Encyclopedia

Leucogranite Leucogranites are amongst the youngest intrusions related to anatexis of continental crust anywhere in the world. Leucogranites are commonly found in deformed metapelitic/metagraywacke sequences that have been thrusted over basements during crustal thickening associated with continental collisions.
Leucophyllum Leucophyllum is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the plantago family Plantaginaceae, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. The dozen-odd species are often called "sages", although they have no relationship to the genus Salvia.
Leucopogon Leucopogon is a genus of about 150-160 species of shrubby flowering plants belonging to the family Ericaceae, in the section of that family formerly treated as the separate family Epacridaceae. They are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the western Pacific Islands and Malaysia, with the greatest species diversity in southeastern Australia.
Leucopogon verticillatus Leucopogon verticillatus, or Tassel flower, is the tallest epacrid in Western Australia. Its striking form and similarity to bamboo made it the first Western Australia export to Japan, where it is used in flower arrangement.
Leucospermum Leucospermum (Pincushion, Pincushion Protea or Leucospermum) is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, native to Zimbabwe and South Africa, where they occupy a variety of habitats, including scrub, forest, and mountain slopes.
Leucospidae The Leucospidae (sometimes incorrectly spelled Leucospididae) are a small, specialized group within the Chalcidoidea, composed exclusively of ectoparasitoids of aculeate wasps or bees. They are typically mimics of bees or stinging wasps, often black with yellow, red, or white markings, sometimes metallic, with a robust mesosoma and very strong sculpturing.
Leuctra Leuctra was a village in ancient Greece, in Boeotia, seven miles southwest of Thebes. It is primarily known today as the site of the important 371 BC Battle of Leuctra in which the Thebans, under Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
Leuchars Leuchars (Scottish Gaelic: Luachar) is a small town near the north east coast of Fife in Scotland, sited nearly 2 miles (3 km) to the north of the village of Guardbridge which lies on the north bank of the River Eden where it widens to the Edenmouth estuary before joining the North Sea at St Andrews Bay. Leuchars lies 7 miles (11 km) north east of Cupar and 6 miles (9.
Leukaemia Research Leukaemia Research is a British charitable organisation, established in 1960 whose aim is to research leukaemia, lymphomas, myeloma, aplastic anaemia, myelodysplasia, the myeloproliferative disorders and the related blood disorders in both children and adults.
Leukapheresis Leukapheresis is a laboratory procedure in which white blood cells are separated from a sample of blood. This may be done to decrease a very high white blood cell count in individuals with cancer (leukemia) or to remove white blood cells for transfusion.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. The Society's mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Leukemia inhibitory factor Leukemia inhibitory factor, or LIF, an interleukin 6 class cytokine, is a chemical in cells that affects their growth and development. LIF derives its name from its ability to induce the terminal differentiation of myeloid leukaemic cells.
Leukemoid reaction The term leukemoid reaction, also referred to as transient myeloproliferative disorder, describes an elevated white blood cell count, or leukocytosis, that is a physiologic response to stress or infection (as opposed to a primary blood malignancy, such as leukemia).
Leukocyte Promoting Factor Leukocyte promomoting factor is a cytokine/hormone that is produced by neutrophils when they encounter a foreign antigen. It stimulates the bone marrow to increase the rate of leukopoiesis, in order to replace the neutrophils that will inevitably be lost when they begin to phagocytize the foreign antigens.
Leukopoiesis Leukopoiesis is a form of haematopoiesis in which white blood cells (WBC, or leukocytes) are formed in the bone marrow. WBCs arise from the maturation of hemocytoblasts, which are the general stem cell for all blood cells and platelets, into various pluripotential stem cells which can then further differentiate into the different classes of WBCs.
Leum Uilleim Leum Uilleim is a mountain in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland which is best-known for its appearance in the film Trainspotting. It is situated about 3 km south-west of the remote Corrour railway station, but is considerably further from any road.
Leumund Cult Jan Theiler, alias Pastor Leumund, born 1967, Germany. In the 1990's he was an influential curator, performance artist and musician on the underground scene organising large-scale music and performance events at various venues including the Kunst Haus, Tacheles.
