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Existential theatre Existential theatre refers to plays by existentialist writers or plays having existential themes. Perhaps the most famous of these plays is Huis Clos (No Exit) by the French writer and philosopher Jean Paul Sartre.
Existential therapy Existential psychotherapy is partly based on the existential belief that human beings are alone in the world. This aloneness leads to feelings of meaninglessness which can be overcome only by creating one’s own values and meanings.
Existentialism Existentialism is a philosophical movement that deals with human freedom. Existentialism itself is a revolt against traditional philosophy; it has been labeled a philosophy but a definition is difficult as its proponents have a marked difference in outlook (Schaeffer, 1968).
Existentiell In English translations, the word rendered "existentiell" was, with the philosophical meaning discussed in this article, first used by Martin Heidegger. Though it is not commonly used in philosophy outside of discussions of Heidegger's seminal work Being and Time, it is important to understand Heidegger's definition of the term if one wishes to study Being and Time.
Exit (song) "Exit" is the tenth track from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. Inspired by Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song, "Exit" is a somber song about a psychotic murderer obsessed about something he called the "hands of love".
Exit 13 'Exit 13 is the sequel to the 2006 album Todd Smith by LL Cool J and will be the final album on LL Cool J's record deal with Def Jam Records, a deal that has lasted for more than twenty years.This album will also be the first LL Cool J album since G.
Exit consent Bonds issued by sovereign nations are often perceived as safe investments. But over time, countries in difficulty economic situations have needed to restructure its debt structure, or see its national economy collapse.
Exit counseling Exit counseling, also termed strategic intervention therapy, cult intervention or thought reform consultation is an intervention designed to persuade an individual to leave a cult. It is distinguished from deprogramming by the fact that it's a voluntary procedure, that the follower is treated with respect, can leave any time, and that the decision to stay with the group or leave it is wholly up to the follower and will be accepted as it is by the exit counselor.
Exit list of Interstate 96 in Michigan Interstate 96 in Michigan uses a mile-based exit system for its entire length; each exit number corresponds to the next highest milepost number. The mile numbers increase as the highways progresses from west to east, and exits below are listed in that order.
Exit Lights Exit Lights is a remix album by modern rock band Falling Up; it was released on September 12, 2006. The album is comprised of remixes of the band's best known songs from Crashings and Dawn Escapes, and a previously unreleased song, "Islander.
Exit Music (For a Film) "Exit Music (For a Film)" is a song by Radiohead, written specifically for the ending credits of the 1996 film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Although included in neither of the two soundtrack albums at the request of Thom Yorke, the song appears on the band's highly acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997).
Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads is a tribute album to British band Radiohead released in 2006 on Rapster Records and Barely Breaking Even Records. The album features reworked songs from Mark Ronson, Alex Greenwald of Phantom Planet, Sia, Matthew Herbert, Sa-Ra, The Cinematic Orchestra, RJD2 and many others.
Exit poll An exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. Unlike an opinion poll, which asks who the voter plans to vote for or some similar formulation, an exit poll asks who the voter actually voted for.
Exit Records Exit Records was an independent record label founded in 1982 by Mary Neely, a veteran of the music business and longtime host for several national rock and roll radio shows, including Rockscope. The label folded in 1987.
Exit Wounds Exit Wounds is a 2001 action movie based on the book, Exit Wounds, written by John Westermann. The movie was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, and stars Steven Seagal as an urban detective notorious for pushing the limits of the law in his quest for justice.
Exit-criteria Exit criteria are the criteria or requirements which must be met to complete a specific process. For example for Fagan Inspection the low-level document must comply with specific exit-criteria (as specified in the high-level document) before the development process can be taken to the next phase.
