Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

Basic theories, such as arithmetic, real analysis and complex analysis are often introduced non-axiomatically, but implicitly or explicitly there is generally an assumption that the axioms being used are the axioms of Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory with choice, abbreviated ZFC, or some very similar system of axiomatic set theory like Von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory, a conservative extension of ZFC.

The Romans had a similar belief system about the afterlife, with Hades becoming known as Pluto.

* 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

Stephen R. Donaldson, in his Gap Series, proposed a similar system, Symbiotic Crystalline Resonance Transmission, clearly ansible-type technology, but was very difficult to produce and limited to text messages.

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.

In the earliest Indian astronomy texts, the year was believed to be 360 days long, similar to that of Babylonian astrology, but the rest of the early astrological system bears little resemblance.

One nibble of such a byte then controlled the foreground color, and the other nibble controlled the background color, a system very similar to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, in fact in the 256x192 mode the display mode was virtually identical to the video of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

The output of the preamplifier then goes to a separate amplifier system similar to that for an electric guitar.

Morphine, the archetypal opioid, and various other substances ( e. g. codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, dihydromorphine, pethidine ) all exert a similar influence on the cerebral opioid receptor system.

However, the defining recommendation indicates a change to a system similar to ISO 8601 and astronomical year numbering is likely in the future.

GCC, which had a background in creating arcade games, designed their new system with a graphical architecture similar to arcade machines of the time.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

The distinction between broadcast and collision domains comes about because simple Ethernet and similar systems use a shared transmission system.

The Cleminson system is not a true bogie, but serves a similar purpose.

" In this way, the common law was eventually incorporated into the legal systems of every state except Louisiana ( which inherited a civil law system from its French colonizers before the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, adopting a code similar to but not directly based on the Napoleonic Code of 1804 ).

The reason for the enactment of the codes in California in the 19th century was to replace a pre-existing system based on Spanish civil law with a system based on common law, similar to that in most other states.

Roman Dutch Commons law is a bijuridical or mixed system of law similar to the common law system in Scotland and Louisiana.

Various theorists have differing, though similar, legal philosophies which are considered to fall under " anarcho-capitalism.

Figures that would be congruent except for their differing sizes are referred to as similar.

The chemistry of hafnium and zirconium is so similar that the two cannot be separated on the basis of differing chemical reactions.

This is similar to the draw phase of draw poker, differing in the following way: if the player chooses to replace a downcard, he discards it and is dealt a replacement card also face down ; if he wishes to replace an upcard, he discards it and receives the replacement face up.

It assumes a Creator-deity which is at some point distinct from the universe and then merges with it, resulting in a universe similar to the pantheistic one in present essence, but differing in origin.

Chemically, uracil is similar to thymine, differing only by a methyl group, and its production requires less energy.

Other similar Stock Car classes are the 2 Litre Stock Cars licensed by Spedeworth and the 1300 Stock Cars licensed by several different promotors each to slightly differing rules although steps are currently being taken to standardise the specifications in order to make it a national class.

Aside from its purely prosaic use to mean road, channel, path, doctrine, or similar, the word has acquired a variety of differing and often confusing metaphorical, philosophical and religious uses.

Today, many desktop and server operating systems share similar code bases, differing mostly in configuration.

This is in contrast to symmetric warfare, where two powers have similar military power and resources and rely on tactics that are similar overall, differing only in details and execution.

Even though they worked independently of one another, because they employed differing means to similar ends, and because superficial similarities and even some more substantive ones are evident, the public and the critics associated them more than the facts warranted.

However similar two beings may be, their characteristics will be at most analogous, differing most importantly in essences.

Large complex gas molecules may have high heat capacities per mole of gas molecules, but their heat capacities per mole of total gas atoms are very similar to those of liquids and solids, again differing by less than a factor of two per mole of atoms.

The Titanium also has a slightly differing case design from that of the TI-89 ( the Titanium's case design is similar to that of the TI-84 Plus ).

When a large number of such allowed energy levels are spaced close together ( in energy-space ) i. e. have similar ( minutely differing energies ) then we can talk about these energy levels together as an " energy band ".

The pilot's opening and ending theme songs, two similar Calypso-styled tracks written by John Williams with differing lyrics, were quite different from those of the actual series.

In an absolute context, the word " integrity " conveys no meaning between people with differing definitions of absolute morality, and becomes nothing more than a vague assertion of perceived political correctness or popularity, similar to using terms such as " good " or " ethical " in a moralistic context.

This writing identifies the sink as one of a number of similar subsurface geologic features in the surrounding area, differing from the Big Spring sink only in the fact that the surface topography above the others, while showing some decline, does not dip low enough to intersect the top of the water tables ; hence, no springs could form from the other aquifers.

The thalli produced by a given fungal symbiont with its differing partners will be similar, and the secondary metabolites identical, indicating that the fungus has the dominant role in determining the morphology of the lichen.

The anime Turn A Gundam attempted to combine all the parallel Gundam universes ( other incarnations of the series, with similar themes but differing stories and characters, that had played out at different times since the debut of the concept in the 1970s ) of the metaseries in to one single reality.

In the United Kingdom, a bar similar in premise ( caramel-filled chocolate ) but differing considerably in taste, shape, ingredients and packaging is sold as Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel.

Precise comparisons of the efficacy of competing paradigms are frequently made more difficult because of new and differing terminology applied to similar ( but not identical ) entities and processes together with numerous implementation distinctions across languages.

It is very similar to tyrannica, differing in having a shorter wing and being lighter and smaller overall.

All these races are similar in plumage, differing only in size.