in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

This orthogonality relation can then be used to extract the coefficients in the Fourier – Bessel series, where a function is expanded in the basis of the functions J < sub > α </ sub >( x u < sub > α, m </ sub >) for fixed α and varying m.

* Compound engine, a steam engine in which steam is expanded through a series of two or three cylinders before exhaust.

The game has been expanded into a series since its original release, which currently includes Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

** Openness Euphoria, 1974 – 1982 during which policies were introduced to encourage Arab and foreign investment through a series of incentives and liberalizing trade and payment ; the economy expanded but this proved unsustainable and growth consequently scaled back.

The system is being expanded substantially in 2010 – 2015 to new residential areas and, as of May 2010, the city is in the process of selecting among bids to deliver a series of 40 new trams, with an option for more.

The group expanded to the Playtime Theatre during the summer, where a series of shows ran through October.

Jaynes later expanded on the ideas in his book in a series of commentaries in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in lectures and discussions published in Canadian Psychology, and in Art / World.

With the advent of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 )— in which one of the main characters, Worf, was a Klingon — and successors, the language and various cultural aspects for the fictional species were expanded.

Morocco reached its height under a series of Berber dynasties, that arose south of the Atlas Mountains and expanded their rule northwards, replacing the local rulers.

In conjunction with the expanded set, Topps issued a six-issue limited comic book series written by Keith Giffen and drawn by Charles Adlard.

These dams, along with a series of headworks and barrages built by the British and expanded since independence, are of vital importance to the national economy and played an important role in calming the raging floodwaters of 1992, which devastated large areas in the northern highlands and the Punjab plains.

: set forth one of the first expansive theoretical treatments of Postmodernism as a historical period, intellectual trend and social phenomenon in a series of lectures at the Whitney Museum, later expanded as Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ( 1991 ).

It should be noted that the established criteria of Star Trek canon disqualifies novels as being official continuity ; the decision to undo Trip's death in " These Are the Voyages " in the novels marks one of the only occasions in which a licensed, expanded universe spin-off has openly contradicted a major part of Trek continuity – an earlier example involved the launch of a series of novels featuring Kirk that suggested the character did not die at the end of the film, Star Trek Generations.

Multiplayer has remained a key feature of the series and has expanded from the two-player modes available in Super Mario Kart ; first to allow up to four simultaneous players in Mario Kart 64 and eventually up to twelve simultaneous on-line players in Mario Kart Wii.

The revised and expanded, second edition of the Mismeasure of Man ( 1996 ) analyzes and challenges the methodological accuracy of The Bell Curve ( 1994 ), by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which re-presented the arguments of what Gould terms biological determinism, which he defines as " the abstraction of intelligence as a single entity, its location within the brain, its quantification as one number for each individual, and the use of these numbers to rank people in a single series of worthiness, invariably to find that oppressed and disadvantaged groups — races, classes, or sexes — are innately inferior and deserve their status.

George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series was originally planned as a trilogy, but has already expanded to five published novels with another two planned.

In 1995 a series of Sino-Soviet border conflicts expanded into general war between the Soviet Union and China.

During the first series there were hints Steed worked for a branch of British Intelligence, and this was expanded in the second series.

The close connection between the Laplace equation and analytic functions implies that any solution of the Laplace equation has derivatives of all orders, and can be expanded in a power series, at least inside a circle that does not enclose a singularity.

which is a Fourier series for f. These trigonometric functions can themselves be expanded, using multiple angle formulae.

Since the TL series are XT-class machines, it is impossible to install or use extended memory ( XMS ), although expanded memory ( EMS ) can be used in conjunction with an 8-bit LIM EMS memory card for software that supports expanded memory.

The character has also appeared in the spin-off series Angel, as well as numerous non-canon expanded universe material, such as novels, comics, and video games.

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

* Steve Austin, fictional character in Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg, which inspired the television series The Six Million Dollar Man

The villain ( Cyril Sneer ) and one of the heroes ( Cedric Sneer ) of the 1980s animated television series The Raccoons were aardvarks.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

She appears briefly in Disney's Hercules, but has a more dominant role in the television series.

Athena appears in the television series Stargate SG-1 when she kidnaps Vala Mal Doran to gain information on the Clava Thessara Infinitas ( The Key to Infinite Treasure ).

* " Abduction " ( The Outer Limits ), episode of the television series

* " Abduction ", episode of Death Note, a Japanese animation television series

* " Abducted ", episode of Invader Zim, an animated television series

* Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman

* Alfonzo Dominico Jones, a dog in the Australian television series SeaChange

* Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park

* Alfred J. Kwak, a Dutch animated television series

* Atmospheres ( TV show ), a former television series on The Weather Channel

One such character was Steve Austin in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man.

* Ark II, a children's science fiction television series

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.

* Atlantis Cable News ( ACN ), a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom

In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

More recently, " Twilight Zone " by 2 Unlimited was sung a cappella to the instrumentation on the comedy television series Tompkins Square.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.