Also, since a DBMS is complex and expensive to build and maintain, it is not economical to build such a new tool ( DBMS ) for every application.

The paraplough or paraplow is a tool for loosening compacted soil layers 12 to 16 inches deep and still maintain high surface residue levels.

* Autossh-a tool to maintain a constant SSH connection, restarting it as necessary

" Lamont's view expressed in his memoirs was more nuanced: without the discipline of the ERM, the Major government would have given up on the fight against inflation before Black Wednesday ; ERM membership delivered a sharp break in Britain's inflation performance ; the judgment of the markets that the higher rates needed to maintain Britain's membership was undoubtedly correct ; " the ERM was a tool that broke in my hands when it had accomplished all that it could usefully do.

Many speakers resist using the term " machine tool " to refer to woodworking machinery ( joiners, table saws, routing stations, and so on ), but it is difficult to maintain any true logical dividing line, and therefore many speakers are fine with a broad definition.

Face-to-face interaction is often used as a tool to maintain the culture, authority, and norms of an organization or workplace.

" New editions are to a considerable extent simply another tool used by publishers and textbook authors to maintain their revenue stream, that is, to keep up prices ," A study conducted by The Student PIRGs found that a new edition costs 12 % more than a new copy of previous edition, and 58 % more than a used copy of the previous edition.

These cells maintain their shape by growing exclusively through the cell tips and divide by medial fission to produce two daughter cells of equal sizes, which makes them a powerful tool in cell cycle research.

A programming tool or software development tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications.

Another new test flying aboard Columbia is a laptop computer simulator that is being flown to see if it will qualify as a tool for helping the mission commander and pilot maintain their proficiency for approach and landing during longer duration Space Shuttle flights.

Michel Foucault proposed a linkage between linguistic signs and their cultures, stating that language practices help to maintain assumptions in a culture by serving as a tool for knowing and constructing the world.

Horatio was reluctant to act as the Merk's tool, but continued seeking out mass murderers to maintain his power and his sanity so that he could defend his homeworld, a lunar refuge of Ylum ( a shortening of the word " asylum ," thus pronounced " eye-lum ").

Whereas this term is often used for any unifacially flaked tool that defies classification, most lithic analysts maintain that the only true scrapers are defined on the base of use-wear, and are usually worked at their distal ends — i. e., " end scrapers.

For example, a numerically controlled lathe will accurately position the cutting tool according to a preprogrammed profile and compensate for varying load conditions and perturbing forces to maintain tool position.

While the purpose of the promotion / relegation system is to maintain competitive balance, it may also be used as a disciplinary tool in special cases.

" Since law was a tool " to maintain class domination ", in a classless society, law would inevitably disappear.

Furthermore, the Geographic Profiling Analysis ( GPA ) training programme ensures that geographic profiling analysis remains a recognized law enforcement tool ; a meaningful certification for crime analysts and detectives ; maintain a standard of quality through adequate qualifications in law enforcements ; and finally to establish an ethical code of conduct.

CLA use itself is not an answer to the prevalence of obesity, but it can be a useful tool in addition to a healthy lifestyle and exercise program to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight.

The user-space tool called ipset is used to set up, maintain and inspect so called “ IP sets ” in the Linux kernel.

Thermal neutrons are used to maintain a nuclear chain reaction in a nuclear reactor, and as a research tool in neutron science comprising scattering experiments and other applications ( see below ).

They may be employed to control riots as their name suggests, to disperse or control crowds, to maintain public order or discourage criminality, to protect people or property, to function as a tool of political repression by breaking up protests and suppressing dissent or civil disobedience.

The tool is fed continuously towards the workpiece to maintain a constant gap between them ( EDM may incorporate intermittent or cyclic, typically partial, tool withdrawal ).

He held that no group of colonists could set up or maintain a government without royal sanction.

* SWGEmu-An open source community project aimed to develop, maintain and expand a free Pre-CU-era Star Wars Galaxies server software set.

