Paradoxically, the sales rise is due in large measure to Government efforts to slash farm output.

In the path, some sort of special character — such as a slash — is used to separate the file and folder names.

Another distinctive feature of the modern dagger is that it is designed to position the blade horizontally when using a conventional palm grip, enabling the user to slash right or left as well as thrust the blade between an opponent's ribs.

Globally one of the largest contributors to erosive soil loss in the year 2006 is the slash and burn treatment of tropical forests.

Shifting cultivation is a farming system which sometimes incorporates the slash and burn method in some regions of the world.

This is analogous to the slash notation (/ a /, / b /) used for phonemes, and the square bracket notation used for phonetic transcriptions (, ).

Note that the end tag's name is preceded by a slash character, "/", and that in empty elements the end tag is neither required nor allowed.

Since there are two different calendars currently in use among various Orthodox churches, two dates are listed: the first date is the date on the traditional Julian Calendar, the second date, after the slash, is the same day on the modern Gregorian Calendar:

For example, in the verse below, each odd line has a caesura ( shown by a slash /) after the fourth syllable ( daily, her, won ' dring, mother ) while each even line is without a caesura:

This has caused the rising popularity of fanfiction, a large majority of which is categorized as slash fanfiction.

They only way to slay the creature with your sword is to slash it according to the horizontal or vertical mouth opening.

The main activity of the company is to own, maintain, protect and preserve the Volvo trademarks ( including Volvo, the Volvo device marks ( grille slash & iron mark ) Volvo Aero and Volvo Penta ) on behalf of its owners and to license these rights to its owners.

Many Veddas also farm, frequently using slash and burn or swidden cultivation, which is called " chena " in Sri Lanka.

The number following the slash is the prefix length, the number of shared initial bits, counting from the most-significant bit of the address.

Many, however, feel that in cases where the local indigenous people are using slash and burn are, in effect, harming the area or in other cases where logging is being done.

In each case, the title is followed ( when available ) by the female form and then ( not always available, and obviously rarely applicable to a prince of the blood without a principality ) the name of the territorial associated with it, each separated by a slash.

A way to express division all on one line is to write the dividend ( or numerator ), then a slash, then the divisor ( or denominator ), like this:

The slash (/) is a sign used as a punctuation mark and for various other purposes.

It is often called a forward slash ( a back-formation used to distinguish the slash from the backslash, "

Forms that avoid confusion with Danish include a dot placed in the centre of zero ; one with the use of a tick, that is, a slash that does not cross the entire bowl of the figure, but entirely lies in the upper right ; a form found in Germany with a completely vertical slash ; and one with a slash from upper left to lower right.

Cryptonyms are sometimes written with a slash after the digraph, e. g. ZR / RIFLE, and sometimes in one sequence, e. g. ZRRIFLE.

Legal scholars promoting copyright reform sometimes use slash fiction as an example of semiotic democracy.

The term for shows that seem to be giving material for slash writers to use is " pre-slashed ", sometimes " pre-slashed for your convenience ".

" Gayfic " is sometimes used to refer to stories focusing on gay male relationships, and " femslash " or " f / f " used to indicate that a work features female characters in slash relationships.

Slash fiction, like other fan fiction, sometimes borrows the MPAA film rating system to indicate the amount of sexual content in the story. Not all slash fiction has explicit sexual content – the interaction between two characters can be as innocent as holding hands or a chaste kiss, or even contain nothing but unfulfilled yearning ; stories may be labeled " UST " for " unresolved sexual tension ".

The Gabrielino / Tongva Tribe ( sometimes called the " slash " group ) and Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe ( sometimes called the " hyphen " group ) are the two primary factions advocating a casino for the Tongva nation and sharing of revenues to all tribal members.

A grace note is indicated by printing a note that is much smaller than a regular note, sometimes with a slash through the note stem ( if two or more grace notes, there might be a slash through the note stem of the first note but not the subsequent grace note ).

While this ' slash and burn ' technique may describe the method for opening new land, commonly the farmers in question have in existence at the same time smaller fields, sometimes merely gardens, near the homestead there they practice intensive ' non-shifting " techniques until shortage of fields where they can employ " slash and burn " to clear land and ( by the burning ) provide fertilizer ( ash ).

The title is also sometimes written as Super System, without a slash ; Doyle Brunson's Super System ; or Super / System: A Course in Power Poker.

Politician fic is sometimes used as a form of satire, or to highlight the underlying biases or attitudes of the politician being portrayed, although more recently there has been an increase in more ' ordinary ' fanfiction about British politicians in particular, with a notable emphasis on slash.

In paper writing one may not distinguish the 0 and O at all, or may add a slash across it in order to show the difference, although this sometimes causes ambiguity in regard to the symbol for the empty set.

This became known as slash from the '/' mark used in adzines to differentiate a K & S story ( which would have been a Kirk and Spock friendship story ) from a K / S story, which would have been one with a romantic or sexual bent between the characters.

Yaoi can be used by fans as a label for anime or manga-based slash fiction.

Finns came to America particularly from the outlying regions of Savonia and Kainuu, where slash and burn agriculture was a way of life for many, and people were used to life as wilderness pioneers.

Some scholars used the obelus and various other critical symbols, in conjunction with a second symbol known as the metobelos (" end of obelus "), variously represented as two vertically arranged dots, a γ-like symbol, a mallet-like symbol, or a diagonal slash ( with or without one or two dots ).

310 – 320 – 403 ) used both a horizontal slash or hook ( with or without dots ) and an upright and slightly slanting dagger to represent an obelus.

St. Jerome ( c. 347 – 420 ) used a simple horizontal slash for an obelus, but only for passages in the Old Testament.

* Promotion: Parentheses are used to indicate promotion, with the piece resulting from the promotion in parentheses: P-R8 ( Q ) or after a slash: P-R8 / Q.

In areas with access to cogeneration facilities, the slash can be chipped and used for the production of clean electricity or heat.

The numeral 0 — Some writers put a diagonal slash through the numeral 0 ( zero ), a practice that was used on some early, low-resolution computer terminals which displayed a slashed " zero " glyph to distinguish it from the capital letter O.

If the ratio is not 1: 1 ( or is not known ), the prefix (+)/(−),-or d / l-( with a slash ) is used instead.

In Persian, the decimal mark is called Momayyez, which is written like a forward slash — there is a small difference between the " comma " character used in sentences and the Momayyez (٫) used to separate sequences of three digits.

* Shuriken-various small hand held weapons including " throwing stars " that could be used to stab, slash or they could be thrown

it could be used to club, or cut and slash the enemy

* Shuriken-various small hand held weapons including throwing stars and throwing darts that could be used to stab, slash or they could be thrown

The symbolic slash, used to separate the two names in a romantic pairing, from which slash fiction takes its name.

While the term was originally restricted to stories in which male media characters were involved in an explicit sexual relationship as a primary plot element ( also known as " slash ", " m / m slash ", " menslash ", " altfic "), it is now often used to refer to any fan story containing a pairing between same-sex characters, although many fans distinguish the female-focused variety as a separate genre commonly referred to as femslash ( also known as " f / f slash ", " femmeslash ", " altfic " and " saffic ").