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The Young Buddhist Association (YBA) is an auxiliary lay group of the Buddhist Churches of America, the mainland U.S. branch of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. Founded in 1974 and originally known as the "Young Men's Buddhist Association" (YMBA, which was modeled after YMCA), the YBA began as a way to offer communal activities for young Japanese-American Shin Buddhist men in the United States.
The Young British Artists, or YBAs [1] —also referred to as Brit artists and Britart—is a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London in 1988. Many of the YBA artists graduated from the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths, in the late 1980s, whereas some from the group had trained at Royal College of Art. [2]
A slipstream processor is an architecture designed to reduce the length of a running program by removing the non-essential instructions. It is a form of speculative computing . Non-essential instructions include such things as results that are not written to memory, or compare operations that will always return true.
A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to that of the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving. [1] The term slipstream also applies to the similar region adjacent to an object with a fluid moving around it.
Extreme programming (XP) is an agile software development methodology used to implement software systems. This article details the practices used in this methodology. This article details the practices used in this methodology.
A Working Canon of Slipstream Writing Archived 6 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine compiled in Readercon 18, 2007. James Patrick Kelly covers slipstream in two of his "On the Net" columns from Asimov's Science Fiction: Slipstream and Genre. A roundup of slipstream links, including links to commentary, discussions, and reviews of slipstream ...
Drafting or slipstreaming is an aerodynamic technique where two moving objects are aligning in a close group to exploit the lead object's slipstream and thus reduce the overall effect of drag. Especially when high speeds are involved, as in motor racing and cycling, drafting can significantly reduce the paceline 's average energy expenditure ...
Slipstream is a literary press, founded in 1980 in Niagara Falls, New York, that publishes poetry and short fiction by both new and established writers.Charles Bukowski, Sherman Alexie, Gerald Locklin, Wanda Coleman, Lyn Lifshin, David Chorlton, J.P. Dancing Bear, and Terry Godbey are among the many writers whose work has appeared in the pages of Slipstream magazine.