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- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes ... Model falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- From the 1770s until the 1850s, the caloric theory was the commonly ... In the following decades, the caloric theory was heatedly debated ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- *The Column Length is proportional to the number of theoretical plates ... == Chromatography theory == Chromatography is a separation method that ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 21:51, 10 December 2023
- == Belief as a psychological theory == Mainstream psychology and related ... called the "mental sentence theory," in this conception ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy ... it cannot be a superset of ordinary set theory since membership functions ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- basic components, an essentially unlimited number of composite particles can ... With the development of quantum theory, chemistry began to be explained ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- contribution to the knowledge of method, theory, and policy in economics. ... As a precursor of Austrian economic theory, Cantillon was the first ...20 KB (3,098 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- parallel, diagonal lines intersected by a number of short horizontal and vertical ... the way the brain processes angles. This theory suggests that the brain exaggerates ...4 KB (537 words) - 06:09, 13 June 2023
- prompting the Averroists to develop a theory of “double truths,” one ... == The Theory of “Averroism”== During the later half of the thirteenth ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- foundation by deriving it from a limited number of axioms; this attempt is ... of Berlin with a dissertation on probability theory. The same year ...24 KB (3,610 words) - 19:18, 26 November 2023
- of two electrons, corresponding to the number of electrons in the helium ... of participating atoms. In valence bond theory, molecular geometries are ...15 KB (2,401 words) - 06:13, 11 January 2024
- to the development of statistical theory. He was the first to apply ... the writing with passages in a number of languages, including Latin ...20 KB (3,082 words) - 06:16, 23 January 2023
- Atoms from Democritus to Dalton] Atomic Theory and Structure. Retrieved ... at a relatively great distance by a number of electrons to balance the ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- quot; along with Duns Scotus, his opposite number from the realist camp, one ... or forms—a position held by Plato's theory of the forms among many others ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- In 1807, Fourier published the first account of his theory of heat ... in 1822 under the title The Analytic Theory of Heat. In this exposition ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 00:38, 11 August 2022
- as “that which gives us the largest number of ideas in the shortest ... Provinces. During his career, he wrote a number of essays and dialogues on ...8 KB (1,207 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- lifetime, his contributions to economic theory later came to be studied ... as well as his main ideas on economic theory (subjectivist theory of value ...17 KB (2,726 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- of organisms. With the advent of the theory of descent with modification ... as some proposed superorders. Note that a number of taxonomies exist, including ...10 KB (1,256 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- nature, and partly to the fact that his theory makes sense to the general ... of his work. Fortunately, however, a number of his ideas were taken up ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 20:46, 1 April 2024
- 22 years; in its sutras he explained the theory of the Emptiness. The last ... Zhiyi (Chihi) formulated this theory of five stages. Nichiren followed ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
- The logical positivists embraced a theory of the linguistic meaning ... This aspect of normative ethics, the theory of right action, is an investigation ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- 2 (two) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... that follows 1 and precedes 3. It is an integer and a cardinal number ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- writer who popularized European evolution theory in the United States. He ... that was easy to read. He also published a number of philosophical works such ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... spheres, resulting in critical theory. The Frankfurt School can be ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- While excavating the Knossos site in 1900, Evans discovered a number ... The disc, which contains a number of pictographic signs arranged in ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- The influence of Malthus' theories was substantial. His theory ... economic advantage, since it increased the number of workers available to the ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 15:46, 6 February 2024
- famous for his application of probability theory to the study of molecules ... In this same year, he published his first paper on the kinetic theory ...19 KB (2,826 words) - 02:38, 5 November 2022
- Chemical bonding theory explains one aspect of the relational nature ... Bond order is a number used to indicate the number of pairs of electrons ...25 KB (3,936 words) - 14:39, 5 December 2023
- net electric charge is zero) because the number of protons within its nucleus ... is zero, because it is favorable for the number of electrons in every atom ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- the field of motivation and especially his theory of people's "need ... For his accomplishments, he received a number of honorary degrees and awards ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- and invariable. They are infinite in number and exist in every part of ... seems not to have stated explicitly, the theory that nature is the work of ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 19:07, 26 July 2023
- For example, he is best known for his theory of cognitive dissonance, ... which developed Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954). ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 20:09, 25 October 2022
