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.

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.

a poor attempt to write an idiomatic jazz concerto ; ;

After Sudanese intelligence services were implicated in an assassination attempt on the President of Egypt, UN economic sanctions were imposed on Sudan, a very poor country, and Turabi fell from favor.

Additionally, the academics, who themselves tend to eschew any attempt at interpretation, complained that the English translations were usually of poor quality, seemed to display little or no knowledge of 16th-century French, were tendentious and, at worst, were sometimes twisted to fit the events to which they were supposed to refer ( or vice versa ).

The attempt to give the trumpet more chromatic freedom in its range saw the development of the keyed trumpet, but this was a largely unsuccessful venture due to the poor quality of its sound.

Philo argues that the designer may have been defective or otherwise imperfect, suggesting that the universe may have been a poor first attempt at design.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

Ratzinger also argued that liberation theology is not originally a " grass-roots " movement among the poor, but rather, a creation of Western intellectuals: " an attempt to test, in a concrete scenario, ideologies that have been invented in the laboratory by European theologians " and in a certain sense itself a form of " cultural imperialism ".

The alleged NLA bombing of the 13th-century Orthodox monastery Sveti Atanasij in the village of Lesok however no one has ever claimed responsibility for the attack and Albanian guerrilla officials have demised all responsibility and placed the blame on Macedonian special forces saying it was another poor attempt to link the NLA to Islamic extremism, like that of the Asian immigrant massacre and that these incidents were seriously putting the Ohrid agreement and the established peace treaty into jeopardy.

Business was so poor that an attempt was made to attach his property in late 1765.

" They rent a run-down apartment in the neighborhood of Long Island City and begin working at a local fast food restaurant called McDowell's ( restaurateur Cleo McDowell's attempt to copy McDonald's ), passing themselves off as poor foreign students.

For instance, health education programs focused on cystic echinococcosis and its agents, and improved water sanitation attempt to target poor education and poor drinking water sources, which are both risk factors for contracting echinococcosis.

In 1981 Iran supported an attempt to overthrow the Bahraini government, in 1983 expressed political support for Shi ' ites who bombed Western embassies in Kuwait, and in 1987 Iranian pilgrims rioted at poor living conditions and treatment during the Hajj ( pilgrimage ) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and were consequently massacred.

Thus, the differences in the Septuagint are no longer considered the result of a poor or tendentious attempt to translate the Hebrew into the Greek ; rather they testify to a different pre-Christian form of the Hebrew text ".

Harold Hill is a large scale post-war London County Council housing development, built at the end of the World War II, an attempt to move large sections of the population from poor conditions in central districts to the more pleasant surroundings of the suburbs.

Ricky, of course, recognizes her in this poor attempt at a disguise but acts as if he believes she really is another woman and asks her on a date.

A ‘ middle-ground ’ review would probably be “ a poor attempt by a genuine writer to move into a medium that he simply hadn ’ t the flair or understanding of to make a success .” Beckett ’ s own opinion was that it was an “ interesting failure .”

In the study of the servers, an attempt by the author to isolate other possible contributing factors, such as poor service, found that " After controlling for these other variables … the server race effect is comparable across customer race.

In some cases, " topping from the bottom ", or the attempt by a submissive to covertly control the top, is considered poor practice within lifestyle BDSM and power exchange.

On 12 August 1875 he made his first cross-Channel swimming attempt, but strong winds and poor sea conditions forced him to abandon the swim.

His first attempt at manufacturing firearms in Paterson, New Jersey, occurred during an economic crisis in the US leading to poor sales, and was further hampered by Colt's mismanagement and reckless spending.

An attempt at major restoration began under the direction of Dean Pakenham ( Dean, 1843 – 1864 ), limited by poor economic circumstances.

In 1761, Boydell decided that he would attempt to trade with the French in kind — something they had refused in the past because of the poor quality of British engravings.

Because of the poor correlation of theoretical models to actual observed traffic flows, transportation planners and highway engineers attempt to forecast traffic flow using empirical models.