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adjustment (psychology)
in psychology, the behavioral process by which humans and other animals maintain an equilibrium among their various needs or between their needs and the obstacles of their environments. A sequence of adjustment begins when a need is felt and ends when it is satisfied. Hungry people, for example, are stimulated by their physiological state to...
adjustment (contract law)
The law also allows contractual relations to be adjusted when they have been thrown out of balance by unforeseen circumstances. The task of adjustment is relatively easy in cases in which both parties made a mistake or in which one party laboured under a mistaken assumption that was, or plainly should have been, known to the other. The problem of mistake becomes more intractable when the error......
Adjustment Bureau, The (film by Nolfi [2011])
...the western True Grit (2010), directed by the Coen brothers. In 2011 he starred as a politician whose fate is controlled by hidden forces in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau, based on a story by Philip K. Dick. That same year he appeared as a man whose wife is stricken by a deadly virus in Soderbergh’s thriller ......
adjustment mechanism (economics)
The international gold standard provided an automatic adjustment mechanism, that is, a mechanism that prevented any country from running large and persistent deficits or surpluses. It worked in the following manner. A country running a deficit would see its currency depreciate to the gold-export point. Arbitrage would then result in a gold flow from the deficit to the surplus country. In other......
adjutant (military official)
(French: “camp assistant”), an officer on the personal staff of a general, admiral, or other high-ranking commander who acts as his confidential secretary in routine matters. On Napoleon’s staff such officers were frequently of high military qualifications and acted both as his “eyes” and as interpreters of his mind to subordinate commanders, ...
adjutant bird (bird)
The adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubius), or adjutant bird, of India and southeastern Asia, and the lesser adjutant (L. javanicus) are typical scavengers with naked pink skin on the head and neck....
adjutant general (military official)
(French: “camp assistant”), an officer on the personal staff of a general, admiral, or other high-ranking commander who acts as his confidential secretary in routine matters. On Napoleon’s staff such officers were frequently of high military qualifications and acted both as his “eyes” and as interpreters of his mind to subordinate commanders, ...
adjutant stork (bird)
The adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubius), or adjutant bird, of India and southeastern Asia, and the lesser adjutant (L. javanicus) are typical scavengers with naked pink skin on the head and neck....
Adjutantenritte und andere Gedichte (work by Liliencron)
In 1883 Liliencron published his first book, Adjutantenritte und andere Gedichte (“Rides of the Adjutant and Other Poems”). The poems in this collection broke with established literary conventions; it has been called a landmark in the development of Naturalism in Germany....
adjuvant (medicine)
substance that enhances the effect of a particular medical treatment. Administration of one drug may enhance the effect of another. In anesthesia, for example, sedative drugs are customarily given before an operation to reduce the quantity of anesthetic drug needed. In immunology an adjuvant is a substance that increases the body’s reaction to a foreig...
adjuvant chemotherapy (pathology)
Adjuvant chemotherapy is the use of drugs to eradicate or suppress residual disease after surgery or irradiation has been used to treat the tumour. This is necessary because distant micrometastases often occur beyond the primary tumour site. Adjuvant chemotherapy reduces the rate of recurrence of some cancers, especially ovarian cancer, osteogenic sarcoma, colon cancer, and Wilms’ tumour. T...
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (law case)
(1923), U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court invalidated a board established by Congress to set minimum wages for women workers in the District of Columbia. Congress in 1918 had authorized the Wage Board to ascertain and fix adequate wages for women employees in the nation’s capital....
ʿadl (Islam)
...Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal); the Muʿtazilī position was finally abandoned by the caliphate under al-Mutawakkil c. 849. The Muʿtazilah further stressed the justice (ʿadl) of God as their second principle. While the orthodox were concerned with the awful will of God to which each individual must submit himself without question, the Muʿtazilah.....
Adleman, Leonard M. (American computer scientist)
American computer scientist and cowinner, with American computer scientist Ronald L. Rivest and Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir, of the 2002 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for their “ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography useful in practice.” ...
Adler, Steve (American musician)
...Izzy Stradlin (original name Jeff Isbell; b. April 8, 1962Lafayette), Steve Adler (b. Jan. 22, 1965Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.), Matt Sorum...
Adler, Alfred (Austrian psychiatrist)
psychiatrist whose influential system of individual psychology introduced the term inferiority feeling, later widely and often inaccurately called inferiority complex. He developed a flexible, supportive psychotherapy to direct those emotionally disabled by inferiority feelings toward maturity, common sense, and social usefulness....
