minima

Vázquez-Arroyo develops and defends his emancipatory reading of Adorno in what he calls a minima humana or critical humanism that stands for universal human freedom without importing anything like a thick conception of human identity into the universal sphere.

TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog Russell Berman, Ulrich Plass, and Joshua Rayman <t 2009

Kenya (5), contained short-term minima in d18Odiatom attributed to glacier melting and longer term minima attributed to increased water temperatures (5, 6), in contrast to the positive relation assumed between d18O and air temperature in ice-core studies (7).

Mount Kenya « Climate Audit 2005

In their opinion the minima were the actual building stones of reality.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. G. M. VAN MELSEN 1968

The universe for him was composed of atoms, tiny "minima" that admit no further division.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

While in Florida 2 weeks ago, I spent quite some time collecting data on the intertidal snail Batillaria minima.

Archive 2009-04-01 AYDIN 2009

Clustering of the intertidal snail Batillaria minima

Archive 2009-04-01 AYDIN 2009

As with any organically evolved system, we have settled into local minima which are not necessarily the global minima (the "perfect" results).

Why Amazon and Some Readers Are Wrong « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

And there is no significant reaction to reports about sea ice minima (despite a number of scientists regarding this as a crucial early warning signal).

AGU Day 2 part B: Science not getting heard | Serendipity 2009

The more chemically popular elements mentioned earlier have ionization energies that occur in neither the local maxima nor minima.

Wolfram Blog : What’s Your Favorite Element? 2009

More pointedly, likelihoods of DSGE models are full of local maxima and minima and of nearly flat surfaces.

The best paper I read this month 2009