Résultats pour "which"

Le Wi-Fi

~ 1 ~ Wi -f i i s a pr etty r e cen t w i r el es s r a di o co mm uni cati o n te c hno l o gy us e d i n par ti cul ar i n co mp uti n g a cti v i ti es . I t i s us ed i n p ar ti c ul ar f o r w i r el es s l o cal n etw o r ks , a nd no w ad ay s i t’s t he f i r s t w ay to ac ces s t he i nter net.  What are the advantages and the drawbacks of Wi -Fi technology, and how safe is it ? SUMMARY I - General Presentation .............

Mississippi (river) - Geography.

Art and morality

have a strong emotional effect, but which make it difficult for us to decide, on account of their complexity, howthey influence our outlook and thus our conduct. This lies at the centre of the long-lasting debate about the effectof tragedy (see Tragedy ). It seems strange that we should be unable to decide whether tragedies of great power, such as Oedipus the King , exalt, devastate, bewilder, affirm or question basic values, and so on. Yet all these positions are held and argued about with...

Rat - biology.

Text - science as a vocation

Church's theorem and the decision problem

¸-definable, that is, not definable in the ¸-calculus, a logical calculus invented by Church ( Lambda calculus ). To conclude that the set of valid formulas in first-order logic is not 'effectively' decidable, we need two additional facts. We need to equate validity in first-order logic with provability in a particular formal system, a result proved already by Gödel , but about which Church had some qualms due to the non-constructive nature of the proof. We also need to equate the mathe...

Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra I INTRODUCTION Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra, interconnected branches of mathematics that serve as fundamental tools in pure and applied mathematics and are becoming increasingly important in the physical, biological, and social sciences.

vectors and V is called a vector space of dimension m. Two- and three-dimensional Euclidean spaces are vector spaces when their points are regarded as specified by ordered pairs or triples of real numbers. Matrices may be used to describe linear changes from one vector space into another. Contributed By:James Singer Reviewed By:J. Lennart BerggrenMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Game Theory I INTRODUCTION Game Theory, mathematical analysis of any situation involving a conflict of interest, with the intent of indicating the optimal choices that, under given conditions, will lead to a desired outcome.

C Zero-Sum Games A game is said to be a zero-sum game if the total amount of payoffs at the end of the game is zero. Thus, in a zero-sum game the total amount won is exactly equal tothe amount lost. In economic contexts, zero-sum games are equivalent to saying that no production or destruction of goods takes place within the “game economy” inquestion. Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern showed in 1944 that any n-person non-zero-sum game can be reduced to an n + 1 zero-sum game, and that such n...

Herman Melville: Moby Dick (Sprache & Litteratur).

Henry Fielding: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Sprache & Litteratur).

From David Copperfield - anthology.

To this my mother returned, “Certainly, my dear Jane,” and said no more. I felt apprehensive that I was personally interested in this dialogue, and sought Mr. Murdstone's eye as it lighted on mine. “Now, David,” he said—and I saw that cast again, as he said it—”you must be far more careful to-day than usual.” He gave the cane another poise, and anotherswitch; and having finished his preparation of it, laid it down beside him, with an expressive look, and took up his book. This was a...

antiarmor weapons

Myths and heroes

their money and bought shares at the stock exchange to back the project and the help from the foundater of The Bank of America, the construction finally began in 1933. From this moment, thousands of workers moved tons of dirt and rocks to make way for almost 200,000 cubic yards of concrete needed to build the basis. Then 900,000 tons of steel were used, a staggering 1.2 million rivets were hammered into each tower which in turn support the 2 main cables, cables that are 36 inches in diameter and...

Astrophysics - astronomy.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Hegel

destiny. In different epochs, different Folk-Spirits are the primary manifestation of the progress of the World-Spirit.The people to which it belongs will be, for one epoch, the dominant people in the world history. For each nation, thehour strikes once and only once. In Hegel's time the hour had struck for the German nation. Whereas the Englishcan say ‘we are the men who navigate the ocean, and have the commerce of the world', the German can say ‘TheGerman spirit is the spirit of the new wo...

Encyclopedia of Philosophy: John Henry Newman

intolerance of contrary sugges¬tions. If we are certain, we spontaneously reject objections as idle phantoms, however much they may be insisted on by a pertinacious opponent, or present themselves through an obsessiveimagination.I certainly should be very intolerant of such a notion as that I shall one day be Emperor of the French; I shouldthink it too absurd even to be ridiculous, and that I must be mad before I could entertain it. And did a man try topersuade me that treachery, cruelty, or ing...

Jets Beat Colts.

