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AFF
AFF is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: the American Family Foundation, since 2004 renamed in International Cultic Studies AssociationAdultFanFiction.netAdult FriendFinderAspies For FreedomAccelerated FreefallAllied Fighting ForceAsean Football FederationArmy F..
AFFA
AFFA is four letter acronym which can stand for: Angels Forever, Forever Angels, a slogan of the Hells AngelsAssociation of Football Federations of AzerbaijanDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles asso..
Affair
An affair is usually a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit activity. It is usually a romantic relationship commonly of limited duration. In lieu of this context, it can also be used to describe a meeting or some sort of business that a person must take care of. For..
Affairs of the Heart
Affairs of the Heart is the fourth album by American pop singer Jody Watley, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music). Contents 1 Track listing2 Personnel3 Production4 Charts Track listing "I Want You" (André Cymone, Watley)"Call on Me" (Cymone, Watley)"I'm the One You Need" (..
Affairs of the Heart (TV series)
Affairs of the Heart was a 1985 sitcom created by actor Paul Daneman. It told the semi-autobiographical tale of Peter Bonamy (played by Derek Fowlds) who has a heart attack. (It was Daneman's own heart attack and convalescence that prompted him to write the series). After one pilot in 1983, the s..
Affairs of the Mind
Affairs Of The Mind is an award-winning radio documentary made by Melbourne, Australia, audio producer Kyla Brettle. The piece is a personal and confronting story exploring the nature of jealousy and the perimeters of infidelity. In an observational style we follow private detective Steve Murray th..
Affair in Trinidad
Affair in Trinidad film poster Affair in Trinidad is a 1952 film produced by Columbia Pictures starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It is notable as Hayworth's "comeback" film after four years away, as a reteaming of the Gilda (1946) co-stars, and for a fiery opening dance number by Hayworth..
Affair of the diamond necklace
The affair of the diamond necklace was a mysterious incident in the 1780s at the court of Louis XVI of France involving the queen Marie Antoinette. It concerned an unsavoury episode in which the wife of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, whose reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, was i..
Affair of the placards
The Affair of the Placards was an incident involving anti-Catholic posters which appeared in public places in Paris, France during the night of October 17, 1534. It marks the end of the conciliatory policies of Francis I, who had formerly attempted to protect the Protestants from the more extreme m..
Affalterbach
Affalterbach is a community in the Ludwigsburg (district) in Germany, near Stuttgart. Affalterbach is known for being the current location of Mercedes-AMG. ..
Affan ibn Wa'il
Affan ibn Wa'il or Affan ibn Abu al-As is the ancestor of a Sahaba. His father was Wa'il ibn Umayya aka Abu al-A'as ibn Umayya. He had two brother's, Abu al-Hakim ibn Wa'il (Abu Jahl?)and A'as ibn Wa'il. His son was Uthman ibn Affan. See also Family tree of Affan ibn Wa'ilSahaba External links htt..
Affari Tuoi
In Italy, Deal or No Deal is a big hit on leading TV station Rai Uno. The show is called Affari Tuoi, which literally translates to "Your Business", and is now hosted by Antonella Clerici, who presents also the Italian version of "Ready Steady Cook" (La prova del cuoco). The show was also hosted by ..
AFFA Supreme League
The AFFA Supreme League, or Yuksaq Liqa, is the major competition for club football in Azerbaijan. It was started in 1992, after the dissolution of USSR. Club season 2005-2006 FK BakuFK Ganclarbirliyi SumqayitFK GandjaFK Göyazan QazaxFK Inter BakouFK Karvan YevlaxFK Khazar LenkoranPFC NeftchiFK MK..
AFFCO Holdings
AFFCO Holdings Limited commonly referred to as AFFCO, is one of New Zealand's leading meat companies, having operated in this competitive and innovative sector of New Zealand’s primary sector since 1904. Citations Company Details sourced from Official Website, NZ Herald and published company an..
Affect
Affect may refer to: Affect (philosophy)Affect (psychology), a term used in psychological analysisAffect (sociology) or social affect [link]Affective science, the scientific study of emotionAny of several terms in abnormal psychology, including*Blunted affect *Affective flattening *Labi..
Affection
Affection (from Latin ad, and facere, meaning "to do something to") is an emotion that derives from the recognition of one's own values in the character of another. Contents 1 Popular usage2 Psychology3 Books4 See also5 References Popular usage It is popularly used to ..
