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Direct Rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Direct Rule Ministers are appointed by the British Cabinet. Direct Rule is the term given to the running of the day-to-day administration of Northern Ireland directly from Westminster. Direct rule is objected to by many in Northern Ireland. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Direct_Rule   (196 words)

The Delta Rule The delta rule implements a gradient descent by moving the weight vector from the point on the surface of the paraboloid down toward the lowest point, the vertex. Developed by Widrow and Hoff, the delta rule, also called the Least Mean Square (LMS) method, is one of the most commonly used learning rules. If the set of input patterns form a linearly independent set then arbitrary associations can be learned using the delta rule. uhavax.hartford.edu /compsci/neural-networks-delta-rule.html   (196 words)

Divisibility rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Divisibility rules are useful when it is necessary to determine a number's factors and a calculator is not present, or if the the number is too high for the calculator to compute. We prove a few of the rules above here; the rest of the proofs follow the same pattern. A three-digit number is divisible by 8 if the first digit is odd and the result of subtracting 4 from the number formed by the last two digits is divisible by 8. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Divisibility_rule   (1209 words)

Cloistered rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Although the actual influence of cloistered rule may have been exaggerated by some historians, it must be seen in the context of the increasing dominance over the aristocracy by the warrior class. Patterns of cloistered rule have been more broadly identified as a distinct feature of Japanese history, politics and sometimes business. Sessho and Kampaku- regents in the Imperial Court in Kyoto. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cloistered_rule   (270 words)

Chain rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In calculus, the chain rule is a formula for the derivative of the composition of two functions. In integration, the counterpart to the chain rule is the substitution rule. In algebraic terms, the chain rule (of one variable) states that if the function f is differentiable at g(x) and the function g is differentiable at x. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chain_rule   (430 words)

Slaughter rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Slaughter rules are most common in games such as baseball or softball, where there is no game clock and play could theoretically continue forever, although it is also used in sports such as Hockey, football, and soccer. A slaughter rule, also well known by the slightly more polite term mercy rule or less commonly, knockout rule, brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. The rules vary widely, depending on the level of competition, but nearly all youth leagues and high school sports associations, and many college sports associations have slaughter rules for sports including baseball, softball, football (although not college) and soccer. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slaughter_rule   (748 words)

Indirect rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Indirect rule is a type of European colonial policy as practiced by the British Empire, in which the traditional local power structure, or at least part of it, is incorporated into the colonial administrative structure. Therefore, tapping in to the ruling class that ruled the countries before they became colonial property is a very attractive and pragmatic move. Another motive is a matter of political tactics: the conquerors want the cooperation of the former rulers of the country in order to prevent the risk of a rebellion led by these former rulers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indirect_rule   (359 words)

Majoritarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Majority rule (a concept closely aligned with majoritarianism) is defined as the rule that requires more than half of a polity's members who cast a vote to agree in order for the whole polity to make a decision on the measure being voted on. Although strict majority rule has never been tried in human history, majoritarianism (as a theory), similar to democracy, has often been used as a pretext by sizable or aggressive minorities to politically oppress other smaller (or civically inactive) minorities, or even sometimes a civically inactive majority (see Richard Nixon's reference to "Silent Majority"). Majoritarianism is sometimes pejoratively called ochlocracy (commonly stated as mob rule) or tyranny of the majority by its opponents. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Majority_rule   (685 words)

Mailbox rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The mailbox rule or the postal acceptance rule is a term of common law contracts which determines when a contract has been formed where the parties are communicating via the mail. With the advent of modern technology, the mailbox rule has been expanded to cover all technology by which commercial communication may reasonably be conducted, including by telephone, telegraph, fax and e-mail. Under the mailbox rule, performance is a means of acceptance. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mailbox_rule   (414 words)

Haiku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia All such rules are based in the Japanese language and literary tradition and are habitually broken by most poets, especially when adapted for languages other than Japanese (where they can seem arbitrary). Haiku is often taught in Western schools, but without the strict rules, only the syllable format. Some consider that a haiku must also combine two different images, be written in present tense, have a focus on description and have a pause (the kireji or "cutting word") at the end of either the first or second line. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haiku   (414 words)

