Encyclopedia > L > 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211
Los Cabos Corridor The Los Cabos Corridor (Corredor Turistico) is an area on the southern coast of the Baja California Peninsula, facing the Gulf of California on the Transpeninsular Highway between San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. It stretches about 30 kilometers along
Los Capitanes Los Capitanes are a 7-piece Canberra based ska band. Heralded by the media as "an explosive freakshow comprised of misfits and loners," Los Capitanes have honed and sharpened a style which defies accepted ska clichés to create their very own distinctive flavour.
Los Carayos Los Carayos was a French band which released four albums between 1986 and 1994. They were active mostly in Paris in the mid-1980s, but side interests of the musicians, notably of Manu Chao, did not allow the band to take off.
Los Cerritos Center The Los Cerritos Center in Cerritos, California is an upscale regional commercial shopping mall with a gross lease area of 1,288,245 square feet. It is located south of the San Gabriel River Freeway and Artesia Freeway junction.
Los Cinco Los Cinco is an unofficial collective of Latin American composers living and working in Los Angeles. These composers include: Daniel Catán, Miguel del Aguila, Aurelio de la Vega, Enrique González-Medina, and Carlos Rodriquez.
Los Cincos Pintores Los Cincos Pintores ("The Five Painters") was a "school" of Santa Fe artists who showed together beginning in the early 1920s. The artists were primarily concerned with southwestern landscape and the play of the light and its effect on color.
Los Cochinos Los Cochinos ("The Pigs") is a 1973 comedy album recorded by Cheech and Chong. The album's final track, "Basketball Jones," is a music track which features George Harrison on guitar and many other legendary musicians.
Los Conquistadores Los Conquistadores is the name of a professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Entertainment, the team consisted of two masked jobbers; Uno and Dos. Many wrestlers have played the part of a conquistador, though the costumes of the tag team has varied from an anonymous gold featureless masks and spandex body suits to blue and gold Japanese style wrestling masks and elaborate shoulder pads.
Los Cristianos Los Cristianos is a town with population approximately 11,500 (1991), situated on the south coast of the Canary Islands of Tenerife. Located in the municipality of Arona between the cone of Montaña Chayofita and the imposing Montaña Guaza, the town centre’s around the bay of Los Cristianos, but is rapidly expanding inland with modern development.
Los del RĂo Los del RĂo (Spanish for those from the river, referring to the Guadalquivir or the Guadaira) is a Spanish music duo (their names are Antonio Romero Monge and Rafael Ruiz).They are originally from the city section of Dos Hermanas in Seville.
Los Diamantes de Ojinaga Los Diamantes de Ojinaga is a norteño band from the rural northern Mexican town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua. Los Diamantes, like many other norteño bands from Ojinaga, use both the saxophone and accordion in their music.
Los Doce El Grupo de los Doce, or Group of Twelve, were a dozen members of the Nicaraguan establishment whose support for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) struggle against dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle played a pivotal role in the acceptance of the Sandinistas by foreign and domestic opinion.
Los Enanitos Verdes Los Enanitos Verdes (Little Green Dwarves) is a successful rock group from Argentina, formed in 1979 in the city of Mendoza. Throughout their career they have managed to gain important positions on Argentine and Latin American charts.
Los Four Los Four was a Chicano street art group that was influential during the 1970s and early 1980s in Los Angeles, California. The group helped bring mainstream art critics attention to the Chicano street art movement.
Los Fronterizos Los Fronterizos is an Argentine musical ensemble consisting of four men. The group was established in 1953 in the northern province of Salta -- bordering on Bolivia -- from which "Los Fronterizos" ("men of the frontier") is derived.
Los GarcĂa Los Garcia was a Puerto Rican television comedy show from the 1970s. Shown weekly on Ricavision channel 7, it depicted the fictional lifes of Los Garcia (The Garcias), a fictional family that was based on a real life family.
Los Gatos Creek The Los Gatos Creek is a short waterway in California that runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward through the Santa Clara Valley until its confluence with the Guadalupe River in downtown San Jose. The Guadalupe River then continues onward into San Francisco Bay.
Los Gatos Daily News The Los Gatos Daily News is a free daily newspaper in Los Gatos, California published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 8,000 copies per day. The newspaper was founded May 15, 2002 by Dave Price (journalist) and Jim Pavelich, who also published the Palo Alto Daily News.
Los Gatos High School Los Gatos High School (LGHS) is a high school in Los Gatos, California, a small town near San Jose in the Silicon Valley. Los Gatos High School was founded in 1908 and is part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District.
Los Gatos Rowing Club The Los Gatos Rowing Club was started in 1979 to provide what was then mostly an eastern sport, to the kids in the Santa Clara Valley. In the past 20 years, more than 2,000 kids from 15 different high schools have passed through the program.
Los Gigantes Los Gigantes is a resort town in the Santiago del Teide province on the west coast of the Canary Island Tenerife. Its main feature are the giant rock formations that rise from the sea to a height of 500-800 metres after which the town has been named.
Los Guerreros Los Guerreros (The Guerreros) is a professional wrestling stable formed when two or more members of the Guerrero family become a tag team, regardless of the promotion. The most recent incarnation of the Los Guerreros stable was in World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown!
Los Hermanos Los Hermanos is an indie rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group was formed in 1997 by Marcelo Camelo (vocals/guitar), Patrick Laplan (bass), Rodrigo Amarante (flute/guitar/vocals), Rodrigo Barba (drums), and Bruno Medina (keyboards).
Los Hermanos Zuleta Los Hermanos Zuleta (Spanish for The Zuleta Brothers) are a renowned vallenato musical group that won the Latin Grammy Awards of 2006. Their name refers to the brothers Emiliano Alcides Zuleta and Tomás Alfonso Zuleta, who founded the group and are sons of Emiliano Zuleta, creator of the famously renown song La Gota Fria.
Los Herreras Los Herreras is a municipality in the Mexican State of Nuevo Leon and also the name of its seat of government and main population center. Los Herreras is at 281 meters above sea level and is located in the east-central part of the state.
Los Hooligans Productions Los Hooligans Productions was a production company founded by Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan in 1991. The name was borrowed from Rodriguez's own comic strip Los Hooligans which he illustrated for three years while at The University of Texas at Austin.
