Self-reference, the ability of a system to refer to itself, is a necessary condition for complexity, and can indeed form the basis for a definition of complexity.
"We've always got our guys," Fassel said in reference to the ability of Giants General Manager Ernie Acorsi to get players into camp on time.
A traditional nickname for the Madrileños is gatos ("cats"), originally coined in the Middle Ages as a reference to the ability of local troops to scale castle walls.
"I read the policy last night, quickly it has to be said; I thought it was a reference to the ability of people to get an internet-based filter.
Developments over the past 25 years are reviewed, with particular reference to the ability to predict and understand the total noise generated by a helicopter.
We now present results of treatment of patients with adenocarcinoma using RAMPS with particular reference to the ability of this procedure to obtain negative tangential margin rates.
"The tech has been around for 50 years," she said, in reference to the ability to measure the viscosity of the mucus and tie that to a specific woman's fertility.
(This isn't, however, how the startup got its name. Cohen says it's simply a reference to the ability to see everything in a system, and also the availability of the URL).
What happens when we feed machines not just our physical actions or our conversational intelligence to mimic or reference, but the ability to directly connect to something considered divine and sacred?
It's interesting that it was originally a credible, empirically-justified reference to the ability of individuals to achieve success mostly on their own in conditions that made it possible, but becomes virtually synonymous with material success in the 1970s.
In reference to the ability of the journal to report scientific findings independent of influence from some segments of the industrial sector, U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich remarked in a congressional hearing (House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Domestic Policy 2007) that " EHP alone is a pillar of truth".
