Although secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, Castle of the Winds has a plot loosely based on Norse mythology, told with setting changes, unique items, and occasional passages of text.

The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.

The secondary structure may be also defined based on the regular pattern of backbone dihedral angles in a particular region of the Ramachandran plot ; thus, a segment of residues with such dihedral angles may be called a helix, regardless of whether it has the correct hydrogen bonds.

Meanwhile, a secondary plot centered upon Clive J. Sutton, the Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council serves to illustrate for the viewer the United Kingdom government's then-current continuity of government arrangements.

Although the novel's fantasy elements ( voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism ) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series ), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild.

For Chandler the plot was almost secondary, what really mattered was the atmosphere and the characters.

In Japanese fiction, plot development and action have often been of secondary interest to emotional issues.

While use of hyperspace is common, it is mostly used as a plot device and thus of secondary importance.

Lacking the constraints of the more conventional giallo subgenre, Suspiria is a semi-surreal work of art, where plot and character are secondary to sound and vision.

This volume contains one main plot with no subplot mystery or investigation ; this is unique for original versions of Nancy Drew mysteries, which usually contain at least one subplot or secondary mystery, plus a subplot involving a personal matter for Nancy or one of her friends.

Minder was devised as a vehicle for Dennis Waterman after his success in The Sweeney, with George Cole's wheeler-dealer character being almost a secondary character, with the plot concept of Arthur assigning Terry a new " minding " job each episode.

A subplot is a secondary plot strand that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot.

" Additionally, Monica Eng of the Chicago Tribune criticised the lack of significant plot and stated " the story becomes secondary to the visuals ".

The film received positive reviews but was criticized for reducing El Mariachi ( Antonio Banderas ) to an almost secondary character in his own trilogy, and also for having a convoluted plot.

Many of Curwood's adventure novels also feature romance as primary or secondary plot consideration.

He lives in the world of pre-Castro Havana, and the Cuban Revolution only appears as a secondary plot.

To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow.

He does this by discussing Aristotle ’ s statements about plot and character in his Poetics: that plot can exist without character, but character cannot exist without plot, and so character is secondary to plot.

A major secondary plot in the novel and the film is the Pope's relationship with a theologian and scientist, Father Telemond ( Jean Telemond in the book, David Telemond in the film ).

Wolfit's dynamic performance in the title role, repeated several times over the next decades, set the standard for modern interpretations of Volpone: Politic's plot was truncated or eliminated, and Mosca ( played in 1938 by Alan Wheatley ) relegated to a secondary role.

Bistability as applied in the design of mechanical systems is more commonly said to be " over centre " -- that is, work is done on the system to move it just past the peak, at which point the mechanism goes " over centre " to its secondary stable position.

In some plants and cell types, after a maximum size or point in development has been reached, a secondary wall is constructed between the plasma membrane and primary wall.

The propagation of a wave can be visualized by considering every point on a wavefront as a point source for a secondary spherical wave.

The wave displacement at any subsequent point is the sum of these secondary waves.

The Huygens – Fresnel principle is one such model ; it states that each point on a wavefront generates a secondary spherical wavelet, and that the disturbance at any subsequent point can be found by summing the contributions of the individual wavelets at that point.

In 1678, Huygens proposed that every point to which a luminous disturbance reaches becomes a source of a spherical wave ; the sum of these secondary waves determines the form of the wave at any subsequent time.

Given two secondary stations, the time difference ( TD ) between the primary and first secondary identifies one curve, and the time difference between the primary and second secondary identifies another curve, the intersections of which will determine a geographic point in relation to the position of the three stations.

This was derived empirically by Fresnel in 1815, based on Huygen's hypothesis that each point on a wavefront generates a secondary spherical wavefront, which Fresnel combined with the principle of superposition of waves.

The most significant ones are in Tungurahua province-namely a large span over the exact point of headwaters, just north of Baños, and the secondary span created by the Agoyan dam.

All kind of secondary schools end with an examination ( Esame di Stato, state exam, but usually still called with the traditional name Esame di Maturità, Maturity exam ) whose score is on a 100 point scale:

In the UK, the dessert-spoon and soup-spoon began to displace the table-spoon as the primary implement for eating from a bowl, at which point the name " table-spoon " took on a secondary meaning as a much larger serving spoon.

