Recent work in international relations suggests that punctuated equilibrium can also be used to describe the pattern of change and innovation in a cluster of international organizations known as a regime complex.

Three years later, in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Schumpeter introduced the term " creative destruction ", which he explicitly derived from Marxist thought ( analysed extensively in Part I of the book ) and used it to describe the disruptive process of transformation that accompanies such innovation:

International motoring authors like Andrew Frankel ( AutoCar & Motor ) Russell Bulgin ( Car ) Mark Hales ( Fast Lane ) Gianni Marin ( Gente Motore ) and Bernd Ostmann ( AutoMotor Und Sport ) have not only lent their name to the NSX in print but publicly praised the technology and innovation of Honda's NSX and in the BBC book NSX-Hondas Super Sports Car ( ISBN 0 9517751 0 3 ) describe the vehicle as worthy of the title supercar.

A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a system of notation in which differently shaped notes have entirely different rhythmic values ( in the Ars cantus mensurabilis of approximately 1280 ), an innovation which had a massive impact on the subsequent history of European music.

Technological change ( TC ) is a term that is used to describe the overall process of invention, innovation and diffusion of technology or processes.

For instance, at the Stanford Research Institute, in 1972, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ initiated a series of human subject studies to determine whether participants ( the viewers or percipients ) could reliably identify and accurately describe salient features of remote locations or targets.

The use of the term ' narcotics ' in the title of the act to describe not just opiates but also cocaine — which is a central nervous system stimulant, not a narcotic — initiated a precedent of frequent legislative and judicial misclassification of various substances as ' narcotics '.

Historically, equations of motion initiated in classical mechanics and the extension to celestial mechanics, to describe the motion of massive objects.

In 2001 the AJC initiated a new project designed to advance understanding between Muslims and Jews by publishing two books: Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims, by Professor Reuven Firestone, a scholar of Islam at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, was written to describe Judaism to Muslims ; Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews, by professor Khalid Duran, was written to describe Islam for Jews.

Janet and Stewart Farrar, both of whom were initiated into the Alexandrian tradition by the Sanderses, describe themselves as having left the tradition after the release of Eight Sabbats for Witches.

From information he revealed during our interview, I can say with reasonable certainty that I believe him to have been initiated into a domestic tradition of folk magic and healing such as I describe in my article.

In college fraternities, the term postulant is also used to describe those who have yet to be initiated into the fraternity, while they are going through the process of becoming a brother or a sister.

This tradition which uses the language of physical love to describe spiritual love, was a reflection of a key turn in Hinduism, initiated by Ramanuja in the 11th century which advocated an individual self realization through direct love.

After being initiated into Alexandrian Wicca by Maxine Sanders in 1970, he subsequently published one of the earliest books to describe this newly burgeoning religion, What Witches Do ( 1971 ).

I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.

I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

Both theories easily describe the first reaction: CH < sub > 3 </ sub > COOH acts as an Arrhenius acid because it acts as a source of H < sub > 3 </ sub > O < sup >+</ sup > when dissolved in water, and it acts as a Brønsted acid by donating a proton to water.

A consequence of using waveforms to describe particles is that it is mathematically impossible to obtain precise values for both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time ; this became known as the uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1926.

The true beginning of atomic physics is marked by the discovery of spectral lines and attempts to describe the phenomenon, most notably by Joseph von Fraunhofer.

Since complex scalar fields admit two different kinds of annihilation operators, which are related by conjugation, such fields describe charged bosons.

The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

Dee's journals did not describe the language as " Enochian ", instead preferring " Angelical ", the " Celestial Speech ", the " Language of Angels ", the " First Language of God-Christ ", the " Holy Language ", or " Adamical " because, according to Dee's Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things.

The term " ataraxy " was coined by the neurologist Howard Fabing and the classicist Alister Cameron to describe the observed effect of psychic indifference and detachment in patients treated with chlorpromazine.

The term Arian was first coined by Athanasius to describe both followers of Arius, and followers of ideas that he deemed as bad as Arius '.

A number of Islamic writers and the 13th century Italian Marco Polo describe how this was obtained by sublimation from zinc ores and condensed onto clay or iron bars, archaeological examples of which have been identified at Kush in Iran.

But Sapir had since become influenced by a current of logical positivism, such as that of Bertrand Russel and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly through Ogden and Richards ' The Meaning of Meaning, from which he adopted the a view that natural language potentially obscures, rather than facilitates, the mind to perceive and describe the world as it really is.

