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EFF
The term EFF may refer to: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit advocacy group based in San Francisco, California.The Election Fighting Fund, a fund which the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies set up in the United Kingdom to raise money for the early Labour Party during the e..
Eff-austin
EFF-Austin was formed in Austin, Texas by Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games shortly after the Electronic Frontier Foundation or EFF was formed. Jackson was pursuing a lawsuit, eventually successful, against the Secret Service with EFF's help, and suggested the formation of an alpha EFF chapter in..
Effaced
"Effaced", is a word which describes erasing things from one's life. ..
Effacement
Effacement is the thinning of the cervix during childbirth. The degree of effacement is typically expressed as a percentage; for example, "30% effacement" means that the cervix has lost 30% of its original thickness. This process is related to dilation; however, the relationship is neither linear no..
Effat College
King Abdulaziz University General Info. '''Mail PO Box 34689, Jeddah 21478, Saudi Arabia Established 1999 Location Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Enrolment Unknown number of Female Students. Phone (0096622300012) E-Mail malbalbisi@effatcollege.edu.sa Website http://w..
Effa Manley
Effa Manley (March 27 1897 - April 16 1981) was an American sports executive who co-owned the Newark Eagles baseball franchise in the Negro Leagues with her husband Abe from 1935 to 1946, and was sole owner through 1948 after his death. Throughout that time she served as the team's business manager,..
Effect
Effect can be used in several different ways: Cause and effect are the relata of causalityIn movies and other media, sound effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds.In music, an effects unit is commonly used to manipulate the sound of musical instruments Occasionally, users of English con..
Effection: Hellraiser
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Effectively separable
A r.e. class of partial recursive functions is effectively separable if there is an effective procedure that, given two index i and j, computes an upper bound on the argument on which two functions differ. ..
Effectiveness
Effectiveness means the capability of producing an effect. The word is sometimes used in a quantitative way, "being very or not much effective". However it does not inform on the direction (positive or negative) and the comparison to a standard of the given effect. efficacy, on the other hand, is t..
Effective accessibility
Effective accessibility is a term used to describe access to health care and is based on factors such as opening times, cost of use and waiting lists as opposed to geographical or 'locational' factors (e.g. physical proximity, travel time). The factors of effective accessibility play an important pa..
Effective action
In quantum field theory, the effective action is a modified expression for the action, which takes into account quantum-mechanical corrections, in the following sense: In classical mechanics, the equations of motion can be derived from the action by the principle of stationary action. This is not t..
Effective annual rate
In relation to the US: The Effective Annual Rate (EAR) is the interest rate that is annualized using compound interest, as opposed to using simple interest in the case of the Annual percentage rate (APR). The EAR is the annualized equivalent of interest with shorter compounding periods. It can be ..
Effective atomic number
Effective atomic number has two different meanings: one that is the effective nuclear charge of an atom, and one that calculates the average atomic number for a compound or mixture of materials. Both are abbreviated Zeff. For an atom The effective atomic number, Zeff, (sometimes referred to as the ..
Effective Cost Per Action
Effective Cost Per Action (often abbreviated to eCPA) is a phrase often used in online advertising and online marketing circles. CPA is considered the optimal form of buying online advertising from the advertiser's point of view, as they only pay for an advert when an action has occurred. An actio..
Effective Cost Per Mille
Effective Cost Per Mille or eCPM (as it is often initialized to) is a phrase often used in online advertising and online marketing circles. It means the cost of every 1,000 ad impressions shown. CPM is considered the optimal form of selling online advertising from the publisher's point of view. ..
Effective Cycling
Effective Cycling is a trademarked cycling educational program designed by John Forester, which was the national education program of the League of American Wheelmen for a number of years. The Effective Cycling program consists of text books and training courses (for both students and instructors) ..
Effective data transfer rate
In telecommunication, effective data transfer rate is the average number of units of data, such as bits, characters, blocks, or frames, transferred per unit time from a source and accepted as valid by a sink. Note: The effective data transfer rate is usually expressed in bits, characters, blocks,..
Effective demand
Effective demand is the demand generated when a consumer is both willing and able to purchase a good or service. ..
Effective descriptive set theory
Effective descriptive set theory is the branch of descriptive set theory dealing with sets of reals having lightface definitions; that is, definitions that do not require an arbitrary real parameter. Thus effective descriptive set theory combines descriptive set theory with recursion theory. Refere..
