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Linguistics: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Linguistics

 

Linguistics

 

Linguistics (100)

 

·         Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context.

 

·         Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds and nonspeech sounds, and how they are produced and perceived.

 

·         Language in its broader context includes evolutionary linguistics, which considers the origins of language; historical linguistics, which explores language change; sociolinguistics, which looks at the relation between linguistic variation and social structures; psycholinguistics, which explores the representation and function of language in the mind; neurolinguistics, which looks at language processing in the brain; language acquisition, how children or adults acquire language; and discourse analysis, which involves the structure of texts and conversations.

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Vampire: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Vampire

 

Vampire

 

Vampire (100)

 

·         Although vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures, and may go back to "prehistoric times", the term vampire was not popularized until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, although local variants were also known by different names, such as vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania.

 

·         This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.

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CLOUD COMPUTING: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Cloud computing

 

Cloud computing

 

Cloud computing (100)

 

·         Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

 

·         The concept of cloud computing fills a perpetual need of IT: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software.

 

·         Cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services.

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Harry Potter: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Harry Potter

 

Harry Potter

 

Harry Potter (100)

 

·         Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling.

 

·         The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

 

·         The main story arc concerns Harry's quest to overcome the evil dark wizard Lord Voldemort, whose aim is to subjugate non-magical people, conquer the wizarding world, and destroy all those who stand in his way, especially Harry Potter. (more…)

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Homer Simpson: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Monday, July 25th, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Homer Simpson

 

Homer Simpson

 

Homer Simpson (100)

 

·         Homer Simpson is the bumbling husband of Marge and father of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

 

·         Homer Simpson is an "everyman" and embodies several American stereotypes of working class blue-collar men: he is crude, overweight, incompetent, clumsy and a borderline alcoholic.

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Calibration: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Calibration

 

Calibration

 

Calibration (100)

 

·         Calibration is a comparison between measurements – one of known magnitude or correctness made or set with one device and another measurement made in as similar a way as possible with a second device.

 

·         The term "calibration" probably was first associated with the precise division of linear distance and angles using a dividing engine and the measurement of gravitational mass using a weighing scale.

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Planning: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Planning

 

Planning

 

Planning (100)

 

·         Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale.

 

·         Beyond this, planning has a different meaning depending on the political or economic context in which it is used.

 

·         Two attitudes to planning need to be held in tension: on the one hand we need to be prepared for what may lie ahead, which may mean contingencies and flexible processes.

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Thesaurus: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Monday, July 18th, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Thesaurus

 

Thesaurus

 

Thesaurus (100)

 

·         A thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations.

 

·         The largest thesaurus in the world is the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which contains more than 920,000 words.

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Dictionary: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Friday, July 15th, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Dictionary

 

Dictionary

 

Dictionary (100)

 

·         A dictionary, also called a lexicon, wordbook, or vocabulary, is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon.

 

·         The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written by English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604.

 

·         Johnson's Dictionary remained the English-language standard for over 150 years, until the Oxford University Press began writing and releasing the Oxford English Dictionary in short fascicles from 1884 onwards.

 

·         In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language; it took twenty-seven years to complete.

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Dollar: Wikipedia summary by WikiSummarizer

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

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Wikipedia article:  Dollar

 

Dollar

 

Dollar (100)

 

·         The dollar (often represented by the dollar sign $) is the name of the official currency of many countries, including Australia, Belize, Brunei, Canada, East Timor, the Eastern Caribbean territories, Ecuador, El Salvador, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Panama, Singapore, Suriname, Taiwan, and the United States.

 

·         The word dollar had been in use in the English language as a variant for thaler for about 200 years before the founding of the United States, with many quotes in the plays of Shakespeare referring to dollars as money.

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