Leung Kwok-hung Leung Kwok-hung (梁國雄), also known as Long Hair (長毛) is a political activist in Hong Kong, China. He was born on March 27, 1956 in British Hong Kong with family root in Zengcheng, Guangdong Province, China.
Leung Long Chau Leung Long Chau (梁朗秋) is a Chinese poet and calligrapher. Born in the early 1910s in Guangdong Province, China, he spent his childhood there and later received his graduate education at the Guangdong Medical Research Institute, until in the late 1920s he married Ho Wing Yuet and settled down in Hong Kong.
Leung Siu-Lung Leung Siu-Lung, born in 1948 in Hong Kong, is an actor who has appeared in many Hong Kong martial arts movies. He often appeared billed as "Bruce Leung," "Bruce Liang," "Bruce Leong," or "Bruce Leung Siu-Lung," and is thus generally grouped among the Bruce Lee clones that sprang up after Lee's death in the odd subgenre known as Bruceploitation.
Leung Yiu Chung The Honourable Leung Yiu Chung (Chinese: 梁耀忠, born May 19, 1953) is member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 1995, except for a period between 1997 and 1998. Since 1998 he represents the New Territories West.
Leuni The Leuni were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Minho, between the rivers Lima and Minho.
Leupung Leupung -- also spelled "Leupueng", is a town in the district (Kabupaten/Kota) of Aceh Besar, close to the city of Banda Aceh, the capital of the special territory of Aceh, Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra. Leupung is located at 5'31" North latitude and 95'15" East longitude at an elevation of 33 m.
Leura, New South Wales Leura is a suburb in the City of Blue Mountains Local Government Area in New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the series of small towns stretched along the Blue Mountains railway line and Great Western Highway that bisects the Blue Mountains National Park.
Leuren Moret Leuren Moret is a former scientific laboratory employee who has become known for her involvement in a controversy on the health and environmental effects of depleted uranium. Professionals in radiation safety have claimed that she is working outside her area of expertise.
Leuschner (crater) Leuschner is a lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, to the northwest of the Montes Cordillera. It lies to the north of the Grachev crater, in the outer skirt of ejecta surrounding the Mare Orientale impact basin.
Leuschner Observatory Leuschner Observatory is the student observatory of the University of California, Berkeley. It is named for early Berkeley astronomer Armin Otto Leuschner who founded the original Student Observatory on the Berkeley campus in the 1890s.
Leuthen Chorale The Leuthen Chorale was a tune originally composed in the seventeenth century by Johannes CrĂĽger, tutor to the von Blumenthal family and Director of Music at the Nikolaikirche in Berlin. It was used as the setting for Martin Luther's hymn Nun danket alle Gott (sung in English to the same tune as Now thank we all our God).
Leuven Leuven (French Louvain, German Löwen) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Flanders, Belgium. The municipality comprises the historical city of Leuven and the adjacent villages of Heverlee, Kessel-Lo, a part of Korbeek-Lo, Wilsele and Wijgmaal.
Leuven Town Hall The Town Hall (Dutch: Stadhuis) of Leuven, Belgium, is a landmark building on that city's Grote Markt (Main Market) square, across from the monumental St Peter's Church. Built in a Brabantine Late Gothic style between 1448 and 1469, it is famous for its ornate architecture, crafted in lace-like detail.
Leuville Cemetery Leuville-sur-Orge is a French town 25 km south of Paris whose cemetery is a burial ground to many prominent Georgian political emigres who had left country after the Soviet invasion of Georgia of 1921. Among them are the members of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Exile.
Lev Artsimovich Lev Andreevich Artsimovich (Арцимович, Лев Андреевич in Russian) (25 February 1909 (NS) – March 1 1973) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1957), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969).
Lev Cardinal Skrbenský z Hříště Lev Cardinal Skrbenský z Hříště (ger. Lev Kardinal Skrbenský von Hříště, also spelt Skrebensky; born June 12, 1863, Hausdorf, Moravia, Austria-Hungary; died December 24, 1938, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia) was a prominent prelate in the Catholic Church during the early twentieth century.
Lev Gleason Publications Lev Gleason Publications, founded by Leverett Gleason, was the publisher of a number of popular comic books during the 1940s and early 1950s, including Daredevil, Crime Does Not Pay, Captain Battle and Boy Comics.
