Archive for April, 2008



Inner model theory

In the mathematical field of set theory, inner model theory is the study of certain models of ZFC or some fragment or strengthening thereof. Ordinarily these models are transitive subsets or subclasses of the von Neumann universe V, or sometimes of a generic extension of V. Inner model theory studies the relationships of these models […]

Three Stratum Theory

In 1993 John Carroll (1916 - 2003) published “Human cognitive abilities: A survey of factor-analytic studies”, which outlined his hierarchical, Three-Stratum Theory of cognitive abilities. The theory is based on a factor analytic study of correlation of individual differences variables from measures including psychological tests, school marks, and competence ratings. The factor analysis suggests three […]

Gross spread

Gross spread refers to the fees that underwriters receive for arranging and underwriting an offering of debt or equity securities. The gross spread for an initial public offering (IPO) can be as high as 7% while the gross spread on a debt offering can be as low as 0.05%.

For example, if a company sells $100 […]

Massage chair

Massage chairs come in 2 main types.

Traditional massage chairs
Ergonomically designed chairs for positioning a person who will be receiving a massage, similar in function to a massage table. Chairs may be either stationary or portable models.

Massage chairs are easier for the therapist to maneuver than massage tables, and clients do not need to disrobe […]

Course Deviation Indicator

Course Deviation Indicator (CDI) is an avionics instrument used in aircraft navigation to determine aircraft position relative to a navigation aid such as GPS, VOR and ADF; or to intercept and fly TO or FROM any of the 360 compass “radials” that emanate from the navigation aid.

Amma

Amma has several meanings:

As a name:

In Ghana, girls who are born on a Saturday are named Amma (sometimes spelt Ama), meaning “Saturday born”.

Amma means mother in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Sinhalese, Bengali, Malayalam, Korean, and some Sino-Tibetan languages

Amma means grandmother in the Icelandic language

It is also used to address elderly women as a sign […]

Mittag-Leffler function

In mathematics, the Mittag-Leffler function Eαβ is special function, a complex function which depends on two complex parameters α and β. It may be defined by the following series when the real part of α is strictly positive:

<math>E_{\alpha, \beta} (z) = \sum_{k=0}^\infty {z^k \over \Gamma (\alpha k + \beta)}.</math>

In this case, the series converges […]

IBM 3179G

The IBM 3179G is an IBM mainframe computer terminal providing 80×24 or 80×32 characters plus graphics.

3179-G terminals combine text and graphics as separate layers on the screen. Although the text and graphics appear combined on the screen, the text layer actually sits over the graphics layer. The text layer contains the usual IBM 3270-style […]

Crankshaft deep rolling

Deep rolling is a method of cold work deformation and burnishing of internal combustion engine crankshaft journal fillets to increase strength and durability. Other types of fillets on shafts or tubes can benefit from this method too. Typically the crankshaft is machined with under-cut fillets as opposed to tangential radiused, although all types can be […]

Day spa

A day spa is a business establishment which people visit for personal care treatments such as massages and facials. It is similar to a beauty salon in that it is only visited for the duration of the treatment. In contrast, a destination spa offers the same services in a hotel setting where people […]

Queen of the Troubled Teens was the first single released by Idlewild on the Human Condition label in March 1997. Receiving only small scale acknowledgement initially in Edinburgh record shops, receiving praise from local students and BBC Radio 1’s Steve Lamacq.

The song is a short punchy punk offering - something very different to what the […]

The Thirteen Chairs

The Thirteen Chairs (Original title: 12 + 1) is a comedy film released in 1969.

It was based on The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать Стульев), a (1928) satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. It was directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani, and starred Sharon Tate (her last film before her murder), Vittorio […]

House stock

The term house stock usually refers to a stock that the management of a brokerage firm has
instructed all brokers working for him to promote. The brokerage firm or its owners might
be receiving an undisclosed profit from the sale of the house stock.

Generally, if you could look at the stock holdings of
all the clients of […]

Super Chair Suspension

Super Chair Suspension is an illusion where a person floats in midair, supported only by the back of a fold-up chair.

