Encyclopedia - Context: Encyclopedia - Context
The context of an event includes the circumstances and conditions which "surround" it; the context of a word, sentence, or longer utteran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clash Of Context: Encyclopedia - Clash Of Context
Clash of context is a technique used in humor to create an absurd situation. It involves the interaction of characters, locations, and si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context Switch: Encyclopedia Ii - Context Switch - Context Switch: Steps
In a context switch, the state of the first process must be saved somehow, so that, when the scheduler gets back to the execution of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hosea: Encyclopedia Ii - Hosea - Context
Hosea prophesied in a difficult period of Israel's history, the period of the Northern Kingdom's decline and fall in the 8th century BC. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Pavia: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Pavia - Context
The Battle of Pavia was a continuation of "The Italian Wars" which began in 1494. Renaissance Italy was divided into several rival states...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Princess Bride: Encyclopedia Ii - The Princess Bride - Context
The Princess Bride is considered an example of reconstructivist art. The book affects to be an abridgement of an older version by "S. Mor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Of Hosea: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Of Hosea - Context
Hosea prophesied in a difficult period of Israel's history, the period of the Northern Kingdom's decline and fall in the 8th century BC. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Operation Countryman: Encyclopedia Ii - Operation Countryman - Context
The 1970s had been rife with allegations of corruption within London's police forces, and numerous dismissals had already taken place, in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Statute Of Jewry: Encyclopedia Ii - Statute Of Jewry - Context
For several years Edward had been taxing the Jewish money lenders in England, to finance his campaign against Wales. When the Jews were f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Princess Bride: Encyclopedia Ii - The Princess Bride - Context
The book affects to be an abridgement of an older version by "S. Morgenstern", which was originally a satire of the excesses of European ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Operation Anthropoid: Encyclopedia Ii - Operation Anthropoid - Context
In September 1941 Heydrich was appointed Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, replacing Konstantin von Neurath whom Hitler considered insuff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perplex City: Encyclopedia Ii - Perplex City - Context
Perplex City is an Alternate reality game being run by Mind Candy, a London based private organization. Perplex City is an attempt at tre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Garden Of Eden: Encyclopedia Ii - The Garden Of Eden - Context
The circumstances of The Garden of Eden, its creation and its subsequent treatment by Hemingway's publisher, Scribner, is curious. Even u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Incident At Honnoji: Encyclopedia Ii - Incident At Honnoji - Context
Oda Nobunaga was at the height of his power, having destroyed the Takeda family earlier that year. He had central Japan firmly under his ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shooting An Elephant: Encyclopedia Ii - Shooting An Elephant - Context
Britain conquered Burma over a period of 62 years (1824 - 1886), during which three Anglo-Burmese Wars took place, and incorporated it in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sense And Sensibility: Encyclopedia Ii - Sense And Sensibility - Context
In 1811, Sense and Sensibility was the first published novel of the English author Jane Austen (1775–1817). The first version of the no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carnation Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Carnation Revolution - Context
In the beginning of the 1970s, the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo continued to weigh heavily on the country, after a half-centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Force Dynamics: Encyclopedia Ii - Force Dynamics - Context
Introduced by cognitive linguist Leonard Talmy in 1981, Force Dynamics started out as a generalization of the traditional notion of the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aeneid: Encyclopedia Ii - Aeneid - Context
The work was written at a time of major change in Rome, both political and social. The Republic had fallen, civil war had ripped apart so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Austerlitz: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Austerlitz - Context
The Battle of Austerlitz took place on 2 December 1805, exactly one year after Napoleon's crowning as Emperor of the French. It was the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 18 Brumaire: Encyclopedia Ii - 18 Brumaire - Context
Ironically, the ground for Bonaparte's coup may have been laid more by his few defeats than by his many victories. In November 1799, Fran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish Inquisition: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish Inquisition - Context
In the 15th century, Spain was not a single state but a confederation of realms, each with their own administrations, such as the Crown o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plagues Of Egypt: Encyclopedia Ii - Plagues Of Egypt - Context
Although the main reason for the plagues appears to be Pharaoh's repeated refusal to release the Jewish people from slavery, according to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kairos Document: Encyclopedia Ii - Kairos Document - Context
The KD was written by an ecumenical group of pastors in Soweto, though their names have never (officially) become public: there appears t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Grammar: Encyclopedia - Context-free Grammar
In linguistics and computer science, a context-free grammar (CFG) is a formal grammar in which every production rule is of the form V â†...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context Speaking Budgies: Encyclopedia - Context Speaking Budgies
Context speaking budgies are budgerigars (budgies, or parakeets) that are believed by some to possess the ability to speak coherently and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context Switch: Encyclopedia Ii - Context Switch - When To Switch?
