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Unification (TNG episode) "Unification" is the title of a two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, from the fifth season. This is a notable episode in that it garnered one of the highest ratings in all 7 seasons of TNG's run.
Unification Church and antisemitism While many of the members of the Unification Church take a generally pro-Jewish, pro-Israel stance, the church has been a subject to criticism for alleged antisemitism because of its teachings concerning the Jews in the Old and New testaments.
Unification Movement The Unification Movement is a religious movement headed by the Unification Church (renamed the Family Federation for World Peace) comprising organizations and individuals that are dedicated to creating world peace through ideal families centered on God in accordance with the doctrines of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
Unification of Germany The Unification of Germany took place on January 18, 1871, when Prussian Premier Prince Otto von Bismarck managed to unify a number of independent German states into one nation, and thus created the German Empire, from which all of the states since that time bearing the name of Germany descend.
Unification of Karnataka During the period of British rule, the Indian state of Karnataka as it stands today did not exist. Areas that today comprise Karnataka were under as many as 20 different administrative units with the princely state of Mysore, Nizam's Hyderabad, the Bombay Presidency, the Madras Presidency and the territory of Kodagu being the most important ones.
Unification theology Unification theology (theology of the Unification Church) has as its core the Divine Principle, which was said to be discovered by or revealed to Sun Myung Moon during a period of prayer and study (1935-1944), Wolli Hesol (Explanation of the Divine Principle), published in 1957, and Wolli Kangron (Exposition of the Divine Principle), published in 1966. The single most important idea is the parental relationship between God and man.
Unification theory Unification theory is the philosophy that every existing, theoretical and non existing field of science, philosophy, art, consciousness, emotion, religion, indeed every unthinkable aspect of the Universe is the sum of one fantastic equation. It supposes the possibility of expressing the whole of existence as a simple logic statement or equation, that -- if it could be understood -- would launch mankind into a higher level of being beyond our wildest imagination, or some equally interesting event.
Unification Theological Seminary The Unification Theological Seminary, located in Barrytown, New York and with an Extension Center in midtown Manhattan, serves the Unification Church through graduate education in theology and related subjects, as well as by sponsoring ecumenical conferences. UTS was founded as an ecumenical seminary in that the faculty members have belonged to a broad range of religious denominations.
Unification Wars Unification Wars, or UC, is an online strategy game where the goal is to obtain planets and have the best empire. This can be accomplished by attacking other players to steal their planets or exploring for your own.
Unified Bandwidth Management (UBM) UBM or Unified Bandwidth Management is the name for a new emerging trend in the network management and control market. New UBM appliances incorporate multiple network management and control functions, including network load balancing (also referred to as dual-WAN load balancing, ISP aggregation or multi-homing) with built-in dynamic DNS, network redundancy, VPN tunnel reliability and optimization, and packet and/or traffic shaping.
Unified Buddhist Church The Unified Buddhist Church (Eglise Bouddhique Unifieé) was founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in France in 1969, during the Vietnam War (not part of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam). The Unified Buddhist Church established Sweet Potatoes Community in 1975 which became the Plum Village monastery, France in 1982, the Dharma Cloud Temple and the Dharma Nectar Temple in 1988, and the Adornment of Loving Kindness Temple in 1995.
Unified Combatant Command A Unified Combatant Command (COCOM) formerly known as "CINC" (pronounced "Sink") is a United States joint military command composed of forces from two or more services, has a broad and continuing mission, and is organized either on a geographical basis (known as "Area Of Responsibility", AOR) or on a functional basis. All COCOMs are commanded by either a four star general or admiral and are considered "joint" commands with specific badges denoting their affiliation.
Unified Democratic Party Unified Democratic Party (in French: Parti Démocratique Unifié), was, despite its name, not a political party but an electoral alliance of two parties, the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV-RDA) and the Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses (PSEMA), ahead of the 1958 territorial assembly elections in Upper Volta. PDU won 35 out of 68 seats.
Unified Design Theory Unified Design Theory is a term associated with governing principles of Natural Design and suggests that all objects observable to the human psyche exist as a result of two or more differing design traits. That is, in order for anything to be observed at all, it must be 'stored' in a collection and/or combination of differences.
