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unusual facts about Proxy-based estimating


Personal software process

The PSP uses the PROxy-Based Estimation (PROBE) method to improve a developer’s estimating skills for more accurate project planning.


Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

The AFQT has been used in non-military settings as a proxy measure of intelligence, for example, Herrnstein & Murray's Bell curve report.

Calma

UT78 United Telecommunications prospectus dated August 16, 1978 and Calma Company proxy statement for special shareholder meeting August 31, 1978 to approve merger of Calma with UTI

Charles Felix of Sardinia

He was married by proxy to Princess Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily (17 January 1779 – 11 March 1849) on 7 March 1807.

Charlotte, Princess Royal

She was christened on 27 October 1766 at St James's Palace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Secker, and her godparents were her paternal uncle and aunt, King Christian VII of Denmark and his wife, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (for whom the Duke of Portland, Lord Chamberlain, and the Dowager Countess of Effingham, stood proxy, respectively) and her paternal aunt, Princess Louisa.

Cinema Dimashq

Opened in Damascus, Syria, in 1943 by Toufik Chammas, a prominent local businessman, Cinema Dimashq rapidly became a local entertainment proxy, bringing Syria into the era of cinematography.

Cliff Barnes

He told Elena to make the Ewings pay for J.R.'s sins against her family and gave her proxy over the one-third share of Barnes-Global he still owned in the company.

Corinda State High School

Robert Vickers, (1975), bass The Go Betweens, 1983-88; Publicist for New York indie label Jetset Records, 1998; Owner PR company, Proxy Media since 2005.

Council for National Security

Anonymous proxy servers through which Thai internet users could access a blocked webpage were also blocked, as were websites from BBC 1, BBC 2, CNN, Yahoo News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Age, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Yale University Press containing articles about King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Doombot

During the Acts of Vengeance storyline, a Doombot was used by Doctor Doom to serve as his proxy at the time when Loki has gathered some criminal masterminds to help in his plot.

Electric Counterpoint

As with other pieces by Reich, this piece has influenced many modern musical artists, such as the Orb, which sampled the third movement of the Pat Metheny recording as one of the hooks of "Little Fluffy Clouds," and RJD2, who sampled the piece's opening of his song "The Proxy" from his first release, Deadringer. In 2008 Joby Burgess' Powerplant arranged the work for xylosynth, taking influence from Metheny and the Orb.

Eric Foreman

In the conclusion of the episode, Cameron, acting as Foreman's medical proxy, performs a white-matter brain biopsy and the condition is revealed to be primary amoebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria, a water-borne parasite that, upon being inhaled, attacks the brain.

Geneva Securities Convention

Admittedly, in practice, the US legislation envisages procedures enabling the genuine investor to obtain a "mandate" ("proxy") from their respective final intermediary in order to exercise the rights to vote on behalf of the latter.

Infanta Maria Ana Vitória of Portugal

They married by proxy on 12 April 1785 at the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa.

Internet Content Adaptation Protocol

At the core of this process is a cache that will proxy all client transactions and will process them through ICAP Web servers.

Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia

The MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on can interpret X-Forwarded-For (XFF) headers, allowing Wikipedia to identify a user's main IP address rather than the proxy IP address, allowing the ability to block proxy users individually by their client's IP rather than the proxy server IP (avoiding the need to block the whole proxy due to the actions of a single user).

Iran–United Kingdom relations

On 19 June 2009, the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei described the British Government as the "most evil" of those in the Western nations, accusing the British government of sending spies into Iran to stir emotions at the time of the elections, although it has been suggested by British diplomats that the statement was using the UK as a "proxy" for the United States, in order to prevent damaging US–Iranian relations.

Jones Carioca

In January 2010 he was signed by Deportivo Maldonado, which de facto a proxy club for investor and football agent.

M-Pesa

In 2002, Researchers at Gamos and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, funded by Department for International Development UK, documented that in Uganda, Botswana and Ghana, people were spontaneously using airtime as a proxy for money transfer.

Maguindanao people

"Proxy colonialism" was legalized by the Public Land Act of 1919, invalidating Muslim Pusaka (inherited property) laws.

Marcelo Estigarribia

On 28 August 2011, Estigarribia moved to Juventus F.C. on a season loan for a 0.5 million euro fee, with an option of making the transfer permanent for 5 million euros at the end of the season, from a proxy club Deportivo Maldonado.

Maria Anna of Neuburg

The marriage by proxy took place on 28 August 1689 in Ingolstadt, Germany with the attendance of her brother-in-law Emperor Leopold and her sister Empress Eleonore among other illustrious guests.

Maria Anna Vasa

Godparents were Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (for whom Prince Karol Ferdynand Vasa stood proxy) and his recently new consort Eleonora Gonzaga (for whom the Lituanian Princess Theodora Krystyna Sapieha), and Pope Innocent X (represented by Nuncio Giovanni de Torres).

Mariana of Austria

After a marriage by proxy, they were wedded on 7 October 1649 in Navalcarnero, near Madrid, and spent their wedding night at El Escorial.

Proxy voting

The Alberta Liberal Party ran into some difficulties, in that an unknown number of proxy ballots that were counted may have been invalid.

Representation of the People Act 1985

When registered, expatriate voters were eligible to vote by proxy at any Parliamentary or European Parliament elections which were held after the 1987 register came into force on 16 February, 1987.

Roberta Taylor

She is also very close friends with her former co-star Alex Walkinshaw, who sees her as a second mother to him, and she is even grandmother by proxy to his two children, Flora and Jack.

Romanian Interbank Bid Rate

Romanian Interbank Bid Rate (ROBID) is the reference rate calculated by the Proxy as the arithmetical average of the last rates quoted by the each Participant in the Fixing for the RON deposits offered within 15 minutes before the Fixing after rejecting extreme rates.

Sickened

Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood is a 2003 autobiographical account by Julie Gregory of the Münchausen syndrome by proxy child abuse inflicted on her by her mother.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk (VoIP), JBoss (application server), Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux (operating system).

The Naked Jungle

In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.

The Quiet War

Laotian Civil War The proxy war in the Kingdom of Laos between 1953 and 1975

Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy

He was also one of the witnesses of the celebration of the match by proxy at Richmond on 17 December following.

Wapedia

Wapedia offers the most recent version of every article, which is done by using a combination of a proxy-like behavior and a local article database.

Willie Soon

The book treats historical and proxy records of climate change coinciding with the Maunder Minimum.

World War III

Norman Podhoretz has suggested that the Cold War can be identified as World War III because it was fought, although by proxy, on a global scale, with the main combatants, the United States and later NATO, and the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries providing political, military and economic support while only occasionally engaging in direct combat.

Zendegi

Nasim's first breakthrough comes with Virtual Azimi, a proxy she creates by scanning Ashkan Azimi, Iran's national football team captain, to record his motor skills while he replays games in his head.


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