The Convention requires countries to prepare a national biodiversity strategy ( or equivalent instrument ) and to ensure that this strategy is mainstreamed into the planning and activities of all those sectors whose activities can have an impact ( positive and negative ) on biodiversity.

Tools that are used in particular fields or activities may have different designations such as " instrument ", " utensil ", " implement ", " machine ", or " apparatus ".

The hélicon is an instrument that is wrapped in a helical shape and can thus be worn around the player's body, facilitating marching activities.

He kept his trombone activities a secret at first, as his conservative religious father believed it an uncouth and sinful instrument.

For the most part, the Muslim Board functioned as an instrument of propaganda whose activities did little to enhance the Muslim cause.

Although Digges may have created a rudimentary instrument involving lenses and mirrors, the optical performance required to see the details of coins lying about in fields, or private activities seven miles away, was far beyond the technology of the time.

Their specific skills in various human activities are, first of all, an instrument entrusted to them by God to enable " the proclamation of Christ to reach people, mold communities, and have a deep and incisive influence in bringing Gospel values to bear in society and culture " ( ibid., n. 29 ).

: Environmental impact assessment, as a national instrument, shall be undertaken for proposed activities that are likely to have a significant adverse impact on the environment and are subject to a decision of a competent national authority.

Harker described Sharp's activities this way :" folk song " as mediated by Cecil Sharp, to be used as " raw material " or " instrument ", being extracted from a tiny fraction of the rural proletariat and.

Examples of muscle memory are found in many everyday activities that become automatic and improve with practice, such as riding a bicycle, typing on a keyboard, typing in a PIN, playing a melody or phrase on a musical instrument, playing video games, or performing different algorithms for a Rubik's Cube.

On Parade, as well as for all military activities, pupils are instead called cadets and are organised into ceremonial Guards or else play an instrument in the Band.

For the most part, the Muslim Board functioned as an instrument of propaganda whose activities did little to enhance the Muslim cause.

It is doubtful that Digges built a successful instrument, and the optical performance required to see the details of coins lying about in fields, or private activities seven miles away was far beyond the technology of the time.

Other activities included a blimp squadron detachment, an Aviation Navigation Training School, and an experimental training unit termed Project Baker, a confidential program that developed and tested instrument landing equipment.

Stevens has been internationally recognized for his contributions to the development of advanced 20th century ( classical ) solo trumpet music and contemporary brass instrument performance practices as the result of his many solo and chamber music performances, recordings, published articles, educational music publications, and teaching activities.

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe learned to play the mbira when it was forbidden for a woman to play the instrument and also the colonial regime had banned any cultural activities.

They also give information which will aid in the design of a more satisfactory instrument for the measurement of the normal pressures.

In music an " answer " ( also known as countersubject ) is the technical name in counterpoint for the repetition or modification by one part or instrument of a theme proposed by another.

The AEA membership also includes manufacturers of avionics equipment, instrument repair facilities, instrument manufacturers, airframe manufacturers, test equipment manufacturers, major distributors, engineers and educational institutions.

The harp is also a stringed instrument, but is not a member of or homogenous with the violin family and is not considered part of the string choir.

This instrument can respond to both alternating and direct current and also indicated true RMS for AC.

Even though the saxophone is classified as a woodwind instrument and the harmonica is a free reed aerophone, both are also often made from brass.

The bass guitar ( also called electric bass, or simply bass ; ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking.

It can also be tuned to E-A-D, like its cousin, the domra, to make it easier for those trained on the domra to play the instrument, and still have a balalaika sound.

He also composed a body of concert pieces for the instrument.

The trombone family's ancestor, the sackbut, and the folk instrument bazooka are also in the slide family.

The classical guitar ( also called classic guitar, Spanish guitar, nylon-string guitar or concert guitar ) is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones.

Björk also made extensive use of and even played the instrument herself on the song " My Juvenile " of her 2007 album Volta.

The didgeridoo ( also known as a didjeridu or didge ) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1, 500 years ago and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.

The didgeridoo also became a role playing instrument in the experimental and avant-garde music scene.

It has also been an instrument used for the fusion of tribal rhythms with a black metal sound, a music project called Naakhum that used the spirituality of the Aboriginal people and many others as an approach.

It is also referred to as a " kane " or " chanchiki ," a name that comes from the kuchi shoga specific to this instrument.

* Appalachian dulcimer, a fretted, plucked musical instrument which is also referred to as a " mountain dulcimer ", " lap dulcimer ", " fretted dulcimer ", or " hog fiddle "

The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass or bull fiddle, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2 ( see standard tuning ).

In folk and bluegrass music, the instrument is also referred to as a bass fiddle or bass violin ( or more rarely as doghouse bass or bull fiddle ).

The double bass also differs from members of the violin family in that the shoulders are typically sloped, the back is often angled ( both to allow easier access to the instrument, particularly in the upper range ), and machine tuners are always fitted.

