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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Kuhn contrasts paradigm shifts, which characterize a Scientific Revolution, to the activity of normal science...

In mythology, folklore, and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means. The idea of shapeshifting...

shifts, set periods of time during which different groups of workers perform their duties. The term "shift work" includes both long-term night shifts...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

where antarafacial shifts are favored: In contrast to hydrogen [1,5] shifts, there have never been any observed [1,5] alkyl shifts in an open-chain compound...

In physics and mathematics, the phase (symbol φ or ϕ) of a wave or other periodic function F {\displaystyle F} of some real variable t {\displaystyle t}...

Regime shifts are large, abrupt, persistent changes in the structure and function of ecosystems, the climate, financial systems or other complex systems...

"<<" and ">>" operators perform arithmetic shifts. Java adds the operator ">>>" to perform logical right shifts, but since the logical and arithmetic left-shift...

Ballot (Before Shifts) 1st Presidential Ballot (After Shifts) 2nd Presidential Ballot (Before Shifts) 2nd Presidential Ballot (After Shifts) Presidential...

include elements such as structural aspects of change (like population shifts), processes and mechanisms of social change, and directions of change. Christian:...

an electromagnetic wave scattered by charged particles, cannot explain shifts in wavelength at low intensity: classically, light of sufficient intensity...

of 85%, while that for the primary 3-methyl-2-buten-1-ol is 15%. Allylic shifts occur because the transition state is an allyl intermediate. In other respects...

relation between characters and the action of the story shifts historically, often miming shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality, self-determination...

measure of how much change had occurred. Group polarization and choice shifts are similar in many ways; however, they differ in one distinct way. Group...

pseudo-scientific claim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotation of Earth, causing calamities such as floods and...

/ei ou/. This type of sound change, in which one vowel's pronunciation shifts so that it is pronounced like a second vowel, and the second vowel is forced...

gives these benefits: sharing of computer resources among many users time-shifts job processing to when the computer is less busy avoids idling the compute...

perturbed. Due to ecological feedbacks, ecosystems display resistance to state shifts and therefore tend to remain in one state unless perturbations are large...

function for Turing machines, the maximum shifts function, S, defined as follows: s(M) = the number of shifts M makes before halting, for any M ∈ En, S(n)...

gender shifts are sometimes correlated with meaning shifts, and sometimes yield doublets with no difference in meaning. Moreover, gender shifts sometimes...