- human wants as the foundation of economic theory. He denounced the relics ... human wants as the foundation of economic theory, his emphasis on labor as ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- statements such as “Every natural number has a successor,” “Some ... : Every natural number is greater than –1. This quantified statement ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- visual images synthetically. Computability theory helps us understand what ... the forerunner to modern formal language theory and a precursor to computing ...20 KB (2,897 words) - 02:35, 8 January 2024
- in Vienna—each scholar developed the theory of marginal utility to understand ... two pioneers in the development of atomic theory and the theory of molecular ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- a measure of self-government. List's theory of "national economics ... infallibility of the old (free market) theory" (List 1827). In some ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- chief interests lay in mathematics and music theory. Today, he is known in mathematics in connection with a formula for a certain set of prime numbers: ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- , a slim volume about eudaemonism, the theory that happiness is the highest ... advanced, among other things, a logical theory of symbolism and a "picture ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- such as artificial intelligence, database theory, and game theory. ... operators that are followed by a multiple number of formulas rather than by ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- Another classic in play theory is Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois ... is Jesper Juul who works on both pure play theory and the application of this ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- method of elimination, the other on the number of integrals of an equation ... Joseph Louis Lagrange, whose lectures on the theory of functions Poisson ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 22:20, 29 January 2023
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- His contributions to science include: a theory describing the relationship ... * Weil, André. 1989. Prehistory of the Zeta-Function. In Number Theory ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- Psychology, in which he introduced his theory of instincts, was published ... McDougall wrote a number of highly influential textbooks, particularly ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 10:35, 11 May 2023
- should not be confused with information theory, the mathematical study of ... qualifications in, or experience of, a number of other disciplines have ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- in the branch of mathematics known as set theory to represent sets and their ... a construction for Venn diagrams with any number of curves, where each successive ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 17:01, 3 May 2023
- he wrote on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set ... wrote several textbooks and many papers, a number of them pathbreaking, but ...27 KB (4,019 words) - 20:34, 20 July 2023
- and melodic language affected how music theory and composition were later taught. ... leading to the resignation of a number of faculty members. This ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ... from the 1850s to the 1950s. The social theory developed consequently from ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- and "mind control," receiving a number of honors for her work. She ... et al. The brief characterized the theory of brainwashing as not scientifically ...13 KB (1,952 words) - 04:08, 6 November 2022
- the equivalence principle, a pillar of the theory of general relativity. The ... Einstein developed his general theory of relativity by working on ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- well as hydrogen; disproved the phlogiston theory;explained combustion and ... of combustion replaced the phlogiston theory, which presumed that materials ...17 KB (2,470 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- A number is an abstract mathematical object represented by a symbol ... as part of the general study of number theory. The best known of these ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- solids in having faces with an even number of sides and, consequently ... In math theory you can also have lower dimensional cube. A 0th dimensional ...8 KB (1,139 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- any other algorithms can at least in theory be simulated by computer programs. ... *Church, Alonzo. "An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- Principles), which was followed by a large number of scientific and philosophical ... the rest. The obvious defects of this theory, (1) that the senses alone ...7 KB (1,115 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- important ways. One of these was the theory of “atomism” which was ... 79 C.E., and was found to contain a large number of works by Philodemus, a ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- Monetarism is an economic theory which focuses on the macroeconomic ... The monetarist theory draws its roots from two almost diametrically ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- Social control theory, such as that developed by Travis Hirshi, suggests ... Social control theory proposes that exploiting the process of socialization ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- A second theory suggests the seven branches represent the seven heavenly ... course of the planets, of which that is the number... A third theory ...10 KB (1,529 words) - 16:09, 9 November 2022
- of defense mechanisms, identifying a number of ways in which people protect ... by the Nazi party, the Freud family and a number of Jewish associates were ...12 KB (1,678 words) - 06:43, 28 July 2023
- school of thought may be called the desert theory. According to this theory ... was the first to present a systematic theory. In his famous discussion ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- values. The most famous example of such a theory is Dissonance-reduction theory ... According to Festinger's theory, when we perceive a discrepancy ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- Whately was critical of Ricardian economic theory, and elaborated ... and Catholics alike was carried out for a number of years, but in 1852, it ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- no trait guarantees survival of a given number of offspring. This is because ... allele, and all face equal odds, the number of offspring they collectively ...10 KB (1,609 words) - 11:31, 3 August 2021
- This sets upper limits on the number of antiprotons that could be ... * Santilli, Ruggero Maria. 2006. Isodual Theory of Antimatter: with ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- as a synonym for number theory, but this should not be confused with ... Alexandria. His book covers pythagorean number theory and contains the multiplication ...35 KB (4,898 words) - 02:39, 15 August 2023
