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  Snow (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Snow is a form of precipitation, a crystalline form of ice
SNOW was the MI5 codename for Arthur Owens, a key double-agent during World War II.
Peter Snow — a British television news presenter for the BBC, and cousin of Jon Snow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snow_(disambiguation)   (388 words)

  
 Snow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes.
Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less than 0°C, and then falls to the ground.
Snow is used as a thermal insulator conserving the heat of the Earth and protecting crops from the freezing weather.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snow   (1628 words)

  
 Albedo - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If a snow covered area warms and the snow melts, the albedo decreases, more sunlight is absorbed, and the temperature tends to increase.
Although the albedo-temperature effect is most famous in colder regions of Earth, because more snow falls there, it is actually much stronger in tropical regions because in the tropics there is consistently more sunlight.
This is the basis for predictions of enhanced warming in the polar and seasonally snow covered regions as a result of global warming.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Albedo   (1227 words)

  
 ooBdoo
The color of the fur or plumage are changed to white in order to be confused with snow and thus, to retain their cryptic coloration year round.
Snow also affects the ways animals behave, as many take advantage of the insulating properties of snow by burrowing in it.
Snowshoeing - a means of travel in which one is able to walk on top of the snow by increasing the surface area of their feet.
www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/index.php?title=Winter   (1591 words)

  
 Snow Shovel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1) " Snow" -- In the context of Snow Shovel
Snow is precipitation in theform of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes.
Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less that 0°C (32°F), and then falls to the ground.
www.lottery-news.net /dust19477-snow_shovel.html   (611 words)

  
 Avalanche: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Snow depth - snow that is above the layer of boulders and plants on the slope has none of these natural objects to help anchor it to the slope, and is therefore more dangerous.
Persistent low temperatures cause the snow to not gain stability from the freeze-thaw action, and may contribute to an internal "depth hoar" frost layer, where there is a high temperature gradient within the snow.
If it is possible to move once the snow stops enlarge the air space, but minimise movement to maximise the oxygen (oxygen: A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust) supply.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/avalanche   (3648 words)

  
 Snow
Snow is commonly formed when deposition high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less that 0°C (32°F), and then falls to the ground.
A snow squall is a brief, very intense snowstorm while a blizzard is long-lasting snow storm with intense snowfall and usually high winds.
In latitudes closer to the equator, there is less chance of snow fall, 35° is often quoted as a rough delimiter.
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 Alternate meanings in snow disambiguation snow disambiguation ...
:"Alternate meanings in snow (disambiguation) snow (disambiguation)" "Snow", a form of precipitation precipitation, is a crystalline crystalline form of water water ice ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes.
In latitude latitudes closer to the equator equator, there is less chance of snow fall, 35 degrees of northern and southern latitude often quoted as a rough delimiter.
Tightly packed snow may be used as a construction construction material in, for example, Inuit snow houses Inuit snow houses.
www.biodatabase.de /snow   (692 words)

  
 Snow Did You Mean snow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less than 0°C (32°F), and then falls to the ground.
Snow can be also manufactured using snow cannons, which actually create tiny granules more like soft hail.
Although density of fresh snow varies widely, a guide is that the depth of snowfall is 10 times that of a rainfall containing the same mass of water.
www.did-you-mean.com /Snow.html   (952 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Harbin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Harbin is one of the sources of ice and snow culture in the world.
Snow carving and ice and snow recreations are world famous.
The "Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival" is one of the world's four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Ski Festival.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Harbin   (1232 words)

  
 nutcaselan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Snow flakes by Wilson Bentley, 1902An interesting question is why the arms of snowflakes are symmetrical, and why no two snowflakes appear to be identical.
Snow which has partially thawed while falling is called sleet; if this re-freezes on further descent, the resulting small icy pellets or granules of snow are called soft hail.
In recent years, snow cannons have been produced that create more natural looking snow, but these machines are very expensive and are found only on the most prestigious places.
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 Wikinfo | Snow
Snow fall varies by time and location, including geographic latitude, elevation and other factors which affect weather in general.
A snow day is a day on which school or other services are cancelled owing to massive snow fall.
The concept that no two snowflakes are alike is incorrect: in a volume of snow two feet square by ten inches deep there are roughly one million flakes, and so statistically many snowflakes must be visually identical.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Snow   (378 words)

