The head, or knob, is often ornately carved with faces or shapes that have symbolic meaning.

In the 1950s they tried their best to muffle this sound with mercury switches and silent knob controls.

JH The question is, there appears to be a lack of cultural fine tuning in Second Life.

I think it's quite apt. It's our empathy, it's our tuning in which separates us from Machiavellians or sociopaths.

However, the bill was vetoed by the Governor, arguing that some areas were in need of additional fine tuning.60

We agree with the Secretary General's call for the further universalization and fine tuning of anti terrorist conventions and mechanisms.

The waiter, you know, came out with the white truffle knob and his shaver, and he shaved it onto my pasta and he said, you know, Would Signore like the truffles?

As a result of the fine tuning of the restructuring of the Department, the two offices have been merged into a single division.

It seems that the Metal scene is only now beginning to recover with a new generation of Moroccan youth tuning to Heavy Metal again.

And what we re doing is we re using humor as a sort of neuroscientific probe by switching humor on and off, by turning the knob on a joke now it s not funny ... oh, now it s funnier ...

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something, so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

And so we began our lessons every single time tuning drums in particular, the kettle drums, or tympani to such a narrow pitch interval, so something like ...

But then I knew from experience and looking around in offices where there were chairs with headrests that nobody would ever bother to reach back and turn a knob and adjust the headrest to put it in position.

The government is still fine tuning tools for measuring bloggers' daily audiences, a tricky process as many social networks, like Facebook, do not publish user specific traffic statistics.

They should be in charge of fine tuning and implementing the communication strategy of each subregional office, in close collaboration with other United Nations offices in the subregion.

I basically decided that it was I, not the camera or the network, or anything that lay outside myself, that was the only instrument in storytelling truly worth tuning.

These typically involve system tuning, changing operating system or device parameters, or even refactoring the application software to resolve poor performance due to poor design or bad coding practices.

In line with expert advice and the experiences of other organizations, UNDP expects that the implementation of enterprise risk management will require several phases of piloting and fine tuning.

Chinese leadership over the past decade and a half has been about fine tuning and maintaining the momentum of Deng s state led development model, launched after the Tiananmen protests of 1989.

The Fed, of course, has been forced to turn to QE, as traders call it, because its normal tool for fine tuning inflation and growth, the overnight interest rate, is already zero.

Examples of these include an increase in passenger space and a decrease in noise, harshness and vibration, particularly from the engine by adding a fourth engine mount and by tuning the intake resonators.

Fine tuning and consolidating New Public Management reforms and applying information and communication technologies to internal management and external service delivery processes are among the dominant concerns in well established public administration systems.

As the scare stories become more inflated, so, too, does the likelihood that they will be exposed for the exaggerations that they are and the public will end up tuning the whole thing out.

Indeed, while some fine tuning was usually necessary, the redeployment of large numbers of posts would imply that the Secretariat had prepared, and Member States had approved, a budget that did not meet the Organization's needs.

The State wide television service that was launched in August has been well accepted in both entities and is now in the process of tuning its programme orientation to address the challenges of the broadcasting market.

Technocracy was Keynes s faith skilled experts designing and fine tuning institutions out of the goodness of their hearts to make possible general prosperity as Keynes, indeed, did at Bretton Woods where the World Bank and IMF were created.

He said the CPD required some fine tuning' of statistical data and more attention had to be given to trafficking, assistance to disabled children, the prevention of injuries and support to young people affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

When you run very short wavelengths, like a tuning fork the antenna resonates, and there's more energy coming out of the antenna than there is the backscatter from the ground that we're trying to analyze, taking too much processing.

While it was necessary to have flexibility for States to design regimes for specific hazardous activities at national and international levels, there was still room for fine tuning of the draft principles in the light of comments from Governments.

A key factor in the strategy of ITC will be its continuous fine tuning of tools and methodologies to ensure that the technical assistance it provides is constantly aligned with the rapidly evolving needs of the world trade market.

It's going to take years of tuning and monitoring this technology in order for us to become ready to test it out in a case by case basis on the most damaged and stressed buildings within the city of Venice.

In one system of musical tuning, the tones in between are then given by 16 9 for D, 8 5 for E, 3 2 for F, 4 3 for G, 6 5 for A, and 16 15 for B, in ascending order.

The resulting tuning and tweaking of a fetus' brain and other organs are part of what give us humans our enormous flexibility, our ability to thrive in a huge variety of environments, from the country to the city, from the tundra to the desert.

If time the time of political opportunities is a factor here, we should now focus on elaborating further or fine tuning some of its concepts, so as to enable the delicate balance that has been achieved in the report to be maintained and not disturbed.

The GoE also identified the need for a good communication pattern to be established in order to prepare materials for the donors and to agree on proposal formats. It was felt that more integration work and fine tuning was needed in order to prioritize the proposals for producing concrete results.

The degree of data comparability between the reporting cycles is restricted, as not all questions remained comparable, because of fine tuning of the questionnaire following the first reporting period and the fact that not all countries replying to the questionnaire for the first and second reporting periods did so for the third reporting period.

9. Expresses its appreciation for the importance the Economic Cooperation Organization attaches to the smooth running of container trains on the Trans Asian Railway main line and to the fine tuning of a draft action plan for revitalizing and operating the China Middle East Europe corridor, as well as for the organization of meetings in Tehran in May 2004 to discuss these issues