Search results for "Discrete" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Ethology emerged as a discrete discipline in the 1920s, through the efforts of Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch, and Niko Tinbergen, who were jointly ...16 KB (2,274 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- that of other early humanists after him, as a discrete period distinct from our "Modern" age, has endured, and the term still finds use ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- use computer simulation, especially discrete event simulation, for system analysis and evaluation. == Areas of expertise == Ever since its creation ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 22:36, 5 February 2023
- and darkest parts of an image, measured in discrete steps at any given moment. Generally, the higher the contrast ratio, the more realistic the image ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 20:45, 9 April 2023
- tends to treat philosophy in terms of discrete problems, capable of being analyzed apart from their historical origins (much as scientists consider ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- and discontinuous in structure, made up of discrete atoms. The cosmos and its components acted independently with characteristics of living creatures ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 12:50, 22 May 2024
- is quantized (that is, it comes in discrete amounts). With that, he began developing the modern concept of the photon as the fundamental unit ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- of a corporeal know-how that occurs through discrete, syntactic processes. Moreover, through the publication in 1991 of The Embodied Mind (by Francisco ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- imager (analog) waveform output into a discrete digital-video signal. The ... by Ampex based on the D1 format. It used discrete cosine transform as its ...34 KB (5,130 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- in the formation of large, fairly discrete nodules in the periurethral region of the prostate. When sufficiently large, the nodules compress ...18 KB (2,577 words) - 08:14, 2 December 2022
- phases can be continuous instead of having a discrete boundary. In this case the matter is considered to be in a supercritical state. When three phases ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- library. They can be highly specialized, serving a discrete user group with a restricted collection area. In an increasingly global and virtual workplace ...23 KB (3,189 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2023
- Osteoclasts mature and/or migrate to discrete bone surfaces. Upon arrival, active enzymes, such as tartrate resistant acid phosphatase, are ...19 KB (2,819 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- The Kübler-Ross model describes, in five discrete stages, the process by which people deal with grief and tragedy. Terminally ill patients are ...18 KB (2,757 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- forms of education stress the value of acquiring a discrete set of skills and knowledge and to check each student’s progress through annual testing. ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 23:07, 30 November 2022
- moving forward or backward were finite, discrete and distinguishable. Only ... must be able to be realized in some discrete mechanical form. ...35 KB (5,278 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- formalism that describes a task in discrete, "mechanical" terms. Unique to this concept of formalized algorithms is the "assignment ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- efforts they represent are not understood as discrete entities, but are instead seen as mutually contingent "lenses" whose cumulative effect ...22 KB (3,259 words) - 02:48, 17 January 2023
- " and if the castes are morphologically discrete, then the system is "highly eusocial." Paper wasps exhibit primative eusociality. About ...19 KB (2,999 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- the "It" refers to entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set (for example, he, she, or any other objective entity defined ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
