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Dictionaries RSS Feedsfertigation - Professor Michael Delwiche, chairman of biological and cultural engineering at UC Davis, has experimented with wireless sensing systems that precisely apply water?sometimes mixed with chemical fertilizers in a process called fertigation?to tree crops like nectarines.. ...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com lobbocracy - Democracy, which relies on a free and independent press, is now run by what I call a ?lobbocracy,? by special interests lobby groups via PR.. ... quiet title - If, in fact, the railroad company is willing to state in writing that it has abandoned the property, you may also be able to file what is known as a ?quiet title? action, asking a judge to review the facts and determine who owns the property.. ... plankowner - All three were members of the commissioning crew??plankowners,? in Navy parlance?who worked together on the ship?s surface-to-air missile systems.. ... zapper - Thanks to a software program called a zapper, even technologically illiterate restaurant and store owners can siphon cash from computer cash registers and cheat tax officials.. ... twiller - Recently, a handful of creators (present company included) have scrapped pen and paper for mobile phone and keypad, and started texting their novels?in real time, just a few characters at a time. Our medium is Twitter, a service that lets you broadcast bursts of 140 characters at a time to be read by people who subscribe to get your updates. In my case, I?ve for the last two months been using Twitter to write a real-time thriller. Hence: Twiller. (Cheap word play is what you get when you disintermediate, as they say, your agent and editor).. ... beach nourishment - Depositing sediment onto a beach and bulldozing it into place?a practice called beach nourishment?has become one of the more controversial functions of the Corps? Civil Works Directorate. Besides building levees, dredging harbors and running hydropower plants, the agency is tasked with restoring the nation?s coastlines.. ... Mottness - Understanding the detailed mechanism for how quantum traffic jams (technically referred to as ?Mottness? after the late Sir Neville Mott of Cambridge, UK) impact superconductivity in cuprates may point scientists toward new materials that can be made to act as superconductors at significantly higher temperatures suitable for real-world applications such as zero-loss energy generation and transmission systems and more powerful computers.. ... hubba - ?I was skateboarding on the hubba,? he said, pointing to a metal box in the center of the area where he does tricks.. ... hole doping - In the insulating ?parent? materials from which high-temperature superconductors arise, which are typically made of materials containing copper and oxygen, each copper atom has one ?free? electron. These electrons, however, are stuck in a Mott insulating state?the quantum traffic jam?and cannot move around. By removing a few of the electrons?a process called ?hole doping??the remaining electrons can start to flow from one copper atom to the next. In essence, this turns the material from an insulator to a metallic state, but one with the startling property that it superconducts?it carries electrical current effortlessly without any losses of energy.. ... foot drop - I underwent a hip operation in 1997 and was attempting to get back in trim but was concerned about my right leg, I had something called ?foot drop.? It didn?t lift up and didn?t quite work.. ... springboard injunction - In this case, the judge granted what is called a ?springboard? injunction. The idea of a springboard injunction is to prevent employees taking advantage of previous breaches of contract. In this case, the court has granted an interim injunction preventing the ex-employees from dealing with ex-UBS customers and from seeking to persuade any other staff to leave.. ... turabosis - Psychiatrists have studied delusions like turabosis, which is the belief that one is covered in sand, and which has been documented in Saudi Arabia but would be unlikely to occur in, say, North Dakota.. ... Truman Show delusion - The Truman Show delusion, or Truman Syndrome, has drawn attention in recent months, in the United States and Britain, as psychiatrists in both countries describe a small but growing number of psychotic patients who describe their lives as mirroring that of the main character in the 1998 film ?The Truman Show.?. ... relokill - Eight years ago, it adopted a relocation program. About 230 deer were trapped and removed from the city at a cost of $360 per deer. A study found that roughly 20 percent died from the trauma of being moved. Some residents refer to the effort as the ?relokill.?. ... toothpick rule - Even so, awareness of the new law is so high that Parven Pomper Vice President Alixandria Lapp, for one, made sure to run its reception menu by a lawyer before taking it to the caterers. Under what is known as the ?toothpick rule,? a reception can offer only food and refreshment of a nominal value. ?We are just following the guidelines of the ethics committee, and we are completely staying within what they have deemed appropriate,? Lapp said.. ... age-doping - Under pressure to address ?age-doping,? the IOC asked the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) on Friday to re-open the Federation?s previous investigation into the matter of the girls? ages. Prior to the competition, when rumors of the under-aged gymnasts first surfaced, the FIG had looked at the passports of the gymnasts and declared itself satisfied that the girls were at the lower-age limit of 16, not 14, as some earlier news reports on the girls had noted.. ... narcisurfing - Ms. Kroll also urges students to search their name on search engines?a practice known as ?narcisurfing??to see what?s in cyberspace for anyone to read.. ... chemical rapping - At a subsequent press conference senior FEI officials said capsaicin was a prohibited substance because its pain-relieving properties were potentially performance-enhancing. It also had ?hypersensitisation? properties: if applied to a horse?s shins it could inflame them, thereby inducing the animal to jump higher to avoid painful contact with a fence?a practice known as ?chemical rapping.?. ... LPU - It?s refreshing to read about a discovery that isn?t just a tiny increment. Today?s scientists are under pressure to publish something new, leading to what some cynically call the LPU, or Least Publishable Unit. You find some new detail and publish it, showing the boss that you?re in a science journal, even though the ?discovery? is just a tweak of stuff already known. (Nothing new here. The best description of this is from Kingsley Amis?s Lucky Jim, about a clueless young lecturer