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Perennial plant A perennial plant or perennial (Latin per, "through", annum, "year") is a plant that lives for more than two years. Herbaceous perennials are plants that do not form woody tissue and woody perennials are plants that develop a woody base or root system from which the foliage and flower stems grow.
Perennial psychology Perennial Psychology is a term that was introduced by Ken Wilber, but which has recently been adopted by Robert Forman (Forman, 1990). It is important to see that what Forman means by the term is that, whereas experiences are shared by followers of different faiths (he believes that mystics of all persuasions experience something called the "Pure Consciousness Event"), beliefs and doctrines in different creeds can and do vary.
Perennial tea ceremony Perennial Tea Ceremony (四序茶會) is a Chinese tea ceremony, created by Lin Easu (林易山), of the Ten Ren Teaism Foundation. The first two characters of the Chinese term literally mean four steps or sequences that are linked together, the latter two simply meaning "tea ceremony".
Peres-Hussein London Agreement The London Agreement between King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres, was signed during a secret meeting held at the residence of Lord Mishcon in London on April 11, 1987. Also present in the meeting were Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai and Director Generel of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry, Yossi Beilin.
Pereslavl-Zalessky Pereslavl-Zalessky or Pereyaslavl-Zalessky (; could be translated as "Pereslavl, which is located behind the woods"), a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. It was called Pereslavl until the 15th century.
Peresopnytsia Gospel The Peresopnytsia Gospel (in Ukrainian: Peresopnitske Yevanhelije), dating from the 16th century, is one of the most intricate surviving East Slavic manuscripts. It was crafted between August 15, 1556 and August 29, 1561, and was compiled at the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Dvirtsi, and at the Monastery of the Mother of God in Peresopnytsia, Volyn'.
Perestroika Perestroika (, IPA: ) is the Russian term (which passed into English) for the economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "reconstructing", which refers to restructuring of the Soviet economy.
Perestroika (computer game) Perestroika (also known as Toppler) is a Russian language computer game released by a small software developer called Locis in the Soviet Union in 1990/1991, and named after Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika. Its welcoming screen shows Gorbachev and the Kremlin.
Pereswetoff-Morath Pereswetoff-Morath, Swedish noble family of Russian origin (one of the so-called boyar families). First traceable to Vasilei Peresvet Ivanov in early-15th-century Dmitrov (NE Moscow), the family, in the person of Murat Alekseievich Peresvětov from Rostov Velikii, entered Swedish service in 1613-14 during the Ingrian War.
Peretz Hirshbein Peretz Hirshbein (born 1880 in Melnik, Grodno – died 1948 in Los Angeles) was a Yiddish-language playwright, instrumental in the revival of Yiddish theater in Russia shortly after the 1904 lifting of the 1883 ban on theatrical performances in that language. Prior to his involvement in Yiddish theater, he wrote several plays in Hebrew; these were published in the periodical Hazman, but there was no audience at that time for Hebrew-language theater.
Peretz Markish Peretz Markish (; ; in Polonnoye, currently Ukraine - 12 August 1952 in Moscow) was a Jewish Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish. His very distant ancestors lived in Spain. As a child he attended a cheder and was singing in the choir of the local synagogue. He served as a private in the Russian Imperial Army during World War I. In the early twenties together with Leib Kvitko and others, he was a member of the Kiev group of Yiddish poets. He was an author of numerous poems, plays and several novels. His poetry was translated into Russian by Anna Akhmatova among others. He spent time living in Berlin, Paris, London, Warsaw and Rome before returning to Russia.
Perevolochna Perevolochna () was a settlement in Kobeljaky Raion (district) of Poltava Oblast (province) of Ukraine close to Svitlohirske. It was situated at the bank of the Dnepr, where a ford enabled people to cross the river.
Pereyaslavets Pereyaslavets (Переяславец; East Slavic from) or Preslavets (Преславец; Bulgarian form) was a trade city located at the mouth of the Danube. The city's name is derived from that of the Bulgarian capital of the time, Preslav, and means "little Preslav".
Perez Zagorin Perez Zagorin (May 20, 1920- ) is a world-renowned historian specializing in 16th and 17th century English/British history and political thought, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. In 1990 following a lengthy tenure, he was named the Joseph C.
