In order to test for a familiarity-to-sender effect, we compared the responses of the subjects to calls of familiar, same sex, conspecifics (FS) with the response to calls of unfamiliar, same sex conspecifics (US; Figure 1).
As the book unfolds with bantering ease, in a neighborly Mojave Desert town called Pico Mundo, Thomas simply takes for granted a familiarity with phenomena "otherly and beyond".
If such knowledge is lodged in a man's brain, I can only assume it is occupying real estate that might be better used for, say, a familiarity with the battlefield strategies of Napoleon.
Simmons has a rare gift for bringing a familiarity to any sort of outcast human: skaters, conspiracy theorists, undergrads, RPG enthusiasts, weird dads..
Such anticipation, such singing along, is possible because one has knowledge, largely implicit, of musical "rules" (how a cadence must resolve, for instance) and a familiarity with particular musical conventions (the form of a sonata, or the repetition of a theme).
For locals, they bring a familiarity because they have been there for so long".
There's a free trial included as mentioned (the kind where you input credit card details up front and have to actively cancel to not be charged) so that you can feel out if it's right for you, which is handy because the prerequisites for the course include a familiarity with object-oriented programming and a strong exiting understanding of programming concepts.
Turner said there was a level of comfort and a familiarity for the young players with Collins, who was around the Buffalo club last season as the Mets' minor-league field coordinator, and with Ken Oberkfell, the former Bisons manager who is Collins's bench coach.
"That's a mystery, even to us," said Danny Rodriguez, who works the evening shift and finds room within the airtight regulations for a coded familiarity.
ON THE EDGE OF THE ASH SHAM DESERT, Iraq, June 3 — Among experts on the American-led team investigating Iraq's mass graves, the skeletal remains lying face-up at the rear of the tangled grave here have been given a name — the Blue Man — that speaks for a sorrowful familiarity developed by some of those who work with victims of mass murder.
