A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Brain tissue in its natural state is too soft to work with, but it can be hardened by immersion in alcohol or other fixatives, and then sliced apart for examination of the interior.

An attempt by the French government to incorporate the independent Breton-language immersion schools ( called Diwan ) into the state education system was blocked by the French Constitutional Council on the grounds that, as the 1992 amendment to the Constitution of the 5th Republic states that French is the language of the Republic, no other language may be used as a language of instruction in state schools.

Although the present-day, loose use of the term " cyberspace " no longer implies or suggests immersion in a virtual reality, current technology allows the integration of a number of capabilities ( sensors, signals, connections, transmissions, processors, and controllers ) sufficient to generate a virtual interactive experience that is accessible regardless of a geographic location.

This is by belief in the gospel, through repentance, and through baptism by total immersion in water.

Some Essene rituals, such as daily immersion in the mikveh, coincide with contemporary Hasidic practices ; some historians had also suggested, that name " Essene " is a Hellenized form of the word " Hasidim " or " Hasid " (" pious ones ").

A technical detail not discussed here but required to complete the proof is immersion reducibility.

In Role Playing Games, a false document is often created by a Game Master as a mean to achieve more immersion in the game, often in conjunction with props.

This is an immersion of the Klein bottle in three dimensions.

For example, the Klein bottle has no boundary, where the surface stops abruptly, and it is non-orientable, as reflected in the one-sidedness of the immersion.

In this immersion, the self-intersection circle is a geometric circle in the xy-plane.

The parameterization of the 3-dimensional immersion of the bottle itself is much more complicated.

If a person is baptized in extremis ( i. e., when in fear of immediate death ), only the actual threefold immersion together with the scriptural words () may be performed by a layperson or deacon.

High-index immersion lithography is the newest extension of 193 nm lithography to be considered.

* Immersion Lithography Article — Shows how depth-of-focus is increased with immersion lithography

Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic traditions normally practise total immersion and baptise babies in a font and this practice is also the first method listed in the Baptismal ritual of the Roman Catholic although pouring is the standard practice within the Latin branch of Catholicism.

* Some claim that there is no evidence that the early church performed ( or excluded ) paedobaptism, and only that it performed credo baptism by immersion.

Ritual immersion in a small pool of water known as a mikvah is required.

Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory, which he planned on dedicating to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art which attempts to revoke the " fatal separation " of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

Because rubber does not dissolve easily, the material is finely divided by shredding prior to its immersion.

Parallax scrolling is a special scrolling technique in computer graphics, wherein background images move by the camera slower than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D video game and adding to the immersion.

Then for arbitrary ε > 0 there is an embedding ( or immersion ) ƒ < sub > ε </ sub >: M < sup > m </ sup > → R < sup > n </ sup > which is

" Chris Isham adds that " this is a most valuable addition to the scientific literature ", while Hugo A. Morales-Técotl calls it " useful for an immersion in the subject.

John the Baptist used total immersion in the River Jordan for believers ; ;

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

Bowie's love of acting led his total immersion in the characters he created for his music.

Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) celibacy.

Scholars such as Claudia Setzer have noted the differences between the rationale for the death of John the Baptist presented by Josephus, and the theological variations ( e. g. whether immersion in water can result in the forgiveness of sins, etc.

Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) marriage.

Saving ordinances ( or ordinances viewed as necessary for salvation ) include: Baptism by immersion after the age of accountability ( normally age 8 ); Confirmation and reception of the Gift of the Holy Ghost, performed by laying hands on the head of a newly baptized member ; ordination to the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods for males ; an Endowment ( including washing and anointing ) received in temples ; and Marriage ( or sealing ) to a spouse.

The latter requires immersion in water for at least four minutes for the pain to be reduced to less than what would be accomplished using vinegar.

However, a wok can benefit from the slow steady heating of electric stoves when used for slower cooking methods such as stewing, braising, and steaming, and immersion cooking techniques such as frying and boiling.

It soon became famous for promoting " Method ," a style of theater and acting involving " total immersion of actor into character ," writes film author Ian Freer.

This increased the number of fatalities, since physicians — who had no idea that they were dealing with the effects of mustard gas — prescribed treatment proper for those suffering from exposure and immersion, which proved fatal in many cases.

In Northern Europe Pentecost was preferred even over Easter for this rite, as the temperatures in late spring might be supposed to be more conducive to outdoor immersion as was then the practice.

An immersion is a local embedding ( i. e. for any point there is a neighborhood such that is an embedding.

Instead, a program of total immersion in study was encouraged for the younger generation.

Other drawings showed a complete immersion kit, with a plunger suit which included a sort of mask with a box for air.

The simplest method, used for small-scale production and often by hobbyists, is immersion etching, in which the board is submerged in etching solution such as ferric chloride.

Yoel Elitzur has proposed that the pool was used for swimming rather than ritual immersion.

All aviation-grade plywood is manufactured to specifications outlined in MIL-P-607, which calls for shear testing after immersion in boiling water for three hours to verify the adhesive qualities between the plies and meets specifications.

Any changes were intended to achieve the level of immersion desired for the original.