Use a whetstone if you need to sharpen high-quality scissors, or use the easier methods for lower-quality scissors.
One of the algorithms aims to reduce the dynamic range of the signal and take advantage of the energy gain resulting from amplitude normalization to increase the loudness, while the other algorithm is designed to sharpen the high-amplitude peaks in the time-domain signal generated by the periodic glottal excitation to make the speech sound more clear.
Their principle genre is the tall tale, the story that has come down orally and that grows into its heroic or mock-heroic dimensions through repeated telling, that has its odd details polished into gems of wonder and its inner significance sharpened into high relief as if through the accreted wisdom of the ages.
Deposed Chief Executive Jill Barad pushed Mattel to acquire the Cambridge, Mass., company last May for $3.6 billion in an attempt to sharpen its high-tech product line.
Notably, when increasing calcination temperature to 500 °C, all the peaks belonging to NiO cubic phase were markedly sharpening with high intensities, which suggested that the crystallinity of NiO phase was higher at high calcination temperature than that obtained at low calcination temperature.
"I certainly like to work with Sen. Hollings on different ways to do things, but I find that to be a pretty long period of time". Powell's remarks are certain to sharpen the high-stakes political battle over how the federal government regulates ownership of the powerful media companies that deliver news, information and entertainment to the nation.
This behavior shows that the diffusion process performs smoothing for lower gradient area (when ∇ I < K α ) and proceeds sharpening for higher gradient area (when ∇ I > K α ).
A Chinese fishing vessel rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat in the disputed South China Sea, Vietnamese state media reported Tuesday, in an incident likely to sharpen already dangerously high tensions between the two nations over their overlapping claims in the waters.
Ragovoy's interest in African-American music was sharpened after leaving high school, when he worked in an electrical appliance store that also sold 78rpm records.
Vietnam and China were trading accusations this morning over who was the aggressor in an incident that led to the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea, sharpening already dangerously high tensions between the two nations over their overlapping territorial claims in the waters.
The NRF aims to operate either on its own or as a force that buys time before reinforcements arrive.The NRF's big live-fire exercises will also, General Breedlove notes, help sharpen techniques for high-intensity "kinetic" warfare against a more conventional but also more capable enemy.
