List of natural phenomena
Supernova Mineralogic phenomena Lithologic phenomena Rock types Igneous rock Igneous formation processes Sedimentary rock ... field Exogenic phenomena Slope phenomena Slump Landslide Weathering phenomena Erosion Glacial and peri-glacial phenomena ... Violent meteorological phenomena are called storms. Regular, cyclical phenomena include seasons and atmospheric circulation. ... Act of God Electrical phenomena Materialism Midnight Sun Black Holes Natural Environment Nature Transient lunar phenomenon ...
Transport phenomena
In physics, transport phenomena are all irreversible processes of statistical nature stemming from the random continuous motion ... All processes in engineering involve the transfer of energy. Some examples are the heating and cooling of process streams, ... An important principle in the study of transport phenomena is analogy between phenomena. There are some notable similarities in ... "transport phenomena". Another example is in biomedical engineering, where some transport phenomena of interest are ...
Brownian surface
Wiener process Fractional Brownian motion Russ, John C. (1994). Fractal surfaces, Volume 1. p. 167. ISBN 0-306-44702-9. Xie, ... ISBN 90-5410-133-4. Vicsek, Tamás (1992). Fractal growth phenomena. p. 40. ISBN 981-02-0668-2. Kroese, D.P.; Botev, Z.I. (2015 ... Since the Brownian surface represents a Gaussian process with a nonstationary covariance function, one can use the Cholesky ... A more efficient method is Stein's method, which generates an auxiliary stationary Gaussian process using the circulant ...
Process design
ISBN 0-07-049479-7. Bird, R.B., Stewart, W.E. and Lightfoot, E.N. (August 2001). Transport Phenomena (Second ed.). John Wiley ... Chemical engineer Chemical plant Chemical process Process integration Process simulation Chemical process modeling ... engineering Industrial process List of chemical process simulators Process engineering Process safety Unit process Sinnott and ... Process design is distinct from equipment design, which is closer in spirit to the design of unit operations. Processes often ...
Redox
The processes of oxidation and reduction occur simultaneously and cannot occur independently. In redox processes, the reductant ... James, Bruce R.; Brose, Dominic A. (2012). "Oxidation-reduction phenomena". In Huang, Pan Ming; Li, Yuncong; Sumner, Malcolm E ... Many important biological processes involve redox reactions. Before some of these processes can begin iron must be assimilated ... The process of electroplating uses redox reactions to coat objects with a thin layer of a material, as in chrome-plated ...
Bidirectional traffic
Dorna, B.; M. Kramar Fijavžb; R. Nagela; A. Radla (2009-06-21). "The semigroup approach to transport processes in networks" ( ... PDF). Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 239 (15): 1416. Bibcode:2010PhyD..239.1416D. doi:10.1016/j.physd.2009.06.012. Retrieved ...
Richmond Jay Bartlett
ISBN 0-471-85643-6. James, B.R.; Bartlett, R.J. (2000). "Redox phenomena". In Sumner, M.E. (ed.). Handbook of Soil Science. ... doi:10.2134/jeq1990.00472425001900010015x. Bartlett, R.J.; Ross, D.S. (2005). "Chemistry of redox processes in soils". In Al- ... James, Bruce R.; Brose, Dominic A. (2012). "Oxidation-reduction phenomena". In Huang, Pan M.; Li, Yuncong; Sumner, Malcolm E. ( ... oxidation-reduction processes, and how soil chemistry is linked to natural waters, agriculture, and environmental quality. Upon ...
John Kingman
ASIN B0007ILKPE.[ISBN missing] Kingman, J. F. C. (1972). Regenerative Phenomena. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-471-47905-5. ... ISBN 0-89871-166-5. Kingman, J. F. C. (1993). Poisson Processes. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853693-3. (Pages containing ... on regenerative phenomena, and on mathematical genetics". He was also awarded the Guy Medal in silver by the Royal Statistical ... Some Problems in Limit Theory for Stochastic Processes and Sums of Random Variables. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). ...
Phi phenomenon
Visual information is processed in two pathways, one processes position and motion, and the other one processes form and color ... Color phi phenomenon Motion perception Wikimedia Commons has media related to Phi phenomenon. Beta movement and Phi phenomenon ... our visual system processes forward and reversed phi phenomenon in the same way. Our visual system perceives phi phenomenon ... Secondly, phi phenomenon and beta movement are also different perceptually. For phi phenomenon, two stimuli A and B are ...
