The current method of scoring in the professional tour ( World Bowls Tour ) is sets.

An additional scoring method is set play.

Medal play is the most common scoring method but there are many others, including match play, skins, speed golf and captain's choice, which in disc golf is referred to as " doubles " ( not to be confused with partner or team play ).

Drop kicks are most importantly used as a method of restarting play and scoring points in rugby union and rugby league.

In both American and Canadian football, one method of scoring a field goal or extra point is by drop kicking the football through the goal.

The study was based on a sample of 15 teenagers who identified as goths, of which 8 had self-harmed by any method, 7 had self-harmed by cutting, scratching or scoring, and 7 had attempted suicide.

German psychologist William Stern proposed a method of scoring children's intelligence tests in 1912.

The standard method of scoring is the " fall ", which is accomplished by:

An even more recent addition to the rn family has been the addition of scoring, which allows a more complex method of evaluating articles to determine whether the user wishes to read them ; originally this was implemented in a code fork of trn called strn, but later this was integrated into the official trn distribution.

It is both an individual and team sport, as runners are judged on an individual basis and a points scoring method is used for teams.

The IQM is a truncated mean and so is very similar to the scoring method used in sports that are evaluated by a panel of judges: discard the lowest and the highest scores ; calculate the mean value of the remaining scores.

Those figures are not comparable across systems unless the method of scoring is specified.

A player with no deadwood can choose not to knock in order to achieve Big Gin which is an 11 card legal gin hand that awards more points ( usually 31 or 50 plus any deadwood in opponent's hand depending on scoring method ).

* Goal ( sport ), a method of scoring in many sports, or the physical structure or area of the playing surface where scoring occurs

** Field goal, a general term used in some sports to refer a secondary type of scoring method

The most significant of these is the scoring method, together with attendant differences in the manner of ending the game.

The diagram may include additional information such as deal or board number, scoring method ( Matchpoints, IMPs, etc.

The dynamic programming method is guaranteed to find an optimal alignment given a particular scoring function ; however, identifying a good scoring function is often an empirical rather than a theoretical matter.

Iterative methods optimize an objective function based on a selected alignment scoring method by assigning an initial global alignment and then realigning sequence subsets.

Genetic algorithms and simulated annealing have also been used in optimizing multiple sequence alignment scores as judged by a scoring function like the sum-of-pairs method.

Concentration may be played solo either as a leisurely exercise, or with the following scoring method: play as normal, but keep track of the number of non-matching pairs turned over ( this may be done using poker chips, pennies or by making marks on a sheet of paper ).

Speedway operates a sliding scale for scoring ( known as the 3-2-1-0 method ).

He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which was in use well into the second half of the 20th century, and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner and outer ( magnetospheric ) sources of Earth's magnetic field.

" He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving.

Not limited to empiricism, but believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, he worked on a method of phenomenological reduction by which a subject may come to know directly an essence.

In addition to his pioneering work in bringing simple and effective bridge to everyday players, Goren also worked to popularize the Precision bidding method, which is one of many variants of so-called big club or strong club systems ( which use an opening bid of one club to indicate a strong hand ).

Though it worked correctly, the method imposed a huge performance penalty.

However, it is possible to recover many features of a proto-language by applying the comparative method — a reconstructive procedure worked out by 19th century linguist August Schleicher.

While this simple method worked well in a small community of Christians unified by persecution, as the congregation grew in size, the acclamation of a new bishop was fraught with division, and rival claimants and a certain class hostility between patrician and plebeian candidates unsettled some episcopal elections.

While it's true that the initial problems in the design may be tested by only five users, when the method is properly applied, the parts of the design that worked in that initial test will go on to be tested by 50 to 100 people.

Henry Bessemer worked on the problem of manufacturing cheap steel for the purposes of ordnance production from 1850 to 1855 when he patented his method.

Hume Cronyn, who worked with Tracy on The Seventh Cross, admired his co-star's natural screen presence: " His method appeared to be as simple as it is difficult to achieve.

Clay County's early inhabitants farmed and worked the Cumberland River transportation center, which was the major method of transportation in the Cumberland area.

Tuckerman worked out a topological method, called the Tuckerman traverse, for revealing all the faces of a flexagon.

Orchardson's method was that of one who worked under a creative, decorative and subjective impulse, rather than under one derived from a wish to observe and record.

Because of the construction of devices, a waiting period must be taken to ensure that whatever render-safe method was used worked as intended.

When specimens from two different populations of Portia labiata were set the same task, members of one population worked out for whichever method they were rewarded, while members of the other continued to use whichever method they tried first and did not try to adapt.

He " had watched the progress of the famine policy of the Government, and could see nothing in it but a machinery, deliberately devised, and skillfully worked, for the entire subjugation of the island — the slaughter of portion of the people, and the pauperization of the rest ," and he had therefore " come to the conclusion that the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point, and the means for this would be extremely simple, namely, a combination among the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid to its removal ; to destroy the highways ; to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain and cattle if brought to auction under ' distress ' ( a method of obstruction which put an end to Church tithes before ); in short, to offer a passive resistance universally ; but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel.

In 1847, when he severed his connection with The Nation, he says, " I had watched the progress of the famine policy of the Government, and could see nothing in it but a machinery, deliberately devised, and skillfully worked, for the entire subjugation of the island — the slaughter of portion of the people, and the pauperization of the rest ," and he had therefore " come to the conclusion that the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point, and the means for this would be extremely simple, namely, a combination among the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid to its removal ; to destroy the highways ; to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain and cattle if brought to auction under ' distress ' ( a method of obstruction which put an end to Church tithes before ); in short, to offer a passive resistance universally ; but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel.

This method of operation worked satisfactorily in the 1960s and early 1970s, when modems were generally used to connect dumb devices like computer terminals with smart mainframe computers.

However, by the late 1960s it was becoming clear this development method had not worked as expected and a growing number of development experts and national policy makers were recognizing it as a potential cause of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries.

Mason worked throughout his life to perfect the Lunar Tables as a method of improving navigation at sea.

The method worked for several successions until a member of the Southern Court ascended to the throne as Emperor Go-Daigo.

His magna opera are the Lehrbuch eines civilistischen Cursus ( 7 vols., 1792 – 1821 ), in which his method is thoroughly worked out, and the Zivilistisches Magazin ( 6 vols., 1790 – 1837 ).

Page was a trained method actor and worked closely with Lee Strasberg.