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By writing advisory circulars, the FAA can provide guidance for compliance with airworthiness regulations, pilot certifications, operational standards, training standards, and any other rules within the 14 CFR Aeronautics and Space title, aka 14 CRF or FARs. The FAA also uses advisory circulars to officially recognize "acceptable means, but not ...
In April 2007, as part of Draft Competition Guidelines released at the New York Auto Show, MPGe was announced as the main merit metric for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a competition developed by the X Prize Foundation for super-efficient vehicles that can achieve at least 100 MPGe. [28]
Nicotine has been used as an insecticide since at least 1690, in the form of tobacco extracts or as pure nicotine sulphate [19] [51] [52] (although other components of tobacco also seem to have pesticide effects). [53] It acts on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, and gave the receptor its name. Nicotine is in IRAC group 4B.
One form of democracy is direct democracy, in which all eligible citizens have active participation in the political decision making, for example voting on policy initiatives directly. [189] In most modern democracies, the whole body of eligible citizens remain the sovereign power but political power is exercised indirectly through elected ...
Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing [1] or pyramid selling, [2] [3] [4] is a controversial [4] and sometimes illegal marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or ...
[14] This definition enjoyed widespread currency for decades. However, this meaning was contested, notably by John B. Watson , who in 1913 asserted the methodological behaviorist view of psychology as a purely objective experimental branch of natural science , the theoretical goal of which "is the prediction and control of behavior."
Hamas was established in 1987, and allegedly has its origins in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, which had been active in the Gaza Strip since the 1950s and gained influence through a network of mosques and various charitable and social organizations.
As part of its K-Quarantine programme, South Korea introduced mass screening and localised quarantines, and issued alerts on the movements of infected individuals. The Singaporean government's response included so-called " circuit breaker lockdowns " and financial support for those affected while also imposing large fines for those who broke ...