Campbell's theorem (probability)
... of a point process) summed over all the points in the point process. These random sums over point processes have applications ... ISBN 978-0-19-853693-2. Campbell, N. (1909). "The study of discontinuous phenomena". Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 15: 117-136. ... For general point processes, Campbell's theorem is only for sums of functions of a single point of the point process. To ... see Point process notation). For a point process N {\displaystyle N} , Campbell's theorem relates the above expectation with ...
Coherent effects in semiconductor optics
For a realistic description of optical processes in solid materials, it is essential to go beyond the simple picture of the ... The few examples given above represent only a small subset of several further phenomena which demonstrate that the coherent ... As a result of the many-body Coulomb interaction and possibly further interaction processes, the transition energy Δ ε k {\ ... To consistently treat this phenomenon of disorder induced dephasing the SBEs need to be solved including biexciton correlations ...
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
... interfacial processes, capillarity and wetting; biomaterials and nanomedicine; and novel phenomena and techniques. The editor- ...
Climbing and falling film plate evaporator
The process expands until the last effect when the final desired concentration is achieved. There are several process ... Amir Faghri; Yuwen Zhang (2006). Transport Phenomena In Multiphase Systems. London: Elsevier Inc. Luopeng Yang; Xue Chen; ... A surface condenser is used to condense the vapor that produced in the second effect process. In order to recover the heat that ... Nucleate boiling will cause fouling to occur, thus affecting the rate of heat transfer of the process. In order to avoid ...
Diffusion
The term convection is used to describe the combination of both transport phenomena. If a diffusion process can be described by ... An example of a process where both bulk motion and diffusion occur is human breathing. First, there is a "bulk flow" process. ... Physical or chemical process by which one substance becomes attached to another Osmosis - Chemical process Percolation theory ... This process generates current, referred to as diffusion current. Diffusion current can also be described by Fick's first law J ...
Problematization
... is a process of stripping away common or conventional understandings of a subject matter in order to gain new ... As a form of analysis, problematization seeks to answer the questions of "how and why certain things (behavior; phenomena, ... As an object of inquiry, problematization is described as a process of objects becoming problems by being "characterized, ... Problematization is a critical thinking and pedagogical dialogue or process and may be considered demythicisation. Rather than ...
Cultural trait
Hayler, M. (2015-05-07). Challenging the Phenomena of Technology. Springer. ISBN 9781137377869. Pim, Joám Evans (2009). Toward ... https://www.heritage.nf.ca/nl-studies-2205/chapter-1-topic-1.pdf[bare URL PDF] Boilès, Charles L. (1982). "Processes of Musical ...
Hosokawa Micron Powder Systems
Wolfgang Pietsch (11 July 2008). Agglomeration Processes: Phenomena, Technologies, Equipment. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 469-. ISBN ...
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
... as the results of due processes or as spontaneous phenomena. For many people in the West problems may be considered as ... as directly experienceable phenomena or as indirect implications of seemingly innocent phenomena; as inherently comprehensible ... The Goals, Processes and Indicators of Development project (led by Johan Galtung) of the United Nations University, in which ... For the future, it can be seen on the UIA website that a participative and interactive process is in place, which might allow ...
Codd's cellular automaton
Langton, C. G. (1984). "Self-Reproduction in Cellular Automata" (PDF). Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 10 (1-2): 135-144. ... Banks, Edwin (1971). Information Processing and Transmission in Cellular Automata. PhD thesis, MIT, Department of Mechanical ...
Aluminium-lithium alloy
Semi-Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites. Solid State Phenomena. Vol. 116-117 (published 15 October 2006). pp. 513-517. ... "Development of Aluminum-Lithium alloys processed by the Rheo container process" (PDF). In Kang, C .G.; Kim, S. K.; Lee, S. Y. ( ... Grushko, Olga; Ovsyannikov, Boris; Ovchinnokov, Viktor (2016). Eskin, D. G. (ed.). Aluminum-Lithium Alloys: Process Metallurgy ... 2014). Aluminum-Lithium Alloys: Processing, Properties, and Applications. Elsevier/Butteworth-Heinemann (published 20 September ...
Doping (semiconductor)
This phenomenon is known as compensation, and occurs at the p-n junction in the vast majority of semiconductor devices. Partial ... This process is characterized by a constant concentration of sulfur on the surface. In the case of semiconductors in general, ... A doping process was formally developed by John Robert Woodyard working at Sperry Gyroscope Company during World War II. Though ... There are two primary methods of doping a conductive polymer, both of which use an oxidation-reduction (i.e., redox) process. ...
