In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends.

The most promising approaches treat the brain as a biological computer, very different in mechanism from electronic computers, but similar in the sense that it acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety of ways.

Bioinformatics is very much involved in making sense of protein microarray and HT MS data ; the former approach faces similar problems as with microarrays targeted at mRNA, the latter involves the problem of matching large amounts of mass data against predicted masses from protein sequence databases, and the complicated statistical analysis of samples where multiple, but incomplete peptides from each protein are detected.

Coin hoarders may be similar to investors in the sense that they accumulate coins for potential long-term profit.

Edwards makes a similar suggestion, observing that ' the context of the two prohibition in and suggest that what is opposed is not same-sex activity outside the cult, as in the modern secular sense, but within the cult identified as Canaanite '".

Ariel Levy used the term in similar, but opposite sense in her book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, in which she argues that many young women in the United States and beyond are replicating male chauvinism and older misogynist stereotypes.

In 1966, several rock releases were arguably concept albums in the sense that they presented a set of thematically-linked songs-and they also instigated other rock artists to consider using the album format in a similar fashion: The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds was a musical portrayal of Brian Wilson's state of mind at the time ( and a major inspiration to Paul McCartney ).

In this sense, Carmichael numbers are similar to prime numbers ; in fact, they are called Fermat pseudoprimes.

It is suggested that the blind could be taught to read through their sense of touch ( a later essay, Lettre sur les sourds et muets, considered the case of a similar deprivation in the deaf and mute ).

In the Rigveda, the word appears as an n-stem,, with a range of meanings encompassing " something established or firm " ( in the literal sense of prods or poles ), figuratively " sustainer, supporter " ( of deities ), and semantically similar to the Greek ethos (" fixed decree, statute, law ").

In this sense, it is similar to the pejorative connotations that have likewise arisen with the term tyrant.

Other responses appeal to the Fregean distinction between sense and reference, allowing that value concepts are special and sui generis, but insisting that value properties are nothing but natural properties ( this strategy is similar to that taken by non-reductive materialists in philosophy of mind ).

In other words, the group H in some sense has a similar algebraic structure as G and the homomorphism h preserves that.

In this sense, it was similar to the Hebrew concept of Wisdom, God's companion and intimate helper in creation.

Many of his films were noted for creating " psychological dilemmas " for his male protagonists along with having a strong " sense of environment ," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director.

This led to Carnap's Aufbau, an attempt to learn all knowledge from sense datum, using the notion of " remembered as similar " to bind these into clusters, which would eventually map into language.

In this sense, it is extended to humanoid, human-sized robots and such things as the boomers from Bubblegum Crisis, the similar replicants of Blade Runner, and cyborgs can be referred to as mecha, as well as mundane real-life objects such as industrial robots, cars and even toasters.

It has come to denote a sense of failure in life, lack of initiative and to retreat into oneself, symptoms quite similar to melancholia.

The auditory sense is usually blocked by playing white noise, static, or similar sounds to the recipient.

These experiences may be summed in some sense but can only approximately be shared, even among very similar cognitions with identical DNA.

He took a decided view on the Pelagian controversy, confirming the decisions of the synod of the province of proconsular Africa, held in Carthage in 416, which had been sent to him, and also writing in the same year in a similar sense to the fathers of the Numidian synod of Mileve who had addressed him ( Augustine of Hippo among them ).

In a political sense in the Netherlands the word rijk often connotes a connection with the Kingdom of the Netherlands as opposed to the European part of the country ; the ministerraad is the executive body of the Netherlands ' government and the rijksministerraad that of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a similar distinction is found in wetten ( laws ) versus rijkswetten ( kingdom laws ).

Routing, in a more narrow sense of the term, is often contrasted with bridging in its assumption that network addresses are structured and that similar addresses imply proximity within the network.

Path vector routing is discussed in RFC 1322 ; the path vector routing algorithm is somewhat similar to the distance vector algorithm in the sense that each border router advertises the destinations it can reach to its neighboring router.

