Western kitchens use variable temperature convection ovens, conventional ovens, toaster ovens, or non-radiant heat ovens like the microwave oven.

Western icons, which are not usually so termed, were largely patterned on Byzantine works, and equally conventional in composition and depiction.

Consequently, in his view, Judaism does not fit easily into conventional Western categories, such as religion, ethnicity, or culture.

Most MIDI synthesizers default to the conventional, Western, equal temperament tuning system of twelve pitches per octave, which makes types of music that depend on different intonation systems inaccessible.

The most common modern dates of celebration are listed below, ordered and grouped by their appearance relative to the conventional Western calendar.

Within Western culture and over recent centuries, conventional Western medicine has become increasingly based on scientific reductionism and materialism.

Within conventional Western medicine, most physicians still pay heed to their ancient traditions:

In the event of a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe, NATO planned to use tactical nuclear weapons.

With both its romantic appeal and its scientific intentions, anthropology has stood for the refusal to accept this conventional perception of homogenization toward a dominant Western model.

In 2000, Canwest acquired the conventional television assets of Western International Communications ( WIC ).

It was adopted by 20th century Western historians from ancient Indian political discourse as a means of avoiding the term ' state ' in the conventional sense.

In comparison, trains operating on the conventional Western Line of the Taiwan Railway Administration ( TRA ) take over four hours for the same journey.

The initial plans saw the defence of Western Europe from a Soviet invasion resting heavily on nuclear weapons (' Massive retaliation '), with conventional forces merely acting as a ' tripwire.

Truman and Acheson decided to delineate the Western sphere of influence and to create a system of alliances backed by conventional and nuclear weapons.

Husky's foundation is in Western Canada, where it has extensive conventional oil and natural gas assets, significant heavy oil production and a range of midstream and downstream operations, including refineries, upgrading facilities, and pipelines.

Also, during his four years in this post, several of the large Forrestal class aircraft carriers entered the U. S. Navy's fleet to give it a large amount of conventional and nuclear striking power, especially in the Western Pacific Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea.

These have a dramatic impact in the developed world, as conventional Western toilets use large volumes of water.

It was adopted by 20th century Western historians from ancient Indian political discourse as a means of avoiding the term ' state ' in the conventional sense.

In a high-intensity European war the squadron's new role was to support land forces on the Continent resisting an assault on Western Europe by the Red Army, by striking deep into enemy-held areas beyond the forward edge of the battlefield, striking at enemy concentrations and infrastructure, first with conventional weapons and secondly with WE. 177 tactical nuclear weapons as required, should a conflict escalate to that stage.

Jungle warfare was reduced in scope and priority in the regular training curriculum of most conventional Western armies.

The Board met at a difficult time ; the bulk of the military hierarchy were focused primary on the Soviet threat to Western Europe, primarily perceived as requiring heavy, conventional units.

In a high-intensity European war the unit's role was to support land forces on the Continent resisting an assault by the Red Army on Western Europe, first with conventional weapons and secondly with tactical nuclear weapons, should a conflict escalate to that stage, by striking beyond the forward edge of the battlefield into enemy-held areas.

Eisler proposes that we need new social categories that go beyond conventional ones such as religious vs. secular, right vs. left, capitalist vs. communist, Eastern vs. Western, and industrial vs. pre-or post-industrial, which she notes do not describe the whole of a society's beliefs and institutions.

The terms ' integrative ' or ' integrated medicine ' indicate combinations of conventional and alternative medical treatments that have some scientific proof of efficacy ; such practices are viewed by advocates as the best examples of complementary medicine.

Betting on don't pass is often called " playing the dark side ," and it is considered by some players to be in poor taste, or even taboo, because it goes directly against conventional play.

Whilst this had the advantage of being usable by untrained users via ' hunt and peck ' typing and requiring one less key switch than a conventional 12 button keypad, it had the disadvantage that some symbols required three times as much force to depress them as others which made it hard to achieve any speed with the device.

However, it is important to note that the patients in these studies received some form of spiritual healing ( i. e. not Christian Science ' treatment ') in addition to, not instead of, conventional medical care.

Both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) have designed several cruise missile variants, such as the well-known C-802, some of which are capable of carrying biological, chemical, nuclear, and conventional warheads.

This also typically requires the addition of some kind of query language, since conventional programming languages do not provide language-level functionality for finding objects based on their information content.

Another versatile extension becoming increasingly common is the use of some electronic drums in a mainly conventional kit.

Symbolic effects taken over from conventional literary and artistic tradition continued to make some appearances in films during these years.

Fascism is commonly described as " extreme right " although some writers have found placing fascism on a conventional left-right political spectrum difficult.

One is that conventional astronomers, studying stars, planets, and galaxies, might serendipitously observe some phenomenon that cannot be explained without positing an intelligent civilization as the source.

Glorantha shares some fantasy tropes such as dwarves, elves, trolls, giants, but has developed them differently to the more conventional versions based on the work of Tolkien.

This rather strange data type is perfectly workable, in some ways simply the opposite of the more conventional choice of representing only integers.

For conventional wings that are flat on the bottom and curved on top this makes some intuitive sense.

Since the early 1970s he has refused to write for conventional symphony orchestras and has instead opted to write for his own idiosyncratic instrumental combinations, which often retain some traditional orchestral instruments alongside electric guitars, electric basses, and congas.

With the advent of quantum physics, some scientists believed the concept of matter had merely changed, while others believed the conventional position could no longer be maintained.

Today the ballistic missile represents the only strategic deterrent in most military forces, however some ballistic missiles are being adapted for conventional roles, such as the Russian Iskander or the Chinese DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile.

Before the Mariner 4 spacecraft arrived at Mars in July 1965 and dispelled some of the more exotic theories about the planet, the conventional image of Mars was shaped by the observations of the astronomers Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell.

The complaints of the two main preaching orders of the period, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, against the moral corruption of the Church, to some extent echoed those of the heretical movements, but they were doctrinally conventional, and were enlisted by Pope Innocent III in the fight against heresy.

The bit stream is split into several parallel data streams, each transferred over its own sub-carrier using some conventional digital modulation scheme.

These are not modulation schemes in the conventional sense since they are not channel coding schemes, but should be considered as source coding schemes, and in some cases analog-to-digital conversion techniques.

In addition to their other properties all particles possess a quantity, which has no correspondence at all in conventional physics, namely the spin, which is some kind of intrinsic angular momentum ( therefore the name ).

Jobs had experimented with some structural changes at Apple but at NeXT he abandoned conventional corporate structures, instead making a " community " with " members " instead of employees.

In some cases, the term crystalline finds identical usage to that used in conventional crystallography.

Because of this, the programmer is permitted to use some amount of conventional imperative programming when the logical paradigm is inconvenient.

As the name suggests, pseudocode generally does not actually obey the syntax rules of any particular language ; there is no systematic standard form, although any particular writer will generally borrow style and syntax ; for example, control structures from some conventional programming language.