Namath, who completed 17 of 28 passes for 206 yards, was named the game's most valuable player, for which he was awarded a Dodge Charger to go along with the$15,000 each of the Jets received for the victory. Snell rushed 30 times for 121 yards, and Sauer caught 8 passes for 133 yards. The Jets' victory was celebrated as amilestone in sports upsets. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Copper (element) - chemistry.

aircraft, Soviet

GEOPOLITICAL PROBLEMS THAT THE WORLD FACES TODAY

FOOTBALL a match two teams playing against each other in a 90-minute game of football a pitch the area where footballers play a match a referee the person who makes sure that the players follow the rules.

full-time the point of the game when the referee blows the final whistle and the match is over. Normally after 90 minutes and any added injury or stoppage time injury time also called stoppage time, added minutes at the end of the regular playing time at half-time or full-time. Entirely at the referee’s discretion and normally indicated by an official on the sideline (or touchline) extra time if a match has no winner at full-time, 2 x 15 minutes of extra time may be played in some competitions o...

VAR

Accordingly, continuous distributions are described with probability density functions as illustrated in Exhibit 2 below: In Exhibit 2, the curve shows how densely probability is distributed across the sample space. Area under the curve corresponds to probability. For example, in Exhibit 3, the area of the yellow region corresponds to the probability that the random variable will be between 0 and 2perhaps a total probability of 31%. The normal and lognormal distributions are examples of conti...

Polyhedron.

Caecilian - biology.

Monetary depreciation :

Government.

Rock Music I INTRODUCTION Carlos Santana Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana became a superstar in the late 1960s with a string of hits and an appearance at the famous Woodstock rock festival in 1969.

point (a single pitch sustained through a progression of chords), and the parallel movement of chords, derived from a technique on the electric guitar known as bar-chording. Many elements of African American music have been a continuing source of influence on rock music. These characteristics include riffs (repeated patterns), backbeats (emphasizing the second and fourth beats of each measure; see Musical Rhythm: Pulse and Meter ), call-and-response patterns, blue notes (the use of certain...

Woodpecker - biology.

Urinary System.

The Modern Metropolis - the Flaneur, the Flaneuse

2 S3 : However, Virginia Woolf challenges all these aspects, in her novel, Mrs Dalloway . As the characters ( Clari ssa, her old friend Peter Wa lsh and the wa r veteran Septimus Warren Smith) cross each other’s paths, the novel becomes a map of patterns and associations . Woolf examines the human topography of London in Mrs Dalloway as she depicts landscapes that reinforce boundaries of class and gender, rich and poor, men and women, who percei...

Excerpt from Henry IV - anthology.

PRINCE HAL. Or an old lion, or a lover's lute. FALSTAFF. Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe. PRINCE HAL. What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of Moorditch? FALSTAFF. Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art indeed the most comparative rascalliest sweet young prince. But Hal, I prithee trouble me no more withvanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. An old lord of the Council rated me the other day in the street aboutyou, sir,...

Asian Theater I INTRODUCTION Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.

III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...

Atonement

to him, the eternal Son of God become man is at once human priest and victim, who perfects and replaces the OldTestament institutions of animal sacrifice. The author takes seriously the (atoning) purpose of those replacedinstitutions, and, while expounding the moral inadequacy of animal sacrifice (a view anticipated in the OldTestament prophets), theologizes the doctrine by centring atonement on the representative human achievement ofthe saviour. The effect of this metaphorical...

Poly complet L2 2019-2020.pdf anglais

CONTROLE DES CONNAISSANCES  SEMESTRE 3 1-Deux tests de Contrôle Continu obligatoire -un test de vocabulaire sur le lexique de la fin du polycopié – au TD 7 (25%) -un test de compréhension orale (au TD 13 ) + note travail TD non présentiel . (25%) 2-Un examen terminal sur les articles étudiés en co urs, vocabulaire, compréhension , expression, grammaire (50%)  SEMESTRE 4 Le contrôle des connaissances est composé de : 1-Deux tests de Contrôle Continu obligatoi...

Pacific Ocean - geography.

The Pacific is the oldest of the existing ocean basins, its oldest rocks having been dated at 200 million years. The major features of the basin and rim have been shaped bythe phenomena associated with plate tectonics. The coastal shelf, which extends to depths of 180 m (600 ft), is narrow along North and South America but is relatively widealong Asia and Australia. The East Pacific Rise, a midocean ridge system, extends 8,700 km (5,400 mi) from the Gulf of California to a point 3,600 km (2,240...

Erosion.

power of music

H&M Anlysis

Ancient Egypt - history.

