Similar in structure to a large lymph node, the spleen acts primarily as a blood filter.

Similar acts usually termed the selection actswere passed in the various Australian colonies in the 1860s, beginning in 1861 in New South Wales.

Similar acts of resistance were seen in the metropolitan sees that were governed by the Latins as well as in some autonomous ecclesiastical regions, such as the Church of Cyprus.

Similar acts recorded on Capricorn included the Marshall Tucker Band from Spartanburg, South Carolina, Wet Willie from Alabama, Grinderswitch from Georgia ( and composed of Allman Brothers ' roadies ) and the Elvin Bishop Band from Oklahoma.

Similar skills are sometimes displayed at traditional rodeos in intermission acts.

Similar series also included Soul Train ( 1970 – 2006, featuring R & B artists ), Club MTV ( 1986 – 92, featuring Dance Music acts ; hosted by Downtown Julie Brown, an alumnus of TOTP as part of the show's last dance troupe Zoo ) and Solid Gold ( 1980 – 88 ; like the early TOTP, it also used dance troupes ).

Similar acts, such as the 1975 Eastern Wilderness Act, followed.

Similar acts in the United States include the Sedition Act of 1918, and the Espionage Act of 1917.

Similar acts of brutality and barbarism had occurred during his regime in Cuba, and Canovas remained deaf to the appeals and protests of civilized conscience.

Similar acts of faith are also expressed in the festivals of Corpo de Deus ( English: Body of Christ ) and Nossa Senhora de Lurdes ( English: Our Lady of Lourdes ).

Similar acts became law in Romania, Hungary, and Austria, and were considered by the Czech Republic.

Similar conditions are implied by the State Sale of Goods Acts, but these acts have slightly different jurisdictional limits ( e. g. ‘ consumer ’ and ‘ goods ’) and the legislative phrases may have been interpreted slightly differently.

Similar to nitrogen, phosphorus has one more electron than carbon and thus acts as a donor ; however, the ionization energy of phosphorus ( 0. 6 eV ) is much smaller than that of nitrogen ( 1. 7 eV ) and is small enough for room-temperature thermal ionization.

Similar format as his first tour but without support acts.

Similar findings have been noted in a patient with congenital absence of the organification enzymes, whose thyroid tissue could only concentrate iodide.

Similar considerations presumably made it difficult to prescribe a general rule where the acquired and acquiring corporations have different methods of accounting ( section 381(c)(4) ) or depreciation ( section 381(c)(6) ).

Similar technological advances in accelerators, detectors, magnetic field generation and lasers have greatly assisted experimental work.

Similar small skirmishes with independent Viking raiders would have occurred for much of the period as they had for decades.

Similar to red-black trees, AVL trees are in general not weight-balanced, that is sibling nodes can have hugely differing numbers of descendants.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Similar strategies to increase the likelihood of transmission have evolved in multiple genera.

Similar technology may have been used in ancient Ireland ( the Liath Meisicith ) and quite possibly ancient Egypt.

Similar structures have been created under different types of legal status over the years in Israel, notably Kiryat Haim in Haifa, Jaffa in Tel Aviv-Yafo and Ramot and Gilo in Jerusalem.

This particular ecological niche buffered them from extinction .< ref > Similar, but more complex patterns have been found in the oceans.

In stream communities few animal groups became extinct because stream communities rely less directly on food from living plants and more on detritus that washes in from land, buffering them from extinction .< ref > Similar, but more complex patterns have been found in the oceans.

Similar applications have not been successfully proven in other clinical trials of consuming cranberry juice or tablets by people with spinal cord injury associated with bladder catheterization, neurogenic bladder or infrequent urination, any of which may be associated with increased susceptibility to bacterial infections.

Similar proposals have been made for the adjacent system, the Tube.

Similar results have been found in other jurisdictions.

Similar changes have been applied to smaller diesel engines giving them almost the same power characteristics as petrol engines.

Similar results have also been achieved with other types of nanoparticles, including gold-coated nanoshells and nanorods that exhibit certain degrees of ' tunability ' of the absorption properties of the nanoparticles to the wavelength of light for irradiation.

Similar approaches have been used for fusion-sushi, such as rolling maki with different types of rice and ingredients such as curry and basmati rice, cheese and salsa with Spanish rice, or spiced ground lamb and capers rolled with Greek-style rice and grape leaves, which resembles inside-out dolmades.

Similar to the fingers of the hand, the bones of the toes are called phalanges and the big toe has two phalanges while the other four toes have three phalanges.

Similar projects have been undertaken in Finland, which requires all buildings with area over 600 m² to have an NBC shelter, and Norway, which requires all buildings with an area over 1000 m² to have a shelter.

Similar improvements have been reported for other cognitions such as semantic and episodic memory.

Similar to silicon and aluminum, natural germanium compounds, which tend to be insoluble in water, have little oral toxicity.

Similar bacteria have been used to produce clotting factors to treat haemophilia, and human growth hormone to treat various forms of dwarfism.

Similar criticisms of the " law " ( or " at least the distorted version which purports to prohibit all comparisons to German crimes ") have been made by Glenn Greenwald.

Similar to the traditional view in Judaism, conservative Christians view the Book of Daniel as written by the prophet Daniel, who they claim wrote the book around 536 BC after having been in captivity for about 70 years.

( Similar principles had been used in an earlier burner design by Michael Faraday as well as in a device patented in 1856 by the gas engineer R W Elsner.

Similar behavior has also been observed among chimpanzees.

Similar criticism of Libet-style research has been made by neuroscientist Adina Roskies and cognitive theorists Timothy Bayne and Alfred Mele.

Similar panchromatic film stocks were manufactured by Agfa and Pathé, the shift to panchromatic stocks had largely been completed by 1928, and Kodak discontinued orthochromatic stock in 1930.

Similar bills have been introduced in South Carolina, with one declaring:

Similar to organ transplantation, gene therapy has been plagued by the problem of immune rejection.

Similar to organ transplantation, gene therapy has been plagued by the problem of immune rejection.

Similar approaches have been developed in many different ways in sociology of law.