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Positive feedback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Feedback is said to be positive if any increase in the output signal results in a feedback signal which on being mixed with the input signal caused further increase in the magnitude of the output signal. Positive feedback is used in certain situations where rapid change is desirable. Audio feedback is a common example of positive feedback. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Positive_feedback   (668 words)

Positive liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Positive liberty is often described as freedom to achieve certain ends, while negative liberty is described as from external coercion. Positive liberty is an idea that was first expressed and analyzed as a separate conception of liberty by John Stuart Mill but most notably described by Isaiah Berlin. Defenders of positive liberty say that there is no need for it to have such totalitarian undertones, and that there is a great difference between a government providing positive liberty to its citizens and a government presuming to make their decisions for them. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Positive_liberty   (443 words)

Positive science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this sense, the opposite of positive is normative. Examples are positive and negative rights, or positive and negative liberty. The term positive lies at the heart of one of the major epistemological debates in the humanities and social sciences. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Positive_science   (443 words)

Feedback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Positive feedback amplifies possibilities of divergences (evolution, change of goals); it is the condition to change, evolution, growth; it gives the system the ability to access new points of equilibrium. Feedback may be negative, which tends to reduce output (but in amplifiers, stabilises and linearises operation), or positive, which tends to increase output. For example, in an organism, most positive feedbacks provide for fast autoexcitation of elements of endocrine and nervous systems (in particular, in stress responses conditions) and play a key role in regulation of morphogenesis, growth, and development of organs, all processes which are in essence a rapid escape from the initial state. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feedback   (1451 words)

False positive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia False positives are also problematic in biometric scans, such as retina scans or facial recognition, when the scanner incorrectly identifies someone as matching a known person, either a person who is entitled to enter the system, or a suspected criminal. False positives are common in full text searching, in which the search algorithm examines all of the text in all of the stored documents in an attempt to match one or more search terms supplied by the user. The term "False positive" is also used when spam filtering or spam blocking techniques wrongly classify a legitimate email message as spam and as a result interferes with its delivery. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_positive   (766 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Right Rights are divided, according to the title on which they rest, into natural and positive rights, and the latter are subdivided into Divine and human rights. Right (or more precisely speaking, the obligation corresponding to right) is enforceable at least in general--that is, whoever has a right with respect to some other person is authorized to employ physical force to secure the fulfilment of this obligation, if the other person will not voluntarily fulfil it. Right may therefore be defined as a moral or legal authority to possess, claim, and use a thing as one's own. www.newadvent.org /cathen/13055c.htm   (766 words)

Lightning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The bolt of lightning in heraldry is distinguished from the thunderbolt and is shown as a zigzag with nonpointed ends. Ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning discharge between the ground and a cumulonimbus cloud from an upward-moving leader stroke. The lightning bolt shape was a symbol of male humans among the Native Americans such as the Apache (a rhombus shape being a symbol for females) in the American Old West. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lightning   (5238 words)

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Positive psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Positive psychology is a term coined by Abraham Maslow and adopted by psychologist Martin E.P. Seligman, and a movement in psychology which emphasizes what is right with people rather than what is wrong with them. The ultimate aim of Positive Psychology is to enable more people to live lives filled with greater health and well-being (as well as the absence of illness and disease), which is a state of "Flourishing" as defined by the sociologist/social psychologist, Corey L. Keyes. Positive Psychology is an attempt to redress the balance, to encourage psychologists to try to contribute to positive aspects of life, not just do something about negative things. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Positive_psychology   (295 words)

Externality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia From the perspective of anybody affected by the externality, it is either a negative factor in their lives (as with obnoxious smell or pollution) or a boon (as with the other's pretty clothes). The value of the effects of the externality are likely not something that can be easily calculated in a technocratic way by economists or social planners, since they reflect the ethical views and preferences of the entire population. But it should not be thought that all externalities are small, spilling over only in the "neighborhood." For example, the burning of fossil fuels affects the entire "neighborhood" of the Earth, and according to some encouraging global warming. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Externality   (295 words)

Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Various political ideologies oppose themselves on the understanding of liberty, which can be conceived, in an individualist and liberal conception as the freedom of the individual, whilst socialism, for example, equates liberty with equality, claiming that liberty without equality amounts to the domination of the most powerful. Liberty is a concept of political philosophy or, as in Kant's philosophy, a metaphysical idea, often equated with freedom. A temple was erected to the goddess Liberty on the Aventine Hill in Rome by the father of Tiberius Gracchus during the second Punic War. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberty   (2194 words)

Natural law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The natural law or law of nature is a system of the justice that exists independently of the positive law of a given political order. In jurisprudence, natural law is the doctrine that just laws are immanent in nature (that can be claimed as discovered but not created by such things as a bill of rights) and/or that they can emerge by natural process of resolving conflicts (as embodied by common law). According to natural law ethical theory, the moral standards that govern human behavior are, in some sense, objectively derived from the nature of human beings or the cosmos in general. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_law   (1221 words)

Rational number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The decimal expansion of a rational number is eventually periodic (in the case of a finite expansion the zeroes which implicitly follow it form the periodic part). In mathematics, a rational number (or informally fraction) is a ratio or quotient of two integers, usually written as the vulgar fraction a/b, where b is not zero. The rational numbers are an important example of a space which is not locally compact. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rational_number   (684 words)

Position (poker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Position in poker is the order in which players are seated around the table, and the strategic and tactical consequences of this. You are said to "have position" on players who act before you in a betting round, and are said to be "out of position" to those players who act after you. Here's an example from Texas hold'em: There are 10 players playing $4/$8 fixed limit; the player to the left of the button (let's call her Angela) pays a $2 blind, the next player (Bill) pays a $4 blind, and you (Charlie) are next to act. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Position_(poker)   (449 words)

Positional notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Positional notation or place-value notation is a numeral system in which each position is related to the next by a constant multiplier called the base of that numeral system. The idea of indicating magnitude by means of position was embodied long ago by the use of the abacus in all its various forms. A key argument against the positional system was its susceptibility to easy fraud by simply putting a number at the beginning or end of a quantity, thereby changing (e.g.) 100 into 5100, or 100 into 1000. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Positional_system   (923 words)

Rational Explications: "Positive" Rights and the Birth of the Blue States In this way, as “positive rights” to be cared for by the state proliferate, they give rise to the ultimate “negative right,” which is the “right” to isolate oneself from those to whom no moral obligation remains, thereby destroying a sense of community that extends beyond one’s economic and social peers. If anything, these activities are probably more limited under a system of “negative rights” than they are under absolute monarchy, which would mean that taxes might even fall upon the introduction of such rights. Compared to a state in which the powers of the monarch are absolute, “negative rights” unambiguously increase the freedom of everyone except the monarch. www.rationalexplications.com /blog/archives/000287.html   (923 words)

HR Esquire - Where Human Resources and Employment Law Intersect Discrimination in the workplace, whether because of race, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, personal appearance, disability, political opinion, national origin, or religion, is a matter of great concern to both employers and employees. For employers, such discrimination may mean lower morale, lessened productivity, expensive lawsuits, public embarrassment, and the loss of skilled staff. Workplace and Discrimination: What You Need to Know www.HREsquire.com   (923 words)

Atheism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Agnosticism is the epistemological position that the existence or nonexistence of deities is unknown and possibly unknowable. Under the broader definition of atheism (that is, the "condition of being without theistic beliefs"), which is characteristic of "weak atheism", nonbelief, disbelief or doubt of the existence of deities are forms of atheism. Atheism is the state either of being without theistic beliefs, or of actively believing in the non-existence of deities. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atheism   (923 words)

Pipe organ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In medieval times, the portable instruments (the "portatif" or "portative" organ and the "positive" organ) were invented, and these were used for accompaniment for both sacred and secular music, in a variety of settings—since unlike other organs, they were easily moved. Organs were also known to exist in Byzantine times, as well as in Islamic Spain, though there is no evidence that the European organ came by way of Spain. For example, on many organs there is a group of pipes operated by the manual second closest to the player, and all of these pipes are contained in a chamber called a swell box which has louvred shutters to control the volume of the sound. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pipe_organ   (923 words)