Alfred set up a system of defensive strong points ( Burhs ); in order to maintain these settlements, he granted them a degree of autonomy.

Plato posited a basic argument in The Laws ( Book X ), in which he argued that motion in the world and the Cosmos was " imparted motion " that required some kind of " self-originated motion " to set it in motion and to maintain that motion.

Due to the way the Christadelphian body is organised there is no central authority to establish and maintain a standardised set of beliefs and it depends what statement of faith is adhered to and how liberal the ecclesia is, but there are core doctrines most Christadelphians would accept.

Definitions of the niche date back to 1917, but G. Evelyn Hutchinson made conceptual advances in 1957 by introducing a widely adopted definition: " the set of biotic and abiotic conditions in which a species is able to persist and maintain stable population sizes.

Certain countries such as the United Kingdom are unaffected as they maintain more stringent gun control laws than those effectively set as a minimum by the European Union.

Much of the original British road system was poorly maintained by thousands of local parishes, but from the 1720s ( and occasionally earlier ) turnpike trusts were set up to charge tolls and maintain some roads.

He was unable to maintain the standards he had set in the West Indies, contributing little apart from the Lord's Test.

On top of that, higher healthcare costs might also be incurred and the government would need to set aside more money to maintain a good healthcare system to cater to the elderly.

By using standardisation, groups can easily communicate through the set guidelines, in order to maintain focus.

In 1992, SGI decided to clean up and reform IRIS GL and made the bold move of allowing the resulting OpenGL API to be cheaply licensed by SGI's competitors, and set up an industry-wide consortium to maintain the OpenGL standard ( the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ).

For example, the bridge path consists of the ( one-member ) group of stones at A and another ( one-member ) group of stones at C. The empty-point set is made up of the hexes B and D. For two paths to coexist and maintain the level of connectivity they have while independent, their empty-point sets must not contain any of the same hexes ( otherwise the opponent could play there ).

Managers must also set legal and ethical standards and maintain involvement in the museum profession .”

Organizations in individual nations, across Europe and worldwide, were set up to maintain these directives and associated standards.

It should be noted that critics of the WRSTC maintain that these standards are not, in fact, a set of standards that all member organizations must live up to, but are, in reality, just a " worst common denominator " of the standards that had been already independently adopted by the member organizations.

Though King Wu died just a few years after the Battle of Muye, the Duke of Zhou assisted the young and inexperienced King Cheng in consolidating power for the Ji line: he managed a war against rebellious Zhou princes in the eastern lowlands ( allied with feudal rulers and Shang remnants ); formulated the Mandate of Heaven doctrine to counter Shang claims to a divine right of rule ; founded Chengzhou as an eastern capital ; and set up the fengjian " feudal " system designed to maintain Zhou authority as it expanded its rule over a larger amount of territory.

Norman Walsh and the DocBook Project development team maintain the key application for producing output from DocBook source documents: A set of XSL stylesheets ( as well as a legacy set of DSSSL stylesheets ) that can generate high-quality HTML and print ( FO / PDF ) output, as well as output in other formats, including RTF, man pages and HTML Help.

Such agreements set forth the details of how traffic is to be exchanged, along with a list of expected activities which may be necessary to maintain the peering relationship, a list of activities which may be considered abusive and result in termination of the relationship, and details concerning how the relationship can be terminated.

As a result of flooding disasters water boards called waterschap ( when situated more inland ) or hoogheemraadschap ( near the sea, mainly used in Holland ) were set up to maintain the integrity of the water defences around polders, maintain the waterways inside a polder and control the various water levels inside and outside the polder.

These studies further suggest that pollinators may maintain a fidelity to either male or hermaphroditic flowers ( trees ), thus limiting pollination and fruit set under natural conditions where crossing between male and female flowers is required.

Brzezinski was careful, in managing his own weekly luncheons with secretaries Vance and Brown in preparation for NSC discussions, to maintain a complete set of notes.