Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

However, ROTT's engine was still the first to pioneer myriad features which would be found in many later games, such as panoramic skies, simulated dynamic lighting, fog, bullet holes, breakable glass walls, level-over-level environments ( made possible by " gravitational anomaly disks "; suspended objects that collectively form stairs, floors, etc.

A 2008 meta-analytic review paper found in terms of efficacy, " a significant superiority of ECT in all comparisons: ECT versus simulated ECT, ECT versus placebo, ECT versus antidepressants in general, ECT versus TCAs and ECT versus MAOIs.

In 2011, experimentalists found empirically that Hamilton's rule describes very accurately the conditions under which altruism emerged in simulated populations of foraging robots.

In humans, an experiment in which people were subjected to a simulated microgravity environment found that tendon stiffness decreased significantly, even when subjects were required to perform resistive exercises.

He simulated the effect using a " terrella ," a sphere in a vacuum tank to which he directed beams of cathode rays, later identified as electrons, and found they indeed produced a glow in regions around the poles of the terrella.

This procedure has the advantage, relative to bidirectional path tracing, that once a path has been found from light to eye, the algorithm can then explore nearby paths ; thus difficult-to-find light paths can be explored more thoroughly with the same number of simulated photons.

" The first act contains " a brief scene " of ( simulated ) anal rape, but the Police had visited the production three times and found no basis for legal action.

Trying a series of simulated attacks, Butch found that in every instance Thach's fighters had either ruined his attack or actually maneuvered into position to shoot back.

Petkau conducted further experiments with simulated cells in 1976 and found that the enzyme Superoxide dismutase protected the cells from free radicals generated by ionizing radiation, obviating the effects seen in his earlier experiment.

Other commercial simulated true color 15-meter global imagery products built from the NASA Landsat 7 imagery include TerraColor from Earthstar Geographics, TruEarth ( found in Google Earth and Google Maps ) from TerraMetrics, BrightEarth from ComputaMaps, simulated natural color from Atlogis and a product of i-cubed used in World Wind.

It is this unsettling event that makes Kresh wonder if the Governor was a target, and after realizing that he has been communicating with a simulated Governor ( later found to be the result of a simulator device plugged into the communications console ), he rushes back to the Winter Palace and finds the Governor dead, in bed.

Inside, a new instrument panel continued the wraparound cockpit theme of previous models with new African Crossfire Mahogany facing on the dashboard, console and door panels, which was " real " wood in contrast with the simulated woodgrain material found in most car interiors during that time.

Originally it was only used for films featuring simulated sex only, but the BBFC found itself forced to award R18 certificates to hardcore films in 2000 after a series of legal appeals and a judicial review of those appeals.

Studies have also found that sensitivity for potential coercive behaviors in males as well as handgrip strength ( but only in a simulated coercive situation ) increase during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle.

In a 1954 study ( 180-Degree Turn Experiment ), the University of Illinois Institute of Aviation found that 19 out of 20 non-instrument-rated subject pilots went into a graveyard spiral soon after entering simulated instrument conditions.

Kruskal and Zabusky simulated the KdV equation, which Kruskal had obtained as a continuum limit of that one-dimensional chain, and found solitonic behavior, which is the opposite of thermalization.

A test in 2003 by US Army soldiers in Afghanistan found the C-Mag unreliable in simulated combat conditions, with frequent failures to feed among the issues.

Previously all his copies had found themselves in some variant of the " real world " after being terminated ; although they had memories of being simulated copies living in a simulation, there was always a simpler explanation for how those memories came to be.

However, a 2006 study funded by DARPA found that CX717 did not improve cognitive performance in humans subjected to simulated night shift work.

Cross processing effects can be simulated in digital photography by a number of techniques involving the manipulation of contrast / brightness, hue / saturation and curves in image editors such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP ; specific settings and / or commands for " cross processing " are found in several such programs, including Photoshop and Picnik.

A study by Canham in 1995 found that ‘ a 1 µm thick layer of high porosity silicon completely dissolved within a day of in-vitro exposure to a simulated body fluid .’ It was also found that a silicon wafer with medium to low porosity displayed more stability.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??

Where an opportunity to enjoy boating has not been created by bringing bodies of water to the people, means have been found to take the people and their boats to the water.

`` Our people have been used to accepting things as they found them '', he said.

Wherever there is great social discontent, these people are, sooner or later, to be found.

She found this a marvel because, as she said, only six per cent of English people are churchgoers.

Research has found that people are more altruistic to kin than to no-kin, to friends than to strangers, to those attractive than to those unattractive, to non-competitors than to competitors, and to members ingroups than to members of outgroup.

In the study published in the February 2007 print issue of Nature Neuroscience, researchers have found a part of the brain that behaves differently for altruistic and selfish people.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

Research has found that people are most likely to help if they recognize that a person is in need and feel personal responsibility for reducing the person's distress.

A study on adults ages 55 + found that during the four-year study period, people who volunteered for two or more organizations had a 63 % lower likelihood of dying.

It is important to note that, while research supports the idea that altruistic acts bring about happiness, it has also been found to work in the opposite direction — that happier people are also kinder.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

* Identification of archaeological cultures: the material remains found at dwelling sites, burial grounds, and other places where people left traces of their activity.

Rieux numbers Tarrou among such people, although he found it only in death.

" The Covered Hall ") This abode is somewhat like Hades from Ancient Greek religion: there, something not unlike the Asphodel Meadows can be found, and people who have neither excelled in that which is good nor excelled in that which is bad can expect to go there after they die and be reunited with their loved ones.

Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

Similarly, no one identifies themselves as Amur Valley Ainu, although people with partial descent can be found in Khabarovsk.

Old people who have long desisted from their outdoor work are often found to be as white as western men.

" Alfred singled out in particular the laws that he " found in the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the Mercians, or King Æthelbert of Kent, who first among the English people received baptism.

Ibn Yasin, however, found a more favorable reception among the neighboring Lamtuna people.

The people, who felt the severity of his laws, at the same time acknowledged their justice and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors who had grown corrupt under the safety and opulence of Manuel I rule.

Because the technique has allegedly been used to improve breathing and stamina in general, advocates also claim that athletes, people with asthma, tuberculosis, and panic attacks have also found improvements.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.