Exley Edward Exley Limited is a manufacturer of model railway equipment, particularly ready-to-run coaches in 0 gauge and 00 Gauge and a one-time major competitor to Hornby and Bassett-Lowke. The company was founded in about 1922 by its namesake in Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Exmagma Exmagma are a three-piece German experimental jazz-rock and krautrock band who released two albums in the early 1970s. They were formed in Stuutgart, Germany, by Andy Goldner (guitars, bass, sax, vocals), Thomas Balluff (keyboards, trumpet, flute, vocals), and jazz drummer Fred Braceful, formerly of Et Cetera.
Exminster Exminster is a village situated on the southern edge of the City of Exeter on the western side of the Exeter ship canal and River Exe in the county of Devon (Great Britain). It is around 5 km (3 miles) south of the centre of Exeter, and has a population of 3,084 (census 2001).
Exmoor Forest Exmoor Forest, a high moorland in Somerset and Devon, England. The uplands of this district are bounded by the low alluvial plain of Sedgemoor on the east, by the lower basin of the Exe on the south, by the basin of the Taw (in part) on the west, and by the Bristol Channel on the north.
Exmoor: Project Genesis Exmoor: Project Genesis is the sequel to the R J Bavister novel Bodmin Moor. Like its prequel, it does centre around the lore of an alien big cat (this time the Beast of Exmoor), however, whereas the prequel had a big slasher theme around it the sequel is actually more conspiracy based, although there are a few slasher elements involved.
Exmouth Junction Exmouth Junction is the point at which the Exmouth line diverges from the main West of England Main Line between London Waterloo and Exeter. It was also the location for one of the largest Engine Sheds in the former London and South Western Railway.
ExMx In video games, "ExMx" (alternatively, "ExLx") is a common format for naming levels and the corresponding file names. The "E" and "M" mean "Episode" and "Mission" or "Map" respectively.
Exner Revival Cars Exner Revival Cars were created by noted automobile designer, Virgil Exner, produced a series of "Revival Car" concepts for a December, 1963 issue of Esquire magazine. His designs included an updated model for four famous American marques: Stutz, Duesenberg, Packard, and Mercer.
Exo Art Exo Art is a conception of Artistics Discipline that pretend to be focus on non-hearth (out of this world) beings. This implied & include any human that live on Space Stations or people living on outspace colonies.
Exocrine pancreas The exocrine pancreas has ducts which are arranged in clusters called acini (singular acinus). Pancreatic secretions are secreted into the lumen of the acinus, and then accumulate in intralobular ducts that drain to the main pancreatic duct, which drains directly into the duodenum.
Exocytosis Exocytosis (ek-soh-sy-TOH-sis) is the process by which a cell releases large biomolecules through its membrane. While in protozoa (monocellular organisms) exocytosis may serve the function of eliminating waste products, in multicellular organisms exocytosis also has a role in signalling and regulatory functions.
Exodus (instant messaging client) Exodus is a free software instant messaging client developed by Peter Millard and written in Borland Delphi that can connect to Jabber servers and exchange messages with other Jabber users. Currently, binaries are only available for Microsoft Windows.
Exodus (novel) Exodus is a novel written in 1958 by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the state of Israel, based on the name of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus. In 1956 Uris covered the Arab-Israeli fighting as a war correspondent.
Exodus (New Power Generation album) Exodus is a 1995 album by the New Power Generation. While their previous album, Goldnigga was more hip-hop oriented, Exodus is more of a pure funk offering, strongly influenced by the sound of Parliament and P-Funk.
Exodus (ship) Exodus 1947 was a ship carrying Jewish emigrants, that left France on July 11, 1947 with the intent of taking its passengers to Palestine, then controlled by the British. Most of the emigrants were Holocaust survivor refugees, who had no legal immigration certificates to Palestine.
Exodus Collective The Exodus Collective are largely recognised as one of the UK's leading examples of a `DIY' community (see DIY culture), providing practical and challenging `downside-up' solutions to social exclusion. Their free community dance events (see free party), social housing projects and city farm have gained recognition and high praise from all around the world.
Exodus Decoded The Exodus Decoded is a 2006 documentary created by Jewish Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, in which new evidence regarding the alleged escape of Hebrew slaves from Egypt is explored. It is partially narrated by film director James Cameron, and also features input by Charles Pellegrino, author of Unearthing Atlantis.
