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41Conjunct — Not to be confused with Conjunct (music). In linguistics, the term conjunct has three distinct uses: A conjunct is an adjunct that adds information to the sentence that is not considered part of the propositional content (or at least not… …
42Chinese marriage — A Qing Dynasty wedding. The groom s parents are seated. The bride is the one in the centre wearing a red dress and blue headpiece, presenting tea to her mother in law. The groom usually wears a sash forming an X in front of him. Sometimes the X… …
43Akathist — The Akathist Hymn (Ἀκάθιστος Ύμνος, unseated hymn ) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian hymn dedicated to a saint, holy event, or one of the persons of the Holy Trinity. The name derives from the fact that during the chanting of the hymn, or… …
44Magnolia (oil platform) — Magnolia is an offshore oil drilling and production Extended Tension Leg Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the world s deepest ETLP, reaching 1,432 m (4,698 ft), beating the Marco Polo TLP by 120 m (390 ft).[1] The hull… …
45Variance reduction — In mathematics, more specifically in the theory of Monte Carlo methods, variance reduction is a procedure used to increase the precision of the estimates that can be obtained for a given number of iterations. Every output random variable from the …
46Ben Edmestone Barnes — (London, England, June 3, 1903 May 28, 1969, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), also known as Ben Barnes or Professor Barnes, was for many years Professor of Structural Geology and Geophysics at the Course of Geology of the Escola de Minas (School of… …
47Jack C. Hayya — is professor emeritus of management science at the Pennsylvania State University.Education*B.S., Civil Enginering, University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, 1952 *M.S., Management, California State University, Northridge, 1961 [Hayya, Jack C.… …
48Evolutionary history of plants — Plants have evolved through increasing levels of complexity, from the earliest algal mats, through bryophytes, lycopods, ferns and gymnosperms to the complex angiosperms of today. While the simple plants continue to thrive, especially in the… …
49Thomas F. Glick — Ph.D. has been a professor at Boston University since 1972. He teaches in the departments of history and gastronomy. He served as the history department s chairperson from from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1995. He has also been the… …
50Postnationalism — describes the process or trend by which nation states and national identities loose their importance relative to supranational and global entities. Although postnationalism is not strictly the antonym of nationalism, the two terms and their… …
