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Impulse-based turn system

It can be considered a fairly complex mechanic, but has been used in three games that have enjoyed long-term success, the wargames Star Fleet Battles and Car Wars, and the Hero System role-playing game (also known as Champions or Fantasy Hero).


Abd-el-Tif prize

Decreed on contest, it was created in 1907 under the impulse of Léonce Bénédite, curator of the Museum of Luxembourg and Claude Jonnart, general governor of Algeria, in order to make it possible to young talented artists to remain one year or two, sometimes more, with the expenses of the State in the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers.

Acharei Mot

Professor Jacob Milgrom, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley, taught that the evidence of the ethical impulse in the sacrificial system attained its zenith in Yom Kippur.

Álvaro Arzú

There had been six years of negotiations since the Oslo Agreement of March 1990, and Arzú gave them a vital new impulse when he personally met the URNG in Mexico on February 26, 1996.

Biological pacemaker

The heart is endowed with specialized excitatory and conducting cells that are responsible for the generation and conduction of rhythmic impulses and contractions throughout the heart.

Chamber Hall Power Station

When commissioned in 1912, the station had two John Musgrave & Sons steam turbines of the Zoelly impulse type, each driving a Siemens Brothers 2,000kW alternator, generating a three-phase output of 6,000V at 50Hz.

Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre

Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre is a live album by Argentinian saxophonist and composer Gato Barbieri featuring three tracks recorded in the studio released on the Impulse! label.

Comitini

In the early 19th century the extraction of sulfur from the mines in the territory, due to an increased demand caused by the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, gave a new impulse to the economy which was followed by a remarkable population growth.

Creative Impulse Entertainment

Creative Impulse Entertainment (also known as Creative Impulse) is a start up transmedia company founded by Jan Lucanus in 2003.

Do It Now!

Do It Now! (subtitled Worry 'Bout It Later) is the second album by American guitarist and keyboardist Clifford Coulter recorded in 1971 for the Impulse! label.

East Side San Jose

East Side San Jose is the debut album by American guitarist and keyboardist Clifford Coulter recorded in 1970 for the Impulse! label.

Edward Charles

His most famous writings are The Sexual Impulse, Mens Gods, Those Thoughtful People, Sand & the Blue Moss, Apple Pie Bed, Indian Patchwork (with "Mary Charles", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), Portrait of the Artist's Children and Idle Hands.

Energia

A FGB ("Functional Cargo Block") engine section originally built as a cancelled Mir module was incorporated into the upper stage used to inject the payload into orbit, similarly to modern geostationary satellites providing apogee impulse themselves, since the planned "Buran-T" upper stage had not yet progressed beyond the planning stage.

Female of the Species

It gained further popularity in the UK when used in a 1998 advert (with a cameo appearance by Quentin Crisp) for the bodyspray "Impulse".

Ferdinand Piëch

Hahn's previous efforts to regain market share in the United States and Canada — which he had built up as the head of Volkswagen of America from 1958 to 1965 — were unsuccessful, but Piëch helped reverse VW's fortunes by the decision to manufacture the Volkswagen New Beetle, the introduction of which in 1998 gave Volkswagen of America a much needed impulse.

Gabor filter

Because of the multiplication-convolution property (Convolution theorem), the Fourier transform of a Gabor filter's impulse response is the convolution of the Fourier transform of the harmonic function and the Fourier transform of the Gaussian function.

Hareton Earnshaw

Heathcliff arrived underneath just at the critical moment; by a natural impulse he arrested his descent, and setting him on his feet, looked up to discover the author of the accident.

Heave

Parasternal heave, an impulse felt on physical examination of the heart, indicating heart disease

Hexagonal sampling

Russell M. Mersereau developed hexagonal discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and hexagonal finite extent impulse response filters.

Homo Necans

Burkert acknowledges that a decisive impulse for the thesis of Homo Necans derived from Konrad Lorenz' On Aggression (1963).

Hubert Crackanthorpe

Hubert's body was found in the Seine on Christmas Eve; it is unknown whether he was a victim of foul play, or if he succumbed to a suicidal impulse.

I'd Rather Suck My Thumb

I'd Rather Suck My Thumb is the fourth album by American blues guitarist Mel Brown recorded in 1969 for the Impulse! label.

Impulse drive

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the impulse drive is the method of propulsion that starships and other spacecraft use when they are travelling below the speed of light.

Infinity-Man

In one issue of Young Justice, the hero known as Impulse took part in the Forever People's summoning, resulting in the manifestation of a somewhat immature and hyperactive version of the Infinity Man, who displayed super-speed.

