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unusual facts about Patrick T. Powers


Patrick Powers

Patrick T. Powers (1860–1925), American baseball executive and manager


Aaron Rose

Aaron Rose is a film director, art show curator and writer who is a key part of the Beautiful Losers art movement, which has featured and helped notarize the work of artists such as Barry McGee, Steven "Espo" Powers, Harmony Korine and Shepard Fairey.

Albert E. Powers

Albert E. Powers was the acting president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1887-88.

Charles T. Powers

He spent long stretches of his tenure with the Times as a foreign correspondent in Africa, based in Nairobi from 1980 to 1986, and as Eastern European Bureau Chief from 1986 to 1991, during which time he lived in Warsaw.

David G. Hays

In 1982 he published Cognitive Structures, in which he developed a novel scheme for grounding cognition in perception and action as conceived in the control theory of William T. Powers.

John Donelson

His great-grandson Donelson Caffery of Louisiana, was a U.S. Senator from 1892–1900 and his great-great-great grandson, Patrick T. Caffery of Louisiana, was a U.S. Representative from 1969 to 1973.

Marshall McLuhan bibliography

# 1989 The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century with Bruce R. Powers; Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-505444-X.

Michael R. Powers

At Harvard, he wrote his dissertation under the direction of John W. Pratt.

Patrick T. Henry

Henry left government service in 2001 and founded the Henry Consulting Group, becoming its president.

Perceptual control theory

Perceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the principles of negative feedback, but differing in important respects from engineering control theory developed by William T. Powers.

The unaffiliated scientist William T. Powers recognized that to be purposeful implies control, and that the concepts and methods of engineered control systems could be applied to biological control systems.

Popcorn Press

Some American poets who Popcorn Press has recently published are: J. Robert King (Humors), Lester W. Smith (Would You Dance? ), Shelly L. Hall (Tonguebones), and Patrick T. Randolph (Father's Philosophy), (Empty Shoes: Poems on the Hungry and the Homeless).

Reinsurance

Using game-theoretic modeling, Professors Michael R. Powers (Temple University) and Martin Shubik (Yale University) have argued that the number of active reinsurers in a given national market should be approximately equal to the square-root of the number of primary insurers active in the same market.

Samuel L. Powers

This is also the name of a major character from the TV series Saved by the Bell.

The 1989 Annual World's Best SF

For the hardcover edition the original cover art by Jim Burns was replaced by a new cover painting by Richard M. Powers.

William Powers

William T. Powers, scientist associated with Perceptual Control Theory


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