For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

There has been some concern about this ice sheet, because there is a small chance that it will collapse.

Dominican amber, especially Dominican blue amber, is mined through bell pitting, which is dangerous due to the risk of tunnel collapse.

Their non-Greek language is confirmed on the site by inscriptions in the Cypriot syllabary which alone in the Aegean world survived the Bronze Age collapse and continued to be used down to the 4th century BC.

" He is considered the last of the " early " kings of Jerusalem, after whom there was no king able to save Jerusalem from its eventual collapse.

Little is known about the production of brass during the centuries immediately after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

The expression is typically interpreted as the probability amplitude for the state ψ to collapse into the state ϕ.

In quantum mechanics the expression is typically interpreted as the probability amplitude for the state to collapse into the state.

They were partly correct: a white dwarf slightly more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit will collapse into a neutron star, which is itself stable because of the Pauli exclusion principle.

James Corum states a prevalent myth about the Luftwaffe and its blitzkrieg operations is that it had a doctrine of terror bombing, in which civilians were deliberately targeted in order to break the will or aid the collapse of an enemy.

Concrete reduces the risk of structural collapse and is an effective fire shield, providing safe means of escape for occupants and protection for fire fighters.

Gravitational collapse of matter into black holes is also thought to power the most energetic processes, generally seen at the centers of galaxies ( see quasars and active galaxies ).

It is thought that the increase in piracy and raiding associated with the Bronze Age collapse, possibly produced by the Peoples of the Sea, brought this trading system to an end.

The result is that paper money would often lead to an inflationary bubble, which could collapse if people began demanding hard money, causing the demand for paper notes to fall to zero.

This feature of the mathematics is known as wavefunction collapse.

Heisenberg never used the term collapse, preferring to speak of the wavefunction representing our knowledge of a system, and collapse as the " jumping " of the wavefunction to a new state, representing a " jump " in our knowledge which occurs once a particular phenomenon is registered by the experimenter ( i. e. when an observation takes place ).

:< u > The Copenhagen Interpretation </ u >: Assuming wave functions are not real, wave-function collapse is interpreted subjectively.

Although the Copenhagen interpretation is often confused with the idea that consciousness causes collapse, it defines an " observer " merely as that which collapses the wave function.

If the wave function is regarded as ontologically real, and collapse is entirely rejected, a many worlds theory results.

If wave function collapse is regarded as ontologically real as well, an objective collapse theory is obtained.

" It was triggered by a collapse in land and stock prices, which caused Japanese firms to have negative equity, meaning their assets were worth less than their liabilities.

Supernovae can be triggered in one of two ways: by the sudden reignition of nuclear fusion in a degenerate star ; or by the collapse of the core of a massive star.

The war's end triggered the abdication of aging monarchies and the collapse of the last modern empires of Russia, Germany, the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary, with the latter splintered into Austria, Hungary, southern Poland ( who acquired most of their land in a war with Soviet Russia ), Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as the unification of Romania with Transylvania and Moldavia.

In triggered star formation, one of several events might occur to compress a molecular cloud and initiate its gravitational collapse.

There is also evidence for injection of short-lived ( now extinct ) isotopes from a nearby supernova explosion that may have triggered solar nebula collapse.

Usually triggered by other pulmonary pathology, the uncontrolled inflammation leads to impaired gas exchange, alveolar flooding and / or collapse, and systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

Howard started circulating the story that his corps ' failure had actually been triggered by the collapse of Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday's I Corps to the west, but this excuse was never accepted at the time or by history — the reverse was actually true — and the reputation of the XI Corps was ruined.

The collapse began when a critical internal column buckled and triggered structural failure throughout, which was first visible from the exterior with the crumbling of a rooftop penthouse structure at 5: 20: 33 pm.

He fought on and the combination of his exposures with the public indignation of his treatment by the Commission triggered the collapse of Jacques Santer's Commission, of which Edith Cresson was particularly criticised.

These have common features with animal apoptosis — for instance, nuclear DNA degradation — but they also have their own peculiarities, such as nuclear degradation triggered by the collapse of the vacuole in tracheary elements of the xylem.

Border's dismissal for 105 triggered a major collapse of seven wickets for five runs as the other batsmen were unable to cope with the swing of Sarfraz Nawaz.

The failure of Robert Emmet's rebellion in 1803 triggered the effective collapse of the Society of United Irishmen.

Strain-softened soils, e. g. loose sands, can be triggered to collapse, either monotonically or cyclically, if the static shear stress is greater than the ultimate or steady-state shear strength of the soil.

The collapse being triggered by the emptying of shallow ( at or about sea level ) magma chambers under the Las Cañadas volcano after large-volume explosive eruptions.

The collapse of the investment bank Société de l ' Union Générale precipitated the 1882 stock market crash that triggered a downturn in the economy.

The Great Depression contained several banking crises consisting of runs on multiple banks from 1929 to 1933 ; some of these were specific to regions of the U. S. Banking panics began in October 1930, one year after the stock market crash, triggered by the collapse of correspondent networks ; the bank runs became worse after financial conglomerates in New York and Los Angeles failed in prominently-covered scandals.

The formation of Keenspot was triggered by the collapse of an earlier webcomic portal, Big Panda.

In 1792, the collapse of one of its several lava domes triggered a megatsunami that killed about 15, 000 people in Japan ’ s worst-ever volcanic-related disaster.

His next chance to play test cricket came against South Africa in November 2010 when he took 3 wickets in a first innings and triggered a South African collapse of 380 on a flat wicket.

Scientists believed it was triggered by a partial collapse of the lava dome.

In the 1990s the collapse of this trading partner triggered a substantial economic downslide in the Nilgiris district, which was further aggravated by various quality issues.

The collapse of the nearby settlement of Shaws as a result of the Plague may have triggered growth as Lockeridge was situated at an intersection of a major east-west route ( now the A4 ) and a crossing of the Pewsey Downs.

This mass surrender triggered the entire front to collapse and ended the fighting.

The events that occur in Strike Commander are triggered by events starting 20 years before the game is set, actually the seeds are sown in the 1980s and onwards, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the disastrous economic policies of the United States, conflict in the Middle East, the world-wide dependence on petroleum and the resultant rise in nationalism globally.