Placebos are widely used in medical research and medicine, and the placebo effect is a pervasive phenomenon ; in fact, it is part of the response to any active medical intervention.

Cryptanalysis is also referred to as codebreaking or cracking the code.

The second half of the show was a " super round " which included a 3D maze, code cracking and a race up Mount Krypton, with points accumulated being exchanged for equipment to assist the contestants with the challenge.

After cracking the code and typing in the four words, each player had to cross a corridor of shifting laser beams, where breaking each beam resulted in a seven-second penalty.

Following the establishment of the Central Dogma and the cracking of the genetic code, biology was largely split between organismal biology — the fields that deal with whole organisms and groups of organisms — and the fields related to cellular and molecular biology.

This book detailed cracking of a famous code from 1898 created by Commandant Bazeries, a brilliant French Army Cryptanalyst.

This pushing back of HL2s release date came in the wake of the cracking of Valve's internal network through a null session connection to Tangis which was hosted in Valve's network and a subsequent upload of an ASP shell, resulting in the leak of the game's source code and many other files including maps, models and a playable early version of Half-Life Source and Counter-Strike Source in early September 2003.

While attending a genetics conference in Geneva, Wyndham was approached by a mysterious man ( in truth, the outcast Inhuman geneticist Phaeder ) who handed to him papers containing blueprints for cracking the genetic code.

* The most obvious and, in principle at least, simplest way of cracking a code is to steal the codebook through bribery, burglary, or raiding parties — procedures sometimes glorified by the phrase " practical cryptography " — and this is a weakness for both codes and ciphers, though codebooks are generally larger and used longer than cipher keys.

This due to multiple hackers that wrote code cracking programs in order to guess all of the possible codes and take all of the prizes for themselves.

The term furnace can also refer to a direct fired heater, used in boiler applications in chemical industries or for providing heat to chemical reactions for processes like cracking, and is part of the standard English names for many metallurgical furnaces worldwide.

Alcor denied the allegations of missing DNA and explained that microscopic cracking can result as part of the process of freezing the head, damage which is less than previous methods using glycerol during cryopreservation ; Alcor believes that technology sufficient to revive its patients would also be able to repair the microscopic fractures, which are monitored using a tiny microphone.

Another use of the whip is to make a loud sound ( the ' cracking ' of a whip ) which induces a fear response in animals, especially those conditioned to the pain stimulus of the whip, and this technique is often used as part of an escalation response, with sound being used first prior to a pain stimulus being applied, again as part of operant conditioning.

The increased temperature and pressure on one part of the piston crown causes uneven expansion which can lead to cracking, distortion or other damage.

Programs like AOHell played an important part in defining the ' script kiddie ', a user who performs basic cracking using simple tools written by others, with little understanding of what they are doing.

The name " Cracker-Cats " is derived from the oil industry term fluid catalytic cracking (" cat cracking " for short ), which is part of the process of refining crude oil into gasoline by converting high boiling hydrocarbons into smaller molecules.

SPC, with equal partner Caltex ( part of Chevron Corporation ), owns half of the Singapore Refining Company ( SRC ) plant, a complex refinery capable of cracking crude oil.

He is known by his " Texas Children First " initiative which is part of cracking down on child sexual predators in Texas and throughout the United States.

Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items ; a typical barge measures 195 by 35 feet ( 59. 4 m × 10. 6 m ), and can carry up to 1, 500 tons catalytic cracking unit reactor was shipped by barge from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma to a refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The government of Uzbekistan has instead tightened its grip since independence ( September 1, 1991 ), cracking down increasingly on opposition groups.

Warez are often distributed outside of The Scene ( a collection of warez groups ) by torrents ( files including tracker info, piece size, uncompressed file size, comments, and vary in size from 1 k, to 400 k .) uploaded to a popular P2P website by an associate or friend of the cracker or cracking crew.

Even more limiting is the cracking of fuel coatings due to the large temperature ranges ( from 22 K up to 3000 K over the length of a 1. 3m fuel rod ), and the necessity of matching coefficients of expansion in all the components.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation | EFF's US $ 250, 000 DES EFF DES cracker | cracking machine contained over 1, 800 custom chips and could brute-force a DES key in a matter of days.

The advantages of this material over cementitious terrazzo include a wider selection of colors, 1 / 4 inch to 3 / 8 inch installation thickness, lighter weight, faster installation, impermeable finish, higher strength, and less susceptibility to cracking.

It is highly impervious to damage, able to resist explosions equivalent to 1 ton of TNT, the impact of small anti-tank weaponry, and temperature extremes between-50 ˚ and 1, 000 ˚ F without cracking or melting.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation | EFF's US $ 250, 000 DES cracking machine contained 1, 856 custom chips and could brute force attack | brute force a DES key ( cryptography ) | key in a matter of days — the photo shows a two-sided DES Cracker circuit board fitted with 64 Deep Crack chips

This thermal cracking process was patented on January 7, 1913 ( Patent No. 1, 049, 667 ).

Thus low levels of chlorine in potable water supplies ( 1 – 3 ppm ) can be sufficient enough to cause stress corrosion cracking to develop, a problem which has been experienced in both the USA and Europe in domestic and commercial water supply systems.

* a naphtha cracking plant ( production capacity: 1. 35 million tons ethylene per year )

In 1982, with the bridge two-thirds complete, a 150-foot ( 46 m ) long, 6, 700-ton ( 6, 070 metric tonnes ) segment was not properly counterbalanced and sank five feet ( 1. 5 m ) out of alignment while rising 3. 5 feet ( 1. 1 m ) on the other end, cracking a pier footing in the process.

) There are only two ways to collect the super berry, homing berry, mega homing berry, and gold berry: ( 1 ) by finding the actual berry somewhere in the level or ( 2 ) collecting purple tokens, turning a seed purple, cracking it open, and obtaining the resulting berry that way.

For example, heating (" cracking ") elemental phosphorus gives diphosphorus, P < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Thermolysis ( cracking ) of P < sub > 4 </ sub > at 1100 kelvin ) gives diphosphorus, P < sub > 2 </ sub >.

* The ending of the introduction saw Lye's face in a sketch with his mouth opening up, leading to a stamp put on his face reading You Can't Do That on Television, followed by the screen cracking and finally splitting in 2 pieces which the cast are seen.

Distributed. net has brute-forced RC5 messages encrypted with 56-bit and 64-bit keys, and is working on cracking a 72-bit key ; as of August 2012, 2. 489 % of the keyspace has been searched.

Zeolites are applied in drying of process air, CO < sub > 2 </ sub > removal from natural gas, CO removal from reforming gas, air separation, catalytic cracking, and catalytic synthesis and reforming.

Here is an example of cracking of butane CH < sub > 3 </ sub >- CH < sub > 2 </ sub >- CH < sub > 2 </ sub >- CH < sub > 3 </ sub >

He improved his victory totals to 13 and 18 over the following two seasons, respectively, before finally cracking the 20-victory plateau in 1963, when he went 25 – 8 with 248 strikeouts and a 2. 41 ERA.

Up to 2 % of iron oxide powder can be used to prevent mold cracking and metal penetration, essentially improving refractoriness.

The walls are 2. 03m ( 6 ft 8ins ) in radius and 0. 91 m ( 3 ft ) thick with a door to the north-west and shows signs of cracking to the rubble-filled walls on the west.

A scene in which Mick hits 2 inmates with a sack of soda cans is parodied in the Family Guy episode " Dial Meg for Murder " when Meg beats up a group of popular kids with a sack of soda cans and cracking 3 of the kids skulls open which she is suspended for.