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Urraca of Covarrubias of Castile Urraca of Castile, daughter of GarcĂ­a I of Castile and Ava de Ribagorza, became abbess of Covarrubias. She shared the regency for GarcĂ­a II of Castile together with magnates of the realm, after her brother Sancho I had been killed.
Urraca of Zamora, Infanta of Castile Doña Urraca of Zamora, Infanta of Castile was an 11th century princess at the time of El Cid and the Spanish reconquista. She was a real-life historical figure whose story was romanticized in the cantar de gesta "Song of the Cid", and the Chronicle of the Cid.
Urrbrae, South Australia Urrbrae is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Mitcham. It is bordered on the east by the South Eastern Freeway, and the Old Toll House, which marked the traditional entrance to the city of Adelaide is historic times.
Urroz Urroz is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. The town has a small cemetery, and a "pelota" court, a church, and two or three small bars around a little plaza.
Urrutia Urrutia, meaning "distant, far away" in Euskera the Basque language, is the name of a family that originated in Zumarraga in the province of Guipuzcoa or Gipuzkoa, and then spread out throughout the Basque country (known as Euskadi or Euskal Herria), and eventually throughout the Americas - South, Central and North. Famous and distinguished members of the Urrutia family include:
Urs Urs (Urdu: عرس ) is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint in South Asia, usually held at the saint's dargah (shrine or tomb). South Asian Sufis being mainly Chishtiyya, refer to their saints as lovers and God as beloved.
Urs (Ajmer) The Urs at Ajmer , a city in Indian state of Rajasthan ,celebrates the death anniversary of Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti with six days of music, fairs and night-long qawwali singing.The anniversary is celebrated in the seventh month of lunar calendar.
Urs Kälin Urs Kälin (born 26 February 1966) is a Swiss former alpine skier. Kälin won three silver medals in Giant Slalom: at the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach, at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, and at 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada.
Urs Schwaller Urs Schwaller (born 31 October 1952) is a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Council of States for the Canton of Fribourg. Elected to the Council in 2003, Schwaller currently presides the caucus of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC).
Ursem Ursem () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wester-Koggenland, and lies about 7 km southeast of Heerhugowaard and 30 km south of Amsterdam and 10 km west from Hoorn.
Ursid hybrid An ursid hybrid is an animal with parents from two different species or subspecies of the Ursidae (bear) family. Species and subspecies of bear known to have produced offspring with another bear species or subspecies include brown bears, black bears, grizzly bears and polar bears, all of which are members of the Ursus genus.
Urskog-Hølandsbanen Urskog - Hølandsbanen (UHB), also known as Tertitten, is a narrow gauge railway (750mm) between Sørumsand and Skulerud in Norway. The original line was 57 km long and was built in three stages: Urskogbanen opened in 1896; Hølandsbanen opened in 1898 and finally the line between Bingsfos and Sørumsand in 1903.
Ursula Dubosarsky Ursula Dubosarsky is a Sydney-based writer for children and young adults. She has won a record seven national literary prizes, including the NSW, Victorian, South Australian and Queensland awards for children's and young adult literature.
Ursula Franklin Academy Ursula Franklin Academy (UFA) is a high school located in the High Park area of Toronto, Canada. Originally located in the Dufferin-Bloor area at 90 Croatia Street, UFA moved in 2002 to share a building with Western Technical-Commercial School and The Student School.
Ursula Haubner Ursula Haubner (born December 22, 1945) is an Austrian politician of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZĂ–), formerly of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPĂ–). Haubner is married with two daughters and three grandchildren.
Ursula Julia Ledochowska Julia Maria LedĂłchowska (17 April 1865 in Loosdoor, Austria - 29 May 1939 in Rome, Italy) was a Catholic nun and the foundress of the Congregation of Ursuline Sisters of Agonizing Heart of Jesus. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on 20 June 1983, she was made a saint by him in 2005.
Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [] (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books and essays, and is best known for her science fiction, fantasy novels and short stories.
