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Tehching Hsieh Tehching "Sam" Hsieh (謝德慶; born 1950, Nanjhou, Pingtung County, Taiwan) was a noted New York City-based performance artist; he has been called a "master" by Marina Abramović. He no longer makes art.
Tehillat HaShem Tehillat HaShem ("praise of God" in Hebrew) is the name of a prayer-book (known as a siddur in Hebrew) used for Jewish services in synagogues and privately amongst Hasidic Jews, specifically in the Chabad-Lubavitch community. It is based on the siddur called Torah Ohr edited by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812) the founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, and follows the teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria.
Tehiya Tehiya (Hebrew for "revival", תחיה), was a small right-wing Israeli political party which split from the Likud in response to the 1978 Camp David Treaty between Egypt and Israel, particularly to the surrender of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt, and the eviction of its Israeli residents. In the eyes of many Tehiya was identified with the personality of Geula Cohen who founded and headed it throughout its existence, until 1992.
Tehnoton Tehnoton () is a Romanian company founded in 1972 in IaĹźi, mainly manufacturing home electronics and industrial machinery. By 1989 it became one of the major Romanian manufacturers of radio tuners (with widely known producs such as "Gloria" and "Cosmos"), Compact Cassette players, and record players, which it also exported to France, Japan, and the United States.
Tehran Tehran (; Persian: تهران Tehrān), population (as of 2005) 7,314,000 (metropolitan: 12,151,000), and a land area of 658 square kilometers (254 sq mi), is the capital city of Iran (Persia) and the center of Tehran Province.
Tehran derby The Tehran derby is a football local derby match that takes place twice a year between the two most popular clubs in Tehran - Esteghlal and Persepolis FC. Stadiums are always packed to capacity when the two teams play.
Tehran Province Tehran Province (persian: استان تهران, transliteration: ostān-e Tehrān) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. It covers on area of 18,909 square kilometers and is located to the north of the central plateau of Iran.
Tehran Stock Exchange Services Company (TSESC) Tehran Stock Exchange Services Company (TSESC) (Persian: شرکت خدمات بورس تهران) is a subsidiary of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). TSESC was established on June 1994 in Tehran as an independent company owned by TSE and its members.
Tehranpars Tehranpars or Tehran Pars (in Persian: تهران‌پارس) is a planned city inside the Greater Tehran Area. It is considered a neighbourhood of Tehran City and lies in Tehran's eastern flank inside the area of the 4rth and 8th municipalities of Tehran.
Tehreek Nizam-e-Mustafa Tehreek Nizam-e-Mustafa (Movement for the establishment Mohammad's law) is a Islamic political party in Pakistan that particpitates in democratic elections. It main goal is to establish Sharia as the only law of Pakistan.
Tehrik-e-Islami The Tehrik-e-Islami (Urdu: تحریک اسلامی) (Movement for Islam) is a political party in Pakistan. It is part of the islam-fundamentalist organization Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, that won at the last legislative elections, 20 October 2002, 11.
Tehsil The equivalent terms tehsil, tahsil, tahasil, taluka, taluk, and taluq refer to a unit of government in some countries of the Indian subcontinent. Regional preference determines which term is used, tehsil being preferred in Pakistan and in some Indian states such as Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh and taluka or taluk in others such as Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka.
Tehuacán Tehuacán is the second largest city in the Mexican state of Puebla, nestled in the Southeast Valley of Tehuacán, bordering the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, with a population of 360,000. Originally an Native American settlement, it became officially a city in the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1660.
Tehuantepecer A violent squally wind from north or north-northeast in the Gulf of Tehuantepec (south of southern Mexico) in winter. It originates in the Gulf of Mexico as a norther which crosses the isthmus and blows through the gap between the Mexican and Guatemalan mountains.
Tehuledere Tehuledere is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Located at the eastern edge of the Ethiopian highlands in the Debub Wollo Zone, Tehuledere is bordered on the south by Dessie Zuria, on the southwest by Kutaber, on the west by Amba Sel, on the north by the Semien Wollo Zone, and on the east by Were Babu.
Tech 21 Tech 21 is a New York based manufacturer of guitar and bass effect pedals, amps, and DI boxes which allow the user to recreate the tone of many popular guitar amps and record those sounds directly into a mixer.
