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The commercially advantageous location of Corcyra on the way between Greece and Magna Grecia, and its fertile lowlands in the southern section of the island favoured its growth and, influenced perhaps by the presence of non-Corinthian settlers, its people, quite contrary to the usual practice of Corinthian colonies, maintained an independent and even hostile attitude towards the mother city.
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It was first proven advantageous in 1976 by Shun-ichi Iwasaki, then professor of the Tohoku University in Japan, and first commercially implemented in 2005.
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* 1764, the Stillwater gristmill was moved to its present location and commercially operated there until 1955.
" It was strategically and commercially significant due to its location overlooking the Plain of Hittin, which opens onto the coastal lowlands of Lake Tiberias to the east, and to the west, is linked by mountains passes to the plains of lower Galilee.
It flourished from the commercially strategic location during the Roman / Byzantine times ( Mishna and Talmud ).
However, within a few years the theatre had largely reverted to playing material seen as more commercially viable for its location in the West End.
Magnesia or Magnesia on the Maeander ( or Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ, ) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, considerable in size, at an important location commercially and strategically in the triangle of Priene, Ephesus and Tralles.
Its central location between a plain and a mountain has made it commercially and strategically significant and has had a great effect on its growth.
In other countries, such as the U. S. and Canada, private companies maintain the location tables and market TMC services commercially.
Sussex radio station Southern Sound looked upon Ocean Sound as a potential takeover target, citing its location in a prosperous and commercially attractive area of England.
In 1992, the station and its sister stations were subsequently merged with Sussex radio station Southern Sound to form Southern Radio plc, which was due to its location in a prosperous and commercially attractive area of England.
Magnesia was commercially and strategically at an important location in the triangle of Prien, Ephesus and Tralles.
Due to its location on the increasingly commercially developed Merivale strip, and its reduced importance since the completion of John McCrae Secondary School in Barrhaven, efforts had been made by the province to close the school in the late 1990s as a means of saving money.
The third location to use gyrobuses commercially was Ghent, Belgium.
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He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities.
According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.
Though his recordings sold well, he was not so influential on some younger blues singers of his generation, who could not imitate him as they could other commercially successful artists.
A cult film is a movie that attracts a devoted group of followers or obsessive fans, often despite having failed commercially on its initial release.
An example may be Paul Verhoeven's big budgeted, highly sexualized Showgirls ( 1995 ), initially intended to be a drama film about the rise of a Las Vegas stripper, that flopped both critically and commercially when released theatrically ; afterward, it enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals.
A video game controller called the X-SKIN, using this system, was expected to be commercially available by 2010 to help make MMORPGs popular on console systems and ease entry of common data such as a username and password, but announcement of its release was available on the In10did website as of 4 March 2012.
In 1816, Henry Hall first commercially grew cranberries in East Dennis, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
Later the project was supported by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., a British firm, who were rewarded with the first commercially applied computer, LEO I, based on the EDSAC design.
In 1909, tests showed cellulose diacetate to be a viable replacement base, and Kodak began selling acetate-base films the following year in 22 mm widths for Edison's work on the Home Kinetoscope, which was commercially released in 1912.
This algorithm was first available commercially in 1981 on a Vicom Image Processing system manufactured by Vicom Systems, Inc.
The first commercially successful oil well drilled in Kansas was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892.
As of 2012 there was extensive exploration for commercially viable copper and gold deposits in the mineral belt in northern Haiti but on operations had begun on the numerous and extensive promising propects.
Conquests under Aulus Plautius, focused on the commercially valuable southeast of Britain.
Because this technology – except for military applications – is not commercially available, insufficient quantities of it are available on the global isotope markets for use in large scale, commercial irradiators.
Lacking coal reserves, hydroelectric power, large tracts of forest or commercially viable oil deposits, Jordan relies on natural gas for 10 % of its domestic energy needs.
* 1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
" His father hoped that the lead mines on the property could be commercially developed, as lead was an essential component of bullets.
He was supported by his father and by the Redex fuel additive company, although his commercially aware approach — including the title RedeX Special painted on the side of his Cooper-Bristol — did not go down well with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport ( CAMS ), which banned the advertisement.
