Richard Dawkins in his book River Out of Eden used the computer bootstrapping concept to explain how biological cells differentiate: " Different cells receive different combinations of chemicals, which switch on different combinations of genes, and some genes work to switch other genes on or off.

An initial concept design called the City of Light Development, envisioned by Hisham N. Ashkouri, for the development and the implementation of a privately based investment enterprise has been proposed for a multi-function commercial, historic and cultural development within the limits of the Old City of Kabul, along the southern side of the Kabul River and along Jade Meywand Avenue.

An initial concept design called the City of Light Development, envisioned by Dr. Hisham N. Ashkouri, for the development and the implementation of a privately based investment enterprise has been proposed for multi-function commercial, historic and cultural development within the limits of the Old City of Kabul, along the southern side of the Kabul River and along Jade Meywand Avenue, revitalizing some of the most commercial and historic districts in the City.

The concept of free access to towpaths is one of the proposals that will be enshrined in the legistation to transfer responsibility for the English and Welsh canals from British Waterways to the Canal & River Trust in 2012.

Interesting that this concept is similar to the one described in the short story of Robert F. Young called " On the River " ( 1965 ).

Most of the 66 South Dakota counties are named for early South Dakota officials or legislators, or for physical features ( Fall River and Lake ), or are derived from Indian words ( Minnehaha and Yankton ), or from counties in other states ( Jones and Walworth ), with one ( Aurora ) named for a Roman goddess, one for an animal ( Buffalo ), and one ( Union ) for a concept.

The Ferengi concept of conducting trade and business can be best described in the episode " Treachery, Faith, and the Great River ".

Communist leader Mao Zedong, in his writings about strategic retreat, used the Battle of Guandu along with the Battle of Chenggao, Battle of Kunyang, Battle of Red Cliffs, Battle of Xiaoting, and Battle of Fei River to illustrate the concept.

The concept for the Huntspill River was first suggested by J. Aubrey Clark in 1853, as a way of improving the drainage of the lower River Brue.

However, the concept was tried again on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's River Mite, and the Garratt locomotive may be seen as an extension of this principle.

The concept for Cosumnes River College was included in a Master Facility Need Study that was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Los Rios Community College District in February 1967.

Because this region was entirely slave-free from its inception and separated by the Ohio River from the South — which was pushing an expansion of legal slavery into the West — the concept developed of " free states " in contrast to " slave states.

These Pods would initially house various Ontario-themed exhibits in an aquatic setting somewhat similar in concept to Montreal's Expo 67 grounds ( which were in the middle of the St. Lawrence River ).

The 2008 Doctor Who two-part story Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead introduced the concept of " spoilers " within the story's time travel narrative, with the enigmatic character River Song using the term to refer to her foreknowledge of future events.

The concept of a canal from the River Trent to Grantham was first raised on 27 August 1791, as a way of supplying the district with cheaper coal.

In 1991, the whole area set out for the great discussion of open-mind and concept innovation, to develop along the River, to run markets along road and develop industry in town.

There appears to be a relationship with the concept of the Boto ( the fresh-water porpoise found in the Amazonas River and its tributaries ) having shape-shifting abilities and then while in the form of a human male having sexual relations with young women.

Their concept represented an asymmetrical, seemingly natural development out of the dunes near the Havel River.

Originally mooted was the concept to make the Sankey Brook navigable, but its eventual result was a full man made canal linking St. Helens to the River Mersey and the city of Liverpool.

As many of these feudal states had shared cultural and economic interests, the concept of a great nation centered on the Yellow River Plain gradually expanded.

In part through foreign aid loans from the United Nations, Chubu Electric pioneered the use of new dam technologies, such as the hollow-core concrete gravity dam concept at the Ōi River, and completed a number of large dams in the 1950s and early 1960s.

* In 1971, the Italian songwriter Fabrizio De André released Non al denaro non all ' amore né al cielo, a concept album inspired by Spoon River Anthology.

The term also has historical and theoretical links to the concept of " simultaneity " advanced during the 1970s by members of the Combahee River Collective, in Boston, Massachusetts.