Ursula Mommens Ursula Frances Mommens (née Darwin, first married name Trevelyan) (born 20 August 1908) is a British potter. As of 2006, she was still working as a potter at the age of 97, and was about to have an exhibition in London.
Ursula Moray Williams Ursula Moray Williams (born April 19, 1911, Petersfield, Hampshire; died October 17, 2006) was an English children's author. Williams wrote over sixty books with the most notable being Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat, and Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse.
Ursula Reit Ursula Reit (5 March 1914 – 9 November 1998), born in Wuppertal, Germany, was an actress who is perhaps best known for her role as Mrs. Gloop in the 1971 musical film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory starring Gene Wilder.
Ursula Rucker Ursula Rucker is a spoken word recording artist. Rucker is known for a diverse repertoire, and for utilizing techniques that catch her listeners' attention, both of which have brought her critical acclaim and widespread praise from fans.
Ursula Southeil Ursula Southeil (c. 1488 - 1561) (possibly Ursula Sonthiel), better known as Mother Shipton, was an English soothsayer and prophetess who is said to have made dozens of unusually accurate predictions, including the Great Plague of London, the Spanish Armada, and the Great Fire of London.
Ursula Stenzel Ursula Stenzel (born 22 September 1945 in Vienna) is an Austrian politician and was until 2006 Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Austrian People's Party, a member of the bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Ursula Thielemann Ursula Thielemann (born January 9, 1960) was a field hockey international from West Germany, who won the silver medal with her national squad at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She was the first goalkeeper in women's field hockey to wear a helmet.
Ursule Molinaro Ursule Molinaro (died 2000, New York City) was a prolific novelist, playwright, translator and visual artist, the author of 12 novels, two collections of short prose works, innumerable short stories for literary magazines and dozens of translations from the French and German. She lived and wrote in French in Paris until shortly after World War II, when she came to New York in 1949 to work as a multilingual proofreader for the newly formed United Nations.
Ursuline Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio) Ursuline Academy is a four-year college-preparatory private girls’ Catholic high school founded by the Ursuline sisters of Brown County, Ohio in 1896. Current enrollment numbers 659 students from all over Greater Cincinnati (representing 50 different zip codes).
Ursuline Academy (Wilmington, Delaware) Established in 1893 by the Ursulines in Wilmington, Delaware, Ursuline Academy is a private school which offers Early Childhood (Montessori and Kindergarten) and Primary (Grades 1-3) school classes for both girls and boys, and Intermediate (Grades 4-6), Middle (Grades 7-8), and Upper (Grades 9-12) school classes for girls. The excellence of both its academic and sports programs place it in the ranks of one of the elite schools of Wilmington.
Ursuline Academy of Dallas Ursuline Academy of Dallas (commonly referred to as "Ursuline", "UA", "School of Geniuses") is a Catholic high school for girls located on Walnut Hill Lane by the intersection of Inwood Road in North Dallas, Texas. Ursuline Academy was founded in 1874 and is credited with being the oldest school in the city that has been in consistent operation since its founding.
Ursuline Academy of Dedham Ursuline Academy is an independent college preparatory day school for young women in grades 7-12. Owned and operated by the Ursuline Sisters, a world-wide teaching order, Ursuline Academy is a private Catholic school located on a twenty-eight acre campus in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Ursuline College Ursuline College is a small, Roman Catholic liberal arts women's college in Pepper Pike, Ohio. It was founded in 1871 by the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States.
Ursuline High School (Wimbledon) The Ursuline High School, Wimbledon ("the Ursulines") is a Roman Catholic secondary school for girls aged 11 to 18. The school has a joint sixth form with the all-boys brother school of Wimbledon College.
Ursulines of Quebec The Ursuline monastery of Quebec is the oldest institution of learning for women in North America. Its history begins on 1 August, 1639, when its first members landed in Canada, thirty-one years after Champlain had founded Quebec (1608) and only four after his death.
Ursus (beer) Ursus is the best-selling beer in Romania, due to its respected flavour and reasonable price compared to imported beers. It has been brewed for over 125 years and is advertised under the slogan Regele berii în România ("The King of Beers in Romania").
