The forms of action were the different procedures by which a legal claim could be made during much of the history of the English common law. Depending...

allow the scenes of spectacle to be attuned to storytelling. Action films are often hybrid with other genres, mixing into various forms such as comedies...

intention. The first question in the philosophy of action is to determine how actions differ from other forms of behavior, like involuntary reflexes. According...

Action Forms Ltd. was a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv. Action Forms was founded by art director Yaroslav Kravchenko, lead programmer Oleg...

cause of action or right of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify suing to obtain money or property, or to justify the enforcement of a...

has undertaken", from Latin, assumere), or more fully, action in assumpsit, was a form of action at common law used to enforce what are now called obligations...

of suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or...

Action poetry is a form of poetry that is fierce, unpredictable, and full of energy. It is meant to be read aloud with emphasis and feelings to exhibit...

this form the action of general relativity can be written in the form of the Plebanski action which can be constructed using the Palatini action to derive...

individuals alone. The development of writs as a means of commencing a court action was a form of "off-the-shelf" justice designed to enable the English...

"contract"—was implied by law. The law of quasi-contract was generally used to enforce restitutionary obligations. The form of action known as indebitatus assumpsit...

action is a scalar quantity that describes how the balance of kinetic versus potential energy of a physical system changes with trajectory. Action is...

Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live action with animation to create...

and roads. The term is historic, arising from the now-discontinued form of action, which distinguished between real property disputes and personal property...

equation with respect to the group action of the modular group and a growth condition. The theory of modular forms has origins in complex analysis, with...

mechanism of action (MOA) refers to the specific biochemical interaction through which a drug substance produces its pharmacological effect. A mechanism of action...

Action principles lie at the heart of fundamental physics, from classical mechanics through quantum mechanics, particle physics, and general relativity...

in which case it is not displayed automatically and requires some form of action from the user to open it. In addition to the presentation style, the...

value-form or form of value ("Wertform" in German) is an important concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy, discussed in the first chapter of Capital...

income tax returns filed by United States residents. The form calculates the total taxable income of the taxpayer and determines how much is to be paid to...

actions objected to by the demanding party. Legal threats take many forms. Common to all is that the party making the threat will take some form of action...

In sociology, social action, also known as Weberian social action, is an act which takes into account the actions and reactions of individuals (or 'agents')...

automorphic form is a well-behaved function from a topological group G to the complex numbers (or complex vector space) which is invariant under the action of a...

"Instrumental" and "value-rational action" are terms scholars use to identify two kinds of behavior that humans can engage in. Scholars call using means...

Action Action was an American indie rock band, formerly signed to Victory Records. Action Action was formed in 2004 by members of The Reunion Show, Count...

Laws of Form (hereinafter LoF) is a book by G. Spencer-Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and philosophy. LoF describes...

alternative to the concept of instantaneous, or "non-local" action at a distance. Locality evolved out of the field theories of classical physics. The idea...

An action for money had and received to the plaintiff's use is the name for a common law claim derived from the form of action known as indebitatus assumpsit...

branch of mathematics, a cusp form is a particular kind of modular form with a zero constant coefficient in the Fourier series expansion. A cusp form is distinguished...

Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, known in short as the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention,...