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illusory band consists of a series of visibly discrete similar parts, all inclined at the same small angle to the line of direction of the series to which ...

Ten is the second discrete biprime (2.5) and the second member of the (2.q) discrete biprime family. Ten has an aliquot sum σ(n) of 8 and is ...

will likely become smaller and more discrete. We may even see the day ... building block usually packaged in a discrete form with two or more connecting ...

Continents may be defined as "large, continuous, discrete masses ... to the ideal criterion that each be a discrete landmass, separated by water ...

The classical Aristotelian view claims that categories are discrete ... # Quantity. This is the extension of an object, and may be either ...

Fibers (or fibres) form a class of hair-like materials that occur as continuous filaments or in discrete elongated pieces, similar to pieces ...

entities possessed self-enclosed, definable, discrete and enduring reality. For instance, if we examine our own conception of selfhood, we will find that ...

physics) posited that light could exist in discrete particle-like quantities, which later came to be known as photons. Einstein's theory of the ...

the role and function of praxis) into a discrete and coherent whole. In the ... (Li Ji), was relatively unrecognized as a discrete unit until the Neo-Confucian ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

Therefore, magnitudes must increase by discrete units. #039; concluding that magnitudes have discrete intervals. The argument ...

N. (This convention suggests a decaying number of discrete items, an interpretation that is valid in many, but not all, cases of exponential decay.) If ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

trend generally began in the era of discrete transistor mainframes and ... Being digital devices, all CPUs deal with discrete states and therefore ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

*Bohr's model. The theory that electrons travel in discrete ... one, emitting a photon (light quantum) of discrete energy. This explained much ...

The discrete logarithm is a related notion in the theory of finite groups. It involves solving the equation b'n = x, where b and x are elements ...

the beta decay spectrum was continuous rather than discrete. That is, electrons were ejected from the atom with a range of energies, rather than the discrete ...

by beta decay had a continuous rather than discrete spectrum. This was in apparent contradiction to the law of conservation of energy, as it appeared ...

modes of the Earth. These modes are excited as discrete frequencies and can be observed for days after the generating event. The first observations ...

(such as planetary nebulae) may be described as discrete objects with identifiable boundaries. Nebulae often contain star-forming regions, as ...

Function. In Number Theory, Trace Formulas and Discrete Groups. Symposium in honor of Atle Selberg, Oslo, Norway, July 14-21, 1987. Edited by Atle Selberg ...

called Discrete Series, a book-length poem sequence. {| class="toccolours ... Poems 1921–31 and Oppen's Discrete Series (with a preface by ...

he found relevant, Meyer never formed his own discrete school of thought with disciples. Though Meyer's own system of nomenclature never caught on ...

electronic circuits were constructed from discrete components that could be ... signal varies according to a series of discrete values that represent the ...

electronic circuits were constructed from discrete components that could be ... of Laplace transform, continuous-time and discrete-time Fourier series, continuous ...

model of EM radiation, a wave consists of discrete packets of energy, or quanta ... energy levels of electrons in atoms are discrete, each element emits and ...

as electronic switches, but rarely as discrete devices, almost always being ... and signal processing. The first discrete transistor audio amplifiers ...

The discrete analog of curvature, corresponding to curvature being concentrated at a point and particularly useful for polyhedra, is the (angular ...

CPUs were typically made from bulky discrete switching devices (and later ... at much faster clock speeds compared to discrete multiprocessor systems, ...

to human beings. As this doctrine denied full, discrete reality of each "Person" of the Trinity, it was anathematized, leading to Sabellius ...

* Clastic sedimentary rocks are composed of discrete fragments or clasts of materials derived from other rocks. They are composed largely of ...

Semiconductor devices are manufactured as single, discrete devices ... Power semiconductor devices are discrete devices or integrated circuits ...

by describing light as composed of discrete quanta, now called photons ... assuming that light actually consisted of discrete energy packets, Einstein ...

is known as electric current. The discrete nature of electric charge was proposed by Michael Faraday in his electrolysis experiments, then directly ...

that consist of continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread. Fibers are of great importance in the biology ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

which marks the end of its existence as a discrete and (relatively) circumscribed ... (and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ...

the manual assembly of circuits using discrete electronic components. The ... There are two main advantages of ICs over discrete circuits: cost ...

thousand (worldly) things" do not exist as discrete entities (as in dualistic Indo-European thought), but are instead thought of in terms of their ...

