The term was meant to shorten the phrase slacker activism, which refers to bottom up activities by young people to affect society on a small, personal scale ( such as planting a tree, as opposed to participating in a protest ).

Full length sizing of cartridges is often thought to greatly shorten case life by work hardening the full length of the case, which can cause the case neck to split, although some studies show that the number of reloads possible with a case is essentially the same for either full length sizing as for neck sizing only if the issue is one of neck hardening.

On instruments with stoppable strings, such as the violin or guitar, the player can shorten the vibrating length of the string, using their fingers directly ( or more rarely through some mechanical device, as in the nyckelharpa or the hurdy gurdy ).

Girls may shorten their skirts, permanently or by wrapping up the top to decrease length ; boys may wear trousers about the hips, omit ties, or keep their shirts unbuttoned.

In particular, Richardson asked Hill if he could help shorten the chapters because Richardson was worried about the length of the novel.

For Shigella-associated diarrhea, antibiotics shorten the length of infection.

A chain tool is usually needed to shorten a chain, even when a fast-release link is being used, unless the combined number of links plus the connection link just happens to be the length required.

A capo ( short for capotasto, Italian for " head of fretboard "; ) is a device used on the neck of a stringed ( typically fretted ) instrument to shorten the playable length of the strings, hence raising the pitch.

Obviously a coil spring cannot contract to zero length because at some point the coils will touch each other and the spring will not be able to shorten any more.

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Upon muscle contraction, the A-bands do not change their length ( 1. 85 micrometer in mammalian skeletal muscle ), whereas the I-bands and the H-zone shorten.

The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to " fret " or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar.

When a structural element is subjected to tension or compression its length will tend to elongate or shorten, and its cross-sectional area changes by an amount that depends on the Poisson's ratio of the material.

Evening Primrose Oil capsules have been used by pregnant woman orally in an effort to aid in cervical ripening, however this does not seem to shorten the length of pregnancy or labour.

* These Are Powers, who use a bass guitar with a rod placed between the strings and the body to shorten the string length as well as playing behind that additional bridge like a tailed bridge guitar.

In those with cirrhosis antibiotics decrease the chance of re bleeding, shorten the length of time spent in hospital, and decrease the chance of death.

This combination of two roles into Blanca was probably done to shorten the movie in length.

This occurs throughout the length of the muscle, generating force at the musculo-tendinous junction, causing the muscle to shorten and changing the angle of the joint.

The Hayflick limit ( or Hayflick phenomenon ) is the number of times a normal cell population will divide before it stops, presumably because the telomeres shorten to a critical length.

* INSAS ( Foldable Butt ) ( 5. 56 mm ) It resembles 5. 56 mm Assault Rifle Fixed Butt in all other features except that the Fixed Butt is replaced with a foldable type of Butt to shorten the overall length and it does not include automatic mode of firing. It is most suitable for combat from ICV and in Para Troopers role.

He codified the game in 1867 to shorten the length of each game, reduce the number of players, use a redesigned stick, and use a rubber ball.

It is speculated that the bones of the iguanas actually shorten as shrinkage of connective tissue could only account for a 10 % change in length.

Raising the head causes the length of the chambon along the cheekpieces to shorten and thus puts reciprocal pressure on the horse's mouth and behind the horse's poll.

This observation, and the fact that kill timeframes shorten as the percentage of copper in an alloy increases, is proof that copper is the ingredient in brass and other copper alloys that kills the microbes.

There are other times when the implicit interests of the vehicle and replicator are in conflict, such as the genes behind certain male spiders ' instinctive mating behaviour, which increase the organism's inclusive fitness by allowing it to reproduce, but shorten its life by exposing it to the risk of being eaten by the cannibalistic female.

This was later shortened to "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock ", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording ; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others ( including Sonny Dae ) shorten this title further to " Rock Around the Clock ".

To protect himself further, Tiberius Gracchus won re-election to the tribunate in 133 BC, promising to shorten the term of military service, abolish the exclusive right of senators to act as jurors and include other social classes, and admit allies to Roman citizenship, all moves popular with the Assembly.

In turn, other materials ( such as nickel ) can be used to quench the afterglow and shorten the decay part of the phosphor emission characteristics.

In contrast, the opposite technique was sometimes used in classical garden designs and other " follies " to shorten the perceived distances of points of interest along a path.

In some instances a soldier could shorten his service term by bringing more hands than the other soldiers, which led to widespread mutilations and dismemberment.

Incoming waves that come in a direction other than obliquely along the spit will halt the growth of the spit, shorten it or eventually destroy it entirely.

The presence of other drugs which induce this system can shorten tadalafil half-life and reduce serum levels, and hence efficacy, of the drug.

The courses studied at the Open University will shorten the duration of degree studies at the other academic institution.

This can considerably shorten the life of electronic and other equipment.

Others will either bring the elbows forward ( to fully shorten the biceps ) or bring the elbows back ( a " drag curl ", to avoid over-active insufficiency and keep parallel forearms ) to vary the tensions placed on the biceps and other elbow flexors.

There, a fixed number of pairs ( usually 16 ) play a full round-robin tournament ( Swiss can be also used to shorten the tournament ) with relatively long matches ( 8-32 boards ) against each other, the entire tournament lasting for two to four days.

During this step, the draft is revisited to 1 ) focus or elaborate on certain topics which deserve more attention, 2 ) shorten other sections, and 3 ) shift around certain paragraphs, sentences, or entire topics.

Almost all other types of orthodontic treatment will cause the roots of teeth to shorten ( root resorption ) for most patients, and demineralisation or tooth decay occurs in up to 50 % of patients because ( unlike Invisalign ) they cannot be removed for eating and cleaning, and because they prevent accurate x-rays from being taken.

Minimum interchange spacing should be in urban areas and in rural areas ; collector / distributor roads or other configurations that reduce weaving can be used in urban areas to shorten this distance.

Researchers have identified factors that prevent the repair of brain damage caused by multiple sclerosis, complications of premature birth, and other diseases ; as well as a key gene that impacts the timing of puberty and can shorten the time span for reproduction.

A common Filipino practice ( rarely seen in other cultures ) is to further shorten or combine multiple given names into one nickname.

* Distortion of fast-moving subjects: although no part of the film is exposed for longer than the time set on the dial, one edge of the film is exposed an appreciable time after the other, so that a horizontally moving shutter will, for example, elongate or shorten the image of a car speeding in the same or the opposite direction to the shutter movement.

In addition, an Upper School student must choose either Spanish or French for four years ( though given a teacher and a petition with 10 signatures, any other language may be taken ), either Physics II, Chemistry II, or Biology II for senior year, and one elective every semester ( though in special cases it is allowed for a student to replace or shorten his lunch period in order to take more than one elective class ).