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51Feminist philosophy (french) — French feminist philosophy De Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Cixous Alison Ainley INTRODUCTION Although women have been active philosophers for many centuries,1 the development of a specifically feminist viewpoint in the context of… …
52Core model — In set theory, the core model is a definable inner model of the universe of all sets. Even though set theorists refer to the core model , it is not a uniquely identified mathematical object. Rather, it is a class of inner models that under the… …
53Negation as failure — (NAF, for short) is a non monotonic inference rule in logic programming, used to derive (i.e. that is assumed not to hold) from failure to derive . Note that can be different from the statement of the logical negation of …
54Spacetime — For other uses of this term, see Spacetime (disambiguation). Two dimensional analogy of spacetime distortion. Matter changes the geometry of spacetime, this (curved) geometry being interpreted as gravity. White lines do not represent the… …
55High-loss calculation — When Agner Krarup Erlang developed the Erlang B and Erlang C traffic equations, they were developed on a set of assumptions (see grade of service). These assumptions are accurate under most conditions; however in the event of extremely high… …
56model — 1. A representation of something, often idealized or modified to make it conceptually easier to understand. 2. Something to be imitated. 3. In dentistry, a cast. 4. A mathematical representation of a particular phenomenon. 5. An animal that is… …
57Anomaly — A term describing the incidence when the actual result under a given set of assumptions is different from the expected result. An anomaly provides evidence that a given assumption or model does not hold in practice. The model can either be a… …
58Social simulation — is the modeling or simulation, normally performed using a computer, of social phenomena (e.g., cooperation, competition, markets, social networks dynamics, etc.). A subset within social simulations are Agent Based Social Simulations (ABSS) which… …
59Saturated model — There is an unrelated notion of saturated model in the context of structural equation modeling. In mathematical logic, and particularly in its subfield model theory, a saturated model M is one which realizes as many complete types as may be… …
60Taxation in the United Kingdom — This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the United Kingdom Central government HM Treasury HM Revenue and Customs …