Lev HaMifratz Railway Station Lev HaMifratz Railway Station (, Tachanat HaRakevet Lev HaMifratz) is an Israel Railways passenger station in Haifa, Israel, serving Lev Hamifratz Mall (, Heart of the Bay Mall), one of Haifa's largest malls, and the surrounding Haifa-Bay industrial zone just north of Haifa.
Lev Ivanov Lev Ivanovich Ivanov (1834 – 1901) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer and later, "Second Balletmaster" of the Imperial Ballet. In 1892, due to the ill health of the venerable Imperial Balletmaster, Marius Petipa, Ivanov was charged with choreographing the entirety of The Nutcracker (1892) which he did, though closly following Petipa's notes and libretto.
Lev Kamenev (Russian: Лев Борисович Каменев, born Rosenfeld, Розенфельд) ( – August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and a founding member (1919) and later chairman (1923-1924) of the ruling Politburo.
Lev Kassil Lev Kassil (Russian: Лев Кассиль) (1905 - 1970) was a Russian writer. In his novels and short stories, Lev Kassil, wrote about contemporary Russian and Soviet life, about teenagers and their world, about school, sports, cultural life and the war.
Lev Knipper Lev Konstantinovich Knipper (Лев Константинович Книппер) ( in Tbilisi - 30 July 1974 in Moscow), a Russian composer of partially German descent and an active OGPU - NKVD (Soviet secret police) agent.
Lev Kuleshov Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Лев Владимирович Кулешов; in Tambov - 29 March 1970 in Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker known for his work on film editing and the impact it has on the viewers. The Kuleshov Experiment showed the ability of viewers to associate emotions with images.
Lev Landau Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian language: Ле́в Дави́дович Ланда́у) (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. His accomplishments include the co-discovery of the density matrix method in quantum mechanics, the quantum mechanical theory of diamagnetism, the theory of superfluidity, the theory of second order phase transitions, the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, the explanation of Landau damping in plasma physics, the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, and the two-component theory of neutrinos.
Lev LaOlim Lev LaOlim (Hebrew: לב לעולים, Heart to the Immigrants) is a political party in Israel, where it is also known as Lev (Hebrew: לב, Heart). It is not related to the Lev party that existed for a few minutes during the 15th Knesset.
Lev Leviev Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born July 30, 1956 in Tashkent) is an Israeli billionaire businessman with wide-ranging interests, including the diamond trade, real estate and chemicals. He is also a supporter of Jewish philanthropic causes and is president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC), an umbrella body representing Jewish communities across the former Soviet Union.
Lev Lobodin Lev Lobodin (born April 1, 1969 in Voronezh) is a decathlete from Russia, having changed nationality from Ukraine at the end of 1996. His best achievement was the silver medal at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.
Lev Manovich Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. His book The Language of New Media has received over 50 reviews and was translated into Italian, Korean, Polish and Chinese.
Lev Mikhailovich Dovator Lev Mikhailovich Dovator (1903 - December 19, 1941) was a Soviet major-general and a Hero of the Soviet Union (1941). Dovator was one of only a handful of Jewish generals in the Red Army in the Second World War, and one of the youngest as well.
Lev Nussimbaum Lev Nussimbaum (1905 - 1942) was a prolific Jewish writer who reinvented himself as a Muslim under the pseudonyms Essad Bey and Kurban Said. Despite his being an ethnic Jew, his politics were such that, before his origins were discovered, the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds".
Lev Polugaevsky Lev Polugaevsky (sometimes transliterated Polugayevsky; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title. He was one of the strongest players from the world from the late 1960s until the early 1980s, as well as a distinguished author and opening theorist whose contributions in this field remain important to the present day.
Lev Pontryagin Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (Russian: Лев Семёнович Понтрягин) (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow and lost his eyesight in a primus stove explosion when he was 14.
