Formal standardization efforts proceeded at the same time.

Other commentators place the Holocene – Anthropocene boundary at the industrial revolution while also saying that " Formal adoption of this term in the near future will largely depend on its utility, particularly to earth scientists working on late Holocene successions.

Formal tests were done on test pad at Langley and at Wallops Island using the Little Joe and Big Joe rockets.

Formal efforts backed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service began to save the red wolf from extinction in 1973 when a captive breeding program was established at the Point Defiance Zoological Gardens, Tacoma, Washington.

Formal instruction was also very popular ; however, the number of people educated using a planned curriculum at home dropped as public education grew in popularity during the 1900s.

Formal schools have existed at least since ancient Greece ( see Academy ), ancient Rome ( see Education in Ancient Rome ) ancient India ( see Gurukul ), and ancient China ( see History of education in China ).

Formal turnout always is preferred, however, and a neat rider gives a good impression at shows.

Typically, at " Formal Hall ", gowns are worn for dinner during the evening, whereas for " informal Hall " they are not.

Formal discussions for a spring offensive near Arras began following a conference of corps commanders held at British First Army Headquarters on 21 November 1916.

The preprandial grace is read by the Bible Clerk at Formal Hall.

Grace is said by a scholar of the college at Formal Hall ( the second, more elaborate sitting of dinner ).

Unlike many other Oxford colleges, the same menu is served to all members of college and there is no High Table apart from at Formal Halls.

It is read before every Formal Hall, which is held Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday at Univ.

Formal proceedings start at 7. 30am with the gathering of up to 250 horses waiting for the courier to arrive and announce that the Pursuivant is on his way, and at 8. 00am leave the Midsteeple and ride out to meet the Pursuivant.

* Formal dealings between Persia and Rome would henceforth be conducted at Nisibis.

Selwyn holds Formal Hall on every Tuesday and Thursday evening during Term at 7: 30 pm with a capacity of 120, tickets for which can be bought by all graduate and undergraduate students for themselves and up to two guests, at a cost of £ 9. 60 each for a three-course meal.

There used to be an additional Formal Hall held on Sunday evenings at least until the early 1990s.

There is also a special, extra Halfway Hall Formal for second-year students to mark the middle of their time as an undergraduate student at the College, and a Christmas Formal for all students at the end of every Michaelmas Term.

Smooth, highly spun yarns are best for showing off stitch patterns ; at the other extreme, very fuzzy yarns or eyelash yarns have poor stitch definition, and any complicated stitch pattern would be invisible.

Furthermore, the options in false dichotomies are typically presented as being collectively exhaustive, in which case the fallacy can be overcome, or at least weakened, by considering other possibilities, or perhaps by considering a whole spectrum of possibilities, as in fuzzy logic.

Similarly, the " Who Controls Our Children " campaign in Pennsylvania claimed that an OBE reform effort was part of a federal program that was " stressing values over academic content, and holding students accountable for goals that are so vague and fuzzy they can't be assessed at all.

The work of Eleanor Rosch in the 1970s led to a view that natural categories are not characterizable in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions, but are graded ( fuzzy at their boundaries ) and inconsistent as to the status of their constituent members.

While various gaits are given specific names, the complexity of biological systems and interacting with the environment make these distinctions ' fuzzy ' at best.

Sometimes, more general variants of the notion of fuzzy set are used, with membership functions taking values in a ( fixed or variable ) algebra or structure of a given kind ; usually it is required that be at least a poset or lattice.

Industrial applications of fuzzy sets in the context of " fuzzy logic in the wider sense " can be found at fuzzy logic.

As in fuzzy numbers, the membership function must be convex, normalized, at least segmentally continuous.

The print is in rough shape ; several frames are out of alignment, at times, while the whole picture looks bleached out and very fuzzy.

A cognitive approach accepts that natural categories are graded ( they tend to be fuzzy at their boundaries ) and inconsistent in the status of their constituent members.

Lotfi A. Zadeh: is a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. Zadeh, in his theory of fuzzy sets, proposed using a membership function ( with a range covering the interval ) operating on the domain of all possible values.

Fine ( 1994 ) writes that economists at the time complained that his ideas, while brilliantly presented, were crude, gross, fuzzy, and imprecise ; others complained that he was a wacky eccentric.

However, the line between ' recuperation ' and ' détournement ' can become thin ( or at least very fuzzy ) at times, as Naomi Klein points out in her book No Logo.

A notorious controversy at the Life photography darkroom ensued after a mishap ruined dozens of Capa's photos that were taken during the beach landing ; the magazine claimed in its captions that the photos were fuzzy because Capa's hands were shaking.

Nor do those complete the list of examples that constitute the requirement for fuzzy distinctions in such matters ; at the opposite extreme from parasitism, parasitoidy in turn grades into predation.

In fuzzy set theory, characteristic functions are generalized to take value in the real unit interval, or more generally, in some algebra or structure ( usually required to be at least a poset or lattice ).

Though Louris ' fuzzy guitar was at the forefront, a clear folksy influence was also emerging in Olson and Louris ' songwriting.

The kittens weigh around at birth, and have a thick coat of fuzzy fur, which is replaced by the adult coat after around two months.

The term fuzzy backup can be used to describe a backup of live data that looks like it ran correctly, but does not represent the state of the data at any single point in time.

Following his departure from the BBC, Checkland suggested at a Royal Television Society conference that the corporation's governors and the chairman Marmaduke Hussey had been out of touch: they thought, as he put it, that FM ( as in FM radio ) " stood for fuzzy monsters!

With this, Anakin is now able to sense the Yuuzhan Vong in a whole new way that exists outside the Force, albeit this new sense only gives Anakin a rather fuzzy look at the Vong.

* Fuzzy logic-article at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

* Ancient Celtic music-article at Citizendium

* K ' iche ' - an introduction-article at Citizendium

* Portions of this article were ported from Citizendium: at

* Party Systems ( article at Citizendium ).

* Alvise Cadamosto-article at Citizendium