U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Origins & Development > Powers & Procedures > Filibuster and Cloture Despite the new cloture rule, however, filibusters continued to be an effective means to block legislation, due in part to the fact that a two-thirds majority vote is difficult to obtain. The new Senate rule was put to the test in 1919, when the Senate invoked cloture to end a filibuster against the Treaty of Versailles. Over the next several decades, the Senate tried numerous times to evoke cloture, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds vote. www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm   (414 words)

PlanetMath: chain rule (several variables) The chain rule is a theorem of analysis that governs derivatives of composed functions. This form of the chain rule also generalizes quite nicely to the even more general setting where one is interested in describing the derivative of a composition of mappings between manifolds. This is version 7 of chain rule (several variables), born on 2002-03-22, modified 2003-10-07. planetmath.org /encyclopedia/ChainRuleSeveralVariables.html   (315 words)

Slide rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The slide rule (often nicknamed a "slipstick") is a mechanical analog computer, consisting of calibrated strips, usually a fixed outer pair and a movable inner one, with a sliding window called the cursor. The length of the slide rule is quoted in terms of the nominal length of the scales. The slide rule was invented around 1620–1630, shortly after John Napier's publication of the concept of the logarithm. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slide_rule   (4227 words)

gag rule - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about gag rule Although the gag rule halted congressional debate for nearly a decade, it ultimately aided in the abolitionist movement. The southern congressman Henry Laurens Pinckney, representing South Carolina, initiated the gag rule on parliamentary procedure. Former US president John Quincy Adams, who was representing Massachusetts in Congress at this time, strongly supported abolitionism and pioneered the effort to bring an end to the gag rule, arguing that it infringed upon citizens' constitutional right to petition. encyclopedia.farlex.com /gag%20rule   (276 words)

British Raj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The first steps were taken toward self-government in British India in the late 19th century with the appointment of Indian counsellors to advise the British viceroy and the establishment of provincial councils with Indian members; the British subsequently widened participation in legislative councils with the Indian Councils Act of 1892. Most areas ruled by native princes remained largely untouched by the rebellion; in particular, Rajasthan and the maratha states of central India, with the exception of Gwalior, remained calm. In proclaiming the new direct-rule policy to "the Princes, Chiefs, and Peoples of India," Queen Victoria (who was given the title Empress of India in 1877) promised equal treatment under British law, but Indian mistrust of British rule had become a legacy of the 1857 rebellion. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Raj   (3301 words)

Britannia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Britannia remained the Latin name for Great Britain, but after the fall of the Roman Empire it had lost most symbolic meaning until the rise of British influence and later, the British Empire, which at the height of its power ruled a quarter of the world's people and a third of the world's landmass. On a mount triangular, as the island of Britain itself is described to be, we seat in the supreme place, under the shape of a fair and beautiful nymph, Britannia herself... The patriotic song "Rule Britannia", set to music in 1740. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Britannia   (954 words)

Rule Britannia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Rule Britannia" is traditionally performed at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms, normally with a guest soloist (past performers have included Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson and Felicity Lott, Terfel famously singing a verse in Welsh). “Rule Britannia” is a patriotic British national song, originating from the poem "Rule Britannia" by James Thomson, and set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740. Finally, to celebrate the jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887, Sullivan added a chorus of "Rule Britannia" to the finale of HMS Pinafore, which was playing in revival at the Savoy Theatre. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rule_Britannia   (607 words)

Facts about topic: (Indirect rule) Indirect rule is a policy (A line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government) which British (The people of Great Britain) colonial policy was based; its purpose was to incoproate the local power structure into the British administrative structure. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/indirect_rule.htm   (42 words)

Rule engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The rules a business follows may come from legal regulation ("An employee can be fired for any reason or no reason but not for an illegal reason"), company policy ("All customers that buy more than $100 at one time will receive a 10% discount") or other sources. Rule Engine or Inference Engines are the pluggable software components that separate the business rules from the application code. The reactive rule engines are used to detect and react to interesting patterns of events occuring. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rule_engine   (454 words)

Quotient rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In calculus, the quotient rule is a method of finding the derivative of a function that is the quotient of two other functions for which derivatives exist. Students of multivariable calculus will recognize it as one of the chain rules for functions of multiple variables. Another variation to this mnemonic is given when the quotient is written with the numerator as Hi the denominator as Ho: "Ho-dee-Hi minus Hi-dee-Ho over Ho-Ho." en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quotient_rule   (453 words)