is wider because it is split into about 275 discrete falls and large islands, Victoria is the largest curtain of water in the world, at over a 1600 ...

reality that is both local and global, discrete and holistic at the same time. ... time, or "spacetime," may be discrete in the mathematical sense ...

book is merely a collection of utterly discrete, unconnected (romantic/erotic ... it is possible to enumerate several discrete episodes within the text ...

the integer factorization problem or the discrete logarithm problem. In many ... Diffie-Hellman and DSA are related to the discrete logarithm problem. More ...

action come in quanta, that is, in discrete units. While one can detect an integral number of quanta, one cannot detect one half or two thirds ...

Since surfaces are not finite, a discrete digital approximation is ... * Discrete differential geometry--DDG is a recent topic which defines ...

(and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ... portable, as they could retain their discrete forms without interfering ...

subdivisible) continuum, but in discrete, particle-like units. He ... states of a physical system could be discrete.) In recognition of this ...

separate poems, each of which exists as a discrete unit. ... chapters (each of which can be seen as a discrete unit) can be tentatively ...

not in confused and concrete persons, but in discrete and distinct ones." On the other hand, Ulfilas also put the "Homoiousians" ...

fact any point between the two central points of a discrete distribution minimizes average absolute deviation. Similarly, the mode minimizes qualitative ...

which marks the end of its existence as a discrete and (relatively) circumscribed ... (and were continuous with) particular, discrete elements of the natural world. ...

orbitals are the quantum states (or discrete energy states) that electrons ... that we no longer perceive their discrete nature: they form a continuum ...

* Korfhage, Robert R. 1974. Discrete Computational Structures, Academic Press, New York, NY. ISBN 0124208606 * Lambek, J., and P.J. Scott. 1986 ...

a signal (usually an analog signal) by a discrete set of its points or samples ... of time. However, digital signals are discrete in both of those respects ...

animism tends to view life as taking the form of discrete spirits, and panpsychism tends to refer to strictly philosophical views like that of Gottfried ...

refers to the phenomenon in which two or more discrete influences or agents acting together create an effect greater than that predicted by knowing ...

charge. There are other charged particles. The discrete nature of electric charge was proposed by Michael Faraday in his electrolysis experiments, and ...

Localized pressure sources are usually discrete objects, such as the finger pressing on the wall, or the tires of a car pressed against the pavement ...

nature than the individual responses to discrete stimuli. In fact, he believed that we interpret the parts based on our understanding of what ...

There are two types of LED panels: Conventional, using discrete LEDs ... is reduced by 25 percent from the discrete diode screen with the same ...

nerves. Although the neuron is considered a discrete unit, the output of the nervous system is produced by the connectivity of neurons (that is, the ...

* a 0-sphere is a pair of points with the discrete topology * a 1-sphere is a circle (up to homeomorphism); thus, for example, (the image of) ...

contexts. By separating a site into basic, discrete units, archaeologists are able to create a chronology for activity on a site and not only describe ...

seems to have, among many other characteristics, a discrete epistemological methodology, concept of truth, and linguistic expression. ...

of the 'neutron' crust, this happens as discrete events during crust rupture, similar to tectonic earthquakes. After the starquake, the star ...

Earth's crust. It does not occur as a discrete mineral, but gallium replaces aluminum in ores such as bauxite. Gallium hydroxide is amphoteric ...

gives a completely different topology, the "discrete topology"; with this definition numbers cannot be arbitrarily close. ...

Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide historical time into discrete named blocks. This is usually done in order to facilitate ...

these laws to whole plants, unit operations or discrete parts of equipment. In doing so, chemical engineers use principles of thermodynamics, reaction ...

out of vacuum tube triodes, and later out of discrete transistors, were used for smaller and faster memories such as registers and (random access ...

staff). Most ILS separate software functions into discrete programs called modules, which are then integrated into a unified interface. Examples of modules ...

Active transcription units are clustered in the nucleus, in discrete sites called “transcription factories.” Such sites could be visualized ...

provided definitive evidence that neurons are discrete cells that communicate with each other via specialized junctions, or spaces, between cells. His ...

fungi, and protists, while unable to ingest discrete lumps of matter, instead live by absorbing and metabolizing on a molecular scale. Scavengers are ...