Tech Coast Tech Coast is the nickname given to the Southern California region extending from Santa Barbara in the north to northern San Diego County in the south. The Tech Coast concept and name, created by Timothy Cooley in the mid-90s to define the region's industrial and economic drivers, has been adopted to describe the region as it matured from an economy dominated by aerospace and defense to that of a diversified, global, multi technology-based powerhouse.
Tech deck A tech deck is a miniature skateboard, with which a skateboarder can complete various skateboarding tricks with his/her fingers. The index finger acting as the front foot and the middle finger acting as the back foot.
Tech Model Railroad Club The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) is a student organization at MIT and one of the most famous model railroad clubs in the world. Formed in 1946, its HO scale layout specializes in automated operation of model trains.
Tech spec Many Transformers come with tech specs (short for technical specifications) printed on the back of the box that they are sold in. The owner of the new Transformer is encouraged to cut out the tech specs and save it.
Tech Support Comedy Tech Support Comedy, or TSC, is a website dedicated to frustrated tech support workers from all over the world and the customers they deal with constantly. It was created by member Hawk, an ex-Tech Support worker, in March of 2000, originally as a webcomic, but quickly grew into a bulletin board for reader submissions, and soon added the ability for members to comment on the submissions.
Tech tabloid A Tech tabloid is a type of news media that mainly concentrates on technology news: science, IT, semiconductors, telecoms and related issues, but also takes on a less formal and more humorous approach than traditional technology publications such as EE Times or EDN. They are professional in nature, though, rather than amateur technology news sites such as Digg or Slashdot.
Tech tree In strategy computer games, of both the turn-based and real-time varieties, a tech tree, short for "technology tree," is an abstract hierarchical visual representation of the possible paths of research a player can take.
Tech Tower The Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans Administration Building, commonly known as Tech Tower, is an historic building located on the central campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Located on Cherry Street in Midtown Atlanta, the red brick, Victorian-style building serves as the architectural anchor of the Georgia Tech Historic District, a landmark of tradition and school spirit, and the administrative hub of the university.
Tech Trance Tech Trance is a sub-genre within electronic music, drawing upon the Techno and Trance genres as the name suggests. It is a recently created sub-genre, pioneered by such artists as Marco V, Sander Van Doorn (also known as Sam Sharp / Sandler / Purple Haze / FilterFunk), Ron van den Beuken, Marcel Woods, Baxter, Randy Katana, Jesselyn.
Tech-noir Tech-noir is a hybrid genre of film or other works of fiction combining the film noir and cyberpunk genres such as seen in Blade Runner (1982) and The Terminator (1984). It is a form of Neo-noir concenrating more on science fiction themes.
Techagreements TechAgreements is the first completely searchable database of legal agreements extracted from the publicly disclosed US SEC filings. Users can search thc contents of all legal documents that have been filed with the SEC.
Techie Techie is a term, derivative of the word technology, for a person who displays a great, sometimes even obsessive, interest in technology, as well as high-tech devices, particularly computers. Some techies express a disregard for any technology that could possibly be considered obsolete, even if the technology or process in question might only be considered obsolete within the techie community.
Techint The OrganizaciĂłn Techint group is a multinational group based in Argentina, founded in 1945 by Italian immigrant Agostino Rocca, which currently holds stock in over 100 engineering, steel, oil, gas and service companies.
Techlink Techlink is a technology education website that has facilitated links between schools and the enterprise community in New Zealand in two ways – by publishing examples of technological practice and by facilitating units of technology education that involve technologists. This website was established in 2003 with support from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, through the Enterprise Culture & Skills Activities Fund.
Techlogix Techlogix is a software house whose main office is located in Lahore, Pakistan and has branches in Karachi, Boston, Houston, Dubai, BeijingCompany Overview. It was founded in 1996 and currently has more than two hundred and fifty employees.
TechLive TechLive (formerly known as ZDTV News and TechTV News) (1998-2004) was a live television program on the former technology-oriented channel TechTV (now known as G4). TechLive broadcasted technology and entertainment related news, product reviews, and stock market reports.
Techmospheric Techmospheric is a new form of drum and bass that evolved from the roots of intelligent drum and bass but expands upon its formula, often adding a more dancefloor oriented approach with the types of beats and bass that are used.