In English law, black letter law is a term used to describe those areas of law characterized by technical rules, rather than those areas of law characterized by having a more conceptual basis.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

The fragments describe a Babylonian king ( spelled N-b-n-y ) who is afflicted by God with an " evil disease " for a period of seven years ; he is cured and his sins forgiven after the intervention of a Jewish exile who is described as a " diviner "; he issues a written proclamation in praise of the Most High God, and speaks in the first person.

In these sutras the perfection of the wisdom of not-self is stated to be the true self ; the ultimate goal of the path is then characterized using a range of positive language that had been used previously in Indian philosophy by essentialist philosophers, but which was now transmuted into a new Buddhist vocabulary to describe a being who has successfully completed the Buddhist path.

In the early 1990s, it was famously used by Prime Minister Paul Keating to describe members of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia opposition.

These laws describe the behaviour of a black hole in close analogy to the laws of thermodynamics by relating mass to energy, area to entropy, and surface gravity to temperature.

Having made the assumption that the Sun was at the center of the universe, Copernicus realized that calculating tables of planetary motion ( mathematical charts that describe the movements of planets ) was much easier and more accurate.

His trepidations method to describe precession of the equinoxes De motu octauæ Sphær was posthumously challenged in 1524 by Nicolaus Copernicus in The Letter against Werner.

objective of selecting simple ( r ) models that adequately describe the

An example of a very simple external XML DTD to describe the schema of a list of persons might consist of:

This is similar to the other Greek titles basileus and autokrator, which, along with despot, have been used at various times to describe everything from a local chieftain to a simple ruler, king or emperor.

Latin terminology is often used to describe modern languages, at times erroneously, as in the application of the term " pluperfect " to the English " past perfect ", the application of " perfect " to what in English more often than not is not " perfective ", or where the German simple and perfect pasts are called respectively " Imperfektum " and " Perfektum ", despite the fact that neither has any real relationship to the aspects implied by the use of the Latin terms.

Similarly, if space is not described uniformly or time independently, a coordinate system could describe the simple flight of a free body in space as a complicated zig-zag in its coordinate system.

Wilkes coined the term microprogramming to describe this feature and distinguish it from a simple control store.

Herodotus, Aristotle, Galen, and other classical writers used the term macrobiotics to describe a lifestyle, including a simple balanced diet, that promoted health and longevity.

" Five years later, Albert Einstein published his paper on special relativity, which challenged the very simple set of rules laid down by Newtonian mechanics, which had been used to describe force and motion for over two hundred years.

In the following example the Visual interface dialect is used to describe a simple Hello world program with a graphical user interface:

The final blow against corpuscular theory came when James Clerk Maxwell discovered that he could combine four simple equations, which had been previously discovered, along with a slight modification to describe self propagating waves of oscillating electric and magnetic fields.

The theory of relativity is often given as an example of the proliferation of complex words to describe a simple concept.

Anyone who knows him can describe his piercing nature and precise ways of expression through his own simple words of what Lev Davidovich Landau once meant:

Psychologists, on the other hand, describe rituals in comparison to obsessive-compulsive rituals, noting that attentional focus falls on the lower level representation of simple gestures.

That all bodies having a simple motion, will continue to move in a straight line, unless continually deflected from it by some extraneous force, causing them to describe a circle, an ellipse, or some other curve.

Succinct circuits are simple machines used to describe some graphs in exponentially less space.

In these endeavors, scientists often seek simple non-linear coupling rules which lead to complex phenomena ( rather than describe ; see above ), but this need not be the case.

While the outer appearance of self-similar patterns can be quite complex, the rules needed to describe or produce their formation can be simple ( e. g. Lindenmayer systems describing tree shapes ).

It is quite simple to describe this phenomenon mathematically-and this leads to the curious philosophical implications and difficulty in understanding what the wave function means.

It is also used in cognitive science to describe first-pass cognitive processes that might attempt to quickly process information in a simple way before resorting to more heavy resource-consuming processes.

A simple method employing parallel transport within cones tangent to the Earth's surface can be used to describe

Since wavelength and frequency are tied together through a simple directly inverse relationship, the two terms actually describe the same concept.

The film's title derives from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest, in which " blood simple " is a term coined to describe the addled, fearful mindset people are in after a prolonged immersion in violent situations.

In abstract algebra, more particularly in ring theory, local rings are certain rings that are comparatively simple, and serve to describe what is called " local behaviour ", in the sense of functions defined on varieties or manifolds, or of algebraic number fields examined at a particular place, or prime.

Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tale " The Adventure of the Dancing Men " are examples of stories which describe the use of frequency analysis to attack simple substitution ciphers.

He then proceeded in imagination to describe the complicated entanglement every individual became involved in his relationship to other individuals, comparing the simple entanglements of youth to those complicated knots that develop in later life.