Average annual disposable income of Shanghai residents, based on the first three quarters of 2009, was 21, 871 RMB.

The first disposable diaper was invented and patented in 1948 by Valerie Hunter Gordon ( née de Ferranti ), granddaughter of inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti.

In 1972, British optometrist Rishi Agarwal was the first to suggest disposable soft contact lenses.

It is not unheard of for a single subject to receive five or more sets of disposable restraints in his or her first few hours in custody.

Army nurses used cellu-cotton pads as disposable sanitary napkins, and six years later the company introduced Kotex, the first disposable feminine hygiene product.

In 1950 BD's first sterile disposable product, a blood collection set, was developed and sold to the American Red Cross.

In 1954 BD introduced the first completely disposable syringe made of glass: BD Hypak.

They are derisively termed " tanks " by regular humans, which seems to be a double entendre, describing not only their method of birth but also their physical toughness, which is always greater than " naturals ", and the disposable nature of them, the first to come in battle, the " tanks " that open the way for the infantry.

The first safety razor using the new disposable blade went on sale in 1903.

was the first disposable, double-blade razor, released in 1976.

It was the first Hoover to utilize a full wrap around bumper and a completely disposable dust bag.

* Boater, one of the first disposable diapers

The first disposable latex medical gloves were manufactured in 1964 by Ansell.

Heather Rogers, creator of the documentary film Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage and book of the same name, classifies Keep America Beautiful as one of the first greenwashing corporate fronts, alleging that the group was created in response to Vermont's 1953 attempt to outlaw disposable containers.

Through this method of building a solid fan base with disposable income first, the smaller label wielded greater power in their initial distribution negotiations for the benefit of their music artists and their profit margins.

Generally, the first line inside a disposable cup is used as a marker.

The crown cork was the first highly successful disposable product ( it can be resealed but not easily ).

Far from being privileged, he argues that policies such as conscription, the women and children first convention and the over-representation of men among the most dangerous occupations illustrate men ’ s status as ‘ the disposable sex ’.

A great example of proficiency aiding first mover advantage is Procter and Gamble's first disposable baby diaper.

Large increases in the birth rate in the years that Procter and Gamble ’ s first disposable diapers were released also added to their industry profits and first-mover advantage.

Mirror symmetry, in a class of models of toric varieties with zero first Chern class Calabi-Yau manifolds and positive first Chern class ( Fano varieties ) was proven by Kentaro Hori and Cumrun Vafa.

In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden and thereafter the boys with the cameras had to unsheathe their 300 mm. lenses and shoot at extreme range.

" After wearing glasses for a while, his eyes became adjusted to the lenses, and at that point he became nearsighted and really did need glasses, which would years later establish John as one of the most famous " four-eyes " in rock and roll, though Holly is widely considered to be the first.

This was the start of the optical industry of grinding and polishing lenses for these " spectacles ", first in Venice and Florence in the thirteenth century, and later in the spectacle making centres in both the Netherlands and Germany.

In another interview, Gilliam also mentioned, in relation to the 9. 8mm Kinoptic lens he had first used on Brazil, that wide-angle lenses make small film sets " look big ".

Baird built what was to become the world's first working television set using items including an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue that he purchased.

* 1590 – Glass lenses are developed in the Netherlands and used for the first time in microscopes and telescopes

It was not until 1604 that Johannes Kepler published the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lenses could correct presbyopia and myopia.

The first lenses for correcting Astigmatism were constructed by the British astronomer George Airy in 1825.

In 1888, Adolf Fick was the first to successfully fit contact lenses, which were made from blown glass

This enabled the manufacture of lenses that, for the first time, conformed to the actual shape of the eye.

Glass-blown scleral lenses remained the only form of contact lens until the 1930s when polymethyl methacrylate ( PMMA or Perspex / Plexiglas ) was developed, allowing plastic scleral lenses to be manufactured for the first time.

In 1949, the first " corneal " lenses were developed.

PMMA corneal lenses became the first contact lenses to have mass appeal through the 1960s, as lens designs became more sophisticated with improving manufacturing ( lathe ) technology.

This led to the launch of the first soft ( hydrogel ) lenses in some countries in the 1960s and the first approval of the Soflens material by the United States Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) in 1971.

All individuals who would like to wear cosmetic lenses should have a contact lens examination with an eye doctor prior to first use, and if used long-term, regular aftercare examinations, in order to avoid potentially blinding complications.

The first lenses to do so were lenses made from polymethyl methacrylate ( PMMA or Perspex / Plexiglas ).

The principal breakthrough in soft lenses made by Otto Wichterle led to the launch of the first soft ( hydrogel ) lenses in some countries in the 1960s and the approval of the " Soflens " daily material ( polymacon ) by the United States FDA in 1971.

The very first daguerreotypes used Chevalier lenses that were " slow ", and the light sensitive material was silver iodide made by fuming the plate with iodine vapor.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

Our first impression of the data was that the students were surprisingly orthodox and religiously involved.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.