Wiktionary TOC right Critical may refer to Critical novel Critical novel , a medical thriller written by Dr. Robin Cook Critical song , a 1999 single by Zion I Critical Software , a company specializing in mission and business critical information systems. Critically Endangered , a risk status for wild species Critical, or intensive care medicine See also Critic Criticism Critique Crisis Special PrefixIndex Critical Articles beginning with Critical disambig ... more details
Critical condition is a medical state . Critical Condition may also be Critical Condition SATC episode , an episode of the television series Sex and the City Critical Condition film , a 1987 comedy film disambig ... more details
Critical care may refer to intensive care medicine Critical care medicine or intensive care medicine, a branch of medicine concerned with life support for critically ill patients Critical Care Star Trek Voyager Critical Care Star Trek Voyager , an episode of the TV series Critical Care film Critical Care film , a 1997 film directed by Sidney Lumet Critical Care , a novel by Richard Dooling basis for the film Critical Care journal Critical Care journal , an online journal of intensive care medicine published by BioMed Central Critical Care Medicine , published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins for the Society of Critical Care Medicine . See also Lookfrom Critical Care disambig ... more details
Wiktionary critical angle Critical angle can refer to Critical angle optics the angle of incidence above which total internal reflection occurs Critical angle of attack , in aerodynamics the angle of attack which produces the maximum lift coefficient Critical angle of repose , in engineering the steepest angle of descent of a slope when the material is on the verge of sliding disambiguation ... more details
Critical Review is a name shared by several publications, which are unrelated to each other by anything except their names The Critical Review was an England English newspaper published from 1756 to 1817. Critical Review Brown University . The Critical Review is the student publication of course evaluations at Brown University that has been published since 1976. Critical Review scholarly journal . Critical Review A Journal of Politics and Society is a scholarly quarterly published by the Critical Review Foundation since 1986. An Australian literary journal. disambig ... more details
A critical vocabulary is a formal terminology related to one or more branches of critical theory . Although it may be considered a type of jargon , it is predominantly used by academic academics and is not slang . The word critical , as used in the term critical vocabulary , takes on two meanings of essential importance and of or pertaining to critic s or criticism . Thus, the vocabulary is of essential importance to the critical theory that employs it and is used by that critical theory in order to produce criticism . Usage Unlike the term jargon , the term critical vocabulary is seldom used as a collective noun . It is typically preceded by the definite article definite or indefinite article . When speaking about more than one critical theory, it is used in the plural i.e. the critical vocabularies of postmodern studies . Criticism Several people have criticized critical vocabularies as tools of alienation or obfuscation. ref http media.www.tuftsdaily.com media storage paper856 news 2005 04 22 Features Has Academic.Jargon.Finally.Gone.Too.Far 1490971.shtml ref ref http blog.case.edu webdev 2006 03 23 beware of your vocabulary ref Also there have been assertions that the relatively recent proliferation of critical vocabularies has resulted in redundancy of both terms and ideas. ref http www.jstor.org pss 454728 ref See the Pitfalls section under jargon . See also Critical theory Critical theory Frankfurt School Critical thinking Critique Cultural critic Jargon Philosophy Technical terminology References reflist External links http www.citigraphics.net jenner djenner archive CritiqueAndCriticalThinking.pdf What Critical means in Critical Thinking Donald Jenner, BMCC CUNY pdf Critical theory Category Criticism Category Critical theory ... more details
Critical Path may refer to The Critical Path, the longest necessary path through a network of activities when respecting their interdependencies, which may be identified with the Program Evaluation and Review Technique and the Critical path method Critical Path book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981 The Critical Path An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism The Critical Path , book by Northrop Frye , 1971 Critical Path video game , an interactive movie computer game Critical Path, Inc. , provider of messaging services Critical Path Institute , organization for improvement of the drug development process disambig th ... more details
Critical Moment is a political newspaper based in Southeast Michigan , USA . It was founded in 2003. External links http www.criticalmoment.org Critical Moment official website http bad.eserver.org reviews 2006 critical.html Critical Moment reviewed by Bad Subjects michigan newspaper stub Category Newspapers published in Michigan ... more details
