronic modes of analysis with synchronic, all of which are central to modern culture.

They are especially numerous in tropical and subtropical regions ( notably Central America, eastern Brazil, the Andes, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central Asia, and southwestern China ).

In vertebrates, the axons of many neurons are sheathed in myelin, which is formed by either of two types of glial cells: Schwann cells ensheathing peripheral neurons and oligodendrocytes insulating those of the central nervous system.

The main buildings at Pueblo Bonito, for example, are arranged according to this direction and probably served as central places for ceremonial journeys across the landscape.