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	Tracing Difference
		The thought of difference has actually been more widely developed than the notion of proximity, and it will be shown here that difference is of great importance in 'filling in' for form where form is challenged by proximity.
		Derrida's differance bears mute witness to how differance is put into play through a trace, and to what of the trace endures as a crossroads for the different ways the writing is read.
		The thrust of the associated notions of difference and proximity is to supersede both sides of the argument between rationalism and empiricism by altering the role and status of form.
	differnet.com /experience/append.htm (3069 words)

	Difference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Difference is the contrary of equality, in particular of objects.
		Differences can only be stated on the basis of a comparison or categorization.
		Similar objects are only different with respect to attributes of minor discriminative value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Difference (156 words)

	Difference Engines
		method of differences is a technique for calculating tables, in which the vast majority of the calculation involves nothing more than simple addition or subtraction.
		We see that the general case of an nth degree polynomial requires n differences to evaluate by this method, and that, once we have found the initial values for the first row of the table, the only arithmetical operation required to compute a table of arbitrary length is simple addition.
		It is thus possible to envision a machine which holds n columns of digits (to represent n distinct numbers) with mechanism such that on each cycle of the machinery, the number in each column is added in turn to the adjacent column.
	www.meccano.us /difference_engines/index.html (1200 words)

	PlanetMath: set difference
		which, in general, is not the same as the set difference of
		See Also: symmetric difference, the inverse image commutes with set operations
		This is version 20 of set difference, born on 2001-11-16, modified 2006-09-17.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/Difference.html (120 words)

	difference. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness, divergence, variation, distinction, discrepancy These nouns refer to a lack of correspondence or agreement.
		Difference is the most general: differences in color and size; a difference of opinion.
		Distinction often means a difference in detail determinable only by close inspection: the distinction between “good” and “excellent.” A discrepancy is a difference between things that should correspond or match: a discrepancy between his words and his actions.
	www.bartleby.com /61/52/D0215200.html (266 words)

	Finite Difference -- from Wolfram MathWorld
		The finite difference is the discrete analog of the derivative.
		Finite difference formulas can be very useful for extrapolating a finite amount of data in an attempt to find the general term.
		Finite differences lead to difference equations, finite analogs of differential equations.
	mathworld.wolfram.com /FiniteDifference.html (403 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math
		The reason these percentages are different is that they are percentages of different amounts: 40 percent of 5, and 28.57 percent of 7 - both are equal to 2.
		When there is no directionality to the difference, so you can't distinguish an "old" value from a "new" value, you have to use the average of the two as the standard of comparison, as in your formula.
		This is one of many cases where terms are used differently in various contexts, and what is a minor error of terminology in one question can lead to major confusion for people coming at it from a different direction.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/58083.html (524 words)

	Potential difference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In physics, the potential difference is a quantity related to the amount of energy that would be required to move an object from one place to another against various types of forces.
		Potential difference is the difference in some quantity between two points in a conservative vector field of that quantity.
		In mechanics, the gravitational potential difference between two points on Earth is related to the energy that would be required to move a unit mass from one point to the other against the Earth's gravitational field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potential_difference (326 words)

	Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE
		There are many small differences in men's and women's brains, including the overall size of the brain (even correcting for body size), the density of cortical neurons, the degree of cortical asymmetry, the size of hypothalamic nuclei, and several others.
		Intrinsic differences in aptitude are a larger factor, and intrinsic differences in motives are the biggest factor of all.
		This pattern of differing profiles is not well captured by the generalization, often bandied about in the popular press, that women are "verbal" and men are "spatial." There doesn't seem to be any more evidence for that than there was for the idea that women are people-oriented and men are object-oriented.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.html (12347 words)

	Soft Difference, by Mirslav Volf
		Christian difference is therefore not an insertion of something new into the old from outside, but a bursting out of the new precisely within the proper space of the old.
		The focus on the combination of difference and acculturation would assume on the part of the Petrine community, however, a nonsectarian distance from their social environment: one is free from the pressure either simply to reject or simply affirm the surrounding culture.
		The difference that joins itself with hardness always presents the other with a choice: either submit or be rejected, either "become like me or get away from me." In the mission to the world, hard difference operates with open or hidden pressures, manipulation, and threats.
	www.northpark.edu /sem/exauditu/papers/volf.html (8970 words)

