The Excession is what the Culture's social scientists describe as an Outside Context Problem, one which a society cannot foresee and is often fatal.

This novel is about how the Culture deals with an Outside Context Problem ( OCP ), the kind of problem " most civilizations would encounter just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

Banks has noted that he spent much time playing the Civilization computer game ( appearing to refer to the first version of the game series ) before writing the book and that it was one of the inspirations for the concept of the ' Outside Context Problem ' central to the novel.

* Outside Context Problem

In the novel Excession, Banks coins the phrase Outside Context Problem in relation to first contact.

Outside a European context, the concept of feudalism is normally used only by analogy ( called semi-feudal ), most often in discussions of feudal Japan under the shoguns, and sometimes medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia.

The Bubbleworld or Inside / Outside concept was originated in 1964 by Dandridge M. Cole and Donald W. Cox in a nonfiction book, Islands in Space: The Challenge of the Planetoids.

Outside of the classroom, he applied his talents to organizing picnics and games, and in 1922 organized an elected student council years before the concept became widespread in Calgary.

Outside the context of baseball, variants of the expression " to throw a curveball " essentially translate to introducing a significant deviation to a preceding concept.

Riff Raff was a UK progressive rock band formed by keyboardist Tommy Eyre in 1972. The band was a continuation on the back of drummers ( and Harrow School of Art friends ) Rod Coombes ( Juicy Lucy Strawbs and Stealers Wheel ) and Joe Czarnecki's ( Plainsmen ) aka Joe Peter's project originally called ' Crikey ' started in 1969 and completed in 1970 when Rod had to accept growing tour commitments with Juicy Lucy. These sessions comprise half of the Riff Raff album ' Outside Looking In ' in which Rod wrote half the songs. Rod says that " the concept of the band was based around two drummers and afro-jazz ( Rod and Joe were great fans of Ginger Baker and Miles Davis ) and fusion ( this album was one of the first true fusion albums to be recorded ). I had worked with Roger with singer Paul Williams ( Juicy Lucy ) and Tommy previously and clearly we all enjoyed doing what we do best-playing freely ".

Outside of a medieval European historical context, the concept of feudalism is normally only used by analogy ( called semi-feudal ), most often in discussions of Japan under the shoguns, and, sometimes, nineteenth-century Ethiopia.

Outside China, the concept of a " masonry heater ", a large stove made of brick or other masonry keeping a house warm for a long time, has been used in various forms throughout northern and eastern Europe.

" At the end of the album, the recording of " Outside the Wall " cuts off abruptly, as the man says " Isn't this where ..." This demonstrates a cyclical nature to the concept of the album, much in the way that The Dark Side of the Moon opens and closes with the sound of a heartbeat.

Outside the judicial system, the concept of recusal is also applied in administrative agencies.

* Economics from the Outside In: Better than Plowing and Beyond ( College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2007 )

( full missile ) former Outside main gate of White Sands Missile Range, N. M. false report?

Outside the party at this time were the MPs William O ' Brien, Sir Thomas Esmonde, T. M. Healy, Charles Dolan, John O ' Donnell, Augustine Roche and D. D. Sheehan.

Outside London he worked for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on plays by W. B. Yeats and J. M.

Outside of politics, he has served as a professor at the Texas A & M International University ( TAMIU ) in Laredo, Texas.

Anti-Gay was one of the first " post-gay " books, appearing a year or so before a series of largely conservative American gay books critical of gay culture, such as ' The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture ' ( D Harris, 1997 ) and ' Life Outside ' ( M Signorile, 1997 ), ' Sexual Ecology ' ( G Rotello, 1998 ).

Outside of the Lone Star Shootout, college baseball in Texas is overwhelmingly popular and has some intense in-state rivalries such as the Battle of the Brazos between Texas A & M and Baylor University, Houston-Rice rivalry, the Holy War between Baylor and TCU, Battle of the Piney Woods between Sam Houston State and Stephen F. Austin State University, and the Lone Star Showdown between the Texas Longhorns and Texas A & M Aggies.

The Swastika Outside Germany is a book by Donald M. McKale.

Outside it was already hot at 7:30 A.M., and it was getting hot in the kitchen.

Outside those limits it asserted, as against other states, a position of sovereign equality, and, as against the `` inferior '' peoples of the non-Western world, a position of dominance.

Outside the office windows, twenty-four stories above Wall Street, a light rain was falling.

Outside, his brother Harry was waiting for him -- he had come to say good-bye.

Outside, only a handful of reporters remained.

Outside salesmen deduct all expenses attributable to earning a salary, commission, or other compensation.

Outside St. Sophia I walked through the flower garden in front of it, with the Blue Mosque ahead on my left.

Outside I walked past the entrance to St. Sophia, turned left at the end of it, and continued toward a gate in the wall ahead.

Outside was finished with Creek-Turn brown toner brushed on and sponged off to give antique finish.

Outside of cutting your fingers, maybe you would come up with nothing at all, but then again, you might turn out some dandy little gadgets.

Outside of combat, he couldn't have landed in a tougher spot.

Outside, Shayne hesitated when he saw that Rourke had parked his coupe directly in front of the bar headed south.

Outside his window bloomed a beautiful summer day.

`` Outside '' faculty members want to be considered partners in the academic enterprise and not merely paid employees of a family business.

Outside, the garden, the tame wilderness, yielded a patchwork bouquet of daisies, sweet william, scented stock and lady's bedstraw, which she tied with long grasses and took back to show Rosa, who was now stirring about the kitchen and haranguing Folly.

Outside, the old man, beyond all the curses of the spirits his daughter bore, went to her and twisted the gnarled talons of his fingers in her hair and turned her and pushed her rudely ahead of him into the trees where the moon sent out a thousand arms.

Outside the Lincoln was parked.

Outside, in the summertime fields behind the motel, a thousand crickets serenaded us.

Outside the hall, I anxiously looked around for her, then all at once there was a hand on my elbow.

Outside in the dressing room, Frankie Ricco sat on the bench dressed in his street clothes.

Outside the United States, the product is often called bitumen.

Outside of the realm of English studies, A Modest Proposal is a relevant piece included in many comparative and global literature and history courses, as well as those of numerous other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and even the social sciences.

Outside proteins, amino acids also perform critical biological roles including neurotransmitters, transport, and in synthesis.

Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool-12th grade include Regents School of Austin, Redeemer Lutheran School, Garza ( public ), Austin Discovery School ( public charter ), Austin Jewish Academy, The Austin Waldorf School, The Griffin School, The Khabele School, Concordia Academy, St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School, Holy Family Catholic School, San Juan Diego Catholic High School, Brentwood Christian School, St. Austin Catholic School, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Mary's, St. Theresa's, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, St. Gabriel's Catholic School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Francis Episcopal School, Saint Paul Lutheran School, Trinity Episcopal School, Huntington-Surrey, Cleaview Sudbury School, The Inside Outside School, ACE Academy, Paragon Preparatory Middle School, Austin International School, The Progress School and a number of Montessori schools.