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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode Pop group For the Record … Selected discography Sources Depeche Mode, a group of post-punk pop performers who broke new ground in t... Read more |
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mode (statistics)
mode in statistics, an infrequently used type of average . In a group of numbers the mode is the number occurring most frequently. In the group 1, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 9, 9, the mode is 6 because it occurs four times and the others only once or twice.... Read more |
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social formation
Formation, Social RECENT INTERPRETATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY Social formation is a Marxist concept referring to the concrete, historical articulation between the capitalist mode of production, persisting precapitalist modes of production, and the institutional context of the economy. The theory of... Read more |
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Mode of Production
Mode of Production RELATIONS AND FORCES OF PRODUCTION HISTORY AND STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT CAPITALISM BIBLIOGRAPHY The term mode of production derives from the work of Karl Marx (1818–1883), and the concept has played a significant role in subsequent Marxist theory. Mode of production... Read more |
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mode (music)
mode in music. 1 A grouping or arrangement of notes in a scale with respect to a most important note (in the pretonal modes of Western music, this note is called the final or finalis ), and the patterns of larger and smaller steps (in Western music, whole and half steps) which these notes... Read more |
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Speech
SPEECH Speech consists of the sounds that humans produce, most often for the purpose of expressing language orally. Speech is just one mode of expressive language; other modes are writing and the production of manual signs. Very generally, language is a system of symbols that humans use to... Read more |
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average
average number used to represent or characterize a group of numbers. The most common type of average is the arithmetic mean . See median ; mode .... Read more |
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Asynchronous transfer mode
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) The physical infrastructure supporting data communications has improved its ability to transmit data quickly with advances such as optical fibers. As this physical capacity increases, there is a need to utilize effectively the ... Read more |
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Visual
VISUAL As an adjective, the term visual designates what is perceptible in the field that presents itself to the eye. As a noun, the visual involves the way in which the psychical apparatus organizes this perceptual data. As early as his study on aphasia (1891b), Freud emphasized the importance of... Read more |
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Deuterostomes
Deuterostomia The name sometimes given to a number of animal phyla (Chordata, Hemichordata, Pogonophora, Echinodermata, and Chaetognatha) thought by many to share a common ancestry. The name indicates the mode of formation of the mouth opening in embryogeny: the first embryonic opening (the... Read more |
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Wright, Frank Lloyd
...architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. Opening his own practice in 1893, Wright in 1900 developed his “Prairie House,” the first truly American mode of dwelling appropriate to the emerging suburban residential communities. During this prolific... |
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Postal Service, U.S.
...of mail grew from 7 billion pieces in 1900 to 85 billion in 1970. The number of post offices peaked at 76,688 in 1900, dropping to 32,002 in 1970. Between...supplanted the U.S. mails as a favored mode of communication. The future of the... |
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Dairy Industry and Dairy Products
...yields per cow had nearly doubled, averaging 3,883 lbs. by 1900.Technical advances in milk processing and distribution brought hand...acquisitions, rather than direct investments, were the most economical modes of expansion and in 1923 the National Dairy Products Company... |
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Maritime Transport
...and 1830s. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, new modes of transportation created new markets and greatly diversified...competition, the railroads soon captured most of their markets. By 1900, U.S. ships were carrying only a small percentage of the... |
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Asian‐American Theatre and Drama
...barriers and the marked dissimilarity of Eastern music to Western modes have, of course, been major obstacles, but the whole approach...middle of the 19th century but rarely were widely visible. By 1900 there were professional opera houses in New York and Boston... |
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Corporatism
...approach advocated by the National Civic Federation (founded in 1900) and later by Herbert Hoover, who, as secretary of commerce...yet even in the United States development, the “cooperative mode” then in vogue meant an enlarged role for private organizations... |
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Grain Processing Industry
...Hungary in 1873, marked another key technological advance. After 1900, bleaching processes improved quality and ended the adulteration...alum or chalk.Minneapolis's preeminence also reflected new modes of business operation, mass production, aggressive marketing... |
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Strindberg, (Johann) August
...which has been seen as an anticipation of Sartre. In this mode he explored his conception of spiritual reality in Advent (1898...in Brott och brott (Crimes and Crimes); in Påsk (Easter, 1900); and supremely in Dodsdansen I–II (The Dance of Death... |
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Public Health
...whose noxious “miasmas,” they believed, caused most epidemics. (In 1900 an army medical team led by Dr. Walter Reed at last discovered yellow fever's mode of transmission: the Aëdes egypti mosquito.)By midcentury, local governments... |
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Surrealism
...first Surrealist Manifesto. It was conceived as a revolutionary mode of thought and action, concerned with politics, philosophy...members including D. Gascoyne, H. Read, Roland Penrose (1900–84), and the documentary film-maker Humphrey Jennings... |
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United States of America
...growing number of immigrants after 1900 came from non-Western and...discrimination against minorities.1900–1933The potential power of...of the twentieth century. By 1900 the USA had overtaken the UK...the application of rational modes of government. This was ... |
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scale
...in the Church's plainsong and in folk song, see modes. Two of these ancient modes remained in use by composers, when the other 10...the chief material of music from about AD 1600 to 1900) run as follows:The major and minor scales are... |
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musicology
...incl. folksongs, folk dances, etc.); rhythm and metrics; modes and scales; the principles and development of instrs.; orchestration...terminology—and so forth.The International Mus. Soc. (IMS, 1900–14) had as its purpose the promotion of musicological study... |
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Nokia Launches World's First Dual-Mode GSM 1900/AMPS Wireless Phone.