Unified Display Interface Unified Display Interface (UDI) is a digital video interface specification based on Digital Visual Interface. It is intended to be a lower-cost implementation while providing compatibility with existing High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and DVI displays.
Unified EFI Forum The Unified EFI Forum or UEFI Forum (where UEFI stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is an alliance between several leading technology companies including Intel, AMD, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HP, Apple, Lenovo, American Megatrends, Phoenix Technologies, and Insyde Software.
Unified English Braille Code Unified English Braille Code (UEBC) is an English Braille code developed to permit representing the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today. It was originally known as Unified Braille Code (UBC) with the English-specific nature being implied, but more recently the word "English" was formally incorporated into its name.
Unified field theory In physics, unified field theory is an attempt to unify all the fundamental forces and the interactions between elementary particles into a single theoretical framework. The term was coined by Einstein who attempted to reconcile the general theory of relativity with electromagnetism in a single field theory.
Unified Intelligence Agency The Unified Intelligence Agency is a fictional entity from the book 'The War in 2020'. The leader is Clifton Reynard Bouquette, and the Agency is apparently composed of 'the old CIA' and other intelligence agencies.
Unified market A unified market is the economic term for a single market where goods, services, capital and people can move freely without regard to national boundaries. These "four freedoms" are implemented by, among other things, removal of tariffs on the transfer of goods and services among the member nations, imposition of uniform product standards, revision of laws to permit 'market-wide' financial services, and the restructuring of most government procurement practices, so as not to favour local businesses over other member states' businesses.
Unified Modeling Language In the field of software engineering, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a non-proprietary specification language for object modeling. UML is a general-purpose modeling language that includes a standardized graphical notation used to create an abstract model of a system, referred to as a UML model.
Unified neutral theory of biodiversity The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography (here "Unified Theory" or "UNTB") is a theory and the title of a monographby ecologist] [[Stephen Hubbell. The theory aims to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities, although like other neutral theories of ecology, Hubbell's theory assumes that the differences between members of an ecological community of trophically similar species are "neutral," or irrelevant to their success.
Unified Parallel C Unified Parallel C (UPC) is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (eg. clusters).
Unified Process The Unified Software Development Process or Unified Process is a popular iterative and incremental software development process framework. The best-known and extensively documented refinement of the Unified Process is the Rational Unified Process or RUP.
Unified school district A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts.
Unified Silla Unified Silla (668–935) is the name often applied to the kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, after 668, when it conquered Baekje to unify the south of Korean peninsula. Its last king, ruling over a state in name only, submitted to the emerging Goryeo in 935, bringing the dynasty to an end.
Unified Socialist Party (France) The Unified Socialist Party (French: Parti Socialiste Unifié, PSU) was a socialist political party in France, founded on April 3 1960. It was led by Édouard Depreux (from its creation to 1967), and by Michel Rocard (1967-1973).
Unified Socialist Party (Italy) The Unified Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Unificato, PSU) is the name of the party formed by the union of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano, PSDI) from 1966 to 1969.
Unified Socialist Party of Andalusia Unified Socialist Party of Andalusia (in Spanish: Partido Socialista Unificado de AndalucĂ­a) was a separatist communist party in Andalusia, Spain, emerging towards the end of the 1970s. PSUA later gave birth to the Front for the Liberation of Andalusia (FLA).
Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia The PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia), was formed through the unification of four left-wing groups, namely the Catalan Federation of PSOE, Partit Comunista de Catalunya (Communist Party of Catalonia, the Catalan branch of Communist Party of Spain, PCE), UniĂł Socialista de Catalunya (Socialist Union of Catalonia) an Partit CatalĂ  Proletari (Proletarian Catalan Party), on July 23 1936.
Unified Socialist Party of Mexico The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (Spanish: Partido Socialista Unificado de MĂ©xico, PSUM) was a far-left political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party (Partido Mexicano Socialista) in 1988.
