Common activities in bioinformatics include mapping and analyzing DNA and protein sequences, aligning different DNA and protein sequences to compare them, and creating and viewing 3-D models of protein structures.

Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording and unconventional song structures.

Common market structures studied besides perfect competition include monopolistic competition, various forms of oligopoly, and monopoly.

Common examples of structures include groups, rings, fields and lattices.

Since Common Lisp provides non-CLOS classes for structures and built-in data types ( numbers, strings, characters, symbols, ...), CLOS dispatch works also with these non-CLOS classes.

Common in modern playgrounds are play structures that link many different pieces of equipment.

Common data source formats are relational databases and flat files, but may include non-relational database structures such as Information Management System ( IMS ) or other data structures such as Virtual Storage Access Method ( VSAM ) or Indexed Sequential Access Method ( ISAM ), or even fetching from outside sources such as through web spidering or screen-scraping.

Common Starlings prefer urban or suburban areas where artificial structures and trees provide adequate nesting and roosting sites.

Common applications are ; steel water or fuel pipelines and storage tanks such as home water heaters, steel pier piles ; ship and boat hulls ; offshore oil platforms and onshore oil well casings and metal reinforcement bars in concrete buildings and structures.

The nest is a well-concealed cup in dense trees ( particularly pine ) or shrubs, usually near water ; sometimes, the Common Grackle will nest in cavities or in man-made structures.

Common to most cross-beta type structures they are generally identified by apple-green birefringence when stained with congo red and seen under polarized light.

Common topics of design for hydraulic engineers include hydraulic structures such as dams, levees, water distribution networks, water collection networks, sewage collection networks, storm water management, sediment transport, and various other topics related to transportation engineering and geotechnical engineering.

Common terminating vistas include government buildings, war memorials, courthouses and other important structures.

Common modern applications of oil paint are in finishing and protection of wood in buildings and exposed metal structures such as ships and bridges.

Common features shared by lunar rilles and similar structures on other bodies suggest that common causative mechanisms operate widely in the solar system.

Common materials for doubly curved fabric structures are PTFE-coated fibreglass and PVC-coated polyester.

Some inefficiencies such as function call interfaces and lack of pointer-free arrays of user-defined data types are dictated by the Common Lisp standard and still need to be worked around ( e. g. by inlining more and using macros to build constructs that look like user-defined structures but are actually accessing fields in preallocated specialized arrays ).

The " common " of Common Worship is in the framework and structure for each service but then allowing for a variety of prayers and resources to be used within those common structures.

Metadata, in the Common Language Infrastructure ( CLI ), refers to certain data structures embedded within the Common Intermediate Language code that describes the high-level structure of the code.

Early phases of the GALEN Programme developed the GRAIL concept modelling language, experimented with different structures for the GALEN Common Reference Model, and, in parallel, tested the usefulness of the approach with a series of clinical demonstrator projects.

Common Good is a nonprofit organization in the United States that advocates a basic shift in legal structures " to restore common sense to American law.

Other areas have been economic cooperation and regional integration ; statistical development in Africa ; the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals in Africa ; the integration of the New Partnership for Africa's Development ( NEPAD ) in the structures and processes of the African Union ; and the development of Common African Positions related to economic, financial and developmet issues.

Common examples of acids include acetic acid ( in vinegar ), sulfuric acid ( used in car batteries ), and tartaric acid ( used in baking ).

Since then the " Common Strategy " policy in the USA and the rest of the world has no longer been used.

Common conditions with which antipsychotics might be used include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and delusional disorder.

Common categories include the type of structural elements used, by what they carry, whether they are fixed or movable, and by the materials used.

The Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, " Anglican realignment " and other Anglican churches.

A Book of Common Prayer with local variations is used in churches inside and outside the Anglican Communion in over 50 different countries and in over 150 different languages.

The English-Chinese Diglot Book of Common Prayers, used by the Filipino-Chinese community of St. Stephen's Parish, Manila | St Stephen's Pro-Cathedral

Common families include symmetric systems ( e. g. AES ) and asymmetric systems ( e. g. RSA ); they may alternatively be grouped according to the central algorithm used ( e. g. elliptic curve cryptography ).

The legal instruments used by the Council for the Common Foreign and Security Policy are different from the legislative acts.

Though Common Lisp is not as popular as some non-Lisp languages, many of its features have made their way into other, more widely used programming languages and systems ( see Greenspun's Tenth Rule ).

Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp — such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp — used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers.

With Common Lisp incremental compilation is widely used.

CCL was previously known as OpenMCL, but that name is no longer used, to avoid confusion with the open source version of Macintosh Common Lisp.

; Codemist Common Lisp: used for the commercial version of the computer algebra system Axiom

; Kyoto Common Lisp: the first Common Lisp compiler that used C as a target language.

; Procyon Common Lisp: an implementation for Windows and Mac OS, used by Franz for their Windows port of Allegro CL

; SubL: a variant of Common Lisp used for the implementation of the Cyc knowledge-based system

Common Lisp is used to develop research applications ( often in Artificial Intelligence ), for rapid development of prototypes or for deployed applications.

Common Lisp is used in many commercial applications, including the Yahoo!

* PWGL is a sophisticated visual programming environment based on Common Lisp, used in Computer assisted composition and sound synthesis.

* OpenMusic is an object-oriented visual programming environment based on Common Lisp, used in Computer assisted composition.

Dates in the Gregorian calendar in the Western world have always used the era designated in English as Anno Domini or Common Era.