The name has been extended to many other entities, and the concept of a protective shield is found in other mythologies, while its form varies across sources.

The general concept of a chemical reaction has been extended to non-chemical reactions between entities smaller than atoms, including nuclear reactions, radioactive decays, and reactions between elementary particles as described by quantum field theory.

The concept of being relatively prime can also be extended to any finite set of integers S =

In recent years, some intergovernmental organizations have extended the concept and terminology associated with citizenship to the international level, where it is applied to the totality of the citizens of their constituent countries combined.

This basic concept is then extended to the cases where the interaction probability in the targeted area assumes intermediate values-because the target itself is not homogeneous, or because the interaction is mediated by a non-uniform field.

This concept can be extended, with some care, to less dense solids floating on more dense fluids.

" Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder that are not covered by the term genocide, and it has become accepted among other scholars.

A related concept to the " Director's Cut " is that of an extended or special edition.

In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.

Melanie Klein extended Freud's concept of fantasy to cover the developing child's relationship to a world of internal objects.

Moreover, the original concept of Fourier analysis has been extended over time to apply to more and more abstract and general situations, and the general field is often known as harmonic analysis.

The concept of hyperlinks was further refined and extended to graphics by researchers at Xerox PARC, specifically Alan Kay, who went beyond text-based hyperlinks and used a GUI as the primary interface for the Xerox Alto computer.

There are also several implementations of the concept of an extended cell, where the cell radius could be double or even more, depending on the antenna system, the type of terrain and the timing advance.

During the 19th century, Karl Marx extended the concept of materialism to elaborate a materialist conception of history centered on the roughly empirical world of human activity ( practice, including labor ) and the institutions created, reproduced, or destroyed by that activity ( see materialist conception of history ).

Instead of DPS's concept of allowing PS to interact with C programs, NeWS instead extended PS into a language suitable for running the entire GUI of a computer.

The concept of phenotype can be extended to variations below the level of the gene that affect an organism's fitness.

One attempt to overcome these limitations is to replace ordinary quantum field theory, which is based on the classical concept of a point particle, with a quantum theory of one-dimensional extended objects: string theory.

: The SameGame concept can be extended to a " Reveal the picture " game.

This concept was first formulated in a slightly extended form by French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal in 1647 and became known as Pascal's Law.

The concept of spherical coordinates can be extended to higher dimensional spaces and are then referred to as hyperspherical coordinates.

In 1966 C. A. R. Hoare introduced the concept of record class construct, which Dahl and Nygaard extended with the concept of prefixing and other features to meet their requirements for a generalized process concept.

The concept is extended by some authors back as far as Clausewitz ’ s classic work On War as " absoluter Krieg " ( however, the relevant passages have been interpreted in diverging ways by different authors ), and to the French " guerre à outrance " during the Franco-Prussian War.

* Conics was a work on conic sections that was later extended by Apollonius of Perga into his famous work on the subject.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

The principal B-side to the original 12-inch single was a cover version of " War ", which became the subject of an accomplished extended remix in its own right ( subtitled " Hidden ") on the single's third UK 12-inch release, where it was promoted as a double-A-side with " Carnage ".

The role of imprecision may depend on audience, end goal, extended context and subject matter.

* allegory: An extended metaphor wherein a story illustrates an important attribute of the subject.

The most extended treatment of melancholia comes from Robert Burton, whose The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) treats the subject from both a literary and a medical perspective.

Riemann introduced revolutionary ideas into the subject, the chief of them being that the distribution of prime numbers is intimately connected with the zeros of the analytically extended Riemann zeta function of a complex variable.

In that view, many human artefacts could be considered subject to sexual selection as part of the extended phenotype, for instance clothing that enhances sexually selected traits.

Generalized or extended thermodynamics is a diverse and developing project, rather than a more or less completed subject such as is classical thermodynamics.

Usually, this is of a fairly concrete historical subject ( such as the Battle of Gettysburg, one of several popular topics in the genre ), but it can also be extended to non-historical ones as well.

The subject is usually fully conscious and then can interact with the hallucinatory characters for extended periods of time.

Over the following years, Jenin was subject to extended curfews and targeted killings.

They were extended on the condition that changes in the regulatory system governing railroads be enacted, with the hope that a regulatory system which gave railroads more freedom in pricing and service arrangements, subject to greater competitive constraints, would yield a more viable industry and better service for its users.

The extended meaning of a " comprehensive survey " of a subject followed sooner, in 1801.

In August 2006, the U. S. Department of Commerce extended its IANA contract with ICANN by an additional five years, subject to annual renewals.

In March 1981 Norman was featured on the cover of Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) magazine, and was the subject of an extended interview by CCM magazine founder John A. Styll entitled " Trials, Tribulations and Happy Endings ".

* Iverson, Margaret: " Readymade, found object, photograph "-An extended examination of the subject

Property subject to resumption is not restricted to real estate as authority from the Federal Court has extended the states ' power to resume property to any form of physical property.

** Conics, a work on conic sections later extended by Apollonius of Perga into his famous work on the subject.

Its influence extended beyond the modern territory of Indonesia and has been the subject of many studies.

Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.

Nim Chimpsky ( November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000 ) was a chimpanzee who was the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition ( codenamed 6. 001 ) at Columbia University, led by Herbert S. Terrace.

The arms of the subject should go from fully extended in the high position to nearly fully flexed in the low position, while the subject makes sure to avoid resting on the floor.