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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of renormalize.

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  • String theory makes a beautiful prediction that this chaotic foam is valenced from measurable physics, or in a sense renormalized out.

    Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team | Universe Today 2009

  • The test is renormalized at intervals of 20 or 25 years to keep the parameters of the distribution curve the same: mean and median of 100 points and standard deviation of 15 points.

    Dan Agin: How We Change: The Impact of the Group On Human Development, Behavior, and IQ 2009

  • How is what Foucault called the "gaze" of the state being "renormalized" to make decidedly "old-fashioned" the kind of respect for civil liberties, including the necessity for a decisive congressional role in their diminution, displayed in Judge Taylor's opinioni and Professor Tribe's defense?

    Balkinization 2006

  • A word on Statistics, prompted by a read of Justin's Berkeley survey: When a statistician gives you all kinds of massaged numbers and chi squared re-renormalized false variable fourrier distributed quantum hyperpluxes, but doesn't simply tell you "we counted 2400 jobs in this census tract before, and 2170 after", it is useful bird cage lining but little more.

    The Law of DUH! (T) 2007

  • Some of them just seem to have been renormalized between the non-x/x series, whereas others look quite different.

    The PC1 in Mann and Jones [2003], Jones and Mann [2004] « Climate Audit 2006

  • Black – MBH98; blue – emulation using regression coefficients from normalized multiple regression – renormalized in each window; red – partial correlation coefficients.

    MBH98 Figure 7 Unveiled « Climate Audit 2006

  • If the standard model holds unchanged up to the Planck scale, then the Higgs mass will be renormalized up to that scale.

    Identifying Dark Matter Mark 2006

  • If the standard model holds unchanged up to the Planck scale, then the Higgs mass will be renormalized up to that scale.

    Identifying Dark Matter Mark 2006

  • The fact that a low energies we have renormalizable theories is i.m.o. just because any nonrenormalizable terms have renormalized to zero when integrating out high energy physics.

    Why 10 or 11? Sean 2006

  • The naïve calculation of results in infinities which have to be subtracted off to produce a renormalized expectation value

    Time Machines Earman, John 2004

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