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Concept

Concepts and Senses in Visual Art: Through the example of analysis of some works by Bruegel the Elder.

Self-concept

Psychologists Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow were the first to establish the notion of self-concept.


Battle of Aspern-Essling

The concept and notes for the book originally came from noted French author Honoré de Balzac.

Boundary layer suction

In the 1960s, NASA experimented with this concept with the Northrop X-21, a converted Douglas WB-66D.

Christmas club

The concept is that bank customers deposit a set amount of money each week into a special savings account, and receive the money back at the end of the year for Christmas shopping.

Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia

However, the following day, the cabinet decided to implement Sukarno's concept of Guided Democracy under the 1945 Constitution.

Control–feedback–abort loop

In 1986, Mr. LeDoux, with assistance from Mr. Warren Yates, a former engineer from General Dynamics, Inc., found that using a Control and Feedback concept for analyzing group and system dynamics was not providing them with the full picture when systems were going out of control.

Cuniberti

Vittorio Cuniberti, an Italian military officer who envisioned the concept of the all big gun battleship, best exemplified by HMS Dreadnought.

Dark energy

Alan Guth proposed in the 1970s that a negative pressure field, similar in concept to dark energy, could drive cosmic inflation in the very early universe.

District Regionalism

The University of Kentucky's College of Design became instrumental in devising the study concept, parameters and goals.

Economic Cooperation Foundation

The ‘Architects of Oslo’, then developed the ‘BeilinAbu Mazen Understanding’, the first jointly developed detailed concept of a comprehensive Permanent Status Understanding between Israel and a Palestinian State.

Entec Engine Corporation

This concept covered by U.S. Patent # 6,279,550 and many others, include the concept of admitting cold, or chilled, compressed air into the cylinder and combustion chamber of a compression or spark ignited engine during its compression stroke.

Feminist method

Through questioning science Anne Fausto-Sterling came up with alternatives to the concept of having only two sexes, male and female.

Floréal-class frigate

The concept of "sentry frigate" emerged from the will of the French government to protect its Exclusive Economic Zone (12 million km²), as defined in the Montego Bay treaties.

French Third Republic

The first historian to denounce la décadence concept explicitly was the Canadian historian Robert J. Young, who, in his 1978 book In Command of France argued that French society was not decadent, that the defeat of 1940 was due to only military factors, not moral failures, and that the Third Republic's leaders had done their best under the difficult conditions of the 1930s.

General Aircraft Fleet Shadower

The concept of a fleet patrol aircraft was superseded by the wartime development of effective Air to Surface (ASV) radar that could be fitted in long-range patrol aircraft such as the Consolidated Liberator I.

Generalised compound

The amount of generalized compound can be quantified in terms of weight, but more conveniently in terms of C-moles.The concept of strong homeostasis has an intimate relationship with that of generalised compound.

George W. M. Reynolds

His best-known work was the long-running serial The Mysteries of London (1844), which borrowed liberally in concept from Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris (The Mysteries of Paris).

Gérard Rabinovitch

Building upon Freudian knowledge and reflections, in particuliar Civilization and Its Discontents, and upon his own discoveries issuing from the concept of “destructiveness”, Gérard Rabinovitch reflects upon the consequences of the versatile character of destruction and our capacity to adapt it to a variety of historical situations while it remains intact.

Group cohesiveness

In investigating these, academic Ted Cantle drew heavily on the concept of social cohesion, and the New Labour government (particularly then Home Secretary David Blunkett) in turn widely promoted the notion.

Harmonic drive

The basic concept of strain wave gearing (SWG) was introduced by C.W. Musser in his 1957 patent.

Harry Sahle

Crime novelist Mickey Spillane, who worked for Lloyd Jacquet's Funnies Inc. packager during the 1930s and 1940s, teamed with Sahle on a number of occasions, including on the character "Mike Danger", which Spillane described as "the original concept of Mike Hammer", the archetypal hardboiled detective of mid-20th century paperback novels.

Hash function

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Heißer Sommer

A 2001 video release promotes the film as "The East German Grease" although perhaps it is closer in concept to the 1963 British movie, "Summer Holiday" which starred Cliff Richard.

Henry Flynt

Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) University of California Press 2012, reprinting of Henry Flynt, Concept Art (1961) pp.

Hicks-neutral technical change

The concept of Hicks neutrality was first put forth in 1932 by John Hicks in his book The Theory of Wages.

