The fusion of cognitive science and classical ethology into cognitive ethology " emphasizes observing animals under more-or-less natural conditions, with the objective of understanding the evolution, adaptation ( function ), causation, and development of the species-specific behavioral repertoire "-( Niko Tinbergen 1963 ).

But the first few hundred pages of Cradle are filled with more-or-less pointless character development, clearly written by Lee, that would be perfectly at home in a Harlequin romance novel.

The cheek teeth were short-crowned ( brachyodont ), with the tubercles more-or-less completely fused into transverse ridges, or cross-crests ( lophodont type ), and the total number of teeth was in one case the typical 44, but in another was fewer.

The nomenklatura system came under attack ; several delegates asked why the leading party members had rights to a better life, at least materially, and why the leadership was more-or-less untouchable, as they had been under Leonid Brezhnev, even if their incompetence was clear to everyone.

When France rejected Neurath's note, Germany stormed out of the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference, and all but announced its intention to unilaterally violate Part V. Consequently, there were several calls in France that autumn for a preventive war to put an end to the Nazi regime while Germany was still more-or-less disarmed.

However, the meaning of the RTL is more-or-less independent of the target: it would usually be possible to read and understand a piece of RTL without knowing what processor it was generated for.

Although the latter was still considered better than an average prostitute, the former was the sort most often romanticized and treated more-or-less equal to women of the nobility.

The Tandy 1000 was the first in a line of more-or-less IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack chain of stores.

It was a more-or-less square parcel north and west of the junction of the Kansas River and the Missouri River.

The classic BCATP airport consisted of three runways, each typically 2, 500 ft ( 760 m ) in length, arranged in a triangle so that aircraft could always land ( more-or-less ) into the wind — that was critically important at a time when most light training aircraft ( such as the North American Harvard ) were taildraggers, which are difficult to land in strong cross-winds.

She was the more-or-less fiancée of Harold Hamgravy, a " lounge lizard " or slacker type who did as little work as possible and was always borrowing money.

A confrontational situation persisted, with considerable tension, over the decades after the establishment of St. Patrick's, and was eventually settled, more-or-less, by the signing of a six-point agreement of 1300, Pacis Compositio.

According to tradition, Confucius ( 551 BCE – 479 BCE ) was the final editor of the collection in its present form, although the individual poems would accordingly all be more-or-less older than this.

While in Savoy he served more-or-less officially as choirmaster for Louis, Duke of Savoy, but he was more likely in a ceremonial role, since the records of the chapel never mention him.

Reason was founded in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander as a more-or-less monthly mimeographed publication.

The bare facts being more-or-less uncovered soon after the event, the inquiry was frustrated by the absence on the accident aircraft of a cockpit voice recorder.

It was perhaps inevitable, therefore, that both Prussia and Russia would effectively partition Poland between them ; Austria was to more-or-less retain its gains of the First Partition of 1772.

Out of the Controversial discussions during World War II, a compromise was established with three more-or-less amicable groups of the psychoanalytic movement: the Freudians, the Kleinians, and the " Middle Group " of the British Psychoanalytical Society ( later called the " Independent Group "), to which Winnicott belonged, along with Ronald Fairbairn, Michael Balint, Masud Khan, John Bowlby, Marion Milner, and Margaret Little.

I-90 was perhaps less disruptive ( unless, of course, you were living in its path ), since it is partly routed through a tunnel and skirts a more-or-less unbuildable edge of Beacon Hill, avoiding slicing the city into north and south halves.

Berlioz complained bitterly of the cuts that he was more-or-less forced to allow at the 1863 Théâtre Lyrique première production, and his letters and mémoires are filled with the indignation that it caused him to " mutilate " his score.

The practice was more-or-less ended by the Song Dynasty, but scholars like Zhang Zai and Su Xun were enthusiastic about its restoration and spoke of it in a perhaps oversimplifying admiration, invoking Mencius's frequent praise of the system.

Almost all species have a tight cluster of leaves ( a rosette ), either at the base of the plant or at the end of a more-or-less woody stem ; the leaves are less often produced along the stem.