  
 Snow : search word
For other uses, see Snow (disambiguation).'' A fresh snowfall in [[Colorado's (USA) high forests.]] Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes.
Snow flakes by [[Wilson Bentley, 1902]] Given the initial six-fold symmetry from the crystal structure of ordinary ice (known as ice Ih), the arms of a snowflake grow independently in an environment that is believed to be rapidly varying in temperature, humidity and so on.
This environment is believed to be relatively spatially homogenous on the scale of a single flake, leading to the arms growing to a high level of visual similarity by responding in identical ways to identical conditions, much in the same way that unrelated trees respond to environmental changes by growing near-identical sets of tree rings.
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 Ice age - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The timing of ice ages throughout geologic history is in part controlled by the position of the continental plates on the surface of the Earth.
The "Snowball Earth" hypothesis maintains that the severe freezing in the late Proterozoic was both caused and ended by changes in CO levels in the atmosphere.
An abundance of land within the arctic and antarctic circles appears to be a necessity for an ice age, probably because the land masses provide space on which snow and ice can accumulate during cooler times and thus trigger positive feedback processes like albedo changes.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ice_age   (2161 words)

  
 Spy Snow Goggles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
They are often used in snow sports as well, and in swimming.
Snow sports : Protect the eyesfrom glare and from icy particles flying up from the ground.
In anime, goggles (or sunglasses)worn or kept on the forehead/headgear by a character are a sign of decisiveness, bravery, or leadership position.
www.cabaret-54.com /dust15996-spysnowgoggles.html   (921 words)

  
 Snow White (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Snow White, title character of various popular fairy tales
Snow White (1916 film), Famous Players-Lasky Corporation silent film
The Snow White design language, design profile used for a number of Apple computers
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs   (172 words)

  
 trapped in hypostases
Snow's solution-scientists become literate and art-lit people read the second law of thermodynamics and understand entropy-hails from the arrogant heyday of science.
Nearly forty years after Snow, Simon suggests not thermodynamics but cognitive science as the sharp-edged, scientific antidote for all that impressively accomplished but vague, subjective, and fashion-dominated activity of the lit-crit folk.
Against Simon's understanding of intelligence-plan-driven thinking operating via exact representations of the environment and requiring specification of contexts and disambiguation of meanings-there are ranged a variety of anti-cognitivist visions clustered around a certain set of positions: rejection of plans as causal determinants of thought (e.g.
www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/4-1/text/rotman.commentary.html   (887 words)

  
 Learning in Natural Language
SNoW is a novel learning architecture that is specifically tailored for learning in domains of high dimensionality and is highly influenced by the theoretically unified view we developed for learning in natural language processing, as mentioned above.
A large number of disambiguation problems can be addressed in exactly the same way.
In each of these problems it is necessary to disambiguate two or more [semantically, syntactically or structurally]-distinct forms which have been fused together into the same representation in some medium.
l2r.cs.uiuc.edu /~cogcomp/research/pages/lnlp.html   (939 words)

  
 Alps - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
The effect of mountain chains on prevailing winds is to carry warm air belonging to the lower region into an upper zone, where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow or rain.
The Alps arose as a result of the pressure exerted on sediments of the Tethys Ocean basin as its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass.
The two men who first explored the regions of ice and snow were H.B. de Saussure (1740-1799) in the Pennine Alps, and the Benedictine monk of Disentis, Placidus a Spescha (1752-1833), most of whose ascents were made before 1806, in the valleys at the sources of the Rhine.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Alps   (1220 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Morphological disambiguation is one of the hardest problems in languages that use a script in which not all the elements of the word are evident, such as Hebrew.
Many methods of morphological disambiguation make do with the short context of the word, and turn to probability or other means.
5.4 Disambiguation As stated earlier, all the morphological, syntactic, and semantic possibilities for understanding the sentence components are tested, and those that do not match are disqualified.
www.cs.technion.ac.il /~ornan/maamarim/Exeter.doc   (3765 words)

