To provide the continuous flow of information basic to administrative decisions, a number of institutions have established offices of institutional research.

Therefore, since sound is in fact an infinitesimal pressure difference propagating through a fluid, the speed of sound in that fluid can be considered the fastest speed that " information " can travel in the flow.

By controlling information flow through biochemical signalling and the flow of chemical energy through metabolism, biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of life.

Communication is the flow or exchange of information within people or group of people.

* Flat organization: DARPA avoids hierarchy, essentially operating at only two management levels to ensure the free and rapid flow of information and ideas, and rapid decision-making.

The purpose of ERP is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization and manage the connections to outside stakeholders.

The case system allows for a flexible word order that reflects information flow and other pragmatic concerns, as in Russian, Greek, and Latin.

He is widely known for use of the term " central dogma " to summarize an idea that genetic information flow in cells is essentially one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein.

" In the book, Hayek writes that the government has a role to play in the economy through the monetary system, work-hours regulation, institutions for the flow of proper information, and other principles on which most members of a free society will tend to agree.

Bormann used his position to control the flow of information and access to Hitler, earning him enemies, including Himmler.

Structuring organizations in this way is useful partly because it can reduce the communication overhead by limiting information flow ; this is also its major limitation.

In the hacker viewpoint, any system could benefit from an easy flow of information, a concept known as transparency in the social sciences.

Effectively that kept the public at the bottom of the power chain, catching the flow of information that is handed down from experts / elites.

It is normal for M & A deal communications to take place in a so-called " confidentiality bubble " wherein the flow of information is restricted pursuant to confidentiality agreements.

In addition, patrons relied on their clients to provide an accurate flow of information on events throughout the country.

Francis Crick recognized the potential importance of the Griffith protein-only hypothesis for scrapie propagation in the second edition of his " Central dogma of molecular biology ": while asserting that the flow of sequence information from protein to protein, or from protein to RNA and DNA was " precluded ", he noted that Griffith's hypothesis was a potential contradiction ( although it was not so promoted by Griffith ).

Public relations ( PR ) is the practice of managing the flow of information between an individual or an organization and the public.

* Managing upstream and down stream value added flow of materials, final goods and related information among suppliers ; company ; resellers ; final consumers is supply chain management.

According to Lambert and Cooper ( 2000 ), operating an integrated supply chain requires a continuous information flow.

These groups benefited from the free flow of information and efficient telecommunications to succeed where others had failed.

Often, a block in a data flow diagram has a single input and a single output, and operate on discrete packets of information.

Combinations of different alleles thus go on to generate different traits through the information flow charted above.

In molecular biology and genetics, a transcription factor ( sometimes called a sequence-specific DNA-binding factor ) is a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow ( or transcription ) of genetic information from DNA to mRNA.

General Grant may have been the victim of false information in the instance reported in this book ; ;

All research within the United States contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this Act, shall be provided for in such manner that all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research developed by Government expenditure will ( with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense ) be available to the general public.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

Working in a vacuum of minimal information can result only in show pieces that look good in exhibitions and catalogs and may please the public relations department but have little to do with the essence of interior design.

Being a strictly physiological procedure, one may expect from such a study additional information on the nature of the emotional process itself.

Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.

Furthermore, it may be possible to estimate the error due to bias in method ( as distinguished from sampling error ) in each of these sources, on such subjects as fertility, mortality, and migration during a given interval by using information from two largely independent sources in conjunction.

To interpret, indeed, the era from 1000 to 800 as a period mainly of consolidation may be a necessary but unfortunate defect born of our lack of detailed information ; ;

The area may include constant information supplied by the programmer.

We may conclude that all six points of information, ostensibly given by the dream priest, could have been furnished by Dr. Hilprecht's subconscious reasoning.

Joking and talking may be freer and easier, but the important factual information is still lacking for far too many newly-married men and women.

However needed this may be, the fundamental problem is not information but active commitment to the total mission of the church of Christ in the world.

The role of both church and university as sources of information and settings within which the implications of such information may be explored needs consideration.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

For example, the same piece of information may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another.

If, after signing such a declaration, the information is found to be deliberately untrue with the intent to deceive, the applicant may face perjury charges.

In some cases, the cause of sensory ataxia may instead be dysfunction of the various parts of the brain which receive positional information, including the cerebellum, thalamus, and parietal lobes.

In an electrical signal, the voltage, current, or frequency of the signal may be varied to represent the information.

Any information may be conveyed by an analog signal ; often such a signal is a measured response to changes in physical phenomena, such as sound, light, temperature, position, or pressure.

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

The sentencing court may, of necessity, consider a broad range of information, including the evidence of the crime, the defendant's criminal history and the demeanor of the defendant, including the presence or absence of remorse.

It has dictation header information and can be encrypted ( as may be required by medical confidentiality laws ).

Target acquisition may also be by anyone that can get the information into the artillery system.