The most promising approaches treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in mechanism from electronic computers, but similar in the sense that it acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety of ways.

This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar Rough-legged Buzzard ( Buteo lagopus ) and the only distantly related European Honey Buzzard ( Pernis apivorus ), which mimics the Common Buzzard's plumage for a degree of protection from Northern Goshawks.

These cultures show a variety of influences: Pomeranian, Milograd, Scythian and Getic, with La Tene and Roman Danubian influences evident at their maturity ; making them more " Central European " in outlook ( i. e. similar to the Przeworsk culture ) rather than of the " forest-Venedic " or Carpic-Dacian types.

It is derived from the native cooking styles of the Huangshan Mountains region in China and is similar to Jiangsu cuisine, but with less emphasis on seafood and more on a wide variety of local herbs and vegetables.

Military engineering can employ a wide variety of heavy equipment in the same or similar ways to how this equipment is used outside the military.

Besides the gastraphetes, the ancient world knew a variety of mechanical hand-held weapons similar to the later medieval crossbow.

This certainly was a successful device as water clocks of similar design were still being made in Baghdad when the Mongols captured the city in 1258 A. D. A variety of automatic devices have been used over the centuries to accomplish useful tasks or simply to just entertain.

They typically begin repeating similar basic questions in a variety of different ways to get different responses, which will then be used against the witness as misstatements of fact later when the attorney wants to make their point.

A variety of similar devices are also described as dice ; such specialized dice may have polyhedral or irregular shapes and may have faces marked with symbols instead of numbers.

A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.

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

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

It is to be expected that the electronegativity of an element will vary with its chemical environment, but it is usually considered to be a transferable property, that is to say that similar values will be valid in a variety of situations.

Among the Oriental Orthodox, a variety of anaphoras are used, but all are similar in structure to those of the Constantinopolitan Rite, in which the Anaphora of Saint John Chrysostom is used most days of the year ; Saint Basil's is offered on the Sundays of Great Lent, the eves of Christmas and Theophany, Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, and upon his feast day ( 1 January ).

Dinner ( Abendessen or Abendbrot ) was always a smaller meal, often consisting only of a variety of breads, meat or sausages, cheese and some kind of vegetables, similar to breakfast, or possibly sandwiches.

The Arabs for instance employed a variety of incendiary substances similar to the Byzantine weapon, but they were never able to copy the Byzantine method of deployment by siphon, and used catapults and grenades instead.

This means that any algebraic variety can be replaced by ( more precisely is birationally equivalent to ) a similar variety which has no singularities.

While there are clear resemblances to other forms of Late Antique religion, it is controversial as to which variety it is most similar to.

Although the mechanics are different from casting on, there is a similar variety of methods.

The works of the Brightfields had a similar two-dimensional form but used a variety of graphics-oriented " path obscuring " techniques – although the routing was comparable to or simpler than Koziakin's mazes, the Brightfield's mazes did not allow the various pathway options to be discerned so easily by the roving eye as it glanced about.

The term has come to be used in similar context in a variety of disciplines, notably architectural archaeology.

The direct ancestor to the shotgun, the blunderbuss, was also used in a similar variety of roles from self defence to riot control.

Hippolytus says the free love doctrine was held by them in its purest form, and speaks in language similar to that of Irenaeus about the variety of magic arts practiced by the Simonians, and also of their having images of Simon and Helen under the forms of Zeus and Athena.

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.

Buddy was the youngest of three siblings, and brothers Larry and Travis taught him to play a variety of instruments, including the guitar, four-string banjo and lap steel guitar.

Some have colored miniatures showing pairs of musicians playing a wide variety of instruments.

It was released on October 8, 2002, and features the duo performing acoustic originals and cover songs on a variety of instruments

They are usually ROMplers, to give a wide variety of realistic instrument and other sounds such as drums, string instruments and wind instruments along with popular keyboard instrument sounds such as electric pianos and organs.

They also incorporate a wide variety of other Japanese instruments in their ensembles.

In the 21st century, it is not uncommon for drummers to use a variety of auxiliary percussion instruments, found objects, and electronics as part of their " drum " kits.

A study in which professional players were blindfolded could find no significant differences between instruments made from a variety of different metals.

Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars.

Galaxy of Musicians by Raja Ravi Varma depicts Indian women dressed in regional attire playing a variety of musical instruments popular in different parts of the country.

The haunting melody of Rajasthan evokes from a variety of delightfully primitive looking instruments.

Over time the definition of koto could not describe the wide variety of these stringed instruments and so the meanings changed.

MIDI (; short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface ) is an electronic musical instrument industry specification that enables a wide variety of digital musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another.

This unit provides a variety of real-time controllers, which can manipulate various sound design parameters of computer-based or standalone hardware instruments, effects, mixers and recording devices.

The NCNR provides scientists access to a variety of neutron scattering instruments, which are used in many fields of research ( materials science, fuel cells, biotechnology, etc.

In medieval Europe, the slow crushing of body parts in screw-operated " bone vises " of iron was a common method of torture, and a tremendous variety of cruel instruments were used to savagely crush the head, the knee, the hand, and, most commonly, either the thumb or the naked foot.

The developers continued on to work on Open Sound Control protocol, currently supported in a wide variety of musical instruments, sensors and software.

Arkenstone has learned to play a large variety of musical instruments including the bouzouki, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar, harp, cello, flute, electronic keyboards, piano, Turkish saz, pennywhistle, melodica and pan pipes.

A variety of torture instruments including, at right, the iron maiden ( torture ) | iron maiden of Nuremberg.

Next followed Ravel's music for the opera L ' heure espagnole ( The Spanish Hour ), full of humor and rich in color, employing a wide variety of instruments and their characteristic qualities, including the trombone, sarrusophone, tuba, celesta, xylophone, and bells.

Later, they were represented as female figures with the legs of birds, with or without wings, playing a variety of musical instruments, especially harps.

As its popularity grew, other manufacturers began producing instruments based on Schluter's design, marketed under a variety of names, including Leedy, who marketed their new instrument as the vibraphone and abandoned their old design.

Outside of the United States, the Premier Drum Company, of London, UK, after experimenting with a variety of aluminum bar instruments more closely related to the glockenspiel that were called variations of “ harpaphone ”, moved to the production of the Schluter vibraphone design.

He observed, measured, dissected, built models and employed, invented and improved a variety of instruments.

Today, Cortland county is noted for the production of CNC milling machines ; hospitality supplies ; medical instruments and components ; textiles ; electrical components ; plastic consumer goods ; components for NASA and a variety of other goods and services.