Lev Rapoport Lev Pavlovich Rapoport (Russian language: Лев Павлович Рапопорт) (January 13, 1920 – September 15, 2000) was well known for his pioneering works in nuclear and atomic theoretical physics. His first works in this field concerned the simplest of atoms, atomic hydrogen, and, more specifically, light scattering from, and two-photon ionization of,
Lev Shestov Lev Isaakovich Shestov (), born Yehuda Leyb Schwarzmann ()) was a Russian - Jewish existentialist philosopher. Born in Kiev (Russian Empire) on January 31 (February 13) 1866, he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution.
Lev Schnirelmann Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (), also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man (born January 2, 1905 in Gomel, died September 24, 1938 in Moscow) was a Soviet mathematician who sought to prove Goldbach's conjecture. In 1931, using the Brun sieve, he proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than 300,000 prime numbers.
Lev tahor The Lev Tahor are a Hasidic group founded by Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans who live in a secluded settlemant on the edge of the Laurentian town of Ste Agathe des Monts. The settlemant currently houses around a dozen families and has been accused of being a cult by other Hasidic groups and rabbis.
Lev Vygotsky Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (Лев Семенович Выготский) (November 17 (November 5 Old Style), 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet developmental psychologist and the founder of the Cultural-historical psychology.
Lev Zhurbin Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin (born August 18, 1978 in Moscow, Russia) is a composer, violist, and arranger. A frequent collaborator with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project Ensemble and the Kronos Quartet, Ljova is the author of over 70 original compositions for classical, jazz, and folk music ensembles.
Levallois SC Levallois Sporting Club is a French association football team founded in 1941. They are based in Levallois-Perret, France and are currently playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs Group A, the fourth tier in the French football league system.
Levan (son of Vakhtang V) Prince Levan (ლევან ბატონიშვილი, Levan Batonishvili), also known by his Persian name Shah-Quli Khan (born ca 1660 – died July 13, 1709, Isfahan, Iran) was a Georgian prince (batonishvili) and the fourth son of the king of Kartli Shahnawaz (Vakhtang V).
Levan Chilashvili Levan Chilashvili (August 17, 1930 – April 26, 2004) was a famous Georgian archaeologist and historian, an academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Professor.
Levan Ramishvili Levan Ramishvili (28 March, 1973) is a key figure in the Georgia’s democracy movement, which successfully forced authoritarian Eduard Shevardnadze to resign through strategic nonviolent action. Since 1996 he is one of the founders and director of the prominent Georgian human rights and public interest advocacy organization, the Liberty Institute.
Levan Razikashvili Captain Levan Razikashvili (1895-1924), the son of the famous Georgian poet Vazha-Pshavela (Luka Razikashvili), was a Georgian guerilla fighter who was actively involved in the 1924 August Uprising against the Soviet occupation. He was killed by the Red Army soldiers in one of the skirmishes in the eastern Georgian mountains.
Levant The Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. The Levant does not include the Caucasus Mountains, any part of the Arabian Peninsula proper, or Anatolia — although at times Cilicia may be included.
Levant bole Levant bole is an earthy clay brought from the Levant, and historically used in medicine for the same purposes as Armenian bole. It was indeed so similar to Armenian bole that some believed them both to be the same, or at least mixtures of each other.
Levant Company In English trading history, the Levant Company, or Turkey Company, was a chartered company formed in 1581, after London merchants petitioned Queen Elizabeth I in 1580 for a charter to begin trading in the Levant exclusively. The company established trade centers, such as the Levant Factory in Aleppo, as well as Istanbul and Smyrna (present day Ä°zmir).
Levante, Spain Levante, also referred to as El Levante (Spanish) or El Llevant (Valencian), is a name used to refer to the eastern Mediterranean coastal region of Spain. It includes Valencia, Murcia and the eastern part of Castilla-La Mancha.
Levantine cuisine Levantine cuisine is the traditional cuisine of the Levant region. Though now divided into Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel the region was a more united entity before the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and shared most of the same culinary traditions.
Levantine mansions of İzmir Great Levantine mansions of İzmir (Turkish: İzmir Levanten köşkleri) refer to about fifty stately residences, dating principally from the 19th century and of which a significant number remain intact to this day, by being restored and continuing to be used and visited, in İzmir, Turkey. They were built either by prominent Levantines or by European merchants or consuls residing in the city.
