Sentences with phrase «known as a black»

The problem, according to the paper, is that boards don't have a very strong grasp on options» potential value, something that it typically takes a sophisticated computer algorithm (known as the Black - Scholes formula) to analyze.

This year, however, new trends may spell the beginning of the end to the spectacle known as Black Friday.

On April 15, 2011, a day that would later become known as Black Friday in the online poker community, the Department of Justice shuttered two major online poker giants, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, accusing the company founders of fraud, money laundering, and operating a Ponzi scheme.

From her home office, Gloria Baylis — better known as a Black rights activist after she successfully sued the Hilton chain for discrimination in 1966 — imported and distributed medical devices for neurosurgery.

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

In his lifelong quest to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos has some nice help from the group known as the Black Order in Avengers: Infinity War — though comic book fans might recognize some slight changes from the source material.

The Stock Market Crash of 1987 (also known as Black Monday) was the largest one - day market crash in history.

EWTN: Black Nazarene devotion in Philippines draws millions A life - sized wooden statue of Jesus carrying a cross, known as the Black Nazarene, was the center of a Jan. 9 procession in Manila that gathered nine million people in the Philippines capital.

The Arabians who came in the time of the Umayyads were known in China as the White Robed Tashi and when relations between China and the Muslim empire further improved under the Abbasids, their emissaries were known as the Black Robed Tashi.

The dried fruits, known as peppercorns, are commonly ground into a powder we know as black pepper.

That's the stuff - Cavolo nero (also known as black cabbage, Tuscan Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, Lacinato and dinosaur kale)

Grimes makes his Hoppin» John with Carolina Gold rice and Southern cow peas (also known as black - eyed peas), flavoring the mixture with a smoky hock stock and served alongside pork chops.

you need to put some Kala Namak - also known as black salt - on it..

Bluechai's black goji berries are also known as black wolfberry, black goji berry, black barbary matrimony vine, black bocksdorn, Duke of Argyll's tea tree, or black matrimony vine.

# 3 Buck Leonard ROCKY MOUNT Known as the Black Lou Gehrig; batted.340 and averaged 34 home runs during 17 - year Negro leagues career.

While her father fought in a special division known as The Black Cloud, Asya's mother took the children and spent four years living with the Uzbek in Middle Asia.

[223] Ghana national U-20 football team, known as the Black Satellites, is considered to be the feeder team for the Ghana national football team.

The voice and flight data recorders, known as black boxes, were recovered from a depth of about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in the Mediterranean.

Association soccer (or Football) is the most spectated sport in Ghana and the national men's football team is known as the Black Stars, with the under - 20 team known as the Black Satellites.

Some place visited includes; the Osu Castle known as Fort Christianborg was built in 1652, Independence Square also known as Black Star Square was commissioned by Kwame Nkrumah to honour the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1961, Jamestown Lighthouse built by the British in 1871, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park built on 1st July 1992 and the Accra Art market the larget crafts market.

K2 is one of many names for synthetic marijuana products, which are also known as black mamba, Yucatan fire and skunk, according to the New York City Health Department.

Scientists are also trying to figure out the role that aerosol particles — including a component of soot known as black carbon — play in influencing the behavior of Himalayan glaciers.

That fact implies a conundrum known as the black hole information paradox (SN: 5/31/14, p. 16): When the black hole evaporates, where does the information go?

Soot, also known as black carbon, is made of fine, carbon - based particles that are given off by car and truck tailpipes and wood stoves.

The objects that Schwarzschild and Kerr's solutions describe are known as black holes.

A study by a team of archaeologists based at the University of Copenhagen published today in the Royal Society journal Open Science documents that the region now known as the Black Desert in eastern Jordan could sustain a population of wild sheep.

The idea proposed by the three physicists offers a new strategy for addressing a long - standing conundrum in physics known as the black hole information paradox.

The phenomenon is now known as a black hole.

These vents are known as black smokers for the plumes of dark hydrogen sulfide they belch into the ocean.

Soot particles, also known as black carbon aerosols, affect climate by absorbing sunlight, which warms the surrounding air and limits the amount of solar radiation that reaches the ground.

This problem gets down to what is known as a black box issue: How exactly is an algorithm reaching its conclusions?

That hot wire emits what is known as black body radiation, a very broad spectrum of light that provides a warm look and a faithful rendering of all colors in a scene.

The devices photographed and returned samples from five groups of vents, known as black smokers for their chimneylike appearance.

Twelve years later, French scientist and mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace arrived at the same conclusion and offered mathematical proof for the existence of what we now know as black holes.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shows that certain massive stars could collapse into bodies so dense that no light could escape from them: what later become known as black holes

One high - profile target, he says, should be reducing emissions of tiny soot particles, known as black carbon, that don't last long in the atmosphere but have an outsize impact on warming.

Among them: 500 - plus Oriental rat fleas, notorious for their role in transmitting the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death.

Some support the preprint's claim — that it provides a promising way to tackle a conundrum known as the black hole information paradox, which Hawking identified more than 40 years ago.

By analyzing the chemical clues locked inside an ancient Martian meteorite known as Black Beauty, Florida State University Professor Munir Humayun and an international research team are revealing the story of Mars» ancient, and sometimes startling, climate history.

Hydrothermal vents, known as black smokers, were first discovered on Earth in 1977 on the Galápagos Rift [see «The Crest of the East Pacific Rise,» by Ken C. Macdonald and Bruce P. Luyendyk; Scientific American, May 1981].

Brunner is a co-author of an article in an August 2014 issue of Nature Geneticsabout the study, which identified gene sequences from Populus trichocarpa, commonly known as black cottonwood.

Brunner is co-author of an article in the Aug. 24 issue of Nature Genetics about the study, which identified gene sequences from Populus trichocarpa, commonly known as black cottonwood.

These vents (also know as black smokers) expel minerals dissolved by water which bacteria use to in chemical reactions to produce energy and support ecosystems involving larger multi-cellular lifeforms that feed off of of the massive and fast - growing bacterial populations.

If another form of the parasite gets into the bloodstream, it can damage the liver and spleen in a deadly form of the disease called visceral leishmaniasis, also known as black fever.

Slowly, this will fade, to enter its final phase as a dim, cool theoretical object sometimes known as a black dwarf.

Today, USFWS leads a consortium of partners known as the Black - footed Ferret Recovery Implementation Team.

The most massive of these dying stars leave behind a remnant known as a black hole.

Known as the Black Death, bubonic plague killed millions of people in Europe during a series of outbreaks during the Middle Ages.

«The Coalsack was also known as the Black Magellanic Cloud or «Macula Magellani» (Magellan's Spot), in reference to the Magellanic Clouds, bright dwarf galaxies visible in the southern sky.

Both the capsicum pepper plant and the piperine (also known as black pepper) have strong thermogenic properties which can help you lose weight by turning up your body temperature.