Exodus from Genesis "Exodus from Genesis" is an episode of Farscape from the first season, written by Ro Hume and directed by Brian Henson. It was the third episode produced, but the second to air in the show's premiere season.
Exodus International Exodus International is an organization of Christian people involved with the ex-gay movement. Exodus ministries offer what they call "reparative therapy", prayer, and other techniques which attempt to change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian people to heterosexuality.
Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms Instrumentals Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms Instrumentals is an instrumental version of Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms by Oh No, an American hip hop rapper and producer signed to Stones Throw Records. This album was produced entirely with samples from Galt MacDermot.
Exodus Mandate Exodus Mandate, based in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, is an evangelical Christian effort promoting a mass withdrawal of students from the public school system and into religious schools or home-schooling. Headed by Ray Moore (no relation to the "Ten Commandments" judge), their motto is "Christian Children need Christian Education.
Exodus Ministries Exodus Ministries is a non-denominational Christian organization which attempts to help those who are released from prison. Their primary focus, as it is described on their official website is "to assist ex-offenders and their families become productive members of society by meeting both their spiritual and physical needs.
Exodusters Exodusters was a name given to African American migrants who fled the American South for Kansas in the North during the years 1879-1880. After the end of Reconstruction racial oppression and rumors of the reinstitution of slavery led many former slaves to seek an alternative place to live.
Exoenzyme An exoenzyme, or extracellular enzyme, is an enzyme that is secreted by a cell and that works outside that cell. It is usually used for breaking up large molecules that would not be able to enter the cell otherwise.
Exofleet In the 1993-1995 sci-fi animated television series Exosquad, Exofleet was the commonly used name for all battle spaceships built by the humans of the Homeworlds, in other words, the Terran space navy. Before the war against the Neosapiens started, Phaeton lured the Exofleet, then consisting of six exocarriers and countless support vessels, away from the Homeworlds to fight the Pirate Clans, but they later became a part of the Exofleet themselves.
Exogenic Records Exogenic Records is an electronic music record label and music publisher based in Helsinki, Finland, nowadays part of the independent label group Exogenic Music Group. Exogenic Records was founded in 1996 by Jacob Ehrnrooth.
Exogenous Exogenous (or exogeneous) (from the Greek words "exo" and "gen", meaning "outside" and "production") refers to an action or object coming from outside a system. It is the opposite of endogenous, something generated from within the system.
Exochochromis Exochochromis is a monotypic genus of cichlid fish. The single species, Exochochromis anagenys, known in some countries as the Threespot torpedo, is endemic to Thumbi West Island and south east Lake Malawi in east Africa.
Exoletus Exoletus is a Latin term, the perfect passive participle of the verb exolescere, which means "to wear out with age." In ancient Rome the word referred to a certain class of homosexual men or male prostitutes, although its precise meaning is unclear to historians.
Exolon Exolon is a run and gun game programmed by Raffaele Cecco and published by Hewson in 1987 for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC 8-bit computers. It was later converted to the 16-bit Amiga and Atari ST platforms.
Exomis The exomis (from exo: "outside", and omos: "shoulder") was a Greek tunic used by workers and light infantry. A piece of drapery was typically held in place by a belt and tied over the left shoulder.
Exon An exon is any region of DNA within a gene that is transcribed to the final messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule, rather than being spliced out from the transcribed RNA molecule. Exons of many eukaryotic genes interleave with segments of non-coding DNA (introns).
Exon trapping Exon trapping is a molecular biology technique to identify potential exons in a fragment of eucaryote DNA of unknown intron-exon structure. This is done to determine if the fragment is part of an expressed gene.
Exoneration Exoneration occurs when a person who has been convicted of a crime is later proved to have been innocent of that crime. Attempts to exonerate convicts are particularly controversial in death penalty cases, especially where new evidence is put forth after the execution has taken place.
