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When the International Mathematical Union in 1981 decided to create a prize, similar to the Fields Medal, in theoretical computer science and the funding for the price was secured from Finland, the Union decided to give Nevanlinna's name to the prize.
In 1814 Tassaert observed the spontaneous formation of a blue compound, very similar to ultramarine, if not identical with it, in a lime kiln at St. Gobain, which caused the Societé pour l ' Encouragement d ' Industrie to offer, in 1824, a prize for the artificial production of the precious color.
Even as the show ended its run in 1984, the theme is still heard as a car prize cue on The Price Is Right and was used for similar purposes on the late-1980s revival of Card Sharks.
On Friday episodes which ran short, in order to fill time, audience members played a question similar to those used in the Super Match for a small cash prize.
Somewhat similar to the economics prize, it is not a Nobel prize ( i. e., a prize created by Alfred Nobel ).
* similar to the Sveriges Riksbank economics prize, it is not a fulfillment of Alfred Nobel's bequest and thus not one of Nobel's own prizes
Camera Buff ( Amator, 1979 ) ( which won the grand prize at the Moscow International Film Festival ) and Blind Chance ( Przypadek, 1981 ) continued along similar lines, but focused more on the ethical choices faced by a single character rather than a community.
It is generally accepted that the Mound is actually of much more ancient construction and possibly a similar feature to Silbury Hill ; indeed, it is a contender for the prize of Europe's oldest building.
The prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize, as it recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology.
A similar prize is the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, established by the Inamori Foundation.
Millionaire has a very similar format to The $ 64, 000 Question – 15 questions ( now 14 ) in which the contestant's money roughly doubles with each correct question until reaching the top prize.
Before the beginning of the game, the host announces a satirical sponsor for the episode ( similar to YDKJ: The Ride ); If a player manages to buzz in with the wrong answer associated with the sponsor, they win $ 4, 000 ( double in Round 2 ) and a ' prize ' from the sponsor, instead of losing cash.
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles reflected the ambiguity that many felt when he wrote to Wilkes ofthe emphatic approval ” of the Navy Department for his actions while cautioning him that the failure to take the Trent to a prize court “ must by no means be permitted to constitute a precedent hereafter for the treatment of any case of similar infraction of neutral obligations .” On November 24, the New York Times claimed to find no actual on point precedent.
During the first season, the Snack Break occurred in the middle of the round, and the player in the lead at that point had the chance to win a small prize by correctly guessing which of three numbered refrigerators it was located in ( similar to Let's Make a Deal ).
Kuerten was deeply affected by his brother's daily struggles, later donating the entire prize money from one tournament he has won every year of his professional career so far to a hometown NGO that provides assistance for people suffering from similar disabilities.
In 1961 a similar prize was set up by the Bollingen Foundation for best translation and it was won by Robert Fitzgerald for his translation of the Odyssey.
In later episodes, a common ( but not always used ) rule was that no one would be eliminated after the second stunt ; instead, the contestant or team that performed the best would receive a prize, such as a vehicle or a prize package similar in value.
Douglas Hofstadter, in his Pulitzer prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, explains that these " Gödel-statements " always refer to the system itself, similar to the way the Epimenides paradox uses statements that refer to themselves, such as " this statement is false " or " I am lying ".
From 1989 to 1996 the NEH awarded a similar prize known as the Charles Frankel Prize.

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On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.
Another problem was that the gradual identification of more and more chemically similar and indistinguishable lanthanides, which were of an uncertain number, led to inconsistency and uncertainty in the numbering of all elements at least from lutetium ( element 71 ) onwards ( hafnium was not known at this time ).
Someone also suggested that these large roads were used to quickly move an army from the canyon to the outlier communities, a purpose similar to the road systems known for the Roman empire.
The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto.
Lucian of Antioch had contended for a christology very similar to what would later be known as Arianism and is thought to have influenced its development.
This would eliminate the need for more ports on the back of the machine, and allowed for the elimination of expansion slots for supporting more complex devices ( the Atari 8-bit family used a similar solution, known as SIO ).
The initial concept was known as AppleBus, envisioning a system controlled by the host Macintosh polling " dumb " devices in a fashion similar to the modern Universal Serial Bus.
While some fans applauded the redesign, most of the reaction to the new color scheme, which included the changing of the historical purple and traditional Arizonan colors of copper and turquoise to a reddish color known as " Sedona Red " similar to that of the Phoenix Coyotes and Arizona Cardinals color schemes, was pointedly negative.
The method of standard addition is used in instrumental analysis to determine concentration of a substance ( analyte ) in an unknown sample by comparison to a set of samples of known concentration, similar to using a calibration curve.
( The covenant ceremony has elements of a divine land-grant ceremony, similar to ceremonies known from Mesopotamia ).
Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel are developing a different device called the BioPen, essentially a " Lab-in-a-Pen ", which can detect known biological agents in under 20 minutes using an adaptation of the ELISA, a similar widely employed immunological technique, that in this case incorporates fiber optics.
In Scottish Mythology a similar creature is known as the Bean nighe or ban nigheachain ( little washerwoman ) or nigheag na h-àth ( little washer at the ford ).
In Welsh folklore, a similar creature is known as the Hag of the mist.
BSI is similar in nature to universal precautions, but goes further in isolating workers from pathogens, including substances now known to carry HIV.
No place having a similar name to Birka is known to have situated on the opposite shore of Oder, so it may be possible that something similar to Jumne was located opposite to Birka.
A more general binomial theorem and the so-called " Pascal's triangle " were known in the 10th-century A. D. to Indian mathematician Halayudha and Persian mathematician Al-Karaji, in the 11th century to Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam, and in the 13th century to Chinese mathematician Yang Hui, who all derived similar results .< ref > Al-Karaji also provided a mathematical proof of both the binomial theorem and Pascal's triangle, using mathematical induction.
As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).
Common law ( also known as case law or precedent ) is law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals ( as opposed to statutes adopted through the legislative process or regulations issued by the executive branch ).
If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision ( this principle is known as stare decisis ).
In time, a rule, known as stare decisis ( also commonly known as precedent ) developed, whereby a judge would be bound to follow the decision of an earlier judge ; he was required to adopt the earlier judge's interpretation of the law and apply the same principles promulgated by that earlier judge if the two cases had similar facts to one another.
All known forms of life are based on the same fundamental biochemical organisation: genetic information encoded in DNA, transcribed into RNA, through the effect of protein-and RNA-enzymes, then translated into proteins by ( highly similar ) ribosomes, with ATP, NADH and others as energy sources, etc.
O ' Flaherty illustrates two similar attracting advantages known as increasing returns to scale and economies of scale, which are concepts normally associated with firms.

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