This can serve to apply the correct conventions used for alphabetical ordering in the language in question, dealing properly with differently cased letters, modified letters, digraphs, particular abbreviations and so on, as mentioned above under Alphabetical order, and in detail in the Alphabetical order article.

See the genetically modified food controversies article for discussion of these issues.

See the genetically modified food controversies article for discussion of issues about GM crops and GM food.

This article focuses on history and methods of genetic engineering, and on applications of genetic engineering and of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ).

' In the second case, he cites an example that demonstrates ignorance of statistical principles in the lay press: ' Since no such proof is possible genetically modified food is harmless, the article in The New York Times was what is called a " bad rap " against the U. S. Department of Agriculture-a bad rap based on a junk-science belief that it's possible to prove a null hypothesis.

Western-style dishes developed in, or significantly modified in Japan, such as tonkatsu ( pork cutlet ) and other deep-fried dishes, curry rice are referred to as yōshoku, and discussed in its own article.

In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of measurement, and that they cannot combine with an indefinite article ( a or an ).

500 CE ) modified the above eightfold system, substituting " interjection " for " article ".

In English, proper names in their primary application cannot normally be modified by an article or other determiner ( such as any or another ), although some may be taken to include the article the, as in The Gambia, The Roaring Forties, or the Rolling Stones.

After he returned to the US, Byrd wrote an article for the August 1927 edition of Popular Science Monthly in which he predicted that while specially modified aircraft with one to three crewmen would fly the Atlantic non-stop, it would be another 20 year before it would be realized on a commercial scale.

This article is about a well-known form of team sport with modified rules that is often played in physical education classes and has been featured in a movie, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.

* Original article from the public domain resource here — note that this has not been modified since 1998, and may be out of date.

* Stephen White's excellent Computer history site ( the above article is a modified version of his work, used with Permission )

The word " alcohol ", for instance, derives from the Arabic al-kuhl, al being an article, yet " the alcohol " is universally accepted as good grammar ; relevant differences, however, are that a ) hoi polloi is transliterated but otherwise unmodified, whereas alcohol is altered in both pronunciation and associated spelling to form an independent word, and b ) hoi polloi is left standing as a multiple-word phrase, with one word devoted exclusively to the function of the definite article, whereas in alcohol the grammatical particle serving as an article is assimilated into the ( heavily modified ) word.

This article is a slightly modified version of the article on Jampa Tsering from Unity and discord: Music and politics in contemporary Tibet ( 2004, Tibet Information Network, ISBN 0-9541961-6-3 ).

Erratum: The definition of Palatini torsion S ( called " modified torsion " in the 1986 paper ) contains a factor of two that, while arbitrary, causes confusion, and is omitted in this article.

On August 18, 2007, it was discovered that someone from an IP address belonging to the ESA modified the modchip and abandonware articles in Wikipedia, by changing article content to represent legal opinions held by the ESA.

This article incorporates text from the U. S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection's pages and documents on the Container Security Initiative, modified for a more global perspective.

An article by Goren-Inbar and S. Peltz ( 1995 ) claims it has been modified to represent a female human figure, identifying it as a possible artefact made by Homo erectus of the later Acheulean, in the early Middle Paleolithic.

Caragiale also wrote Două note (" Two Notes "), an article accusing Maiorescu of having modified and censored some of Eminescu's poems, and of having exploited the poet for financial gain.

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

Using a steering system that controlled the modified rocket's tail surfaces and wings equipped with ailerons, Fiedler was to land the missile on a skid especially bolted under the fuselage.

In Greece, the script was modified to add the vowels, giving rise to the ancestor of all alphabets in the West.

When it was decided that Asteroids would be a vector game as well, Delman modified a Lunar Lander circuit board for Ed Logg.

' Gelignite ', or blasting gelatin, as it was named, was patented in 1876 ; and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.

The phonetic structure of the Greek language created too many ambiguities when the vowels went unrepresented, so the script was modified.

This means that even facilities that have not been modified or altered in any way after the ADA was passed still have obligations.

A modified infrageneric classification of Amaranthus was published by Mosyakin & Robertson ( 1996 ) and includes three subgenera: Acnida, Amaranthus, and Albersia.

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides ; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system.

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.

It also was responsible for switching to ROM BASIC when the system was turned on with the break key pressed, and later supported a primitive LAN system, using the RS232 port with modified cabling.

The color memory was also available in the " normal " TRS-80 and CP / M text modes, which meant that existing TRS-80 and CP / M software could be easily modified to add color.

The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.

After the death of his master the school of Syria was dispersed, and Aedesius seems to have modified his doctrines out of fear of Constantine, and took refuge in divination.