Los Juglares del Dexas Los Juglares del Dexas are a folk music group at Panama University, founded in 1971 to preserve Panamanian traditional music. The group's foundation was coordinated by Juan Andrés Castillo, a famous mejoranero; other founding members included violinists Escolastico "Colasco" Cortes and Miguel Leguizamo Sr.
Los lunes al sol Los lunes al sol ('Mondays in the Sun') is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Fernando LeĂłn de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem that talks about shipyard crisis in Vigo, Galicia. The film won five Goya Awards in 2003, including the awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Actor.
Los Llanos de Aridane Los Llanos de Aridane is both a municipality and a town in the Canary Islands on the island of La Palma in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Officially after the early-2000s, Los Llanos de Aridane grew to be larger than the capital Santa Cruz de La Palma and became the only municipality in the Canary Islands to be larger than the island capital in population.
Los Lunas Decalogue Stone The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone bears a very regular inscription carved into the flat face of a large boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain, near Los Lunas, New Mexico, about 35 miles south of Albuquerque. The inscription appears to be an abridged version of the Decalogue or Ten Commandments in a form of Paleo-Hebrew.
Los moonlights Los Moonlights was, maybe next to Los Delfines, the band with the most steady schedule of work in Uruguay during the years that rock music was worth a living. Formed at the end the 60s, they played live at the beginning of the following decade.
Los Mijos Mostly known as Mijos, Mijos are toy characters created by Dave Gonzales loosely based upon Chicano Mexican American characters,the mijos line include girls as well and other ethnicities of characters as well as Puerto Rican, African American, Caucasian. It's how he see "through the eyes of hispanic children.
Los Miserables Los Miserables is a well-known Chilean punk rock band formed in the early 1990s shortly after the demise of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The band is known for its songs charged with strong left-wing political ideas and anti-establishment commentary.
Los Niños de Sara Los Niños de Sara (in Spanish, "Sara's children") are Spanish-speaking Gypsies from Montpellier, France. They are cousins from Nimes, France, who have been playing together since they were 14 years old.
Los Nikis Los Nikis were a Spanish pop-punk group of the 1980s that were associated with la movida. They are considered somewhat like the Spanish Ramones with songs that feature very simple music and humorous lyrics and subject matter.
Los Ninos de Sara Los Niños de Sara are cousins from Nimes, France, who have been playing together since they were 14 years old. Described as a cross between the Gipsy Kings and Buena Vista Social Club, the group’s blend of rhumba and flamenco music features a touch of North African influence.
Los pastorcillos de Navidad Los pastorcillos de Navidad is a typical celebration holiday in the Amazonas region, Peru. The celebration of Christmas in Chachapoyas is unique in Peru and incomparably because of the presence of its tender and innocent protagonists: the children of the city.
Los pipitos In 1987, in Nicaragua's capital city Managua, when a woman gave birth to twins, both suffering with Down Syndrome, she and her family decided to found Los Pipitos, an Association of Parents with Handicapped Children. The news that an organisation like the Pipitos existed in Nicaragua travelled fast throughout the country.
Los Padres National Forest Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet.
Los Pepes Los Pepes, or the People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar, was a short-lived vigilante group composed of various enemies of narcotics kingpin Pablo Escobar. Los Pepes waged a bloody war against Escobar and his associates in the early 1990s.
Los PingĂĽinos Natural Monument Los PingĂĽinos Natural Monument (The Penguins Natural Monument) is located 35 km northeast of Punta Arenas, Chile. Magdalena Island, situated in the middle of the Strait of Magellan, is the main part of the this Natural Monument.
Los Pinchudos Los Pinchudos are an elaborate Chachapoya tomb complex, consisting of nine tombs built into a high rock cleft in one of Peru's northern Andean cloud forests. It's located in Rio Abiseo National Park, a natural and cultural World Heritage site that's guarded and closed to all except scientific missions.
Los Planetas Los Planetas (The Planets) is a Spanish pop-rock group from the city of Granada which started out in the second of half of the 1990s and continue now through the 2000s. The group's first hit was "Qué puedo hacer?
Los Pop Tops Los Pop Tops were a vocal/instrumental group formed in 1967 in Madrid, Spain and consisting of José Lipiani, Alberto Vega, Ignacio Pérez, Julián Luis Angulo, Enrique Gómez, Ray Gómez plus lead singer Phil Trim (born January 5, 1940 in Trinidad and Tobago).
Los Pozos The district of Los Pozos is a district of the Province of Herrera in the country of Panama. The district of Los Pozos is further divided into 9 sub-divisions, in Spanish corregimientos; Los Pozos, CapurĂ, El Calabacito, El Cedro, La Arena, La Pitaloza, Los Cerritos, Los Cerros de Paja, and Las Llanas.
Los Prisioneros Los Prisioneros was a Rock en Español band from San Miguel, Santiago, Chile formed in 1982. They began as a very influential local band during the early 1980s, once they signed to EMI in 1985, they reached mainstream success all over South America and Central America.
Los Quiroga Dam The Los Quiroga Dam (in Spanish, Dique Los Quiroga) is a dam on the course of the Dulce River, in the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. It is located near the provincial capital Santiago del Estero and the city of La Banda.
Los Ratones Paranoicos Los Ratones Paranoicos is an Argentine music band, formed in 1984. The lead singer and guitar was Juan Sebastián Gutiérrez ("Juanse"), drummer Rubén Eduardo Quiroga ("Roy"), base player Pablo Memi and backup singer and guitar Pablo Cano ("Sarcófago").
Los Realejos Los Realejos is a medium-sized town located on the north side of the island of Tenerife (which forms part of the Canary Islands) and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It is located W of Puerto de la Cruz and La Orotava, about 42 km SSW of the island's capital, N of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and about 80 km N of Reina Sofia Airport.
Los Reyes (TV series) Los Reyes ("The Reyes" - Reyes also means kings) is a popular telenovela filmed in Colombia and produced by the Colombian network, RCN (Radio Cadena Nacional - "National Radio Network"). It debuted in 2005.
