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gain and tools
It is in the domain of media and communications technology that a counter-intuitive aspect of our relationships with our tools first began to gain popular recognition.
ElcomSoft offers a range of consumer and enterprise-grade tools allowing its customers to gain information to password-protected documents, archives, and locked-out accounts in many popular products.
We may find it useful to combine the tools of the physical sciences with those of the biological sciences and, especially, some of the approaches used by scientists studying ecosystems, in order to gain an enhanced understanding of the environments in which we spend the majority of our time, our buildings.
Are you seeking credibility in the marketplace ( consider blogging, answering questions on LinkedIn ), gain market leadership ( create innovative tools for your industry ) or connection ( build a network of contacts in professional and / or social sites ).
Like most tools used in computer security, Nmap can be used for black hat hacking, or attempting to gain unauthorized access to computer systems.
Growth accounting based productivity models were introduced in the 1980s ( Loggerenberg van, 1982, Bechler, 1984 ) to be used in management accounting but they did not gain on as management tools.
These aspects of literacy were organized within four key goals: that " learners use of skills, resources, & tools " to " inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge "; to " draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge "; to " share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society "; and to " pursue personal and aesthetic growth ".
The broad array of solutions that make up the tools used within a PLM solution-set ( e. g., CAD, CAM, CAx ...) were initially used by dedicated practitioners who invested time and effort to gain the required skills.
Volksfront will use the tools of education, community activism and example to gain public support.
Integration of all these promotional tools, along with other components of marketing mix, is a way to gain an edge over a competitor.
Some lossy audio formats, such as MP3, are structured in a way that they encode the volume of each compressed frame in a stream, and tools such as MP3Gain take advantage of this for directly applying the gain adjustment to MP3 files, adding undo information so that the process is reversible.
Within the chart the tools necessary to adjust perspective, framing, linearity, frequency response, differential gain, contrast and white level ( brightness ) are all provided.
As both a theoretical neuroscientist and a computer scientist, Arbib argues that by deducing the brain's operating principles from a computational standpoint we can both learn more about how brains function and also gain tools for building learning machines.
In one of her most heavily cited works, The Silenced Dialogue, Delpit argues the focus on process-oriented as opposed to skills-oriented writing instruction reduces the chances for black children to gain access to the tools required for accessing the " culture of power ", which she describes as follows: ( 1 ) Issues of power as being enacted in classrooms ; ( 2 ) Codes or rules established for participation in power, lending credence to the existence of a " culture of power "; ( 3 ) Rules of the culture of power being a reflection of the rules adhered to in the culture of those who have power ; ( 4 ) Understanding explicitly the rules of a culture of power as fundamental to acquisition of the power of that culture ; and ( 5 ) Tendency of those within the culture of power to be least aware or willing to admit that a culture of power exists.
How, then, would workers gain access to tools and equipment beyond personal possession if their job required it?
Standard 1 relates to students ' ability to think critically and gain knowledge through using a variety of technology tools to access multiple media.
After being under police surveillance, police were able to gain sufficient evidence after finding stolen silk and jewelry as well as burglar's tools and a combination safelock.
Rainey, who does the actual break-ins, looks for unlocked doors and windows, ( the lack of ) alarm systems, and any available tools or ladders that can be used to gain entry.
By acquiring these tools, players ' civilizations gain victory points.
This stack allows members of the Solaris and OpenSolaris communities to gain access to both tools and expertise such that they may build software in accordance with set standards.
When the barber of Johnson City retired, Sam bought his chair and tools with a loan and began practicing on his friends to gain skill at cutting hair.
The usual reason for performing a DoS attack is to observe the recovery of the wireless network, during which all of the initial handshake codes are re-transmitted by all devices, providing an opportunity for the malicious attacker to record these codes and use various " cracking " tools to analyze security weaknesses and exploit them to gain unauthorized access to the system.

gain and they
I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.
While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.
Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".
By warning that free blacks would flood the North, Democrats made gains in the 1862 elections, but they did not gain control of Congress.
Nowadays, most of the young people of Achill continue in school until they are 17 or 18, in one of the two post-primary schools and gain employment in modern high tech companies in Ireland and abroad.
Then to gain entrance to both the outer and inner sanctuary of the church the women pretended to the gatekeepers that they were pilgrims from Cappadocia who had spent all their funds and wanted to worship before starting their return trip.
However, before they were to gain entry into the sanctuary, Straboromanos and royal guards caught up with them to summon them back to the palace.
Workshops do exist, but usually do not last long enough to fulfill educational requirements for most students, who must then attend additional private lessons if they want to gain proficiency.
During the late 1950s it was sought by two rail historians, George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.
Although the Umayyads did not have a historical presence in the region ( no member of the Umayyad family was known to have ever set foot in al-Andalus before ) and there were grave concerns about young Abd al-Rahman's inexperience, several of the lower-ranking Yemenite commanders felt they had little to lose and much to gain, and agreed to support the prince.
To gain such authorisations, the pilots will have to demonstrate to an examiner that they can perform to those limits without endangering themselves, ground crew or spectators.
In the wake of the 11 July dismissal of Jacques Necker, the people of Paris, fearful that they and their representatives would be attacked by the royal military, and seeking to gain ammunition and gunpowder for the general populace, stormed the Bastille, a fortress-prison in Paris which had often held people jailed on the basis of lettres de cachet, arbitrary royal indictments that could not be appealed.
If a pair cannot hit downwards, they will use flat strokes in an attempt to gain the attack.
Meanwhile it was a disappointing night for the SNP, they failed to gain any seats and lost a seat to the Conservatives by just 79 votes.
Lloyd George offered a degree of support to the Labour government in the hope of winning concessions, including a degree of electoral reform to introduce the alternative vote, but this support was to prove bitterly divisive as the Liberals increasingly divided between those seeking to gain what Liberal goals they could achieve, those who preferred a Conservative government to a Labour one and vice-versa.
If a team fails to gain ten yards in two downs they usually punt the ball on third down or try to kick a field goal ( see below ), depending on their position on the field.
* Intrusion-detection systems can scan a network for people that are on the network but who should not be there or are doing things that they should not be doing, for example trying a lot of passwords to gain access to the network.
With cash flow dwindling as sales of their existing Pong-based systems dried up, they were forced to sell to Warner Communications to gain the capital they needed.

