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  • "Criticality" [1984 short story] (Rating:) [Read 01/20/06]

    REVIEW: Platinum Pohl by Frederik Pohl 2006

  • Criticality refers to a sustained nuclear chain reaction, which can release a large amount of energy.

    Japan Says Xenon May Have Been Released at Plant Mitsuru Obe 2011

  • I thought that "Self-Organized Criticality" was an SF writers group!

    Self-Organized Criticality 2009

  • Self-Criticality: The evolutionary path of the system may cross thresholds, or tipping points, past which system dynamics are massively and irreversibly altered.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • Based on all the data and the Criticality of the Main Engines, I strongly believe

    NASA Watch: Shuttle News 1997-2003: December 1999 Archives 1999

  • Based on all the data and the Criticality of the Main Engines, I strongly believe

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: December 1999 Archives 1999

  • Criticality is a state when controlled nuclear reactions take place and nuclear power plants harness the resulting heat to produce electricity.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Quantum Criticality in an Ising Chain: Experimental Evidence for Emergent E8 Symmetry The existence of the group was first realized by Wilhelm Killing in 1887: see his picture.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • Mapping Business Drivers to Security and Audit Concerns Business Driver Concern • Server consolidation • Criticality of management • Centralized administration infrastructure • Higher server/admin ratio • SoD/RBAC • Quick provisioning • "Physical" access • Simple reconfiguration • Licensing compliance, • Multiple OS on single change management platform •

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows jasonbchan 2010

  • Criticality experiments, in which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining, also were conducted using plutonium nitrate and enriched uranium solutions.

    The Seattle Times 2010

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