Effective Development Group
Effective Development Group (EDG) [link] is an independent project management and consultancy firm with a focus on assisting aid practitioners worldwide to design projects and implement monitoring and evaluation systems. EDG is based in Canberra and was formed in late 2003 as a response to..
Effective dose
Effective dose is a measure used in radiation protection to estimate the risk resulting from an exposure of ionizing radiation. Effective dose n is the amount of radiation required to produce a certain effect in n% of a population. Effective dose equivalent is used to compare radiation doses on diff..
Effective Earth radius
In telecommunication, effective Earth radius is the radius of a hypothetical Earth for which the distance to the radio horizon, assuming rectilinear propagation, is the same as that for the actual Earth with an assumed uniform vertical gradient of atmospheric refractive index. Note: For the stan..
Effective evolutionary time
The hypothesis of effective evolutionary timeK. Rohde: Latitudinal gradients in species diversity: the search for the primary cause, Oikos, 65, 514-527,1992. attempts to explain gradients, in particular latitudinal gradients, in species diversity. It was originally named "time hypothesis".K. Rohde: ..
Effective field theory
In physics, an effective field theory is an approximate theory (usually a quantum field theory) that contains the appropriate degrees of freedom to describe physical phenomena occurring at a chosen length scale, but ignores the substructure and the degrees of freedom at shorter distances (or, equiva..
Effective fitness
In natural evolution and artificial evolution (e.g. artificial life and evolutionary computation) the fitness (or performance or objective measure) of a schema is rescaled to give its effective fitness which takes into account crossover and mutation. That is effective fitness can be thought of as t..
Effective half-life
Effective half-life denotes the halving of radioactive material in a living organism by means of radioactive decay and biological excretion. A decay constant is needed to calculate the half-life. It is the sum of the biological and physical decay contants, as in the formula: [ \, = \, + \,&#..
Effective height
In telecommunication, the term effective height can refer to the height of the center of radiation of an antenna above the effective ground level. Or in low-frequency applications involving loaded or nonloaded vertical antennas, the moment of the current distribution in the vertical section divided..
Effective input noise temperature
In telecommunications, effective input noise temperature is the source noise temperature in a two-port network or amplifier that will result in the same output noise power, when connected to a noise-free network or amplifier, as that of the actual network or amplifier connected to a noise-free sourc..
Effective interest rate
The effective interest rate of [i(t)] is the rate of interest for the period [t] to [t+1].The interest credited in arrears at [t+1] normally coincides with the basic time unit of one year. If the rate of interest over the time period is constant then [i(t..
Effective isotropically-radiated power
In radio communication systems, Effective isotropically-radiated power (EIRP) or, actually, Equivalent isotropic radiated power is the amount of power that would have to be emitted by an isotropic antenna (that evenly distributes power in all directions and is a theoretical construct) to produce the..
Effective mass
In solid state physics, a particle's effective mass is the mass it seems to carry in the semiclassical model of transport in a crystal. It can be shown that, under most conditions, electrons and holes in a crystal respond to electric and magnetic fields almost as if they were free particles in a vac..
Effective Microorganisms
Effective Microorganisms (有用・微生物群, "Yūyō・Biseibutsugun") or EM is a technology first coined by Dr. Teruo Higa (比嘉照夫博士) of Japan. The technical translation from Japanese to English is "Effective Mic..
Effective mode volume
For an optical fiber, the effective mode volume is the square of the product of the diameter of the near-field pattern and the sine of the radiation angle of the far-field pattern. The diameter of the near-field radiation pattern is defined here as the full width at half maximum and the radiation an..
Effective nuclear charge
The effective nuclear charge is the net positive charge experienced by an electron in a multielectron atom. The term "effective" is used because the shielding effect of negative electrons prevents higher orbital electrons from experiencing the full nuclear charge. In an atom with one electron, th..
Effective Perl Programming
Effective Perl Programming, sometimes known as the Shiny Ball Book by Perl programmers, is an intermediate to advanced text by Joseph N. Hall covering the Perl programming language. Randal L. Schwartz contributed a foreword and technical editing. Effective Perl Programming follows the numbered "ru..
Effective population size
In population genetics, the concept of effective population size Ne was introduced by the American geneticist Sewall Wright, who wrote two landmark papers on it (Wright 1931, 1938). He defined it as "the number of breeding individuals in an idealized population that would show the same amount of di..
Effective radiated power
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ERP is typically applied to antenna systems. For example, if an antenna system has +9 dB gain and −6 dB loss, its ERP is +3 dB over the transmitter power output (TPO). Fo..
