The main parachute ( point I ) was deployed at 10, 000 ft ( 3 km ), further slowing the spacecraft in preparation for landing.

In preparation, the historical centre of the city was restored, and its main monuments were renewed.

It was there that the notion of the kitchen work triangle was formalized: the three main functions in a kitchen are storage, preparation, and cooking ( which Catharine Beecher had already recognized ), and the places for these functions should be arranged in the kitchen in such a way that work at one place does not interfere with work at another place, the distance between these places is not unnecessarily large, and no obstacles are in the way.

In April 1850, a preliminary group led by Godley landed at Port Cooper — modern-day Lyttleton Harbour — and established a port, housing and shops in preparation for the main body of settlers.

They helped in the following areas: the creation of a Soviet version of the A-4 ; work on " organizational schemes "; research in improving the A-4 main engine ; development of a 100-ton engine ; assistance in the " layout " of plant production rooms ; and preparation of rocket assembly using German components.

In Latin America it is the name of different local dishes which are toasted or use a toasted ingredient as the main base of their preparation.

The main concern for a prince should be war, or the preparation thereof, not books.

Its main theme is about the preparation of dishes whose main ingredient is breadfruit.

Because Handel's main creative concern was still with opera, he did not write the music for Saul until 1738, in preparation for his 1738 – 39 theatrical season.

A politique, Bohemond was resolved to engineer the enthusiasm of the crusaders to his own ends ; and when his nephew Tancred left the main army at Heraclea Cybistra, and attempted to establish a footing in Cilicia, the movement may have been already intended as a preparation for Bohemond's eastern principality.

This period was largely one of reconnaissance and development by the Japanese in preparation for their attack on the main battle position on the Abucay line.

For reasons not entirely clear, Mack ordered Auffenburg on 7 October to take his division of 5, 000 infantry and 400 cavalry from Günzburg to Wertingen in preparation for the main Austrian advance out of Ulm.

The purpose of the action ( code-named Operation Puma ) was reportedly to destroy most or all of the armed aircraft of the FAR in preparation for the main invasion.

His goal was to besiege Stettin and in preparation for this Lantingshausen allowed Axel von Fersen to take 4, 000 men to capture Usedom and Wollin-this objective was met after the Battle of Frisches Haff ensured Swedish naval supremacy in September-while Lantingshausen took the main body of the army to advance deep into Prussian Pomerania, where he then remained still for a long while.

However, trail mix is also mentioned in Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums as the two main characters describe their planned meals in their preparation for a hiking trip.

Recently, the airport has completed upgrading its main access roads and parking facilities in preparation for a new terminal.

This was created in preparation for the Defense capability of the Philippines-10 year program of training of Filipino Servicemen and Civilian Volunteers ( Reserve ) forming the Philippine Army as the main ground forces of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

In preparation for the landing of Air Force One, carrying then US president George W. Bush, the A77, which runs past the end of the main runway, was controversially closed while the aircraft was on final approach.

The main commercial port was relocated here from Yau Ma Tei in the 1980s, in preparation for the West Kowloon Reclamation, which has left the original waterfront of Yau Ma Tei almost half a mile inland.

He continued to reside at Cambridge for four years ; during which time he took some pupils, but his main work was the preparation of 28 memoirs to the Mathematical Journal.

When used for food preparation, the main uses are slicing ( cutting by drawing the blade across the object, applying light pressure ) and chopping ( cutting by pushing the blade through object ), with some piercing ( using the tip to cut through the surface ).

The main employment of his old age was the preparation for the press of his father's History of the Rebellion, to which he wrote a preface in which he expounded his Tory philosophy.

Eighteenth century French naval records make reference to a cambose or camboose, which described the food preparation cabin on a ship's main deck, as well as the range within.

By the early 2000s, CPU designers were thwarted from achieving higher performance from ILP techniques due to the growing disparity between CPU operating frequencies and main memory operating frequencies as well as escalating CPU power dissipation owing to more esoteric ILP techniques.

The cut-up and the closely associated fold-in are the two main techniques:

Three main techniques are used to visualize the brain and search for AVM: computed tomography ( CT ), magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ), and cerebral angiography.

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

" My three main goals will be to expand our Party, to update its campaign techniques and to build it into a party which is truly pan-European in its thinking.

Until that time, Pliny's work Historia Naturalis was the main source of information on metals and mining techniques, and Agricola made numerous references to the Roman encyclopedia.

Cyclers ' main limitation would be that they would be slow, because they would rely on gravitational techniques such as Hohmann transfer orbits and gravitational slingshots.

The main techniques of kickboxing is still derived from Japanese full contact karate ( kyokushinkai ).

The knee and elbow techniques in Japanese kickboxing, indicative of its Muay Thai heritage, are the main difference that separates this style from other kickboxing rules.

There are two main techniques to play, either plucking the strings with their fingers or strumming unstopped strings ( sometimes with a matchstick ).

The main groups of techniques are small chemical staining of cellular structures, for example DAPI to label DNA, use of antibodies conjugated to fluorescent reporters, see

The main defense against this bias, besides correct research techniques, is peer review and repetition of the experiment, or the observation, by other researchers with no incentive to bias.

* In the manga and anime One Piece, one of the main protagonists, " Black Leg Sanji ," uses kicking techniques very similar to Savate.

For air-breathing SSTO, the main challenge is system complexity and associated research and development costs, material science, and construction techniques necessary for surviving sustained high-speed flight within the atmosphere, and achieving a high enough mass-ratio to carry sufficient propellant to achieve orbit, plus a meaningful payload weight.

It is not the main purpose of the quasi-terrorists to induce terror in the immediate victim as in the case of genuine terrorism, but the quasi-terrorist uses the modalities and techniques of the genuine terrorist and produces similar consequences and reaction.

The main advantage of VQ in Pattern Recognition is its low computational burden when compared with other techniques such as Dynamic Time Warping ( DTW ) and Hidden Markov Models ( HMM ).

Other techniques: The vibraphone solo " Mourning Dove Sonnet ," composed by Christopher Deane, utilizes a four mallet grip with two cello ( or bass ) bows held where the outer mallets would be, a yarn mallet for the main melodic playing and a plastic mallet for pitch bending in the inner positions.

The main techniques used in drawing are: line drawing, hatching, crosshatching, random hatching, scribbling, stippling, and blending.

Abandoning the strikes on the ground and focusing on grappling techniques is one of the main weaknesses of grappling-based styles.

In computer science, BNF ( Backus Normal Form or Backus – Naur Form ) is one of the two main notation techniques for context-free grammars, often used to describe the syntax of languages used in computing, such as computer programming languages, document formats, instruction sets and communication protocol ; the other main technique for writing context-free grammars is the van Wijngaarden form.

Linear systems represent the main class of systems for which general techniques for stability control and analysis exist.

The main difference to these classical techniques is that reinforcement learning algorithms do not need the knowledge of the MDP and they target large MDPs where exact methods become infeasible.