Sabermetrics and comparative statistics attempt to provide an improved measure of a player's performance and contributions to his team from year to year, frequently against a statistical performance average.

In an attempt to provide a coherent timeline which fit the numerous adventures of Conan penned by Robert E. Howard and later writers, various " Conan chronologies " have been prepared by many people from the 1930s onward.

Holzkamp mostly based his sophisticated attempt to provide a comprehensive and integrated set of categories defining the field of psychological research on Aleksey Leontyev's approach to cultural – historical psychology and activity theory.

He had earlier petitioned both the Queen and Burghley on the condemned Norfolk's behalf, to no avail, and it was reported that he had plotted to provide a ship to assist his cousin's escape attempt to Spain.

Heisenberg's principle was an attempt to provide a classical explanation of a quantum effect sometimes called non-locality.

An attempt to provide for the reproduction of the reverberation was tried in the 1970s through quadraphonic sound but, again, the technology at that time was insufficient for the task.

Janet reconciled elements of his views with those of Bernheim and his followers, developing his own sophisticated hypnotic psychotherapy based upon the concept of psychological dissociation, which, at the turn of the century, rivaled Freud's attempt to provide a more comprehensive theory of psychotherapy.

The general higher education and training that takes place in a university, college, or Institute of Technology usually includes significant theoretical and abstract elements, as well as applied aspects ( although limited offerings of internships or SURF programs attempt to provide practical applications ).

IEEE 802. 15. 3a was an attempt to provide a higher speed UWB PHY enhancement amendment to IEEE 802. 15. 3 for applications which involve imaging and multimedia.

Some low-end machines attempt to provide vocal suppression so that one can feed regular songs into the machine and remove the voice of the original singer ; however, this is rarely effective.

A research library supports scholarly research and will generally include primary as well as secondary sources ; it will maintain permanent collections and attempt to provide access to all necessary material.

The barrage was supposed to provide tactical cover for an attempt by a squad of Hezbollah special forces to abduct Israeli troops in the Israeli side of the village of Al-Ghajar.

The attempt to provide proofs or arguments for the existence of God is one aspect of what is known as natural theology or the natural theistic project.

The first attempt to provide researchers with a ready supply of random digits was in 1927, when the Cambridge University Press published a table of 41, 600 digits developed by Leonard H. C. Tippet.

Thomas Bayes attempted to provide a logic that could handle varying degrees of confidence ; as such, Bayesian probability is an attempt to recast the representation of probabilistic statements as an expression of the degree of confidence by which the beliefs they express are held.

Protein structure prediction methods attempt to provide a means of generating a plausible structure for proteins whose structures have not been experimentally determined.

There are two side judges and one head referee who together provide a " successful " or " failed " result for each attempt based on their observation of the lift within the governing body's rules and regulations.

It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of oceanography, marine biology, marine conservation, ecology, population dynamics, economics and management in an attempt to provide an integrated picture of fisheries.

With successive waves of reform, and the introduction of effective evidence-based treatments, modern psychiatric hospitals provide a primary emphasis on treatment, and attempt where possible to help patients control their own lives in the outside world, with the use of a combination of psychiatric drugs and psychotherapy.

First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.

Though many countries where such events take place attempt to provide police protection to participants, some would prefer that the parades not happen, and police either ignore or encourage violent protesters.

Analytical X-ray astronomy is applied to an astronomy puzzle in an attempt to provide an acceptable solution.

Italian physicist, Giovanni Modanese, while a Von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, made the first attempt to provide a theoretical explanation of Podkletnov ’ s observations.

This in turn led to a " contextualist " approach beginning in the late 1990s combining stylistic elements of the first two phases in an attempt to provide an architectural " middle ground " between the two vastly different styles.

Early efforts to mimic snow involved laying extruded plastic tiles with upward spikes in an attempt to provide grip.

In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.

I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.

The wife's attempt at control, these psychologists contend, is sometimes merely a pathetic effort to compel her husband to pay as much attention to her as he does to his job.

It was merely an attempt to frighten her.

She couldn't see any reason why Maude would attempt to frighten her.

Besides, there was something hysterical and silly, something almost childish about an attempt to frighten her.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

Again the homely, everyday details of daily living refuted a vicious attempt to frighten her -- or to murder her.

The explanation offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile accident.

Agrippina began to support Britannicus in her attempt to make him emperor.

In an attempt to have her return to Constantinople, the conspirators produced pamphlets that mocked and slandered the empress, and left them in her tent.

Elena Lourie ( 1975 ) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession — Aragon had been a fief of the Papacy since 1068 — and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, Alfonso VII of Castile, for the Papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

A suicide attempt with sleeping pills two days earlier was denied by her public relations manager.

Jen hides her mastery of martial arts from her teacher, Jade Fox, which leads both to their parting of ways and to Jade Fox's attempt on Jen's life.

Suddenly their child enters the scene and the dynamic changes in an attempt to avoid traumatizing him / her.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.