Levar Woods LeVar Woods, born on March 15, 1978, is a NFL linebacker for the Detroit Lions He is 6'3 and weighs 245 pounds. Woods previously attended college at Iowa and played with the Arizona Cardinals from 2001 to 2004.
Levý Hradec Levý Hradec is an early medieval Bohemian hill fort situated 10 km northwest of Prague near Roztoky, in the Czech Republic. This fortificated hillfort served as the original seat of Bořivoj I, the first known Premyslid ruler.
Levee A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, "to raise"), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial embankment or dike, usually earthen, which parallels the course of a river. The word levee seems to have come into English through its use in colonial Louisiana.
Levee failures in Greater New Orleans, 2005 In 2005, as a result of Hurricane Katrina, there were extensive failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana and surrounding communities. There were also extensive subsequent investigations by civil engineers to attempt to identify the underlying reasons for the failures.
Level (computer and video games) In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, zone, course, episode, round, world, map, wave, board, phase, or landscape) is a separate area in a game's virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city.
Level (music) A level (van der Merwe 1989, also "tonality level", Kubik's "tonal step", and John Blacking's "root progression") is a temporary modal frame contrasted with another built on a different foundation note. It is more general and basic than a chord and is found in Asian, African, and Celtic folk musics and in European Renaissance music.
Level 27 Clothing Level 27 Clothing (sometimes typeset as "LeVeL 27 Clothing" to fit the logo) is an American clothing company founded in 2001 and owned by Billy Martin from the band Good Charlotte and his best friend Steve Sievers.
Level 7 Level 7 is a 1959 science fiction novel by the American writer Mordecai Roshwald. It is told from the first person perspective (diary) of a modern soldier X-127 living in the underground military complex Level 7, where he was expected to reside permanently, fulliling the role of commanding his nation's nuclear weapons.
Level 9 (TV series) Level 9 was an American television program broadcast on UPN, first aired in 2000. The plot revolved around a secret agency within the government, staffed by government agents, tech-savy geeks, and former criminal hackers, which is tasked with solving/preventing cyber crimes.
Level 9 Computing Level 9 was a British computer adventure game company who produced some of the most advanced games of the 1980s. Founded in 1981 by Michael, Nicholas and Pete Austin, the company produced about 20 games for BBC Micro, Nascom, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Oric, Atari, Lynx 48k, RML 380Z, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Apple II, Memotech MTX, and Enterprise until the commercial declining market of the text adventure genre forced their closure in June 1991.
Level crossing The term level crossing (also called a railroad crossing, railway crossing, train crossing or grade crossing) is a crossing on one level ("at-grade intersection") — without recourse to a bridge or tunnel — of a railway line by a road, path, or another railroad. It also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way (or a reserved track tramway) crosses a road; the term "metro" usually means that there are no level crossings (i.
Level design Level design or game mapping is the creation of levels—locales, stages, or missions—for a video game (such as a console game or computer game). This is done using level design tools, special software usually developed just for the purpose of building levels.
Level designer A level designer is a person who creates levels, challenges or missions for computer and/or video games using a specific set of programs. These programs may be commonly available commercial 3D or 2D design programs, or specially designed and tailored level editors made for a specific game.
Level editor A level editor (also known as a map, campaign or scenario editor) is a software application used to design levels, maps, or campaigns for a computer or video game. In some cases the creator of a video game releases an official level editor for a game, but other times the community of fans steps in to fill the void.
Level II trauma center In the United States a Level II trauma center provides emergency medicine to trauma patients who do not need the services of a Level I trauma center. A Level II trauma center is required to have a certain number of surgeons and anesthesiologists on call 24 hours a day.
Level of Invention Level of Invention (or Degree of Inventiveness, or Level of solution, or Rank of solution, or Rank of invention) is a relative degree of changes to the previous system (or solution) in the result of solution of inventive problem (one containing a contradiction). Term was defined and introduced by TRIZ author G.
Level of measurement The level of measurement of a variable in mathematics and statistics is a classification that was proposed in order to describe the nature of information contained within numbers assigned to objects and, therefore, within the variable. The levels were proposed by Stanley Smith Stevens in his 1946 article On the theory of scales of measurement.
