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  Definition of implicit - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=implicit   (26 words)

  
  Implicit Events :: Defining Events and Data (Stateflow)
These events are called implicit events because you do not have to define or trigger them explicitly.
Implicit events are children of the chart in which they occur.
Each of the following keywords generates implicit events in the action language notation for states and transitions.
www.mathworks.com /access/helpdesk_r13/help/toolbox/stateflow/evdata9.html   (262 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Implicit function   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In mathematics, a partial derivative of a function of several variables is its derivative with respect to one of those variables with the others held constant (as opposed to the total derivative, in which all variables are allowed to vary).
In multivariable calculus of mathematics the implicit function theorem says that for a suitable set of equations, some of the variables are defined as functions of the others.
There are some natural limitations on this use of a mathematical relation to define implicit functions, which may be seen in trying to use the unit circle as the graph of a function.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Implicit-function   (1590 words)

  
 PlanetMath: implicit differentiation
Implicit differentiation is a tool used to analyze functions that cannot be conveniently put into a form
To use implicit differentiation meaningfully, you must be certain that your function is of the form
This is version 2 of implicit differentiation, born on 2002-02-25, modified 2003-10-30.
www.planetmath.org /encyclopedia/ImplicitDifferentiation.html   (247 words)

  
 The Death of Implicit Memory
Implicit memory phenomena are distinct from explicit memory phenomena at a neural and information processing level, but there is such variety among the implicit memory phenomena that nothing holds them together in a common category.
First, the answer might be that "implicit memory is a memory system supported by particular brain structures." The second answer is that "implicit memory is a memory system using particular processes and representations." Naturally a third answer is that both of the previous answers are true because both distinctions apply.
Several researchers have argued that implicit memory is specific, meaning that it is more sensitive to changes between encoding and retrieval conditions, whereas explicit memory is more flexible, meaning explicit memories may be accessed and used in contexts quite different from those under which it was encoded.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /v2/psyche-2-15-willingham.html   (5705 words)

  
 Implicit modeling of swept volumes and swept surfaces (US5542036)
An implicit model is created by determining shortest distance from each voxel of a object volume to a surface point of the object.
The implicit model space voxels are transformed relative to the workspace voxels according to the trajectory at a time t.
The implicit model space voxels are transformed relative to the workspace voxels for another time t and the number of workspace voxels are again updated.
www.delphion.com /details?pn=US05542036__   (696 words)

  
 Implicit function Summary
Implicit differentiation is a technique used in calculus to compute the derivative of functions even when an explicit formula for the function is unknown.
This technique is a consequence of a general theorem, called the implicit function theorem, which enables mathematicians to produce a limitless supply of smooth curves and surfaces.
In general, the implicit function theorem states that an equation g(x, y) = C(where g is a continuously differentiable function and C is any constant) locally defines y as an implicit function of x in a neighborhood of any point where the partial derivative of g with respect to y is nonzero.
www.bookrags.com /Implicit_function   (931 words)

  
 J2EE pathfinder: The many uses of implicit objects
Follow along as he introduces the nine implicit objects, explains the purpose (and multiple purposes) of each one, and closes with a list of best practices for using these handy little workers in your JSP programming efforts.
In addition to accessing session scopes, JSP implicit objects can be used to handle HTML parameters, forward a request to a Web component, include the content of a component, log data through the JSP container, control the output stream, handle exceptions, and more.
Because implicit objects are declared automatically, we need only use the reference variable associated with a given object to begin calling methods on it.
www.ibm.com /developerworks/library/j-pj2ee7.html   (2406 words)

  
 Implicit/Explicit Integration - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
Implicit integrators tend to not be symplectic, lose energy, may have trouble modeling angular rotation for rigid bodies (precession is not correctly modeled), may require special approximations for acceleration (motion looks plausible, but not natural), can use a large amount of memory, and can be more difficult to tune.
Calculating the derivative is what makes implicit methods complex, because it is absolutely necessary and mandatory to have a continue and derivable implicit function that relates the dependent variable to the independent variables, and this is not always possible.
Implicit integrators are only good for implementing lattices of particles connected by springs and maybe dampers (even thought damper made the jacobian matrices intractable) this is because the function between any two particles is
www.gamedev.net /community/forums/viewreply.asp?ID=2035722   (4966 words)

  
 MF Bliki: ImplicitInterfaceImplementation
One of the things this model ignores is that you have implicit interfaces whenever you have a class.
Implicit Interface Implementation would be a much cleaner approach.
Mostly it seems to be an issue for testing, it's much harder to insert TestDoubles if you can't use a reimplementation - and often subclassing won't do the trick if the superclass wants a real connection to the database.
www.martinfowler.com /bliki/ImplicitInterfaceImplementation.html   (804 words)

