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	Eccentricity - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Eccentricity, in geometry, a property of a conic section (circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola).
		In mathematics, the eccentricity, denoted e or, is a parameter associated with every conic section.
		A quantity defined for a conic section which can be given in terms of semimajor a and semiminor axes b.The eccentricity can also be interpreted as the fraction of the distance...
	encarta.msn.com /Eccentricity.html (182 words)

	Behavior Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Behavior should not be mistaken with social behavior, which is more advanced action, as social behavior is behavior specifically directed at other people.
		Behavior as used in computer science is an anthropomorphic construct that assigns “life” to the activities carried out by a computer, computer application, or computer code in response to stimuli, such as user input.
		Also, "a behavior" is a reusable block of computer code or script that, when applied to an object (computer science), especially a graphical one, causes it to respond to user input in meaningful patterns or to operate independently, as if alive.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Behavior.html (391 words)

	Eccentric California
		By definition an eccentric is someone whose behavior varies wildly from the norm and, in most cases, society is a pretty good judge of who earns such a title and who doesn't quite live up.
		But in a state where eccentricity hardly registers on anyone's consciousness, in a state where it could be said that most everyone’s behavior varies widely from some norm or another, it’s hard to know whom to trust with the gavel.
		Opinionated and outspoken, eccentrics think that if you’d just come around to their way of thinking, you’ll be as happy as they are.
	www.eccentriccalifornia.net (1205 words)

	eccentricity is ruled out
		Moreover a second expected eccentricity period near 400 kyr is absent in most climate records, leading to specific disagreements between eccentricity and glacial data at both 400 ka and the present.
		In the Milankovitch theory, the peak near 0.01 (100 kyr period) is attributed to eccentricity, the peak near 0.024 (41 kyr period) to obliquity, and the peak near 0.043 (23 kyr period) to precession.
		The disagreement between the spectra of the climate and the spectrum of the eccentricity is evident.
	muller.lbl.gov /papers/nature.html (5498 words)

	Behavior - Psychology Wiki
		Behavior or behaviour (see spelling differences) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment.
		The acceptablity of behavior is evaluated relative to social norms and regulated by various means of social control.
		Animal behavior is studied in comparative psychology, ethology, behavioral ecology and sociobiology.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Behaviour (282 words)

	Eccentric America a guidebook of weird, wacky, funny oddities and people to visit in America. Strange, sometimes ...
		Eccentric America a guidebook of weird, wacky, funny oddities and people to visit in America.
		It is a celebration of America's more eccentric places, happenings and people, as you travel the U.S.A. That it takes 314 jam packed pages to chronicle, is reflective of an author who takes her fun seriously, and of a culture that celebrates the unusual and the wacky.
		Featuring 330 all-new eccentricities, the second edition of this award-winning guide also includes Cross-Country Quirks, regional calendars of wacky festivals and events, and an intriguing "Heights of Eccentricity" map of the United States.
	www.eccentricamerica.com (868 words)

	extravagant
		Eccentrics will often find unconventional solutions to problems.Eccentricity is often associated with genius, giftedness, or extreme creativity; the word itself is often employed to euphemize or invert a connotation of madness hence the phrase "there`s a method to his madness", implying inscrutable complexity or originality in lieu of the dismissible randomness of common lunacy.
		The individual`s eccentric behavior is perceived to be the outward expression of his unique intelligence or creative impulse [1][2].
		In this vein, the eccentric`s habits are incomprehensible not because they are illogical or the result of madness, but because they stem from a mind so original that it cannot be conformed to societal norms.
	webraindor.info /wiki/extravagant (455 words)

