`` Increased boundary maintenance may be achieved, for example, by assigning a higher primacy or evaluation to activities characteristic of the external pattern.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

Adaptive radiation, a characteristic example of cladogenesis, can be graphically illustrated as a " bush ", or clade, of coexisting species ( on the tree of life ).

All elementary particles have a characteristic spin, for example electrons always have " spin 1 / 2 " while photons always have " spin 1 ".

For example, if K is a field of characteristic p and if X is transcendental over K, is a non-separable algebraic field extension.

Biopolymers often have a well-defined structure, though this is not a defining characteristic ( example: ligno-cellulose ):

For example, the abstract general idea or concept that is designated by the word " red " is that characteristic which is common to apples, cherries, and blood.

It is also an example of a more generalized version of the central limit theorem that is characteristic of all stable distributions, of which the Cauchy distribution is a special case.

For example, the torus has Euler characteristic χ

For example, in the Shanidar cave in Iraq, in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales and other sites across Europe and the Near East, Neanderthal skeletons have been discovered with a characteristic layer of flower pollen.

Beyond the microsong, it is characteristic of grindcore to have short songs in general ; for example, Carcass ' debut album Reek of Putrefaction ( 1988 ) consists of 22 tracks with an average length of 1 minute and 48 seconds.

In humans, eye color is an example of an inherited characteristic: an individual might inherit the " brown-eye trait " from one of the parents.

For example, text in any natural language has highly non-uniform distributions of characters, and character pairs, very characteristic of the language.

His example began the characteristic veneration of leadership in Hasidism as embodiments and intercessors of Divinity for the followers.

As an example, consider a human characteristic.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.

In contrast, the tag in HTML is an example of presentational markup ; it is generally used to specify a particular characteristic of the text ( in this case, the use of an italic typeface ) without specifying the reason for that appearance.

Rather than excluding the special case n = 0, it is more useful to include ( which, as mentioned before, is isomorphic to the ring of integers ), for example when discussing the characteristic of a ring.

Nihilism is also a characteristic that has been ascribed to time periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch, and some Christian theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity and many aspects of modernity represent a rejection of theism, and that rejection of their theistic doctrine entails nihilism.

Note that that while bound orbits around a point mass or around a spherical body with an Newtonian gravitational field are closed ellipses, which repeat the same path exactly and indefinitely, any non-spherical or non-Newtonian effects ( as caused, for example, by the slight oblateness of the Earth, or by relativistic effects, changing the gravitational field's behavior with distance ) will cause the orbit's shape to depart from the closed ellipses characteristic of Newtonian two-body motion.

In Plutarch, following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, the fact that people might be recalled early appears to be another example of the inconsistency of majoritarianism that was characteristic of Athenian democracy.

Thomas brought a large number of German settlers to aid in the building and settlement of the city – this is an example of the German eastern migration ( Ostsiedlung ) characteristic of that period.

Some techniques are characteristic of both pastels and sketching mediums such as charcoal and lead, for example, hatching and crosshatching, and gradation.

For example, the climate phenomenon known as ENSO or El Niño has characteristic modes in different ocean basins which are often referred to as the " signature " of ENSO.

The EPR article highlighted the strange nature of quantum entanglement, which is a characteristic of a quantum state that is a combination of the states of two systems ( for example, two subatomic particles ), that once interacted but were then separated and are not each in a definite state.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

A similar amateurish characteristic is revealed in Adams' failure to check the accuracy and authenticity of his informational sources.

The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.

`` Do you suppose his self-consciousness is characteristic of the new Negro professionals or merely of doctors in general ''??

In snakes difference in size is a common characteristic of subspecies.

The characteristic polynomial for A is Af and this is plainly also the minimal polynomial for A ( or for T ).

The process of boundary maintenance identifies and preserves the social system or subsystems, and the characteristic interaction is maintained.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

In a society dominated by middle-class values and working in an institution which transmits and strengthens these social values, it is clear that the educational profession must work for the values which are characteristic of the society.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.