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- (from the article "Germany") ...of institutes and colleges of technology, education, and art have been upgraded to university rank. At the same time, new specialized or technical institutions such as the Fachhochschule, a higher technical college specializing in a single discipline, ...
- Fachmuldental
- (from the article "valley") ...valleys with convex sides and broad floors are called Kehltal; and broad, flat valleys of planation surfaces are termed Fachmuldental.
- Facho Peak
- (from the article "Madeira Islands") Porto Santo Island is about 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Madeira; its main town, Vila de Porto Santo, is called locally the Vila. At each end of the island are hills, of which Facho Peak, the highest, reaches 1,696 ...
- Fachschule
- (from the article "Germany") ...called the Realschule (roughly meaning practical school) and earn an intermediate-level certificate that entitles them to enter a Fachschule ("technical" or "special-training school"), the completion of which is a prerequisite for careers in the ...
- fachuan
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...in China and Japan have established Ullambana, or All Souls Day, as one of the major Buddhist festivals in those countries. In China worshipers in Buddhist temples make fachuan ("boats of the law") out of paper, some ...
- facial expression
- (from the article "emotion") Of the various types of expressive behaviour, facial expression has received the most attention. In human beings and in many nonhuman primates, patterns of facial movements constitute the chief means of displaying emotion-specific signals. Whereas research has provided much information ...
- facial nerve
- nerve that originates in the area of the brain called the pons and that has three types of nerve fibres: (1) motor fibres to the superficial muscles of the face, neck, and scalp and to certain deep muscles, known collectively ... [5 Related Articles]
- facial reconstruction
- (from the article "police") Facial reconstruction combines both art and science. A skull can be used as a foundation and the face reconstructed with clay. By using charts of specific points of skin and tissue thickness, scientists can produce a relatively unique face that ...
- facilitated diffusion
- (from the article "poison") Transport systems that use carrier molecules but which do not require energy to proceed are called facilitated diffusion. A chemical first binds to the carrier protein in the cell membrane and then diffuses through the membrane. Because no energy is ...
- Facio, Bartolomeo
- (from the article "Valla, Lorenzo") ...about things that did not exist in Roman times-e.g., cannons and parliaments. For his offenses against the "dignity of history" he was attacked in an Invective by Bartolomeo Facio, another humanist in Alfonso's service. Valla responded with his "Recriminations Against ...
- facioscapulohumeral dystrophy
- (from the article "muscle disease") Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy starts in the face, the muscles around the shoulder blades, and the upper arms. It progresses more slowly than Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and most individuals with this form of muscular dystrophy have a normal life span. The ...
- facon de Venise
- (French: "Venetian fashion"), style of glass made in the 16th and 17th centuries at places other than Venice itself but using the techniques that had been perfected there. It may be outwardly so similar as to be difficult to distinguish ... [2 Related Articles]
- facsimile
- in telecommunications, the transmission and reproduction of documents by wire or radio wave. Common fax machines are designed to scan printed textual and graphic material and then transmit the information through the telephone network to similar machines, where the documents ... [5 Related Articles]
- facsimile machine
- (from the article "facsimile") in telecommunications, the transmission and reproduction of documents by wire or radio wave. Common fax machines are designed to scan printed textual and graphic material and then transmit the information through the telephone network to similar machines, where the documents ...
- facsimile telegraph
- (from the article "telegraph") The facsimile telegraph was perfected in the 1930s and was widely used for sending photographs and other graphic information over telephone and telegraph lines in an analog transmission system. By the 1980s, however, analog facsimile was virtually replaced by the ...
- fact
- (from the article "applied logic") When this assumption is introduced within the framework of known facts, a contradiction obviously ensues. How can this situation be repaired? Clearly, the logician must begin by dropping items 1 and 2 and replacing them with their negations-the assumption itself ...
- fact pleading
- (from the article "procedural law") ...to remedy pleading itself, requiring pleaders to emphasize the facts underlying the parties' cause of action and thereby to better disclose the roots of the dispute (sometimes referred to as "fact pleading"). Disputes about the meaning of "facts" and "cause ...
