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A transfer of real property by virtue of the provisions in a will. Contrast with descent, which is a transfer by virtue of statutory provisions controlling ownership of real estate when one dies without a will.

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I wish to thank Laurie Wallace, OTR/L and Lois Longwell, LCSW for their expertise in devising strategies to promote function.

Higher education and cognitive disability: adaptive strategies

Having begun with Op art, Taaffe long ago moved on to another way of assimilating a tradition, especially that of another culture: he re-presents a traditional abstract syntax through combinational sequences and studio techniques of his own devising. Focusing on the smallest, most basic units of Islamic decorative tradition, he combines them in a new way, and rejects the folkloric or atmospheric associations of Orientalism's conventional treatment of them.

Philip Taaffe: 'Al Quasbah', 1991

Considerations for devising and using treatment difficulty measurement systems are similar to those for measuring severity.

Severity of illness: red herring or horse of a different color?

Using tunneling magnetic junction random access memory (TMJ-RAM for short), IBM's Stuart Parkin is devising new memory chips that will be ultra-fast, will consume less power, and will retain stored data when a computer shuts down.

Quantum Leaps

Future Systems' response to the sensitivity of the site was to bury the house, devising an organic, structurally strong form and making it an almost invisible part of the landscape.

Pod life

PESHAWAR, February 11, 2011 (Frontier Star): Provincial Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain condemning the suicide blast in Punjab Regiment Mardan on Thursday early morning said that the attack was not a result of security lapse adding that terrorists are devising new strategies to spread terror.

Punjab Regiment attack not result of security lapse: Iftikhar Hussain

CHIP OFF THE OLD BODY Shuler coined the term animal-on-a-chip in 1999, when he, Baxter, and their colleagues were devising microversions of Shuler's tabletop setups.

Frankenstein's chips: scientists turn to build-'em-yourself guinea pigs

In designing Metro's new headquarters, Munkenbeck & Marshall have taken cues from the nature of the business - as they are adept at doing - expressing linked themes of light and communication while remaining within a robust Modernist-inspired architecture of their own devising. The four-storey building was one of the few unlisted Victorian warehouses in a conservation area and the architects were able to make some structural innovations.

Photo finish

PESHAWAR, February 11, 2011 (Balochistan Times): Provincial Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain condemning the suicide blast in Punjab Regiment Mardan on Thursday early morning said that the attack was not a result of security lapse adding that terrorists are devising new strategies to spread terror.