  
 Welcome to Project Implicit - Information Website
Project Implicit is the product of research by three scientists whose work produced a new approach to understanding of attitudes, biases, and stereotypes.
The Project Implicit site (implicit.harvard.edu) has been functioning as a hands-on science museum exhibit, allowing web visitors to experience the manner in which human minds display the effects of stereotypic and prejudicial associations acquired from their socio-cultural environment.
Implicit biases vary from person to person - for example as a function of the person’s group memberships, the dominance of a person’s membership group in society, consciously held attitudes, and the level of bias existing in the immediate environment.
www.projectimplicit.net /generalinfo.php   (488 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Memory: Implicit Memory
Implicit memory can cause priming, in which memories of specific items influence the way that people process information, without any conscious awareness of the effect.
Implicit memory is also involved in procedural learning (learning a procedure such as how to ride a bike or how to program a computer).
This dichotomy also shows up in other measures of implicit memory, suggesting that there are two separate systems responsible for processing explicit and implicit memory.
www.sparknotes.com /psychology/cognitive/memory/section3.rhtml   (563 words)

  
 World Web Math: Implicit differentiation
Not all implicit equations can be restated explicitly in a single equation.
This implicit function is considered in Example 2.
In implicit differentiation, and in differential calculus in general, the chain rule is the most important thing to remember!
web.mit.edu /wwmath/calculus/differentiation/implicit.html   (422 words)

  
 Regulatory Barriers Search Results
There is implicit recognition that residents and officials often oppose the use of manufactured housing for infill development.
There is implicit recognition that not allowing reconstruction of non-conforming uses could create a hardship on the owner or resident.
There is implicit recognition that parking requirements add to the cost of redeveloping affordable housing.
www.huduser.org /rbc/search/rbcresults.asp?query=+AND+TopicID+in+%287%29&RecordsPerPage=10&Page=8   (458 words)

  
 Regulatory Barriers Search Results
There is implicit recognition that some builders do not know their fair housing responsibilities.
There is implicit recognition that some people continue to discriminate in the sale or rental of housing.
There is implicit recognition that some continue to discriminate in the sale or rental of housing.
www.huduser.org /rbc/search/rbcresults.asp?query=+AND+TopicID+in+%283%29&RecordsPerPage=10&Page=12   (443 words)

  
 FRB:Testimony, Greenspan--Government-sponsored enterprises--February 24, 2004
The GSEs' special advantage arises because, despite the explicit statement on the prospectus to GSE debentures that they are not backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, most investors have apparently concluded that during a crisis the federal government will prevent the GSEs from defaulting on their debt.
An implicit guarantee is thus created not by the Congress but by the willingness of investors to accept a lower rate of interest on GSE debt than they would otherwise require in the absence of federal sponsorship.
These are important organizations that, because of their implicit subsidy, are expanding at a pace beyond that consistent with systematic safety.
www.federalreserve.gov /boarddocs/testimony/2004/20040224/default.htm   (3376 words)

  
 First amendment - Wex
Implicit within this right is the right to association and belief.
The Supreme Court has expressly recognized that a right to freedom of association and belief is implicit in the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments (http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html#amendments).
This implicit right is limited to the right to associate for First Amendment purposes.
www.law.cornell.edu /topics/first_amendment.html   (712 words)

  
 7 Implicit Connection Caching
The implicit connection cache supports user-defined connection attributes that can be used to determine which connections are retrieved from the cache.
The implicit connection cache provides a mechanism for users to define cache behavior when a connection is returned to the cache, when handling abandoned connections, and when a connection is requested but none is available in the cache.
The implicit connection cache offers a way for the application to specify callbacks to be invoked by the connection cache.
www.stanford.edu /dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/java.101/b10979/conncache.htm   (3018 words)

  
 RIM Device Java Library: Class List
IMPLICIT where select causes immediate notification of the application if there is a
IMPLICIT List can be used to construct menus by placing logical commands to elements.
For Choice types EXCLUSIVE and IMPLICIT there is at most one element selected, so this method is useful for determining the user's choice.
www.blackberry.com /developers/docs/3.6api/javax/microedition/lcdui/List.html   (1688 words)

  
 Implicit surfaces
The question as to whether points are on the interior or exterior of the surface is implicit to the description.
Implicit surfaces can most readily be viewed in traditional rendering packages by polygonisation with for example the marching cubes algorithm.
People have known for a long time that if you have two implicit surfaces f(x,y,z)=0 and g(x,y,z)=0 that are fairly continuous, with a common sign convention (f and g positive on the inside, negative on the outside, say) then the implicit surface defined by f+g=0 is a blend of the shapes.
local.wasp.uwa.edu.au /~pbourke/modelling_rendering/implicitsurf   (1143 words)