Ursus (film character) Ursus is a fictional character featured in a series of Italian sword and sandal films produced in the early 1960s. The character was an archetypical Greco-Roman warrior, similar to the mythical Hercules or Robert E.
Urswick The villages of Great Urswick and Little Urswick, together called Urswick, are located in the Furness peninsula, part of the administrative county of Cumbria in the United Kingdom. They are situated to the south-west of the town of Ulverston.
Urszula Augustyn Urszula Augustyn (born September 01, 1964 in TarnĂłw) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 4890 votes in 15 TarnĂłw district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list.
Urtaku Urtaku was an Elamite king who reigned from 676 - 664 BCE. Under his reign, relations between Elam and Babylonia became weaker, and after his death during an attack on Mesopotamia, the Assyrian king Assurbanipal launched a counter-attack, leading to the occupation of Elam by the Assyrians.
Urtext edition An urtext edition of a work of classical music is a printed version intended to reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material. Other kinds of editions distinct from urtext are facsimile and interpretive editions, discussed below.
Urthona In the mythological writings of William Blake, Urthona is one of the four Zoas, who were created when Albion (Blake), the primordial man, was divided fourfold. Specifically, he is the Zoa of inspiration and creativity.
Uru (The Lion King) Uru is a fictional lioness character that was introduced in the children's book set The Lion King: Six New Adventures, a collection of spin-off stories from Disney's popular 1994 animated film The Lion King. Uru was King Ahadi's Queen and the mother of Mufasa and Scar, the grandmother of Simba, and the great-grandmother of Kiara.
Uru language The Uru language was spoken in the year 2000 by 2 individuals out of an ethnic group of 100 to 150 people in the Oruro Department, Atahuallpa Province, near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The language is closest to the Chipaya language.
Urubamba (group) Urubamba is a music group consisting of musicians from various South-American countries, founded in 1956 by Jorge Milchberg. Urubamba introduced Paul Simon to Andean music in the early seventies, and then toured and recorded with Simon (El Condor Pasa).
Urubamba, Peru Urubamba which means "Flat land of Spiders" in Quechua is a small town in Peru, located near the Urubamba River. The town is located near a number of significant ruins of the Inca Empire, and frequently houses tourists visiting those sites.
UrubĂş Sign Language UrubĂş Sign Language (also known as "UrubĂş-Kaapor Sign Language") is a sign language used by a small community of Indigenous Brazilians in the state of MaranhĂŁo. Linguist Jim Kakumasu observed in 1968 that the number of deaf people in the community was 7 out of a population of 500.
Uruguay general strike of 1973 In 1973 a coup was declared in Uruguay by the president, Juan MarĂ­a Bordaberry, who closed parliament and imposed direct rule from a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement.
Uruguay River The Uruguay River (in Spanish, RĂ­o Uruguay, pronounced , in Portuguese, Rio Uruguai, pronounced ) is a river in South America. It flows from north to south and makes boundary with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, separating some of the Argentine provinces of the Mesopotamia from the other two countries.
Uruguay Round The Uruguay Round was a trade negotiation lasting from September 1986 to April 1994 which transformed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) into the World Trade Organization (WTO). It was launched in Punta del Este in Uruguay (hence the name), followed by negotiations in Montreal, Geneva, Brussels, Washington D.
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known less formally as the Andes flight disaster, was an airline flight carrying 45 people that crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972. The event was concluded by December 23, 1972 when the last of 16 survivors were rescued.
Uruguayan Civil War The Uruguayan Civil War, also known as "Guerra Grande", was a series of armed conflicts that took place between the Colorados at Montevideo and Blancos at Cerrito in Uruguay from 1839 to 1851. The efforts of the Colorados were supported by France, Great Britain, and Brazil, while the efforts of Blancos were supported by Argentina.
Uruguayan literature Literature properly speaking starts in Uruguay with the country-flavoured poetry of Bartolomé Hidalgo, 1788-1822. The two leading figures of the Romantic period are Adolfo Berro and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín.
