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The three kinds of semi-formal techniques discussed are bounded model checking based on SAT solvers, symbolic simulation techniques based on BDDs, and smart simulation techniques that use formal methods to bolster traditional simulation-based validation.
Methods to bolster antismoking socialization beliefs of less-educated parents may be important in preventing children in low-income rural communities with high smoking rates from beginning to smoke.
The methods used to bolster that cushion have caused serious concerns among the companies' regulator, outside auditors from Morgan Stanley brought in by the Treasury Department and some investors.
Among the other methods used to bolster his artists, Durand-Ruel would sell works through other dealers on a profit-sharing basis, and he did this with collectors, too.
At issue are many of the methods Coke uses to bolster sales of its soft drinks: contracts that prohibit competitors' products, sales incentive programs and discounts for certain customers.
The combination of new molecular biology techniques, such as directed evolution and pathway engineering, with new and efficient high-throughput screening methods is poised to bolster this field and further advance the contribution of biocatalysis to the chemical and the pharmaceutical industries.
The implication that his critics have been driven by envy after his success in winning the Ashes in 2005 is, at best, contentious, but this unshakeable faith in his methods and beliefs continues to bolster him and, given a reasonable World Cup, will now ensure his survival.
Among other things, the money would be needed to improve irrigation and other agriculture methods affected by changing climate, to bolster coastlines threatened by rising seas or to preserve forests that help absorb greenhouse gases.
He said that the union had put pressure on the government to bolster security to deal with the new methods.
