It is responsible for the provision and maintenance of navigational aids, such as lighthouses, lightvessels, buoys, and maritime radio / satellite communication systems.

According to the contract award, administration and economic exploitation includes the provision of all airport services, maintenance and management of the terminal, runway, ramp, airport facilities, visual aids for approach and access roads.

People with significantly reduced acuity may benefit from training conducted by individuals trained in the provision of technical aids.

The competent harbour authority for the river from the Severn Road Bridges up to Sharpness is Gloucester Harbour Trustees-they are responsible for navigation aids in the channel and for the provision of pilots.

During the 1940s, with the introduction of the National Health Service ( NHS ) to the UK, it successfully campaigned for the provision of free hearing aids through the new welfare state system.

Moreover, the teachers are usually those unqualified with few teaching aids and poor textbook provision.

They may also oversee the maintenance and provision of navigational aids within the port, co-ordinate responses to emergencies, inspect vessels and oversee pilotage services.

`` Your aids are your attitude, which comes through your voice, your hands and legs -- voice to encourage, discourage or whatever the need may be ; ;

The Germanic poet had such aids in the kennings, which provided for the difficulties of alliteration ; ;

Most bees are fuzzy and carry an electrostatic charge, which aids in the adherence of pollen.

One of the primary characteristics present in most sharks is the heterocercal tail, which aids in locomotion.

The view of the Church is that celibacy is a reflection of life in Heaven, a source of detachment from the material world which aids in one's relationship with God.

The dentist's supporting team – which includes dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental technicians, and dental therapists – aids in providing oral health services.

Illness is often not due to infection but a collection of evolved responses, sickness behavior, by the body which aids the clearing of infection.

There are techniques and technical aids, which manage or even conceal symptoms of the disorder.

In the written style known as kanbun, which is the Japanese approximation of Classical Chinese, small marks called kunten are sometimes added as reading aids.

Other episodes of the Mahabharata – Indralokâgama, and three others ( Berlin, 1824 ); Diluvium, and three others ( Berlin, 1829 ); a new edition of Nala ( Berlin, 1832 ) – followed in due course, all of which, with A. W. Schlegel's edition of the Bhagavad Gita ( 1823 ), proved excellent aids in initiating the early student into the reading of Sanskrit texts.

Aside from written numerals, the first aids to computation were purely mechanical devices which required the operator to set up the initial values of an elementary arithmetic operation, then manipulate the device to obtain the result.

Labour demand is a derived demand ; that is, hiring labour is not desired for its own sake but rather because it aids in producing output, which contributes to an employer's revenue and hence profits.

Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

The normal aids that a judge has include access to all previous cases in which a precedent has been set, and a good English dictionary.

For example, the pasteurization standards for cream differ from the standards for fluid milk, and the standards for pasteurizing cheese are designed to preserve the phosphatase enzyme, which aids in cutting.

Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked as follows: all actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth.

All the foregoing rules and aids and difficulties in classification are explained, if I do not greatly deceive myself, on the view that the natural system is founded on descent with modification ; that the characters which naturalists consider as showing true affinity between any two or more species, are those which have been inherited from a common parent, and, in so far, all true classification is genealogical ; that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, ...

In comparison with other strength sports, which test limit strength ( with or without lifting aids ), Olympic weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits ( explosive strength ) and are therefore executed faster — and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution-than other lifts.

Larger-diameter woks with stick-type handles frequently incorporate a " helper " handle consisting of a loop on the opposite side of the wok, which aids in handling.

Wombats have an extraordinarily slow metabolism, taking around 8 to 14 days to complete digestion, which aids their survival in arid conditions.

It includes: ( a ) the cryptographic aids prescribed ; ( b ) the holders thereof ; ( c ) the indicators or other means of identification ; ( d ) the area or areas in which effective ; ( e ) the special purpose, if any, for which provided ; and ( f ) pertinent notes as to distribution, usage, etc.

Sky polarization was thought to be perceived by pigeons, which was assumed to be one of their aids in homing, but research indicates this is a popular myth.

During periods throughout the summer months there may be a large amount of Sargassum, a brown seaweed, that washes up on the shore which aids in shore development by acting to hold sand in place, which can eventually build up the shoreline.

In the epic quest line ( Volume I Book II ) the player aids Radagast in dealing with corruption in the Lone-Lands, ending in a confrontation with the Gaunt-Lord Ivar, who is bested by Radagast and driven away.

Although they are this way, their mischief somehow often aids Speed away from danger.

Underarm hair wicks the moisture away from the skin and aids in keeping the skin dry enough to prevent or diminish bacterial colonization.

Malick supported what Almendros was doing and pushed the look of the film further, taking away more lighting aids, and leaving the image bare.

Planning on running away with her, he aids her in taking a boat to the continent.

He often speaks in innuendo and encrypted dialogue to both Parker and Spider-Man that aids him in his endeavors, and provides covers and alibies to aid Peter in slipping away from school activities to do his superhero work.

When the Cybermen attack, she aids the Doctor and Jamie in defeating them before stowing away aboard the TARDIS.

As soon as he is brought up to date on the rebellion, Droid Town is attacked by Milbots who have stumbled across the town ; Glitch aids in the defense of the city, then pursues one Mil that had gotten away, so he could not report the location of Droid Town to General Corrosive.

Lubrication aids the cutting action and carries swarf away.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

Toothpaste is used to promote oral hygiene: it serves as an abrasive that aids in removing the dental plaque and food from the teeth, assists in suppressing halitosis, and delivers active ingredients such as fluoride or xylitol to help prevent tooth and gum disease ( gingivitis ).

Saliva cleans the oral cavity, moistens the food, and contains digestive enzymes such as salivary amylase, which aids in the chemical breakdown of polysaccharides such as starch into disaccharides such as maltose.

In this approach the most important external aids used are the collected oral traditions upon which Muslim scholars based Islamic history and law.

Examinations are usually either oral or written and in most cases the student is allowed to use all types of aids except for communication with other people.

Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter ( i. e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name ) and because of the oral transmission of the poems ; they are mnemonic aids to the poet and the audience alike.

Examples of audism include ; parents refusing to use sign language in the home and forcing their deaf or hard of hearing child to lipread and use speech, hearing people who know at least some sign language but refusing to use it and instead speaking loudly because the deaf person " can hear and speak to some degree ," focusing on hearing aids and other methods to " fix " a deaf person and make them more hearing / oral, not using sign language in the presence of a deaf person, excluding a deaf person from an activity because they " can't hear.