A magician places two foldable chairs facing each other, then he puts a board across, on top — bridging the two chairs. Someone lies on top of this board, and the magician wraps her in […]

Becker Psalter

German metrical psalter published in 1602 by the Leipzig Theologian Cornelius Becker. This publication was without melodies and meant to be sung on other well-known Lutheran hymns. Becker included in his Psalter earlier Lutheran Psalmparaphrases (e.g. Aus tiefer Not, Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein, Erbarm dich mein, Ein feste Burg ).
Heinrich Schütz […]

Pac-Manhattan

Pac-Manhattan is a real-life version of Pac-Man created in 2004. It was invented by graduate students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. It uses Wi-Fi technology, open-source software, and cell phones.

The game is played with ten people: “Pac-Man” and his “controller” (who keeps contact […]

Lomilomi massage

Lomilomi, (Hawaiian: masseur, masseuse) is the word used today to describe Hawaiian massage, traditionally called lomi (Hawaiian: To rub, press, squeeze, massage; to work in and out, as the claws of a contented cat).

Traditional practice
Lomilomi practitioners use the palms, forearm, fingers, knuckles, elbows, knees, feet, even sticks and stones. Lomilomi practices varied by family, […]

Wassily Chair

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, Kandinsky […]

Zinc-bromine flow battery

The
zinc-bromine flow battery is a type of hybrid flow battery. A solution of zinc bromide is stored in two tanks. When the battery is charged or discharged the solutions (electrolytes) are pumped through a reactor and back into the tanks. One tank is used to store the electrolyte for the positive electrode reactions and […]

Nicolas Gessner

Nicolas Gessner (b. 17 August 1931 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born film maker who mostly worked in France.

His movies are often characterized by strange, quirky atmospheres and unusual cast mixing French and international actors. From the early eighties, Gessner mostly worked for television.

Filmography

The Thirteen Chairs (1969)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

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Kwality Wall’s

Kwality Wall’s is a major producer and distributor of ice cream and other dessert products in India. It is a company of Hindustan Lever Limited, the arm of Unilever in India, and is an extension of the Wall’s ice cream brand of Great Britain.

Kwality, the original Indian company, was founded in 1956, and was […]

H class

H class may refer to:

Railway locomotives

NZR H class: famous class of steam locomotives used by the New Zealand Railways Department on the Rimutaka Incline.

Victorian Railways H class: a 4-8-4 which was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever to run in Australia.

Ship types
Name of ship types, including:

G and H class […]

Li Family Arts

A system of Chinese arts including:

Li style T’ai Chi Ch’uan

Kai Men & Tao Yin (Breathing exercises, usually taugh as part of T’ai Chi Ch’aun or Feng Shou)

Feng Shou (Kung Fu)

Chi Shu (Throwing Art)

Anmo Massage (Taoist massage and healing arts)

Chang Ming (Diet)

As taught by Master Chee Soo & Prof. Li […]

Tribometer

A tribometer is an instrument that measures friction on a surface via a multitude of methods, one which is a ball sliding on the reference surface and giving a relative friction value (called ball on disc).

A tribotester is the general name given to a machine or device used to perform tests and simulations of wear, […]

Keith R. Thompson

Keith Thompson is a professor at Dalhousie University with a joint appointment in the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Thompson was trained in the UK and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool. His research interests are ocean and shelf circulation, 4D data assimilation, extremal analysis and applied time series […]

Dodge Ram

See also Dodge Ram 50, an unrelated Mitsubishi-produced truck

The Ram is a full-size pickup truck from Chrysler LLC’s Dodge brand. The name was first used in 1981 on the redesigned Ram and Power Ram, though it came from the hood ornament used on 1930s and ’40s Dodge trucks.

Dodge Ram trucks have been named Motor […]

Dane Clark

Dane Clark (February 26 1912 - September 11 1998) was an American film actor who appeared in movies including Gunman in the Streets (1950) and Moonrise (1948).