Unified Socialist Youth Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (JSU) - Unified Socialist Youth was a Youth organization formed in the spring of 1936 in Spain through the amalgamation of the Socialist Party and Communist Party youth groups. Its leader, Santiago Carrillo, came from the Socialist youth, but had secretly joined the Communist youth prior to the merger, and the group was soon dominated by the PCE.
Unified Soil Classification System The Unified Soil Classification System (or USCS) is a soil classification system used in engineering and geology disciplines to describe the texture and grain size of a soil. The classification system can be applied to most unconsolidated materials, and is represented by a two-letter symbol.
Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR (Russian: Единая Всесоюзная спортивная классификация) was a document, which provided general Soviet physical education system requirements for athletes. The classification was established in 1935 and was based on separate classifications, which existed for several sports disciplines before.
Unified Structured Inventive Thinking Unified Structured Inventive Thinking(USIT) is a structured, problem-solving methodology for finding innovative solution concepts to engineering-design type problems. Historically, USIT is related to systematic inventive thinking (SIT), which originated in Israel and is related to TRIZ, the Russian methodology.
Unified theory of cognition Unified theories of cognition is a book written by Allen Newell in 1987. Newell argues for the need of a set of general assumptions for cognitive models that account for all of cognition: a unified theory of cognition (UTC).
Unified threat management Unified threat management (UTM) is a term coined by Charles Kolodgy of International Data Corporation (IDC) in 2004 which is used to describe network firewalls that have many features in one box, including junk e-mail filtering, anti-virus capability, an intrusion detection (or prevention) system (IDS or IPS), and World Wide Web content filtering, along with the traditional activities of a firewall. These are application-layer firewalls that use proxies to process and forward all incoming traffic, though they can still frequently work in a transparent mode that disguises this fact.
Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics The Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville was a joint team consisting of six of the fifteen former Soviet republics, namely Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Armenia. The Unified Team's only other appearance was at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Unified Theory (band) Unified Theory is a rock Super-group, made up of two ex-Blind Melon members (bassist Brad Smith and guitarist Christopher Thorn), ex-Pearl Jam member (drummer Dave Krusen), and newcomer Chris Shin on vocals/guitar. Unified Theory was originally called Luma, they issued a 4-track CD through their website in 1999.
Unified Thread Standard The Unified Thread Standard (UTS) defines a standard thread form and series – along with allowances, tolerances, and designations – for screw threads commonly used in the United States and Canada. It has the same 60° profile as the ISO metric screw thread used in the rest of the world, but the characteristic dimensions of each UTS thread (outer diameter and pitch) were chosen as an inch fraction rather than a round millimeter value.
Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes - Tupak Katari Unified Trade Union Sub Federation of Peasant Workers of Ancoraimes - Tupak Katari (in Spanish: Sub FederaciĂłn Sindical Ăšnica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Ancoraimes Tupak Katari), a trade union in Ancoraimes, La Paz Department, Bolivia. SFSUTCA-TK also contested and won the December 2004 municipal elections.
Uniflite Uniflite (United Boat Builders) was founded in Bellingham, Washington by Art Nordtvedt in October 1957. Although the company is best remembered as a maker of recreational powerboats, its initial products were small fiberglass runabouts.
Uniform access principle The Uniform Access Principle was put forth by Bertrand Meyer. It states "All services offered by a module should be available through a uniform notation, which does not betray whether they are implemented through storage or through computation.
Uniform algebra A uniform algebra A on a compact Hausdorff topological space X is a closed (with respect to the uniform norm) subalgebra of the C*-algebra C(X) (the continuous complex valued functions on X) with the following properties:
Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America The Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) gives a Scout visibility and creates a level of identity within both the unit and the community. The uniform is used to promote equality while showing individual achievement.
Uniform Acceleration Uniform acceleration is a type of motion in which the velocity of an object changes equal amounts in equal changes of time. An example of an object having uniform acceleration would be a ball rolling down a ramp.
Uniform binary search Uniform binary search is an optimization of the classic binary search algorithm invented by Donald Knuth and given in Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. It uses a lookup table to update a single array index, rather than taking the midpoint of an upper and a lower bound on each iteration; therefore, it is optimized for architectures (such as Knuth's MIX) on which
Uniform boundedness In mathematics, bounded functions are functions for which there exists a lower bound and an upper bound, in other words, a constant which is larger than the absolute value of any value of this function. If we consider a family of bounded functions, this constant can vary between functions.