Effective rate of protection
The effective rate of protection is a statistic used by economists to measure the real protection yielded by import duties or tariffs. This equals [(VA]d/[VA]int) - [1], where: VAd = domestic value added VAint = international value added An alternative that yields an..
Effective results in number theory
For historical reasons and in order to have application to the solution of Diophantine equations, results in number theory have been scrutinised more than in other branches of mathematics to see if their content is effectively computable. This for example brings into question any use of big O nota..
Effective stress
Effective stress (σ') is a theoretical stress experienced by soils. Although effective stress is used widely by Geomechanicists and Geotechnical Engineers in predicting the behaviour of soils under a given state of stress, it is not directly measureable from observations. Rather, the effective stre..
Effective tax rate
The effective tax rate is the amount of income tax an individual or firm pays divided by the individual or firm's total taxable income. This ratio is usually expressed as a percentage. The Official Australian Effective Tax Rate Definition In Australia, the effective rate of tax represents th..
Effective temperature
The effective temperature of a star is the temperature of its visible surface, as opposed to the core at which it generates its energy through thermonuclear reactions or the rarefied corona of great heat where electrons meet ionized gases with the radiation of heat but in so sparse a gas that it is ..
Effective therapeutic regimen management
Readiness for enhanced therapeutic regimen management is a NANDA approved nursing diagnosis which is defined as "A pattern of regulating and integrating into daily living a program(s) for treatment of illness and its sequelae that is sufficient for meeting health-related goals and can be strengthene..
Effective torque
Effective Torque is often referred to as wheel torque or torque to the wheels is primaraly associated with automotive tuning. Such tuning is preformed on an automotive dynamometers where wheel torque is measured. Common units used in automotive applications can include wft·lbf and wN·m. For more o..
Effective transmission rate
In telecommunications, effective transmission rate (average rate of transmission, effective speed of transmission) is the rate at which information is processed by a transmission facility. The effective transmission rate is calculated as (a) the measured number of units of data, such as bits, char..
EFFector
The EFFector Newsletter is a weekly publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), dedicated to keeping the organization members and subscribers informed of current issues, urging action through Action Alert, and providing a variety of background information and links. The EFFector bega..
Effector
An effector is a small molecule that binds to a macromolecule. Effector may also mean: An actuator, in robotics 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 dir..
Effector (biology)
An effector is a molecule (originally referring to small molecules but now encompassing any regulatory molecule, includes proteins) that binds to a protein and thereby alters the activity of that protein. A modulator molecule binds to a regulatory site during allosteric modulation and allosterically..
Effector cell
Effector cells are a type of lymphocyte that are actively engaged in secreting antibodies. The clonal selection theory stipulates that when naïve cells encounter antigens for the first time, they are stimulated to proliferate and differentiate into effector cells and memory cells. The specific imm..
Effects cymbal
An effects cymbal is a cymbal used in a drum kit for a special effect or accent. Effects cymbals include splash cymbals, china cymbals and many other less common types. This classification is widely accepted but enigmatic. When pang and swish cymbals are used as ride cymbals they are not considered..
Effects loop
An effects loop is a series of audio effects units, connected between two points of a signal path. The two principal uses of effects loops are in recordings and in instrument amplifiers. See also effects unitamplifierguitar..
Effects of alcohol on the body
The effects of alcohol on the human body take several forms. Alcohol, specifically ethanol, is a potent psychoactive drug with a range of side effects. The amount and circumstances of consumption play a large part in determining the extent of intoxication; e.g., consuming alcohol after a heavy mea..
Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstances
This article describes an example election using geographical proximity to create hypothetical preferences of a group of voters, and then compares the results of such preferences with ten different voting systems. It does not, however, address any of the voting systems that are based on proportional..
Effects of global warming
Conceptual assessment of the risks and impacts of global warming according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and how those risks increase relative to increasing global temperatures. Bars at the left hand side indicate projections and estimated uncertainties associated with the ran..
Effects of global warming/sandbox
The predicted effects of global warming are many and various, both for the environment and for human life. The primary effect is an increasing global average temperature. From this flow a variety of secondary effects, including rising sea levels, altered patterns of agriculture, increased extreme..
Effects of marriage
Effects of marriage is a legal term of art used to describe all of the rights and obligations that individuals may be subject and entitled to if they are in a common-law marriage, an annulled marriage, domestic partnership or a civil union. Thus, even if the underlying marriage is held to be void t..
