Fresco ( plural frescos or frescoes ) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster.

Fresco technique, working on damp plaster, demands a speedy and sure touch: Famulus and assistants from his studio covered a spectacular amount of wall area with frescoes.

A refinement of this technique has been described by Drs. Zworykin and Farrar and Mr. Berkely of the Medical Electronics Center of the Rockefeller Institute.

The technique of cutting sections was essentially the same as that described by Coons et al ( 1951 ).

It could be seen that both artists used a very thick final coat of plaster, one half inch, and that both followed the traditional Italian fresco technique as described by Cennino Cennini in the 14th Century, and current in Italy to this day.

Dr Schweitzer's recordings of organ-music, and his innovative recording technique, are described separately below.

He was also familiar with the ' abbreviated construction ' as described by Alberti and the geometrical construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci.

The technique described in this paragraph has been replaced by the use of a cross compiler executed by a pre-existing computer.

" Slap style " may have influenced electric bass guitar players who, from the mid-sixties ( particularly Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone ), developed a technique called slap and pop that used the thumb of the plucking hand to hit the string, making a slapping sound but still letting the note ring, and the index or middle finger of the plucking hand to pull the string back so it hits the fretboard, achieving the pop sound described above.

Georges Mathias, his professor of piano at the Conservatoire, described his pupil's piano technique in flatly negative terms, " insignificant and laborious " and " worthless ".

It is also important to note that Griffith described cross-cutting indiscriminately as the ‘ switch-back ’ or ‘ cut-back ’ or ‘ flash-back ’ technique, and that by the last of these terms he did not mean what we now understand by a ‘ flash-back ’.

The reason for the observation is that in the past, when panes of glass were commonly made by glassblowers, the technique used was to spin molten glass so as to create a round, mostly flat and even plate ( the crown glass process, described above ).

The technique can be described as a primitive, mechanical version of animatronics.

The improvements made by Mullis allowed PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology, described by The New York Times as " highly original and significant, virtually dividing biology into the two epochs of before P. C. R.

Similarly, 1933's La femme en blanc Woman in White uses a then-new technique of recreating for the audience events as they are being described by the play's characters.

The two operas of Schoenberg's pupil Alban Berg, Wozzeck ( 1925 ) and Lulu ( incomplete at his death in 1935 ) share many of the same characteristics as described above, though Berg combined his highly personal interpretation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique with melodic passages of a more traditionally tonal nature ( quite Mahlerian in character ) which perhaps partially explains why his operas have remained in standard repertory, despite their controversial music and plots.

A famous paper by mathematician and magician Persi Diaconis and mathematician Dave Bayer on the number of shuffles needed to randomize a deck concluded that the deck did not start to become random until five good riffle shuffles, and was truly random after seven, in the precise sense of variation distance described in Markov chain mixing time ; of course, you would need more shuffles if your shuffling technique is poor.

In this technique, the position of the bodies is very similar to the one described just above.

This technique is described by the Roman poet Statius in his account of a match between the hero Tydeus of Thebes and an opponent in the Thebaid.

Soon, however, Massive Attack's dubby, jazzy, psychedelic, electronic textures, rooted in hip hop sampling technique but taking flight into many styles, were described by journalists as the template of the eponymous genre.

These larger elements could be further subdivided using the progressive elaboration technique described above.

Alexis Carrel at the beginning of 20th century first described the technique for vascular suturing and anastomosis and successfully performed many organ transplantations in animals ; he thus actually opened the way to modern vascular surgery that was before limited to vessels permanent ligatation.

In such cases, the reconstruction technique described below produces the alias, rather than the original component.

The technique was described in 1932, in a paper by Henri de Bellescize, in the French journal L ' Onde Électrique.

Biostasis in humans, as a future medical technique, has been described by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology.

Bergkamp has been described by Jan Mulder as having " the finest technique " of any Dutch international and a " dream for a striker " by teammate Thierry Henry.