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11SELF-DEFENSE — (in modern Jewish history). Jewish efforts against attacking mobs in Russia and in Austria Hungary from the end of the 19th century until shortly after World War I. The nature of the pogroms in this period (especially in the years 1881–82,… …
12Self-replication — is any process by which a thing might make a copy of itself. Biological cells, given suitable environments, reproduce by cell division. During cell division, DNA is replicated and can be transmitted to offspring during reproduction. Biological… …
13Self-publishing — is the publishing of books and other media by the authors of those works, rather than by established, third party publishers. Although it represents a small percentage of the publishing industry in terms of sales, it has been present in one form… …
14Self-averaging — is a property of a system where a physical property of a complete disordered system can be described by averaging over a sufficiently large sample;it was introduced by Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz. Definition Very often in physics one comes across… …
15Self-governance — is an abstract concept that refers to several scales of organization. It may refer to personal conduct or family units but more commonly refers to larger scale activities, i.e. professions, industry bodies, religions and political units, up to… …
16Self-management (computer science) — Self Management is the process by which computer systems shall manage their own operation without human intervention. Self Management technologies are expected to pervade the next generation of network management systems.The growing complexity of …
17Very long instruction word — or VLIW refers to a CPU architecture designed to take advantage of instruction level parallelism (ILP). A processor that executes every instruction one after the other (i.e. a non pipelined scalar architecture) may use processor resources… …
18Self-healing plastic — is a man made material, capable of repairing its own surface.DevelopmentAeronautical engineering professors Scott White and Philippe H. Geubelle; applied mechanics professor Nancy R. Sottos; and chemistry and materials science professor Jeffrey S …
19self-deprecating — adjective showing that you think you are not very good or important: a self deprecating remark ╾ ,self depre cation noun uncount …
20Self-phase modulation — (SPM) is a nonlinear optical effect of light matter interaction.An ultrashort pulse of light, when travelling in a medium, will induce a varying refractive index of the medium due to the optical Kerr effect. This variation in refractive index… …
