This tendency effected the narrowing field of artistic possibility to such forms of art as Arabesque, mosaic, Islamic calligraphy, and Islamic architecture, as well as any form of abstraction that can claim the status of non-representational art.

However, while they did not offer any corrective benefits they did improve visual acuity by narrowing the field of vision.

NIST held two conferences to discuss the submissions ( AES1, August 1998 and AES2, March 1999 ), and in August 1999 they announced that they were narrowing the field from fifteen to five: MARS, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent, and Twofish.

The band auditioned for a replacement guitarist, eventually narrowing down the field to three candidates: Slash, who would later join Guns N ' Roses, Steve Silva from The Joe Perry Project, and New York-born guitarist C. C.

There were three rounds of elimination that used six ends of three arrows, narrowing the field of archers to 32, then to 16, then to 8.

An important contribution to the field of Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer was his prediction of the phenomenon called Dicke narrowing ( aka collisional narrowing ): When the mean free path of an atom is much smaller than the wavelength of one of its radiation transitions, the atom changes velocity and direction many times during the emission or absorption of a photon.

The first three rounds of elimination used six ends of three arrows, narrowing the field of archers from 64 to 8.

Túrin and the Elves were trapped in the narrowing field between the river Ginglith and Narog where most of them, including King Orodreth, were slain.

Boudica led her army forward across the plain and into the narrowing field in a massive frontal attack.

These episodes resulted in neurologic symptoms including paresthesias, loss of physical coordination, difficulty in speech, narrowing of the visual field, hearing impairment, blindness, and death.

Because of the particular way we take the double limit, the negative of the mean value of the flux remains a fixed number of standard deviations away from the mean as the averaging time increases ( narrowing the distribution ) and the field decreases.

By choosing the framework of fantasy-themed criticism, Baldo is narrowing this field of frames down to one way of viewing the movement.

The symptoms show great variation but typically include an initial state of " daze ", with some constriction of the field of consciousness and narrowing of attention, inability to comprehend stimuli, and disorientation.

Because the size of the object did not affect his patient ’ s ability to perceive an item, Bálint argued that his patient did not have a narrowing of the sensory field.

Pictures and profiles of all the Bachelors are posted on www. cosmopolitan. com, where readers view and vote for their favorite, narrowing it down to six finalists.

Similarly, viewing pictures exhibiting compression ( telephoto ) distortion from a greater distance, thus narrowing the angle of view of the presentation, reduces the effect.

Based on the angiographic view and long popular medical beliefs, it had long been assumed that areas of high grade stenosis ( narrowing ) of the lumen ( opening ) within the coronary arteries, visible by angiography, were the likely points at which most myocardial infarctions ( heart attacks ) would occur.

Digital zoom is a method of decreasing ( narrowing ) the apparent angle of view of a digital photographic or video image.

Soon after leaving the cabin the sub-alpine forest slowly yields to a treeless alpine landscape that allows a grand view of the rapidly narrowing Taiya River valley.

The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.

The shortening and narrowing of the pelvis evolved as a requirement for bipedality and had significant effects on the process of human birth which is much more difficult in modern humans than in other primates.

The patriarchal concept of masculinity is also seen as harmful to men by narrowing their life choices, limiting their sexuality, and blocking full emotional connections with women and other men.

Furigana fonts are generally sized so that two kana characters fit naturally over one kanji ; when more kana are required, this is resolved either by adjusting the furigana by using a condensed font ( narrowing the kana ), or by adjusting the kanji by intercharacter spacing ( adding spaces around the kanji ).

The narrative is punctuated by a series of covenants with God, successively narrowing in scope from all mankind ( the covenant with Noah ) to a special relationship with one people alone ( Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob ).

The coastal plain of the southern Levant, broad in the south and narrowing to the north, is backed in its southernmost portion by a zone of foothills, the Shephelah ; like the plain this narrows as it goes northwards, ending in the promontory of Mount Carmel.

A flat or narrowing shinogi is called shinogi-hikushi, whereas a fat blade is called a shinogi-takushi.

A narrowing of the generic meaning " servant " to " military follower of a king or other superior " is visible by 1100.

Most libertarian socialists believe that when power is exercised, as exemplified by the economic, social, or physical dominance of one individual over another, the burden of proof is always on the authoritarian to justify their action as legitimate when taken against its effect of narrowing the scope of human freedom.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo de Manseriche in the little steamer " Napo ," in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 600 m ( 2000 ft ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 30 m ( 100 ft ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

According to Captain Carbajal, who descended the Pongo in the little steamer Napo, in 1868, it is a vast rent in the Andes about 2000 ft ( 600 m ) deep, narrowing in places to a width of only 100 ft ( 30 m ), the precipices " seeming to close in at the top.

The most common manifestation in the esophagus is reflux esophagitis, which may be complicated by peptic stricturing, or benign narrowing of the esophagus.

** Exostosis is an abnormal bony overgrowth narrowing the ear canal due to frequent, long-term splashing or filling of cold water into the ear canal, also known as surfer's ear.

Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, " There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful.

Currently, heliox is mainly used in conditions of large airway narrowing ( upper airway obstruction from tumors or foreign bodies and vocal cord dysfunction ).

On a transverse flute this is generally done by narrowing the lip / embouchure.

Vasoconstriction is the constriction of blood vessels ( narrowing, becoming smaller in cross-sectional area ) by contracting the vascular smooth muscle in the vessel walls.

This is because the cost of carry will fall due to the lower interest rate, which in turn results in the difference between the price of the future and the underlying growing smaller ( i. e. narrowing ).

Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of stenosis ( narrowing of the blood vessels ) of the heart's arteries and, hence, angina pectoris.

Some people with chest pain have normal or minimal narrowing of heart arteries ; in these patients, vasospasm is a more likely cause for the pain, sometimes in the context of Prinzmetal's angina and syndrome X.

The third edition also frequently fails to make explicit the six-month narrowing of dates that is possible from the Biblical data, settling instead on a somewhat inexact notation like " 931 / 930 BC " or even simply " 931 BC.

Without further narrowing, the label is of limited usefulness for patients or doctors.