Transfer operator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is often the case that the transfer operator is positive, has discrete positive real-valued eigenvalues, with the largest eigenvalue being equal to one. The transfer operator is sometimes called the Ruelle operator, after David Ruelle, or the Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius operator in reference to the applicability of the Frobenius-Perron theorem to the determination of the eigenvalues of the operator. Thus, transfer operators typically appear in physics problems, such as quantum chaos and statistical mechanics, where attention is focused on the time evolution of smooth functions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transfer_operator   (431 words)

Negative and non-negative numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Multiplication of a negative number by a positive number yields a negative result: (−2) × 3 = −6. In bookkeeping, debts are often represented by red numbers, or a number in parentheses. A negative number is a number that is less than zero, such as −3. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Negative_and_non-negative_numbers   (1212 words)

Learn more about Gram staining in the online encyclopedia. As a rule of thumb (which has exceptions), Gram-negative bacteria are more dangerous as disease organisms, because their outer membrane acts as "camouflage"; the human body does not contain peptidoglycan and in fact produces an enzyme called lysozyme which attacks the open peptidoglycan layer of Gram-positive bacteria. Gram staining is a method for staining samples of bacteria that differentiates between the two main types of bacterial cell wall. Gram negative bacteria have a thin cell wall made of a layer of peptidoglycan surrounded by an outer membrane containing lipids. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/gr/gram_staining.html   (1212 words)

Gram staining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gram staining (or Gram's method) is an empirical method of differentiating bacterial species into two large groups based on the chemical and physical properties of their cell walls. Gram stains are performed on body fluid or biopsy when infection is suspected. The method is named after the inventor, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram (1853-1938), who developed the technique in 1884 to discriminate between pneumococci and Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gram_staining   (1212 words)

Rights Where negative rights are "negative" in the sense that they claim for each person a zone of non-interference from others, positive rights are "positive" in the sense that they claim for each person the positive assistance of others in fulfilling basic constituents of human well-being like health and education. Positive rights, therefore, are rights that provide something that people need to secure their well being, such as a right to an education, the right to food, the right to medical care, the right to housing, or the right to a job. Positive rights impose a positive duty on us—the duty actively to help a person to have or to do something. www.scu.edu /Ethics/practicing/decision/rights.html   (1212 words)

The Perils of Positive Rights Positive rights, by contrast, require that we be provided with goods or services at the expense of other persons, which can only be accomplished by systematic coercion. Positive rights are thus nothing more than mislabeled preferences, or values, that people want the government to satisfy or attain for them—by force. Positive rights have even been defended on the grounds that negative rights—of the very poor, for example—entail positive ones. www.fee.org /vnews.php?nid=4915&printable=Y   (1212 words)

Definition of Human rights Rights may also be non-derogable (not limited in times of National Emergency)- these include the right to life, the right to be prosecuted only according to the laws that are in existence at the time of the offence, the right to be free from slavery, and the right to be free from torture. Human rights can be divided into two categories: negative human rights (rights to be free from) and positive (rights to). For civil and political rights, the answer is the state but it is not quite so clear who should be responsible for promoting economic, social and cultural rights (do we have a global duty). www.wordiq.com /definition/Human_rights   (1212 words)

Positive Rights Rights, true rights, are limited to those rights that when put into practice do not trample on other people’s rights. I said that rights included such things as the right to use and enjoy your property as you saw fit, the right to speak on any subject, the right to be free from coercion, etc. My right to own and use my property, practice my religion, speak my mind, associate with whom I please and be the sole beneficiary of my labor does not require any action on anyone else’s part, other than to be left alone by them. www.mycanadawest.com /negative_and_positive_rights.htm   (1212 words)

Method of Positive Psychotherapy Positive Psychotherapy's main goal is the development and implementation of a structured and systematic quality assurance. Since Positive Psychotherapy deals with elementary human capabilities, it is in a position to speak to peoples of all languages and social strata, as well as coping effectively with transcultural issues. Through the positive interpretations of symptoms used in Positive Psychotherapy, the patient should be enabled to find and assess his underdeveloped basic capacities. www.positum.ru /method/e_index.html   (1212 words)

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