Perfect (Simple Plan song) "Perfect" is a song by Simple Plan that deals with the pressures of being the object of parental affection (or lack thereof). Both the song and the video contrast the difficulties of meeting parental expectations and the need to do one's own thing.
Perfect 10 Perfect 10 is a quarterly men's magazine featuring high resolution photographs of topless or nude women who have not had cosmetic surgery, and focuses in particular on slender models with piercing eyes and medium to large, youthful breasts in pensive or artistic poses. A recurring theme is that of the model wearing boxing gloves.
Perfect aspect The perfect aspect is a grammatical aspect that refers to a state resulting from a previous action (also described as a previous action with relevance to a particular time, or a previous action viewed from the perspective of a later time).
Perfect Blue Perfect Blue is a feature-length anime film, directed by Satoshi Kon (loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi). The film is a psychological thriller about Mima Kirigoe, a member of a Japanese pop idol group called "CHAM!
Perfect competition Perfect competition is an economic model that describes a hypothetical market form in which no producer or consumer has the market power to influence prices. According to the standard economical definition of efficiency (Pareto efficiency), perfect competition would lead to a completely efficient outcome.
Perfect core In mathematics, in the field of group theory, the perfect core (or perfect radical) of a group is the largest perfect subgroup. Its existence is guaranteed by the fact that the subgroup generated by a family of perfect subgroups is again a perfect subgroup.
Perfect cosmological principle The Perfect Cosmological Principle states that the Universe is homogenous and isotropic in space and time. In this view the universe looks the same everywhere (on the large scale) as it always has and always will.
Perfect crystal Crystalline materials (mainly metals and alloys, but also stoichiometric salts and other materials) are made up of solid regions of ordered matter (atoms placed in one of a number of ordered formations called Bravais lattices). These regions are known as crystals.
Perfect Cell Saga Perfect Cell Saga is a saga in the anime Dragon Ball Z (occurring after the Imperfect Cell Saga). In this saga, Cell, an evil JinzĹŤ'ningen created by Dr Gero achieves its perfect form by absorbing JinzĹŤ'ningen 18, who was also created by Dr Gero.
Perfect Dark Perfect Dark is a first-person shooter video game for the Nintendo 64 game console. The game was developed by Rare, creators of the multimillion-selling GoldenEye 007, an earlier first-person shooter with which Perfect Dark shares many gameplay features.
Perfect Dark Zero Perfect Dark Zero is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft exclusively for the Xbox 360 video game console. It was released as a launch title in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan.
Perfect Dark: Initial Vector Perfect Dark: Initial Vector is a novel based on the Perfect Dark timeline, situated some 6 months after the Xbox 360 game Perfect Dark Zero. It was written by Greg Rucka, published by Tom Doherty Associates LLC, and distributed by TOR.
Perfect Day (1929 film) Perfect Day is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. The story involves the difficulties Laurel and Hardy, their wives, and their Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) have in trying to go out for a picnic on a Sunday.
Perfect Day (Duran Duran song) "Perfect Day" is the first single from the Duran Duran covers album Thank You. It is a cover version of the 1972 song "Perfect Day", written by Lou Reed and originally released on the classic album Transformer.
Perfect Developer Perfect Developer (PD) is a tool for developing computer programs in a rigorous manner, by developing a formal specification and refining it to code. Even though the tool is founded on formal methods, the suppliers claim that advanced mathematical knowledge is not a pre-requisite.
Perfect Disaster Perfect Disaster is a 2006 Discovery Channel mini-series depicting the worst-case scenario major cities could expect in the near future if hit by extreme weather. A large part of each episode is based around the lives of citizens from each city, with the remainder of the program showing us real-world scientists discussing the very high probabilities of these disasters.
Perfect Drift Perfect Drift, a thoroughbred race horse born on April 29, 1999 in Kentucky, seems like a throw-back to sturdier, hardier, more consistent days when a horse could run for years at the top of his or her form, and come in the money more often than not.
Perfect fifth The perfect fifth or diapente is a musical interval which is responsible for the most consonant, or stable, harmony outside of the unison and octave. It is a valuable interval in chord structure, song development, and western tuning systems.