Level of Mendalgief The Level of Mendalgief () is a small area to the south west of the city centre of the city of Newport in the Pill ward. The level is bounded by Cardiff Road to the north, Mendalgief Road to the east, Docks Way to the south and the Great Western Main Line to the west.
Level of service Level of service is a measure by which transportation planners reckon the quality of service on transportation devices, or transportation infrastructure, generally linked to transportation time (the shorter, the better) and thus to speed.
Level of support for evolution The level of support for evolution is a frequently disputed topic in the creation-evolution controversy. Although evolutionary theory is almost universally supported by biologists on the grounds that there is overwhelming evidence of evolution, creationists frequently assert that there is a significant scientific controversy or disagreement over the validity of evolution.
Level playing field A level playing field is a concept about fairness, not that each player has an equal chance to succeed, but that they all play by the same set of rules. A metaphorical playing field is said to be level if no external interference such as government regulations affects the ability of the players to compete fairly.
Level Playing Field Institute The Level Playing Field Institute is a non-profit organization which promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces. The work of the institute is divided into five key areas: Higher education programs, workplace programs, practical research, awareness campaigns, and strategic funding.
Level sensor There are many physical and application variables that affect the selection of the optimal level monitoring solution for industrial and / or commercial processes. The selection criteria include the physical: state (liquid, solid or slurry), temperature, pressure or vacuum, chemistry, dielectric constant of medium, density or specific gravity of medium, agitation, acoustical or electrical noise, vibration, mechanical shock, tank or bin size and shape; and the application constraints: price, accuracy, appearance, response rate, ease of calibration or programming, physical size and mounting of the instrument, monitoring or control of continuous or discrete (point) levels;
Level set (data structures) The usefulness of level sets, and in particular the level set method, have motivated researchers in the field of computer science to craft a number of data structures designed to represent, with various benefits, discretely sampled dynamic level sets functions.
Level set method The level set method is a numerical technique for tracking interfaces and shapes. The advantage of the level set method is that one can perform numerical computations involving curves and surfaces on a fixed Cartesian grid without having to parametrize these objects (this is called the Eulerian approach).
Level spacing distribution In mathematical physics, level spacing is the difference between consecutive elements in some set of real numbers. In particular, it is the difference between consecutive energy levels or eigenvalues of a matrix or linear operator.
Level Seven The Level Seven Crew, also known as Level Seven, Level 7 or L7, was a hacking group during the mid to late 90's. Eventually dispersing in early 2000 when nominal head 'vent' was raided by the FBI on February 25 2000.
Level Up! Games India Level Up, a global publisher of online games and the extremely popular Ragnarok Online game, has its Indian headquarters at Mumbai, and offices at Pune, Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi. Level Up is committed to grow the MMORPG category of online games – that allows players a chance to play with other players from different parts of the country.
Level Vodka Level Vodka, a super premium vodka from the makers of Absolut, was launched in 2004. Imported from Ahus, Sweden, the vodka is made from winter wheat and is said to be "perfectly balanced" due to the use of two distinct distillation methods - a continuous distillation process to remove congeners, creating the vodka's smoothness, and a batch distillation process to add character.
Leveled gameplay Leveled gameplay is the idea that in some Computer and video games that difficulty should always be level with the player's progress or skill. While many games have the option of choosing a fixed Difficulty level, games using leveled gameplay have the option to dynamically change the difficulty level.
Levelland UFO Case The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2-3, 1957 in the small town of Levelland, Texas. Levelland, which in 1957 had a population of about 10,000, is located west of Lubbock on the flat prairie of the Texas panhandle.
Levellers The Levellers were a mid 17th century English political movement, who came to prominence during the English Civil Wars. They had no centralised manifesto at all and it is hard to tell that there was a Leveller movement until 1649 when much of their support had dissipated.
Levellers (Colorado) The Levellers of Colorado are known as the Hemp Initiative Project and they have registered a primary address in the town of Nederland, Colorado. They first registered the Internet web domain name of "levellers.
Levels of adequacy In his seminal work Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), Noam Chomsky introduces a hierarchy of Levels of Adequacy for evaluating grammars (theories of specific languages) and metagrammars (theories of grammars).

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.