Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Hrair limit


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 4 Dec 09)

  
  Wikinfo | Hrair limit
Hrair limit, a term borrowed from cognitive psychology, was used by Ed Yourdan in his Modern Structured Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1979) to mean the maximum number of subroutines that should be called from the main program.
The concept of the hrair limit is illustrated by imagining the six faces of a die used tp play dice.
The upper limit of your visualisation of a number represented as dots is your hrair limit for that exercise.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Hrair_limit   (388 words)

  
 The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, this limit was eventually found to be a result of using subjects who were speakers of English to remember sequences of single digits.
The upper limit of your visualisation of a number represented as dots is your subsisting limit for that exercise.
The term hrair limit as used by Ed Yourdon in his Modern Structured Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1979) is the maximum number of subroutines that should be called from the main program, again set at between 5 and 9.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hrair_limit   (1143 words)

  
 Method and device for photodetection - Patent 6284546   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Suitable materials for support 12 are, by way of illustration and not limitation, polystyrene, polyurethane, nylon, polyesters, polymethacrylate, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyfluorocarbons, nitrocellulose, cellulose acetate, etc. The material is preferably transparent and colorless or it may be opaque whereupon it is usually fl or white.
The samples will frequently be, but are not limited to, samples of biological origin and include body fluids, usually obtained from the body of a mammalian subject.
These theories should not be construed to limit the present invention in any way, since it has been demonstrated that the present invention achieves the results described.
www.freepatentsonline.com /6284546.html?highlight=4772453   (10106 words)

  
 Russia Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2003
The limited scale of their efforts was due at least in part to lack of funding and to the leadership's preoccupation with urgent reorganization problems and the fighting in Chechnya.
Government efforts to limit critical coverage of its attempt to subdue what it regarded as a security threat posed by the rebellion in Chechnya were widely seen as a major impetus for its pressure on the media.
A 1997 law regulating religious practice limits the rights, activities, and status of religious "groups" existing in the country for less than 15 years and requires that religious groups exist for 15 years before they can qualify for "organization" status, which conveys juridical status.
www.usembassy.ru /bilateral/print_human_rights.php   (20867 words)

  
 (JiE--"Anti-Corruption" Campaign Expanded Report )
Hrair and Ato Fitsumzeab were assigned to the Federal Supreme Court, while all the rest went to the Federal high Court.
Hrair, the Deputy Head of the Central Prison Administration of Addis Ababa refused to obey in public.
Hrair is alleged to be his friend or prison mate.
www.justiceinethiopia.net /expandedreport.htm   (11144 words)

  
 loganavatar.com: Numbers over 100, and our inability to grasp them
So, I was thinking about the limit to human visualization, and I remember that I read somewhere that the human mind, on average, can only visualize around 100 real world objects at a time.
Now while we can only make educated guesses at the thought processes of rabbits, we can be certain from our own experience that there are limits to the size of numbers that we ourselves can understand.
Thus, for every one of us there is a limit above which numbers mean little more than "a lot"; perhaps the number is "a thousand million"; perhaps it is much less.
www.loganavatar.com /2005/07/numbers-over-100-and-our-inability-to.php   (1253 words)

  
 Chronology of the Balkan Peace Process
Hrair Balian of the International Crisis Group calls the tally "a royal mess," charging that the OSCE's conduct was "irresponsible" and that its mismanagement invited challenges from nationalists who wanted to discredit the entire electoral process.
IFOR forces confiscate about a dozen weapons found among a group of Muslims who had returned to repair houses in Jusici, a Muslim village in the Bosnian Serb entity in a separation zone where weapons are banned.
He argues that an international military presence will be necessary "for a certain and limited period of time" and criticizes the local Croats for maintaining their para-state of Herceg-Bosna.
archive.tol.cz /BalkanPeace/Chronology/Chron.V02N21.html   (1939 words)

  
 Testing the Saudi "Will to Power": Challenges Confronting Prince Abdallah
The call to further institutionalize religious activities was not limited to members of the ruling family.
The former president telephoned Abdallah in June 2001 to reassure the Saudi that his son was "going to do the right thing." He reportedly confided to Abdallah that his son's heart was "in the right place" as far as the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel was concerned.
Such assurances notwithstanding, Al Saud rulers were not overjoyed by the U.S. decision to limit its direct involvement in the peace process, as Washington argued that it was up to the two parties to resolve long-standing differences.
www.mepc.org /journal_vol10/0312_kechichian.asp   (7299 words)

  
 Particle with luminescer for assays - Patent 4891324   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Preferably, the liquid medium should be saturated with respect to the dye to ensure that a sufficient quantity of dye is associated with the particles.
It will usually be desirable to utilize a concentration of the reagent that is sufficient to result in complete reversal of the association between the particles and the luminescer in less than 30 minutes, preferably in less than 10 minutes, more preferably in less than 1 minute.
This description is merely illustrative of the many assays in which the present method can be employed and is not meant to limit the scope of the present invention.
www.freepatentsonline.com /4891324.html   (13441 words)