Adler, Buddy (American producer)
Studio: 20th Century FoxDirector: Anatole Litvak Producer: Buddy Adler Writer: Arthur Laurents Music: Alfred NewmanRunning time: 105 minutes...
Adler, Cyrus (American scholar)
scholar, educator, editor, and Conservative Jewish leader who had great influence on American Jewish life in his time....
Adler, Dankmar (American architect)
architect and engineer whose partnership with Louis Sullivan was perhaps the most famous and influential in American architecture....
Adler, Felix (American educator)
American educator and founder of the Ethical Movement....
Adler, Friedrich (Austrian politician)
...Having dissolved the Bohemian Landtag (provincial assembly) in 1913, he adjourned the Austrian Reichsrat in March 1914 and governed henceforth by decree, until he was shot by the left-wing socialist Friedrich Adler in October 1916 during World War I....
Adler, Guido (Austrian musicologist)
Austrian musicologist and teacher who was one of the founders of modern musicology....
Adler, Jacob P. (American actor)
...forbidden. Early the next year the Heine troupe immigrated to the United States, where Sara soon gained a following in the Yiddish theatre in New York City. In 1890 she divorced Heine and married Jacob Adler, the leading tragic actor on the American Yiddish stage. Jacob Adler, together with playwright Jacob Gordin, was undertaking to revitalize the Yiddish theatre, then overburdened by......
Adler, Kurt (American conductor)
Austrian-born American conductor and administrator who transformed the San Francisco Opera into one of the nation’s leading opera companies....
Adler, Kurt Herbert (American conductor)
Austrian-born American conductor and administrator who transformed the San Francisco Opera into one of the nation’s leading opera companies....
Adler, Larry (American musician)
American harmonica player generally considered to be responsible for the elevation of the mouth organ to concert status in the world of classical music....
Adler, Laszlo James (Australian businessman)
Hungarian-born Australian businessman, founder of the Fire and All Risks Insurance Co. (later renamed FAI Insurance, Ltd.) and one of the 10 richest men in the country....
Adler, Lawrence Cecil (American musician)
American harmonica player generally considered to be responsible for the elevation of the mouth organ to concert status in the world of classical music....
Adler, Lawrence James (Australian businessman)
Hungarian-born Australian businessman, founder of the Fire and All Risks Insurance Co. (later renamed FAI Insurance, Ltd.) and one of the 10 richest men in the country....
Adler, Lou (American record producer)
Although he lacked the signature sound of Phil Spector or Brian Wilson, Lou Adler was an important catalyst for the new folk-rock sound of California. After working with Herb Alpert as a songwriter, producer, and artist manager at Keen and Dore Records in the late 1950s, Adler became West Coast promotion man and song-plugger for Don Kirshner’s New York City-based Aldon Music. In that capaci...
Adler, Mortimer J. (American philosopher and educator)
American philosopher, educator, editor, and advocate of adult and general education by study of the great writings of the Western world....
Adler, Mortimer Jerome (American philosopher and educator)
American philosopher, educator, editor, and advocate of adult and general education by study of the great writings of the Western world....
Adler, Nathan Marcus (British rabbi and educator)
chief rabbi of the British Empire, who founded Jews’ College and the United Synagogue....
Adler, Oskar (German astrologer)
...which he played with his teacher or with a cousin. A little later, when he acquired a viola-playing classmate, he advanced to the writing of string trios for two violins and viola. His meeting with Oskar Adler (later the famed astrologer and author of Das Testament der Astrologie) was a decisive one. Adler encouraged him to learn the cello so that a group of friends could play string......
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum (museum and planetarium, Chicago, Illinois, United States)
...which he played with his teacher or with a cousin. A little later, when he acquired a viola-playing classmate, he advanced to the writing of string trios for two violins and viola. His meeting with Oskar Adler (later the famed astrologer and author of Das Testament der Astrologie) was a decisive one. Adler encouraged him to learn the cello so that a group of friends could play string.......
Adler, Renata (American author and critic)
Italian-born American journalist, experimental novelist, and film critic best known for her analytic essays and reviews for The New Yorker magazine and for her 1986 book that investigates the news media....
Adler, Robert (American physicist)
Dec. 4, 1913 Vienna, AustriaFeb. 15, 2007 Boise, IdahoAustrian-born American physicist who as head of the research division of Zenith Radio Corp. (now Zenith Electronics), invented the first practical wireless remote control device for the televi...