  
 Snow (musician)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For other meanings of snow, see Snow (disambiguation) (Snow (disambiguation): more facts about this subject).
His 1992 (1992: more facts about this subject) debut (debut: The presentation of a debutante in society) album (album: A book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc) was called 12 Inches of Snow.
Snow is a relative of Barenaked Ladies (Barenaked Ladies: barenaked ladies (bnl for short) is a canadian alternative rock band composed of...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/snow_musician   (138 words)

  
 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For other meanings see Dwarf (disambiguation).}} A '''dwarf''' is a short humanoid creature in Norse mythology, fairy tales, fantasy fiction and role-playing game role-playing games.
Nidavellir is the land of the dwarves in Norse mythology.
Some dwarves of mythology and fairy tales are: Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarves from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', Snorri, Dvalin, Lit, Fjalar and Galar, Alvis, Eitri, Brokk, Hreidmar, Alfrik, Mimir, Berling, Grer, Fafnir, Otr, Regin, and Alberich (or Andvari).
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 Beach Shoes Articles :: Rocket Dog
Snowshoes are special shoes for walking in thick snow in Arctic areas.
In almost all parts of the world, people will remove their shoes if they have been walking through snow or mud; this applies to countries where the "foot odor" stigma exists as well.
It might be mentioned that foot odor results partly from wearing shoes for many hours; this is a possible explanation for the "foot odor" fear in countries where shoes are worn for most of the day.
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 Snow Blower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1) " Snow" -- In the context of Snow Blower
2) " Blower" -- In the context of Snow Blower
A blower is a ducted fan, usually part of some heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
www.lottery-news.net /dust43641-snow_blower.html   (383 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We study the problems of disambiguation in natural language, focusing on the problem of gene vs. protein name disambiguation in biological text and also considering the problem of context-sensitive spelling error correction.
We introduce a new family of classifiers based on ordering and weighting the feature vectors obtained from word counts and word co-occurrence in the text, and inspect several concrete classifiers from this family.
We also study the effect of the smoothing techniques with the Naive Bayes classifier, the collocation features, and the context length on the classification accuracy and show that correct setting of the context length is important and also problem-dependent.
jmlr.csail.mit.edu /papers/v5/ginter04a.html   (160 words)

  
 ski.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Snow Conditions and Ski Report : Weather Underground ~...
Snow Conditions for Ski Resorts Countrywide ~ Snow conditions and extended forecasts for ski resorts across US and Canada from weather.com.
Women generally ski, ride and walk on snow better when their gear is women-specific.
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 'Eskimo' 'words' for 'snow'
She traces the myth to Franz Boas' Introduction to The Handbook of North American Indians (at least 15 volumes, sadly out of print and going for $75+ per volume used).
Surely it cannot mean the word must have exactly the same range of applications as English "snow", or Eskimo surely has no words for snow at all.
So if some language(s) did have many words for snow, it should be no more interesting than these other everyday cases.
www.derose.net /steve/guides/snowwords   (1618 words)

  
 MAX
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
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of those awful memories, there fell upon me at my task such drowsiness sooner had sleep taken possession of my senses than there drew nigh unto fair; his raiments were whiter sevenfold than snow, the brightness of his shining coronal wreaths.
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 I cite
Suffice it to say that some eastbound travelers looking over to their left might have gotten a glimpse of something that could well have given them a good laugh while adding to my overall humiliation (especially since it seemed to take absolutely forever like a perverse cite to Austin Powers).
The argument is often advanced that companies cannot afford to pay high wages or benefits to workers—who can be replaced with workers in lower wage countries—even as tens of millions of dollars are routinely doled out to top executives, whose skills are supposedly irreplaceable.
Treasury Secretary John Snow recently explicitly defended the pay of CEOs on the basis that their salaries were the product of efficient market forces of supply and demand.
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