The first conference in the field, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC ), dates back to 1982, and its European counterpart International Symposium on Distributed Computing ( DISC ) was first held in 1985.

For example, a field called " Length of Stay " could invoke a MUMPS expression that would process the various dates, transfers, and discharges that would then be returned as if it were stored as a fixed data element.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

Combined arms operations dates back to antiquity, where armies would usually field a screen of skirmishers to protect their spearmen during the approach to contact.

So while modern natural history dates historically from studies in the ancient Greco-Roman world and the medieval Arabic world through to the scattered European Renaissance scientists working in near isolation, today's field is more of a cross discipline umbrella of many specialty sciences.

An almanac ( also archaically spelled almanack and almanach ) is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, tide tables, and tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc.

The origin of the rank of field marshal dates to the early Middle Ages, originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses ( from Old German Marh-scalc = " horse-servant "), from the time of the early Frankish kings.

For handling data, dBase provided detailed procedural commands and functions to open and traverse records in data files ( e. g., USE, SKIP, GO TOP, GO BOTTOM, and GO recno ), manipulate field values ( REPLACE and STORE ), and manipulate text strings ( e. g., STR () and SUBSTR ()), numbers, and dates.

The title imperator dates back to the Roman Republic, when a victorious commander could be hailed as imperator in the field by his troops.

Though the cooking technique is probably older, the term mirepoix dates from the 18th century and derives, as do many other appellations in French cuisine, from the aristocratic employer of the cook credited with establishing and stabilizing it: in this case, Charles-Pierre-Gaston François de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix ( 1699 – 1757 ), French field marshal and ambassador and a member of the noble family of Lévis, lords of Mirepoix in Languedoc since the 11th century.

The airport was originally built by one of the first flying clubs in southern California, The Friends of Ontario Airport, and dates back to 1923, when a landing field was established east of Central Avenue ( three miles west of the current airport ) on land leased from the Union Pacific Railroad.

By having similar heights, flowering and maturity dates, seed colors, and agronomic characteristics, they remain compatible with each other, and do not reduce yields when grown together on the field.

The lozenge motif dates as far back as the Neolithic and Paleolithic period in Eastern Europe and represents a sown field and female fertility.

In the field of printing, the term dates back to the early 1900s.

During the first field season at Coba, Thompson deciphered the dates on the Macanxoc stela.

Ideal for tourist destination, field trips, dates and outings with the family and friends.

Stick and ball games with some similarities to field hockey include the Irish game of hurling ( and its Scottish cousin shinty ) which dates from at least 1272 B. C in Ireland.

The term " photonic-crystal fiber " was coined by Philip Russell in 1995 – 1997 ( he states ( 2003 ) that the idea dates to unpublished work in 1991 ), although other terms such as microstructured fiber are also used and the nomenclature in the field is not entirely consistent.

The insignia of the Field Artillery branch is a pair of crossed field guns ( 19th century style cannons ) in gold, and dates back to 1834.

Professional baseball in Asheville, North Carolina dates to 1897, when the Asheville Moonshiners took the field.

Officers in some regiments are also required to wear a Khaki version of the Cap, often called the " Service Dress Cap " with Service Dress ( the Officers ' No 2 Dress ) and / or Barrack Dress ; the design of this dates back to the cap worn in the field until replaced by the steel helmet during the First World War.

Each unit has specific entry dates to when they can be available to a player ; the U. S. cannot field jet aircraft until the hypothetical invasion of Japan from late 1945 to 1946.

Though in early modern philosophy, natural philosophy was sometimes referred to as " experimental philosophy ", the field associated with the current sense of the term dates its origins around 2000 when a small number of students experimented with the idea of fusing philosophy to the experimental rigor of psychology.

This implies that knowing the date narrows the number of makers, just as knowing the maker narrows the field of dates.

Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.

`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

In the grinding machine field, expansion went far from universal grinders alone and took in cylindrical grinders, surface grinders, and a wide variety of special and semi-special models.

Mossberg's latest contribution to the field is the Model 500 ( from $73.50 ) ; ;

The other has his pool far away from the house in a field high on a hill.

I work on a watercolor easel in the field, and frequently resort to a large garden umbrella to protect my eyes from undue strain.

Are there regular communications from the field, or meetings of sales and marketing personnel with R & D people??

Currently, there are some 6000 companies in the field, ranging from small firms with a handful of employees to major concerns having complete facilities for production of metal, electrical, and plastic components.

The pressure gradient producing the jet is due to the nature of the magnetic field in the arc ( rapid decrease of current density from cathode to the anode ).

Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.

Each year from 1941 on, its medical staff had conducted intensive field investigations to determine changes in population structure and vital rates and, as its primary objective, the incidence of major diseases.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

It ticked over smoothly, idling while Fogg exchanged mails with the armed messenger from Burlington at Fort Ethan Allen, and one from Montpelier and Barre at the St. John field.

One afternoon during a cold, powdery snowstorm, Fogg took off for Concord from the St. John field.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

Indeed, it is in the field of transportation that Congress has most frequently granted employers exemption from the anti-trust laws ; ;

Phil Rossoff cut over to center from left field to get the relay.

Phil Rossoff, coming in from left field, stopped at the water fountain for a drink.

I was thinking of the heat and of water that morning when I was plowing the stubble field far across the hill from the farm buildings.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

Though they saw the old-style chemical rockets lift up from the field beyond B'dikkat's cabin, they did not make plans to hide among the frozen crop of transmuted flesh.

While ideas about altruism from one field can have an impact on the other fields, the different methods and focuses of these fields always lead to different perspectives on altruism.