The team set out to find a similar universal pattern in the shape of river basins.
The miraculous paradox is that this universal pattern repeats itself in circumstances that are always unique.
Branching patterns appear often, as ribs in a leaf, or as forks – the basic binary division, the turning of one into two, a universal pattern in nature.
The words, it seems, are but steppingstones to a universal pattern of images and insights about human behavior and the perplexing world that thwarts and shapes it.
This is how they found the universal pattern of screwing and unscrewing forces that can successfully drive home a screw or remove it.
Estonia is perhaps the best example, where the voting distribution switched to the universal pattern in 2002 when the electoral rules changed.
They also question past work in the field, which too facilely assumed that perceptronlike devices would, automatically almost, evolve into universal "pattern recognizing," "learning," or "self-organizing" machines.
The Army has been field-testing new camouflage to replace the universal pattern and, in the interim, has issued an unpixelated fabric called MultiCam to some troops.
This story was told everywhere, using the same words and phrases, and it must have reflected some universal pattern of the human mind that extended to Akhenaten and well beyond.
He likened it to a modern day Christopher Columbus-style invasion of his territory and, in doing so, highlighted a universal pattern that has nagged at societies – regardless of their geographic co-ordinates – for years.
Like structuralism and semiotics, from which it derived, narratology is based on the idea of a common literary language, or a universal pattern of codes that operates within the text of a work.
