Authors such as David Schneider, Clifford Geertz, and Marshall Sahlins developed a more fleshed-out concept of culture as a web of meaning or signification, which proved very popular within and beyond the discipline.

This proved highly successful, even without training, and the concept was widely used in the 21st Army Group.

The ancient Roman concept of virtus ( i. e. of virtue that had to be proved by a political or military career ), which Cicero suggested as the solution to the societal problems of the late Republic, meant little to them.

After 1984's Marvel Super-Heroes proved the viability of the concept, TSR revised Gamma World, Star Frontiers, and Top Secret to use similar tables.

As powerful as the concept of the band structure proved to be in the description of metallic bonding, it does have a drawback.

Epstein's reference to this " phenomenon of an epiphanic being ", which appears through the transduction of sound, proved influential on Schaeffer ’ s concept of reduced listening.

Although Mazda's concept was for the MX-5 to be an inexpensive sports car, the market proved extremely eager for it ; the car became an overnight novelty, resulting in many dealers placing customers on lists for pre-order due to the demand exceeding the anticipated supply.

When the password system linking the three games proved too troublesome, the concept was reduced to two games at Miyamoto's suggestion.

The trust has proved to be such a flexible concept that it has proved capable of working as an investment vehicle: the unit trust.

Gibbs also applied his vector methods to the determination of planetary and comet orbits, and he developed the concept of mutually reciprocal triads of vectors which later proved to be of importance in crystallography.

The concept was eventually largely abandoned because it proved to be impractical to maintain the necessary non-Maxwellian velocity distribution, for several reasons.

The concept proved popular, and although Canada has few cities big enough for light rail, there are now at least 30 light rail systems in the United States.

The second meaning is a precise and well-defined concept of balance or " patterned self-similarity " that can be demonstrated or proved according to the rules of a formal system: by geometry, through physics or otherwise.

* Carl Ferdinand von Arlt ( 1812 – 1887 ), the elder ( Austrian ) proved that myopia is largely due to an excessive axial length, published influential textbooks on eye disease, and ran annual eye clinics in needy areas long before the concept of volunteer eye camps became popular.

Prior to World War I motorized ambulances started to be developed, but once they proved their effectiveness on the battlefield during the war the concept spread rapidly to civilian systems.

Film director James Mangold pitched a series concept to cable channel HBO, whilst consulting with Gaiman himself on an unofficial basis, but this proved to be unsuccessful.

This program proved the basic concept and shots of the Martlet-3 reached altitudes of.

However, a " proof of concept " model of a differential analyser which made extensive use of Meccano parts was built at Manchester University, UK, in 1934, by Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter: use of Meccano meant that the machine was cheap to build, and it proved " accurate enough for the solution of many scientific problems ".

In 1988, Queensrÿche released Operation: Mindcrime, a narrative concept album that proved a massive critical and commercial success.

In the sands of Iraq the 3rd Brigade Stryker Brigade Combat Team proved the value of the Stryker brigade concept in combat and logistics operations.

Margot Grzywacz's fascinating etymological survey of the word in Romance and Germanic languages asserts, indeed, that the concept was one of those that proved to be the most difficult to express in language and was therefore among the last to find an unambiguous term.

This concept proved wildly popular with fans ( as seen in the videos for " Pour Some Sugar on Me " and " Armageddon It ") and was used again for the Adrenalize tour.

Attachments for this sort of bombing were fitted to examples of the famous Norden bombsight, but in practice this concept proved unworkable.

This opposition, however, proved ineffective in the face of continuing and growing popular support for a single overriding concept — independence at an early date.

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.

: Dukkha is an extremely important concept and is central to understanding Buddhism in its entirety.

Similarly, the Chinese concept of Mandate of Heaven required that the emperor properly carry out the proper rituals, consult his ministers, and made it extremely difficult to undo any acts carried out by an ancestor.

In the game's cosmology humans can regain their lost divine status through a game concept called Awakening in which characters with an extremely high or low mental balance are no longer restrained by the rules of the Illusion.

Nur ad-Din was extremely pious and during his rule the concept of jihad came to be interpreted as a kind of counter-crusade against the kingdom, which was an impediment to Muslim unity, both political and spiritual.

It would be another 50 years before the concept was again used to allow extremely high rates of fire, such as in miniguns, and automatic aircraft cannon.

While presumably inspired by the concept of neutron-degenerate matter in the cores of neutron stars, the material used in fiction bears at most only a superficial resemblance, usually depicted as an extremely strong solid under Earth-like conditions, or possessing exotic properties such as the ability to manipulate time and space.

The Wheatstone bridge illustrates the concept of a difference measurement, which can be extremely accurate.

This concept, called a laser-pushed lightsail, was analyzed by physicist Robert L. Forward in 1989 as a method of Interstellar travel that would avoid extremely high mass ratios by not carrying fuel.

Although physical modelling was not a new concept in acoustics and synthesis, having been implemented using finite difference approximations of the wave equation by Hiller and Ruiz in 1971, it was not until the development of the Karplus-Strong algorithm, the subsequent refinement and generalization of the algorithm into the extremely efficient digital waveguide synthesis by Julius O. Smith III and others, and the increase in DSP power in the late 1980s that commercial implementations became feasible.

Many critics see the concept of indigo children as made up of extremely general traits, a sham diagnosis that is an alternative to a medical diagnosis, with a complete lack of science or studies to support it.

Prior to World War I, bayonet doctrine was largely centered around the concept of ' reach '; that is, a soldier's theoretical ability, by use of an extremely long rifle and fixed bayonet, to bayonet an enemy soldier without having to approach within reach of his opponent's blade.

Two authors describe this extremely complicated concept within the context of Arcadia.

Freedom of the press is an extremely problematic problem / concept for most non-democratic systems of government since, in the modern age, strict control of access to information is critical to the existence of most non-democratic governments and their associated control systems and security apparatus.

" Although she mentions " contrived plot devices ", she also refers to the series as " clever " and " an extremely entertaining concept ".

The pilgrims saw the purchasing of a relic as a means, in a small way, to bring the shrine back with him or her on returning home, since during the Middle Ages the concept of physical proximity to the " holy " ( tombs of saints or their personal objects ) was considered extremely important.

* Later investigations at Sandia included a 2005 study of the StarTram concept for an extremely long coilgun, one version conceived as launching passengers to orbit with survivable acceleration.

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) have used ELF to refer to the concept of " extremely low frequency ( ELF ) electric and magnetic fields ( EMF )" and have also referred to " ELF electric and magnetic fields in the frequency range > 0 to 100, 000 Hz ( 100 kHz ).

The concept of conditional expectation is extremely important in Kolmogorov's measure-theoretic definition of probability theory.

While attempting to be amusing, the concept of a universe dominated by the perfidious English is extremely horrifying.

Based on the Audi Al < sub > 2 </ sub > concept car first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1997, the A2 was notable for being constructed from aluminium, which in combination with its efficient engines, made it an extremely economical car on fuel.

For obvious reasons, it is rarely used in a scientific context ; it is a concept that is extremely hard to define.

However, RCS is an extremely valuable concept because it is a property of the target alone and may be measured or calculated.