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Phuture Phuture (nowadays called Phuture 303) are a Chicago-based acid house group founded in 1985 by DJ Pierre, Spanky and Herb J. Their twelve-minute track Acid Trax (1986) is one of several recordings that lay claim to being the first-ever acid house record.
Phuz Phuz is a Filipino-American rock pop indie band from Houston, Texas. The band has been through multiple changes in style and currently performs music with a plush, ambient sound influenced by rock, R&B, and pop.
Phya Thai Palace The Phya Thai Palace (วังพญาไท Wang Phaya Thai) or Royal Phya Thai Palace (พระราชวังพญาไท Phra Ratchawang Phaya Thai) is located on the banks of the Samsen Canal (คลŕ¸ŕ¸‡ŕ¸Şŕ¸˛ŕ¸ˇŕą€ŕ¸Şŕ¸™ Khlong Samsen) on Rajavithee Road [ถนนราชวิถ Thanon Ratchawithi] in the Ratchathewi district of Bangkok. Rama V bestowed on it the royal name of the Royal Residence of the Phya Thai (พระตำหนัŕ¸ŕ¸žŕ¸Ťŕ¸˛ŕą„ท Phra Tamnak Phaya Thai) or the Phya Thai Palace, with Phya Thai (พญาไท Phaya Thai) meaning Lord of the Thais, during his reign and so it was built with this bearing on design.
Phyathai 1 Hospital Phyathai 1 Hospital was established on July 30, 1976 and is located at 364/1 Sri-Ayudhaya Road, Phyathai, Ratchatevee, Bangkok, 10400. The specialized center that the hospital provides is the neurosurgery center.
Phyathai 3 Hospital Phyathai 3 Hospital was established on October 4, 1996 and it is located at 207/26 Phetchkasem Road, Pakklong, Phasricharoen, Bangkok, 10160 mainly to serve customers around Thonburi Area. The specialized centers for the hospital are Mother and Child center which provide the best possible care for both the mother and the baby.
Phyathai Hospitals Group The Phyathai Hospitals Group is a Bangkok-based hospital group in Thailand that has provided health care service for over 30 years. The group consists of Phyathai 1 Hospital, Phyathai 2 Hospital, and Phyathai 3 Hospital.
Phycobilin Phycobilins are chromophores (light-capturing molecules) found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of red algae, glaucophytes and some cryptomonads (though not in green algae and higher plants). They are unique among the photosynthetic pigments in that they are bonded to certain water-soluble proteins, known as phycobiliproteins.
Phycobiliprotein Phycobiliproteins are water-soluble proteins present in cyanobacteria and certain algae (rhodophytes, cryptomonads, glaucocystophytes) that capture light energy which is then passed on to chlorophylls during photosynthesis. Phycobiliproteins are formed of a complex between proteins and covalently bound phycobilins that act as chromophores (the light-capturing part).
Phycodnaviridae Phycodnaviruses (members of the family Phyvodnaviridae) are large (160 to 560 thousand base pairs), dobule stranded DNA viruses that infect marine or freshwater eukaryotic algae. Phycodnaviruses have icosahedral morphology, an internal lipid membrane and replicate, completely or partly, in the cytoplasm of their host cells.
Phycomin Phycomin is an extract of Aphanazomenon flos-aquae (AFA) cyanobacteria containing high concentrations of the active ingredient phenylethylamine (PEA). PEA is a compound naturally produced by the brain and is responsible for the mediation of experiences associated with pleasure and mental awareness1.
Phycoremediation Phycoremediation, or mycorrhizoremediation, is the use of fungi to remove heavy metals, animal waste, excess nutrients, and other pollution from water or soil. See articles phytoremediation, mycorrhiza and arbuscular mycorrhiza.
Phyletic gradualism Phyletic gradualism is a macroevolutionary hypothesis rooted in uniformitarianism. The hypothesis states that species continue to adapt to new challenges over the course of their history, gradually becoming new species.
Phylicia RashÄd Phylicia RashÄd (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen on June 19, 1948 in Houston, Texas) is an American activist and Tony Award-winning actress, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable in the 1980s television series, The Cosby Show.