Effects of nuclear explosions
A 23 kiloton tower shot called BADGER, fired on April 18, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site, as part of the Operation Upshot-Knothole nuclear test series. Nuclear weapons History of nuclear weapons Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms race Weapon design / testing Nuclear explosion Delive..
Effects of political satires and media scare tactics on political opinion
Political satire is a subgenre of general satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, politicians and public affairs. A Scare Tactic is a plan that uses fear to reach a certain goal. In the media these two tools are used to try and sway political opinion. Contents 1 H..
Effects of rape and aftermath
The most common long term effects of sexual assault and rape are the invisible ones. The [immediate symptoms] of rape trauma include having unpredictable and intense emotions. The victim may have an exaggerated startle response (jumpy), may have memories and intrusive thoughts about the a..
Effects of the automobile on societies
Over the course of the 20th century, the automobile rapidly developed from an expensive technological wonder into the de facto standard for passenger transport. The development of the automobile built upon the transport revolution started by railways, and like the railways, introduced sweeping chan..
Effects of the Kurdistan Workers Party
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Effects of World War II
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Effects pedal
The TS9 Tubescreamer from Ibanez, a popular pedal adding vacuum tube-like distortion (via transistors) to the output signal from electric instruments. An effects pedal, or stomp box, is an effects unit housed in a small metal chassis, used by musicians, usually guitar players, but sometimes p..
Effects unit
Effects units are devices that affect the sound of an electric instrument or other audio source (such as recorded material) when plugged in to the electrical signal path the instrument or source sends, most often an electric guitar or bass guitar. They can also be used on other instruments or soun..
Effect of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi
Hurricane Katrina 2005 Atlantic hurricane season General TimelineMeteorological historyPreparations* New Orleans preparednessImpact Economic effectsPolitical effectsCriticism of gov't responseSocial effectsEffects by region*Effects on Mississippi*Effects on New Orleans** Levee failures** I..
Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina 2005 Atlantic hurricane season General TimelineMeteorological historyPreparations* New Orleans preparednessImpact Economic effectsPolitical effectsCriticism of gov't responseSocial effectsEffects by region*Effects on Mississippi*Effects on New Orleans** Levee failures** Inf..
Effect of sun angle on climate
The angle at which sunlight strikes the earth, which varies by location, time of day, and season, is an important factor in the amount of heat energy received at any location on the globe. Seasonal change in the angle of sunlight, caused by the tilt of the earth's axis, is the basic mechanism tha..
Effect of taxes and subsidies on price
Taxes and subsidies have the effect of shifting the quantity and price of goods. A marginal tax on the production of a good will shift the supply curve to the left until the vertical distance between the two supply curves is equal to the per unit tax; when other things remain equal, this will incr..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Hong Kong
Hong Kong (In detail) (In detail) The tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake killed at least 38 Hongkongers in the affected region. As of December 2005, 2 persons (one infant and one child) are still unlocated. Contents 1 Overview2 Hongkongers in the af..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on India
For related articles, see . Countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. In India, 10,136 people, according to official estimates, were killed and hundreds of thousands were rendered homeless when a tsunami triggered by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake near the Indonesian island o..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Indonesia
Indonesia was seriously affected by the earthquake and tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004, swamping the northern and western coastal areas of Sumatra, and the smaller outlying islands off Sumatra. Nearly all the casualties and damage took place within the pr..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Malaysia
The wave crashing into the road at Tanjung Tokong, Penang Malaysia was affected by the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004. Despite its proximity to the epicentre of the earthquake, Malaysia escaped the kind of damage that struck countries thousands of miles further away. Since the ep..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Myanmar
Official reports from the government of Myanmar (Burma) cite a death toll of 56 due to the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004. Independent media reports 90 people killed [link], with estimates extending to 600 [link] [link]. Although..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Norway
Norway (In Detail) Contents 1 Overview2 Norwegian citizens in the affected region2.1 Problems in reporting3 History4 Impact5 External links5.1 Norwegian external links5.2 English external links Overview The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Somalia
Map of Somalia with Puntland roughly highlighted in blue. The Hafun is the small peninsula in the northeast. The effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Somalia was devastating. Villages and coastal communities in Somalia, as far as 4,500 km (2,800 miles) from the epicentre of the 2004 ..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Sri Lanka
As of 16:35 GST 3 January 2005, Sri Lankan authorities report 30,196 confirmed deaths [link] after the island was hit by the tsunami resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. Many of the dead were children and the elderly. The south and east coasts were worst hi..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Thailand
Map showing the provinces of Thailand affected The Thai government reports 5,246 [link] confirmed deaths, 8,457 [link] injuries and 4,499 [link] missing after the country was hit by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. The Th..
