Encyclopedia - Shift: Encyclopedia - Shift
Shift may refer to a movement the shift key on a keyboard, harking back to typewriter days in computing, the analogue for literal string...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arithmetic Shift: Encyclopedia - Arithmetic Shift
In telecommunication, an arithmetic shift is a shift, applied to the representation of a number in a fixed radix numeration system and in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shift Work: Encyclopedia - Shift Work
Shift work is an employment practice designed to make use of the 24 hours of the clock, rather than a standard working day. The work shif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigenic Shift: Encyclopedia - Antigenic Shift
Antigenic shift is the process by which two different strains of influenza combine to form a new subtype having a mixture of the surface ...   » Read the article

Article - Peace Of Mind: Knowing To Being - A Paradigm Shift
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who founded the Transcendental Meditation technique, recently said that a great shift is about to take place in...   » Read the article

Article - Venus Transit: The Shift Is Upon Us... Get Ready For The Down Load!
Aluna Joy share the visions she received through mystical/shamanic experiences about the significance of the Venus Transit. Her visions i...   » Read the article

Article - Consciousness: The Conscious Universe, Part Ii - Shifting Opinions
In 1985, a report prepared for the Army Research Institute concluded that "The bottom line is that the data reviewed in this report cons...   » Read the article

Article - Venus Transit: A World Shift Favouring The East And The Feminine And The Disintegration Of Islam
According to Carl Johan Calleman, The forthcoming Venus Transit will coincide with dramatic changes for Islam; “In this new light created...   » Read the article

Article - Work As A Spiritual Practice: Shifting To A Spiritual View Of Work  
A financial consultant once spent many hours working to secure prospective clients, but was unable to close the sales. His manager tol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amplitude-shift Keying: Encyclopedia - Amplitude-shift Keying
Amplitude-shift keying (ASK) is a form of modulation which represents digital data as variations in the amplitude of a carrier wave. Ampl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constantinian Shift: Encyclopedia - Constantinian Shift
Constantinian shift is a term used by Anabaptist and Post-Christendom theologians to describe the gradual shift towards Christendom. This...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quechuan And Aymaran Spelling Shift: Encyclopedia - Quechuan And Aymaran Spelling Shift
In recent years, the spelling of place names in Peru and Bolivia has been revised among Quechua and Aymara speakers. The major changes ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bussa Language: Encyclopedia - Bussa Language
Bussa (or Muusiye) is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in the Dirashe region in the South West of Ethiopia. The people themselves,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Cultivation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Cultivation - Shifting Cultivation In Europe
Shifting cultivation was still being practiced as a viable and stable form of agriculture in many parts of Europe and west into Siberia a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Paradigm Shift: New Age Dictionary On Paradigm Shift
Paradigm Shift Refers to a shift in world views. The so-called "new paradigm" (new model orform) is pantheistic (all is God)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Cultivation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Cultivation - Conclusion
In the tropical developing world, shifting cultivation in its many diverse forms, remains an important practice. Shifting cultivation was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Cultivation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Cultivation - Subsistence
It is a form of subsistence farming, and it is usually seen in parts of the developing world where governments, large corporations, and/o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shift Register: Encyclopedia Ii - Shift Register - Types Of Shift Register
Shift registers can have a combination of serial and parallel inputs and outputs, including serial-in, parallel-out (SIPO) and parallel-i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shape-shifting: Parapsychology Dictionary On Shape-shifting
Shape-Shifting: Paranormal ability to assume the form of another person, an animal or other entity.   (See also: Shape-Shifti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Cultivation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Cultivation - The Political Ecology Of Shifting Cultivation
Shifting cultivation is a form of agriculture in which the cultivated or cropped area is shifted regularly to allow soil properties to re...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shape-shifting: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Shape-shifting
SHAPE-SHIFTING: the ability of a person to change into animal form or otherwise altar one's physical features, either physically or as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chemical Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Chemical Shift - Chemical Shift Referencing
Chemical shift is usually expressed in parts per million (ppm) by frequency, because it is calculated from: Since the numerator is usu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paradigm Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Paradigm Shift - Kuhnian Paradigm Shifts
An epistemological paradigm shift was called a scientific revolution by epistemologist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn in his book T...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Paradigm Shift: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Paradigm Shift
paradigm shift Spiritual or mental axis-shift; change in perception or world view such as the Copernican, Darwinian, Freudian, or New...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chemical Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Chemical Shift - Introduction
An atomic nucleus can have a magnetic moment (nuclear spin), which gives rise to different energy levels and (resonance frequencies) in a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Time Shifting: Encyclopedia Ii - Time Shifting - History
The legality of time-shifting programming in the United States was proven by a landmark court case of Universal Studios versus Sony Corpo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Doppler Shift: Oceanography Dictionary - Doppler Shift
