* finger-nose testing-This test has several variations including finger-to-therapist's finger, finger-to-finger, and alternate nose-to-finger.

In 1819, as a promotional idea, he decided to try to publish a volume of variations on a " patriotic " waltz he had penned expressly for this purpose, with one variation by every important Austrian composer living at the time, as well as several significant non-Austrians.

There are several variations of croquet currently played, differing in the scoring systems, order of shots, and layout ( particularly in social games where play must be adapted to smaller-than-standard playing courts ).

*" The first argument ," writes Rachels, " has several variations, each suggesting the same general point:

To account for the presence of multiple species in a non-dilute mixture, several variations of the Maxwell-Stefan equations are used.

The English stirrup ( or " iron ") has several design variations which are either shaped to allow the rider's foot to slip out easily or are closed with a very heavy rubber band.

Several variations, including long-haired varieties, grow hair several centimeters long and often require special care.

Krav Maga is used by Israeli Defense Forces, both regular and special forces, and several closely related variations have been developed and adopted by law enforcement and intelligence organizations, Mossad and Shin Bet.

There are several organizations teaching variations of Krav Maga internationally.

Many of these lasers actually lase in several longitudinal modes at the same time, and beats between the slightly different optical frequencies of those oscillations will in fact produce amplitude variations on time scales shorter than the round-trip time ( the reciprocal of the frequency spacing between modes ), typically a few nanoseconds or less.

He also had the foresight to follow several successive generations ( f2, f3 ) of his pea plants and record their variations.

* Modern Orthodoxy comprises a fairly broad spectrum of movements, each drawing on several distinct, though related, philosophies, which in some combination provide the basis for all variations of the movement today.

Lowball variations award the pot to the lowest hand, by any of several methods ( see Low hand ( poker )).

If any player declared " swing ", then that player must have both the high and low hands to take any part of the pot, though there are several rule variations covering the specifics.

Some of the protactinium-related dating variations rely on the analysis of the relative concentrations for several long-living members of the uranium decay chain – uranium, thorium and protactinium, for example.

The company has made several versions of its Autorevolver, including longer barrelled and carbine variations, chambered for. 357 Magnum,. 44 Magnum and. 454 Casull.

There are many variations of shamanism throughout the world, but several common beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism.

Since the mid-1990s, starspot observations have been made using increasingly powerful techniques yielding more and more detail: photometry showed starspot growth and decay and showed cyclic behavior similar to the Sun's ; spectroscopy examined the structure of starspot regions by analyzing variations in spectral line splitting due to the Zeeman Effect ; Doppler imaging showed differential rotation of spots for several stars and distributions different from the Sun's ; spectral line analysis measured the temperature range of spots and the stellar surfaces.

There are several variations of the tubular design ; these structural systems are fundamental to tall building design today.

Taiwanese cuisine () has several variations.

Apart from vocoders, several other methods of producing variations on this effect include: the Sonovox, Talk box, and Auto-Tune, linear prediction vocoders, speech synthesis, ring modulation and comb filter.

The painting of the operational V-2s was mostly a camouflage ragged pattern with several variations, but at the end of the war a plain olive green rocket also appeared.

There are several recipes for homemade CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, but they are variations of the basic recipe: Baker's yeast, with sugar, baking soda, and water, are added to a plastic bottle.

This has made it possible to measure, say, the distance to the Moon with sub-centimeter accuracy ( see Lunar laser ranging experiment ), to measure slight movement of tectonic plates using GPS with sub-millimeter accuracy, or even to measure as slight variations in the distance between two mirrors separated by several kilometers as 10 < sup >− 18 </ sup > m — three orders of magnitude less than the size of a single atomic nucleus — see LIGO.

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.

" The account noted a story of an Aboriginal woman being killed by a bunyip and the " most direct evidence of all " – that of a man named Mumbowran " who showed several deep wounds on his breast made by the claws of the animal ".

Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

She has also appeared in several comic book series, including the Sláine, which featured two runs, titled " Demon Killer " and " Queen of Witches " giving a free interpretation of Boudica's story.

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.

In his short story " Crabs on the Island " ( 1958 ) Anatoli Dneprov speculated on the idea that since the replication process is never 100 % accurate, leading to slight differences in the descendants, over several generations of replication the machines would be subjected to evolution similar to that of living organisms.

* The Feast of Love ( 2000 ) ( Pantheon Books ), a reimagined Midsummer Night's Dream, a story told through the eyes of several different people.

The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.

Passages like one in Leviticus prohibiting " lying with mankind as with womankind " and like the story of Sodom and Gomorrah have been popularly interpreted as condemning homosexuality, as have several Pauline passages.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

The story of Hanukkah, along with its laws and customs, is entirely missing from the Mishna apart from several passing references ( Bikkurim 1: 6, Rosh HaShanah 1: 3, Taanit 2: 10, Megillah 3: 4 and 3: 6, Moed Katan 3: 9, and Bava Kama 6: 6 ).

The Moonstone contains a number of ideas that have established in the genre several classic features of the 20th century detective story:

When payment was not forthcoming for the first story he sold to Gernsback, Wollheim formed a group with several other authors, and successfully sued for payment.

In 1989, Jackie Chan adapted the story yet again for the Hong Kong action film Miracles, adding several of his trademark stunt sequences.

After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.

Captain Beatty, Montag's fire chief, personally visits him and tells him the story of how books lost their value and where the firemen fit in: Over the course of several decades ( with the starting point being after the American Civil War ), populations grew and people embraced new media, sports, and a quickening pace of life.

Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

Placing a story in a Gothic building served several purposes.

Sams related the story to Gates, who had already agreed to provide a BASIC interpreter and several other programs for the PC.

Accounts vary on who first came up with the idea of the film, but Hawks and Saunders developed the story together and tried to sell it to several studios before First National agreed to produce the film.

The story is related in several digressions in the Iliad ( 7. 451-453, 20. 145-148, 21. 442-457 ) and is found in Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke ( 2. 5. 9 ).

The story of the Wounded King's mystical fasting is not unique ; several saints were said to have lived without food besides communion, for instance Saint Catherine of Genoa.

Geoffrey of Monmouth greatly expanded the story in his influential 12th-century pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, which was adapted into several other languages.