Woodward, for example, has emphasized the `` need for a broad spectrum of services, including very brief services in connection with critical situations ''.

These modifications are often essential for the function or regulation of a protein ; for example, the carboxylation of glutamate allows for better binding of calcium cations, and the hydroxylation of proline is critical for maintaining connective tissues.

For example, if a program needs 20 hours using a single processor core, and a particular portion of 1 hour cannot be parallelized, while the remaining promising portion of 19 hours ( 95 %) can be parallelized, then regardless of how many processors we devote to a parallelized execution of this program, the minimum execution time cannot be less than that critical 1 hour.

Abdur Rahman's attitude at this critical juncture is a good example of his political sagacity.

Kant's goal in his critical philosophy was to identify what claims we are and are not justified in making, and the antinomies are a particularly illustrative example of his larger project.

A prime example of bistability in biological systems is that of Sonic hedgehog ( Shh ), a secreted signaling molecule, which plays a critical role in development.

Those critical of such software, however, use the term " censorware " freely: consider the Censorware Project, for example.

Another example of the more critical view taken toward source material has been anti-merchant statements made by intellectuals in the mid-Qing dynasty.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

* An example of critical qualitative research is Tracy, S. J.

If integration via the bus is achieved, the data warehouse, through its two data marts, will not only be able to deliver the specific information that the individual data marts are designed to do, in this example either " Sales " or " Production " information, but can deliver integrated Sales-Production information, which, often, is of critical business value.

) The inherent latency of the coding algorithm can be critical ; for example, when there is two-way transmission of data, such as with a telephone conversation, significant delays may seriously degrade the perceived quality.

This usage is seen in statements that describe a patient as being " in critical condition ", for example.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

For example, the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine suggests levels of evidence ( LOE ) according to the study designs and critical appraisal of prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and harm studies:

For example, when constructing behaviorally-anchored rating scales ( BARS ), a job analyst may use qualitative methods, such as critical incidents interviews and focus groups to collect data bearing on performance.

For example, most processors allow programs to disable interrupts, putting off the execution of interrupt handlers, in order to protect critical sections of code.

The " liberal arts " or " liberal pursuits " ( Latin liberalia studia ) were already so called in formal education during the Roman Empire ; for example, Seneca the Younger discusses liberal arts in education from a critical Stoic point of view in Moral Epistle 88.

Mica insulation is used in high-temperature and fire-resistant power cables in aluminium plants, blast furnaces, critical wiring circuits ( for example, defense systems, fire and security alarm systems, and surveillance systems ), heaters and boilers, lumber kilns, metal smelters, and tanks and furnace wiring.

For example, the intense backlash against country band the Dixie Chicks, for remarks critical of President George W. Bush onstage in London in 2003, was described by newspaper columnist Don Williams as the price for freely speaking political views disapproved by supporters of the Iraq War.

In physics, for example, phase transitions in thermodynamic systems are associated with the emergence of power-law distributions of certain quantities, whose exponents are referred to as the critical exponents of the system.

Conventional superconductors usually have critical temperatures ranging from around 20 K to less than 1 K. Solid mercury, for example, has a critical temperature of 4. 2 K., the highest critical temperature found for a conventional superconductor is 39 K for magnesium diboride ( MgB < sub > 2 </ sub >), although this material displays enough exotic properties that there is some doubt about classifying it as a " conventional " superconductor.

Some critics have cited the work as an example of postmodern fiction.

But by sheer brute strength they would hold dominion over principalities and kingdoms .” This assessment of the changing way in which Cleopatra is represented in modern adaptations of Shakespeare ’ s play is yet another example of how the modern and postmodern view of Cleopatra is constantly evolving.

Gaddis's influence is vast ( although frequently subterranean ): for example, postmodern authors such as Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon seem to have been influenced by Gaddis ( indeed, upon publication of V., Pynchon was actually speculated to have been a pen name for Gaddis due to the similarity of styles and the dearth of information about the two authors ; the Wanda Tinasky letters also claimed that Gaddis, Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same person ), as well as authors such as Joseph McElroy, William Gass, David Markson, and David Foster Wallace, who have all stated their admiration for Gaddis in general and The Recognitions in particular.

Krauss, for example, describes Pablo Picasso's use of collage as an avant-garde practice that anticipates postmodern art with its emphasis on language at the expense of autobiography.

Meta-media is an example of how quantity can change into quality as in new media technology and manipulation techniques can " recode modernist aesthetics into a very different postmodern aesthetics.

Hideo Kojima's ambitious script in Metal Gear Solid 2 has been praised, some even calling it the first example of a postmodern video game.

One such example is Alan Sokal's " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " ( 1996 ), in which Sokal submitted a seemingly real, but nonsensical, paper to the Journal Social Text in order to show that a supposedly serious journal in postmodern theory would accept a meaningless paper if it used sufficiently impenetrable language.

" In his column, My Year Of Flops, critic Nathan Rabin describes Dirty Work as an example of " the ironic dumb comedy, the slyly postmodern lowbrow gag-fest that so lustily, nakedly embraces and exposes the machinations and conventions of stupid laffers that it becomes a sort of sublime bit of meta-comedy.

It has been considered the first example of a postmodern video game, and has been cited as a primary example of artistic expression in video games.

Hideo Kojima's ambitious script has been praised, some even calling it the first example of a postmodern video game.

Metal Gear Solid 2 is often considered the first example of a postmodern video game, and has often been cited as a primary example of artistic expression in video games.

The other, is what Richard Sherwin points to as an example of “ postmodern skepticism.

The New York Trilogy is a particular form of postmodern detective fiction which still uses well-known elements of the detective novel ( the classical and hardboiled varieties, for example ) but also creates a new form that links " the traditional features of the genre with the experimental, metafictional and ironic features of postmodernism.

Branch is an example of the reader appearing in the novel itself, one of the postmodern phenomena that marks DeLillo's work.

Within that context, Brook describes Greg Focker's character as " the quintessential example of the postmodern schlemiel.

The term postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post – World War II literature ( relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.

For example, a postmodern literary work tends not to conclude with the neatly tied-up ending as is often found in modernist literature, but often parodies it.

Another way Dadaism influenced postmodern literature was in the development of collage, specifically collages using elements from advertisement or illustrations from popular novels ( the collages of Max Ernst, for example ).

Playfulness is present in many modernist works ( Joyce's Finnegans Wake or Virginia Woolf's Orlando, for example ) and they may seem very similar to postmodern works, but with postmodernism playfulness becomes central and the actual achievement of order and meaning becomes unlikely.

Since postmodernism represents a decentered concept of the universe in which individual works are not isolated creations, much of the focus in the study of postmodern literature is on intertextuality: the relationship between one text ( a novel for example ) and another or one text within the interwoven fabric of literary history.

For example, postmodern sensibility and metafiction dictate that works of parody should parody the idea of parody itself.

A significant postmodern example is Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, in which the narrator, Kinbote, claims he is writing an analysis of John Shade's long poem " Pale Fire ", but the narrative of the relationship between Shade and Kinbote is presented in what is ostensibly the footnotes to the poem.