Exonumia Exonumia is the study of coin-like objects such as token coins and medals, and other items used in place of legal currency or for commemoration. This includes elongated coins, encased coins, souvenir medallions, tags, badges, counterstamped coins, wooden nickels and other similar items.
Exonym and endonym An exonym is a name for a place that is not used within that place by the local inhabitants, or a name for a people or language, that is not used by the people or language to which it refers. The name used by the people or locals themselves is an endonym or autonym.
Exophora In linguistics, exophora is reference to something extralinguistic, and contrasts with endophora. Exophora can be deictic, in which special words or grammatical markings are used to make reference to something in the context of the utterance or speaker.
Exopterygota The Exopterygota, also known as Hemipterodea, are a superorder of insects of the subclass Pterygota in the infraclass Neoptera, in which the young resemble adults but have externally-developing wings. They undergo a modest change between larva and adult, without going through a pupal stage.
Exorcism Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus, from Greek exorkizein - to adjure) is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities from a person or place of which they have possessed (taken control of). The practice is quite ancient and still part of the belief system of many religions.
Exorcist II: The Heretic Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 American horror film and the sequel to the 1973 film The Exorcist. It was directed by John Boorman who also co-wrote the screenplay with William Goodhart from an original story by Rospo Pallenberg.
Exoskeleton An exoskeleton, in contrast to an endoskeleton, is an external anatomical feature that supports and protects an animal's body. All arthropods (such as insects, spiders and crustaceans) and many other invertebrate animals (such as shelled mollusks) have exoskeletons.
Exosquad (game) Exosquad was a Mega Drive/Genesis video game based on the animated television series under the same title and developed by Appaloosa Interactive (formerly Novotrade International). In the game, the player alternatively assumed roles of three members of the Able Squad: Lt.
Exosquad planets The 1993-1995 sci-fi animated television series Exosquad featured a number of planets most of them being terraformed or alternate versions of real planets of the Solar System, although some were definitively fictional. All infos provided in this article are describing the situation immediately after the end of the war.
Exostar Exostar is a commercial e-business trading exchange for the aerospace and defence industry originally created by BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. In 2001 Rolls-Royce joined as a 'Founding Partner', and in 2002 the Exostar Exchange developed the first interexchange connectivity with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence DECS (Defence Electronic Commerce Service).
Exostosis An exostosis (plural: exostoses) is the formation of new bone on the surface of a bone. Exostosis can cause chronic pain ranging from mild to debilitatingly severe, depending on where they are located and what shape they are.
Exotheology Exotheology is the examination of theological issues as they pertain to extraterrestrial intelligence. It is concerned with either conjectures about possible theological belief structures that extraterrestrials might have, or how our own theologies will have to adapt if faced with evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Exothermic In thermodynamics, the word exothermic describes a process or reaction that releases energy in the form of heat. Its etymology stems from the Greek prefix ex-, meaning “outside” and the Greek word thermein, meaning “to heat”.
Exotic animal veterinarian An exotic animal veterinarian is a veterinarian who has a special interest in the medical treatment of exotic animals. These veterinarians may obtain additional training and certification in areas related to exotic animal medicine.
Exotic atom An exotic atom is the anologue of a normal atom in which one or more of the negatively charged electrons found in an ordinary atom are replaced by other negative particles, such as a muon or a pion, or a positively charged proton found in the nucleus of an ordinary atom is replaced by other positively charged elementary particles, or both. Due to the highly unstable nature of many of these substitute particles, exotic atoms often have an extremely short half life.
Exotic Birds The Exotic Birds was a pop music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 by three Cleveland Institute of Music percussion students, Andy Kubiszewski, Tom Freer and Tim Adams. They wrote their own music and were described as synth pop, techno-pop and techno-dance.