...times Nokia, a world leader in digital technologies, today introduced the Nokia 6190, the world's first dual-mode capable GSM 1900/AMPS wireless phone. The Nokia 6190 is part of the company's new 6100 series -- Nokia's next generation... |
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BRITAIN 1900.
...telegraph, that was the main mode of public communication in 1900, with patriotic music hall songs...and the reign. At the end of 1900 it appeared in gold print, complete...journalism' was no longer new in 1900, but Harmsworth, `the Napoleon... |
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Kyocera Wireless Corp. Expands 2100 Series with Introduction of Single-Mode...
...2119. The Kyocera 2119 is a single-mode 1900 MHz PCS Code Division Multiple Access...partners who only require single-mode PCS functionality, the Kyocera 2119...Wireless Corp. "This phone's single-mode architecture allows us to reduce our... |
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Sony Ericsson goes i-mode [Sony Ericsson].
...phone to offer full support for i-mode, called K610im. The company said...to 60 tracks. The phone is dual mode UMTS and general packet radio service, or GPRS, 900/1800/1900 handset for i-mode markets in Europe, Asia Pacific... |
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Nokia launches world's first tri-mode/dual band CDMA digital phone; The new...
...launch the world's first tri-mode/dual band CDMA phone at CTIA...Nokia Mobile Phones. "Tri-mode offers increased revenue opportunities...Nokia 6162(tri-mode TDMA 1900/800/AMPS), and the new Nokia 6185 (tri-mode CDMA ... |
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Ericsson Launches the T18d, the Smallest Tri-Mode Mobile Phone; The Ultimate...
...T18d mobile phone with the latest in tri-mode technology for TDMA systems, which means...populated urban areas. It operates in digital mode in the 800 and 1900 MHz frequency bands and in analog mode in the 800 MHz range. The T18d has a built... |
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Kyocera Wireless Corp. Announces New CDMA Module Product Line; Tri-Mode CDMA...
...first of a series of CDMA tri-mode wireless modules. The new product...Smartphone. The module's tri-mode capability (CDMA PCS 1900 MHz, CDMA digital 800 MHz and...or system. In addition to tri-mode call processing, the Kyocera CDMA... |
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Samsung Expands Presence in Canadian Wireless Phone Market With New...
...SCH-2530 dual-band/tri-mode handset gives users the ability...productivity tools. The tri-mode SCH-2530 operates on CDMA 1900 MHz and 800 MHz digital PCS networks...hours of standby time in digital mode, and the extended battery provides... |
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Sony Ericsson shows new i-mode handset, K610im.(Brief article)
Sony Ericsson showed its first 3Gcapable i-mode handset, the K610im. The handset is offered...to transfer the tracks. The K610im is a dual-mode UMTS (2100MHZ)-GPRS 900/1800/1900 handset in Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle... |
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Sony Ericsson shows new i-mode handset, K610im.(MOBILE PHONES)(Brief article)
...Sony Ericsson showed its first 3G-capable i-mode handset, the K610im. The handset is offered...to transfer the tracks. The K610im is a dual-mode UMTS (2100MHZ)-GPRS 900/1800/1900 handset in Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle... |
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