Affectional action
Affectional action (or emotional action) is a social action caused by an emotion (revenge, love, loyalty, etc.). Those actions are taken due to one's emotions, to express personal feelings. For examples, cheering after a victory, crying at a funeral would be emotional actions. See also Forms of ..
Affectional bond
In psychology, the term affectional bond is a type of attachment behavior one individual has for another individual, typically a mother for her child, in which the two partners tend to remain in proximity to one another. The term was coined and subsequently developed over the course of four decades..
Affectional orientation
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Sexual orientationPart of sexology Common classifications Bisexuality Heterosexuality Homosexuality Other c..
Affection (album)
Affection is the sixth album by American pop singer Jody Watley, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). Contents 1 Track listing2 Personnel3 Production4 Charts Track listing "The Beat Don't Stop" (Derrick Edmondson, Glenn McKinney, Watley) - 4:44"Affection" (Edmondson, Watle..
Affection (Kumi Koda album)
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. affection was the first studio album released by Japanese R&B singer Kumi Koda. This first album of Kumi contains single like "Take Back" and ..
Affection (linguistics)
In Celtic linguistics, affection (or more precisely "i-affection") is the fronting of vowels in the main syllable of a word caused by an original front vowel in a suffix which may or may not still be present in the modern language. Affection is thus an example of i-mutation, and may be compared to ..
Affective
Affective means having to do with emotion it is most commonly used in psychology and psychiatry to describe emotions. The word affective is something of an opposite to cognitive. Psychological theory is that one half of the brain is affective or emotional. The other half of the brain is cognitive..
Affective computing
Affective computing is computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotion. The term "Affective Computing" was the title of an article by Professor Rosalind Picard at the MIT Media Lab in 1995. In the simple case, this may be a computational device helping communicate the em..
Affective design
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } The notion of affective design emerged from the fiel..
Affective engineering
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Affective Engineering is the conjoint expression of ..
Affective fallacy
Affective fallacy is a term from literary criticism used to refer to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader. The term was coined by W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley as a principle of New Criticism. The Concept First defined in an art..
Affective filter
An affective filter is a learning blockage due to a negative emotional ("affective") attitude. It is a hypothesis of second language acquisition, a field of interest of educational psychology. Although the term was made popular by linguist Stephen Krashen he himself stated it was invented by someone..
Affective forecasting
Affective forecasting is the forecasting of one's affect (emotional state) in the future. This kind of prediction is affected by various kinds of cognitive biases, i.e. systematic errors of thought. Daniel Gilbert of the department of social psychology at Harvard University and other researchers in ..
Affective neuroscience
Affective neuroscience is the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion. This interdisciplinary field combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. Contents 1 Brain areas related to emotion2 Relationship to cognitive neuroscience3 References..
Affective science
Affective science is the scientific study of emotion. Disciplines related to this interdisciplinary field include: Affective neurosciencePsychologyPsychophysiologyCognitive scienceAffective computing Further reading [Oxford University Press: Series in Affective Science] ..
Affective sensation
An affective sensation is a sensation accompanied with a strong compulsion to act on it, causing reflex actions such as the scratch reflex or the withdrawal reflex. Affective sensations are transmitted via the spinothalamic tract through the spinal cord. See also Central nervous system ..
Affective spectrum
The affective spectrum is a grouping of related psychiatric and medical disorders which may accompany bipolar, unipolar, and schizoaffective disorders at statistically higher rates than would normally be expected. These disorders are identified by a common positive response to the same types of pha..
Affect (philosophy)
"Affect" (latin affectus) is a concept used in philosophy by Spinoza and Deleuze. According to Ethics III, 3, Definition 3, an affect is an empowerment, and not a simple change or modification. Affects, according to Deleuze, are not simple affections, as they are independent from their subject. Art..
Affect (psychology)
redirect [[Template:Not verified]]In psychology, affect is the scientific term used to describe a subject's externally displayed mood. The use of this term grew out of a developing understanding on the part of researchers and clinical psychologists that subjects, including emotionally disturbed one..
Affect heuristic
The affect heuristic is a heuristic in which current affect influences decisions. Simply put, it is a 'rule of thumb' instead of a deliberative decision. It is one of the ways in which human beings show bias in making a decision, which may cause them to take action that is contrary to logic or self-..
Affect theory
In psychology, affect is an emotion or subjectively experienced feeling. Affect theory is a branch of psychoanalysis that attempts to organize affects into discrete categories and connect each one with its typical response. So, for example, the affect of joy is observed through the reaction of smili..