Adler, Sara (Russian-American actress)
Russian-born American actress, one of the most celebrated figures in the American Yiddish theatre....
Adler, Stella (American actress)
American actress, teacher, and founder of the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York City (1949), where she tutored performers in “the method” technique of acting (see Stanislavsky method)....
Adler, Victor (Austrian politician)
Austrian Social Democrat, founder of a party representing all the nationalities of Austria-Hungary....
Adlergebirge (mountains, Czech Republic)
mountain range, a subgroup of the Sudeten mountains in northeastern Bohemia, Czech Republic, forming part of the frontier with Poland for a distance of 25 miles (40 km). The mountains are, for the most part, made up of ...
Adlersparre, Georg, Greve (Swedish politician)
political and social reformer who was a leader of the 1809 coup d’état that overthrew Sweden’s absolutist king Gustav IV....
ʿAdlī Yakan (Egyptian statesman)
...third general election, in May 1926, again gave the Wafd a majority. The British opposed a return of Zaghlūl to the premiership, and the office went instead to the Liberal Constitutionalist ʿAdlī Yakan, while Zaghlūl held the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies until his death in 1927. Once again, tension developed between the parliament and the king, and in April ...
Adlī Yegen (Egyptian statesman)
...third general election, in May 1926, again gave the Wafd a majority. The British opposed a return of Zaghlūl to the premiership, and the office went instead to the Liberal Constitutionalist ʿAdlī Yakan, while Zaghlūl held the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies until his death in 1927. Once again, tension developed between the parliament and the king, and in April ...
ADLP (political party, Australia)
(ADLP), right-wing political party in Australia founded in 1956–57 by Roman Catholic and other defectors from the Australian Labor Party. Militantly anticommunist, the ADLP supported Western and other anticommunist powers in Oceania and ...
Adlumia fungosa (plant)
Climbing fumitory (Adlumia fungosa), also known as Allegheny vine, or mountain fringe, is a sprawling, herbaceous biennial that coils its long leafstalks around supports. It reaches 3.5 m (11.5 feet) in height and has clusters of white or pinkish tubular flowers borne among delicately cut leaves. The only species of its genus, it is native to moist woodlands and freshly burned areas from......
ADM (chemical compound)
...percent of the charge and contains most of the volatile impurities. The last fraction is the pure MoO3. This must be 99.95 percent pure in order to be suitable for the manufacture of ammonium molybdate (ADM) and sodium molybdate, which are starting materials for all sorts of molybdenum chemicals. These compounds are obtained by reacting chemically pure MoO3 with......
ADM (American company)
American businesswoman who was named president and CEO of the agricultural processing corporation Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) in 2006....
ADMA-OPCO (Emirian company)
...Oil Company (ADNOC). Petroleum production contributes about one-third GDP but employs only a tiny fraction of the workforce. The largest petroleum concessions are held by an ADNOC subsidiary, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO), which is partially owned by British, French, and Japanese interests. One of the main offshore fields is located in Umm al-Shāʾif.......
Admetus (Greek mythology)
in Greek legend, son of Pheres, king of Pherae in Thessaly. Having sued for the hand of Alcestis, the most beautiful of the daughters of Pelias, king of Iolcos in Thessaly, Admetus was first required to harness a lion and a boar to a chariot. Apollo, who, for having killed the Cyclopes, was temporarily co...
administered price (economics)
price determined by an individual producer or seller and not purely by market forces. Administered prices are common in industries with few competitors and those in which costs tend to be rigid and more or less uniform. They are considered undesirable when they cause prices to be higher than a competitive standard, when they are accompanied by excessive non-price competition (efforts to increase s...
administration
The third essential feature, a system of management, varies greatly. In a simple form of business association the members who provide the assets are entitled to participate in the management unless otherwise agreed. In the more complex form of association, such as the company or corporation of the Anglo-American common-law countries, members have no immediate right to participate in the......
Administration, Directorate of (United States government)
The Directorate of Administration is responsible for the CIA’s finances and personnel matters. It also contains the Office of Security, which is responsible for the security of personnel, facilities, and information as well as for uncovering spies within the CIA....
