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Quanah Parker (1845-1911) was a leader of the Comanche people during the difficult transition period from free-ranging life on the southern plains to the settled ways of reservation life. He became an influential negotiator with government...
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In symbolic logic, quantifiers are words or symbols which indicate quantity in the sense of "all", "some", "none", or "one". The two main logical quantifiers are "For all", usually symbolized by ∀, and "There exists", symbolized by ...
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Quantitative analysis involves measuring the proportions of known components in a mixture. Whereas qualitative analysis involves identifying what materials are present in a sample (quality), quantitative analysis involves determining how m...
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Psychology is the scientific study of the relationships between mental processes, emotions, and behavior. Mathematics and psychology are linked in three major ways. First, psychologists study mathematical cognition, i.e., the brain's devel...
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Quantitative traits are those that vary continuously. This is in contrast to qualitative traits, in which the phenotype is discrete and can take on one of only a few different values. Examples of quantitative traits include height, weight,...
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. As to virtue . . . i...
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In physics, a discrete natural unit, or packet, of energy, charge, angular momentum, or other physical property. Light, for example, which appears in some respects as a continuous electromagnetic wave, on the submicroscopic level is emitte...
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Quantum chemistry involves the application of the principles of quantum theory to chemistry. Quantum chemistry helps predict the way atoms combine to form molecules, and the way molecules interact with each other. Applications of quantum c...
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Theory that describes the action of the strong force. The strong force acts only on certain particles, principally quarks that are bound together in the protons and neutrons of the atomic nucleus, as well as in less stable, more exotic for...
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device that employs properties described by quantum mechanics to enhance computations. As early as 1959 the American physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman noted that, as electronic components begin to reach microscopic scales, effec...
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Physicists believe in a unified description of the world. The complex structures and phenomena we observe today, in every physical system, have at their heart one set of conceptually simple rules, although the mathematical formalism can be...
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Quantum theory of the interactions of charged particles with the electromagnetic field. It describes the interactions of light with matter as well as those of charged particles with each other. Its foundations were laid by P. A. M. Dirac w...
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Theory that brings quantum mechanics and special relativity together to account for subatomic phenomena. In particular, the interactions of subatomic particles are described in terms of their interactions with fields, such as the electroma...
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Relativity and quantum theory, the foundations upon which all of modern physics rests, were developed in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Their accuracy in predicting the results of experiment or observation is astounding; the s...
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Quantum Leap was a science fiction television program which ran from 1989 to 1993 on NBC starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell . Contents 1 Repeated quotes 2 Season 1 2.1 Genesis [1.01] 2.2 Star-Crossed [1.02] 2.3 The Right Hand of God ...
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Quantum Logic and Probability Quantum physics predicts many astonishing physical effects that have been subsequently observed in the laboratory. Perhaps the most significant effect is the violation of Bell's inequality, which implie...
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Branch of mathematical physics that deals with atomic and subatomic systems. It is concerned with phenomena that are so small-scale that they cannot be described in classical terms, and it is formulated entirely in terms of statistical pro...
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Quantum numbers are of basic physical importance in quantum physics. In the early 1900s energy in atomic systems was found to exist as quanta or discrete, indivisible units. This concept along with the particle-wave duality led to the deve...
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A quantum state is the condition a quantum mechanical system is in. The state is usually described by a wave function. It is different from classical states of systems in that the quantum system has separate, discrete levels, whereas the s...
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In physics, the passage of a particle through a seemingly impassable energy barrier. Though a particle's energy may be too low to surmount a barrier in classical physics, the particle may still cross the barrier as a consequence of its qua...
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WANG ZHE (1112–1170), also known by his clerical name, Zhongyangzi; Daoist master of the Jin period (1115–1234) and founder of the Quanzhen sect. The third son of a great landowner in Xianyang, Shaanxi province, Wang received...
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the detention or restraint of humans or other creatures that may have come into contact with communicable disease until it is deemed certain that they have escaped infection. In the vocabulary of disease control the terms quarantine and is...
