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This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent, America.
This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.
The term was coined by Fanya Montalvo by analogy with NP-complete and NP-hard in complexity theory, which formally describes the most famous class of difficult problems.
The chromatographic separation behavior was then unknown for the element 97, but was anticipated by analogy with terbium ( see elution curves ).
" Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
This relationship was extended by analogy to a series of five relationships ():
However, when the research team synthesized element 98, they could not think of a good analogy for dysprosium, and instead named the element californium in honor of the state in which it was synthesized.
The analogy he made was to contrast the compositional approaches of Mozart and Beethoven.
" This phenomenon, known as kindling ( by analogy with the use of burning twigs to start a larger fire ) was discovered by Dr. Graham Goddard in 1967.
The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").
The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.
They proposed – among others – that in a fully competitive economic environment ( as they thought was the case of ecosystems ) the most potent individuals would thrive and in turn society would prosper ( in analogy to the observed biodiversity and abundance of life on earth ).
Gnutella ( with a silent g, but often ) ( possibly by analogy with the GNU Project ) is a large peer-to-peer network which, at the time of its creation, was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model.
The horizontal distance was cut in 1872 by a British engineer, Waynman Dixon, who believed on the analogy of the King's Chamber that such shafts must exist.
In particular, the term " graph " was introduced by Sylvester in a paper published in 1878 in Nature, where he draws an analogy between " quantic invariants " and " co-variants " of algebra and molecular diagrams:
By analogy with the ancient Greek term for agriculture, geoponics, the science of cultivating the earth, Gericke coined the term hydroponics in 1937 ( although he asserts that the term was suggested by W. A. Setchell, of the University of California ) for the culture of plants in water ( from the Greek hydro -, " water ", and ponos, " labour ").
Hawking's result was called the second law of black hole thermodynamics, by analogy with the law of entropy increase, but at first, he did not take the analogy too seriously.
" and used the analogy of the scaffolding called centering used to build an arch then removed afterwards: " Surely there was ' scaffolding '.
The term was introduced by Darwin in his groundbreaking 1859 book On the Origin of Species, in which natural selection was described by analogy to artificial selection, a process by which animals and plants with traits considered desirable by human breeders are systematically favored for reproduction.
Their argument was based upon an analogy to contemporary work by Paul J. Crutzen and Harold Johnston, which had
In this analogy, what was previously a still, shoreless Ocean now stirred, forming innumerable " drops " of itself or souls.

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Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.
On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.
The word saw its first scientific use within the field of optics to describe the rainbow of colors in visible light when separated using a prism ; it has since been applied by analogy to many fields other than optics.
Although his inspiration came from Germany, he is not much like a German poet, except when he is consciously following Goethe ; his analogy is rather to be found among English poets than his contemporaries.
One analogy is to think of helium-4 as ash, and the amount of ash that one forms when one completely burns a piece of wood is insensitive to how one burns it.
By way of analogy, the allele ( a particular version of a gene ) which causes sickle-cell anemia when two copies are present may also confer resistance to malaria with a lesser form of anemia when one copy is present ( this is called heterozygous advantage ).
* Death control: In an analogy to birth control, Szasz argued that individuals should be able to choose when to die without interference from medicine or the state, just as they are able to choose when to conceive without outside interference.
However, when new names for fields of study are coined in modern English, the formations ending in-logy almost always add an-o -, except when the root word ends in an " l " or a vowel, as in these exceptions: analogy, dekalogy, disanalogy, genealogy, genethlialogy, herbalogy ( a variant of herbology ), idealogy ( a misspelling of ideology ), mammalogy, mineralogy, paralogy, pentalogy, petralogy ( a variant of petrology ), tetralogy ; elogy ; antilogy, festilogy, trilogy ; palillogy, pyroballogy ; dyslogy ; eulogy ; and brachylogy.
By this, Hu was referring to the practice of comparing present events with historical events even when there is no meaningful analogy.
Thus Bak sida (), bak being a prefix when calling males, refers jokingly to a Westerner, by analogy to the Thai language were farang can mean both guava and Westerner.
This effect, now called by analogy nocebo ( Latin nocebo = " I shall harm ") can be measured in the same way as the placebo effect, e. g., when members of a control group receiving an inert substance report a worsening of symptoms.
He has noted that the so-called " NATO option " is an illusion, making an analogy to trying to obtain fire insurance when the fire has already started.
( An analogy might be a piece of rubber, which thins in the middle when stretched.
In the Pali scriptures, for example, Buddha links the positive aspect of conscience to a pure heart and a calm, well-directed mind: " when the mind is face to face with the Truth, a self-luminous spark of thought is revealed at the inner core of ourselves and, by analogy, all reality.
Representing our soul or true self by analogy as our house, Arendt wrote that " conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
Later chapters in the books deal with atomic structure ( Mr Tompkins spends time as a conduction electron, returning to consciousness when he is annihilated in an encounter with a positron ) and thermodynamics ( the Professor expounds an analogy between the second law of thermodynamics and the bias towards the casino in gambling before being confounded by a local reversal of the second law through the intervention of Maxwell's demon who has introduced himself to Maud in one of her dreams ).
While still a student, Ambartsumian thoroughly studied the theory of atomic structure, the formation of energy levels, and the Schrödinger equation and its properties, and when he mastered the theory of eigenvalues of differential equations, he pointed out the apparent analogy between discrete energy levels and the eigenvalues of differential equations.
Arthur C. Clarke gave this analogy ( from a statement received by Reuters ): " If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?
The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer made an analogy to Buddhism when describing the Heisenberg uncertainty principle:
Däniken attempts to draw an analogy with the " cargo cults " that formed during and after World War II, when once-isolated tribes in the South Pacific mistook the advanced American and Japanese soldiers for gods.

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