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	Niche \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Niche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Gothic architecture a niche may be set within a tabernacle framing, like a richly-decorated miniature house, such as might serve for a reliquary.
		Though a niche in either Classical or Gothic context may be empty, merely providing some articulation and variety to a section of wall, the cult origins of the niche suggested that it be filled with a statue.
		The niche that was left vacant by the extinction of the tarpan has been filled by other animals (inparticular a small horse breed, the konik).
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Niche (521 words)

	Islamic architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Islamic architecture, a part of the Islamic studies, is the entire range of architecture that has evolved within Muslim culture in the course of the history of Islam.
		Another distinctive sub-style is the architecture of the Mughal Empire in India in the 16th century and a fusion of Persian and Hindu elements.
		The most famous example of Mughal architecture is the Taj Mahal, the "teardrop on eternity," completed in 1648 by the emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal who died while giving birth to their 14th child.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islamic_architecture (1204 words)

	Typology of Chapels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Niche chapels are generally of a tinier construction, situated most often at a rectangular ground plan, their main front face opened with a smaller or bigger niche decorated by a sculpture or painting.
		Niche chapels are an inherent component of the Czech landscape since the 17th century.
		Builders of most of the niche chapels were typically local countrymen, who used to build only with the knowledge of their neighbourhood and the designs seen in their parish church or in the nearest town.
	krizik.felk.cvut.cz /kaple (3114 words)

	Church Architecture Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An ambry (or aumbry) is a niche in the wall in a large church.
		The architectural term for the place where the congregation gathers for worship, as opposed to the front part of the church from which the service is led.
		In historic church architecture, the front part of the church from which the service is conducted, as distinct from the nave, where the congregation sits.
	www.kencollins.com /glossary/architecture.htm (1721 words)

	Art Terms and Definitions
		Architectural order which originated in Corinth around the 5th century B.C. The Corinthian capital is decorated with acanthus leaves from which small volutes emerge.
		A style of the figurative arts - especially sculpture - and of architecture which flourished throughout western Europe from the end of the 10th century until the middle of the 12th century (in Italy until the early decades of the 13th century).
		Niche or aedicule in the shape of a small temple containing a sacred image.
	www.arca.net /tourism/glossary.htm (3859 words)

	Niche Technology, Inc.
		Niche RMS was selected as the police RMS component for the Ontario Integrated Justice Project, one of the most ambitious projects of its type in North America.
		The DMS Digital Mug Shot System is the application that Niche first introduced in 1995 and its quality, ease-of-use, sophistication, scope and reliability formed a foundation for the reputation that Niche now enjoys as a dependable supplier of high-quality law-enforcement systems.
		This means that all Niche customers currently use the same up-to-date version of the software, regardless of when they initially purchased their systems.
	www.nicherms.com /products.html (295 words)

	Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture - Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This niche is rectangular with a stalactite vault which has a multifoil arch; the area of the niche has been enlarged by means of a protruding segmental section.
		The surface of the gate in the east wall of the iwan in the entrance is embellished with sun motifs.
		The pointed arch of the portal niche is backed by rows of muqarnas and on either side of the niche is a cell of semi-octagonal shape with stalactite vaults on which there are rows of muqarnas.
	www.kultur.gov.tr /portal/default_en.asp?belgeno=2200 (4406 words)

	Niche RMS Police Records Management & COMS Jail Management Systems.
		Niche RMS can be installed in configurations ranging from a single lowcost server for a 50-officer agency to a server farm with a dozen or more enterprise servers for a 25,000 officer agency.
		Niche RMS is designed to read data from the magnetic stripe found on credit cards, drivers’ licenses, etc., and from smart cards.
		Niche RMS incorporates a flexible signature facility that can be configured to allow any document – any defined set of data fields and free-form narratives – to be signed in a number of ways.
	www.nicherms.com /rms_technical.html (1159 words)

	Feature Article - CAM: From Fragmented Disciplines to Systems Architecture - 12/97
		The emergence of new niche applications and the isolation of engineering from the shop floor has further encouraged the splintering of manufacturing engineering into specialties that are more and more divorced from the shop floor.
		With the power of the new architecture inevitably comes complexity, which is the reason why it is important that the system be scalable and configurable to offer a simple, icon-driven interface tailored to specific applications.
		Implementation of this architecture does not require throwing away the existing systems; it can proceed in steps and is easily scalable from a single department to the enterprise level.
	www.autofieldguide.com /articles/129702.html (1350 words)

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		I suspect a major discontinuity in niche space occurs somewhere between systems that are able merely to perform certain tasks, and others which are also able to state how they did it, or why they did it, or why they used a particular method.
		Like designs and niches, these descriptions of "fitness" can vary in complexity, and their partial ordering will correspond to the notion of one design being "better" than another, which is generally a partial ordering (Sloman 1969).
		Similar ideas would enable the notion of a niche in biology to be made sufficiently precise to enable us to understand precisely the relationships between niches and designs for organisms, and perhaps give a better understanding of the dynamics of niches and designs in biological evolution.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /research/cogaff/misc/designs.and.niches (2482 words)

