Nanotechnology techniques such as self-assembling promise researchers an intriguing alternative to continuing to refine the most commonly used technique for building transistors on silicon computer chips, namely, optical lithography.
Diversa has used this technique to develop a valuable enzyme used for cleaning oil wells, and Maxygen has developed enzymes used in industrial production and for the manufacture of other drugs.
She used this technique in 1993 -- for the first time anywhere -- to treat farsightedness.
She used the technique to create a self-portrait, which is quite similar to her face.
Mr. Friedman says one client used the technique when a truck cut him off on the highway.
Dr Schirripa Spagnolo has used his technique to analyse hundreds of samples created with a variety of paper and pens.
The team used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to examine brain function in eight patients with serious lung disease.
John Dabiri of the California Institute of Technology, for example, has used the technique to study the hunting behaviour of jellyfish.
Since late 2006, phishers have used a technique known as "fast flux" to make the location of their scam sites a moving target.
The old series used a technique called "supermarionation", using fine wires to move the puppets, but the new series will use computer-generated characters.
Packet switching got its name thanks to late British scientist Donald Davies who was creating a network that used this technique at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
They used a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. If you pass a weak electrical current through part of the brain, it temporarily and safely disrupts neural activity.
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The researchers used their technique to create an image of the sun inspired by the drawings of Robert Fludd, a 17th-century alchemist (the sun is the alchemists' symbol for gold).
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For this reason, Dr Roberts used a technique called clustering, which has been employed extensively in other situations where census data are lacking, such as studying infectious disease in poor countries.
Brunner and his colleagues used a technique called exome sequencing, which extracts only known genes from the vast expanse of DNA in the human genome as a way to reduce sequencing cost.
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Everybody knows how Lipitor works, Hazlett argued, so the problem must be the study, which used a technique called carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) to measure the thickness of the walls of an artery in the neck.
The teams modified the virus binaries in order to change the signature, and several of the teams used a technique called "dropping, " in which a virus is injected into an already-running application and bypasses the heuristics engine.
Five Guys formerly used this technique.
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David Cunningham and Gail ter Haar have used this technique to treat liver cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, while other groups in America, China and Japan, are using high-intensity sound to kill cancers in the prostate gland, uterus and brain.
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The intensive, one-on-one, in-home therapy was meted out by behavioral therapist Rick Schroeder, who used a technique of behavior modification known as "applied behavior analysis" or ABA. ABA essentially breaks down behavior patterns in order to reward good behavior and not reward bad behavior.
As Kashmir wrote, the company could have used that technique to automatically segment users into Facebook Groups, but would likely have incurred the same privacy wrath that Google faced when its Google Buzz trick exposed who users were most often chatting with without their express consent.
The fiscal commission chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles used the same technique.
The leaker doubtless used the modern technique of the copy machine and shoe leather.
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Swaddling is a technique used on babies in which a caregiver wraps the infant snugly.
Speech convergence can also be used as a technique to help people understand your message.
They used a surgical technique to damage the spinal cord of rats and induce neuropathic pain.
He then used an ultrasound technique to examine the amount of plaque in their arteries.
They were cloned using a double nuclear transfer method similar to the technique used to get Dolly.
It used the same technique as Stuxnet, an earlier highly sophisticated malware, to seek out other machines to infect.
The two used a new technique called expression cloning to fish out the TNF receptor in a mere three months.
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