The three cup anemometer was further modified by the Australian Derek Weston in 1991 to measure both wind direction and wind speed.

It was fabricated by AMD in a slightly modified version of their CS44E process, a 0. 25 µm complementary metal – oxide – semiconductor ( CMOS ) process with six levels of aluminium interconnect.

The Atari 8-bit family had their own Atari BASIC that was modified in order to fit on an 8 kB ROM cartridge.

Because less defensive emphasis was placed on the use of the forearms and more on the gloves, the classical forearms outwards, torso leaning back stance of the bare knuckle boxer was modified to a more modern stance in which the torso is tilted forward and the hands are held closer to the face.

The radar altimeters used were modified U. S. Army Air Corps APS-13 fighter tail warning radars, nicknamed " Archie ", originally designed to warn a pilot of another plane approaching from behind.

Although originally expressed in Newton's third law, the conservation of linear momentum also holds in special relativity ( with a modified formula ) and, with appropriate definitions, a ( generalized ) linear momentum conservation law holds in electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and general relativity.

Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, is an Angevin charter, originally issued in Latin in the year 1215, translated into vernacular-French as early as 1219, and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions.

However Halteria and its close relatives, originally considered oligotrichs, form a separate group and may even be modified stichotrichs.

( Enterprise, the test vehicle which was the prototype for Columbia, originally had the same wing markings as Columbia but with the letters " USA " on the right wing spaced closer together ; Enterprises markings were modified to match Challenger in 1983.

* Palazzo Beneventano del Bosco, originally built in the Middle Ages but extensively modified between 1779 and 1788.

The design of UTF ‑ 8 is most easily seen in the table of the scheme as originally proposed by Dave Prosser and subsequently modified by Ken Thompson ( the's are replaced by the bits of the code point ):

As with Constitution Day, the holiday was originally celebrated every year on the same date ( March 21 ), but the federal labor law was modified in 2005 so the holiday is always celebrated on a Monday.

Finally, in 1914 the border between East and West Timor was finalized by a treaty between Holland and Portugal that was originally signed in 1859 and modified in 1893.

The lyrebird is so called because the male bird has a spectacular tail consisting of 16 highly modified feathers ( two long slender lyrates at the centre of the plume, two broader medians on the outside edges and twelve filamentaries arrayed between them ), which was originally thought to resemble a lyre.

Ancona was founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse about 387 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning " elbow "; the harbour to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow.

" The word universitas originally applied only to the scholastic guild ( or guilds )— that is, the corporation of students and masters — within the studium, and it was always modified, as universitas magistrorum, or universitas scholarium, or universitas magistrorum et scholarium.

Though originally reported to be based strongly on the Ford Evos concept car, the development of the Fusion based on the Evos indicates that, while the Mustang is expected to borrow some styling from the concept, it will not rely as heavily upon it and there has been no indication from Ford whether it will share the global platform with the Fusion and Ford Mondeo or sit upon a modified version of its current platform.

Space Launch Complex 6 ( SLC-6, pronounced as " Slick Six "), originally built for the abandoned Manned Orbital Laboratory project, was extensively modified for shuttle operations.

The gun, originally a starter's pistol, had been modified into an operable weapon that was loaded with eight cartridges.

" ( The prop for the Jet VTOL was originally from the 1962 Toho SF epic, Gorath, but repainted and probably modified for this series.

This differs from the crematorium that was set up in nearby Glyntaff ; this in contrast was a chapel that was originally used for traditional burials and modified to serve as a crematorium.

The algorithm for isolating the roots, using Descartes ' rule of signs and Vincent's theorem, had been originally called modified Uspensky's algorithm by its inventors Collins and Akritas.

Although originally designed for Formula One, the engine has been modified to be used in a range of categories.

Such was the expansion involved that the Council Chamber, originally designed to accommodate 80 members, had to be modified to seat the representatives of the new wards.

PIC is a family of modified Harvard architecture microcontrollers made by Microchip Technology, derived from the PIC1650 originally developed by General Instrument's Microelectronics Division.

For example, YACC ( Yet Another Compiler Compiler ) takes input in Backus-Naur form and converts it to a parser in C. Though it was originally created for automatic generation of a parser for a compiler, yacc is also often used to automate writing code that needs to be modified each time specifications are changed.

The typical weekday Amidah actually consists of nineteen blessings, though it originally had eighteen ; when the Amidah is modified for specific prayers or occasions, the first three blessings and the last three remain constant, framing the Amidah used in each service, while the middle thirteen blessings are replaced by blessings specific to the occasion.

The earlier draft had originally been prepared by Justice Abe Fortas before he was forced to resign in the midst of an ethics scandal, and would have included a modified version of the clear and present danger test.