Web-based international educational software is under development by students at New York University, based on the belief that current educational institutions are too rigid: effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not predictable or standardized.

In England, the practice of using marks of cadency arose to distinguish one son from another: the conventions became standardized in about 1500, and are traditionally supposed to have been devised by John Writhe.

However, a second definition and usage has historically been in practice in many fields of computer science and information technology, which defines the prefix kilo when used with byte or bit units of data as 1024 ( 2 < sup > 10 </ sup >); this is due to the mathematical coincidence that Thus, in these fields 1 kilobyte is equal to 1 kibibyte, a new unit standardized as part of the binary prefixes to resolve the ambiguity.

Among QCT's disadvantages: it requires a high radiation dose compared to DXA, CT scanners are large and expensive, and because its practice has been less standardized than BMD, its results are more operator-dependent.

After graduating from a first-professional school, physicians who wish to practice in the U. S. usually take standardized exams, such as the USMLE for MDs and DOs or the COMLEX-USA for DOs, which is not available to MDs.

This would subsequently create a cult following of the film, in which audience participation became a standardized practice at its screens.

The use and selection of pseudonyms is not standardized in U. S. courts and the practice itself is opposed on legal grounds by some and was rare prior to 1969.

The idea behind the standardized testing policy movement is that testing is the first step to improving schools, teaching practice, and educational methods through data collection.

In practice, the older Radio Range procedures were so widely used and standardized that VOR was used to produce a similar set of airways that remain in use today.

Such was not an uncommon practice in the days before standardized pitch and was, in fact, mentioned in other manuals on string instrument playing.

Fredson Bowers described and formulated a standardized practice of descriptive bibliography in his Principles of Bibliographical Description

As monasticism spread, the practice of specified hours and liturgical formats began to develop and become standardized.

" This practice of standardized testing was later adopted in the late 19th century by the British mainland.

was conferred until 1971 at Yale University, since that time, all universities in the United States have awarded the professional doctorate J. D., which then became the generally standardized degree in most states for the necessary bar exam prior to practice of law.

To make the profession more appealing, practice was standardized, as was the curriculum.

During these nine weeks they have access to Yale's practice carillons to prepare two audition pieces, which are performed for judges ( current Guild members ), along with a standardized exercise and sight reading.

In practice, settable tab stops were rather quickly replaced with fixed tab stops, de facto standardized at every multiple of 8 characters horizontally, and every 6 lines vertically ( typically one inch vertically ).

Most Chiricahua and Mescalero ceremonies were learned through the transmission of personal religious visions, while the Jicarilla and Western Apache used standardized rituals as the more central ceremonial practice.

Ligatures were used for this as well, as they had become more or less standardized through the practice of the rhythmic modes.

There is no standardized practice for the administration of bee venom.

In order to be licensed to practice, counseling psychologists must gain clinical experience under supervision, and pass a standardized exam.

It's a fee-based standardized test that provides first-hand practice for the SAT Reasoning Test.

This practice was one of the first few elements of Sōtō Zen that was standardized by the early Tokugawa period.

NANDA-I believes that it is critical that nurses are required to utilize standardized languages that provide not just terms ( diagnoses ) but the embedded knowledge from clinical practice and research that provides diagnostic criteria ( definitions, defining characterisitcs ) and the related or etiologic factors upon which nurses intervene.

While services in the Temple in Jerusalem included musical instruments ( 2 Chronicles 29: 25 – 27 ), traditional Jewish religious services in the Synagogue, both before and after the destruction of the Temple, did not include musical instruments given the practice of scriptural cantillation.

In the era of pipe organs which used hand-pumped blowers, and of churches which were only heated during church services, organists used pedal harpsichords and pedal clavichords as practice instruments ( see also: pedal piano ).

Financial risk management, an element of corporate finance, is the practice of creating and protecting economic value in a firm by using financial instruments to manage exposure to risk, particularly credit risk and market risk.

While these were mostly intended as practice instruments for organists, a few pieces are believed to have been written specifically for the pedal harpsichord.

Callet, spends the bulk of his time teaching embouchure for all brass instruments having recently retired from his long-time practice of designing his own line of brass mouthpieces, trumpets, and trombones.

Therefore, at common law, notarial service is distinct from the practice of law, and giving legal advice and preparing legal instruments is forbidden to lay notaries such as those appointed throughout most of the United States of America.

This practice made it possible for players still using natural horns, for instance, to perform from the same parts as those now playing valved instruments.

It was made in ink and consisted of a fair copy of the entire opera, with all the voices and instruments properly notated according to standard practice.

The term " concerto " was initially used to denote works involving voices and instruments in which the instruments had independent parts — as opposed to the Renaissance common practice in which the instruments that accompanied voices only doubled the voice parts.

In the study of orchestration – in contradistinction to the practice – the term instrumentation may also refer to consideration of the defining characteristics of individual instruments rather than to the art of combining instruments.

Although performance practice was previously confined to early music from the Baroque era, since the 1990s, research in performance practice has examined other historical eras, such as how early Classical era piano concerti were performed, how the early history of recording affected the use of vibrato in classical music, or which instruments were used in Klezmer music.

Although traditional bluegrass performers eschew electrically amplified instruments, as used in other forms of popular music, it is common practice to " mike " acoustic instruments during stage performances before larger audiences.

When the cockpit was covered, pilots could practice flying by instruments in a safe environment.

Improvisation is the practice of acting, dancing, singing, playing musical instruments, talking, creating artworks, problem solving, or reacting in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings.

This idea is not limited to western practice: the ancient Chinese categorized instruments into eight categories of materials ( silk, bamboo, wood, gourd, earth, stone, metal, and skin ).

In finance, short selling ( also known as shorting or going short ) is the practice of selling securities or other financial instruments, with the intention of subsequently repurchasing them (" covering ") at a lower price.

The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra was founded in 1893 by Dan Godfrey as a group of 30 wind players and a drummer, though several of the instrumentalists-as is the current practice with military musicians-were proficient in both wind and string instruments.

Once admitted to practice by the highest court of a state ( the state supreme court ), a function sometimes administered by the state's bar association, an American attorney may file legal pleadings and argue cases in that state court, provide legal advice to clients and draft important legal instruments such as wills, trusts, deeds and contracts.