Willy Wo-Lap Lam suggests Jiang's decision to suppress Falun Gong was related to a desire to consolidate his power within the Politburo.

Persistent site technical problems, however, and a joint decision by the Air Force and NASA to consolidate Shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the Challenger tragedy in 1986, resulted in the official termination of the Shuttle program at Vandenberg on December 26, 1989.

With the closing of the stockyards in 1986, enrollments in the South St. Paul schools began to decline and the community was forced to make the difficult decision to consolidate school buildings.

The Government has stated that the decision was taken to consolidate the four other regional airports which will receive state funding for 2012.

Consolidation can affect the ability of the debtor to discharge debts in bankruptcy, so the decision to consolidate must be weighed carefully.

The British House of Commons Defence Select Committee summarised the reasons behind the decision in its Tenth Report: " The Meteor missile has some clear advantages over its Raytheon competitor — it appears to offer the more militarily effective solution ; it should help rationalise and consolidate the European missile industry, and provide future competitions with a counterweight to U. S. dominance in this field ; and it entails a lower risk of constraints on Eurofighter exports.

Lee's decision also allowed the Army of Virginia's II Corps, under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, to consolidate with the bulk of Pope's army, marching in from Bristoe Station, where they had been guarding the army's trains.

The Maneuver Center of Excellence transformation began as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) Commission's decision to consolidate a number of schools and installations to create " centers of excellence.

Following Federated Department Stores ' ( now Macy's, Inc .) decision to consolidate nameplates 2003, the Rich's store at Mall of Georgia was dual-branded as Rich's-Macy's, and the Rich's name was dropped entirely in 2005.

In 1927, the Tennessee Baptist Convention made the decision to consolidate Hall-Moody with a similar institution, Union University, in nearby Jackson, Tennessee.

The band found it harder to consolidate on their previous successes in the US, however, and lost out on more airplay at home when their record company took the decision to withdraw the album's planned third single Medicine in September 1997, putting out an entirely false press story that the lyrics could be interpreted as a critique of the then recently deceased Diana, Princess of Wales.

He also a played a major role in the decision to consolidate the numerous, widely dispersed elementary schools located in the R. M.

Events leading to the Second Punic War began with a decision by Hannibal, new commander of troops in the Carthaginian province of Iberia, to consolidate power by provoking and defeating the surrounding Iberian tribesmen in battle.

SEBI continued classes in New Brockton until 1940 when a decision was made to consolidate the school with Beulah Heights Bible Institute in Atlanta, Georgia.

In the context of decision theory, an estimator is a type of decision rule, and its performance may be evaluated through the use of loss functions.

In English law it is usually created by the decision of a higher court, such as the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which took over the judicial functions of the House of Lords in 2009.

Here, a property of partial functions is called trivial if it holds for all partial computable functions or for none, and an effective decision method is called general if it decides correctly for every algorithm.

Many people have surmised that the decision to abolish the GLC was made because of the existence of a high-spending left-wing Labour administration under Livingstone, although pressure for the abolition of the GLC had arisen before Mr Livingstone took over, and was largely driven by the belief among the outer London Borough councils that they could perform the functions of the GLC just as well.

As a result of the decision, common functions among American Stores ' operating divisions ( procurement, distribution logistics, payroll, human resources, etc.

Following a decision to outsource all components of the Passenger Service System, the functions were outsourced to the Altéa platform managed by Amadeus.

The functions of the President are largely ceremonial ; the President appoints the Premier upon the NPC's decision, Vice-Premiers, State Council members and Ministers of all departments upon the nomination of the Premier, all ambassadors to foreign countries, and all legislative committee chairs, treasurers and secretaries.

Administrators and some decision makers in various levels or functions were chosen by lot.

However, since we know that most lossy compression techniques operate on data that will be perceived by human consumers ( listening to music, watching pictures and video ) the distortion measure should preferably be modeled on human perception and perhaps aesthetics: much like the use of probability in lossless compression, distortion measures can ultimately be identified with loss functions as used in Bayesian estimation and decision theory.

The same idea of using a DAG to represent a family of paths occurs in the binary decision diagram, a DAG-based data structure for representing binary functions.

Dayton claimed that Hanson's duties were directly related to Dayton's legislative functions, and that the decision to fire him could thus not be challenged.

* Orbitofrontal cortex, a region of the brain involved in decision making and other cognitive functions

On 12 December 2010 The Sunday Times reported that the Cabinet of Sri Lanka headed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa had taken the decision to scrap the Tamil translation of Sri Lanka Matha at official and state functions, as " in no other country was the national anthem used in more than one language "-even though the national anthems of Canada, South Africa and those of several other countries have more than one language version.

