Celebrations often involved hearthfires, special foods ( butter, milk, and bannocks, for example ), divination or watching for omens, candles or a bonfire if the weather permitted.

In the myths of Amaterasu, for example, she could see the events of the human world, but had to use divination rituals to see the future.

However, Lillian Tseng points out that the divination could also be done the other way round, by looking for the desired prognostication ( for example an auspicious marriage day ), and then all the days on the Liubo board that were written on the position corresponding to the term heading the prognostication would match the desired prognostication.

For example, Dreaming the Future discusses various methods of divination that humans have used since stone-age times.

In another example of Arabic wisdom literature relating to Alexander, Ibn al-Nadim (?- 997 AD ) refers to a work on divination titled The Drawing of Lots by Dhul-Qarnain and to a second work on divination by arrows titled The gift of Alexander, but only the titles of these works have survived.

He quotes, for example, an " account of the Zuñi War Gods " which explicitly links divination, the 4 quarters of the earth, and games.

In merindinlogun divination, the shells are thrown and the number of shells that fall with the opening facing up is associated with a certain odu ( for example, five shells up represent Oshe, while eight shells up represent Ogbe ).

* An example of fortune-telling with a Chinese name

For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.

On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.

For example, a purely dodecahedral virus has a T-number of 1 ( usually written, T = 1 ) and a truncated icosahedron is assigned T = 3.

" This form of the argument is far more difficult to separate from a purely first cause argument than is the example of the house's maintenance above, because here the First Cause is insufficient without the candle's or vessel's continued existence.

This force has been measured, and is a striking example of an effect purely due to second quantization.

" Over matters which are purely personal, as for example, moral conduct, the individual is sovereign, as well as over that which he himself produces.

Such programs can be understood purely declaratively, as for example in deductive databases.

A value pluralist might, for example, contend that both a life as a nun and a life as a mother realize genuine values ( in a universalist sense ), yet they are incompatible ( nuns may not have children ), and there is no purely rational way to measure which is preferable.

One consequence of this is that many spellings come to reflect a word's morphophonemic structure rather than its purely phonemic structure ( for example, the English regular past tense morpheme is consistently spelled-ed in spite of its different pronunciations in various words ).

For example, some may speak of predestination from a purely physical perspective, such as in a discussion of time travel.

An extreme example is the flash from the detonation of a nuclear weapon, which emits a large number of ionizing X-rays purely as a product of heating the atmosphere around the bomb to extremely high temperatures.

Yachting therefore became a purely recreational form of sailing with no commercial or military function ( see, for example, the Cox & King yachts at the beginning of the 20th Century ), which still serves a broad definition of both the sport and of the vessel.

An example of the development of a soil would begin with the weathering of lava flow bedrock, which would produce the purely mineral-based parent material from which the soil forms.

One example is Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( IBS ) that was considered formerly as having purely mental causes, while subsequent research showed significant differences in the behaviour of the gut in IBS patients.

Serifs, for example, are a purely decorative characteristic of typefaces used for European scripts, whereas the glyphs used in Arabic or East Asian scripts have characteristics ( such as stroke width ) that may be similar in some respects but cannot reasonably be called serifs and may not be purely decorative.

Ecology could be considered a subset of environmental science, which also could involve purely chemical or public health issues ( for example ) ecologists would be unlikely to study.

However, the latest example is the most extreme to date, of a purely reptilian placenta directly comparable to a eutherian placenta.

For example, Sigmund Freud claimed to have dreamed purely in aural-images of dialogs.

See purely resistive thermal circuits for an example of such a network.

" One might wish to design chindōgu for a number of reasons: for example, to improve one's mental sharpness ; to develop them as an art form ; or simply to revel in a purely creative act without having to worry about utility or making money.

The work was of " outstanding importance ", being released at a time when the few archaeologists across Europe were amateur and were focused purely on studying the archaeology of their locality ; The Dawn was a rare example of a book that looked at the larger picture across an entire continent.

For example, the similarity in autosomal DNA between the Emperor Keitai of Japan, and the current Emperor, approximately 1, 500 years later, is no more than would be expected between any two random persons of purely Japanese ancestry.

For example, an abstract stack data structure could be defined by three operations:, that inserts some data item onto the structure,, that extracts an item from it ( with the constraint that each pop always returns the most recently pushed item that has not been popped yet ), and, that allows data on top of the structure to be examined without removal.

An example of a crucial need after a general nuclear attack would be the fuel required to transport every other item for recovery.

If in the above example Mary had overpaid, paying £ 750 for the watch, her damages in contract would still be £ 450 ( giving him the item he contracted to buy ), however in tort damages are £ 700.

For example it may be beneficial to cluster a record of an item in stock with all its respective order records.

For example it may be beneficial to cluster a record of an item in stock with all its respective order records.

The following modification to the above example replaces an old item with a new item.

An example of an item from a cognitive abilities test

Note: if the product resulting from the labor process is homogeneous ( all similar in quality and traits, for example, all cups of coffee ) then the value of the period ’ s product can be divided by the total number of items ( use-values ) produced to derive the unit value of each item.

In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive ; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.

MUD clients often contain functions which make certain tasks within a MUD easier to carry out, for example commands buttons which you can click in order to move in a particular direction or to pick up an item.

Another example might be Fisher v Bell, where it was held that a shopkeeper who placed an illegal item in a shop window with a price tag did not make an offer to sell it, because of the specific meaning of " offer for sale " in contract law.

An important subclass are the local search methods, that view the elements of the search space as the vertices of a graph, with edges defined by a set of heuristics applicable to the case ; and scan the space by moving from item to item along the edges, for example according to the steepest descent or best-first criterion, or in a stochastic search.

One feature of SGML markup languages is the " presumptuous empty tagging ", such that the empty end tag in " inherits " its value from the nearest previous full start tag, which, in this example, is ( in other words, it closes the most recently opened item ).

The HTML of this catalog page can make simple, document-level assertions such as " this document's title is ' Widget Superstore, but there is no capability within the HTML itself to assert unambiguously that, for example, item number X586172 is an Acme Gizmo with a retail price of € 199, or that it is a consumer product.

An example of a justifier would be an item of evidence.

The Lapis editor can also create an automatic multiple selection based on an example item.

( For example, find something to buy, create a new account, and order the item.

A weapon can be either expressly designed as such or be an item re-purposed through use ( for example, hitting someone with a hammer ).

For example 1. 1. 2 Propulsion ( in the example below ) identifies this item as a Level 3 WBS element, since there are three numbers separated by a decimal point.

One example he uses to indicate his meaning behind symbol misuse is the story of a man who, when told a particular food item was whale blubber, could barely keep from throwing it up.