A modern main battle tank incorporates advances in automotive, artillery, and armour technology to combine the best characteristics of the historic medium and heavy tanks into a single, all around type.

Plasma, which constitutes 55 % of blood fluid, is mostly water ( 92 % by volume ), and contains dissipated proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide ( plasma being the main medium for excretory product transportation ), and blood cells themselves.

Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves ( vacuum tubes ), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main ( non-volatile ) storage medium.

The two main types of hydroponics are solution culture and medium culture.

There are two main variations for each medium, sub-irrigation and top irrigation.

The main features of the DN are that it has a set-in neck for speed and playing comfort, medium frets, and coil tapped pickups.

Podcasting is an asynchronous broadcast / narrowcast medium, with one of the main proponents being Adam Curry and his associates the Podshow.

The privatization of small and medium state-owned companies and a liberal law on establishing new firms has encouraged the development of the private business sector, which has been the main drive for Poland's economic growth.

Since the 1950s, television has been the main medium for molding public opinion.

Since the 1950s, television has been the main medium for molding public opinion.

The art technique was known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic painting and was the main medium used for panel painting and illuminated manuscripts in the Byzantine world and Medieval and Early renaissance Europe.

The second main type of wave, electromagnetic waves, do not require a medium.

Silver was typically the main circulating medium, with gold as the metal of monetary reserve.

The introduction to the modern battlefield of smaller, man-portable ATGMs with larger warheads has given infantry the ability to defeat light and medium tanks at great ranges, though main battle tanks using composite and reactive armors have proven to be resistant to smaller ATGMs.

:: The type of network topology in which all of the nodes of the network are connected to a common transmission medium which has more than two endpoints that are created by adding branches to the main section of the transmission medium – the physical distributed bus topology functions in exactly the same fashion as the physical linear bus topology ( i. e., all nodes share a common transmission medium ).

This medium has been chemically enriched by trace amounts of heavier elements that were ejected from stars as they passed beyond the end of their main sequence lifetime.

However, the medium septum is more than just the controller of theta, it is also the main source of cholinergic projections to the hippocampus.

The material of the main magnetic medium layer is usually a cobalt-based alloy.

These simple and complex carbohydrates are the main components of cellular reproduction, and deliver an immediately usable form of energy to the plant, which would normally rely on a soil-type organic medium for beneficial microbial activity.

A white dwarf is what remains of a main sequence star of low or medium mass ( below approximately 9 to 10 solar masses ), after it has either expelled or fused all the elements which it has sufficient temperature to fuse.

With an unemployment rate of only 5 % ( compared to 7 % in the region Rhône-Alpes and 8 % in France ), a close-meshed tissue of 11, 500 small and medium enterprises ( SMEs ) and a fast growing, export-oriented economy ( main clients: Germany, Italy and Spain ) the department of Ain is in economic terms one of the most dynamic regions of France.

MTAD's main focus is in the light to medium end of the military transport market covering three to nine tonnes.

Starting in the 1980s, country music began a slow rise in the main pop charts.

So-called " pure pop " music, such as power pop, features all these elements, utilising electric guitars, drums and bass for instrumentation ; in the case of such music, the main goal is usually that of being pleasurable to listen to, rather than having much artistic depth.

Concurrently, the members of the so-called " Baby Boomer " generation — who were the main audience for pop and rock music — were reaching their late teens and early twenties, and were thus able to enter licensed premises.

The main theme was a hit in 1968 with the soundtrack album on the charts for more than a year, reaching No. 4 on the Billboard pop album chart and No. 10 on the black album chart.

The main theme was also a hit for Hugo Montenegro, whose rendition was a No. 2 Billboard pop single in 1968.

After the 1980s electronic instruments were no longer popular in rock but continued to be the main component of mainstream pop.

The festival has a broad main stream focus with pop related music as well as traditional acoustic guitar music and alternative music with international guests like Caetano Veloso ( 2007 ), Rumberos Catalans, Pedro Soler, Bernardo Sandoval, Peter Finger, Aaron and Bryce Dessner ( 2008 ).

There is one main town, known simply as " Hydra port " ( pop.

The main objective is to pop all the other players ' balloon s by attacking them with the game's items.

The main leisure facilities are Crayford Stadium greyhound race track and " The Bear and Ragged Staff " public house well known as a venue for live pop / rock bands ;

One of the main differences between American and European pop is that Europop is generally more dance and trance oriented.

It has two major forms: largely instrumental surf rock, with an electric guitar or saxophone playing the main melody, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, and vocal surf pop, including both surf ballads and dance music, often with strong harmonies that are most associated with The Beach Boys.

The main centers of population are Dale ( pop.

* Yani Gellman as Paolo Valisari, a handsome, famous Italian pop star and the film's main antagonist who plans to use Lizzie to avoid getting sued for breach of contract

At the main event in the restaurant / hotel, there is music, usually pop and retro.

Four main musical genres are indigenous to this area-Creole music ( i. e. zydeco ), swamp blues, swamp pop and Cajun music.

The three main categories are Classical, folk and Western-influenced pop.

Their most successful worldwide single release is their reggae / pop version of "( I Can't Help ) Falling In Love With You ", which was the main title to the 1993 Sharon Stone movie Sliver and was a number one hit across Europe and in the US.

Although never as popular in the United States as they were in their native country, the Move were a seminal pop / rock group of the era, and are often cited as one of the main progenitors of power pop.

In his early career he was a member of the rock group Th ' Dudes and was the main creative force in pop band DD Smash.

At one extreme there are desks furnished with a multitude of panels that swing out while stacks of small drawers pop up when a user lowers or extracts the main writing surface or desktop from a closed position, thanks to some well placed levers and / or gears.

As the advent of a singles music chart spawned chart historians and chart-watchers and greatly affected pop culture and produced countless bits of trivia, the main purpose of the Hot 100 is to aid those within the music industry – to reflect the popularity of the " product " ( the singles, the albums, etc.