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Performative contradiction A performative contradiction arises when the propositional content of a statement contradicts the noncontingent presuppositions that make possible the performance of the speech act, such as occurs with "all statements must be false."
Performative verbs Performative verbs are those carried out simply by means of uttering them aloud. When a judge sentences someone to jail time, for example, the action is completed when he or she says I hereby sentence you to five years in prison, or the like.
Performative writing Performative writing is a form of post-modernist or avant-garde academic writing, usually taking as its subject a work of visual art or performance art. It is often loosely semi-autobiographical, free-flowing in an ersatz stream-of-consciousness mode, and heavily informed by left-wing critical theory, but arises ultimately from linguistic ideas around performative utterances.
Performers' rights As a performer, every individual has certain rights. These basic rights include the right to obtain some remuneration for ones work, and to obtain information about how you (including your appearance) and other talents (acting, singing or other) may have been used in the final product.
Performics Performics is an affiliate marketing, search engine marketing, data feed marketing, and online lead generation program company. Performics places a strong emphasis on certification of its employees, especially the certification for "Google Qualified Professionals", and maintains the status of "Google Qualified Company".
Performing arts The performing arts differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some art object.
Performing arts center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. However, many PACs have performance halls designed for specific purposes such as symphonic music or chamber music.
Performing arts education Education in the performing arts is a key part of many primary and secondary education curricula and is also available as a specialisation at the tertiary level. The performing arts, broadly dance, music and theatre are key elements of culture and engage participants at a number of levels.
Performing arts in Louisville, Kentucky The performing arts community in Louisville is currently undergoing a bit of a renaissance. The Kentucky Center, dedicated in 1983, located in the downtown hotel and entertainment district, features a variety of plays and concerts.
Performing arts presenters A performing arts presenting organization is an organization, or department or program of a larger organization, that works to facilitate exchanges between artists and audiences through creative, educational, and performance opportunities. The work that these artists perform is produced outside of the presenting organization.
Performing Arts Festival The Performing Arts Festival, abbreviated as PAF, is the biggest inter-hostel cultural competition in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay located at Powai in Mumbai (India). The term PAF is used not only the festival itself, but also the individual cultural performances that constitute the festival.
Performing rights Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music’s composer/lyricist and publisher (with the royalties generally split 50/50 between the two) when a business uses music in a public performance.
Performing Right Society The Performing Right Society (often shortened to PRS) is the collecting society for UK songwriters, composers and music publishers. Its role is to act as an agent for its members in order to collect performing royalties whenever their musical works are performed in public, broadcast or transmitted.
Performink Performink is a Chicago theatre industry newspaper. It includes show openings and reviews, audition listings, and industry and union news for Chicago actors, directors, dancers, designers, and other theatre professionals.
Perfume (novel) Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical horror novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick SĂĽskind. The novel explores the sense of scent, and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may carry.
Perfume bottles Perfume bottles are essential for safe storage because perfume is volatile and needs containers with very tight fitting lids or stoppers to prevent evaporation. The best ones are also made from coloured or faceted glass or other opaque material to prevent damage to perfume from sunlight.
Perga Perga, now commonly spelled "Perge" and pronounced "per-geh", was the capital of the then Pamphylia region, which is in modern day Antalya province on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Today it is a large site of ancient ruins 15 km east of Antalya in the coastal plain.
Pergameneous Pergameneous (sometimes pergamenous, from Latin: pergamena, parchment), is a technical term used to describe anything of the texture of parchment, as in a zoological description of the wing-covers of insects. The original Latin word owes its origin to Pergamon, a Greek city in modern Turkey that was an ancient source of parchment.
Pergament Home Centers Pergament Home Centers was a former home improvement store chain in the New York tri-state area, with a heavy concentration of stores in New York; however, they had a few stores in New Jersey. They were a home improvement store similar to Rickel, who had a fairly diverse range of products.