  
 FT.com / Technology - Personal view: Jeff Wacker, corporate futurist for EDS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Humans are limited by the number of streams of thought they can manage simultaneously.
When a person reaches their hrair point, they are not only unable to understand a new concept, but also unable to operate efficiently on other tasks.
However, the hrair of your computer, using new multi-core, multi-channel processor chips, is limited only by its speed and resources – both of which can be easily increased.
www.ft.com /cms/s/5e6debbc-5202-11db-bce6-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=4dce8136-4a24-11da-b8b1-0000779e2340.html   (1095 words)

  
 Islamic Extremism & Modern Egypt: An Analysis
Hrair Dekmejian, an American political scientist, had counted 175 different Islamist groups in the Middle East, some 74 percent of which can be labeled as "radical" or "militant." Others scholars quote a figure of 45 Islamist groups in Egypt alone.
Socialist style references to the elimination of class differences were removed in favor of protection of legitimate earnings and a guarantee of equal distribution of public duties and responsibilities.
Whether from a sense of hopelessness or the promise of rewards for their families, many young men fall victim to this process and often find themselves in jail simply for associating with certain people.
www.mideastinfo.com /archive/paper4.htm   (5881 words)

  
 New Page 0
Verse 190 clearly indicates that there are limits that cannot be crossed in the implementation of jihad.
"Fight in the cause of G-d those who fight you, but do not transgress limits, for G-d loves not those who transgress" (21) clearly declares that there is a limit beyond which Muslims cannot go in their struggles/ wars with others.
The concept of the jihad clearly calls for a redressive action with specific limitations, employed as a last resort.
employees.csbsju.edu /kkraemer/justwarjihad.htm   (8059 words)

  
 The Valve - A Literary Organ | Miriam’s Hrair Limit; or, How to Shelve Intelligently to Feel More Intelligent
After you hit your hrair limit, not only can you will you be overwhelmed by any novel information, you will also lose the ability to understand the information you were already juggling.
That statement is approximately 2085 times her hrair limit.
Secondly, the Hrair limit has suddenly appeared as a topic on several of my podcasts.
www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/miriams_hrair_limit_or_how_to_shelve_intelligently_to_feel_more_intelligent   (1372 words)

  
 Hrair_Nazarian:_who_am_I
Supposedly, I am a serious minded adult and I do not do crazy things except driving within the speed limit even when there are no cops around, designing a web site and listening to classic music in my car.
There is no age limit for entering these places.
There were crazy guys among them -- they would drink, and then drive their big trucks without paying attention to the speed limit or pedestrians.
agrino.org /hrire/who_am_i.htm   (1864 words)

  
 Cynical-C Blog: The Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
Didn't know that it was called a Hrair limit.
The concept of this limit is illustrated by imagining the patterns on the faces of a die.
The upper limit of your visualisation of a number represented as dots is your subitising limit for that exercise.
www.cynical-c.com /archives/003950.html   (240 words)

  
 Explicit Content » Blog Archive » One More Than Hrair
This number exceeds my hrair limit, so I needed some way of breaking it up into logical chunks.
Since every document has exactly one owner, and since people generally tend to write about the same things, I figured document owner was as good a way as any to slice things up.
Had I known you were going in that direction I could have perhaps supplied you with the handy-dandy KB extractor, which dumps most of the basic metadata of the KB as RDF.
www.unc.edu /home/gravm/blog/archives/5   (532 words)

  
 Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
On the one side, China wants an even more limited wording, but advocates are reassured that Mexico, Tanzania, and Turkey all warned against accepting the Canadian text.
Given this, NGOs want to keep the protection as broad as possible and they are reassured that the article prohibits not just the recruitment of children, but using them to participate actively in hostilities.
Many will find it deeply disturbing that the like-minded were prepared to yield on such a sensitive issue as child recruitment.
www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_84.html   (3108 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The ”hrair limit” tells us that the limit to the number of entities a human can process at one time is roughly seven.
Note that an object type here represents a collection of related operations and data, as compared to the more limited ”object” concept in Ada 95 [ref. 1], that is limited to data objects (ADTs).
This limitation is expressed as two limit recommendations in O4S [ref. 9 + 10]: limit the number of ”withed” objects for any object to less than ten [ref. ”hrair limit” in 3] limit the behaviour complexity per object type through limitation of its PDL description to about two pages.
archive.adaic.com /docs/reports/ogren/o4s.doc   (4276 words)

  
 World soccer cup in Berlin: four scenes - 168 Hours Online
Stores have been working longer hours ever since the world soccer cup began and the lines sometimes exceed the limit.
I must mention the fact that stores in Germany usually work until eight in the evening and are closed on Sundays.
Everything is fantastic, it’s well-organized just like it should be,” says Hrair Vanesyan, who studies English philology.
www.168.am /en/articles/2676-pr   (822 words)