The alternate mix of " Forever Changes " included in the second disc features a proto-rap by Lee on a slightly longer version of the album closer " You Set The Scene " that was edited out of the final version that was released commercially.
While commercially watered-down, his album enjoyed a status of being one of the first mainstream Spanglish CDs on the market.
It is mandatory to keep headlights on while driving, even in daylight ; most cars commercially sold in Latvia are equipped to make this automatic.
Most mushrooms sold in supermarkets have been commercially grown on mushroom farms.
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One of the biggest hindrances for single molecule electronics to be commercially exploited is the lack of techniques to connect a molecular sized circuit to bulk electrodes in a way that gives reproducible results.
Paving the way for a future generation of rebel thinkers, Mayfield paid the price, artistically and commercially, for his politically charged music.
Few POU measures have reached significant scale thus far, but efforts to promote and commercially distribute these products to the world's poor have only been under way for a few years.
Few POU measures have reached significant scale thus far, but efforts to promote and commercially distribute these products to the world's poor have only been under way for a few years.
All the way from Michael Jackson's " Beat It ", Van Halen's " Jump ", Yes ' " Owner of a Lonely Heart ", to the Eurythmics ' " Sweet Dreams ( Are Made of This )" and other songs released in the 1980s by artists who became commercially popular during the decade.
In fact, before vacuum tubes could become commercially viable, quite elaborate techniques had to be developed to both initially evacuate the tubes and soak up any gas molecules that subsequently found their way in.
Species of Suillus are considered by many to be slimy and insipid, however, in Russia, they are often pickled and even sold commercially this way.
This prompted Rick Adams, a system administrator at the Center for Seismic Studies, to explore the possibilities of providing these services commercially as a way to reduce the burden on the existing hubs.
In a few locations, they are commercially cultured in ponds, but the traditional way of hunting them is to paddle or pole silently by canoe or flatboat in streams or swamps at night ; when the frog call is heard, a light is shone on the frog to temporarily inhibit it.
Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as " phenomenal popularity ", and the Kingston Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake.
Another difference between commercially produced frozen custard and commercial ice cream is the way the custard is frozen.
Multi-port ball valves with 4 ways, or more, are also commercially available, the inlet way often being orthogonal to the plane of the outlets.
A similar species, Salvia columbariae or golden chia, is used in the same way but is not grown commercially for food.
Often, wildcats are commercially sold rounds that have been modified in some way to alter the cartridge's performance.
Playboaters still generally follow right of way conventions that are commercially established.
The original version album, " Hurbanistorias " 1982, was not commercially distributed until a long time after Rockdrigo González was dead ; in the mid-1980s, it could only be found in a few music stores, at the Tianguis Cultural del Chopo, in such marginal places or in some almost clandestine way.
The Dorée is not sold commercially and the rare bottles which make their way out are through unofficial sources.
The breakthroughs led the way for Fagerdala to develop a commercially useful product, introducing the first " Tempur-Pedic Swedish Mattress " in 1991.
Hyatt's eventual result was a commercially viable way of producing solid, stable nitrocellulose, which he patented in the United States in 1869 as " Celluloid " ( US patent 50359 ; now a genericized trademark ).
" Several writers said the episode also lampooned the way Americans can turn anything, even a religious situation, into a commercially hyped event.
As confocal microscopes were first becoming commercially available, the founders of Bitplane, Marius Messerli, Karl-Hermann Fuchs, and Jürgen Holm, realised that there was no suitable way to visualize and analyze the improved images provided by this more modern equipment.
Then, in 1830, when he was searching for a simplified way of printing his more than 200 illustrations performed during the Langsdorff Expedition, other than using expensive and time-consuming engravings on wood and metal ( xylography and lithography ), he invented a new process, similar to the mimeograph, which he named " polygraphia ", and began using this commercially in his printing office.
They are now under active research as a method for capture for long-term storage as a means of greenhouse gas remediation, and have begun to be implemented in a limited way commercially ( e. g. the Sleipner West field in the North Sea, operating since 1996 ).
This is true, for example, of the most commercially common " blue " lasers, the diode lasers used in Blu-ray applications, which emit 405 nm violet light, which is a short enough wavelength to cause fluorescence in some chemicals, in the same way as radiation further into the ultraviolet (" black light ") does.
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