Phylip A. D. Hobson Phylip (Phil) Hobson (born in 1968, Gwent, Wales) is a Liberal Democrat politician in Monmouthshire. He is a County Councillor for the Chepstow], Larkfield Electoral Division, and also a [[Chepstow Town councillor for the same district, having held the office of Mayor in 2004-2005.
Phylis Smith Phylis Smith (born September 29, 1965) International Athlete sprinter from Great Britain who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992 and won a Commonwealth Gold Medal in the 1994 Commonwealth Games. She specialized in the 400 metres event, and had a personal best of 50.
Phyllanthaceae The Phyllanthaceae is a plant family (biology), previously known as subfamily Phyllanthoideae of the Euphorbiaceae. The subfamily Phyllanthoideae was split up from the Euphorbiaceae as a result of lineage analysis.
Phyllanthus The genus Phyllanthus (of the family Phyllanthaceae) comprises trees, bushes, and annual or biennial herbs distributed in all tropical and subtropical regions on Earth. Leafflower is the common name for all Phyllanthus species.
Phylliidae The family Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the true leaf insects or walkingleaves, which include some of the most remarkable leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia.
Phyllis Covell Phyllis Lindrea Covell (born May 22, 1895 as Phyllis Lindrea Howkins) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her silver medal at the Paris Olympics of 1924 in the women's doubles event (partnering Kathleen McKane).
Phyllis Davis Phyllis Davis (born July 17, 1947 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an actress who appeared primarily on television. She was most notably a part of the cast of Aaron Spelling's drama Vega$, playing the character Beatrice Travis.
Phyllis Dietrichson Phyllis Dietrichson is the fictional major female character in the 1944 film Double Indemnity. Dietrichson (played in the film by Barbara Stanwyck) convinces her insurance agent (Walter Neff, played by Fred MacMurray) to assist her in murdering her abusive, emotionally-distant, and much older husband by making it appear that he fell off of the back of a train—but only after they trick him into taking out a large (for the era) life insurance policy with a double indemnity clause, meaning that the face amount of the policy (the amount payable upon the death of the insured) is doubled if the insured's death can be shown to be due to an accident (hence the title).
Phyllis Diller Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver on July 17, 1917) is an American comedian who is considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. The stage character she created was a wild-haired, oddly dressed housewife who was ugly but didn't realize it, and who made jokes about a husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder.
Phyllis Dillon Phyllis Dillon (1945 - April 15, 2004) was a Jamaican singer, known as the Queen of Rocksteady. Her biggest hits were "Don't Stay Away", "Don't Touch Me Tomato", "Perfidia" and "Get On The Right Track".
Phyllis Hyman Phyllis Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an actress and soul artist beloved by many musicians. She began her career as a silky-voiced singer influenced by jazz, and gradually moved towards heavily produced urban contemporary ballads.
Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler (born October 1 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emeritus of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is known as a leading feminist psychologist, and is the author of thirteen books, including the best-seller Women and Madness, and the recent publications The Death of Feminism and The New Anti-Semitism.
Phyllis Neilson-Terry Phyllis Neilson Terry or Neilson-Terry (1892-1977) was an English actress, daughter of Julia Neilson and Fred Terry. She was born in London, made her first stage appearance in Henry of Navarre (1909), and played Viola in Twelfth Night at the Haymarket in 1910.
Phyllis Pearce Phyllis Pearce was a character in Granada Television's Coronation Street, played by Jill Summers, between 1982 and 1996. Originally touted as a new Ena Sharples, she was seen interfering in the life of grandson Craig who lived with his grandad Chalkie Whiteley at number 9.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933, Anderson, Indiana) is an American author best known for her children's-novel trilogy Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner), Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, all made into movies. She is also known for her "Alice" book series; the short story collection The Galloping Goat and Other Stories; and a series of books, starting with The Boys Start the War, about boys and girls pulling pranks on each other.
Phyllis Shand Allfrey Phyllis Shand Allfrey, a notable name in West Indian literature, was born in 1908 in the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. She is most famous for her only novel, 1953's The Orchid House, which was made in 1991 as a Channel 4 miniseries in the United Kingdom.