Scotobiology
These are not merely photobiological phenomena; light pollution acts by interrupting critical dark-requiring processes. But ... In many of these biological processes the critical point is the length of the dark period rather than that of the light. For ... An important aspect of any scotobiological phenomenon is the level and quality (wavelength) of light that is below the ... threshold of detection for that phenomenon and in any specific organism. This important variable in scotobiological studies is ...
James J. Jenkins
In L.S. Cermak and F.I.M. Craik (Eds.) Levels of processing in human memory. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum Associates, pp. 429-446. ... Jenkins, J. J. (1964). A mediational account of grammatical phenomena. Journal of Communication, 14, 86-97. Jenkins, J. J., & ... In R.R. Hoffman and D. S. Palermo (Eds.), Cognition and the symbolic processes: Applied and ecological perspectives. New York: ... In R.R. Hoffman and D. S. Palermo (Eds.), Cognition and the symbolic processes: Applied and ecological perspectives. New York: ...
Brisbane
Tapper, Andrew; Tapper, Nigel (2006). "Sub-Synoptic-Scale Processes and Phenomena". In Gray, Kathleen (ed.). The weather and ... They would then disperse, and gather together again until the media and police returned, repeating the process over and over ...
Climate of Brisbane
Tapper, Andrew; Tapper, Nigel (2006). "Sub-Synoptic-Scale Processes and Phenomena". In Gray, Kathleen (ed.). The weather and ...
Murzyn
Katamba, Francis (2004). Morphology: Morphology: Primes, phenomena and processes. ISBN 9780415270809. "Murzyn , definition in ...
Action assembly theory
The activation process is the process used to select particular procedural records. For example, if a parent disciplined a ... Greene, J. (1984). Evaluating cognitive explanations of communication phenomena. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 70, 241-254. ... For example, assembly is considered a top-to-bottom process that begins with more general strategy and goes to a more specific ... For example, assembly is considered a top-down process that begins with general strategy and goes to more specific ideas about ...
Ideomotor phenomenon
Easton, Randolph D.; Shor, Ronald E. (1975). "Information processing analysis of the Chevreul pendulum illusion". Journal of ... The ideomotor phenomenon is a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. Also called ideomotor ... Braid, J., "Letter to Michael Faraday on the phenomenon of "Table Turning" [written on 22 August 1853]", reprinted at pp. 560- ... The term Ideomotor was first used in a scientific paper discussing the means through which these spiritualistic phenomena ...
Moving particle semi-implicit method
Analysis of Elementary Processes in Dispersed Multiphase Flows; Multiphase Flow with Heat/Mass Transfer in Process Technology; ... Transport Phenomena in Mixing; Turbulent Flows; Urban Fluid Mechanics; Fluid Dynamic Behavior of Complex Particles; ... In addition, the solution process of MPS method differs to that of the original SPH method as the solutions to the PDEs are ... H. Xie, S. Koshizuka and Y. Oka, "Simulation of drop deposition process in annular mist flow using three-dimensional particle ...
Stochastic process
... as a mathematical model for various random phenomena. The Poisson process is a stochastic process that has different forms and ... Markov processes, Lévy processes, Gaussian processes, random fields, renewal processes, and branching processes. The study of ... The Wiener process is a member of some important families of stochastic processes, including Markov processes, Lévy processes ... such as the Brownian motion process and the Poisson process. Some families of stochastic processes such as point processes or ...
Ariosa v. Sequenom
"of the phenomenon. The court reasoned that, "[f]or process claims that encompass natural phenomen[a], the process steps . . . ... If a method of detecting a natural phenomenon is always "directed to" that natural phenomenon, as the Federal Circuit suggests ... The district court said: "[T]he claims at issue pose a substantial risk of preempting the natural phenomenon of paternally ... I worry that method claims that apply newly discovered natural laws and phenomena in somewhat conventional ways are screened ...
Classical Anatolia
The invasion of Syria by Tigranes the Great of Armenia (95-55 BC) in 83 BC virtually extinguished the empire, a process ... The following was predominantly an urban phenomenon. The Acts of the Apostles, our primary source suggests that converts were ... Although our principal source for this period, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, implies this was a swift process, it is more likely ... empire slipped into chaos once again on his abdication and it fell to Constantine to restore stability and continue the process ...
Peso
... its universal dominion was in process of disintegration into rival 'currency areas', chief among which was destined to be the ... together with an examination of the effects of currency and exchange phenomena on commercial and national progress and well- ...
Assyria
This phenomenon does not only apply to the Assyrians; the Christian Greek populace of the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages ... The Assyrians also sold livestock, processed goods and reed products. In many cases, the materials sold by Assyrian colonists ...