This was one of the reasons cited for the decision to disband the Belgian Gendarmerie, absorbing its functions into those of a new national police force.

The information that is necessary to make a rational decision to resolve this controversy can be obtained by understanding the immunological potential of the normal palatine tonsils and comparing these functions with the changes that occur in the chronically diseased counterparts.

* Rational Choice with Passion: Virtue in a Model of Rational Addiction-In this link the author uses Aristotelian virtue as a mediator between passion and reason in the construction of utility / consumption functions in an esoteric part of consumer behaviour theory related to decision making in addictive situations.

So it is possible to have two different loss functions which lead to the same decision when the prior probability distributions associated with each compensate for the details of each loss function.

A democratic and representative-democratic model functions as a fallback for when the consensus-based approach either reaps no results or a quick decision is needed.

The best-known commentary on the Arba ' ah Turim is the Beit Yosef by Rabbi Joseph Caro: this goes beyond the normal functions of a commentary, in that it attempts to review all the relevant authorities and come to a final decision on every point, so as to constitute a comprehensive resource on Jewish law.

The decision to close RAF Lyneham was made in 2002, and it was scheduled for closure by 2012 with all functions and aircraft relocated to RAF Brize Norton.

Crisis is the situation of a complex system ( family, economy, society ) when the system functions poorly, an immediate decision is necessary, but the causes of the dysfunction are not known.

A sequence of functions,, with being constant, defines an implementable policy of the decision process.

States with capital punishment rewrote their laws to address the Supreme Court's decision, and the Court then revisited the issue in a murder case: Gregg v. Georgia,.

This amendment was adopted in order to overrule the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Chisholm v. Georgia,.

Hollings oversaw the last executions in South Carolina before the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia which temporarily banned capital punishment.

Because of the Supreme Court decision in 1915, similar grandfather clause provisions in the constitutions of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Virginia were struck down as unconstitutional.

* Horace Greeley's The American Conflict ( 1864 ) is the source for President Andrew Jackson allegedly saying, after the Supreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, " John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!

In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president, saying, " This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history ..." Former Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.

Then, only two weeks later in Furman v. Georgia ( 1972 ) the court, in a 5-4 decision, invalidated all death penalty laws then in force, although Burger dissented from the decision.

Burger was opposed to gay rights as he wrote a famous concurring opinion in the Court's 1986 decision upholding a Georgia law criminalizing sodomy ( Bowers v. Hardwick ), in which Burger purported to marshal historical evidence that laws criminalizing homosexuality were of ancient vintage.

He became the first person executed in the United States after the U. S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia.

Bowers v. Hardwick,, is a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld, in a 5-4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.

The Georgia law upheld in Bowers forbade oral sex and anal sex whether engaged in by people of the same sex or different sexes, but Justice White's decision was restricted to homosexual sex.

* Stanley v. Georgia, a 1969 U. S. Supreme Court decision

Furman v. Georgia, was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty.

The Supreme Court consolidated Jackson v. Georgia and Branch v. Texas with the Furman decision, and thus also invalidated the death penalty for rape ( which was confirmed post-Gregg in Coker v. Georgia ).

In Georgia, Governor Jimmy Carter saw that Swann was " clearly a one-sided decision ; the Court is still talking about the South, the North is still going free.

Douglas and Black also disagreed in Fortson v. Morris, the 1967 decision which cleared the path for the Georgia State Legislature to choose the governor in the deadlocked 1966 race between Democrat Lester Maddox and Republican Howard Callaway.

The Fourth Circuit's holding was reinforced by the consonant decision of the Northern District of Georgia in National Viatical, Inc. v. Oxendine, which was affirmed on appeal by the Eleventh Circuit in 2007.

This derives from Jackson's consideration on the case in a letter to John Coffee, "... the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate ," ( that is, the Court's opinion was moot because it had no power to enforce its edict ).

Miller's decision not to seek a full term in the Senate had caught the Georgia Democrats by surprise.

These were the first of 709 executions before the California Supreme Court decision in People v. Anderson finding the death penalty to violate the state constitution, and the later Furman v. Georgia decision of the United States Supreme Court finding executions in general as practiced to violate the United States Constitution, both issued in 1972.

After the Furman v. Georgia decision of the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that death penalty statutes were unconstitutionally arbitrary in their application, the Maryland legislature removed all arbitrariness by making death the mandatory punishment for first-degree murder once again.