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  Spread betting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spread betting is a form of gambling on the outcome of any event where the more accurate the gamble, the more is won and conversely the less accurate the more is lost.
Example: In a soccer match between Liverpool and Everton the spread for corners is 12-13, the index firm believes there will be 12 or 13 corners in total during the match.
The mathematical analysis of spreads and spread betting is a large and growing subject.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spread_betting   (772 words)

  
 Pigeon Genetics: Spread
Where the pigment is spread out (the bars) almost all the light is absorbed and very little of it bounces back to our eye.
Spread, however, is a mutation which upsets this normal arrangement.
Since Spread is inherited as a simple dominant mutation and is not sex-linked, some of the youngsters in the nest will be Spread (fls).
www.angelfire.com /ga3/pigeongenetics/Spread.html   (840 words)

  
 The Spread Toolkit
Spread is an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across local and wide area networks.
Spread can be used in many distributed applications that require high reliability, high performance, and robust communication among various subsets of members.
Spread consists of a library that user applications are linked with, a binary daemon which runs on each computer that is part of the processor group, and various utility and demonstration programs.
www.spread.org   (292 words)

  
 The Spread Toolkit
Spread is a toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks.
Spread is designed to encapsulate the challenging aspects of asynchronous networks and enable the construction of scalable distributed applications, allowing application builders to focus on the differentiating components of their application.
Spread ensures reliability and availability in the presence of network partitions and failures of any component of the system, whether the environment is one cluster with a few machines, multiple clusters, or a multi-site wide area network with thousands of machines.
www.spread.org /SpreadOverview.html   (690 words)

  
 Spread - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spread (food), an edible paste put on other foods
Spread limit, a limit on a raise in poker
Spread polynomials, a polynomial sequence arising in rational trigonometry
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spread   (216 words)

  
 ABCs of Spread Spectrum - A Technology Introduction and Tutorial
Applications for commercial spread spectrum range from "wireless" LAN's (computer to computer local area networks), to integrated bar code scanner/palmtop computer/radio modem devices for warehousing, to digital dispatch, to digital cellular telephone communications, to "information society" city/area/state or country wide networks for passing faxes, computer data, email, or multimedia data.
Spread signals are intentionally made to be much wider band than the information they are carrying to make them more noise-like.
Common spread spectrum systems are of the "direct sequence" or "frequency hopping" type, or else some combination of these two types (called a "hybrid").
www.sss-mag.com /ss.html   (2761 words)

  
 CommsDesign - Tutorial on Spread Spectrum Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Spread spectrum uses wideband, noise-like signals that are hard to detect, intercept, or demodulate.
Since the spreading factor is at least a factor of 10, the offending jammer's amplitude is greatly reduced by at least 90%.
However, any signal is spread in the bandwidth, and after it passes through the correlator, the bandwidth signal is equal to its original bandwidth, plus the bandwidth of the local interference.
www.commsdesign.com /design_corner/OEG20030506S0029   (5542 words)

  
 spread. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
To cause to become widely seen or known; scatter or disseminate: spread the news; spread the beam of the flashlight.
To be exhibited, displayed, or visible in broad or full extent: the vista spread seemingly to infinity.
A food to be spread on bread or crackers.
www.bartleby.com /61/93/S0669300.html   (380 words)

  
 Welcome to Spread The News PR
Welcome to Spread The News PR "We were using an extremely expensive high profile Madison Avenue firm in NYC.
Spread The News can create consumer/industry awareness about your new product or generate newfound consumer interest for an established product or service.
Spread The News' technologically advanced office has benefited clients from New York to California and Canada to Mexico.
www.spreadthenewspr.com   (307 words)

  
 Tuberculosis (TB) Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Tuberculosis disease is characterized by the appearance of symptoms, a significant reaction to a mantoux skin test and organisms found in the sputum.
The most important way to stop the spread of tuberculosis is to cover the mouth and nose when coughing, and to take all the TB medicine exactly as prescribed by the physician.
The most important ways to stop the spread of MDR-TB include educating the TB patient to cover the mouth and nose when coughing, providing adequate treatment for people with MDR-TB and providing directly observed administration of antituberculosis medications for people who are unwilling or unable to comply with prescribed drug plans.
health2k.state.nv.us /disease/diseases/tuberculosis.htm   (904 words)

  
 Expectations of spread (S) matings in pigeons, Columba livia
Spread is the genetic factor which turns blue bars and checks into fls; brown bars and checks into self browns; ash-red bars and checks into "lavenders", "barless mealies", or "strawberries".
Spread is not sex-linked so a hen may be heterozygous for it.
Spread is on a totally different chromosome than that and a hen has two sides to that as she does to all others except the sex chromosome.
www.angelfire.com /ga3/pigeongenetics/spreadresults.html   (474 words)

  
 FarPoint's Spread
And you’re guaranteed a quick learning curve using the Spread Designer, a design-time tool with a point-and-click interface.
This tour lists many specific features available in Spread along with a brief explanation and code example on how easy it is to use these features.
"Spread made it possible to deliver an intuitive application that allows management to forecast sales trends in a fraction of the time it normally would have taken to complete.
www.fpoint.com /products/spread/spread.html   (476 words)

  
 Arbitrage Financial Spread Betting
A spread betting arbitrage consists of making an up-bet with one bookmaker, and a down-bet with anothor - the gap in between is the arb's profit.
A spread betting company ('A') is quoting a spread of 200 - 205 for the closing price of NOD Electronics on its first day of trading on the stock market.
Most arbitrage opportunities open up on spread bets which are not based on an underlying market price, or that are based on an underlying market that is not open at the time.
www.financial-spread-betting.com /arbitrage-spread-trader.html   (534 words)

