From an evolutionary psychology perspective, different fears may be different adaptations that have been useful in our evolutionary past.

One view sees memes as providing a useful philosophical perspective with which to examine cultural evolution.

) Materialists do not find this a useful way of thinking about the ontology and ontogeny of ideas, but we might say that from a materialist perspective pushed to a logical extreme communicable to an idealist ( an " Away Team " perspective ), ideas are ultimately reducible to a physically communicated, organically, socially and environmentally embedded ' brain-state '.

From a military perspective, the area was useful for it high bayside cliffs, which allowed for strategic observation of ships traveling between New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean.

In the case of recreational drug use, harm reduction is put forward as a useful perspective alongside the more conventional approaches of demand and supply reduction.

Despite its highly personal perspective and agenda, The Assault on Culture: Utopian currents from Lettrisme to Class War ( Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, London, 1988 ) is considered a useful art-history work, providing an introduction to a range of cultural currents which had, aluthet that time at least, been under-documented.

From a software development perspective, URL rewriting can aid in code modularization and control flow, making it a useful feature of modern web frameworks.

Voyage a Pékin, Manille et l ' Ile de France provided an alternate perspective and a useful counterpoint to other reports which were then circulating.

While the notion of a simple Lie group is satisfying from the axiomatic perspective, in applications of Lie theory, such as the theory of Riemannian symmetric spaces, somewhat more general notions of semisimple and reductive Lie groups proved to be even more useful.

From one perspective, the characters are most useful in their roles as " carriers of information ".

* Southbeach Notation is a visual modeling language used to describe situations in terms of agents that are considered useful or harmful from the modeler's perspective.

If we describe the displacements of individual arms of a robot, each with its own coordinate frame, the passive interpretation is useful to depict all the arm displacements from a common perspective.

The notion of a projective plane arises out of the idea of perspective in geometry and art: that it is sometimes useful to include in the Euclidean plane an additional " imaginary " line that represents the horizon that an artist painting the plane might see.

There are " 6 different levels of focus " to provide a useful perspective.

From an algebraist's perspective, prime manifolds should be called " irreducible "; however, the topologist ( in particular the 3-manifold topologist ) finds the definition above more useful.

Scruton argued that beliefs that appear to be examples of prejudice may be useful and important: " our most necessary beliefs may be both unjustified and unjustifiable, from our own perspective, and the attempt to justify them will merely lead to their loss.

Thunberg's and Titsingh's published accounts and their unpublished writings provided a unique and useful perspective for Orientalists and Japanologists in the 19th century ; and the work of both men continues to be rigorously examined by modern researchers today.

Steve Colley subsequently worked on very early versions of Mars rover technology for NASA, and found that his 3D perspective work on Maze Wars was useful for this project.

Hence from a life cycle cost analysis perspective, the ratio of preproduction costs ( e. g. design widgets ) versus incremental production costs ( e. g. produce a widget ) is a useful measure of operating leverage.

With its left of center perspective, The Mother Earth News attracted a wide readership, not only of back to the landers but also others ranging from hippies, to survivalists, to suburban dwellers who dreamed of someday moving to the country, to long-time rural dwellers who found the DIY articles useful.

Nevertheless, an overall perspective is useful, even when rather imprecise.

Also, from a purely curatorial perspective the term pteridosperms is a useful shorthand for describing the fern-like fronds that were probably produced by seed plants, which are commonly found in many Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossil floras.

PCT contributes a useful perspective in understanding psychological disorders by first providing a model of satisfactory psychological functioning.

Education is by some included in social media, and in this sense it could eventually be used as a powerful mean to introduce in individuals some " politically useful " concepts: what a man learns in his youth, in the phasis in which the fundaments of character are created ( which many believe will seldom greatly vary after ), is brought to him by family, schools and other clubs, and mass media.

It is useful in the programming of user interfaces whose contents are time-varying — graphical objects can be created, removed, altered, or made to handle input events without necessarily having to write separate code to do those things.

This simplicity of VLB unfortunately created several factors that served to limit its useful life substantially:

This agent, Garbo, created an entire network of phantom sub-agents and finally succeeded in convincing the British authorities that he could be useful.

The airflow created by the fans that is entering the tunnel is itself highly turbulent due to the fan blade motion ( when the fan is blowing air into the test section – when it is sucking air out of the test section downstream, the fan-blade turbulence is not a factor ), and so is not directly useful for accurate measurements.

If this wavelet were to be convolved at periodic intervals with a signal created from the recording of a song, then the results of these convolutions would be useful for determining when the Middle C note was being played in the song.

This art created a new and more useful identity for the Turkish population in Germany.

The latter is useful if both the location and destination of the symbolic link share a common path prefix, but that prefix is not yet known when the symbolic link is created ( e. g., in an archive file that can be unpacked anywhere ).

Pliny states that Apelles made a number of useful innovations to the art of painting, but his recipe for a black varnish, called by Pliny atramentum — which served both to preserve his paintings and to soften their colour, and created an effect that Pliny praises to no end — Apelles kept secret and was lost with his death.

The secondary forests created by shifting cultivation are commonly richer in plant and animal resources useful to humans than primary forests, even though they are much less bio-diverse.

The Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance created territorial government, set up protocols for the admission of new states, the division of land into useful units, and set aside land in each township for public use.

PAs created in and determined as useful in the United States are not necessarily able to be transferable cross-culturally.

However, for plasmon-based electronics to be useful, the analog to the transistor, called a plasmonster, first needs to be created.

Space debris, also known as orbital debris, space junk, and space waste, is the collection of objects in orbit around Earth that were created by humans but no longer serve any useful purpose.

But unproductive labor, however ” honorable ,... useful, or ... necessary ” created services that perished at the time of production and therefore didn ’ t contribute to wealth.

" Brand and cohorts created a catalog of " tools "-defined broadly to include useful books, design aids, maps, gardening implements, carpentry and masonry tools, metalworking equipment, and a great deal more.

One example is that loader tractors were created by removing the blade and substituting a large volume bucket and hydraulic arms which can raise and lower the bucket, thus making it useful for scooping up earth and loading it into trucks, these are often known as a Drott.

Inventing is a special kind of creative problem solving in which the created solution qualifies as an invention because it is a useful new object, substance, process, software, or other kind of marketable entity.

* Institute for Public Policy & Economic Analysis — created in 2002 to " provide data and analysis about a variety of factors in the region that will be useful for businesses, communities and others as they plan for the future.

Alexander Shulgin, who first synthesized the 2C-X chemicals, created a list of the " magical half dozen " of phenethylamines which felt were the most " magical " or useful.

This is possibly because the planners felt they had enough militarily useful data already, but likely because Green, although thorough, was created in a hurry.

Genetic mosaics can be extraordinarily useful in the study of biological systems, and can be created intentionally in many model organisms in a variety of ways.

Recent research in block copolymers suggests that they may be useful in creating self-constructing fabrics with potential utility in semiconductor arrays ( for example, computer memory devices ) by assembling fine details atop a structured base created using conventional microlithography methods.

His support of the ministry was so useful that he was created in 1767 Baron Nugent and Viscount Clare, and in 1776 Earl Nugent, all Irish peerages.

They created five prototypes, based on the chassis of the Panzer III, which were not useful for combat operations but did prove valuable for training.