This chapter discusses the origin of catastrophe theory. Catastrophe theory deals with the nonlinear phenomena in which a continuous change in control parameters results in a discontinuous alteration of a quantity characterizing the examined system. It is well suited for the investigation of the ...
What Is the 5 Act Structure: 5 Act Structure Definition Five act structure is a formal plot structure that divides a story into five parts, called acts. These are usually the introduction or exposition, rising movement, climax, falling action, and catastrophe or resolution. Origins of the 5 ...
InIsraelandFrance, Shoʾah, a biblical Hebrew word meaning “catastrophe,” became the preferred term for the event, largely in response to directorClaude Lanzmann’s influential nine-and-a-half-hour 1985 motion picture documentary of the same name. The term Shoʾah is also preferred by sp...
It is now generally accepted that dinosaurs (and large numbers of other animals and plants) went extinct about 65 million years ago, when Earth was hit by a giant asteroid (a rocky, planet-like celestial body). This extinction episode is called the K-T extinction, since it marks t...
B.—The Date. The next point to consider is the date of The Nights in its present form; and here opinions range between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries. Professor Galland began by placing it arbitrarily in the middle of the thirteenth. De Sacy, who abstained from detailing reasons and...
He took that most deceitful placebo, neutralized lemon juice; he took volatile alcali … he took also the celebrated spicy testaceous compound, cordial confection, till I had sufficient reason to dread a fatal catastrophe. — John Coakley Lettsom,Medical Memoirs, 1774 ...
Anabolism is constructive, being concerned with the assembly of complex molecules, whereas catabolism is destructive in the sense that it involves the degradation of molecules. In addition to the well-known word catastrophe for sudden, drastic destruction and its consequences, it has been found ...
The efficiency of replication error repair is a critical factor governing the emergence of mutations. However, it has so far been impossible to study this efficiency at the level of individual cells and to investigate if it varies within isogenic cell po
Results show that the evolution of the megadrought has been differentiable in both, space and time. As for its origin and determinants, Climate Change was ratified as one of the most important threats to the Pantanal, and to vast areas of South America, since a strong correlation was ...
Use awild cardsymbol ... when you’re not sure of word ending (or beginning). Using environ* will find environs, environmental, environmentally; cat* will find cat, catnip, catastrophe, and so forth. — Norma and Tony Leone,The Citizen(Auburn, N.Y.), 9 Nov. 2012 ...