It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device, the Difference Engine, was a special-purpose calculator designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions by evaluating finite differences to create approximating polynomials.

In 1991, the London Science Museum built a complete and working specimen of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, a design that incorporated refinements Babbage discovered during the development of the Analytical Engine.

* The cyberpunk novelists William Gibson and Bruce Sterling co-authored a steampunk novel of alternative history titled The Difference Engine in which Babbage's Difference and Analytical Engines became available to Victorian society.

Babbage went on to design his much more general analytical engine, but later produced an improved " Difference Engine No. 2 " design, between 1847 and 1849.

During the 1980s, Allan Bromley, an associate professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, studied Babbage's original drawings for the Difference and Analytical Engines at the Science Museum library in London.

In addition to funding the construction of the output mechanism for the Science Museum's Difference Engine No. 2, Nathan Myhrvold commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine No. 2, which is currently on exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

The Critical Difference.

In Difference and Repetition ( 1968 ), Deleuze refers to what he calls " Ideas " as " erewhons.

Karl Marx's doctoral thesis was on " The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature.

* The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature-Karl Marx ’ s doctoral thesis.

Janet Bergstrom ’ s article “ Enunciation and Sexual Difference ” ( 1979 ) uses Sigmund Freud ’ s ideas of bisexual responses, arguing that women are capable of identifying with male characters and men with women characters, either successively or simultaneously.

A reconstruction of the Difference Engine II, an earlier, more limited design, has been operational since 1991 at the London Science Museum.

He was deeply engaged in writing his doctoral thesis, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, which he finished in 1841.

Difference in circumference is more than 4 but less than 6 cm.

" Since non-dualism does not recognize a dualism between Oneness and Difference, or even between dualism and non-dualism, it is difficult to state the meaning of this doctrine.

Shih-t ' ou Hsi-ch ' ien's poem " The Harmony of Difference and Sameness " Sandokai is an important early expression of Zen Buddhism and is chanted in Sōtō temples to this day.

“ Self, Identity and Difference: Mead and the Poststructuralists .” Sociological Quarterly 38. 4: 687-705.

There are approximately 113 student run clubs, including: Sports Shooting, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers ( SASE ), Merced Pre-Law Society, Business Society, National Society of Black Engineers ( NSBE ), American Women Making A Difference, Black Student Union ( BSU ), Society of Women Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Math Society, Amnesty International, American Medical Student Association, Chinese Student Association, Circle K International, Hermanas Unidas de UCM, Korean American Coalition, Hmong Student Association ( HSA ), Nikkei Student Union ( NSU ), Dance Coalition, Distinguished Ladies, Student Transfer Outreach and Mentor Program, Democrats at UC Merced, Bobcat Band, HHM ( Hip Hop Movement ), Society of Freethinkers, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Martial Arts Club, Muslim Student Association, NORML, Persian Student Association of UC Merced ( PSAUCM ), Pilipino American Alliance ( PAA ), Republicans at UC Merced, South Asian Student Association, Taekwondo ( TKD ), The Other Child, Rotaract, rock climbing, and bakery clubs.

The VIGOR study was followed by the Assessment of Difference between Vioxx and Naproxen to Ascertain Gastrointestinal Tolerability and Effectiveness ( ADVANTAGE ) study, which showed that 9. 1 % of people taking Vioxx received a gastro-protective medicine compared with 11. 2 % of people taking naproxen, a reduction of 19 %.

" Deep Scales and Difference Sets in Equal-Tempered Systems ", American Society of University Composers: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference: 113-22 and " Some Combinational Resources of Equal-Tempered Systems ", Journal of Music Theory 11: 32-59.

* Sato, Gayle K. “( Self ) Indulgent Listening: Reading Cultural Difference in Yokohama, California .” Japanese Journal of American Studies, 2000 ; 11: 129-46.

Now in its 29th year, the Senior Service Project was featured in " Making A Difference " as part of the NBC National News hosted by Brian Williams on March 11, 2010.

* " AC / DC: What's the Difference?

On September 4, 2010, Mr. Children released their second documentary / concert movie Mr. Children / Split the Difference ( since first " Es " ~ Mr. Children in Film ~) and released DVD + CD includes the movie and selected songs by the band on November 10, 2010.

* profile / interview of Smit by Fran Monks ; How to Make a Difference

Arden introduce Visible Difference Refining Moisture Cream Complex / RMCC in short, which claims to promote smoother, more refined skin in 21days.

* LBJ-070 Cursive-The Difference Between Houses and Homes CD / LP

In November 2010, a portion of a video by the late artist David Wojnarowicz, which was included in an exhibit focused on gay-themed art, " Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture "

In November 2010, after consultation with Gallery director Martin Sullivan and co-curator David C. Ward but not with co-curator Jonathan David Katz, G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, removed an edited version of footage used in Wojnarowicz's short silent film A Fire in My Belly ( available online ) from the exhibit " Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture " at the National Portrait Gallery after complaints from the Catholic League, Minority Leader John Boehner, Rep. Eric Cantor and the possibility of reduced federal funding for the Smithsonian.

Just before their third album release In Our Gun Hut records was forced to downsize and on the following record, Split the Difference, Hut records was disbanded by Virgin / EMI records.

Final Cut also has more than a dozen common compositing modes that can be applied to clips, such as Add, Subtract, Difference, Screen, Multiply, Overlay, and Travel Matte Luma / Alpha.

Difference of 1-2 %: headache, infection, chest pain, trauma, vasodilation, increased blood pressure / hypertension, tachycardia, postural hypotension, rash, itching, diarrhea, upset stomach or indigestion ( dyspepsia ), flatulence, weight loss, abnormal dreams, hypertonia, paresthesia, decreased libido, agitation, confusion, abnormal thinking, depersonalization, depression, urinary retention, twitching, taste perversion, tinnitus ( ringing in the ears ), mydriasis, hair loss.

* 2011 / 12: How You Speak Makes A Difference

* Difference equations / Maps – discrete time, continuous state space.

* 2008 / 9 theme: " Realise your Visions and Make a Difference "

* Stephen Goranson, " Celsus of Pergamum: Locating a Critic of Early Christianity ," in D. R. Edwards and C. T. McCollough ( eds ), The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the " Other " in Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Eric M. Meyers ( Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2007 ) ( Information Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 60 / 61 ).

• Patsy Keever: Stepping Up and Making A Difference: http :// www. wnc-woman. com / 0304keever. html

* The American Song Poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood and Brush ?, Various artists ( Bar / None )

* Article highlighting Udal / Feudal Difference

In 2009, Smith won a Soroptimist Making a Difference for Women Award, which honors women who have worked to improve the lives of women and girls through their professional and / or volunteer work.

* Most Similar Systems Design / Mill's Method of Difference: it consists in comparing very similar cases which only differ in the dependent variable, on the assumption that this would make it easier to find those independent variables which explain the presence / absence of the dependent variable.

In June 2000, she was awarded the PEN Oakland / Josephine Miles Literary Award for excellence in multi-cultural literature, non-fiction, for Splitting the Difference ; and in October 2002, the Rose Mary Crawshay prize from the British Academy, for the best book about English literature written by a woman, for The Bedtrick.

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