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  Degenerate matter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Degenerate matter is matter which has sufficiently high density that the dominant contribution to its pressure arises from the Pauli exclusion principle.
In metals it is useful to treat the conduction electrons alone as a degenerate, free electron gas while the majority of the electrons are regarded as occupying bound quantum states.
In degenerate gases the kinetic energies of electrons are quite high and the rate of collision between electrons and other particles is quite low, therefore degenerate electrons can travel great distances at velocities that approach the speed of light.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Degeneracy_pressure   (1768 words)

  
 Degeneracy (mathematics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In mathematics, a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
The circle is a degenerate form of an ellipse, namely one with eccentricity 0.
The line is a degenerate form of a parabola if the parabola resides on a tangent plane.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Degeneracy_(mathematics)   (232 words)

  
 Degenerate Gases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
These gases are called degenerate gases and their properties are governed by the principles of quantum mechanics.
One very important property of degenerate gases is that the pressure is independent of the temperature.
Thermonuclear ignition under degenerate conditions is thought to be a key component in nova explosions, X-ray bursters, type 1a supernovae, and in what is called the helium flash in red giant stars.
csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr162/lect/binaries/accreting/degenerate.html   (298 words)

  
 Degenerate's ICW In-Ring Debut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Degenerate lets go of the grapple, and backs away 3 inches, before coming straight back in and lifting a knee into the mid-section of Auschwitz.
Degenerate pulls his arms over Auschwitz's legs, spins him around on a 180 degree angle, and plants him on the ground with a spinebuster.
Degenerate comes off with a Guillotine legdrop, but that is also evaded by Auschwitz who rolls out of the way.
members.aol.com /RockXWL/debut.html   (1113 words)

  
 First-order phase transition and degenerate states   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In this case five faces of the die have equivalent states and as such are degenerate.
On the one hand, the bias field is energetically favoured as it locks constituents in a low energy state through neighbour interaction, while on the other, degenerate states are statistically favoured.
Degenerate states will be favoured despite the influence of the bias field.
www.cecm.sfu.ca /~thalie/PhD/node69.html   (307 words)

  
 Degenerate Energy Level Analysis @ BloomingIdiot.com (Blooming Idiot)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In physics two or more physical states are said to be degenerate if they are both at the same energy level; the energy level is said to be degenerate if it contains two or more such states.
In quantum theory, this usually pertains to electronic configurations and the electron energy levels, where different possible occupation states for particles may be related by symmetry.
The usage comes from the fact that degenerate eigenstates correspond to identical eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian.
www.bloomingidiot.com /encyclopedia/Degenerate_energy_level   (317 words)

  
 Nucleic Acids - PCR with degenerate primers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Degenerate PCR is in most respects identical to ordinary PCR, but with one major difference.
Degenerate PCR has proven to be a very powerful tool to find "new" genes or gene families.
The case may be a bit harder if you look for genes in protists, such as the cryptomonads, where many genes have undergone massive genetic drift and have changed a lot compared to other eukaryots.
boneslab.bio.ntnu.no /degpcrshortguide.htm   (1372 words)

  
 Degenerate (Ultraverse, Solitaire foe)
The Degenerate later oversaw the delivery of at least 10 children in the back of a delivery truck, but the children ran away as soon as the doors opened with the aggressively antisocial entrance of the boy soon to be dubbed Mr.
Maddened, then laughing, the Degenerate proclaimed him to be "my kind of boy!" He then introduced the boy to his philosophy of the lowest common denominator, that all are slime and that the world should reflect "survival of the meanest".
Indeed, the Degenerate embraced and fanned the flames of the child's antisocial and arsonist tendencies.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/degenerate.html   (1178 words)

  
 Degenerate Art
Degenerate art (from the German: entartete Kunst) was the official platform adopted by the Nazi regime for banning modern art in favor of Heroic Art.
After the riveting stories of careers ruined, work destroyed in order to avoid concentration camps, and Hitler's seemingly contradictory fascination with nudes, viewers are left to mull on their own any connection with today's continued efforts to restrict art in the name of societal preservation.
Recently seen in Los Angeles and traveling to Chicago, "Degenerate Art" is an exhibit attempting to re-present works still available from the 1937 exhibit of the same name mounted by the Nazis--an exhibit that redefined the aesthetics behind modern art.
www.jahsonic.com /DegenerateArt.html   (938 words)

  
 Degenerate Art
By 1933, the terms "Jewish," "Degenerate," and "Bolshevik" were in common use to describe almost all modern art.
This excerpt from the exhibition catalog for "Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany" describes the historical roots of degenerate art.
Julius (Julo) Levin was considered a degenerate artist by the Nazis.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/arts/artDegen.htm   (1354 words)

