A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments ( or any combination of these entities ) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

In 1994, with the objective to enhance Kuala Lumpur city ’ s public transportation, the Government of Malaysia awarded a contract to a consortium to transform at Kuala Lumpur ’ s old railway marshalling yard into a modern transit hub within a self-contained urban development.

The main objective of the new consortium is to help the High-Performance Computing community benefit from the rapid evolution of processors by developing innovative, flexible and open technologies that can fully exploit multi-core architectures.

Within the consortium research program, the research focus is organised into five components with the clear objective of enhancing the management and use of forests, agroforestry and tree genetic resources across the landscape from forests to farms.

In a key point, he explained that " the reason is that even if each of the consortium respondents had the objective attributed to it by Seven-that of killing C7-achieving that objective could not have substantially lessened competition in the retail television market.

Thus with regard to the loss of tradition, in the change from order to disorder the metaphysics of change works itself out as a disruption of the individual soul, a change in which man continues as an objective ontological existent, but no longer as a man.

For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.

The long-range objective is to hold the damage from destructive agencies below the level which would seriously interfere with intensive management of the National Forest System under principles of multiple use and high-level sustained yield of products and services.

The long-range objective of this Department is to provide and maintain a system of forest development roads and trails which will adequately service the National Forest System at the levels needed to meet expected needs and optimum production of products and services.

The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.

The specification of the objective function of which the optimization is desired.

The objective function, which is to be maximized, is some function, usually piecewise continuous, of the product state.

An optimal policy is an admissible policy Af which maximizes the objective function P.

We thus have an optimal policy which maximizes the expected value of the objective function for a given Af.

The ultimate objective of American policy is to help establish a world in which there is the largest possible measure of freedom and justice and peace and material prosperity ; ;

Yet it exists and has an objective reality which can be experienced and known.

The crusaders, whose objective had been Egypt, were persuaded to set their course for Constantinople before which they appeared in June 1203, proclaiming Alexios IV as Emperor and inviting the populace of the capital to depose his uncle.

Many arguments from morality are based on morality normativity, which suggest that objective moral truths exist and require God's existence to give them authority.

Newman proposed that the conscience, as well as giving moral guidance, provides evidence of objective moral truths which must be supported by the divine.

Art is the first stage in which the absolute spirit is manifest immediately to sense-perception, and is thus an objective rather than subjective revelation of beauty.

This requires developing new faculties of objective spiritual perception, which Steiner maintained was possible for humanity today.

It also guarantees the capacity to distinguish between false perceptions or illusions ( which are possible in perceptions of both the outer world and the inner world ) and true perceptions, or, better said, to distinguish in any perception between the influence of subjective elements ( i. e., viewpoint ) and the objective reality the perception points at.

The program also takes part in the Space Activities National Program ( PNAE ) which objective is to lead the country toward the autonomy of this technology, vital in a path to sustainable development.

Bowls ( also lawn bowls, variants include flat-green bowls and crown-green bowls ) is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a " jack " or " kitty ".

They were lighter and could outmaneuver the quinqueremes, where one objective was to ram the enemy ship and at the same time attack the above-deck crew with a shower of arrows and catapult-launched stones, which were large enough to decapitate a man.

Spain had set up a trade monopoly in the Caribbean, and their primary objective was to protect this, which they did by barring the islands from trading with any foreign ships.

It holds that quantum mechanics does not yield a description of an objective reality but deals only with probabilities of observing, or measuring, various aspects of energy quanta, entities which fit neither the classical idea of particles nor the classical idea of waves.

The true and final aim of thought coercion is to induce a change in the victim ’ s objective function itself, i. e. the basic set of values and rules by which the victim determines his or her own choice among the alternatives of any feasible set.

The objective is to be first to race one's pieces across the hexagram-shaped gameboard into " home "— the corner of the star opposite one's starting corner — using single-step moves or moves which jump over other pieces.

The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users.

The term " objective presence " includes a belief in transubstantiation but does not limit belief to transubstantiation.

More generally, optimization includes finding " best available " values of some objective function given a defined domain, including a variety of different types of objective functions and different types of domains.