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on the Maldives
Malé, the capital island of the Maldives was severely hit by the tsunami. In the Maldives, 82 people were killed and 26 reported missing and presumed dead after it was hit by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004.[link] Two-thirds of the capital..
Effect size
An effect size describes how large the relationship is between two variables. This information is important in scientific research. Often it is useful to know not only whether an experiment had an effect, but also the size of any effects. Effect sizes are also helpful in practical situations, for..
Effect system
An effect system is a formal system which describes the computational effects of computer programs, such as side effects. An effect system can be used to provide a compile-time checking of the possible effects of the program. An effect system is typically an extension of a type system. The term "ty..
Effelder
There are communes and places that have the name Effelder: Effelder (Eichsfeld), in the Eichsfeld district,Effelder-Rauenstein,a section of the municipality of Effelder-Rauenstein in the Sonneberg district, Effelder (Itz), a mountainous river where it meets with Itz. This is a [disambiguationd..
Effelder (Eichsfeld)
Effelder (Eichsfeld) is a Thuringian (Germany) municipality in the district of Eichsfeld. Population: 1,414 (31 December 2002)Area: 10.92 km2Postal code: 37359Car designation: EIC ..
Effelsberg
Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope OrganizationMax Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn LocationEffelsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia Wavelength regimeradio 408MHz-86GHz Completion date1971 Webpage[Page at MPIFR Bonn] Physical characteristics Telescope styleparabolic refl..
Effeminacy
Effeminacy is a character trait in males that generally contradicts traditional male (masculine) gender roles. It is a term frequently applied to femininity; or womanly behaviour, demeanour, and appearance displayed by a man. Generally, the description is applied to individuals, but is sometimes use..
Effendi
This article is about the Turkish title. For the cyberpunk novel, see Arabesk trilogy. Effendi (actually spelled "Efendi" in Turkish) (a Turkish title meaning a lord or master) is a title of respect, equivalent to the English sir, in Turkey and some other Eastern countries. It follows the personal..
Efferent
In anatomy, Efferent can refer to: Efferent nerveEfferent ductsThis 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 the intended article. ..
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Efferent Coupling
Efferent Coupling is a metric in software development. It measures the number of types a class knows about. This includes inheritance, interface implementation, parameter types, variable types, and exceptions. A large efferent coupling can indicate that a class is unfocused. It may also indicate ..
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Efferent nerve
The mechanism of the reflex arc In the nervous system, efferent nerves--otherwise known as motor or effector neuron--carry nerve impulses away from the central nervous system to effectors such as muscles or glands. This term can also be used to describe relative connections between nervous str..
Effervescent moonshine
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. Effervescent moonshine is a cocktail made of effervescent powder mixed with moonshine. In Norway effervescent mo..
Efficacy
Efficacy is the ability to produce a desired amount of a desired effect. In a medical context it indicates that the therapeutic effect of a given intervention (e.g. intake of a medicine, an operation, or a public health measure) is acceptable. 'Acceptable' in that context refers to a consensus that ..
Efficeon
The Efficeon processor is Transmeta's second-generation 256-bit VLIW design which employs a software engine to convert code written for x86 processors to the native instruction set of the chip. Like its predecessor, the Transmeta Crusoe (a 128-bit VLIW architecture), Efficeon stresses computational ..
Efficiency
Efficiency may refer to: Energy efficiency, useful work per quantity of energy* Energy conservation, reducing the use of energy* Electrical efficiency, useful power output per electrical power consumed* Fuel efficiency, converting energy in fuel to kinetic energy or work** Specific impulse, in pr..
Efficiency (economics)
Economic efficiency is a general term for the value assigned to a situation by some measure designed to capture the amount of waste or "friction" or other undesirable economic features present. The term microeconomic reform refers to any policy designed to increase economic efficiency. There are se..
Efficiency (statistics)
In statistics, efficiency is one measure of desirability of an estimator. The efficiency of an unbiased statistic [T] is defined as [ e(T)=\frac(\theta)}(T)}] where [\mathcal(\theta)] is the Fisher information of the sample. Thus [e(T)] is the minimum possib..