Administration of Justice Act (United Kingdom [1964])
...lies in the metropolitan county of Greater London, the urban districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames lie within the administrative county of Surrey, and Potters Bar in Hertfordshire. Under the Administration of Justice Act (1964) the Middlesex area of London was deemed a county for purposes of law. The name Middlesex continues to be used for postal districts and in the names of many county.....
Administration of Justice Act (Great Britain [1774])
The third, the Administration of Justice Act, was aimed at protecting British officials charged with capital offenses during law enforcement by allowing them to go to England or another colony for trial. The fourth Coercive Act included new arrangements for housing British troops in occupied American dwellings, thus reviving the indignation that surrounded the earlier Quartering Act, which had......
administrative act
the legal framework within which public administration is carried out. It derives from the need to create and develop a system of public administration under law, a concept that may be compared with the much older notion of justice under law. Since administration involves the exercise of power by the executive arm of ...
Administrative Behavior (book by Simon)
Empirical studies of ostensibly bureaucratic organizations have often revealed a rich informal life within them that is at odds with the formal chain-of-command depictions. The classic work Administrative Behavior, originally published in 1947 from the doctoral dissertation of Herbert Simon, dissected the vintage bureaucratic paradigm and concluded that it was frequently......
administrative budget
The traditional administrative budget contains the executive’s recommendations concerning the raising of what Magna Carta referred to as “scutage or aid” and the disposal of it for purposes of government. This kind of budget is designed to control expenditure; accordingly, it emphasizes the salaries and tasks of civil servants rather than the results that they are supposed to....
administrative city (sociology)
Like ritual cities, administrative cities were the habitations of the state rulers. Their major cultural role was to serve as the locus of state administration. State offices and officers had an urban location, from which they exercised a political control and economic exploitation of the surrounding rural areas quite unknown in ritual cities. Administrative cities also had a qualitatively......
administrative county (division of government)
...the Local Government Act of 1888 established county councils, with members elected by local residents, to take over the legislative and executive duties of the magistrates. The act also created new administrative counties, which sometimes had different boundaries than the historic counties after which they were usually named, and created about 60 county boroughs, cities that were given county.....
administrative court (law)
...and an ancient legal doctrine holds that “the king can do no wrong.” Moreover, the development of state-provided social services has been accompanied by the creation of a large number of administrative tribunals to determine disputes between a government department and a citizen. The jurisdiction of these tribunals is of a specialized and narrowly circumscribed character and relat...
administrative law
the legal framework within which public administration is carried out. It derives from the need to create and develop a system of public administration under law, a concept that may be compared with the much older notion of justice under law. Since administration involves the exercise of power by the executive arm of ...
Administrative Procedure Act (United States [1946])
To counter charges that the U.S. civil service was encroaching on the powers of the judiciary, the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 laid down detailed provisions to safeguard citizens’ rights where the administration had powers of adjudication. These rights included the right to ample previous notice of proceedings, the right to submit evidence, the right to have independent hearing......
Administrative Staff College (British college)
...the advanced management program for senior executives at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, were already well established in the immediate postwar period. In Great Britain the Administrative Staff College (now Henley Management College) was set up at Henley-on-Thames in 1945 to offer short courses in problems of advanced management. It employs a novel technique of training....
administrative tribunal (law)
...and an ancient legal doctrine holds that “the king can do no wrong.” Moreover, the development of state-provided social services has been accompanied by the creation of a large number of administrative tribunals to determine disputes between a government department and a citizen. The jurisdiction of these tribunals is of a specialized and narrowly circumscribed character and relat...
Admirable Discourses (work by Palissy)
From 1575, in Paris, Palissy gave public lectures on natural history, which, published as Discours admirables (1580; Admirable Discourses), became extremely popular, revealing him as a writer and scientist, a creator of modern agronomy, and a pioneer of the experimental method, with scientific views generally more advanced than those of his contemporaries. After seeing a white......
admiral (butterfly)
any of several butterfly species in the family Nymphalidae (order Lepidoptera) that are fast-flying and much prized by collectors for their coloration, which consists of black wings with white bands and reddish brown markings. The migratory red admiral (Vanessa atalanta), placed in the subfamily Nymphalinae, is widespread in Europe, Sca...
admiral (naval officer)
the title and rank of a senior naval officer, often referred to as a flag officer, who commands a fleet or group of ships of a navy or who holds an important naval post on shore. The term is sometimes also applied to the commander of a fleet of merchant vessels or fishing ships....