Ethology emerged as a discrete discipline in the 1920s, through the efforts of Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch, and Niko Tinbergen, who were jointly ...

that of other early humanists after him, as a discrete period distinct from our "Modern" age, has endured, and the term still finds use ...

use computer simulation, especially discrete event simulation, for system analysis and evaluation. == Areas of expertise == Ever since its creation ...

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 ...

tends to treat philosophy in terms of discrete problems, capable of being analyzed apart from their historical origins (much as scientists consider ...

is quantized (that is, it comes in discrete amounts). With that, he began developing the modern concept of the photon as the fundamental unit ...

and discontinuous in structure, made up of discrete atoms. The cosmos and its components acted independently with characteristics of living creatures ...

of a corporeal know-how that occurs through discrete, syntactic processes. Moreover, through the publication in 1991 of The Embodied Mind (by Francisco ...

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 ...

in the formation of large, fairly discrete nodules in the periurethral region of the prostate. When sufficiently large, the nodules compress ...

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 ...

library. They can be highly specialized, serving a discrete user group with a restricted collection area. In an increasingly global and virtual workplace ...

Osteoclasts mature and/or migrate to discrete bone surfaces. Upon arrival, active enzymes, such as tartrate resistant acid phosphatase, are ...

The Kübler-Ross model describes, in five discrete stages, the process by which people deal with grief and tragedy. Terminally ill patients are ...

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. ...

moving forward or backward were finite, discrete and distinguishable. Only ... must be able to be realized in some discrete mechanical form. ...

formalism that describes a task in discrete, "mechanical" terms. Unique to this concept of formalized algorithms is the "assignment ...

efforts they represent are not understood as discrete entities, but are instead seen as mutually contingent "lenses" whose cumulative effect ...

" and if the castes are morphologically discrete, then the system is "highly eusocial." Paper wasps exhibit primative eusociality. About ...

the "It" refers to entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set (for example, he, she, or any other objective entity defined ...

Clastic sedimentary rocks are composed of discrete fragments or "clasts" of materials derived from other rocks. They are composed largely ...

soft and resinous. Each ovuliferous scale remains discrete, so the cone develops into a short stem with one to a few berry-like seeds. They are probably ...

*Pleural plaques--discrete fibrous or partially calcified thickened area which can be seen on X-rays of individuals exposed to asbestos. They ...

the information is encoded as a set of discrete values (for example, 1s ... digital (information is encoded as a set of discrete values). ...

that the gods dwelt apart from humans in a discrete, heavenly realm was in common currency among the skalds and mythographers of Norse society, the ...

Indeed, the two depictions are seen as sufficiently discrete that ... (1600-1867), they became recognized as a discrete literary literary form, ...

objects are continuous. It is contrasted by discrete mechanics. *Fluid Mechanics, the study of how liquids and gases (fluids) react to forces ...

worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task." # Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers ...

of organisms of "like kind" into discrete and stable units has been traced at least from the time of Plato and Aristotle. Nonetheless ...

were developed to describe the motion of discrete systems, were then extended to continuous systems and in this form can be used to define vector ...

This ROM was programmed by installing discrete semiconductor diodes at selected locations between a matrix of word line traces and bit line ...

Discrete damage to the brain, especially to parts of the interior surface of the temporal lobes of the cerebral hemispheres, can also cause profound ...

#039; inactivity continuum. They are discrete features being adopted by diverse species of organisms under different types of environmental conditions ...

they are a store of value, issued in discrete units; they are controlled by a central issuing authority; and they have varying rates of exchange ...

(1949), the government defined the Yao as a discrete nationality. Beginning with the establishment of the Longsheng Yao Autonomous County in Guangxi ...

force. Though its various exponents addressed discrete elements of the Dao, their common focus is what permitted later systematizers (such as Sima ...

texts, instead of a large pleroma, there is a discrete division between light and darkness. The ruler of darkness is called Ptahil (similar to the ...

J.G. Bolton, G.J. Stanley, and O.B. Slee, Positions of three discrete sources of Galactic radio frequency radiation, Nature 164: 101. ...

wasps), and if the castes are morphologically discrete, then the system is "highly eusocial." [[Image:Hoverfly on flower-2.jpg|250px ...

*Lumpectomy - a common surgical procedure designed to remove a discrete lump (usually a tumour, benign or otherwise) from an affected man or ...

In practice, the discrete component sold as a "resistor" is not a perfect resistance, as defined above. Resistors are often marked ...

when constructing with simple logic gates and discrete components. ====State machines and software==== A finite state machine or software running ...