Efficiency factor
Efficiency factor: In data communications, the ratio of (a) the time to transmit a text automatically at a specified modulation rate to (b) the time actually required to receive the same text at a specified maximum error rate. All of the communication facilities are assumed to be in the normal c..
Efficiency Movement
Part of the Politics series onProgressivism This article has some overlap with these other political positions Schools American Progressivism New Deal liberalism Economic progressivism Educational progressivism Social Progressivism Techno-progressivism Ideas Conservation ethic Efficie..
Efficiency ratio
The efficiency ratio of a business is expenses as a percentage of revenue (expenses / revenue) with a few variations. A lower percentage is better since that means expenses are low and earnings are big. It's the "reverse" operating leverage: revenue / expenses. Contents 1 Example1.1 Ci..
Efficiency wages
In labor economics, the efficiency wage hypothesis argues that wages, at least in some markets, are determined by more than simply supply and demand. Specifically, it points to the incentive for managers to pay their employees more than the market-clearing wage in order to increase their productivit..
Efficient breach
Efficient breach refers to a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable even when the legal and economic ramifications of such a breach are considered. Efficient Breach Theory is associated with Richard Posner and the Law and Economics school of thought. Even though Posner h..
Efficient Cause
Efficient cause is a concept used by Aristotle. It is perceived to be the immediate force or precursor of all existence with the respect to the existence of a universe. That view eliminates a prime mover because no prime mover could be honestly or intellectually conceived. The need for a first cause..
Efficient coding hypothesis
The efficient coding hypothesis was proposed by Horace Barlow in 1961 as a theoretical model of sensory coding in the brain. Within the brain, neurons often communicate with one another by sending electrical impulses referred to as action potentials or spikes. One goal of sensory neuroscience is t..
Efficient learning method
Efficient learning method is a type of teaching developed to transfer knowledge, understanding and information to students as efficiently as possible, using information technology tools. It typically employs alternatives to traditional teaching methods such as textbooks and classrooms, by using in..
Efficient Market Canada
Efficient Market Canada is an Canadian financial publication offering investment advice to Canadian investors based on the efficient market hypothesis. The publication advocates low-cost investing strategies based on exchange-traded funds and indexed mutual funds primarily for self directed RRSP inv..
Efficient market hypothesis
In finance, the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) asserts that financial markets are "efficient", or that prices on traded assets, e.g. stocks, bonds, or property, already reflect all known information and therefore are unbiased in the sense that they reflect the collective beliefs of all investors ..
Efficient Probabilistic Public-Key Encryption Scheme
EPOC (Efficient Probabilistic Public Key Encryption) is a probabilistic public-key encryption scheme. EPOC was developed in 1999 by T. Okamoto, S. Uchiyama and E. Fujisaki of NTT Labs in Japan. It is based on the random oracle model, in which a primitive public-key encryption function is converted..
Efficient rationing
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EFFIE
The EFFIE Awards are advertising awards given yearly by the New York American Marketing Association. EFFIE appears to be an acronym since it is usually written in capital letters, but it is a pseudo-acronym, since the letters don't stand for individual words. They are from the word effectiveness, ..
Effie
"Effie" is a popular character played by Australian actress Mary Coustas. Coustas depicts a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian. The character originated from the popular 1980s comedy program Acropolis Now. Since then, the character has appeared on a number of television commercials an..
Effie, Minnesota
Giant mosquito (and welcome sign) welcomes travelers to Effie. Effie is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 91 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.3 km² (4.0 mi²). 10.3 km² (4.0 mi²)..
Effie (unorganized territory), Minnesota
Effie is an unorganized territory in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 200 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the unorganized territory has a total area of 208.0 km² (80.3 mi²). 206.3 km² (79.7 mi²) of it is land and 1.7 km² (..
Effie Bancroft
Lady Effie Marie Wilton Bancroft (1840-1921) was an English actress and manager. She was born at Doncaster, and as a child appeared on the stage with her parents, who were both actors. Among her early parts was that of Fleance in Macbeth (1846). She made her London début, Sept. 15, 1..
Effie Crockett
Effie Crockett (pseudonym Effie Canning) (1857 - 1940) was an American actress and babysitter. She wrote and composed the song "Rock-a-Bye Baby" in 1872. ..
Effie Gray
Euphemia ('Effie') Chalmers Gray (1828 - 1897) was the wife of the critic John Ruskin but later left her husband to marry his protege, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. This famous Victorian "love triangle" has been dramatised in several plays and an opera. Relationship with Ruskin..