Technacy Technacy is the ability to understand, apply and communicate creative and 'balanced' technological solutions that are based on understanding the contextual factors involved. The Australian meaning of technacy is as a theoretical 'model' of technological activity.
Technarchy The Technarchy, or Technarchs, are a cybernetic, shapeshifting, fictional species of extraterrestrial origin in the Marvel Comics' universe, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkewicz. Its most notable members are the former New Mutants member Warlock and his "siredam," the supervillain called the Magus.
Techne Techne, or techné, as distinguished from episteme, the Greek word τέχνη (literally: craftsmanship) is often translated as craft or art. It is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective.
Technetium-99m generator A technetium-99m generator, or colloquially a technetium cow is a device used to extract the metastable isotope 99mTc of technetium from a source of decaying molybdenum-99. 99Mo has a half-life of 66 hours and can be easily transported over long distances to hospitals where its decay product technetium-99m (with an inconvenient half-life of only 6 hours for transport) is extracted and used for a variety of nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures, where its low half-life is very useful.
Techni-tool, Inc. Techni-Tool, headquartered in Worcester, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, is a distributor of equipment for electronic production, assembly and repair in over 103 countries. It was founded by Ben Weiss, who formed the company from a mail order dental company, warehousing and distributing various types of dental materials and instruments.
Technical (fighting vehicle) A technical is an improvised fighting vehicle, typically by a local irregular military force and usually being a modified civilian vehicle or other similar machine. It is usually an open-backed civilian pickup truck or 4x4 on which is mounted a recoilless rifle, a machine gun, a light anti-aircraft gun or another relatively small weapons system.
Technical advisor A technical advisor is an individual who is expert in a particular field of [hired to provide information in that field to a movie] or [[television director, to ensure that this area of knowledge is portrayed accurately in the production. For example, a director for a show involving combat aviation might hire one or more current or former combat pilots to serve as technical advisors.
Technical architecture Technical architecture refers to the structured process of designing and building software architecture, with focus on interaction with software and hardware developers. Technical Architecture can also refer to the structured process of designing and building IT hardware / infrastructure usually at enterprise level.
Technical Advisory Council The Technical Advisory Council, or TAC, is a federal advisory committee of the Federal Communications Commission and the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). Its mandate is to provide the FCC with technical advice in rapidly growing fields such as cable television, telephony, and the Internet.
Technical Advisory Service for Images The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) provides advice to the United Kingdom's Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) communities in the creation and use of digital images. Its services include a Web site helpdesk, training programme [http://www.
Technical Aid to the Commonwealth of Independent States TACIS is an abbreviation of "Technical Aid to the Commonwealth of Independent States" program, an institutional restructuring programme implemented by the European Commission to help members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (as well as Mongolia), in their transition to democratic market-oriented economies. TACIS is now subsumed in the EuropeAid programme.
Technical communication Technical communication is the process of conveying usable information about a specific technology to an intended audience. Information is usable if the intended audience is able to perform an action or make a decision based on its contents (Johnson-Sheehan 7).
Technical control facility In telecommunication, a technical control facility (TCF) is a physical plant, or a designated and specially configured part thereof, that (a) contains the equipment necessary for ensuring fast, reliable, and secure exchange of information, (b) typically includes distribution frames and associated panels, jacks, and switches and monitoring, test, conditioning, and orderwire equipment, and (c) allows telecommunications systems control personnel to exercise operational control of communications paths and facilities, make quality analyses of communications and communications channels, monitor operations and maintenance functions, recognize and correct deteriorating conditions, restore disrupted communications, provide requested on-call circuits, and take or direct such actions as may be required and practical to provide effective telecommunications services.
Technical crew Technical crew, or tech crew as it is often abbreviated to, are the behind the scenes (or backstage) men and women who control the running of a show, concert, play, musical, or other event that requires technology to be used.
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (ACP-EU or CTA) was established in 1983 under the Lomé Convention between the ACP countries and EU member states. Since 2000 CTA has operated within the framework of the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement with a mission to “strengthen policy and institutional capacity development and information and communication management capacities of ACP agricultural and rural development organisations.
