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| Minor Threat Talk:Minor_Threat | |
| Henry Barnard Henry Barnard (24 January 1811, Hartford, Connecticut – 5 July 1900, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American educationalist. He graduated from Yale University in 1830, and in 1835 was admitted to the Connecticut bar. In 1837 Henry_Barnard | |
| Aphrodisias This is the article about the town in Caria; for the goddess see AphroditeAphrodisias (, Aphrodisiás) was a small city in Caria, Asia Minor. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, Turkey, about 230 km from İzmir.Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias. Aphrodisias | |
| Alan Greenspan Alan_Greenspan | |
| Social construction social construction or social construct is any phenomenon "invented" or "constructed" by participants in a particular culture or society, existing because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules. One example of a social construct is social status. Another example of social construction is the use of money, which is worth anything only because society has agreed to treat it as valuable. Social_construction | |
| Brett Ratner Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American filmmaker and music video director. He is best known for his films such as The Family Man, After the Sunset, Red Dragon, the Rush Hour series, and X-Men: The Last Stand. He is also a producer on the Fox drama, Prison Break. Brett_Ratner | |
| Linguistic anthropology Linguistic anthropology is that branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes. Linguistic_anthropology | |
| Okay Okay, (frequently abbreviated as OK) is a colloquial English word denoting approval, assent, or acknowledgment that has been a loanword from English for many other languages. As an adjective it means 'adequate', 'acceptable' ("this is okay to send out"), often in contrast to 'good' ("the food was okay"); it also functions as an adverb in this sense. Okay | |
| Vitalism Vitalism, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is a doctrine that the functions of a living organism are due to a vital principle distinct from biochemical reactions a doctrine that the processes of life are not explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry alone and that life is in some part self-determining Vitalism | |
| Archimedes Talk:Archimedes | |
| Foundations of mathematics Foundations of mathematics is a term sometimes used for certain fields of mathematics, such as mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, proof theory, model theory, and recursion theory. The search for foundations of mathematics is also a central question of the philosophy of mathematics:mathematical statements be called true? Foundations_of_mathematics | |
| Foundations of mathematics Talk:Foundations_of_mathematics | |
| Hayley Westenra Hayley Dee Westenra (born 10 April 1987 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand soprano and UNICEF Ambassador. Her first internationally released album, Pure, reached No 1 on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Westenra has received numerous awards for her contributions to music, both in New Zealand and elsewhere. In November 2008 she was named "classical performer of the year" at the Variety Club's annual awards in London. Hayley_Westenra | |
| Mohamed ElBaradei Dr. Mohamed Mostafa El-Baradei (, transliteration'Cairo, Egypt) is the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations. ElBaradei, who prefers the Latin writing of his name to be spelled ElBaradei rather than hyphenated, and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Mohamed_ElBaradei | |
| Linda McCartney Linda Louise McCartney (née Eastman, formerly See, 24 September 1941 – 17 April 1998) was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her mother and father were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune.She married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on 12 March 1969, and was a member of Wings.Heather Louise (from her previous marriage, whom Paul McCartney adopted in 1969), Mary Anna, Stella and James Louis. Linda_McCartney | |
| GNAT GNAT is a free-software compiler for the Ada programming language which forms part of the GNU Compiler Collection. It supports all versions of the language, i.e. Adaacronym that stood for GNU NYU Ada Translator, but that name no longer applies. The front-end and run-time are written in Ada.JGNAT is a GNAT version that compiles from the Ada programming language to Java bytecode. GNAT | |
| Venona project Venona project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between intelligence agencies of the United States and United Kingdom that involved the cryptanalysis of messages sent by several intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union, mostly during World War II. Venona_project | |
| Steven Brams Steven J. Brams (born November 28, 1940) is a game theorist and political scientist at the New York University department of politics. Brams is best known for using the techniques of game theory and public choice to research voting systems and fair division. Steven_Brams | |
| Robotic unicycle The problem of creating a robotic unicycle, a self-powered unicycle that balances itself in three dimensions, is an interesting problem in robotics and control theory. To first order, a robotic unicycle can be considered as a non-linear control system similar to that of a two-dimensional inverted pendulum with a unicycle cart at its basereaction wheels, or control moment gyroscopes attached to the main unicycle pendulum. Robotic_unicycle | |
| Palai For the tree, see Manilkara hexandra.Pala (also written as Palai () and pronounced as Pala-eeh), is a municipal town in the eastern hilly areas of Kottayam district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is situated on the banks of the Meenachil River and is the headquarters of the Meenachil Taluk and the Pala Revenue Division. Palai | |
| Marx's theory of alienation Marx's theory of alienation (Entfremdung in German), as expressed in the writings of the young Karl Marx (in particular the Manuscripts of 1844), refers to the separation of things that naturally belong together, or to put antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. Marx's_theory_of_alienation | |
| Gilberto Gil Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (), is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.Gil began playing music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. Gilberto_Gil | |
| Voronoi diagram In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects in the space, e.g., by a discrete set of points. It is named after Georgy Voronoi, also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Lejeune Dirichlet), In the simplest case, we are given a set of points S in the plane, which are the Voronoi sites. Voronoi_diagram | |
| Stevenj/old User_talk:Stevenj/old | |
| Neurolinguistics Neurolinguistics is the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. As an interdisciplinary field, neurolinguistics draws methododology and theory from fields such as neuroscience, linguistics, cognitive science, neurobiology, communication disorders, neuropsychology, and computer science. Neurolinguistics | |
| Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901 Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker, was an American writer and editor. A Communist party member and Soviet spy, he later renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent. He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss. Whittaker_Chambers | |
| A Devil's Chaplain A Devil's Chaplain, subtitled Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love is a 2003 book of selected essays and other writings by Richard Dawkins. Published five years after his previous book Unweaving the Rainbow, it contains 32 essays covering subjects including pseudoscience, genetic determinism, memetics, terrorism, religion and creationism. A section of the book is devoted to Dawkins' late adversary Stephen Jay Gould. A_Devil's_Chaplain | |
| Washington Heights, Manhattan Washington Heights is a New York City neighborhood in the northern reaches of the borough of Manhattan. It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest point on Manhattan island by Continental Army troops during the American Revolutionary War, to defend the area from the British forces. Washington_Heights,_Manhattan | |
| Settlements in Israel Talk:Settlements_in_Israel | |
| Nathaniel Branden Nathaniel Branden, né Nathan Blumenthal (born 9 April 1930 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada), is a psychotherapist and writer best known today for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A one-time associate of novelist Ayn Rand, Branden had a prominent role in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Nathaniel_Branden | |
| Private equity In finance, private equity is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange. Investments in private equity most often involve either an investment of capital into an operating company or the acquisition of an operating company. Private_equity | |
| Functionalism (philosophy of mind) Functionalism is a theory of the mind in contemporary philosophy, developed largely as an alternative to both the identity theory of mind and behaviourism. Its core idea is that mental states (beliefs, desires, being in pain, etc.) are constituted solely by their functional role — that is, they are causal relations to other mental states, sensory inputs, and behavioral outputs. Functionalism_(philosophy_of_mind) | |
| Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel (born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher, currently University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he has taught since 1980. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics. Thomas_Nagel | |
| Postmodernity Postmodernity (also spelled post-modernity or the pejorative postmodern condition) is generally used to describe the economic and/or cultural state or condition of society which is said to exist after modernity. Some schools of thought hold that modernity ended in the late 20th century, replaced by post-modernity, while others would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by Postmodernity and into the present. Postmodernity | |
| Dysphagia Dysphagia is the medical term for the symptom of difficulty in swallowing. Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, the term is sometimes used as a condition in its own right. Sufferers are sometimes unaware of their dysphagia.It derives from the Greek root dys meaning difficulty or disordered, and phagia meaning "to eat". Dysphagia | |
| Osteopathic medicine in the United States Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States, with some recognition outside the US, including most Canadian provinces. Physicians who graduate from osteopathic medical schools are sometimes known as osteopathic physicians and hold a professional doctorate, the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), in contrast to MDs, who hold the title Doctor of Medicine. Osteopathic_medicine_in_the_United_States | |
| Graffiti (Palm OS) Graffiti is the handwriting recognition software used in PDAs based on the Palm OS. Graffiti was originally written by Palm, Inc. as the recognition system for GEOS-based devices such as HP's OmniGo 120 or the Magic Cap-line and was available as an alternate recognition system for the Apple Newton MessagePad, when NewtonOS 1.0 couldn't recognize handwriting very well. Graffiti_(Palm_OS) | |
| Gödel's incompleteness theorems Talk:Gödel's_incompleteness_theorems | |
| Suffering Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical, or mental. It may come in all degrees of intensity, from mild to intolerable. Factors of duration and frequency of occurrence usually compound that of intensity. Suffering | |
| Cadr User_talk:Cadr | |
| Dannie Abse Daniel Abse, better known as Dannie Abse (born 22 September 1923), is a Welsh poet. Dannie_Abse | |
| Financial institution In financial economics, a financial institution is an institution that provides financial services for its clients or members. Probably the most important financial service provided by financial institutions is acting as financial intermediaries. Most financial institutions are highly regulated by government bodies. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial institution Financial_institution | |
| Alcoholism Talk:Alcoholism | |
| John Hersey John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage. Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel under the aegis of New York University's journalism department. John_Hersey | |
| Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1970) is an American professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford and visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School. Jonathan_Zittrain | |
| Real options analysis In corporate finance, real options analysis or ROA applies put option and call option valuation techniques to capital budgeting decisions. A real option itself, is the right—but not the obligation—to undertake some business decision; typically the option to make, or abandon, a capital investment. For example, the opportunity to invest in the expansion of a firm's factory, or alternatively to sell the factory, is a real option. Real_options_analysis | |
| Economic value added In corporate finance, Economic Value Added or EVA is an estimate of true economic profit after making corrective adjustments to GAAP accounting, including deducting the opportunity cost of equity capital. EVA can be measured as Net Operating Profit After Taxes(or NOPAT) less the money cost of capital. Economic_value_added | |
| Logorrhoea Logorrhoea or logorrhea (Greek λογορροια, logorrhia, “word-flux”) is defined as an “excessive flow of words” and, when used medically, refers to incoherent talkativeness occurring in certain kinds of mental illness, such as mania. Logomania is the medical condition and mania with the underlying symptom logorrhoea. Logorrhoea | |
| Israel Kirzner Israel Meir Kirzner (Yisroel Mayer Kirzner) (born February 13, 1930) is a leading economist in the Austrian School. Israel_Kirzner | |
| Personal identity (philosophy) In philosophy, personal identity refers to the numerical identity of persons through time. That is to say, the conditions under which a person is said to be identical to himself through time. Personal_identity_(philosophy) |
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