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In spite of their authority and international prestige, these institutes are not the official standards organizations, and participation in their work is restricted to those who have paid the membership fees. 

This has been despite the fact that the UK has developed with a culture that is indifferent to engineering, the respectable professions being those such as law or medicine offering more money and prestige. This deeply rooted attitude was supported by an education system in which on the whole applied science - engineering - was not studied in schools or universities. This contrasts with the rest of world, where such studies were an important part of the curricula of many schools and universities as early as the eighteenth century. Engineering was not considered suitable for those with the ability to enter a university, where arts and sciences were studied. 

The cost of these drives is significantly greater than that of a comparable geared drive, but the quality of ride and maximum speed of car travel are much improved. Gearless drives usually have applications in prestige offices and hotels where the elevator travel is in excess of 35 m. 

The metal spraying operation using zinc or aluminium as a protective coating is usually followed by a painting scheme. The choice of sprayed metal and paint scheme depends on the service conditions , but normally this type of system is used on prestige buildings or structures, where longevity is of prime importance and maintenance requirements need to be kept to a minimum. 

They are used where prolonged exposure to high UV resistance is required, such as prestige building cladding in tropical and sub-tropical climates. 

These symbols were adopted as a result of the urging of an outstanding Swedish chemist, Jons Berzelius, during the first half of the nineteenth century. Until Berzelius lent his prestige as a chemist to this system, many of the elements had several symbols in accordance with their different names in different languages. 

It is not about barhopping, with its mating and dating, or the power and prestige of a nine o clock table at the best new restaurant—sacred cattle of New York City. 

John Rivera, president of Prestige Entertainment, which originated... 

Chemistry s relationship to the public is unique among the sciences. Chemistry s products become part of our everyday lives and are profoundly intertwined with society s tastes, needs, and desires. Fritz Haber s ammonia for fertilizing crops helped raise chemistry s prestige to such a peak early in the twentieth century that an adoring public supported the massive deploy-... 

Because of the asymmetry of power between science and occultism, and the ever-growing public faith in the authority of science, the members of a borderland institution like the Alchemical Society had to work self-consciously to solidify its public perception as a scientific society. But the subject of the Society—alchemy—already enjoyed considerable prestige in the occult community. So the Alchemical Society used the impressive scientific and educational credentials of its membership as part of its self-validation in the eyes of the scientific world and the broader public. Most formal mentions by the Journal of its members (either as authors of papers or as participants in the... 

In spite of the excitement the race to transmutation had spurred in the worlds of chemistry and occult alchemy, the crash came in 1914. The prestige and identity transmutation efforts had conferred upon chemistry were called into question—by physicists. Criticism had already come heavily from physicists such as J. J. Thomson, who debunked some of the experiments following the announcement of the Chemical Society meeting in February 1913, as well as from Rutherford, Royds, and Robert John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh). Even sympathetic chemists such as Madame Curie had been unable to reproduce Ramsay s results. Ramsay s own student and research partner, Egerton, could not successfully repeat the experiments when he went to work in a lab in Berlin. 

Tired or Toxic A Blueprint for Health. Sherry Rogers, M.D. Syracuse, NY Prestige Publishing, 1990. 

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