Ilya Prigogine summarized the concept of affinity, saying, " All chemical reactions drive the system to a state of equilibrium in which the affinities of the reactions vanish.

A similar concept appears, although much less developed, in the game Quake 4, where the player can drive Mechs as well as other vehicles while the game is still primarily focused on ground based human combat.

The Alcubierre drive, however, remains a hypothetical concept with seemingly insuperable problems: Though the amount of energy required is no longer thought to be unobtainably large, there is no method to create a warp bubble in a region that does not already contain one, and there is no method to move from the warp-bubble once having arrived at an intended destination.

In addition, because Patton's rapid drive resulted in a salient that was vulnerable to flanking attacks and getting trapped by the Germans, Weyland and Patton developed the concept of using intensive armed aerial reconnaissance to protect the flanks of this salient.

The memory buffer concept introduced by MiniDisc was soon incorporated into portable CD players as well, and in hard drive based digital audio players.

A promotional model is a model hired to drive consumer demand for a product, service, brand, or concept by directly interacting with potential consumers.

A valid solution for faster-than-light travel which models the warp drive concept, called the Alcubierre drive, was formulated by physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994.

Unlike the concept of UNIX mount points, where volumes are named and located arbitrarily in a single hierarchical namespace, drive letter assignment allows multiple highest-level namespaces.

The first serious investigation of using a gas turbine in cars was in 1946 when two engineers, Robert Kafka and Robert Engerstein of Carney Associates, a New York engineering firm, came up with the concept where a unique compact turbine engine design would provide power for a rear wheel drive car.

A concept vehicle called the Hyanide proposes a continuous track drive motorcycle.

Such a concept embraces the spiritual link Māori have with Papatuanuku ( Earthmother ) and is a part of the international drive by indigenous people for self-determination.

This new 2. 6 L all wheel drive concept was put into production as the R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R.

Through these then revolutionary ideas Anna provided us with a comprehensive developmental theory and the concept of developmental lines, which combined her father's important drive model with more recent object relations theories emphasizing the importance of parents in child development processes.

In 1932, Wright introduced the concept of an adaptive landscape and argued that genetic drift and inbreeding could drive a small, isolated sub-population away from an adaptive peak, allowing natural selection to drive it towards different adaptive peaks.

The idea eventually ended up at 3M, where the concept was refined and the design was licensed to established floppy drive makers Matsushita ( Panasonic ) and Mitsubishi.

The concept was similar to the drive system of the German " Porsche Tiger " ( later rebuilt as the Ferdinand / Elefant ).

From the onset, parent company General Motors was interested in incorporating a left-hand drive Commodore in its Buick lineup, culminating in the unveiling of the Buick XP2000 concept car in 1996.

The concept was interesting enough that Bofors was asked to build a prototype of the suspension / drive train, which they completed successfully.

The concept of using vibration to free stuck objects from a wellbore originated in the 1940s, and probably stemmed from the 1930s use of vibration to drive piling in the Soviet Union.

This new concept car is again a front wheel drive pickup, but is as large as the full-size Dodge Ram.

This ‘ new ’ concept of the death drive actually has a long developmental history in Freud ’ s writings, including his investigations into narcissism and sadomasochism.

In contrast, while Windows 95 and later operating systems offer the option of having profiles for multiple users, they have no concept of access privileges, making them roughly equivalent to a single-user, single-account operating system ; this means that all processes can modify all files on the system that aren't open, in addition to being able to modify the boot sector and perform other low-level hard drive modifications.

The concept is one of the lasting legacies of the Carolingian Renaissance: " Europa " often figures in the letters of Charlemagne's cultural minister, Alcuin.

The letters criticized " brainwashing " as an unrecognized theoretical concept and Singer's reasoning as so flawed that it was " almost ridiculous.

: Name reference: The quantity has a subscripted or superscripted single letter, a number of letters, or an entire word, to specify what concept or entity they refer to, and tend to be written in upright roman typeface rather than italic while the quantity is in italic.

Borges ' total library concept was the main theme of his widely read 1941 short story " The Library of Babel ", which describes an unimaginably vast library consisting of interlocking hexagonal chambers, together containing every possible volume that could be composed from the letters of the alphabet and some punctuation characters.

According to Grotius, letters of marque and reprisal were akin to a " private war ", a concept alien to modern sensibilities but related to an age when the ocean was lawless and all merchant vessels sailed armed for self-defense.

He commissioned a New York advertising agency to develop his concept of the Friday the 13th logo, which consisted of big block letters bursting through a pane of glass.

Another language game, " Fannee Doolee ," centers around a character who likes any person, place, thing or concept with double letters in it but hates its non-double-lettered equivalent, e. g., " Fannee Doolee likes sweets but hates candy.

To promote his concept of the Volk, he published letters and collected folk songs.

Very much like in English, " The " article is used here to single out the noun as being the only one of its kind, " The god " ( the one and only ) or " God " with a capital G ( the concept of capital letters does not exist in Arabic ).

When learning symbols, many students believe letters always represent unknowns and struggle with the concept of variable.

The concept did not wither and, on 5 January 1888, British prime minister Lord Salisbury submitted to the Queen a draft constitution for an Order of Merit in Science and Art, consisting of one grade split into two branches of knighthood: the Order of Scientific Merit for Knights of Merit in Science, with the post-nominal letters KMS and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters KMA.

The letters x and y, which are called coreference labels, show how the concept and relation nodes are connected.

And the letters reflect the general concept within the early Christian Church that Jesus existed and was crucified.

In the 20th century Dietrich Bonhoeffer expressed the concept in similar terminology in letters he wrote while in a Nazi prison during World War II, which were not made public until years later.

The concept of a barony as a personal dignity not tied to land arose only when, in about 1388, Richard II created John Beauchamp a baron by letters patent.

He dismissed the concept of using cue cards for the performance, but reversed such decision when he forgot the order of the letters.

I've had letters from mathematicians, physicists, biochemists, neurophysiologists, epidemiologists, economists, sociologists ; from people in marketing, information systems, civil engineering, and from a business enterprise that uses the concept of the small world for networking purposes on the Internet.

During the course of this study, Derrida not only divulges the exact instances Socrates or his interlocutors make use of this concept, but also reveals the relationship between Plato and Socrates which scholars have kept in secret by questioning the validity of authorship in Plato's letters, where in the second letter Socrates writes: " Consider these fact and take care lest you sometimes come to repent of having now unwisely published your views.

In addition to a more than 20 year friendship, in which Weber and Simmel conversed and wrote letters often, Marianne Weber wrote a critical response to Simmel's 1911 essay, " The relative and the absolute in the problem of the sexes, in which she criticized his " concept of gender relations .".

The " white sign with 1-inch black letters must read: " Notice: Taco Cabana originated a restaurant concept which Two Pesos was found to have unfairly copied.

He campaigns for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitates the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters.

In his new method of teaching, Roshdieh used the concept of sounds instead of alphabet letters to teach Persian and Azerbaijani Turkish languages ( which use the Arabic script ).

He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters.