The order is clearly circumscribed on the basis of DNA sequence analysis, but is difficult to define morphologically, since its members are structurally diverse.

Carnivorans are the most diverse in size of any mammalian order, ranging from the least weasel ( Mustela nivalis ), at as little as and, to the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ), which can weigh up to, to the southern elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ), whose adult males weigh up to and measure up to in length.

The cucurbitales are an order of cosmopolitan plants with distribution particularly diverse in the tropics.

Before DNA-molecular classifications, the species placed now in eight families of cucurbitales order, was assigned to orders as diverse as Ranunculales, Malpighiales, Violales, and Rafflesiales.

The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons, including for example tea, persimmon, blueberry, Brazil nut, and azalea.

Since 2001, 40 non-natural amino acids have been added into protein by creating a unique codon ( recoding ) and a corresponding transfer-RNA: aminoacyl – tRNA-synthetase pair to encode it with diverse physicochemical and biological properties in order to be used as a tool to exploring protein structure and function or to create novel or enhanced proteins.

While global macro strategies have a large amount of flexibility due to their ability to use leverage to take large positions in diverse investments in multiple markets, the timing of the implementation of the strategies is important in order to generate attractive, risk-adjusted returns.

Mustelids are diverse and the largest family in the order Carnivora, at least partly because in the past it has been a catch-all category for many early or poorly differentiated taxa.

The order is very diverse and hard to recognize except with molecular phylogenetic evidence.

As the course outlines of his Sorbonne lectures indicate, during this period he continues a dialogue between phenomenology and the diverse work carried out in psychology, all in order to return to the study of the acquisition of language in children, as well as to broadly take advantage of the contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to linguistics, and to work on the notion of structure through a discussion of work in psychology, linguistics and social anthropology.

The Brotherhood of the Phoenix was founded in the summer of 2004 by seven gay men from diverse traditions such as ceremonial magic, shamanism, and pre-Gardnerian witchcraft in order to create an ecumenical Neopagan tradition which serves the community of men who love men.

With neuronal heterogeneity ( by Edelman called degeneracy ), it is possible to test the many circuits ( on the order of 30 billion neurons with an estimated one quadrillion connections between them in the human brain ) with a diverse set of inputs, to see which neuronal groups respond " appropriately " statistically.

A number of pontifs are renowned for their urban planning in the city of Rome, but Alexander VII ’ s numerous urban interventions were not only diverse in scope and scale but demonstrated a consistent planning and architectural vision that the glorification and embellishment of the city, ancient and modern, sacred and secular, should be governed by order and decorum.

The extant members are apparently remnants of a formerly diverse and widespread order.

Accordingly, the U. S. and a group of allies, including countries as diverse as Egypt, Syria and Czechoslovakia, deployed a massive amount of troops along the Saudi border with Kuwait and Iraq in order to encircle the Iraqi army, the largest in the Middle East.

Over half of all living vertebrate species ( about 32, 000 species ) are fishes ( non-tetrapod craniates ), a diverse set of lineages that inhabit all the world's aquatic ecosystems, from snow minnows ( Cypriniformes ) in Himalayan lakes at elevations over 4, 600 metres ( 15, 000 feet ) to flatfishes ( order Pleuronectiformes ) in the Challenger Deep, the deepest ocean trench at about 11, 000 metres ( 36, 000 feet ).

Recognizing that people in a society hold diverse interests, Confucius charges the ruler with the responsibility to unify these interests and maintain social order.

Frogs are a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians comprising the order Anura ( Ancient Greek an -, without + oura, tail ).

There is also a more diverse type of whistle used for giving commands to sheepdogs at work, which can emit almost any tone the shepherd wishes, in order to signal different commands.

Military intervention by Yugoslav security forces led by Slobodan Milošević and Serb militia within Kosovo in response to diverse operations led by the KLA prompted an exodus of Kosovar Albanians / Serbs and a refugee crisis that eventually caused NATO to intervene militarily in order to stop what was widely identified as an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.

About two-thirds of Australian marsupials belong to the order Diprotodontia, which is split into three suborders: the Vombatiformes ( wombats and the koala, 4 species in total ); the large and diverse Phalangeriformes ( the possums and gliders ) and Macropodiformes ( kangaroos, potoroos, wallabies and the musky rat-kangaroo ).

In order to achieve a diverse class, business schools also consider the target male-female ratio and local-international student ratios.

Thus, for the scientist, reality is explored as an evolutionary system of diverse entities, the order of which is determined by the principle of causality.

Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.

This is brought out in the common religious ethos that prevails even in the denominationally diverse audiences at many secular semi-public and public occasions in the United States ; ;

Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.

