Holtorf ’ s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie ’ s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.

In the 1990s, Jürgen Schmidhuber described an algorithmic theory of beauty which takes the subjectivity of the observer into account and postulates: among several observations classified as comparable by a given subjective observer, the aesthetically most pleasing one is the one with the shortest description, given the observer ’ s previous knowledge and his particular method for encoding the data.

The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

* Use case in software engineering and systems engineering ; a description of a system ’ s behaviour as it responds to a request originating outside the system.

The book contained a few of Mather ’ s sermons, the conditions of the colony and a description of witch trials in Europe.

Orwell ’ s description of political speech is extremely similar to the contemporary definition of doublespeak ;

Moore ’ s description of the principle of organic unity is extremely straightforward ; nonetheless, it is a principle that seems to have generally escaped ethical philosophers and ontologists before his time:

Contarini ’ s description of his vestments, privileges and rituals can therefore be compared to Marin Sanudo ’ s description of the physical spaces of Venice in his essay In Praise of Venice.

Conrad furthers this cycle in his description of grass engulfing Fresleven ’ s dead body.

Economists usually follow Cagan ’ s description that hyperinflation occurs when the monthly inflation rate exceeds 50 %.

With the support of his mentor Michael Maestlin, Kepler received permission from the Tübingen university senate to publish his manuscript, pending removal of the Bible exegesis and the addition of a simpler, more understandable description of the Copernican system as well as Kepler ’ s new ideas.

Snorri ’ s own usage, however, seems to fit the looser sense: “ Snorri uses the term " kenning " to refer to a structural device, whereby a person or object is indicated by a periphrastic description containing two or more terms ( which can be a noun with one or more dependent genitives or a compound noun or a combination of these two structures )” ( Faulkes ( 1998 a ), p. xxxiv ).

The concept of libre works arose with Richard Stallman ’ s description of free software in 1985 and was codified in the 1986 free software definition.

Any string s has at least one description, namely the program:

If a description of s, d ( s ), is of minimal length ( i. e. it uses the fewest number of characters ), it is called a minimal description of s. Thus, the length of d ( s ) ( i. e. the number of characters in the description ) is the Kolmogorov complexity of s, written K ( s ).

Thus, if P is a program in L < sub > 2 </ sub > which is a minimal description of s, then InterpretLanguage ( P ) returns the string s. The length of this description of s is the sum of

A non-Japanese video game featuring a dream-eating tapir also exists., and in the Manga of Masashi Kishimoto Naruto, the late character Danzo Shimura is capable of summoning a giant Baku to aid him in battle ( unlike many modern representations, the Baku that appears in Naruto is very close to the original japanesse description of a Baku ).

His description is based on skulls and skins collected in Szechwan, Myitkyina close to the border of Yunnan, and Upper Burma.

Several of these artists, like Roberto Matta ( by his own description ) " remained close to Surrealism.

It is also noted that Ailred wrote his Life of S. Ninian at a time when he was living under Scottish rule and had close connections both to Fergus of Galloway ( who would resurrect the Bishopric of Galloway ), and to the Scottish royal family, all of whom would have been pleased to have a manuscript with such a glowing description of a Galwegian and Scottish saint.

Police knew that this description could be none other than a former member of Egan's Rats, Fred ' Killer ' Burke ; Burke and a close companion, James Ray, were well known to wear police uniforms whenever on a robbery spree.

The bones were found in the ground close to the White Tower, consistent with More's description of the original burial place of the princes, but not consistent with More's later claim that the bodies had been subsequently removed and buried elsewhere ( under the tower stairs ).

His exposition of the structure of the human body is distinguished for being not only the first treatise of descriptive anatomy, divested of physiological details and hypothetical explanations foreign to the subject, but for being a close description derived from actual objects, without reference to the writings of previous anatomists.

From the description it appears that Ogmios ' followers willingly follow him with cheerful faces and try to get as close to Ogmios as they can.

In its original usage the word may also have been a description of meteors, or, as Plato suggested in Timaeus, of the consequences of a close approach between two planetary cosmic bodies, though this is not currently the case.

Toward the close of this period in which many later-developed themes were first experimented with, the Xiao family of the Southern Liang Dynasty ( 502-557 ) engaged in highly refined and often denigrated court-style poetry lushly describing sensual delights as well as the description of objects.

Some, like the writer Mick Fealty, have stressed a close analogy between Gregory's description of the rudimentary dynamics of theatre-in-the-round with the network effect of internet based communication in comparison to traditional broadcast and marketing channels.

It has to be borne in mind that any typological system has heuristic value as a convenience for description, and need not reflect phylogeny: each category ( term ) may include representatives of many distantly related taxa, each of which may well have close relatives that are in another category ( term ) or that are not migratory and thus fall completely outside the typology.

At one time, it was common to identify the sense of a name with an identifying description, which would put Frege's view close to the later Russell's description theory of names.

Very close to the source, the multipole expansion is less useful ( too many terms are required for an accurate description of the fields ).

Ziegler's only entomological paper, a description of 36 new species of Coleoptera, was published for the assistance of Dr. Melsheimer, whose home was close to one of Rev.

The French jeweller and traveller, Jean Baptiste Tavennier, who had the opportunity to examine the throne at close quarters, confirms the court chronicler ’ s description ... Its place in the two fortress-palaces of Delhi and Agra was usually at the Hall of Private Audience known as Diwan-I-Khas, although it was kept at the Hall of Public Audience known as the Diwan-I-Am when larger audience were expected.

Audomarus Talaeus ( Omer Talon c. 1510 – 1581 ), a close ally of Ramus, had indeed published a work in 1548 derived from Cicero's description of Academic scepticism, the school of Arcesilaus and Carneades.

Some of her fiction is set in Epping Forest, and ' Little Cornwall ', the hilly area of north-west Loughton close to Epping Forest, takes its name from her description in the novel The Face of Trespass.

" The technique of combining simultaneously one main melody and its variants is often incorrectly described as heterophony: polyphonic stratafication seems a more precise description, since each of the ' layers ' is not just a close approximation of the main melody, but also has distinct characteristics and a style of its own " ( Morton 1964, p 39 )

Harry tells them, " Yes, I did in fact drive a man of your father's description, and when I was driving him two men came into the taxi and said that they were going somewhere very close to the Twin Elms estate where your father was heading.

The description of the Porticus Liviae follows immediately, and it is probable therefore that the temple was close to or within the porticus, but the small rectangular structure marked on the Marble Plan ( frg.

Like most periodic eras the definition is inexact but close enough to serve as a general description.

Since the 1960s, following the work of Arthur Wightman and Rudolf Haag, also modern quantum field theory can be considered close to an axiomatic description.