Methods

Some articles on methods, method:

Embalming - History
... but his liquor balsamicum preservative was kept a secret to the grave and his methods were not widely copied ... Contemporary embalming methods advanced markedly during the height of the British Empire and the American Civil War, which once again involved many foreign ... whose preservative properties were soon discovered and which became the foundation for modern methods of embalming, replacing previous methods based on alcohol and the use of arsenical salts ...
Development Economics
... Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example, through health and education ... Development economics involves the creation of theories and methods that aid in the determination of policies and practices and can be implemented at either the domestic ... This may involve restructuring market incentives or using mathematical methods like inter-temporal optimization for project analysis, or it may involve a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods ...
Methods - Fly Fishing For Trout
... for trout is a very popular sport, which can be done using any of the various methods and any of the general types of flies ...
Types of Training - Artificial-intelligence Feedback
... Researchers have developed training-methods for artificial-intelligence devices as well ... Evolutionary algorithms, including genetic programming and other methods of machine learning, use a system of feedback based on "fitness functions" to allow computer programs to ... The methods construct a series of programs, known as a “population” of programs, and then automatically test them for "fitness", observing how well they perform the intended task ...
Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction - Methods Based On Proximity Matrices
... A method based on proximity matrices is one where the data is presented to the algorithm in the form of a similarity matrix or a distance matrix ... These methods all fall under the broader class of metric multidimensional scaling ... Sammon mapping (which is not in fact a mapping) are examples of metric multidimensional scaling methods ...

Famous quotes containing the word methods:

    “Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
    —Agatha Christie (1891–1976)

    “The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the outward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, clothed, warmed, like his contemporaries. How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)