Perfect flower A perfect flower, in botany, is a hermaphroditic flower with both stamens and an ovary. A plant with perfect flowers is capable of self-pollination and can reproduce without the presence of another member of its species.
Perfect forward secrecy In an authenticated key agreement protocol that uses public key cryptography, perfect forward secrecy (or PFS) is the property that disclosure of the long-term secret keying material that is used to derive an agreed ephemeral key does not compromise the secrecy of agreed keys from earlier runs.
Perfect fourth The perfect fourth or diatessaron, abbreviated P4, is one of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span four diatonic scale degrees; the other being the augmented fourth, which is one chromatic semitone larger. The prefix perfect identifies it as belonging to the group of perfect intervals, so called because of their extremely simple pitch relationships resulting in a high degree of consonance.
Perfect game Since 1991, a perfect game has been defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher pitches a complete game victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposition player reaches first base. Thus, the pitcher cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason—in short, "27 up, 27 down.
Perfect game (bowling) A perfect game, also known as a 300-point game and sometimes simply as a "300", is the best score possible in Ten-pin Bowling. It consists of throwing 12 strikes in a row, one strike in each of the first 9 frames, and 3 in the tenth frame, since a strike counts as ten points plus any pins hit in the next two balls.
Perfect hash function A Perfect hash function of a set S is a hash function which maps different keys (elements) in S to different numbers. A perfect hash function with values in a range of size some constant times the number of elements in S can be
Perfect mixing Perfect mixing is a term heavily used in relation to the definition of models that predict the behavior of chemical reactors. Perfect mixing assumes that there are no spacial gradients in a given physical envelope, such as:
Perfect murder (fiction) The perfect murder is a murder which benefits the murderer, but also has no negative consequences for him or her; usually, this simply means that the murderer is never caught. Several factors might contribute to the perfect murder:
Perfect Master (Meher Baba) Perfect Master is an English term that Meher Baba used to denote what he syncretizes in his system with sadguru or satguru (Vedanta) and qutub (Sufi). A Perfect Master, according to Baba, is a God-realized person (one whose limited individualized consciousness has merged with God) who can use his Divine attributes of Infinite Power, Knowledge and Bliss for the spiritual upliftment of others.
Perfect Match (American game show) Perfect Match was a short-lived American game show where three happily married couples tried to answer their spouse's questions to win money. The show aired in syndication from January 13, 1986 to September 12, 1986 and was hosted by future Entertainment Tonight reporter Bob Goen, with Johnny Gilbert as announcer.
Perfect number In mathematics, a perfect number is defined as an integer which is the sum of its proper positive divisors, that is, the sum of the positive divisors not including the number. Equivalently, a perfect number is a number that is half the sum of all of its positive divisors, or σ(n) = 2 n.
Perfect phylogeny In computational phylogenetics, a phylogenetic tree for a set of sequences is called a perfect phylogeny if the internal nodes of the tree may be labeled such that all characters evolve down the tree without homoplasy. That is, they do not possess convergent evolution and consequently do not have analogous structures.
Perfect play In game theory, perfect play is the behavior or strategy of a player which leads to the best possible outcome for that player, and if there are multiple options with the same outcome perfect play is usually considered the fastest method for getting a good result, or the slowest time for a bad result.
Perfect power In mathematics, a perfect power is a number that can be expressed as a power of any positive, whole number. More formally, n is a perfect power if there exist natural numbers m > 1, and k > 1 such that m^k = n.
Perfect Promise Perfect Promise (Caesour-Meretricious) is a South African thoroughbred race mare who now races in Australia. On February 11, 2006, she claimed her first Australian Group One victory by winning the C F Orr Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne.
Perfect rationality In economics and game theory, the participants are sometimes considered to have perfect rationality: that is, they always act in a rational way, and are capable of arbitrarily complex deductions towards that end. That is to say, they will always be capable of thinking through all possible outcomes and choosing the best possible thing to do.
Perfect ruler A perfect ruler of length n is a ruler with a subset of the integer markings {0,a_2,cdots,n}subset{0,1,2,ldots,n} that appear on a regular ruler. The defining criterion of this subset is that there exists an m such that any positive integer kleq m can be expressed uniquely as a difference k=a_i-a_j for some i,j.