At least the green cultivars breed more-or-less true from seed, and several similar cultivars produced from seedlings are now available ; some of these include other plum cultivars in their parentage.

CRAV's publicised demands have regularly included elements which are more-or-less impossible for French politicians to implement under European Union rules, since they would mean interfering with the single market and introducing national subsidies on top of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Until 1931 several real — more-or-less — Tours were held, but always under very different conditions and organisations.

In antiquity, it covered more-or-less anything which is connected with nature or which uses materials drawn from nature ; see for example the contents of Pliny's encyclopedia of this title, published circa 77 to 79 AD.

Grand Prince, used in the Slavic and Baltic languages, was the title of a mediæval monarch who headed a more-or-less loose confederation whose constituent parts were ruled by lesser princes.

In the mid to late 1970s, the Welsh television station HTV Cymru / Wales broadcast a version dubbed into the Welsh language called Rhaid Dinistrio Frankenstein, a more-or-less literal translation of the English title.

This " filtering " is largely unconscious and may be influenced — more-or-less in many ways, in societies and in individuals — by biology, cultural constructs including education and language ( such as memes ), life experiences, preferences and mental state, belief systems ( e. g. World view, the Stock Market ), momentary needs, pathology, etc.

Masaryk wished to implement the American model of a strong presidency, and used his considerable informal authority to obtain more power ( e. g. to recall government ministers ) and to set up a more-or-less independent political structure centered around himself.

Since shortly after its inception, the bidding and voting process has been managed by a more-or-less consistent group of volunteers, known informally as the C * b * l, composed of several of the longest-term participants in the alt. gothic newsgroups.

There is no single accepted Chinese name for the cookies, with a large variety of translations being used to describe them in the Chinese language, all of which being more-or-less literal translations of the English " fortune cookie ".

Kashmiri literature dates back to over 750 years, this is, more-or-less, the age of many a modern literature including modern English.

A Spanish verb has seven indicative tenses with more-or-less direct English equivalents: the present tense (' I walk '), the preterite (' I walked '), the imperfect (' I was walking ' or ' I used to walk '), the present perfect (' I have walked '), the past perfect (' I had walked '), the future (' I will walk '), and the conditional (' I would walk ').

Whom was once an argument of hit, but has moved to the left to satisfy a rule in English that ( more-or-less ) requires question words to move to the left.

James I's courtiers discovered in " James Stuart " " a just master ", and converted " Charles James Stuart " into " Claims Arthur's seat " ( even at that point in time, the letters I and J were more-or-less interchangeable ).

The above development generalizes in a more-or-less straightforward fashion to general principal G-bundles for some arbitrary Lie group G taking the place of U ( 1 ).

In most places on Earth, local time is determined by longitude, such that the time of day is more-or-less synchronised to the position of the sun in the sky ( for example, at midday the sun is roughly at its highest ).

In these ways, a vast body of judicially-created law ( jurisprudence ) has come into existence, and while there is no rule of stare decisis ( binding precedent ), the decisions by important courts have become more-or-less equivalent to case law ( see jurisprudence constante ).

Several texts ( that are thought to be more-or-less contemporaneous ) explicitly call " Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel " (,, ).

They are more-or-less mutually intelligible with the Ripuarian dialects, but show fewer ' High German shifts ' ( R. Hahn 2001 ).

Later On 2 had more-or-less ended ( one of the strands continues as The View on RTÉ One ).

*** The tail fin may be truncated, or end in a more-or-less vertical edge ( such as in salmon ).

This could, in fact, be adapted to more-or-less existing airframes, which the Soviets soon did, with the Sukhoi Su-17 ( based on the earlier swept wing Sukhoi Su-7 ).

All MUSIC-N derivative programs have a ( more-or-less ) common design, made up of a library of functions built around simple signal-processing and synthesis routines ( written as opcodes or unit generators ).

The first is the " national feed "-content that is broadcast to the entire country, more-or-less at the same time ( accounting for timezones and minor rescheduling ).

( The leftmost edge of the photograph is more-or-less the watershed between the Inn, left / southwards and the Isar, right / northwards ).