The functions of these synapses are very diverse: some are excitatory ( excite the target cell ); others are inhibitory ; others work by activating second messenger systems that change the internal chemistry of their target cells in complex ways.

Though diverse, these views may be generally classified into those that hold Christ to be only divine and not differing from the Father hypostatically ; those that hold Christ to be less fully God than the Father ; in other forms being completely human and a messenger as the perfect created human.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Freshwater Carboniferous invertebrates include various bivalve molluscs that lived in brackish or fresh water, such as Anthraconaia, Naiadites, and Carbonicola ; diverse crustaceans such as Candona, Carbonita, Darwinula, Estheria, Acanthocaris, Dithyrocaris, and Anthrapalaemon.

By contrast, curry powders and pastes produced and consumed in India are extremely diverse ; some red, some yellow, some brown ; some with five spices and some with as many as 20 or more.

The political left, comprised mainly of Social Democrats, covering a wide spectrum from moderate to revolutionary socialists ; the political right was even more diverse, ranging from social liberals and moderate conservatives to rightist conservative elements.

And ever since a diverse variety of firearms ; large guns in particular, became visible in Tanjore, Dacca, Bijapur and Murshidabad.

There were a great many rival Christian denominations holding very diverse opinions ; the atmosphere of dispute and confusion gave Fox an opportunity to put forward his own beliefs through his personal sermons.

Another inspiration came from a totally different kind of source ; the scientific progress at the time in such diverse areas as biology, astronomy, geology, and physics, all contributed to make Lovecraft see the human race seem even more insignificant, powerless, and doomed in a materialistic and mechanical universe.

Godwin's political views were diverse and do not perfectly agree with any of the ideologies that claim his influence ; writers of the Socialist Standard, organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, consider Godwin both an individualist and a communist ; anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard did not regard Godwin as being in the individualist camp at all, referring to him as the " founder of communist anarchism "; and historian Albert Weisbord considers him an individualist anarchist without reservation.

This economic stagnation is argued to have commenced with the demise of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, with trade networks being disrupted and societies torn apart with the creation of new nation states ; prior to this, the Middle East had a diverse and growing economy and more general prosperity.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.

Our discussion of this involves using Erik Erikson's schema of `` identity vs. identity diffusion '' as a conceptual tool in superimposing a few common denominators onto the diverse personality and family configurations of the unwed mothers from whose case histories we quoted earlier.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

Ampère engaged in a diverse array of scientific inquiries during the years leading up to his election to the academy — writing papers and engaging in topics from mathematics and philosophy to chemistry and astronomy.

Because these methods are diverse and use data from such different sources, the problem of integrating them into a coherent argument has been a long-term issue for archaeoastronomers.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

One of the first plastics made from synthetic components, Bakelite was used for its electrical nonconductivity and heat-resistant properties in electrical insulators, radio and telephone casings, and such diverse products as kitchenware, jewelry, pipe stems, and children's toys.

Over 350, 000 objects spanning two million years tells the story of the history of man, from three major continents and many rich and diverse cultures.

It is also home to diverse communities from across the Commonwealth.

" That year BJU enrolled students from fifty states and nearly fifty countries, representing diverse ethnicities and cultures, and the BJU administration declared itself " committed to maintaining on the campus the racial and cultural diversity and harmony characteristic of the true Church of Jesus Christ throughout the world.

Activated charcoal is used as an absorbent and adsorbent in filter material in applications as diverse as gas masks, water purification and kitchen extractor hoods and in medicine to absorb toxins, poisons, or gases from the digestive system.

Most of its ethnically and linguistically diverse population lives in the south, with densities ranging from 54 persons per square kilometers in the Logone River basin to 0. 1 persons in the northern B. E. T.

Food in America consisted of traditions that were adapted from England, but up until the end of this century, the presence of new ingredients along with the contact between diverse ethnic groups influenced experimentation.

The competence between papers for having more cartoons than the rest from the mid-1920s, the growth of large-scale newspaper advertising during most of the thirties, paper rationing during World War II, the decline on news readership ( as television newscasts began to be more common ) and inflation ( which has caused higher printing costs ) beginning during the fifties and sixties made Sunday strips being published on smaller and more diverse formats.

However, during the early Paleocene, flora were relatively diverse with little predation from insects, even 1. 7 million years after the extinction event.

During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalized forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals, despite the fact that birds still outnumbered mammals two to one.

Since 2002, Charles has been a DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music, presenting The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show, where he plays a diverse range of funk and soul music, from classic tracks to the latest releases, and provides publicity for new bands.

Over the centuries, the Comoro Islands were settled by a succession of diverse groups from the coast of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Indonesia, and Madagascar.

CUNY has historically served a diverse student body, especially those excluded from or unable to afford private universities.

Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.