An affinity between the amphibians and the teleost fish is the multi-folded structure of the teeth and the paired supra-occipital bones at the back of the head, both features not found elsewhere in the animal kingdom.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

In 1923, the Belgian mathematician and physicist Théophile de Donder derived a relation between affinity and the Gibbs free energy of a chemical reaction.

The dissociation constant is commonly used to describe the affinity between a ligand () ( such as a drug ) and a protein () i. e. how tightly a ligand binds to a particular protein.

# The binding affinity between hormone and receptor.

The number of receptors at the cell surface of the receiving cell can also be varied, as can the affinity between the hormone and its receptor.

The Tylopoda have more or less affinity to each of the sister taxa, standing in some respects in a middle position between them, sharing some characteristics from each, but in others showing special modifications not found in any of the other taxa.

However, this does not increase the affinity between cI and OR3, which will be occupied only when the cI concentration is high.

A more recent proponent was Roger Blench ( 1995 ), who puts forward phonological, morphological and lexical evidence for uniting Niger – Congo and Nilo-Saharan in a Niger – Saharan phylum, with special affinity between Niger – Congo and Central Sudanic.

This was to be done, in part, by tracing the record of Dasein's sublimation or forgetfulness through the history of philosophy which meant that we were to ask again what constituted the grounding conditions in ourselves and in the World for the affinity between beings and between the many usages of the term " being " in philosophy.

The animal was described as being both a mammal, a bat, and a form in between mammals and birds, i. e. not intermediate in descent but in " affinity " or archetype.

All the foregoing rules and aids and difficulties in classification are explained, if I do not greatly deceive myself, on the view that the natural system is founded on descent with modification ; that the characters which naturalists consider as showing true affinity between any two or more species, are those which have been inherited from a common parent, and, in so far, all true classification is genealogical ; that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking, ...

Regarding Gilliam's theme of modernity's struggle between spirituality and rationality whereas the individual may become dominated by a tyrannical, soulless machinery of disenchanted society, film critic Keith James Hamel observed a specific affinity of Gilliam's movies with the writings of economic historian Arnold Toynbee and sociologist Max Weber, specifically the latter's concept of the Iron cage of modern rationality.

Perplexed by the creature, Home kept changing his mind about its classification, first thinking it was a kind of fish, then thinking it might have some kind of affinity with the duck-billed platypus ( only recently known to science ); finally in 1819 he reasoned it might be a kind of intermediate form between salamanders and lizards, which led him to propose naming it Proteo-Saurus.

In geometry, an affine transformation or affine map or an affinity ( from the Latin, affinis, " connected with ") is a transformation which preserves straight lines ( i. e., all points lying on a line initially still lie on a line after transformation ) and ratios of distances between points lying on a straight line ( e. g., the midpoint of a line segment remains the midpoint after transformation ).

* Pair bond, in biology, the strong affinity that develops in some species between the male and female in a breeding pair, or, sometimes, between individuals of the same sex

The affinity between labor movement causes and this advocacy is very strong-and often shared by social democrats, socialists, communists and greens.

Due to the nature of relativistic travel ( see Twin paradox ), the twin who remained behind ages faster and eventually the affinity between them is weakened to the point that they are no longer able to communicate easily.

James L. Neibaur has noted that among the many parallels that Chaplin noted between his own life and Hitler's was an affinity for Wagner's music, and Chaplin's general fondness for Wagner has also been noted in studies of Chaplin's overall use of film music.

Claude Calame and other scholars try to analyze the affinity between the cults of Helen and Artemis Orthia, pointing out the resemblance of the terracotta female figurines offered to both deities.

With its contrasts between freedom and enslavement, war and peace, light and dark, this work has a close affinity with Beethoven's Fidelio.

The relationship between various Bahraini communities and Iran is not as straight forward as it might at first seem ; while Shia Bahrainis share a degree of religious affinity with Iran, they tend to be acutely conscious of their Arab identity and hence particularly sensitive to suggestions of dual loyalty ( as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ’ s found in 2006 when he claim that Shia Arabs in the Persian Gulf were an “ Iranian fifth column ”; his views created a storm of criticism in Bahrain, with the deputy speaker of parliament calling on him to apologise ).

During his reign Aragonese influence north of the Pyrenees reached its zenith, a natural tendency given the affinity between the Occitan and Catalan dominions of the Crown of Aragon.

* Chemical affinity, the willingness of two or more elements or compounds to form a chemical or attractive bond of some type

Churches and religious associations which have expressed their will to become members of the Council may be admitted as " Provisional Members " for a period of time ( generally two or four years ), until the Council decides that they have shown their organizational stability, affinity with the ICUU principles and commitment to deserve becoming Full Members of the Council.

There are two main perspectives on the origins and basis of nationalism, one is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth ; the other is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society.

There are two major bodies of thought on the causes of nationalism, one is the modernist perspective that describes nationalism as a recent phenomenon that requires the structural conditions of modern society, in order to exist ; the other is the primordialist perspective that describes nationalism as a reflection of the ancient and perceived evolutionary tendency of humans to organize into distinct grouping based on an affinity of birth.

In the Declaration of January 27, 1925, for example, members of the Paris-based Bureau of Surrealist Research ( including André Breton, Louis Aragon, and, Antonin Artaud, as well as some two dozen others ) declared their affinity for revolutionary politics.

: Molecules have a greater affinity for the opposite enantiomer than for the same enantiomer ; the substance forms a single crystalline phase in which the two enantiomers are present in an ordered 1: 1 ratio in the elementary cell.

In a 2009 interview, the two piano men spoke about their affinity for playing concerts at the Garden.

This exacerbates the transpiration problem for two reasons: first, RuBisCo has a relatively low affinity for carbon dioxide, and second, it fixes oxygen to RuBP, wasting energy and carbon in a process called photorespiration.

The collectivization effort was primarily orchestrated by the rank-and-file members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( CNT ; English: National Confederation of Labor ) and the Federación Anarquista Ibérica ( FAI ; English: Iberian Anarchist Federation ), with the two often abbreviated as CNT-FAI due to the affinity between the two organizations and the major role of the latter within the former in maintaining anarchist " purity.

McLain soon realized that he and the Pepsi rep shared an affinity for gambling ; when the two realized how much money they were losing, and that they could earn so much more by " taking the action " on bets, they attempted to set up a bookmaking operation as hands-off, silent partners.

It was one of his final compositions ; between the two quartets he wrote a violin and piano duet From the homeland, a mixture of melancholy and happiness with strong affinity to Czech folk material.

Later examples of Bax ’ s Nordic affinity include Hardanger for two pianos ( 1927 ) and the orchestral tone-poem The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew ( 1931 ).

Depending on their affinity for the stationary and mobile phases analytes partition between the two during the separation process taking place in the column.

* The unphosphorylated form of the pump has a higher affinity for Na < sup >+</ sup > ions than K < sup >+</ sup > ions, so the two bound K < sup >+</ sup > ions are released.

-Quatrième Mémoire " Where two principal properties of the electric fluid are demonstrated: first, that this fluid does not expand into any object according to a chemical affinity or by an elective attraction, but that it divides itself between different objects brought into contact ; second, that in conducting objects, the fluid, having achieved a state of stability, expands on the surface of the body and does not penetrate into the interior.

This may be the case if two processor-intensive tasks ( A and B ) have affinity to one processor while another processor lies unused.

There is complete affinity between two virtual CPUs implemented on the same core via hyper-threading, partial affinity between two cores on the same physical chip ( as the cores share some, but not all, cache ), and no affinity between separate physical chips.

She works as a miko or shrine maiden at the, and is shown to have an affinity with two crows who live there.