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  Global Positioning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first satellite navigation system, Transit, used by the United States Navy, was first successfully tested in 1960.
The time delay is calculated by increasingly delaying the local signal and comparing it to the one received from the satellite; at some point the two signals will match up, and that delay is the time needed for the signal to reach the receiver.
The problem arises because the transition from 0-1 or 1-0 on the C/A signal is not instantaneous, it takes a non-zero amount of time, and thus the correlation (satellite-receiver sequence matching) operation is imperfect.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GPS   (6603 words)

  
 ON QUANTUM THEORETICAL ORIGINS OF NEWTONIAN TIME
Moreover, if the j transitions are ordered by labels (1, 2, 3,..., j) in each term, we also cannot know the order of any specifically labeled transitions; therefore, we divide the jth degree term by the number of permutations of the labeled transitions, j!.
This distinguishes n=4 as a transition point, where in the local quantum temporal behavior, order in the transitions of the fundamental clock eigenprocesses emerges from their "q-stochastic chaos".
In this view point of dynamics from transition amplitudes, there is an intrinsic and absolute proper waiting time that is counted in indivisible Planck time units, which act much like refractory periods after which either a transition takes place, or doesn't.
graham.main.nc.us /~bhammel/PHYS/newtqtime.html   (15429 words)

  
 Asperger Syndrome Info
We are a group of students at the University of Chicago who have Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism, and we're here to provide a window into the autistic worldview.
There are many other families in a similar situation, all searching for information that will help them understand their child's particular symptoms and special needs and ensure that they receive the help, support and services they need.
This article is pointed directly at the grandparent of the AS child and some of the confusion and questions the grandparent may have.
www.orgsites.com /md/asperger_syndrome_info   (2906 words)

  
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People thought the encyclopedia was wrong.'' By saying that the deck is completely mixed after seven shuffles, Dr. Diaconis and Dr. Bayer mean that every arrangement of the 52 cards is equally likely or that any card is as likely to be in one place as in another.
The cards do get more and more randomly mixed if a person keeps on shuffling more than seven times, but seven shuffles is a transition point, the first time that randomness is close.
Grist for Magicians Magicicans have long taken advantage of the nonrandomnesss of most card shuffling, Dr. Diaconis said.
www.dartmouth.edu /~chance/course/topics/winning_number.html   (1363 words)

  
 Content is Not King   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The main point, though, is that communications is huge, and represents the collective decisions of millions of people about what they want.
The key point of this section is that most of this spending is on connectivity, the standard point-to-point communications, and not for broadcast media that distribute "content."
This work is based on a more extensive study [Odlyzko3] of the development of the communications infrastructure from the point of view of the user.
www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue6_2/odlyzko   (10957 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Minister Dostal: Czech Republic can point to the errors it made during the transition
BELGRADE, June 6 - On the occasion of Belgrade retrospective of movies of director Lordan Zafranovic, who has been living in Prague for years, the delegation of the Czech Culture Ministry visited Belgrade.
During the stay, Minister Pavel Dostal talked with the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zarko Korac and with Serbian Culture Minister Branislav Lecic about the further cooperation and cultural relations between the two countries in transition.
We would rather point to all errors we made after the revolution and during the transition, so that you wouldn't repeat them.
www.serbia-info.com /news/2001-06/06/23795.html   (422 words)

  
 Weblog
But what really impressed me, particularly at the ACLAR conference, was the quality of the work being done by the latest crop of young and mature-age postgraduate students and the wonderfully interesting research that they are doing.
I don't know about anybody else, but I always make a point of going to postgrad student presentations as their work is so fresh and new, even as it menas that I revist my own material of years ago.
Inversely, the reassignment of these features and forms on the basis of the electronic paradigm as well as the e-book and e-paper recent experiments are indicating a tendency toward the incorporation of the bound book appearance, layout and portability into its new, electronic counterpart.
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