The central area of the ground floor of a heavily constructed apartment building, with concrete floors, should provide more fallout protection than the ordinary basement of a family dwelling.

A special template is furnished with the apparatus to enable marking a specimen for a central measuring area and the fabric extensions to the clamps ( see Fig. 2 ).

Its total length from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 295 km ( 183 miles ), during which distance it descends, draining an area of, including the whole of central Switzerland.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

In some regions, there are several numbers, depending on the telephone company and / or the area you are calling from as there can be several central offices serving some areas.

This was brought about by a stagnant high-pressure area that lingered over central and northern Scandinavia from ca.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

The former settled in the eastern coastal regions, while the latter settled primarily in the area known today as the Highveld — the large, relatively high central plateau of South Africa.

The axillary lymph nodes include the pectoral ( chest ), subscapular ( under the scapula ), and humeral ( humerus-bone area ) lymph-node groups, which drain to the central axillary lymph nodes and to the apical axillary lymph nodes.

Populations have also been growing just east of the Cascades in central Washington around the city of Yakima and the Tri-Cities area.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

In most cases, a central bank has monopoly control over emission of coins and banknotes ( fiat money ) for its own area of circulation ( a country or group of countries ); it regulates the production of currency by banks ( credit ) through monetary policy.

CAMRA is organised on a federal basis, with numerous independent local branches, each covering a particular geographical area of the UK, that contribute to the central body of the organisation based in St Albans.

Cayuga Lake ( or )&# 160 ; is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area ( marginally smaller than Seneca Lake ) and second largest in volume.

The central commercial area often is portrayed, as in the map at right, to include parts of Near North Side and Near South Side, as well as the Loop.

The central area includes the Near North Side, the Near South Side, and the Near West Side, as well as the Loop.

The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.

Nonetheless, the LDDC was central to a remarkable transformation in the area, although how far it was in control of events is debatable.

The central plateau constitutes only 25 percent of the land area but contains the heaviest concentration of population and the country's largest cities.

For example, on the Madagascar high central plateau, comprising approximately ten percent of that country's land area, virtually the entire landscape is sterile of vegetation, with gully erosive furrows typically in excess of 50 meters deep and one kilometer wide.

Haricot beans are also grown in this area, which are central to the dish cassoulet.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

Ancient Galatia (; ) was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey.

Granville is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Parramatta.

Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 508 BC.

This region constitutes 1. 5 million square miles ( 3. 9 million km² ) in the drainage basin of Hudson Bay, comprising over 1 / 3 the area of modern day Canada and stretching into the north central United States.

* Maluku ( province ), a province of Indonesia comprising the central and southern parts of the archipelago

* The Plains: Heartland of Álava comprising Vitoria and Salvatierra-Agurain, with a central urban area and crop landscape prevailing around and bounded south and north by the Basque Mountains.

At the narrow pass of Thermopylae, on the east coast of central Greece, Brennus ' forces suffer heavy losses while trying to break through the Greek defence comprising the Phocians and the Aetolians.

* Mauretania Caesariensis, comprising western and central Algeria as far as Kabylia.

Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 500 BC.

Today, Wageningen is also the central city in Food Valley, the Dutch food & nutrition cluster concentrated around WUR and comprising many institutes, companies and state-of-the-art facilities in the food & nutrition field.

Cells comprising the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system are classified as neural tissue.

The Stocks lived in the hall's central section, comprising " a large hall, lounge dining room, a chapel, six rooms on a floor, with brewhouse, large courts, stable, etc ", while the two wings were leased tenants from about 1700.

The first two courts and the central building ( comprising the old library, the dining hall, the junior common room and the bar ) were designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and were completed in 1963.

The Midlands, or the English Midlands, is the traditional name for the area comprising central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.

A central theme in the advocacy of DRGs was that this reimbursement system would, by constraining the hospitals, oblige their administrators to alter the behavior of the physicians and surgeons comprising their medical staffs.

The architect had drawn up plans to restore the south transept and central tower too, but sadly these were never realised, leaving the south transept as a ruin sealed off by the 1877 ' temporary ' brick wall and leaving the church in an odd truncated state today ( comprising half the nave, the chancel, north transept and base of the crossing ).

* Federation, a union comprising a number of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government

Further, the devolved governments cannot challenge the constitutionality of acts of Parliament, and the powers of the devolved governments can be revoked or reduced by the central government ( the Parliament with a government comprising the Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister ).

Padayani is unique to central Travancore, comprising the Pathanamthitta-Alappuzha-Kottayam belt of Kerala.

In the study of human settlements, an urban agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of a central place ( usually a municipality ) and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.

" hearing, listening "), often spelled sruti or sruthi mainly in South India, is a term that describes the sacred texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism and is one of the three main sources of dharma and therefore is also influential within Hindu Law.

The Indo-Pacific, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific, is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two in the general area of Indonesia.

* The central ( Brighton ) side, comprising platforms 9 – 19, is the terminus for Southern ( including Gatwick Express ) services to Surrey and Sussex, including Gatwick Airport and Brighton on the Brighton Main Line and also the East Grinstead branch on the Oxted Line.

In September 2005, the channel began showing new idents comprising a central BBC Four logo surrounded by four quadrants which show different stages of the same footage thus making for a sort of optical illusion ; for example, a swimming pool where a person on an inflatable ring appears in the bottom-left corner, though ripples don't enter the remaining quarters.

The central island was the site of the main structure of the castle, comprising a retaining wall ( the middle ward ) with gatehouses east and west, and an inner ward with east and west gatehouses and circular corner towers.