The restraint involved a technique known as nose distraction, which has variously been described as a squeezing, tweaking, flicking or karate-like chop to the nose.
One test involved a technique known as polymerase chain reaction, which can identify an organism even when it is present in minute amounts.
Previous work to build up catalogues of differences in human DNA have involved a technique called the genome-wide association study.
Their study involves a technique first developed about 30 years ago, which uses mannitol to open the blood-brain barrier temporarily to get chemotherapy into the brain.
Alan Paller of the SANS Institute says that many of those breaches may have involved a technique known as "spear phishing"–impersonating a high level official's e-mail to lure employees into revealing their security codes.
Statistical downscaling involves a technique in which a linear transfer fucntions between meso-scale atmospheric predictors variables of GCM (e.g. mean sea level pressure, geo-potential height, specific humidity etc).
The process involved a technique known as "embodiment": a sort of body-swap where a participant's avatar would flip between representing themselves and a distressed child.
However, if you don't want to spend the time doing this, there is a slightly quicker method that involves a technique called synthetic division.
If your recipe involves a technique or combination of ingredients that leads to unique, non-obvious results, it may be patentable.
Cuadrilla is planning more extensive drilling later this month which could involve a controversial technique needed in shale gas extraction called "fracking" - when the rock is fractured using chemicals.
The tests already conducted in people involve a different technique and lower doses, said Dr. Zamore, who is a co-founder of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, a company in Cambridge, Mass., that is developing drugs using RNAi.
