The " Stern " ( German for star ) refers to the board's star shape ( in contrast to the square board used in Halma ).

In contrast to Amundsen's earlier expeditions, this expedition had a clear academic profile, with geophysicist Harald Sverdrup on board.

The " edge of world problem " raises the issue of what to do at the artificial boundary of the physical edge of a board game, in contrast to real life where there is no " edge " and units off-board can have a tangible effect on a scenario.

The diphthong is retained before inflectional endings, so that board and pause can contrast with bored and paws

By contrast, generalized games that can last for a number of moves that is polynomial in the size of the board are often PSPACE-complete.

In contrast to rearrangement puzzles, however, transport puzzles have all persons and objects follow certain routes given on the board ; they cannot be lifted off the board and placed on faraway positions that have no visible connection to the from-position.

In contrast to a corporation sole, a corporation aggregate consists of two or more persons, typically run by a board of directors.

In contrast, civil townships in Indiana are operated in a relatively consistent manner state-wide and tend to be well organized, with each served by a township trustee and a three-member board.

In contrast, on smaller, order-driven markets such as the JSE Securities Exchange it can be difficult to determine the buying and selling prices of even a small block of stocks that lack a clear and immediate market value because there are often no buyers or sellers on the order board.

He also felt that President & CEO Brandon Ebel " never liked us " and that in contrast to their A & R, he " was never really totally on board ".

Différance, instead, focuses on the play of presence and absence, and, in effecting a concentration of certain thinking, Derrida takes on board the thought of Freud's unconscious ( the trace ), Heidegger's destruction of ontotheology, Nietzsche's play of forces, and Bataille's notion of sacrifice in contrast to Hegel's Aufheben.

In contrast, corporate shareholders have to elect a board of directors under the laws of various state charters.

In contrast to other elections, not all members of the water board are chosen by the residents of the water board area.

Another measure is the ANSI contrast, in which the measurement is done with a checker board patterned test image where the black and white luminosity values are measured simultaneously.

The Type 3 followed the Type 1, utilizing a low-profile version of Volkswagen's rear-engined, 4-cylinder air-cooled engine as well as body on chassis construction while featuring ponton in contrast to the Type 1's articulated fender and running board styling.

By contrast, in the chemical etch process, the quality of a circuit board depends on the accuracy and / or quality of the photomasking and the state of the etching chemicals.

In contrast to wall clocks, whose movements were attached to the back board, the shelf clock had its movement supported by a seat board.

Because each early move is typically isolated, and neither forced nor forcing, patterns for play on the whole board have seen much less systematic study than for joseki, which in contrast often involve contact plays which require specific and immediate responses.

This is in contrast with contemporary carving methodology that indicates that one's torso should stay at an angle midway between the angles of the two bindings, and also with the old school technique where the torso faces the nose of the board at all times.

In contrast, particle board holds the screws in place under similar weight.

In contrast, the CPS board is appointed by the mayor, essentially making the entire system completely accountable to the mayor.

Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory.

The outside of the skin is shed periodically more or less in one piece in contrast to mammals and birds where it is shed in flakes.

Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".

In contrast, one may need to perform less work to make part A be twice as fast.

By contrast, in an inquisitiorial system, the fact that the defendant has confessed is merely one more fact that is entered into evidence, and a confession by the defendant does not remove the requirement that the prosecution present a full case.

By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many.

BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

In the most common usage, β strand refers to a single continuous stretch of amino acids adopting an extended conformation and involved in backbone hydrogen bonds to at least one other strand ; by contrast, a β sheet refers to an assembly of at least two such β strands that are hydrogen-bonded ( or H-bonded ) to each other.

In contrast, only about one third of mainline Protestants and one sixth of Catholics ( Anglo and Latino ) claim a born-again experience.

In contrast, a submergent coastline is one where the sea level has risen, due to a global sea level change, local subsidence, or isostatic rebound.

By contrast, several countries can also use the same currency ( for example, the euro ), or one country can declare the currency of another country to be legal tender.

Widely considered to be one of the most beautiful galaxies visible, M51 has many star-forming regions and nebulae in its arms, coloring them pink and blue in contrast to the older yellow core.

So by reducing the number of tracks used and thus capacity, it was possible to further reduce cost-in contrast to Double Density drives used e. g. in IBM PC computers of the day which saved 180 kB on one side ( by using a 40 tracks format ).

Some people contrast content-control with censoring, claiming that limiting the content one can view is similar to how dictatorships limit the content its citizens can view in order to promote one idea.

This relation, however, is a psychological one in contrast to the physical relation implied by Wien's displacement law, according to which the spectral peak is shifted towards shorter wavelengths ( resulting in a more blueish white ) for higher temperatures.

By contrast, Judaism sees God as a single entity, and views trinitarianism as both incomprehensible and a violation of the Bible's teaching that God is one.

By contrast, to dilute a solution, one must add more solvent, or reduce the amount of solute.

By reducing the number of tracks used ( and thus the capacity ), Commodore could further reduce cost-in contrast to the double-density drives used e. g. in IBM PCs of the day which saved 180 KB on one side ( by using a 40-track format ).