  
 Two Is An Impossible Number
In fact, now that you've brought it up, I suspect the ability of the human mind to keep track of SevenPlusOrMinusTwo things at a time is one reason people implement little arrays and then have to change them later...
Provided you RefactorMercilessly, when the day comes that you need to generalize for all primates, it shouldn't be a problem.
This is therefore yet another example of why arbitrary limitations should not be imposed, in the ideal.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?TwoIsAnImpossibleNumber   (3532 words)

  
 Ask E.T.: The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Not relevant for design
While the limit of six slides is a mercy, I expect that soon someone will demand that those six words be no longer than six letters.
But the point was that 7 was a limit for the discrimination of unidimensional stimuli (pitches, loudness, brightness, etc.) and also a limit for immediate recall, neither of which has anything to do with a person's capacity to comprehend printed text.
In considering breadth, you should be sensitive to the cognitive limits of the human mind.
www.edwardtufte.com /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000U6&topic_id=1   (2127 words)

  
 Lebanon's Hizbullah: from Islamic revolution to parliamentary accommodation
In this context, Fadlallah and the leaders of Hizbullah theoretically were all working to establish an Islamic Republic in Lebanon which they defined as a state ruled by Islamic law.
Moreover, the democratic game would limit their danger because they would become one of the many players.
Thus, in the case of opposition by the fundamentalists to important political issues such as the Arab-Israeli peace settlement, their opposition has to be within and not outside the system.
almashriq.hiof.no /ddc/projects/pspa/hamzeh2.html   (6850 words)

  
 Armenian Assembly of America - Armenia This Week
Kocharian’s proposals would delegate more executive powers to the Prime Minister, further limit the President’s right to dissolve the Parliament and make the Council of Justice responsible for appointment of judges, independent of the President.
Other amendments would reduce the National Assembly’s size from 131 members to 101, starting with the parliament elected after this year’s election; parliamentarians would have to hold longer sessions and would no longer be immune from criminal prosecution.
The Armenian International Airlines (AIA), owned by former AAL officials and businessman Hrair Hakobian, won the Paris, Vienna, Athens, Beirut, Kiev and St. Petersburg routes until December 2004.
www.aaainc.org /ArTW/print.php?issueID=340   (1828 words)

  
 microcode, compilers, and supercomputer architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
>It is instructive to note that when I was trying to squeeze the 514 words >down to 512, I discovered that the compiler had succeeded in combining >several things that I wouldn't have easily found, Here, again, you base your argument on your lack of skill and capacity, not on the limitations of algorithms.
It's not more clever, but it's >more tolerant With regard to self-deprication, you seem to hold the decathelon in tolerance.
I, too, would not want to spend my life on a single problem, a single implementation of algorithm to the limits of optimality.
www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctalk/1999-April/123805.html   (877 words)

  
 Special Leagues
2c-5c Pot and no limit games., $600 Prizepool split between 100 places with a first prize of $70.
Limit 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo $5 + $0.50 Starts in 3 mins.
Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo $1 + $0.10 Starts in 2 hrs.
www.bugsysclub.com /club/poker/leagues/leagues_results.htm?league_id=461&startRow=1657   (94 words)

  
 Computer bug | Topic Definition | Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Computer bug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bugs are a consequence of the nature of the programming task.
Some bugs arise from simple oversights made when computer programmers write source code carelessly or exceed their hrair limit.
Other bugs arise from unintended interactions between different parts of a computer program.
www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Computer_bug   (1361 words)

  
 East West Public Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
When used herein, words such as "intend" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions made by and information available to Research In Motion Limited.
The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
www.eastwestpr.com /press/detailpress.asp?prid=1486&limit=0   (665 words)

  
 Fall 2002
Stories occasionally are rescheduled because of breaking news, or may end up not being used at all.
The media's job is to follow the story, but sometimes good stories need to be cut due to limited space and air time.
Balcom and Durkee join Hrair Mesrobian, MD, program director, Urology, at Children's Hospital, and professor of Surgery (Urology) at the Medical College.
www.chw.org /display/PPF/DocID/31237/router.asp   (5729 words)

  
 OSCE: Diplomats Review Proposals For Reform - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Among its less-publicized demands is a change in the system of military confidence-building measures that were agreed in the 1980s after years of negotiations.
They limit the size and type of ground and air forces in Europe and require prior notification of some military activities.
At the time the Confidence and Security Building Measures (CSBM) agreements were regarded as a major step forward in European security.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/9/50eebd6a-938b-473a-a039-1819e55c7b0b.html   (886 words)

  
 Glossary of system modelling and development terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Thus, an entity specification can include a list of that entity's attributes (a common practice) and/or relationships the entity is involved in (less common).
Attachments often require list slots (as the upper limits of the relationship are often > 1).
See also hrair limit, lump limit, my eyes glazed over (phrase).
www.cs.keele.ac.uk /content/people/m.d.brough/home/papers/glossv.htm   (12632 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.