The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

A technique called bootstrapping the simulation model is used, which bootstraps initial data points using a pseudorandom number generator to schedule an initial set of pending events, which schedule additional events, and with time, the distribution of event times approaches its steady state — the bootstrapping behavior is overwhelmed by steady-state behavior.

A necessity in a wolf-catching sighthound didn't exist, in addition to the old proved technique of batue with the use of baits, flags and other appeared new, way more effective — from airplanes, from propeller sleighs, with electronic lure whistles.

This technique — also used on the cello — is called thumb position.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

This technique employs the photoelectric effect to measure the reciprocal space — a mathematical representation of periodic structures that is used to infer the original structure.

In March 1997, an informative Annex I describing Error Tracking — an encoding technique for providing improved robustness to data losses and errors, was approved to provide information for the aid of implementers having an interest in such techniques.

As for other methods used in China, the technique of scratching the skin and putting pox onto the scab seems to have developed later than the first accounts made in China, and possibly came from Central Asia — according to Temple.

Skillfully combining these two actions of leaning and pushing — a technique known as " drawing "— results in what looks like effortless and graceful curvilinear flow across the ice.

A useful technique is to rub a very thin film of Maroger medium over the area to be painted and paint into that — known as " painting into the couch.

Moon was known for dramatic, suspenseful drumming — often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, busy technique focused on fast, cascading rolls across the toms, ambidextrous double bass drum work and wild cymbal crashes and washes.

The government had to fight smuggling — which became a favorite American technique in the 18th century to circumvent the restrictions on trading with the French, Spanish or Dutch.

Another invocatory technique that the magician can employ is called the assumption of godforms — where with " concentrated imagination of oneself in the symbolic shape of any God, one should be able to identify oneself with the idea which god represents.

The straight kick with the bottom of the foot to the stomach ( γαστρίζειν / λάκτισμα εἰς γαστέραν — gastrizein or laktisma eis gasteran, " kicking in the stomach ") was apparently a common technique, given the number of depictions of such kicks on vases.

In executing this choking technique ( ἄγχειν — anchein ), the athlete grabs the tracheal area ( windpipe and " Adam's apple ") between his thumb and his four fingers and squeezes.

Shortly thereafter, a superior technique was discovered: two wooden halves were carved, a graphite stick inserted, and the halves then glued together — essentially the same method in use to this day.

Though the term had a wide range of application ( as a memory technique or compositional exercise, for example ) it most often referred to the " seats of argument "— the list of categories of thought or modes of reasoning — that a speaker could use in order to generate arguments or proofs.

The success of these pavilions further influenced the 1967 Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, where multi-screen highlights included In the Labyrinth, hailed by Time magazine as a " stunning visual display ," their review concluding: " such visual delights as Labyrinth ... suggest that cinema — the most typical of 20th century arts — has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities ," as well as A Place to Stand, which displayed Christopher Chapman's pioneering " multi-dynamic image technique " of shifting multiple images.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

But the historian of literature need not confine his attention to biography or to stylistic questions of form, `` texture '', or technique.

The technique is a form of aversion therapy in which Alex receives an injection that makes him feel sick while watching graphically violent films, eventually conditioning him to suffer crippling bouts of nausea at the mere thought of violence.

The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.

It is an educational process, not a relaxation technique or form of exercise.

The Feldenkrais Method and the Mitzvah Technique were both influenced by the Alexander technique, in the form of study previous to the originators founding their own disciplines.

Most often the other technique is some form of chromatography.

An important part of balalaika technique is the use of the left thumb to fret notes on the lower string, particularly on the prima, where it is used to form chords.

This is the simplest form of a technique known as instruction pipelining, and is utilized in almost all modern general-purpose CPUs.

This technique is referred to as vacuum distillation and it is commonly found in the laboratory in the form of the rotary evaporator.

This technique had, in reduced form, the advantages of a secco work.

The most common form of fresco was Egyptian wall paintings in tombs, usually using the à secco technique.

From this commodity come different styles, technique, and abilities to form master works of visual graffiti.

) The alternative technique of fractional crystallization was invented by Dmitri Mendeleev, in the form of the double ammonium nitrate tetrahydrate, which he used to separate the less-soluble lanthanum from the more-soluble didymium in the 1870s.

Murray Bookchin has put it this way " what of the syndicalist ideal of " collectivized " self-managed enterprises that are coordinated by like occupations on a national level and coordinated geographically by " collectives " on a local level ?... Here, the traditional socialist criticism of this syndicalist form of economic management is not without its point: the corporate or private capitalist, " worker-controlled " or not "” ironically, a technique in the repertoire of industrial management that is coming very much into vogue today as " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership " and constitutes no threat whatever to private property and capitalism ... In any case, " economic democracy " has not simply meant " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership.

This technique had, in reduced form, the advantages of a secco work.

The early form of training under Ueshiba was characterized by the ample use of strikes to vital points ( atemi ), a larger total curriculum, a greater use of weapons, and a more linear approach to technique than would be found in later forms of aikido.

The technique is named after U. S. Olympian Dave Volz, who made an art form of the practice and surprised many by making the U. S. Olympic team in 1992.

Tying is another technique of fastening the three layers together ( and is not a form of quilting at all ).

With a technique called screen scraping, specialized software may be customized to automatically and repeatedly query a given Web form with the intention of aggregating the resulting data.

Since that time, it has become increasingly common to teach carving as a form of parallel skiing, as opposed to the " classic " parallel technique.

The first technique used to ensure a minimum density of marks was zero code suppression a form of bit stuffing, which set the least significant bit of each 8-bit byte transmitted to a 1.

Transcendental Meditation ( TM ) refers to a specific form of mantra meditation called the Transcendental Meditation technique and an organization called the Transcendental Meditation movement.

The Transcendental Meditation technique is a specific form of mantra meditation often referred to as Transcendental Meditation or simply, TM.