So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.

A 1996 Tel Aviv hospital study of 67 patients with back pain of more than three months duration found patients benefited from a multidisciplinary approach to treatment that included back schooling, psychological intervention, and treatment by acupuncture, chiropractic, the Alexander Technique and a pain specialist.

Prior to more general use of such technology these wheelchair users could only use specialist paratransit mobility buses.

Smaller ( and slower ) braille embossers are more common and can be found in some libraries, universities, and specialist education centres, as well as being privately owned by some blind individuals.

Many species are generalist predators, but some ( such as the crab-eating fox ) are more specialist.

Today, Lloyd's of London remains the leading market ( note that it is an insurance market rather than a company ) for marine and other specialist types of insurance, but it operates rather differently than the more familiar kinds of insurance.

The clothing of the sitters in Reynolds ' portraits was usually painted either by one his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms James Northcote, his pupil, wrote of this arrangement that " the imitation of particular stuffs is not the work of genius, but is to be acquired easily by practice, and this was what his pupils could do by care and time more than he himself chose to bestow ; but his own slight and masterly work was still the best.

Specialized lexicography focuses on the design, compilation, use and evaluation of specialized dictionaries, i. e. dictionaries that are devoted to a ( relatively restricted ) set of linguistic and factual elements of one or more specialist subject fields, e. g. legal lexicography.

In the United Kingdom, diamorphine is used extremely selectively and is not available on prescription to addicts ; except in specialist trials which involved no more than 300 participants.

The neurologist or a neuromuscular specialist may run a series of more specialized tests, including EMG / NCS ( this is one of the most important tests ), chest CT ( to rule out paraneoplastic ) and specific blood work looking for voltage-gated potassium channel antibodies, acethlocholine receptor antibody, and serum immunofixation, TSH, ANA ESR, EEG etc.

Hence, depending on jurisdiction, a specialist physician ( internist ) often does not achieve recognition as a specialist until twelve or more years after commencing basic medical training — five to eight years at university to obtain a basic medical qualification, and up to another nine years to become a specialist.

As an overview, to drive a vehicle weighing more than for commercial purposes requires a specialist licence ( the type varies depending on the use of the vehicle and number of seats ).

Peter Furhring, a specialist in the history of ornament, says that ( also in a French context ): The ornament known as moresque in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( but now more commonly called arabesque ) is characterized by bifurcated scrolls composed of branches forming interlaced foliage patterns.

The section from Leicester Square tube station to Cambridge Circus is home to specialist bookshops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops such as Quinto Bookshop, Henry Pordes and Any Amount of Books.

Often specialist groups take the ferries to hear more information.

* increasingly in specialist scientific magnets, particularly where size and electricity consumption are critical ( while HTS wire is much more expensive than LTS in these applications, this can be offset by the relative cost and convenience of cooling ); the ability to ramp field is desired ( the higher and wider range of HTS's operating temperature means faster changes in field can be managed ); or cryogen free operation is desired ( LTS generally requires liquid helium that is becoming more scarce and expensive ).

Powerful prototypes ( effectively pure-bred two-seater racing cars with no real link to production vehicles ) started to appear as the 1960s progressed, with worldwide battles between Ferrari, Ford, Porsche, Lotus, Alfa Romeo and Matra as well as other more specialist marques running on into the early 1970s.

Current recommendations generally don't suggest immobilizing braces, but instead activity modification and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as initial therapy, followed by more aggressive options or specialist referral if symptoms do not improve.

In addition, specialist staff are being utilised more effectively in order to augment the work already being done at ward level.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

This is simple enough, but several more points of interest may be mentioned as relevant.

Its pretense to operate in the public interest is little more than a sham.

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

No satisfactory solution has been found, but this is due more to the difficulties inherent in the problem than to a lack of interest or diligence on the part of the assessors.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

Apparently the feeling is that anything more would be involvement in technical abstrusenesses of possible pedantic interest but of no visible significance in practical affairs.

But certainly the New Frontier has brought to Washington a group more varied in background and interest.

It's not too much to assume that you will have a more lasting interest in paper hats than will Mr. Average Citizen.

Other reasons mentioned by one-third or more of the builders were `` resistance to high interest rates, cost advantage of buying over renting has narrowed, shelter market nearing saturation and prospects unable to qualify ''.

Meanwhile, there appears to be enough money in the road's reserve fund to cover the interest deficiency for eight more years.

West Virginia toll bonds have defaulted in interest for months, and, despite recent improvement in revenues, holders of the bonds are faced with more of the same.

For example, GOTO telescopes tend to be faster for locating items of interest than star hopping, allowing more time for studying of the object.

We know little more of the life of Andronicus, but he is of special interest in the history of philosophy, from the statement of Plutarch, that he published a new edition of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus, which formerly belonged to the library of Apellicon, and were brought to Rome by Sulla with the rest of Apellicon's library in 84 BC.

In the 1930s, Fleming ’ s trials occasionally showed more promise, and he continued, until 1940, to try to interest a chemist skilled enough to further refine usable penicillin.

At Descartes, the Cayley and Descartes formations were the primary areas of interest in that scientists suspected, based on telescopic and orbital imagery, that the terrain found there was formed by magma more viscous than that which formed the lunar maria.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

The subsequent conferences have resulted in a move to more interdisciplinary approaches with researchers aiming to combine the contextuality of archaeological research, which broadly describes the state of archaeoastronomy today, rather than merely establishing the existence of ancient astronomies archaeoastronomers seek to explain why people would have an interest in the night sky.

But more complicated foreign exchange arbitrages, such as the spot-forward arbitrage ( see interest rate parity ) are much more common.

The steeper slope of the municipal yield curve allows participants to collect more after-tax income from the municipal bond portfolio than is spent on the interest rate swap ; the carry is greater than the hedge expense.

The bit featured Kurt Loder as the show's host, half-reluctantly and half-resigned, trying to teach the two characters the meaning of Thanksgiving as they report live from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, where they take more interest in people's butts and porn-shops than anything else.