The advantage of such a calendar is the ease of calculating when a particular date occurs.

They may wish to take advantage of a spike in demand for a particular coin ( for example, during the annual release of Canadian numismatic collectibles from the Royal Canadian Mint ).

Players can gain a large advantage if their civilization is the first to learn a particular technology ( the secrets of flight, for example ) and put it to use in a military or other context.

This theory has the advantage of avoiding the infinite regress without claiming special, possibly arbitrary status for some particular class of beliefs.

Perennialists freely acknowledge that any particular selection of great books will disagree on many topics ; however, they see this as an advantage, rather than a detriment.

In 1922, John Renshaw Carson of AT & T, inventor of Single-sideband modulation ( SSB modulation ), had published a paper in the Proceedings of the IRE arguing that FM did not appear to offer any particular advantage.

In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating geographic boundaries to create partisan or incumbent-protected districts.

Shanghai claimed in particular to have a geographical advantage, and a municipal government that dreams of turning the city into China's main economic centre by as early as 2010.

While the comb material does have a slight influence over the sound of the harmonica, the main advantage of a particular comb material over another one is its durability.

UK residents, in particular, were taking advantage of this situation.

The main advantage of this particular microprocessor is that it was designed to fit into existing desktop designs for Pentium branded CPUs.

The processes of protein folding and binding can be simulated using such technique as molecular mechanics, in particular, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo, which increasingly take advantage of parallel and distributed computing ( Folding @ home project ; molecular modeling on GPU ).

An often-cited theory published by R. A. Fisher in 1930 that attempts to resolve the paradox posits that such traits are the results of explosive positive feedback loops that have as their starting points particular sexual preferences for features that confer a survival advantage and thus " become established in the species.

A particular geographic advantage in recent times has been the location of the intersection of the Pan-European transport corridors V ( the fastest link between the North Adriatic, and Central and Eastern Europe ) and X ( linking Central Europe with the Balkans ) in the country.

One particular advantage of Hall thrusters, as compared to a gridded ion thruster, is that the generation and acceleration of the ions takes place in a quasi-neutral plasma and so there is no Child-Langmuir charge ( space charge ) saturated current limitation on the thrust density.

It was to be Wagner's last completed opera and in composing it he took advantage of the particular acoustics of his Bayreuth Festspielhaus.

These rules include such things as regulation ski sizes, sidecuts, boot heights, binding risers and other regulations such as limitations to chemical substances found in winning racers as well as many other things which all ensure one particular skier has no advantage over another.

Some members of the legislature have expert knowledge of particular subjects of legislation, and these members are usually placed on committees to take full advantage of this specialized knowledge.

It has also been speculated that organisms may take advantage of differential mutation rates associated with epigenetic features to control the mutation rates of particular genes.

By way of analogy, the allele ( a particular version of a gene ) which causes sickle-cell anemia when two copies are present may also confer resistance to malaria with a lesser form of anemia when one copy is present ( this is called heterozygous advantage ).

The ACT was originally designed to be similar to Washington, D. C. as a neutral site for the Federal seat of government, consequently not giving any particular state an advantage by hosting the government.

Prussia, moreover, was far ahead of all the other continental powers in administration, and over Austria, in particular, its advantage in this matter was almost decisive.

When applied to a particular allele, this theory posits that mutation carriers have a selective advantage, perhaps in a particular environment.

What with traders trading for so many different objectives, and what with there being so many unique and individualized market theories and trading techniques in use, and more coming into use all the time, it is hard to imagine how any particular theory or technique could acquire enough `` fans '' to invalidate itself.

This is a useful technique for researchers in neuroscience because it allows them to quickly increase the intracellular cAMP levels in particular neurons, and to study the effect of that increase in neural activity on the behavior of the organism.

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

The fact that large and interesting classes of non-compact spaces do in fact have compactifications of particular sorts makes compactification a common technique in topology.

In particular, the new design did not include many of the addressing modes that were intended to make programs smaller in memory, a technique that was widely used on other DEC machines and CISC designs in general.

Individual differences in dental structure, lip shape and size, jaw shape and the degree of jaw malocclusion, and other anatomical factors will affect whether a particular embouchure technique will be effective or not.

Levy explored and pioneered the over blow technique in the early seventies, which enables the diatonic harmonica to play full chromatic scales across three octaves, while retaining the particular sound of the harp.

# " a particular psychosomatic technique in combination with the Jesus Prayer ", use of which technique can be traced back at least to the 13th century ;

Clients will often ask for a particular style and the artist may adjust to the appropriate technique.

The second ( more recent and more advanced ) technique employs focal plane array detection for infrared chemical imaging, where the image contrast is determined by the response of individual sample regions to particular IR wavelengths selected by the user.

Combinatorial mutagenesis is a technique whereby large number of mutants may be screened for a particular characteristic.

One particular polymerase, from the thermophilic bacterium, Thermus aquaticus ( Taq ) ( PDB 1BGX, EC 2. 7. 7. 7 ) is of vital commercial importance due to its use in the polymerase chain reaction, a widely used technique of molecular biology.

Besides its established role as a diagnostic technique, PET has an expanding role as a method to assess the response to therapy, in particular, cancer therapy, where the risk to the patient from lack of knowledge about disease progress is much greater than the risk from the test radiation.

PET is a valuable technique for some diseases and disorders, because it is possible to target the radio-chemicals used for particular bodily functions.

The third definition attempts to distinguish shamans from other magico-religious specialists who are believed to contact spirits, such as " mediums ", " witch doctors ", " spiritual healers " or " prophets ", by claiming that they undertake a particular technique not used by the others.

Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar.

For bin packing in particular, a GGA hybridized with the Dominance Criterion of Martello and Toth, is arguably the best technique to date.

Some pieces are composed around a set scale, where the compositional technique might be considered the usage of a particular scale.

Strange then, as Cohen says, that philosophers and scientists alike refuse to acknowledge either Galileo in particular, or the thought experiment technique in general for its pivotal role in both science and philosophy.

Contrary to a popular legend, de Broglie actually gave the correct rebuttal that the particular technique could not be generalized for Pauli's purpose, although the audience might have been lost in the technical details and de Broglie's mild mannerism left the impression that Pauli's objection was valid.

The effectiveness of countermeasures varies, because keyloggers use a variety of techniques to capture data and the countermeasure needs to be effective against the particular data capture technique.

However, the particular technique that the anti-spyware application uses will influence its potential effectiveness against software keyloggers.