A critical pair may refer to Critical pair logic , terms resulting from two overlapping rules in a term rewriting system Critical pair order theory , two incomparable elements in a partial order that have the same order relation to all other elements mathdab ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2010 In concurrent programming a critical section is a piece of code that accesses ... one Thread computer science thread of execution . A critical section will usually terminate in fixed ... of the critical section to ensure exclusive use, for example a semaphore programming semaphore . By carefully controlling which variables are modified inside and outside the critical section usually, by accessing important state only from within , concurrent access to that state is prevented. A critical ... a separate thread making conflicting changes to that data. In a related situation, a critical ... process at a time. How critical sections are implemented varies among operating systems. The simplest method is to prevent any change of processor control inside the critical section. On uni processor systems, this can be done by disabling interrupts on entry into the critical section, avoiding system ... state on exit. Any thread of execution entering any critical section anywhere in the system ... and therefore from entering any other critical section or, indeed, any code whatsoever, until the original thread leaves its critical section. This brute force approach can be improved upon by using semaphore programming semaphores . To enter a critical section, a thread must obtain a semaphore ... entering the critical section at the same time as the original thread, but are free to gain control of the CPU and execute other code, including other critical sections that are protected by different ... different critical sections in the same program. Citation needed date November 2008 In general .... Each piece must be guarded by a common semaphore programming semaphore . Is each piece now a critical ... a single critical section? This confusion is evident in definitions of a critical section such as ... a piece ... itself to be somewhat contrived. Application Level Critical Sections Application software Application level critical sections reside in the Random access memory memory range of the process and are usually ... more details
Critical value may refer to Differential topology In differential topology , a critical value of a differentiable function nowrap 1 M N between differentiable manifold s is the image value x in N of a critical point mathematics critical point x in M ref Carmo, Manfredo Perdig o do.. Differential geometry of curves and surfaces . Upper Saddle River, N.J. Prentice Hall, 1976. Print. ref . The basic result on critical values is Sard s lemma . The set of critical values can be quite irregular but in Morse theory it becomes important to consider real number real valued functions on a manifold M , such that the Set mathematics set of critical values is in fact finite. The theory of Morse function s shows that there are many such functions and that they are even typical, or generic in the sense of Baire category . Statistics In statistics , a critical value is the value corresponding to a given significance level . This cutoff value determines the boundary between those statistical sample samples resulting in a test statistic that leads to rejecting the null hypothesis and those that lead to a decision not to reject the null hypothesis. If the calculated value from the statistical test is less than the critical value, then the null hypothesis is rejected in favour of the alternative hypothesis, and vice versa. Complex dynamics In complex dynamics , a Complex quadratic polynomial Critical value critical value is the image of a Complex quadratic polynomial Critical point critical point . References reflist mathanalysis stub topology stub Category Multivariable calculus Category Differential topology Category Critical phenomena pl Warto krytyczna ... more details
Critical Practice is the methodology used by a critic or observer to understand and evaluate a field of study field of knowledge . While sometimes the fields of knowledge studied are academic, non academic fields such as merchandising, law enforcement and medical clinical practice have been extensively studied. Critical practice is grounded in the concepts of critical theory . Consultants employing critical practice skills aim to help people improve outcomes. Analysis is applied to groups working in a particular area of expertise and with identifiable practice skills, and usually to a defined range of problems and situations. Thus practice tends be based on a restricted view of people and their problems, with a limited range of values applied in that practice. Citation needed date March 2010 Critical practice aims to develop the ability and skill to see beyond the usual concerns of any given profession, into its unintended side effects, causes and consequences, and to do so from a critical and evaluative perspective. Thus, for example, the profession of social work might be practiced critically through practitioners being conscious that their role may be seen, and could operate, as an agent of social control, rather than just one of promoting some degree of liberation or of empowerment. In such a case the practitioner would be both the observer and the observed. See also Evidence based practice References A. Brechin, H. Brown and M. Eby Critical Practice in Health and Social Care eds Sage 2000 Critical theory Category Health Category Critical theory health stub ... more details
