The armillary sphere, a three-dimensional representation of the movements in the celestial sphere, was invented in Han China by the 1st century BCE.

Flag of Portugal, including the representation of an armillary sphere

Foundational Media theories include: Media effects theory ; Agenda Setting, Priming, Framing, political economy, discourse analysis, content analysis, Hyperpersonal theory, representation theory, imagined community, public sphere, theories of persuasion, attention, and control, etc.

The Bloch sphere is a representation of a qubit, the fundamental building block of quantum computers.

Bloch sphere representation of a qubit.

Smooth surfaces, such as a sphere, are assigned surface area using their representation as parametric surfaces.

A pictorial representation of the tangent space of a single point, x, on a sphere.

Thus any planar representation of even a part of a sphere must distort the distances.

It may also refer to a spherical representation of the celestial sphere, showing the apparent positions of the stars and constellations in the sky ( celestial globe ).

In this article the word describes the representation of the star-filled celestial sphere on the plane.

Some rights were, however, withheld by Prague, which justified its actions by claiming that the process was to be a gradual one ; and Rusyn representation in the national sphere was less than that hoped for.

In quantum mechanics, the Bloch sphere is a geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system ( qubit ), named after the physicist Felix Bloch.

* Bloch sphere, geometrical representation of the pure state space of a two-level quantum mechanical system

It is the oldest extant statue of the Titan of Greek mythology, who is represented in earlier vase-painting, and more important, the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere.

In celebration of the year 2000, a large 25-story " magic wand " held by a representation of Mickey Mouse's hand was built next to the sphere.

The set of all states in a two-level system can be mapped onto a representation known as the Bloch sphere.

The representation on the Bloch sphere for a state vector will simply be the vector of expectation values.

A monodromy group is prescribed, by means of a finite-dimensional complex representation of the fundamental group of the complement in the Riemann sphere of those points, plus the point at infinity, up to equivalence.

The transformation from neuronal patterns to a subjective representation would appear to develop in a mental sphere that has emerged from that neuronal pattern.

The term " rotation " alludes to the Bloch sphere representation of a qubit pure state.

Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.

This is taxation without representation.

When the information cell for Af has been determined, it is saved as a representation of Af.

for this division is but an abstract representation of the social struggle between mysticism and science.

If the content of faith is to be presented today in a form that can be `` understanded of the people '' -- and this, it must not be forgotten, is one of the goals of the perennial theological task -- there is no other choice but to abandon completely a mythological manner of representation.

The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

The table itself is a visual representation of the periodic law, which states that certain chemical properties of elements repeat periodically when arranged by atomic number.

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature ( variable ) of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i. e., analogous to another time varying signal.

The Minsk Group is currently co-chaired by Russia, France, and the United States and has representation from Turkey, the U. S., several European nations, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

The use of terms and titles, including derivatives such as Architectural Designer, and the representation of oneself as an architect is restricted to licensed individuals by law.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

It is alphabetic, with a letter or diacritic for every phonemic ( distinctive ) hand shape, orientation, motion, and position, though it lacks any representation of facial expression, and is better suited for individual words than for extended passages of text.

This behaviour under CPT is the same as the statement that the particle and its antiparticle lie in the same irreducible representation of the Poincaré group.

Abraxas is an important figure in Carl Jung's 1916 book Seven Sermons to the Dead, a representation of the driving force of individuation ( synthesis, maturity, oneness ), referred with the figures for the driving forces of differentiation ( emergence of consciousness and opposites ), Helios God-the-Sun, and the Devil.

Often, if only one of the allophones is simple to transcribe, in the sense of not requiring diacritics, then that representation is chosen for the phoneme.

Unobservable poles are not present in the transfer function realization of a state-space representation, which is why sometimes the latter is preferred in dynamical systems analysis.

In their presentations of fundamental interactions, written from the particle physics perspective, Gerard ’ t Hooft and Martinus Veltman gave good arguments for taking the original, non-regularized Feynman diagrams as the most succinct representation of our present knowledge about the physics of quantum scattering of fundamental particles.

In their cross-cultural study of signs and symbols, Patterns that Connect, Carl Schuster and Edmund Carpenter present various forms of the labyrinth and suggest various possible meanings, including not only a sacred path to the home of a sacred ancestor, but also, perhaps, a representation of the ancestor him / herself: "... many World Indians who make the labyrinth regard it as a sacred symbol, a beneficial ancestor, a deity.

Lacking a real cooperative bigfoot, Patterson and Gimlin would have needed a costume to present a reasonable representation of the creature supposedly encountered.

However, the chart should not be regarded as an accurate representation of the relative prevalence of each mode in the present day, as it is not based on large-scale, formal surveys.

Non-Sabbatarians focus on Sabbath's typological meaning, i. e., its representation of present or future spiritual rest in Christ.

* A QFL chart is a representation of the framework grains and matrix that is present in a sandstone.

With complex reaction systems, it is often useful to consider both the representation of a reaction system in terms of the amounts of the chemicals present

In simple terms, the signal is split into a number of frequency bands ( the larger this number, the more accurate the analysis ) and the level of signal present at each frequency band gives the instantaneous representation of the spectral energy content.

* A preview mode, in which the application attempts to present a representation that is as close to the final result as possible.

As the translator himself notes in his preface to the three volumes, " o attempt has been made to superimpose on the translation changes that would be needed to ' rectify ' ... accretions, ... repetitions, non sequiturs and confusions that mark the present text ," and the work is a " representation of what is primarily oral literature, appealing to the ear rather than the eye.

Surface Structure is not present in Minimalist theories of syntax, and the most recent phase-based theories also eliminate LF and PF as unitary levels of representation.

The theme of forbidden love is also present in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( albeit a less tragic and dark representation ) in that a girl, Hermia, is not able to marry the man she loves, Lysander, because her father Egeus despises him and wishes for her to marry Demetrius, and meanwhile Hermia and Lysander's confidant, Helena, is in love with Demetrius.

In his book, he discusses a community frozen in time as an ideal representation of past, present and future America.

Their existence and nature present special philosophical challenges: How do mathematical objects differ from their concrete representation?

Rote memorization can present an illusion of understanding, however when other questions are presented with modified attributes within the query, the individual cannot create a solution due to a lack of a deeper representation of reality.

While the nationalistic representation of Hindu values may seem unusual in that the " Mother India " figure was portrayed by a Muslim actress and directed by a Muslim director, people such as Salman Rushdie stated that Bombay cinema is " highly syncretic ", and its " hyphenated Hindu-Muslim nature is present in not only its discourses and production practices but indeed its very ideology ".

Note that in secular architecture, human and animal representation was indeed present.

Short-distance divergences in condensed matter physics do not present a philosophical problem, since the field theory is only an effective, smoothed-out representation of the behavior of matter anyway ; there are no infinities since the cutoff is actually always finite, and it makes perfect sense that the bare quantities are cutoff-dependent.

Later this representation was expanded, with the mandala quartered and the quarters representing actively making sound, imagining sound, listening to present sound, and remembering past sound.

Under common law, false pretense is defined as a representation of a present or past fact, which the thief knows to be false, and which he intends will and does cause the victim to pass title of his property.

* The gazebo represented at the Barrancas de Belgrano, from which the Mano commands his forces, is a true representation of the real one present at the place, which is used for small musical events.

The objective of this process is to present to the observer a planar representation of the object's characteristics, most notably the illustrations or artwork extant on the outside surfaces of such vessels.

Genes in biological systems display a continuous range of activity levels and it has been argued that using a continuous representation captures several properties of gene regulatory networks not present in the Boolean model.