Technical Coordinator The American Radio Relay League Technical Coordinator (TC) is a section-level official appointed by the Section Manager to coordinate all technical activities within the section. The Technical Coordinator reports to the Section Manager and is expected to maintain contact with other section-level appointees as appropriate to insure a unified ARRL Field Organization within the section.
Technical death metal Technical death metal, or tech death for short, is a term used to describe bands in the subgenre death metal. As death metal bands began further exploring the genre, they experimented with a variety of song structures, tempos, and playing techniques from other genres to create music that changed the style.
Technical director The Technical Director or Technical Producer (TP) is usually the most senior technical person within a theatrical company or television studio. This person usually possesses the highest level of competence in a specific technical field and may be recognized as an expert in that industry.
Technical drawing Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the practice of creating accurate representations of objects for technical, architecture and engineering drawings. A practitioner of the craft is known as a draftsman, draftsperson (or draughtsman, draughtsperson in the UK), and recently, "drafter".
Technical education in Japan Western-style technical education in Japan began in earnest in the Meiji period with the founding of the British-dominated Imperial College of Engineering. In the modern day it is carried on in the engineering faculty of Tokyo University and other engineering faculties of public and private universities nationwide.
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Philippines) The Philippines' Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng Edukasyong Teknikal at Pag-papaunlad ng Kasanayan), abbreviated as TESDA, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Education responsible for managing and supervising technical education and skills development (TESD) in the Philippines.
Technical fellow Microsoft awards the title of Technical Fellow to someone whose technical vision, expertise, and world-class leadership is widely recognized. These individuals are instrumental in developing and driving technical strategies for the customer, the company, and the industry currently has fifteen (15) Technical Fellows [http://www.
Technical Floating Point The Technical Floating Point (TFP) model was a new set of instructions designed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which was used to replace the x87 floating point capabilities in the original Intel IA-32 architecture.
Technical government A technical government is a non-party government made up of unelected 'technocrats' such as civil servants, magistrates or experts from outside the political circle such as bankers instead of members of the country's legislature. They are usually formed when it is impossible for a government to be formed until new elections are held in order to ensure administrative functions are carried out.
Technical Group The Technical Group in Irish politics is a group of deputies who associate to increase their speaking rights in Dáil Éireann. In particular, it refers to a loose federation of 22 opposition deputies, created after the 2002 general election.
Technical High School of Campinas The Technical High School of Campinas (in Portuguese, Colégio Técnico de Campinas - COTUCA), maintained by the State University of Campinas, in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, provides free of charge courses at secondary studies level on Nursing, Computer Sciences, Mechanical, Electrical and Foods Technology.
Technical change A technical change is a term used in economics to describe a change in the amount of output produced from the same inputs. A technical change is not necessarily technological as it might be organizational, or due to a change in a constraint such as regulation, input prices, or quantities of inputs.
Technical illustration Traditionally, technical Illustration is the use of illustration to effectively convey necessary information to understand or complete the operation of a procedure. Technical illustrations can be drawings, diagrams, charts, and even photographs.
Technical intelligence Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) is intelligence about weapons and equipment used by the armed forces of foreign nations (often referred to as foreign materiel). Technical intelligence is intended primarily to allow the armed forces to avoid technological surprise.
Technical Itch Mark Caro, better known as Technical Itch, is a British electronic music artist, disc jockey, and founder of Technical Itch Recordings and Penetration records. As a musician he works mainly within the jungle and drum and bass genres.
Technical metal Technical metal, and its variant math metal, are cross-genre references to bands who perform a regular show of skill using changeable, sometimes jazz-like time signatures and drumming patterns, and often dissonant or atonal guitar riffs. Bands of this type are also called technical metal if their music is more technical than is normal for the genre of music they play.
Technical Master A person, most notibly found in the field of Theatre, this person has knowledge of most equipment used in and for the production, and should know how the equipment functions, how to use the equipment, and how to make repairs in some cases of malfuntion of the equipment. This person is often one of the busyiest person during a production, seeing that this person will be needed to do tasks when the normal operator is not there, or when the person that has normally operates certain equipment has left the position for one reason or another, and needs to be replaced, so the technical master will be the interm operator (unless he/she appoints another person to fill the position), or the normal operator has encountered a problem, and does not how how to correct it.
