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Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era The Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era () is a massive encyclopedia compiled by a number of officers commissioned by the imperial court of the Song Dynasty with the lead editor being Li Fang from 977 to 983 during the era of Taiping Xingguo. It is divided into 1,000 volumes and 55 sections, which consisted of about 4.
Imperial Records (1900) The earliest Imperial Records was a short-lived United States based company of the first decade of the 1900s, producing single-sided lateral cut gramophone records. Issues included ragtime banjo music, operatic solos, and Hebrew songs.
Imperial Regalia The Imperial Regalia, insignia, or crown jewels (in German Reichskleinodien, Reichsinsignien, or Reichsschatz) are the regalia of the Emperors and Kings of the Holy Roman Empire. The most important parts are the Imperial Crown, the Holy Lance and the Imperial Sword.
Imperial Regalia of Japan The , also known as the Three Sacred Treasures, consist of the sword, Kusanagi (草薙劍) (or possibly a replica of the original), the jewel or necklace of jewels, Yasakani no magatama (八尺瓊曲玉), and the mirror Yata no kagami (八咫鏡). Also known as the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan, the regalia represent the three primary virtues: valor (the sword), wisdom (the mirror), and benevolence (the jewel).
Imperial Remnant In the Star Wars universe, the Imperial Remnant is a New Republic nickname for the Galactic Empire that came about following the Bastion Accords that ended the Galactic Civil War. The name initially seems to have a derogatory connotation, but Imperials have been known to use the terminology in addition to New Republic citizens.
Imperial Rescript on Education The was signed by Emperor Meiji of Japan on 30 October 1890 to articulate government policy on the guiding principals of education on the Empire of Japan. The 315-word document was read at all important school events, and students were required to study and memorize the text.
Imperial Room The 500 seat Imperial Room is a major events venue at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada. The hall is located at the Convention floor of the hotel and has hosted major events, such as addresses to the Empire Club of Canada, but was more important historically as one of the most famous nightclubs in the country.
Imperial Ruling Council In the Star Wars Universe, the Imperial Ruling Council was the name given to the group of Imperial Advisors who constituted the most powerful collective body in the Galaxy during the New Order. While Palpatine was Emperor, it was the Council that managed the |Empire and carried out his will.
Imperial staircase An Imperial staircase (sometimes known as a double staircase) is the name given to a staircase with divided flights. Usually the first flight rises to a half-landing and then divides into two symmetrical flights both rising with an equal number of steps and turns to the next floor.
Imperial stormtrooper Imperial stormtroopers are trained shock troops in the fictional Star Wars universe under command of the Galactic Empire. Stormtroopers are used as strike units against enemies of the Empire and are the primary Imperial soldiers in the original Star Wars trilogy and the most dangerous foes of the Rebel troopers.
Imperial stout Imperial stout, also known as "Russian Imperial Stout" or "Imperial Russian Stout," is a strong dark beer or stout that was originally brewed by Barclays brewery in London, England for export to the court of the Tsar of Russia. It has a high alcohol content (nine or ten percent is not uncommon) intended to preserve it during long trips and to provide a more bracing drink against cold climates.
Imperial Seal of China The Imperial Seal of China, or the Heirloom Seal of the Realm (Traditional Chinese: 傳國璽; Simplified Chinese: 传国玺) is a Chinese jade seal carved out of the He Shi Bi, a historically famous piece of jade.
Imperial Sentinel Imperial Sentinels were gigantic, armored and cloaked warriors in the Star Wars' Dark Empire storyline, who guarded Emperor Palpatine's Dark Side Adepts, doing their bidding. They were most often seen in the Emperor's Citadel on Byss.
Imperial Service Order The Imperial Service Order was established by King Edward VII in August 1902. It was awarded to the administration and clerical staff of the Civil Service throughout the British Empire for long and meritorious service.
Imperial School of Jurisprudence The Imperial School of Jurisprudence (Russian: Императорское училище правоведения) was, along with the Page Corps, the most prestigious school for noble boys in Saint Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire.
Imperial State An Imperial State or Imperial Estate (German singular: Reichsstand, plural: Reichsstände) was an entity in the Holy Roman Empire with a vote in the Reichstag or Imperial Diet. Several states had no seats in the Empire, while some officials (such as the Hereditary Usher) were non-voting members; neither qualified as Imperial States.