- of confinement, which, it is believed, the theory of quarks must possess. and is expected to follow from the modern theory of strong interactions, called ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2022
- He is the namesake for the "Mach number" (aka Mach speed), and ... called Mach the "forerunner of [the] Theory of relativity." ...9 KB (1,301 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- almost all disciplines. Upon receiving a number of criticisms for the ambiguity ... and others further pointed out the theory-ladenness or theory dependency ...16 KB (2,327 words) - 07:43, 18 November 2022
- a human being. Utilitarianism is a moral theory according to which welfare ... achieve the "greatest good for the greatest number." ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- This field is closely related to control theory and systems theory. At the ... influenced by cybernetics include game theory; system theory (a mathematical ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- size for some organisms. Estimates of the number of genes in an organism are ... pattern and process of evolution are the Theory of descent with modification ...26 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 3 August 2021
- "there is an overlap of the implicit theory of wisdom with intelligence ... to the last stage of his eight-stage theory of psychosocial development ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 23:18, 17 May 2023
- System and vindicated Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation by his imaginative ... Heat, in which they discussed the kinetic theory of molecular motion. They ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- the world is. This has been expressed in a number of different ways. German ... (Hilbert) or reducible to logic and set theory (Frege). The empiricists ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- == Theory == An image of a small object is usually generated by using ... A number of other physical properties are linked to crystallography ...12 KB (1,754 words) - 06:35, 11 January 2024
- vacuum. It is a concept of electromagnetic theory. This concept is an abstraction ... According to the theory of special relativity, this speed is independent ...15 KB (2,209 words) - 19:32, 8 October 2022
- weigh up overall good; secondly, that the theory does not properly accommodate ... of moral rules. It is probably the moral theory closest to ordinary ways ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- some of these earlier views through a theory which was influenced by the ... philosophy. Although there are large number of different views in general ...9 KB (1,457 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- on childhood development, evolutionary theory, and their applications to ... Darwin's theory of evolution and Ernst Haeckel's theory ...14 KB (1,985 words) - 07:30, 15 April 2024
- == Political Theory == "Stalinism" refers to a style of government ... The main contributions of Stalin to communist theory were: ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- meshwork (Kandel et al. 2000). This theory, called the reticular theory ... The initial prevalence of the reticular theory was due in part to ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- quot;). The Narodniks consisted of a number of different groups that ... passive peasantry to revolution (see Great man theory). ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- is responsible for the unprecedented number and scope of various contemporary ... *Relative deprivation theory (1960s): Deprivation acts as a powerful ...19 KB (2,677 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- There exist four major theories: 1) ransom theory, 2) satisfaction theory, ... is typically performed by a priest, with a number of additional priests playing ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- He wrote a number of other books, including a not so successful sequel ... Darwin's contribution to the origins of his theory. ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- such as used in cybernetics or game theory. The goal of family therapy ... change of perspective away from Freudian theory and toward a systems approach ...24 KB (3,689 words) - 00:39, 25 March 2024
- that "Pi" was an irrational number. The very next year, Huygens ... wrote the first book on probability theory, which he published in 1657. ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- combined trigonometry and approximation theory to provide methods of solving ... and ultrasound), pharmacy, chemistry, number theory (and hence cryptology ...19 KB (2,702 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- born child and his future sons, three in number, would survive. Enoch also ... is a more realistic lifespan. Another theory suggests that lunar cycles ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- pressure, temperature, velocity, Mach number) change almost instantaneously ... with the light cone described in the theory of special relativity. ...14 KB (2,249 words) - 14:22, 27 January 2023
- point. This is confirmed in modern day set theory in two dimensions by the ... for instance, within every irrational number, such as pi, and complies ...5 KB (679 words) - 08:29, 24 November 2022
- rather than a specific god, though this theory has been widely rejected ... decreed such sacrifices to Moloch. This theory is questionable, however ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- some of the humanities (including literary theory) and to cultural anthropology. ... and relations. One reason for this high number is that he allowed each interpretant ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- to objective moral standards. Natural law theory attempts to define a “higher ... Natural law theory attempts to define a “higher law” on the foundation ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- This theory has been put in question recently by Wael Hallaq, who ... in his book about usul al-fiqh (the theory of Islamic law) amongst others ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- == Theory of operation == diffraction The relationship between the ... of the grating elements as well as on the number of elements in the grating ...13 KB (1,983 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- there achieved great honors. Amongst a number of competitors of more than ... 1825 to 1828 the paper was renamed The theory of systems of rays, and grew ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