Affenpinscher
The Affenpinscher is a terrier-like toy breed of dog. Contents 1 Appearance2 Temperament3 Health4 History5 External links Appearance Weighing 7 to 8 pounds (3-4 kg) and not exceeding 11 inches (24-28 cm) in height at the withers, the Affenpinscher has harsh rough coat a..
Afferbeck Lauder
Afferbeck Lauder was the pseudonym used by Alastair Ardoch Morrison the compiler and author of humorous books about a supposed dialect of English, "Strine". The first was Let Stalk Strine (Ure Smith, Sydney, Australia, 1965) about the so-called "Australian Language", or Strine. It was followed..
Afferden
Afferden is the name of several villages in the Netherlands: Afferden (Limburg)Afferden (Gelderland) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to th..
Afferden (Gelderland)
The town centre (red) and the statistical district (light green) of Afferden in the municipality of Druten. Afferden ([51°53′N 5°38′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Druten, and lies about 10 km northwest of Wijchen. In 2001..
Afferden (Limburg)
Afferden ([51°38′N 6°1′E]) is a town in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen (L.), and lies about 25 km southeast of Nijmegen. In 2001, Afferden had 1656 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.44 km2, and contained 636 residences.Statis..
Afferent arterioles
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Afferent nerve
The mechanism of the reflex arc In the nervous system, afferent neurons--otherwise known as sensory or receptor neurons--carry nerve impulses from receptors or sense organs toward the central nervous system. This term can also be used to describe relative connections between nervous structures..
Affetside
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Affiant
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. An affiant is a person who makes and signs an affidavit. He recites certain facts that are, or might be in the..
Affiche Rouge
The Affiche Rouge. The Affiche Rouge ("Red Poster") was a famous Nazi propaganda poster during the Occupation regime in France. Background The twenty-three members of an urban guerrilla group led by Missak Manouchian, a part of the communist Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Imm..
Affidavit
An affidavit is a formal sworn statement of fact, signed by the declarant (who is called the affiant), and witnessed (as to the veracity of the affiant's signature) by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public. The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath. One use of affidavits is to a..
Affie Jarvis
Affie JarvisAustralia (AUS) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type - Tests First-class Matches 11 141 '''Runs scored 303 3161 Batting average 16.83 15.57 100s/50s 0/1 0/13 Top score 82 98* Balls bowled 0 100 Wickets 0 1 Bowling average ..
Affigato
An affigato is a coffee-based beverage or dessert. It usually consists of vanilla ice cream topped with a shot of hot espresso. "Affigato style", which refers to the act of topping a drink or dessert with espresso, may also incorporate caramel sauce or chocolate sauce. A "cafe affigato" is someti..
Affiliate
An affiliate is a commercial entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. Contents 1 Broadcast networks2 Electronic commerce3 Corporate structure4 Affiliate networks4.1 Use of affiliate links4.2 See also Broadcast networks In a radio network or TV n..
Affiliated Computer Services
Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) (NYSE: [ACS]) is a Fortune 500 company that provides information technology outsourcing as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. ACS is based in Dallas, Texas and the current CEO..
Affiliated Foods Midwest
Affiliated Foods Midwest is a retailers' cooperative based in Norfolk, Nebraska and Elwood, Kansas and serving the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota. It distributes Shurfine products, and is affi..
Affiliated Foods Southwest
Affiliated Foods Southwest is a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. It was founded in 1948 by C. E. "Doc" Toland, who had worked in a cooperative in Little Rock, Arkansas called Model Markets. It is a membe..
Affiliated Food Stores
Affiliated Food Stores was founded by the 1968 merger of South Plains Associated Grocers of Lubbock, Texas and the Panhandle Associated Grocers of Amarillo, Texas, and is a retailers' cooperative serving Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming. Panhandle Associated Groc..
Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement is a United States grassroots effort to produce public radio serving the needs and interests of low and moderate income Americans, with an emphasis on social justice issues. This effort was initiated by the community organization ACORN. KABF radio in Arkansa..
Affiliated operator
In mathematics, specifically in the theory of operator algebras, a closed linear operator a on a Hilbert space H is affiliated with a finite von Neumann algebra [\mathcal A \subset B(H)] if it commutes with every bounded operator on H that commutes with [\mathcal A]. In particul..
