Managers and batters study opposing pitcher performance and motions in attempting to improve hitting.

Operating system advocacy is the practice of attempting to increase the awareness and improve the perception of a computer operating system.

The Soong episodes later gave rise to a story arc where the Klingons were attempting to improve their species through the continuation of Soong's work.

However it was not until around 1912 that other researchers, while attempting to improve the service life of the Audion, stumbled on the principle of the true vacuum tube.

The authors claim to have developed the butterfly noose themselves while attempting to improve the selection of knots available to climbers.

Collision avoidance is used to improve the performance of the CSMA method by attempting to divide the channel somewhat equally among all transmitting nodes within the collision domain.

In CSMA / CA collision avoidance is used to improve the performance of CSMA by attempting to be less " greedy " on the channel.

The scenic islands have potential for tourism, and the government is attempting to improve its rudimentary tourist industry infrastructure.

Due to the frequent problems which could occur with steam engines Murdoch was kept busy traveling around the area repairing and attempting to improve the performance of the engines under his care.

Henry also gave a high priority to restoring the royal finances, reviving Henry I's financial processes and attempting to improve the standard of the accounts.

At that time, Chrysler's management was attempting to find a model to improve structure and operations, " something that would help get our minds unstuck and thinking beyond the old paradigms that we were so familiar with ".

This is an especially important component when attempting to improve competitive positioning among a younger demographic, which tends to be Web oriented in their shopping and purchasing habits as a result of being highly connected and involved in social media in general.

Though any set of plans is imperfect, to act means attempting to improve each successive set of plans.

The concept has changed little since then, with only Scotsman Graeme Obree attempting to improve the idea.

Southern Airways was repaid $ 2 million by the Cuban government, which was attempting to improve relations with the United States.

But as soon as they discover the pilot is attempting to improve the status of the airplane, they set torches to it — because " repair ," " improve ," " fix " and other such words in this case have different meanings to each of the parties involved.

Later stories like Traitor To His Kind would reveal some figures in the government, such as the First Lord of the Military ( himself having a mutant daughter ) are attempting to slowly improve the mutant's lot, but much of this goes unnoticed behind the scenes ; many other figures in the government want to go back to greater oppression or attempted extermination.

Currently, the government is attempting to improve the old and historical part in Yanbu down town, as many old and historical buildings are located there.

In addition to the cultivation of Cox sports, apple breeders have hybridized Cox with other varieties to improve vigor, disease resistance and yield while attempting to retain the unique qualities of Cox's flavour.

2010's Morning Glory, a comedy in which McAdams played a television producer attempting to improve the poor ratings of a morning television program, was billed as a starring vehicle for the actress.

The plot focuses on Jon Lovitz's character, Richard Clark, attempting to improve the school where he is teaching, which is extreme to the point that there are reserved parking spaces for SWAT team and National Guard members.

In 2004, the Afghan athletes were attempting to improve upon Afghanistan's best finish, Mohammed Ebrahimi's fifth place in wrestling at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Electrical Muscle Stimulation, also known as Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation ( NMES ) can also be used to “ activate hypotonic muscles, improve strength, and generate movement in paralyzed limbs while preventing disuse atrophy ( p. 498 ).” When using NMES it is important to have the patient focus on attempting to contract the muscle ( s ) being stimulated.

" that aspects of an association such as strength, consistency, specificity and temporality be considered in attempting to distinguish causal from noncausal associations in the epidemiological situation.

Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.

Don Facundo began attempting to " tame " rum by isolating a proprietary strain of yeast still used in Bacardi production today.

Some other cash registers require a numeric password or physical key to be used when attempting to open the till.

On October 4, 2011, military and police squads used force late at night to disperse hundreds of angry Coptic demonstrators and their supporters who were attempting to stage a sit-in outside the Maspero TV headquarters in downtown Cairo to protest attacks on a Christian church in Upper Egypt.

Xavier was welcomed by the Shingon monks since he used the word Dainichi for the Christian God ; attempting to adapt the concept to local traditions.

Early explorers, including Jacques Cartier and numerous ships attempting to find gold on Baffin Island, were not provisioned with food for the journey home, and therefore used this species as both a convenient food source and bait for fishing.

Similarly, Czech directors have used the play at times of occupation: a 1941 Vinohrady Theatre production " emphasised, with due caution, the helpless situation of an intellectual attempting to endure in a ruthless environment ".

Archaeologists and historians attempting to trace the origins of these villagers have found it impossible to identify any distinctive features that could define them as specifically Israelite – collared-rim jars and four-room houses have been identified outside the highlands and thus cannot be used to distinguish Israelite sites, and while the pottery of the highland villages is far more limited than that of lowland Canaanite sites, it develops typologically out of Canaanite pottery that came before.

There is a long history of work attempting to build good ontologies for a variety of task domains, including early work on an ontology for liquids, the lumped element model widely used in representing electronic circuits ( e. g .,), as well as ontologies for time, belief, and even programming itself.

In Juggler of Worlds, the Puppeteers, attempting to surmise how this was done without antimatter, identify another technique which can be used to destroy the otherwise invulnerable hulls, one which does suggest some potential defense options.

The beginning of the 20th century marked the first time a movement in the arts was described as " avant-garde "— a term previously used in military and political contexts, which remained to describe movements which identify themselves as attempting to overthrow some aspect of tradition or the status quo.

Robinson used the prestige of the office to activist ends, placing emphasis during her presidency on the needs of developing countries, linking the history of the Great Irish Famine to today's nutrition, poverty and policy issues, attempting to create a bridge of partnership between developed and developing countries.

It can be used to attack symmetric ciphers such as Triple DES and AES by attempting to guess the secret key.

During this early period different schools used different rules, with former pupils from Rugby and Eton attempting to carry their preferred rules through to their universities.

In attempting to avoid the execution of her sons, Hürrem used her influence to eliminate those who supported Mustafa's accession to the throne.

" He wrote that, at that time in the UK, 5, 000, 000 animals were being used each year in experiments, and that attempting to gain benefits for our own species through the mistreatment of others is " just ' speciesism ' and as such it is a selfish emotional argument rather than a reasoned one.

During the war, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian forces fighting on the southern front and Kurdish separatists who were attempting to open up a northern front in Iraq with the help of Iran.

Never attempting to picture any one of these stories as a narrative, he used their veiled imagery as symbols of the archetypes of death – rebirth and destruction – creation he felt were imminent in the pre-World War I world.

Odoacer, attempting to bypass Nepos, used the Roman Senate to petition the Eastern Emperor, Zeno ; he requested the rank of Patrician for himself, and sought to end the separate line of Western Emperors.

) are used to flood a target system with network requests, thus attempting to render it unusable through resource exhaustion.

The iceberg metaphor is a commonly used visual when attempting to relate the ego, id and superego with the conscious and unconscious mind.