"It's one of those defining features of the human mind, and yet we have no idea how or why it happens," he told me.
In a diary, the trivial and inconsequential — the "woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head" pieces — are not trivial and inconsequential at all; they are defining features of the genre.
In a review of 34 years of Connecticut death penalty cases, Prof. John Donohue of Stanford Law School concluded that "arbitrariness and discrimination are defining features of the state's capital punishment regime".
Defining features of the battle were also identified and mapped.
Table 1 Defining features of the mixed methods research framework 1.
A military terrain model was created utilizing American Battlefield Protection Program's KOCOA system categories, in order to identify defining features of the battlefield.
Lederman and Klatzky found that when vision of objects is obscured, subjects engage in manipulative actions with the hands called "exploratory procedures" or EPs to ascertain defining features of the object [36].
Initially established as a model of hypertension, several defining features of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) have also been observed in LH [ 1, 6].
Two defining features of the allergic guinea pig model are respiratory inflammation (mainly eosinophilia) and a hyperresponsiveness to pulmonary constricting agents such as histamine and methacholine [ 31].
Bacteriorhodopsin and its several homologs have long been considered defining features of the haloarchaea, and have been developed into superb model systems by structural biologists and photophysiologists.
The germline expression of OMA-1/ 2 and LIN-41 are defining features of the oocyte fate, and these proteins mediate 3′ UTR-dependent translational repression of cdc-25.3.