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		The convenience, propriety and beauty of the arrangement were immediately apparent, however, and thenceforward the development of the niche as an independent architectural form was constant and rapid.
		Not only did the canopied niche assimilate the statue in the architectural entity and afford it that protection from the weather so necessary in the north; it also, in conjunction with the statue itself, produced one of the richest compositions of line, light, and shade known to art.
		The medieval architects realized this and seized upon it with avidity, using it almost as their chief means for obtaining those spots and spaces of rich decoration that gave the final touch of perfection to their marvelous fabrics.
	www.catholicliturgy.com /index.cfm/FuseAction/EncyclopediaArticle/Index/15/SubIndex/149/EncyclopediaIndex/10 (358 words)

	Minoan Domestic and Funerary Architecture
		In a niche in the west wall of this high-ceilinged space were found the remains of a stone seat or throne.
		Columns at the ends of the balustrades on either side of the stairway leading up to the niche helped to support the first-floor ceiling over the "Men's Hall", and a pedestalled stone lamp was found on the stairs themselves.
		The walls in the crypt are constructed of coursed gypsum blocks, while the ceiling was supported by large tree trunks which rested in notches cut in the tops of the walls and on the top surfaces of a large beam which ran north-south across the room resting on the central pillar of the "crypt".
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /history/bronze_age/lessons/les/13.html (3670 words)

	ArtLex on architecture
		Islamic tomb in a walled garden built for Shah Jahan's wife Mumatz Mahal [aka Arjuman Banu Begum], of bearing masonry and inlaid marble, with onion-shape domes and flanking towers, in Agra, India, seat of the Mughal Empire.
		"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
		Great Buildings Collection is a gateway to architecture from around the world and across history.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html (2264 words)

	A Summary of the Cognition and Affect Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Architecture dominates mechanism sums up the view that architectures have a greater influence on the capacities of the system than the mechanisms it consists of.
		An architecture may be broad in that it consists of a range of mechanisms implementing diverse functions.
		A niche is not a physical location: a physical area may provide many possibly interacting niches concurrently.
	www.cs.bris.ac.uk /~kovacs/summary/summary.html (8554 words)

	Architecture recruitment - 100's of Jobs at architecture.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We advertise the very latest Architecture Jobs for Permanent, Temporary or Contract architectural vacancies comprising Architect, Technical, Assistant, Design, Planning, CAD and Senior Appointment roles and jobs - from major Architectural Practices, from principal Employers and from leading Industry Recruiters right across the UK, Europe and Internationally.
		This is an opportunity to work with an outstanding, multinational architectural team on an exciting portfolio of international projects ranging in scale from masterplans to cultural buildings, commercial schemes, residential projects and educational facilities.
		A major architectural practice which has built up an excellent reputation for its award winning work and high quality portfolio of clients is looking for architects with 3+ years experience.
	www.architecture.co.uk (823 words)

	What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent?
		There are different ``niches'' (sets of requirements and constraints) for which architectures can be evaluated and compared, and such evaluations will not generally yield a Yes/No decision, but rather an analysis of trade-offs, often involving several dimensions of comparison.
		For someone interested in designs that fit other regions of niche space, the Turing test would be of limited value: a machine that passed the Turing test with flying colours might not be able to learn to fly an airliner safely, or to interpret the sensory information and control the movements of a robot.
		Claiming that an architecture has reactive, deliberative and meta-management sub-systems does not imply that each of these is a monolithic mechanism, or that everything in the architecture must fit neatly into one of these categories.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /~axs/misc/agent.architecture/agent.architecture.html (5399 words)

	Ontario Architecture Styles Page
		A recess in a wall for a statue or ornament.
		A niche is usually semicircular in the back with a half-dome on the top.
		Depending on the style of building, the niche can have a pediment above it or have decorative molding.
	www.ontarioarchitecture.com /niche.html (50 words)

	The New Architecture of Merchants Square
		It is a group of structures in what is really a single edifice, unofficially known as the College Corner Building for its proximity to the triangular intersection of Jamestown and Richmond Roads at the apex of the College of William and Mary's three-centuries-old campus.
		The details have high pedigree, however, drawn from James Stuart and Nicholas Revett's 1787 architectural drawings of the Erechtheion, the complex Athenian temple near the Parthenon.
		Baroque gadrooning on the niche is drawn from the eighteenth-century brick façade of a timber building down the High Street from architect Quinlan Terry's office in Dedham, a conservation-minded village in East Anglia.
	www.history.org /Foundation/journal/Summer04/arch.cfm (759 words)

	CareerAge - Architecture career information
		Any built structure is an outcome of close coordination and participation of a number of people, technical and non-technical, including architects, contractors, surveyors, engineers, designers alongwith bricklayers, masons, carpenters, electricians, plumbers etc. Everyone is specialised in his own area hence beyond comparison.
		Architecture, in particular is the study which deals with planning and designing of building and structures.
		An aspirant for the field of architecture should be a creative artist with an interest and bent towards designing.
	www.careerage.com /resources/career_choices/arch/architecture.shtml (1290 words)

