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duality

the dual aspect of each business transaction, in which something is given by a firm and something is received in return, for example, goods for cash in a cash sale. Both aspects of a transaction are recorded in DOUBLE ENTRY ACCOUNTS. See ACCOUNTING.

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Brittle Star also features a small host of dualities.

Brittle Star

Dualist philosophers and theologists limit the spiritual life with mind-body or spirit-nature dualities.

Duality in modern Turkish ceramic art samples

Mititelu: New type dualities in PDI and PDE constrained optimization problems , J.

Mond-Weir dualities with Lagrangians for multiobjective fractional and non-fractional variational problems

This article shows that the recognition of the dualities in equality (operator-equivalent) of the minus sign (unary-binary) and the zero (nullity-totality) during the transitional process from arithmetic to algebra by 12-13 year-old students constitutes a possible way to achieve the extension of the natural number domain to the integers.

The Duality of Zero in the Transition from Arithmetic to Algebra

Traditional symbol dualities include: West and East, Masculine and Feminine, Future and Past, Place and Space, Above and Below.

Fraim, John. Battle of Symbols: Global Dynamics of Advertising, Entertainment, and Media

We're looking for the magic turn of phrase that will push the discussion past the realm of histrionic personal attacks, past the false and suffocating dualities that come about when the self-hatred defense is used against those who hold unpopular viewpoints, and into the realm of an objective and reasonable debate, a debate that could enhance our community's powers of serf-analysis by including twice as many participants.

Pride and self-hatred

In this article, we make a case for the importance of Braithwaite's work, especially his (2002) book, Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation, for conceptualizing the nature of social work in relation to these dualities.

Restorative justice, responsive regulation and social work

His project rests on its pronounced dualities, which merge strands of mainstream and esoteric American culture while focusing on the clash between the apologists of abstraction and pop culture and the perennial success-versus-failure fixation.

Jim Shaw. (Reviews: New York)

The next breakthrough came when it was shown that there was a second class of dualities, called S duality, which provided a duality between the perturbative and non-perturbative regions of string theory.