As a result of a long history of a strong landowning peasantry and the virtual absence of serfdom in most parts of Eritrea, the bulk of Eritreans had developed a distinct sense of cultural identity and superiority vis-à-vis Ethiopians.

Though virtual currencies are not ' local ' in the tradition sense, they do cater to the specific needs of a particular community, a virtual community.

In virtual reality, however, the effect is made more acute as all external reference points are blocked from vision, the simulated images are three-dimensional and in some cases stereo sound that may also give a sense of motion.

Benefits from virtual world technology such as photo realistic avatars and positional sound create an atmosphere for participants that provides a less fatiguing sense of presence.

In this sense, virtual particles are an artifact of perturbation theory, and do not appear in a non-perturbative treatment.

The main features in virtual online communities that attracts people is a shared communication environment, relationships formed and nurtured virtually, a sense of belonging to a group, an internal structure of the group, common space shared by people with similar ideas and interests.

The story revolves around a middle-aged, washed-up comic actor who agrees to take part in the development of a computer application that allows him to relive his life in a virtual sense.

Putnam contends that by " brain " and " vat " the brain in a vat must be referring not to things in the " outside " world but to elements of its own " virtual world "; and it is clearly not a brain in a vat in that sense.

After a sale, the cards are held in a climate-controlled warehouse unless the buyer requests delivery, and the cards can be traded online without changing hands except in the virtual sense.

A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users.

Haptic technology has made it possible to investigate how the human sense of touch works by allowing the creation of carefully controlled haptic virtual objects.

Haptics are gaining widespread acceptance as a key part of virtual reality systems, adding the sense of touch to previously visual-only solutions.

In the foreword to Questions of Truth Hewish writes, " The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is non-intuitive for those unacquainted with physics.

He also mentions the idea of virtual reality in the first and most Earth-like alien world visited, in the form of an apparatus that directly affects sense centers in the brain.

After a sale, the cards are held in a climate-controlled warehouse unless the buyer requests delivery, and the cards can be traded online without changing hands except in the virtual sense.

DCF also has an optional virtual carrier sense mechanism that exchanges short Request-to-send ( RTS ) and Clear-to-send ( CTS ) frames between source and destination stations during the intervals between the data frame transmissions.

In that sense the photon involved can be considered as a " virtual gamma ray ", which appears as a feature in an equation that describes the process, rather than as a directly measurable emission.

RTS / CTS is an additional method to implement virtual carrier sensing in Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance ( CSMA / CA ).

The same witnesses imply that Peter was the virtual founder of the Church of Rome, though not its founder in the sense of initiating a Christian community there.

Ground-breaking research in telehaptics ( the sense of touch ) and virtual reality may broaden the scope of telerehabilitation practice, in the future.

On occasion, one particular issue will dominate an election, and the election will in a sense be a virtual referendum.

Its original management team — Matthew McClure, soon joined by Cliff Figallo and John Coate — collaborated with its early users to foster a sense of virtual community.

Messages are also commonly used in the same sense as a means of interprocess communication ; the other common technique being streams or pipes, in which data are sent as a sequence of elementary data items instead ( the higher-level version of a virtual circuit ).

American Catholic colleges and universities are, in a very real sense, the product of `` private enterprise '' -- the `` private enterprise '' of religious communities.

Let them be candidly reviewed under a sense of the difficulty of combining in one system the various sentiments and interests of a continent divided into so many sovereign and independent communities, under a conviction of the absolute necessity of uniting all our councils and all our strength, to maintain and defend our common liberties ...

Although originally designed to assess sense of community in neighborhoods, the index has been adapted for use in schools, the workplace, and a variety of types of communities.

Studies conducted by the APPA show substantial evidence that young adults who feel a sense of belonging in a community, particularly small communities, develop fewer psychiatric and depressive disorders than those who do not have the feeling of love and belonging.

Some communities have developed their own " Local Exchange Trading Systems " ( LETS ) and local currencies, such as the Ithaca Hours system, to encourage economic growth and an enhanced sense of community.

Most Protestant communities, including Reformed, Evangelical, Methodist, the Church of Sweden, and Anglicans practice open communion in the sense of not limiting it to members of their own Church alone, but some of them require that the communicant be a baptized person or a member of a partner church.

In a practical sense, what distinguishes Hasidic Judaism from other forms of Haredi Judaism is the close-knit organization of Hasidic communities centered around a Rebbe ( sometimes translated as " Grand Rabbi "), and various customs and modes of dress particular to each community.

Folk magicians throughout Europe were often viewed ambivalently by communities, and were considered as capable of harming as of healing, which could lead to their being accused as " witches " in the negative sense.

On one hand, the document says that non-Catholic Christian ecclesial communities that have not preserved a valid episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery are not Churches in the proper sense and that non-Christians are seriously deficient in terms of access to the means of salvation in comparison with those who in the Church have the full means of salvation.

The term " Fourth Partition " in a temporal sense can also mean the diaspora communities that played important political role in reestablishing the Polish sovereign state after 1918.

# Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place

Following Portuguese missionary work, there have been large Christian communities in eastern Indonesia through to contemporary times, which has contributed to a sense of shared interest with Europeans, particularly among the Ambonese.

" The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has established the Active Living by Design program to improve the livability of communities in part through the trails, both in a more traditional sense, as is being done by the Upper Valley Trails Alliance or in the broader, as is being done by Groundwork Somerville.

The term " healthy " is also widely used in the context of many types of non-living organizations and their impacts for the benefit of humans, such as in the sense of healthy communities, healthy cities or healthy environments.

For communities which looked at sexuality just as a source of pleasure and an element of social cohesion without attaching any taboo character to it, this discovery must have led to a sense of upset with consequences not only on the regulation of sexuality itself, but on the whole political, social, and economic system.

This was especially pertinent in the 1970s and 1980s when Chinese communities were smaller than present day and a clear sense of " Asian American identity " for many North American born Chinese was nebulous at best.

It is one of the inland communities within the Metropolitan Area Planning Council's North Shore Task Force, but it is not part of the North Shore in the strictest sense, as it is not on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean ( it lies north of Massachusetts Bay ).

Northbridge is part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission and is actively working with its neighboring communities to promote the region's special character and sense of history.

In broader sense, however, Port Washington includes the communities of Baxter Estates, Manorhaven, Port Washington North, Sands Point, Beacon Hill, Beacon Hill Colony, Manhasset Isle, New Salem, and northern Flower Hill as these areas share the same ZIP code, school and library districts.

Virtually all the businesses are owned by people who live in Portland or nearby communities, therefore these businesspeople not only have a sense of pride in their own stores, but in the community as well.

In current use, Mizrahi Jews is a convenient way to refer collectively to a wide range of Jewish communities, most of which are as unrelated to each other as they are to either the Sephardi ( in the narrower sense ) or Ashkenazi communities.

Virtual communities resemble real life communities in the sense that they both provide support, information, friendship and acceptance between strangers.

Among other things, human dignity means having a positive sense of self and instilling individuals with respect for the communities to which they belong.