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1881 Hopkins tornado

Thomas P. Grazulis, in Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991/a Chronology and Analysis of Events, lists the tornado as "probably" an F5.

2010 proposed taxonomy of the Bivalvia

In compiling this, the authors used a variety of phylogenetic information including molecular analysis, anatomical analysis, shell morphology and shell microstructure as well as bio-geographic, paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic information.

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

At one stop on the book tour associated with the publication and release of the book at the David A. Clarke School of Law of the University of the District of Columbia, Jackson's message was perceived as saying that American history can be studied as an analysis of race, but that economics and the tension between states’ rights and federal rights are the true basis of a domestic history revolving around pursuit of economic development, political power, and personal freedom.

Adam Koppy

This role required him to carry out the design from clean sheet to final drawings in SolidWorks and Inventor, including structural analysis using the finite element method and hand calculations, as well as spindle design, drivetrain sizing, and servo actuator selection.

American Society of Military Comptrollers

Today, the organization promotes professional development in general financial management, accounting and finance, budgeting, resource management, auditing, statistics and cost analysis, management analysis, manpower management, program analysis, acquisition management, and comptroller related administrative support activities.

Chicago Club

G. William Domhoff, professor of sociology at the University of California, ran a network analysis study on the membership of think tanks, policy-planning groups, social clubs, trade associations, and opinion-shaping groups across the country for a research project he was doing on San Francisco's Bohemian Club.

Equis

Equis International (or Equis) a Thomson Reuters software company which produces technical analysis software used in stock markets.

Erie v. Pap's A. M.

Justice Scalia, joined by Justice Thomas, agreed that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision must be reversed, but disagreed with the mode of analysis that should be applied.

FOXP2 and human evolution

On the other hand, analysis of FOXP2, using the chromatin immunoprecipitation technique, revealed that it binds onto and directly down-regulates expression of CNTNAP2, a gene found to be associated with nonsense-word repetition, a major marker of SLI.

François Vernadat

F. Vernadat's research work has been dealing with enterprise architectures, enterprise modelling, enterprise integration, information systems design and analysis, CIM and various aspects of industrial engineering, such as facility layout, performance evaluation, cost estimation, and competency modelling.

GiveWell

Charity evaluator and effective giving advocacy group Giving What We Can had multiple blog posts with critical analysis of GiveWell's 2012 recommendations.

GrammaTech

GrammaTech and the University of Wisconsin have been collaborating since 2001 to develop analysis, reverse-engineering, and anti-tamper tools for binary executables.

Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals

In his book On the Basis of Morality (1840), Arthur Schopenhauer presents a careful analysis of the Groundwork.

Hardware description language

A hardware description language enables a precise, formal description of an electronic circuit that allows for the automated analysis, simulation, and simulated testing of an electronic circuit.

Independent Energy Partners

On March 1, 2006, IEP concluded negotiations with Battelle Memorial Institute, the operator of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for development of the Geothermic Fuel Cell prototype and in September 2008, they signed agreements for modeling, analysis, design and engineering to commercialize this technology and related applications.

Intellibridge

Intellibridge was a strategic analysis firm in Washington DC, founded by David Rothkopf in 1999.

Interferome

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) analysis and orthologue sequence download;

Jon Gisle

Gisle is also famous for being a cartoon expert, and in 1973 he published the Donald Duck analysis Donaldismen.

Kinship analysis

In Anthropology, kinship analysis is normally either the analysis of social practices related to kinship, or the analysis of systems of Kinship terminology in different cultures.

Lalit Goel

In 2006, Goel became a YouTube celebrity after someone uploaded a five-minute snippet of one of the his lectures to the site, in which he mentioned humorous comments about him made by second-year students who had attended his circuit analysis classes.

Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0

MATLAB is a high-level programming language for numerical computing, data acquisition and analysis.

Léon Croizat

Panbiogeography is a discipline based on the analysis of patterns of distribution of organisms.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

Ted Mack, who had supervised the auditions for Bowes, became the interim host of the radio show and a few months later moved it to the fledgling medium of television.

Margaret Heffernan

Examining examples of willful blindness in the Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Bernard Madoff’s investors, BP’s safety record, the military in Afghanistan and the dog-eat-dog world of subprime mortgage lenders, the book demonstrates how failing to see—or admit to ourselves or our colleagues—the issues and problems in plain sight can ruin private lives and bring down corporations.

