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The term "persistent" was first introduced by Atkinson and Morrison [1] in the sense of orthogonal persistence: they used an adjective rather than a verb to emphasize persistence as a property of the data, as distinct from an imperative action performed by a program. The use of the transitive verb "persist" (describing an action performed by a ...
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
Multidrug tolerance, a dormant, persistent state of a bacterial population; Persistence (botany), describing plant parts that remain attached to the plant after completing their function; Persistence (discontinuity), a concept in geotechnical engineering; Persistence (linguistics), a principle of grammaticalization
Mar. 31—A Fentress County man pled guilty to an information charging theft, and dozens of other defendants made Cumberland County Criminal Court appearances on the deadline and arraignment dockets.
These findings have, therefore, been applied to the clinical field, providing a foundation for the development of psychiatric techniques designed to increase persistent tendencies such as motivation, perseverance and discipline, which some individuals may have difficulty with. Researchers investigated two types of action for improving persistence:
Persistent may refer to: Persistent data; Persistent data structure; Persistent identifier; Persistent memory; Persistent organic pollutant; Persistent Systems, a ...
Be persistent. It can’t hurt, and it just might save a life.” Allison Holker has written a book about the loss of her husband, Stephen "tWitch" Boss, titled "This Far."
Impressions of several natural phenomena and the principles of some optical toys have been attributed to persistence of vision. In 1768, Patrick D'Arcy recognised the effect in "the luminous ring that we see by turning a torch quickly, the fire wheels in the fireworks, the flattened spindle shape we see in a vibrating cord, the continuous circle we see in a cogwheel that turns with speed". [8]