Pretty's description of some of the animals in the area as looking like strange kind of Conies with the tail of a Rat, being of great length lead to its identification as the Botta Pocket Gopher ( Thomoys bottae bottae ).

The description is taken from the novelization of the miniseries, Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit by Brauna E. Pouns and Donald Wrye ( Pocket Books, 1987 ), based on Wrye's screenplay.

But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.

We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.

A typical `` sonogram '' of a human eye, together with a description of the anatomical parts, is shown in Fig. 5.

Freeman, Cameron and McGhie, in their description of the disturbances of thinking found in chronic schizophrenic patients, say, in regard to condensation, that `` the lack of adequate discrimination between the self and the environment, and the objects contained therein in itself is the prototypical condensation ''.

Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.

This is a penetrating description of our post-war illusion, which applied to other areas than East Europe.

It is not positivism which has isolated metaphysics from reality by distinguishing between description and prescription.

What follows is therefore a description of three separate undertakings, the new frescoing of the gap, and the successive essays in conservation, with some discussion of problems that arose in connection with each.

A full description of the DIOCS, DTF, and DUF statements is contained in the 7070 Data Processing System Bulletin `` IBM 7070 Input/Output Control System '', form Aj.

There is a complete synonymy at the beginning of each species description.

References are given at the end of each mineral description and a general index is given at the end of each volume.

A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart: `` my girl is none of your one-horse girls.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

That is almost a perfect description of the predicament in which we find ourselves today, isn't it??

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

This is an exact description of what Mr. Sansom does.

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.

Holtorf ’ s description of the archaeologist as a detective is very similar to Christie ’ s Poirot who is hugely observant and is very careful to look at the small details as they often impart the most information.

The novel is most noted for its careful description of the dig site and house, which showed the author had spent much of her own time in very similar situations herself.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

Here is a list of some of the most important vertebrate brain components, along with a brief description of their functions as currently understood:

Radford revealed that Tolentino " believed that the creatures and events she saw in Species were actually happening in reality in Puerto Rico at the time ," and therefore concludes that " the most important chupacabra description cannot be trusted.

* Within the region where radiative effects are important the description given by the idealized greenhouse model becomes realistic: The surface of the Earth, warmed to a temperature around 255 K, radiates long-wavelength, infrared heat in the range 4 – 100 μm.

He is given credit for the first description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease.

Abstract, subscription needed for full text </ ref > and even small diamonds interact physically and then become separated ; the type of interaction is such that each resulting member of a pair is properly described by the same quantum mechanical description ( state ), which is indefinite in terms of important factors such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc.

The list of still-active religious movements given here is an attempt to summarize the most important regional and philosophical influences on local communities, but it is by no means a complete description of every religious community, nor does it explain the most important elements of individual religiousness.

In the preceding description an important fact is ignored for the sake of simplicity: the dispersion of the energy.

However, the most important contribution of Minkowski's geometric viewpoint of spacetime turned out to be in Einstein's later development of general relativity, since the correct description of the effect of gravitation on space and time was found to be most easily visualized as a " warp " or stretching in the geometrical fabric of space and time, in a smooth and continuous way that changed smoothly from point-to-point along the spacetime fabric.

A more accurate, though no less important description would be popularizer.

The wave equation is an important second-order linear partial differential equation for the description of waves – as they occur in physics – such as sound waves, light waves and water waves.

Descriptivism is the belief that description is more significant or important to teach, study, and practice than prescription.

Although von Neumann's projection postulate is often presented as a normative description of quantum measurement, it was conceived by taking into account experimental evidence available during the 1930s ( in particular the Compton-Simon experiment has been paradigmatic ), and many important present-day measurement procedures do not satisfy it ( so-called measurements of the second kind ).

Simulation allows an HDL description of a design ( called a model ) to pass design verification, an important milestone that validates the design's intended function ( specification ) against the code implementation in the HDL description.

See chorale setting for a description and a list of all the different types of musical setting and transformation that this important liturgical form has undergone.

However, it is important to note that the notion of the blasé is actually not the central or final point of the essay, but is part of a description of a sequence of states in an irreversible transformation of the mind.

Judea Pearl described best-first search as estimating the promise of node n by a " heuristic evaluation function which, in general, may depend on the description of n, the description of the goal, the information gathered by the search up to that point, and most important, on any extra knowledge about the problem domain.

" Nevertheless, this more abstract description has not prevented the office holders from speaking out and playing important roles on global issues to various degrees.

It is important that the description of events are as detailed as possible ; if necessary details are not included the author will be contacted and asked to provide them.

Removing dead cell material is important in chronic inflammation, as the early stages of inflammation are dominated by neutrophil granulocytes, which are ingested by macrophages if they come of age ( see CD-31 for a description of this process ).

Based on his experience, he says " it is important to point out that the mathematical formulation of the physicist ’ s often crude experience leads in an uncanny number of cases to an amazingly accurate description of a large class of phenomena.

During this time, Friedman wrote a series of 23 papers on cryptography, collectively known as the " Riverbank publications ", including the first description of the index of coincidence, an important mathematical tool in cryptanalysis.

It should be clearly understood however, that though nucleic acid evidence might be definitive for establishing relationships, it does not follow that morphological description is any the less important for day-to-day purposes of description or identification.