Pergamon Pergamon or Pergamum (Greek: Πέργαμος, modern day Bergama in Turkey, ) was an ancient Greek city, in Mysia, northwestern Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus (modern day Bakırçay), that became an important kingdom during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 282–129 BC. The Attalid kingdom was the rump state left after the collapse of the Lysimachian Empire.
Pergamon (album) Pergamon (1986), originally released as Quichotte (1980), is an album of electronic music released by Tangerine Dream. It is a selection from the two live concerts held on 31 January, 1980 at the Palast der Republik in East Berlin.
Pergamon Altar The Pergamon Altar is a magnificently opulent structure originally built in the 2nd century BC in the Ancient Greek city of Pergamon (also known as Pergamum; modern day Bergama in Turkey) in north-western Anatolia, 25.74 kilometers (16 miles) from the Aegean Sea.
Pergidae The Pergidae are a moderate-sized family of sawflies occurring primarily in Central and South America, and Australia, with some 400 species in some 60 genera. Larvae are typical herbivores, with the exception of a few Australian species that are leaf miners on Eucalyptus trees.
Pergo Pergo is a swedish flooring product company noted primarily for its laminate flooring products. Pergo invented laminate flooring in the 1970s and began selling laminate flooring in the United States in 1994 under the leadership of then-president Lars von Kantzow.
Perhexiline Perhexiline is a prophylactic antianginal agent used primarily in Australia and New Zealand. Perhexiline is thought to act by inhibiting mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1 this shifts myocardial metabolism from fatty acid to glucose utilisation which results in increased ATP production for the same O2 consumption and consequently increases myocardial efficiency.
Perhimpunan Pelestari Burung dan Habitatnya Burung Indonesia (Indonesian for: Birds of Indonesia), official name: Perhimpunan Pelestari Burung dan Habitatnya or Organisation for the Preservation of Birds and their Habitat, is the Indonesian society for the protection of birds. The organisation, which is a partner of the international organisation Birdlife International, was founded on 15 july 2002 and has its head quarters in Bogor, Java.
Perch Perca is the genus of fish referred to as perch or yellow perch, a group of freshwater fish belonging to the family Percidae. Perch, of which there are three species in different geographical areas, lend their name to the largest order of vertebrates: the Perciformes, from the Greek perke meaning perch, and the Latin forma meaning shape.
Perch (equilibristic) The perch is an equilibristic balancing act where one performer balances atop a pole that is being balanced by another performer. Each perch pole has a loop at the top into which the performer may insert either a hand or a foot in order to perform a variety of tricks while hanging down from the loop.
Perchance to Dream (operetta) Perchance to Dream is an Operetta/Musical show by UK composer Ivor Novello. It is one of Novello's most successful works, receiving its first performance on the London stage at the Hippodrome Theatre on 21 April 1945.
Perching duck The perching ducks ("Cairininae" or "Cairinini") were previously treated as a small group of ducks in the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae, grouped together on the basis of their readiness to perch high in trees. It has been subsequently shown that the grouping is paraphyletic and their apparent similarity results from convergent evolution, with the different members more closely related to various other ducks than to each other (Livezey 1986).
Perchronic Perchronics is the study of different types of world views which intersect across history (diachronic historical continuity) and movements (synchronic studies). Together these three dimensions interact with each other and can be helpful for contextual studies and the interpretation of content-bound meanings.
Peri In Persian and Islamic mythology, Peris (in Persian پری Pari) are descended from fallen angels who have been denied paradise until they have done penance. In earlier sources they are described as agents of evil; later, they are benevolent.
Peri Tarr Peri Tarr received her BS in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts in 1986, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1992 and 1996, respectively). Between her BS and MS/PhD, she worked full-time at the University of Massachusetts Physical Plant, attempting to introduce an automated system to help with the Plant's operations.