Uruguayan punk Although uruguayan punk rock seems to be born in the recent years - between the 80's and 90's decades - when talking about uruguayan rock and roll lots of earlier bands must be placed in history. From the late years of 1960's, Uruguay has seen how shyly and slowly teenage garage bands emerged as a response to traditional aestethic and popular culture parameters.
Uruguayan tango The form of dance that originated in the neighborhoods of Montevideo, Uruguay towards the end of the 1800s. Uruguayan tango is another name for Argentine Tango and Tango Rioplatense since the dance originated in both Montevideo and Buenos Aires, in the Rio de la Plata region.
Uruchye (Minsk Metro) Uruchie ( ~ Brookside) is a Minsk Metro station that is currently under construction in Minsk, Belarus. It will be the northeastern terminus of the Moskovskaya Line and the first station outside the Minsk Automobile Ring Road.
Uruk Uruk (Sumerian: URUUNUG , Biblical: Erech, Greek: Ορχόη or Ωρύγεια, Arabic Warkā’), was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates, on the line of the ancient Nil canal, in a region of marshes, some 30 km east of As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. The theory that the modern name of Iraq could be possibly derived from the name Uruk is not proven.
Urumi The urumi (Malayalam: ഉരുമി) or chuttuval (Malayalam: ചുത്തുവാള്) is a long sword made of flexible steel, sharp enough to cut into flesh, but flexible enough to be rolled into a tight coil. It was used and still can be found in South India, and is one of the weapons learned by practitioners of the martial art of Kalaripayattu.
Urumqi Ren Min Guangbo Dian Tai Urumqi Ren Min Guangbo Dian Tai, (Chinese: 乌鲁木齐人民广播电台) which translates as "Urumqi People Broadcasting Station" consists of radio broadcasting news to Urumqi and the Xinjiang province area. It is operated by the Xinjiang Networking Transmission Limited in the Mandarin (dialect), Uygur (dialect), Kazak, Mongolian, and the Tan Oak languages.
Urums Urums, singular Urum (Greek: Ουρούμ Urúm, Turkish: Urum, Crimean Tatar: Urum) is a broad historical term that was used by some Turkic-speaking peoples (Turks, Crimean Tatars) to define Greeks who lived in Muslim states, particularly in the Ottoman Empire and Crimea. In contemporary ethnography, the term Urum (or Urum Greek) applies only to Turkic-speaking Greek population.
Uruno (Damekko Doubutsu) Uruno is an anthropomorphic wolf appearing in the Anime comedy Damekko Doubutsu. Despite being a wolf, Uruno is sent to live in the forest with other "useless" animals since he fails to act lupine or possess any traits of his species.
Urus-Martan Urus-Martan (; Chechen: Халхъа-Март) is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia, located on the Martan River. The town is located in the central part of Chechnya, to the south-west from the capital Grozny.
Urvashi Vaid Urvashi Vaid is an Indian-born American citizen who moved to the United States at age eight with her family. She is best known for her 25 years dedicated to promoting civil rights issues for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.
Urwah ibn Mas'ud Urwah ibn Mas'ud was a Thaqif'i chieftain of Taif who became a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was the first person from his tribe to accept Islam, and he was killed by his fellow chieftains while preaching Islam in his home city, see Thaqif and Islam.
Uryadovy Kuryer Uryadovy Kuryer (Урядовий кур'єр Ukrainian: Governmental Courier) is the national daily newspaper published by the executive branch of Ukraine. Founded in 1990, the paper published in Ukrainian, and is consistently among the top three newspapers by subscription (approximate circulation between 130,000-230,000).
Urysohn's lemma In topology, Urysohn's lemma, sometimes called "the first non-trivial fact of point set topology", is commonly used to construct continuous functions of various properties on normal spaces. It is widely applicable since all metric spaces and all compact Hausdorff spaces are normal.