  
 Financial Spread Betting Made Easy
The costs associated with financial spread betting are included in the spread (the difference between the bid and the offer price).
The good news about the spreads is that these are generally getting tighter due to increased competition and explosive growth as investors are beginning to realise the advantages of financial spread betting; thus making the system more efficient.
Spread trading can be described as a short-term 'financial trading tool'.
www.financial-spread-betting.com   (1272 words)

  
 Infectious diseases: How they spread, how to stop them
Spread of infectious disease in this manner is called droplet spread or droplet transmission.
The vector-borne spread of germs happens when an insect that carries the germ on its body or in its intestinal tract lands on you or bites you.
Food is the vehicle that spreads the germs and causes the illness.
www.cnn.com /HEALTH/library/ID/00004.html   (1128 words)

  
 Christian Based Business Opportunity : Spread The Word Ministries
Spread the Word is back up and running - with a bigger, better and bolder technology platform than ever before!
Spread The Word has entered into a Deeper Alliance with deeperCalling Media Inc, the provider of the deeperShopping bookstore service.
Spread The Word and deeperCalling have come together with a commonality of purpose in order to help you develop leadership, take an active part in the Christian Marketplace, and attain the financial independence you have always known you could have, through the best Christian web based activity available.
www.spreadtheword.com   (478 words)

  
 forex currencytrading currency trading financial spread betting guide courses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
FOREX (currency trading) and Financial Spread Betting training course that teaches you the secrets of trading two of the most popular trading methods in the world today, by being personally mentored and trained by a successful and respected trader trainer - Stu Whisson.
A key risk of financial spread betting, currencytrading, forex trading is that if a trading position moves against you, the customer, you can incur additional liabilities far in excess of your initial margin deposit.
Financial spread betting, currencytrading, forex trading may not be suitable for all customers, therefore ensure you fully understand the risks involved and seek independent financial advice if necessary.
www.insightsupport.com   (256 words)

  
 Bird Flu (Avian Flu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In an effort to keep bird flu from spreading, authorities in countries that have experienced outbreaks have destroyed hundreds of millions of birds.
The longer it lingers and spreads among birds, the more opportunities there will be for the virus to infect people.
If clusters of people start showing symptoms of the flu in a country where it's known that the virus is spreading, that's a sign that the virus may have mutated in a way that allows it to spread from person to person.
kidshealth.org /teen/infections/colds_and_flu/bird_flu.html   (1743 words)

  
 Sports Spread - Ireland's largest spread betting company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sports Spread is a spread betting company based in Ireland offering spread betting opportunities on a range of sporting events.
Sports Spread was established in 2000 and is Ireland's only sports spread betting company.
Sports Spread is a member of the World Spread group of companies.
www.sportsspread.com   (76 words)

  
 Spread Betting on Sports
Spread betting is different from conventional fixed odds betting in that it enables you to bet either way on a result or score.
For financial spread betting visit their IG Index site.
Specialist financial spread betting site giving news, views, articles and information relating to the world of spread betting in all its forms.
www.racing-index.com /spreadbetting.html   (450 words)

  
 Spread Spectrum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The objective of this project is to introduce the reader to the concept of spread spectrum in 'general' terms and then proceed with a detailed, technical discussion of various signaling techniques, including mathematical derivations.
Bandwidth expansion in spread spectrum systems is achieved by using a function that is independent of the message, thus it is more susceptible to white noise as opposed to other communication techniques, such as FM and PCM.
Analysis of the effects of interference in spread spectrum systems is similar to the analysis of the effects of white noise.
webpages.charter.net /witek/ss/ss.html   (6573 words)

  
 definition of spread (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
www.brainydictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /words/sp/spread223005.html   (345 words)

  
 Spread Firefox | Igniting the web
Last year at Spread Firefox we launched community marketing into the mainstream with written testimonials.
Then post here at Spread Firefox the name of your organization and the stats you're seeing for Firefox, IE, and the others.
Spread Firefox is built on the Drupal open source content management platform as Mozilla's official community marketing site.
www.spreadfirefox.com   (1420 words)

  
 FarPoint's Spread for Windows Forms
Spread for Windows Forms has allowed us to cut development time by 70% for both financial applications and applications that rely heavily on grids.
Spread focuses on one thing - making it easy for you to develop applications that make it easy for your users to view, massge and update their tabular data.
In addition to its power and flexibility, the programmatic interface to Spread shows a great understanding of how and when to expose a component's features.
www.fpoint.com /netproducts/spreadwin/spreadwin.aspx   (763 words)

  
 spread
He spread the pots on the ground and started hawking his wares.
to spread butter on a slice of bread.
With a spread of her arms the actress acknowledged the applause.
www.infoplease.com /dictionary/spread   (582 words)

  
 Spread Betting | UK Spread Betting Guide
Below are some of the most common types of spread bet for each main sport.
Sports spread betting involves a high level of risk and you can lose more than your original stake.
WARNING : Spread bets are high risk products; you need deposit only a small percentage of the value of the bet.
www.spread-betting-guide.co.uk   (493 words)

  
 Herpes Transmission
Herpes is most easily spread when a sore is present, but, it is also often spread at other times too.
Herpes is most likely to be spread from the time these first symptoms are noticed until the area is completely healed and the skin looks normal again.
One kind of complication involves spreading the virus from the location of an outbreak to other places on the body by touching the sore(s).
www.herpes.com /Transmission.shtml   (727 words)

  
 Vary Useful Statistics
The measure of spread of a dataset is a vary useful statistic!
When summarising a dataset, at least two measures are needed - one to locate the dataset and another to indicate the spread of the data.
The mean and the median are the common measures of location, while the standard deviation and interquartile range are commonly used to summarise the spread of the data.
exploringdata.cqu.edu.au /spread.htm   (355 words)

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