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unusual facts about Context-sensitive user interface


Quick time event

In video games, a quick time event (QTE) is a method of context-sensitive gameplay in which the player performs actions on the control device shortly after the appearance of an on-screen prompt.


Bracegirdle

Mark Anthony Bracegirdle, Anglo-Australian, political activist, well known in the Sri Lankan context

Breakfast Club

In the context of education in the United Kingdom, a School breakfast club is a facility to provide children with a morning school meal.

Breathe Gentle

The music video for the song was shot at Lake Garda, directed by Gaetano Morbioli and its context is similar to James Bond stories.

Chekism

In this context, the adjective Chekist (from Cheka, the first Soviet secret police organization) emphasizes the importance and political power of Cheka and its successor Soviet and Russian secret police services, such as the NKVD, KGB, and FSB.

Chris Gilmour

Through his career and artistic development, there has been a progression in the choice of objects he portrayed, which go from smaller domestic items (like the moka or the typewriter) to objects which are larger and belong to a broader cultural context (the Fiat 500, the Lambretta and, more recently, James Bond's iconic Aston Martin).

Dănilă Prepeleac

According to literary historian George Bădărău, "Dănilă Prepeleac" is one of Creangă's writings were the fairy tale context meets "realistic fantasy".

Decade of the Mind

Although the initiative did not receive the level of funding as the Human Genome Project, it did serve to catalyze significant advances in our understanding of the brain particularly in the context of brain diseases.

Diffie–Hellman problem

The Diffie–Hellman problem (DHP) is a mathematical problem first proposed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the context of cryptography.

Dyson tree

The word "Orwood" in this context was originally coined by Anders Sandberg.

Explosive material

--vague, needs better def--> However, in the context of explosives, stability commonly refers to ease of detonation, which is concerned with kinetics (i.e., rate of decomposition).

Folk beat n. 1

The record is, as the title suggests, a folk album, intended to adapt the genre within a contemporary Italian context parallel to the music of Phil Ochs or Bob Dylan.

Four Yorkshiremen sketch

A near derivative of the sketch appears in the BBC Radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again Series 7, Episode 5 on 9 February 1969, in which the cast, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, David Hatch, in the guise of old buffers at a gentlemen's club, employ the same trope of out-doing each other for hardship, this time in the context of how far and how slowly they had to walk to get to various places in former days.

Groupe de Bruges

The latter had been formed in the context of the debate on reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy in the early 1990s.

Halil Gür

His short stories focus mainly on the problems of migrant experiences, particularly in the context of the Dutch gastarbeider program.

Historic Cairo Restoration Project

The reasoning is that in Medieval Cairo, the context of a building was determined by its relationship to neighboring buildings.

Hoevelaken

In national context, the town is mostly known because of the homonymous motorway interchange between the E30, E231 and E232.

Islamic studies

In a non-Muslim context, Islamic studies generally refers to the historical study of Islam: Islamic civilization, Islamic history and historiography, Islamic law, Islamic theology and Islamic philosophy.

James Hamilton-Paterson

His novel Ghosts of Manila (1994) portrayed the Philippine capital in all its decay and violence and was highly critical of the Marcoses - a view he rescinded with the publication of America's Boy (1998), which sets the Marcos regime into the geopolitical context of the time.

James Purdy

They were merely restating in a modern context the psychology of Dionysus set forth in the accepted and acceptable play The Bacchae by Euripides.

Jane Gallop

In addition to psychoanalysis, especially Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory (particularly in the context of the American and French feminist responses to it), she has written on topics which include psychoanalysis and feminism; the Marquis de Sade; feminist literary criticism; pedagogy; sexual harassment; photography; and queer theory.

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Her 2007 interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia, The Jamestown Project, argues that the activity of the Virginia Company and the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia must be viewed within the broader context of English expansionary efforts, and that the structure of a functional colony was evolved through trial and error.

Kissing gate

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in England has suggested in this context that kissing gates and stiles should be in time replaced or supplemented by a type that would allow access to a wider range of users.

Les Halles

Part of the actual demolition of the site is featured in the 1974 film Touche pas à la femme blanche (Don't Touch the White Woman!), which iconoclastically restages General Custer's 'last stand' in a distinctly French context in and around the area.

Marco Tulio Boasso

In addition, he served as the IOM delegate to negotiations on the operational agreement on the return of internally displaced people in Darfur, in the context of the Darfur Plan of Action agreed between the UN and the Khartoum Government.

Mark Almond

His research interests lie in 19th century and 20th century Central-Eastern Europe; Almond has written a biography of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu, a study of Albanian migration, and a study of the Bosnian War in its historical context.

Melbourne Punch

A cartoon titled "BAIL-UP!" in 1900 was possibly the first published use of the Kelly Gang in a satirical context.

Men on...

Cultural critic Angela Nelson places Blaine and Antoine in the context of what she identifies as the "sophisticated sissy" alongside characters like Lindy (Antonio Fargas) from the film Car Wash.

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town is a book by Nick Reding which documents the drug culture of Oelwein, Iowa and how it ties into larger issues of rural flight and small town economic decline placed in the historic context of the drug trade, particularly the manufacture and consumption of methamphetamine.

