Contains an introduction to the theory of conceptual blending, as well as an exploration of the differences between conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending theory.

# Special talents, achievements and awards in a particular field, such as visual and performing arts, communication or athletic endeavors ; special skills, such as demonstrated written and oral proficiency in other languages ; special interests, such as intensive study and exploration of other cultures ; experiences that demonstrate unusual promise for leadership, such as significant community service or significant participation in student government ; or other significant experiences or achievements that demonstrate the student's promise for contributing to the intellectual vitality of a campus.

It may begin by recognizing that something unusual or accidental may be useful or that it could open a new avenue for exploration.

* Project Moon-Blink was a draft NASA 1965-1966, for the exploration of unusual phenomena ( anomalies ) on the surface of the Moon.

It was not unusual for publishers to support exploration — Newnes's great rival Alfred Harmsworth ( later Lord Northcliffe ) had recently financed Frederick Jackson's expedition to Franz Josef Land, and had pledged financial backing to the National Antarctic Expedition.

During the 80s, McCallum's work with Potter included producing the films Dreamchild ( 1985 ), an unusual exploration by Potter of the creation of Alice in Wonderland, which was nominated for two BAFTA awards, and Track 29 directed by Nicolas Roeg ; executive producing the landmark BBC-TV series The Singing Detective ; and in 1989 producing the Potter-directed TV series Blackeyes.

Musically, the bass, drums, and guitar continue to flesh out ideas first established on the first album, this time with increased exploration of unusual rhythms and stacatto accenting.

Musically, the bass, drums, and guitar continue to flesh out ideas first established on the first album, this time with further exploration of unusual rhythms and stacatto accenting.

Joe line, having more of a secret agent motif, but also had a large variety of outfits and situations available including sports, space exploration, martial arts, hunting, western, camping and even unusual choices such as fishing and photography.

It is unusual among Lovecraft's work as a standard science fiction story involving space exploration in the near future.

TOPLAP, an ad-hoc conglomerate of artists interested in live coding was formed in 2004, and promotes the use, proliferation and exploration of a range of software, languages and techniques to implement live coding.

Among concrete examples of Modern human behavior, anthropologists include specialization of tools, use of jewellery and images ( such as cave drawings ), organization of living space, rituals ( for example, burials with grave gifts ), specialized hunting techniques, exploration of less hospitable geographical areas, and barter trade networks.

Geophysical techniques used for subsurface exploration include measurement of seismic waves ( pressure, shear, and Rayleigh waves ), surface-wave methods and / or downhole methods, and electromagnetic surveys ( magnetometer, resistivity, and ground-penetrating radar ).

Ore is located by prospecting techniques, followed by the exploration and examination of deposits.

Key experimental techniques in proteomics include 2D electrophoresis, which allows the separation of a large number of proteins, mass spectrometry, which allows rapid high-throughput identification of proteins and sequencing of peptides ( most often after in-gel digestion ), protein microarrays, which allow the detection of the relative levels of a large number of proteins present in a cell, and two-hybrid screening, which allows the systematic exploration of protein – protein interactions.

As it has influenced and been influenced by other areas of exploration, aspects of modern classical music ( extended techniques ), noise rock ( aggressive confrontation and dissonance ), IDM ( computer manipulation and digital synthesis ), minimalism and electroacoustic music can now be heard in free improvisation.

This last aspect is an example of the recently developing exploration of the possibilities of sustainable coastal management by adopting soft engineering techniques.

While he was instrumental in the academic exploration of his techniques ( he compiled two treatises: the later one in five volumes was substantially complete when he died and was published posthumously ), and was himself a master of music analysis, he considered the development and study of techniques to be a means to intellectual, aesthetic and emotional ends.

After several years of study, Albert showed his ingenuity by devising a number of techniques and instruments used for measurement and exploration.

* Ninja, its Origin and Technique, an ostensibly scholarly exploration of the history of ninja techniques, including the secret magical hand gestures

He ordered the building of the exploration ship Date Maru or San Juan Bautista, using foreign ( European ) ship-building techniques.

Soldner's teaching at Scripps emphasized teaching-by-osmosis and a from-scratch approach to ceramic arts, including exploration of firing techniques as well as natural clays, kiln-building and glaze formulation.

One broad classification of the techniques used involves the following headings: ' Analytical: To help identify blocks and enable the exploration of the unconscious '.

While the Moon may superficially appear a good place to perfect Mars exploration and habitation techniques, the two bodies are radically different.

Architecture critic and Pritzker juror Ada Louise Huxtable summarized HdM's approach concisely: " They refine the traditions of modernism to elemental simplicity, while transforming materials and surfaces through the exploration of new treatments and techniques.

# test new technologies, systems, flight operations and techniques to serve future space exploration missions,

Before the advent of sophisticated medical imaging techniques, surgical exploration was the standard of care.

Coming after his four symphonic poems inspired by the folk-ballads of Erben of 1896-97, Rusalka may be viewed as the culmination of Dvořák ’ s exploration of a " wide variety of drama-creating musical techniques ".

" The lunar outpost is required to develop and protect potential United States interests on the moon ; to develop techniques in moon-based surveillance of the earth and space, in communications relay, and in operations on the surface of the moon ; to serve as a base for exploration of the moon, for further exploration into space and for military operations on the moon if required ; and to support scientific investigations on the moon.