	Keirsey Temperament versus Myer-Briggs Types
		The second essential difference is Myers used a linear four factor model to characterize "invariant" patterns of behavior of the individual throughout their lifetime, whereas Keirsey uses a systems field theory model to characterize these patterns.
		One of practical problems with the defining the difference of the models is a great deal of printed or web material and books have mixed the two models together: for they are similar.
		The difference between character and temperament (or type) of the personality help distinguish between what 'changes' and what stays the same, this is true whether one uses the Jung-Myers notion of archtypes or function types or Keirsey's notions of character and temperament.
	users.viawest.net /~keirsey/difference.html (2221 words)

	Stalking the Wild Taboo - Does Head Start Make a Difference?
		The "difference in differences," that is, the gap between the effect of Head Start and the effect of preschool, is also large (40 percent) and statistically significant (p value = 0.01).
		There is little difference in these means between the other-preschool and no-preschool children, which is surprising in light of the differences in family background between these two groups.
		A good part of the difference between columns (i) and (iv) is accounted for by the influence of maternal height, although other measures of maternal human capital (her education) are also statistically significant.
	www.lrainc.com /swtaboo/taboos/headst01.html (8818 words)

	Difference Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Compares, and if it is possible displays differences between two files, files in two folders, or a shelveset and a local or a server file.
		The following example displays the differences between the local version of 314.cs and the workspace version of 314.cs that is the version of the file that was checked out from the Team Foundation source control server.
		The following example displays the difference between the versions of e271.cs that a user named Nadia shelved in shelveset PeerCodeReview8 and the base shelveset version that is the version upon which she based her changes.
	msdn2.microsoft.com /en-us/library/6fd7dc73.aspx (1409 words)

	Difference Equation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As stated briefly in the definition above, a difference equation is a very useful tool in describing and calculating the output of the system described by the formula for a given sample n.
		Once the z-transform has been calculated from the difference equation, we can go one step further to define the frequency response of the system, or filter, that is being represented by the difference equation.
		In order for a linear constant-coefficient difference equation to be useful in analyzing a LTI system, we must be able to find the systems output based upon a known input, x(n), and a set of initial conditions.
	cnx.org /content/m10595/latest (1121 words)

	Finite difference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A finite difference is a mathematical expression of the form f(x + b) − f(x +a).
		The approximation of derivatives by finite differences plays a central role in finite difference methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations.
		This is often used in numerical analysis, especially in numerical ordinary differential equations and numerical partial differential equations, which aim at the numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finite_difference (530 words)

	Ways You Can Make a Difference in Cancer - National Cancer Institute
		There are many ways you can make a difference in the lives of others.
		This chapter looks at how you can make a difference in everyday ways like helping someone with household chores, learning and teaching, sharing your experiences, or helping others through the health care system.
		In fact, there are many ways you can make a difference in your own "backyard"--where you live, work, go to school, or worship.
	www.cancer.gov /cancertopics/make-a-difference/page4 (2291 words)

	The Math Forum - Math Library - Difference Equations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A short article designed to provide an introduction to functional equations, those in which a function is sought which is to satisfy certain relations among its values at all points.
		A special case involves difference equations, that is, equations comparing f(x) - f(x-1), for example, with some expression involving x and f(x).
		The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel School of Education.
	mathforum.org /library/topics/difference_eq (461 words)

	A Difference Engine Built With LEGO® Pieces
		Because of engineering issues as well as political and personal conflict the Babbage Difference engines construction had to wait until 1991 when the Science Museum in London decided to build the Babbage Difference Engine No.2 for an exhibit on the history of computers.
		A Difference Engine uses Newton's method of differences to evaluate a polynomial for successive values of x; 1, 2, 3, etc. Computing the next entry in a table can be significantly easier than computing an arbitrary entry of the table.
		In simple terms the method of differences is based on the observation that if the work has already been done to multiply 5 by 6, that work can be reused to multiply 5 by 7 with the addition of another 5 into the previous total.
	acarol.woz.org (3237 words)

