Similar to shark fin soup or bird's nest soup, it is considered a luxury item, and is traditionally reserved for special occasions such as weddings and other celebrations.

Similar to the view of Leopold Kronecker that " God made the integers ; all else is the work of man ," musicians drawn to the alphorn and other instruments that sound the natural harmonics, such as the natural horn, consider the notes of the natural harmonic series — particularly the 7th and 11th harmonics — to be God's Notes, the remainder of the chromatic scale enabled by keys, valves, slides and other methods of changing the qualities of the simple open pipe being an artifact of mere mortals.

Similar to other ADPCM formats, it compresses to 4-bits.

Similar to other forested regions, the Black Forest has had areas that were annihilated by mass logging.

Similar sums were also paid out for Guerrier, Mercure, Heureux and Peuple Souverain, while the other captured ships were worth considerably more.

Similar relationships apply in other fields.

Similar to commercial banks, central banks hold assets ( government bonds, foreign exchange, gold, and other financial assets ) and incur liabilities ( currency outstanding ).

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 plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin ( where it is known as maquis ), central Chile ( where it is called matorral ), South African Cape Region ( known there as fynbos ), and in Western and Southern Australia.

Similar laws also exist in the United Kingdom and most other countries.

Similar to other functional programming languages, the result of a function is the value of the last expression evaluated — there is no explicit “ return ” statement.

Similar to other psychedelic drugs, there are relatively few physical side effects associated with DMT acute exposure.

: Similar estimates can be found for the weights of the other items.

Similar results have been found in other jurisdictions.

Similar development projects are also taking place in Herat in the west, Mazar-e-Sharif in the north and in other cities.

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 activity was also under way in other countries.

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

Similar infusions are possible with other fruits, such as damsons.

Similar colonization projects were started on nearby Baker Island, Jarvis Island and two other islands.

Similar to other institutional investors, hedge fund managers with at least US $ 100 million in assets under management are required to file publicly quarterly reports disclosing ownership of registered equity securities.

Similar blunders happen with other multinational companies.

" Similar sexual sociologies are reported for other Muslim societies from North Africa to Pakistan and the Far East.

Similar to the Western card game rummy, mahjong is a game of skill, strategy and calculation and involves a certain degree of chance.

Similar figures apply in the remainder of the Western world.

Similar to the rest of their South Slavic neighbours, the Bulgarians do not have the high density of R1a1a1g1 ( M458 ) typical for Western and Eastern Slavs.

Similar aperitifs include oghi ( from Armenia and among Western Armenians ), Rakı from Turkey, pastis ( France ), and arak ( from the Levant ).

Similar totem-like beliefs have been historically present in societies throughout much of the world, including Africa, Arabia, Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the Arctic polar region.

Similar tactics were beginning to be used on the Western Front by the French and Germans-who utilized " storm troopers " to great effect in the 1918 offensive-and slightly later the British, although given the higher force-space ratio in the west much greater concentration of artillery fire was needed to make progress.

" Similar to the Islanders, Bertuzzi joined a struggling club in Vancouver ; the team finished last in the Western Conference in his first two seasons after the trade.

Similar to the Western v. non-Western perspectives, the collectivist members valued the interdependent self more that the urban members.

Similar agencies and regulations were contemporaneously developed and implemented in Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Similar papers are now published in over 30 countries, with most located in the United States and Western Europe.

Similar allegations were made in Western Pennsylvania.

Similar attempts were made by civil servants like Alexander Kyd Nairne in his Flowering plants of Western India ( 1894 ).

" Similar to many Western military officers Seymour underestimated his Chinese opponent, trusting that he would encounter little opposition enroute to Beijing.

Similar to meykhana, it's performed by one or several people improvising on a particular subject, though accompanied by Western instead of national musical tones.

Similar names are found in the names of many rivers in the Western Alps: Dora in Italy, Dranse in Haute-Savoie, and the Drôme in south-eastern France.

Similar to the Western tambourine, it consists of a circular frame made of the wood of the jackfruit tree, between 7 and 9 inches in width and 2 to 4 inches in depth.

Similar processes occurred in Xinjiang and the rest of Western China where the PRC quickly established control from the Second East Turkestan Republic that controlled northern Xinjiang and the Republic of China forces that controlled southern Xinjiang after the Qing Dynasty.

Similar Best and Fairest player awards followed in other state-based competitions, notably the Sandover Medal in Western Australia from 1921 and Brownlow Medal in Victoria from 1924.

Similar technology is used to create other mechanical weaponry not common in normal Western fiction, including cybernetic limbs and miniature robots.