Critical point may refer to Critical point mathematics Critical point set theory Critical point thermodynamics Construction point of a ski jumping hill See also Brillouin zone Percolation thresholds Disambiguation DEFAULTSORT Critical Point Category Mathematical disambiguation ar de Kritischer Punkt es Punto cr tico eo Sojla punkto eu Puntu kritiko fr Point critique ko nl Kritisch punt nds Kritisch Punkt pl Punkt krytyczny pt Ponto cr tico ru sv Kritisk punkt ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Critical variables are defined, for example in thermodynamics , in terms of the values of variables at the critical point physics critical point . On a PV diagram, the critical point is an inflection point . Thus math left frac partial P partial V right C 0 math math left frac partial 2 P partial V 2 right C 0 math For the van der Waals equation , the above yields math P C frac a 27b 2 math math displaystyle V C 3nb math math T C frac 8a 27bR math DEFAULTSORT Critical Variable Category Thermodynamics Category Conformal field theory ca Variable cr tica ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 The critical size is the minimum size of a nuclear reactor core or nuclear weapon that can be made critical for a specific geometry geometrical arrangement and material composition. The critical size must at least include enough fissionable material to reach critical mass . If the size of the fissionable material is less than a certain minimum, fission neutrons escape through its surface and the Nuclear chain reaction chain reaction is not sustained. DEFAULTSORT Critical Size Category Nuclear technology Nuclear stub es Tama o cr tico pt Tamanho cr tico ... more details
for the computer adventure strategy game Mission Critical video game Mission critical refers to any factor of a system equipment, process, procedure, software, etc. whose failure will result in the failure of business operations. That is, it is critical to the organization s mission . As a rule in crisis management , if a triage type decision is made in which certain components must be eliminated or delayed, e.g. because of resource or personnel constraints, the mission critical ones must not be among them. According to Tandehill Human Capital, in the human resources field, there is a category of jobs called mission critical. Mission critical jobs are those jobs that help the organization maintain or develop its distinct competitive advantage. Because of the importance of these jobs, they are typically paid a premium to market. When determining mission critical jobs, organizations consider 1 A job s expected contribution to long term organizational success 2 The criticality and or unique contribution of a job to achieving ongoing long term objectives 3 The difference in contribution level between having an average performer and a high performer in the job. Because of the pay premium available to mission critical jobs, the group is typically very limited no more than 5 of all jobs and the entire leadership team must be in agreement as to which jobs are mission critical. See also Life critical system Critical Infrastructure Protection Downtime References Reflist engineering stub Category Management Category Engineering failures Category Maintenance de Missionskritisch it Mission Critical System ja pt Miss o cr tica ... more details
Notability date December 2008 There are certain foreign language s in some countries that are considered to be critical from the National security security point of view. The Security classification classification and listing of critical languages is different from country to country depending, besides Language and National Security , upon several factors. Citation needed date July 2010 DEFAULTSORT Critical Languages Category Languages lang stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In a photograph , the area of critical focus is the portion of the picture that is optically focus optics in focus . This does not relate to depth of field which describes apparent sharpness. Reducing the size of the aperture will increase the depth of field but the plane of critical focus will not change. Depth of field extends away from the plane of critical sharpness. The image is only critically in focus within a plane. The formula that describes the relationship between plane of sharpness, photographic lens lens and Photographic film film is math 1 I 1 O 1 F math , where math I math is the film to lens distance, math O math is the distance from the lens to the plane of critical focus, and math F math is the focal length of the lens. Critical Focus is also the title of a regular column by Brian J. Ford in the American magazine http www.brianjford.com w CF 01.htm The Microscope . See also Sharpness visual DEFAULTSORT Critical Focus Category Science of photography Photo stub ... more details