	Books in Brief: Reaching Out: The Financial Power of Niche Marketing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A successful niche market may be closer than you think.
		If there are other real estate professionals in your area that target your prospective niche, ask yourself whether the market is large enough to support more than one company.
		Once you determine a niche that you want to pursue, the authors recommend that you establish a strong business plan and marketing plan.
	www.realtor.org /rmomag.NSF/pages/book200311031?OpenDocument (678 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The structure reveals the high-pressure die cast corner nodes that are key to an architecture that additionally draws upon Lotus' extensive experience with bonding and extruded aluminium.
		Lotus Versatile Vehicle Architecture (VVA) has been developed to bridge a gap in the investment-volume curve to exploit the benefits of producing at medium volumes but for niche markets, thereby giving the best chance of business case success and favourable returns.
		The philosophy is based on the commonality and versatility of key elements of the vehicle structure and body systems across a 'family' of niche vehicle variants, with a combined annual production rate of up to around 50,000 units.
	www.lotusla.com /news.htm (1224 words)

	Operating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The appropriate OS may depend on the hardware architecture, specifically the CPU, with only Linux and BSD running on almost any CPU.
		Since the early 1990s the choice for personal computers has been largely limited to the Microsoft Windows family and the Unix-like family, of which Linux and Mac OS X are becoming the major choices.
		As of 2004, Windows held a near-monopoly of around 90% of the worldwide desktop market share, although this is thought to be dwindling due to the increase of interest focused on open source operating systems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operating_system (1682 words)

	Northwest REporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Successful REALTORS® understand the benefits of "niche marketing." By pinpointing a specific market segment, they are able plan and deploy resources to address the interests and needs of a targeted group of potential customers.
		Opportunities for positioning oneself as a specialist abound in the real estate profession, whether aligning the niche around a personal interest (e.g., historic homes), a particular type of property (e.g., waterfront home, luxury homes, new construction or condominiums), or a type of buyer (e.g., first-time homebuyer, new immigrant or seniors).
		Choose a niche that you are familiar with or have a sincere interest in.
	www.nwmls.com /discover/nwreporter.cfm?SectionListsID=25&PageID=2201 (456 words)

	Niche theory & cultural diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Realized niche will almost always be a subset of ("smaller than") the fundamental niche, for various reasons; one important determinant of realized niche is presence or absence of different competitors
		Of course, 100% niche overlap is unlikely if not impossible; but such an extreme case is not necessary for competitive exclusion or other forms of niche change
		Both possible responses to niche competition (competitive exclusion, and coexistence via reduction in niche overlap) are commonly observed, and their determinants and features have been studied by three means: lab experiments, field observations, and mathematical models or simulations
	courses.washington.edu /anth457/nichelec.htm (1169 words)

	ArtLex's Ne-Nz page
		A niche is sometimes terminated by a cartouche, but more commonly by a canopy, and with a bracket or corbel for the figure, in which case it might be called a tabernacle.
		In Islamic tradition, a large niche called a mihrab is the most important element inside of every mosque.
		In the niche is the statue of Giuliano Duke of Nemours who died in 1561.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Ne.html (3501 words)

	Sales Coach: Niche Marketing Success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To make niche marketing work, you must have a sincere interest in your niche or the members will see through purely monetary motives.
		Giving back to the niche is also a critical part of successfully serving a niche.
		This was her way of giving back to the niche as well as marketing herself.
	www.realtor.org /rmomag.NSF/pages/slscoach20040726?OpenDocument (939 words)

	New niche market for Architect services
		It is the niche of medium-sized businesses looking to have a building created for their own use.
		The reason why this niche market is not seen is because this target audience seldom approaches Architects and their projects go either directly to construction companies or get scrapped and, having given up, they turn to the real estate market.
		Calling it a "niche" is actually grossly misleading since this target audience is potentially a HUGE source of projects.
	www.architectmarketingtips.com /business-sector.html (2196 words)

	Mosques
		The original mosques developed an "Arabic" design that has influenced architecture in many parts of the world, but many mosques may have nothing "Arabic-looking" about them.
		- A mihrab is a niche in the wall which points the worshipers toward Mecca.
		Cleansing was an act that was both symbolic and literal to prepare oneself to meet with God in prayer.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Architecture/Mosques.html (367 words)

	Venture Capital Thoughts and Reflections
		It is now possible to aggregate hundreds, thousands or even millions of niche readers, obviating the need for such a broad strategy and opening the door for niche publications.
		Given this shift in value, from newspapers and magazines to blogs, and the ability to aggregate niche readers from around the world, the traditional media model is facing its greatest threat ever.
		Niche publications possess all of the traditional motivations and, through the advertising model, provide a very real chance of earning significant financial rewards.
	galaxy.blogs.com /venture_capital_thoughts_ (4812 words)

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