Concepts analogous to mana in various other cultures include the power of magic, sympathetic magic and of seeking the intervention of a specific supernatural being, whether deity, saint or deceased ancestor.

Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition which consists of himself and his graduate students, forming the " Fluid Analogies Research Group " ( FARG ).

However, people at Systems Concepts were better at designing machines than at mass producing or selling them ; the company continually improved the design, but lost credibility as delivery dates continued to slip.

In addition, students scored in the advanced range on both the math and reading portions of the 2007-08 Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam at a rate higher than any other K-12 district in all of Southeastern Wisconsin.

Berlin is popularly known for his essay " Two Concepts of Liberty ", delivered in 1958 as his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford.

Goldberg began working at PARC in 1973, and eventually became manager of the System Concepts Laboratory where she, Alan Kay, and others developed Smalltalk-80.

Concepts from Project Genie influenced the development of the TENEX operating system for the PDP-10 and Unix ( Unix co-creator Ken Thompson worked on an SDS 940 while at Berkeley ).

The very important rearrangements at the University began on 25 April 1994, when the scientific council of the University adopted " The Concepts of University Education ", according to which since the year 1994 the University has entirely transferred to the two-stage form of study ( the step-by-step rearrangements were launched in 1992 ) and moved forward to the integration in the European educational environment.

Paul Charles William Davies, AM ( born 22 April 1946 ) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.

Concepts and characters such as Melusine, Harlequin, Oberon, Morgan Le Fay, et cetera, were first given their definitive shapes at this time.

* Group Experiment Environments ( GEE ) project, sponsored by the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University

The movement has been helped by the emergence of a number of organizations that teach Letterpress such as Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts, Art Center College of Design and Armory Center for the Arts both in Pasadena, Calif., New York's Center for Book Arts, Studio on the Square and The Arm NYC, the Wells College Book Arts Center in Aurora, New York, the San Francisco Center for the Book, Bookworks, Seattle's School of Visual Concepts, Black Rock Press, North Carolina State University, Washington D. C's Corcoran College of Art and Design, Penland School of Crafts, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the International Printing Museum in Carson, CA, Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, and the Bowehouse Press at VCU in Richmond, VA.

The Bio-Suit is an experimental space activity suit under construction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the direction of professor Dava Newman, with support from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.

Roger Angel of the University of Arizona presented the idea for the Sunshade at the U. S. National Academy of Sciences in April, 2006 and won a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts grant for further research in July, 2006.

*- ' Three Concepts of Liberty ' Video recorded at the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany.

After working for many years at Metagaming Concepts designing such games as Ogre and The Fantasy Trip, he left to found Steve Jackson Games ( SJ Games ) in the early 1980s.

Concepts which are not visible at all are explained with some form of analogous portrayal.

On March 24, 2004, Eglin Air Force Base Munitions Directorate official Kenneth Edwards spoke at the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts < sup ></ sup >.

This H / O was built by Oldsmobile at the Lansing plant and didn't get sent off for additional work at Hurst Performance Products or Cars and Concepts.

* Biomimetics Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency

Concepts ( such as those used in the Connected Home demos ) would then be shown by the Streamium team in the " Philips-CE World Tour ", an invitation only event at the yearly Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to a selected audience.

School of Visual Concepts ( blue building in center ) seen from Bhy Kracke Park, 2012.

In December 2010, Guam-based Aviation Concepts has set up fixed-based operations as a full-service business jet center at Subic Bay International Airport, which has made it Asia ’ s largest private aviation firm in terms of hangar space ( 100, 000 square feet ).

At Berklee, Steve instructs an international student body in all aspects of contemporary jazz and popular harmonic practice, including Reharmonization Techniques, Advanced Harmonic Concepts, and Advanced Modal Harmony, which are considered the heart of Berklee's legendary harmony curriculum.

* Concepts of moral character, historical and contemporary ( Stanford Encyc.

Boston Chicken, Inc. originally formed the Einstein and Noah Bagel Corporation as Progressive Bagel Concepts, Incorporated ( PBCI ) in March 1995, when it purchased three retail bagel chains, all located in regions of the United States that did not have longstanding bagel traditions.

Concepts such as grace, damnation, purgation, blasphemy, or the chain of being, which are everywhere implicit in classic and Shakespearean tragedy, lose their vitality.

Concepts such as the stress concentration factor and the strain energy release rate can be used to predict failure.

Concepts and notations from discrete mathematics are useful in studying and describing objects and problems in branches of computer science, such as computer algorithms, programming languages, cryptography, automated theorem proving, and software development.

Concepts such as infinite proof trees or infinite derivation trees have also been studied, e. g. infinitary logic.

Concepts such as, or " empty mind ", are borrowed from Zen Buddhism and are considered essential for the attainment of high-level kendo.

Concepts such as ' dog ,' which bring together " concretes " available in perception, can be differentiated ( into the concepts of ' dachshund ,' ' poodle ,' etc.

While the first such systems were purchased from DEC, when DEC abandoned the PDP-10 architecture in favor of the VAX, CompuServe and other PDP-10 customers began purchasing plug compatible computers from Systems Concepts.

Concepts such as " calling someone out ", " body slam ", " sleeper hold " and " tag team " are used even by those who do not watch professional wrestling.

The studio has collaborated with several in-house Japanese studios as well as other American-based studios such as STI and Visual Concepts.

SJG borrowed and expanded upon ideas pioneered by strategy game companies such as Metagaming Concepts, Avalon Hill and TSR.

Concepts such as mass, momentum, inertia, or elasticity, become therefore crucial in describing acoustic ( as distinct from optic ) wave processes.

Concepts that aid such understanding include the closed timelike curve.

... Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Concepts such as knowledge society, information society, network society, informational capitalism, postindustrial society, transnational network capitalism, postmodern society, etc.

Concepts such as top-down planning ( as opposed to bottom-up planning ) reveal similarities with the systems thinking behind the top-down model.

Concepts such as love, loyalty, self sacrifice and honor are alien concepts to the ratmen.

Concepts such as lifting bodies attempt to deal with the somewhat conflicting issues of reentry, hypersonic and subsonic flight ; as does the delta wing shape of the Space Shuttle.

Concepts enable humans and animals to organize the world into functional groups ; the groups may be composed of perceptually similar objects or events, diverse things that have a common function, relationships such as same versus different, or relations among relations such as analogies.

Concepts such as exclusive economic zones ( EEZ, extending from a nation's coasts ) allocate certain sovereign rights and responsibilities for resource management to individual countries.

Concepts developed by Hochschild, such as " feeling rules " and " the time bind " have been adopted by scholars in a range of disciplines.

Through courses such as Rhetoric, Concepts of the Self, and Concepts of Community, students gain a background in the liberal arts and sciences.