An attempt to improve the life of the anodes or the efficiency of the plasma generators must, therefore, aim at a reduction of the anode loss.

Alternatively, Assistive Technology may attempt to improve the ergonomics of the devices themselves such as Dvorak and other alternative layouts, which offer more ergonomic layouts of the keys.

Some servers attempt to improve on this using statistical techniques that try to combine only words that appear together often.

Honduras joining the coalition was largely an attempt to improve foreign relations with the United States over the issue of the migration of many thousands of Hondurans to the US.

During the Great Depression, countries sharply raised barriers to foreign trade in an attempt to improve their failing economies.

Competitions involving large numbers of athletes sometimes use a " cut ": all competitors compete in the first three rounds, but only athletes who are currently among the top eight or have achieved some minimum distances are permitted to attempt to improve on their distance in additional rounds ( typically three ).

Programs have been instituted in public libraries across the United States in an attempt to improve literacy rates.

The first major attempt to improve the situation was made by a Jeddah merchant, Muhammad ʿAlī Zaynal Riḍā, who founded the Madrasat al-Falāḥ in Mecca in 1911 – 12 that cost £ 400, 000.

It was developed in 1916 in Germany, as one of several new semi-synthetic opioids in an attempt to improve on the existing opioids: morphine, diacetylmorphine ( heroin ), and codeine.

His plan was to attack notorious abuses one by one ; however, in his attempt to improve the system of indulgences he was hampered by his cardinals.

The invention of the stamp was a part of the attempt to reform and improve the postal system in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which in the early 19th century was in disarray and rife with corruption.

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

The first real revolvers were partly an attempt to improve on pepper-box type weapons, which used a revolving cylinder with one set of firing mechanisms, but which had multiple barrels as well.

In the late 1970s, the corporation procured new barges, pusher-tugboats, and other equipment in an effort to improve services, but this attempt proved useless because of the warfare that had continued from 1983!

The communes of the 1960s in the United States were often an attempt to greatly improve the way humans live together in communities.

Success, however, had to wait until after World War II, during which the attempt to improve silicon and germanium crystals for use as radar detectors led to improvements both in fabrication and in the theoretical understanding of the quantum mechanical states of carriers in semiconductors and after which the scientists who had been diverted to radar development returned to solid state device development.

Bessemer's attention was drawn to the problem of steel manufacture in the course of an attempt to improve the construction of guns.

Many NGOs do not focus at all on reducing poverty on a national or international scale, but rather attempt to improve quality of life for individuals or communities.

Theodore Drange, in his attempt to improve the argument ( see below ), claims there are many theists who do not view God as perfectly loving, and " some Christians think of him as an angry deity bent on punishing people for their sins.

The Navy believed the Purple machine was sufficiently difficult to break that it did not attempt to revise it to improve security.

Traditional execution by decapitation by sword or axe were notably gruesome, and the aforementioned design was probably conceived in an attempt to improve the accuracy and effectiveness ; however, no reference to its actual use has been found.

In similar fashion, the isolation and examination of the stage image of Cleopatra becomes an attempt to improve the understanding of the theatrical power of her infinite variety and the cultural treatment of that power .” So, as a microcosm, Cleopatra can be understood within a postmodern context, as long as one understands that the purpose for the examination of this microcosm is to further one ’ s own interpretation of the work as a whole.

In an attempt to improve the poor condition of the newly acquired Sardinia, he also restored the Universities of Sassari and Cagliari.

Construction of a veritable wall of Chicago Housing Authority high-rises replaced virtually all of IIT's neighbors in the 1950s and 1960s, a well-meaning but flawed attempt to improve conditions in an economically declining portion of the city.

In Time Trial mode players race around the track by themselves in an attempt to improve their time and set a new record for the course.

This is called bimetallism and the attempt to create a bimetallic standard where both gold and silver backed currency remained in circulation occupied the efforts of inflationists.

In 1918, the Thule Society bought a local weekly newspaper, the Münchener Beobachter ( Munich Observer ), and changed its name to Münchener Beobachter und Sportblatt ( Munich Observer and Sports Paper ) in an attempt to improve its circulation.

Harding, in an attempt to increase circulation, cut the price of the paper, began delivery routes and had newsboys sell papers on the street.

In 1890, in an attempt to increase circulation further, the price of The Inquirer was cut and the paper's size was increased, mostly with classified advertisements.

With the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, in which the old feudal order made one last attempt to stop the new Japan, newspaper circulation soared, and woodblock artists were in demand, with Yoshitoshi earning much attention.

His government also continued to attempt to prevent circulation of books banned by the Catholic Church, combatted communism and even tried to shut down other Christian religions like the Jehovah's Witnesses who evangelized in French Canada.

His argument was given wide circulation by Edwin Durning-Lawrence in 1910, complete with an absurd cryptonumerical attempt to prove it justified.

Although at first he said there were no plans to shut down the magazine, he halved its circulation in an attempt to increase the quality of the audience, and then shut it down.

Church leaders were surprised by its publication ( since he had not asked permission and was not asked to develop such a work ) and responded that while they applauded the attempt of the book to fill a need, it used a harsh tone and, in the words of Mark E. Petersen, was " full of errors and misstatements, and it is most unfortunate that it has received such wide circulation.

It also began to market the paper in an uncompetitive manner in an attempt to drive its circulation down to the point it could be closed.

In an attempt to reduce losses, circulation was dropped outside of the Sacramento metro area and, two months before its closure, publication was changed from seven days a week to three days a week.

While it is not clear whether or not the band endorses the work, they have made no attempt to have it removed from circulation even though the Shpongle Mask is also used in the video.

By the early 1980s, at which time he was running the marketing and circulation department, he left the company ( and purported position as heir apparent ) to once again attempt to establish his own brand.

The Rocky Mountain News and its competitors, including The Denver Post, resorted to gasoline giveaways and other promotions in an attempt to boost circulation.

As an illustration, following the publication in British Birds magazine of an account by Robin Chittenden of the finding of a Northern Parula on the Isles of Scilly in October 1983 ( Chittenden 1986 ), in which Chittenden wrote effusively about his excitement at this find, which was then only the fourth record for Britain, Rogers wrote to the British Birds letters page criticising both Chittenden for an article consisting of " 60 lines full of irrelevances ", and the journal's editors for " letting editorial standards slip ... perhaps in an attempt to widen journal's circulation " ( Rogers 1987 ).

Quinn would introduce current events that were going on in the news, and would moderate ( or attempt to moderate, sometimes futilely ) the discussion.

That fall, Livingstone, along with Percy Quinn would attempt to launch a rival " Canadian Hockey Association " ( CHA ) unsuccessfully.

The first action of Livingstone and Quinn was Quinn's attempt to purchase the Quebec Bulldogs, putting down a $ 600 down payment.

The directors of the Arena Company of Montreal, owner of the Montreal and Toronto arenas, met and decided to shut out the CHA, against the wishes of Quinn, effectively ending the attempt to start up the CHA for the 1918 – 19 season.

In December 1918, Livingstone and Quinn organized a league meeting of the old NHA, attempting to force the NHA to restart, based on Quinn and Livingstone's three votes and an attempt to disallow the vote of the Canadiens.

Although local Sheriff Joe Haller ( O ' Quinn ) and his lone deputy ( Hart ) attempt to stop the citizens, the officers relent after being berated by Brady's father ( Broadhurst ).

Q tries to dismiss it and makes a poor attempt to show that the other members of the continuum are happy, but Quinn sees through it and confesses, to Q's surprise, that it was Q's earlier unrestrained behavior in an attempt to make his life fun that was the motivation for his own actions.