Phyllis Schlafly Phyllis Schlafly (born on August 15, 1924, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American conservative political activist known for her best-selling 1964 book A Choice, Not An Echo and her opposition to feminism (see antifeminism) in general and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in particular.
Phyllis Starkey Dr Phyllis Margaret Starkey (born 4 January, 1947, Ipswich as Phyllis Margaret Williams) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South West, and was first elected in 1997.
Phyllis Summers Newman Phyllis Summers Romalotti Abbott Newman is a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Phyllis has been portrayed by actress Michelle Stafford from 1994 to 1997 and from 2000 to the present.
Phyllis Thaxter Movie actress Phyllis Thaxter (born Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter November 20, 1921 in Portland, Maine) was the daughter of Maine Supreme Court Justice Sidney Thaxter and her mother a one-time Shakespearean actress.
Phyllis Treigle Phyllis Treigle (born May 6, 1960) is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and is the daughter of the great bass-baritone Norman Treigle. The soprano graduated from Loyola University of the South's College of Music and made her professional debut with the New Orleans Opera as Flora Bervoix, in La traviata.
Phyllite Phyllite is a type of foliated metamorphic rock primarily composed of quartz, sericite mica, and chlorite; the rock represents a gradiation in the degree of metamorphism between slate and mica schist. Minute crystals of graphite, sericite, or chlorite impart a silky, sometimes golden sheen to the surfaces of cleavage (or schistosity).
Phyllo Phyllo, filo or fillo dough (Greek φύλλο 'leaf') consists of thin sheets of unleavened flour dough. They are layered with butter and baked to make flaky pies and pastries, the most famous of which are probably baklava and tiropita.
Phyllobates aurotaenia The Kokoe Poison Dart Frog (Phyllobates aurotaenia) is the smallest of the three toxic members of the genus Phyllobates. While it is small, it is just as toxic as the Phyllobates bicolor when encountered in the wild.
Phylloceratina The Phylloceratina suborder of ammonites are a group very extended throughout the Lower Triassic to Upper Cretaceous periods. They are typically the robust with small volutes, a general thickness and small navels.
Phyllocladus Phyllocladus is a small genus of conifers, now treated in the Family Podocarpaceae. They are morphologically very distinct from the other genera in that family, and some botanists treat them in a family of their own, the Phyllocladaceae.
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Celery-top pine) is an endemic gymnosperm of Tasmania, Australia. It is found in rainforest as a dominant, in eucalypt forest as an understorey species, and occurs occasionally as a shrub in alpine vegetation.
Phyllodes tumor Phyllodes tumors (from Greek: phullon leaf) are large, bulky, fast growing masses that form from the intralobular stroma of the breast. They may be considered benign, borderline, or malignant depending on infiltration and mitoses.
Phylloglossum Phylloglossum is a genus in the clubmoss family Huperziaceae. It was previously classified either in the family Lycopodiaceae or in its own family the Phylloglossaceae, but recent genetic evidence demonstrates it is most closely related to the genus Huperzia.
Phyllomedusa bicolor The Giant leaf frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) is a hylid frog native to the Amazon Rainforest, specially in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. This species is now jeopardized by biopiracy because it produce a waxy secretion that have medicinal uses against AIDS and cancer diseases.
Phyllomedusa burmeisteri The Burmeister's leaf frog (Phyllomedusa burmeisteri) is a hylid frog native to the Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil, specially in Ouro Preto. This species is now jeopardized by biopiracy because it produce a waxy secretion that have medicinal uses.
Phyllophaga (genus) Phyllophaga is a very large genus (more than 260 species) of New World scarab beetles in the subfamily Melolonthinae. They are medium to large in size (8-25 mm) and are blackish or reddish-brown in color, without prominent markings, and often rather hairy ventrally.
Phyllopharyngea The Phyllopharyngea are a class of ciliate protozoa, including some which are extremely specialized. Motile cells typically have cilia restricted to the ventral surface, or some part thereof, arising from monokinetids with a characteristic ultrastructure.
Phyllorhiza punctata Phyllorhiza punctata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the Australian spotted jellyfish or the White-spotted jellyfish. It is native to the southwestern Pacific, where it feeds primarily on various snail species.
