Passing (gender) — Passing, in regard to gender identity, refers to a person s ability to be accepted or regarded as a member of the sex or gender with which they identify, or with which they physically present.Julia Serano. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on… … Wikipedia
Passing (sociology) — Passing is the ability of a person to be regarded as a member of a combination of sociological groups other than his or her own, such as a different race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and/or disability status, generally with the purpose of… … Wikipedia
Passing (Geschlecht) — Passing (von engl. „to pass for/as“‚ als jmd. durchgehen/bestehen/gelten, sich als jmd. ausgeben‘) hinsichtlich der Geschlechtsidentität bezeichnet – ausgehend von den USA – die Fähigkeit einer Person, als Mitglied desjenigen Geschlechts oder… … Deutsch Wikipedia
For-profit education — (also known as the education services industry or proprietary education) refers to educational institutions operated by private, profit seeking businesses. There are two major types of for profit schools. One type is known as an educational… … Wikipedia
Press Your Luck — infobox television show name = Press Your Luck caption = The Press Your Luck intro board, circa 1984 format = Game show runtime = 30 minutes creator = Bill Carruthers, Jan McCormack starring = Peter Tomarken (host) Rod Roddy (announcer) country … Wikipedia
Message Passing Interface — MPI, the Message Passing Interface, is standardized and portable message passing system designed by a group of researchers from academia and industry to function on a wide variety of parallel computers. The standard defines the syntax and… … Wikipedia
Message passing — This article is about the computer science concept. For other uses, see Message passing (disambiguation). Message passing in computer science is a form of communication used in parallel computing, object oriented programming, and interprocess… … Wikipedia
The Passing of the Great Race — The Passing of The Great Race; or, The racial basis of European history was an influential book of scientific racism written by the American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant in 1916. The book was very influential in… … Wikipedia
Continuation-passing style — In functional programming, continuation passing style (CPS) is a style of programming in which control is passed explicitly in the form of a continuation. Gerald Jay Sussman and Guy L. Steele, Jr. coined the phrase in AI Memo 349 (1975), which… … Wikipedia
Cash for Honours — (also Cash for Peerages, Loans for Honours or Loans for Peerages) is the name given by some in the media to a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2007 concerning the connection between political donations and the award of life… … Wikipedia
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