She comes to value Elinor's conduct in a similar situation and resolves to model herself after Elinor's courage and good sense.

This house was the assembly place for the dead before they began the journey to the Otherworld. He is similar in some regards to the Hindu deity Yama.

Many schools of Hindu thought espouse monistic theism, which is thought to be similar to a panentheistic viewpoint.

Many religions use similar concepts, but different terminology, to venerate individuals worthy of honor in some way, e. g., see Hindu saints.

Some similar ideas appear in the Hindu cosmology which is similar to the Vedic.

Ron Terpening, a professor of Italian literature at the University of Arizona, cites Franz de Ruyt, who claims Charun is similar to Chaldean demons or the Hindu divinities Shiva and Kali.

While the Jalali calendar is more accurate than the Gregorian, it is based on actual solar transit, similar to Hindu calendars, and requires an ephemeris for calculating dates.

Similarities between Kama and Cupid, Vishwakarma and Hephaestus and Indra and Zeus do lead many to hastily conclude that Hindu mythology is similar to Greek mythology.

Unlike previous Majapahit temples that demonstrate typical Hindu architecture of high-rise towering structure, the shape of these temples are step pyramid, quite similar to Mesoamerican pyramids.

The Fasli, Qadimi and the Shahanshahi all ( notionally ) start each of the 30 day long months with the Sun entering a new constellation, similar to the Vedic ( Hindu ) Solar calendars as reflected in the Jyotisha ( Vedic Astrology ), and the Armenian calendar, but different from the Iranian ( Jalaali ) Calendar, the Julian Calendar, the Mayan Haab Calendar and the French Revolutionary Calendar, whose epochs of the months are fixed to the equinoxes / solstices, as are the signs of Western Astrology.

Gog and Magog are related to their Hindu counterpart called demon brothers Koka and Vikoka " whose names are obviously similar ", and refer symbolically, according to Guénon, not to groups of people on earth, but to entities belonging to the " subtle world " and having an existence presently hidden from the human realm and symbolically described as subterranean.

While many of the characters bear the names of Hindu gods, wear similar clothing, and carry items that the gods are traditionally depicted with ( such as Kali's necklace of skulls ), they are never intended to be interpreted by the reader as Hindu gods ; they are humans masquerading as gods in order to secure power.

Later generations saw the introduction of rituals and complexities that some criticize as placing Mahavira and other Tirthankaras on the throne similar to those of Hindu deities.

The Srilanka anthem's tune is similar to a Hindu devotional song Jai_Jagdish_Hare.

There have been at least four similar reforms of the lunisolar version of the Hindu calendar, all intended to make the month a better match to the lunation and to make the year a better fit to the sidereal year.

* Why I Am Not a Hindu, a 1996 book in a similar vein by Kancha Ilaiah, an activist opposed to the Indian caste system.

In this respect, Dervishes are most similar to mendicant friars in Christianity or Hindu / Buddhist / Jain sadhus.

In Bali, with its Hindu majority, the babi guling pig roast is popular among local as well as non-Muslim visitors, while the Batak people of North Sumatra have babi panggang that is a similar dish.

* Kumari-a Nepalese Hindu goddess lineage with similar selection processes

There is remarkable similarity in eating styles across social strata, with the Hindu upper caste Brahmins sharing a diet very similar to the trading or princely castes.

Blessed water may be mixed with wax drippings from a candle lit before the Buddha image and other unguents and herbs to create a ' paste ' that is then applied to the foreheads of the bride and groom to create a small ' dot ', similar to the marking sometimes made with red ochre on Hindu devotees.

The bells are similar in style to Indian Hindu and Buddhist temples, the idea being inspired from a Jain temple at Moodabidri in Karnataka.

There are also aspects of Calormene culture, climate, and physical characteristics that suggest India, such as the multiple arms of Tash, similar to depictions of Indian gods, or the name Shasta, which is shared by a Hindu deity.