Admiral Broadway Revue, The (American television show)
In 1947 Caesar developed a nightclub act and starred in the stage production Make Mine Manhattan on Broadway. Two years later, working with producer Max Liebman, Caesar created The Admiral Broadway Revue, a 90-minute live television variety show with an emphasis on Caesar’s comedy routines. Although the show was canceled after 17 weeks, most of the elements of......
Admiral carpet (Spanish carpet)
any of a number of 14th- or 15th-century carpets handwoven in Spain, probably at Letur or at Liétor in Murcia. The carpets were made with the Spanish knot, tied on a single warp and set in staggered rows on adjacent warps. In most cases the carpets show heraldic shields with coats of arms against a background diaper (all-over pattern) o...
“Admiral Graf von Spee” (battleship)
German pocket battleship of 10,000 tons launched in 1936. The Graf Spee was more heavily gunned than any cruiser and had a top speed of 25 knots and an endurance of 12,500 miles (20,000 km)....
Admiral of the Ocean Sea (work by Morison)
Morison’s writings include: Maritime History of Massachusetts (1921); Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Columbus for which Morison was awarded a Pulitzer Prize; John Paul Jones (1959), which also received a Pulitzer; The Oxford History of the American People (1965); the monumental History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, 15 vol.......
Admiral Scheer (German battleship)
...the ranks, becoming a captain and the commander of the German naval academy in 1937. In October 1939, after World War II had begun, Krancke took command of the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, which raided Allied maritime commerce over the next two years. He was promoted to rear admiral (1941), vice admiral (1942), and admiral (1943), and he served as a naval......
Admiral, the (American basketball player)
American basketball player who won two National Basketball Association (NBA) titles with the San Antonio Spurs (1999, 2003)....
Admirals (portrait series by Lely)
...subjects—e.g., the portrait series of court ladies titled The Windsor Beauties (1660s). Simultaneously he painted the portrait series of the Admirals (1666–67) at Greenwich, the best of them rugged and severely masculine characterizations. Lely’s late works are marred by stylistic mannerisms and decreasing vitality....
Admirals All (work by Newbolt)
...was educated at Clifton Theological College and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was admitted to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1887 and practiced law until 1899. The appearance of his ballads, Admirals All (1897), which included the stirring “Drake’s Drum,” created his literary reputation. These were followed by other volumes collected in Poems: New and ...
Admiral’s Cup (yachting)
racing trophy awarded to the winner of a biennial international competition among teams of sailing yachts; it was established in 1957 by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) of Great Britain. Teams of three yachts rated at 25 to 70 feet (8 to 21 m) by RORC rules (formerly 30 to 60 feet [9 to 18 m] waterline length) represent each nation in six races (five until 1987) off the south...
Admiral’s Men (English theatrical company)
a theatrical company in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. About 1576–79 they were known as Lord Howard’s Men, so called after their patron Charles Howard, 1st earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham. In 1585, when Lord Howard became England’s ...
Admiralty (British government)
in Great Britain, until 1964, the government department that managed naval affairs. In that year the three service departments—the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Air Ministry—were abolished as separate departments and merged in a new unified Ministry of Defence, and the Admiralty was renamed the ...
admiralty
the body of legal rules that governs ships and shipping....
Admiralty (building, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Much of St. Petersburg’s historical and cultural heritage is concentrated on the Admiralty Side. The district centres on the Admiralty. This, the nucleus of Peter’s original city, was reconstructed in 1806–23 by Andreyan D. Zakharov as a development of the earlier building of Ivan K. Korobov, which itself had been remodeled in 1727–38 but retained the layout of the orig...
Admiralty, Board of (British government)
in Great Britain, until 1964, the government department that managed naval affairs. In that year the three service departments—the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Air Ministry—were abolished as separate departments and merged in a new unified Ministry of Defence, and the Admiralty was renamed the ...
Admiralty Board of the Defence Council (British government)
in Great Britain, until 1964, the government department that managed naval affairs. In that year the three service departments—the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Air Ministry—were abolished as separate departments and merged in a new unified Ministry of Defence, and the Admiralty was renamed the ...
admiralty brass (alloy)
...zinc, added to improve physical and mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, or machinability or to modify colour. Among these are the lead brasses, which are more easily machined; the naval and admiralty brasses, in which a small amount of tin improves resistance to corrosion by seawater; and the aluminum brasses, which provide strength and corrosion resistance where the naval brasses may....