desperate for a job in 1950s England.). ... fertigation - Professor Michael Delwiche, chairman of biological and cultural engineering at UC Davis, has experimented with wireless sensing systems that precisely apply water?sometimes mixed with chemical fertilizers in a process called fertigation?to tree crops like nectarines.. ... lobbocracy - Democracy, which relies on a free and independent press, is now run by what I call a ?lobbocracy,? by special interests lobby groups via PR.. ... quiet title - If, in fact, the railroad company is willing to state in writing that it has abandoned the property, you may also be able to file what is known as a ?quiet title? action, asking a judge to review the facts and determine who owns the property.. ... plankowner - All three were members of the commissioning crew??plankowners,? in Navy parlance?who worked together on the ship?s surface-to-air missile systems.. ... zapper - Thanks to a software program called a zapper, even technologically illiterate restaurant and store owners can siphon cash from computer cash registers and cheat tax officials.. ... twiller - Recently, a handful of creators (present company included) have scrapped pen and paper for mobile phone and keypad, and started texting their novels?in real time, just a few characters at a time. Our medium is Twitter, a service that lets you broadcast bursts of 140 characters at a time to be read by people who subscribe to get your updates. In my case, I?ve for the last two months been using Twitter to write a real-time thriller. Hence: Twiller. (Cheap word play is what you get when you disintermediate, as they say, your agent and editor).. ... beach nourishment - Depositing sediment onto a beach and bulldozing it into place?a practice called beach nourishment?has become one of the more controversial functions of the Corps? Civil Works Directorate. Besides building levees, dredging harbors and running hydropower plants, the agency is tasked with restoring the nation?s coastlines.. ... Mottness - Understanding the detailed mechanism for how quantum traffic jams (technically referred to as ?Mottness? after the late Sir Neville Mott of Cambridge, UK) impact superconductivity in cuprates may point scientists toward new materials that can be made to act as superconductors at significantly higher temperatures suitable for real-world applications such as zero-loss energy generation and transmission systems and more powerful computers.. ... hubba - ?I was skateboarding on the hubba,? he said, pointing to a metal box in the center of the area where he does tricks.. ... hole doping - In the insulating ?parent? materials from which high-temperature superconductors arise, which are typically made of materials containing copper and oxygen, each copper atom has one ?free? electron. These electrons, however, are stuck in a Mott insulating state?the quantum traffic jam?and cannot move around. By removing a few of the electrons?a process called ?hole doping??the remaining electrons can start to flow from one copper atom to the next. In essence, this turns the material from an insulator to a metallic state, but one with the startling property that it superconducts?it carries electrical current effortlessly without any losses of energy.. ... foot drop - I underwent a hip operation in 1997 and was attempting to get back in trim but was concerned about my right leg, I had something called ?foot drop.? It didn?t lift up and didn?t quite work.. ... springboard injunction - In this case, the judge granted what is called a ?springboard? injunction. The idea of a springboard injunction is to prevent employees taking advantage of previous breaches of contract. In this case, the court has granted an interim injunction preventing the ex-employees from dealing with ex-UBS customers and from seeking to persuade any other staff to leave.. ... turabosis - Psychiatrists have studied delusions like turabosis, which is the belief that one is covered in sand, and which has been documented in Saudi Arabia but would be unlikely to occur in, say, North Dakota.. ... Truman Show delusion - The Truman Show delusion, or Truman Syndrome, has drawn attention in recent months, in the United States and Britain, as psychiatrists in both countries describe a small but growing number of psychotic patients who describe their lives as mirroring that of the main character in the 1998 film ?The Truman Show.?. ... relokill - Eight years ago, it adopted a relocation program. About 230 deer were trapped and removed from the city at a cost of $360 per deer. A study found that roughly 20 percent died from the trauma of being moved. Some residents refer to the effort as the ?relokill.?. ... toothpick rule - Even so, awareness of the new law is so high that Parven Pomper Vice President Alixandria Lapp, for one, made sure to run its reception menu by a lawyer before taking it to the caterers. Under what is known as the ?toothpick rule,? a reception can offer only food and refreshment of a nominal value. ?We are just following the guidelines of the ethics committee, and we are completely staying within what they have deemed appropriate,? Lapp said.. ... age-doping - Under pressure to address ?age-doping,? the IOC asked the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) on Friday to re-open the Federation?s previous investigation into the matter of the girls? ages. Prior to the competition, when rumors of the under-aged gymnasts first surfaced, the FIG had looked at the passports of the gymnasts and declared itself satisfied that the girls were at the lower-age limit of 16, not 14, as some earlier news reports on the girls had noted.. ... narcisurfing - Ms. Kroll also urges students to search their name on search engines?a practice known as ?narcisurfing??to see what?s in cyberspace for anyone to read.. ... chemical rapping - At a subsequent press conference senior FEI officials said capsaicin was a prohibited substance because its pain-relieving properties were potentially performance-enhancing. It also had ?hypersensitisation? properties: if applied to a horse?s shins it could inflame them, thereby inducing the animal to jump higher to avoid painful contact with a fence?a practice known as ?chemical rapping.?. ... LPU - It?s refreshing to read about a discovery that isn?t just a tiny increment. Today?s scientists are under pressure to publish something new, leading to what some cynically call the LPU, or Least Publishable Unit. You find some new detail and publish it, showing the boss that you?re in a science journal, even though the ?discovery? is just a tweak of stuff already known. (Nothing new here. The best description of this is from Kingsley Amis?s Lucky Jim, about a clueless young lecturer desperate for a job in 1950s England.). ... Copyright © 2008, Typojoe.com. All Rights Reserved. |