While acrylic retarders can slow drying time to several hours, it remains a relatively fast-drying medium, and the addition of too much acrylic retarder can prevent the paint from ever drying properly.

While the rate of cure declines the longer an adult has been infected with Chagas, treatment with benznidazole has been shown to slow the onset of heart disease in adults with chronic Chagas infections.

While President Truman had begun the process of desegregating the Armed Forces in 1948, actual implementation had been slow.

While people expected elements with higher atomic number to form from neutron bombardment of lighter elements, nobody expected neutrons to have enough energy to actually split a heavier atom into two light element fragments, and it was thought still more unlikely that slow neutrons could accomplish such a task.

While horses in the wild covered large areas of terrain, they usually did so at relatively slow speeds, unless being chased by a predator.

While classes are small files, there are frequently a lot of them, so applets got a reputation as slow loading components.

While appearing or even feeling solid, it will continue to flow at very slow rates.

While recognition of the distinct Ordovician Period was slow in the United Kingdom, other areas of the world accepted it quickly.

While it is a slow and resource-intensive approach, it has wide applicability, giving insight into parts of the theory inaccessible by other means, in particular into the explicit forces acting between quarks and antiquarks in a meson.

While the various colonies in Australia were either sparsely populated or penal settlements or both, executive power was in the hands of the Governors, who, because of the great distance from their superiors in London and the resulting very slow communication, necessarily exercised vast powers.

While it promotes readability for humans, facilitates error detection, and avoids interoperability problems such as byte-order ( Endianness ), it can slow processing speed and can be cumbersome.

While t ' ai chi ch ' uan is typified by some for its slow movements, many t ' ai chi styles ( including the three most popular-Yang, Wu, and Chen )-have secondary forms of a faster pace.

While uranium-238 has a small probability for spontaneous fission or even induced fission with fast neutrons, uranium-235 and to a lesser degree uranium-233 have a much higher fission cross-section for slow neutrons.

While cast-iron woks are superior to carbon steel woks in heat retention and uniform heat distribution, they respond slowly to heat adjustments and are slow to cool once taken off the fire.

While the successor ZX81 used a semi-custom chip ( a ULA or Uncommitted Logic Array ), this merely combined the functions of the earlier hardware onto a single chip — the hardware and system programs ( except the BASIC versions ) were very similar, with the only significant difference being the NMI-generator necessary for slow mode in the ZX81.

While useful in the lab, the devices were very slow and impractical in the field.

While UUHash allows very large files to be checksummed in a short time, even on slow computers, it also allows for massive corruption of a file to go unnoticed.

While such brushes were popular because the bristles were soft, this was not the best material for oral hygiene as the hairs were slow to dry and usually retained bacteria.

While supporters have praised Karzai's efforts to promote national reconciliation and a growing economy, critics charge him with failing to stem corruption and the drug trade, and the slow pace of reconstruction.

While Joey Starr ( also known as Jaguar Gorgonne and Double-R ) has a relatively slow flow, aggressive lyrics and a deep, booming voice ( which he sometimes uses to yell such as in " Pose ton Gun "), Kool Shen has a funkier flow as well as witty and rather melancholic lyrics.

While Northolt remained a rural, agricultural area in the 19th century, its population growth remained slow:

While Triple-DES avoids the problem of a small key size, it is very slow even in software ; is unsuitable for limited-resource platforms, and may be affected by potential security issues connected with the ( today comparatively small ) block size of 64 bits.

While Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi examine modern life in industrial countries and the conflict between encroaching industrialization and traditional ways of life, using slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and natural landscapes, about eighty percent of Naqoyqatsi uses archive footage and stock images manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing ( non-sequential ) workstations and intercut with specially-produced computer generated imagery to demonstrate society's transition from a natural environment to a technology-based one.

While Catholics were the largest denomination in town, they were relatively slow to organize their own parish.

While success was slow to come, their luck improved when network TV talent scouts attended a show, noting their potential appeal for a variety series.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

While some early calculators copied the manual method ( typically substituting polynomials for tabulated data ), computers use a different approach.

While this method is traditionally attributed to a 1965 paper by J. W. Cooley and J. W. Tukey, Gauss developed it as a trigonometric interpolation method.

While most crochet is made with a hook, there is also a method of crocheting with a knitting loom.

While this method, now known as the triboelectric effect, is capable of lifting light objects and even generating sparks, it is extremely inefficient.

:“ While I am convinced of the critical importance of historiography in the study of esotericism ( and for this reason all of my academic books are firmly grounded in historical method ) I do not believe that historiography is adequate in itself to convey the complex, multivalent nature of esoteric thought, traditions, or most of all, experience.

While the community was skeptical that this new method could possibly outperform hand-coding, it reduced the number of programming statements necessary to operate a machine by a factor of 20, and quickly gained acceptance.

While the first three truths are primarily concerned with understanding the nature of dukkha ( suffering, anxiety, stress ) and its causes, the fourth truth presents a practical method for overcoming dukkha.

While this method can be effective at trapping particulates produced by combustion, it does not filter out harmful gases which may be toxic or which displace the oxygen required for survival.

While living in Pittsburgh, PA, he advised the citizenry on various issues including the use of public funds to build stadiums and the method of raising tax revenue.

While some hedge funds that are based offshore report their NAV to the Financial Times, for the most part there is no method of ascertaining pricing on a regular basis.

While in Edinburgh to seek subscriptions for the book, Audubon gave a demonstration of his method of propping up birds with wire at professor Robert Jameson's Wernerian Natural History Association.

While all scholars acknowledge that there is a large mythological part of the narrative some maintain that by using a critical comparative method some level of historicity can be salvaged from the sources, whereas others maintain that continued analysis of the narratives as sources of actual history is futile and hinders access to actual knowledge of the culture of Tula, Hidalgo.

While the process is secret, the general method for making yeast extract on a commercial scale is to add salt to a suspension of yeast, making the solution hypertonic, which leads to the cells shrivelling up ; this triggers " autolysis ", in which the yeast self-destructs.

While medication for bipolar disorder is important to manage symptoms of mania and depression, studies show relying on medications alone is not the most effective method of treatment.

While it has since become clear that an index ( search engine ) is the most expedient entre into unfamiliar subject matter, associational links have remained an effective navigational method for obtaining intensive coverage of a subject area under study.

While Chomsky's search for Universal Grammar could be considered an essentially platonic endeavor ( i. e. concerned with idealized forms ), Halliday's orientation to the study of natural language has been compared to Darwin's method.

While Molotov cocktails may be a psychologically effective method of disabling armoured fighting vehicles by forcing the crew out or damaging external components, most modern tanks cannot be physically destroyed or rendered completely inoperable by Molotov cocktails ; only " disabled ".

While this method is more difficult, it is often used in casinos because it minimizes the risk of exposing cards during the shuffle.

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 political science implies use of the scientific method, political studies implies a broader approach, although the naming of degree courses does not necessarily reflect their content.

While this skim-feeding view became widely accepted, it was not subjected to scientific research until 2007 when a study showed that for such large pterosaurs it was not a viable method because the energy costs would be too high due to excessive drag.