SHIFT IN

Computing

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Crosswords: SHIFT IN

It caused a twelve degree shift in the earth's orbitand we're moving toward the sun. (The Day the Earth Caught Fire; writing credit: Wolf Mankowitz; Val Guest)

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Books

• Reversing Language Shift in the Far North: Linguistic Revitalization in Northern Scandinavia & Finland (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Studia Uralica Upsaliensia, 31) (reference)

• Boom Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st Century (reference)

• European asthma treatment product markets : shift in use of single-agent bronchodilation to combination drug therapy (reference)

• Boom Bust & Echo 2000: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the New Millennium (reference)

• Power Shift in Germany: The 1998 Election and the End of the Kohl Era (Modern German Studies Volume 5) (reference)

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Night shift in a glass factory. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

With the shift in heroin abuse patterns comes an even more diverse group of users. (references)

The United States is undergoing a major shift in its approach to delivering health and social service programs. (references)

The study showed that the operation was unnecessary and possibly dangerous, causing a paradigm shift in the way neurosurgeons approached stroke prevention. (references)

Business

Market growth for PCs reflects in part a shift in demand for client terminals (such as PC servers) from larger to smaller systems. (references)

Efforts are already underway to encourage a shift in treatment of patients from hospitals to long-term care and nursing facilities. (references)

Experts predict a shift in this trend in the medium term, with a growing demand for low-cost building products, primarily for residential homes. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

In recent years, Switzerland has seen a gradual shift in the party landscape. (references)

Romania

The 1996 local elections realized a major shift in the political orientation of the Romanian electorate. (references)

North Korea

The new emphasis on expanding trade and acquiring technology, however, was not accompanied by a shift in priorities away from support of the military. (references)

Political Economy

Canada

Although renewed federal social spending may halt the trend toward devolution, the shift in powers to the provinces already accomplished is unlikely to be undone in the short term. (references)

ECUADOR

The government has introduced measures that have resulted in a sharp shift in its fiscal balance from a deficit of 1.2 percent of GDP in 1998 to a primary surplus of 4 percent in 1999. (references)

Indonesia

Per capita gross domestic product among the population of 211 million was $738 in 2000, well below the levels achieved before the severe economic downturn that began in July 1997. The downturn affected most severely the urban poor, particularly in Java, partly as a result of a wholesale shift in employment from the higher-paying formal sector to the less secure informal sector. (references)

Trade

Jamaica

The increase in profits of commercial banks during 2000 coupled with further reduction in non performing loans, the reduction in the cash reserve ratios and the shift in government borrowing from local to international are expected to improve the liquidity position of deposit taking institutions. (references)

Women

Trinidad and Tobago

There has been increased media coverage of domestic abuse cases and signs of a shift in public opinion, which had held that such cases were a private matter. (references)

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Chinese 

轉折 (plot shift in a book, turning point; shift in the trend of events). (various references)

Italian

STS (temporary threshold shift in acuity of hearing), spostamento temporaneo della soglia (temporary threshold shift, temporary threshold shift in acuity of hearing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

シップエア方式 (chiffon, chignon style, cine mode, cine sign, cinefilm, cinema, cinema complex, CinemaScope, Cinerama, cineraria, cinnamon, citron, city, city air terminal, city boy, city gal, city guide, city hall, city pops, civic, civic center, civic trust, civil minimum, civilian control, civilization, cynic, cynical, cynicism, move into low gear, scenario, scenario writer, senior, severe, shift, shift dress, shift key, shift out, shift-JIS, ship air system, Sinanthropus pekinensis, sine curve, sinusoide, Sydney, synagogue, synapse, synergy, synonym, synopsis). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

シフトイン . (various references)

Pig Latin

iftshay inay.(various references)

Misspellings

"SHIFT IN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shiftin. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: finish.

-2 letters: finis, hints, intis, shift, thins.

-3 letters: fins, fish, fist, fits, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, inti, nisi, nits, shin, sift, sinh, sith, snit, thin, this, tins.

-4 letters: fin, fit, hin, his, hit, ifs, ins, its, nit, nth, sin, sit, tin, tis.

-5 letters: hi, if, in, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: faintish, infights, shifting.

+2 letters: fightings.

+3 letters: chieftains, filthiness, infighters, insightful, nightlifes, outfishing, shiftiness, unshifting, upshifting.

+4 letters: antifashion, fishtailing, flightiness, infightings, shoplifting, thriftiness.

+5 letters: antifashions, downshifting, faintishness, filthinesses, insightfully, pathfindings, shiftinesses, sportfishing.