. They also enabled tunable oscillators in early discrete tuning of radios, where a cheap and stable, but fixed-frequency, crystal oscillator provided ...

He treated the emotions as separate discrete entities, such as anger ... Paul Ekman developed Darwin's view that emotions are discrete ...

things (concepts, objects, and so on) into discrete categorized units with singular coded meanings or identities, towards a rhizomatic zone of multiplicity ...

because of his focus on continuous, rather than discrete, traits (now known as polygenic traits). He went on to found the biometric approach to the study ...

Some scholars argue that literacy is not autonomous or a set of discrete technical and objective skills that can be applied across context. Instead ...

are classified as cotyledonary (multiple, discrete areas of attachment). Dogs, cats, bears, whales, and elephants have placentas that are classified ...

versions of Kabir—a process that generated three discrete textual corpuses, each with their own particular perspectives. Regardless of this proliferation ...

Often, the device is a discrete component which outputs either a digital or analog signal proportional to its orientation. This signal is interpreted ...

worker in the performance of that worker's discrete task # Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers ...

from one point to another, the discrete molecular nature of a gas is ignored. The continuity assumption becomes less valid as a gas becomes increasingly ...

dividing the long season after Pentecost into two discrete segments. During Kingdomtide, Methodist liturgy emphasizes charitable work and alleviating ...

depth, whereas SPT only records major changes at discrete steps of 150 mm (6 in); however, SPT allows soil sampling for laboratory testing. ...

are obvious. Some touches are more discrete and veiled, revealing themselves only progressively. His influence on other artists of the middle ...

Laurasia. The Mediterranean Sea is very nearly a discrete ocean, being connected to the World Ocean only through the eight-mile-wide Strait of Gibraltar ...

between birds; a series of "caws" in discrete units, counting out numbers; a long caw followed by a series of short caws (usually made when ...

*Reticular system. A network of neuronal fibers that includes discrete groups of neurons (called nuclei), distributed through a core of the medulla ...

way that cannot be precisely duplicated by the discrete light emitters in a computer display. However, by making careful measurements of pigments, close ...

of trust, which can exist at many discrete levels of integration. But this is true of all multicellular organisms, not all cells in the body ...

foolishe, madde and phrenetike shal governe the discrete and give counsel to such as be sober of mind. And such be al women, compared unto man in bearing ...

peculiar institution," by which he meant a discrete and separable domain of human thought, Williams resembled the nineteenth century German philosopher ...

class whites at the time that “races” were discrete, biologically determined categories, naturally ranked in a hierarchy. In this scheme, the white ...

interactions do not always fit into such discrete categories. Rather, symbioses should be perceived as a continuum of interactions ranging from ...

number springs from the experience of counting discrete objects. It is held that mathematics is not universal and does not exist in any real sense, ...

Robin Evans describes as a "matrix of discrete but thoroughly interconnected chambers."Evans, Robin "Translations from Drawing to Building: ...

The classical Aristotelian view claims that categories are discrete entities characterized by a set of properties which are shared by their members ...

In molecular beam experiments, discrete peaks were observed corresponding to molecules with the exact masses of 60, 70, or more carbon atoms ...

and others developed atomic models with discrete energy levels that could account qualitatively for the sharp spectral lines and energy quantization ...

natural worlds. For example, the Greeks posited discrete gods of love (Aphrodite), music and technology (Apollo), and even gods of particular foods such ...

equalization of continuous magnitudes and discrete numbers, an idea that Oresme took out of musical monochord-theory (sectio canonis). In this ...

a number that can be represented as a regular and discrete geometric pattern (e.g. dots). If the pattern is polytopic, the figurate is labeled a polytopic ...

In D. J. Aldous, and R. Pemantle, Random Discrete Structures. New York: Springer. ISBN 0387946233 * Ashlock, P. D. 1974. The uses of cladistics ...

During the Han Dynasty, the idea of Daoism as a discrete tradition ... the establishment of Daoist alchemy as a discrete school of thought and practice)). ...

goods in transport decisions, called "discrete choice" models, led to establishment of the important branch of econometrics, for which Daniel ...

linguistic signs are constructed are discrete units, e.g. sounds and words ... designed to represent all of the discrete sounds that are known to ...

