The place was described in negative terms and seen as an inferior representation of paradise, and Coleridge's ethical system did not connect pleasure with joy or the divine.

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.

Broca's area is now typically defined in terms of the pars opercularis and pars triangularis of the inferior frontal gyrus, represented in Brodmann's cytoarchitectonic map as areas 44 and 45 of the dominant hemisphere.

If the terms in the sequence are real numbers, the limit superior and limit inferior always exist, as real numbers or ±∞ ( i. e., on the extended real number line ).

The terms " inferior conjunction " and " superior conjunction " are used in particular for the planets Mercury and Venus, which are inferior planets as seen from the Earth.

He insisted that having done nothing, in relation to the matter in question, otherwise than by the authority of the Long Parliament, he was not justly accountable to this or any other inferior Court ; which being a point of law, he desired to have council assigned upon that head ; but the Court over-ruled ; and by interrupting him frequently, and not permitting him to go on in this defense, they clearly manifested a resolution of gratifying the resentments of the Court upon any terms.

In more specific terms, fibers carrying information from the contralateral superior visual field traverse Meyer's loop to terminate in the lingual gyrus below the calcarine fissure in the occipital lobe, and fibers carrying information from the contralateral inferior visual field terminate more superiorly, to the cuneus.

Nonetheless he is inferior to sovereign god Oðinn: the Minor Völuspá defines his relationship to Oðinn almost with the same terms as which Varro defines that of Janus, god of the prima to Jupiter, god of the summa: Heimdallr is born as the firstborn ( primigenius, var einn borinn í árdaga ), Oðinn is born as the greatest ( maximus, var einn borinn öllum meiri ).

As with other vertebrate terminology, there are synonymous terms for superior and inferior ( Table 3 ).

As with vertebrate directional terms, superior and inferior can be used in a relative sense in humans, but can not be uniformly applied to other organisms with varying normal anatomical positions.

Óengus and his combined force, emboldened by this apparent divine intervention, took to the field and despite being inferior in terms of numbers were victorious.

The terms are sometimes used more generally: for instance, the Earth is an inferior planet as seen from Mars.

Instead, he sees the action as a perfectly logical one in terms of the notions of friendship which were prevalent at the time ; " the idealisation of male friendship as superior to male-female love ( which was considered not romantic or compassionate but merely lustful, hence inferior ) performs a project of cultural nostalgia, a stepping back from potentially more threatening social arrangements to a world of order, a world based on a ' gift ' economy of personal relations among male social equals rather than one based on a newer, less stable economy of emotional and economic risk.

In Man, the directional terms " superior " and " inferior " essentially refer to this rostrocaudal dimension, because our body axis is roughly oriented vertically in the erect position.

Although inferior in electrical terms to antennas specifically designed for given frequency bands, or optimized for directionality, its all-around performance, relatively modest size, low cost, and the fact that it does not require any complex electronic matching to operate with a standard shortwave transmitter, have made it popular in professional shortwave communications.

However, in terms of decisiveness, he was inferior to Zhang and Su.

Chamberlain was said to justify white supremacy by arguing that, in evolutionary terms, the Negro obviously belonged to an inferior social order.

GamesRadar's Brett Elston wrote that Ninetales was inferior to Arcanine, both statistically and in terms of Fire techniques.

* Barium enema is inferior to colonoscopy in terms of image quality and is usually only performed if the patient has strictures or an excessively tortuous sigmoid colon where colonoscopy is difficult or dangerous.

In terms of combat power this scratch force was considerably inferior to what the Soviets had available.

The latter were equally upset at having their pay and terms of employment downgraded to what they considered the inferior standards of a charter airline, which their employer had saved from bankruptcy at the eleventh hour.

The 1796 constitution also did not create a state supreme court, providing only for " such superior and inferior courts " as the legislature should create, with judges elected by the legislature for indefinite terms.

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

As one of the most vulnerable nations on the planet in terms of the effects of climate change, Kiribati has been an active participant in international diplomatic efforts relating to climate change, most importantly the UNFCCC conferences of the parties ( COP ).

In simpler terms, imagine a distant, non-orbiting observer viewing a planet as it rotates.

* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere — that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.

In a related story, a group of isolated humans had been living for several generations on an alien planet, on extremely good terms with its non-human inhabitants and without the slightest conflict with them.

In terms such as world map and world climate, world is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.

The corresponding terms for synchronous orbits around the planet Mars are areostationary and areosynchronous orbits.

It is a key species in the Antarctic ecosystem and is, in terms of biomass, probably the most abundant animal species on the planet ( approximately 500 million tonnes ).

* Although some have been confused by the apparent conflict between Trantorian self-sufficiency in terms of food supply in Prelude and the subsequent characterization in Encyclopedia Galactica of the planet as dependent upon twenty agricultural worlds for food, there is no conflict.

During the second Long Interval ( a time when the Red Star failed to pass close enough to the planet to bring the incursion of Thread ) before the Ninth Pass, however, unpopularity with the only remaining inhabited Weyr, Benden Weyr, had grown to such a point that the Holders were willing to risk combat on highly disadvantageous terms to end the tithe of materials which traditionally supported the Weyrs.

This region contains one of the largest concentrations of fish, in terms of volume and variety, per square meter on the planet.

This classification is different from the terms inner and outer planet, which designate those planets which lie inside the asteroid belt and those that lie outside it, respectively.

Many of the terms are not restricted to refer to features of the planet Earth, and can be used to describe surface features of other planets and similar objects in the Universe.

The planets differ from each other in terms of military or agricultural development ; at the start of a game each team has several planets under their control one of which is their homeworld, usually named after an actual planet in the Star Trek Universe ( such as Earth for feds, Romulus for roms, Orion for oris, Klingus for klis ).

* The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, War of the Daleks by John Peel, claimed that Skaro had not been destroyed after all ; having discovered records of Skaro's destruction during their invasion of Earth, the Daleks moved Davros to another planet while he was in stasis after terraforming it to resemble Skaro, thus allowing the destruction of ' Skaro ' to take place on their terms.

Non-Scientologists Joel Sappell and Robert Welkos claimed in a 1990 article in the LA Times that Scientologists believe that when a person dies — or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons its physical body — they go to a " landing station " on the planet Venus, where the thetan is re-implanted and told lies about its past life and its next life.

Therefore, there is no consensus on whether Joseph Smith knew Kolob to be a planet or a star as those terms are used in modern astronomy.

From the beginning of this period, the temperature of the planet rose in one of the quickest ( in geological terms ) and most extreme episodes of global warming in the geological record, termed Paleocene – Eocene Thermal Maximum.

In the year 2120 ( when this story takes place ), Glorie is now a self-sufficient planet in terms of food and resources.

Within the story, the terms are said to have originated from the Norwegian language of the fictional planet Trondheim ; however, they are actually based on Swedish words.

It is a sequel to the original in terms of the story and takes place on the Woolies ' home planet, Rayon.

Earth's financial contribution to the Galactic Patrol is paid by a 3. 6 % income tax " in the highest brackets ," distributed across the entire planet, making the financial resources of the Patrol — even in wartime — roughly equivalent to 10 % of Earth's GDP ; ( in 2008 terms that would be almost $ 1. 5 trillion from the Earth alone.