Los Rios Community College District The Los Rios Community College District is a special district providing administrative services and governance for the community colleges serving the greater Sacramento area and points east all the way to Lake Tahoe (map). Common administrative services such as human resources, purchasing, accounting, and information technology are provided for the colleges at a separate off-campus district office complex.
Los Roldán Los Roldán was a highly successful Spanish language telenovela (or soap opera), which was produced, from 2004 to 2005, by Argentina's Telefe. The show, which is described by many as a comedy as well, actually ended up winning an award as Argentina's comedy of the year in 2004, and was successful in Mexico, Central and South America, and the United States, where Hispanic viewers saw it through DirecTV's satellite dishes.
Los Roques Archipelago The Los Roques islands are a federal dependency of Venezuela, consisting of about 50 islands, cays or islets. The archipelago is an atoll located some 145 Km (80 miles) directly north of the port of La Guaira, close to Caracas.
Los Ruiles "Los Ruiles" is a small national park or reserve located in the easternmost part of the municipality of Pelluhue, Province of Cauquenes, Maule Region, Chile. The park lies in the foothills of the "Cordillera de la Costa".
Los Santos (JOGA3) Los Santos, full official name Liverpool Los Santos [JOGA3], was a team in the Nike JOGA3 futsal tournament, founded by Mazinho. Los Santos competed in the country grouping of UK & ROI (in the U-16 male category) at Old Trafford, Manchester.
Los Santos Province Los Santos is a province of Panama. The capital city is Las Tablas, which is famous for its carnivals, the Festival Nacional de la Pollera (National Festival of the Pollera), and the Festival of the Patron Santa Librada.
Los Silos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Los Silos is a municipality in the northwestern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It is located about 70 km ESW of the island's capital, NW of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and about 60 km NW of Reina Sofia Airport.
Los Straitjackets Los Straitjackets is a Nashville based band known primarily for performing instrumental rock & roll music. Members include guitarists Eddie Angel and Danny Amis, bassist Pete Curry, and drummer Jason Smay.
Los Tigres del Norte Los Tigres del Norte is one of the most popular Mexican norteño bands, from Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, Mexico. The group was started by Mexican immigrant Jorge Hernández, his brothers, and a cousin after he heard a song in the early 1970s about a couple of drug runners.
Los Tres Los Tres ("The threes") is a Chilean rock band composed in reality by four, not three, members: a rock/pop singer and 3 jazzmen. It was one of the most famous, successful and important bands in the Chilean nineties, together with La ley and Lucybell.
Los Tres (album) Los Tres (Alerce, 1991, 41:22) is an original album, the first by chilean rock band Los Tres, recorden and first released in 1991. The CD album includes 10 unpublished songs composed mainly by Alvaro Henriquez.
Los Tuxtlas The Los Tuxtlas region, very broadly, occupies parts of south central Veracruz state, in east central Mexico. The region includes the Sierra de los Tuxtlas and stretches from Laguna Alvarado, along the Gulf of Mexico, to Laguna del OstiĂłn, then along the westernmost tributaries of Laguna del OstiĂłn, to the northernmost tributaries of RĂo Coatzacoalcos, then along the RĂo San Juan to its merger with RĂo Papaloapan flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Los Zetas Los Zetas were rumored to be ex-Army Special forces, regular troopers, police agents and common criminals who worked for Osiel Cardenas in the drug trafficking business. Some were said to have received special-forces training under the U.
Los Zodiacs Los Zodiacs were a Peruvian rock music band of the late 1970s. They toured internationally with successful 45s such as Discos El Virrey, "Berta Lu", "Balada de la trompeta", "BĂ©same mucho", "Amor misterioso", "100 toneladas", and "What I Said".
Losaria coon The Common Clubtail, Losaria coon, a rare and beautiful member of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family, is native to India. The butterfly belongs to the Clubtail subgenus, Losaria, of the genus Atrophaneura or the Red Bodied Swallowtails.
Losaria rhodifer The Andaman Clubtail Losaria rhodifer, a rare and beautiful member of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family, is native to India. The butterfly belongs to the Clubtail subgenus, Losaria, of the genus Atrophaneura or the Red Bodied Swallowtails.
Lose Control (Kevin Federline song) "Lose Control" was the first single by Kevin Federline from his debut effort Playing with Fire. Federline closed the 2006 Teen Choice awards show on August 20 by performing his rap track, "Lose Control" after being introduced by his soon to be ex-wife Britney Spears ("My man, Kevin Federline!
Lose Hill Lose Hill lies in the Derbyshire Peak District. Also known as Ward's Piece, it is the south-west corner of the parish of Edale and the end of the Great Ridge that runs from Rushup Edge to the west (over Mam Tor, Hollins Cross and Back Tor).
Lose My Breath "Lose My Breath" is an R&B song written by Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Sean Garrett, and Jay-Z for Destiny's Child's fourth studio album, Destiny Fulfilled (2004). It was produced by Knowles and Jerkins and released as the album's lead single in autumn 2004.
Lose Yourself "Lose Yourself" is an Oscar-winning rap song written and produced by Eminem, released in 2002. At this time, he had recently made his debut as an actor in the film 8 Mile, a film based on his tough life growing up and entering the rap game.
Loseley Park Loseley Park is a historic manor house situated outside Guildford in Surrey, England near Compton. The estate was acquired by the direct descendants of the current owners, the More-Molyneux, at the beginning of the 15th century.
Losena Salabula Losena Tubanavau Salabula is a Fijian politician, who currently serves in the Cabinet as Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office. In this role, she undertakes assignments on behalf of the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase.
Loser (film) Loser is a 2000 romantic comedy film starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear. It is about a small town teenager who is accepted into the New York University and must cope with the pressures of the city.
Loser on loser Loser on loser play is a type of declarer's play in contract bridge, usually in trump contracts, where the declarer discards a loser card (the one that is bound to be given up anyway) on an opponent's winner, instead of ruffing.
Loser's Lounge Loser's Lounge is an ongoing tribute project which performs music by songwriters and bands like Queen, Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Diamond, Paul Williams, Lee Hazlewood, Devo, and David Bowie. Each show explores greater- and lesser-known works by a single artist, or pits two musical forces against one another (for example, Blondie vs.
