* Adjusting the leading, the space between lines of text ( although such carding or feathering is usually frowned upon );

* Adjusting the type of lights used, so that the light waves emitted are those that are less likely to cause severe light pollution problems.

Adjusting ( originally ‘ ranging ’) means some form of observation is used to correct the fall of shot onto the target, there are several possible reasons for this:

Adjusting the Hop-Up makes the nub protrude lower or higher into the barrel, so that backspin is increased or reduced.

Adjusting the scores down if an old test has been used can mean preventing capital punishment since in the United States a diagnosis of mental retardation prevents execution.

Adjusting the truss rod affects the intonation of a guitar as well as the height of the strings from the fingerboard, called the action.

Adjusting liability insurance claims is particularly difficult because there is a third party involved, the plaintiff, who is under no contractual obligation to cooperate with the insurer and may in fact regard the insurer as a deep pocket.

Adjusting to students ' abilities is something that good teachers have always done: OBE simply makes the approach explicit and reflects the approach in marking and reporting.

Adjusting the timing between when the transmitter sends a pulse and when the receiver stage is enabled will generally reduce the sunburst without affecting the accuracy of the range, since most sunburst is caused by a diffused transmit pulse reflected before it leaves the antenna.

Adjusting to foreign etiquettes is a major complement of culture shock, providing a market for manuals.

* Sliding scale – Adjusting insulin on the basis of blood glucose tests, meals, and activity levels.

Adjusting them for time, he realises that his ship's computer does not list any planet in the vicinity of the co-ordinates.

Adjusting these techniques can alter the style of the film drastically.

Adjusting the depth of cut helps minimize kickback.

Adjusting bar prices failed to help matters significantly, as by the mid 80s crowds were increasingly preferring ecstasy to alcohol.

Adjusting how much of the wick extends above the wick tube controls the flame.

Adjusting for transposition errors by the 1755 scribe, C H Penzel, the initial letters should spell DOKTOR CONRAD MECKBACH and plausibly therefore the work was composed to mark this Mühlhausen councillor's 70th birthday which occurred in April 1707.

Adjusting the price has a profound impact on the marketing strategy, and depending on the price elasticity of the product, often it will affect the demand and sales as well.

Mazda also introduced Auto Adjusting Suspension ( AAS ) in the 2nd generation RX-7.

Adjusting the proportion of these phases offers a wide range of possible CTE's in the finished composite.

Britain and Empire: Adjusting to a Post-Imperial World.

Adjusting the PPI in a Photoshop file will change the intended printing size of the bitmap portion of the data and also change the intended printing size of the vector data to match.

Adjusting the bandwidth of this filter allows for the discrimination of signals with closely spaced frequency components, while also changing the measured noise floor.

Adjusting to civilian life had not been easy for Prince after World War II, and with painfully arthritic knees as a result of the long, harsh conditions during his military service, his capabilities were limited.

* Daniel Bell, " Adjusting Men to Machines: Social Scientists Explore the World of the Factory ," Commentary 3 ( 1947 ): 79-88.

She is the author with Barry Bruce-Briggs of Canada Has a Future and with Maurice Ernst and Jimmy Wheeler of Western Europe: Adjusting to Structural Change.

On the other hand, the envoy's account of Mongol customs is fairly accurate, and his statements about Mongol Christianity and its prosperity, though perhaps exaggerated ( e. g. as to the 800 chapels on wheels in the nomadic host ), are based on fact.

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

Some statements found in rabbinic literature ( Radak – R. David Kimkhi – in his commentary on Ezekiel 1: 3, based on Targum Yerushalmi ) posits that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was ( also ) called " Buzi " because he was despised by the Jews.

Groups of variables can also be set to default types based on the initial letter of their name by use of the, etc., statements.

In a personnel selection example, test content is based on a defined statement or set of statements of knowledge, skill, ability, or other characteristics obtained from a job analysis.

The use of any parametric model is viewed skeptically by most experts in sampling human populations: " most sampling statisticians, when they deal with confidence intervals at all, limit themselves to statements about based on very large samples, where the central limit theorem ensures that these will have distributions that are nearly normal.

In ancient Indian literature, sutra denotes a distinct type of literary composition, based on short aphoristic statements, generally using various technical terms.

There are also " theorems " in science, particularly physics, and in engineering, but they often have statements and proofs in which physical assumptions and intuition play an important role ; the physical axioms on which such " theorems " are based are themselves falsifiable.

There are varying interpretations of the original intent of Congress, based on statements made during the congressional debate over the amendment.

The outrageous statements by some of these people ( including the Bishop )-in favour of nuclear weapons, even nuclear war-were actually based on genuine quotations.

It is used to ascribe properties or relations to objects or types based on previous observations or experiences, or to formulate general statements or laws based on limited observations of recurring phenomenal patterns.

On April 4, 2002 a court in Rotterdam announced its verdict: although in principle his statements had been discriminatory against homosexuals, they were permitted on grounds of freedom of religious expression, since they were based on the Qur ' an and other Muslim documents.

As discussed earlier, the processing stage is based on a collection of logic rules in the form of IF-THEN statements, where the IF part is called the " antecedent " and the THEN part is called the " consequent ".

While it is commonly accepted that the foundations of chemistry are based in physics, and microbiology is rooted in chemistry, similar statements become controversial when one considers less rigorously defined intellectual pursuits.

Unless otherwise noted, statements in this article refer to Standard Finnish, which is based on the dialect spoken in Häme Province in central south Finland.

The RDF data model is similar to classic conceptual modeling approaches such as entity-relationship or class diagrams, as it is based upon the idea of making statements about resources ( in particular Web resources ) in the form of subject-predicate-object expressions.

Looking for an ancestor named John Henry Pittman, who you think was born in ( probably eastern ) Tennessee circa 1853 ( based on statements of his age in later censuses, and a marriage record in Knoxville ), what is the likelihood that a particular birth record for " John Pittman " is your John Pittman?

It included public statements by Archie Comics, who have stated that they do not allow ( even family-oriented ) fan fiction based on Archie comics works.

Stock valuations, which are often much higher, are based on other considerations related to the business ' operating cash flow, profits and future prospects ; some factors are derived from the accounting statements.