Perfect solution fallacy The perfect solution fallacy is a logical fallacy that occurs when an argument assumes that a perfect solution exists and/or that a solution should be rejected because some part of the problem would still exist after it was implemented.
Perfect space In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be perfect if it has no isolated points. Equivalently, every point is a G_delta set, that is, every point is a countable intersection of closed sets.
Perfect storm The phrase perfect storm refers to the simultaneous occurrence of events which, taken individually, would be far less powerful than the result of their chance combination. Such occurrences are rare by their very nature, so that even a slight change in any one event contributing to the perfect storm would lessen its overall impact.
Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle (Japanese パーフェクトセレクション　ドラキュラ・バトル) is an album by Konami, featuring hard rock renditions of several classic Castlevania themes. It was released in Japan on July 21, 1994.
Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle II Perfect Selection: Dracula Battle II (Japanese パーフェクトセレクション　ドラキュラ・バトルII) is an album by Konami, featuring hard rock renditions of several classic Castlevania themes. It is the second and final album of the Dracula Battle series.
Perfect Selection: Dracula New Classic Perfect Selection: Dracula ~New Classic~ (Japanese パーフェクトセレクション　ドラキュラ・ニュークラシック) is an album by Konami, featuring classical renditions of several classic Castlevania themes. It was released in Japan on April 22, 1992.
Perfect Songs Perfect Songs is a music publishing company founded in 1982 by Trevor Horn and his his wife Jill Sinclair. It is part of the SPZ group of companies owned by Horn and his associates, which also includes Sarm Studios: (Recording Studios), Horn Productions:(Record Production by Trevor Horn), ZTT Records/Stiff Records: (Record Labels), Music Bank: (Equipment Hire) and Waterloo Sunset: (Rehearsal Facilities).
Perfect Strangers (BBC TV series) Perfect Strangers was an acclaimed British television drama first aired in 2001, produced for the BBC Two network. It was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, and starred Michael Gambon, who won a British Academy Television Award for his performance, Lindsay Duncan, Matthew Macfadyen and Claire Skinner.
Perfect tender rule The perfect tender rule refers to the common law legal right for a buyer of goods to insist upon "perfect tender" by the seller. In a contract for the sale of goods, if the goods fail to conform exactly to the description in the contract (whether as to quality, quantity or manner of delivery) the buyer may reject the goods and rescind the contract.
Perfect totient number A perfect totient number is an integer that is equal to the sum of the iterated totient function up to the first instance of 1. Or to put it algebraically, if n = sum_{i = 1}^{c + 1} phi^i(n), where φi(x) is the iterated totient function and c is the integer such that φc(n) = 2 then n is a perfect totient number.
Perfectae Caritatis Perfectæ Caritatis, the Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life (referring to Roman Catholic religious orders), is one of the shorter documents issued by the Second Vatican Council. Approved by vote of 2,321 to 4 of the bishops assembled at the Council, the decree was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965.
Perfection (law) In law, perfection relates to the additional steps required to be taken in relation to a security interest in order to make it effective against third parties and/or to retain its effectiveness in the event that the party granting the security interest goes into bankruptcy. Generally speaking, once a security interest is effectively created, it gives the relevant rights to the holder of the security as against the person who grants the security.
Perfection of Wisdom "Perfection of Wisdom" is a translation of the Sanskrit term prajñā pāramitā (Devanagari: प्रज्ञा पारमिता, Chinese: 般若波羅蜜多/般若波罗蜜多, Pinyin: boruò-bōluómìduō, Japanese: hannya-haramita), which is one of the aspects of a bodhisattva's personality called the paramitas.
Perfectly Legal Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else (ISBN 1-59184-019-8) is a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston that argues that the American tax system has been tilted to supplement the incomes and extravagant lifestyles of the wealthy (which he dubs the "Political Donor Class").
PerfectWave Technologies, LLC PerfectWave Technologies, LLC is a government technology contractor notable for its development of leading edge signal technologies. PerfectWave received media attention when its connection to Tom DeLay was given scrutiny.
