Campbell proposed that the heroic mythological stories from culture to culture followed a similar underlying pattern, starting with the " call to adventure ", followed by a hazardous journey, and eventual triumph.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

Beacons can also be combined with semaphoric or other indicators to provide important information, such as the status of an airport, by the colour and rotational pattern of its airport beacon, or of pending weather as indicated on a weather beacon mounted at the top of a tall building or similar site.

Historically, materials used in bicycles have followed a similar pattern as in aircraft, the goal being high strength and low weight.

In the hypothetical situation that a given coastline has this property of self-similarity, then no matter how greatly any one small section of coastline is magnified, a similar pattern of smaller bays and promontories superimposed on larger bays and promontories appears, right down to the grains of sand.

In a similar growth pattern, proprietary development methods became standard Software development methodology.

Although dream sleep and non-dream sleep appear very similar to an outside observer, each is associated with a distinct pattern of brain activity, metabolic activity, and eye movement ; each is also associated with a distinct pattern of experience and cognition.

The 1952 and 1953 seasons followed a similar pattern, with Cleveland reaching the championship game but losing both times to the Detroit Lions.

A person working in slip stitch crochet can follow a knitted pattern with knits, purls, and cables, and get a similar result.

Sharp features in the diffraction pattern arise from periodic, repeating structure in the sample, which are often very strong due to coherent reflection of many photons from many regularly spaced instances of similar structure, while non-periodic components of the structure result in diffuse ( and usually weak ) diffraction features.

Of a similar proportion to the second temple it retained the 6 by 15 column pattern around the stylobate.

Since the well-known technique of pattern welding produced surface patterns similar to those found on Damascus blades, some believe that Damascus blades were made using this technique.

They use the Arabic language and follow a social pattern very similar to those of the other peoples of the eastern Mediterranean region.

In spite of all this variety, destroyers adopted a largely similar pattern.

Athabasca University, Canada's Open University, was created in 1970 and followed a similar, though independently developed, pattern.

The Blue Nile has a similar pattern.

Languages with rich nominal inflection typically have a number of identifiable declension classes, or groups of nouns with a similar pattern of case inflection.

Conjugation is also the traditional name of a group of verbs that share a similar conjugation pattern in a particular language ( a verb class ).

The machine's advanced loop-frame pattern was similar to the 1903 Milwaukee Merkel motorcycle ( designed by Joseph Merkel, later of Flying Merkel fame ).

Until the 13th century, icons followed a broadly similar pattern in West and East-although very few survive from this early from either tradition.

Canada follows a similar pattern, where a prefix of C is usually added to an IATA code to create the ICAO code.

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

It appears similar to an Asagi, with little or no hi below the lateral line and a Kohaku Hi pattern over reticulated ( fishnet pattern ) scales.

Therefore, four loose families of more-efficient light transport modelling techniques have emerged: rasterization, including scanline rendering, geometrically projects objects in the scene to an image plane, without advanced optical effects ; ray casting considers the scene as observed from a specific point-of-view, calculating the observed image based only on geometry and very basic optical laws of reflection intensity, and perhaps using Monte Carlo techniques to reduce artifacts ; and ray tracing is similar to ray casting, but employs more advanced optical simulation, and usually uses Monte Carlo techniques to obtain more realistic results at a speed that is often orders of magnitude slower.

In several accounts, it was explained that the explosion of the planet Krypton had opened a " dimensional warp " ( similar to a wormhole in modern theoretical physics ) which allowed the vehicle carrying the young Kal-El to reach Earth in a relatively brief time, and a large amount of planetary debris had also passed through this " warp " and emerged near Earth at virtually the same time, accounting for the seemingly improbable abundance of kryptonite material and its availability to Superman's enemies.

Because of this, as well as its formatting and usage of emoticons, this novel is similar to what emerged a decade later as the blog format.

In addition, other technologies with similar goals have emerged, such as microformats.

The comb and wattle are cut off in order to meet show standards of the American Gamefowl Society and the Old English Game Club and to prevent freezing in colder climates ( the standard emerged from the older practice of severing the comb, wattles, and earlobes of the bird in order to remove anatomical vulnerabilities, similar to the practice of docking a dog's tail and ears ).

Falun Gong emerged at the end of China's " qigong boom ", a period which saw the proliferation of similar practices of meditation, slow-moving exercises and regulated breathing.

Andrew Devine, aged 22 at the time of the disaster, suffered similar injuries to Tony Bland and was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, but in March 1997 – a month before the eighth anniversary of the disaster – it was reported he had emerged from the condition and was able to communicate using a touch-sensitive pad.

In the 1990s, a minority scientific opinion emerged proposing that caviomorphs, such as guinea pigs, chinchillas, and degus, are not rodents and should be reclassified as a separate order of mammals ( similar to lagomorphs ).

China and India have also emerged as friends of Iran ; these three countries face similar challenges in the global economy as they industrialize, and consequently find themselves aligned on a number of issues.

" In a similar vein, there is the incident where Alvy scatters a trove of cocaine with an accidental sneeze: although not in the script, the joke emerged from a rehearsal happenstance and stayed in the movie.

The musical style emerged shortly afterwards in Spain and other areas of Latin America where it came to be known under similar names.

While the Cryptogram has remained popular, over time other puzzles similar to it have emerged.

Following the success of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, plans to build a similar theme park in Europe emerged in 1972.

A similar technology called Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate ( PVP ) with the GreenLight ( KTP or LBO crystal ) laser have emerged very recently.

In concept, they are similar to the much more numerous Mycenaean chamber tombs which seem to have emerged at about the same time.

It was in this period as well that weaponsmithing techniques emerged creating so-called " Japanese steel " blades, flexible yet extremely hard and sharp ; the katana, and myriad similar or related blade weapons, appeared at this time and would dominate Japanese arms, relatively unchanged, through the mid-20th century.

Over the next few years various tangible projects emerged, including a large indoor stadium at Exhibition Place with an air-supported dome, similar to BC Place in Vancouver.

The Merseybeats ( related vocal duo: The Merseys, see below ) are a Merseybeat band that emerged from the Liverpool scene in the early 1960s, performing at The Cavern Club along with The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers and other similar artists.

Later it emerged that the source of the story had been Damian McBride, then a Treasury civil servant who as a result of this became a special adviser to the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown who in 2009 resigned from a similar position in Number 10 Downing Street following publication of emails indicating a plan to smear leading Conservative politicians.

A series of highly similar texts eventually emerged, and any of these texts are known as Masoretic Texts ( MT ).

On the table of debates, two different proposals emerged: the members of the Liberal Party wanted a federalist government, similar to that of the United States of 1789.

A similar coding system based on statistical analysis was applied to each discussion as a whole, and the aforementioned four-stage pattern of rumor discussion emerged.

Soon, much of the United States knew the tale of Lady ’ s death, and other reports of similar phenomena in Colorado emerged.

More recently another form of charismatic restorationism with a similar recognition of the apostolic office has emerged in the form of the Apostolic-Prophetic Movement, centered on the Kansas City Prophets.