Mormonism and violence

LDS Church leaders taught the concept of blood atonement well into the 20th century within the context of government-sanctioned capital punishment, and it was responsible for laws in the state of Utah allowing for execution by firing squad (Salt Lake Tribune, 11/5/94, p. D1).

Neotribalism

French sociologist Michel Maffesoli was perhaps the first to use the term neotribalism in a scholarly context.

Onogurs

Patria Onoguria, referred to as such by Agathius, Priscus Rhetor, Zacharias Rhetor, and Pseudo-Zecharias Rhetor, was a Hunno-Bulgar state around the Sea of Azov granted by Byzantium to the Onogurs in the 460s AD when, led by Attila's sons Dengizich and Ernakh, they overran Karadach's Akatziroi already settled in the region within the larger context of the Great Migrations and the Turkic expansion.

Partially Buried Woodshed

In her 1996 multimedia work Partially Buried, visual artist Renée Green explores the history of the shootings within a wider historical and cultural context.

Philip Hefner

2009 – Willem B. Drees - Religion and Science in Context: A Guide to the Debates Routledge; 1 edition, October 16, 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-55617-0

Philip the Apostle

Philip bore a Greek name (see Philip II of Macedon) and we may infer from the context that Philip spoke Greek.

Rajae El Mouhandiz

2007 "Conversations With Ice" by Sahr Ngaujah – Over 't IJ 2007. The question of Value (Who decides Who buys), within the context of the global diamond trade, Sierra Leone’s child soldiers, and it's links to the Bling sub-culture in Hip-Hop.

Reforms of Russian orthography

The Russian orthography was made simpler by unifying several adjectival and pronominal inflections, replacing the letters ѣ (Yat) with е, і (depending on the context of Moscovian pronunciation) and ѵ with и, ѳ with ф, and dropping the archaic mute yer, including the ъ (the "hard sign") in final position following consonants (thus eliminating practically the last graphical remnant of the Old Slavonic open-syllable system).

Sanballat the Horonite

Eberhard Schrader, cited in Brown Driver Briggs, considered that the name in Neo-Assyrian Aramaic was Sîn-uballit, from the name of the Sumerian moon god Sîn meaning "Sîn has begotten." (The name of the moon god Sîn in the context of Sanballat's name has since been mistakenly confused with the unrelated English noun sin in some popular English commentaries on Nehemiah).

SCOP formalism

Early concept theorists such Eleanor Rosch have noted that the context in which a concept is elicited plays a fundamental role in the meaning that it takes in natural reasoning tasks such as learning or planning.

Sid D'Souza

Elected as the youngest director ever to sit on the Board of the Cincinnati, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, D'Souza went on to draw national attention to the issues of talent retention, diversity and leadership transition in American cities, often in the context of creative class issues a la Richard Florida.

Stipo a bambocci

One some surviving examples the Bambocci-figures correspond with each other and are composed in a certain iconographical context, such as the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Paradise on one Stipo a Bambocci in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Sunday Express Dunblane controversy

She later claimed that her comments were quoted out of context, and were directed at teenage bloggers in general — a claim disputed by the Scottish Sunday Express editor Derek Lambie.

Syro-Ephraimite War

Isaiah concludes these prophecies concerning his children (Shear-Jashub (meaning 'a remnant returns', Isaiah 7.3), Immanuel (meaning 'God is with us'), and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (meaning 'quick to plunder, speedy to spoil') by saying, 'Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.' (Isaiah 8.18 NIV) Interestingly enough, the context continues into chapter 9 which also uses a birth of a child as its object.

Systems Oriented Design

The concept of Systems Oriented Design was initially proposed by professor Birger Sevaldson at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) in the context of the OCEAN design research network.

Tales from Ovid

In 2009, Fiona Shaw performed one of these tales, Echo and Narcissus, in the context of a Prologue to Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, directed by French conductor and harpsichordist William Christie.

Theophilos Kairis

Kairis would teach theosphitism, but in the context of world religions, ranging from Buddhism, many describing the philosophical thought of Kairis similar in vein as with the Transcendentalism of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 478

In remarks made to the Council, then-U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said "The question of Jerusalem must be addressed in the context of negotiations for a comprehensive, just and lasting Middle East peace."

Venal office

In the context of the French Revolution, a venal office refers to an office sold by the state to raise money.

Venus Anadyomene

Such a highly conventionalized theme, with undertones of eroticism justified by its mythological context, was ripe for modernist deconstruction; in 1870 Arthur Rimbaud evoked the image of a portly Clara Venus ("famous Venus") with all-too-human blemishes (déficits) in a sardonic poem that introduced cellulite to high literature: La graisse sous la peau paraît en feuilles plates (the fat under the skin appears in slabs).

Volkstum

The term was coined by German nationalists in the context of Germany's "Freedom Wars", in marked and conscious opposition to the ideals of the French Revolution such as universal human rights.

Wayne Laugesen

As the National Catholic Register's correspondent covering the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops when the Catholic sexual abuse scandal emerged, Laugesen is often cited for research that has put the problem in context by comparing abuse statistics of Catholic institutions with those of other religious and secular organizations.


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