Affiliated trade union
In British politics, the term affiliated trade union refers to a trade union that has an affiliation to the British Labour Party. The Party was created by the trade unions and socialist societies in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee. Since then, the unions have retained close institution..
Affiliate manager
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Affiliate marketing
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Affiliate Networks
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Affiliate programs directories
Affiliate program directories are search engines for affiliate programs. According to James Marciano, who founded Refer-it.com in October 1997 because he could not find one central place for affiliate programs to generate revenue for his site, TheSquare.com. He decided what was needed was a sear..
Affiliating university
An affiliating university is one that sets courses of study, conducts examinations, and awards educational credentials, but leaves the chore of undergraduate instruction to an array of colleges; the affiliation, then, is between university and college. Most universities in India are of this type, a..
Affiliation
In law, affiliation (from Latin ad-filiare, to adopt as a son) is the procedure by which the paternity of an illegitimate child is determined, and the obligation of contributing to its support enforced. More modernly, it has also become a term to describe a partnership between two or more parties. ..
Affine
Affine may refer to: Affine geometry, a geometry not involving any notions of origin, length or angleAffine space, an abstract structure that generalises the affine-geometric properties of Euclidean spaceAffine combination, a certain kind of constrained linear combinationAffine transformation, a ..
Affine arithmetic
Affine arithmetic (AA) is a model for self-validated numerical analysis. In AA, the quantities of interest are represented as affine combinations (affine forms) of certain primitive variables, which stand for sources of uncertainty in the data or approximations made during the computation. Affine ..
Affine cipher
The Affine cipher is a special case of the more general substitution cipher. It is monoalphabetic and symmetric. It is one of the most confusing form of codes devised, the sender can easily determine how many numbers he/she wants to change the code by, but this makes it far harder for the receiver ..
Affine combination
In mathematics, an affine combination of vectors x1, ..., xn is a linear combination [ \sum_^ \cdot x_} = \alpha_ x_ + \alpha_ x_ + \cdots +\alpha_ x_ ] in which the sum of the coefficients is 1, thus: [\sum_^ }=1 ]. Here the vectors are supposed to lie in given vector space ..
Affine connection
An affine connection is a connection on the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold. In general, it might have non vanishing torsion. Contents 1 Affine connections and parallel transport2 Affine connections and covariant differentiation3 Affine connections as Cartan connections..
Affine curvature
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Affine geometry
In geometry, affine geometry is geometry not involving any notions of origin, length or angle, but with the notion of subtraction of points giving a vector. It occupies a place intermediate between Euclidean geometry and projective geometry. It is the geometry of affine space, of a given dimension..
Affine group
In mathematics, the affine group of any affine space over a field K is the group of all invertible affine transformations from the space into itself. It is the semidirect product of Kn and GL(n, k). It is a Lie group if K is the real or complex field. A possible matrix representation of an affine..
Affine hull
In mathematics, the affine hull of a set S in Euclidean space Rn is the smallest affine set containing S, or equivalently, the intersection of all affine sets containing S. Here, an affine set may be defined as the translation of a vector subspace. The affine hull aff(S) of S is the set of all aff..
Affine involution
In Euclidean geometry, of special interest are involutions which are linear or affine transformations over the Euclidean space Rn. Such involutions are easy to characterize and they can be described geometrically. Linear involutions To give a linear involution is the same as giving a square matrix ..
Affine Lie algebra
In mathematics, an affine Lie algebra is a Kac–Moody algebra whose generalized Cartan matrix is positive semi definite (and which has no finite-dimensional direct summands). The representation theory of affine Lie algebras is much better understood than that of general Kac–Moody algebras. C..
Affine logic
A substructural logic that denies the structural rule of contraction. It can also be characterized as linear logic with weakening. Affine logic can be embedded into linear logic by rewriting the affine arrow [A \rightarrow B] as the linear arrow [A B \otimes \top]. Whereas ful..
Affine pricing
In economics, affine pricing is a situation where buying more than zero of a good gains a fixed benefit or cost, and each purchase after that gains a per-unit benefit or cost. Where: T is the total price paid, q is the quantity in units purchased, p is a constant price per unit, k is the fixed co..
Affine representation
An affine representation of a topological (Lie) group G is a continuous (smooth) homomorphism from G to the automorphism group of an affine space, A. An example is the action of the Euclidean group E(n) upon the Euclidean space En. Since the affine group in dimension n is a matrix group in dimensi..
