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2 unusual facts about Correction


Correction

Corrector, a political/administrative office in classical Antiquity and some religions

The Over-Correction

He adds that Bon Jovi is standing in the mopped lobby near a Slippery When Wet safety sign.


Abenomics

Specific policies include inflation targeting at a 2% annual rate, correction of the excessive yen appreciation, setting negative interest rates, radical quantitative easing, expansion of public investment, buying operations of construction bonds by Bank of Japan (BOJ), and revision of the Bank of Japan Act.

American Statistical Association

Edward Jarvis, William Brigham and John Wingate Thornton, Memorial Of The American Statistical Association Praying The Adoption Of Measures For The Correction Of Errors In The Census, 1844

Assault

In English law, s58 Children Act 2004, limits the availability of the lawful correction defense to common assault under s39 Criminal Justice Act 1988.

Audrey De Montigny

In 2008, De Montigny had laser vision correction with LASIK MD.

Baldric of Dol

Balderic's most valuable work from the second part of his career is his "Historiae Hierosolymitanae libri IV", an account of the First Crusade, based in part on the testimony of eyewitnesses, and submitted for correction to the Abbot Peter of Maillezais, who had accompanied the Crusaders.

Bella Nisan

Since 1998 till 2001 Nisan was a Head Lecturer of Optometry and Contact Vision correction Course of Vision disease Department at the Federation Institute for Biomedical Problems of the Healthcare Ministry of the Russian Federation.

Benson group increment theory

The same as ring system, corrections have been made to other situations such as Gauche alkane with a 0.8kcal/mol correction, cis alkene with a 1.0kcal/mol correction, respectively.

Bessel's correction

In statistics, Bessel's correction, named after Friedrich Bessel, is the use of n − 1 instead of n in the formula for the sample variance and sample standard deviation, where n is the number of observations in a sample: it corrects the bias in the estimation of the population variance, and some (but not all) of the bias in the estimation of the population standard deviation.

Billy Brown of London Town

Billy Brown was also a mascot on sorties over Berlin during the war, with the advice "I trust it suffers no deflection, this stuff is for the Hun's correction" (i.e. Adolf Hitler.).

Blackwell Island Light

The supervising architect was James Renwick, Jr., who also designed several other buildings on the island for the Charities and Correction Board as well as more famous works such as St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Bofors 40 mm gun

Eventually an anti-aircraft gunnery school on the range at Stiffkey on the Norfolk coast delivered a workable solution, a trapeze-like arrangement that moved the pancake sights to offer lead correction, operated by a new crew-member standing behind the left-hand layer.

Cao Thang Eye Hospital

Cao Thang has served 80,000 patients and performed around 10,000 surgeries each year of cataract surgery by Phacoemulsification and laser vision correction by Lasik, Lasek and PRK.

Carl Danberg

On January 3, 2007, he was nominated by Governor Ruth Ann Minner as Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction to replace retiring Commissioner Stan Taylor.

CD player

After demodulating, a CIRC error corrector takes each audio data frame, stores it in a SRAM memory and verifies that it has been read correctly, if it is not, it takes the parity and correction bits and fixes the data, then it moves it out to a DAC to be converted to an analog audio signal.

Darktable

Plugins related to hue and saturation include overexposed, to display pixels outside dynamic range; velvia, which mimics Velvia film colors by increasing saturation on lower saturated pixels more than on highly saturated pixels; channel mixer; color contrast; color correction, to modify the global saturation or to give a tint; color zones; color transfer; vibrance; and input/output/display color profile management.

Data scrubbing

Btrfs — as a still experimental copy-on-write (CoW) file system for Linux — provides fault isolation, corruption detection and correction, and file system scrubbing.

DUT1

The Russian time signal RWM transmits an additional correction dUT1 in 0.02 s increments.

Gottesman

Daniel Gottesman, a computer scientist, known for his work regarding quantum error correction

Herbst LaZar Bell, Inc.

HLB is responsible for designs as the Motorola NFL Coaches Headset, the first Internet Gas Pump by Gilbarco, the Papermate Liquid Correction Pen, and lifesaving products such as the Ethicon Mammotome Handheld Breast Biopsy System, the ZOLL AED Plus defibrillator, and the CardioVations Heart Stabilizer.

History of intersex surgery

Earlier correction reduced the social "differentness" of a child with a cleft lip, or club foot, or skull malformation, or could save the life of an infant with spina bifida.