Effie M. Morrissey
Career Built: John F. James & Washington Tarr, Essex, Massachusetts Launched: February 1, 1894 Fate: Training vessel General Characteristics Displacement: 120 gross tons Total Length: 152 ft. Length, waterline: 112 ft. Beam: 24 ft. 5 in. Draft: 13 ft. Propulsion: Sails, Masts, ..
Effigia okeeffeae
Effigia okeeffeae was an archosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico. The six-foot-long (2-meter) fossil was discovered by Edwin H. Colbert in blocks of rock from the Ghost Ranch Quarry, which were excavated in 1947 and 1948. The fossil was rediscovered in January 2006 by graduate student S..
Effigy
The effigy of John Gower in Southwark Cathedral, London. ''For the Canadian band, see Effigy(band) An effigy is a representation of a person, especially in the form of sculpture. The term is usually associated with full-length figures of a deceased person depicted in stone or wood on church..
Effigy (comics)
Effigy is the name of a DC Comics supervillain who fought against Green Lantern Kyle Rayner using the Flame Powers gained from the Controllers. Origin: The Beginning of Effigy Raised in Seattle, Washington, by his alcoholic father after his mother had died, Martyn Van Wyck was a bitter and resent..
Effigy mound
An effigy mound is a raised pile of dirt in the shape of an animal. These were made in many Native American cultures, notably near Harpers Ferry, IA in Effigy Mounds National Monument. The purpose of these mounds is unknown, but it is believed that they were for religious purposes. Similar symbols i..
Effigy Mounds National Monument
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Effigy of the Forgotten
Effigy of the Forgotten is the debut album by New York death metal act Suffocation, released in 1991. The cover artwork is created by Dan Seagrave. Track listing Liege of Inveracity (Music: Hobbs, Cerrito; Lyrics: Barohn)Effigy of the Forgotten (Music: Hobbs, Cerrito, Barohn; Lyrics: Barohn)Infec..
Effingham
For other places with the same name, see (disambiguation). Effingham is a village in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey,England, bordering Mole Valley D.C. Contents 1 History2 Village3 Transport4 Wealth5 Sports and recreation History Effingham was an Anglo-Saxon settlem..
Effingham, Illinois
Built in 1871, the Effingham County Courthouse is still in use. The exterior has not been altered. Effingham is a city in Effingham County, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,384 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Effingham County[Geographic references#6GR6]. ..
Effingham, Kansas
Effingham is a city in Atchison County, Kansas, United States. The population was 588 at the 2000 census. Geography Effingham is located at [39°31′22″N, 95°23′55″W] (39.522774, -95.398633)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, th..
Effingham, New Hampshire
Effingham is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 1,273. Effingham includes the village of Effingham Falls. Pine River State Forest is in the south. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 External links History ..
Effingham, Ontario
Effingham is a hamlet on the Twelve Mile Creek in the northern part of Town of Pelham in Ontario, Canada. Located close to the Niagara Escarpment, it has few roads wound through the Escarpment's forests. Like the community of St. Johns in bordering Thorold, it is located close to the Short Hills Pr..
Effingham (disambiguation)
Effingham may refer to: Effingham, a village in Surrey, England.Effingham, IllinoisEffingham, New HampshireEffingham, South CarolinaEffingham County, GeorgiaEffingham County, Illinois This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pag..
Effingham County
Effingham County is the name of two counties in the United States: Effingham County, GeorgiaEffingham County, Illinois This article consisting of geographical locations is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an referred you..
Effingham County, Georgia
Effingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population was 37,535. The county seat is Springfield, Georgia6. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,250 km² (483 mi²). 1,242 km² (479 mi²) of it is land and 9 km²..
Effingham County, Illinois
Effingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 34,264. Its county seat is Effingham, Illinois6. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Adjacent Counties2 History3 Demographics4 Cities and towns5 External links6 External r..
Effingham County High School
Effingham County High School Motto Established 1956 Type Public high school Affiliations President Principal Yancy Ford Headmaster Founder Chaplain Faculty 150 (approx.) Students 1,600 (approx.) Grades 9–12 Location 1589 Hwy 119 South Springfield,..
Effingham Lawrence
Effingham Lawrence (March 2, 1820 – December 9, 1878) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana. He served one day, the last day of the session of the 43rd United States Congress. Biography Lawrence was born in Queens, New York in 1820. He moved..
Effington
Effington can refer to: Effington Township, MinnesotaNew Effington, South Dakota 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 the intended article. ..
