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121Multidisciplinary design optimization — Multi disciplinary design optimization (MDO) is a field of engineering that uses optimization methods to solve design problems incorporating a number of disciplines. As defined by Prof. Carlo Poloni, MDO is the art of finding the best compromise …
122Community informatics — (CI), also known as community networking, electronic community networking, community based technologies or community technology refers to an emerging field of investigation and practice concerned with principles and norms related to information… …
123Doctoral Training Centre — Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) (sometimes called Centres for Doctoral Training [1]) are centres for managing the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD funded degrees… …
124Franklin Humanities Institute — who retired from Duke in 1985 as the James B. Duke professor of History, the institute has also made a commitment to promote scholarship that enhances social equity, especially through research on race and ethnicity.The Franklin Humanities… …
125Fractal time — There are a number of definitions of the notion of fractal time. The term was first mentioned by Benoît Mandelbrot [Mandelbrot, B. B. (1982): The Fractal Geometry of Nature . W.H. Freeman, San Francisco.] , who used it to refer to statistically… …
126complexity — /keuhm plek si tee/, n., pl. complexities for 2. 1. the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life. 2. something complex: the complexities of foreign policy. [1715 25; COMPLEX + ITY] * * * ▪ scientific theory… …
127rhetoric — /ret euhr ik/, n. 1. (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast. 2. the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech. 3. the study of the effective… …
128Michel Weber (philosopher) — is a Belgian philosopher, born in Brussels in 1963. He is best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947). He has come to prominence as the architect and organizer of an overlapping array of… …
