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repeated and experimentation
Al-Biruni's scientific method was similar to the modern scientific method in many ways, particularly his emphasis on repeated experimentation.
Al-Baghdaadi described an early scientific method emphasizing repeated experimentation, influenced by Ibn Sina, as follows:

repeated and with
`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.
Inability to care for the other children, difficulty in feeding the babies, who seemed colicky, bone-weary fatigue, repeated crying episodes, and short tempers reflected the family's helplessness in coping with the stressful situation.
As one would surmise, the procedure, however, could be repeated with the same object or with the same type of object often enough, so that the corresponding visual blots and the merest beginning of the tracing movement would provide clues as to the actual shape, which the patient then immediately could determine by a kind of inference.
Carl Eduard Schmidt counted 1804 different lines repeated exactly in the two Homeric poems, and by increasing this figure so as to include lines repeated with very slight modifications he counted 2118 different lines used a total of 5612 times.
In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.
In 1920, the Lambeth Conference repeated its 1908 condemnation of contraception and issued `` an emphatic warning against the use of unnatural means for the avoidance of conception, together with the grave dangers -- physical, moral, and religious -- thereby incurred, and against the evils which the extension of such use threaten the race ''.
The poem consisted of only two words, the word `` Wait '', repeated over and over at irregular intervals and with different inflections, and then the word `` Now ''!!
but the nicest thing about their relationship was her whisper to him, repeated some thousands of time, repeated with smiles and hope, `` People never live forever ''.
The Rutherford films are frequently repeated on television in Germany, and in that country Miss Marple is generally identified with Rutherford's quirky portrayal.
This process would be repeated manually for each of the equations, which would result in a system of equations with one fewer variable.
: there is no name, with whatever emphasis of passionate love repeated,
That victory meant Ajax had won every tournament ( 5 in total ) they entered that year, a feat Celtic achieved in 1967 ( with 6 trophies ) and Barcelona ( also 6 trophies ) repeated in 2009.
It contained an unprecedented 1, 809 woodcut illustrations ( with many repeated uses of the same block ) by the Wolgemut workshop.
This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.
A new development section is played before the recapitulation is repeated, and the scherzo concludes with a brief codetta.
The enhanced assembler's source program was then assembled by its predecessor's executable ( A1 ) into binary or decimal code to give A2, and the cycle repeated ( now with those enhancements available ), until the entire instruction set was coded, branch addresses were automatically calculated, and other conveniences ( such as conditional assembly, macros, optimisations, etc.
There are the five precepts that all followers of the Buddha must observe if they hope to be reborn as a human being and there are the ten precepts which are an expansion of five precepts, with four of the five being repeated in the list of ten.
There have been repeated findings that between a third and a half of adults diagnosed with bipolar disorder report traumatic / abusive experiences in childhood, which is associated on average with earlier onset, a worse course, and more co-occurring disorders such as PTSD.
This premonition of the coming darkness in association with Macbeth's murders is repeated just before Banquo is killed: " it will be rain to-night ", Banquo tells his son Fleance.
The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a former vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabançon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

repeated and techniques
This is useful for compression, since it tends to be easy to compress a string that has runs of repeated characters by techniques such as move-to-front transform and run-length encoding.
Literary techniques are literary moves a writer might make that are defined not so much by functional or descriptive actions as by imitation and repeated use by many authors at times.
Admiral Dougherty's allies, the Son ' a, are a decrepit race using various medical techniques to cheat death, repeated face lift surgeries giving them a mummified appearance.
Various techniques are often employed to " pad " TV movies with low budgets and underdeveloped scripts, such as music video-style montages, flashbacks, or repeated footage, and extended periods of dramatic slow motion footage ( sometimes taken to ridiculous extremes as in the USA Network thriller Wheels of Terror ).
The major practice involved in rote learning techniques is learning by repetition, based on the idea that one will be able to quickly recall the material ( but not necessarily its meaning ) the more it is repeated.
He emphasizes the dialog over the animation using a variety of techniques, including iconic scenes, production sketches, real-life location shots, repeated imagery, and even using animation version of manga panels or simply printing the lines of the dialog being spoken over static screens.
The requirement and demands that the system be drilled, repeated, and constantly revisited has led to some criticism since the primary users-military and special operations personnel-often have enormous demands upon their time, and as a consequence often lacked the ability to maintain high degrees of proficiency in the techniques.
Steve Reich innovated a technique known as phasing, in which two musical activities are begun simultaneously and repeated, gradually drifting out of sync with each other in a natural evolution ; Reich was also very interested in non-Western music, incorporating African rhythmic techniques in his compositions Drumming.
Such techniques are common to CWM: the strong sense of home key, climactic chorus and repeated motifs.
The Met revived it first in concert at Carnegie Hall on 10 November 1996, ( repeated on tour in Tokyo the next year ), then on the stage production on 7 November 2008, produced and directed by Robert Lepage, with innovative techniques of computer-generated stage imagery that responds to the performers ' voices.
The situation of " Illusion " can be created using a wide range of sociopolitical tools and techniques including information blackout on national statistics, imposing repeated false news shocks before the final shock ( to decrease the social sensitivity or to habituate the people to the future shock ), spreading misinformation, rewarding the society with interim exogenous rents and promoting them as the benefits of the shock, etc.
If the process under study is slow, then the time resolution can be obtained with a continuous ( i. e., not pulsed ) probe beam and repeated conventional spectrophotometric techniques.
Though its musical style is challenging, the quality of Berg's work ( in particular, the characterization of the situation through clearly defined musical techniques ) amply repays repeated listenings.
His achievements were fairly remarkable, and with the modern invention of CCDs and photometry and automated and computerized search programs that make his visual discovery techniques seem entirely quaint and obsolete, it is unlikely that such achievements will ever be repeated.
The memos were granted only after " repeated requests " from the CIA, who at the time were worried that the White House would eventually try to distance themselves from issue ; field employees in the agency believed they could easily be blamed for using the techniques without proper written permission or authority.
Though his significance as director of The Great Train Robbery and other innovative early films is undeniable, he rarely repeated an innovation after he had used it successfully, never developed a consistent directorial style, and in later years never protested when others rediscovered his techniques and claimed them as their own.
Prefabrication techniques are used in the construction of apartment blocks, and housing developments with repeated housing units.
Shihō ( 四方 ) translates into ' four directions ' and comprises exercises in which a combination of techniques is repeated several times in four different directions ( front, back, right and left ).
This effect is achieved by using snippets of various virtuoso techniques, such as repeated notes, octaves, scales, and crossed hands, each of which is used for only a moment before the piece catches a flicker of some new idea.

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