Admiralty Court (building, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
...When Louis Bonaparte, the French king of Holland, chose this structure as his residence in 1808 and converted it into what is now the Royal Palace (Koninklijk Paleis), the council moved to the Prinsenhof, a onetime convent that later became the Admiralty Court. In the mid-1980s a new city hall and opera house were constructed on the north bank of the Amstel River, at Waterloo Square. In......
Admiralty, High Court of (English legal body)
in England, formerly the court presided over by the deputy of the admiral of the fleet. The Black Book of the Admiralty says it was founded in the reign of Edward I, but it actually appears to have been established by Edward III about 1360. At this time the court seems to have had some civil jurisd...
Admiralty Inlet (inlet, Canada)
passage of water located between Brodeur and Borden peninsulas and indenting for 230 miles (370 km) the northwest coast of Baffin Island in the Baffin region of Nunavut territory, Canada. The inlet, leading southward from Lancaster Sound of ...
Admiralty Island (island, Alaska, United States)
...mountains of the archipelago range in elevation from 2,000–3,500 feet in the southern Prince of Wales Mountains to more than 4,000–7,500 feet in the Chilkat Range and the mountains of Admiralty, Baranof, and Chicagof islands. These islands have small glaciers and rugged coastlines indented by fjords. The archipelago is composed of southeast–northwest-trending belts of......
Admiralty Islands (islands, Papua New Guinea)
islands in Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean, an extension of the Bismarck Archipelago comprising about 40 islands. The group lies about 190 miles (300 km) off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The volcanic M...
Admiralty Landships Committee (British military body)
...The vehicle was constructed by the Armoured Car Division of the Royal Naval Air Service, whose ideas, backed by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston S. Churchill, resulted in the formation of an Admiralty Landships Committee. A series of experiments by this committee led in September 1915 to the construction of the first tank, called “Little Willie.” A second model, called......
admiralty law
the body of legal rules that governs ships and shipping....
admiralty mile (unit of measurement)
A nautical mile was originally defined as the length on the Earth’s surface of one minute (160 of a degree) of arc along a meridian (north-south line of longitude). Because of a slight flattening of the Earth in polar latitudes, however, the measurement of a nautical mile increases slightly toward the poles. For many years the British nautical mile, or......
Admiralty Screen (architectural work by Adam)
Adam’s first important work in London was the Admiralty Screen (c. 1760). Through the influence of John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, a friend of King George III, he was appointed architect of the King’s Works in November 1761 along with William Chambers, his principal architectural rival. By the early 1760s he had many domestic commissions; almost without exception these consisted of th...
Admiralty Side (district, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Much of St. Petersburg’s historical and cultural heritage is concentrated on the Admiralty Side. The district centres on the Admiralty. This, the nucleus of Peter’s original city, was reconstructed in 1806–23 by Andreyan D. Zakharov as a development of the earlier building of Ivan K. Korobov, which itself had been remodeled in 1727–38 but retained the layout of the orig...
admissibility (law)
In civil proceedings in the common-law countries, evidence is both ascertained and simultaneously restricted by the assertions of the parties. If the allegations of one party are not disputed or contested by the other, or if the allegations are even admitted, then no proof is required. Proof would, in fact, be irrelevant. Evidence offered to prove assertions that are neither at issue nor......
admission (law)
...law than in continental law. The most commonly cited exceptions to the rule of hearsay relate to statements made by dead or absent persons, statements in public documents, and to confessions and admissions by parties....
admission fee (business)
Many museums charge entrance fees to help finance operations—even in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, that previously had a strong tradition of free entry to museums. Some museums charge admission fees only for major exhibitions. Others have introduced a system of voluntary donations by visitors on entry to supplement their income, but the results of this approach generally......
admittance (electronics)
...component of the impedance (whether predominantly inductive or capacitive), the alternating current either lags or leads the voltage. The reciprocal of the impedance, 1/Z, is called the admittance and is expressed in terms of the unit of conductance, the mho unit (ohm spelled backward). ...
admitted liability insurance
...Medical costs, including loss of income, are usually paid to passengers suffering permanent total disability without the requirement of proving negligence. This type of coverage has been called admitted liability insurance....
admixture (social practice)
marriage or cohabitation by persons of different race. Theories that the anatomical disharmony of children resulted from miscegenation were discredited by 20th-century genetics and anthropology. Although it is now accepted that modern populations are the result of the continuous mixing of various populations since prehistoric times, taboos on miscegenation—in some instances legally enforced...