Other uses Crit disambiguation Refimprove date May 2009 In many role playing game s and video game s, a critical ... playing game Empire of the Petal Throne introduced the concept of critical hits though not the phrase .... ref M.A.R. Barker, Empire of the Petal Throne , p34. ref Types Critical hits are meant to simulate ... point, such as a stab merely in the leg causing less damage than a stab in the Achilles tendon . Critical ... base the likelihood of critical hits occurring on this statistic a character with high Luck will deal a higher percentage of critical hits, while a character with low Luck may, in some games, be struck by more critical hits. In the tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons , each time a player character attacks an opponent with a weapon, the player rolls a 20 sided die a roll of 20 a 5 chance results in a critical ... the same chances for a critical hit, about 1 to 10 usually. The most common kind of critical hit simply ... the maximum possible damage . Critical hits also occasionally do special damage to represent the effects of specific wounds for example, losing use of an arm or eye, or being reduced to a limp . Critical .... Critical hits originally provided a way to simulate wounds to a specific part of the body. These systems ... with a lost leg . Most systems now simply award extra damage on a critical hit, trading realism for ease of play. The effect of a critical hit is to break up the monotony of a battle with high, unusual results. Many games call critical hits by other names. For example, in Chrono Trigger , a double ... series refers to critical hits as a smash hit known in game as SMAAAASH . Gamers frequently use the abbreviation crit or critical for critical hit . This usage has gained popularity due to verbing when used as a verb, crit or critical is less cumbersome than critically hit or score a critical ... Smash is called Critical Hit in reference to the concept s use in the Fire Emblem series, the games from which Marth originates. In first person games such as Borderlands video game Borderlands critical ... more details
Cleanup date December 2009 Critical area can refer to one of the following Aviation In aviation , a critical area refers to a designated area of an airport that all aircraft must remain clear of when another aircraft is inbound on an Instrument Landing System ILS approach. The critical area should be avoided when the weather is less than or equal to 2 miles visibility or less than or equal to 800 ft. ceilings. These areas are used to protect against signal Interference communication interference that may lead to navigation al errors, or worse. Instrument Landing System ILS technology delivers two main types of information to pilots. These types include the glideslope vertical location relative to the designed glide path and the localizer lateral position relative to the designed approach ... critical area. Unsourced image removed Image ILS Critical Area Runway Marking.jpg thumb right 200px Pavement markings identify the limits of the ILS Critical Area deletable image caption Image Airport ILS holding sign.svg thumb right 150px Sign placed at edge of ILS critical area often next to pavement markings Localizer critical area Vehicles and aircraft are not authorized in or over the critical ... fix and the airport. Glideslope critical area Vehicles and aircraft are not authorized in or over the critical area when an arriving aircraft is between the Instrument Landing System ILS final approach ... into the ILS critical area and identified by signs and pavement markings. During times of reduced ... are expected to BEFORE TAKEOFF Stop aircraft before entering the critical area while waiting for takeoff. AFTER LANDING Move the aircraft out of the critical area before stopping to receive taxi instructions from the ground controller. Much larger than the critical area is the sensitive area. Aircraft ... is absolutely critical. Integrated Circuits In integrated circuit Design for manufacturability IC design , a critical area refers to the area of a circuit design wherein a particle of a particular ... more details
In the study of air pollution , a critical load is defined as A quantitative estimate of an exposure to one or more pollutant s below which significant harmful effects on specified sensitive elements of the Natural environment environment do not occur according to present knowledge . Nilsson and Grennfelt 1988 Critical loads and the similar concept of critical level s have been used extensively within the 1979 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe UN ECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution . As an example the 1999 Multi effect Protocol Gothenburg protocol to the LRTAP convention takes into account acid ification of surface waters and Soil acidification soils , eutrophication of soils and ground level ozone and the emissions of sulfur dioxide , ammonia , nitrogen oxide and non methane volatile organic compounds NMVOC . For acidification and eutrophication the critical loads concept was used, whereas for tropospheric ozone ground level ozone the critical levels were used instead. To calculate a critical load, the target ecosystem must first be defined and in that ecosystem e.g. a forest a sensitive element must be identified e.g. forest growth rate . The next ... ratio, Bc Al and a critical limit e.g. Bc Al 1 which should not be violated. Finally, a mathematical ... that result in the chemical criterion reaching exactly the critical limit can be calculated. That deposition level is called the critical load and the difference between the current deposition level and the critical load is called exceedance. In the early days, critical loads were often calculated as a single value, e.g. critical load of acidity. Today a two dimensional critical load function is often .... The critical loads concept is a steady state steady state concept and that it therefore includes ... the target load function is lower than the critical load and for target years in the distant future the target load function approaches the critical load function. Calculating critical load functions ... more details