Uniform boundedness principle In mathematics, the uniform boundedness principle or Banach-Steinhaus theorem is one of the fundamental results in functional analysis. Together with the Hahn-Banach theorem and the open mapping theorem, it is considered one of the cornerstones of the field.
Uniform civil code Uniform civil code is a term which has originated from the concept of a civil law code. It envisages administering the same set of secular civil laws to govern different people belonging to different religions and regions.
Uniform continuity In mathematical analysis, a function f(x) is called uniformly continuous if, roughly speaking, small changes in the input x effect small changes in the output f(x) ("continuity"), and furthermore the size of the changes in f(x) depends only on the size of the changes in x but not on x itself ("uniformity").
Uniform convergence In the mathematical field of analysis, uniform convergence is a type of convergence stronger than pointwise convergence. A sequence { fn } of functions converges uniformly to a limiting function f if the speed of convergence of fn(x) to f(x) does not depend on x.
Uniform Combined State Law Exam The Uniform Combined State Law Examination also called Series 66 exam is develop by NASAA and is administered by the NASD. This examination is designed to qualify candidates as both securities agents and investment adviser representatives.
Uniform Commercial Code The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is one of the uniform acts that has been promulgated in attempts to harmonize the law of sales and other commercial transactions in all 50 states within the United States of America.
Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act The Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act was created to provide a model set of laws to govern condominium, cooperative, and planned unit development communities in the United States. Variations of the act have been adopted in Colorado and other states.
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act The United States Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is a proposed law to create a clear and uniform set of rules to govern such areas as software licensing, online access, and other transactions in computer information. It is intended to bring the same uniformity and certainty to the rules that apply to information technology transactions that the Uniform Commercial Code does for the sale of goods.
Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook Frequently referred to as The Green Book due to its green cover, the Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook is a publication of the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The manual instructs law enforcement officers on the proper method for filling out the monthly Uniform Crime Reports returns for police records and statistics.
Uniform Crime Reports The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) contain official data on crime that is reported to law enforcement agencies across the United States, who then provide the data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). UCR focuses on index crimes, which include murder and non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, forcible rape, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny/theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
Uniform dialing plan In telephony, a uniform dialing plan (UDP) means that you can dial a number the same way from wherever you are. The system may be permissive, rather than required, in that there may be shortcuts for dialing local numbers.
Uniform Determination of Death Act The Uniform Definition of Death Act (UDDA) is a draft state law that was approved for the United States (US) in 1980 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, in cooperation with the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and the President's Commission on Medical Ethics. The act has since been adopted by most US states and is intended "to provide a comprehensive and medically sound basis for determining death in all situations" three sections of the Act proposed for enactment read as follows .
Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) is a process established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the resolution of disputes regarding the registration of internet domain names. The UDRP policy currently applies to all .
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) is one of the several United States Uniform Acts proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). Since then 46 States, the District of Columbia, and the U.
Uniform fetish A uniform fetish is a sexual fetish in which someone enjoys dressing in a uniform, or derives sexual pleasure from viewing another person dressed in this manner. It does not require any actual sexual contact per se.
Uniform Firearms Act The Uniform Firearms Act (UFA) is a set of statutes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that defines the limits of Section 21 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, the right to bear arms. The laws range in scope from use of force in self-defense situations, to specific categories citizens that are ineligible to purchase or posses firearms.
Uniform Gifts to Minors Act The Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, commonly known as UGMA, is a United States act that allows assets such as securities to be held in the custodian's name for the benefit of the minor without an attorney setting up a special trust fund. This allows minors in the United States have property set aside for their benefit, and may achieve some tax benefit for the child's parents.
Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction And Enforcement Act The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction And Enforcement Act ("UCCJEA") is a Uniform Act drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1997. The UCCJEA has since been adopted by 45 U.
