This was the preferred method for protein consumption over animal husbandry, as it required much more work to defend the kept animals against American Indians or the French.

Although the pinyin method is easier to learn, root shapes are often preferred by professional typists due to their faster input speed.

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.

The preferred method is to keep the logical design normalised, but allow the database management system ( DBMS ) to store additional redundant information on disk to optimise query response.

In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

The third digit is used to indicate the preferred card verification method ( e. g. PIN ) and the environment where the card can be used ( e. g. at point of sale only ).

Cremation is the preferred method of disposal, although if this is not possible any other methods such as burial or submergence at sea are acceptable.

It is a preferred method for coating small, complex-shaped metals, and for smoothing in rough surfaces on items formed with powder metal.

A player may dribble as many times as he wants ( though since passing is faster it is the preferred method of attack ) as long as during each dribble his hand contacts only the top of the ball.

Food irradiation using cobalt-60 is the preferred method by most processors, because the deeper penetration enables administering treatment to entire industrial pallets or totes, reducing the need for material handling.

This enabled the eskimo roll to become the preferred method of regaining posture after capsizing, especially as few Eskimos could swim ; their waters are too cold for a swimmer to survive for long.

Currently the preferred method of certain diagnosis is DNA sequencing.

This is the preferred method because the addition of heat this late in the brewing process can greatly affect the flavor of the brew.

Organophosphate pesticide poisoning is a major cause of disability in many developing countries and is often the preferred method of suicide.

Iterative expectation-maximization algorithms are now the preferred method of reconstruction.

The most famous of McCulloh inventions is the winchboat, ( a powerboat that incorporates a winch system to launch and retrieve parasailors from the boat ) which is the preferred method for the majority of commercial operators worldwide ; as is utilized by the at Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida for water survival training.

Collodion-based wet-glass plate negatives with prints made on albumen paper remained the preferred photographic method for some time, even after the introduction of the even more practical gelatin process in 1871.

Usually, the SLP method is preferred over MLP because it is more sensitive, easier to interpret and capable of analyzing mixed-DNA samples.

( Note that in a casino stud game with a house dealer and no button this gives an unfair advantage to players on the dealer's left, so the high card by suit method is preferred ).

In general sailing, tacking is the safer method and preferred especially when sailing upwind ; in windsurfing, jibing is preferred as this involves much less maneuvering for the sailor.

In Brazil, during the FENEIS ( National Association of the Deaf ) annual meeting in 2001, the association voted to accept SignWriting as the preferred method of transcribing Lingua Brasileira de Sinais ( Libras ) into a written form.

* Labour Force Sample Surveys are the most preferred method of unemployment rate calculation since they give the most comprehensive results and enables calculation of unemployment by different group categories such as race and gender.

Decapitation was the preferred method in German and western Slavic areas, with the head buried between the feet, behind the buttocks or away from the body.

Prosperity for the whole nation is certainly preferred to a tax cut.

Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.

Of those who have an opinion, it seems that assessment by location is preferred.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

The wash wheel is the equipment preferred for the test.

When looking for a long-term partner more conventional altruism may be preferred which may indicate that he is also willing to share resources with her and her children while when looking for a short-term partner heroic risk-taking, which may be costly signal showing good genes, may be more preferable.

The term " arithmetic mean " is preferred in mathematics and statistics because it helps distinguish it from other means such as the geometric and harmonic mean.

insufficient and that reporting confidence bounds is preferred.

In most jurisdictions the normal and preferred way of seeking appellate review is by filing an appeal of the final judgment.

The preferred plural of abacus is a subject of disagreement, with both abacuses and abaci in use.

The brick ’ s thickness is preferred partially due to its thermal characteristics, and partially due to the stability of a thicker brick versus a more standard-sized brick.

Although specialized and experienced amateur astronomers tend to acquire more specialized and more powerful equipment over time, relatively simple equipment is often preferred for certain tasks.

They are grouped with the outer bodies — centaurs, Neptune trojans, and trans-Neptunian objects — as minor planets, which is the term preferred in astronomical circles.

In the universe, argon-36 is by far the most common argon isotope, being the preferred argon isotope produced by stellar nucleosynthesis in supernovas.

Archaeologists referred to one of these cultural groups as the Anasazi, although the term is not preferred by contemporary Pueblo peoples.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

One possible reason for this distribution is that the population preferred not to live in the forest except in troubled times.

For theoretical analysis, this approach is more suited for constructing detailed formal proofs and is generally preferred in the research literature.

The sacrament can be administered within Mass, which is the preferred manner.

Politicians in the party win a place in parliament by being on the Party List, which is drawn up before the elections and enumerates, in order, the party's preferred MPs.

In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.

In Scotland, the eldest sister is preferred over younger sisters ; sisters are not considered equal co-heirs.

As a rule, partial amputations are preferred to preserve joint function, but in oncological surgery, disarticulation is favored.