A relatively small amount of graft and violence, for example in 1920's Chicago, can subvert a political and legal system that depends on widespread honesty and compliance. If we were to think of a biological analogy for such complicated ...

Scala traits provide a mixin composition mechanism that has been missing in Java. Roughly speaking, you can think of traits as analogous to Java interfaces, but with implementations. Aspects, eg, those written in AspectJ, ...

A classic example is the pre-adaptation of sweat glands for use as lactating glands in mammals. Milk flow derived from earlier perspiration flow. Perspiration had utility, of course, in heat regulation (and possibly in the attraction of ...

Honesty and truthfulness, if indeed they can be considered separate traits in other contexts, have been treated as interchangeable in New Mexico case law involving analogous character trait relevance. See Melendrez, 91 NM at 261, ...

which is analogous to the town council’s use of the town’s rainy-day cash reserves to supplement available revenue to finance past municipal and school budgets. Neither the town council, school committee, or airport commission ploys ...

Trying to motivate someone is analogous to physically trying to get them to do something they don''t want to do. You won''t succeed. What really works is when we''re self-motivated ? when we do something because we want to. ...

The sample studied comprised 172 patients with alcohol dependence and with data for childhood physical abuse, trait aggression and lifetime suicide attempts. The measuring instruments used for the investigation were the European ...

In this respect, they’re analogous to Polar Bears among the Ursids (bears), or even the Inuit among pre-technology humans. They figured out how to make a decent living where others couldn’t, and have thrived as a result. ...

Intellection is direct knowledge of reality, very much analogous to physical perception. If you see something with your eyes, no one will ask you to prove the existence of sight. But in our current anti-intellectual climate, ...

For example, with life as common as I assume it is, there must be many planets in every galaxy on which complex multi-cellular life forms evolve into intelligent social animals with emotions and behaviors analogous to what we know as ...