His straightforward understanding of the Scriptures – in contrast to the Alexandrian tendency towards allegorical interpretation – meant that the themes of his talks were practical, explaining the Bible's application to everyday life.

His emphasis was on the ethical application of rhetorical training, in part a reaction against the growing tendency in Roman schools toward standardization of themes and techniques.

In addition to the tendency to move a body in the direction of its application, a force can also tend to rotate a body about an axis.

There was much variation in the application of the law and there was a tendency for the destitute to migrate towards the more generous parishes, usually situated in the towns.

Continued application of rudder sustains rolling tendency because the aircraft flying at an angle to the airflow-skidding towards the forward wing.

One manifestation of this tendency toward elaboration which goes beyond combat application is the use of lower stances and higher, stretching kicks.

Because water-based personal lubricants absorb into the skin and evaporate, most water-based lubricants have a tendency to dry out during use, but reapplication of the lubricant or application of water or saliva is usually sufficient to reactivate them.

When this channel's ability to conduct electrical current across the cell membrane is inhibited or compromised, either by application of drugs or by rare mutations in some families, it can result in a potentially fatal disorder called long QT syndrome ; a number of clinically successful drugs in the market have had the tendency to inhibit hERG, and create a concomitant risk of sudden death, as a side-effect, which has made hERG inhibition an important antitarget that must be avoided during drug development.

Because the Yoix software development philosophy aims to keep things simple by eschewing the popular tendency for multiple embedded specialized languages and the YWAIT framework permits easy, incremental screen development in a simple, logical source tree hierarchy, development of a Yoix web application is reduced to the basics: a command prompt and a text editor.

An MRI scan of a human head, an example of a biomedical engineering application of electrical engineering to diagnostic imaging.

Computer networking is sometimes considered a sub-discipline of electrical engineering, telecommunications, computer science, information technology or computer engineering, since it relies upon the theoretical and practical application of these disciplines.

The German physicist Ernst Ruska and the electrical engineer Max Knoll constructed the prototype electron microscope in 1931, capable of four-hundred-power magnification ; the apparatus was a practical application of the principles of electron microscopy.

Individual fuel cells produce relatively small electrical potentials, about 0. 7 volts, so cells are " stacked ", or placed in series, to increase the voltage and meet an application ’ s requirements.

Piezoelectric materials also show the opposite effect, called converse piezoelectric effect, where the application of an electrical field creates mechanical deformation in the crystal.

This effect was exploited by research conducted at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which established that sustained application of electrical potential could stimulate both resorption and growth ( depending on the polarity ) of bone in-vivo.

The electrical resistance of single crystal silicon significantly changes under the application of mechanical stress due to the piezoresistive effect.

Electroconvulsive therapy can differ in its application in three ways: electrode placement, frequency of treatments, and the electrical waveform of the stimulus.

EEPROM is user-modifiable read-only memory ( ROM ) that can be erased and reprogrammed ( written to ) repeatedly through the application of higher than normal electrical voltage generated externally or internally in the case of modern EEPROMs.

In 1899, J A McWilliam reported in the British Medical Journal of his experiments in which application of an electrical impulse to the human heart in asystole caused a ventricular contraction and that a heart rhythm of 60-70 beats per minute could be evoked by impulses applied at spacings equal to 60-70 / minute.

" ( This lack of a degree may have hurt Fessenden's employment opportunities ; when McGill University established an electrical engineering department, Fessenden was turned down on an application to be the chairman, in favor of an American.

The code enforcement department includes the receipt of application, the issues of permits, notices, certificates and orders, the making of inspections to determine conformance with applicable codes and ordinances, review building, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, fire and grading permits and make appropriate inspections.

Often, however, energy must be added to the process by combustion of fuel or, in the case of some smelting processes, by the direct application of electrical energy.

Wire gauges are specified in building and electrical codes, and must be carefully chosen for their specific application to ensure safe operation in conjunction with the overload protection.

One natural application of narrow band power line communication is the control and telemetry of electrical equipment such as meters, switches, heaters and domestic appliances.

* Tightly assembled electronic packages, where electrical connections are required in 3 axes, such as cameras ( static application ).

* Accu ( battery ), a battery that can be restored to full charge by the application of electrical energy

* The application of hyperbolic functions to electrical engineering problems ; being the subject of a course of lectures delivered before the University of London in May and June 1911 ( London: University of London Press, 1912 )

The Laplace transform finds wide application in physics and particularly in electrical engineering, where the characteristic equations that describe the behavior of an electric circuit in the complex frequency domain correspond to linear combinations of exponentially damped, scaled, and time-shifted sinusoids in the time domain.

