Artificial topiary is another off-shoot similar to the concept of artificial Christmas trees.

The town is known for its artificial Christmas tree, locally claimed to be the biggest year-round Christmas tree in Europe and the second biggest in the world – although it is, in fact, a metal structure and not a real tree.

Over the 2007 and 2008 Christmas periods an artificial skating rink was installed in the Concert Hall.

During the holiday season, a large artificial Christmas tree is installed in the central court.

Their homes are decorated with local Christmas handicrafts while artificial stars signifying the Star of Bethlehem are hung on rooftops.

The name's influence can also be seen throughout culture-from business names to artificial Christmas tree products.

There were also holiday themed episodes, such as visiting a prison on Christmas and delivering an artificial heart on Valentine's Day.

He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1982-3, and he has written and presented many other programmes about science, including a 13-part series, The Mind Machine on BBC television, a radio series about artificial intelligence, Machines with Minds, and a documentary for Channel 4 television, God and the Scientists.

* Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park features an artificial tree dubbed " The Tree of Life ," which has about 325 carvings of different species of animals.

* Design and use of artificial refuges for monitoring adult tree weta

Although the mountain has recovered to the degree that its landscape appears natural, Mount Monadnock is an example of a mountain which has an artificial tree line, occurring well below the climatic tree line of similar mountains in the region.

The Shrike may kill victims in a flash or it may transport them to an eternity of impalement upon an enormous artificial ' tree of thorns ' in Hyperion's distant future.

The Blue Tit will nest in any suitable hole in a tree, wall, or stump, or an artificial nest box, often competing with House Sparrows or Great Tits for the site.

The horizon effect is a problem in artificial intelligence where, in many games, the number of possible states or positions is immense and computers can only feasibly search a small portion of it, typically a few ply down the game tree.

Game trees are important in artificial intelligence because one way to pick the best move in a game is to search the game tree using the minimax algorithm or its variants.

Stuart-Smith and Hayes examined the influence of residual tree density on predation of artificial and natural songbird nests.

The tree has featured strongly in artificial hybridization experiments in Europe, notably at Wageningen in the Netherlands, and a number of hybrid cultivars have been commercially released since 1960.

Preserved treescapes can often hide cell towers inside an artificial tree or preserved tree.

Photohydrogen is hydrogen produced with the help of artificial or natural light This is how the leaf of a tree splits water molecules into protons ( hydrogen ions ), electrons ( to make carbohydrates ) and oxygen ( released into the air as a waste product ).

It builds its nest in tree holes or artificial cavities.

They nest in tree hollows or niches in walls or building. They are also known to have used artificial nesting areas provided by humans, like Nest boxes. They use hay, grass and twigs as building materials for their cup-shaped nests. Hay provides warmth which is essential for egg incubation. Twigs give it the structure and grass helps to deter predators.

Dr Brain concluded that current techniques for connecting artificial airways to the patient were not ideal, reasoning that if the respiratory tree is seen as a tube ending at the glottis and the objective is to connect this tube to an artificial airway, the most logical solution was to create a direct end-to-end junction.

Most of the pigeons are found below 1000 m ( 3300 ft ), and their prime environment appears to be steep ravine-indented slopes along artificial watercourses, with the occasional large dead laurel tree and much tree heath.

Most of the pigeons are found below 1000 m ( 3300 ft ), and their prime environment appears to be steep ravine-indented slopes along artificial watercourses, with the occasional large dead laurel tree and much tree heath.

Most of the pigeons are found below 1000 m ( 3300 ft ), and their prime environment appears to be steep ravine-indented slopes along artificial watercourses, with the occasional large dead laurel tree and much tree heath.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.

In so far as this goal is achieved, the society becomes more fluid, artificial barriers to social mobility are reduced, and people at the lower end of the social hierarchy share more fully in the material and cultural goods of society.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

Her whole body is made of highly advanced synthetic jelly silicon and with 60 artificial joints in her face, neck, and lower body ; she is able to demonstrate realistic facial expressions and sing while simultaneously dancing.

Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.

Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

If amber is heated under the right conditions, oil of amber is produced, and in past times this was combined carefully with nitric acid to create " artificial musk " – a resin with a peculiar musky odor.

Another place popular with children is the Parque Papagayo which is a large family park which has life-sized replicas of a Spanish galleon and the space shuttle Columbia, three artificial lakes, aviary, skating rink, rides, go-karts and more.

The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

Analytical chemistry is the study of the separation, identification, and quantification of the chemical components of natural and artificial materials.

To the north of the city is a large artificial lake, called Anasagar with a marble structure known as Baradari.

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

A more precise way to measure resistance is to place an object within an artificial, uniform stream of air where the velocity is known.

In the field of artificial intelligence, the most difficult problems are informally known as AI-complete or AI-hard, implying that the difficulty of these computational problems is equivalent to solving the central artificial intelligence problem — making computers as intelligent as people, or strong AI.

It is recommended that the tank mimic their natural environment, so artificial or natural rock is highly appreciated.

The Teufelsberg is in fact an artificial hill composed of a pile of rubble from the ruins of World War II.

Disraeli's writing is considered generally interesting, and his books teem with striking thoughts, shrewd maxims, and brilliant phrases which stick in the memory ; on the other hand, he is often considered artificial, extravagant, and turgid.