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51Moment magnitude scale — Part of a series on earthquakes Types Foreshock • Aftershock • Blind thrust Doublet • Interplate • …
52Major scale — Major scales In music theory, the major scale or Ionian scale is one of the diatonic scales. It is made up of seven distinct notes, plus an eighth which duplicates the first an octave higher. In solfege these notes correspond to the syllables Do …
53Torino Scale — The Torino Scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near Earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets.It is intended as a tool for astronomers and the public to assess the seriousness of collision predictions, by… …
54Seismic scale — A seismic scale is used to measure and compare the severity of earthquakes. (For a quick review, see the table of seismic scales at the end of this article.)Two fundamentally different but equally important types of scales are commonly used by… …
55Holmes and Rahe stress scale — The Holmes and Rahe stress scale is a list of 41 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. DevelopmentIn 1967, psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe examined the medical records of over 5,000 medical patients as a way to… …
56ECTS grading scale — The ECTS grading scale (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) is a grading system defined in the ECTS framework by the European Commission [http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/ects/index en.html#5 key features of ECTS]… …
57Baumé scale — The Baumé scale is a pair of hydrometer scales developed by French pharmacist Antoine Baumé in 1768 to measure density of various liquids. The unit of the Baumé scale has been notated variously as degrees Baumé, B°, Bé° and simply Baumé (the… …
58Wind Shear's Full Scale, Rolling Road, Automotive Wind Tunnel — Windshear Full Scale Rolling Road Wind Tunnel In January 2008 Wind Shear, a division of US machine tool builder Haas Automation, completed construction on one of the most advanced automotive wind tunnels in the world. The full scale tunnel is… …
59Kinsey scale — TOC The Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person s sexual history or episodes of their sexual activity at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In the Kinsey Reports , an… …
60Minimum efficient scale — (MES) or efficient scale of production is a term used in industrial organization to denote the smallest output that a plant (or firm) can produce such that its long run average costs are minimized. Contents 1 Computing 2 Relationship to average… …
