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unusual facts about reciprocal


Monarchy of Jamaica

Many employees of the Crown were once required by law to recite an oath of allegiance to the monarch before taking their posts, in reciprocation to the sovereign's Coronation Oath, wherein he or she promises "to govern the Peoples of ... Jamaica ... according to their respective laws and customs".


Academy of Model Aeronautics

See also: Model Aeronautics Association of Canada, with which the AMA has a reciprocal agreement allowing its own insurance to apply to AMA members flying in Canada, and vice versa.

Achromatic lens

The choice of glass gives the mean refractive index, often written as n d (for the refractive index at the Fraunhofer "d" spectral line wavelength), and the Abbe number V (for the reciprocal of the glass dispersion).

Adriana Cavarero

Appreciated and discussed by Judith Butler in Giving an Account of Oneself, this book, by contrasting the sovereign subject of the metaphysical tradition, confronts with the urge of rethinking politics and ethics in terms of a relational ontology, characterized by reciprocal exposure, dependence and vulnerability of an incarnated self who postulates the other as necessary.

Afghanistan–Turkey relations

Turkey’s support of the Bonn Agreement and the Afghan Constitution Commission resulted in an official visit to Turkey by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on April 4, 2002 and made a reciprocal visit to Afghanistan by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a short time later.

Bertrand Snell

He opposed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Elmer Thomas amendment favoring inflation, the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, and other early New Deal measures.

Brillouin

Brillouin zone, a primitive cell of the reciprocal lattice of a crystal

Caledonian Club

There are reciprocal arrangements with clubs in Scotland (the New Club in Edinburgh, The Western in Glasgow, Royal Northern and University Club in Aberdeen and the Royal Perth Golfing Society) and County and City Club, London and the south east, and some 60 clubs worldwide, including the Hong Kong Club, the Hurlingham Club in Argentina, the Royal Bachelors' Club in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Australian Club.

Coober Pedy

As a result of correspondence between the two clubs, the Coober Pedy golf club is the only club in the world to enjoy reciprocal rights at The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.

Decathlon scoring tables

For field events, this was a straightforward statistical procedure; for track events, the reciprocal of the athlete's time, representing speed, was used as the independent variable.

Fanderson

As ownership of the ITC part of Anderson's productions has changed hands, so the club has maintained reciprocal relationships with PolyGram, Carlton, Granada Ventures, and now, ITV Studios Global Entertainment.

Hans Lineweaver

The paper containing the equation, also known as the Double Reciprocal Plot, was co-authored by Dr. Dean Burk, and was entitled "The Determination of Enzyme Dissociation Constants (1934)".

Kevin Casha

Furthermore, under his guidance, the foremost photographic association in the UK, the SWPP, later recognized the standards of the Maltese qualifications and agreed to give reciprocal qualifications.

Median absolute deviation

The factor 1.4826\ \approx 1/\left(\Phi^{-1}(3/4)\right) results from the reciprocal of the normal inverse cumulative distribution function, \Phi^{-1}(P), evaluated at probability P=3/4.

Negligible function

The reciprocal-of-polynomial formulation is used for the same reason that computational boundedness is defined as polynomial running time: it has mathematical closure properties that make it tractable in the asymptotic setting.

Networks in marketing

The strength of a tie according to Professor Mark Granovetter can be analyzed by looking at a combination of; the amount of time, the emotional intensity, the intimacy and mutual confiding, and the reciprocal services between those which the tie exists.

Peshawar Garrison Club

There is a reciprocal arrangement for temporary use of facilities by its members at many associate clubs in Pakistan, such as Rawalpindi, Quetta and Karachi clubs.

Photographic filter

Close-up lenses are usually specified by their optical power, the reciprocal of the focal length in meters.

Ranelagh Harriers

Ranelagh has a sister organization, the Montgomery County Road Runners Club (MCRRC), in Montgomery County, Maryland (near Washington, D.C.); its members have full reciprocal membership privileges when visiting the MCRRC.

Reciprocal innervation

A common example of reciprocal innervation, is the effect of the nociceptive (or nocifensive) reflex, or defensive response to pain, otherwise commonly known as the withdrawal reflex; a type of involuntary action of the body to remove the body part from the vicinity of an offending object by contracting the appropriate muscles (usually flexor muscles), while relaxing the extensor muscles.

René Descartes (1596–1650) was one of the first to conceive a model of reciprocal innervation (in 1626) as the principle that provides for the control of agonist and antagonist muscles.

Reciprocal Recording

Chris Hanzsek and Tina Casale opened Reciprocal Recording in Seattle in 1984.

Reichian therapy

Body psychotherapy, which addresses the body and the mind as a whole with emphasis on the reciprocal relationships within body and mind.

Single particle analysis

The combined effects of the imaging conditions are known as the Contrast transfer function (CTF), and can be approximated mathematically as a function in reciprocal space.

Société littéraire de Liège

It has reciprocal ties with the Cercle Gaulois in Brussels and publishes a quarterly newsletter entitled Lettre de la Littéraire.

Sum activity of peripheral deiodinases

\alpha {31}: Dilution factor for T3 (reciprocal of apparent volume of distribution, 0.026 l−1)

Thyroid's secretory capacity

\alpha T: Dilution factor for T4 (reciprocal of apparent volume of distribution, 0.1 l−1)

Time reversal signal processing

Some media are not reciprocal (e.g. very lossy or noisy media), but many very useful ones are approximately so, including sound waves in water or air, ultrasonic waves in human bodies, and electromagnetic waves in free space.

United States Brewers' Association

The USBA got along well with top officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, who often attended its conventions, and saw its relationship with the government as one of reciprocal duties and obligations.

Water-pouring algorithm

Each of the available channels is then a section of the container having its own depth, given by the reciprocal of the frequency-dependent SNR for the channel.


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