Imperial Teen Imperial Teen is a San Francisco, California based pop band started by Roddy Bottum, keyboardist of Faith No More. Imperial Teen is made up of Roddy Bottum on guitar/vocals with Lynn Perko (drummer/founder of Sister Double Happiness) primarily on drums, Jone Stebbins (previously of The Wrecks) primarily on bass, and Will Schwartz primarily on guitar/vocals.
Imperial Throne Council of War In Japanese history, the Throne Council of War was a special conference under the direct leadership of the Emperor of Japan, for discussion of important political and military affairs. The opinions stated in these meetings were coordinated with the "Imperial Supreme Council of War", but did not affect the decisions taken by the supreme command of the Japanese Army and Navy.
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is the designation under which the UNESCO has included several tombs and burial complexes into the list of World Heritage Sites. These tombs date from the Ming and Qing dynasties of China.
Imperial Towers The Imperial Towers were six of the earliest lighthouses built on Lake Huron by the Canadian government. The designation Imperial is not certain, but historians speculate that because the towers were public construction built under United Kingdom authority, the name would assure funding from the British Empire's Board of Trade.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was the fourth British Antarctic exploration of the 20th century, and aimed, but ultimately failed, to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent from one side to the other.It was another 50 years before this feat was successfully accomplished on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1958.
Imperial unit The Imperial units or the Imperial system is a collection of English units, first defined in the Weights and Measures Act of 1824, later refined (until 1959) and reduced. The units were introduced in the United Kingdom and its colonies, including Commonwealth countries (though most Commonwealth countries are now fully metricated), but excluding the then already independent United States.
Imperial valley press The Imperial Valley Press is a daily newspaper published in El Centro, California. The Imperial Valley Press features local news from all communities of the Imperial Valley and the Mexicali, Baja California area.
Imperial Valley The Imperial Valley is a region of southeastern California (USA) located, in part, between the Colorado River and the Salton Sea, the state of California's largest saltwater lake. Major population centers are El Centro and Brawley in California, and the twin border towns of Calexico and Mexicali.
Imperial Volunteer Corps The Imperial Volunteer Corps was created in Japan during 1944-45, as armed civil defense units supporting the Japanese Armed Forces, and for the defense of the country in a last decisive battle on the homeland. It was the Japanese equivalent of the German Volkssturm.
Imperial War Cabinet The Imperial War Cabinet was created by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the spring of 1917 as a means of co-ordinating the British Empire's military policy during the First World War. The body met through 1917 and 1918 and consisted of Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Canada Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister Louis Botha and Jan Smuts of South Africa, Prime Minister Billy Hughes of Australia, Prime Minister William Massey of New Zealand, the Secretary of State for India and other senior ministers from Britain and the dominions.
Imperial War Museum The Imperial War Museum is a museum in London featuring military vehicles, weapons, war memorabilia, a library, a photographic archive, and an art collection of 20th century and later conflicts, especially those involving Britain, and the British Empire. This location is the headquarters of a 5-branch system.
Imperial War Museum Duxford The Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, commonly referred to simply as 'Duxford', houses the Imperial War Museum's aircraft collection, as well as having a large collection of tanks, military and naval vehicles. The museum has seven main exhibition buildings with nearly 200 military and civil aircraft.
Imperial War Museum North The Imperial War Museum North is a war museum in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It opened on the 5th July 2002 and was designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind and constructed at a cost of ÂŁ28 million by Sir Robert McAlpine with engineering by Arup.
Imperial Way Faction The Imperial Way Faction (皇道派 kōdōha) was a Japanese right-wing nationalist political grouping, active in the 1930s. It was the political wing for the Japanese military, aiming to establish the military government.
Imperial Wharf railway station Imperial Wharf is a railway station planned for Chelsea in west London, on the Network Rail West London Line (WLL) from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction. The station will be between West Brompton and Clapham Junction stations.
Imperial Woodpecker The Imperial Woodpecker (Campephilus imperialis) is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. Due to its close relationship and similarity to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, it is sometimes also called "Mexican Ivorybill" but this name is also used for the Pale-billed Woodpecker.