Uniform information representation Uniform information representation is an analytical concept, referring to a process which allows information from several realms or disciplines to be displayed and worked with as if it came from the same realm or discipline. The term is also applied when taking information from a number of sources, which may have used different methodologies and metrics in their data collection, and building a single large collection of information, where some records may be more complete than others across all fields of data.
Uniform Investment Adviser Law Exam The Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination also called Series 65 exam is develop by NASAA and is administered by the NASD. This examination is designed to qualify candidates as investment adviser representatives.
Uniform Mark Scheme A Uniform Mark Scheme, or UMS, is a way of standardising the marking of papers across examination boards, allowing one to compare two marks marked by two different examination boards. Grades are then calculated using grade boundaries set at particular UMS scores.
Uniform Office Format Uniform Office Format (UOF) is a Chinese developed open standard for 'office' applications. It includes word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet modules, and is made up of GUI, API, and format specifications.
Uniform price auction A uniform price auction is a multiunit auction in which a fixed number of identical units of a commodity are sold for the same price. The buyers in the auction bid a maximum price p they are willing to pay per item, and the number of units they want to purchase at that price.
Uniform Parental Rights Enforcement and Protection Act The Uniform Parental Rights, Enforcement and Protection Act (UPREPA) was developed in September 2000 as a petition to the United States, and to several of the individual states. It is founded upon the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Uniform Partnership Act The Uniform Partnership Act (UPA) and the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (RUPA) are uniform acts - statutes proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL") for the governance of business partnerships by U.S.
Uniform Polychora Project The Uniform Polychora Project in geometry is a collaborative effort to recognize and standardize terms used to describe objects in higher-dimensional spaces. The project aims: to collect information about uniform polychora as well as information about uniform polytopes in dimensions higher than 4; to enumerate the shapes; and eventually to make a complete list.
Uniform Premarital Agreement Act The Uniform Premarital Agreement Act ("UPAA") is a Uniform Act drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1983. The UPAA has been adopted by 26 states and the District of Columbia.
Uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act The Uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act concerns interstate cooperation in the collection of spousal and child support. It lays out the procedure for enforcement in cases in which the person owing alimony or child support is in one state and the person to whom the support is owed is in another state (hence the word "reciprocal").
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (abbreviated URM and often shortened to Uniform Requirements) is a set of guidelines produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, for standardising the ethics, preparation and formatting of manuscripts submitted for publication by biomedical journals. Compliance with the Uniform Requirements is required by most leading biomedical journals and over 629 journals internationally (circa June 2006) follow the Uniform Requirements.
Uniform Resource Identifier A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. The main purpose of this identification is to enable interaction with representations of the resource over a network, typically the World Wide Web, using specific protocols.
Uniform Resource Name A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that uses the urn scheme, and does not imply availability of the identified resource. Both URNs (names) and URLs (locators) are URIs, and a particular URI may be a name and a locator at the same time.
Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act The Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (1985, revised 1989), has been recommended as a Uniform Act in the United States, and subsequently been passed by many states. The law allows a person to declare a living will specifying that, if the situation arises, he or she does not wish to be kept alive through life support if terminally ill or in a coma.
Uniform space In the mathematical field of topology, a uniform space is a set with a uniform structure. Uniform spaces are topological spaces with additional structure which is used to define uniform properties such as completeness, uniform continuity and uniform convergence.
Uniform Server The Uniform Server is a free open source WAMP package for Microsoft Windows, comprising a pre-configured setup of complementary open source web server tools, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL database engine, and scripting languages PHP and Perl. It is released under the BSD license.
Uniform theory of diffraction In numerical analysis, the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) is a high frequency method for solving electromagnetic scattering problems from electrically small discontinuities or discontinuities in more that one dimension at the same point.
Uniform Task-Based Management System The Uniform Task-Based Management System (UTBMS) is a set of codes designed to standardize categorization and facilitate analysis of legal work and expenses. UTBMS was produced through a collaborative effort among the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, the American Corporate Counsel Association, and a group of major corporate clients and law firms coordinated and supported by Price Waterhouse LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) is a United States federal law dealing with elections and voting rights for United States citizens residing overseas. The act requires that all U.