Peria Peria is a collection of villages in Iran, near the city of Isfahan (or Esfahan). Peria was mainly populated by Armenians who were brought to the region by the Shah of the time, Shah Abbas of Safavid dynasty in 1603 and 1604.
Periadriatic Seam The Periadriatic Seam is a distinct geologic fault in Southern Europe, running S-shaped about 1000 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea through the whole Southern Alps as far as Hungary. It forms the division between the Adriatic plate and the European plate.
Perianal gland tumor A perianal gland tumor is a type of tumor found near the anus in dogs that arises from specialized glandular tissue found in the perineum. It is also known as a hepatoid tumor because of the similarity in cell shape to hepatocytes (liver cells).
Periblepsis Periblepsis is a misspelling of the term parablepsis, which comes from the Greek words para- ("beside") and blepein ("to look") and refers to a circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying. (Periblepsis would, quite inexplicably, mean "looking around.
Perica Perica (pronounced: ) is a common Croatian and Serbian male given name, and is also a prevalent surname. Perica is the diminutive form of the name Pero (in the same way that, for example, the name Ivica is the diminutive form of the name Ivo).
Perica Bukić Perica Bukić (born February 20, 1966 in Šibenik, Croatia) is a Croatian water polo player and politician. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where the team won the golden medal.
Pericardial effusion Pericardial effusion ("fluid around the heart") is an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pericardial cavity. Because of the limited amount of space in the pericardial cavity, fluid accumulation will lead to an increased intrapericardial pressure and this can negatively affect heart function.
Pericardial friction rub In medicine, a pericardial friction rub, also pericardial rub, is a sign on the precordial exam, detected by auscultation, that suggests irritation of the pericardium and the diagnosis of pericarditis. The rub has a sound quality that can be described as a scratching, grating sound that is similar to leather rubbing against leather.
Pericardial window Pericardial Window is a procedure in which an opening is made in the pericardium to drain fluid that has accumulated around the heart. A pericardial window can be made via a small incision below the end of the breastbone (sternum) or via a small incision between the ribs on the left side of the chest.
Pericardium (Zang) As distinct from the Western medical concept of Pericardium, this concept from Traditional Chinese Medicine is more a way of describing a set of interrelated parts than an anatomical organ. (See Zang Fu theory)
PericĂşes The PericĂş (also known as Pericues, Cora, Edues) were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Cape Region, the southernmost portion of Baja California Sur, Mexico. They have been linguistically and culturally extinct since the late eighteenth century.
Pericle Felici Pericle Felici (August 1, 1911, Segni, Rome - March 22, 1982, Foggia) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Segni, Rome on August 1, 1911, he first studied theology at the local seminary of Segni, and afterwards at the Roman Pontifical Seminary.
Pericles Pericles or Perikles (c. 495 BC - 429 BC, Greek: , meaning "surrounded by glory") was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens in the city's Golden Age (specifically, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars).
Pericles (ship) The Pericles, named after the Athenian leader Pericles, was a 1,598 ton, iron hulled, three masted sailing ship, that made a trip to Fiji carrying 461 Indian indentured labourers and arriving at Suva on 3 July 1884. There was an outbreak of cholera during the voyage, with 35 cases being reported and 20 deaths.
Pericles' Funeral Oration Pericles' Funeral Oration is a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, II, 34, one of the few complete sources available on the subject of the power struggle between Athens and Sparta during the late 5th century BC.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written (at least in part) by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected plays despite some questions over its authorship. Most modern editors of the play believe that Shakespeare is responsible for the main portion of the play that follows the story of Pericles and Marina.
Pericline Pericline is a form of albite exhibiting elongate prismatic crystal. Pericline twinning is a type of crystal twinning which show fine parallel twin laminae typically found in the alkali feldspars sanidine, microcline and albite.
Pericope A pericope (pur-IC-op-ee) (Greek περικοπη, "a cutting-out") in rhetoric is a set of verses which form one coherent unit or thought, thus forming a short passage suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture.