IText

iText provides support for most advanced PDF features such as PKI-based signatures, 40-bit and 128-bit encryption, color correction, Tagged PDF, PDF forms (AcroForms), PDF/X, color management via ICC profiles and barcodes.

Jean Martianay

This collation, reproduced by Bianchini in his "Evangelium Quadruplex", was considered faulty; a correction of it is in the first volume of Wordsworth and White, "Old Latin Biblical Texts".

Jeff Machat

Dr. Machat is recognized as a world-class pioneer in refractive surgery which includes LASIK and PRK for the correction of myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia.

Jura water correction

(Thielle Channel); correction of the Aare river as from Büren to the city of Luterbach, including the junction of Emme River.

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

Various media described her performance as a correction to the force rather than going further left when compared to first-place primary election winner Jürgen Trittin, a vote made by the now much more bourgeois party base.

Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

This "correction of the Marxian system" has been the great contribution of Bortkiewicz to classical and Marxian economics but it was completely unnoticed until Paul Sweezy's 1942 book "Theory of Capitalist Development".

LASIK MD

LASIK MD is a provider of laser vision correction, performing LASIK, PRK and keratoconus treatments.

MPEG-4 SLS

MPEG-4 SLS allows for having both a lossy layer and a lossless correction layer similar to Wavpack Hybrid, OptimFROG DualStream and DTS-HD Master Audio, allowing for backwards compatibility to MPEG AAC-compliant bitstreams.

Nadine Hani

Nadine anchored Al Arabiya's special coverage of the major Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) markets' correction that wiped up to 50 percent of the market capitalization of GCC stocks at the beginning of 2006.

Periorbital puffiness

Puffy eyes are usually only a temporary cosmetic worry, but occasionally, individuals become concerned about the cosmetic effect of periorbital swelling and seek surgical correction.

PL/I

A compiler developed at Cornell University for teaching a dialect called PL/C, had the unusual capability of never failing to compile any program, through the use of extensive automatic correction of many syntax errors and by converting any remaining syntax errors to output statements.

Precession

de Sitter precession a general relativistic correction accounting for the Schwarzschild metric of curved space near a large non-rotating mass.

Protocol spoofing

Error correction and file transfer protocols typically work by calculating a checksum or CRC for a block of data known as a packet, and transmitting the resulting number at the end of the packet.

S. M. Balaji

He specializes in repair of cleft palate, rhinoplasty, ear reconstruction, jaw reconstruction, facial asymmetry correction, dental implantology, maxillofacial surgery and Craniofacial surgery.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Frightened by threats that her children will be sent to a House of Correction on the orders of the Committee of Public Safety, she agrees to write a letter to Henri and his father, the Marquis, as dictated by Chauvelin.

The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Trusts have worked closely with the Vera Institute of Justice on issues related to state correction policies in the public safety performance project.

Thirring

Lense–Thirring precession, a relativistic correction to the precession of a gyroscope

United States Senate special election in Delaware, 2010

Those discussed as possible appointees to replace Joe Biden included Joe Biden's son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, outgoing Lt. Gov. John C. Carney, Jr., Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron T. Steele, Delaware Secretary of State Harriet Smith Windsor, Delaware Correction Commissioner Carl C. Danberg, former Delaware House of Representatives member Robert L. Byrd, and New Castle County Executive Chris Coons.

VM Labs

Notable embedded features included Jeff Minter's Virtual Light Machine (VLM) for music, real-time zoom, gamma-correction and smooth reverse shuttle.

WAN Interface Card

A WIC has a built-in channel service data unit (CSU/DSU) interface to connect to a digital circuit and provide error correction and line monitoring.

Who Stole Feminism?

Group activist and writer Laura Flanders blasted the book as filled with "error-filled anecdotes" and "folktales" such as misquoting 18th Century legal scholar William Blackstone as being against domestic violence when he had written in favor of "that which lawfully and reasonably belongs to the husband for the due government and correction of his wife".

William Houlder Zachariasen

In a paper published in 1963, he showed that C. G. Darwin's formula for the secondary extinction correction contained an error in the treatment of the polarization of the X-ray beams.

Zarrin-Kafsh

Gustaham was sent at the head of twelve thousand fierce and sanguine troops, with a retinue of very many valiant lords and ferocious and lionhearted veterans, for the correction and chastisement of Bahram, with strict orders to exact also from Bahram an offering in the way of a fine, in addition to the four years’ tribute due in arrears, and in the event of the least show of resistance, to inflict a humiliating defeat upon him, and bring him to Ctesiphon chained and fettered.


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