An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter.

Founded in 1989 by eleven companies ( including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, American Airlines and Data General ), OMG's initial focus was to create a heterogeneous distributed object standard.

Despite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society.

The initial focus of the strategic defense initiative was a nuclear explosion-powered X-ray laser designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a scientist named Peter L. Hagelstein who worked with a team called ' O Group ', doing much of the work in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

From an initial aerial victory over a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 on 5 April their tally rose dramatically and the squadron became the focus of Soviet propaganda, so much so that Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel decreed that any French pilot captured would be executed.

Originally known as the Clarence W. Pierce School of Agriculture, the institution ’ s initial focus was crop cultivation and animal husbandry.

Film historian Joanna E. Rapf notes that among the methods Kazan used in his work with actors, was his initial focus on " reality ", although his style was not defined as " naturalistic.

The initial anti-nuclear objective was nuclear disarmament and later the focus began to shift to other issues, mainly opposition to the use of nuclear power.

And while Sharifi ’ s initial focus in music can be credited to American jazz, it is his infusions of elements from the Middle East and Africa that make his music distinctive.

The Motorola prefix " motor -" was chosen because the company's initial focus was in automotive electronics.

NASA ( via the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts ) has funded initial research into the New Worlds Mission project, which proposes to use a pinhole camera with a diameter of 10 m and focus length of 200, 000 km to image earth sized planets in other star systems.

Later discussion of The Two Cultures tended to obscure Snow's initial focus on differences between British systems ( of both schooling and social class ) and those of competing countries.

* The initial focus on first activating contraction of antagonist muscles to provide reciprocal inhibition and lengthen spastic muscles

Its initial focus was to train clergy.

The initial five-year plans were created to serve in the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union, and thus placed a major focus on heavy industry.

The Cooper and Harker families were the initial focus of the series.

McDougall, knowing Burt's interest in Galton's work, suggested that he focus his senior project on psychometrics, thus giving Burt his initial inquiry into the development and structure of mental tests, an interest that would last the rest of his life.

After an initial proposal was refused by the Rugby Football Union in England, the HKRFU changed its focus and sent out invitations to Asian and Pacific sides.

As in other aspects of Japanese culture, the subjects portrayed by netsuke trend, over the long term, away from an initial emphasis on motifs of Chinese derivation toward a focus on objects of more strictly national interest.

The initial focus of the recovery was on finding and identifying human remains, and on recovering the flight recorders, but this proved difficult as the force of impact was " in the order of at least 350 g ",

The position of the beam waist, that is the focus of the optical trap, can be adjusted by an axial displacement of the initial lens.

The Waterloo office has maintained strong ties with the University of Waterloo and its initial, highly academic, focus led to the development of advanced discretization methods and solution algorithms.

The initial focus of Devotio Moderna was the rediscovery of genuine pious practices and conversion and re-conversion of the lukewarm clergy.

The CIO ’ s initial strategy was to focus its efforts in the steel industry and then build from there.

The X initial has been carried forward in the naming of APIs designed for the Xbox such as XInput and the Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool ( XACT ), while the DirectX pattern has been continued for Windows APIs such as Direct2D and DirectWrite.

During the initial development phases, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was named Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems.

Windows NT's OS / 2 heritage can be seen in its initial support for the HPFS filesystem, text mode OS / 2 1. x applications, and OS / 2 LAN Manager network support.

Bob Amstadt ( the initial project leader ) and Eric Youngdale started the Wine project in 1993 as a way to run Windows applications on Linux.

The initial stages of some network based installation systems ( such as Solaris Jumpstart, Red Hat Kickstart, Symantec Ghost and Windows NT's Remote Installation Services ) use TFTP to load a basic kernel that performs the actual installation.

# Beginning with Windows 2000, if at least 4 files or folders already exist with the same initial 6 characters in their short names, the stripped LFN is instead truncated to the first 2 letters of the basename ( or 1 if the basename has only 1 letter ), followed by 4 hexadecimal digits derived from an undocumented hash of the filename, followed by a tilde, followed by a single digit, followed by a period "< tt >.</ tt >", followed by the first 3 characters of the extension.

Because Direct3D 10 hardware was comparatively rare after the initial release of Windows Vista and because of the massive installed base of non-Direct3D 10 compatible graphics cards, the first Direct3D 10-compatible games still provide Direct3D 9 render paths.

Although CorelDRAW 10 nominally uses a RIFF file structure, the program's initial release placed the INFO chunk at the end, so that any embedded preview bitmap would not be displayed under Windows ' file manager by default.

Later third-party tests of HTTP load times would support Apple's claim that Safari 3 was indeed the fastest browser on the Windows platform in terms of initial data loading over the Internet, though it was found to be only negligibly faster than Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox when loading static content from local cache.

The initial Safari 3 beta version for Windows, released on the same day as its announcement at WWDC 2007, had several known bugs and a zero day exploit that allowed remote execution.

After its initial release in 2001, it was later upgraded in 2004, when it was made available for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

FrontPage's initial outing under the Microsoft name came in 1996 with the release of Windows NT 4. 0 Server and its constituent Web server Internet Information Services 2. 0.

It was an integral component of Windows 95 and Windows NT from versions 3. 5 and onwards ( the initial commercially available version of Windows NT, version 3. 1, included only a proprietary and quite incomplete implementation of TCP / IP based on the AT & T UNIX System V " Streams " API ).

The initial release in June 2005 provided support for Microsoft Office 2003, Exchange 2003, and SQL Server 2000, running on Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003.

In Windows ' default configuration the pagefile is allowed to expand beyond its initial allocation when necessary.

SuperWaba had initial support only for Palm OS ; starting in version 3, it added support for Windows CE, as the prior Waba VM.

Windows 7 does not respond to 802. 1X authentication requests after initial 802. 1X authentication fails.

The Explorer interface of Microsoft Windows XP does not allow the user to rename a file with an initial '.

Exchange was included throughout later releases of Windows up until the initial release of Windows 98, which by then also included Outlook Express 4. 0.