Pericoronitis Pericoronitis is a common problem in young adults with partial tooth impactions. It occurs when the wisdom tooth has failed to erupt completely through the gum bed, allowing bacteria into an open space around the tooth, causing infection.
Pericyclic reaction In organic chemistry, a pericyclic reaction is a type of organic reaction wherein the transition state of the molecule has a cyclic geometry, and the reaction progresses in a concerted fashion. Pericyclic reactions are usually rearrangement reactions.
Pericyte A pericyte is a mesenchymal-like cell, associated with the walls of small blood vessels. As a relatively undifferentiated cell, it serves to support these vessels, but it can differentiate into a fibroblast, smooth muscle cell, or macrophage as well if required.
Perigee Perigee is the point at which an object in orbit around the Earth makes its closest approach to the Earth. This term commonly refers to the Moon but can be applied to any earth-orbiting body, such as artificial satellites.
Perigee: Publication for the Arts Perigee: Publication for the Arts is a 501(c)(3), Non-Profit quarterly publication for the arts—featuring verse, prose, and artwork—founded in May of 2003. Based in San Diego, California, the publication serves a worldwide audience and receives submissions in the English language most often from writers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and some African nations.
Perihan MaÄźden Perihan MaÄźden (born 1960) is a Turkish writer of prose and poetry and was a columnist for the newspaper Radikal. She was tried and acquitted on July 27th 2006 in Turkey for calling for opening the possibility of conscientious objection to mandatory military service in that country.
Perihelion Software Perihelion Software was a United Kingdom company founded in 1986 by Dr. Tim King along with a number of colleagues who had all worked together at MetaComCo on AmigaOS and written compilers for both the Amiga and the Atari ST.
Perichoresis In theology, perichoresis, Latinized and borrowed into English as circumincession or circuminsession, is a term used to express the existence of multiple divine persons in one another, such as the Holy Trinity of Christianity.
Periklis Kalogeropoulos Periklis Kalogeropoulos (Greek: Περικλής Καλογερόπουλος) is one of Greece's male fashion models. He has appeared in numerous campaign ads advertising both Greek and international fashion products.
Perikyma Perikymata (Greek plural of: perikyma) are the pits around the long microscopical prisms of tooth enamel. They indicate the places where enamel-producing cells used to make contact to neighbouring cells and are the result of normal enamel apposition.
Peril (band) Peril were an industrial band operating throughout the early 1990s. Members were Tony Buck (drums, samples, vocals) and Michael Sheridan (guitar) from Australia, and Otomo Yoshihide (turntables, guitar) and Kato Hideki (bass) from Japan.
Peril at End House Peril at End House (published in 1932) is a whodunnit mystery novel by Agatha Christie, featuring her famous character Hercule Poirot, as well as Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. It was the seventh novel featuring Poirot.
Peril of Sziget Szigeti veszedelem (Latin Obsidionis Szigetianae, English Peril of Sziget) was the title of the Hungarian epic poem in fifteen parts written by MiklĂłs Zrinyi in 1647 and published in 1651 about the final battle of his great-grandfather MiklĂłs Zrinyi against the Ottomans in 1566.
Perilampidae The Perilampidae are a small group within the Chalcidoidea, composed mostly of hyperparasitoids. The group is closely realted to the Eucharitidae, and the Eucharitids appear to have evolved from within the Perilampidae, thus rendering the family paraphyletic (if the two families are joined in the future, the name that has precedence is Eucharitidae).
Perili Köşk Perili Köşk (literally, haunted mansion in Turkish; also known as the Yusuf Ziya Pasha Mansion) is a historical monument in Rumeli Hisari, Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 1811, the red brick mansion with stained glass windows is located considerably close to the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge.
Perilipin Perilipin is a protein that coats lipid droplets in adipocytes, the fat storing cells in adipose tissue. Perilipin acts as a protective coating from the body’s natural lipases, such as hormone-sensitive lipase, that break triglycerides into glycerol and free fatty acids for use in metabolism, a process called lipolysis.