Uryu Sotokichi (2 January 1857 – 11 November 1937) was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, active in the Russo-Japanese War, most notably at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay and the Battle of Tsushima. His name is sometimes transliterated as "Uriu Sotokichi", or "Uriu Sotokitchi".
Urzhum Urzhum () is a town in and the administrative center of Urzhumsky District of Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Urzhumka River about ten kilometers from its confluence with the Vyatka River. Population: 11,514 (2002 Census); 12,101 (1989 Census).
UR-100 The UR-100 () was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed and deployed by the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1996. УР in its designation stands for "универсальная ракета" ("universal rocket").
UR-200 The UR-200 was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by OKB-52 of Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomey in the Soviet Union. It was known during the Cold War by the NATO reporting name SS-10 and internally by the GRAU index 8K81.
UR033 UR - Electronic Warfare (2x12") (album) Electronic Warfare is a classic Underground Resistance release, which defined further developments and experiments in electro sound. It was released in double 12" format in 1996 under the catalog number #033.
URAC URAC, formerly known as the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission, is a nonprofit organization promoting healthcare quality by accrediting healthcare organizations. The organization offers quality benchmarking programs and services that keep pace with the health care system evolution, and provides accreditation to assure quality and accountability of the organization.
URB754 2-Arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) is an endogenous agonist of the central cannabinoid receptor (CB1) receptor.[1,2] It is present at relatively high levels in the central nervous system and is the most abundant molecular species of monoacylglycerol found in rat brain.
URI scheme A URI scheme is the top level of the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) naming structure. All URIs and absolute URI references are formed with a scheme name, followed by a colon character, and the remainder of the URI called (in the outdated RFCs 1738 and 2396, but not the current STD 66/RFC 3986) the scheme-specific part.
URL normalization URL normalization (or URL canonicalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. The goal of the normalization process is to transform a URL into a normalized or canonical URL so it is possible to determine if two syntactically different URLs are equivalent.
URTV 22 URTV is the University of Rochester's student run television station, and when we say student run, we mean student run. All our members, writers, film-makers, actors, camerapeople, and everyone else, is a student at the University of Rochester.
Us and Them "Us and Them" is the seventh trackThe track number depends upon the edition of the album; some releases merge the two tracks "Speak to Me" and "Breathe", for instance. from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
Us industries US Industry and Industry categorization. Each US Industry, for Publicly Traded Companies in the US, is assigned a Standard Industry Code (SIC) issued and maintained by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Us Rah Par Us Rah Par (Urdu: اس راہ پر) is Pakistani pop sensation Junaid Jamshed's sophomore solo effort, after Junaid and the rest of the band members took a break from the Vital Signs. It was a massive commercial success and won much critical acclaim for Junaid as well.
Us-kab-wan-ka River Us-kab-wan-ka River is a small tributary of the Cloquet River, in northeastern Minnesota in the United States. It is approximately 21 mi (34 km) long, along with its tributaries, the Us-kab-wan-ka River drains an area of 40.
Us3 Us3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note RecordsHand on the Torch booklet remark by Bruce Lundvall, President of Blue Note Records.
Usability Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object's perceived efficiency or elegance.
Usability engineering Usability engineering is a subset of human factors that is specific to computer science and is concerned with the question of how to design software that is easy to use. It is closely related to the field of human-computer interaction and industrial design.
Usage of the terms railroad and railway The terms railroad and railway generally describe the same thing, a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, for transporting passengers and freight. Etymologically both words derive from Old English; a road being something one rides along and way deriving from a Germanic base meaning move, journey, carry.
Usage Parameter Control In networking, Usage Parameter Control (UPC) and Network Parameter Control (NPC) do the same job at different interfaces. The UPC function is performed at the user network interface, while the NPC function is performed at the network node interface.
Usage share of web browsers This article aims to be an unbiased historical record for the usage share of web browsers, based on statistics and articles published by well-known websites. One of the uses of such statistics is to create a graph that roughly represents the browser wars.