gain and need
An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives ; it may be carried out for the prospect of financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from the desire to acquire fame or notoriety ( that is, a psychological need to garner personal public recognition ), from the wish to form some kind of " relationship " with a public figure, or from the desire ( or at least the willingness ) to be killed or commit suicide in the act.
The majority of colleges by the late 20th century had also become Registered Training Organisations ; recognising the need to offer individuals a nurturing, non-traditional education venue to gain skills that would better prepare them for the workplace and potential job openings.
The Barbary pirates thus had no need to rebel against the Ottoman Empire, who were their nominal state government, to gain recognition for their sovereignty.
If all layers of an image change regularly but a large number of layer still need to be composited ( such as in distributed rendering ), the commutativity of a compositing operator can still be exploited to speed up computation through parallelism even when there is no gain from pre-computation.
Once the basal rate is matched to the fasting basal insulin need, the pump user will then gain the flexibility to skip or postpone meals such as sleeping late on the weekends or working overtime on a weekday.
In a few situations it is possible to obtain lasing with only a single pass of EM radiation through the gain medium, and this produces a laser beam without any need for a resonant or reflective cavity ( see for example nitrogen laser ).
Improved price discrimination allows a monopolist to gain more profit by charging more to those who want or need the product more or who have a greater ability to pay.
Poor weaning weights of calves can be caused by insufficient pasture, when cows give less milk and the calves need pasture to maintain weight gain.
An alternative line taken by Singer about the need for ethics is that living the ethical life may be, on the whole, more satisfying than seeking only material gain.
This next step included the need to gain a physical body that could experience pain, sorrow and joy and " walk by faith.
But, because anyone can gain access to Wikipedia ( without logging in at all ), and then edit essentially all articles, it can be argued that there is little need to encrypt these transmissions as there's little being protected.
Manga and anime labeled as " shōjo " need not interest only young girls, and some titles gain a following outside the traditional audience.
Musicians and singers can use pseudonyms to allow artists to collaborate with artists on other labels while avoiding the need to gain permission from their own labels, such as the artist Jerry Samuels, who made songs under Napoleon XIV.
The need to know principle can be enforced with user access controls and authorization procedures and its objective is to ensure that only authorized individuals gain access to information or systems necessary to undertake their duties.
Automatic ballot access means that no petitions need be filed to gain access to a ballot line for statewide and special elections, and parties may designate candidates through their own conventions.
Themistocles claimed that the Allied command was in-fighting, that the Peloponnesians were planning to evacuate that very night, and that to gain victory all the Persians need to do was to block the straits.
In any event without the support of Boulton and Watt, who appear to have opposed Murdoch's work due to the need to use high pressure steam which Watt distrusted, Murdoch was unable to develop or gain publicity for his invention and it was left to Trevithick and others to develop it commercially later.
It is widely believed that the kilogram prototype standard will be replaced by a definition of the kilogram that will define another physical constant ( likely either Planck's constant or the elementary charge ) to a defined numerical value, thus obviating the need for the prototype and removing the possibility of the prototype ( and thus the standard and definition of the kilogram ) changing very slightly over the years because of loss or gain of atoms.
In the early 1960s, added to this was the need to be exposed to the rays of a yellow sun ( versus Krypton's red sun, which was older and cooler, or put out less energy ) to gain super powers, with the yellow sun aspect soon gaining the much greater emphasis.
It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.
This was first in an attempt to gain funding to continue with his studies and then also to make Her Majesty's Colonial Government aware of the need to preserve Bushman folklore as an important part of the nation's heritage and traditions.
Unless the trusted delivery network runs among physically secure sites only, both trusted and secure models need an authentication mechanism for users to gain access to the VPN.
Many hip-hop remixes arose either from the need for a pop / R & B singer to add more of an urban, rap edge to one of their slower songs, or from the need for a rapper to gain more pop appeal by getting an R & B singer to sing some lines here and there.

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