Metalorganics

The vapour pressure of a metalorganic precursor is a crucial parameter that governs the concentrations of metalorganic precursors entering the reactor, and subsequently the rate of deposition in MOVPE process.

Michael Valpy

He has won three National Newspaper Awards (two for foreign reporting and one for an analysis of dysfunctional students in the public education system) and been nominated for a fourth (for a profile of Michael Ignatieff), In 1997, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Litt) from Trent University.

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

Founded in 2002, by Riki Ellison, the 501(c) non-profit participates in the advocacy and educational analysis of United States Government missile defense strategies and technologies.

Navi Mumbai Holi riots

The feuding parties were Ghansoli Agri & Koli locals and mathadi settlers, with pre-existing "native vs. immigrant" political bad blood between the two communities serving as a tinderbox.

Order theory

A simple example of an order theoretic property for functions comes from analysis where monotone functions are frequently found.

Oscarella carmela

Analysis of the genome suggests that the last common ancestor of sponges and eumetazoan animals (a clade that contains all the higher animals except the sponges and placozoans) was more complex both genetically and morphologically than had previously been thought.

Priscilla K. Coleman

Other researchers were unable to reproduce Coleman's analysis of the National Comorbidity Survey, which she had used to support an association between abortion and depression or substance abuse.

Reginald Spencer Ellery

In establishing the Melbourne Institute for Psycho-Analysis in October 1940, the group encountered opposition from both the Federal government and the local branch of the British Medical Association.

Ross McKitrick

He is the co-author of Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming (2003), and author of Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy (2010) .

Shmuel Rosner

M.J. Rosenberg, Director of Policy Analysis at the Israel Policy Forum, and former American Israel Public Affairs Committee staffer and editor of AIPAC's Near East Report, describes Rosner as a "popular and provocative conservative".

Sidney Sonnino

Leopoldo Franchetti's half of the report, Political and Administrative Conditions in Sicily, was an analysis of the Mafia in the nineteenth century that is still considered authoritative today.

Slope stability analysis

Back analysis serves for calculation of a reinforcement load with a given required factor of safety.

Spectrophotometer for Nucleic Acid Measurements

Analysis of nucleic acids is commonly performed to determine the average concentrations of DNA or RNA present in a mixture, as well as their purity.

StatPro Group

Set up in 1994 by Chief Executive Justin Wheatley, the company's investment products stem from specialisation in financial data and analysis solutions for risk management, fixed income analysis, performance measurement and attribution analysis, GIPS compliance and analytics reporting (SER).

Stephen Cambone

Prior to March 7, he was the Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

The Cares of a Family Man

Slavoj Žižek emphasizes in his analysis that Odradek "once had some sort of intelligible shape and is now only a broken-down remnant," and as such it should be part of a whole.

The Committee Room

Presented by Marty Morrissey, who is joined by a different panel of guests every week, the programme features a mix of interviews, analysis and discussion on all GAA related matters.

Thomas Diez

25 September 2009 Diez was awarded the 2009 Anna Lindh Award for contributions to the analysis of European foreign and security policy.

TOXMAP

TOXMAP also overlays map data such as US Census population information, income figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and health data from the National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Health Statistics.

Two Hundred Years Together

Another critical analysis was published by the Russian-American historian Semyon Reznik.

University of North Texas Health Science Center

It also conducts all DNA analysis for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Waco: A New Revelation

Another analysis is made of images allegedly showing an FBI helicopter killing a Branch Davidian in the Mt. Carmel courtyard.

Ward Whitt

His research focuses on queueing theory, performance analysis, stochastic models of telecommunication systems, and numerical transform inversion.

Win probability

The first win probability analysis was done in 1971 by Robert E. Machol and former NFL quarterback Virgil Carter.

Win–loss

Win–loss analytics, analysis of the reasons why a visitor to a website was or wasn't persuaded to engage in a desired action

Young Engineers' Satellite 2

The centres were: Samara State Aerospace University, Russia (mission analysis, GPS); University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy (re-entry capsule); Hochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld, Germany (tether); University of Patras, Greece (mechanical and thermal).


see also

SedDB

SedDB is based on a relational database that contains the full range of analytical values for sediment samples, primarily from marine sediment cores, including major and trace element concentrations, radiogenic and stable isotope ratios, and data for all types of material such as organic and inorganic components, leachates, and size fractions.