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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ruling clique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ruling cliques generally differ from another type of oligarchy: a military junta.
The ruling elites who comprise the leadership tend to form a council, political party, or another form of an organized group.
Some ruling cliques could be considered a form of aristocracy while others are based on a very small circle of rulers rather than a broader based organization such as a political party.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ruling_clique   (189 words)

  
 LIGHT - Online Information article about LIGHT
long inclines with gradients steeper than 1 in 50, and also on a line which had scarcely any straight portions and in which there were many curves of 600 ft. radius and gradients of 1 in 50.
case of a line of 21 ft. gauge, with a ruling gradient of 1 in 40, a maximum speed of 15 M. an hour and a minimum radius of curve of 300 ft. have been prescribed.
Except in special cases, gradients must not exceed 3 in loo; andbetween gradients in the opposite sense there must be not less than 6o metres of level for 1.44 M. and 40 metres for i m.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LEO_LOB/LIGHT.html   (3921 words)

  
 Baltic Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Due to the difference in salinity, a sub-surface layer of more saline water moving in the opposite direction brings in 475 cubic km per year.
A lateral salinity gradient also exists, from most saline in the northern Kattegat to least saline in the northern Gulf of Bothnia.
The most saline water remains on the bottom, creating a barrier to the exchange of oxygen and nutrients, fostering totally different maritime environments.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baltic_Sea   (3257 words)

  
 Rich Sutton's Publications
We illustrate here how this enhanced LMS rule is analogous to adding a cue-salience or attentional component to the psychological model, giving the network model a means for discriminating between relevant and irrelevant cues.
The learning rule of their theory was first described as a learning procedure for connectionist networks by Widrow and Hoff.
The adaptive elements comprising the network employ a novel type of learning rule whose properties, we argue, are essential to the adaptive behavior of the layered network.
web.cs.ualberta.ca /~sutton/publications.html   (12969 words)

  
 Side Effects (of living and being me)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In his minority the kingdom was ruled by two successive regents, first Miles of Plancy, though unofficially, and then Raymond III of Tripoli, his father’s cousin.
Any objective observation we make must include a discussion of proportion for it is the rule of proportion in the examination of nature that causes us to observe an organized universe and a universe in chaos, rational and irrational numbers, harmony and discord, truth and falsity.
As an example, a rule of thumb for composing a photograph is called the rule of thirds; it is said to be roughly based on the golden ratio.
bellatryx.blogs.ie   (15431 words)

  
 ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
Art made ready for printing by photographing the image through the fine, diagonally crossed lines of a screen made of glass or film, converting it into a field of tiny graded dots that reproduce by optical illusion the tonal values of the original (click here to see halftone magnified).
Hard point does not leave a graphic mark on the writing or drawing surface; instead, the application of pressure creates a visible furrow on one side of the sheet and a corresponding ridge on the other, a technique called scoring.
As a general rule, donated materials containing highlighting are added to a library collection only in exceptional cases.
lu.com /odlis/odlis_h.cfm   (10070 words)

  
 HEJAZ - LoveToKnow Article on HEJAZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Actual construction was begun in May 1901 and on the 1st of September 1904 the section Damascus-Maan (285 m.) was officially opened.
The line has a narrow gauge of I05 metre= 41 in., the same gauge as that of the DamascusBeirut line; it has a ruling gradient of I in 50 and follows generally the pilgrim track, through a desert country presenting no serious engineering difficulties.
The graver difficulties due to the scarcity of water, and the lack of fuel, supplies and labor were successfully overcome; in 1906 the line was completed to El Akhdar, 470 m.
www.1911ency.org /H/HE/HEJAZ.htm   (1524 words)

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