Sentence examples for primitive scale from inspiring English sources

In the dark days before CD's, DVD's and bootleg boutiques, piracy of intellectual property thrived, though on a more primitive scale than today.

Many primitive scales are sung, not played, and are variable in the exact pitches of their notes.

They argue that there is a disparity between the large-scale wars and sophisticated techniques detailed in the text and the more primitive small-scale battles that many believe predominated in 6th-century-BC China.

Modern and early sharks possessed placoid scales, a relatively primitive type of scale with a toothlike structure, consisting of an outside layer of enamel-like substance (vitrodentine), an inner layer of dentine, and a pulp cavity containing nerves and blood vessels.

This is considered to be the most primitive habit in scale insects (Gullan and Kosztarab, 1997; Koteja, 2001), and similar brood care behavior also occurs in other early scale insects, for example, Margarodidae and Matsucoccidae (Koteja, 2001).

The first includes attempts to elaborate molecular scale primitive elements such as molecular rectifiers, molecular switches and other devices.

Moreover, the STIPO dimension identity predicted positive and negative affect (assessed by the Schedule of Nonadaptive an Adaptive Personality, SNAP [ 23]), whereas the STIPO scale primitive defenses was correlated with aggression (assessed by the SNAP and the IPO) and cluster B personality traits according to DSM-IV [ 22].

Here the results are given with regard to the a priori hypotheses: a) As predicted, STIPO "identity" correlates positively with BPI "identity diffusion", but the correlations with two other BPI scales ("primitive defenses" and "fear of closeness") and the ADP-IV "antisocial PD" scale are equally high.

Unlike all of the most primitive actinopterygians, the scales of bowfins differ in that they are not ganoid scales, rather they are large, single-layered cycloid scales closer in similarity to more derived teleosts.

The fact that the correlation with the BPI scales "primitive defenses" and "fear of closeness" were even slightly higher than the one with the BPI scale "identity diffusion" again reveals the fact that the different dimensions of Kernberg´s concept are not independent from each other, but rather based in a shared basic pathology.

Initially, claims on the diamond fields were limited, technology was primitive, and small-scale black diggers could compete with whites.