Effington Township, Minnesota
Effington Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 297 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 90.7 km² (35.0 mi²). 85.4 km² (33.0 mi²) of it is land and 5.3 km² (2.0 mi²) of..
Effinhot
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Effiong Okon
Effiong Okon (born May 22, 1985) is a boxer from Nigeria, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native West African country. There he was outscored in the first round of the Light Flyweight (48 kg) division by Italy's Alfonso Pinto. ..
Effi Briest
Effi Briest (1894) is realist Theodor Fontane's masterpiece and one of the most famous German novels of all time. Thomas Mann once said that if one had to reduce one's library to six novels, Effi Briest would have to be one of them #redirect [[Template:Fact]]. Its influence on Mann's early work Budd..
Effler, West Virginia
Effler is a community in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. Effler was incorporated into the town of Anawalt. External links ..
Effleurage
Effleurage is a massage stroke used to warm up the muscle before deep tissue work using petrissage. This is as soothing, stroking movement used at the beginning and the end of the facial massage. It is also used as a linking move between the different strokes and movements. Effleurage can be eit..
Efflorescence
Effloresce redirects here, for the album by Oceansize, see Effloresce (album). Efflorescence, in chemistry, is the loss of water of crystallization from a hydrated salt to the atmosphere on exposure to air. Examples A 5 micrometre aqueous droplet of NaCl will spontaneously crystallize at 45% rela..
Effloresce (album)
Effloresce is the debut album by British alternative rock band Oceansize, released on 29 September 2003. Track listing All songs written by Oceansize. I Am The Morning – 4:18Catalyst – 6:40One Day All This Could Be Yours – 4:19Massive Bereavement – 9:59Rinsed – 3:58You Wish – 6:00Re..
Effluent
Effluent is an outflowing of water from a natural body of water, or from a man-made structure. Effluent in the man-made sense is generally considered to be pollution, such as the outflow from a Sewage treatment facility or the discharge from industrial works. An effluent sump pump, for instance, pu..
Effluent guidelines
Effluent guidelines are national standards for wastewater discharges to surface waters and publicly owned treatment works (municipal sewage treatment plants). EPA issues effluent guidelines for categories of industrial sources of water pollution under Title III of the Clean Water Act. The standards ..
Efflux
Active efflux is a mechanism responsible for extrusion of toxic substances and antibiotics outside the cell. Its importance lies in its contribution to bacterial antimicriobial resistance. Efflux systems function via an energy-dependent mechanism (Active transport) to pump out unwanted toxic sustanc..
Effort force
In physics, effort force is the force used to move an object over a distance. Effort force is a component in the following equation, R × DR = E × DE where R is the resistance force DR is the resistance distance E is the effort force DE is the effort distance. Effort force is also a componen..
Effort Values (Pokémon)
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Effron the Sorcerer
Character biography Effron the Sorcerer is not the most famous of the Superman villains, but he may be one of the most diabolical. He appeared out of a fiery pit in the ground, surprising Superman at every turn. Effron commanded an army of faceless puppets, and threatened to turn Superman, as we..
Efftee Studios
In 1931 the first commercially viable Australian made sound feature film, Diggers, was produced by Efftee Films in Melbourne using optical sound equipment imported from the USA. Sources [Australian Government] ..
Effusion
Effusion can refer to: In literature, effusion is the process of "opening the flood gates" to one's emotions, so to speak.In chemistry, effusion is the process where individual particles flow through a hole so tiny they must go one at a time. In this condition the diameter of the hole should be con..
Effusion A Cappella
Effusion A Cappella is an independently run student group located at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec Canada. Effusion performs original compositions and arrangements in a variety of styles, with particular emphasis on gospel music, r&b and pop music. Effusion was established in 1999, and sinc..
Effusive eruption
Effusive eruptions are a volcanic phenomenon; in some ways the opposite of explosive eruptions. An effusive eruption is characterised by an outpouring of low viscosity lava which has a fairly low volatile content. Mount Stromboli is a classical example of a volcano which erupts in this manner; howev..
EFF DES cracker
The EFF's US$250,000 DES cracking machine contained over 1,800 custom chips and could brute force a DES key in a matter of days — the photo shows a DES Cracker circuit board fitted with several Deep Crack chips In cryptography, the EFF DES cracker (nicknamed "Deep Crack") is a machine bu..
EFF Pioneer Award
The EFF Pioneer Award is an annual prize for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers. Until 1998 it was presented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., but is now usually presented at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. Winners 1..
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