Tag: concept

Albedo 0.39

}} Albedo 0.39 is an album by the artist Vangelis, released in 1976

Cognition

a concept used in different ways by different disciplines, but is generally accepted to mean the process of awareness or thought

Crystal

thumb crystal

Due diligence

a term used for a number of concepts involving either the performance of an investigation of a business or person

Financial transaction

involves a change in the status of the finances of two or more businesses or individuals

Original Sin

a concept album performed by Pandora's Box and produced by Jim Steinman

Parametric continuity

a concept applied to parametric curves describing the smoothness of the parameter's value with distance along the curve

Radio-Activity

}} Radio-Activity is a 1975 concept album by Kraftwerk

Semiconductor

a solid material that has electrical conductivity in between a conductor and an insulator; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically

Babylon 5

Having worked on a number of television science fiction shows which had regularly gone over-budget, creator J. Michael Straczynski concluded that a lack of long-term planning was to blame, and set about looking at ways in which a series could be done

Cell culture

Cells can be isolated from tissues for ex vivo culture in several ways

Christian Church

The term "catholic" is derived from the Greek adjective καθολικός pronounced katholikos, which means "general" or "universal"

cooperative game

The main assumption in cooperative game theory is that the grand coalition N will form

Crusades

Elements of the Crusades were criticized by some from the time of their inception in 1095

Cultural capital

The concept cultural capital is fundamentally linked to the concepts of fields and habitus

Darwin

The space telescopes will observe in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum

Dogs

are used to represent the megalomaniacal businessmen who destroy themselves and those around them by obsessing over their egos and their careers

Ducati Apollo

In 1959, the Berliner brothers (Ducati importers in America), spoke to Ducati about creating a rival to the Harley-Davidson to sell to police departments around the U.S. The Berliner’s were enthusiastic

Due diligence

a term used for a number of concepts involving either the performance of an investigation of a business or person

entropy

The first law of thermodynamics, formalized through the heat-friction experiments of James Joule in 1843, deals with the concept of energy, which is conserved in all processes; the first law, however, lacks in its ability to quantify the effects of f

Existentialism

A central proposition of existentialism is that existence precedes essence, which means that the actual life of the individual is what constitutes what could be called his or her "essence" instead of there being a predetermined essence that defines w

Faith Lehane

The initial concept for Faith's character was "the road not taken", a Slayer who makes the wrong choices in life

Finite state machine

A current state is determined by past states of the system

Functional programming

A number of concepts and paradigms are specific to functional programming, and generally foreign to imperative programming (including object oriented programming)

functor

Let C and D be categories

Gene

1. George C. Williams first explicitly advocated the gene-centric view of evolution in his 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection
2. The concept of the gene has changed considerably (see history section)

General relativity

In general relativity, no material body can catch up with or overtake a light pulse

Global Positioning System

receiver calculates its position by carefully timing the signals sent by the constellation of GPS satellites high above the Earth

Group

The following sections use mathematical symbols such as X = {x, y, z} to denote a set X containing elements x, y, and z, or alternatively x ∈ X to restate that x is an element of X. The notation means f is a function assigning to every element of X

Human capital

1. Adam Smith defined four types of fixed capital (which is characterized as that which affords a revenue or profit without circulating or changing masters)
2. Some labor economists have criticized the Chicago-school theory, claiming that it tries to explain all differences in wages and salaries in terms of human capital

Human nature

In pre-modern and non-scientific understandings of nature, human nature is understood with reference to final and formal causes

Ideology

The term was born in the highly controversial philosophical and political debates and fights of the French Revolution and acquired several other meanings from the early days of the First French Empire to nowadays

Imaginos

was envisioned as a rock opera, though various circumstances surrounding the album's production and release render the story difficult to decipher - the songs were arranged on the album out of their intended order, certain songs were omitted, and eve

Jacques Lacan

's "return to Freud" emphasizes a renewed attention to the original texts of Freud and a radical critique of Ego psychology, Melanie Klein and Object relations theory

Kaiju

are typically modeled after conventional animals, insects or mythological creatures; however, there are more exotic examples. Choujin Sentai Jetman features monsters based on traffic lights, faucets and tomatoes; Kamen Rider Super-1 includes a whole

Logos

Early 20th century movements towards specificity of operational definitions have developed an analog to logos in the concept of world view (or worldview) when used as Weltanschauung meaning a "look onto the world." It implies a concept fundamental to

Marvel Universe

strongly based on the real world

Mathematical proof

The expression "mathematical proof" is used by lay people to refer to using mathematical methods or arguing with mathematical objects, such as numbers, to demonstrate something about everyday life, or when data used in an argument are numbers

MS Stockholm

The Swedish American Line had risen to popularity on the transatlantic and cruise traffic during the late 1920s with their two purpose-built ships, and

MS Stockholm

The Swedish American Line had risen to popularity on the transatlantic and cruise traffic during the late 1920s with their two purpose-built ships, and

Mythology

Myths are not the same as fables, legends, folktales, fairy tales, anecdotes or fiction, but the concepts may overlap

Natural environment

The terminology and concept of what comprises the natural environment includes a few key components

navigation

The latitude of a place on the earth's surface is the angular distance north or south of the [equator]

Non-Euclidean geometry

systems differ from Euclidean geometry in that they modify Euclid's fifth postulate, which is also known as the parallel postulate

Noosphere

One of the original aspects of the noosphere concept deals with evolution. Henri Bergson (1907) was one of the first to propose that evolution is 'creative' and cannot necessarily be explained solely by Darwinian natural selection

Object-oriented programming

A survey by Deborah J. Armstrong of nearly 40 years of computing literature identified a number of ‘quarks’, or fundamental concepts, found in the strong majority of definitions of OOP

Palpatine

Lucas's conceptualization of Palpatine and the role the character plays in Star Wars changed over time

Poker strategy

The gap concept states that a player needs a better hand to play against someone who has already opened (or raised) the betting than he would need to open himself

Pop Muzik

Robin Scott describes the genesis of "Pop Muzik" this way: I was looking to make a fusion of various styles which somehow would summarize the last 25 years of pop music

Pseudoscience

Protoscience is a term sometimes used to describe a hypothesis that has not yet been adequately tested by the scientific method, but which is otherwise consistent with existing science or which, where inconsistent, offers reasonable account of the in

Rent

In 1988, playwright Billy Aronson wanted to create "a musical based on Puccini's La Bohème, in which the luscious splendor of Puccini's world would be replaced with the coarseness and noise of modern New York." In 1989 Jonathan Larson, a 29-year-old

Representation theory

Let V be a vector space over a field F. For instance, suppose V is Rn or Cn, the standard n-dimensional space of column vectors over the real or complex numbers respectively

Self-replicating machine

1. would need to have the capacity to gather energy and raw materials, process the raw materials into finished components, and then assemble them into a copy of itself
2. The general concept of artificial machines capable of producing copies of themselves dates back at least several hundred years

Set theory

The basic relationship between objects and sets is the membership or "elementhood" relation; given an object O and a set A, either O is a member of A or it is not a member

Species

1. In general, for large, complex, organisms that reproduce sexually (such as mammals and birds), one of several variations on the isolation or biological species concept is employed
2. In the earliest works of science, a species was simply an individual organism that represented a group of similar or nearly identical organisms