These measures plus the improvement in Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan, the renunciation of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the on-going peace talks between the PLO and Israel, the collapse of the communist states in East Europe, which reduced the scope for sanctuaries for terrorists, and the more cautious attitude of countries such as Libya and Syria after the U. S. declared them State-sponsors of international terrorism, the collapse of ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the tightening of civil aviation security measures by all countries have arrested and reversed the steep upward movement of hijackings.

These figures indicate that, compared to the more recent figures above, there has been a deterioration this decade, rather than improvement.

These showed that on average hypnotherapy achieved at least 64 % success compared to 37 % improvement among untreated control groups.

These districts may be known as neighborhood improvement districts, crime prevention districts, or security districts.

These results combined with electrophysiological investigation of the function of neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex have provided insights that can be used in the improvement of cingulotomy performed on patients treated for OCD.

These methods offer no potential for genetic improvement.

These names are consequently thought to be textual corruptions, and Og has been suggested as the original, though it does not make much of an improvement.

These plugs will dissolve within a few days, so it gives the patient a chance to see if there is any improvement in comfort.

These improvements mark the second phase of a multi-year improvement plan for Dodger Stadium.

These products contributed to rural economic improvement, by offering alternative crops to cotton that were beneficial for the farmers and for the land.

These wetlands continue to see improvement and development.

These vests represented " a vast improvement on weight, but the armor failed to stop bullets and fragments very successfully ," although officially they were claimed to be able to stop 7. 62 × 25mm Tokarev pistol rounds at the muzzle.

These included national defense ( such as the National Defense Act of 1935, which organized a conscription for service in the country ), greater control over the economy, the perfection of democratic institutions, reforms in education, improvement of transport, the promotion of local capital, industrialization, and the colonization of Mindanao.

These time differences were minute, but the improvement in electronics made it possible to measure them accurately and identify the presence of metal at a reasonable distance.

These works could be used as is, or improved, in which case the patent improvement would have to be re-licensed to the institution that holds the original patent, and from which the original work was licensed.

These improvement actions are created to ensure the organization is able to achieve their business plans.

These were very common up until about 2000, but are now fairly rare: the demise of the ISA slot added a little to the cost ; the great improvement in IDE technology ( particularly in the case of CD-ROM drives and CD recorders ) removed one major use, and the advent of USB made the expense of a SCSI interface unnecessary for most scanners.

These brilliant achievements, together with Galileo's immense improvement of the instrument, overshadowed to a great degree the credit due to the original inventor, and led to the universal adoption of the name of the Galilean telescope for the form of the instrument invented by Lippershey.

These lacquers were a huge improvement over earlier automobile and furniture finishes, both in ease of application and in colour retention.

These benefits include less erosion possibilities, better water conservation, improvement in air quality due to less emission being produced, and a chance for larger biodiversity in a given area.

These principles include: Pull processing, Perfect first-time quality, Waste minimization, Continuous improvement, Flexibility, Building and maintaining a long term relationship with suppliers, Autonomation, Load leveling and Production flow and Visual control.

These types of cultural norms are consistent with ( and supportive of ) the objectives behind empowerment, total quality management, transformational leadership, continuous improvement, re-engineering, and learning organizations.

These changes are particularly concerned with areas such as elimination of subjectivity and bias, training of appraisers, improvement of the feedback process and the performance review discussion .”

These are assumed to also possess positronic brains in some form or fashion with each being an improvement over the last.

These three chains are subsidiaries of big retail store companies which also have other kind of business units like department stores and home improvement outlets.

These alleged refugees claimed the ancestry of Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out some 15 centuries before the fall of Assyria ), they also contradictionally claimed ancestry from Nabopolassar, a Babylonian king of Chaldean extraction who played a major part in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire.

These include 1981's Modern Romance, where Brooks played a film editor desperate to win back his ex-girlfriend ( Kathryn Harrold ).

These conditions played an important role in the development of the structure theory of commutative rings in the works of David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, and Emil Artin.

These are high-level tests to test the completeness of a user story or stories ' played ' during any sprint / iteration.

These themes are played out in the stories of the three main characters, Samuel, Saul and David.

These games usually require no materials, and are played with spoken words or hand gestures.

These were also hung over the shoulder of the drummer and typically played with two drum sticks.

These pads make no significant sound themselves, but purely trigger the electronic sound, and are played with the same drum sticks as other drum kit components.

These beings may be the origin of the Greco-Roman Galli, androgynous beings of the third sex, similar to the American Indian berdache, who played an important part in early religious ritual.

These contrasting traditions may be vestiges of historical performance settings: large concert halls in which violins were played required more instruments, before electronic amplification, than did more intimate dance halls and houses fiddles were played in.

These manuals offer a great deal of information to dance historians and musicologists alike in that each description of a dance is accompanied by music examples with lute tablature and directions about how each music example is to be played.

These upgrades have played a key role in supporting Greece's economy, which in the past decade has come to rely heavily on the construction industry.

These systems played a role in ending the guilds ' dominance, as trade secret methods were superseded by modern firms directly revealing their techniques, and counting on the state to enforce their legal monopoly.

This early interest in Heidegger followed Marcuse's demand for “ concrete philosophy ,” which, he declared in 1928, “ concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence .” These words were directed against the neo-Kantianism of the mainstream, and against both the revisionist and orthodox Marxist alternatives, in which the subjectivity of the individual played little role.

These experiences can be played out and studied as they are lived, or as game moves played and analyzed in the pages of the Libro de juegos.

These elements were played up in various stories throughout the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Elliot S. Maggin's novel Last Son of Krypton.

However, Ludo played in the Indian Subcontinent has a resting place in each quadrant, normally the fourth square from the top in the right most column. These spaces are usually marked with a star.

These funds played a central role in the reindustrialization of Germany.

These early stars likely played a role in the cloud's formation, since the number of close stellar passages within the cluster was much higher than today, leading to far more frequent perturbations.

These dams, along with a series of headworks and barrages built by the British and expanded since independence, are of vital importance to the national economy and played an important role in calming the raging floodwaters of 1992, which devastated large areas in the northern highlands and the Punjab plains.

These stories have played a role in the real life discussion of human enhancement.

These games were rescheduled to be played the week after the regular season was supposed to end, delaying the playoffs and Super Bowl XXXVI

These included a grand piano salvaged from a demolition and apparently played every morning by Paul McCartney, a neighbour in Rye in East Sussex.