Distillation Design
... natural gas processing, pharmaceutical, food and alcohol distilling industries. It has been a classical chemical engineering ... 1934 reference book for chemical engineering Transport Phenomena Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering Batch distillation ... column composition and temperature profiles Process design and optimization: minimum reflux and minimum stages, optimum reflux ...
Mie scattering
These efficiency coefficients are ratios of the cross section of the respective process, σ i {\displaystyle \sigma _{i}} , to ... The Kerker effect is a phenomenon in scattering directionality, which occurs when different multipole responses are presented ...
Human geography
Political geography is concerned with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and the ways in ... It focuses on describing and analyzing the ways language, religion, economy, government, and other cultural phenomena vary or ... This subdiscipline also draws on ideas from other branches of Human Geography to see their involvement in the processes and ... which political processes are themselves affected by spatial structures. Subfields include: Electoral geography, Geopolitics, ...
Benjamin Franklin
To understand this phenomenon more clearly, he conducted experiments. In 1758 on a warm day in Cambridge, England, he and ... Franklin recounted that in the process of one of these experiments, he was shocked by a pair of Leyden jars, resulting in ... Franklin started exploring the phenomenon of electricity in 1746 when he saw some of Archibald Spencer's lectures using static ...
Network congestion
Network resources are limited, including router processing time and link throughput. Resource contention may occur on networks ... IMA Workshop on Scaling Phenomena in Communication Networks, October 1999) (pdf format) Linktionary term: Queuing Archived 2003 ... Various network congestion avoidance processes support different trade-offs. The TCP congestion avoidance algorithm is the ...
Health realization
Family Process, pp. 477-498 (39). 2000. de Shazer, S.: Words Were Originally Magic. W.W. Norton & Co. 1994. Gendlin, E.: The ... In the Health Realization ("HR") model, all psychological phenomena, from severe disorder to glowing health, are presented as ... The first step of the six-step process used to teach focusing involves setting aside one's current worries and concerns to ... a change process developed by philosopher Eugene Gendlin, supports the theory that progress in psychotherapy is dependent on ...
Muon tomography
Real-time muography requires muon sensors to convert the muon's kinetic energy into a number of electrons in order to process ... The phenomenon that muography cannot differentiate density variations is called the "Volume Effects." Volume Effects happen ... The "NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program" is now in the process of assessing whether muography may be used for ... Electronic tracking data can be processed almost instantly with an adequate computer processor; in contrast, film muography ...
El Monte Thai Garment Slavery Case
It would serve as a wake-up call for the world to the global phenomenon of human trafficking and modern-day slavery and would ... 4,800 loan she secured from the recruiter to pay for the plane ticket and processing fee to the United States. Elsewhere in ...
Multimethodology
... descriptions and interpretations of cultural processes; and phenomenology - descriptions of the essence of phenomena or lived ... Focus is on answering the research question while allowing the methods to emerge in the process. Peirce pragmatism and its ... "Mixing Methods: The Entry of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches into the Research Process." International Journal of ... critical realism sees causality as embedded in the details of a situation and social processes that surround an event. ...
United States border security concerns
ATS-P processes available information from these databases to develop a risk assessment for each traveler. The risk assessment ... Given the phenomenon of undocumented migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, some government officials and political candidates ... Individuals are added to the lists through airport screening processes. Individuals are potentially flagged if they have ... It assists the CBP officer's decision-making process about whether a passenger or crewmember should receive additional ...
Nonviolent video game
Studies have also shown that there are tangible benefits to violence in action games such as increased ability to process ... and research into the phenomenon which had begun during the 1980s received renewed support and interest. In December 2001, ... Violent Computer games boost brain processing power. The Times. 29 May 2003. Gamespot Game of the Year 2012. 25 December 2012. ... the image of violent video games in the process." Nelson was interviewed by ABC Radio on the subject in February of the same ...
Handsome (Handsome album)
Mengede had left Helmet in 1993 over disagreements with the songwriting process, and was in debt due to tax issues. Mengede ... phenomenon was taking over the country. Hanson. Handsome. The two were very similar sounding. What 'punk' fan would want to be ... Vocalist Jeremy Chatelain was discovered by the other members during a long auditioning process in New York. The band ...
Applause
A recent phenomenon in Britain and Israel, is the use of a minute's applause, which has come to replace the traditional ... who may be in the process of attempting a shot. Golf claps are sometimes used at other events to heckle or to show sarcasm. ...