Institut Charles Sadron

In 1947, through the impulse of Charles Sadron (1902–1993), the CNRS founded the Centre d'Etude de Physique Macromoléculaire (CEPM, Centre for Study of Macromolecular Physics).

KinITC

Essentially, the actual signal is obtained by a Convolution of the ideal signal with the impulse response function.

Kit Lang

Other notable stage performances in Lang’s portfolio included award-winning plays Angels in America, Tarantella, A Lonely Impulse of Delight and the British production of Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco.

Larry Newton

He oversaw what became a major multimarket, multi-label company, which, for its jazz subsidiary Impulse!, included Ray Charles, Oliver Nelson, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, and John Coltrane.

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Here, his famous kinswoman, Laura Bassi, was professor of physics and it is to her influence that his scientific impulse has been usually attributed.

Lester Bowie

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (Impulse!), 1994 (Various Artists) appears on one track with Digable Planets

Louis Whitford Bond

With the discovery of gold in the Yukon against the advice of their father he went with his brother's impulse and he spent a year at Dawson City, in the Klondike gold region, enduring many hardships, but gaining valuable experience.

Neat Records

The label was established in 1979 by David Wood, who was the owner of Impulse Studios in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England.

Patrick Lundborg

A permanent alternative spiritual culture of the West is outlined as Lundborg follows the impulse from Eleusis through the Neoplatonism and pantheism of the Middle Ages, the rise of hermeticism and esoteric alchemy during the Renaissance, up to the highly visible psychedelic scenes of the modern world.

Political faction

Similarly, in the tenth installment of the Federalist Papers, James Madison defines a faction as "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." In plain English this is a group that pursues self-interest at the expense of the common good.

Pontassieve

At the end of the 18th century the new House of Lorraine’s Dukes gave a great impulse to the town economy.

PS238

In looks, personality and powers, seems to be a younger version of Bart Allen, aka Impulse.

Receptor

Sensory receptor, in physiology, any structure which, on receiving environmental stimuli, produces an informative nerve impulse

Richard Chenevix Trench

Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary.

Sins of a Solar Empire

Ironclad has released three main expansions, which are available on Ironclad's website and Stardock's digital distribution service, Impulse.

SpongeBob's Boating Bash

It features SpongeBob SquarePants characters and is the first SpongeBob racing game since Nicktoons Racing, and it is also the first SpongeBob game released by Firebrand Games for the Nintendo DS and ImPulse Games for the Wii.

The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2

On October 10, 1995, Impulse incorporated the tracks issued here into a two-disc set entitled The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions.

The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones

The Incredible Kai Winding Trombones is an album by American jazz trombonist Kai Winding featuring performances recorded in 1960 for the Impulse! label.

The Lovers

Sometimes, that impulse manifests as curiosity (Eve, Pandora, Psyche); sometimes it manifests as sexual desire (the basis of much great literature, as well as ordinary romances, most teen movies, and even horror films); sometimes it manifests as duty (a soldier heeding the call).

The October Suite

The October Suite is an album by American jazz pianist Steve Kuhn and composer/arranger/conductor Gary McFarland featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.

The Russian Jazz Quartet

There they teamed up with British born Roger Kellaway on piano, George Ricci on cello/viola and African-American drummer Grady Tate to record the group's one and only album “Happiness”, released on ABC's recently created jazz label Impulse! in 1965.

The Stadium Techno Experience

"The Night" samples both Italian disco star Valerie Dore's hit 1984 single, "The Night" and "Magic Impulse" by Exposure.

Tipografia Elvetica

The press enjoyed the collaboration of the Mazzinian Luigi Dottesio, who gave a notable impulse to the printing of books, periodicals and proclamations of Risorgimental patriots and exiles.

Violet Vanbrugh

In 1889 she joined the Kendals at the Royal Court Theatre as Lady Gillingham in The Weaker Sex, and at the end of the year travelled with them to the U.S., where she played Lady Ingram in the comedy A Scrap of Paper and in dramas such as The Iron Master, Impulse and A White Lie and comedies such The Weaker Sex.

Zaporozhian Cossacks

For Russians, the Treaty of Pereyaslav gave the Tsardom of Russia and later Russian Empire the impulse to take over the Ruthenian lands, claim rights as the sole successor of the Kievan Rus' and for the Russian Tsar to be declared the protector of all Russias, culminating in the Pan-Slavism movement of the 19th century.


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