Losers, Kings, and Things We Don't Understand Losers, Kings and Things We Don't Understand is the second full-length album by Less Than Jake, released on No Idea Records in 1995. The album itself is a compilation of every previous Less Than Jake release apart from their debut album Pezcore.
Losharik Losharik ( - after a cartoon character, a toy horse consisting of small spheres ("loshad'" - horse and "sharik" - small sphere)) - Russian submarine. The official name for this submarine type is "project 10831".
Losheim Gap The Losheim Gap was the opening in the US defences, which was the result of a strong thrust of German forces, in the opening phase of the Battle of the Bulge. The villages Losheim and Lanzerath (both part of the municipality of BĂĽllingen, eastern Belgium) marked the border between the sectors of U.
Loschmidt's paradox Loschmidt's paradox, also known as the reversibility paradox, is the objection that it should not be possible to deduce an irreversible process from time-symmetric dynamics. This puts the time reversal symmetry of (almost) all known low-level fundamental physical processes at odds with any attempt to infer from them the second law of thermodynamics which describes the behaviour of macroscopic systems.
Losi (mythology) In the traditions of Samoa, Losi was a giant and a son of Tagaloa, who instructed him to go and catch fish for the gods. Losi obeyed, but played a trick on the gods by laying a fish at the door of each of them, causing them to slip and fall.
Losing Grip "Losing Grip" is the fourth single and last single (except in Australia where "Mobile" was released) from Avril Lavigne's top 5 album Let Go. It is also her weakest United States single to date, only charting at #64 on the Billboard Hot 100; however, it did get some airplay in other countries, charting in the top 20 in Australia and the UK.
Losing My Edge CJLO Losing My Edge is a two-hour college radio show on CJLO that airs twice a week (Sunday 2pm - 4pm EST and Tuesday 8pm - 10pm EST). Musical genres showcased include but not limited to indie rock, punk rock, garage rock, psychedelia, noise, folk and pop.
Losiny Ostrov National Park Losiny Ostrov National Park (, literally - "Elk Island") is the first national park of Russia, located in Moscow and Moscow Oblast. It is presumed to be the largest forest in a city of comparable size.
Losna (lake) Losna is a lake which lies in the municipalities of Ringebu and Ăyer in Oppland county, Norway. Losna is a part of the GudbrandsdalslĂĄgen, which is in this region so broad and runs so slowly that this stretch is recognized as a lake.
Loss (baseball) In Major League Baseball, a loss (denoted L) is charged to the pitcher of the losing team who allows the run that gives the opposing team the lead which the game is won with (the go-ahead run). If a pitcher allows a run which gives the opposing team the lead but this lead is not held for the remainder of the game, that pitcher does not get the loss.
Loss aversion In prospect theory, loss aversion refers to the tendency for people to strongly prefer avoiding losses than acquiring gains. Some studies suggest that losses are as much as twice as psychologically powerful as gains.
Loss exchange ratio Usually relevant to a condition or state of war where one side depletes the resources of another through attrition. Specifically and most often used as a comparator in aerial combat, where it is known as a "kill-ratio.
Loss Exchange Ratio Loss-Exchange Ratio (LER) is a military term that calculates the comparative casualties suffered by each combatant from a battle, engagement or extended confligt. For example, at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863) during the American Civil War, the Union forces suffered approximately 23,000 casualties against 22,000 for the Confederacy — a loss-exchange ratio of roughly 1:1.
Loss function In statistics, decision theory and economics, a loss function is a function that maps an event (technically an element of a sample space) onto a real number representing the economic cost or regret associated with the event.
Loss leader In marketing, a loss leader (also called a key value item in the United Kingdom) is a type of pricing strategy where an item is sold below cost in an effort to stimulate other, profitable sales. It is a kind of sales promotion.
Loss of consortium Loss of consortium is a term used in the law of torts that refers to the deprivation of the benefits of a spousal relationship due to injuries caused by a tortfeasor. The relationship between husband and wife has, historically, been considered worthy of legal protection.
Loss of coolant A catastrophic loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) is a mode of failure for a nuclear reactor; in a nuclear reactor, the results of a LOCA could be catastrophic to the reactor, the facility that houses it, and the immediate vicinity around the reactor. Each plant's emergency core cooling system (ECCS) exists specifically to deal with a LOCA.
Loss of heterozygosity Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in a cell represents the loss of one parent's contribution to part of the cell's genome. A common occurrence in cancer, it often indicates the presence of tumor suppressor gene in the lost region.
Loss of chance in English law In English law loss of chance cases, the law is invited to assess hypothetical outcomes, either affecting the claimant or a third party, where the defendant's breach of contract or of the duty of care for the purposes of negligence deprived the claimant of the opportunity to obtain a benefit and/or avoid a loss. For these purposes, the remedy of damages is normally intended to compensate for the claimant's loss of expectation (alternative rationales include restitution and reliance).
Loss of significance Loss of significance is an undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic. It occurs when two nearly equal numbers are subtracted to produce a result much smaller than either of the original numbers.
Loss of Supply Loss of Supply occurs where a government in a parliamentary democracy is denied a supply of treasury or exchequer funds, by whichever house or houses of parliament or head of state is constitutionally entitled to grant and deny supply. A defeat on a budgetary vote is one such way by which supply can be denied.
Loss reserving Loss reserving or Claims reserving refers to the calculation of the required reserve for a tranche of general insurance business. Typically, the claims reserves represent the money which should be held by the insurer so as to be able to meet all future claims arising from policies currently in force and policies written in the past.
Lossless data compression Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. This can be contrasted to lossy data compression, which does not allow the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data.
Lossless JPEG The Joint Photographic Experts Group, in addition to their well-known lossy image compression techniques, JPEG and JPEG 2000, also have three standards for lossless compression (of which JPEG-LS has a lossy mode):
Lossless Predictive Audio Compression Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (LPAC) is an improved lossless audio compression algorithm developed by Tilman Liebchen, Marcus Purat and Peter Noll at Institute for Telecommunications, Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin), to compress PCM audio in a lossless manner, unlike conventional audio compression algorithms which are lossy.
