Although every map element serves some purpose, convention only dictates inclusion of some elements, while others are considered optional.

Although the indigenous Gilbertese language name for the Gilbert Islands proper is Tungaru, the new state chose the name " Kiribati ," the Gilbertese rendition of " Gilberts ," as an equivalent of the former colony to acknowledge the inclusion of islands which were never considered part of the Gilberts chain.

Although it is commonly held that an allegorical interpretation justified its inclusion in the Biblical canon, scholarly discussion has not reached any consensus yet on Song of Songs and leaves other possibilities open.

Although modern Christians, nearly all of whom are Gentiles, naturally believe in Gentile inclusion, they are divided in their understanding of whether the New Testament teaches Jewish exclusion.

Although some rabbis since the Shabbetai Tzvi debacle still maintain that one should be married and forty years old in order to study Kabbalah, since the time of Baal Shem Tov there has been relaxation of such stringency, and many maintain that it is sufficient to be married and knowledgeable in halakhah and hence permitted to study Kabbalah and by inclusion, Tikunei haZohar ; and some rabbis will advise learning Kabbalah without restrictions of marriage or age.

Although required by the tenets of constitutional monarchy to be nonpartisan while in office, governors general were frequently former politicians ; a number held seats in the House of Lords by virtue of their inclusion in the peerage.

Although not part of this definition, many authors require that the topology on G be Hausdorff ; this corresponds to the identity map being a closed inclusion ( hence also a cofibration ).

Although there is considerable agreement about the relationships between most chelicerate sub-groups, the inclusion of the Pycnogonida in this taxon has recently been questioned ( see below ), and the exact position of scorpions is still controversial, though they were long considered the most primitive ( basal ) of the arachnids.

Although the LGBT community has seen much controversy regarding universal acceptance of different member groups ( bisexual and transgender individuals, in particular, have sometimes been marginalized by the larger LGBT community ), the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion.

Although there was some initial skepticism in league circles regarding the potential success and talent levels of the incoming ABA teams, the Spurs would prove worthy of NBA inclusion during the 1976 – 77 season with a record of 44 – 38, good for a tie for fourth place overall in the Eastern Conference.

Although in use for decades, its inclusion into dictionaries has been met with some reluctance, still considered merely slang.

Although successful, the album is controversial among some fans for the inclusion of nursery rhymes sung by " The St. Eeleye School Choir " ( band members singing in the style of children ), and the cover " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", featuring a guest appearance from David Bowie on saxophone.

Although there has been a tradition of wall-paintings, especially in the Persianate world, the best-surviving and highest developed form of painting in the Islamic world is the miniature in illuminated manuscripts, or later as a single page for inclusion in a muraqqa or bound album of miniatures and calligraphy.

Although Benjamin addresses his autobiography to his son, he does not mention him further, except indirectly by the inclusion of a newspaper article in which Benjamin notes that his ( then still in good standing ) son may make contracts for the procurement of carts for the British army.

Although the site doesn't specify its criteria for inclusion, many of its articles don't cite their sources.

Although its historical, political, economic, and cultural ties bound it firmly to Europe, the Soviet Union was, with the inclusion of Siberia, also an Asian country.

Although Car and Driver staff wrote an article in 2009 apologizing for the inclusion of the Ford Contour on the " Ten Best " list, it was the only car the staff did not outright recant from the list, but did cite that, in hindsight, the car should have been considered too small for its price range to properly meet criteria, and that this is the likely reason for the car's failure to achieve widespread appeal.

Although the original license ( Moria / Angband license ) allows distribution of the game, it only does so if " not for profit ", which precludes packaging with many Linux distributions or inclusion within a magazine cover disc.

Although the cholesterol-reducing and glycemic-response properties of psyllium-containing foods are fairly well documented, the effect of long-term inclusion of psyllium in the diet has not been determined.

Although these works were individually known in the monastic culture of Greek Orthodox Christianity before their inclusion in The Philokalia, their presence in this collection resulted in a much wider readership due to its translation into several languages.

: Although the concept of inclusion incorporates many of the fundamentals of the ideas present in disability rights, inclusion is a distinct social movement and should not be conflated with disability rights more generally.

