Progress has been rapid, and results obtained in various countries have proved it to be thoroughly practical and to have very definite advantages over conventional methods of horticulture.

In most situations forming loops and bends with conventional knots is far more practical than using rope splices, even though the latter can nearly maintain the rope's full strength.

The chief advantage of the EFP over a conventional ( e. g., conical ) shaped charge is its effectiveness at very great standoffs, equal to hundreds of times the charge's diameter ( perhaps a hundred meters for a practical device ).

Piecewise constant output of a conventional practical DAC.

Mossberg 12 gauge bolt-action shotguns were briefly popular in Australia after the 1997 firearms law changes, but the shotguns themselves were awkward to operate and only had a three-round magazine, thus offering no practical and real advantages over a conventional double-barrel shotgun.

In practical terms, going short can be considered the opposite of the conventional practice of " going long ", whereby an investor profits from an increase in the price of the asset.

This device was very " deep ", but was later improved with a mirror folding the light path into an entirely practical device resembling a large conventional console.

The more practical threat to wooden ships was from conventional cannon firing red-hot shot, which could lodge in the hull of a wooden ship and cause a fire or ammunition explosion.

A static electric field can be described in terms of an electric potential ( voltage ) that is defined at every point in space, and in practical work it is conventional to take the Earth as a physical reference that defines the zero level of the potential, or ground.

It had become a conventional way to present scientific concepts in the ecological perspective of human animals dominating an overpopulated world, with the practical aim of producing a greener culture.

Floatplanes often have floats that are interchangeable with wheeled landing gear ( thereby producing a conventional land-based aircraft ) however in cases where this is not practical amphibious floatplanes, such as the amphibious version of the DHC Otter, incorporate retractable wheels within their floats.

In 1955, he developed, in collaboration with Jack Parry, the first practical atomic clock by integrating the caesium atomic standard with conventional quartz crystal oscillators to allow calibration of existing time-keeping.

Smartphones and PDAs are popular amongst those who wish to use some of the powers of a conventional computer in environments where carrying one would not be practical.

Opposedly, MST leaders emphasized at the time and since that their practical activity was a response to the existence of a host of destitutes whose prospects of obtaining productive, continuous employment in conventional labor markets was bleak, as admitted even by President Cardoso, who during a 1996 interview, said: " I'm not to say that my government will be of the excluded, for that it cannot be [...] I don't know how many excluded there will be ".

T's purpose is to test the thesis developed by Steele and Sussman in their series of papers about Scheme: that Scheme may be used as the basis for a practical programming language of exceptional expressive power, and that implementations of Scheme could perform better than other Lisp systems, and competitively with implementations of programming languages, such as C and BLISS, which are usually considered to be inherently more efficient than Lisp on conventional machine architectures.

As many as twenty or twenty-five components may be determined, but for practical purposes a knowledge of the relative proportions of silica, alumina, ferrous and ferric oxides, magnesia, lime, potash, soda and water carry us a long way in determining a rock's position in the conventional classifications.

Optical fibers have evolved into many forms since the practical breakthroughs that saw their wider introduction in the 1970s as conventional step index fibers and later as single material fibers where propagation was defined by an effective air cladding structure.

The programme submits alternative reports to UN Committees in collaboration with local NGOs, provides support for individuals and organisations wishing to challenge torture practices in international legal fora and publishes a practical guide on international and regional conventional mechanisms relevant to torture.

OMCT publishes a practical guide on international and regional conventional mechanisms relevant to torture.

These algorithms are overwhelmingly superior to conventional algorithms in long term tracking and qualitative simulation in many practical applications, such as celestial mechanics, molecular dynamics, etc.

They are not intended as a replacement for conventional cancer therapy, but as a caring environment that can provide support, information and practical advice.

On the other hand, there is a practical ceiling on how large a market garden can get, based on this model, but with conventional farming, quite vast areas can be farmed because access to a direct market is not a requirement.

In particular, the use of natural gas as a feedstock becomes practical only with use of " stranded gas ", i. e., sources of natural gas far from major cities which are impractical to exploit with conventional gas pipelines and LNG technology ; otherwise, the direct sale of natural gas to consumers would become much more profitable.

Though Schmeisser designed a conventional 20 round capacity " box " magazine for the weapon, the Testing Commission, for practical reasons, insisted that the MP18 be adapted to use the 32 round TM 08 Luger " snail " drum magazines that was widely used with the long barreled version of the P 08 pistol known as Artillery model.

The HPSDR ( High Performance Software Defined Radio ) project uses a 16-bit analog-to-digital converter that provides performance over the range 0 to comparable to that of a conventional analogue HF radio.

The unavoidable trade-off with this arrangement was low efficiency and eventually these transmissions were discontinued in favor of the more efficient three speed units with a conventional three element torque converter.

The transmission is a conventional automatic gearbox with a torque converter offering the driver fully automatic operation or manual selection of the gear ratios.

The 1960s Austin Mini / Austin 1100 compact and innovative automatic gearbox, developed by Automotive Products ( with a conventional epicyclic / torque converter coupling ) was much less efficient at transmitting drive.

The automated transmission may be derived from a conventional automatic ; for instance Mercedes-Benz's AMG Speedshift MCT automated transmission is based on the 7G-Tronic manumatic, however the latter's torque converter has been replaced with a wet, multi-plate launch clutch.

This was simpler than the DS implementation: instead of hydraulics it used a floor mounted quadrant lever operating conventional gear selector rods and an electrically controlled wet plate clutch in conjunction with a torque converter.