  
 Degenerate distribution: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A random variable can be thought of as the numeric result of operating a non-deterministic mechanism or performing a non-deterministic experiment to generate...
The degenerate distribution is localized at a point in the real line real line quick summary:
The heaviside step function, sometimes called the unit step function and named in honor of oliver heaviside, is a discontinuous function (mathematics)function...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/degenerate_distribution.htm   (838 words)

  
 Lives and Deaths of Stars
Electrons are spaced further apart in a degenerate electron gas than the neutrons in a degenerate neutron gas because electrons are much less massive than neutrons.
The degenerate particles (electrons or neutrons) are locked into place because all of the lower energy shells are filled up.
The pressure in a degenerate gas depends only on the speed of the degenerate particles NOT the temperature of the gas.
www.astronomynotes.com /evolutn/s10.htm   (501 words)

  
 O'Reilly Network -- DEODAS: A DEgenerate Oligonucleotide Design and Analysis System
The probes and primers output are degenerate oligos designed to detect subgroups of gene families instead of individual genes.
Degenerate oligos based on known genes are needed to study soil microorganisms because up to 99 percent of them are unculturable and have never been characterized in the laboratory.
Degenerate probes are prone to cross-reaction with unrelated genes and require prescreening.
www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2002/01/04/deodas.html   (877 words)

  
 Unit Circle Rekkids: The Degenerate Art Ensemble - Rinko
The Degenerate Art Ensemble (formerly Young Composers Collective), led by composer Joshua Kohl, is a Seattle-based ensemble, formed in 1993, that stradles the line between jazz, classical and rock.
Degenerate Art Ensemble is a group of Seattle artists who were originally known as The Young Composers Collective.
Degenerate Art Ensemble is just as they sound, a full band of musical drifters masterminded by Joshua Kohl, who tweak, trumpet, and slam their way through a 10 song set based on the butoh dance choreography of Haruko Nishimura.
www.unitcircle.com /rekkids/releases/tUC073   (1980 words)

  
 Degenerate PCR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Degenerate primers can then be used to fish out these sequences.
If the primers used are quite degenerate, 50 pmoles could be used as a starting point and optimised from there.
Even though degenerate primers can be used directly for sequencing, it may result in unspecific priming for sequencing depending on the template.
cgat.ukm.my /protease/degpcr.html   (816 words)

  
 Is your dog some kind of degenerate mutant?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This change in the information it inherits is caused by a change either in the genes (those special factors in a cell which carry its body blueprint) or in the chromosomes (those parts of the cell which carry the genes in a specific order).
A degenerate mutation in a dog leaves the dog worse off than it used to be.
What son of a dog did Noah take on board the ark? Well, it had to be one which through the effect of degenerate mutation, or by having its genetic pattern juggled by recombination (lovingly selected by man), could produce all of the modern varieties of dog.
www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v4/i1/dog.asp   (1854 words)

  
 degenerate. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Having declined, as in function or nature, from a former or original state: a degenerate form of an ancient folk art.
Medicine Characterized by degeneration, as of tissue, a cell, or an organ.
To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate: old water pipes that are degenerating with age; a dispute that degenerated into a brawl.
www.bartleby.com /61/92/D0099200.html   (247 words)

  
 V022: Degenerate Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Gilman explains the way Hitler not only manipulated the population into blaming Jews and "degenerates" for their economic woes but also into regarding works of modern art as symbolic of that very degeneracy.
The Nazi leadership turned on their loyal party member, Emil Nolde--27 of his paintings were hung in the Degenerate Art show.
The Degenerate Art exhibit toured Germany and Austria for more than 4 years and was seen by more than 3 million people.
www.usc.edu /isd/archives/schoenberg/videv022.htm   (791 words)

  
 Degenerate mitochondria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The importance of mitochondria in cellular metabolism has been emphasized by the discovery of an increasing number of human diseases that are caused either by defects in mitochondrial proteins encoded in the nucleus or by point mutations or large deletions in mitochondrial DNA (Scheffler, 2000).
The discovery of highly degenerate mitochondrion-related organelles such as hydrogenosomes (Cerkasovová et al, 1973; Lindmark and Müller, 1973) and mitosomes (Mai et al, 1999; Tovar et al, 1999) in eukaryotes that lack typical mitochondria has revived interest in the origins and evolutionary aspects of the endosymbiosis-derived organelles of eukaryotes.
For example, the microsporidian genome only encodes one translocator for the outer membrane (tom70) and one for the inner membrane (tim22), in contrast with the multiplicity of proteins that is required for protein import in yeast (Katinka et al, 2001; Truscott et al, 2003).
www.nature.com /cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v6/n6/full/7400440.html   (3753 words)