- Fact, Theatre of
- German dramatic movement that arose during the early 1960s, associated primarily with Rolf Hochhuth, Peter Weiss, and Heinar Kipphardt. Their political plays examined recent historical events, often through official documents and court records. Their concern that the West, and especially ... [1 Related Articles]
- Fact-Index
- (from the article "Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index") In the late 20th century Compton's contained about 5,200 main articles in 25 volumes. A 26th volume, the Fact-Index, included more than 26,000 shorter articles on subjects that might not be fully treated in the main articles, 63,500 brief entries, ...
- Facta, Luigi
- Italy's last prime minister before the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini gained power (Oct. 31, 1922). [2 Related Articles]
- faction
- (from the article "democracy") In many of the city-state democracies and republics, part of the answer to question (3)-What political institutions are necessary for governing?-consisted of "factions," including both informal groups and organized political parties. Much later, representative democracies in several countries developed political ...
- factitious disorder
- (from the article "mental disorder") Factitious disorders are characterized by physical or psychological symptoms that are voluntarily self-induced; they are distinguished from conversion disorder, in which the physical symptoms are produced unconsciously. In factitious disorders, although the person's attempts to create or exacerbate the symptoms ...
- factor
- in mathematics, a number or algebraic expression that divides another number or expression evenly-i.e., with no remainder. For example, 3 and 6 are factors of 12 because 12 ÷ 3 = 4 exactly and 12 ÷ 6 = 2 exactly. The other factors of 12 are 1, 2, ... [1 Related Articles]
- factor
- (from the article "agency") Various kinds of agency relationships are evident in Anglo-American commercial life. The factor and the broker are the most common mercantile agents dealing in transactions involving personal property. The factor is entrusted with possession of the chattels to be sold, ...
- factor
- (from the article "statistics") In an experimental study, variables of interest are identified. One or more of these variables, referred to as the factors of the study, are controlled so that data may be obtained about how the factors influence another variable referred to ...
- factor analysis
- (from the article "Burt, Sir Cyril") In 1909 Burt published his experimental tests on general intelligence, in which he used factor analysis to define the kinds of factors at play in psychological testing (factor analysis involves the extraction of small numbers of independent factors from a ...
- factor substitution
- (from the article "production, theory of") The isoquants also illustrate an important economic phenomenon: that of factor substitution. This means that one variable factor can be substituted for others; as a general rule a more lavish use of one variable factor will permit an unchanged amount ...
- factor V
- (from the article "bleeding and blood clotting") ...blood clotting does not take place in the absence of tissue injury. The clotting proteins that function as zymogens in the blood include factor XII, factor XI, prekallikrein, factor IX, factor X, factor VII, and prothrombin.
- Factor, John
- (from the article "Factor, Max") ...Max Factor, Jr., took over as head of the business, Max Factor & Co., which became a subsidiary of the Revlon Group in 1987 and was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1991. Factor's brother John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, ...
- Factor, Max
- dean of Hollywood makeup experts. He was a pioneer in developing makeup specifically for motion-picture actors and was given a special Academy Award in 1928 for his achievements. [1 Related Articles]
- Factor, Max, Jr.
- (FRANCIS FACTOR), U.S. cosmetician who, with his father, developed Pan-Cake makeup so actors would not appear green in colour motion pictures and, when it began to be worn offscreen as well, mass-produced it and built their company into an international ... [1 Related Articles]
- factorial
- in mathematics, the product of all positive integers less than or equal to a given positive integer and denoted by that integer and an exclamation point. Thus, factorial seven is written 7!, meaning 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 ... [2 Related Articles]
- factorial design
- (from the article "statistics") Factorial experiments are designed to draw conclusions about more than one factor, or variable. The term factorial is used to indicate that all possible combinations of the factors are considered. For instance, if there are two factors with a levels ...
- factoring
- in finance, the selling of accounts receivable on a contract basis by the business holding them-in order to obtain cash payment of the accounts before their actual due date-to an agency known as a factor. The factor then assumes full ... [2 Related Articles]
- factors of production
- (from the article "rent") However, because the return to any factor of production, not only to land, can be determined in the same way as scarcity rent, it was often asked why the return to land should be given a special name and special ...