Imperial Yeomanry The Imperial Yeomanry was created on December 24, 1899 — most units being raised during 1900 and 1901 — to allow volunteer cavalry troops to fight as mounted infantry alongside regular troops of the British Army in the Second Boer War as, at that time, Yeomanry regiments had no obligation to fight overseas.
Imperial Youth Federation The Imperial Youth Federation or Imperial Young Association was a political organization charged with guiding all nationalist and militarist indoctrination of young people in Japan during World War II. This political entity was the "Youth Branch" of the nationalist Imperial Way Faction party.
Imperiali quota The Imperiali quota is a formula used to calculate the minimum number, or quota, of votes required to capture a seat in some forms of single transferable vote or largest remainder method party-list proportional representation voting systems. Ecuador is among the few countries that uses this allocation system.
Imperialism in Asia Western imperialism in Asia traces its roots back to the late 15th century with a series of voyages that sought a sea passage to India in the hope of establishing direct trade between Europe and Asia in spices. Before 1500 European economies were largely self-sufficient, only supplemented by minor trade with Asia and Africa.
Imperialismo Pagano Imperialismo Pagano: Il Fascismo Dinanzi al Pericolo Euro-Cristiano, con una Appendice sulle Reazioni di parte Guelfa (Pagan Imperialism: Fascism in Front of the Euro-Christian Danger, with an Appendix on the Reactions of the Guelphs) is a work by Italian esoteric writer Julius Evola. It is a polemical work (published on the eve of the Lateran Accords) urging the Fascist regime to conduct an anti-Christian, pagan revolution.
Imperio Argentina Magdalena Nile del Río (December 26 1906 – August 22 2003) was a professional singer and movie actress who was better known as Imperio Argentina. Though she was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she became a citizen of Spain.
Imperious Leader The Imperious Leader is the ultimate office of the Cylons' society in Battlestar Galactica. The term may have been derived by series writers from the realworld title of ReichsfĂĽhrer (Imperial Leader), which had a similar remit in the Nazi SS.
Imperium Imperium can, in a broad sense, be translated as power. In Antiquity this concept could apply to people, and mean something like "power status" or "authority", or could be used with a geographical connotation and mean something like "territory".
Imperium (disambiguation) Imperium is originally a legal concept of authority in Roman antiquity. The Latin phrase "Imperium Romanum" is usually translated as "Roman Empire"; by analogy Imperium is also applied to every empire, whether ruled by an emperor or not.
Imperium (fiction) In the science fiction novel Worlds of the Imperium the Imperium are a race or culture that take place during a time of Imperialism mimicking the 18th century of France. The author Keith Laumer writes about the main character, Bayard, who goes after an evil dictator of another world by using an interdimensional space traveling device called the Blight.
Imperium (Polish book) Imperium, published in 1993, is a book by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński about his travels to the Soviet Union, and more broadly about his personal relationship with that country. Its English translation was first published in 1994.
Imperium (song) "Imperium" is a song by Heavy Metal band Machine Head.It is a very clear message stating he will not conform to anyone and will not be what Society asks of him,he will be himself while he still struggles but will ultimately be independent and will only be himself.
Imperium Galactica Imperium Galactica is a computer game made by Hungarian-based company Digital Reality that combines many of the features of turn-based games with some of the features of real-time tactical games. The same company would later make its sequel, Imperium Galactica II, in 2000.
Imperium Galactica II: Alliances Imperium Galactica II: Alliances is a real-time game featuring aspects of RTT, RTS and empire-building computer games from the Hungarian-based studio Digital Reality. It is the sequel to Digital Reality's previous game, Imperium Galactica.
Imperium Galactica III: Genesis Imperium Galactica III: Genesis was an upcoming video game release in the Imperium Galactica series. Due to many development troubles, the name and plot changed drastically before being known today as Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.
Impermanence Impermanence (Sanskrit: अिनत्य anitya; Pāli: अिनच्च anicca; Tibetan: mi rtag pa; Chinese: [wúcháng; Japanese]: 無常 mujō) is one of the essential doctrines or three marks of [[Buddhism. The term expresses the Buddhist notion that everything, without exception, is constantly in flux, even planets, stars and gods.