  Definition and meaning of doppler shift:   doppler shift - the change in the tone of a sound caused by the sound source...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Cultivation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Cultivation - Shifting Cultivation In The Contemporary World And Global Environmental Change
The estimated rate of deforestation in Southeast Asia in 1990 was 34,000 km² per year (FAO 1990, quoted in Potter 1993). In Indonesia al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Cultivation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Cultivation - Simple Societies Shifting Cultivation And Environmental Change
The forests of Europe were destroyed by the seemingly inexorable ‘advances’ of civilisation, industrialisation and warfare, the sort ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Introduction
There are three major classes of digital modulation techniques used for transmission of digitally represented data: Amplitude-shift keyi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Differential Phase-shift Keying Dpsk
For a signal that has been differentially encoded, there is an obvious alternative method of demodulation. Instead of demodulating as usu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Binary Phase-shift Keying Bpsk
BPSK is the simplest form of PSK. It uses two phases which are separated by 180° and so can also be termed 2-PSK. It does not particular...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chemical Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Chemical Shift - 1h Chemical Shift
Chemical shift - Detailed table of 1H chemical shifts in CH CH2 and CH3 next to functional group α-position in aliphatic compounds [ppm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Quadrature Phase-shift Keying Qpsk
Sometimes known as quaternary or quadriphase PSK or 4-PSK, QPSK uses four points on the constellation diagram, equispaced around a circle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chemical Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Chemical Shift - 13c Chemical Shift
Chemical shifts of 13C atoms follow the same principles as those of 1H, with the difference of 1H having greater relative sensitivity (th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amplitude-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Amplitude-shift Keying - Encoding
The simplest and most common form of ASK operates as a switch, using the presence of a carrier wave to indicate a binary one and its abse...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amplitude-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Amplitude-shift Keying - Considerations
ASK is the simplest kind of modulation that can be used to send data through a channel. It has several bad points: it can be used only w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paradigm Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Paradigm Shift - Other Uses
The term "paradigm shift" has found uses in other contexts, representing the notion of a major change in a certain thought-pattern — a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Night Shift Book: Encyclopedia Ii - Night Shift Book - Adaptations
Two of the stories had themes that were later expanded upon by King into full-fledged novels. Jerusalem's Lot became the basis (in a very...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Temporary Threshold Shift: Oceanography Dictionary - Temporary Threshold Shift
  Definition and meaning of temporary threshold shift:   temporary threshold shift - in mammals, a temporary increase in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Cultivation: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Cultivation - Stereotypes: Primitive Backward Wasteful Unproductive
Despite this, shifting cultivation remains negatively stereotyped. Shifting cultivation systems are perceived both by the supposedly well...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shift Operator: Encyclopedia Ii - Shift Operator - Action On Hilbert Spaces
The unilateral and bilateral shifts have a natural action on Hilbert spaces, giving bounded operators S and T on the lp sequence spaces ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Higher-order Psk
For the general M-PSK there is no simple expression for the symbol-error probability if M > 4. Unfortunately, it can only be obtained ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dakuten: Encyclopedia Ii - Dakuten - Phonetic Shifts
The following table summarizes the phonetic shifts caused by the dakuten and handakuten. Literally, syllables with dakuten are "muddy sou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Ideal Structure
Phase-shift keying - Transmitter. Indicating by L the number of possible symbols to be transmitted, then the used angular values are gi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paradigm: Encyclopedia Ii - Paradigm - Paradigm Shifts
Paradigm shifts tend to be most dramatic where they are least expected, as in Physics. At the end of the 19th century, physics seemed to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Differential Encoding
As mentioned for BPSK and QPSK there is an ambiguity of phase if the constellation is rotated by some effect in the communications channe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redshift: Encyclopedia Ii - Redshift - Shifts In Vacuum
A redshift can occur in a vacuum, without any direct interaction with intervening matter in three ways. Each of these mechanisms produces...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High German Consonant Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - High German Consonant Shift - East Germanic Hypotheses
Some of the consonant shifts resulting from the second and third phases appear also to be observable in Lombardic, the early mediaeval Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High German Consonant Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - High German Consonant Shift - Sample Texts
As an example of the effects of the shift one may compare the following texts from the later Middle Ages, on the left a Middle Low German...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High German Consonant Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - High German Consonant Shift - Chronology
Since, apart from þ→d, the High German consonant shift took place before the beginning of writing of Old High German in the 9th centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High German Consonant Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - High German Consonant Shift - The Four Phases In Detail
High German consonant shift - Phase 1. The first phase, which may have begun in the fourth century and affected the whole of the High G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chemical Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Chemical Shift - Magnetic Properties Of Most Common Nuclei