This includes: Preserve the peace and security and provide for the defense of the United States, its territories and possessions, and any areas it occupies ; Support national policies ; Implement national objective ; Overcome any nations responsible for aggressive acts that imperil the peace and security of the United States.

Another objective of the Movement was the introduction of the vernacular language ( in particular, into the Mass of the Catechumens, i. e. the part of the liturgy which includes the readings from the Bible ).

The committee's mandate includes incorporating sustainability into the academic programming, engaging in research across the disciplines into issues of environmental sustainability, utilizing ecological landscaping methods and preserving green space and building and renovating facilities in accordance with energy efficiency and sustainability principles Along with the other members of the Council of Ontario Universities, Western had signed a pledge in 2009 known as Ontario Universities Committed to a Greener World, with the objective of transforming its campus into a model of environmental responsibility.

It also includes Operation Dirty Trick, a plot to blame Castro if the 1962 Mercury manned space flight carrying John Glenn crashed, saying: " The objective is to provide irrevocable proof that, should the MERCURY manned orbit flight fail, the fault lies with the Communists et al.

Secondary interest includes not only financial gain but also such motives as the desire for professional advancement and the wish to do favors for family and friends, but conflict of interest rules usually focus on financial relationships because they are relatively more objective, fungible, and quantifiable.

The primary objective of the AAS is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science, while the secondary purpose includes enhancing astronomy education and providing a political voice for its members through lobbying and grassroots activities.

This magazine is one of the few horizontal-based publications ( featuring a broad spectrum of consumer goods ) that includes both objective product ratings as well as editorial and commentary about consumer safety, industry trends, and political issues of interest to the buying public.

The objective function includes a quality of data approximation and some penalty terms for the bending of the manifold.

The official definition includes all sorts of targets, including enemy air targets, but in popular use the term is usually narrowed to tactical ( small-scale ) attack on a ground or naval objective.

Manaslu Conservation Area has been established with the primary objective of achieving conservation and sustainable management of the delimited area, which includes Manaslu.

" This definition includes both objective and subjective criteria: membership of a minority group is objectively ascribed by society, based on an individual's physical or behavioral characteristics ; it is also subjectively applied by its members, who may use their status as the basis of group identity or solidarity.

Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of Public Diplomacy, Psychological Operations ( PSYOPS ), Public Information, Deception and Covert Action.

Educational issues have always featured prominently in BHA campaigns activities, including efforts to abolish daily worship in schools and to reform Religious Education so that it is objective, fair and balanced and includes learning about humanism as an alternative life stance.

This system includes the object ( or objective ), subject, mediating artifacts ( signs and tools ), rules, community, and division of labor.

Expertise can be similarly subjectively perceived, but also includes relatively objective characteristics of the source or message ( e. g., credentials, certification or information quality ).

* The objective of FreeType 1 is only support the TrueType format ( while FreeType 2 supports a lot more ), and it includes an extension to support OpenType text layout processing ;

This includes music and food, but has the primary objective of repairing the damage inflicted on the mosque in the past year ( mostly erosion caused by the annual rains and cracks caused by changes in temperature and humidity ).

Each level includes a single checkpoint in the middle where the player can restart if they die or fail to complete an objective ( with the exception of the last level on any difficulty and the fourth level on easy ).

Mulaprakruti can be translated as " the root of nature " or " root of Prakruti "; it is a closer definition of ' fundamental matter '; and is often defined as the essence of matter, that aspect of the Absolute which underlines all the objective aspects of Nature .< ref > http :// books. google. com / books? id = 3pwHAROOAIIC & pg = PA287 & dq = mulaprakriti & lr =& as_brr = 1 & ei = VZD3Sa6MFpPMNZn8xNkD < i > Systematic Studies in the " Secret Doctrine ", The theosophical quarterly, 1906, p. 287 </ ref > While plain Prakruti encompasses classical earth element, i. e. solid matter, Mulaprakruti includes any and all classical elements, including any considered not discovered yet ( some tattvas.

A team sport includes any sport which involves players working together towards a shared objective.