The EMV standards define the interaction at the physical, electrical, data and application levels between IC cards and IC card processing devices for financial transactions.

The application of hyperbolic functions to electrical engineering problems: Being the subject of a course of lectures delivered before the University of London in May and June 1911.

** Electrolytic lesions-Neural tissue is destroyed through the application of electrical shock trauma.

* Electrical stimulation-A classic method in which neural activity is enhanced by application of a small electrical current ( too small to cause significant cell death ).

Smoke is frequently observed to come out of electronic components when overheated, often through exposure to an extreme electrical current usually caused by a low-resistance failure or the application of excess voltage through some cascading failure of the circuit.

Erotic electrostimulation ( abbreviated e-stim and also known as electrosex ) is a human sexual practice involving the application of electrical stimulation to the nerves of the body, with particular emphasis on the genitals, using a power source ( such as a TENS, EMS, Violet wand, or made-for-play units ) for purposes of sexual stimulation.

Early transmission networks used copper cable, which is one of the best economically feasible conductors for this application.

In this application, they are minimised with thin plates, by lamination of conductors or other details of conductor shape.

It finds application in electroplated conductors entering glass envelopes of electronic parts such as vacuum tubes ( valves ), X-ray and microwave tubes and some lightbulbs.

Usually, the application of KOH is needed to increase the pH to this range.

One application is to formulas for washing and conditioning grey or blonde hair, where the brightener can not only increase the luminance and sparkle of the hair, but can also correct dull, yellowish discoloration without darkening the hair.

Since plug-ins and extensions both increase the utility of the original application, Mozilla uses the term " add-on " as an inclusive category of augmentation modules that consists of plug-ins, themes, and search engines.

As academic interest grew, the dramatic increase in desktop computational power allowed for practical application of the new technique.

The gained insights helped to notably increase the life span of the lamps in certain fields of application.

Under the Development Plan for Renewable Energy in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan in the People's Republic of China, the target is to increase the application of ethanol fuel by nongrain feedstock to 2 million tonnes, and that of biodiesel to 200 thousand tonnes by 2010.

It can automatically provide the amount of capacity needed to respond to any increase or decrease of application traffic.

To help reduce anxiety and increase patient comfort, men who have an aversion to needles might opt for the " no-needle " application of anesthesia while the " no-scalpel " or " open-ended " techniques help to speed-up recovery times and increase the chance of healthy recovery.

Although it will continue to grow no matter what, it will benefit from the addition of animal manure applied as a mulch, and can also be mulched with other nitrogen rich materials such as lawn mowings, and is one of the few plants that will tolerate the application of fresh urine diluted 50: 50 with water, although this should not be regularly added as it may increase salt levels in the soil and have adverse effects on soil life such as worms.

Stress management is the application of methods to either reduce stress or increase tolerance to stress.

This is today the only application of reproductive technology to increase reproduction that is used routinely.

Another application is to increase the density of the air to assist early airplane jet engines during takeoff in " hot and high " atmospheric conditions, as was used on the early Boeing 707.

The village engineer prepared a new estimate based on current escalated costs that indicated a considerable increase above the amount approved in the IEPA application.

Subsequent to application of the chromium agent, the bath is treated with sodium bicarbonate to increase the pH to 4. 0-4. 3.

Electroporation is the rapid increase in bilayer permeability induced by the application of a large artificial electric field across the membrane.

It allows system software to use features such as virtual memory, paging and safe multi-tasking designed to increase an operating system's control over application software.

Protected mode has a number of features designed to enhance an operating system's control over application software, in order to increase security and system stability.

Simply put, whereas correct application of automation can net as much as 3 to 4 times original output with no increase in current human labor costs, incorrect application of automation can only save a fraction of current labor level costs.

Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology or Needle aspiration biopsy – A needle attached to a syringe is used to collect cells from lesions or masses in various body organs by microcoring, often with the application of negative pressure ( suction ) to increase yield.

The increase in the commercial capacity of track and field was also met with developments in the application of sports science, and there were many changes to coaching methods, athlete's diet regimes, training facilities and sports equipment.

To ensure correctness, a DBMS usually guarantees that only serializable transaction schedules are generated, unless serializability is intentionally relaxed to increase performance, but only in cases where application correctness is not harmed.

By knowledge transfer in landscape ecology, means a group of activities that increase the understanding of landscape ecology with the goal of encouraging application of this knowledge.