Rep. Henry C. Grover, who teaches history in the Houston public schools, would reduce from 24 to 12 semester hours the so-called `` teaching methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior high school teaching certificate.

Therefore, to obtain optimum performance of the fuel cell, a high operating temperature is required.

All other firearms held in custody remained there however, until the repeal of the Garda policy following a high court case taken by an Irish shooter ( Frank Brophy ) to obtain a licence for an Olympic target shooting pistol succeeded and the licence was granted.

Nuclear fission weapons must use an extremely high quality, highly-enriched fuel exceeding the critical size and geometry ( critical mass ) in order to obtain an explosive chain reaction.

First, it was necessary to obtain the divine will of the gods respecting his appointment by means of the auspices, since the king would serve as high priest of Rome.

Higher sensitivity was also necessary to obtain high statistical confidence in its results.

A turbomolecular pump is a type of vacuum pump, superficially similar to a turbopump, used to obtain and maintain high vacuum.

" Unobtainium " has come to be used as a synonym for " unobtainable " among people who are neither science fiction fans nor engineers, to denote an object that actually exists, but which is very hard to obtain either because of high price ( sometimes referred to as " unaffordium ") or limited availability.

First it obtains a rough vacuum in the vessel being evacuated before the momentum transfer pump can be used to obtain the high vacuum, as momentum transfer pumps cannot start pumping at atmospheric pressures.

Herschel discovered that unfilled telescope apertures can be used to obtain high angular resolution, something which became the essential basis for interferometric imaging in astronomy ( in particular Aperture Masking Interferometry and hypertelescopes ).

Others were able to obtain such a high position early on, but few lasted long, and after serving a prince or king there was nowhere to go but down.

The difference in speeds is proportional to the square root of the mass ratio, so the amount of separation is small and many cascaded stages are needed to obtain high purity.

Many species of mosquitoes are not blood eaters, and many of those that do create a " high to low pressure " in the blood to obtain it do not transmit disease.

There are three main ways to simulate high Reynolds number, since it is not practical to obtain full scale Reynolds number by use of a full scale vehicle.

Finally, the z-pinch machine, not using lasers, is expected to obtain a high fusion energy gain, as well as capability for repetitive working, starting around 2010.

This non-invasive technique allows one to obtain a 3D volumetric or high resolution cross-sectional tomogram of the retinal fine structure with histologic-quality.

In the more traditional BJT, also referred to as homojunction BJT, the efficiency of carrier injection from the emitter to the base is primarily determined by the doping ratio between the emitter and base, which means the base must be lightly doped to obtain high injection efficiency, making its resistance relatively high.

Many victimless crimes begin because of a desire to obtain illegal products or services that are in high demand.

For these reasons, it is possible to obtain cheap digital cameras with sensor sizes much smaller than 35mm film, but with high pixel counts, that can still produce high-resolution images.

Marked by the buyout of Dex Media in 2002, large multi-billion dollar U. S. buyouts could once again obtain significant high yield debt financing and larger transactions could be completed.

The citizenship issue arose partly because of his high position within BSA, and the federal charter West was attempting to obtain for the BSA required its board members to be United States citizens.

It has a high melting point and single crystals are relatively hard to obtain.

When the Zeeman effect is small compared to zero-field state separations, line width, and kT and when the line shape is independent of H, it could be obtain to first order in H for the expression of Δk, assuming j to be sufficiently high in energy that N < sub > j </ sub > = 0, and it is given by:

at least bunny-hopping, strafe-jumping and rocket-jumping -- in all of which the player exploits the particular characteristics of the physics engine in question to obtain a high speed and / or height, or other attribute ( s ); e. g. with rocket-jumping the player will jump and fire at rocket at the floor area immediately under the feet of the same player, which will cause the player to jump higher compared to a regular jump as a result of the rocket blast ( at the obvious expense of the health variable being somewhat reduced from self-inflicted injury ).