	HUMAN SYMMETRY DETECTION EXHIBITS REVERSE
		Although at base an anatomical concept, the eccentricity scaling function is commonly defined in functional terms, by the variation in retinal extent required to achieve a criterion performance level, either of a physiological signal recorded from a particular cortical location or of a psychophysical task or brain imaging technique measured in human.
		The parameters of the eccentricity scaling function for a particular task are therefore potentially diagnostic of the cortical area whose properties define the limits of the performance.
		The occurrence of a reverse eccentricity scaling behavior for symmetry summation width is remarkable, and may require reconsideration of the normal view of magnification as a projective scaling in the retinal connections to a uniform cortical analysis structure.
	www.ski.org /cwt/CWTyler/Pubtopics/ReverseSymmetry/PeriphSymmetry.TylerVNSWEB.html (2600 words)

	Eccentric - AOL Music
		The individual's eccentric behavior is perceived to be the outward...
		Eccentric (mechanism), a wheel that rotates on an axle that is displaced from...
		Eccentric position of a surveying tripod to be able to measure hidden...
	music.aol.com /artist/eccentric/173403/main (121 words)

	behavior - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Humans evaluate the acceptability of behavior using social norms and regulate behavior by means of social control.
		Behavior became an important construct in early 20th century Psychology with the advent of the paradigm known subsequently as "behaviorism." Behaviorism was a reaction against so-called "faculty" psychology which purported to see into or understand the mind without the benefit of scientific testing.
		Behaviorism insisted on working only with what can be seen or manipulated and in the early views of John B. Watson, a founder of the field, nothing was inferred as to the nature of the entity that produced the behavior.
	www.thewordbook.com /behavior (371 words)

	Eccentricity (behavior) information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eccentricity is often associated with genius or extreme creativity.
		The individual's eccentric behavior is seen as the outward expression of his unique intelligence or creative impulse.
		Eccentric behavior is often considered whimsical or quirky, although it can also be strange and disturbing.
	www.search.com /reference/Eccentricity_(behaviour) (401 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Eccentrics
		Eccentric, of course, is a lay term, an adjective that describes those who deviate from the norm in the extreme.
		Although eccentrics are content marching to the beat of their own drummer, neurotics--which our culture produces in far greater numbers--suffer from not conforming to what is expected of them, or what they perhaps unrealistically demand of themselves.
		Eccentrics, on the other hand, explains Weeks, tend to be at the opposite extreme from people suffering from chronic personality disorders--those who are anxious, hostile and depressed.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.15.96/eccentric-9607.html (2085 words)

	Eccentricity (behaviour) - Culture
		In popular usage, eccentricity refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual.
		This behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, without being demonstrably maladaptive.
		Eccentricity is contrasted with "normal" behavior, the nearly universal means by which individuals in society solve given problems and pursue certain priorities in everyday life.
	www.artandpopularculture.com /Eccentricity_(behaviour) (120 words)

	Welcome to Apogee Systems, Inc.
		Eccentricity (ECC) - A measure of the "roundness" of the speck; perfectly round is 1.0, square is 1.27, and the more oblong the occurrence, the higher the number.
		The calculated eccentricity value for any detected speck can be displayed in Spec*Scan by using the "right mouse button." The user simply uses the mouse to point at a detected speck, and clicks the right mouse button.
		While this means of calculating the eccentricity is not mathematically rigorous, it does seem to work rather well for characterizing the shapes of the specks.
	www.apogeesystems.com /html/tech/tech01.html (1878 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Eccentricity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		eccentricity (symbol e) One of the elements of an orbit.
		It is found by dividing the distance between the two foci of the ellipse by the length of the major axis.
		Sissinghurst and strawberry fields: despite some eccentricities and errors, the British Library's exhibition of gardens and gardening in books and manuscripts is richly rewarding.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Eccentricity&StartAt=1 (760 words)

	ASP: This Restless Globe
		The eccentricity of the Earth's orbital ellipse is currently decreasing from a peak of about 0.02 some 14,000 years ago toward a low of about 0.003 some 25,000 years from now (Figure 10).
		The change in eccentricity, plus the changing relation between the perihelion and aphelion of the Earth's orbit and the equinoxes and solstices, change the duration of the seasons.
		The prevailing theory holds that the changing obliquity of the ecliptic (41,000-year cycle) and a combination of the changing eccentricity of the Earth's orbit (about 100,000-year cycle) and the relative movement of the perihelion and the spring equinox (complex cycle, averaging about 21,000 years) account for the cycles of glaciation.
	www.astrosociety.org /education/publications/tnl/45/globe4.html (1221 words)