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SOURCE: Korn, Eric. “The Galilean.” Times Literary Supplement (13 June 1997): 25. In the following review, Korn offers a positive assessment of Quarantine. Roughing it in Ruristan is a fine thing, but one of the keenest pleasures of dep...
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[The characters of Behan's The Quare Fellow] are not very precisely individualized, for Behan's style is essentially more narrative than strictly dramatic and he could hardly be farther from psychological drama, but all are observed with a ...
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As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain....
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Any of a group of subatomic particles thought to be among the fundamental constituents of matter—more specifically, of protons and neutrons. The concept of the quark was first proposed by Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig (b. 1937); ...
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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice....
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy. In quarrelling the truth is always lost. When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be...
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SOURCE: “The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles,” in Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 9, No. 1, October 1984, pp. 33-61. In the following essay, Levine examines the debate between ancients and moderns in Great Britain and Franc...
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Quarterback (QB) is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the center, in the middle of the offensive line. Quarterbacks are the leaders of the offensive team...
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Lloyd Albert Quarterman was one of only a handful of African Americans to work on the "Manhattan Project ," the team that developed the first atom bomb in the 1940s. He was also noted as a research chemist who specialized in fluoride chemi...
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SOURCE: "Quartet in Autumn: New Light on Barbara Pym as a Modernist," in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1, Spring, 1985, pp. 24-37. In the following essay, Stetz challenges conventional comparisons between Pym and Jane Austen, noting moder...
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"Little Gidding"
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The "Little Gidding" is the final work of a quartet of poems written by T. S. Eliot. The poem is divided into five lengthy sections, and each section could suffice as an individual poem. The beginning of th...
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The solution of the cubic and quartic equations was one of the major achievements of Renaissance algebra. The publication of the results in Girolamo Cardano's book The Great Art brought charges that Cardano had broken his promise t...
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widely distributed mineral of many varieties that consists primarily of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2). Minor impurities such as lithium, sodium, potassium, and titanium may be present. Quartz has attracted attention from the earliest t...
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any of a class of rare cosmic objects of high luminosity that often have strong radio emission that is observed at great distances. These objects are also called QSOs, which stands for “quasi-stellar objects.” The bright emitti...
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France was the United States' first friend. The 1778 Treaty of Alliance between the two nations secured French military support in the American War for Independence. Yet just two decades later, the nations stood at the brink of a fo...
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in the geologic history of Earth, a unit of time within the Cenozoic Era, beginning approximately 2.6 million years ago and continuing to the present day. The Quaternary has been characterized by several periods of glaciation (the “i...
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The quaternions are the second "number system" other than the real numbers ever discovered, and the first to be found by a deliberate search. Their immediate predecessor was the field of complex numbers, formed by adjoining an imaginary un...
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QUATERNITY, or a fourfold structure (together with its multiples—eightfold, twelvefold, etc.), expresses symbolically the nature of the divine and, by extension, describes the structure of the world that mirrors that divinity. Like ...
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eastern province of Canada. Constituting nearly one-sixth of Canada's total land area, Quebec is the largest of Canada's 10 provinces in size and is second only to Ontario in population. Its capital, Quebec city, is the oldest city in Cana...
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Of course, Quebec-bashing is nothing new for the anglophone press, but it is so widespread these days that one wonders if it hasn't become a natural and acceptable expression of Canadian patriotism. [1] Michel David , journalist for Le Dev...
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city and port, seat of Québec region and capital of Quebec province, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Saint-Charles rivers, about 150 miles (240 km) northeast of Montreal. The first European to visit the are...
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Many people to this day have no knowledge to as how important French Canadians are to our history. Many do not realize that Quebec has been trying to become a nation on their own and to be distinguished as their own colony. In this essay I ...
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As one of the founding nations of Canada, Québec felt that they have been mistreated and that the French language has been ignored by the rest of Canada. In 1968 René Lévesque, an ex-journalist, founded the first separatist p...
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In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever. Thin...
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Queen & Country is a comic book published by Oni Press and written by Greg Rucka with various artists illustrating. Contents 1 Operation: Broken Ground 1.1 Chapter 1 1.2 Chapter 2 1.3 Chapter 3 1.4 Chapter 4 2 Operation: Morningstar 2....
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