historical control subject — An individual treated in the past and used in a comparison group when researchers analyze the results of a clinical study that had no control group. The use of a control, or comparison, group helps researchers determine the effects of a new… … English dictionary of cancer terms
Historical powers — include great powers, nations, or empires in history. The term Great power represent the most important world powers. In a modern context, recognised great powers came about first in Europe during the post Napoleonic era.[1] The formalization of… … Wikipedia
Historical revision of the Inquisition — is a historiographical project that has emerged in recent years. In the last forty years, with opening of formerly closed archives, the development of new historical methodologies, and, in Spain, the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, new works… … Wikipedia
Historical ecology — is a research program that focuses on the intermingling of people and the environments in which they live. Rather than just looking at a quick snapshot, historical ecology involves studying and understanding this relationship in both time and… … Wikipedia
Historical romance — is a subgenre of two literary genres, the romance novel and the historical novel.DefinitionHistorical romance is set before World War II.cite web | title = Romance Novels Subgenres | publisher = Romance Writers of America | url… … Wikipedia
Historical immigration to Great Britain — concerns the inward movement of people, cultural and ethnic groups into Great Britain before 1922, when the Irish Free State became independent. Immigration during and after 1922 is dealt with at the article Immigration to the United Kingdom… … Wikipedia
Control Data Institute — (CDI) was an international technical vocational school created by the American Control Data Corporation in the mid 1960s. Historical timeline 1965 Control Data Corporation established Control Data Institutes in the United States. 1967 The first… … Wikipedia
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Historical revisionism (negationism) — For the critical re examination of historical facts, see Historical revisionism. Historical revisionism is either the legitimate scholastic re examination of existing knowledge about a historical event, or the illegitimate distortion of the… … Wikipedia
Control theory — For control theory in psychology and sociology, see control theory (sociology) and Perceptual Control Theory. The concept of the feedback loop to control the dynamic behavior of the system: this is negative feedback, because the sensed value is… … Wikipedia
Control Data Corporation — (CDC) was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc. (CRI). CDC was one of the nine major… … Wikipedia
