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B(if)tek
B(if)tek is an Australian electronic music duo comprising Kate Crawford and Nicole Skeltys, originally from Canberra, who have released three albums as of 2005. Contents 1 Discography1.1 Albums2 See also3 External links Discography Albums Frequencies Will Move Together (2003..
BIF
BIF may refer to: Balance in FullBanded iron formationBenevolence International FoundationBuild Information File, an XML file which defines build targets when building code.Brabrand IFBrøndby IFBurundian franc, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Burundi ..
Biface
Flint biface from Saint-Acheul, France. (20 cm high) In archaeology, a biface is a two-sided stone tool, manufactured through a process of lithic reduction, that displays flake scars on both sides. A profile view of the final product tends to exhibit a lenticular shape (i.e., as a convex lense)..
Bifenthrin
Bifenthrin or (2-methyl-1,1-biphenyl-3-y1)-methyl-3-(2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro-1-propenyl)-2,2-dimethyl cyclopropanecarboxylate (CAS number 82657-04-3) is a pyrethroid insecticide that affects the nervous system of insects. Products containing bifenthrin include Talstar, Capture, and Bifenthrine. Th..
BiFest
A BiFest is a one-day festival celebrating bisexuality, with workshops and discussions during the day and social events in the evening, complementing the larger convention [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiCon_%28UK%29 BiCon]]. Bifest it is not an exclusivly "bisexual" event, in fact attendees may id..
Biff
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. biff is a mail notification system for UNIX. Contents 1 Usage2 Mechanism3 Replacements4 Variant5 Origin and name U..
Biffa Bacon
Biffa Bacon is a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz. Biffa and his family—Mutha and Fatha(real names Vermintrude and Basha) —hail from the Tyneside region of North East England and speak in the Geordie dialect. They occupy a surreal world entirely governed by physical vi..
Biffco
Biffco is the name of a fictional company in the Back to the Future series. It is featured in Back to the Future Part II, and exists in the alternate timeline known as 1985A. The company's founder and CEO is Biff Tannen. Biff had become a millionaire after betting on sports games he already had the..
Biffeche
Biffeche or Bifeche was the early name for a medium-sized island (Isle de Bifeche) in the delta of the Senegal River in West Africa, some two miles upstream from the island of N'Dar on which Saint-Louis, Senegal [link] was founded. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion o..
Biffer
Biffer is a cricketing slang term for an attacking batsman. A biffer is the opposite of a blocker, being a defending player. In earlier times (particularly pre-World War Two) cricketers were either amateur (Gentlemen) or professional (Players). Typically, but not universally, amateurs would be "bi..
BIFFEX
BIFFEX - The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange - was a London-based exchange for trading ocean freight futures contracts with settlement based on the Baltic Freight Index. It started trading dry cargo freight futures contracts in 1985, and was modestly successful for some years. All cont..
BIFFO
BIFFO is an insulting slang term for residents of County Offaly in Ireland. It is most commonly applied by the satirical media to Brian Cowen, the Irish Minister for Finance. The term is an acronym of Big Ignorant Fucker From (county) Offaly. Its believed to have originated at a function in New Y..
Biffontaine
Biffontaine is a village in the valley of the River Neuné, near Bruyères, in France. It is the centre of a commune in the Vosges département. It has never hard more than a few hundred inhabitants, and is centred around the church of Saint-Antoine. In the Second World War, it was liberated fr..
Biffo the Bear
Biffo the Bear was a fictional character who had his own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. Biffo was an anthropomorphic bear who gained the front cover of the comic starting from issue 327, dated 24 January 1948, replacing Big Eggo. His human friend Buster appeared with him a few years later in..
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro are an alternative music trio, formed in 1995 in Ayrshire, Scotland. Contents 0.1 History0.2 Genre & Influences0.3 Chart success0.4 The Phrase0.5 Media coverage0.6 Literary Influences0.7 Side-projects0.8 New Album1 Team Biffy2 Discog..
Biff Byford
Peter "Biff" Byford, (born on 5 January, 1951, in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England) is an English vocalist with heavy metal band Saxon, formed in Barnsley, England in 1976, with guitarists Graham Oliver and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson, and drummer Pete Gill. ..
Biff Henderson
James "Biff" Jackson Henderson Jr. (Born: October 3, 1946 in Durham, North Carolina, USA) is an American television personality who is best known for his work on The Late Show with David Letterman as a stage manager. Born James, he acquired the nickname Biff from his mother when her friend had a ..