Perilymph Perilymph is an extracellular fluid located within the cochlea (part of the ear) in 2 of its 3 compartments; the scala typmani and scala vestibuli. The ionic composition of perilymph is comparable to that of plasma and cerebrospinal fluid.
Perim Perim ( [Barīm]) is a volcanic island strategically located in the Strait of Mandeb at the southern entrance into the Red Sea off the southwestern coast of Yemen, at . It has a surface area of 13 square kilometers and rises to an altitude of 65 meters.
Perimetry Perimetry is the systematic measurement of differential light sensitivity in the visual field by the detection of the presence of test targets on a defined background. Visual field testing can be performed clinically with confrontational field testing keeping the subject's gaze fixed while presenting objects at various places in their visual field.
Perinatal asphyxia Perinatal asphyxia is the medical condition resulting from deprivation of oxygen (hypoxia) to a newborn infant long enough to cause apparent harm. It results most commonly from a drop in maternal blood pressure or interference during delivery with blood flow to the infant's brain.
Perinatal assistant Perinatal Assistants are support professionals for the childbearing year. The services of a Perinatal Assistant includes a combination of doula services, childbirth education, postpartum support and breastfeeding support.
Perinatal mortality Perinatal mortality (PNM), also perinatal death, refers to the death of a fetus or neonate and is the basis to calculate the perinatal mortality rate. Variations in the precise definition of the perinatal mortality exist specifically concerning the issue of inclusion or exclusion of early fetal and late neonatal fatalities.
Perineal hernia Perineal hernia is a condition seen in dogs characterized by herniation of abdominal contents through the pelvic diaphragm and causing swelling on one side of the anus. The perineum is the area between the anus and the genitals.
Perineal massage Perineal massage is the practice of massaging the perineum to make it more flexible in preparation for childbirth. The intention is to attempt to prevent tearing of the perineum during birth, the need for an episiotomy or an instrument (forceps or vacuum extraction) delivery.
Perineology Perineology is a speciality dealing with the functional troubles of the three axis (urological, gynaecological and coloproctological) of the female perineum. The perineologist who is the architect of perineum must have an holistic approach of the woman using defect specific and mini-invasive treatments.
Perins School Perins School — A Community Sports College is a community sports college and secondary school located in New Alresford, Hants, England. It is commonly referred to as Perins School, and its previous name was Perins Community School.
Perinthus Perinthus (Ancient Greek: Πέρινθος Périnthos, later called Heraclea, present-day Marmara Ereğli) was an ancient town of Thrace, on the Propontis, 22 miles west of Selymbria, strongly situated on a small peninsula on the bay of that name.
Period (geology) A geologic period is a subdivision of geologic time that divides an era into smaller timeframes. The equivalent term used to demarcate rock layers and the fossil record is the system; thus the rocks of the Devonian System were laid down during the Devonian Period.
Period (music) A period is a phrase consisting usually of an antecedent and consequent and totaling about 8 measures in length (though this varies depending on meter and tempo). Generally, the antecedent ends in a half cadence while the consequent ends in an authentic cadence.
Period of Disunity The Period of Disunity, also known as the first disunion, was a long period of disunity and civil wars in China, lasting from 220 to 589. It followed the collapse of the Han Dynasty, when a large number of kingdoms had sprung up and fought for domination.
Period-after-opening symbol [period after opening symbol or PAO symbol is a graphic symbol] that identifies the useful lifetime of a [[cosmetics product after its package has been opened for the first time. It depicts an open cosmetics pot and is used together with a written number of months or years.
Period-doubling bifurcation In mathematics, a Period doubling bifurcation in a dynamical system is a bifurcation in which the system switches to a new behavior with twice the period of the original system. The hallmark of this is a Floquet multiplier of -1.
