This technique — also used on the cello — is called thumb position.

Furthermore, many models in this class have a fixed seat position that eliminates the leg drive which is the foundation of competitive on water rowing technique.

The humor Plautus offered, such as “ puns, word plays, distortions of meaning, or other forms of verbal humor he usually puts them in the mouths of characters belonging to the lower social ranks, to whose language and position these varieties of humorous technique are most suitable ,” matched well with the stable of characters.

For that reason ergometer scores are generally not used as the sole selection criterion for crews, and technique training is limited to the basic body position and movements.

Problematically, scholars advocating this position have failed to agree on what this defining technique should be.

This technique is simple and extremely powerful, however, it is also quite tiring as the skier has to keep the skis in position against the inward-directed force of the snow.

In the modern jumping technique first developed by Gus Lussi and his pupil Dick Button, skaters are taught to jump up first, and then assume a back spin position in the air to complete the rotation.

Before the advent of the CCD beam profiler, the beam width was estimated using the knife-edge technique: slice a laser beam with a razor and measure the power of the clipped beam as a function of the razor position.

Proponents argue that the addition of hyperoxygenation and refinement in technique in the last thirty years has made ECT safe, and a majority of published reviews in recent decades have reflected this position.

The feigning technique should be angled to allow a quick direct shot from this position.

Using this technique, each user program can be moved (" relocated ") in main memory by the operating system, as long as the RA register reflects its position in memory.

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them.

Presently, his technique and individuality have earned Velázquez a prominent position in the annals of European art, and he is often considered a father of the Spanish school of art.

This technique combines the use of the sword with wrestling, providing opportunities to trip, disarm, break, or throw an opponent and place them in a less offensively and defensively capable position.

He is most famous for showing an important drawing technique with a rook and pawn versus rook endgame, in a position known as the Philidor position.

* Celestial navigation is a position fixing technique that was the first system devised to help sailors locate themselves on a featureless ocean.

In contract bridge and similar games, a finesse is a card play technique which will enable a player to win an additional trick or tricks should there be a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponents.

* Localization, also called positioning or navigation, is a technique for determining one's position accuerately on the surface of earth.

Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is a position fixing technique that has evolved over several thousand years to help sailors cross oceans without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position.

The possibly more elegant, but probably more tricky English technique with a single running noose and a rope so arranged as to whip around into the ideal position, might well have been too error-prone to be satisfactorily reliable in any but highly skilled hands.

In cryptography, coincidence counting is the technique ( invented by William F. Friedman ) of putting two texts side-by-side and counting the number of times that identical letters appear in the same position in both texts.

* The coital alignment technique, a position where the woman is vaginally penetrated and the partner moves upward along the woman's body until the phallus is pointing down, the dorsal side of the phallus now rubbing against the clitoris.

The Alexander technique aims to teach people how to stand, hold themselves and move differently in order to eliminate unnecessary tension in their bodies.

Screening for those X chromosome aneuploidies was possible by noting the presence or absence of " female " sex chromatin bodies ( Barr bodies ) in the nuclei of interphase cells in buccal smears, a technique developed a decade before the first reported sex chromosome aneuploidy.

An analogous technique to screen for Y-chromosome aneuploidies by noting supernumerary " male " sex chromatin bodies was not developed until 1970, a decade after the first reported sex chromosome aneuploidy.

TM is actively marketed as a scientifically proven technique but not a religion, while there are sociologists and governmental bodies that have categorized it as part of a new religious movement.

Another staining technique for endospores is the Schaeffer-Fulton stain, which stains endospores green and bacterial bodies red.

* Creo is the technique that lets the Magus create from nothingness, or make something a more " perfect " examplar of its kind ; this includes healing as healed bodies are " more perfect " than wounded bodies.

Forensic facial reconstruction is one particularly impressive technique used in studying the bog bodies.

Body Worlds ( German title: Körperwelten ) is a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures.

It uses a technique commonly called palm healing or hands on healing as a form of complementary therapy and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some professional medical bodies.

Plastination is a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts, first developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977.

Psychotherapist Hal Raglan runs the Somafree Institute where he performs a technique called " psychoplasmics ", encouraging patients with mental disturbances to let go of their suppressed emotions through physiological changes to their bodies.

Additional influences may perhaps include forms of African traditional music, in which performers utilize their bodies ( e. g., by clapping or stomping ) as percussion instruments and produce sounds with their mouths by breathing loudly in and out, a technique used in beatboxing today.

Slalom riders propel themselves by carving and gyrating their bodies, a technique known as pumping.

In order to survive the dangers inherent to life on Master, the Autobots created the lifeless bodies known as Transtectors, and underwent rigorous training to master the transformation technique and merge with them.

The use of Riabouchinsky solids renders d ' Alembert's paradox void ; the technique typically gives reasonable estimates for the drag offered by bluff bodies moving through inviscid fluids.

* optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL )/ optical dating — for absolutely dating and relatively profiling buried land-surfaces in vertical and horizontal stratigraphic sections, most often by measuring photons discharged from grains of quartz within sedimentary bodies ( although this technique can also measure feldspars, complications caused by internally induced dose-rates often favour the use of quartz-based analyzes in archaeological applications )

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

His technique is genuinely masterful.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

Since the apparatus is new, it requires experimentation and changes in technique.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

Mr. Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now-famous Weider Push-Pull Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or `` pushing '' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a `` pulling '' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.

You'll find, once your technique is perfected, that you can cook on a boat with a simple Bernz-O-Matic.

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

At the present time the research team which pioneered this new technique is primarily interested in advancing and perfecting it.

One of the most gratifying applications of an important technique of submarine detection is in the exploration of the human body.

It exhibits much the same descriptive technique and is open to much the same criticisms.

What with traders trading for so many different objectives, and what with there being so many unique and individualized market theories and trading techniques in use, and more coming into use all the time, it is hard to imagine how any particular theory or technique could acquire enough `` fans '' to invalidate itself.

Thus while his theory or technique may not be oversubscribed, it is commonplace for bullish and bearish positions to become temporarily over-subscribed.

While there are still many bugs to be ironed out, the technique is fast developing.

The choice of the heading technique is dependent upon the accuracy requirements, field conditions, and the time available to accomplish the heading.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

It is she who says aye or nay to the intimate questions of sexual technique and mechanics -- not the husband.

A technique by which it is proposed to enter with compulsion into the very heart of a man and determine his values may often in fact seem the more unlimited aggression.