* In ModulArt – a branch of modular art – modularity refers to the ability to alter the work by reconfiguring, adding to and / or removing its parts.

Modularity has found renewed interest among proponents of ModulArt, a form of modular art in which the constituent parts can be physically reconfigured, removed and / or added to.

After a few isolated experiments in ModulArt starting in the 1950s, several artists since the 1990s have explored this flexible, customizable and co-creative form of art.

It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

The fundamental technique is a partitioning of the total sum of squares SS into components related to the effects used in the model.

One technique used in factorial designs is to minimize

The technique of " triangulation ", which was inspired by sewing lessons he took from an embroideress, is still used today.

* Principal components analysis – a technique that can be used to simplify a dataset

* Finite element analysis – a computer simulation technique used in engineering analysis

Amplitude modulation ( AM ) is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave.

This vast panoramic view used ideas from other social sciences, employed effectively the technique of the longue durée, and downplayed the importance of specific events and individuals.

Multiple anagramming is a technique used to solve some kinds of cryptograms, such as a permutation cipher, a transposition cipher, and the Jefferson disk.

One technique used to reach very low temperatures ( thousandths and even millionths of a degree above absolute zero ) is adiabatic demagnetisation, where the change in magnetic field on a magnetic material is used to provide adiabatic cooling.

* Ajax ( programming ) ( Asynchronous JavaScript and XML ), a technique used in web application development

As an example among performance-art applications, the Alexander technique is used and taught by classically trained vocal coaches and musicians.

Because the technique has allegedly been used to improve breathing and stamina in general, advocates also claim that athletes, people with asthma, tuberculosis, and panic attacks have also found improvements.

The technique has been used by actors to reduce stage fright and to increase spontaneity.

The American philosopher and educator John Dewey became impressed with the Alexander technique after his headaches, neck pains, blurred vision, and stress symptoms largely improved during the time he used Alexander's advice to change his posture.

* ABCD matrix analysis, a type of ray tracing technique used in the design of some optical systems

As early American Indians lacked the proper pottery that could be used directly over a fire, they developed a technique which has caused many anthropologists to call them " Stone Boilers ".

In practice a technique called vestigial sideband is used to reduce the channel spacing, which would be at least twice the video bandwidth if pure AM was used.

In analytical chemistry the technique is used for determining the concentration of a particular element ( the analyte ) in a sample to be analyzed.

Atomic absorption spectrometry was first used as an analytical technique, and the underlying principles were established in the second half of the 19th century by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, both professors at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

This technique is typically used for determinations in the mg L-1 range, and may be extended down to a few μg L-1 for some elements.

This is the oldest and still most commonly used technique, particularly for flame AAS.

The advantage of this technique is that only one radiation source is used ; among the disadvantages are that the high-current pulses reduce lamp lifetime, and that the technique can only be used for relatively volatile elements, as only those exhibit sufficient self-reversal to avoid dramatic loss of sensitivity.

Callet attributes this difference in embouchure technique as the reason the great players of the past were able to play at the level of technical virtuosity which they did, although the increased difficulty of contemporary compositions for brass seem to indicate that the level of brass technique achieved by today's performers equals or even exceeds that of most performers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Among contemporary artists, Fernando Leal Audirac has developed a technique of transportable frescos.

In Europe and all over the world since the 1960s, artists have combined Surrealism with what is believed to be a classical 16th century technique called mischtechnik, a kind of mix of egg tempera and oil paint rediscovered by Ernst Fuchs, a contemporary of Dalí, and now practiced and taught by many followers, including Robert Venosa and Chris Mars.

The Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called " Cabiria movements " by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film ; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.

This technique has also been used in contemporary music.

Similarly, his conducting technique as described by contemporary sources appears to set the groundwork for the clarity and precision favoured in the French School of conducting right up to the present, exemplified by such figures as Pierre Monteux, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, Paul Paray, Charles Munch, André Cluytens, Pierre Boulez and Charles Dutoit.

This allowed for very fast context switching by simply changing the workspace pointer to the memory used by another process ( a technique used in a number of contemporary designs, such as the TMS9900 ).

Realising that standard documentary techniques would be incapable of confronting the enormity of the horror ( and even risked humanising it ), Resnais chose to use a distancing technique by alternating historical black-and-white images of the camps with contemporary colour footage of the sites in long tracking shots.

The technique was later adapted for use in the contemporary link-state routing protocols IS-IS and OSPF.

The concept of détournement has had a popular influence amongst contemporary radicals, and the technique can be seen in action in the present day when looking at the work of Culture Jammers including the Cacophony Society, Billboard Liberation Front, Occupy Movements and Adbusters, whose ' subvertisements ' ' detourn ' Nike adverts, for example.

The film transposed the famous William Shakespeare play to contemporary New York City, a technique Hawke felt made the play more " accessible and vital ".

Film editor Richard Francis-Bruce was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing, and Director of Photography Darius Khondji's extensive use of silver retention film processing has since been noted as a major influence on contemporary cinematographic technique, especially in the late 1990s.

Biber's achievements included further development of violin technique – he was able to reach the 6th and 7th positions, and his left-hand and bowing techniques were far more advanced than those of contemporary Italian composers.

His brief testimony with the Inquisition is often quoted for its insight into contemporary painting technique.

This CGI technique, for the time, was a great leap into the future compared to contemporary films such as the previous year's Return of the Jedi, which still used static physical models shot by moving film cameras.

Composers ’ use of extended techniques is not specific to contemporary music ( for instance, Hector Berlioz ’ s use of col legno in his Symphonie Fantastique is an extended technique ) and it transcends compositional schools and styles.

Using modern dulcimers with full-width frets arranged for equal temperament, contemporary players have borrowed from chord theory and imported technique from other stringed instruments to greatly expand the versatility of the instrument.

A modern playing technique used in experimental rock as well as contemporary classical music is 3rd bridge.

However, it is a powerful technique that continues to be used for contemporary research around the world.

The term originated in reference to medieval French motets, but the technique remains in common use in contemporary music ( Louis Andriessen's Hoketus ), popular music ( funk, stereo panning, the work of Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew in King Crimson ), Indonesian gamelan music ( interlocking patterns shared between two instruments — called imbal in Java and Kotekan in Bali ), Andean siku ( panpipe ) music ( two pipe sets sharing the full number of pitches between them ), handbell music ( tunes being distributed between two or more players ), Rara street processions in Haiti, as well as in the Gaga in the Dominican Republic and many African cultures such as the Ba-Benzélé ( featured on Herbie Hancock's " Watermelon Man ", see Pygmy music ), Mbuti, Basarwa ( Khoisan ), the Gumuz tribe from the Blue Nile Province ( Sudan ), and Gogo ( Tanzania ).

* Technical: The original Lejour technique incision plan had no horizontal limbs, and so did not produce horizontal scars ; however, contemporary variants, such as the Modified Lejour Technique, employ small, horizontal incisions along the inframammary fold, in order to avoid redundant skin folds, especially in the reduction of very oversized breasts.

At this time the foundations of Hodge theory were being brought in line with contemporary technique in operator theory.

He helped to define the principles of modern dance choreographic technique, most notably the matching of choreography to pre-existing musical structure and the use of contemporary music for dance scores.