The ao dai (pronounced "ow zai" in the north and "ow yai" in the south and literally meaning "long dress") is the traditional dress of the Vietnamese people. The ao dai is a contoured, full-length ...

Orenthal James Simpson (O.J.), rose through college to become a star professional football player and national icon. He took his fame from sports to Hollywood where he continued in a successful career of acting in both movies and advertisi...

The Oakland Raiders, a professional football franchise based in California, operates under the motto "Commitment to Excellence." Yet turmoil has been as much a hallmark of the team's history as high-quality play. Estab...

Gradual Commitment 1.Why is this explanation referred to as "gradual commitment"? This is because it means agreeing to do something gradually - in small steps. 2.Why is it also known as the "foot-in-the-door" technique? This is becaus...

The "struct" data type is specific to the C and C++ programming languages. The original data type came from C and then was subsumed into C++. While the C++ version retains the original semantics and syntax of the original, it has been exte...

The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is not a programming language; it is a formal expression language used to express constraints and conditions on object-oriented models. The evaluation of an OCL expression always delivers a value. It do...

Goals and Goal Setting Goals and objectives provide organizations with a blueprint that determines a course of action and aids them in preparing for future changes. A goal can be defined as a future state that an organization or individual ...

A generalization element is a model element—an element that is an abstraction of the system being modeled--that can take part in a generalization relationship. A generalization relationship is one where the child element that has bee...

An object-oriented language is a computer programming language that revolves around the concept of an object. Object-oriented languages were developed to make it easier to develop, debug, reuse, and maintain software than is possible with ...

Psychological theories have traditionally emphasized learning from direct experience. If knowledge and skills could be acquired only by trial and error, human development would be greatly retarded, not to mention exceedingly tedious and ha...

Mental disorder in which an individual experiences obsessions or compulsions, either singly or together. An obsession is a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an unreasonable idea or feeling (such as of being contaminated through shak...

Medical and surgical specialty concerned with the management of pregnancy and childbirth and with the health of the female reproductive system. Obstetrics, first practiced by midwives, developed as a medical discipline in the 17th–19...

WORKS CITED Bubeck, Mark. The Satanic Revival. CA: Here's Life Publishers, 1991. Cruz, Nicky. Satan on the Loose. NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1973. Klein, Aaron. Science and the Supernatural. NY: Doubleday and Co., Inc, 1979. Kohn, Be...

(1923–25) Occupation of the industrial Ruhr River valley region in Germany by French and Belgian troops. The action was provoked by German deficiencies in the coal and coke deliveries to France required by the reparations agreement a...

Occupational and career mobility in adulthood is often referred to as intragenerational social mobility. It involves change in an individual's position in the labor market over the adult life course. Change is studied with respect t...

Individuals have repeatedly demonstrated an ability to rank occupations according to their prestige, a relative social standing in a society. Occupational prestige is one of the most empirically studied aspects of stratification structure ...

The market is not always right. Unless the marketplace is policed, criminals reap the rewards, not society. Before the Savings and Loan crisis began, Rep Henry Gonzalez pleaded over and over for Congress to appropriate funds for bank exam...

In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Bierce describes Farquhar, the main character, as a good guy, not involved in the murder of his fellow Americans, whether from the North of from the South. Farquhar, sentenced to death by asphyxiation...

The process of becoming more acidic due to inputs of an acidic substance. The common measure of acidification is a decrease in pH. Acidification of soils and natural waters by acid rain or acid wastes can result in reduced biological produ...

Horizontal and vertical circulation system of ocean waters, produced by gravity, wind friction, and water density variation. Coriolis forces cause ocean currents to move clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Sout...

The Ocean Dumping Ban Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-688) marked an end to almost a century of sewage sludge and industrial waste dumping into the ocean. The law was enacted amid negative publicity about beach closures from high levels of p...

Deep ocean basins cover almost 70% of Earth's surface, and they contain 96% of the planet's life-sustaining water. The oceans support the biosphere by modulating global climate and hydrology, and are home to the marine organi...

first Atlantic ocean liner that was built of iron and had screw propulsion. It was the world's largest ship at the time of its launching (1843) and was 322 feet (98 m) long with a tonnage of 3,270. Designed by the British engineer Isambard...

The Pacific Islands are dispersed over the widest expanse of sea in the world. They consist of semi-continents (such as New Guinea), strings of large mountainous islands (along the curve of the Melanesian chain), and groups of larger and s...

Scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of the world's oceans and seas, including their physical and chemical properties, origin and geology, and life forms. Research entails sampling seawater and marine life, remote sensing of oc...