Take the first technique in the book, for example: No Opt Out.
It was the first time the technique has been used in catheter ablation, where the organ's inner lining is ablated or "burned" to treat irregular heartbeats.
"It's the first time this technique is being used in the Broads and we'll be monitoring it closely to see how affective it is, " said Ms Kelly.
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Information technology technician Ethan Bayne, 26, has been one of the first to benefit from the new technique.
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The issue of the use of long-handled belly putters was drawn into sharp focus by the success of golfers such as American Keegan Bradley, the first to win a major using the technique, and veteran South African Ernie Els, who claimed the British Open last year after switching to the method.
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Classicists at Oxford first deployed the technique in 1999, to examine papyri discovered in a villa that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD.
In the 1968 Games, in Mexico City, the American high jumper Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by flipping himself over the bar head first and backward a technique now known as the Fosbury Flop.
Ms Williamson said she would be happy to be the first human to test the technique.
Our poll, the first taken in the week after the convention, uses a different technique from the others.
In fact, the first few hundred exoplanets were found by the "radial velocity" technique, which detects tiny motions of a star as it and its planets orbit one another.
The technique involves sending profits first through one Irish company, then to a Dutch company and finally to a second Irish company headquartered in a tax haven, Investopedia describes it.
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The study, which the researchers believe is the first systematic review of literature on the subject, finds that the technique may be effective in alleviating pain either during or after dental surgery.
The fast-ignition technique is more like a petrol engine: first the fuel is compressed and only then is it ignited by a second laser pulse acting as a spark plug that is fired through a hole in the pellet.
Mr Vlahos was not the first to use a blue-screens - earlier versions of the technique can be seen in films including The Thief of Bagdad, and The Ten Commandments.
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Besides lighting a fire under the public side of the project, this technique enabled Dr Venter and his collaborators to publish the first complete genetic sequence of a living organism, a bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae.
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"For the first time, we did a lot of work not on technique, but just on getting the players in the right frame of mind, " admitted the former Bristol coach.
In the first, Duncan Holland, the coach, looks for flaws in the rowers' technique.
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She used this technique in 1993 -- for the first time anywhere -- to treat farsightedness.
Among the most interesting studies presented in Phoenix, by a Canadian professor of kinesiology named Joan Vickers, explained why the "quiet eye" technique, which she first reported 15 years ago, works so effectively.
Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell (Forbes: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell) which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
Still, it wasn't until the 19th century that the science, technology and technique for producing bottom-fermented lagers came together as a methodical process, first at the Spaten ("Spade") brewery in Munich and eventually, around 1842, in the vowel-poor town of Plzen in Bohemia.
Not for the first time, we've got to question our technique.
Invaluable for Holland and Juventus by virtue of his fighting spirit, first-class technique and driving runs, the man known as "Pitbull" still gets himself booked on too many occasions.
The co-pilot contacted the airline's chief pilot by radio and it was agreed that the crew would use a "left-wing-down" technique ensuring the left main wheels touched down on the runway first, with the remaining right main wheel then being lowered onto the runway as gently as possible.
However, Mr Hammer's technique, based on maths that was invented in the 1930s and was first used to work out how to shoot down German aircraft, requires only seven trials.
Lee has not been chosen for a Test match for 18 months, but it seems inconceivable that he will be overlooked for the first match at Lord's having now exposed a serious flaw in Strauss' technique.
This time, they used exotic materials to lower its weight, which included the then-new technique of creating carbon fiber tubes, and Kevlar -- a first for a Human Powered Aircraft (HPA).
Your technique is strikingly similar to Bok (Pak), a graduate who played the first trumpet...
At the very best, the first hints of these problems came from a re-analysis of data--an unreliable technique--two years after the drug had been on the market.
And even though it's been a very long time since the first knives were crafted out of stone, we haven't given up on that ancient manufacturing technique.
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