Often, the term " critical theory " is appropriated when an author ( perhaps most notably Michel Foucault ) works within sociological terms yet attacks the social or human sciences ( thus attempting to remain " outside " those frames of enquiry ).

Planning and feedback loops in Extreme programming ( XP ) with the time frames of the multiple loops. In critical studies of project management it has been noted that several PERT based models are not well suited for the multi-project company environment of today.

The educator assists adult learners in becoming more critical in assessing assumptions, better at recognizing frames of references and alternate perspectives, as well as effective at collaborating with others to assess and arrive at judgements in regards to beliefs.

Currently, systems of systems is a critical research discipline for which frames of reference, thought processes, quantitative analysis, tools, and design methods are incomplete.

* Frame reflection-the title of a 1994 book co-authored with MIT colleague Martin Rein, prescribed critical shared reconstruction of " frames " of social problems which are otherwise taken for granted and advocated system-level learning to find solutions for " intractable policy controversies.

Services ( lights, machines, air conditioning ) are reduced according to a preplanned load prioritization scheme during the critical time frames.

It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.

Placement of these holes is not critical, but they should be located so that the centers are about 1/8'' '' from any edge.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

The commercial propagandist, who can't afford to be critical, gets along well with the amateur, from whom he feeds, but he frequently steps on the analyst's toes by refusing to keep his material genuine.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

Dramatic declines in amphibian populations, including population crashes and mass localized extinction, have been noted in the past two decades from locations all over the world, and amphibian declines are thus perceived as one of the most critical threats to global biodiversity.

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( The only critical edition of Ibn Sina's autobiography, supplemented with material from a biography by his student Abu ' Ubayd al-Juzjani.

As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

When a tank destroyer was used against enemy tanks from a defensive position, eg by ambush, a rotating turret was not particularly critical and where a low silhouette was paramount not desirable.

A critical energy release rate can be derived from the crack length during testing.

Dürer has never fallen from critical favour, and there have been revivals of interest in his works Germany in the Dürer Renaissance of about 1570 to 1630, in the early nineteenth century, and in German nationalism from 1870 to 1945.

Analytical chemistry plays an increasingly important role in the pharmaceutical industry where, aside from QA, it is used in discovery of new drug candidates and in clinical applications where understanding the interactions between the drug and the patient are critical.

A critical analysis of the narrative seems to reveal little else than a series of aetiological traditions ( explanatory of cults and customs, e. g. of the kneeling posture of the images of Damia and Auxesia, of the use of native ware instead of Athenian in their worship, and of the change in women's dress at Athens from the Dorian to the Ionian style.

The Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC, which was dependent on grain imports from Scythia, maintained critical alliances with cities which controlled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium.

This doctrine says that insight must come from the aspirant's experience, critical investigation, and reasoning instead of by blind faith.

The King, senior Anglican bishops, MPs from the Liberal and Labour parties, Oswald Mosley, Jan Smuts, the Trades Union Congress and parts of the press were increasingly critical of the actions of the Black and Tans.

In physics, for an ensemble of particles, the bistability comes from the fact that its free energy has three critical points.

The Roy Harper song " All Ireland " from the album Lifemask, written in the days following the incident, is critical of the military but takes a long term view with regard to a solution.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

Attributed to Immanuel Kant, the critical philosophy movement sees the primary task of philosophy as criticism rather than justification of knowledge ; criticism, for Kant, meant judging as to the possibilities of knowledge before advancing to knowledge itself ( from the Greek kritike ( techne ), or " art of judgment ").

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

For both Confederate soldiers and civilians in Arkansas, the battle provided a huge psychological lift at a critical time.

Starr had supported Clinton during his early years as Governor of Arkansas but became very critical after Starr claimed that Clinton had lied to him about a story.

Baker returned to Arkansas, but word of his crimes had spread, and a local woman named Beth Warthom was openly critical of him.

Dance Dance Revolution has been given much critical acclaim for its originality and stamina in the video game market.

The critical wrath against At Long Last Love in particular was so strong that it was never released on home video.

Film studies is often considered a separate discipline, though television and video games studies grew out of it, as made evident by the application of basic critical theories such as psychoanalysis, feminism and Marxism.

It was such a commercial debacle and critical failure that Mad successfully arranged for all references to the magazine ( including a cameo by Alfred E. Neuman ) to be removed from future TV and video releases of the film, although those references were eventually restored on the DVD version.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

This makes ray tracing best suited for applications where the image can be rendered slowly ahead of time, such as in still images and film and television visual effects, and more poorly suited for real-time applications like video games where speed is critical.

Breezy was not a major critical or commercial success and it was only made available on video in 1998.

The film's critical and popular success led to three additional films, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( 1984 ), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 ), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ), a television series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( 1992 – 1996 ), and 15 video games as of 2009.

For more information about this critical facet of video codec design, see B-frames.

Vehicle-sensing systems include deployment of infrastructure-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure electronic beacons for identification communications and may also employ video automatic number plate recognition or vehicle magnetic signature detection technologies at desired intervals to increase sustained monitoring of vehicles operating in critical zones.

Besides critical success in the movie industry, Witherspoon and her co-star in Walk the Line, Joaquin Phoenix, received a nomination for " collaborative video of the year " from the CMT Music Awards.

Despite a poor theatrical and critical consensus, Showgirls enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals and became one of MGM's top 20 all-time bestsellers.

" Because of strong video sales, the studio continued to make these films in spite of negative critical reaction ; 2001's Cinderella II: Dreams Come True received a rare zero-percent rating from the review-aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes.

Released to critical and commercial success A Link to the Past was a landmark title for Nintendo and is widely considered today to be one of the greatest video games of all time.

These game engines are sometimes called " middleware " because, as with the business sense of the term, they provide a flexible and reusable software platform which provides all the core functionality needed, right out of the box, to develop a game application while reducing costs, complexities, and time-to-market — all critical factors in the highly competitive video game industry.

Since UPnP AV is mostly to deliver streaming media that is often near real-time or real-time audio / video data which it is critical to be delivered within a specific time or the stream is interrupted.

Sick of It All's third and major label debut album, Scratch the Surface, was released in 1994 to critical acclaim, especially the singles " Scratch the Surface " and " Step Down " ( the video for the latter single would also be featured in the 1995 Beavis and Butt-head episode " Premature Evacuation ").

One of the videos UMG took off is a Michelle Malkin video critical of singer Akon.

The video is critical of health care reform.

is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work.

To overcome the limitations many software vendors have begun to consider hybrid solutions where TETRA is used for critical signaling while large data synchronization and transfer of images and video is done over 3G / LTE.

Since then, that episode was released on video to teach critical thinking.