Due to the heightened magnetic activity in these coronal loop regions, coronal loops can often be the precursor to solar flares and coronal mass ejections ( CMEs ).

In some versions of Doom II, both of these secret levels incorporate level design and characters from Dooms precursor, Wolfenstein 3D, which was also developed by id.

Each issue contained biographical information on many major costumed characters ; these biographies were a precursor to Marvel's series of reference material, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, which followed shortly on the heels of Contest of Champions.

John Chadwick believes that these were the precursor divinities of Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon.

The precursor to the final functional form of protein is termed proprotein, and these proproteins may be first synthesized as preproprotein.

Although these polymers have other properties of of contemporary protein as well, identity with the latter is not a necessary inference ". Some theories of abiogenesis propose that proteinoids were a precursor to the first living cells.

In these cults Poseidon appears usually as a horse, which represents the river spirit of the underworld as it usually happens in northern-European folklore. The precursor goddesses of Demeter and Persephone are closely related with the springs and the animals, and especially with Poseidon and Artemis who was the first nymph.

Retinol in turn is ingested in a precursor form ; animal sources ( liver and eggs ) contain retinyl esters, whereas plants ( carrots, spinach ) contain pro-vitamin A carotenoids ( these may also be considered simply vitamin A ).

The precursor to these was the radio series ( 1950-1952 ) Tales of the Texas Rangers, a contemporary detective drama set in Texas, featuring many of the characteristics of traditional Westerns.

Had she limited her argument to these points instead of conjoining it to an argument about how Shakespeare couldn't have written them, there is little doubt that, instead of being dismissed as a crank and a madwoman, she would be hailed today as the precursor of the New Historicists, and the first to argue that the plays anticipated the political upheavals England experienced in the mid-seventeenth century.

Discussing online self-help support groups as the precursor to e-therapy, Martha Ainsworth notes that " the enduring success of these groups has firmly established the potential of computer-mediated communication to enable discussion of sensitive personal issues.

) In these films, Calloway can be seen performing a gliding backstep dance move, the precursor to Michael Jackson's " moonwalk "— Calloway said fifty years later, " it was called The Buzz back then.

Its immediate precursor and prototype was a collection of thirty-eight maps of European lands, and of Asia, Africa, Tartary and Egypt, gathered together by the wealth and enterprise, and through the agents, of Ortelius ’ friend and patron, Gilles Hooftman, lord of Cleydael and Aertselaer: most of these were printed in Rome, eight or nine only in the Southern Netherlands.

It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, though these were eventually introduced.

Note that these quotation marks are unpaired ( the same character is used as an opener and a closer ), which is a hangover from the typewriter technology which was the precursor of the earliest computer input and output devices.

The death of these five persons was just a precursor of the deaths to come consuming about half the Mayflower company in that first bitter winter of 1620-1621.

The Xindi came to revere these creatures, whom they called the ' Guardians ,' and following their guidance, launched a preemptive strike on Earth as a precursor to a genocidal second attack.

The granule cell precursors remain in a subgranular zone that becomes progressively thinner as the dentate gyrus grows, but these precursor cells are retained in adult rats.

Progressive incorporation of these precursor components within a cell membrane would gradually increase metabolic complexity within the cell membrane, whilst leading to greater environmental simplicity in the external environment.

In these applications, the nearly colourless dye precursor oxidizes to the dye.

This group includes ACTH, alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone ( α-MSH ), beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone ( β-MSH ) and gamma-melanocyte-stimulating hormone ( γ-MSH ); these peptides are all cleavage products of a large precursor peptide called pro-opiomelanocortin ( POMC ).

However when mice with this genetic deletion have wild-type neural precursor cells injected into their hippocampus and these cells are allowed to mature into astrocytes containing the interleukin-1 receptor, the mice exhibit normal hippocampal-dependent memory function, and partial restoration of Long-term potentiation.

Both of these are considered by some to be a form of an unofficial precursor to the Confederations Cup, although FIFA recognized only the 1992 tournaments onwards to be Confederations Cup winners.

Often works designated as such are canzoni da sonar ; these pieces are an important precursor to the sonata.