Although these four spots ( three in English and one in Spanish ) contained no reference to Senator Kerry, two ( one in English and the one in Spanish, both titled, " Safer, Stronger ") generated controversy for their inclusion of four seconds of images drawn from the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, including the wreckage of the World Trade Center site, images of New York firefighters ( the New York firefighters ' union supported Kerry ), and the image of a flag-draped coffin being carried out of the attack site .< ref >< nowiki > http :// www. georgewbush. com / tvads </ nowiki >

Although the issue of whether women are permitted to make up a minyan has been noted in early works, the matter has only come to the fore in past few decades, a reaction to an enhanced role of women in modern society and to the demand for their inclusion in all areas of religious life.

Although clearly both genetic and environmental input is needed for a child to develop normally, considerable debate remains about how genetic information might guide cognitive development.

Although not unchallenged, validity generalization has broad acceptance with regard to many selection instruments ( e. g. cognitive ability tests, job knowledge tests, work samples, and structured interviews ) across a broad range of jobs.

Although memory has traditionally been a persistent theme in philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also saw the study of memory emerge as a subject of inquiry within the paradigms of cognitive psychology.

Although the task of cognitive neuroscience is to describe how the brain creates the mind, historically it has progressed by investigating how a certain area of the brain supports a given mental faculty.

Although cognitive processes can only be inferred and cannot be seen directly, they all have very important practical implications within a legal context.

Although hyperthyroidism has been considered to induce psychiatric symptoms by enhancement of the sensitivity and turnover in catecholaminergic neurotransmission, the precise mechanism of cognitive and behavioral dysfunction in hyperthyroidism is not known.

Although the older technique of EEG had long been used to study the brain activity underlying selective attention by cognitive psychophysiologists, the ability of the newer techniques to actually measure precisely localized activity inside the brain generated renewed interest by a wider community of researchers.

Although cognitive linguists do not necessarily deny that part of the human linguistic ability is innate, they deny that it is separate from the rest of cognition.

Although research within cognitive neuroscience has made substantial progress in explaining mental processes such as perception, memory and motivational states such as anger and fear, larger concepts such as mind and intelligence, remain essentially higher level constructs, with observable neural correlates distributed throughout the brain.

Although it has a low mortality rate, schistosomiasis often is a chronic illness that can damage internal organs and, in children, impair growth and cognitive development.

Although many argue that memorization does not typically require the complex cognitive processing that increases retention ( Sagarra & Alba, 2006 ), it does typically require a large amount of repetition, and spaced repetition with flashcards is an established method for memorization, particularly used for vocabulary acquisition in computer-assisted language learning.

Although Quarry appeared to be in good health, his performance on several simple cognitive tests was shockingly poor.

Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions.

Although misleading vividness does little to support an argument logically, it can have a very strong psychological effect because of a cognitive heuristic called the availability heuristic.

Although Nielsen is considered the expert and field leader in heuristics, Jill Gerhardt-Powals also developed a set of cognitive principles for enhancing computer performance.

Although he argued for the modularity of " lower level " cognitive processes in Modularity of Mind he also argued that higher level cognitive processes are not modular since they have dissimilar properties.

Although modern cognitive researchers continue to debate the actual causes of forgetting ( e. g., competition vs. unlearning ), retroactive interference implies a general understanding that additional underlying processes play a role in memory.

Although not nootropics from the standpoint of cognitive enhancement, adaptogens are plants that help the body adapt to stress.

Although the symptoms of OMA are typically steroid-responsive and recovery from acute symptoms of OMA can be quite good, children often suffer lifelong neurologic sequelae that impair motor, cognitive, language, and behavioral development.

Although it is unsure whether the reason for this mechanism is for effective communication or purely cognitive, the discovery of similarities between superficially dissimilar events leads to activation of the limbic system to create a rewarding process.

Although certain brain structures are identified as participants in the core ' algorithm ' of prediction-from-memory, these details are less important than the set of principles that are proposed as basis for all high-level cognitive processing.

Although visual short term memory is essential for the execution of a wide array of perceptual and cognitive functions, and is supported by an extensive network of brain regions, its storage capacity is severely limited.

Although Sunny is very young, her cognitive abilities are unusually developed for her age, with her comprehension of their situations generally equaling that of Violet and Klaus.