  
 Degenerate art
A plaque commemorates the closing of the warehouse on March 20, 1939.
On May 31, 1938, the seizure without compensation of degenerate art was legalized ex post facto.
Franz Hofmann, the director of fine art and art critic of the Völkischer Beobachter, recommended that “the worthless, unsalable remainder be dumped in a trash heap and symbolically burned,” Goebbels wrote.
stevenlehrer.com /degenerate_art.htm   (385 words)

  
 Nazi Exhibition of Degenerate Art in Germany
The purpose of the exhibition was to let the Germans know that some forms and pieces of art were not accepted by the "highest race", and this art is "degenerate", also called as Jewish or Bolshevistic.
It would be curious to learn that most of those artists are known as the most prominent among their contemporaries, and are still admired.
This exhibition gave start to a series of art events in Germany of that time, and occurred to be a very powerful way of leading the overall opinion.
www.germanculture.com.ua /library/weekly/aa072599.htm   (307 words)

  
 Learn more about Degenerate matter in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Learn more about Degenerate matter in the online encyclopedia.
Unlike gases, degenerate matter is difficult to compress and the volume of degenerate matter does not change much in response to changes in temperature or pressure.
Degeneracy pressure may be calculated using the model of a particle in a box.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/de/degenerate_matter.html   (299 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Feathering nest with flights of fancy and experimentation
Degenerate Art Ensemble's "Cuckoo Crow," a multi-genre piece about a fledgling cuckoo terrorized by two pesky crows.
But Seattle's Degenerate Art Ensemble (formerly the Young Composers Collective) has been toiling in the avant garde trenches for a dozen years now, forging an underground recording career meshing original music, Japanese-influenced modern dance and quirky theatrics into offbeat spectacles.
It all added up to a visual and sonic pastiche that could be a delight at times, and a derivative hodgepodge at others.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002863251_degenerate14.html   (479 words)

  
 Degenerate Music
The words "Jewish," "Degenerate," and "Bolshevik" were commonly used to describe any art or music not acceptable to the Third Reich.
By 1938, examples of degenerate music were on display at the Entarte Musik Exhibit for the public to view.
He was friends with Schoenberg, an exiled German Jew whose music had been classified as degenerate and thereby banned.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/arts/musDegen.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Degenerate Art (1993) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is a superb presentation of one of the lesser known aspects of the Third Reich.
The Block Buster Degenerate Art Show in Germany, 1936, is detailed with actual footage from the original show along with excellent footage from the recent hanging of all the surviving work from that show back in Berlin.
The documentary very effectivly details the history of the German Expressionists and Hitler's collision course with their work and it puts the work into the perspective of Hitler's "House of German Art," the invasion of Poland, and most importantly the liberation of the camps and the burial of the typhoid dead.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000FEHZ?v=glance   (948 words)

  
 Tate | Glossary | Degenerate art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Degenerate art is the English translation of the German phrase Entartete Kunst.
Ironically, this official Nazi art was a mirror image of the Socialist Realism of the hated Communists.
Some of the Degenerate art was sold at auction in Switzerland in 1939 and more was disposed of through private dealers.
www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=84   (192 words)

  
 The perturbation of a degenerate state   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Assume that this eigenvalue is g-fold degenerate, i=1,2,...,g.
Therefore, if first-order perturbation theory removes the degeneracy of a set of degenerate eigenvalues, we can proceed to find higher-order corrections to the now uniquely defined eigenvalues just like in the non degenerate case.
Then all states are non degenerate and the ground state has n=0.
electron6.phys.utk.edu /qm2/modules/m8/degenerate.htm   (211 words)

  
 degenerate
The morale of the soldiers degenerated, and they were unable to fight.
The debate degenerated into an exchange of insults.
to cause degeneration in; bring about a decline, deterioration, or reversion in.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/degenerate   (232 words)

  
 untitled.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the early days of degenerate PCR some novel genes were successfully amplified using primer pools that were over 1000-fold degenerate.
By splitting into two pools (one nondegenerate containing an inosine, the other 2-fold degenerate) I was able to keep the degeneracy low, and avoid all non-serine codons.
In theory you could reduce the degeneracy of a primer pool by only including these most common codons, and taking the risk that the gene(s) you are looking for will follow the organism's general codon bias enough to allow such primer pools to work.
info.med.yale.edu /mbb/koelle/protocols/protocol_degenerate_PCR.html   (2164 words)

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