Product rule One special case of the product rule is the Constant Multiple Rule which states: if c is a real number and f(x) is a differentiable function, then cf(x) is also differentiable and it derivative equals c multiplied by the derivative of f(x). The product rule, of calculus, governs the differentiation of products of differentiable functions. The product rule can be used to derive the rule for integration by parts and the quotient rule. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Product_rule.html   (591 words)

Military dictatorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military; it is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military. In the past, military juntas have justified their rule as a way of bringing political stability for the nation or rescuing it from the threat of "dangerous ideologies". One of the almost universal characteristics of a military government is the institution of martial law or a permanent state of emergency. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_dictatorship   (704 words)

Military - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Military strength is a term that describes a quantification or reference to a nation's standing military forces or the capacity for fulfillment of that military's role. Military Force is a term that might refer to a particular unit, a regiment or gunboat deployed in a particular locale, or as an aggregate of such forces (e.g. Military history is often considered to be the history of all conflicts, not just the history of proper militaries. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military   (1009 words)

Devolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British politics at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The home rule demands of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century differed from earlier demands for Repeal by Daniel O'Connell in the first half of the nineteenth century. This demand led to the eventual introduction of four Irish Home Rule Bills, of which only the last two were approved by the British Parliament, and only the final one was enacted: the Government of Ireland Act 1920. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Home_rule   (1009 words)

Uptick Rule Comes to Married Puts Until now, the uptick rule has not applied to a seller of shares that are part of a married put position. A trading strategy that's sometimes used to get around rules that prevent bears from driving stocks down through excessive selling is probably history under a new Securities and Exchange Commission regulation. The rule is intended to prevent short sellers from piling into shares that are already in descent and exacerbating their fall. www.thestreet.com /pf/markets/willswarts/10127338.html   (1009 words)

Stopping rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The theory of stopping rules and stopping times can be analysed in probability and statistics, notably in the optional stopping theorem. Playing until she is the maximum amount ahead is not a stopping rule, as it requires information about the future as well as the present and past. Playing until she either doubles her money or runs out of money is a stopping rule, even though there is potentially no limit to the number of games she plays, since the probability that she stops in a finite time is 1. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stopping_rule   (1009 words)

Self rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Self rule is associated then in contexts where there is the end of colonial rule, absolute government or monarchy, as well as demands for autonomy by religious, ethnic or geographic regions which perceive themselves as being un- or under- represented in a national government. Self rule is therefore a fundamental tenet of republican government and democracy as well as nationalism. Self rule is the term used to described a people or group being able to exercise all of the necessary functions of power without intervention from any authority which they cannot themselves alter. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swaraj   (153 words)

Cellular automaton Rule 110, like the Game of Life, exhibits what Wolfram calls Class 4 behavior, which is neither completely random or completely repetitive. Rule 30 generates randomness despite the lack of anything that could reasonably be considered random input. This is an interesting result because Rule 110 is an extremely simple system, simple enough to suggest that naturally occurring physical systems may also be capable of universality—and hence questions about them will often be undecidable. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/cellular_automaton.html   (153 words)

British Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was complicated by the region's white settler populations: Kenya had already provided an example in the Mau Mau Uprising of violent conflict exacerbated by white landownership and reluctance to concede majority rule. The last territorial expansion of the British Empire was the annexation of Rockall to the west of the Outer Hebrides in 1955. Helgoland seized by the British in 1807 ceded to Germany in 1890. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Empire   (6194 words)

Colonial Rule Indirect rule also appeared safer and more effective: by co-opting the chiefs' inherited legitimacy, European colonial powers hoped both to improve their ability to carry out routine functions, such as tax collection and labor recruitment, and to avoid large-scale revolts. Indirect rule worked best in the regions where strong and highly organized states were already in place, like Northern Nigeria, and where the recognized authorities, like the Sokoto caliph, welcomed European collaboration. Fundamental to the logic of indirect rule, for example, was the belief that Africa was comprised of hundreds of mutually exclusive, geographically distinct, and centrally ruled "tribes." In reality, African cultural identities were complex and dynamic. archive.blackvoices.com /research/encarta/tt_382.asp   (2904 words)

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