  
 RE: [dss] Implicit parameters
There may be other >alternatives as well (e.g allowing reference to implicit parameters through >a URN may be sufficient).
I do not think we need to specify how these >implicit parameters are expressed, at least in the first release of DSS, but >I do think it is useful to allow for these implicit parameters to be stated >more explicitly and to allow for a mechanism through which they may be >discovered (e.g.
We have *explicit* parameters, and anything left over is by definition implicit, and hopefully we have the wisdom to make the right things explicit.
www.oasis-open.org /archives/dss/200310/msg00012.html   (433 words)

  
 Pimp my Library
The rest of this blog explains what implicits are (you can skip it if you know it already, or if you don't care).
If such an implicit conversion is visible at the point of an otherwise illegal assignment, the conversion is automatically inserted.
Implicit conversions can also be applied in other situations.
www.artima.com /weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=179766   (623 words)

  
 Implicit Differentiation
Implicit differentiation is nothing more than a special case of the well-known chain rule for derivatives.
This second method illustrates the process of implicit differentiation.
It is important to note that the derivative expression for explicit differentiation involves x only, while the derivative expression for implicit differentiation may involve BOTH x AND y.
www.math.ucdavis.edu /~kouba/CalcOneDIRECTORY/implicitdiffdirectory/ImplicitDiff.html   (734 words)

  
 Cognitive Daily: Implicit attitudes: How children develop biases about race   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unlike the implicit task, these results do change over time, with each age group showing a significant difference from the other groups, and adults showing an equal preference for fl and white faces.
In the last case -- assuming the person doesn't know for certain whether the individual he or she discriminates against conforms to the stereotype -- it is merely immoral.
It is only natural (from an evolutionary standpoint) for children to take on implicit biases for whatever is "different" from their immediate environment.
scienceblogs.com /cognitivedaily/2006/02/implicit_attitudes_how_childre.php   (3556 words)

  
 Implicit Differentiation
However, sometimes we are faced with an implicit relationship between and.
Implicit differentiation is a process which will clarify this for us.
If we compute the derivative at a point through implicit differentiation and it is defined at this point, then the Implicit Function Theorem justifies the calculation we have just done and we need not worry about anything.
www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca /coursedoc/math100/notes/derivative/implicit.html   (822 words)

  
 Automatic and Controlled Components of Implicit Stereotyping and Prejudice
For example, many observed dissociations between implicit and explicit memory tasks may be reinterpreted as dissociations between tasks that tap perceptual versus conceptual processes (e.g., Roediger, 1990).
Undoubtedly, implicit measures of stereotyping and prejudice are less susceptible to the influence of intention and controlled processes than are explicit measures.
Whereas one person may have strong implicit associations that are successfully overcome, the other may have weaker associations that are not overcome so well.
www.apa.org /science/psa/sb-sherman.html   (2176 words)

  
 0206 HR Magazine: Detecting Hidden Bias
A web-based test developed by the Harvard-led research team found a significant degree of implicit bias among those tested—despite what researchers say were honest assertions by test takers that they harbored no prejudices.
Since implicit bias is—by its nature—subconscious and covert, it may be difficult, if not impossible, to get people to acknowledge that it actually exists.
Project Implicit doesn’t provide workshop leaders, but larger organizations are encouraged to use their own staff members with diversity training expertise to run the on-site workshops.
www.shrm.org /hrmagazine/articles/0206/0206cover.asp   (2810 words)

  
 The Implicit Prejudice: Scientific American
Battles her own implicit bias with screensaver images, such as of fl intellectuals and women athletes, that counter social stereotypes.
Banaji has been studying these implicit attitudes and their unintended social consequences since the late 1980s, when she first teamed up with Anthony Greenwald of the University of Washington.
IMPLICIT ATTITUDE TEST means rapidly putting images (here, of fl and white faces) and words in green in the correct columns.
www.sciam.com /article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=30&articleID=0004B0F0-7813-146C-ADB783414B7F0000   (921 words)

  
 Using Implicit - GNU `make'
If an implicit rule is found, it can supply both commands and one or more prerequisites (the source files).
also exists, the implicit rule to make an object file from a C source file is used instead, because it appears before the Pascal rule in the list of predefined implicit rules (see Catalogue of Implicit Rules).
If you do not want an implicit rule to be used for a target that has no commands, you can give that target empty commands by writing a semicolon (see Defining Empty Commands).
www.gnu.org /software/make/manual/html_node/Using-Implicit.html   (486 words)

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