The 1: 50, 000 scale is known as the " Landranger " and carries a distinctive pink cover.

The Department of Conservation and Land Management in Western Australia ( CALM ) carries out fuel reduction backburning in the national park ; this limits the risk of a large scale bush fire by reducing the amount of dry leaf litter on the ground.

The Miami model carries the distinctive features of crowd control techniques used in Miami, which included large scale pre-emptive arrests, heavily armed sometimes unidentifiable law enforcement, the collection of intelligence from protesters, and the " embedding " of corporate media with the police.

Also, on analog wattmeters, the potential coil carries a needle that moves over a scale to indicate the measurement.

* Weight for Age: Better class of race in which the weight a horse carries is allocated on a set scale according to its age and sex.

A big-man can have several Moka partners with whom he carries on exchanges: some on a larger scale than others.

Built from local stone and marble, each instrument carries an astronomical scale, generally marked on the marble inner lining.

The institute carries out research in a number of areas, including networked embedded systems, future Internet technologies, large scale network-based applications, and human-machine interaction.

F0 was placed at a position specifying no damage ( approximately the eighth level of the Beaufort scale ), in analogy to how the Beaufort's zeroth level specifies little to no wind.

These gentlemen are calling for a resumption of testing -- in the atmosphere -- on the greatest possible scale, all in the name of national security.

The procedures used by the BIH evolved, and the name for the time scale changed: " A3 " in 1963 and " TA ( BIH )" in 1969.

The former uncorrected time scale continues to be published, under the name EAL ( Echelle Atomique Libre, meaning Free Atomic Scale ).

He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which takes his name.

Elsewhere the name is taken for a four-string guitar with a scale length of 23 " ( 585 mm )— about the same as a Terz Guitar.

The Precambrian ( Pre-Cambrian ) is the name which describes the large span of time in Earth's history before the current Phanerozoic Eon, and is a Supereon divided into several eons of the geologic time scale.

All kind of secondary schools end with an examination ( Esame di Stato, state exam, but usually still called with the traditional name Esame di Maturità, Maturity exam ) whose score is on a 100 point scale:

The scale of a sextant has a length of of a turn ( 60 °); hence the sextant's name ( sextāns ,-antis is the Latin word for " one sixth ").

Finally in 1724 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit produced a temperature scale which now ( slightly adjusted ) bears his name.

though the scale which now bears his name has them the other way around.

In an effort to correct this, Sampo Kaasila at Apple decided to write an entirely new format, which he worked on under the name Bass ( because it was a scalable font format, and you can scale a fish, and perhaps as in Bass-o-matic 76 from the Saturday Night Live sketch ) and later Royal.

Lang and Kornfeld noticed the ad, and the four men got together originally to discuss a retreat-like recording studio in Woodstock, but the idea evolved into an outdoor music and arts festival, although even that was initially envisioned on a smaller scale, perhaps featuring some of the big name artists who lived in the Woodstock area ( such as Bob Dylan and The Band ).

However, the damage to the Andersen name was so severe that it has not returned as a viable business even on a limited scale.

But Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) ( an atomic-based time scale which is always kept within 0. 9 second of UT1 ) is in common actual use in the UK, and the name GMT is often inaccurately used to refer to it.

Steatite is relatively soft ( because of the high talc content, talc being one on Mohs hardness scale ), and may feel soapy when touched, hence the name.

However, this is retconned by later toys and scale models tagging the " Gundam ", after the unit's own name.

Assessing the scale of Bering's achievements is difficult, given that he was neither the first Russian to sight North America ( that having been completed by Gvozdev during the 1730s ), nor the first Russian to pass through the strait which now bears his name ( an honour which goes to the relatively unknown 17th century expedition of Semyon Dezhnev ).

The name mel comes from the word melody to indicate that the scale is based on pitch comparisons.

In the 1990s, the Laboratory ’ s scientific reputation began to garner more attention on a global and national scale, beginning with its name.

Through questionable practice, Johann Maelzel, incorporating Winkel's ideas added a scale and called it metronome, started manufacturing the metronome under his own name in 1816: " Maelzel's Metronome ".

While the word churl went down in the social scale, the first name derived from the same etymological source (" Karl " in German, " Charles " in French and English, " Carlos " in Spanish etc.

G scale was introduced by Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk under the brand name LGB and was intended for indoor and outdoor use.

Even after the WOMBLES had ceased to organise large scale demonstrations the UK media continued to use their name, as short hand for a " notorious group " of anarchists.

In 1938, the Meccano Company launched a new range of OO models under the trade name of Hornby Dublo, OO gauge has remained the UK's most popular scale / gauge ever since.

res-the plural of re, a name for one step of the musical scale )

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

He appended rather than integrated the laws of Ine into his code, and although he included, as had Æthelbert, a scale of payments in compensation for injuries to various body parts, the two injury tariffs are not aligned.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

Car production had always been on a small scale and until the advent of World War II halted work only about 700 had been made.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Their converging styles make it difficult to exactly understand the influences each had on the other, although it is clear enough to say that Aelbert started representing large scale forms ( something he had not done previously ) and placing animals as the focus of his paintings ( something that was specific to him ).

Soldiers before this time had written treatises on various military subjects, but none had undertaken a great philosophical examination of war on the scale of those written by Clausewitz and Leo Tolstoy, both of which were inspired by the events of the Napoleonic Era.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's subordinates refused to take airbase construction seriously until enough capital had been delivered to permit embezzlement on a massive scale.

Although WMAP provided very accurate measurements of the great angular-scale fluctuations in the CMB ( structures about as broad in the sky as the moon ), it did not have the angular resolution to measure the smaller scale fluctuations which had been observed by former ground-based interferometers.

These large scale raids mainly became possible as the contras were able to use US-provided Redeye missiles against Sandinista Mi-24 helicopter gunships, which had been supplied by the Soviets.

Problems receiving increased attention included poor housing, alcoholism, drug abuse, pollution, outdated Stalin-era factories, and petty to large − scale corruption, all of which the official media had ignored.

As governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt had run a similar program on a small scale.

However, there is no evidence that LDDC foresaw this scale of development and nearby Heron Quays had already been developed as low density offices when Canary Wharf was proposed, with similar development already underway on Canary Wharf itself, Limehouse Studios being the most famous occupant.

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier.

English " knight " and German and Dutch Knecht are clearly related ( though pronounced differently ), and originally had also a similar meaning, denoting a person rather low in the social scale.

As the scale of human activity increased, so had the understanding of the subtle relationships between large-scale irrigation schemes and the climate.

Toho had planned to shoot this film on location in Sri Lanka, but had to forgo that ( and scale back on production costs ) because they ended up paying RKO roughly $ 200, 000 ( US ) for the rights to the King Kong character.

Slavery had always been part of everyday life but the scale increased as slaves were exported to work elsewhere in the triangular trade.

John Romer suggests that they used the same method that had been used for earlier and later constructions, laying out parts of the plan on the ground at a 1 to 1 scale.

The New Testament records that St. Paul had called for the burning of magic and pagan books in the city of Ephesus ; this advice was adopted on a large scale after the Christian ascent to power.

The boy had three years of instruction in the playing of the harpsichord from Giuseppe Prinetti, originally from Novara, who played the scale with two fingers only ; Prinetti also owned a business selling beer and had a propensity to fall asleep while standing.