	Eccentric America: Weird, strange, bizarre, people & places to see in the US
		A clinical study of eccentrics by Dr. David Weeks, whose book, "Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness" studied both British and American subjects, concluded that approximately one out of every 10,000 people can be considered genuine eccentrics regardless of their country of origin.
		As long as eccentrics like these don't actually do any harm, society will usually let them go on about their business, however bizarre that business may be.
		True eccentrics have absolute faith that their way is the right one and if you can't see the light, well.
	www.eccentricamerica.com /introduction.htm (1078 words)

	EVOLUTION: ON SOCIAL SELECTION FOR ECCENTRICITY
		Older bees inhibit the behavioral development of younger bees: the rate of behavioral development is negatively correlated with the proportion of older bees in a colony.
		5) Evidence from the laboratory of the author in 1993 indicated the so-called mushroom bodies in the bee brain are involved in the behavioral changes occurring during maturation, the volume of the bodies increasing, and the volume increase associated with an increase in synapses with neurons from brain regions devoted to sensory input.
		Few studies have succeeded in showing that complex social behaviors have a heritable basis, and fewer still have suggested that variation in these behaviors is attributable to the action of one or few genes of major effect.
	scienceweek.com /2005/sa050211-1.htm (1264 words)

	Milankovitch Theory and Climate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although these combinations of g, and p are the most important to the behavior of the Earth climate, there are many more combinations of g and s frequencies together which are needed for a full model of the time and frequency behavior of insolation.
		This chaotic behavior makes it impossible to produce an insolation curve for more than about 20 million years into the past (or future), and indeed makes it impossible to predict the value for the longest period modulators of precession and obliquity.
		Using a time scale derived by tuning to the most stable of the eccentricity cycles, the 404 ky cycle (see Laskar, this report, and Olsen, this report) the other long eccentricity cycles can be identified and their component g frequencies solved for (e.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /~polsen/nbcp/cmintro.html (1354 words)

	Chapter 1: Assessing the Threat (cont).
		One theory holds that the rare storms associated with certain meteor streams that occur when their parent comets are far from perihelion are caused by a resonance within the dust cloud dictated by Jovian and Saturnian perturbations, which are far-comet types of outbursts (Jenniskens, 1995).
		Once the basic orbit of the meteor stream is established based upon the behavior of the parent comet, the ejection of the future meteoric particles must commence.
		The particle ejection behavior is thus significant because that provides a fundamental, random addition to the initial velocities of the particles when computing the subsequent evolution of the meteor stream.
	www.aero.org /publications/peterson/peterson-2.html (3090 words)

	Dr. Laurie M. Bagby
		Mill even encouraged eccentricity, and in On Liberty not only the kind he found worthwhile (which would have certainly been intellectual nonconformism), but any kind of eccentricity.
		He reasoned that the homogenizing influence of mass society was so great that in his own day, eccentricity was valuable in its own right, as a way of striking out against conformity and reminding others that they do not have to always do what everyone else does.
		However, if that behavior leads to actual injuries to other people, such as violence against ones family or indebtedness, the offender should be punished for causing the injuries.
	www-personal.ksu.edu /~lauriej/links/parallels/mill.html (2046 words)

	b33 The Milankovitch insolation hypothesis for climatic cycles
		Newton (1643-1727) worried that the behavior of the solar system (a many-body problem in celestial mechanics) is inherently chaotic and, for it not to fly apart, he postulated that God intervenes every now and then to aright things.
		He found that cycles of high eccentricity follow upon each other for hundreds of thousands of years and then cycles of low eccentricity become the pattern as is the case today and calculably was so for the last 10,000 years.
		At times of low eccentricity such as exists today winters are evidently of too brief for low-latitude snow accumulations to last into summer and induce an ice age.
	geowords.com /histbooknetscape/b33.htm (2199 words)

