But images of Fortress were playing through my head, and I panicked.
Image, of Dwarf Fortress: Tarn Adams.
The word itself means "mountain fortress" and suggests a romantic image of brigands working together to outwit the rich and powerful.
"The technique gave us a surprisingly detailed image of the fortress in no more than a few days," Søren Sindbæk, a professor of medieval archaeology at Denmark's Aarhus University and another member of the research team, said in the statement.
In the Jokhang itself, and in the Potala Palace, the imposing white-walled winter fortress of the Dalai Lamas, images of the exiled 14th Dalai Lama have been banned.
Stephen M. Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University, said the United States had to build "embassies that resemble fortresses, and that convey an image of America that is at odds with our interests and our own self-image, and especially with the image that we would like to convey to foreign peoples".
We obtained almost identical accuracies of predicting score improvement in Space Fortress when we use EPI images from blocks with an acoustic oddball task (r = 0.75, p = 2.9·10−7) or from blocks of passively watching Space Fortress games (r = 0.74, p = 5.6·10−7).
However much a mirage, the image of an impregnable "fortress" has swayed sentiment and shaped policy.
The monastic fortress of learning is a potent image, with its shades of the Dark Ages and intimations of an all too apprehensible future.
The government's PR machine tries to build on this sentiment, leading an effort to "rebrand" Israel away from the image of an unpleasant fortress.
