An often-cited theory published by R. A. Fisher in 1930 that attempts to resolve the paradox posits that such traits are the results of explosive positive feedback loops that have as their starting points particular sexual preferences for features that confer a survival advantage and thus " become established in the species.

The Dodo of Mauritius, shown here in a 1626 illustration by Roelant Savery, is an often-cited example of Holocene extinction | modern extinction.

The death toll was at least 71, 000 people ( the deadliest eruption in recorded history ), of whom 11, 000 – 12, 000 were killed directly by the eruption ; the often-cited figure of 92, 000 people killed is believed to be overestimated.

Three often-cited content analyses were performed by Cowan and O ' Brien ( 1990 ), Weaver ( 1991 ) and Molitor and Sapolsky ( 1993 ).

An often-cited example is the movement led by Mohandas Gandhi in the struggle for Indian Independence.

An often-cited example is the gruesome footage of Mihăilă Cofariu mentioned above who was presented as a Hungarian being beaten by Romanians in the documentary ' And the walls came tumbling down: Bad Neighbours ', directed by Peter Swain and produced by ethnic Hungarian Paul Neuberg.

This value is above any blowdown measured for East Coast storms, including hurricanes: even the often-cited 1938 New England hurricane, which toppled, falls short by nearly an order of magnitude.

An often-cited example of coextinction is that of the Passenger Pigeon and its parasitic lice Columbicola extinctus and Campanulotes defectus.

These issues are more difficult for optical approaches as the timescales are orders of magnitude shorter and an often-cited approach to overcoming them is optical pulse shaping.

The often-cited carbon does not melt at ambient pressure but sublimes at about 4000 K ; a liquid phase only exists above pressures of 10 MPa and estimated 4300 – 4700 K. Tantalum hafnium carbide ( Ta < sub > 4 </ sub > HfC < sub > 5 </ sub >) is a refractory compound with a very high melting point of 4488 K ( 4215 ° C, 7619 ° F ).

HOLC is often-cited as the originator of mortgage redlining, although, this claim has also been disputed.

Manuel Castells Oliván is one of the world's most often-cited social science and communications scholars ; he has written more than twenty books, including:

Another example, Prussia's seemingly illogical move of not demanding territory from a defeated Austria, a move that later led to the unification of Germany, is one of the often-cited examples of Realpolitik.

One of the most often-cited parts of Anatoly Kuznetsov's documentary novel Babi Yar is the testimony of Dina Pronicheva, an actress of the Kiev Puppet Theatre, and a survivor.

One often-cited tale is that of Fernand Lachance, from Warwick, Quebec, which claims that poutine was invented there in 1957 ; Lachance is said to have exclaimed ça va faire une maudite poutine (" it will make a damn mess "), hence the name.

An often-cited result of Earth's equatorial bulge is that the highest point on Earth, measured from the center outwards, is the peak of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, rather than Mount Everest.

An often-cited example of the metaphysical conceit is the metaphor from John Donne's " The Flea ", in which a flea that bites both the speaker and his lover becomes a conceit arguing that his lover has no reason to deny him sexually, although they are not married:

Il canto sospeso has been described as an " everlasting warning " ( Annibaldi 1980 ); indeed, it is a powerful refutation to the apparent claim made in an often-cited, but out-of-context phrase ( cf.

An often-cited example of factor price equalization is wages.

Another often-cited influence is his predecessor and adversary Vasile Alecsandri, whose Coana Chiriţa plays are an early critique of Westernization.

Folk Catholic practices occur everywhere that Catholicism is a major religion, not only in the often-cited cases of Latin America and the West Indies.

An often-cited example is the C expression, which apparently both assigns its previous value and increments.

An often-cited account explaining the ending is that the Supreme Court bowed to political pressure after President Roosevelt's announcement of a legislative proposal to enlarge the Court.

" For pitchers, wins, ERA, and strikeouts are the most often-cited statistics, and a pitcher leading his league in these statistics may be referred to as a " Triple Crown " winner ( but normally he has won the Cy Young Award ).

The definition is further complicated by the fact that Irish independence has allowed Ireland to promote ' Celtic ' music as a specifically Irish product.

" Yet the definition according to the esthesic level does not allow that the sounds of classical music are complex, are noises, rather they are regular, periodic, even, musical sounds.

Class AB is widely considered a good compromise for audio amplifiers, since much of the time the music is quiet enough that the signal stays in the " class A " region, where it is amplified with good fidelity, and by definition if passing out of this region, is large enough that the distortion products typical of class B are relatively small.

A consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive.

However, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music ( or folklore, or the folk ) is.

" One widely used definition is simply " Folk music is what the people sing ".

The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term " can also be applied to music which has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten, living tradition of a community.

Travis Jackson has also proposed a broader definition of jazz which is able to encompass all of the radically different eras: he states that it is music that includes qualities such as " swinging ", improvising, group interaction, developing an ' individual voice ', and being ' open ' to different musical possibilities ".

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context.

According to Margaret Bent ( 1997 ), " a piece of music in several parts with words " is as precise a definition of the motet as will serve from the 13th to the late 16th century and beyond.

Oldies stations must occasionally change to more youthful music formats ; as a result, the definition of what constitutes an " oldies " station has gradually changed over the years.

Because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that " it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition.

* Music: Modern music theory finds definition in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Treatise on Harmony.

The Grove Dictionary of Art will have none of this confusion, and says flatly: " Over the centuries the word has been applied to a wide variety of winding and twining vegetal decoration in art and meandering themes in music, but it properly applies only to Islamic art ", so contradicting the definition of 1888 still found in the Oxford English Dictionary: " A species of mural or surface decoration in colour or low relief, composed in flowing lines of branches, leaves, and scroll-work fancifully intertwined.

An executive producer ( EP ), sometimes called executive in charge of production, is a producer who was not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process in the original definition, but who was still responsible for the overall production.

In Japan, such examples of music inspired by a work and not intended to soundtrack an radio play or motion picture adaptation of it are known as an " image album " or " image song ," though this definition also includes such things as film score demos inspired by concept art and songs inspired by a TV series which do not feature in it.

In its most narrow definition, historical musicology is the music history of Western culture.

Such a definition arbitrarily excludes disciplines other than history, cultures other than Western, and forms of music other than " classical " (" art ", " serious ", " high culture ") or notated (" artificial ")-implying that the omitted disciplines, cultures, and musical styles / genres are somehow inferior.

The musicological sub-disciplines of music theory and music analysis have likewise historically been rather uneasily separated from the most narrow definition of historical musicology.

The first time bluegrass music had its own entries in Music Index was 1987 ( Stratelak, 1988 ). There is no strict definition of bluegrass, although there are clear derivatives — the topical and narrative themes of many bluegrass songs are highly reminiscent of folk music.

Because of this, our definition of what music technology encompasses continually expands.

The basic ( and vague ) definition of a march is a piece of music based upon a regular repeated drum / rhythmic pattern.