Phyllostachys heteroclada Also known as "Water Bamboo", Phyllostachys heteroclada is a running bamboo. The Water Bamboo name comes from the air canals in the rhizomes and roots that allow this bamboo to grow in more saturated conditions as compared to similar species.
Phylloxera Grape Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, family Phylloxeridae, superfamily Aphidoidea) is a pest of commercial grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. These tiny, pale yellow sap-sucking insects, related to aphids, attack the roots of grape vines.
PhyloCode The PhyloCode is a developing draft for a formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Its current version is specifically designed to regulate the naming of clades, which do not have set ranks, unlike conventional Linnaean taxonomy.
Phylogenetic network A phylogenetic network is any graph used to visualize evolutionary relationships between species or organisms. It is employed when reticulate events such as hybridization, horizontal gene transfer, recombination, or gene duplication and loss are believed to be involved.
Phylogenetic tree A phylogenetic tree, also called an evolutionary tree or a tree of life, is a tree showing the evolutionary interrelationships among various species or other entities that are believed to have a common ancestor. In a phylogenetic tree, each node with descendants represents the most recent common ancestor of the descendants, with edge lengths sometimes corresponding to time estimates.
Phylogeography Phylogeography is the study of the processes controlling the geographic distributions of lineages by constructing the genealogies of populations and genes . This term was introduced to describe geographically structured genetic signals within a single species.
Phylum (linguistics) A phylum is a term in linguistics used for language classification which denotes the highest recognized level of hierarchy. Unlike a language family, the genetic relationship between members of a phylum does not have to be fully proven.
PhyQuest Connexion Connexion is the name of a risk-reduction system developed by PhyQuest. The system ensures the communication of critical non-emergent radiology findings and was first introduced August 20, 2002, with Wellstar Health Systems and Quantum Radiology Northwest at Kennestone Hospital.
Physalin Physalins are steroidal constituents of Physalis plants possessing a novel 13,14-seco-16,24-cycloergostane skeleton. Sice the isolation and the structure determination of Physalin A and Physalin B in 1969, more than a dozen Physalins were isolated from Physalis species, Physalis alkekengi, Physalis angulata, and Physalis lancifolia.
Physalis Physalis is a genus of plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world. The genus is characterised by the small orange fruit similar in size, shape and structure to a small tomato, but partly or fully enclosed in a large papery husk derived from the calyx.
Physalis alkekengi Physalis alkekengi (Chinese Lantern or Bladder-cherry), is a relative of P. peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns.
Physalis angulata Physalis angulata is a widely-distributed herbaceous annual plant known by several names, including cutleaf groundcherry, wild tomato, camapu, and winter cherry. It is a member of the nightshade family Solanaceae.
Physalis peruviana Physalis peruviana (commonly known as the Cape Gooseberry, Ground-cherry, Golden Berry, or Inca Berry) is a species of Physalis indigenous to Central America and western South America, but grows well in Africa. It is related to the tomato (but not related to the common gooseberry or Chinese gooseberry as the common name might suggest).
Physharmonica The physharmonica is a keyboard instrument fitted with free reeds, a kind of harmonium much used in Germany. It resembles a small harmonium, but is differentiated from it by having no stops; being without percussion action, it does not speak readily or clearly.
Physical (Olivia Newton-John song) "Physical" is a 1981 song written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick and performed by Olivia Newton-John. Recorded in early 1981, it first rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in America in November 1981 and stayed there for ten weeks, until the end of January 1982.
Physical (Sri Aurobindo) The Physical faculty or part of the being, in Sri Aurobindo's philosophy, refers not just to the physical body, but the body's consciousness as well. The body is just as conscious as the vital and mental parts of the being, only it is a different type of consciousness.
Physical activity level The Physical activity level is a way to express your daily physical activity in a number. This number is defined as a multiple of your Basal metabolic rate, which is the amount of energy you consume while inactive (for example, while you sleep).
Physical address In computer science, a physical address is the address presented to a computer's main memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU. Virtual addresses are translated into physical addresses by a memory management unit (abbreviated MMU).