So, at the phenomenal level, religions exist as discrete realities that offer their adherents a path up the mountain. Each is fully able to provide ...

must be studied phenomenologically, that is, as discrete experiences that must be approached from within their own respective contexts. ...

Mayan gods were not discrete, separate entities like Greek gods. The gods had affinities and aspects that caused them to merge with one another ...

of intermediate neurons are clustered into discrete ganglia (Ruppert et al. 2004). The development of the nervous system in radiata is relatively ...

that Athena Parthenos may have constituted a discrete cult of Athena, intimately connected with, but not identical to that of Athena Polias. Research ...

to categorize or divide historical time into discrete named blocks *Historical revisionism: Traditionally has been used in a completely neutral ...

are specifically required to demonstrate a discrete and documented "change" in belief, including a precipitant, that converted a non-CO ...

* Landscape ecology, which studies the interactions between discrete elements of a landscape and spatial patterns, including the role of disturbance ...

Father is God and the Son and Holy Spirit are discrete from God himself as creatures (like Dynamistic Monarchianism). The relationship of the two sets ...

regarded culture not as a set of discrete products or activities (whether material or symbolic), but rather as the underlying patterns that are ...

efforts). Also, seeing the Earth as a single, discrete object instills a powerful sense of the unity and connectedness of the human environment and of ...

bodies emit electromagnetic radiation only as discrete bundles or packets of energy. Each packet was called a quantum (plural quanta). The energy E ...

from one species to another occurs in discrete jumps" (Margulis and Sagan 2002). Margulis proposes to explain the discrete jumps in part ...

plants are a viable alternative to building discrete structures for each process stage. One type of system that combines secondary treatment and ...

Ethology emerged as a discrete discipline in the 1920s, through the efforts of Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Frisch, and Niko Tinbergen, who were jointly ...

primary focus of this virtue ethics is not discrete actions but rather: What sort of person should one be, try to be, or want to be? The focus is the ...

[P]rejudice against discrete and insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail the operation of those political ...

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atoms have UV absorbance spectra that show a discrete PAH electronic structure, but a PAH of 222 carbon atoms has Raman bands similar to those in graphite. ...

on a euclidean geometric scheme and the discrete component-based model of classical architecture. Their structurally perfect design, near-perfect ...

is done in a smooth transition, rather than using discrete intervals. #Short tessitura or range: The most traditional flamenco songs are usually ...

Wales, and because of this it constitutes a discrete jurisdiction in international law. J. G. Collier, Conflict of Laws (Cambridge University ...

races, and racial traits overlap without discrete boundaries—making genetic ... refined emotion is not in all cases as discrete and separate from natural ...

Of course, Sunday did not preach to 100 million discrete individuals, but to many of the same people repeatedly during the course of a campaign ...

In England, such decoration could be discrete, as at Hereford and Peterborough cathedrals, or have a sense of massive energy as at Durham. In ...

Jonathan Z. Smith argues, "[r]eligion [as a discrete category] is solely the creation of the scholar’s study. It is created for the scholar’s ...

in one layer (Smith 1973). Snake scales are not discrete but extensions of the epidermis; hence, they are not shed separately, but are ejected as a ...

angle (e.g. 40 degrees) with a small number of discrete exposures (e.g. 10) are used. This incomplete set of data can be digitally processed to yield ...

parent to offspring, and identified genes as discrete elements within DNA. Though largely maintained within organisms, DNA is both variable across individuals ...

patent for the production of "cylindrical discrete carbon fibrils" with a "constant diameter between about 3.5 and about 70 nanometers… ...

#039;s restaurant, he had picked out particular discrete tables, which were always reserved for him, along with eighteen clean linen napkins upon his ...

that light interacts with matter as discrete "packets" (quanta) of energy, an idea that had been introduced by Max Planck in 1900 as ...

meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns, or lyrics. ...

airspace (and terrestrial locations). There is no discrete boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space, as the atmosphere gradually attenuates ...

roots in the French Revolution. These are not discrete clearly described rights that are circumscribed by law and custom but abstractions bestowed ...

which is electrically equivalent, and is based on discrete electrical components whose behavior is well known. An ideal solar cell may be modeled by a ...

in intensity and pitch, rather than discrete signals, appear central to communication. Lion sounds include snarling, purring, hissing, coughing ...

Punitive psychiatry is neither a discrete subject nor a psychiatric specialty but, rather, it is an emergency arising within many applied sciences ...