	Difference Between a Metaphor and a Simile.
		etaphor and simile are quite different, but are commonly confused simply because they are so very similar in nature.
		Though some have argued that a simile is simply a weak metaphor, it is difficult prove with certainty in world of ambivalent usage.
		In the end, it may one day be determined that the difference between true metaphor and true simile may well be regional within the brain, with metaphor rooted in logic and the simile rooted in emotion.
	knowgramming.com /metaphors/metaphor_and_simile_difference.htm (1420 words)

	Private vs. Public Schools: What's the Difference? - California - GreatSchools.net
		Another big difference is the focus on public speaking and presentations in private schools.
		I personally see such a difference in the attitude and behavior of the children that my daughter goes to school with compared to here peers that go to the local middle school.
		Last weekend there was a dance at her school that was open to the kids from the public school as well and we couldn't believe the behavior that we saw from these middle school students.
	www.greatschools.net /cgi-bin/showarticle/ca/197 (4430 words)

	A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE ® Institute - Peer Training Program
		The A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute Peer Training Program is built on the knowledge that the most important influence on the development of the attitudes and behaviors of young people is the attitudes and behaviors of one's peers.
		Today, the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute Peer Training Program has grown to be an international program operating in 15 countries overseas and at regional offices of the Anti-Defamation League across the United States.
		Using interactive A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute training activities, Peer Trainers plan and deliver anti-bias workshops for their peers and younger students that provide a forum for students to discuss school and community issues that concern them.
	www.adl.org /Awod_new/awod_peer_descr.asp (1032 words)

	What's the Diff?
		What it means is the difference between fl, where all the RGB values equal 0, and any other color is the the value of the original color:
		In the middle stripe, where the colors are the same, which is to say, no difference, the result is a fl strip.
		The difference between a red pixel and a red pixel is 0, green and green, 0, and so on.
	www.chromecow.com /howtos/diff/Difference.htm (416 words)

	difference
		There is a great difference between the two.
		His tact makes a difference in the way people accept his suggestions.
		to perceive the difference in or between; discriminate.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/difference (135 words)

	difference @ the informal education homepage
		The notion of 'difference' has come to some prominence in post-modern treatments of education.
		E xplores theoretical and political shifts in approaches to questions of 'difference' and 'diversity' by analysing changes in gendered and racialized discourses and state practices.
		Links difference, diversity and commonality to analyses of diaspora, border and location.
	www.infed.org /biblio/b-differ.htm (371 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Let me clarify the difference between probability and odds.
		Notice the difference in the second value; probability uses (Total chances), but odds use (Chances against).
		This is why the probability (if considered as a ratio) and the odds are different.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/56706.html (206 words)

	Clemson U. Physics Tutorial: % Error & % Difference
		For instance, we may use two different methods to determine the speed of a rolling body.
		In this case, since there is not one accepted value for the speed of a rolling body, we will use the percent difference to determine the similarity of the measurements.
		This is found by dividing the absolute difference of the two measured values by their average, or
	phoenix.phys.clemson.edu /tutorials/error/index.html (153 words)

	The Difference Dictionary
		The Dictionary may be consumed straight-up as an aperitif or Difference Engine appetizer.
		You can choose from the list of entries in the index, or you can browse from A to Z, using the Browse link at the bottom of each page.
		The Difference Engine is a sophisticated box of games and puzzles devised by benevolent tricksters Gibson and Sterling, a novel that generously rewards the reader interested enough to read beyond it.
	www.sff.net /people/gunn/dd (154 words)

	Problem I - Difference
		Your job is to calculate the maximum possible difference among all possible completion time of a particular job.
		In the above example job-B cannot be started before A and D. So it can be started after 5 days and it must be started after 7 days.
		Here for job-B, the difference is 2 days.
	acm.uva.es /p/v104/10461.html (199 words)

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