Biography
Born Bernard Zanville in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Cornell University and St. John’s Law School (in Queens, New York). Clark was known for being an “average Joe” […]

Kimo Wall

William James “Kimo” Wall was born in Hawaii in 1943. (”Kimo” is the Hawaiian equivalent of “Jim”.) At the age of six he began training in Goju-ryu karate under teachers who had studied with Miyagi Chojun during his three-year stay in Hawaii. In 1961 he joined the US Marine Corps and was stationed […]

3D Fax

3D Fax was an early Windows program from InfoImaging Technologies. It allowed binary files to be transmitted via fax. Basically, the software encoded the file into a printed image that was sent to the recipient’s fax machine. The image was scanned into the receiving computer and 3D Fax decoded it back to its […]

Ambrogio Casati

Ambrogio Casati (december 27 1897 – july 19 1977) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Voghera, Italy in 1897 and was schooled in Paris in the plastic arts. Upon his return to Italy, he became associated with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Futurist movement that was gaining force in the Italian arts scene of […]

Kneeling chair

A kneeling chair is a type of chair for sitting in a position with the thighs dropped to an angle of about 60 to 70 degrees from vertical (as opposed to 90 degrees when sitting in a normal chair), with some of the body’s weight supported by the shins.

Kneeling chairs were invented in Norway in […]

Narrative thread

A narrative thread, or plot thread or sometimes, but more ambigously, a storyline refers to particular elements and techniques of writing to center the story in the action or experience of characters rather than to relate a matter in a dry ‘All knowing’ sort of narration. Thus the narrative threads experienced by different but specific […]

The Theory of Flight

The Theory of Flight is a 1998 film directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter, who plays a woman with motor neurone disease. The film deals with the difficult issue of the sexuality of people with disabilities, although opinions vary about how well it does this.

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Tramp chair

The tramp chair was a one-person retaining device used by American police, largely during the 19th century, as a mild form of torture and public humiliation.

Invented in the early 1800s, the tramp chair was a cage made of bent and riveted metal strapping into the shape of a chair. An individual could be placed […]

Columbia-Greene Community College is a two-year community college located in the city of Hudson, New York. The college takes its name from the two counties it serves, Columbia County, New York and Greene County, New York.

Degree programs
Columbia-Greene Community College offers associates degrees and certificates in over 30 areas, including:

Accounting - A.A.S./Cert.

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Naprapathy

Naprapathy (Czech náprava, correction - from napravit, to correct) - is a branch of medicine, (manual medicine) that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions. Doctors of Naprapathy are connective tissue specialists.

Doctors of Naprapathy are not Doctors of Medicine (MD) (physicians) - an important distinction,

Naprapathic treatment consists of naprapathic manipulative techniques, adjunctive […]

Sodium stearoyl lactate (and the similar calcium stearoyl lactate) is made by combining lactic acid and stearic acid, and then reacting the result with sodium hydroxide or calcium hydroxide to make the sodium or calcium salt. It is used as an emulsifier in processed foods.

Replacing the lactic acid with fumaric acid gives sodium stearoyl fumarate, […]

Diamondsuit

In mathematics, and particularly in axiomatic set theory, <math>\Diamond_\kappa (S)</math> (diamondsuit or diamond) is a certain family of combinatorial principles.

Definition
For a given cardinal number <math>\kappa</math> and a stationary set <math> S\subseteq\kappa </math>, the statement <math> \Diamond_\kappa (S) </math> is the statement that there is a sequence <math>\langle A_\alpha: \alpha \in S \rangle </math> […]

ReNudePride

ReNudePride is the name of a homosexual male nudist organization founded May 16, 2003 in Washington, DC. Gatherings include such activities as nude happy hours, dinner parties, artist dates, camping trips, Sunday teas, massage workshops, theme parties, discussion forums, game nights, and weekend getaways to naturist locations like nude beaches. Ages and other […]

Angel Film Festival

The Angel Film Festival is an annual independent film festival that takes places in Islington, London. The festival seeks to support London- and UK-based makers of independent film, as well as to provide a relaxed environment for London film goers to enjoy movies that would not traditionally be screened in London.

The festival was launched in […]

Massage parlor

A massage parlor is a place where customers can receive a massage. Sometimes it is synonymous with brothel as the term “massage” is sometimes also used as a euphemism for paid sexual favours. In many countries and regions, particularly (but not limited to), New Zealand, Northern England, Canada, South Korea, the Philippines, and San Francisco […]

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Type 50

The Type 50 submachine gun was one of the first domestically designed Chinese submachine guns, modeled on the Soviet PPSh-41. Standard ammunition for Type 50 SMG is 7.62mm type 64 cartridge, which is based on 7.62×25mm Type 51 (same as Soviet 7.62×25mm TT).

The Type 50 submachine gun is a simple blowback weapon that fires from […]