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.

Accounting standards setters such as the International Accounting Standards Board attempt to strike a balance between relevance and reliability.

On 12 December 2004 the company completely recast its timetable, for the first time since 1967, in an attempt to bring service provision into line with changing demand and to take into account the different characteristics of modern rolling stock, with the intention that this would improve reliability and punctuality across the network.

To a lesser degree, the term can refer to an attempt to damage a private person's reputation ; for example, during a trial, the opposing counsel may attempt to cast doubt on the reliability of a witness.

The potential customer would then if agreeable send out a questionnaire and in some cases a separate documents list in an attempt to assertion the financial stability, product line, quality and reliability of a company.

While the X-33 would not approach airplane-like safety, the X-33 would attempt to demonstrate that 0. 997 reliability, or 3 mishaps out of 1, 000 launches, which would be an order of magnitude more reliable than the Space Shuttle system.

Although its autofocus mechanism is slow in comparison to modern standards, it was an improvement on Nikon's first attempt at an autofocus SLR-the F-501 ( N2020 in North America ), and proved to be typically Nikon in its reliability and durability.

::" Any serious attempt to sort out the relative historical reliability of the individual supplications found in all the versions of the Sahifa on the basis of modern critical scholarship would be an undertaking of major proportions.

This was an attempt by the ACO to help increase efficiency and reliability.

Although the price of a guided summit attempt – $ 65, 000 USD – was considerably more expensive than those offered by other expeditions, Hall's reputation for reliability and safety attracted clients from all over the world.

Numerous small circuit changes were introduced by Dynaco over the years in an attempt to improve the stability and reliability of the ST 120, without much success.

In December 1934 von Braun scored another success with the flight of the A2 ( A for Aggregat ) rocket, a small model powered by ethanol and liquid oxygen, with work on the design continuing in an attempt to improve reliability.

As a result, everything after 20: 3, he claims, has been left in a haphazard state with no attempt to structure it logically.

Drop kicks are also mandatory to restart play from the 20 metre line after an unsuccessful penalty goal attempt goes dead or into touch-in-goal and to score a drop goal ( sometimes known as a field goal ) in open play, which is worth one point.

They also cite the first attempt to perform gene therapy as York Times, 20 September 1970.

Ribbentrop suffered a major blow when many old Foreign Office diplomats participated in the 20 July 1944 putsch and assassination attempt on Hitler.

* 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.

Another British Royal Navy attempt on the pole, part of the British Arctic Expedition, by Commander Albert H. Markham reached a then-record 83 ° 20 ' 26 " North in May 1876 before turning back.

Although a contraption at Stephansplatz in Hamburg is now thought to have predated them by two years, it has often been stated that the first traffic lights in Continental Europe were erected at Potsdamer Platz on 20 October 1924, in an attempt to control the sheer volume of traffic passing through.

Captured SOE-supplied Nobel 808 was the explosive used in the failed 20 July plot assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944.

( This was not the first attempt at a commercial long play record format, as Edison Records had marketed a microgroove vertically recorded disc with 20 minutes playing time per side the previous decade ; the Edison long-playing records were also a commercial failure.

Rivers threw for 4, 254 yards ( 8th ), 28 TD's ( tied-6th ), 8. 8 yards per passing attempt ( 1st ), 64 completions of 20 + yards ( 1st ), only 9 INT's ( 4th with a minimum 400 pass attempts ), and a 104. 4 passer rating ( 3rd – only beaten by Drew Brees & Brett Favre ).

Several times more ( 20 to 40 %) attempt suicide at least once.

In 1770, he joined the Middle Temple and studied law for three years, which would eventually lead him to his life-work in India ; after a spell as a circuit judge in Wales, and a fruitless attempt to resolve the issues of the American Revolution in concert with Benjamin Franklin in Paris, he was appointed puisne judge to the Supreme Court of Bengal on 4 March 1783, and on 20 March he was knighted.

The Steelers joined the Cowboys in their attempt to be the first team to ever win a third Super Bowl, after wins in Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw had the best season of his career, completing 207 of 368 passes for 2, 915 yards and 28 touchdowns, with 20 interceptions.

The assassination attempt killed also at least 20 other people.

* March 20 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party ( KMT ), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after.

* July 20 – WWII: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg.

* November 25 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.

* December 20 – Operation Just Cause is launched in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. the Barrio El Chorrillo in fire, the morning of the United States invasion of Panama | USA invasion to Panama

* June 20 – Thirty Years ' War: Imperial forces under Tilly attempt to prevent Christian of Brunswick from moving his army across the Main river to link up with Mansfeld.

* January 20 – Invading Siamese forces, attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.

On 14 March 1984 in central Belfast, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt when several Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UFF ) gunmen fired about 20 shots into the car in which he was travelling.

They dated for the next 20 years, and in 1983 Washington proposed to Smith in an attempt to silence questions about Washington's sexual orientation.

He attended the People's Court, presided over by Roland Freisler, as an army spectator at some of the show trials for officers involved in the July 20 plot where an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Hitler at Rastenburg and was disgusted by the whole process.

General Ludwig Beck of Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler.

One month after the election, on 20 October, while the senate had still to reach a decision and negotiations were actively in place between the Christian Democrats and the Popular Unity, General René Schneider, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army, was shot resisting a kidnap attempt by a group led by General Roberto Viaux.