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This system was invented in 1981 by Peter Tompkins, of Birkenhead, as a method of classifying the results of Cambridge colleges, and a table compiled by Tompkins on this basis was published on 28 August by The Times ( 28 Aug 1981, p. 10 ) alongside a table using the Norrington scoring system, which had been compiled by the Cambridge Evening News.
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( That corpus of law was a reflection of the power system in existence during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Bluntly, there never was a Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.
This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.
He was the first of 2,800,000 called to the Army through the selective service system.
The Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not invented by the new Administration, but only made more consistent and more active.
Behind were privies, for there was no sewage system.
Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.
Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
As the Juniors entered the ring, Mr. Spring, the announcer, stated over the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster has held the Finals of the Junior Competition.
) This is the same system as was used in the field-sequential color-TV system which preceded the present simultaneous system.
In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.
The magnetic resonance absorption was detected by employing a Varian model Af broad line spectrometer and the associated 12-inch electromagnet system.
-- Matheson highest purity tank chlorine was passed through a tube of resublimed Af into an evacuated Pyrex system where it was condensed with liquid air.
This chlorine-carbon tetrachloride solution was illuminated for a day following which the flask was resealed onto a vacuum system and the excess chlorine distilled off.
The numbering system used in Tables 1 and 2 and Figures 1 and 2 was continued for the 21 growth centers.
The whole system was again reviewed and reorganized in 1933.
The system was not well adapted to conditions of life in urban centers.
The system tended to break down during the war, but was reactivated ; ;
The same system, with minor modifications, was developed in Ruanda-Urundi under Belgian administration.
Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.
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Abjads differ from abugidas, another category invented by Daniels, in that in abjads, the vowel sound is implied by phonology, and where vowel marks exist for the system, such as nikkud for Hebrew and harakāt for Arabic, their use is optional and not the dominant ( or literate ) form.
The decimal Hindu-Arabic numeral system was invented in India around 500 CE.
( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.
The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).
The current system of chemical notation was invented by Berzelius.
* 1943 -' 46: The Common-rail ( CRD ) system was invented ( and patented by ) Clessie Cummins
* 1962 -' 65: A diesel compression braking system, eventually to be manufactured by Jacobs ( of drill chuck fame ) and nicknamed the " Jake Brake ", was invented and patented by Clessie Cummins.
The end came suddenly, between approximately 1960 and 1970, when the shipping industry adopted the newly invented container system of cargo transportation.
Concerning information processing, DARPA made great progress, initially through its support of the development of time-sharing ( all modern operating systems rely on concepts invented for the Multics system, developed by a cooperation among Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT, which DARPA supported by funding Project MAC at MIT with an initial two-million-dollar grant ).
In Lichfield, Darwin wrote " didactic poetry, developed his system of evolution, and invented amongst other things, an organ able to recite the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments ".
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee invented the WorldWideWeb web browser and transformed an academic telecommunication network into a worldwide everyman everyday communication system called internet / www.
He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line.
In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee created ENQUIRE, an early hypertext database system somewhat like a wiki but without hypertext punctuation, which was not invented until 1987.
The decimal numeral system, including the concept of zero, was invented in India during this period.
This mechanism is called the double-action pedal system, probably invented by Sébastien Érard in 1810.
In 1974, del Rosario invented the Sing Along System ( SAS ) composed of a microphone, amplifier and system that had the innovation of adding effects to the user's voice such as reverb.
Because of this, the independently invented Minus One sing along system machines of Roberto del Rosario were very popular in homes and in private parties.
Mullis has also invented a UV-sensitive plastic that changes color in response to light, and most recently has been working on an approach for mobilizing the immune system to neutralize invading pathogens and toxins, leading to the formation of his current venture, Altermune LLC.
It originally was known as " LRN " for Loomis Radio Navigation, after Alfred Lee Loomis, who invented the longer range system and played a crucial role in military research and development during World War II, but later was renamed to the abbreviation for the more descriptive term.
In contrast, requiring only a single small incision, the " Bonati system " ( invented by Dr. Alfred Bonati ), uses a single 5-function control, so that a saline solution and the vacuum pump operate together when the laser cutter is activated.
Weights as in a box with weightsWhen the French invented the metric system in the late 18th century, they used an amount to define their mass unit.
" The term was invented by Sir John Lubbock in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.
However, by now most such languages have borrowed the numeral system or part of the numeral system of a national or colonial language, though in a few cases ( such as Guarani ), a numeral system has been invented internally rather than borrowed.
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