One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..

Another study has demonstrated that daily use of an alum-containing mouthrinse was safe and produced a significant effect on plaque that supplemented the benefits of daily toothbrushing.

The very existence of baryons is also a significant issue in cosmology because it is assumed that the Big Bang produced a state with equal amounts of baryons and antibaryons.

The Pearl of Great Price is a selection of material produced by Joseph Smith, Jr. and deals with many significant aspects of the faith and doctrine of the Church.

Nevertheless, Gregory VII ’ s dramatization of the issue produced a significant improvement in the character of men raised to the episcopacy.

The systems are sufficiently similar that a significant fraction of the compiled software produced for one machine will run on the other.

The recent ice ages produced no significant glaciation in mainland Australia but long periods of cold and very dry weather.

Sometimes, for the sake of appearance or of the desired " feel " of the instrument, a drum with a trigger will be used as a trigger pad by muffling it so heavily that no significant sound at all is produced, see Electronic drum # Acoustic triggered drum kit.

Although magnesium and manganese are produced by weathering, exchanges between soil organic matter and living cells account for a significant portion of ecosystem fluxes.

Conducted during the war years, into the 1950s, under tightly controlled conditions, they produced highly significant results suggestive of precognitive telepathy.

Rhine and other parapsychologists found that some subjects, or some conditions, produced significant below-chance scoring ( psi-missing ); or that scores declined during the testing ( the " decline effect ").

Parapsychologists have argued that the data from numerous studies show that certain individuals have consistently produced remarkable results while the remainder have constituted a highly significant trend that cannot be dismissed even if the effect is small.

However, there was still significant interest in motion pictures for films to be produced without sound.

Also during this period a number of other significant films were produced in Todd-AO, developed by Mike Todd shortly before his death, including Oklahoma!

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

In 1538 these mines produced significant quantities of gold.

Besides manufacturing Australia's best selling car, which was exported in significant numbers, Holden continued to export many locally produced engines to power cars made elsewhere.

Furthermore, significant amounts of tritium and helium-3 have been deliberately produced in national arsenal nuclear reactors by the irradiation of lithium-6.

A significant technical influence was the early networking work at Xerox PARC, which produced the PARC Universal Packet protocol suite, much of which existed around that time.

The famous playwright Chikamatsu Monzaemon, one of the first professional kabuki playwrights, produced several influential works, though the piece usually acknowledged as his most significant, Sonezaki Shinju ( The Love Suicides at Sonezaki ), was originally written for bunraku.

The total ( harmful ) air emissions produced by wood kilns, including their heat source, can be significant.

The outbreak of World War I in 1914 cut off most of the European market, which played a much more significant part of the revenue and profit for MPPC members than for the independents, who concentrated on Westerns produced for a primarily American market.

Macquarie University showed a significant drop in the 2007 THES-QS World University Rankings ( From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings ).

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Although in fact it has a different organisation and a wholly civil mission, its training and activities over more than two decades as an anti-terrorist force have produced markedly military characteristics, giving it the appearance of a virtual fourth military service with significant land, sea and air capabilities and approximately 140, 000 personnel.

For example, if a graph has 17 valid 3-colorings, the SAT formula produced by the reduction will have 17 satisfying assignments.

The second process includes the direct binding of chromium ( V ), produced by reduction in the cell, and chromium ( IV ) compounds to the DNA.

Data compression ratio, also known as compression power, is a computer-science term used to quantify the reduction in data-representation size produced by a data compression algorithm.

Thus, if the Cl < sup >–</ sup > ion is favored for reduction, then the water reaction is favored for oxidation producing gaseous oxygen, however experiments show gaseous chlorine is produced and not oxygen.

The reaction to Napoleon's conquests of German countries during the era of the French Revolution ( 1790s to 1815 ), produced important institutional reforms, including the abolition of feudal restrictions on the sale of large landed estates, the reduction of the power of the guilds in the cities, and the introduction of a new, more efficient commercial law.

Eiffel established that the lift produced by an airfoil was the result of a reduction of air pressure above the wing rather than an increase of pressure acting on the under surface.

Often this is done with drugs produced by catalytic reduction, hydrogenation, oxidation, or the like, producing strong derivatives of morphine and codeine.

Artificial < sup > 237 </ sup > Np is produced through the reduction of < sup > 237 </ sup > NpF < sub > 3 </ sub > with barium or lithium vapor at around 1200 ° C and is most often extracted from spent nuclear fuel rods as a by-product in plutonium production.

Metallic sodium was first produced commercially in 1855 by carbothermal reduction of sodium carbonate at 1100 ° C, in what is known as the Deville process:

Roscoe eventually produced the metal in 1867 by reduction of vanadium ( II ) chloride, VCl < sub > 2 </ sub >, with hydrogen.

In each case it was found that the least cost solution was dramatically less costly than the same amount of pollution reduction produced by any conventional abatement strategy.

Retinol is produced in the body from the hydrolysis of retinyl esters, and from the reduction of retinal.

Note reduction in phase has produced detailed information concerning the exact sequence of temple construction

Key points of the Lang Plan included the reduction of interest owed by Australian Governments on debts within Australia to 3 %, the cancellation of interest payments to overseas bondholders and financiers on government borrowings, the injection of more funds into the nation's money supply as central bank credit for the revitalisation of industry and commerce, and the abolition of the Gold standard, to be replaced by a " Goods Standard ," whereby the amount of currency in circulation would be fixed to the amount of goods produced within the Australian economy.

The report concluded that the set of interventions in the organization produced a 50 % improvement in safety, a 15 % to 20 % reduction in key benchmark costs, a 50 % increase in return on capital, and a 20 % increase in raw steel production.

The partial Hertzian cones produced during lithic reduction are called flakes, and exhibit features characteristic of this sort of breakage, including striking platforms, bulbs of force, and occasionally eraillures, which are small secondary flakes detached from the flake's bulb of force.

Flakes produced by soft hammers are generally smaller and thinner than those produced by hard-hammer flaking ; thus, soft-hammer flaking is often used after hard-hammer flaking in a lithic reduction sequence to do finer work.

The term ' lithic analysis ' can technically refer to the study of any anthropogenic ( human-created ) stone, but in its usual sense it is applied to archaeological material that was produced through lithic reduction ( knapping ) or ground stone.

It may somehow result in a reduction in the amount of lactic acid produced by the muscles, though serum lactate is typically slightly elevated with MADD.

Season 23 featured a reduction in episodes produced, and the 14-episode-long serial The Trial of a Time Lord.

Cupels and scorifiers were mass produced as after each reduction the vessels would have absorbed all of the lead and become fully saturated.

In DNA-DNA hybridization, the percent similarity of DNA between two species is estimated by the reduction in hydrogen bonding between nucleotides of imperfectly complemented heteroduplex DNA ( i. e., double stranded DNAs that are experimentally produced from single strands of two different species ), compared with perfectly matched homoduplex DNA ( both strands of DNA from the same species ).

Later, 35mm anamorphic reduction prints were produced for exhibition in theatres with anamorphic Cinemascope-compatible projection lenses.

A 2010 Cochrane review found that abrupt cessation and gradual reduction with pre-quit NRT produced similar quit rates whether or not pharmacotherapy or psychological support was used.