Biff Rose
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Biff Slamkovich
Biff Slamkovich (Aleksey Zalazof in Japan) is a video game character created by Capcom, and is the main protagonist of the Slam Masters series. Contents 1 Vital statistics2 Background3 Trivia4 See also Vital statistics Catch Copies: Red Lion, The Rocking RuskieHeight: 193cm..
Biff Tannen
Biff Tannen is a fictional character, the main villain in the Back to the Future motion picture trilogy, played in the three films and the ride, and voiced in the [[Back to the Future: the Animated Series|animated series]] by Thomas F. Wilson. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and..
Biff the Understudy
Biff the Understudy is a minor character in BioWare's Baldur's Gate game series--in fact, very minor, since in the first game and its expansion, he could only appear as the result of a bug: If a certain creature was supposed to say something, but due to an oversight or strange occurrence happened to..
Biff Thundersaur
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Bifidobacteriaceae
Bifidobacteriaceae is a family of bacteria, in the order of Bifidobacteriales. Genera BifidobacteriumFalcivibrioGardnerella External link http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/111709.htm ..
Bifidobacteriales
Bifidobacteriales is a order of bacteria, in the subclass of Actinobacteridae. Families Bifidobacteriaceae External link http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/111575.htm ..
Bifidobacterium
Bifidobacterium is a genus of anaerobic bacteria and a form of probiotic that is thought to have health-promoting properties for humans. Bifidobacteria are one of the major strains of bacteria that make up the gut flora, the bacteria that reside in the colon and have health benefits for their hos..
Bifidus digestivum
Bifidus Digestivum, also known as Bifidus Regularis, Bifidobacterium Lactis, Bifidus Essensis and Bifidus Activo is an additive in Activia Yoghurt. These are trade names of the Bifidobacterium animalis strain number DN 173 010, from the Danone company (known as Dannon in the US), used in their pro..
Bifidus Factor
Bifidus Factor (methyl-N-acetyl D-glucosamine) is a specific factor that promotes the growth of Lactobacillus bifidus. The bifidus factor is present in human milk but not cow's milk. The L. Bifidus produces acetic acid and lactic acid, which result in decreased stool pH, which, in turn, inhibits the..
Bifid cipher
In classical cryptography, the bifid cipher is a cipher which combines the Polybius square with transposition, and uses fractionation to achieve diffusion. It was invented around 1901 by Felix Delastelle. Operation First, a mixed alphabet Polybius square is drawn up: 1 2 3 4 5 1 B G W K Z 2 Q P N D..
Bifid rib
A Bifid rib or bifurcated rib or sternum bifidum is a congenital abnormality occurring in about 1% of the population. The sternal end of the rib is cleaved into two. It is usually unilateral. Effects of this neuroskeletal anomaly can include respiratory difficulties, neurological difficulties, li..
Bifilar coil
A bifilar coil is an electromagnetic coil that contains two closely spaced, parallel windings. In engineering, the word bifilar describes wire which is made of two filaments or strands. It is commonly used to denote special types of winding wire for transformers. Wire can be purchased in bifilar fo..
Bifocals
Bifocals are eyeglasses that have corrective lenses containing two different optical powers. They are most commonly prescribed for people with presbyopia, and who also require a distance correction for myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism. Taking advantage of that fact that when a person v..
Bifold
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Bifort
The Bifort was a British automobile manufactured by the Bifort Motor Company in Fareham, Hampshire from 1914 until 1920. The 10hp light car was assembled from bought-in components mainly imported. The 1327 cc engine was from Belgium and the chassis was French. Bifort built the bodies but few cars we..
Bifoun
Bifoun is a town located in Moyen-Ogooué province, Gabon. ..
Bifrons (demon)
In demonology Bifrons was a demon, Earl of Hell, with six legions of demons (twenty-six for other authors) under his command. He teaches sciences and arts, the virtues of the gems and woods, herbs, and changes corpses from their original grave into other places, sometimes putting magic lights on the..
Bifrose (trojan horse)
Bifrose trojan horse family ..
Bifröst
In Norse mythology, Bifröst is the bridge leading from the realm of mortals, Midgard, to the realm of the gods, Asgard, which the gods travel daily to hold their councils and pass judgements at Urdarbrunn (Well of Urd) under the shade of the tree Yggdrasill. The bridge itself is the rainbow and its..