There are several scenarios where a context switch needs to occur. Context switch - Multitasking. Most commonly, within some scheduling...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Context-free Grammar - Examples
Context-free grammar - Example 1. A simple context-free grammar is S → aSb | ε where | is a logical OR, and is used to separate mu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Context-free Grammar - Formal Definition
Just as any formal grammar, a context-free grammar G can be defined as a 4-tuple: G = (Vt,Vn,P,S) where Vt is a finite set of terminals ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Context-free Grammar - Normal Forms
Every context-free grammar which does not generate the empty string can be transformed into an equivalent one in Chomsky normal form or G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Context-free Grammar - Undecidable Problems
Although some operations on context-free grammars are decidable due to their limited power, unlike finite automata CFGs do have interesti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Grammar: Encyclopedia Ii - Context-free Grammar - Derivations And Syntax Trees
There are basically two ways to describe how in a certain grammar a string can be derived from the start symbol. The simplest way is to l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hurricane Katrina In Historical Context: Encyclopedia Ii - Hurricane Katrina In Historical Context - Rainfall
Katrina produced slightly above average rains for a tropical cyclone, with nearly 16 1/2 inches of rain falling between South Miami and P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hurricane Katrina In Historical Context: Encyclopedia Ii - Hurricane Katrina In Historical Context - By Death Toll
2005 Atlantic hurricane season Timeline Economic effects Damage to infrastructure Political effects Criticism of gov't response Socia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Escopeteros: Encyclopedia Ii - Escopeteros - 1950s Context
During the "War Against Batista" in Cuba this term was applied to the essential scouts and pickets that ranged from the Sierra Maestra an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Context-free Language - Examples
An archetypical context-free language is , the language of all non-empty even-length strings, the entire first halves of which are a's, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Context-free Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Context-free Language - Closure Properties
Context-Free Languages are closed under the following operations. That is, if "L" and "P" are Context-Free Languages and "D" is a Regular...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cadet: Encyclopedia Ii - Cadet - Military Context
Also see: Officer Cadet In the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, a cadet is a member of one of the cadet forces. In the UK...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cadet: Encyclopedia Ii - Cadet - Civilian Context
In the United States, cadet refers to an officer in training for the police, firefighter and EMT services. Similar usage exists in the UK...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Diversity - Human Context
Amongst humans, particularly in a social context, the term diversity refers to the presence in one population of a (wide) variety of Cul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Diversity - Human Context
Amongst humans, particularly in a social context, the term diversity refers to the presence in one population of a (wide) variety of Cul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blacklist: Encyclopedia Ii - Blacklist - Political Context
The term blacklisting is generally used in a negative context, since it implies that someone has been prevented from having legitimate ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Scientists & Thinkers
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Aristotle. Time Squad List of real people appearing in fictional context - Conf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Actors & Entertainers
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Alec Baldwin. Team America: World Police List of real people appearing in ficti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Explorers
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Captain William Bligh. Mutiny on the Bounty - Book and movies The Bounty - a musi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Artists Writers Musicians
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Ahmad ibn Fadlan. Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton The 13th Warrior List ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Unclassified
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Erzsébet Báthory. The Blood Countess Daughters of Darkness (1971 movie) Doctor ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diversity: Encyclopedia Ii - Diversity - Business Context
In a business context, diversity is approached as a strategy for improving employee retention and increasing consumer confidence. The "bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - World Leaders & Politicians
List of real people appearing in fictional context - King Arthur. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Arthur, King of Time and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ark: Encyclopedia Ii - Ark - Entertainment Contexts
Narratives: Ark (2005 film) The Ark (Transformers), fictional spacecraft. The Ark (Doctor Who), series of fiction episode. Ark (Noon Uni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Military People
List of real people appearing in fictional context - General Douglas MacArthur. M*A*S*H (TV series) List of real people appearing in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Real People Appearing In Fictional Context - Criminals And Outlaws
List of real people appearing in fictional context - Billy the Kid. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Lucky Luke Young Guns Time Sq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nahum: Encyclopedia Ii - Nahum - Historical Context
