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  2. Catastrophe theory - Wikipedia

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    Catastrophe theory studies dynamical systems that describe the evolution [5] of a state variable over time : ˙ = = (,) In the above equation, is referred to as the potential function, and is often a vector or a scalar which parameterise the potential function.

  3. List of Cambridge International Examinations Advanced Level ...

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    AS Level only CIE 8436: Thinking Skills: AS Level only; expired in 2007 CIE 8660: Research Project: AS Level only CIE 8663: Music: AS Level only CIE 8664: Portuguese: expired in 2006 CIE 8665: Spanish – First Language: AS Level only CIE 8666: Physical Education: AS Level only CIE 8667: Afrikaans Literature: AS Level only; expired CIE 8668 ...

  4. Tim Poston - Wikipedia

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    His books on catastrophe theory and on differential geometry and relativity are still in print after a third of a century. His academic career was carried out in a series of research centres, including Rio de Janeiro, Rochester NY, Porto, Geneva, Stuttgart, Charleston SC, Santa Cruz CA, Los Angeles CA, Pohang, Singapore, and Bangalore.

  5. Population bottleneck - Wikipedia

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    The controversial Toba catastrophe theory, presented in the late 1990s to early 2000s, suggested that a bottleneck of the human population occurred approximately 75,000 years ago, proposing that the human population was reduced to perhaps 10,000–30,000 individuals [14] when the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia erupted and triggered a major ...

  6. Central governor - Wikipedia

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    It was first published as a full theory by Tim Noakes, Alan St Clair Gibson and Vicki Lambert in five linked articles in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2004-2005 [1] In contrast to this idea is the one that fatigue is due to peripheral "limitation" or "catastrophe."

  7. René Thom - Wikipedia

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    René Frédéric Thom (French: [ʁəne tɔm]; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work ...

  8. List of Cambridge International Examinations Ordinary Level ...

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    Cannot be combined with syllabuses 0452 & 0614 , 4345, 7092 & 7175 (O Level).The Cambridge O Level Principles of Accounts 7110 syllabus has been revised and now has a new title and code: Cambridge O Level Accounting 7707. The last examination series for Cambridge O Level Principles of Accounts 7110 will be November 2019. [4] link: CIE 7115

  9. Catastrophism - Wikipedia

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    In geology, catastrophism is the theory that the Earth has largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope. [1] This contrasts with uniformitarianism (sometimes called gradualism ), according to which slow incremental changes, such as erosion , brought about all the Earth's geological features.