Physical appearance of Michael Jackson The physical appearance of Michael Jackson has seen significant changes throughout his career. Jackson has acknowledged having rhinoplasty operations on his nose and has claimed that the change in the color of his skin is due to the skin condition vitiligoOprah Winfrey's interview with Michael Jackson in 1993 .
Physical attractiveness Physical attractiveness is the perception of the physical traits of an individual human person or a group, race, or type of people, as attractive or beautiful. Such beauty or attractiveness can include many various implications, including but not limited to sexual attractiveness, "cuteness", and physique.
Physical Address Extension In computing, Physical Address Extension (PAE) refers to a feature of x86 processors that allows for up to 64 gigabytes of physical memory to be used in 32-bit systems, given appropriate operating system support. PAE is provided by Intel Pentium Pro and above CPUs (including all later Pentium-series processors except the 400 MHz bus versions on the Pentium M), as well as by some compatible processors such as those from AMD.
Physical body In physics, a physical body (sometimes called simply a body or even an object) is a collection of masses, taken to be one. For example, a baseball can be considered an object but the baseball also consists of many particles (pieces of matter).
Physical capital In general physical capital refers to any non-human asset made by humans and then used in production. Often, it refers to economic capital in some ambiguous combination of infrastructural capital and natural capital.
Physical constant In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and not believed to change in time. It can be contrasted with a mathematical constant, which is also a fixed value but does not directly involve any physical measurement.
Physical cosmology Physical cosmology, as a branch of astrophysics, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. Cosmology involves itself with studying the motions of the celestial bodies and the first cause.
Physical culture Physical culture is the promotion of muscular growth, strength and health through various physical exercise regimens like resistance training, bodybuilding, sports, stretching, and posture correction techniques. Eugen Sandow, William Muldoon,Bernarr Macfadden and Edmond Desbonnet were among its earliest popularisers.
Physical Coding Sublayer The Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) further helps to define physical layer specifications for 10 gigabit ethernet after having been broken down into their Physical Media Dependent Sublayer or PMD. Each sublayer places the 10GBASE standards into either LAN or WAN specifications.
Physical dependence Physical dependence describes increased tolerance of a drug combined with a physical need of the drug to function. Abrupt cessation of the drug is typically associated with negative physical withdrawal symptoms.
Physical disorder A physical disorder (as a medical term) is often used as a term in contrast to a mental disorder, in an attempt to differentiate medical disorders which have an available objective mechanical test (such as chemical tests or brain scans), from those disorders which have no objective laboratory or imaging test, and are diagnosed only by behavioral syndrome (such as those in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM manual. Most familiarly, this is a term used as opposed to supposed "purely" mental disorders.
Physical economics Physical economics is a school of thought and area of research in economics that aims to study the economy along the lines of natural sciences (in particular, physics) with the use of mathematical modeling. Physical economics puts aside the financial and monetary aspects of the economy, and treats the economy of the world, a nation, or region as en entity analogous to a living organism, or, in other words, a single, integrated, self-reproducing physical process.
Physical education Physical education (PE) is the interdisciplinary study of all areas of science relating to the transmission of physical knowledge and skills to an individual or a group, the application of these skills, and their results. Included, among other subjects, are aspects of anthropology, biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Physical effect Physical effect is transformation at which physical action on an object causes the occurrence of some field or action. As a rule, these are phenomena connected with the transformation of energy or with a change of aggregation state.
Physical examination Physical examination or clinical examination is the process by which a health care provider investigates the body of a patient for signs of disease. It generally follows the taking of the medical history — an account of the symptoms as experienced by the patient.
Physical Education (album) Physical Education is the sophomore album by Brooke Valentine. It was set to be released on January 23rd, 2007 (see 2007 in music), but was pushed back for an unknown reason, and currently has no release date.
Physical Education Building/La Crosse State Normal School Physical Education Building/La Crosse State Normal School was the original physical education building at La Crosse Normal School now the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The building was constructed in 1916 and was named Wittich Hall after one of the school's physical education professors.