The torque converter gave more of the feel of a conventional automatic transmission, which was completely lacking in the DS.

This unit is similar to a conventional auto, featuring both a torque converter and a planetary gearset but lacking a full valve body for making decisions regarding shifting.

By using two independent clutches, a DSG can achieve faster shift times, and eliminates the torque converter of a conventional epicyclic automatic transmission.

The 1992 converter uses more conventional air-insulated, water-cooled thyristor valves using Light-Triggered Thyristors.

A recent engineering study of the Eel River facility recommended the replacement of the HVDC converter stations controls and the upgrades of the air cooled thyristor valves with conventional liquid cooled thyristor valves.

Usually they also offered a performance boost as they had less back pressure than conventional exhaust, along with less environmental control ( no catalytic converter ).

The flow of the combustion gases between the gas generator and free power turbine provided the same functionality as a torque converter but without using a conventional liquid medium.

It is a technology supplier of self-powered modules ( transmitters, receivers, transceivers, energy converter ) to companies ( e. g. Siemens Building Technologies, Distech Controls, Seamless Sensing, Zumtobel, Omnio, Osram, Wieland Electric, Peha, Thermokon, Wago, Herga ), which develop and manufacture products used in building automation ( light, shading, hvac ), industrial automation, and automotive industry ( replacement of the conventional battery in tyre pressure sensors ).

This zero-order hold effect is a consequence of the hold action of the DAC and is not due to the sample and hold that might precede a conventional ADC as is often misunderstood.

Alternative medicine is any practice claiming to heal " that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine.

Since many AI problems have no formalisation yet, conventional complexity theory does not allow the definition of AI-completeness.

* Alternative medicine, healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine

" His output does not fit into conventional political classification, including attacks on feminism ( generally the proviso of the right ), George W. Bush ( generally the proviso of the left ), Israel ( though not of Jews in general ), and evolution ( generally the proviso of religious fundamentalists ).

Consequently, in his view, Judaism does not fit easily into conventional Western categories, such as religion, ethnicity, or culture.

But it does not explain how flat plates, symmetric airfoils, sailboat sails, or conventional airfoils flying upside down can generate lift, and attempts to calculate lift based on the amount of constriction do not predict experimental results.

Registration is handled not in a conventional manner but, upon entering the room, by delivering a bill with the registration through a small window that does not allow eye contact to ensure greater discretion.

The Philippines does not have a distinctive war flag in this usual sense, but the flag of the Philippines is legally unique in that it is flown with the red stripe on top when the country is in a state of war, rather than the conventional blue.

As the name suggests, pseudocode generally does not actually obey the syntax rules of any particular language ; there is no systematic standard form, although any particular writer will generally borrow style and syntax ; for example, control structures from some conventional programming language.

Electron pairing due to phonon exchanges explains superconductivity in conventional superconductors, but it does not explain superconductivity in the newer superconductors that have a very high critical temperature.

While conventional analgesic pain killers such as paracetamol ( acetaminophen ) or NSAIDs provide initial relief for some sufferers, the pain is often more neurologic in nature, which often does not respond well to these drugs.

The Tesla turbine does not use friction in the conventional sense ; precisely, it avoids it, and uses adhesion ( the Coandă effect ) and viscosity instead.

In the conventional form using cross products, vector calculus does not generalize to higher dimensions, while the alternative approach of geometric algebra, which uses exterior products does generalize, as discussed below.

" The IPCC Third Assessment Report from 2001 summarised research at that time, saying "… current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of anomalous cold or warmth over this time frame, and the conventional terms of ' Little Ice Age ' and ' Medieval Warm Period ' appear to have limited utility in describing trends in hemispheric or global mean temperature changes in past centuries ".

Thus the mathematical formulation of the Alcubierre metric does not contradict the conventional claim that the laws of relativity do not allow a slower-than-light object to accelerate to faster-than-light speeds.

Szasz has indicated that his own views came from libertarian politics held since his teens, rather than through experience in psychiatry ; that in his " rare " contacts with involuntary mental patients in the past he either sought to discharge them ( if they were not charged with a crime ) or " assisted the prosecution in securing conviction " ( if they were charged with a crime and appeared to be prima facie guilty ); that he is not opposed to consensual psychiatry and " does not interfere with the practice of the conventional psychiatrist ", and that he provided " listening-and-talking (" psychotherapy ")" for voluntary fee-paying clients from 1948 until 1996, a practice he characterizes as non-medical and not associated with his being a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist.

For example, South Asian art music ( Hindustani and Carnatic music ) is frequently cited as placing little emphasis on what is perceived in western practice as conventional ' harmony '; the underlying ' harmonic ' foundation for most South Asian music is the drone, a held open fifth ( or fourth ) that does not alter in pitch throughout the course of a composition.

Unlike many conventional telephone technologies, this does not provide power for premises equipment, nor is it suitable for direct connection to customer equipment.

Four wire HDSL does not require as many repeaters as conventional T1 spans.

HDSL-2 does not employ repeaters as does conventional four wire HDSL, or newer HDSL-4 systems.

Unlike the conventional cassette, a recorded song does not need to be stored as one piece on the disk, it can be stored in several fragments, similar to a hard drive.

This civilization, which incorporates both the evolved noocytes and recently-assimilated conventional humans, is eventually forced to abandon the normal plane of existence in favor of one in which thought does not require a physical substrate.

It does not present the " helpless humanity " angle typical of stories from The War of the Worlds onwards, nor does it simply dress up conventional horror themes in the trappings of science fiction.