The ansible itself is a major plot element, nearly a MacGuffin in Moon's Vatta's War series.

In commercial terms, the Athlon " Classic " was an enormous success — not just because of its own merits, but also because Intel endured a series of major production, design, and quality control issues at this time.

This migration was part of a series of major population movements in the European barbaricum ( the Roman term for regions outside their empire ).

The Goths appear to have established a loose political hegemony over the existing tribes in the region, or at least to have played the leading role in a series of major invasions of the empire launched by a grand coalition of lower Danubian tribes from ca.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.

Napoleon turned the Grande Armée against every major European power and dominated continental Europe through a series of military victories.

The series concerned a widowed father raising a young son, managing a major syndicated magazine while at the same time trying to re-establish himself on the dating scene.

* Constantinople is the main setting of the game " Assassin's Creed: Revelations ", the fourth major title in the best-selling " Assassin's Creed " series.

The manga and anime series Fist of The North Star has one of its major fighting style, Nanto Seiken, with the Crux as its symbol.

One of the major events that is held at the circuit, along with DTM and A1GP, is the RTL Masters of Formula 3, where Formula Three cars of several national racing series compete with each other ( originally called Marlboro Masters, before tobacco advertising ban ).

Although individual projects typically last three to five years, major technological challenges may be addressed over longer time periods, ensuring patient investment on a series of focused steps and keeping teams together for ongoing collaboration.

This development was further strengthened by the establishment ( in 1996 ) of a series of conferences on the Evolution of Language ( now known as " Evolang "), promoting a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the issue, and interest from major academic publishers ( e. g., the Studies in the Evolution of Language series has been appearing with Oxford University Press since 2001 ) and scientific journals.

Most major circuits in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom saw the series visit at least once.

" Joseph Savitski of Beyond Hollywood said the film's music is " a major detraction ", but added that it's " not only one of the most imaginative films in the series, but also the most enjoyable to watch.

* Gene therapy plays a major role in the sci-fi series Stargate Atlantis, as a certain type of alien technology can only be used if one has a certain gene which can be given to the members of the team through gene therapy involving a mouse retrovirus.

He gave a series of lectures on Dante at the Santo Stefano church in 1373 and these resulted in his final major work, the detailed Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante.

Some of those rates were legally recognized in 1990 when President Callejas introduced a major series of economic policy reforms, which included reducing the maximum import tariff rate from 90 percent to 40 percent and getting rid of most surcharges and exemptions.

The VT Commodore received its first major update in 2002 with the VY series.

A major mural series depicting the Quest for the Holy Grail was done by the artist Edwin Austin Abbey during the first decade of the 20th century for the Boston Public Library.

This database covers 11 major data series for over 200 countries.

* In 2008, the LOGO television series Noah's Arc released its first major movie, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, wherein two African-American men get married in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

A group that evolved from or is similar to them, called The Knights of Eastern Calculus make a major appearance in the anime series Serial Experiments Lain.

* In the CLAMP series xxxHolic, kami are discussed at length in earlier chapters, as well as some kami being major characters, such as the Zaishiki-warashi.

This understanding counters the notion that human history is simply a series of accidents, either without any underlying cause or caused by supernatural beings or forces exerting their will on society.

Such a series of rules converts a theoretical underlying representation into a surface form that is actually heard.

Most chemical processes can be studied directly in a laboratory, using a series of ( often well-tested ) techniques for manipulating materials, as well as an understanding of the underlying processes.

Early systems had utilized microprogramming to implement features on their systems in order to permit different underlying architecture to appear to be the same as others in a series.

Starting with Symphony No. 3 (" Gloria ") ( 1983 ), he began to systematically compose for the harmonic series, which he considered to be the structure underlying not only all music but most human endeavors.

The teaching of sonata form in music theory rests on a standard definition and a series of hypotheses about the underlying reasons for the durability and variety of the form — a definition that arose in the second quarter of the 19th century.

They are a series of surface seeps from the underlying McKittrick Oil Field.

Upon reflection, he became convinced that he had discovered the natural psychophysiological mechanism underlying these quite genuine phenomena, and he immediately delivered a series of five public lectures in Manchester that commenced on 27 November 1841.

The underlying concept behind the Unplugged series has been attributed to the popularity among musicians of a variety of informal musical performances on stage, film, television and record in earlier decades.

Ritz's pre-quantum 1908 explanation for the mechanism underlying the spectral series was that atomic electrons behaved like magnets and that the magnets could vibrate with respect to the atomic nucleus ( at least temporarily ) to produce electromagnetic radiation, but this theory was superseded in 1913 by Niels Bohr's model of the atom.

The word, though not the underlying meaning ( see malapropism ), has been popularized, due to its use as an imprecation by Captain Haddock in the English translations of The Adventures of Tintin series of books.

The geological formation around Bolton consists of sandstones of the Carboniferous series and coal measures, in the northern part of Bolton the lower coal measures are mixed with underlying Millstone Grit.

This in turn became the pilot for a short-lived series, wherein the failure both of the sunstones and of Dinotopian officials to adhere to the underlying meanings of their culture's philosophy caused several discontented people – a leader-in-training, Zippeau himself, and two twentieth-century Dolphinbacks, Karl and David – to embark on a quest that led ultimately to the World Beneath.

During the series of Pleistocene glaciations a succession of ice-sheets moved from northeast to southwest across Anglesey and neighbouring Arfon scouring the underlying rock, the grain of which also runs in this direction.

In 2010, the BBC Television drama Ashes to Ashes concluded with a short clip of George Dixon, referring to the similarity to Dixon's death in The Blue Lamp and subsequent ' resurrection ' for the television series and the underlying plot of the show.

The definition of the Hausdorff distance can be derived by a series of natural extensions of the distance function d ( x, y ) in the underlying metric space M, as follows:

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced since 1995, which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS-DOS, both of which were updated in subsequent versions.

BNR's products were architecturally based on Complex Instruction Set ( CISC ) architectures prevalent in the 1970s, and on a series of underlying technologies.

While Theocritus describes both motion found in a stationary artwork and underlying motives of characters, " Ode on a Grecian Urn " replaces actions with a series of questions and focuses only on external attributes of the characters.

Psychohistory has one basic, underlying limitation which Asimov postulated for the first time on literally the last page of the final book in the Foundation series: psychohistory only functions in a galaxy populated only by humans.

Given an n-dimensional formal group law F over R and a commutative R-algebra S, we can form a group F ( S ) whose underlying set is N < sup > n </ sup > where N is the set of nilpotent elements of S. The product is given by using F to multiply elements of N < sup > n </ sup >; the point is that all the formal power series now converge because they are being applied to nilpotent elements, so there are only a finite number of nonzero terms.

The interest rate cap is actually a series of individual interest rate caplets, each being an individual option on the underlying interest rate index.

The series is in the British comedy tradition of having failure as a key underlying theme, each of the characters leading lives of quiet desperation.

Although not a sizable attack compared to email worms of the time, the fact that almost all existing installations of IE — 95 % of web browsers in use at the time — were vulnerable, and that this was the latest in a series of IE holes leaving the underlying operating system vulnerable, caused a notable wave of concern in the press.