Exotic Erotic Ball The Exotic Erotic Ball is an annual masquerade fetish ball held around Halloween in San Francisco. Through its unique combination of masquerade, burlesque, rock concert, and the bizarre - the Exotic Erotic Ball has regaled hundreds of thousands of participants with non-stop adult entertainment of a seemingly limitless variety - live music, top DJs, erotic performers, exotic dancers, wild sideshows, playful interactive fun, theme rooms, visually dazzling sets and backdrops, fantasy halls, BDSM demos, fetish fashions, and all sorts of sexy shenanigans and hilarious hijinks.
Exotic hadron Exotic hadrons are subatomic particles made of quarks and bound by the strong interaction that are not predicted by the simple quark model. That is, they do not have the same quark content as ordinary hadrons: exotic baryons have more than just the three quarks of ordinary baryons, and exotic mesons do not have one quark and one antiquark like ordinary mesons.
Exotic option In finance, an exotic option is a derivative which has features making it more complex than commonly traded products (vanilla options). These products are usually traded over-the-counter (OTC), or are embedded in structured notes.
Exotic pet An exotic pet is a rare or unusual creature kept as a pet, or a creature kept as a pet which is not commonly thought of as a pet. Exotic pets are sometimes for the express purpose of having a pet which is unique.
Exotic sphere In mathematics, an exotic sphere is a differentiable manifold, M, that is homeomorphic to the ordinary sphere, but not diffeomorphic. That means that M is a sphere from a topological point of view, but not from the point of view of its differential structure.
Exotic star An exotic star is a compact star composed of something other than electrons, protons, and neutrons, balanced against gravitational collapse by degeneracy pressure. These include strange stars (composed of strange matter) and preon stars (composed of preons).
Exotic terrane An exotic terrane is a piece or fragment of continent that has broken off from its parent continent and become accreted to another continent. Thus it is exotic to the continent that it has become a member of, and is not native to that continent and did not become accreted to the continent as a newly formed terrane, but as an existing one from another continent.
Exotic tribes of ancient India The classic Indian epics such as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Puranas refer to many exotic tribes, describing them as superhuman or subhuman. Narrations about these tribes are often mixed with mythology and fiction.
Exotic World Burlesque Museum The Exotic World Burlesque Museum and the Burlesque Hall of Fame is located on the site of an abandoned goat farm in Helendale, California. The museum documents the history of burlesque from its 19th century origins through its golden age in the mid 20th century, and displays artifacts commemorating historic burlesque performers.
Exotica Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the late 1950s to mid 1960s typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism exotica means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Southeast Asia, and especially Hawaii).
Exoticism Exoticism (from 'exotic') is a trend in art and design, influenced by some ethnic groups or civilizations since the late 19th-century. In music exoticism is a genre in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times (e.
Exotique Exotique magazine was published by Leonard Burtman in New York City between 1955 and 1959. Gene Bilbrew, also known by his pseudonym ENEG, was an artist who contributed work to Burtman's publications but was not the publisher.
Exotoxin An exotoxin is a soluble chemical excreted by a microorganism, including bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa. An exotoxin is a protein which can cause damage to the host by destroying cells or disrupting normal cellular metabolism.
Exovedate Exovedate is the named coined by MĂ©tis leader Louis Riel and given by him to his council during the North-West Rebellion in Canada. Ten years prior to this date on December 8, 1875 after attending a mass in Washington, D.
Expand Networks Expand Networks, Inc. is a company dealing in Application Acceleration solutions over the WAN, a fast-growing product category that attempts to solve the problems of latency and bandwidth that plague a wide variety of applications over distributed networks.
Expandable Tubular Technology Two challenges facing the Oil & Gas industry are accessing new reservoirs that currently cannot be reached economically and maintaining profitable production from producing older fields. Expandable tubular technology, considered as one of the most exciting technologies that has emerged out of the in the oilfield over the last 10 years may be crucial to meet these industry challenges.
Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act of 2005 The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act of 2005, also known as the National Health Insurance Act and officially called HR 676, was a bill submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers Jr., D-MI, along with 76 cosponsors, in 2005.