The Nile River runs through the ancient city of Thebes in eastern Egypt. For a time, beginning in 2040 bc, Thebes was the capital ofEgypt.Farrell Grehan/Photo Researchers, Inc. According to inscriptions and documents found by archaeologists, the Egyptians called their country Kemet, meaning “the Black Land,” a reference to the dark, fertile soil that remained after the Nile floodwaters had receded. They also used another term, Deshret, or “the Red Land,” a designation for the desert sands th...

Confucius

official to several of the highest positions in the land. Nor does the story end there. By the time of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Confucius was celebrated as the ‘uncrowned king' of the state of Lu, and by the fourth century AD, any prefecture wanting to define itself as a political entity was required by imperial decree to erect a temple to Confucius. Gods in China are local cultural heroes who are remembered by history as having contributed meaning and value to the tradition, and of...

sAbines AcheLou

artificialisation des sols ; prédominance champs, prairie et bois ; habitat fondé sur village, hameaux, lotissement) accueillant une foret proportion d'hbts étroitement lié à la ville voisine car y travaillant, y faisant leur course, études… Périurbain : analysé comme une extension de la ville, ou comme un espace d'un nouveau type dépassant l'opposition traditionnelle entre villes et campagnes. Facteur expliquant arrivée de pop dans ces espaces : -économique : faibles coût du fonci...

Excerpt from The Pickwick Papers - anthology.

“Two or three veeks,” replied the man. “Weeks!” said Mr. Pickwick in astonishment—and out came the note-book again. “He lives at Pentonwil when he's at home,” observed the driver, coolly, “but we seldom takes him home, on account of his veakness.” “On account of his weakness!” reiterated the perplexed Mr. Pickwick. “He always falls down when he's took out o' the cab,” continued the driver, “but when he's in it, we bears him up werry tight, and takes him in werry short, so as heca...

Musical Instruments I INTRODUCTION World Music Tour Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.

Traditional Timbila of MozambiqueAmong the Chopi, who have lived for centuries along the coast of Mozambique, there is a highly developed tradition ofsongwriting and composing for timbila (xylophone) orchestras. Elaborate migodo (dance suites), interspersed with poeticsongs pertaining to village life, are often performed to these compositions. Timbila music is now recognized as the nationalmusic of Mozambique."Eduardo Durao Mauaia" from Eduardo Durao and Orquestra Durao: Timbila (Cat.# Globestyl...

DAEDALus

La crise économique touche toutes les entreprises, aussi bien celles de la sphère financière que celles de la sphère réelle, entrainant une réactivation des politiques interventionnistes de la part des gouvernements. Devant le risque systémique qu’a fait peser sur le système financier mondial la faillite de Lehman Brothers, les gouvernements ont mis en œuvre des mesures d’aide à leurs banques nationales, prêts de plusieurs milliards d’euros aux grands établissements financiers de la place...

évaluation schlumberger

The jungle, the desert, and the sea. What is “Black Gold” and why is it given this name? Black gold is oil. It is given this name because it is a precious commodity. It is a valuable natural resource with limited supply. Section I: English Part II 1. B 6. D 11. D

Licence

Denver - geography.

percent of Denver’s population, blacks 11.1 percent, Asians 2.8 percent, Native Americans 1.3 percent, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent. Peopleof mixed heritage or not reporting race made up 19.3 percent of the population. Hispanics, who may be of any race, were 31.7 percent of the people. In 2006, Denver'spopulation was estimated at 566,974. IV EDUCATION AND CULTURE Since the very beginning of Colorado’s settlement, Denver has been the region’s thriving cultural hub...

German Literature I INTRODUCTION German Literature, literature written in the German language from the 8th century to the present, and including the works of German, Austrian, and Swiss authors.

Till EulenspiegelThe medieval peasant Till Eulenspiegel appears in many German folktales as a trickster who outwits people in positions ofauthority. In this image his first name is spelled Tyll.Keystone Pressedienst GmbH The rise of the middle class in the 14th and 15th centuries and the struggles of the peasants against the nobility culminated in the great 16th-century religiousrevolution known as the Reformation. This movement was reflected in literature, especially by Martin Luther, whose tra...

Québec Act - Canadian History.

Arctic - Geography.

The Arctic is not a frozen desert devoid of life on land or sea, even during the cold, dark winter months. Spring brings a phenomenal resurgence of plant and animal life.Low temperatures are not always the critical element—moisture, the type of soil, and available solar energy are also extremely important. Some animals adapt well toArctic conditions; for instance, a number of species of mammals and birds carry additional insulation, such as fat, in cold months. Arctic summers with extended dayli...

1896 résultats pour "which"