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Given a set of choices and a way of valuing them, the Pareto front (or Pareto set or Pareto frontier) is the set of choices that are Pareto-efficient. By restricting attention to the set of choices that are Pareto-efficient, a designer can make trade-offs within this set, rather than considering the full range of every parameter.
The Last Frontier (used on license plates) [7] [8] Seward's Folly (named after U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward ) [ 7 ] Seward's Ice Box, Icebergia, Polaria, Walrussia, and Johnson 's Polar Bear Garden were satirical names coined by members of the U.S. Congress during debate over the Alaska Purchase [ 7 ]
Frontier, an outliner and scripting software environment; Boundary (topology), also called a "frontier", the set of points which can be approached both from S and from outside of S in topology; Frontier Series of Canadian banknotes issued from 2011 onwards; Frontier Thesis, a theory about the meaning of the American frontier
The frontier army was a conventional military force trying to control, by conventional military methods, a people that did not behave like conventional enemies and, indeed, quite often were not enemies at all. This is the most difficult of all military assignments, whether in Africa, Asia, or the American West. [235]
The Other Side of the Frontier has also received strong criticism about the historical alternative it offers. In particular Keith Windschuttle, the other main historian at the centre of the History Wars, disagrees that there ever was an Aboriginal frontier war, arguing that Reynolds had fabricated the evidences that he uses in his book.
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
The armies were to concentrate opposite the German frontier around Épinal, Nancy and Verdun–Mezières, with an army in reserve around Ste Menehould and Commercy. Since 1871, railway building had given the French General Staff sixteen lines to the German frontier against thirteen available to the German army; the French could wait until ...
Australian bushman with his dog and horse, c. 1910. The term "frontier" was frequently used in colonial Australia in the meaning of country that borders the unknown or uncivilised, the boundary, border country, the borders of civilisation, or as the land that forms the furthest extent of what was frequently termed "the inside" or "settled" districts. [1]