* Sound recordings in a DJ's preferred medium ( for example, vinyl records, Compact Discs, computer media files, etc.

They preferred the briefer style associated with elegy in contrast to the lengthier epic forms, and made it the singular medium for short epigrams.

Different muralists tend to become experts in their preferred medium and application, whether that be oil paints, emulsion or acrylic paints applied by brush, roller or airbrush / aerosols.

) The artistic affinity of animation to comic books has led to a large amount of superhero-themed animation, much of this adapted from comics series, while the impossible characters and settings allowed in animation made this a preferred medium for both fantasy and for shows aimed at young audiences.

Instead he preferred expressive art-music such as that by Federico Moreno Torroba, and revived interest in the instrument as an expressive medium for the performance of classical art-music.

The film was originally shot by cinematographer Floyd Crosby as half-talkie, half-silent, before being fully restored as a silent film — Murnau's preferred medium.

It is the preferred sexual medium since it is safe and enhances the experience.

However, as the genre developed, music video directors increasingly turned to 35 mm film as the preferred medium, while others mixed film and video.

His preferred medium for expressing himself was the essay rather the book.

Schweizer argues that literature is the preferred medium for the expression of God-hatred because the creative possibilities of literature allow writers to simultaneously unburden themselves of their misotheism, while ingeneously veiling their blasphemy.

In an anisotropic medium, such as a crystal, the polarisation field P is not necessarily aligned with the electric field of the light E. In a physical picture, this can be thought of as the dipoles induced in the medium by the electric field having certain preferred directions, related to the physical structure of the crystal.

However, compared to early air-superiority designs such as the F-100 or F-8, the massive Phantom nevertheless had enough raw twin-J79 power to prove adaptable as the preferred platform for tangling with agile MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighters over the skies of Vietnam, as well as replacing the US Air Force Convair F-102 Delta Dagger and Convair F-106 Delta Dart for continental interception duties and the Republic F-105 Thunderchief as a medium fighter-bomber.

To a larger extent, the same can said of all the Ancient Iranian peoples, as second only to perhaps the bow, horses were held in reverence and importance in these societies as their preferred and mastered medium of warfare, due to an intrinsic link throughout history with the domestication and evolution of the horse.

Paperbacks can be the preferred medium when a book is not expected to be a major seller, or in other situations where the publisher wishes to release a book without putting forth a large investment.

Although watercolor paper is a preferred medium, cotton, wool and even gelatin sizing on nonporous surfaces have been used.

In England many complete examples remain from the 16th and 17th century, where oak was the preferred medium in this case

For certain kinds of transactions ( such as for illegal goods like drugs or weapons ), gold or diamonds may be preferred as the medium of exchange — there being no recourse in case of counterfeit currency being used — and there is rarely any deferral of payment: if there is, it will most likely be stated in dollars.

Most of the popular Linux distributions now include a live CD variant, which in some cases is also the preferred installation medium.

Long a preferred medium of many of Quebec's actors, artists, and writers, television has been one of the important forces in Quebec society, including its substantial influence in a series of dramatic changes in the 1960s: the Quiet Revolution.

These online estate agents claim to give private property sellers the ability to market their property via the major property portals ( the preferred medium used by traditional high street estate agents ) for a fraction of the cost of the traditional estate agency.

Mahanubhava saints used prose as their main medium, while Warkari saints preferred poetry as the medium.

In plasma generators as currently commercially available for industrial use or as high temperature research tools often more than 50% of the total energy input is being transferred to the cooling medium of the anode.

The unhealthy use of denial in the initial reaction to a stress must be handled through the medium of a positive controlled transference.

Agar is typically sold commercially as a powder that can be mixed with water and prepared similarly to gelatin before use as a growth medium.

Multi-speed bicycles allow gear selection to suit the circumstances: a cyclist could use a high gear when cycling downhill, a medium gear when cycling on a flat road, and a low gear when cycling uphill.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

The Song Dynasty was the first to issue generally circulating paper currency, while the Yuan Dynasty was the first to use notes as the predominant circulating medium.

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium.

The use of money as a medium of exchange and unit of account is necessary to solve the first two problems of economic calculation.

It seems that Bardaisan and Mani composed madrāšê, and Ephrem felt that the medium was a suitable tool to use against their claims.

Although D. W. Griffith did not invent any new film techniques, he was the best film director working up to 1913, and this was because he made better dramatic and artistic use of the medium than other directors.

Oral Roberts's successful use of television as a medium to gain a wider audience led others to follow suit.

Notables in the U. S. arsenal during the 20th century included the M2 Browning. 50 caliber heavy machine gun and M1919 Browning. 30 caliber medium machine gun, and the M60 7. 62 × 51mm NATO general-purpose machine gun which came into use around the Vietnam War.

They initiated the use of paper currency as a medium for counterculture propaganda, overprinting banknotes, usually with a John Bull printing set.

Gelatin monotype is best done with the use of medium to lightweight paper.

Experts emphasize that the overwhelming majority of those who use these informal networks are doing so for legitimate purposes, and simply choose to use a transaction medium other than state-supported banking systems.

Solution culture does not use a solid medium for the roots, just the nutrient solution.

One of the most obvious decisions hydroponic farmers have to make is which medium they should use.

The archival quality of the medium itself is controversial in art circles, in part because its documented use dates back less than a century.

The reduced availability of lead, combined with injunctions against lead use in household products and other factors has caused most major paint makers to discontinue the production of Maroger's medium.

work is open access where the copyright holder has given general permission to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship.

Liquid crystal lasers use a liquid crystal in the lasing medium as a distributed feedback mechanism instead of external mirrors.

Some lasers do not use an optical cavity, but instead rely on very high optical gain to produce significant amplified spontaneous emission ( ASE ) without needing feedback of the light back into the gain medium.

As a result, even though in theory other search algorithms may be faster than linear search ( for instance binary search ), in practice even on medium sized arrays ( around 100 items or less ) it might be infeasible to use anything else.

** Written communication ( writing ) – representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols ( known as a writing system ).