Periodic fever syndrome The periodic fever syndromes (also known as autoinflammatory syndromes) are a set of genetic disorders in which the mechanisms which initiate and control inflammation are disturbed leading to uncontrolled inflammation throughout the body. The syndromes are diverse, but tend to cause fever, joint pains, abdominal pains and may lead to chronic complications such as amyloidosis.
Periodic function In mathematics, a periodic function is a function that repeats its values after some definite period has been added to its independent variable. Everyday examples are seen when the variable is time; for instance the hands of a clock or the phases of the moon show periodic behaviour.
Periodic point In mathematics, a periodic point x is a point for which f^n(x)=x, where f^n is the nth iterate of some function. The smallest positive integer n satisfying the above is called the prime period or least period of the point x.
Periodic points of complex quadratic mappings This article on periodic points of complex quadratic mappings describes periodic points of some quadratic polynomial mappings on the complex numbers. This theory is applied in relation with the theories of Julia sets, and the Mandelbrot set.
Periodic Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee Against Torture The Periodic Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee Against Torture is periodically submitted by the United States government, through the State Department, to the United Nations Committee Against Torture. In October 2005, the report focused on the detention of suspects in the War on Terror, including those held in Guantánamo Bay.
Periodic sentence A Periodic Sentence (also called a Period) is a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its end. Periodicity is accomplished by the use of parallel phrases or clauses at the opening or by the use of dependent clauses preceding the independent clause; that is, the kernel of thought contained in the subject/verb group appears at the end of a succession of modifiers.
Periodic table The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements, first devised in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev. Mendeleev intended the table to illustrate recurring ("periodic") trends in the properties of the elements.
Periodic table (large version) The large version of the periodic table set out below does not fit into some computer screens; however, with a small font size and/or in landscape mode, it may be possible to print this periodic table on one or two normal-size sheets of paper. The key below explains the color-coding and layout of each entry.
Periodic table (vertical) The alternative table is a standard periodic table rotated counterclockwise and then mirrored across the vertical axis, hence like in many writing systems, the lower groups are to the left and the number increases to the right. Due to the rotation and the incorporation of the lanthanides and actinides into the main table, the Alternative Table is significantly longer vertically than the Standard Table.
Periodinane Periodinanes are chemical compounds containing hypervalent iodine. These iodine compounds are hypervalent because the iodine atom in it contains more than the 8 electrons in the valence shell required for the octet rule.
Periodizations of capitalism A periodization of capitalism seeks to distinguish stages of development that help understanding of features of capitalism through time. The most well-known periodizations that have been proposed distinguish these stages as:
Periodontal ligament The periodontal ligaments are considered part of the periodontium, as they are supporting tissue of a tooth. These ligaments are a specialized connective tissue that attach teeth from the cementum to the surrounding alveolar bone.
Periodontics Periodontics is the study of clinical aspects of the supporting structures of the teeth (i.e the periodontium), which includes the gingiva (gums), alveolar bone (jaw), root cementum, and the periodontal ligament.
Periodontium Periodontium is a word of Medical terminology for the specialized tissues surrounding and supporting the teeth. This includes stratified squamous epithelium, connective tissues of basement membrane, ligaments, cementum and alveolar bone.
Perioeci The perioeci, or perioikoi, were the members of an autonomous group of free but non-citizen inhabitants of Sparta. Concentrated in the beach and highland areas of Laconia, the name derives from (περί / perí, "around" and / oikos, "dwelling, house").
Perioperative mortality Perioperative mortality is mortality in relation to surgery, usually taken as death within two weeks of a surgical procedure. One of the vital steps in the decision to perform a surgical procedure is to weigh the benefits against the risks.
Perioral dermatitis Perioral dermatitis, a condition related to acne vulgaris, consists of red superficial pustules around the mouth and chin and the sides of the nose. It usually affects women between the ages of 20 and 45 and is commonly caused by the use of fluorinated topical glucocorticoid steroids to this area.

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