Affine space
In mathematics, an affine space is an abstract structure that generalises the affine-geometric properties of Euclidean space. In an affine space, one can subtract points to get vectors, or add a vector to a point to get another point, but one cannot add points, since there is no origin. One-dimensi..
Affine transformation
In geometry, an affine transformation or affine map (from the Latin, affinis, "connected with") between two vector spaces consists of a linear transformation followed by a translation: [x \mapsto A x+ b.] In the finite-dimensional case each affine transformation is given by a matrix A and..
Affing
Affing is a municipality in Aichach-Friedberg district, in Bavaria, southern Germany. The municipality covers an area of 44.85 km². Of the total population of 5,140, 2,591 are male, 2,248 are female, and 301 are of indeterminate status (Dec 31, 2003). The population density of the communi..
Affinia Hotels
Affinia Hospitality is a privately owned upscale hotel chain in the New York City and Chicago area. The hotel chain has nine hotels in Manhattan and one in Chicago. Four of the Manhattan hotels are under the Affinia name, another Four have private names but are still operated by Affinia Hotels. O..
Affinity
Affinity may refer to: Affinity (law), kinship by marriageAffinity (canon law), a relationship arising from the sexual intercourse of a man and a womanChemical affinityElectron affinityProcessor affinityAffinity laws, in hydraulics, used to express the relationship between variables involved in p..
Affinity (canon law)
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.In Canon law, affinity is a relationship arising from the sexual intercourse of a man and a woman, sufficient for..
Affinity (Christian organisation)
Affinity (formerly known as the British Evangelical Council), is an organisation that links together evangelical churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There are around 1200 church congregations linked to Affinity. Affinity's ancillary title is "Church-centred Partnership for Bible-centred Chr..
Affinity (law)
In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished from consanguinity, is kinship by marriage. It is the relation which each party to a marriage, the husband and wife, bears to the kindred of the other. Affinity is usually described as of three kinds. (1) Direct: that relationship whi..
Affinity (Stargate SG-1)
"Affinity" }||}}} }|episode list=|overridean=}} episode }|episode list=}} of the science fiction}}} television series Stargate SG-1}}}. Plot } Teal'c learns about human culture by full immersion, renting an apartment outside of the SGC and interacting with normal members of human society, but his d..
Affinity chromatography
A chemist using column chromatographic apparatus in the mid-1950s Affinity chromatography is a method of separating biochemical mixtures, based on a highly specific biologic interaction such as that between antigen and antibody, enzyme and substrate, or receptor and ligand. Affinity chromatog..
Affinity credit card scheme
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } An affinity credit card scheme is a group scheme whe..
Affinity fraud
Affinity fraud refers to investment frauds that prey upon members of identifiable groups, such as religious or ethnic communities, the elderly, or professional groups. The fraudsters who promote affinity scams frequently are - or pretend to be - members of the group. They often enlist respected comm..
Affinity group
The anti-war affinity group "Collateral Damage". All seven were convicted on December 4, 2002 of 2nd Degree Criminal Trespass for occupying the office of Senator Allard in protest of the war in Iraq An affinity group is a small group of activists (usually from 3-20) who work together on dir..
Affinity label
Affinity label is a molecule that is similar in structure to a particular substrate for a specific enzyme. It is considered to be a class of irreversible inhibitors. These molecules covalently modify active site residues in order to illicit the structure of the active site. ..
Affinity laws
The affinity laws are used in hydraulics to express the mathematical relationship between the several variables (such as head, volumetric flow rate, speed and power) involved in pump and fan performance, and are also used to compare different pumps or fans with each other. They apply to all types o..
Affinity mask
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } An Affinity Mask is a bit mask indicating what proce..
Affinity maturation
The process by which B-cells produce antibodies with increased affinity for antigen. This is done by a combination of somatic hypermutation and affinity based selection. Affinity maturation process is effective in the second humeral response : affinity of antibodies is 100-1000 times higher for the..
Affin Bank
Affin Bank is the 10th largest anchor bank in Malaysia. It is not so popular in Malaysia, as many Malaysians prefer to choose Maybank and/or Public Bank in which both are rivals. External links [Affin Bank homepage] ..
Affin Bank Berhad
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Affirm
In law, to affirm is: To assert or promise under penalty of perjury (see affirmation).In an appeal, to uphold the judgement of the lower court. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish..
Affirmation
For other senses of this word, see affirmation (disambiguation). An affirmation (from Latin affirmare, to assert) is the declaration that something is true. In logic, an affirmation is a positive judgment, the union of the subject and predicate of a proposition. In law, an affirmation is a solemn..