Imperoyal, Nova Scotia Imperoyal is a small neighbourhood on the eastern side of Halifax Harbour in the community of Dartmouth Nova Scotia (part of the Halifax Regional Municipality). The area is mostly taken up by the Imperial Oil Refinery and by petroleum storage and transfer facility owned by Irving Oil Limited.
Impersonal verb In linguistics, an impersonal verb is a verb that cannot take a true subject, because it does not represent an action, occurrence, or state-of-being of any specific person, place, or thing. The term weather verb is also sometimes used, since such weather-indicating verbs as to rain are usually impersonal.
Impervious surface Impervious surfaces are artificial structures, such as pavements and building roofs, which replace naturally pervious soil with impervious construction materials. They are an environmental concern because, with their construction, a chain of events is initiated that modifies urban air and water resources:
Impetigo (band) Impetigo, formed in the early 1980s, was an Illinois-based band that began playing in the hardcore punk and grindcore genres, later becoming a death metal group. Impetigo has been extremely influential in the latter genres, having a tribute album, Razorback Records' Wizards of Gore, released in their honour, and many groups, including Lord Gore, claiming Impetigo as an influence.
Impetouso class destroyer The Impetouso class were the first post war destroyers built for the Italian Navy. The hull design was based on the uncompleted Commandante class destroyers but American equipment (guns, radar, machinery) was used.
Impfondo Impfondo is a town in the north eastern Republic of the Congo with a population of around 20,000 people, lying on the Oubangui River. It is home to an airport and is linked by river barge to Brazzaville and to Bangui.
Impiety Impiety is a lack of proper concern for the obligations owed to cult in its proper sense of the outward practices of a belief system. Impiety was a main Pagan objection to Christianity, for unlike other initiates into mystery religions, Christians refused to cast a pinch of incense before the images of the gods, among whom were the protective deified Emperors.
Implacable class aircraft carrier The Royal Navy built two Implacable-class aircraft carriers, HMS Implacable and HMS Indefatigable, to succeed the Illustrious-class carriers during the Second World War and launched in 1942. They were modifications of the HMS Indomitable (R92) design with double-level hangars.
Implacable hostility Implacable hostility arises after separation or divorce and denotes the attitude shown by one parent to another in denying access to, or contact with, their child(ren). What differentiates implacable hostility from the typical hostility that may arise after separation/divorce is that the deep-rooted nature of the hostility cannot be justified on rational grounds and measures taken by third parties including mediators and the family courts are to no avail.
Implanon Implanon, made by Organon International, is a single-rod contraceptive subdermal implant that is inserted under the skin of a woman's upper arm. The 40 mm by 2 mm Implanon rod contains 68 milligrams of the gonane progestin etonogestrel which is released over a three year period.
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device that is implanted under the skin of patients that are at risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation. The rudiments of cardiac arrhythmia detection and treatment are incorporated into the implantable device.
Impleader Impleader is a procedural device before trial in which one party joins a third party into a lawsuit because that third party is liable to an original defendant. For example, in a case where a driver rear-ends another car due to faulty brakes, and is sued by the accident victim, the driver may decide to implead the repair shop where the brakes were worked on.
Implementation In engineering and computer science, an implementation is the practical application of a methodology or algorithm to fulfill a desired purpose. For example, one might create a computer program that sorts a list of numbers in ascending order.
Implementation intention The psychologist Peter Gollwitzer has developed the implementation hypothesis for better goal attainment. The idea is that planning in advance when, where and how one will complete a self assigned goal will lead to greater success.
Implementation of mathematics in set theory This article examines the implementation of mathematical concepts in set theory. The implementation of a number of basic mathematical concepts is carried out in parallel in ZFC (the dominant set theory) and in NFU, the version of Quine's New Foundations shown to be consistent by R.
Implementer An Implementer (alternatively Implementor) is the self-given name of the creators of the Infocom text adventure series Zork as well as the name of the fictional, self-referential minor deity characters from the Zork Universe who are integral to the plot of Beyond Zork.
Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007 The Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007 (), introduced in the United States House of Representatives, is a piece of legislation being considered in the United States Congress as part of the Democrats' "100 Hours" congressional agenda. The bill would implement some of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission including mandating 100% inspection of all air and sea cargo entering the United States as well as a new method of redistributing antiterrorism funding.
