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In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.
In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl.; Former president of Namibia Sam Nujoma (pictured) dies at the age of 95.; A series of boycotts against retail stores expands to several countries in Southeast Europe.
The Boussinesq approximation is applied to problems where the fluid varies in temperature (or composition) from one place to another, driving a flow of fluid and heat transfer (or mass transfer [1]).
The approximation of a normal distribution with a Monte Carlo method. Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results.
Date Event 4.3-4.1 Ga The earliest life appears, possibly as protocells.Their genetic material was probably composed of RNA, capable of both self replication and enzymatic activity; their membranes were composed of lipids.
Viscosity is a measure of a fluid's rate-dependent resistance to a change in shape or to movement of its neighboring portions relative to one another. [1] For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of thickness; for example, syrup has a higher viscosity than water. [2]
In the early 1990s the acronym STEM was used by a variety of educators. Charles E. Vela was the founder and director of the Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science and Engineering Education (CAHSEE) [6] [7] [8] and started a summer program for talented under-represented students in the Washington, D.C. area called the STEM Institute.
Overall equipment effectiveness [1] (OEE) is a measure of how well a manufacturing operation is utilized (facilities, time and material) compared to its full potential, during the periods when it is scheduled to run.