If being a nation meant having separate educational and legal systems, distinctive banknotes, a definite boundary, and a church and sports teams it could call its own, then Scotland had all of those.
From this perspective, the true depth of the difficulty involved in understanding what makes living systems distinctive qua physical systems becomes occluded.
But in important (and worrying) respects this makes the country similar to Japan, where investment as a proportion of GDP is also very high, and returns on capital are correspondingly low.Germany's financial system is distinctive in two important ways.
I had been assigned to review it, and went through the book like an archeologist marking an area for excavation, combing carefully over each story, mapping the points of connection between them until they seemed to form a system so distinctive and complete that when I finally felt I understood Davis and what she was after I felt equally sure I would never be able to communicate it.
Among all the functions in the system, two distinctive ones which are Local Crawler and Map Controller are worth to be discussed here.
The Japanese healthcare system has distinctive characteristics such as coverage of all citizens by universal health insurance system, a lack of a primary care system, few certified generalist physicians, and guaranteed access to specialist physicians without a referral.
At the scale of ecosystems, grassland, forest and anthropogenic system had distinctive AM fungal communities; while AMF community in successional system was not evidently different with grassland and forest.
In summary, the Δ-vs-Σ trajectory spans a sort of natural or intrinsic metric system between distinctive points which characterizes the binding thermodynamics of the probes of the particular microarray.
Comparative genomic surveys have revealed some molecular features that are shared by crenarchaea but not euryarchaea, such as the lack of histones, absence of the FtsZ-MinCDE system and distinctive rRNA operon organization [ 69].
