Softscience fiction , or soft SF , like its wikt complementary complementary opposite hard science fiction , is a descriptive term that points to the role and nature of the science content in a science fiction story. The term first appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s and indicated SF based not on engineering or the hard sciences for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry but on the soft sciences, and especially the social sciences anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and so on . ref http www.jessesword.com sf view 1843 Science Fiction Citations SoftScience Fiction ... sf view 1843 Science Fiction Citations SoftScience Fiction http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 528857 science fiction 235713 The evolution of science fiction ref . In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , Peter Nicholls writer Peter Nicholls writes that soft SF is a not very precise item of sf terminology and that the contrast between hard and soft is sometimes illogical. ref Soft SF, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , ed. John Clute and Peter Nicholls, 1995, ISBN 0 312 13486 X. ref In fact, the boundaries between hard and soft are neither definite nor universally agreed upon, so ... defined standards, softscience fiction does not indicate a genre or subgenre of SF but a tendency or quality one pole of an axis that has hard science fiction at the other pole. See also Hard science fiction Planetary romance Science fantasy Space opera Sword and planet Social science fiction Speculative fiction References div class references small references div science fiction Category Science fiction genres bg cs Softscience fiction el es Ciencia ficci n blanda fa it Fantascienza soft ja SF mk nl Zachte sciencefiction pt Fic o cient fica Soft sv Mjuk science fiction zh ... of technological change however possible or probable as a departure from the science engineering technology ... more details
Hard science and softscience are colloquial terms often used when comparing fields of academic research or scholarship , with hard meaning perceived as being more scientific, rigorous, or accurate . Fields of the natural sciences natural , physical sciences , or computing science are often described as hard , while the social sciences and similar fields are often described as soft . ref Cite web url http www.columbia.edu cu 21stC issue 1.1 soft.htm accessdate 10 August 2009 title Softscience and hard news publisher Metanews work Columbia University first Pamela last Frost ref The hard sciences are characterized as relying on experiment al, empirical , quantification quantifiable data, relying on the scientific method , and focusing on accuracy and Objectivity science objectivity . ref cite book url http books.google.com ?id SjayHztX8mUC&vq 22Hard science and Softscience 22 accessdate 24 April 2008 date 24 April 2008 first John last Lemons year 1996 publisher Blackwell isbn 0865424764 title Scientific Uncertainty and Environmental Problem Solving pages 99 ref Publications in the hard sciences such as natural science s make heavier use of graphs than soft sciences such as sociology , according to the graphism thesis . See also Demarcation problem History of science Philosophy of science Objectivity science Subjectivity Exact science Paradigm shift Science wars Scientific reductionism The central science Human scienceSoft computing Memetics Hard systems , soft systems STEM fields References Reflist Use dmy dates date September 2010 DEFAULTSORT Hard And SoftScience Category Philosophy of science es Ciencias duras y blandas fa fr Sciences dures it Scienza dura simple Hard science ... more details
wiktionary Soft or SOFT may refer to Lucas Hirsty Soft band , a musical group Soft , a novel by Rupert Thomson Soft matter , various states of matter with low resistance to external force Soft, a song by Lemon Jelly on the single Soft Rock Soft , a song by Kings of Leon on the album Aha Shake Heartbreak Sorgenti di Firenze Trekking SOFT , system of walking trails in Italy Also see Keith Corcoran at Rowan University See also lookfrom Soft claude lookfrom The Soft disambig Claude Scamarcio da Soft fr Soft ko ja ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Soft is a novel by British writer Rupert Thomson , written in 1998 London . Apparently acting as participants in a sleep experiment, the protagonists of this novel find themselves the unwitting word of mouth advertisers of Kwench , a new soft drink. Category British novels Category 1998 novels 1990s novel stub ... more details
About the term used in photography and optics the album by the band Euroboys Soft Focus double image right Bottle Softfocus 2.jpg 170 Bottle Softfocus 0.jpg 170 An image of a bottle with a heavy soft focus effect. An image of the same bottle, but with no soft focus effect at all. ... ... In photography , soft focus is a Lens optics lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration . A soft focus lens deliberately introduces spherical aberration in order to give the appearance of blurring the image while retaining sharp edges it is not the same as an out of focus optics focus image, and the effect cannot be achieved simply by defocusing a sharp lens. Soft focus is also the name of the style of photograph produced by such a lens. Photography Image Leslie Howard in Of Human Bondage.jpg left thumb 170px Actor Leslie Howard actor Leslie Howard shot in soft focus in Of Human Bondage 1934 film Of Human Bondage . Because soft focus is a technical flaw, many older photographic lens lenses had soft focus built in as a side effect of their construction. Newer ... FA Soft Lens, to name but two, which have adjustable levels of spherical aberration at wide apertures ..., Leica Camera Leitz designed a legendary soft focus lens, the Thambar 90mm f2.2, for the Leica rangefinder ... of DC Defocus Control lenses which are sometimes confused with the soft focus effect, but these are not soft focus lenses, as they do not introduce spherical aberration over the whole field. The soft ..., and in general produces a dream like image. The effect of a soft focus lens is sometimes approximated ... in an image are blurred. See also Image KINA.jpg thumb 340px Post processing Soft Focus effect ... Soft Focus Lens Article http www.largeformatphotography.info soft focus.html Soft Focus Lenses ... Article on creating the soft focus effect in Photoshop. Category Photographic lenses Category Science of photography Category Photographic techniques Category Photography by genre ... more details
