It's a familiar model of modern-jazz interplay, but it's hardly common in practice, especially for the saxophone-bass-drums trio, a format that has evoked top-down hierarchies ever since the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins adopted it more than 50 years ago.
Drawing on the recent explosion of crowdfunding, Watsi is applying a familiar model to global healthcare.
A familiar model of virtual agents are characters in computer or video games, and personal digital assistants, such as Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana.
The authors also attempt to find the optimal position for cluster heads with the help of a familiar energy model.
Figure 1 is a diagram of this familiar model.
Like their fictional counterparts, nonfiction films tend to obey conventions of genre, and in recent years most of them have followed a handful of familiar models.
A new generation of architects, shuffling a set of eerily familiar models, is wrestling once more with the complex question of what fits and what does not on this riverside plot.
Over the last few years, Startup Land has played home to the dramatic re-emergence of a tried-and-true, familiar model: Subscription commerce.
These, together with reasonable guesses about the Earth's overall composition, have been used to put together the familiar model of an iron core, a rocky mantle and a thin crust.