	EMCON Systems
		Variations in initial journal center velocity are found to be important, at least with the short-bearing solution: large initial velocities are observed to produce instability for certain parameter combinations which are stable under small initial position or velocity disturbances.
		The slope of the threshold curve and the shape of the equilibrium-condition path on the parameter plane (single-line path for constant temperature, closed curve for variable temperature) apparently combine to produce hysteresis in the variable temperature case and none at constant temperature.
		In-flight vibration and noise measurements, gathered to form a data bank, are used to assist in understanding the vibration energy flow and assessing adequacy and accuracy of the analytical procedures (comparison of calculated and measured noise spectra).
	emcon-systems.com /technical_papers1.htm (1672 words)

	Greater Paramus News and Lifestyle Magazine: Head cased: from the unusual to the abnormal
		Everyone, the argument goes, acts out in some way, displaying an eccentricity or behavior that is, well, abnormal.
		"Psychology is the science of human behavior and the things that happen in the mind to create it," said David Watson, a professor of psychology at the University of Iowa and a former Journal editor.
		Behavioral characteristics that fall a certain distance from the average value tend to be considered abnormal.
	www.paramuspost.com /article.php/20060311170502134/print (1415 words)

	Science NetLinks: Mental Health 1: Human Behavior
		Mental Health 1: Human Behavior provides students with a sound introduction and historical overview of the important figures and discoveries that have greatly advanced the study of human behavior since the early 1900s.
		That is why it is important at this stage of their development to expose them to the "general truths about social and psychological processes." Regarding health, it is worth pointing out that students of all ages tend to focus on the physical aspects of health and pay less attention to the mental and social aspects.
		Human Behavior: Class Discussion teacher sheet is provided that contains brief summaries of important figures and discoveries as well as suggested answers to the following questions.
	snl.aaas.org /lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=6&DocID=281 (1520 words)

	Mercury
		As the eccentricity of Mercury is changing (because of the perturbations from the other planets in the Solar System), the limit value of the rotation rate will change, and cross again the 3/2 value, giving rise to additional possibilities of capture into resonance (Fig.
		In (b), the eccentricity of Mercury is close to its critical value at the time of the initial spin down of the planet.
		The same research team have already shown three years ago (Correia and Laskar, 2001) that the retrograde rotation of Venus can be naturally explained by the consideration of the various involved dissipative effects and the existence of the large chaotic zone for the obliquity, resulting from the planetary perturbations (Laskar and Robutel, 1993).
	www.obspm.fr /actual/nouvelle/jul04/merc.en.shtml (948 words)

	Science NetLinks: Mental Health 1: Human Behavior
		Mental Health 1: Human Behavior provides students with a sound introduction and historical overview of the important figures and discoveries that have greatly advanced the study of human behavior since the early 1900s.
		That is why it is important at this stage of their development to expose them to the "general truths about social and psychological processes." Regarding health, it is worth pointing out that students of all ages tend to focus on the physical aspects of health and pay less attention to the mental and social aspects.
		Human Behavior: Class Discussion teacher sheet is provided that contains brief summaries of important figures and discoveries as well as suggested answers to the following questions.
	www.sciencenetlinks.com /lessons.cfm?DocID=281 (1520 words)

	Human Horizontal Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Initiation: Effects of Acceleration, Target Distance, and Unilateral ...
		Eccentricity of the head relative to the axis of rotation was varied by changing the location of the head holder relative
		Eccentricity of the rotational axis affected VOR gain later in the response than did changing target distance alone (Fig.
		For eccentricity of 20 cm, time 0 represents onset of decoupled head motion to the right, which was later followed by intended rotation to the left (Fig.
	jn.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/80/3/1151 (9727 words)

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