Implicant In Boolean logic, an implicant is a "covering" (sum term or product term) of one or more minterms in a sum of products (or maxterms in a product of sums) of a boolean function. Formally, a product term P in a sum of products is an implicant of the Boolean function F if P implies F.
Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm Physicist David Bohm proposed a cosmological order radically different from generally accepted conventions, which he expressed as a distinction between the implicate and explicate order, described in the book Wholeness and the Implicate Order:
Implication table An implication table is a tool used to faciliate the minimization of states in a state machine. The concept is to start assuming that every state may be able to combine with every other state, then eliminate possibilities that are not possible.
Implication-Realization The Implication-Realization (I-R) model of melodic expectation was developed by Eugene Narmour as an alternative to Schenkerian analysis centered less on music analysis and more on cognitive aspects of expectation. The model is one of the most significant modern theories of melodic expectation, going into great detail about how certain melodic structures arouse particular expectations.
Implicational propositional calculus In mathematical logic, the implicational propositional calculus is a version of classical (two-valued) propositional calculus which uses only one connective, called implication or conditional. In formulas, this binary operation is indicated by "implies", "if ...
Implicature In pragmatics (linguistics), implicature is the relationship between two statements where the truth of one suggests the truth of the other, but—distinguishing implicature from entailment—does not require it. For example, the sentence "Mary had a baby and got married" strongly suggests that Mary had the baby before the wedding, but the sentence would still be strictly true if Mary had her baby after she got married.
Implicit Association Test The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is an experimental methodology within the discipline of social psychology designed to measure the strength of association between mental representations of objects in memory. The IAT requires the rapid categorization of various stimulus objects, such that easier pairings (and faster responses) are interpreted as being more strongly associated in memory than more difficult pairings (slower responses).
Implicit cost In economics, an implicit cost imposed on a firm includes costs when it foregoes an alternative action but doesn't make a physical payment. Such costs are related to forgone benefits of any single transaction, and occur when a firm:
Implicit data structure In computer science, an implicit data structure is a data structure that uses very little memory besides the actual data elements. It is called "implicit" because most of the structure of the elements is expressed implicitly by their order.
Implicit function In mathematics, to give a function f implicitly is to give an equation R(x,y) = S(x,y) that at least in part has the same graph as y = f(x). It can be useful to define a function f implicitly when there is no simple formula for f(x) so it is not convenient to give its graph in the form y = f(x).
Implicit invocation Implicit invocation is used by some authors for a style of software architecture in which a system is structured around event handling, using a form of callback. It is closely related to Inversion of control and what is known informally as the Hollywood Principle.
Implicit memory Implicit memory is a type of memory in which previous experiences aid in the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences (Schacter, 1987). Evidence for implicit memory arises in priming, a process whereby subjects show improved performance on tasks for which they have been subconsciously prepared (Graf & Mandler, 1984).
Implicit parallelism In computer science, implicit parallelism is a characteristic of a programming language that allows a compiler to automatically exploit the parallelism inherent to the computations expressed by some of the language's constructs. A pure implicitly parallel language
Implicit personality theory Implicit personality theory (IPA) concerns the general expectations that we build about a person after we know something of their central traits. For example when we believe that a happy person is also friendly, or that quiet people are timid.
Implicit solvation Implicit solvation (sometimes known as continuum solvation) is a method of representing solvent as a continuous medium instead of individual “explicit” solvent molecules most often used in molecular dynamics simulations and in other applications of molecular mechanics. The method is often applied to estimate free energy of solute-solvent interactions in structural and chemical processes, such as folding or conformational transitions of proteins, DNA, RNA, and polysaccharides, association of biological macromolecules with ligands, or transport of drugs across biological membranes.
Implied assertion In the law of evidence, an implied assertion is a statement or conduct that infers some fact. There is varying opinion of whether hearsay evidence of implied assertions should be admissible in court to prove the truth of its contents.
Implied authority Implied Authority of Contract is a legal term. In contract law, it is the implied ability of an individual to make a legally binding contract on behalf of an organization, by way of uniform or interaction with the public on behalf of that organization.
Implied Bill of Rights Implied Bill of Rights is a judicial theory in Canadian jurisprudence that recognizes that certain basic principles are underlying the Constitution of Canada. Invoked more often before the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted it is nonetheless important when questions of parliamentary supremacy and the override power come into play.
