With Robbins, though, effect and method are one and the same, and seeing how he accomplishes his thefts is just as impressive as witnessing, or failing to witness, the acts themselves.

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The method LG uses to accomplish this effect is called "switchable barrier, " which is similar to how Nintendo's 3DS can do 3-D without requiring the player to wear glasses.

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The easiest method to take advantage of this effect is to go long a small- or microcap ETF such as iShares Russell Microcap ( IWC) or PowerShares Zacks Micro Cap ( PZI) or mutual fund Bridgway UltraSmall Company. ( BRSIX).

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To achieve the same effect, use theresizableImageWithCapInsets: method of UIImage and display the image with a UIImageView.

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But when price trends for cheaper and more expensive houses diverge, the effect of the mortgage lenders' method is to give the same weight to each type of property.

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This is yet another clumsy attempt to employ the straw man method of trying to falsely discredit obvious cause and effect.

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Twitter users offer themselves up as candidates to try the cinnamon challenge on the condition that they get a certain number of "RT"s or "retweets" by other Twitter users a method of spreading a message more widely that can have the effect of gaining the original Tweeter more followers and earning them online recognition.

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Other projects included a method for detecting toxins in water using glowing bacteria and studying the effect of nano particles on other bulk particles.

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One of the researchers Dr Hee Cheol Cho, from Cedars-Sinai, told the BBC he expected the same method to work in the human heart as they used a human gene, Tbx18, to generate the effect.

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