Marsyas could not do this with his instrument ( the flute ), and so Apollo hung him from a tree and flayed him alive.

His structures echo natural forms, with columns like tree trunks supporting branching vaulting under the roadway, and the curves of vaulting and alignment of sloping columns designed in a similar way to his Church of Colònia Güell so that the inverted catenary arch shapes form perfect compression structures.

* One of Willie Trombone's letters in The Neverhood reads, " Hang me from a tree by my hoop so I can play ' Absalom '".

A gene concatenation study found similar results to Xu and Cote ', but with a much more limited number of species in terms of groups, but used Listeria as an outgroup, so in light of the ARB tree, it may be " inside-out ".

So a house is a being, a person's body is a being, a tree is a being, a cloud is a being, and so on.

At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.

A tree planted in 1860 to replace it died in 2004 and was in turn replaced ; the sapling that had been chosen to become the official Oak of Guernica is also sick so the tree will not be replaced until the earth around the site has been restored to health.

Raw materials are used, and since wood and cotton are two of the most important products in IKEA production so IKEA makes the most out of every tree and cotton plant, and works with environmentally friendly forests and cotton without the excessive use of chemicals and water.

A Komodo dragon may attempt to speed up the process by ramming the carcass against a tree to force it down its throat, sometimes ramming so forcefully that the tree is knocked down.

There is a 5 % chance that no more trees will fall, a 4. 75 % chance that exactly one more tree will fall ( and thus a 9. 75 % chance of 1 or fewer additional trees falling ), and so on.

Each plank was hewn from an oak tree so that the finished plank was about 25 mm thick and tapered along each edge to a thickness of about 20 mm.

Servers may also hold references to other servers, so an attempt to access " ou = department, dc = example, dc = com " could return a referral or continuation reference to a server that holds that part of the directory tree.

The trees are so big and tall that a single tree is enough to make a mast of a first rate man of war.

Tabonuco forest, so named for the dominant tabonuco tree ( Dacryodes excelsa ), covers lower slopes to about.

A single site might cover many thousands of acres, and the birds were so congested in these areas that hundreds of nests could be counted in a single tree.

An example from Psychobiology of Personality by Marvin Zuckerman is alcoholism: Studies suggest that alcoholism is an inherited disease, but if a subject with a strong biological background of alcoholism in their family tree is never exposed to alcohol, they will not be so inclined regardless of their genome.

The two kings would hold conferences at the foot of an elm tree near Gisors, which was so positioned that it would overshadow each monarch's territory, but to no avail.

These attributes are changed by performing actions related to the skill ; climbing a tree eventually increases the skill value in climb, running increases vitality, and so on.

This can be reduced somewhat by using a binary space partitioning tree to reduce the amount of time spent determining which patches are completely hidden from others in complex scenes ; but even so, the time spent to determine the form factor still typically scales as n log n. New methods include adaptive integration

My belief that there is a bird in the tree outside my window might be accorded a result of the process of forming beliefs on the basis of sense-perception, of visual sense-perception, of visual sense-perception through non-opaque surfaces in daylight, and so forth, down to a variety of different very specifically described processes.

One way to see this equivalence is to " move up " the red nodes in a graphical representation of the red – black tree, so that they align horizontally with their parent black node, by creating together a horizontal cluster.

If values are stored by reference, e. g. objects, null references can be used and so the cluster can be represented by a vector containing 3 slots for value pointers plus 4 slots for child references in the tree.

Whereas in the binary search tree, we always add a leaf, in the red – black tree leaves contain no information, so instead we add a red interior node, with two black leaves, in place of an existing black leaf.

Sometimes a full tree is ambiguously defined as a perfect tree.

Suppose that you add blue, then the blue – red – black tree defined like red – black trees but with the additional constraint that no two successive nodes in the hierarchy will be blue and all blue nodes will be children of a red node, then it becomes equivalent to a B-tree whose clusters will have at most 7 values in the following colors: blue, red, blue, black, blue, red, blue ( For each cluster, there will be at most 1 black node, 2 red nodes, and 4 blue nodes ).

A tree can be defined recursively ( locally ) as a collection of nodes ( starting at a root node ), where each node is a data structure consisting of a value, together with a list of nodes ( the " children "), with the constraints that no node is duplicated.

A tree can be defined abstractly as a whole ( globally ) as an ordered tree, with a value assigned to each node.

Recursively, a tree is defined as a node ( the root ), which itself consists of a value ( of some data type, possibly empty ), together with a list of nodes ( possibly empty ); symbolically:

* Tamari lattice, a partially ordered set in which the elements can be defined as binary trees and the ordering between elements is defined by tree rotation.

Alternatively, it can be defined as the region where the average temperature for the warmest month ( July ) is below ; the northernmost tree line roughly follows the isotherm at the boundary of this region.

The term marlock has been variously used ; in Forest Trees of Australia it is defined as a small tree without lignotubers but with a shorter, lower-branching trunk than a mallet.

Rauni, a vaguely defined being has been hypothesised to be etymologically connected to Germanic words for the rowan tree through Old Norse * raunir.

At and below tree line, avalanche paths through drainages are well defined by vegetation boundaries called trim lines, which occur where avalanches have removed trees and prevented regrowth of large vegetation.

Some aspects of the ritual of the oath for Dius Fidius, such as the proceedings under the open sky and / or in the compluvium of private residences and the fact the temple of Sancus had no roof, have suggested to romanist O. Sacchi the idea that the oath by Dius Fidius predated that for Iuppiter Lapis or Iuppiter Feretrius, and should have its origin in prehistoric time rituals, when the templum was in the open air and defined by natural landmarks as e. g. the highest nearby tree.

A bottom-up finite tree automaton over is defined by:

A top-down finite tree automaton over is defined by:

His characteristics are defined in one legend as a " handsome, thickly bearded, blond dwarf " who is naked and lives in tree trunks.

Different authors have defined the lower limits of savanna tree coverage as 5-10 % and upper limits range from 25-80 % of an area.

A binomial tree is defined recursively:

The Erectheum was associated with some of the most ancient and holy relics of the Athenians: the Palladion, which was a xoanon ( defined as a wooden effigy fallen from heaven-not man-made ) of Athena Polias ( Protectress of the City ); the marks of Poseidon's trident and the salt water well ( the " salt sea ") that resulted from Poseidon's strike ; the sacred olive tree that sprouted when Athena struck the rock with her spear in her successful rivalry with Poseidon for the city ; the supposed burial places of the mythical kings Cecrops and Erechtheus ; the sacred precincts of Cecrops ' three daughters, Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus ; and those of the tribal heroes Pandion and Boutes.

Bronchiectasis is a disease state defined by localized, irreversible dilation of part of the bronchial tree caused by destruction of the muscle and elastic tissue.

Some states, such as Carinthia, Styria, and Salzburg guarantee a right to roam in mountainous areas ( usually defined as above the tree line ), for all recreational activities.

The concept of an Urheimat only applies to populations speaking a proto-language defined by the tree model.

A spanning tree of a connected graph G can also be defined as a maximal set of edges of G that contains no cycle, or as a minimal set of edges that connect all vertices.

There are several types of tree lines defined in ecology and geology: