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  2. Badminton - Wikipedia

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    For example, a good crosscourt sliced drop shot will use a hitting action that suggests a straight clear or a smash, deceiving the opponent about both the power and direction of the shuttlecock. A more sophisticated slicing action involves brushing the strings around the shuttlecock during the hit, in order to make the shuttlecock spin.

  3. Median - Wikipedia

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    The median of a power law distribution x −a, with exponent a > 1 is 2 1/(a − 1) x min, where x min is the minimum value for which the power law holds [10] The median of an exponential distribution with rate parameter λ is the natural logarithm of 2 divided by the rate parameter: λ −1 ln 2.

  4. Biological applications of bifurcation theory - Wikipedia

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    Example of a biological network between genes and proteins that controls entry into S phase. However, with knowledge of network interactions and a set of parameters for the proteins and protein interactions (usually obtained through empirical research), it is often possible to construct a model of the network as a dynamical system .

  5. Liem Swie King - Wikipedia

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    By intercepting the shuttlecock at higher altitude, Liem was able to deliver a shot with steeper angle. Given his average stature, his jump-smash made a quite dramatic visual for the spectators, due to the perceived height of his leap. In an interview, Liem explained that he began to do jump-smash around 1977.

  6. Shuttlecock - Wikipedia

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    The object resembles a hawk's lure, used from ancient times in the training of hunting birds. [citation needed] It is frequently shortened to shuttle.The "shuttle" part of the name is derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a 14th-century loom, while the "cock" part of the name is derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a rooster.

  7. A badminton player won gold in Paris. Then she received a ...

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    Shortly after Huang and her mixed doubles partner, Zheng Siwei, won the gold on Aug. 2, her romantic partner, Liu Yuchen, who is also a member of China's badminton team, got down on one knee to ...

  8. Examples of Markov chains - Wikipedia

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    In this example, predictions for the weather on more distant days change less and less on each subsequent day and tend towards a steady state vector. [5] This vector represents the probabilities of sunny and rainy weather on all days, and is independent of the initial weather. [5] The steady state vector is defined as:

  9. Kento Momota - Wikipedia

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    Kento Momota (桃田 賢斗, Momota Kento, born 1 September 1994) is a former Japanese badminton player. [1] He has won several major badminton tournaments including two World Championships titles, two Asian Championships titles, and one All England title. Momota has received a Guinness World Records certificate for "The most badminton men's ...