Affirmation, The B-Sides
Savage Garden only released this in Japan and the CD contained 5 B-Sides from the Affirmation album. Track listing Affirmation - Groovy MixI Knew I Loved You - Mini-Me MixI Knew I Loved You - Eddie's Rhythm Radio MixTwo Beds And A Coffee Machine - Piano And Vocal MixI Don't Care - Original Versio..
Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons
LGBT movements Around the world · · · Opposition · Violence Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons is an international organization for Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, and Intersex people who identify as members or ex-members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte..
Affirmation (album)
Affirmation is the second album by Australian pop duo Savage Garden released on November 9, 1999 (see 1999 in music). Affirmation was also re-released in 2000 in Australia and the United Kingdom with a bonus live disc Declaration featuring songs recorded at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre over 2..
Affirmation (Beverley Knight album)
Affirmation is the title of the fourth album from UK Soul Queen Beverley Knight, released in 2004. Contents 1 Album details2 Track listing2.1 Main Personnel3 Singles3.1 Videos3.2 Single Details Album details Affirmation is title of the fourth album from UK Soul Q..
Affirmation (disambiguation)
Affirmation can refer to several things: an affirmation is a declaration that something is true.Nietzsche opposed the affirmation of life to its negation by nihilists.the name of several music albums:*Affirmation (album) by Savage Garden*Affirmation (Beverley Knight album) by Beverley Knightthe name..
Affirmation (song)
"Affirmation" is a song by Savage Garden. It is the second single of the album of the same name. The music video is a collection of clips from a tour in Brisbane called "Superstars and Cannonballs". ..
Affirmation of Marriage Act (Virginia)
Virginia's Affirmation of Marriage Act dates from 1997, and prohibits marriage between same-sex couples in that state. On 1 July 2005, in accordance with House Bill 751, the Act was modified so as to further prohibit civil unions and domestic partnerships between persons of the same sex. The extra ..
Affirmative (policy debate)
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Affirmative action
This arrangement has the greatest impact on young people, while maintaining the status and position of established members of society. This overall framework was established by Presidential Decree in March 1961 by President Kennedy, but has evolved significantly. Disputes specific to the US Opp..
Affirmative Action Around the World
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study is a 2004 nonfiction work by economist Thomas Sowell. Already known as a critic of affirmative action or race-based hiring and promotion, Sowell, himself African-American, analyzes the specific effects of such policies on India, Malaysia, Sr..
Affirmative action bake sale
Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles An affirmative action bake sale is a controversial campus event used by student groups to illustrate their criticism of affirmative action policies, especially as they relate to college and graduate school admissions. The goal of the technique..
Affirmative Apartheid
Affirmative Apartheid is the only release by hatecore band, Vaginal Jesus. Compiled from four various recording sessions, it demonstrates quite competent musicianship with a variety of memorable riffs, beats and politically incorrect lyrics. The album was initially distributed by Resistance Record..
Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
Affirmative conclusion from a negative premise is a logical fallacy that is committed when a categorical syllogism has a positive conclusion, but one or two negative premises. For example: No fish are dogs, and no dogs can fly, therefore all fish can fly. It is a fallacy because any valid forms o..
Affirmative defense
An affirmative defense is a defense used in litigation between private parties in common law jurisdictions, and is, more commonly, a defense raised in criminal law by the defendant . Affirmative defenses work to limit or excuse a defendant's criminal culpability or civil liability, even if the plai..
Affirmed
This article is about the racehorse. For the concept in law and other fields, see affirmation. Affirmed, (February 21,1975 – January 12, 2001) was an American thoroughbred race horse that won the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1978, only the 11th horse to accomplish the feat. As of 2006, h..
Affirming a disjunct
The logical fallacy of affirming a disjunct also known as the fallacy of the alternative disjunct occurs when a deductive argument takes either of the two following forms: A or B A Therefore, it is not the case that B A or B B Therefore, it is not the case that A The fallacy lies in concluding th..
Affirming Catholicism
Affirming Catholicism is a movement operating in several provinces of the Anglican Communion, most notably in the UK & Ireland and North America (where it is known as Affirming Anglican Catholicism or AAC). It represents the liberal strand of Anglo-Catholicism. It is particularly noted for its lib..