Assyria for a very long time were vicious overlords of the Fertile Crescent. They were ferocious fighters and were well known for their b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yogiisms: Encyclopedia Ii - Yogiisms - In Context
When asked what makes a good manager of a baseball team, he said "A good ball club" When asked what time it is, he said "What? You mean r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blacklist: Encyclopedia Ii - Blacklist - Political Context
The term blacklisting is generally used in a negative context, since it implies that someone has been prevented from having legitimate ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Persecution Of Bahá'ís: Encyclopedia Ii - Persecution Of Bahá'ís - Contexts
Persecution of Bahá'ís - Historical context. The Bahá'í Faith grew out of the Bábís which was estabilished in 1844 by the Báb in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Desjardins Canal: Encyclopedia Ii - Desjardins Canal - Historical Context
Water transportation is often the most efficient, cheapest and most reliable form of transportation before paved roads and railways are d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goggles: Encyclopedia Ii - Goggles - Fictional Context
In anime, goggles (or sunglasses) worn or kept on the forehead/headgear by a character are a sign of decisiveness, bravery, or leadership...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leviticus: Encyclopedia Ii - Leviticus - Academic Context
Most modern scholars of biblical criticism support the documentary hypothesis. In this, almost the entirity of Leviticus is identified as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Luminous Flux: Encyclopedia Ii - Luminous Flux - Contexts
Luminous flux is often used as an objective measure of the useful power emitted by a light source, and is typically reported on the packa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leviticus: Encyclopedia Ii - Leviticus - Academic Context
Most modern scholars of biblical criticism support the documentary hypothesis. In this, almost the entirity of Leviticus is identified as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ostracism: Encyclopedia Ii - Ostracism - Ostracism In Context
Ostracism is crucially different from a judicial process: there is no charge and no defence can be mounted by the person expelled. The tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Covenant Code: Encyclopedia Ii - Covenant Code - Academic Context
According to the modern documentary hypothesis, the text was originally independent, but later embedded by the Elohist ("E") in their wri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Philip: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Philip - History And Context
A single manuscript of the Gospel of Philip, in Coptic, was found in the Nag Hammadi library, a cache of documents that was secreted in a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Democratization: Encyclopedia Ii - Democratization - Democratization In Other Contexts
Although democratization is most often thought of in the context of national or regional politics, the term can also be applied to: Demo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cnil: Encyclopedia Ii - Cnil - European And International Contexts
Sweden in 1973, Germany in 1971, and France in 1978 were the first three States to vote for such a law computers and liberty law. Those l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unam Sanctam: Encyclopedia Ii - Unam Sanctam - Political Context
The furious reaction of Philip and his ministry cannot be understood outside the context of a conflict between the increasing power of se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Action Painting: Encyclopedia Ii - Action Painting - Historical Context
It is essential for the understanding of this movement to place it in historical context. A product of the post-war artistic insurgence, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wise Blood: Encyclopedia Ii - Wise Blood - Biographical Context
Flannery O'Connor was a Roman Catholic living in the American South, and her fictions consistently illustrate not merely religious, but t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wise Blood: Encyclopedia Ii - Wise Blood - Literary Context
Wise Blood began with four chapters published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review in 1948 and 1949. Flannery O'Connor th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spaceballs: Encyclopedia Ii - Spaceballs - Cultural Context
The plot is deliberately evocative of fairy tales, as are the scenes on the planet Druidia. Throughout the film, the characters regularly...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Get Out The Vote: Encyclopedia Ii - Get Out The Vote - Campaign Contexts
In contexts of the efforts of candidates, party activities and ballot measure campaigns, "get-out-the-vote" (or GOTV) is an adjective ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Historical And Institutional Context
The anthropologist Eric Wolf once characterized anthropology as the most scientific of the humanities, and the most humanistic of the sci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Community: Encyclopedia Ii - Community - The Context Of Community
From the days of the hunter-gatherer culture, individual humans have learned that there is strength in numbers and that sharing work and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoroaster: Encyclopedia Ii - Zoroaster - Zoroaster In Historical Context
Textual evidence regarding the birthplace of Zoroaster is conflicting. Yasnas 9 & 17 cite Airyanem VaÄ“jah, "Homeland of the Aryans" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ragtime: Encyclopedia Ii - Ragtime - Historical Context
Ragtime originated in African-American musical communities, in the late 19th century, and descended from the jigs and marches played by a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Uranus Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Uranus Mythology - Cultural Context Of Flint
