More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

More concretely, he closed the Bosporus to international shipping, a move certain to provoke Russia, whose entire Black Sea trade had to pass through the Straits.

More concretely, it involves the categorization of information into a coherent structure, preferably one that the intended audience can understand quickly, if not inherently, and then easily retrieve the information for which they are searching.

More concretely, O ' Neill wanted the Plantation of Ulster overturned and the recovery of the O ' Neill clan's ancestral lands.

More concretely, M is a coarse moduli space for F if any family T over a base B gives rise to a map φ < sub > T </ sub >: B → M and any two objects V and W ( regarded as families over a point ) correspond to the same point of M if and only if V and W are isomorphic.

More concretely, given an irreducible representation R and a loop K in M one may define the Wilson loop by

More concretely, this asks whether the transition data for can consistently be written with values in.

More concretely, for every continuous function ƒ and every ε > 0, there exists a trigonometric polynomial T such that | ƒ ( z ) − T ( z )| < ε for all z. Fejér's theorem states that the arithmetic means of the partial sums of the Fourier series of ƒ converge uniformly to ƒ, thus giving an explicit way to find an approximating trigonometric polynomial T.

More concretely, our Universe is a five-dimensional anti de Sitter space and the elementary particles except for the graviton are localized on a ( 3 + 1 )- dimensional brane or branes.

More concretely it maps adjacent vertices to adjacent vertices.

More concretely, a Lie algebra is reductive if is a direct sum of a semisimple Lie algebra and an abelian Lie algebra: there are alternative characterizations, given below.

More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a great shift in American constitutionalism.

More generally, in the case of Lie groups, a reductive Lie group G can be defined in terms of its Lie algebra, namely a reductive Lie group is one whose Lie algebra g is a reductive Lie algebra ; concretely, a Lie algebra that is the sum of an abelian and a semisimple Lie algebra.

More concretely, if we write out T in block matrix form after the decomposition into even and odd subspaces as follows,

More concretely, they are formulated using the concepts of Riemannian geometry, in which the geometric properties of a space ( or a spacetime ) are described by a quantity called a metric.

More concretely, the complex conjugate vector space is the same underlying real vector space ( same set of points, same vector addition and real scalar multiplication ) with the conjugate linear complex structure J ( different multiplication by i ).

More concretely, Fleming notes that working with their father gave the brothers a solid grounding in the technical aspects of architecture, and introduced them to a set of clients which they might never otherwise have had access to.

More concretely, it refers to the forty canonical objects of meditation ( samatha ), listed in the third chapter of the Visuddhimagga.

Thus every GL < sup >+</ sup >( n )- structure is reducible to an SL ( n )- structure, and GL < sup >+</ sup >( n )- structures coincide with orientations on M. More concretely, triviality of the determinant bundle is equivalent to orientability, and a line bundle is trivial if and only if it has a nowhere-vanishing section.

More concretely, it is a homogeneous polynomial of degree 2 in two variables

More concretely, the resultant is the determinant of the Sylvester matrix ( and of the Bézout matrix ) associated to < var > P </ var > and < var > Q </ var >.

More concretely, the number of degrees of freedom is the number of independent observations in a sample of data that are available to estimate a parameter of the population from which that sample is drawn.

More concretely, since the valuation of 2b < sup > 2 </ sup > is odd, while valuation of a < sup > 2 </ sup > is even, they must be distinct integers, so that.

More describes him as " little of stature, ill-featured of limbs, crook-backed ... hard-favoured of visage.

* Joseph I. Breen ( 1906 ), Hollywood movie censor ; Variety magazine said of him: " More than any single individual, he shaped the moral stature of the American motion picture "; winner of an Academy Award

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

More recently, the principle has been generalized to the relativistic concept that humans are not privileged observers of the universe.

More recently, the concept has achieved recognition in the general public in the context of the absence of central indexing servers in architectures used for exchanging multimedia files.

More recently, in the 1990s, problems with the tokamak concept have led to renewed interest in the stellarator design, and a number of new devices have been built.

More than 100 instruments, including approximately 50 historical viola da gambas in playable condition, are the property of this new concept of museum: the Orpheon Foundation Museum of Historical Instruments.

More serious sketch comedians differentiate their art from that of the skit, maintaining that skits tend to be a ( single ) dramatized joke, while a sketch is a comedic exploration of a concept, character, or situation.

More recently, it has been argued that modern bushidō discourse originated in the 1880s as a response to foreign stimuli, such as the English concept of " gentlemanship ," by Japanese with considerable exposure to Western culture.

More recently, Subaru has combined a Miller cycle flat-4 with a hybrid driveline for their concept " Turbo Parallel Hybrid " car, known as the Subaru B5-TPH.

More concisely, the concept of open source governance applies principles of the free software movement to the governance of people, allowing the entire populace to participate in government directly, as much or as little as they please.

More traditional or " straight " practitioners, however, adhere to a concept of " innate ".

More recently, Marvel Legends has popularized the " build-a-figure " concept.

More specifically, this note related to the concept of the eternal recurrence, which is, by Nietzsche's admission, the central idea of Zarathustra ; this idea occurred to him by a " pyramidal block of stone " on the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine, a high alpine region whose valley floor is at 6, 000 ft. Nietzsche planned to write the book in three parts over several years.

More generally, the yo-yo problem can also refer to any situation where a person must keep flipping between different sources of information in order to understand a concept.

More recently, attempts have been made to salvage the concept through more precise definition, but there are still no generally accepted criteria for defining its parts.

More important influences include Hegel, whose concept of the dialectic underlies the tripartite division of art into the Apollonian, its Dionysian antithesis, and their synthesis in Greek tragedy.

More advanced Unix filesystems include the Access Control List concept which allows permissions to be granted to multiple users or groups.

More recently, sociolinguists have adopted the concept of the community of practice, a group of people who develop shared knowledge and shared norms of interaction, as the social group within which dialects develop and change.

The original concept was embodied in the introductory television movie Plunder and Lightning which was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program ( Prime Time for Programming One Hour or More ) in 1991 and was later re-edited into four half-hour episodes for reruns.

The " Once More, with Feeling " episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer toys with the concept of non-diegetic versus diegetic music when the characters find themselves compelled to burst into song in the style of a musical.

More recently in 2007, the BBC reported that a " race row " had broken out in the wake of an official inquiry that identified institutional racism in British psychiatry, with psychiatrists, including from the IOP / Maudsley, arguing against the claim, while the heads of the Mental Health Act Commission accused them of misunderstanding the concept of institutional racism and dismissing the legitimate concerns of the Black community in Britain.

More recently the concept of the Lyapunov exponent ( related to Lyapunov's First Method of discussing stability ) has received wide interest in connection with chaos theory.

More important than the concrete evaluation of his music notations is Wölfli's concept of viewing and designing his whole oeuvre as a big musical composition.

More concept collections would appear the following years, including, swimwear, sunglasses and shoes.

More popular, though, proved to be his 1972 humorous songs: Mishka Shifman ( satirizing the leaving-for-Israel routine ), Victim of Television ( ridiculing the concept of " political consciousness " as such ) and grotesquely funny The Honor of the Chess Crown about an ever-fearless " simple Soviet man " challenging the much feared American champion Bobby Fisher to a match, as well as the new " war " songs: We Spin the Earth and Black Pea-Coats.