Expanded bed adsorption Expanded bed adsorption (EBA) is a preparative chromatographic technique which makes processing of viscous and particulate liquids possible. Where classical column chromatography uses a solid phase made by a packed bed, EBA uses a fluidized bed.
Expanded Books The Expanded Books Project was an undertaking at The Voyager Company during 1991, that investigated ideas on how a book could be presented on a computer screen in a way that would be both familiar and useful to regular book readers. A lot of time was spent thinking about font choice, font size, line spacing, margin notes, book marks, and so on.
Expanded granular sludge bed digestion An expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor is a variant of the UASB concept UASB and EGSB Field, J. (2002) Anaerobic granular sludge bed technology pages, anaerobic granular sludge bed reactor technology .
Expanded Horizons According to Claudia Goldin, expanded horizons are anticipations of future labor conditions that can be made accurately. These accurate anticipations allow actors in the labor market to better plan for their careers, by increasing the likelihood that they invest in human capital through higher education and choose positions that promote advancement.
Expanded memory Expanded Memory was a trick invented around 1984 that provided more memory to byte-hungry, business-oriented MS-DOS programs. These were typically spreadsheets and databases running on the original IBM PC, and on its successors like the IBM XT and IBM AT.
Expanded roster The expanded roster in Major League Baseball refers to teams being able to increase the number of available players for each game from 25 players to 40 players on September 1. Although few teams rarely fill this extra roster room to its capacity, teams usually add a few select September call-ups -- minor league players added to the Major League roster after August 31.
Expander graph In combinatorics, an expander graph is a sparse graph which has high connectivity properties, quantified using vertex or edge expansion as described below. Expander constructions have spawned research in pure and applied mathematics, with several applications to computer science, and in particular to theoretical computer science, design of robust computer networks and the theory of error-correcting codes.
Expander walk sampling The expander walk sampling theorem, the earliest version of which is due to Ajtai-Komlós-Szemerédi and the more general version typically attributed to Gillman, states that sampling from an expander graph is almost as good as sampling independently.
Expanding nozzle The expanding nozzle is a type of rocket nozzle that, unlike traditional designs, maintains its efficiency at a wide range of altitudes. It is a member of the class of altitude-compensating nozzles, a class that also includes the plug nozzle and aerospike.
Expansion (geometry) In geometry, expansion is a polytope operation where facets are separated and moved radially apart, and new facets are formed at separated elements (vertices, edges, etc). (Equivalently this operation can be imagined by keeping facets in the same location, but reducing their size.
Expansion bus An expansion bus is made up of electronic pathways which move information from your CPU and RAM to all of your other peripheral devices such as a microphone, monitor, telephone line, and printer, which all connect to ports on the back of your computer. It is a collection of wires and protocols that allows for the expansion of a computer.
Expansion card An expansion card (also expansion board, adapter card or accessory card) in computing is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot of a computer motherboard to add additional functionality to a computer system.
Expansion chamber An Expansion chamber is an exhaust system used on a two-stroke cycle engine to enhance its power output by improving its volumetric efficiency. It makes use of the energy left in the burnt exhaust exiting the cylinder to aid the filling of the cylinder for the next cycle.
Expansion joint An expansion joint is an assembly designed to safely absorb the heat-induced expansion and contraction of various construction materials. They are commonly found between sections of sidewalks, bridges, railway tracks, piping systems, and other structures.
Expansion operations and planning of the Axis Powers Planning for global territorial expansion of the Axis Powers; Germany, Italy and Japan, progressed before and during the Second World War. This included some special strike plans against the Allied nations (with similar intentions to the James Doolittle raid special Allied Strike).
Expansion pack An expansion pack is an addition to an existing pen-and-paper RPG, game or video game. These add-ons usually add new game areas, weapons, objects, and/or an extended storyline to a complete and already released game.
Expansion ratio Expansion ratio is used in the context of liquefied and cryogenic substances. The expansion ratio of a substance is the volume of a given amount of that substance in liquid form compared to the volume of the same amount of substance in gaseous form.

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