Physical force Irish republicanism Physical force Irish republicanism is a term used by historians in Ireland to describe the recurring appearance of non-parliamentary violent insurrection in Ireland between 1798 and the present. It is often described as a rival to parliamentary nationalism which for most of the period drew the predominant amount of support from Irish nationalists.
Physical Fitness Badge The Physical Fitness Badge is an award of the United States Army and is presented to those soldiers who obtain a score of 270 (or higher, with a score of 90 or above in each event) on the 300-point scale of the Army’s physical fitness test. The Physical Fitness Badge is intended to recognize those who have excelled in physical fitness, which is one of the main areas of training for the United States military.
Physical geography Physical geography (also know as geosystems or physiography) is a subfield of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes within the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. It aims to understand the physical layout of the Earth, its weather and global flora and fauna patterns.
Physical gill Physical gills are a type of structural adaptation common among aquatic insects, in which atmospheric oxygen is held within an area into which the spiracles open. The structure (often called a plastron) typically consists of dense patches of hydrophobic setae on the body, which prevent water entry into the spiracles.
Physical change In chemistry, a physical change is a change in the physical nature or appearance of a substance (eg. the boiling of water) with no change in its chemical composition (a change in the chemical composition would constitute a chemical change).
Physical characteristics of sharks The physical characteristics of sharks are different from those of bony fish, but the large number of species and the diversity of shark habitats means that there are many variations on the "typical" shark body.
Physical characteristics of the Buddha Although the Buddha was not represented in human form until around the 1st century CE (see Buddhist art), the Physical characteristics of the Buddha are described in one of the central texts of the traditional Pali canon, the Digha Nikaya, in the discourse titled "Sutra of the Marks" (Pali: Lakkhana Sutta) (D.iii.
Physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the application of physics to macroscopic, microscopic, atomic and particulate phenomena in chemical systemswithin the field of chemistry traditionally using the principles, practices and concepts of thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics and kinetics.Quantum Chemistry (p3 - "PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY"), states that "We can divide physical chemistry into four areas: thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics and kinetics".
Physical information In physics, physical information refers generally to the information that is contained in a physical system. Its usage in quantum mechanics is important, for example in the concept of quantum entanglement to describe effectively direct or causal relationships between apparently distinct or spatially separated particles.
Physical intimacy Physical intimacy is informal proximity and/or touching. It can be enjoyed by itself and/or be an expression of feelings (such as close friendship, love, and/or sexual attraction) which people have for one another.
Physical inventory Physical inventory is a process where a business stops all inventory transactions, and physically counts its entire inventory. A physical inventory may be mandated by financial accounting rules or the tax regulations to place an accurate value on the inventory, or the business may need to count inventory so component parts or raw materials can be restocked.
Physical Illucinations in the Sewer of Xuchilbara (The Red God) Physical Illucinations in the Sewer of Xuchilbara (The Red God) is an EP by British cinematic industrial black metal band The Axis of Perdition. It was released on 15 November 2004 (see 2004 in music) on Code666 Records, catalogue number CODE026.
Physical Information Security Physical information security is concerned with physically protecting data and means to access that data (apart from protecting it electronically). Many individuals and companies place importance in protecting their information from a software and/or network perspective, but fewer devote resources to protecting data physically.
Physical law A physical law, scientific law, or a law of nature is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior. They are typically conclusions based on repeated scientific experiments over many years, and which have become accepted universally within the scientific community.
Physical linguistics Physical linguistics, which was invented by the chief scientist of Yang's Scientific Research Institute, Tao Yang in 2002, consists of two indispensable components: computational verbs and computational nouns. The computational verb theory addresses issues of computational verbs while probability theory, Boolean logics, multi-valued logics and fuzzy logics address different issues of computational nouns.
Physical modelling synthesis Physical modelling synthesis is the synthesis of sound by using a set of equations and algorithms to simulate a physical source of sound. Sound is then generated using parameters that describe the physical materials used in the instrument and the user's interaction with it, for example, by plucking a string, or covering toneholes, and so on.
Physical Markup Language Physical Markup Language (PML) is a markup language based on XML for communicating a description of physical environments and the objects within them, their relationships to you, each other and the space. Within a location, the devices (RFID tags) controlled by the PML language act as parts of a browser.
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