Bifrost, Manitoba
Bifrost is a rural municipality located in the Interlake Region of Manitoba, Canada. The municipality lies on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg and has a population of about 2,750 people. Its name comes from a Scandinavian word from Norse mythology meaning rainbow bridge connecting Heaven and Earth. ..
Bifrost (band)
Bifrost is a danish band. Bifrost is best known for the songs Hej Maria and Det er morgen, both written and sung by Tom Lundén. Tom Lundén has also written the famous Christiania-song I kan ikke slå os ihjel (translated: "You cannot kill us"). The singer Annapurna was with the group for some year..
Bifröst School of Business
The Bifröst School of Business is a university currently located in Bifröst, Borgarfjörður, Iceland. Founded in Reykjavík in 1918 with the name "Samvinnuskólinn" (Cooperative College), it was moved in its current location in 1955. External link [Official Website] (in Icelandic and..
Bifrustum
Set of bifrustumsorTruncated bipyramids Faces 2 n-gons, 2n trapezoids Edges 5n Vertices 3n Symmetry group Dnh Dual polyhedron Elongated dipyramids Properties convex An n-agonal bifrustum is a polyhedron composed of three parallel planes of n-agons, with the middle plane largest and usuall..
BIFS
Binary Format for Scenes (BIFS) is a binary format for two- or three-dimensional audiovisual content. It is based on VRML and part 11 of the MPEG-4 standard. ..
Bifuka, Hokkaido
Bifuka (美深町; -chou) is a town located in Nakagawa District, Kamikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 2004, the town has an estimated population of 5,596 and a density of 8.33 persons per km². The total area is 672.14 km². Bifuka is located in a valley setting and are surrounded by mountains. The..
Bifundamental representation
In mathematics and theoretical physics, a bifundamental representation is a representation obtained as a tensor product of two fundamental representations or antifundamental. For example, the MN-dimensional representation (M,N) of the group [SU(M) \times SU(N)] is a bifundamental repres..
Bifurcate
Bifurcate means to divide into two parts, see bifurcation. Law In law, a judge may bifurcate a trial so as to render a judgment on a set of legal issues without looking at all aspects. Frequently, civil cases are bifurcated into separate liability and damages proceedings. Criminal cases are alway..
Bifurcated channel signaling
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Bifurcated ligament
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Bifurcated rib
A bifid rib or bifurcated rib is a congenital abnormality occurring in about 1% of the population. The sternal end of the rib is cleaved into two parts which are usually unilateral. Effects of this neuroskeletal anomaly can include respiratory difficulties, neurological difficulties, limitations, l..
Bifurcation
The noun bifurcation (from latin bifurcare, to split (fork) into two), has several related meanings. A river bifurcation is the infrequently observed forking of a river into distributaries.A bifurcation can be a qualitative change of the attractor of a dynamical system as the result of a moving para..
Bifurcation diagram
Bifurcation diagram of the logistic map In mathematics, particularly in dynamical systems, a bifurcation diagram shows the possible long-term values a variable of a system can obtain in function of a parameter of the system. An example is the bifurcation diagram of the logistic map. In this ..
Bifurcation locus
In complex dynamics, the bifurcation locus of a family of holomorphic functions informally consists of those maps for which the dynamical behavior changes drastically under a small perturbation of the parameter. Thus the bifurcation locus can be thought of as an analog of the Julia set in parameter ..
Bifurcation theory
In mathematics, specifically in the study of dynamical systems, a bifurcation occurs when a small smooth change made to the parameter values (the bifurcation parameters) of a system causes a sudden 'qualitative' or topological change in the system's long-term dynamical behaviour. Bifurcations can oc..
Bif Naked
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] Bif Naked on the cover of her latest album Bif Naked (born Beth Torbert on June 17, 1971) is a popular Canadian punk rock singer. Contents 1 Bio2 Band3 Discography3.1 Singles3.2 Studio albums4 External links Bio She was bor..
Bif Naked (album)
Bif Naked is the first album by singer/songwriter Bif Naked, released in 1995. Track listing "Everything" (Dexter, Naked) – 4:08"Make Like a Tree" (Degen, Misomali, Naked, Pleven) – 4:16"Daddy's Getting Married" (Dexter, Naked) – 3:42"Tell on You ("Letter to My Rapist")" (Dexter, Naked) –..
Bi Fang
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