Rice chose six-pointed stars to distinguish them from the five-pointed stars commonly seen on national flags; the points formed a 30-degree internal angle to mark them as distinct from the Star of David.
It allowed for an outlet, especially for the young, to mark themselves as distinct from an older, conservative generation: baby boomer parents; those who had lived through the age of Woodstock only to come out the other side obsessed with negative gearing and limiting immigration.
Clean the mark as soon as possible.
This first pass through the genomes does not reveal a type of gene that definitively marks us as distinct from the apes.
Like linguistic signs, we use material signals for their referential value, that is, to denote objects and activities, and indexically, wherein signals are associated with individuals or social groups, marking them as distinct from other individuals or groups.
The noncognitivist C.L. Stevenson, for example, sought to draw attention to unusual features of moral disagreement, marking it as distinct from disagreement about factual matters (1944, 1963 essays 1 & 2).
"With the phrase 'as well as,' the definition marks 'individual' as distinct from the list of artificial entities that precedes it," wrote Sotomayor.
Here we ask whether these peripheral cells have an intrinsic capacity to divide, marking them as distinct, or whether this ability is related to their local microenvironment and/or its signals.
However, our data show that protection in this subgroup of individuals is not associated with the IL28B.rs12979860-CC genotype, which marks them as distinct from SR. Indeed, they are the first subgroup of individuals identified who have a favorable outcome following HCV exposure who do not have an over-representation of this genotype.
There are some other things that mark human language as distinct, so far as we know — for instance, our statements do not have to make reference to the external world.
In the study, published today in ZooKeys, the researchers describe the differences in size, shape, color, and DNA that mark these lizards as distinct. .