The string bass is the most commonly used bass instrument in bluegrass music and is almost always plucked, though some modern bluegrass bassists have also used a bow.

Many other rockabilly bands like El Rio Trio ( from the Netherlands ) also use this instrument in their work.

In 1897 Thaddeus Cahill patented an instrument called the Telharmonium ( or Teleharmonium, also known as the Dynamaphone ).

The See of Rome, as the sole unbroken line of apostolic authority, descending from St. Peter ( the " prince and head of the apostles "), is a visible sign and instrument of communion among the college of bishops and therefore also of the local churches around the world.

Leading modern exponents of the instrument include Derek Adlam, Christopher Hogwood, Richard Troeger, and Miklos Spányi.

An electronic instrument may include a user interface for controlling its sound, often by adjusting the pitch, frequency, or duration of each note.

Critical variables affecting this acoustic impedance include: chimney length ( hole between lip-plate and head tube ), chimney diameter, and radii or curvature of the ends of the chimney and any designed restriction in the " throat " of the instrument, such as that in the Japanese Nohkan Flute.

Instruments made according to an older pitch standard, used principally in wind-band music, include Db piccolo, soprano flute ( the primary instrument, equivalent to today's concert C flute ), F alto flute, and Bb bass flute.

Blues harmonica players who are primarily or mainly associated with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, Bob Dylan, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel, Junior Wells, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, Kim Wilson, Slim Harpo, Al " Blind Owl " Wilson of Canned Heat, Jack Bruce of Cream and John Sebastian of The Lovin ' Spoonful.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

The elements contributing to a hedge fund strategy include: the hedge fund's approach to the market ; the particular instrument used ; the market sector the fund specializes in ( e. g. healthcare ); the method used to select investments ; and the amount of diversification within the fund.

It does not include mere proposed institutions for which no instrument was ever signed.

Other American-made variants include the mandolinetto or Howe-Orme guitar-shaped mandolin ( manufactured by the Elias Howe Company between 1897 and roughly 1920 ), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece ; the Army-Navy style with a flat back and top ; and the Vega mando-lute ( more commonly called a cylinder-back mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company between 1913 and roughly 1927 ), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument.

Some free-reed instrument keyboards such as accordions and Indian harmoniums include microtones.

Other special pleas used in criminal cases include the plea of mental incompetence, challenging the jurisdiction of the court over the defendant's person, the plea in bar, attacking the jurisdiction of the court over the crime charged, and the plea in abatement, which is used to address procedural errors in bringing the charges against the defendant, not apparent on the " face " of the indictment or other charging instrument.

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle.

Most drummers of this particular designation work within the context of a larger contingent ( aka rhythm section ) that may also include, keyboard ( a percussion instrument ) and / or guitar, auxiliary percussion ( often of non western origin ) and bass ( bass viol or electric ).

Some common group settings include music for Full Orchestra ( consisting of just about every instrument group ), Wind Ensemble ( or Concert Band, which consists of larger sections and greater diversity of wind, brass and percussion instruments than are usually found in the orchestra ), or a chamber group ( a small number of instruments, but at least two ).

Other versions include the Mute Cornett, which is a straight narrow-bore instrument with integrated mouthpiece, quiet enough to be used in a consort of viols or even recorders.

The term may be used generally, to include all such instruments, such as the marimba and balafon or, more specifically, to refer to an orchestral instrument of somewhat higher pitch range than the chromatic marimba.

Others artists who have recorded with the instrument include Buddy Holly (" Everyday "), The Beatles (" Baby It's You "), The Beach Boys (" Girl Don't Tell Me "), The Velvet Underground (" Sunday Morning "), Nick Drake (" Northern Sky "), The Stooges (" Penetration ") and Pink Floyd (" The Gnome " and the re-recorded version of " Mother ", used in the movie The Wall.

These include, the mridangam ( drum ), nagaswaram ( long pipe horn made from a black wood ), the flute, violin and veena ( stringed instrument traditionally associated with Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of the arts and learning ).

The list is not exhaustive, as the concertina is not only a venerable and widespread instrument, but also an evolving instrument: modern experiments in concertina construction include chromatic scales offering more than 12 steps per octave, and instruments which allow the pitch of the notes to be sharped or flatted by the performer.

Bands that supplement a folk instrument like the violin with keyboards include Skyclad, Mägo de Oz, and Tuatha de Danann.

This group they usually refer to as the lute class, after the instrument of that name, and include within it the guitar, the violin, the banjo, and similar stringed instruments with fingerboards.

It may be of any known musical style and played with any instrument ( s ), however, it may not include spoken words, sung lyrics or vocalization of any kind.

However, it usually does not include, by definition, solo instrument performances.

Igor Stravinsky greatly expanded the playing techniques of the Tam-tam in his Rite Of Spring to include short, quickly damped notes, quick crescendos, and a triangle beater scraped across the front of the instrument.