Usages of Barcelona The Usages of Barcelona (original name: Usatges de Barcelona), were the customs that form the basis for the Catalan constitutions. They are the fundamental laws, and basic rights of the Catalonia, dating back to their codification in the twelfth century.
Usama Alshaibi Chicago-based film director Usama Alshaibi () was born in Baghdad, Iraq in November 20, 1969. Alshaibi is the director of one feature length film, Muhammad and Jane, and more than thirty short films and videos, some of which star performance artist Echo Transgression and Polish actor and filmmaker Piotr Tokarski.
Usamah ibn Munqidh Usamah ibn Murshid ibn Munqidh (1095-1188, also Osama, Usama, Ussama, or Usmah; Arabic: ﺃﺳﺎﻣﺔ ﺑﻦ ﻣﻨﻘﺬ), an Arab historian, politician, and diplomat, was one of the most important contemporary Arab chroniclers during the time of the Crusades. He came from an aristocratic family from the small, independent Shaizar emirate and was the nephew of its emir Sultan ibn Munqidh.
Usambara Mountains The Usambara Mountains are a mountain range in North-East Tanzania, approximately 70 miles (110 km) long and ranging from 20 to 40 miles (30-60 km) in width. Mountains in the range rise as high as 8,000 ft (2,440 m).
Usania Usania (also written USANIA or USAnia) is another name for the country known to most people as the United States of America (USA). The creation and original use of the name clearly had political overtones and the usage was at least in part satirical.
Usarp Mountains The Usarp Mountains () is a major Antarctic mountain chain, lying westward of the Rennick Glacier and trending N-S for about 190 km (120 miles). The feature is bounded to the north by Pryor Glacier and the Wilson Hills.
Usb8x Usb8x is a Flash application for the TI-84+ and TI-84+SE graphing calculators. It is a driver that interfaces with the calculator's built in USB port, allowing developers to easily create their own USB device drivers for use on the calculators.
Usborne Publishing Usborne Publishing, often called Usborne Books, is a children's book publisher that is based in the UK. Formed by Peter Usborne in 1975, it has become one of the largest producers of children's books in the world, translated into over 90 languages.
Usborne Puzzle Adventure series The Puzzle Adventure series from Usborne Publishing Ltd was first created in 1984 with the release of Escape from Blood Castle. Each book contains a vividly illustrated story, with a plot-related puzzle to solve on each double-page.
Usborne Whodunnit series The Usborne Whodunnit series was a short-lived series of illustrated mysteries similar to Usborne's famous Puzzle Adventure series. The main difference was that these were targeted at a slightly older audience.
Usborne Young Reading A new study relating to how toddlers reading picture books corresponds to their ability to interpret pictures and translate them into real world applications has shown that youngsters ar able to learn more from actual photographs better than representative illustrations. Usborne Books offers many books that capitalize on this new found research.
Use case In software engineering and system engineering, a use case is a technique for capturing functional requirements of systems and systems-of-systems. According to Bittner and Spence, "Use cases, stated simply, allow description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful" .
Use case model Use case model is a model that describes a system’s functional requirements in terms of use cases. Consists of all the actors of the system and all the various use cases by which the actor interact with the system, thereby describing the total functional behavior of the system.
Use case survey Use case survey is a list of names and perhaps brief descriptions of use cases associated with a system, component, or other logical or physical entity. This artifact is short and inexpensive to produce early in the analysis or envisioning stages of a software development project.
Use of force continuum A use of force continuum is a standard that law enforcement officials (such as police officers or prison officers) with guidelines as to how much force may be used in a given situation. The purpose of these models is to clarify, both for officers and citizens, the complex subject of use of force by law officers.
Use of Sciences Po Sciences Po is a french abbreviation of sciences politiques, or political science, which is a division of the social sciences. It is an epithet of the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, which was often referred to as the Ecole des Sciences Politiques or simply Sciences Po.
Use of the word American Use of the word American in the English language differs between historical, geographical and political contexts. Deriving from America, a term originally referring to all of the New World (also called the Americas), its usage has evolved over time, and differs from uses of cognate words in other languages.

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