Los Capitanes Los Capitanes are a 7-piece Canberra based ska band. Heralded by the media as "an explosive freakshow comprised of misfits and loners," Los Capitanes have honed and sharpened a style which defies accepted ska clichés to create their very own distinctive flavour.
Los Carayos Los Carayos was a French band which released four albums between 1986 and 1994. They were active mostly in Paris in the mid-1980s, but side interests of the musicians, notably of Manu Chao, did not allow the band to take off.
Los Cerritos Center The Los Cerritos Center in Cerritos, California is an upscale regional commercial shopping mall with a gross lease area of 1,288,245 square feet. It is located south of the San Gabriel River Freeway and Artesia Freeway junction.
Los Cinco Los Cinco is an unofficial collective of Latin American composers living and working in Los Angeles. These composers include: Daniel Catán, Miguel del Aguila, Aurelio de la Vega, Enrique González-Medina, and Carlos Rodriquez.
Los Cincos Pintores Los Cincos Pintores ("The Five Painters") was a "school" of Santa Fe artists who showed together beginning in the early 1920s. The artists were primarily concerned with southwestern landscape and the play of the light and its effect on color.
Los Cochinos Los Cochinos ("The Pigs") is a 1973 comedy album recorded by Cheech and Chong. The album's final track, "Basketball Jones," is a music track which features George Harrison on guitar and many other legendary musicians.
Los Conquistadores Los Conquistadores is the name of a professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Entertainment, the team consisted of two masked jobbers; Uno and Dos. Many wrestlers have played the part of a conquistador, though the costumes of the tag team has varied from an anonymous gold featureless masks and spandex body suits to blue and gold Japanese style wrestling masks and elaborate shoulder pads.
Los Cristianos Los Cristianos is a town with population approximately 11,500 (1991), situated on the south coast of the Canary Islands of Tenerife. Located in the municipality of Arona between the cone of Montaña Chayofita and the imposing Montaña Guaza, the town centre’s around the bay of Los Cristianos, but is rapidly expanding inland with modern development.
Los del RĂo Los del RĂo (Spanish for those from the river, referring to the Guadalquivir or the Guadaira) is a Spanish music duo (their names are Antonio Romero Monge and Rafael Ruiz).They are originally from the city section of Dos Hermanas in Seville.
Los Diamantes de Ojinaga Los Diamantes de Ojinaga is a norteño band from the rural northern Mexican town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua. Los Diamantes, like many other norteño bands from Ojinaga, use both the saxophone and accordion in their music.
Los Doce El Grupo de los Doce, or Group of Twelve, were a dozen members of the Nicaraguan establishment whose support for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) struggle against dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle played a pivotal role in the acceptance of the Sandinistas by foreign and domestic opinion.
Los Enanitos Verdes Los Enanitos Verdes (Little Green Dwarves) is a successful rock group from Argentina, formed in 1979 in the city of Mendoza. Throughout their career they have managed to gain important positions on Argentine and Latin American charts.
Los Four Los Four was a Chicano street art group that was influential during the 1970s and early 1980s in Los Angeles, California. The group helped bring mainstream art critics attention to the Chicano street art movement.
Los Fronterizos Los Fronterizos is an Argentine musical ensemble consisting of four men. The group was established in 1953 in the northern province of Salta -- bordering on Bolivia -- from which "Los Fronterizos" ("men of the frontier") is derived.
Los GarcĂa Los Garcia was a Puerto Rican television comedy show from the 1970s. Shown weekly on Ricavision channel 7, it depicted the fictional lifes of Los Garcia (The Garcias), a fictional family that was based on a real life family.
Los Gatos Creek The Los Gatos Creek is a short waterway in California that runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward through the Santa Clara Valley until its confluence with the Guadalupe River in downtown San Jose. The Guadalupe River then continues onward into San Francisco Bay.
Los Gatos Daily News The Los Gatos Daily News is a free daily newspaper in Los Gatos, California published 6 days a week with an average daily circulation of 8,000 copies per day. The newspaper was founded May 15, 2002 by Dave Price (journalist) and Jim Pavelich, who also published the Palo Alto Daily News.
Los Gatos High School Los Gatos High School (LGHS) is a high school in Los Gatos, California, a small town near San Jose in the Silicon Valley. Los Gatos High School was founded in 1908 and is part of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District.
Los Gatos Rowing Club The Los Gatos Rowing Club was started in 1979 to provide what was then mostly an eastern sport, to the kids in the Santa Clara Valley. In the past 20 years, more than 2,000 kids from 15 different high schools have passed through the program.
Los Gigantes Los Gigantes is a resort town in the Santiago del Teide province on the west coast of the Canary Island Tenerife. Its main feature are the giant rock formations that rise from the sea to a height of 500-800 metres after which the town has been named.
Los Guerreros Los Guerreros (The Guerreros) is a professional wrestling stable formed when two or more members of the Guerrero family become a tag team, regardless of the promotion. The most recent incarnation of the Los Guerreros stable was in World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown!
Los Hermanos Los Hermanos is an indie rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group was formed in 1997 by Marcelo Camelo (vocals/guitar), Patrick Laplan (bass), Rodrigo Amarante (flute/guitar/vocals), Rodrigo Barba (drums), and Bruno Medina (keyboards).
Los Hermanos Zuleta Los Hermanos Zuleta (Spanish for The Zuleta Brothers) are a renowned vallenato musical group that won the Latin Grammy Awards of 2006. Their name refers to the brothers Emiliano Alcides Zuleta and Tomás Alfonso Zuleta, who founded the group and are sons of Emiliano Zuleta, creator of the famously renown song La Gota Fria.
Los Herreras Los Herreras is a municipality in the Mexican State of Nuevo Leon and also the name of its seat of government and main population center. Los Herreras is at 281 meters above sea level and is located in the east-central part of the state.
Los Hooligans Productions Los Hooligans Productions was a production company founded by Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan in 1991. The name was borrowed from Rodriguez's own comic strip Los Hooligans which he illustrated for three years while at The University of Texas at Austin.
Los Juglares del Dexas Los Juglares del Dexas are a folk music group at Panama University, founded in 1971 to preserve Panamanian traditional music. The group's foundation was coordinated by Juan Andrés Castillo, a famous mejoranero; other founding members included violinists Escolastico "Colasco" Cortes and Miguel Leguizamo Sr.