Perfeddwlad Perfeddwlad, meaning middle country in Welsh, was a name adopted during the twelfth century for the territories in north-east Wales lying between the rivers Conwy and Dee, and comprised the cantrefi of RhĂ´s, Rhufoniog, Dyffryn Clwyd and Tegeingl.
Perfekte Welle Perfekte Welle, meaning Perfect wave, is the name of the first hit of German pop/rock group Juli. It was the first release from their album, Es ist Juli, and peaked at number two in the German and Austrian single charts.
Perfetti Van Melle Perfetti Van Melle is an European global manufacturer of confectionery and gum. It was formed by the 2001 merger of Perfetti of Italy with Van Melle of the Netherlands, having its corporate headquarters in Lainate, Italy and in Breda, Netherlands.
Perfidia Perfidia (Spanish for "perfidy") is a popular old Mexican song about love and betrayal written by Alberto DomĂ­nguez. Aside from the original Spanish, other renditions exist including English and instrumental versions.
Perfin A perfin (a contraction of 'PERforated INitials'), also called SPIFS (a contraction of 'Stamps Perforated by Initials of Firms and Society's'), is a pattern of tiny holes punched through a postage stamp. Organizations used perforating machines to make perforations forming letters or designs in postage stamps with the purpose of preventing pilferage.
Perfluorocarbon Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) are compounds derived from hydrocarbons by replacement of hydrogen atoms by fluorine atoms. PFC is 6500-9200 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere entirely non-toxic, and made up of atoms of carbon], fluorine, and/or [[sulfur.
Perfluorohexane Perfluorohexane () or tetradecafluorohexane, also called FC-72, Fluorinert FC-72, Flutec PP1, perfluoro-compound FC-72, and PFH, is a perfluorocarbon. It is like hexane except all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced by fluorine atoms.
Perforated sheets The method of perforated sheets was a cryptologic technique used by the Polish Cipher Bureau before World War II, and during the war by British cryptologists at Bletchley Park, to decrypt messages enciphered on German Enigma machines. The "perforated sheets" were invented about October 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Henryk Zygalski, and accordingly are sometimes known as Zygalski sheets.
Perform.00 Perform.00 is a collection of Howard Jones favorites re-recorded by Howard Jones and the backup band that accompanied him on the VH-1 Big Rewind tour of the late 90s (opening for the likes of The Human League and Culture Club).
Performance A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for another group of people (the audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and the audience may become blurred, as in the example of "participatory theatre" where audience members might get involved in the production.
Performance acceleration technology The Intel Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT) delivers additional system-level performance by optimizing memory access between CPU and system memory, and allows increased performance at standard operating specifications.
Performance analysis In software engineering, performance analysis (a field of dynamic program analysis) is the investigation of a program's behavior using information gathered as the program runs, as opposed to static code analysis. The usual goal of performance analysis is to determine which parts of a program to optimize for speed or memory usage.
Performance art in China Performance art in China has been growing since the 1970s as a response to the very traditional nature of Chinese state-run art schools. It is becoming more and more popular in spite of the fact that it is currently outlawed.
Performance audit Performance audit refers to an examination of a program, function, operation or the management systems and procedures of a governmental or non-profit entity to assess whether the entity is achieving economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the employment of available resources. The examination is objective and systematic, generally using structured and professionally adopted methodologies.
Performance Application Programming Interface In computer science, Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) is a portable interface (in the form of a library) to hardware performance counters on modern microprocessors. It is being widely used to collect low level performance metrics (e.
Performance Based Research Fund The Performance Based Research Fund is a New Zealand tertiary education funding process, assessing the research performance of tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and then funding them on the basis of their performance.
Performance clothing Performance Clothing is a Clothing Company based in Llandrindod Wells, Powys that works in conjunction with companies such as Aston Martin, Subaru, Honda, WRC, WRGB, Ford, BAR and Alpinestars, as well as individual clothing lines of rally drivers such as Petter Solberg.
Performance engineering Performance Engineering is the set of roles, skills, activities, practices, tools, and deliverables applied at every phase of the Systems Development Lifecycle which ensures that a solution will be designed and implemented to meet the non-functional requirements defined for the solution. It may be alternatively referred to as software performance engineering; however since performance engineering encompasses more than just the software, the term performance engineering is preferable.
