assumption+of+first+principles
91Effective evolutionary time — The hypothesis of effective evolutionary timeK. Rohde: Latitudinal gradients in species diversity: the search for the primary cause, Oikos, 65, 514 527,1992.] attempts to explain gradients, in particular latitudinal gradients, in species… …
92Dynamic energy budget — The Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory aims to identify simple quantitative rules for the organization of metabolism of individual organisms that can be understood from basic first principles. The word dynamic refers to the life cycle perspective …
93Computational Aeroacoustics — While the discipline of Aeroacoustics is definitely dated back to the first publication of Sir James Lighthill[1][2] in the early 1950s, the origin of Computational Aeroacoustics can only very likely be dated back to the middle of the 1980s.… …
94reason — Within philosophy reason refers to (1) a faculty or ability in virtue of which one makes appropriate doxastic judgements that have a high likelihood of approximating to truth; (2) a rational ground for a belief (that is, I believe p for the… …
95Statistical mechanics — is the application of probability theory, which includes mathematical tools for dealing with large populations, to the field of mechanics, which is concerned with the motion of particles or objects when subjected to a force.Statistical mechanics …
96Constitutive equation — Many defining equations are in the form of a constitutive equation, since parameters of a property or effect associated matter are characteristic to the substance in question. A large number of other defining equations not specifically… …
97Hall's marriage theorem — In mathematics, Hall s marriage theorem is a combinatorial result that gives the condition allowing the selection of a distinct element from each of a collection of finite sets. It was proved by Philip Hall (1935). Contents 1 Definitions and …
98thesis — Synonyms and related words: Alexandrine, a priori principle, accent, accentuation, affirmation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, apriorism, argument, argumentation, arsis, article, assertion, assumed position, assumption,… …
99String field theory — In theoretical physics, string field theory is a proposal to define string theory in such a way that the background independence is respected. String field theory can be understood as a quantum field theory with infinitely many fields which are… …
100Raymond Reiter — (June 12, 1939 ndash; September 16, 2002), was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model based diagnosis, closed world reasoning, and truth …