Los lunes al sol Los lunes al sol ('Mondays in the Sun') is a 2002 Spanish film directed by Fernando LeĂłn de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem that talks about shipyard crisis in Vigo, Galicia. The film won five Goya Awards in 2003, including the awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Actor.
Los Llanos de Aridane Los Llanos de Aridane is both a municipality and a town in the Canary Islands on the island of La Palma in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Officially after the early-2000s, Los Llanos de Aridane grew to be larger than the capital Santa Cruz de La Palma and became the only municipality in the Canary Islands to be larger than the island capital in population.
Los Lunas Decalogue Stone The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone bears a very regular inscription carved into the flat face of a large boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain, near Los Lunas, New Mexico, about 35 miles south of Albuquerque. The inscription appears to be an abridged version of the Decalogue or Ten Commandments in a form of Paleo-Hebrew.
Los moonlights Los Moonlights was, maybe next to Los Delfines, the band with the most steady schedule of work in Uruguay during the years that rock music was worth a living. Formed at the end the 60s, they played live at the beginning of the following decade.
Los Mijos Mostly known as Mijos, Mijos are toy characters created by Dave Gonzales loosely based upon Chicano Mexican American characters,the mijos line include girls as well and other ethnicities of characters as well as Puerto Rican, African American, Caucasian. It's how he see "through the eyes of hispanic children.
Los Miserables Los Miserables is a well-known Chilean punk rock band formed in the early 1990s shortly after the demise of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet. The band is known for its songs charged with strong left-wing political ideas and anti-establishment commentary.
Los Niños de Sara Los Niños de Sara (in Spanish, "Sara's children") are Spanish-speaking Gypsies from Montpellier, France. They are cousins from Nimes, France, who have been playing together since they were 14 years old.
Los Nikis Los Nikis were a Spanish pop-punk group of the 1980s that were associated with la movida. They are considered somewhat like the Spanish Ramones with songs that feature very simple music and humorous lyrics and subject matter.
Los Ninos de Sara Los Niños de Sara are cousins from Nimes, France, who have been playing together since they were 14 years old. Described as a cross between the Gipsy Kings and Buena Vista Social Club, the group’s blend of rhumba and flamenco music features a touch of North African influence.
Los pastorcillos de Navidad Los pastorcillos de Navidad is a typical celebration holiday in the Amazonas region, Peru. The celebration of Christmas in Chachapoyas is unique in Peru and incomparably because of the presence of its tender and innocent protagonists: the children of the city.
Los pipitos In 1987, in Nicaragua's capital city Managua, when a woman gave birth to twins, both suffering with Down Syndrome, she and her family decided to found Los Pipitos, an Association of Parents with Handicapped Children. The news that an organisation like the Pipitos existed in Nicaragua travelled fast throughout the country.
Los Padres National Forest Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet.
Los Pepes Los Pepes, or the People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar, was a short-lived vigilante group composed of various enemies of narcotics kingpin Pablo Escobar. Los Pepes waged a bloody war against Escobar and his associates in the early 1990s.
Los PingĂĽinos Natural Monument Los PingĂĽinos Natural Monument (The Penguins Natural Monument) is located 35 km northeast of Punta Arenas, Chile. Magdalena Island, situated in the middle of the Strait of Magellan, is the main part of the this Natural Monument.
Los Pinchudos Los Pinchudos are an elaborate Chachapoya tomb complex, consisting of nine tombs built into a high rock cleft in one of Peru's northern Andean cloud forests. It's located in Rio Abiseo National Park, a natural and cultural World Heritage site that's guarded and closed to all except scientific missions.
Los Planetas Los Planetas (The Planets) is a Spanish pop-rock group from the city of Granada which started out in the second of half of the 1990s and continue now through the 2000s. The group's first hit was "Qué puedo hacer?
Los Pop Tops Los Pop Tops were a vocal/instrumental group formed in 1967 in Madrid, Spain and consisting of José Lipiani, Alberto Vega, Ignacio Pérez, Julián Luis Angulo, Enrique Gómez, Ray Gómez plus lead singer Phil Trim (born January 5, 1940 in Trinidad and Tobago).
Los Pozos The district of Los Pozos is a district of the Province of Herrera in the country of Panama. The district of Los Pozos is further divided into 9 sub-divisions, in Spanish corregimientos; Los Pozos, CapurĂ, El Calabacito, El Cedro, La Arena, La Pitaloza, Los Cerritos, Los Cerros de Paja, and Las Llanas.
Los Prisioneros Los Prisioneros was a Rock en Español band from San Miguel, Santiago, Chile formed in 1982. They began as a very influential local band during the early 1980s, once they signed to EMI in 1985, they reached mainstream success all over South America and Central America.
Los Quiroga Dam The Los Quiroga Dam (in Spanish, Dique Los Quiroga) is a dam on the course of the Dulce River, in the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. It is located near the provincial capital Santiago del Estero and the city of La Banda.
Los Ratones Paranoicos Los Ratones Paranoicos is an Argentine music band, formed in 1984. The lead singer and guitar was Juan Sebastián Gutiérrez ("Juanse"), drummer Rubén Eduardo Quiroga ("Roy"), base player Pablo Memi and backup singer and guitar Pablo Cano ("Sarcófago").
Los Realejos Los Realejos is a medium-sized town located on the north side of the island of Tenerife (which forms part of the Canary Islands) and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It is located W of Puerto de la Cruz and La Orotava, about 42 km SSW of the island's capital, N of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and about 80 km N of Reina Sofia Airport.
Los Reyes (TV series) Los Reyes ("The Reyes" - Reyes also means kings) is a popular telenovela filmed in Colombia and produced by the Colombian network, RCN (Radio Cadena Nacional - "National Radio Network"). It debuted in 2005.
Los Rios Community College District The Los Rios Community College District is a special district providing administrative services and governance for the community colleges serving the greater Sacramento area and points east all the way to Lake Tahoe (map). Common administrative services such as human resources, purchasing, accounting, and information technology are provided for the colleges at a separate off-campus district office complex.