Technical pen A technical pen is a specialized instrument used by an engineer or draftsperson (British: draughtsperson) to make lines of constant width for architectural, engineering or technical drawings. It has been also generally called "rapidograph", albeit this particular name has officially remained a proper name for a line of products made by German company Rotring.
Technical Pan Technical Pan was a panchromatic black and white film produced by Kodak of unique characteristics that have not been replicated. It was generally used as a very slow film, rated at ASA 25 or even 16, although it could be rated at up to ASA 320.
Technical report A technical report (also: scientific report) is a document that describes the progress or results of technical or scientific research, or the state of a technical or scientific research problem. Such reports are often prepared for sponsors of research projects.
Technical rescue Technical rescue refers to those aspects of saving life or property that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for firefighting, medical emergency, and rescue. These disciplines include rope rescue, swiftwater rescue, dive rescue, confined space rescue, snow and ice rescue, cave rescue, trench/excavation rescue, and building collapse rescue, among others.
Technical Report 1 Technical Report 1 (TR1) is a draft document specifying additions to the C++ Standard Library such as regular expressions, smart pointers, hash tables, and random number generators. TR1 is not yet standardized, but likely will be part of the next official standard mostly as it stands now.
Technical standards in colonial Hong Kong This article gives readers an insight on how the British colonial rule affected the technical standards in Hong Kong. However, not all technical standards in Hong Kong are identical with their counterparts in the United Kingdom due to practical or some other reasons.
Technical support Technical support (also tech support) is a range of services providing assistance with computer hardware, software, or other electronic or mechanical goods. In general, technical support services attempt to help the user solve specific problems with a product—rather than providing training, customization, or other support services.
Technical Services Staff Technical Services Staff is the United States Central Intelligence Agency component responsible for providing supporting gadgets, disguises, forgeries, secret writings, and weapons. It also researches, investigates, and experiments with such techniques as "special" interrogation methods, including the use of drugs, chemicals, hypnosis, and isolation.
Technical Standard Order A Technical Standard Order (TSO) is a minimum performance standard issued by the FAA for specified materials, parts, processes, and appliances used on civil aircraft. Articles with TSO design approval are eligible for use on the United States (US) Type Certificated Products.
Technical University of British Columbia The Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC) was a special-purpose university in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, that operated from 1999 until 2002, when it was closed by the BC government. Its students and programs were transferred to Simon Fraser University to become the core of SFU Surrey.
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTC-N - Universitatea TehnicÇŽ din Cluj-Napoca), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is the second largest university in the city. The university has seven Faculties, all in Romanian, and two in English (listed below).
Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, DTU) was founded in 1829 as the 'College of Advanced Technology' (Danish: Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt). The initiative was taken by the renowned physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (then a professor at the University of Copenhagen) who also served as its principal until his death in 1851.
Technical University of Denmark Department of Mathematics The Department of Mathematics at DTU (Danish: Institut for Matematik, MAT) is an institute at the Technical University of Denmark. It was founded to consolidate all mathematical research and teaching in one institute.
Technical University of Munich Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (in German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Freising outside of Munich). In October 2006, TUM won the title 'Elite University', after the announcement of the results of the Germany-wide Excellence Initiative for promoting top university research and education.
Technical University of Ostrava The Technical University of Ostrava (or Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava in Czech), is university (polytechnics) located in the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.
Technical University of Sofia The Technical University of Sofia (Bulgarian: Технически университет - София, often abbreviated as ТУС, TUS or ТУ - София, TU - Sofia or ТУ, София, TU, Sofia), based in Sofia, is the largest technical university in Bulgaria.
Technical week Technical week (also called tech week, production week or hell week) refers to the week prior to the opening night of a play or musical in which all of the technical elements (such as costumes, lights, sound, and makeup) are added.
Technical writer Technical writers design and create many types of user assistance, including technical documentation, online help, user guides, and electronic documents for professional field or consumer technology or most anything mechanical, electrical, or computer-related that requires instruction. Their responsibilities are to communicate a message of a technical nature effectively, with more emphasis on understanding technology and less emphasis on aesthetics than graphic designers or copywriters.
Technical writing Technical writing, a subset of technical communication, is used in fields as diverse as computer hardware and software, chemistry, the aerospace industry, robotics, finance, consumer electronics, and biotechnology.
