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21Critical Zone Observatory — The Critical Zone Observatory is an interdisciplinary research project created to study the chemical, physical, and biologic process that shape the Earth s surface and supports most terrestrial life on the planet. Funded by the National Science… …
22Critical theory — Sociology …
23Critical Mass — This article is about bicycle events. For the nuclear reaction, see Critical mass. For other uses of the term critical mass , see Critical mass (disambiguation). San Francisco Critical Mass, April 29, 2005. Critical Mass is a cycling event… …
24Critical phenomena — In physics, critical phenomena is the collective name associated with the physics of critical points. Most of them stem from the divergence of the correlation length, but also the dynamics slows down. Critical phenomena include scaling relations… …
25Critical section — In concurrent programming a critical section is a piece of code that accesses a shared resource (data structure or device) that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution. A critical section will usually terminate in… …
26Critical period hypothesis — The critical period hypothesis is the subject of a long standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age. The hypothesis claims that there is an ideal… …
27Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative — The Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative (CFDI) is a strategy and list, maintained by the United States Department of Homeland Security, of foreign infrastructure which if attacked or destroyed would critically impact the U.S. [1][2] A copy… …
28Critical Period Hypothesis — See also: Language acquisition#Critical Period hypothesis The Critical Period Hypothesis refers to a long standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to… …
29Critical load — In the study of air pollution, a critical load is defined as ”A quantitative estimate of an exposure to one or more pollutants below which significant harmful effects on specified sensitive elements of the environment do not occur according to… …
30critical theory — In sociology, critical theory is most closely associated with the Frankfurt School of Social Research, although its origins can be traced back through Hegelianism and Western Marxism generally. The term now describes a very diverse strand of… …