Affirming the antecedent
Affirming the antecedent is a valid argument form which proceeds by affirming the truth of the first part (the "if" part, commonly called the antecedent) of a conditional, and concluding that the second part (the "then" part, commonly called the consequent) is true. It is commonly referred to as Mo..
Affirming the consequent
Affirming the consequent is a logical fallacy in the form of a hypothetical proposition. Propositionally speaking, Affirming the Consequent is the logical equivalent of assuming the converse of a statement to be true. The fallacy of affirming the consequent occurs when a hypothetical proposition c..
Affix
An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a base morpheme such as a root or to a stem, to form a word. Affixes may be derivational, like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed. Contents 1 Types of affixes2 Lexical affixes3 See also4&nb..
Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattice
In linguistics, the affix grammars over a finite lattice (AGFL) formalism is a notation for context-free grammars with finite set-valued features, acceptable to linguists of many different schools. The AGFL-project aims at the development of a technology for Natural Language Processing available u..
Affi N'Guessan
Pascal Affi N'Guessan (b. 1953) was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from 27 October 2000 to 10 February 2003. He was appointed by Laurent Gbagbo, the President of Côte d'Ivoire. Before this, he was the Minister of Industry and Tourism. N'Guessan is a member of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI..
Afflatus
Afflatus is a Latin term derived from Cicero (in On Divination) that has been translated as "inspiration." Cicero's usage was a literalizing of "inspiration," which had already become figurative. Literally, "inspiration," like "afflatus," means "to be blown into" by a divine wind. As "inspiration..
Affleck
Affleck may refer to: Ben Affleck, American actorCasey Affleck, American actorEdmund Affleck, admiral, writerPhilip Affleck, admiral Affleck, Aberdeenshire This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, y..
Affleck's Palace
Affleck's Palace is a building located on the corner of Church Street and Tib Street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester in England. Mainly people who listen to rock, punk, grunge and heavy metal shop in the building. Gothic and alternative stores are available here. It caters mainly for students..
Affleck, Aberdeenshire
Affleck is a village in the Scottish council area of Aberdeenshire. ..
Affliction
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An affliction is something which causes someone physical or mental suffering. Affliction is a title of several works of fiction: Affliction (1997 movie), a 1997 film based on the 1989 novel by Russell Banks"Affliction (Enterprise ..
Affliction (Enterprise episode)
"Affliction" is the title of a [[Star Trek: Enterprise]] television episode from season four. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Preceded by:The Aenar [[List of Star Trek: Enterprise episodes|Star Trek: Enterprise episodes]] Followed by:Divergence ..
Affliction (film)
Affliction is a 1997 film written and directed by Paul Schrader from the novel by Russell Banks. It stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt and Jim True. It tells the story of Wade Whitehouse (Nolte), a small-town policeman with a violent, alcoholic father (Cobur..
Affligem
Affligem is a municipality located some 20 km west-north-west of Brussels in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, not far from the town of Aalst and the important railway junction of Denderleeuw. The municipality comprises the villages of Essene, Hekelgem and Teralfene. On 1 January 2006 it had..
Affligem Abbey
Affligem Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Belgium. Dedicated in 1086, it was the most important monastery in the Duchy of Brabant and therefore often called Primaria Brabantiae. Contents 1 First foundation2 Second foundation3 Abbots4 External link First foundation The fir..
Affluence (KCR)
Affluence (澤豐) is a station on the KCR Light Rail in Tuen Mun, the New Territories, Hong Kong. It serves Affluence Garden. It belongs to Zone 2 for single-ride ticket. Routes 610: Yuen Long to Ferry Pier751: Tin Yat to Yau Oi [[http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit]] Stations of the KCR o..
Affluenza
Affluenza is a term used by critics of consumerism. It is a portmanteau word formed by the contraction of affluence and influenza. Sources define this term as follows:- affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged..
Affoltern
There are communities in Switzerland named Affoltern: Affoltern am Albis, in the Canton of ZürichAffoltern im Emmental, in the Canton of Bern In 1934 another community, called Affoltern bei Zürich, merged with the city of Zurich. Today this part of the city is called Zurich-Affoltern. See also: ..
Affoltern im Emmental
Affoltern im Emmental is a municipality in the Swiss district of Trachselwald in the canton of Berne. The hamlets of Weier, Rinderbach, Eggerdingen, Heiligenland and Hirsegg belong to Affoltern im Emmental. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Transportation1.2 Etymology2 External links3&..
Affonso Celso Pastore
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Affonso Celso Pastore (born June, 19 1939) is an imp..
