When one talks to her friends and her husband, one hears it described in varying ways, but they are all facets of the same intensely insular and unbending characteristic.
The overall form of the caskets follows French examples, and the locks and metal bands are decorated in Gothic style with "simple decorations of fleurons and debased egg and dart" while the whalebone panels are carved in relief with a late form of Insular interwoven strapwork characteristic of late Medieval West Scotland.
From the perspective of understanding the island rule, this result is exciting, because the deep-sea benthos shares some but not all of the ecological characteristics of insular habitats [3] [5], [12], [14] [16]; see Discussion.
Carpet pages are a characteristic feature of Insular manuscripts, although historiated initials (an Insular invention), canon tables and figurative miniatures, especially Evangelist portraits, are also common.
Within this framework, the characteristics inherent to insular populations (see below) could make insular scavengers especially vulnerable to the arrival of new pathogens mainly associated with the increasing mobility of livestock [15].
Characteristic of insular (or archipelagic) Southeast Asia are the chains of islands the Malay and Philippine archipelagoes that have been formed along the boundaries of the three crustal segments of the Earth that meet there.
No changes in the morphology of the silica surface after modification by the polymer are generally characteristic of "insular" or "globular" disposition of the polymer on a solid surface.
A sequence of symptoms as characteristic of insular epilepsy has been derived from studies in several patients with drug-resistant epilepsy whose invasive electroencephalography (EEG) revealed a seizure onset within the insula (Isnard et al. 2004).
The characteristics of the Insular manuscript initial, as described by Carl Nordenfalk, here reach their most extreme realization: "the initials... are conceived as elastic forms expanding and contracting with a pulsating rhythm.
The cyto- and immunohistochemical characteristics of the insular subdivisions are described in Table 1 and illustrated in Figure 2 with high-power photomicrographs taken at corresponding anteroposterior locations along the insula and ordered according to cytoarchitectonic subdivisions.