The detail of the sickle's being flint rather than bronze or even iron was retained by Greek mythographers (though neglected by Roman one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sovereignty: Encyclopedia Ii - Sovereignty - Sovereignty In Certain Contexts
In international law, sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state. De jure sovereignty is the legal right to do so; de facto sovereig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Belt: Encyclopedia Ii - Bible Belt - Political Cultural Context
The term Bible Belt is used mainly, but not uniquely, by detractors of or negative anti-Protestant commentators about a people or region ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Color Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Color Psychology - Cultural Contexts Of Colors
Here are some common cultural connotations attached to colors in Western cultures, particularly in the United States: Various cultures se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Council Of Laodicea: Encyclopedia Ii - Council Of Laodicea - Historical Context
Rome's war with Persia had continued under the Emperor Julian, who died of battle wounds on the last campaign on June 26, 363. Officers o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bible Belt: Encyclopedia Ii - Bible Belt - Political, Cultural Context
The term Bible Belt is used mainly, but not uniquely, by detractors of or negative anti-Protestant commentators about a people or region ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Over The Hill: Encyclopedia Ii - Over The Hill - American Context
Critiques of American Culture often insist that marketing and general cultural strategies push the glamour of youth as being the major id...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Obverse And Reverse: Encyclopedia Ii - Obverse And Reverse - The Context Of The Contrast
The form of currency follows its function, which is to serve as a readily accepted medium of exchange of value. Normally, this function r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nihilist Movement: Encyclopedia Ii - Nihilist Movement - Historical Context
After more than a century of Westernization that began with the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), a Russian national consciousness ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerusalem Talmud: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerusalem Talmud - Historical Context
Like the Babylonian Talmud, the purpose of the Jerusalem Talmud was to elaborate on the Jewish Oral tradition as detailed in the 2nd-cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internet Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Internet Art - History And Context
Internet art is rooted in a variety of artistic traditions and movements. Some Internet art projects are particularly related to conceptu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gospel Of Philip: Encyclopedia Ii - Gospel Of Philip - History And Context
A single manuscript of the Gospel of Philip, in Coptic, was found in the Nag Hammadi library, a cache of documents that was secreted in a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hunter-gatherer: Encyclopedia Ii - Hunter-gatherer - Modern Context
It has recently been claimed that, in most cases, these groups do not have a continuous history of hunting and gathering, and that in man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Homeworld - Influences And Context
Homeworld was undoubtedly influenced by the many RTS games, books, and movies which preceded it. The epic storyline is reminiscent of tit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angle: Encyclopedia Ii - Angle - Angles In Different Contexts
In the Euclidean plane, the angle θ between two vectors u and v is related to their dot product and their lengths by the formula This...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flatulence: Encyclopedia Ii - Flatulence - Social Context
In many cultures, excessive human flatulence is regarded as embarrassing and impolite, even to the point of being a taboo subject; and he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeworld: Encyclopedia Ii - Homeworld - Influences And Context
Homeworld was undoubtedly influenced by the many RTS games, books, and movies which preceded it. The epic storyline is reminiscent of tit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Universe Mathematics: Encyclopedia Ii - Universe Mathematics - In A Specific Context
There are several precise versions of this general idea. Perhaps the simplest is that any set can be a universe, so long as you are study...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flatulence: Encyclopedia Ii - Flatulence - Social Context
In many cultures, excessive human flatulence is regarded as embarrassing and impolite, even to the point of being a taboo subject; and he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Remix: Encyclopedia Ii - Remix - Broader Context
In a larger sense, remixing can be seen as a major conceptual leap: making music on a meta-structural level, drawing together and making ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Non-religious Context
The word "Hell" used away from its religious context was long considered to be profanity, particularly in North America. Although its use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creationism: Encyclopedia Ii - Creationism - Political Context
In the secular sense, "creationism" refers to a political doctrine which asserts the validity and superiority of a particular religiously...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hell: Encyclopedia Ii - Hell - Non-religious Context
The word "Hell" used away from its religious context was long considered to be profanity, particularly in North America. Although its use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustan Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Augustan Literature - Enlightenment? The Historical Context
"Augustan" derives from George I wishing to be seen as Caesar Augustus. Alexander Pope, who had been imitating Horace, wrote an Epistle t...   » Read the article