Affonso Giaffone
Affonso Giaffone (born April 6, 1968, Santos, Brazil), is a former driver in the Indy Racing League. He raced in the 1996-1997 seasons with 8 career starts, including the 1997 Indianapolis 500. His best career finish was in 4th position at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1997. ..
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna (born March 27th, 1937 in Belo Horizonte), is a Brazilian writer. Background He was a professor of Brazilian Literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper. In 1971 he married Marina Colasanti, a Brazilian journalist an..
Affordable housing
Affordable housing is a dwelling where the total housing costs are affordable to those living in that housing unit. In the United States, a commonly accepted guideline for housing affordability is a housing cost that does not exceed 30% of a household's gross income. Housing costs considered in th..
Affordance
An affordance is a property of an object, or a feature of the immediate environment, that indicates how to interface with that object or feature. The empty space within an open doorway, for instance, affords movement across that threshold. A couch affords the possibility of sitting down on it. Wor..
Afforestation
Afforestation is the process of converting open land into a forest by planting trees or their seeds. Since the industrial revolution many countries have experienced centuries of deforestation, and governments and global organisations directly engage in programs of reafforestation (the restocking o..
Affo Erassa
Affo Erassa (born 19 February 1983) in Lomé, Togo is an Togolese football midfielder, who currently, as of May 2006, plays for AS Moulins. He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. ..
Affpuddle
Affpuddle is a village in Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley nine miles east of Dorchester. The village has a population of 402 (2001). The village is just north of the Purbeck conifer plantations and heathland, and is situated in a valley beside the villages of Tolpuddle and Puddletow..
Affranchi
French colonial Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) had three social classes devised to maintain and inflict slavery: French planters, affranchi landholders, and African slaves. The affranchi were light-skinned (mulattoes) free persons of color, the offspring of white French Slavers and African women who h..
Affray
Contents 1 Affray in English Law2 Ramifications3 References4 Other Information Affray in English Law In English Law Affray forms part of the Public Order Act 1986 under section 3. The Public Order Act 1986 s.3 states: 1) A person is guilty of Affray if he uses or threatens ..
Affreightment
Affreightment (from freight) is a legal term used in shipping. Contract of Affreightment is the expression usually employed to describe the contract between a shipowner and some other person called the freighter, by which the shipowner agrees to carry goods of the freighter in his ship, or to give ..
Affretair
Affretair (National Cargo Airline of Zimbabwe) was a cargo airline based in Zimbabwe. History Affretair was formed by Jack Malloch as Air Trans Africa in 1964. It operated Super Constellation, Douglas DC-7 and Douglas DC-4 aircraft at various times. Affretair was formed when a Douglas DC-8 aircr..
Affricate consonant
Manners of articulation Obstruent Click Plosive Ejective Implosive Affricate Fricative Sibilant Sonorant Nasal Flaps/Tap Trill Approximant Liquid Vowel Semivowel Lateral This page contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not display correctly in some brow..
Affront
The Affront are a species found in the science fiction novel Excession by Iain M. Banks. Originally named after their homeworld, Issorile, their current name was given to them by another Involved species - the Padressahl - after they ate the members of a Padressahl trade mission to Issorile. They ..
AFFS
AFFS may be: Amiga Fast File System (FFS)Armed Forces of the Federated Suns This page expands a four-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a call sign, a word in English, or a word in another language. If an referred you to this page, you ..
Affton, Missouri
Affton is an unincorporated census-designated place located in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, the community had a total population of 20,535. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 History3.1 The 1800s3.1.1 The early settlers3.1.2 MacKenzie land..
Affton High School
Affton High School is the only public high school in unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri. Located in Affton, AHS is part of the Affton School District headquartered at the Affton School District Administration Building on Mackenzie Road. The Administration Building, formerly McKenzie School, i..
Affusion
Affusion is a method of Christian baptism where water is poured on the head of the person being baptized. The word "affusion" is rooted in the Latin word affusio meaning "to pour on" [link]. Affusion is typically contrasted with baptism by total immersion and baptism by sprinkling (aspe..
Affymetrix
Affymetrix Logo Affymetrix NASDAQ: [AFFX] was founded by Stephen P.A. Fodor, Ph.D. and others in the late 1980s with the revolutionary idea to use semiconductor manufacturing techniques to create GeneChips (an Affymetrix trademark) or generically DNA microarrays. The company has an im..
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