1H and 13C aren't the only nuclei susceptible to NMR experiments. A number of different nuclei can also be detected, although the use of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chemical Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - Chemical Shift - The Fastest Way To Understanding Spectra
Since the easiest way to obtain knowledge is by practice - that is, solving problems, a couple of external links are shown underneath. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High German Consonant Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - High German Consonant Shift - General Description
The High German consonant shift altered a number of consonants in the Southern German dialects, and thus also in modern Standard German, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sequel: Encyclopedia Ii - Sequel - Media Shifting
Sequels (along with prequels, interquels, and the like) are most often produced in the same medium as the previous work (that is, a film ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High German Consonant Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - High German Consonant Shift - Geographical Distribution
Roughly, one may say that the changes resulting from phase 1 affected Upper and Central German, those from phase 2 and 3 only Upper Germa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shifting Nth-root Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Shifting Nth-root Algorithm - Algorithm
Shifting nth-root algorithm - Notation. Let B be the base of the number system you are using, and n be the degree of the root to be ext...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Audio Frequency-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Audio Frequency-shift Keying - Applications
Most early telephone-line modems used audio frequency-shift keying to send and receive data, up to rates of about 300 bits per second. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Feedback Shift Register: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Feedback Shift Register - Uses In Digital Broadcasting
In order to keep digital transmissions from forming latent energy patterns that may disrupt other digital or analog transmissions -- line...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Feedback Shift Register: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Feedback Shift Register - Applications
LFSR's can be implemented in hardware, and this makes them useful in applications that require very fast generation of a pseudo-random se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Feedback Shift Register: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Feedback Shift Register - Galois Lfsrs
A Galois LFSR, or a LFSR in Galois configuration is a variation on typical LFSR design. In Galois configuration, when the system is clock...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Feedback Shift Register: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Feedback Shift Register - How It Works
The list of the bits positions that affect the next state is called the tap sequence. In the diagram below, the sequence is [16,14,13,11]...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Feedback Shift Register: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Feedback Shift Register - Uses In Cryptography
LFSRs have long been used as a pseudo-random number generator for use in stream ciphers (especially in military cryptography), due to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redshift: Encyclopedia Ii - Redshift - Shifts Due To Scattering
The scattering of electromagnetic radiation whether from charged elementary particles, from particulates, or from fluctuations in a diele...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High German Consonant Shift: Encyclopedia Ii - High German Consonant Shift - Overview Table
The effects of the shift are most obvious for the non-specialist when we compare Modern German lexemes containing shifted consonants with...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xerox: Encyclopedia Ii - Xerox - Business Model Shifts
Xerox shifted its business model in the 1970s and 1980s as patent expiry removed exclusivity from their copier technology, and diversific...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Professional Amateurs: Encyclopedia Ii - Professional Amateurs - Historical Shift
The 20th century has witnessed the rise of many new professionals in fields such as medicine, science, education and politics. Amateurs a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying - How It Works
The baseband signal is generated by first transforming the zero/one encoded bits into -1/+1 encoded bits. This -1/+1 signal is then filte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Legendre Polynomials: Encyclopedia Ii - Legendre Polynomials - Shifted Legendre Polynomials
The shifted Legendre polynomials are defined as being orthogonal on the unit interval [0,1] An explicit expression for these polynomi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian Conservatism: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian Conservatism - Shifting Views
Originally, Canadian conservatism tended to be loyalist and traditionalist. Conservative governments in Canada, such as those of Sir John...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ed50: Encyclopedia Ii - Ed50 - Datum Shift Between Ed50 And Wgs84
The longitude and latitude lines on the two datums are the same in the Archangel region of north-west Russia. As one moves westwards acro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phase-shift Keying: Encyclopedia Ii - Phase-shift Keying - Applications
Owing to PSK's simplicity, particularly when compared with its competitor quadrature amplitude modulation, it is widely used in existing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Linear Feedback Shift Register: Encyclopedia Ii - Linear Feedback Shift Register - A Drop In Replacement For Gray Code Counters
Some applications need to mark individual locations along a certain distance with unique values. For example, most tape measures mark ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaos Magic: Encyclopedia Ii - Chaos Magic - Magical Paradigm Shifting
Perhaps the most striking feature of chaos magic is the concept of the magical paradigm shift. Borrowing a term from philosopher Thomas K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaos Magic: Encyclopedia Ii - Chaos Magic - Magical Paradigm Shifting
Perhaps the most striking feature of chaos magick is the concept of the magical paradigm shift. Borrowing a term from philosopher Thomas ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pacific Decadal Oscillation: Encyclopedia Ii - Pacific Decadal Oscillation - Regime Shifts
