The rocks, prized for characteristics like texture and color, were collected and displayed by scholars and depicted in landscape paintings.
Since then, longhorn breeding has become so widespread and specialized that cattle are bred for characteristics like horn length and muscle mass.
Michael H. Deane, operations manager for sustainable construction at Turner Construction, said that companies building offices are looking at sites for characteristics that barely mattered before.
Green coffee is selected for characteristics including aroma, finesse and lasting aftertaste, then skilfully combined with beans from a different origin for complementary aromas and extra body.
Ms. Cashin enjoyed the work in Hollywood, explaining: "I wasn't designing for fashion, but for characteristics, which is the way I like to design clothes for daily wear.
So both parties have been stressing the need for characteristics such as "constructive opposition" and "inclusivity".
When researchers controlled for characteristics associated with delaying sexual intercourse, they found that those who had taken chastity pledges delayed sex about 18 months longer than virgins who had never taken a pledge.
Much of the information comes from large epidemiological studies, many in Europe, that link patient databases; the analyses often cannot weed out or control for characteristics other than drugs that may be affecting the pregnancies.
Nomad will search in patterns similar to those used by people mowing grass, Dr. Apostolopoulos said, and use its camera to scan thousands of rocks for characteristics of meteorites, like shape, color, luster, size and evidence of charring.
To examine women's preferences for characteristics of chlamydia screening.
With the new AI, brands and publishers will now be able to reliably search for characteristics like color palette, subjects and much more.