Expert subject Critical Theory date May 2009 Critical ethnography applies a critical theory based approach ..., D. 2005 . Critical ethnography method, ethics, and performance. Retrieved from http www.sagepub.com upm data 4957 Madison I Proof Chapter 1.pdf ref It has been called critical theory in practice. ref Thomas, J. 1993 . Doing critical ethnography. Newbury Park, CA Sage. ref In the spirit of critical ... frameworks. Critical ethnography incorporates reflexive inquiry into its methodology. Researchers ... inseparable from their context. ref Simon, R. I., & Dippo, D. 1986 . On critical ethnographic ..., critical ethnographers will also attempt to recognize and articulate their own perspective ... bear on their work. ref Soyini Madison, D. 2005 . Critical ethnography method, ethics, and performance ..., critical ethnography is inherently political as well as pedagogical in its approach. ref Simon, R. I., & Dippo, D. 1986 . On critical ethnographic work. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 17 4 ... and analysis. In contrast to conventional ethnography which describes what is, critical ethnography .... ref Thomas, J. 1993 . Doing critical ethnography. Newbury Park, CA Sage. ref History Critical ethnography ... on critical ethnography, meanings, and symbolic violence. In R.P. Clair Ed. , Expressions of Ethnography ... had typically done. ref Soyini Madison, D. 2005 . Critical ethnography method, ethics ... and dialogue on societal transformation. ref Simon, R. I., & Dippo, D. 1986 . On critical ethnographic work. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 17 4 , 195 202. ref Notable contibutors to critical ... Suggested reading Brown, S. G., & Dobrin, S. I. 2004 . Ethnography unbound From theory shock to critical praxis . Albany State University of New York Press. Carspecken, P. F. 1996 . Critical ethnography ... Press. Simon, R. I., & Dippo, D. 1986 . On critical ethnographic work. Anthropology & Education Quarterly , 17 4 , 195 202. Soyini Madison, D. 2005 . Critical ethnography method, ethics, and performance ... more details
Refimprove date September 2009 Infobox company company name Critical Links company slogan Big Business Communications at Small Business Price company logo Image CRITICAL Links Logo.png company type Private company Private foundation 2006 location Image Flag of the United States.svg 20px Fairfield, New Jersey , United States key people Joao Carreira , CEO num employees 200 parent Critical Software industry Communications and IT Equipment homepage http www.critical links.com www.critical links.com footnotes Critical Links is a provider of Computer networking networking and Telecommunications communications ... with their school 2.0 platform known as the Education Appliance ref name Critical Links Education cite web url http education.critical links.com title Critical Links Education Appliance publisher Critical Links accessdate 2011 01 01 ref , which deploys and manages Classmate PC s at schools ... Level 3 certified. ref name aboutcritical cite web url http critical links.com opencms opencms profile.html title About Critical Links publisher Critical Links accessdate 2009 07 10 ref Critical Links ... office, since it cuts the number of separate devices needed and thus, power consumption. Critical ... publisher critical links.com accessdate 2009 07 10 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref and was selected ... techworld.com accessdate 2007 06 29 ref . Corporate history Critical Links was founded by Joao Carreira ref name notice cite news title Joao Carreira url http www.tradevibes.com company profile critical ... operations in 2006. ref name BWHG100 Critical Links has adapted native IP telephony technology ... networks. Critical Links supplies multiservice access platforms for converged voice and data networks for small and medium businesses. Critical Links flagship product edgeBOX includes VoIP IP PBX ... T1 E1 , FX0 FXS, Ethernet etc. Critical Links typically serves SMBs through a global network of VARs ... links.com Critical Links Official site Category Critical Software Category Companies based in Fairfield ... more details
In mathematics , in the realm of group theory , a Group mathematics group is said to be critical if it is not in the variety universal algebra variety generated by all its proper subquotient s, which includes all its subgroup s and all its quotient s. Any finite group finite monolithic group monolithic A group is critical. This result is due to Kovacs and Newman. The variety generated by a finite group has a finite number of nonisomorphic critical groups. External links http www.turpion.org php full infoFT.phtml?journal id im&paper id 807&year id 1969&volume id 3&issue id 4&fpage 867 Definition of critical group Category Properties of groups Category Group theory Abstract algebra stub ... more details
dicdef Critical depth is the depth in any waterbody ocean, sea or lake at which the rate of photosynthesis equals the rate of respiration of a primary producer mainly phytoplankton . Category Biology biology stub ... more details
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