The St William Grant Park ( Parade ) in the heart of downtown Kingston is the starting point for three of Jamaica's four A roads, namely the A1 ( Kingston to Lucea ), the A3 ( Kingston to Saint Ann's Bay ) and the A4 ( Kingston to Annotto Bay ), while the city itself is provided with a dense network of trunk, main, secondary and minor roads.

* Another reason for using the Cassegrain design is to increase the focal length of the antenna, to improve the field of view Parabolic reflectors used in dish antennas have a large curvature and short focal length, to locate the focal point near the mouth of the dish, to reduce the length of the supports required to hold the feed structure or secondary reflector.

When a surface is illuminated by a light wave, according to diffraction theory, each point on an illuminated surface acts as a source of secondary spherical waves.

Securities with an active secondary market mean that there are many buyers and sellers at a given point in time.

There the star provides an almost ideal point source at infinity and the secondary mirror of the telescope constitutes the circular obstacle.

At the heart of Fresnel's wave theory is the Huygens-Fresnel principle, which states that every unobstructed point of a wavefront becomes the source of a secondary spherical wavelet and that the amplitude of the optical field E at a point on the screen is given by the superposition of all those secondary wavelets taking into account their relative phases.

The secondary sector, revolves around tertiary activities, such as civil construction, restauranters, bakery shops, hospitality and automobile sales / service ( repair and sale ).

A secondary plot revolves around an affair Carter was having with Fletcher's girlfriend, Audrey ( Gretchen Mol ).

In a process called ' anomalous secondary growth ', they are able to create new vascular bundles around which thickening growth occurs.

The stamens are usually found around the style, either aggregated densely or fused into a tube, probably an adaptation in association with the plunger ( brush ; or secondary ) pollination that is common among the families of the order, wherein pollen is collected and stored on the length of the pistil.

The ideal grade is called " Deep Siberian " and has a primary purple hue of around 75 – 80 %, with 15 – 20 % blue and ( depending on the light source ) red secondary hues.

Some education systems have separate middle schools, with the transition to the final stage of secondary education taking place at around the age of fourteen.

The exact boundary between primary and secondary education also varies from country to country and even within them, but is generally around the seventh to the tenth year of schooling.

Today, around 70 % of primary and secondary pupils attend independent schools.

γ Equ consists of a primary star with a magnitude around 4. 7 ( slightly variable ) and a secondary star of magnitude 11. 6, separated by 2 arcseconds.

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

Note the yellow main charge wrapped around a red explosive booster | booster charge, and the secondary fuze well on the side of the mine designed for an anti-handling device

The national network consists of three main trunk lines, seven secondary main lines and during its peak in the 1950s, around ninety branch lines.

The process involves an inflammatory response of the capsule around the joints ( synovium ) secondary to swelling ( hyperplasia ) of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development of fibrous tissue ( pannus ) in the synovium.

The high-pressure region around the sample in the ESEM neutralizes charge and provides an amplification of the secondary electron signal.

The primary and secondary coils are wrapped around a core of very high magnetic permeability, such as iron, so that most of the magnetic flux passes through both the primary and secondary coils.

The combined effect of the leakage flux and the electric field around the windings is what transfers energy from the primary to the secondary.

As a secondary sexual characteristic, males also acquire significant nodules, called " bosses ", particularly around the neck and shoulders.

There were secondary effects from an unknown eruption or eruptions around 1810, and several smaller eruptions around the world between 1812 and 1814.

In the closed-core type, the primary and secondary windings were wound around a closed iron ring ; in the shell type, the windings were passed through the iron core.

Two laterally placed eyes form around outgrows from the midbrain, except in hagfish, though this may be a secondary loss.

Among all boarding secondary schools in Canada, Columbia International College is the largest, with around 1, 400 international students from 66 countries.

Nearly all of those leaving lower secondary school enter upper secondary education, and around 50 % of them follow one of 4 vocational programmes ; technology, economics, agricultural, personal / social services & health care.

Nearly all those leaving lower secondary school enter upper secondary education, and around half follow one of 9 vocational programmes.