Implied cause of action Implied cause of action is a term used in United States statutory and constitutional law for circumstances when a court will determine that a statute or provision that creates rights also supports a remedy that can be achieved through a lawsuit, even though no remedy is explicitly provided for in the statute. Implied causes of action arising under the Constitution of the United States are treated differently than those based on statutes.
Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing The Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing is a general assumption of the law of contracts, that people will act in good faith and deal fairly without breaking their word, using shifty means to avoid obligations, or denying what the other party obviously understood. A lawsuit (or one of the causes of action in a lawsuit) based on the breach of this covenant is often brought when the other party has been claiming technical excuses for breaching the contract or using the specific words of the contract to refuse to perform when the surrounding circumstances or apparent understanding of the parties were to the contrary.
Implied in fact contract An implied-in-fact contract (also, "contract implied-in-fact" or simply, "implied contract") refers to a contract agreed by non-verbal conduct, rather than by explicit words. Such contracts are formed when one party accepts something of value knowing that the other party expects compensation.
Implied volatility In financial mathematics, the implied volatility of an Option contract is the volatility implied by the market price of the option based on an option pricing model. In other words, it is the volatility that, given a particular pricing model, yields a theoretical value for the option equal to the current market price.
Implied warranty In common law jurisdictions, an implied warranty is a contract law term for certain assurances that are presumed to be made in the sale of products or real property, due to the circumstances of the sale. These assurances are characterized as warranties irrespective of whether the seller has expressly promised them verbally or in writing.
Implosive consonant Implosive consonants are plosives (rarely affricates) with a glottalic ingressive airstream mechanism. That is, the airstream is controlled by moving the glottis downward, rather than by expelling air from the lungs as in normal pulmonic consonants.
Impluvium The impluvium is the sunken part of the atrium in a Greek or Roman house. Designed to carry away the rainwater coming through the compluvium of the roof, it is usually made of marble and placed about 30 cm below the floor of the atrium.
Import (international trade) In economics, an import is any good or commodity, brought into one country from another country in a legitimate fashion, typically for use in trade. Import goods or services are provided to domestic consumers by foreign producers.
Import license An import license is a document issued by a national government authorizing the importation of certain goods into its territory. Import licenses are considered to be non-tariff barriers to trade when used as a way to discriminate against another country's goods in order to protect a domestic industry from foreign competition.
Import quota An import quota is a type of protectionist trade restriction that sets an upper limit on the quantity of a good that can be imported into a country in a given period of time. For example, a country might limit sugar imports to 50 tons per year.
Import scene The Import scene or Import racing scene refers to the subculture that revolves around modifying imported brand cars (commonly referred to as imports), especially those of Japanese brands, for street racing in the United States. Thanks to movies like "The Fast and the Furious", it has become a mainstream phenomenon among youth of all races in the United States.
Import substitution Import substitution industrialization (also called ISI) is a trade and economic policy based on the premise that a developing country should attempt to substitute products which it imports, mostly finished goods, with locally produced substitutes. The theory is similar to that of mercantilism in that it promotes high exports and minimal imports to increase national wealth.
Importance sampling Importance sampling (IS) is a variance reduction technique that can be used in the Monte Carlo method. The idea behind IS is that certain values of the input random variables in a simulation have more impact on the parameter being estimated than others.
Important Records Important Records is a record label that was created in 2001 after the management collapse of a popular North East record shop. An online store and record label was launched simultaneously with the release of Daniel Johnston's 'Impossible Love 7"' and Merzbow's album 'Amlux.
Importer (computing) An importer is a software application that reads in a data file in one format and converts it to another format via special algorithms (such as filters). An importer often is not an entire program by itself, but an extension to another program, implemented as a plug-in.
Imposex Imposex occurs when male sex characteristics, such as the development of male sex organs, for example the penis and the vas deferens, are stimulated to form on normal female gastropods. One inducer of imposex is tributyltin (TBT), an anti-fouling agent for boats which affects many marine gastropods, including the female Nucella Lapillus (dog whelk).
Impossibilism Impossibilism is an interpretation of Marxism. It emphasizes the limited value of reforms in overturning capitalism and insists on revolutionary political action as the only reliable method of bringing about socialism.

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