Los Roldán Los Roldán was a highly successful Spanish language telenovela (or soap opera), which was produced, from 2004 to 2005, by Argentina's Telefe. The show, which is described by many as a comedy as well, actually ended up winning an award as Argentina's comedy of the year in 2004, and was successful in Mexico, Central and South America, and the United States, where Hispanic viewers saw it through DirecTV's satellite dishes.
Los Roques Archipelago The Los Roques islands are a federal dependency of Venezuela, consisting of about 50 islands, cays or islets. The archipelago is an atoll located some 145 Km (80 miles) directly north of the port of La Guaira, close to Caracas.
Los Ruiles "Los Ruiles" is a small national park or reserve located in the easternmost part of the municipality of Pelluhue, Province of Cauquenes, Maule Region, Chile. The park lies in the foothills of the "Cordillera de la Costa".
Los Santos (JOGA3) Los Santos, full official name Liverpool Los Santos [JOGA3], was a team in the Nike JOGA3 futsal tournament, founded by Mazinho. Los Santos competed in the country grouping of UK & ROI (in the U-16 male category) at Old Trafford, Manchester.
Los Santos Province Los Santos is a province of Panama. The capital city is Las Tablas, which is famous for its carnivals, the Festival Nacional de la Pollera (National Festival of the Pollera), and the Festival of the Patron Santa Librada.
Los Silos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Los Silos is a municipality in the northwestern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It is located about 70 km ESW of the island's capital, NW of Los Cristianos and Las Américas of Arona and about 60 km NW of Reina Sofia Airport.
Los Straitjackets Los Straitjackets is a Nashville based band known primarily for performing instrumental rock & roll music. Members include guitarists Eddie Angel and Danny Amis, bassist Pete Curry, and drummer Jason Smay.
Los Tigres del Norte Los Tigres del Norte is one of the most popular Mexican norteño bands, from Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, Mexico. The group was started by Mexican immigrant Jorge Hernández, his brothers, and a cousin after he heard a song in the early 1970s about a couple of drug runners.
Los Tres Los Tres ("The threes") is a Chilean rock band composed in reality by four, not three, members: a rock/pop singer and 3 jazzmen. It was one of the most famous, successful and important bands in the Chilean nineties, together with La ley and Lucybell.
Los Tres (album) Los Tres (Alerce, 1991, 41:22) is an original album, the first by chilean rock band Los Tres, recorden and first released in 1991. The CD album includes 10 unpublished songs composed mainly by Alvaro Henriquez.
Los Tuxtlas The Los Tuxtlas region, very broadly, occupies parts of south central Veracruz state, in east central Mexico. The region includes the Sierra de los Tuxtlas and stretches from Laguna Alvarado, along the Gulf of Mexico, to Laguna del OstiĂłn, then along the westernmost tributaries of Laguna del OstiĂłn, to the northernmost tributaries of RĂo Coatzacoalcos, then along the RĂo San Juan to its merger with RĂo Papaloapan flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Los Zetas Los Zetas were rumored to be ex-Army Special forces, regular troopers, police agents and common criminals who worked for Osiel Cardenas in the drug trafficking business. Some were said to have received special-forces training under the U.
Los Zodiacs Los Zodiacs were a Peruvian rock music band of the late 1970s. They toured internationally with successful 45s such as Discos El Virrey, "Berta Lu", "Balada de la trompeta", "BĂ©same mucho", "Amor misterioso", "100 toneladas", and "What I Said".
Losaria coon The Common Clubtail, Losaria coon, a rare and beautiful member of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family, is native to India. The butterfly belongs to the Clubtail subgenus, Losaria, of the genus Atrophaneura or the Red Bodied Swallowtails.
Losaria rhodifer The Andaman Clubtail Losaria rhodifer, a rare and beautiful member of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family, is native to India. The butterfly belongs to the Clubtail subgenus, Losaria, of the genus Atrophaneura or the Red Bodied Swallowtails.
Lose Control (Kevin Federline song) "Lose Control" was the first single by Kevin Federline from his debut effort Playing with Fire. Federline closed the 2006 Teen Choice awards show on August 20 by performing his rap track, "Lose Control" after being introduced by his soon to be ex-wife Britney Spears ("My man, Kevin Federline!
Lose Hill Lose Hill lies in the Derbyshire Peak District. Also known as Ward's Piece, it is the south-west corner of the parish of Edale and the end of the Great Ridge that runs from Rushup Edge to the west (over Mam Tor, Hollins Cross and Back Tor).
Lose My Breath "Lose My Breath" is an R&B song written by Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Sean Garrett, and Jay-Z for Destiny's Child's fourth studio album, Destiny Fulfilled (2004). It was produced by Knowles and Jerkins and released as the album's lead single in autumn 2004.
Lose Yourself "Lose Yourself" is an Oscar-winning rap song written and produced by Eminem, released in 2002. At this time, he had recently made his debut as an actor in the film 8 Mile, a film based on his tough life growing up and entering the rap game.
Loseley Park Loseley Park is a historic manor house situated outside Guildford in Surrey, England near Compton. The estate was acquired by the direct descendants of the current owners, the More-Molyneux, at the beginning of the 15th century.
Losena Salabula Losena Tubanavau Salabula is a Fijian politician, who currently serves in the Cabinet as Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office. In this role, she undertakes assignments on behalf of the Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase.
Loser (film) Loser is a 2000 romantic comedy film starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear. It is about a small town teenager who is accepted into the New York University and must cope with the pressures of the city.
Loser on loser Loser on loser play is a type of declarer's play in contract bridge, usually in trump contracts, where the declarer discards a loser card (the one that is bound to be given up anyway) on an opponent's winner, instead of ruffing.
Loser's Lounge Loser's Lounge is an ongoing tribute project which performs music by songwriters and bands like Queen, Serge Gainsbourg, Neil Diamond, Paul Williams, Lee Hazlewood, Devo, and David Bowie. Each show explores greater- and lesser-known works by a single artist, or pits two musical forces against one another (for example, Blondie vs.
Losers, Kings, and Things We Don't Understand Losers, Kings and Things We Don't Understand is the second full-length album by Less Than Jake, released on No Idea Records in 1995. The album itself is a compilation of every previous Less Than Jake release apart from their debut album Pezcore.
