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101string theory — Physics. See under string (def. 3). * * * ▪ physics Introduction in particle physics, a theory that attempts to merge quantum mechanics with Albert Einstein (Einstein, Albert) s general theory of relativity (relativity). The name string… …
102superstring theory — /sooh peuhr string / any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency. * * * Any of a number of theories in particle… …
103Public choice theory — Public choice in economic theory is the use of modern economic tools to study problems that are traditionally in the province of political science. (A more general term is political economy , an earlier name for economics that evokes its… …
104Music theory — is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods. In a grand sense, music theory distills… …
105Algebraic K-theory — In mathematics, algebraic K theory is an important part of homological algebra concerned with defining and applying a sequence Kn(R) of functors from rings to abelian groups, for all integers n. For historical reasons, the lower K groups K0 and… …
106Austrian Business Cycle Theory — The Austrian business cycle theory is the Austrian School s explanation of the phenomenon of business cycles (or credit cycles ). Austrian economists assert that inherently damaging and ineffective central bank policies are the predominant cause… …
107Freud's seduction theory — was a hypothesis posited in the mid 1890s by Sigmund Freud that he believed provided the solution to the problem of the origins of hysteria and obsessional neurosis. According to the theory, a repressed memory of an early childhood sexual abuse… …
108information theory — the mathematical theory concerned with the content, transmission, storage, and retrieval of information, usually in the form of messages or data, and esp. by means of computers. [1945 50] * * * ▪ mathematics Introduction a mathematical… …
109automata theory — Body of physical and logical principles underlying the operation of any electromechanical device (an automaton) that converts information input in one form into another, or into some action, according to an algorithm. Norbert Wiener and Alan M.… …
110Criticisms of the labour theory of value — often arise from an economic criticism of Marxism. Contents 1 Microeconomic theory 2 Supply and demand 3 Jevons 4 Menger s critique …
