critical parameters
1Critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency — (CIRCI) is a form of adrenal insufficiency in critically ill patients who have blood corticosteroid levels which are inadequate for the severe stress response they experience. Combined with decreased glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity and tissue …
2Critical assumption planning — is a service mark of D. Dunham Co and was described in Journal of Business Venturing by Sykes in 1995. Critical Assumption Planning (CAP) helps managers and entrepreneurs maximize business development learning at least cost. The continuous… …
3Critical Human Rights Mouvement — is an independent thinktank based in Zürich, Switzerland, conducting research and consulting on the social, economic and political parameters of human rights.[1][2] The organisation focuses on help in cases of oppression of human rights by large… …
4Critical point (thermodynamics) — Carbon dioxide creating a fog when cooling from supercritical to critical temperature In physical chemistry, thermodynamics, chemistry and condensed matter physics, a critical point, also called a critical state, specifies the conditions… …
5Critical mass — This article is about nuclear fission reactions. For other uses, see Critical mass (disambiguation). As part of a re creation of a 1945 criticality accident, a plutonium pit is surrounded by blocks of neutron reflective tungsten carbide. The… …
6Critical criminology — Criminology and Penology Schools Chicago School · Classical School Conflict Criminology Environmental Criminology Feminist School · …
7Critical temperature — The critical temperature, Tc, of a material is the temperature above which distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist. As the critical temperature is approached, the properties of the gas and liquid phases become the same resulting in only one… …
8Critical band — The term critical band, introduced by Harvey Fletcher in the 1940s, referred to the frequency bandwidth of the then loosely defined auditory filter. Psychophysiologically, beating and auditory roughness sensations can be linked to the inability… …
9Critical taper — In mechanics and geodynamics, a critical taper is the equilibrium angle made by the far end of a wedge shaped agglomeration of material that is being pushed by the near end. The angle of the critical taper is a function of the material properties …
10Critical point (set theory) — In set theory, the critical point of an elementary embedding of a transitive class into another transitive class is the smallest ordinal which is not mapped to itself.[1] Suppose that j : N → M is an elementary embedding where N and M are… …