The concept of a precursor geosyncline or initial downward warping of the solid earth ( Hall, 1859 ) prompted James Dwight Dana ( 1873 ) to include the concept of compression in the theories surrounding mountain-building.

Some of the significant achievements of early Muslim philosophers included the development of a strict science of citation, the isnad or " backing "; the development of a method of open inquiry to disprove claims, the ijtihad, which could be generally applied to many types of questions ( although which to apply it to is an ethical question ); the willingness to both accept and challenge authority within the same process ; recognition that science and philosophy are both subordinate to morality, and that moral choices are prior to any investigation or concern with either ; the separation of theology ( kalam ) and law ( shariah ) during the early Abbasid period, a precursor to secularism ; the distinction between religion and philosophy, marking the beginning of secular thought ; the beginning of a peer review process ; early ideas on evolution ; the beginnings of the scientific method, an important contribution to the philosophy of science ; the introduction of temporal modal logic and inductive logic ; the beginning of social philosophy, including the formulation of theories on social cohesion and social conflict ; the beginning of the philosophy of history ; the development of the philosophical novel and the concepts of empiricism and tabula rasa ; and distinguishing between essence and existence.

Ironically the Max Meldrum-led Australian Tonalism movement, which rejected modernist art and promoted a unique form of painting in accordance with Meldrum's theories of art, has since been recognized as a precursor to Modernist forms of art, including Minimalism, and art historian Bernard William Smith noted that Meldrum is perhaps the only Australian artist to develop and practice his own fully formulated theory of painting.

Bachofen became an important precursor of 20th century theories of matriarchy, such as the Old European culture postulated by Marija Gimbutas from the 1950s, and the field of feminist theology and " Matriarchal Studies " in 1970s feminism.

Some of his views and theories made him a precursor of evolutionism in the natural and social sciences.

Consequently, the book is widely read as a precursor to modern theories on semiotics and postmodernism.

After the full-scale introduction of Neo-Confucianism as a state philosophy by the Tokugawa Shogunate, Kusunoki Masashige, once-called a traitor by the Northern Court, was resurrected with Emperor Go-Daigo as a precursor of Sinocentric absolutists, based upon the Neo-Confucian theories.

According to the study Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics ( 2003 ) by Andrew Warwick, during this period the style of teaching and study required for the successful preparation of students had a wide influence: ( 1 ) on the development of ' mixed mathematics ' ( a precursor of later applied mathematics and mathematical physics, with emphasis on algebraic manipulative mastery ); ( 2 ) on mathematical education ; ( 3 ) as vocational training for fields such as astronomy ; and ( 4 ) in the reception of new physical theories, particularly in electromagnetism as expounded by James Clerk Maxwell.

A reaction that forms an arene compound from an unsaturated or partially unsaturated cyclic precursor is simply called an aromatization.

When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color ( sometimes streaked with black ), soft, with a strong fecal smell.

Following months to years of photo-degradation and oxidation in the ocean, this precursor gradually hardens, developing a dark gray or black color, a crusty and waxy texture, and a peculiar odor that is at once sweet, earthy, marine, and animalic.

Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.

He originally believed those substances to be precursors of antibodies, just like zymogen is a precursor of an enzyme.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

* 1946 – The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held.

The International Bible Students Association ( precursor to Jehovah's Witnesses ) identified Abaddon as Satan in the 1917 seventh and final volume of Millennial Dawn, to which Charles Taze Russell's name was attached ( although his authorship of the work is doubted ).

This technique, a precursor to impressionism, is noted for the short brush strokes where the colors are not necessarily blended smoothly.

Commercially, the dominant alkyne is acetylene itself, which is used as a fuel and a precursor to other compounds, e. g., acrylates.

It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis.

As the first public bank to " offer accounts not directly convertible to coin ", the Bank of Amsterdam established in 1609 is considered to be the precursor to modern central banks.

ζ-carotene is the biosynthetic precursor of neurosporene, which is the precursor of lycopene, which, in turn, is the precursor of the carotenes α through ε.

Chymotrypsin is synthesized in the pancreas by protein biosynthesis as a precursor called chymotrypsinogen that is enzymatically inactive.