Performance Enhancing Proxy Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) are network agents designed to improve the end-to-end performance of some communications protocol such as TCP. PEPs function by breaking the end-to-end connection into multiple connections and using different parameters to transfer data across the different legs.
Performance Handicap Racing Fleet Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) is a handicapping system used in yacht racing. It allows dissimilar classes of boats to be raced against each other: the aim is to cancel out the inherent advantages and disadvantages of each class of boats, so that results reflect crew skill rather than equipment superiority.
Performance improvement Performance improvement is the concept of measuring the output of a particular process or procedure, then modifying the process or procedure in order to increase the output, increase efficiency, or increase the effectiveness of the process or procedure. The concept of performance improvement can be applied to either individual performance such as an athlete or organizational performance such as a racing team or a commercial enterprise.
Performance improvement plan PIPs are frequently code for 'and now you're going to get fired, so here's your fair warning while I do the paperwork; you want to job hunt now'. Sometimes, they're actually an attempt to help the employee recover their performance, but frankly, not very often.
Performance poetry Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed exclusively for performance and not for print distribution.
Performance prediction In computer science, performance prediction means to estimate the execution time or other performance factors (such as cache misses) of a program on a given computer. It is being widely used for computer architects to evaluate new computer designs, for compiler writers to explore new optimizations, and also for advanced developers to tune their programs.
Performance psychology Performance psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the factors that allow individuals, communities and societies to flourish. Most recently, performance psychology has included the study of the psychological skills and knowledge necessary to facilitate and develop peak performance guidelines into best practice for sport, business, fitness and the performing arts.
Performance Prism The Performance Prism is a stakeholder-focused management framework designed to help organisations to decide what is most important to measure and manage, and how to integrate the results as part of a performance management system. Its stakeholder focus makes the Performance Prism relevant to contemporary strategic and operating environments in diverse commercial, public sector and charitable organisations.
Performance report Government performance reports are designed to show nonfinancial aspects of government operations. For example, a government financial report might include the number of arrests, number of convictions by crime category as well as the change (i.
Performance rights organisation A performance rights organisation exists to collect and distribute royalties on behalf of audio and video artists, for performances of their copyrighted works under copyright law. In some countries it is called a copyright collective or copyright collecting agency.
Performance status In medicine (oncology and other fields), performance status is an attempt to quantify cancer patients' general wellbeing. This measure is used to determine whether they can receive chemotherapy, whether dose adjustment is necessary, and as a measure for the required intensity of palliative care.
Performance studies Performance studies is a growing field of academic study focusing on the critical analysis of performance and performativity. The field or post-discipline engages performance as both an object of study and as a method of analysis.
Performance Space 122 Performance Space 122, also known as PS 122, is a not-for-profit arts organization and one of the oldest Off-off-Broadway theaters in New York City. Founded in 1979 in the abandonded Public School 122 building in the East Village, PS 122 has hosted thousands of world-premier and ongoing works by such artists as Spalding Gray, Karen Finley, Eddie Izzard, John Leguizamo, and Ron Athey.
Performance test The performance test or "PT" is a section of the bar exam that is intended to mimic a real-life legal task that future lawyers may face. Of the three parts of most states' bar exams -- MBE, essay, and PT -- the PT is probably the most reflective of how well a candidate will perform outside of an academic setting.
Performance transformation Performance Transformation aligns a company’s competencies to their business strategy and vision. It is linked to their business operations (results) as human capital, the most important asset in a company—its people.
Performance-based assessment Performance-based Assessment-requires students to construct a more extensive and elaborate answer or response. A well-defined task is identified and students are asked to create, produce, or do something, often in settings that involve real-world application of knowledge and skills.
Performances and adaptations of The Star-Spangled Banner In the course of the adoption of The Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem of the United States, a variety of people have either sung or performed the anthem using a variety of instruments and methods. Some of these methods include using only one instrument, such as a guitar or trumpet.
PerformaSure PerformaSure is a performance diagnostic tool for multi-tiered J2EE applications. It can be used for diagnosing performance problems in production with real-world user load as well as in pre-production during load testing.

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