Various disease states make body tissues more resistant to the actions of insulin.

* Various nations use frogmen equipped with rebreathers for some of the best known and most spectacular war actions: see Human torpedo.

Various abusive uses of this law including political libel ( criticism of the political actions or views of others ) have ceased to exist in most places, but persist in some jurisdictions ( notably British Columbia and Ontario ) where political views can be held as defamatory.

Various frictions with foreign shipping led Japan to take defensive actions from the beginning of the 19th century.

Various actions are employed in the course of a performance, including facial contortions such as showing the whites of the eyes and the poking out of the tongue, and a wide variety of vigorous body actions such as slapping the hands against the body and stamping of the feet.

Various texts have different opinions of his actions.

Various actuators are used to enforce the actions determined by the module ( turn the cooling fan on, change gear, etc .).

Various members of the local community have interpreted these actions as a violation of the constutional protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

Various pharmaceutical tuberculosis treatments their actions

Various medical practises in chronic patient care ( such as for diabetic patients ) already have a well defined set of terms and actions, which makes standard communication exchange easier, whether the exchange is initiated by the patient or the caregiver.

Various celebratory actions have been taken, including the creation of a centenary video, featuring interviews with previous headmasters, and brothers of the college.

Various exemptions from liability against breach of contract ; infringement of copyright, database right or publication right ; criminal liability or damages for defamation were also enacted by the 2003 Act to protect deposit libraries using works and publishers sending works to deposit libraries from actions for breach of those liabilities that could otherwise occur.

Various measures were carried out to improve conditions in the workplace.

Various point-like ornaments may be added to knitting for their look or to improve the wear of the fabric.

Various processes and methodologies have been developed over the last few decades to improve software quality management, with varying degrees of success.

Various accessories are available to improve the security or increase the rigidity of handcuffs, including boxes that fit over the chain or hinge and can themselves be locked with a padlock.

Various schemes were implemented to improve the town.

Various surface modifications to sodium bentonite improve some rheological or sealing performance in geoenviromental applications, for example, the addition of polymers.

Various other tax reforms were enacted such as an increase in the old age pension, incentives for renovation, and various initiatives designed to improve energy efficiency.

Various refractive eye surgery techniques change the shape of the cornea in order to reduce the need for corrective lenses or otherwise improve the refractive state of the eye.

Various attempts to improve the acoustics, including hanging draperies and reversing the seating arrangement, proved unsuccessful.

Various accompanying technologies improve the accuracy and efficiency of missiles, including the Artemis Fire Control System, NARC Missile Beacons and Streak.

Various plans to improve the traffic situation were drawn up between 1895 and 1919.

Various associated projects were made part of the park development, among them the " Elevengarten ", a garden for the pupils of the recently formed military academy, a " Schweizerey " ( cattle farm ), " Schäfery " ( sheep farm ) and " Ackerbauschule " ( arable farming school ) to improve farming techniques, and a " Vihearzneyschule " ( veterinary school ) for the treatment of cattle diseases.

Various companies have over the years tried new shapes that come within the laws of the game to make a name for themselves and to improve sales.

Various other extra wings have been tried from time to time, but nowadays it is more common for teams to seek to improve the performance of the front and rear wings by the use of various flow controllers such as the afore-mentioned " bull-horns " used by McLaren.

Various auto tuners offer aftermarket products for the BMW E63 / E64 that include improved engine software, throttle bodies, and exhaust sets that improve horsepower through the power band.

Various modifications to improve dislocation in the village have been made true in this decade.

Various add-on gadgets have been developed to improve functionality of vibrato systems.

Various classified methods are used to improve the performance of the reflection process.

Various health professionals argue that, despite potential conflicts between cost-saving and the organisation's Quality Use of Medicines mandate, the NPS will continue to improve on the current PBS system.

* Wind turbines ( see Gearless wind turbines ): Various companies have developed direct drive generators for wind turbines, which are designed to improve efficiency and decrease maintenance costs.

Various strategies can be used to improve the speed of this labelling, and to avoid needing to proceed further.

Various techniques are used by individuals to improve their state of relaxation.

Various hackathons have been held to improve city transit systems.

Various techniques are used to improve performance ; hardware acceleration is one of them.

Various factors made it difficult for fansubbing groups to make releases with good video quality.

1950 Various King Oscar brisling sardine products are accorded kosher certification, assuring an extra guarantee of quality, as only the purest products can be awarded this distinction.

Various community groups have been highly active in promoting a positive sense of community and community representation, and in pursuing a higher quality of life.

Various signal processing tricks are then used to fake the progressive scan ; the quality of this depends on the quality of the upconversion process.

Various national standards for breathing air quality may apply.

Various languages of northern Iberia ( e. g. Astur-Leonese, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish ) have a so-called " voiceless apico-alveolar sibilant " which lacks the strong hissing of the described in this article, but rather has a duller, more " grave " sound quality somewhat reminiscent of a voiceless retroflex sibilant.

Various methods can be used to evaluate abstract quality, e. g. rating by readers, checklists ( not necessary in structured abstracts ), and readability measures ( such as Flesch Reading Ease ).

Various BBC studios around the country, including Elstree and TV Centre studio 1 kept the EMI 2001s up until 1991, as their picture quality was generally considered by the BBC to be superior to pictures produced by other brands of camera.

Various weighting curves were derived in the 1960s, in particular as part of the DIN 4550 standard for audio quality measurement, which differed from the A-weighting curve, showing more of a peak around 6 kHz, and these were found to give a more meaningful subjective measure of noise on audio equipment ; especially on the newly invented compact cassette tape recorders with Dolby noise reduction which were characterised by a noise spectrum dominated by high frequencies.

Various studies have suggested that participatory budgeting results in more equitable public spending, higher quality of life, increased satisfaction of basic needs, greater government transparency and accountability, increased levels of public participation ( especially by marginalized or poorer residents ), and democratic and citizenship learning.

Various commentators have noted a rise in the newspaper's informative quality later in the 1990s.

Various frameworks were developed to help in understanding quality of process modeling techniques, one example is Quality based modeling evaluation framework or known as Q-Me framework which argued to provide set of well defined quality properties and procedures to make an objective assessment of this properties possible.

Various conductors have commented on the quality of the orchestral sound in the hall, as collected by Leo L. Beranek in his book Music, Acoustics & Architecture: Fritz Reiner commented: " The Academy has very good acoustics although somewhat dry.