It has even been suggested that the original bony plates of all the vertebrates are gone and that the present scales are just modified teeth, even if both teeth and the body armor have a common origin a long time ago.

In fact " Casimir's original goal was to compute the van der Waals force between polarizable molecules " of the metallic plates.

The original edition was engraved in aquatint by Robert Havell, Jr., who took over the task after the first ten plates engraved by W. H. Lizars were deemed inadequate.

All but 80 of the original copper plates were melted down when Lucy Audubon, desperate for money, sold them for scrap to the Phelps Dodge Corporation.

The most faithful of the reproductions are the Traditional Hunter Limited Series model 1885 Single Shots, as they have the original style steel crescent butt plates, and folding steel tang rear sights, with full length octagon barrels.

Whitman received only $ 250 and the original plates made their way to Boston publisher Horace Wentworth.

Compared to European prints, this original English-language edition was of a poor quality where on a number of pages the CMYK printing plates had been misaligned resulting in more than obvious color fringing.

Many thousands of original Autochrome plates are still preserved in the Society's archives.

Figures of the original Masters of the Universe line included many unique " action features ": Battle Armor He-Man and Skeletor had rotating chest plates to represent varying degrees of damage ; Leech featured suction cup limbs ; Mantenna's eyes would pop out using a lever on his back ; and Thunder Punch He-Man would thrust a punch and emit a loud bang from the ring cap in his backpack.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

To that end, the texts regarded as " straight line Theosophical Literature " by the ULT are generally those which are reproduced from the original plates, or are photographic reproductions of originals.

She used the original photographic plates and new plates taken with the same telescope.

Several institutions are setting up archives to preserve the original plates, preventing valuable historical astronomical data from being lost.

Inclined plates and tubes drastically increase the surface area available for particles to be removed in concert with Hazen ’ s original theory.

Selection quickly acted on the resultant conical shells to form them to overlap into protective armour ; their original cones are homologous to the tips of the plates of modern chitons.

Prints were often run off as demand allowed, and often worn-out plates were reworked by the original artist or another, to produce a new state.

Collector knives, figurines, plates, Monopoly sets, chess sets and board games including the three dimensional chess game featured in the original Star Trek TV series, plaques, and other collectibles have been issued by the Franklin Mint.

In molecular biology and microbiology, replica plating is a technique in which one or more secondary Petri plates containing different solid ( agar-based ) selective growth media ( lacking nutrients or containing chemical growth inhibitors such as antibiotics ) are inoculated with the same colonies of microorganisms from a primary plate ( or master dish ), reproducing the original spatial pattern of colonies.

The technique involves pressing a velveteen-covered disk, and then imprinting secondary plates with cells in colonies removed from the original plate by the material.

* Garden City Publishing Co., originally established as a separate firm by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City's books were primarily reprints of books first offered by Doubleday, printed from the original plates but on less expensive paper.

The evidence of the numbering change can still be seen on the older road signs along the route where the original route numbers have clearly been covered over with " A90 " plates.

It is believed that the panorama initially had eleven plates, but the original daguerreotypes no longer exist.

Somerset County Council allocated the nearest unused number to the James & Browne ... Y182-hence the temporary " 2 was fixed over the 4 on the original number plates.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

The original electrocardiograph primarily indicates irregularities in the heartbeat, but today's techniques allow exact measurements of the flow of blood through the aorta, dimensioning of the heart and its chambers, and a much more detailed study of each heartbeat.

The length of the arrow indicates amount of slowing or acceleration at Completion over that at Onset, and the difference in months can be read roughly by referring the arrow to the age scale along the base of each figure, or more precisely by referring to the original data in the appropriate tables.

Future commencements were more decorous perhaps, but the number of graduates increased from the original four at a relatively slow pace.

We don't know his original name, but it seems that he was absorbed by the more powerful Apollo, who stood by the " Mistress of the animals ", becoming her brother.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

According to Tylor, the more scientifically advanced the society, the less that society believed in Animism ; however, any remnant ideologies of souls or spirits, to Tylor, represented “ survivals ” of the original animism of early humanity.

The floppy disk interface supported dual density, and disk capacities up to 800 KB, more than four times the capacity of the original TRS-80.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

The Cuttle Cart II has enabled more people to play the entire 2600 and 7800 library on an original system as well as binaries of unreleased games and new homebrew titles.

When AI researchers attempt to " scale up " their systems to handle more complicated, real world situations, the programs tend to become excessively brittle without commonsense knowledge or a rudimentary understanding of the situation: they fail as unexpected circumstances outside of its original problem context begin to appear.

After the original version of AMOS, Europress released two other versions: Easy AMOS, a simpler version for beginners, and AMOS Professional, a more advanced version with added features, such as a better IDE, ARexx support, a new UI sublanguage and new flow control constructs.

Neither of these new versions was significantly more popular than the original AMOS.

The strip's popularity grew from an original eight papers, to ultimately more than 900.

The more recently discovered group were given the name Entoprocta, while the original " Bryozoa " were called " Ectoprocta ".

In the original series finale, when McVicker thinks that Beavis and Butt-Head are dead, he immediately stops shaking and becomes calmer and more cheerful.

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

BITC is sometimes used in conjunction with " real " machine-readable timecode, but more often used in copies of original material on to a non-broadcast format such as VHS, so that the VHS copies can be traced back to their master tape and the original time codes easily located.

Later it moved into a more pastoral form, like Isaac Bickerstaffe's Love in a Village ( 1763 ) and Shield ’ s Rosina ( 1781 ), using more original music that imitated, rather than reproduced, existing ballads.