Losharik Losharik ( - after a cartoon character, a toy horse consisting of small spheres ("loshad'" - horse and "sharik" - small sphere)) - Russian submarine. The official name for this submarine type is "project 10831".
Losheim Gap The Losheim Gap was the opening in the US defences, which was the result of a strong thrust of German forces, in the opening phase of the Battle of the Bulge. The villages Losheim and Lanzerath (both part of the municipality of BĂĽllingen, eastern Belgium) marked the border between the sectors of U.
Loschmidt's paradox Loschmidt's paradox, also known as the reversibility paradox, is the objection that it should not be possible to deduce an irreversible process from time-symmetric dynamics. This puts the time reversal symmetry of (almost) all known low-level fundamental physical processes at odds with any attempt to infer from them the second law of thermodynamics which describes the behaviour of macroscopic systems.
Losi (mythology) In the traditions of Samoa, Losi was a giant and a son of Tagaloa, who instructed him to go and catch fish for the gods. Losi obeyed, but played a trick on the gods by laying a fish at the door of each of them, causing them to slip and fall.
Losing Grip "Losing Grip" is the fourth single and last single (except in Australia where "Mobile" was released) from Avril Lavigne's top 5 album Let Go. It is also her weakest United States single to date, only charting at #64 on the Billboard Hot 100; however, it did get some airplay in other countries, charting in the top 20 in Australia and the UK.
Losing My Edge CJLO Losing My Edge is a two-hour college radio show on CJLO that airs twice a week (Sunday 2pm - 4pm EST and Tuesday 8pm - 10pm EST). Musical genres showcased include but not limited to indie rock, punk rock, garage rock, psychedelia, noise, folk and pop.
Losiny Ostrov National Park Losiny Ostrov National Park (, literally - "Elk Island") is the first national park of Russia, located in Moscow and Moscow Oblast. It is presumed to be the largest forest in a city of comparable size.
Losna (lake) Losna is a lake which lies in the municipalities of Ringebu and Ăyer in Oppland county, Norway. Losna is a part of the GudbrandsdalslĂĄgen, which is in this region so broad and runs so slowly that this stretch is recognized as a lake.
Loss (baseball) In Major League Baseball, a loss (denoted L) is charged to the pitcher of the losing team who allows the run that gives the opposing team the lead which the game is won with (the go-ahead run). If a pitcher allows a run which gives the opposing team the lead but this lead is not held for the remainder of the game, that pitcher does not get the loss.
Loss aversion In prospect theory, loss aversion refers to the tendency for people to strongly prefer avoiding losses than acquiring gains. Some studies suggest that losses are as much as twice as psychologically powerful as gains.
Loss exchange ratio Usually relevant to a condition or state of war where one side depletes the resources of another through attrition. Specifically and most often used as a comparator in aerial combat, where it is known as a "kill-ratio.
Loss Exchange Ratio Loss-Exchange Ratio (LER) is a military term that calculates the comparative casualties suffered by each combatant from a battle, engagement or extended confligt. For example, at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863) during the American Civil War, the Union forces suffered approximately 23,000 casualties against 22,000 for the Confederacy — a loss-exchange ratio of roughly 1:1.
Loss function In statistics, decision theory and economics, a loss function is a function that maps an event (technically an element of a sample space) onto a real number representing the economic cost or regret associated with the event.
Loss leader In marketing, a loss leader (also called a key value item in the United Kingdom) is a type of pricing strategy where an item is sold below cost in an effort to stimulate other, profitable sales. It is a kind of sales promotion.
Loss of consortium Loss of consortium is a term used in the law of torts that refers to the deprivation of the benefits of a spousal relationship due to injuries caused by a tortfeasor. The relationship between husband and wife has, historically, been considered worthy of legal protection.
Loss of coolant A catastrophic loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) is a mode of failure for a nuclear reactor; in a nuclear reactor, the results of a LOCA could be catastrophic to the reactor, the facility that houses it, and the immediate vicinity around the reactor. Each plant's emergency core cooling system (ECCS) exists specifically to deal with a LOCA.
Loss of heterozygosity Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in a cell represents the loss of one parent's contribution to part of the cell's genome. A common occurrence in cancer, it often indicates the presence of tumor suppressor gene in the lost region.
Loss of chance in English law In English law loss of chance cases, the law is invited to assess hypothetical outcomes, either affecting the claimant or a third party, where the defendant's breach of contract or of the duty of care for the purposes of negligence deprived the claimant of the opportunity to obtain a benefit and/or avoid a loss. For these purposes, the remedy of damages is normally intended to compensate for the claimant's loss of expectation (alternative rationales include restitution and reliance).
Loss of significance Loss of significance is an undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic. It occurs when two nearly equal numbers are subtracted to produce a result much smaller than either of the original numbers.
Loss of Supply Loss of Supply occurs where a government in a parliamentary democracy is denied a supply of treasury or exchequer funds, by whichever house or houses of parliament or head of state is constitutionally entitled to grant and deny supply. A defeat on a budgetary vote is one such way by which supply can be denied.
Loss reserving Loss reserving or Claims reserving refers to the calculation of the required reserve for a tranche of general insurance business. Typically, the claims reserves represent the money which should be held by the insurer so as to be able to meet all future claims arising from policies currently in force and policies written in the past.
Lossless data compression Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. This can be contrasted to lossy data compression, which does not allow the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data.
Lossless JPEG The Joint Photographic Experts Group, in addition to their well-known lossy image compression techniques, JPEG and JPEG 2000, also have three standards for lossless compression (of which JPEG-LS has a lossy mode):
Lossless Predictive Audio Compression Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (LPAC) is an improved lossless audio compression algorithm developed by Tilman Liebchen, Marcus Purat and Peter Noll at Institute for Telecommunications, Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin), to compress PCM audio in a lossless manner, unlike conventional audio compression algorithms which are lossy.
Information are taken from Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia, to which contribute many volunteers from around the whole world. Texts are available under the following conditions GNU Free Documentation License.
Encyklopedie (cz) Encyklopédia (sk) Enzyklopädie (de)