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA)[was signed into law by President Bill Clinton] on [[October 13, 1994 to protect the civilian employment of non-full time military servicemembers called to active duty. The law applies to all United States uniformed services and their respective reserve components.
Uniformitarianism (science) Uniformitarianism, in the philosophy of science, is the assumption that the natural processes operating in the past are the same as those that can be observed operating in the present. Its methodological significance is frequently summarized in the statement: "The present is the key to the past.
Uniformity of motive In astrobiology, the Uniformity of Motive theory suggests that any civilization in the universe would go through similar technological steps in their development. This theory supports the idea that at some point in their history, advanced alien civilizations would use the electromagnetic medium for communications, and thus would emit radio waves that could be detected by projects such as SETI.
Uniformization theorem In mathematics, the uniformization theorem for surfaces says that any surface admits a Riemannian metric of constant Gauss curvature. In fact, one can find a metric with constant Gauss curvature in any given conformal class.
Uniformly connected space In topology and related areas of mathematics a uniformly connected space or Cantor connected space is a uniform space U so that every uniformly continuous functions from U to a discrete uniform space is constant.
Uniforms of the Canadian Forces Prior to unification in 1968, the uniforms of the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) were similar to their counterparts in the forces of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, save for national identifiers and some regimental accoutrements. Shortly following unification, these service-specific uniforms (navy blue, khaki, and light blue) were abandoned in favour of a rifle green, single-breasted, four-button tunic and pants, with beret or service cap, known as the Canadian Forces uniform, commonly referred to as "CFs" or "CF greens".
Uniforms of the United States Navy Uniforms of the United States Navy are a distinction of the service and still follow many traditional patterns, for example, the changes in uniforms since World War II have been primarily in materials. This discussion is going to look at dress uniforms, daily service uniforms, working uniforms, special situations, and history.
Unifying Theories of Programming Unifying Theories of Programming deals with program semantics. It shows how denotational semantics, operational semantics and algebraic semantics can be combined in a unified framework for the formal specification, design and implementation of programs and computer systems.
UniFlex UniFlex is Unix-like operating system developed by Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) for multitasking, multiprocessing for the Motorola 6809 family. It was released for DMA-capable 8" floppy, extended addressing hardware, Motorola 6809 based computers.
Unigenitus Unigenitus (named for its Latin opening words Unigenitus dei filius, or "Only-begotten son of God"), a famous papal bull or Apostolic Constitution promulgated by Pope Clement XI, opened the final phase of the Jansenist controversy in France. Unigenitus condemned 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel as "false, captious, ill-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious to the Church and its practices, contumelious to Church and State, seditious, impious, blasphemous, suspected and savouring of heresy, favouring heretics, heresy, and schism, erroneous, bordering on heresy, often condemned, heretical, and reviving various heresies, especially those contained in the famous propositions of Jansenius".
Unihan (disambiguation) Unihan usually means or refers to the large character set (or repertoire), which consist of Han characters. These characters are combination and unification of Modern Korean, Chinese and Japanese characters, glyphs and ideographs.
Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep (USWS) is sleep in which one half of an animal's brain is at rest, while the other half remains alert. During USWS, only one eye is closed, allowing the animal to remain alert to activity in their environment.
Unikont Unikont is a eukaryotic cell with a single flagellum. Some current (2005) research suggests that a unikont was the ancestor of opisthokonts and Amoebozoa, and a bikont (a eukaryotic cell with two flagella) was the ancestor of Archaeplastida, Excavata, Rhizaria, and Chromalveolata.
Unilateral disarmament Unilateral disarmament is a policy option, to renounce weapons without seeking equivalent concessions from one's actual or potential rivals. It was most commonly used in the 20th century in the context of unilateral nuclear disarmament, a recurrent objective of peace movements in countries such as the USA and the UK.
Unilateral Declaration of Independence (Rhodesia) The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was signed on November 11 1965 by the white minority government of Ian Smith, whose Rhodesian Front party opposed rushed moves by the United Kingdom towards black majority rule in the then British colony. It was a declaration of independence from the United Kingdom (though not from the British Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II).

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