unreferenced date March 2010 A soft in soft out SISO decoder is a type of soft decision decoder used with error correcting code s. Soft in refers to the fact that the incoming data may take on values other than 0 or 1, in order to indicate reliability. Soft out refers to the fact that each bit in the decoded output also takes on a value indicating reliability. Typically, the soft output is used as the soft input to an outer decoder in a system using concatenated code s, or to modify the input to a further decoding iteration such as in the decoding of turbo code s. Examples include the BCJR algorithm and the soft output Viterbi algorithm . See also Decoding methods Error detection and correction Forward error correction Category Error detection and correction ... more details
The contrast of hard and soft may refer to Hard and soft G Hard and soft C Hard and soft martial arts Hard and soft drugs Hard and soft polytheism Hard and soft acids and bases See also Soft and Hard disambig ... more details
Expert subject computer science date July 2009 Distinguish soft microprocessor Soft computing is a term applied to a field within computer science which is characterized by the use of inexact solutions ... in polynomial time. edit Introduction Soft Computing became a formal Computer Science area of study ... en home.php EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING http www.helsinki.fi niskanen bisc.html BISC SIG IN PHILOSOPHY OF SOFT COMPUTING Category Scientific modeling Category Artificial intelligence Category Semantic Web Category Soft computing es Soft Computing fa it Soft computing hu L gy sz m t si modell ms Komputeran lembut nl Soft computing ru ja zh Soft Computing became a formal Computer Science area of study in the early 1990 s. 1 Earlier computational ... have been both challenging and very productive. Soft computing deals with imprecision, uncertainty ... of soft computing include Neural networks NN Fuzzy systems FS Evolutionary computation EC , including ... o Bayesian network Chaos theory Perceptron Generally speaking, soft computing techniques resemble ... analysis as in finite element analysis . Soft computing techniques are intended to complement each other. Unlike hard computing schemes, which strive for exactness and full truth, soft computing ... role in soft computing than in hard computing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation .... WikiProject Computer science or the Computer science Portal may be able to help recruit an expert. July 2009 Not to be confused with soft microprocessor. Soft computing is a term applied to a field within computer science which is characterized by the use of inexact solutions to computationally ..., and many conventional mathematical models have been both challenging and very productive. Soft ..., robustness and low solution cost. Components of soft computing include Neural networks NN Fuzzy ... speaking, soft computing techniques resemble biological processes more closely than traditional techniques ... more details
Computational Soft Matter Science, Prof. Florian M ller Plathe s Research Group http www.phys.sinica.edu.tw ...for the journal Soft Matter journal Soft matter is a subfield of condensed matter comprising a variety ... of soft matter, ref Rheology Bulletin Volume 74 Number 2 July 2005, p. 17 ref received the Nobel ... from simple thermodynamics thermodynamic systems can be applied to the more complex cases found in soft ... January 27, 2008 ref Distinctive physics Interesting behaviors arise from soft matter in ways that cannot .... This is often because soft matter Self organization self organizes into Mesoscopic scale mesoscopic ... at any mesoscopic scale. Applications Soft materials are important in a wide range of technological ... as soft matter. Liquid crystals, another category of soft matter, exhibit a responsivity to electric .... Research The realization that soft matter contains innumerable examples of symmetry breaking , generalized ... common aspects . Soft condensed matter is directly related to studies in biophysics. One possible roadblock to the development of biophysics as an established field is that soft condensed matter ... http www.science.uva.nl research wzi scm Soft Matter Group at van der Waals Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam , NL http wwwchem.leidenuniv.nl scm Soft Matter Chemistry Group, University ... Institute for Advanced Studies FRIAS , School of Soft Matter Research, University of Freiburg, D http csmr.as.nyu.edu page home Center for Soft Matter Research New York University , US http softmatter.fmf.uni lj.si Physics of Soft and Partially Ordered Matter http www.fmf.uni lj.si Faculty of Mathematics and Physics University of Ljubljana , Slovenia SLO http www.smmb.usc.sitew.com Soft Matter ... Shock Waves in Soft Biological Matter at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Speed Dynamics, Ernst Mach ... soft nanoscience Prof. Peter Schurtenberger s Group, Adolphe Merkle Institute , CH http azsoftmatter.wordpress.com ... , UK http www.seas.harvard.edu projects weitzlab Soft Matter Physics Group Weitzlab , Harvard ... more details