Technician Fifth Class Technician Fifth Class (abbreviated as Tech 5 or T/5) was a technician grade during World War II under the same pay grade as Corporal. Those who held this rank were addressed as Corporal, but did not have the authority to give commands as a corporal would.
Technician Fourth Class Technician Fourth Class (abbreviated as Tech 4 or T/4) was a technician grade during World War II under the same pay grade as Sergeant. Those who held this rank were addressed as Sergeant, but did not have the authority to give commands as a sergeant would.
Technician Third Class Technician Third Class (abbreviated as Tech 3 or T/3) was a technician grade during World War II under the same pay grade as Staff Sergeant. Those who held this rank were addressed as Staff Sergeant, but did not have the authority to give commands as a staff sergeant would.
Technicolor (physics) In physics, technicolor models are theories beyond the Standard Model (sometimes, but not always, GUTs) which do not have a scalar Higgs field. Instead, they have a larger number of fermion fields than the Standard Model and involve a larger gauge group.
Technics and Civilization Technics and Civilization written by Lewis Mumford in the 1930s (published in 1934) gives the history of technology and its interplay in shaping and being shaped by civilizations. He asserts that the development of modern technology, rather than springing up during the Industrial Revolution, has its roots in the Middle Ages.
Technics SL-1200 The Technics SL-1200 is a series of turntables manufactured by Matsushita under the brand name of Technics. As of 2006, the Technics SL-1200MK2 is the industry standard turntable for DJ'ing and scratching, MK2 stands for Mark 2, and is an improvement of the Technics SL-1200 first made in October 1972.
Technicum Technicum (Russian: те́хникум IPA: ) was a Soviet mass-education facility of "medium special education" category 1 step higher than PTU, but aimed to train low-level industrial managers (foremen, technical supervisors etc.) or specializing in occupations that require skills more advanced than purely manual labor, especially in high-tech occupations (such as electronics).
Techniec Techniec (born David Williams III) is an African American rapper, born and raised in Long Beach, California. He first entered the music scene with a single, "Beware of My Crew", as a member of a group called the LBC Crew, which also included Tray Deee.
Technikon Witwatersrand The Technikon Witwatersrand was a technikon located in Johannesburg, South Africa. On 1 January 2005, it merged with Rand Afrikaans University and some campuses of Vista University to form the University of Johannesburg, and is now one of many campuses of the new university.
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (; commonly abbriviated as Technion IIT) is a university in Haifa, Israel, founded 1924. While the Technion focuses on science and engineering, architecture and medicine are also taught.
Techniques d'Avant Garde TAG Group (Holdings) SA is a private holding company based in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, and owned by Mansour Ojjeh and Akram Ojjeh, wealthy Saudi entrepreneurs. TAG is an acronym of Techniques d'Avant Garde.
Techniques of Knowledge The techniques of Knowledge as taught by Prem Rawat, known as Maharaji to his students, comprises four techniques that he claims will help his students direct their senses within to experience inner peace. Students often describe the experience as "going within.
Techniques of neutralization Techniques of neutralization are a series of methods by which, it is believed, those who commit illegitimate acts temporarily neutralise certain values within themselves which would normally prohibit them from carrying out such acts, such as morality, obligation to abide by the law, and so on.
Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (usually translated from German as Freiberg University of Mining and Technology or Freiberg Mining Academy, University of Technology and abbreviated TUBAF) is a small German University of Technology with about 4000 students in the city of Freiberg, Saxony. It was established in 1765, by Prince Franz Xaver, regent of Saxony, based on plans by Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel, Carl Wilhelm Benno von Heynitz and Friedrich Anton von Heynitz, and is the second oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world.
Technische Universität Dresden The Technische Universität Dresden (usually translated from German as Dresden University of Technology and abbreviated TU Dresden or TUD) is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony and one of the 10 largest universities in Germany with 34,993 students as of 2006. The name Technische Universität Dresden has only been used since 1961; the history of the university, however, goes back nearly 200 years to 1828.
Technischer Ăśberwachungsverein TĂśVs (short for Technischer Ăśberwachungs-Verein, Technical Monitoring Association in English) are German organizations that aim to protect humans and the environment against hazards coming from factories and mechanisms of all kinds. As an independent consultant, it examines monitoring-needy plants, motor vehicles, energy installations and devices.

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