Although there are several patterns of behavior, the most significant one seems to be in regime shifts between "warm" and "cool" patterns...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Majority-minority State: Encyclopedia Ii - Majority-minority State - Impact Of Demographic Shifts
Such demographic shifts in the majority population can have a profound, if unpredictable, political and social impact. For instance, a gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supply And Demand: Encyclopedia Ii - Supply And Demand - Supply Curve Shifts
When the suppliers' costs change the supply curve will shift. For example, assume that someone invents a better way of growing wheat so t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supply And Demand: Encyclopedia Ii - Supply And Demand - Supply Curve Shifts
When the suppliers' costs change the supply curve will shift. For example, assume that someone invents a better way of growing wheat so t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demarcation Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Demarcation Problem - Kuhn And Paradigm Shifts
Thomas Kuhn, an American historian of science, has proven very influential in the philosophy of science, and is often connected with what...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joe Scarborough: Encyclopedia Ii - Joe Scarborough - Career Shift To Journalism
In late May, 2001, Scarborough announced his resignation from Congress citing family and professional reasons. In the October 2003 issue ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supply And Demand: Encyclopedia Ii - Supply And Demand - Demand Curve Shifts
When more people want something, the quantity demanded at all prices will tend to increase. This can be referred to as an increase in dem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supply And Demand: Encyclopedia Ii - Supply And Demand - Demand Curve Shifts
When more people want something, the quantity demanded at all prices will tend to increase. This can be referred to as an increase in dem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Production Function: Encyclopedia Ii - Production Function - Shifting A Production Function
As noted above, it is possible for the profit maximizing output level to occur in any of the three stages. If profit maximization occurs ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Puberty: Encyclopedia Ii - Puberty - Historical Shift In The Onset Of Puberty
The age at which puberty occurs has dropped significantly since the 1840s. Researchers refer to this drop as the 'secular trend'. From 18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trigonometric Identity: Encyclopedia Ii - Trigonometric Identity - Periodicity Symmetry And Shifts
These are most easily shown from the unit circle: For some purposes it is important to know that any linear combination of sine waves of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Golden Age Of General Relativity: Encyclopedia Ii - Golden Age Of General Relativity - Paradigm Shifts
Some of the major paradigm shifts which occurred during the Golden Age were: wider appreciation of role of curvature in general relativi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Internet Television: Encyclopedia Ii - Internet Television - A Shift In The Economics Of Broadcasting
Initiatives to use peer-to-peer technology to distribute live TV are just starting to emerge. The main advantage of this approach over tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Insulin Analog: Encyclopedia Ii - Insulin Analog - Shifted Isoelectic Point Insulins
Normal unmodified insulin is soluble at physiological pH. Analogues have been created that have a shifted isoelectric point so that it ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lane Theological Seminary: Encyclopedia Ii - Lane Theological Seminary - Shifting Ties
Following the slavery debates, Lane Seminary continued as a "New School" seminary, cooperating with Congregationalists and others in miss...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nynaeve Al'meara: Encyclopedia Ii - Nynaeve Al'meara - A Shift In The Weather
When Rand dispatched Mat to return Egwene and Elayne to him, Egwene instead assigned him as an escort to Nynaeve, Elayne and Aviendha, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Mogadishu: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Mogadishu - Mission Shift To Nation-building
A key moment in the operation was when the mission shifted from delivering food supplies to nation-building. On 1993-03-03, the U.N. Secr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Puberty: Encyclopedia Ii - Puberty - Historical Shift In The Onset Of Puberty
The age at which puberty occurs has dropped significantly since the 1840s. Researchers refer to this drop as the 'secular trend'. From 18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manchester Code: Encyclopedia Ii - Manchester Code - Manchester Encoding As Binary Phase Shift Keying
Manchester encoding is just a special case of Binary Phase Shift Keying, where the data to be transmitted controls the phase of a square ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twin Paradox: Encyclopedia Ii - Twin Paradox - What It Looks Like: The Relativistic Doppler Shift
Now, how would each twin would observe the other during the trip? Or if each twin always carried a clock indicating his age, what time wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barney Calhoun: Encyclopedia Ii - Barney Calhoun - Half-life: Blue Shift
Barney Calhoun gained a starring role in the following expansion, Half-Life: Blue Shift. Barney was finally given a surname (Calhoun) and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rabin-karp String Search Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Rabin-karp String Search Algorithm - Shifting Substrings Search And Competing Algorithms
The basic problem the algorithm addresses is finding a fixed substring of length m, called the pattern, within a text of length n; for ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rabin-karp String Search Algorithm: Encyclopedia Ii - Rabin-karp String Search Algorithm - Use Of Hashing For Shifting Substring Search
Rather than pursuing more sophisticated skipping, the Rabin-Karp algorithm seeks to speed up the testing of equality of the pattern to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manual Transmission Driving Technique: Encyclopedia Ii - Manual Transmission Driving Technique - Learning To Drive With A Manual Transmission
Beginning manual transmission drivers should avoid conducting their initial practice sessions on busy streets or in neighbourhoods with m...   » Read the article