This method of countin' was usually done at the request, and in the presence, of a representative of the bank that held the papers against the herd.

Property-for-debt or equity-for-debt swaps ( acquiring ownership by simply writing off the Armenian government's debts to Russia ) are usually the method of acquiring assets.

When the atoms are relatively similar in size, the atom exchange method usually happens, where some of the atoms composing the metallic crystals are substituted with atoms of the other constituent.

Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is held to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops.

When sitting in review of a decision, the Court will only look at the method in which the decision was arrived at, whereas in an administrative appeal the correctness of the decision itself will be examined, usually by a higher body in the agency.

Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, such as when the currency may be either unstable ( e. g., hyperinflation or deflationary spiral ) or simply unavailable for conducting commerce.

This method of writing alternates direction, and usually reverses the individual characters, on each successive line.

The field is usually seen as compatible with the physical sciences, and uses the scientific method as well as simulation or modeling, often comparing the output of models with aspects of human behavior.

The term theoretical chemistry may be defined as a mathematical description of chemistry, whereas computational chemistry is usually used when a mathematical method is sufficiently well developed that it can be automated for implementation on a computer.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

"), where great ingenuity may be exercised in narrating the events of the crime, usually a homicide, and of the subsequent investigation in such a manner as to conceal the identity of the criminal from the reader until the end of the book, when the method and culprit are revealed.

Moreover, usually ( depending on concurrency control method ) the effects of an incomplete transaction are not even visible to another transaction.

Moreover, usually ( depending on concurrency control method ) the effects of an incomplete transaction are not even visible to another transaction.

This has been the second most productive method of detection, though it suffers from a substantial rate of false positives and confirmation from another method is usually considered necessary.

Other characteristics usually include the film gauge, pulldown method, lens anamorphosis ( or lack thereof ), and film gate or projector aperture dimensions, all of which need to be defined for photography as well as projection, as they may differ.

These trains usually connect larger agglomerations to the suburban areas, although in the case of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn these also serve as a method of interurban transport between large cities.

Of course, when a simple function is used to estimate data points from the original, interpolation errors are usually present ; however, depending on the problem domain and the interpolation method used, the gain in simplicity may be of greater value than the resultant loss in accuracy.

A mathematically rigorous convergence analysis of an iterative method is usually performed ; however, heuristic-based iterative methods are also common.

" Optimal welfare " usually takes on a Paretian norm, which in its mathematical application of Kaldor – Hicks method.

* Intrauterine devices ( IUDs )— usually used as a primary contraceptive method, but sometimes used as emergency contraception.

A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous martial arts fights between characters, usually as the films ' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development.

However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology ( calculating the influence of heavenly bodies ), bibliomancy ( reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching ), tarot ( a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern ), and geomancy ( a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns ).

However, it does have rules of its own to follow, which vary with the method of invocation, usually in the form of spoken spells.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

Bede used both these approaches on occasion, but adopted a third method as his main approach to dating: the anno domini method invented by Dionysius Exiguus.

In June 2007, Nauru adopted the " Cuban literacy method ", reportedly used also in several other countries.

An attempt to increase majority elements by tweaking the system parameters ( more smaller districts, d ' Hondt method used ) by ČSSD and ODS during their " opposition agreement " 1998 – 2002 was vehemently opposed by smaller parties and blocked by the Constitutional Court as going too much against the constitution-stated proportional principle ; only a moderated form was adopted.

According to many of Descartes ' specialists, including Étienne Gilson, the goal of Descartes in establishing this first truth is to demonstrate the capacity of his criterion — the immediate clarity and distinctiveness of self-evident propositions — to establish true and justified propositions despite having adopted a method of generalized doubt.

This book's method was adopted by the University of Oregon, as described in The Oregon Experiment ( 1975 ), and remains the official planning instrument.

For example, the Bourbaki group adopted a watered-down and selective version of it as adequate to the requirements of their twin projects of ( a ) writing encyclopedic foundational works, and ( b ) supporting the axiomatic method as a research tool.

Other sheathings of various sizes in bronze have been found, which proves this to have been the universal method adopted to protect the wood pivots.

Churches in western continental Europe used a late Roman method until the late 8th century during the reign of Charlemagne, when they finally adopted the Alexandrian method.

The Gregorian calculation of Easter was based on a method devised by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius ( or Lilio ) for adjusting the epacts of the moon, and has been adopted by almost all Western Christians and by Western countries who celebrate national holidays at Easter.

Like Marx, the Young Hegelians were critical of Hegel's metaphysical assumptions, but still adopted his dialectical method in order to criticise established society, politics, and religion.

Indeed her method of digging, which most of us have subsequently adopted, causes a proliferation of loci that excavators often have difficulty keeping straight long enough to produce coherent published stratigraphic syntheses.

Eberstadt and Banister suggest, however, that authorities at the local level make contraceptive information readily available to parents and that intrauterine devices are the most commonly adopted birth control method.

When progress and development is rapid, the faster method of political representation is adopted.

It was the artist and inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté who found a way to use the stone itself as a printing block ; a slightly different method for reproducing the inscriptions was adopted by Antoine Galland.

Lewis and Clark's journals cite several occasions when they adopted the Native American method of setting the plains on fire to communicate the presence of their party or their desire to meet with local tribes.

Sima adopted a new method in sorting out the historical data and a new approach to writing historical records.

Edison's success in promoting direct current as less lethal also led to alternating current being used in the electric chair adopted by New York in 1889 as a supposedly humane execution method.

Defined primarily as a technique-rich style of spiritual practice, Tantra has no single coherent doctrine ; rather, it developed different teachings in connection with the different religions that adopted the Tantric method.

In 1796 Edward Jenner developed a much safer method, using cowpox to successfully immunize a young boy against smallpox, and this practice was widely adopted.

In 1967, the World Health Organization intensified the global smallpox eradication by contributing $ 2. 4 million annually to the effort and adopted a new disease surveillance method.

He adopted Clouet's method of drawing with coloured chalks on a plain ground, as well as his care over preliminary portraits for their own sake.