Hillberg

Hillberg Carbine, a light rifle concept for the US armed forces during WW2

James V. Downton

He was the first to coin the term "Transformational leadership", a concept further developed by James MacGregor Burns, and one of the key concepts in leadership research over the past 25 years.

Jan Kryjevski

In 1977, Kryjevski spent time working in a group of young artists at the dacha for creative talents "Senezh" near Moscow, where the artistic concept of Transrealism was first created and developed.

KK-theory

It was influenced by Atiyah's concept of Fredholm modules for the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, and the classification of extensions of C*-algebras by Brown–Douglas–Fillmore (Lawrence G. Brown, Ronald G. Douglas, Peter Arthur Fillmore 1977).

La mala ordina

The concept of two hitmen teamed up, one black and one white, appears to have been a likely inspiration for the characters played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

Lancelot de Mole

Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt, the Director of Naval Construction, and Chairman of the Landships Committee, and Major-General E.D. Swinton were each awarded £1,000, for their work in advocating the overall concept, setting design specifications, and overseeing the project.

Leonardo Polo

In later years, Polo would also be able to attend lectures by Zubiri on the concept in Madrid and another by Ortega y Gasset on Toynbee.

Maat

Kings inherited the duty to ensure Maat remained in place and they with Ra are said to "live on Maat", with Akhenaten (r. 1372-1355 BCE) in particular emphasising the concept to a degree that, John D. Ray asserts, the kings contemporaries viewed as intolerance and fanaticism.

Mainstreaming

:*Youth mainstreaming, a derivative concept focusing on the needs of young people

Marco Sabiu

In 2010 he composed actor Christopher Lee's first concept album, Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross which will become a full-fledged musical in 2013.

Martin Seligman

On July 6, 2011, he appeared on Newsnight and was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman about his ideas and his interest in the concept of well-being.

Mēness dejas

Thus, its concept could be compared to stopgap quasi-compilation releases from other synth pop artists like Kraftwerk's The Mix (1991) and Yello's 1980–1985 The New Mix in One Go (1986), both of which likewise contained newly recorded versions of previously released material.

Mingering Mike

Mingering Mike had created a whole complex, yet nonexistent music career (including a Bruce Lee concept album), and had released more than 50 album covers in 10 years.

MoneyForce

The ethos and branding is built around the concept of getting 'MoneyFit' with MoneyForce and the MoneyForce website is fronted by former Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes.

Nikolai Kondratiev

This rediscovery of Kondratiev in English-speaking academia led to his theories being extended for the first time beyond economics as, for example, political scientists such as Joshua Goldstein and geographers such as Brian Berry extended the concept of Kondratiev long waves into their own fields.

Numbertime

This series also introduced the character of Addem (voiced by Brian Bowles), a snake who discovered the series' concept in the company of an ant named Anne (voiced by Moir Leslie) and a hundred other ants (voiced by Richard Pearce).

Overlap

Orbital overlap, important concept in quantum mechanics describing a type of orbital interaction.

Overman

Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the übermensch, translated "overman" (as opposed to, e.g., "superman") by scholars including Walter Kaufmann

Philip Schram

He worked with Fleurette Morel, the daughter of race driver André Morel, on telling her father’s story through a multi-dimensional concept not seen previously in the market.

Susumu Matsushita

His most famous works are the designing of the mascot Neppe of Orix Buffaloes, the Motor Toon Grand Prix, Hudson's Adventure Island series, Monkey Magic and the Maximo: Ghosts to Glory concept arts.

The Bizarro Jerry

Jerry suggests to Elaine that Kevin is "Bizarro Jerry", and explains the comic book concept of Bizarro World.

Thought Criminals

The band’s name was derived from the concept of ‘thoughtcrimes’ (unapproved thoughts) from George Orwell’s book, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Topf and Sons

After 1939, and the demonstration or "proof of concept" that the firm could design an incinerator which would handle large numbers of corpses, Nazi officials further contracted Topf and Sons to provide similar incineration furnaces for the Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen, Gusen Concentration Camps, and larger industrial incinerators especcialy designed for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

Tribble

The concept is an old one that predates even the Heinlein novel, since it is central to the story "Pigs Is Pigs", which was very popular from its first publication in 1905 and beyond.

United States of Poland

Later the concept of Galitia-Podole was supplanted by Kingdom of Halych, in separate memorial there was also postulate of incorporating a Eastern Prussia into it.

Y.O Concept

Y.O Concept is a French racecar constructor based in Cornillé, Brittany.


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