One small subgroup of stingless bees, called " vulture bees ," is specialized to feed on carrion, and these are the only bees that do not use plant products as food.

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

On 12 March 2010, he was responsible for the blocking of a bill to protect the world's poorest countries from debt sharks use of " vulture funds ", despite his party's support for the bill.

A court injunction blocked Kirchner's planned use of reserves for the retirement of high-interest bonds, a move that could have provided numerous vulture funds ( holdouts from the 2005 debt restructuring who had resorted to the courts in a bid for higher returns on their defaulted bonds ) a legal argument against the central bank's autarky, and thus make judgement liens against the central bank's overseas accounts possible.

In free countries many controversies involve self-styled Jews who use the symbol in asserting a vaguely `` cultural '' rather than religious or political identity.

Alexander, a critic of the government, hopes to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected.

Some abugidas use a special symbol to suppress the inherent vowel so that the consonant alone can be properly represented.

The abbess also traditionally adds a pectoral cross to the outside of her habit as a symbol of office, though she continues to wear a modified form of her religious habit or dress, as she is unordained-not a male religious-and so does not vest or use choir dress in the liturgy.

The proper use of the symbol is debated ; it is used to describe any cyclic pi system in some publications, or only those pi systems that obey Hückel's rule on others.

Jensen argues that in line with Robinson's original proposal, the use of the circle symbol should be limited to monocyclic 6 pi-electron systems.

where we use the symbol k to denote the quantum numbers p and σ of the previous section and the sign of the energy, E ( k ), and a < sub > k </ sub > denotes the corresponding annihilation operators.

One century later, their use of the symbols which became 2, 7 and 9 was recorded, but Brahmi numerals lacked a symbol for 0.

Paul Roche observes that the author abounded in mistakes and anachronisms, using Daniel as a symbol for the faithful Jew serving Yahweh, and the use of various pagan kings as symbols of heathenism.

Moreover ( and more embarrassingly, although this is essentially trivial ), mathematicians usually write the dual entity not at the first place, as the physicists do, but at the second one, and they don't use the *- symbol, but an overline ( which the physicists reserve to averages ) to denote conjugate-complex numbers, i. e. for scalar products mathematicians usually write

Prior to 1989, use of a copyright notice — consisting of the copyright symbol (, the letter C inside a circle ), the abbreviation " Copr.

Mail remained in use as a decorative and possibly high-status symbol with military overtones long after its practical usefulness had passed.

The Crucifix, a cross with the corpus ( Body of Christ ), is an ancient symbol used within the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, in contrast with some Protestant groups, which use only a simple cross.

When the cause of a disease is poorly understood, societies tend to mythologize the disease or use it as a metaphor or symbol of whatever that culture considers to be evil.

Digamma ( or wau, uppercase, lowercase ; as a numeral: stigma, ϛ ) ( compare sigma ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which originally stood for the sound and later remained in use only as a symbol for the number " 6 ".

In 1974, the Trustees declared the " use of the symbol in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives of the College in advancing Native American education.

Some systems, like Wade – Giles tao 道 and t ' ao 桃, introduce a special symbol for aspiration ; others, like Pinyin dao 道 and tao 桃, use " d " and " t ".

For example, the multiplication symbol,, is sometimes replaced with a dot, or even omitted completely, because its context makes its use obvious ( e. g. 3 a may be written 3a ).

Many programming languages, and calculators use a single asterisk to represent the multiplication symbol, and it must be explicitly used, for example, is written " 3 * x ".

The Council of Europe now shares responsibility with the European Commission for ensuring that use of the symbol respects the dignity of the flag — taking measures to prevent misuse of it.

However, this symbol was not widely used: few systems at the time could render it and in any case banks preferred ( as with all currencies ) to use the ISO code XEU.

It was not until 1922 that Alfred W. Porter proposed the symbol " H " as the accepted standard, thus finalizing the terminology still in use today.

The emblem ’ s popularity during the French Revolution is due in part to its importance in ancient Rome: its use alludes to the Roman ritual of manumission of slaves, in which a freed slave receives the bonnet as a symbol of his newfound liberty.

However, the monarchy was not the only ruling power in French history to use the symbol of Hercules to declare its power.