* The United Kingdom Accreditation Forum ( UKAF ) is an established network of accreditation organisations with the intention of sharing experience good practice and new ideas around the methodology for accreditation programmes, covering issues such as developing healthcare quality standards, implementation of standards within healthcare organisations, assessment by peer review and exploration of the peer review techniques to include the recruitment, training, monitoring and evaluation of peer reviewers and the mechanisms for awards of accredited status to organisations.

His themes, particularly in the novels Beyond Apollo ( 1972 ) and The Falling Astronauts ( 1971 ) about the US space exploration programme, include the dehumanisation effects of bureaucracy and technology ; his treatment of these themes sometimes exhibits strong resemblances to Kafka, accompanied by Unreliable narrator techniques.

Several methods of depositing material in the ocean floor have been proposed, including encasing it in concrete and as the United Kingdom has previously done, dropping it in torpedoes designed to increase the depth of penetration into the ocean floor, or depositing containers in shafts drilled with techniques similar to those used in oil exploration.

Clinical psychiatrist, Jan Dirk Blom, describes psychonautics as denoting " the exploration of the psyche by means of techniques such as meditation, prayer, lucid dreaming, brainwave entrainment, sensory deprivation, and the use of hallucinogenics or entheogens ", and a psychonaut as one who " seeks to investigate their mind using intentionally induced altered states of consciousness " for spiritual, scientific, or research purposes.

Many of the skills involved in caving can also be put to use in mine exploration and urban exploration.

The scaling-pole ( 1940 ), nylon ropes ( 1942 ), use of explosives in caves ( 1947 ) and mechanical rope-ascenders ( Henri Brenot's " monkeys ", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934 ) can be directly associated to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.

Surface exploration can include geologic mapping, geophysical methods, and photogrammetry ; or it can be as simple as an engineer walking around to observe the physical conditions at the site.

Stafford was greatly influenced by the ideas on mythology of Joseph Campbell, and echoes of Campbell's work are to be found in many aspects of Glorantha ; for instance the story of the " God Learners " can be seen as an exercise on the implications of Campbell's idea of a unifying monomyth, and the story of Prince Argrath an exploration of Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

However, either fission or fusion technologies can in principle achieve velocities far higher than needed for Solar System exploration, and fusion energy still awaits practical demonstration on Earth.

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is Jamison's exploration of how bipolar disorder can run in artistic or high-achieving families.

While exploration and mining can sometimes be conducted by individual entrepreneurs or small business, most modern-day mines are large enterprises requiring large amounts of capital to establish.

It can be argued that what is referred to as the ' mining industry ' is actually two sectors, one specializing in exploration for new resources, the other specializing in mining those resources.

The postmodern era has for its distinctive task in philosophy the exploration of a new path, no longer the ancient way of things nor the modern way of ideas, but the way of signs, whereby the peaks and valleys of ancient and modern thought alike can be surveyed and cultivated by a generation which has yet further peaks to climb and valleys to find.

During his time at the archives, Steiner wrote Die Philosophie der Freiheit ( The Philosophy of Freedom or The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity — Steiner's preferred English title ) ( 1894 ), an exploration of epistemology and ethics that suggested a path upon which humans can become spiritually free beings.

Although the games can be beaten with a minimal amount of exploration and side quests, the player is frequently rewarded for solving puzzles or exploring hidden areas with helpful items or increased abilities.

The rise in the popularity of urban exploration can be attributed to its increased media attention.

Because of their range and adaptability, kayaks can be useful for other outdoor activities such as diving, fishing, wilderness exploration and search and rescue during floods.

Weather conditions can greatly affect hiking and canyon exploration, and visitors should obtain accurate forecasts because of hazards posed by exposure to extreme temperatures, winter storms and late summer monsoons.

Solar Montgolfieres have several advantages for planetary exploration, as they can be easier to deploy than a light gas balloon, do not necessarily require a tank of light gas for inflation, and are relatively forgiving of small leaks.

Of the period before the Norse exploration of Greenland, archaeology can give only approximate times.

for an exploration of the fact that a probability density and probability current can be defined for any set of commuting operators.

Examples can be seen in many ancient cities ; although with exploration came the collision of nations, which meant that many invaded cities took on the desired planned characteristics of their occupiers.

* The work of the scholar of political communication Murray Edelman ( 1919 – 2001 ), starting with his seminal book The Symbolic Uses of Politics ( 1964 ), continuing with Politics as symbolic action: mass arousal and quiescience ( 1971 ), Political Language: Words that succeed and policies that fail ( 1977 ), Constructing the Political Spectacle ( 1988 ) and ending with his last book The Politics of Misinformation ( 2001 ) can be viewed as an exploration of the deliberate manipulation and obfuscation of the map-territory distinction for political purposes.

The high level of abstraction of SystemC models is well suited to early architecture exploration, as architectural modifications can be easily evaluated with little concern for signal-level implementation issues.

This performance level, mandated only by NASA crewed exploration missions, can be achieved using hardware identical to that used for traditional commercial and USG missions thus allowing development and support costs to be diluted by rate.

Following Hegel's exploration of the relationship between history and violence, antimilistarists argue that there are different types of violence, some of which can be said to be legitimate others non-legitimate.