Fieldnotes
Visually capturing a phenomenon requires the observer to pay more attention to every detail so as to not overlook anything. An ... This is particularly important early in the research process. Immediately trying to interpret events can lead to premature ... The notes are intended to be read as evidence that gives meaning and aids in the understanding of the phenomenon. Fieldnotes ... Considering the multiple competing demands on attention (the simultaneous observation, processing, and recording of rich ...
Resource curse
This process has been witnessed in multiple countries around the world including but not limited to Venezuela (oil), Angola ( ... The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the phenomenon of countries with an ... Dunning proposes Venezuela's democratic consolidation during the oil boom of the 1970s as a key example of this phenomenon. A ... Tang, Shiping; Xiong, Yihan; Li, Hui (2017-07-03). "Does Oil Cause Ethnic War? Comparing Evidence from Process-tracing with ...
Hibernation
Many experts believe that the processes of daily torpor and hibernation form a continuum and utilise similar mechanisms. The ... further research has been unable to reproduce this phenomenon. Despite the inability to induce torpor, there are substances in ...
Crystallization (love)
This transformative process actuates in terms of four steps along a journey: Admiration - one marvels at the qualities of the ... Here they discovered the phenomenon of salt "crystallization" and used it as a metaphor for human relationships. "In the salt ... Stendhal describes or compares the "birth of love" in a new relationship as being a process similar or analogous to a trip to ... This journey or crystallization process, shown above, was detailed by Stendhal on the back of a playing card while speaking to ...
Techno
This process will usually continue until a suitable multi-track arrangement has been produced. Once a single loop-based ... In 1993-94 rave became a mainstream music phenomenon in Germany, seeing with it a return to "melody, New Age elements, ... Acid house party fever escalated in London and Manchester, and it quickly became a cultural phenomenon. MDMA-fueled club goers ... Techno can consist of little more than cleverly programmed rhythmic sequences and looped motifs combined with signal processing ...
Kolmogorov-Zurbenko filter
For a complex-valued process X(t) = ei(2mν0)t , the KZFTm,k,ν0(t) outcome is unchanged. For a real-valued process, it ... and which represent a messy combination of several different physical phenomena. Clear answers can often be found for " ... If a process is stationary, its spectrum is a continuous form as well. It can be treated parametrically for simplicity of ... The iteration process of a simple operation of MA is very convenient computationally. The impulse response function of the ...
Politicization of science
Increasingly in recent decades, these fields have examined the process through which science and technology are shaped. Some of ... clouds and other climate phenomena". Subsequently, the Trump administration successfully nominated Jim Bridenstine, who had no ... Abortion would interrupt this process, leaving in the gland undifferentiated structures like those observed in the rat mammary ... the administration has often manipulated the process through which science enters into its decisions. This has been done by ...
Assassination of Gertrude of Merania
Gertrude's active role in the government as a queen was an unusual phenomenon in Hungary, which could be opposed by a group of ... The English playwright George Lillo also processed the story, but modified the plot at several points in his play Elmerick, or ...
Carl Ludwig
... on the process of urinary secretion as in all his subsequent work. Ludwig exercised enormous influence on the progress of ... and he sought to explain them by reference to the same laws as are applicable in the case of physical and chemical phenomena. ... he rejected the assumption that the phenomena of living animals depend on special biological laws and vital forces different ...
Strømme syndrome
Mutations in the gene result in slower cell division and some embryonic developmental processes being disrupted or not ... a phenomenon known as epistasis). It has been suggested that an interaction between CENPF and NDE1, which causes ... This allows the microtubules to pull the chromosomes apart in the process of dividing the cell. Mutations in this gene lead to ... in which the brain begins to fail to process input from the weaker eye during childhood. Those affected with the syndrome ...
Signalism
"Signalism is our parallel phenomena within the brackets of the most extreme avant-garde and that explains its international ... bringing valuable innovations and connecting Serbian art with the modern world's processes." (From the book The Keys of ...
Liquefied natural gas
The other method is the Linde process, with a variation of the Linde process, called the Claude process, being sometimes used. ... This phenomenon is also called auto-refrigeration. Boil-off gas from land based LNG storage tanks is usually compressed and fed ... Phillips' Cascade process is the second most-used, used in 10 trains with a total capacity of 36.16 MTPA. The Shell DMR process ... The majority of these trains use either APCI AP-C3MR or Cascade technology for the liquefaction process. The other processes, ...
Impact events on Jupiter
The process leading to the stain formation is unclear; scholars believe stains are mainly composed of debris. Small spots can ... The phenomena associated with an impact on a gas giant are mainly transitory in nature, and depend on the size of the impacting ... knowledge of such impacts is dependent upon direct and almost immediate observation of the event itself or of the phenomena ...