The first use of Hercules as a revolutionary symbol was during a festival celebrating the National Assembly ’ s victory over federalism on 10 August 1793.

However, in an effort to reassert its dominant role, IBM patented the bus, and placed stringent licensing and royalty policies on its use.

In 1946 the FCC's decision to use Armstrong's FM system as the standard for NTSC television sound gave Armstrong another chance at royalty payments.

Meanwhile, in exchange for Truetype, Apple got a license for TrueImage, a PostScript-compatible page description language owned by Microsoft that Apple could use in their laser printers. This was never actually included in any Apple products when a later deal was struck between Apple and Adobe, where Adobe promised to put a TrueType interpreter in their PostScript printer boards, Apple renewed its agreements with Adobe for the use of PostScript in its printers ; resulting in lower royalty payments to Adobe who was beginning to license printer controllers capable of competing directly with Apple's LaserWriter printers.

In the same way, competing use of copyright can prevent a product from coming to the marketplace at a reasonable price, resulting in lost royalty income for the copyright holders.

Cheetahs continued to be associated with royalty and elegance, their use as pets spreading just as their hunting skills were.

He chose to reign under the name Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward — the name his mother had intended for him to use, declaring that he did not wish to " undervalue the name of Albert " and diminish the status of his father with whom among royalty the name Albert should stand alone.

The Long, however, was only for select royalty closely associated with the Imperial family, usually in various symbolic colors, while it was a capital offense for anyone — other than the emperor himself — to ever use the completely gold-colored, five-clawed Long dragon motif.

In May, Warner Bros. sold back its exclusivity rights to ERPI ( along with the Fox-Case sublicense ) and signed a new royalty contract similar to Fox's for use of Western Electric technology.

An additional contract and royalty would apply for each additional use of the photograph.

Royalties vary depending on the industry buying the photograph and the use, for example, royalties for a photograph used on a poster or in television advertising may be higher than the royalty for use on a limited run of brochures.

Since the turn of the 21st century many online stock photography catalogues have appeared that invite photographers to sell their photos online easily and quickly, but often for very little money, without a royalty, and without control over the use of the photo, the market it will be used in, the products it will be used on, time duration, etc.

Belgian Francophone literature is characterized by authors who achieved a nationwide success in Belgium while being little known in France, and shares traits that are perceived as typically Belgian: use of black humour, self-derision, surrealism and absurdism ( in a similar vein as Belgian painters such as René Magritte ), and references to Belgian history and society ( such as Belgian royalty, language conflicts, former colony of Congo, Belgian beers and gastronomy, and whatever is typically Belgian ) and they are often active in Belgian medias as columnists or entertainers.

On reading this, the King became furious that Rohan, a prince étranger, could have let himself be fooled, since royalty do not use surnames.

She also said that " The tone in which he speaks of royalty is unlike anything which one sees in history, even of people hundreds of years ago, and is most reprehensible ... Of George IV he speaks in such shocking language, language not fit for any gentleman to use ".

The value in gains by the use of the royalty should equal its payment value, excess cost or interest beyond its tangible value is illicit interest or usury.

Finally, Kenneth Kitchen rejects the term co-regency to describe the relationship between Seti I and Ramesses II ; he describes the earliest phase of Ramesses II's career as a " prince regency " where the young Ramesses enjoyed all the trappings of royalty including the use of a royal titulary and harem but did not count his regnal years until after his father's death.

Ownership therefore ‘ relieves ’ the company from paying a license fee ( the royalty ) for the use of the third party trademarks.

Performance rights organizations ( PROs ) provide intermediary functions, particularly royalty collection, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works publicly in locations such as shopping and dining venues.

While a payment to employ a trade mark licence is a royalty, it is accompanied by a " guided usage manual ", the use of which may be audited from time to time.

The phrase " patent medicine " comes from the late 17th century marketing of medical elixirs, when those who found favour with royalty were issued letters patent authorising the use of the royal endorsement in advertising.

Another function was the conservation as state-secrets of texts for use by royalty to maintain their authority through rituals directed to deities controlling the political affairs-of-state — an example of this is the Śārada-tilaka Tantra.

In 1948, Capitol and Livingston began setting up royalty arrangements with manufacturers and television stations for use of the Bozo character.