The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

" J. Patton of The Bent Cover praised Jeter for " try to emulate Philip K. Dick ", adding, " This book also has all the grittiness and dark edges that the movie showed off so well, along with a very fast pace that will keep you reading into the wee hours of the night.

" Historians and Cold War Origins: The New Consensus ", in Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review ( 1981 ), 207-236.

The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y: The letter Y stands for the consonant in " yoke ", the vowel in " myth " and the vowel in " funny ", and " yummy " for both consonant and vowel, for examples ; W almost always represents a consonant except in rare words ( mostly loanwords from Welsh ) like " crwth " " cwm ".

* S. K. Lamoreaux, " Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0. 6 to 6 µm Range ", Phys.

The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.

* Libet, Benjamin, E. W. Wright, B. Feinstein, and D. K. Pearl, " Subjective Referral of the Timing for a Conscious Sensory Experience ", Brain, 194, pp. 191 – 221.

*< cite id = refGuin1988 > B Guinot and P K Seidelmann ( 1988 ), " Time scales – Their history, definition and interpretation ", Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol.

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" The news reached readers of The New York Times the next day ; Victor K. McElheny, in researching his biography, " Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution ", found a clipping of a six-paragraph New York Times article written from London and dated 16 May 1953 with the headline " Form of ` Life Unit ' in Cell Is Scanned.

* " Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants ", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics ( 1908 ).

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

* Anderson, K., " IT Security Professionals Must Evolve for Changing Market ", SC Magazine, October 12, 2006.

Among his top ten R & B hits during this latter period included " Funky President ( People It's Bad )" and " Get Up Offa That Thing ", the latter song released in 1976 and aimed at musical rivals such as Barry White, The Ohio Players and K. C.

During his presidency James K. Polk was known as " Young Hickory ", an allusion to his mentor Andrew Jackson, and " Napoleon of the Stump " for his speaking skills.

* K. B. McFarlane, The origins of religious dissent in England ( New York, Collier Books, 1966 ) ( Originally published under the title " John Wycliffe and the beginnings of English nonconformity ", 1952 ).

The K was originally suggested to stand for " Kool ", but it was quickly decided that the K should stand for nothing in particular.

Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.

Even in the New Testament itself, Sigve K Tonstad argues, the War in Heaven theme of, in which the dragon " who is called the devil and Satan … was thrown down to the earth ", derives from the passage in Isaiah 14.

One of the men produces a double-edged butcher knife, and as the two men pass it back and forth between them, the narrator tells us that " K. knew then precisely, that it would have been his duty to take the knife ... and thrust it into himself.

In G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, the narrator states that the wealthy Dr. Renard's rooms " were like the Musée de Cluny.

Hence, the significance that the first few chapters of the handwritten manuscript were written in first person and at some point later changed by Kafka to a third person narrator, ' K.

The narrator, K., arrives in a village governed by a mysterious bureaucracy that resides in a nearby castle.

The novel's protagonist, Sumire, is an aspiring writer who survives on a family stipend and the creative input of her only friend, the novel's male narrator, ' K '.

While Sumire is an emotional and spontaneous individual who often appears to be a misfit in society, " K ", the narrator, is a person who has through sheer force of will moulded himself into another person, one who integrates seamlessly into the wider society and culture around him, and the transition leaves him emotionally stunted and unable to express his feelings.

The class of the congruence is Af, since an arbitrary plane meets **zg in K points.

Since the complex of singular lines is of order K and since there is no complex of invariant lines, it follows from the formula Af that the order of the involution is Af.

Since C is rational, this correspondence has K coincidences, each of which implies a line of the pencil which meets its image.

The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

The equilibrium constant K is an expression of the equilibrium concentrations of the molecules or the ions in solution.

The acid dissociation constant K < sub > a </ sub > is generally used in the context of acid-base reactions.

The numerical value of K < sub > a </ sub > is equal to the concentration of the products divided by the concentration of the reactants, where the reactant is the acid ( HA ) and the products are the conjugate base and H < sup >+</ sup >.

Because the range of possible values for K < sub > a </ sub > spans many orders of magnitude, a more manageable constant, pK < sub > a </ sub > is more frequently used, where pK < sub > a </ sub >

Its triple point temperature of 83. 8058 K is a defining fixed point in the International Temperature Scale of 1990.

If K is a number field, its ring of integers is the subring of algebraic integers in K, and is frequently denoted as O < sub > K </ sub >.

In the case of a Galois extension L / K the subgroup of all automorphisms of L fixing K pointwise is called the Galois group of the extension.

Paul Thompson is the W. K.

For the specific heats at least, the limiting value itself is definitely zero, as borne out by experiments to below 10 K. Even the less detailed Einstein model shows this curious drop in specific heats.