put forward that the concept of tensegrity is suitable for adaptive architecture thanks to lightweight characteristics.

Kenneth Snelson however denied this claim insisting that Ioganson's work was much further than one step from his own concept of tensegrity,

* Pask's prismatic tensegrity model of a concept in any medium

Snelson asserts his former professor Buckminster Fuller took credit for Snelson's discovery of the concept that Fuller named tensegrity.

In the 1960s, Robert Mandrou and Georges Duby harmonized the concept of mentalité history with Fernand Braudel's structures of historical time and linked mentalities with changing social conditions.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

The fundamental concept of cognitive science is " that thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures.

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

One core result of Holzkamp's historical and comparative analysis of human reproductive action, perception and cognition is a very specific concept of meaning that identifies symbolic meaning as historically and culturally constructed, purposeful conceptual structures that humans create in close relationship to material culture and within the context of historically specific formations of social reproduction.

While it is possible to identify earlier legal structures that would today fall into the " environmental " law metric-for example the common law recognition of private and public rights to protect interests in land, such as nuisance, or post-industrial revolution human health protections-the concept of " environmental law " as a separate and distinct body of law is a 20th Century development.

Mozi tried to replace what he considered to be the long-entrenched Chinese over-attachment to family and clan structures with the concept of " universal love " ( jiān ' ài, 兼愛 ).

The original surface micromachining concept was based on thin polycrystalline silicon layers patterned as movable mechanical structures and released by sacrificial etching of the underlying oxide layer.

Mind maps are based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.

The concept of functional groups is central in organic chemistry, both as a means to classify structures and for predicting properties.

The concept has inspired new structures and philosophies in many areas of human interaction.

Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).

For example, in Chinese real estate law there is no unified concept of real property ; the state owns all land but often not the structures that sit on that land.

Structuralism rejected the concept of human freedom and choice and focused instead on the way that human experience and thus, behavior, is determined by various structures.

This generalization of the concept of slope allows very complex constructions to be planned and built that go well beyond static structures that are either horizontals or verticals, but can change in time, move in curves, and change depending on the rate of change of other factors.

The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known algebraic structures, such as rings, fields, and vector spaces can all be seen as groups endowed with additional operations and axioms.

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS ( 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941 ) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

Engels made an argument using anthropological evidence of the time to show that family structures changed over history, and that the concept of monogamous marriage came from the necessity within class society for men to control women to ensure their own children would inherit their property.

Earlier problems of complexity were solved by developers by choosing the right data structures, developing algorithms, and by applying the concept of separation of concerns.

Many evolved similarities can be described in concept as parallel evolution from a remote ancestor, with the exception of those where quite different structures are co-opted to a similar function.

* Elective Affinities, the concept of chemical affinities as a metaphor for human emotional affinities

Some virtual communities explicitly refer to the concept of cyberspace, for example Linden Lab calling their customers " Residents " of Second Life, while all such communities can be positioned " in cyberspace " for explanatory and comparative purposes ( as did Sterling in The Hacker Crackdown, followed by many journalists ), integrating the metaphor into a wider cyber-culture.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " two cows " metaphor to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

Examples: " to grasp a concept " and " to gather what you've understood " use physical action as a metaphor for understanding.

The authors call this concept a ‘ conduit metaphor .’ By this they meant that a speaker can put ideas or objects into words or containers, and then send them along a channel, or conduit, to a listener who takes that idea or object out of the container and makes meaning of it.

In historical onomasiology or, more generally, in historical linguistics, metaphor is defined as semantic change based on similarity, i. e. a similarity in form or function between the original concept named by a word and the target concept named by this word.

In this work, he defined rhetoric as " a study of misunderstandings and its remedies ," and introduced the influential concepts tenor and vehicle to describe the components of a metaphor — the main idea and the concept to which it is compared.

A mystical concept alluding to the interconnection of all life on our planet ; and a metaphor for common descent in the evolutionary sense.

This series focused heavily on the " mutants as a metaphor for minorities " aspects of the X-Men concept.

However, note that this metaphor is not isolated to the concept of loanwords, but also found in the idiom " to borrow an idea.

There are, however, many historians such as Martin Broszat and Hans Mommsen who dismiss this " intentionalist " approach, and argue that the concept was actually an " ideological metaphor " in the early days of Nazism.

Taking on board the Lakoff-Johnson paradigm of conceptual metaphor, he investgates the way in which Czech communists appropriated the concept of the people, the state and struggle.

One example of a simple sentence that displays synecdoche, metaphor, and metonymy is: " Fifty keels ploughed the deep ", where " keels " is the synecdoche, as it names the whole ( the ship ) after a particular part ( of the ship ); " ploughed " is the metaphor, as it substitutes the concept of ploughing a field for moving through the ocean ; and " the deep " is the metonym, as " depth " is an attribute associated with the ocean.

In the Mesoamerican concept of urbanism, Tollan and other language equivalents serve as a metaphor, linking the bundles of reeds and rushes that formed part of the lacustrine environment of the Valley of Mexico and the large gathering of people in a city.

A contemporary usage of this metaphor was that of Ralph Waldo Emerson's private vision in 1845 of America as an ethnic and racial smelting-pot, a variation on the concept of the melting pot.

They conceived of a concept referred to as " the Beast ", which Wilkinson describes as " a headless monster that lurches through postwar history ," a metaphor for a system of dark forces that resulted in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War, and helped Nixon's rise to power and his fall from it as well.

The concept of shtetl culture is used as a metaphor for the traditional way of life of 19th-century Eastern European Jews.

The leading Polish writer of the period, Bolesław Prus, hailed Spencer as " the Aristotle of the nineteenth century " and adopted Spencer's metaphor of society-as-organism, giving it a striking poetic presentation in his 1884 micro-story, " Mold of the Earth ", and highlighting the concept in the introduction to his most universal novel, Pharaoh ( 1895 ).

According to the teaching of Father Richard Rohr, the concept of the third eye is a metaphor for non-dualistic thinking ; the way the mystics see.

The Shelf concept, though older, is more powerful in that the file system objects, their sources and destinations are persistent and available as long as they are on the Shelf ( in the Windows cut, copy, and paste metaphor the objects and locations persist until one copy / move operation is complete or until something else is placed in the clipboard ).

In Japan, cherry blossoms also symbolize clouds due to their nature of blooming, besides being an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life, an aspect of Japanese cultural tradition that is often associated with Buddhistic influence, and which is embodied in the concept of mono no aware.