Contrary to these expectations we have found it impossible to obtain the degree of reproducibility one would wish, even with extensive efforts to prepare especially pure reagents.

Housman obtained a first in classical Moderations in 1879, but his immersion in textual analysis, particularly with Propertius, led him to neglect ancient history and philosophy, which formed part of the Greats curriculum, and thus he failed to obtain a degree.

He enrolled in a program of graduate studies, nominally working towards a PhD in linguistics, but he never actually attempted to obtain a degree, satisfying himself with participating in the intellectual community around Sapir.

In fact, the perceived need for some kind of graduate credential is so strong that some undergraduate BME programs will actively discourage students from majoring in BME without an expressed intention to also obtain a masters degree or apply to medical school afterwards.

At some community colleges, the partnering four-year institution teaches the third and fourth year courses at the community college location and thereby allows a student to obtain a four year degree without having to physically move to the four-year school.

Upper levels of degree are anyway shown in the title, as those who obtain a master's degree can be referred to as " dottore / dottoressa magistrale " ( masterly doctor ) while those who achieve the relatively new program of " dottorato di ricerca " ( research doctorate, equivalent of a Ph. D .), carry the title of " dottore / dottoressa di ricerca " ( research doctor ), which can be abbreviated as " Dott.

The school possesses an extremely international student body and the opportunity to truly obtain a global MBA degree.

Typically to work in higher education as a member of the academic faculty, a candidate must first obtain a doctorate in an academic field, although some lower teaching positions require only a master's degree.

Described by one source as a " determined, rather plodding organizer ", he failed to obtain a degree, but, according to the Jesuit priest, Father François Ponchaud, he acquired a taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of Karl Marx.

In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team ( to work on a SPARC port ), but lacked the university degree required to obtain a work H-1B visa.

The next step is to obtain a master's degree in neuroscience ( two years to complete ) and then a Ph. D. ( at least four years ).

His reputation for learning was such as to obtain for him, soon after his arrival, the degree of doctor of divinity from both universities, and in 1690 he received from Bishop Gilbert Burnet the more substantial honour of the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral.

After completing their technical college diploma, graduates have the opportunity to pursue their studies at the university level to perhaps obtain a bachelor's degree in physiotherapy, kinesiology, exercise science, or occupational therapy.

Although he did not obtain a degree, he performed graduate-level work in philosophy and journalism at the University of Chicago.

It also provides students the opportunity to obtain a second bachelor degree in any other discipline with only one more year of study.

Students may also obtain an interdisciplinary general science degree, or prepare for graduate work in the health professions.

After his first trip to Africa, Turnbull traveled to Yellowknife in the northwest territories of Canada, where he worked as a geologist and gold miner for approximately a year, before he went back to school to obtain another degree.

Gilbreth completed a dissertation and attempted to obtain a doctorate from the University of California in 1911, but was not awarded the degree due to noncompliance with residency requirements for doctoral candidates ; this dissertation was later published as The Psychology of Management.

The probabilities of crossover ( pc ) and mutation ( pm ) greatly determine the degree of solution accuracy and the convergence speed that genetic algorithms can obtain.

Also, if the two dipoles were fed with a 90 ° degree time-phase difference ( phase quadrature ), the polarization along zenith would be circular ... One way to obtain the 90 ° time-phase difference between the two orthogonal field components, radiated respectively by the two dipoles, is by feeding one of the two dipoles with a transmission line which is 1 / 4 wavelength longer or shorter than that of the other ", p. 80 ;

As an alternative to using a dual-attached connection, a workstation can obtain the same degree of resilience through a dual-homed connection made simultaneously to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring.

Individuals looking to obtain a construction engineering degree must first ensure that the program is accredited by EAC or Technology Accreditation Commission ( TAC ) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology ( ABET ).

He did exceedingly well in school and went to London to obtain a law degree.

After two years of business and leadership education, students obtain a Masters of Business Administration ( MBA ) degree from Tsinghua University as well as both a certificate from the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Sloan affiliate alumni status.