Another possible source of the suanpan is Chinese counting rods, which operated with a decimal system but lacked the concept of zero as a place holder.

Another key ATM concept involves the traffic contract.

Another key Confucian concept is that in order to govern others one must first govern oneself.

Another progressive rock act, Genesis, released the concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in 1974, a double disc that told the story of the street punk Rael.

Another important source was Lucien Séve's theory of personality, which provided the concept of " social activity matrices " as mediating structure between individual and social reproduction.

Another concept due to Dijkstra in the field of distributed computing is that of self-stabilization – an alternative way to ensure the reliability of the system.

Another important constitutional move at Roncaglia was the establishment of a new peace ( Landfrieden ) for all of the Empire, an attempt to ( on the one hand ) abolish private feuds not only between the many dukes, but on the other hand a means to tie the Emperor's subordinates to a legal system of jurisdiction and public prosecution of criminal acts — a predecessor of the modern concept of " rule of law ".

Another new concept of the time was the systematic foundation of new cities, both by the Emperor and the local dukes.

Another German diplomatic historian, Wolfgang Michalka argued that there was a fourth alternative Nazi foreign policy programme, and that was Ribbentrop's concept of a Euro-Asiatic bloc comprising the four totalitarian states of Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Japan.

Another critique comes from semiotic theorists such as Deacon and Kull This view regards the concept of " meme " as a primitivized concept of " sign ".

" Another important feature of Doom was that it allowed players to create their own modifications, maps, and software for the game, thus expanding the concept of game authorship.

Another stimulus was the publication in 1991 of Consciousness Explained by Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett, which incorporated the meme concept into a theory of the mind.

Another concept often used in netlists is that of inheritance.

Another key psychohistorical concept is that of group fantasy, which deMause regards as a mediating force between a psychoclass's collective childhood experiences ( and the psychic conflicts emerging therefrom ), and the psychoclass's behavior in politics, religion and other aspects of social life.

Another concept utilised in structual anthropology came from the Prague school of linguistics, where Roman Jakobson and others analyzed sounds based on the presence or absence of certain features ( such as voiceless vs. voiced ).

Another concept of sin deals with things that exist on Earth but not in Heaven.

Another muzzleloader conversion similar in concept to the Allin action was the British Snider-Enfield, also introduced in 1866, which hinged to the side rather than forward.

Another pre-war concept that combined elements of sociology and geography was the one established by Dutch sociologist Sebald Rudolf Steinmetz and his Amsterdam School of Sociography.

Another Waits cover was released in 1996, as Meat Loaf covered Martha for his concept album Welcome to the Neighborhood.

Another indication of the popularity of " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " is the use of " Yes, Virginia, there is ( a ) ( subject – person, object, activity, and / or concept )" ( or similar phrase ) in satire, parody, and as an idiomatic expression to insist that something is true, without the expression becoming a cliché.

Another concept is a large ring design whereby a space vehicle would circle the ring numerous times, gradually gaining speed, before being released into a launch corridor leading skyward.

Another theoretical use for this concept of propulsion can be found in space fountains, a system in which a continuous stream of pellets in a circular track holds up a tall structure.

Another beam-pushed concept would be to use a magnetic sail or MMPP sail to divert a beam of charged particles from a particle accelerator or plasma jet.

Another beam-pushed concept uses ordinary matter and works in vacuum.

Another famous anecdote from his job was used by Whorf to argue that language use affects habitual behavior.

Another ongoing debate is the extent to which the programming language used in writing computer programs affects the form that the final program takes.

Another factor in addition to the packing shape and surface area that affects the performance of random or structured packing is the liquid and vapor distribution entering the packed bed.

Another facet of Nomic is the way in which the implementation of the rules affects the way the game of Nomic itself works.

Another important factor that affects the accuracy of tree reconstruction is whether the data analyzed actually contain a useful phylogenetic signal, a term that is used generally to denote whether a character evolves slowly enough to have the same state in closely related taxa as opposed to varying randomly.

Another aspect that affects marketability is the supply and demand for the item in the community or region.

Another example in which Whorf attempted to show that language use affects behavior came from his experience in his day job as a chemical engineer working for an insurance company as a fire inspector.

Another example is an asset such as a large block of stock, the sale of which affects the market value.

Another important issue regarding ground effect is that the makeup of the surface directly affects the intensity ; this is to say that a concrete or other smooth hard surface will produce more effect than water or broken ground.

Another factor that affects the timbre of the drum is the quality of the bowl's surface.

Another disorder that affects wheat, which several people consider the real rust, is brought on by excessive heat, which makes the plants suffer from malnutrition, and become sickly and feeble.

Another example of widespread groundwater pollution is in the Ganges Plain of northern India and Bangladesh where severe contamination of groundwater by naturally occurring arsenic affects 25 % of water wells in the shallower of two regional aquifers.

Another relevant document is Veritatis Splendor, a papal encyclical by Pope John Paul II, issued in 1993 to combat the relaxation of moral norms and the political corruption ( see Paragraph 98 ) that affects millions of persons.

Another serious limitation that affects almost all stacking window managers is that they are often severely limited in the degree to which the interface can be accelerated by a graphics processing unit ( GPU ), and very little can be done about this.

Another genetic condition that affects the breed is " White dog shaker syndrome ".

Another aspect of agriculture that affects habitat fragmentation for grouse is unmonitored and excessive cattle grazing ( Kirsch et al.

Another mechanism that affects only the s-state is the Lamb shift.

Another study has suggested that meditation for two hours every week for eight weeks may reduce anxiety, negative affects, stress, and depression.

Another study investigated whether the use of nitrogenous fertilisers affects the development of common toad tadpoles.

Another factor that affects degradation rate is the diameter of the axon: larger axons require a longer time for the cytoskeleton to degrade and thus take a longer time to degenerate.

Another important feature of the Oyashio Current is that during glacial periods, when lower sea level causes the formation of the Bering land bridge, the current cannot flow and in the regions the Oyashio affects today, the level of cooling with the onset of glacial conditions ( after an interglacial ) is much less than in other areas of the Earth at similar latitudes.

Another inherited disease that affects the kidney organs is Dent's Disease, characterised by low molecular weight proteinuria and hypercalciuria where mutations in CLCN5 are implicated.

Another factor that affects the value of Fancy-Colored diamonds is fashion trends.

Another theory to account for simultanagnosia involves deficits in “ attentional disengaging ,” and this impairment affects shifts of attention in any direction.