- Factory Act
- (from the article "child labour") ...work. The first law, in 1802, which was aimed at controlling the apprenticeship of pauper children to cotton-mill owners, was ineffective because it did not provide for enforcement. In 1833 the Factory Act did provide a system of factory inspection.
- factory farming
- (from the article "work, history of the organization of") One of the more-comprehensive examples of agricultural "factory" production is seen in the poultry industry in the United States. A computerized feed bin mixes the feed and delivers it automatically to the cages. Water is delivered automatically, and waste is ...
- factory outlet
- (from the article "marketing") ...collection of overruns, irregulars, and leftover goods and have made their biggest forays in the clothing, footwear, and accessories industries. The three primary examples of off-price retailers are factory outlets, independent carriers, and warehouse clubs. Stocking manufacturers' surplus, discontinued, or ...
- Factory Records
- (from the article "Factory Records") Factory Records emerged in the punk moment of the late 1970s and was the heart of Manchester's music scene until its collapse in the early 1990s. Like his Mancunian contemporaries, the Buzzcocks, Factory cofounder Anthony H. Wilson (who presided over ...
- factory ship
- originally, a large ship used in whaling, but now, more broadly, any ship that is equipped to process marine catches for various consumer uses. It most commonly serves as the main ship in a fleet sent to waters a great ... [4 Related Articles]
- factory system
- system of manufacturing that began in the 18th century and is based on the concentration of industry into specialized-and often large-establishments. The system arose in the course of the Industrial Revolution. [9 Related Articles]
- Facts Forum
- (from the article "Hunt, H L") Hunt became best known for his political views. From 1951 to 1956 he funded his own foundation, called Facts Forum, which produced radio and television programs of conservative, anti-Communist political commentary. The foundation also distributed books by Senator Joseph R. ...
- factual conditional
- (from the article "applied logic") ...In these three cases, one obtains, respectively, the problematic conditional ("Should it be the case that p-which it may or may not be-then q"), the factual conditional ("Since p, then q"), and the counterfactual conditional ("If it were the case ...
- factual proposition
- (from the article "epistemology") A logical proposition is any proposition that can be reduced by replacement of its constituent terms to a proposition expressing a logical truth-e.g., to a proposition such as "If p and q, then p." The proposition "All husbands are married," ...
- facula
- in astronomy, bright granular structure on the Sun's surface that is slightly hotter or cooler than the surrounding photosphere. A sunspot always has an associated facula, though faculae may exist apart from such spots. Faculae are visible in ordinary white ...
- facultative anaerobe
- (from the article "aerobe") ...and certain yeasts). Organisms that grow in the absence of free oxygen are termed anaerobes; those that grow only in the absence of oxygen are obligate, or strict, anaerobes. Some species, called facultative anaerobes, are able to grow either with ...
- faculty
- (from the article "pedagogy") The theory of learning involving mental discipline is more commonly associated with Aristotle's "faculty psychology", by which the mind is understood to be composed of a number of faculties, each of which is considered to be relatively independent of the ...
- facundia
- (from the article "Propertius, Sextus") ...of every kind, and a pleading and melancholy tenderness; this is most obvious in his descriptive passages and in his portrayal of emotion. His second and even more remarkable quality is poetic facundia, or command of striking and appropriate language. ...
- Facusse, Carlos Flores
- (from the article "Honduras") ...approach did not solve all the nation's problems but nevertheless gained him wider support than Callejas had enjoyed, and the Liberals were able to win again in November 1997. The new president, Carlos Flores Facusse, an engineer with close ties ...
- fad
- (from the article "collective behaviour") It is tempting to explain fads on the basis of a single motive such as prestige. Prestige is gained by being among the first and most adept at a skill that everyone else covets. That the skill fails as a ...
- fad diet
- (from the article "therapeutics") ...calorie expenditure (exercise). Because obesity is a chronic illness, it requires long-term lifestyle changes unless surgery is performed to effect permanent changes in the digestion of food. Thus fad diets, no matter how effective they are in the short term, ...
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