with soft materials url journal Science volume 290 issue 5496 pages 1536 1540 pmid 11090344 ...image soft lithography proc 1.jpg 200px right thumb Figure 1 Inking a stamp. PDMS stamp with pattern is placed in Ethanol and ODT solution image soft lithography proc 2.jpg 200px right thumb Figure 2 ODT from the solution settles down onto the PDMS stamp. Stamp now has ODT attached to it which acts as the ink. image soft lithography proc 3.jpg 200px right thumb Figure 3 The PDMS stamp with the ODT is placed on the gold substrate. When the stamp is removed, the ODT in contact with the gold stays stuck to the gold. Thus the pattern from the stamp is transferred to the gold via the ODT ink. In technology , soft lithography refers to a family of techniques for fabricating or Replicate replicating structure s using elastomeric stamps, molds, and conformable photomasks in the words of Rogers and Nuzzo, p. 50, as cited in References . It is called soft because it uses elastomer ic material s, most notably Polydimethylsiloxane PDMS . Soft lithography is generally used to construct features measured on the micrometer to nanometer Scale measurement scale . According to Rogers and Nuzzo 2005 , Technology development development of soft lithography expanded rapidly during the period 1995 to 2005. Advantages File Sarfus.SoftLitho.Streptavidin.jpg thumb Sarfus image of streptavidin deposited by soft lithography with PDMS stamp. Soft lithography has some unique advantages over other forms of lithography such as photolithography and electron beam lithography . They include the following Lower cost than traditional photolithography in mass production Well suited for applications in biotechnology ... 1998 title Soft Lithography url http www3.interscience.wiley.com cgi bin abstract 10004598 ABSTRACT ... last1 Xia first1 Y. last2 Whitesides first2 G. M. year 1998 title Soft Lithography. In url ... 2005 title February . Recent progress in soft lithography. In url journal Materials today volume ... more details
Soft rot may refer to Pichia heedii , the soft rot of the cacti Lophocereus schottii and Drosophila pachea Sclerotium cepivorum soft rot of onions Erwinia sp. bacterial soft rot Wood decay fungus Soft rot soft rot , a type of wood decay. disambiguation ... more details
distinguish software error In electronics and computing , a soft error is an error in a signal or datum ... in design or construction, or a broken component. A soft error is also a signal or datum which is wrong, but is not assumed to imply such a mistake or breakage. After observing a soft error, there is no implication that the system is any less reliable than before. If detected, a soft error may ... correction to correct soft errors on the fly. However, in many systems, it may be impossible to determine ... procedure must include a Reboot computer reboot . Soft errors involve changes to data &mdash the electrons ... . If the data is rewritten, the circuit will work perfectly again. Soft errors can occur on transmission ... known in semiconductor storage. Critical charge Whether a circuit experiences a soft error depends ... needed to change the logic level. A higher Q sub crit sub means fewer soft errors. Unfortunately ..., the importance of soft errors increases as chip technology advances. In a logic circuit, Q sub crit ... node basis. Causes of soft errors Alpha particles from package decay Soft errors became widely known ... soft errors, and chip companies have occasionally suffered problems with contamination ever since ... causes a soft error by alpha particle emission. The positively charged alpha particle travels through ... led to the challenge of soft errors in combinational logic mostly going unnoticed. In sequential ... soft errors. Indeed, in modern devices, cosmic rays may be the predominant cause. Although the primary ... of causing soft errors are energetic neutrons with the remainder composed of protons and pions Ziegler ... to as cosmic rays in the soft error literature. Neutrons are uncharged and cannot disturb a circuit ... then cause soft errors. Cosmic ray flux depends on altitude. For the common reference location of 40.7N ... 2 sup hour. Burying a system in a cave reduces the rate of cosmic ray induced soft errors to a negligible ... on top of mountains experience an order of magnitude higher rate of soft errors compared to sea level ... more details
In computer file system s, soft updates is an approach to maintaining disk integrity after a crash or power outage. They are an alternative to journaling file system s. Instead of duplicating metadata writes in a journal, soft updates work by properly ordering the metadata writes to guarantee consistency after a crash. Like journaling, soft updates do not guarantee that no data will be lost, but do make sure the filesystem is consistent. An advantage of a file system with soft updates is that it can be mounted immediately after a crash since there is no log replay. Soft updates were first introduced to FreeBSD by Marshall Kirk McKusick and are now available across the Berkeley Software Distribution BSD s. Operation Soft updates allow only asynchronous metadata writes that do not render the on disk file system inconsistent, or that the only inconsistency that ever happens is a storage space leak space marked allocated when not used by any file . It avoids having to do ordered synchronous meta data writes by temporarily rolling back any part of a meta data block that depends on another potentially non flushed or partially rolled back block when writing it. In effect, blocks may be flushed at any time, and the soft update code will always provide the disk a consistent version of it as long as it knows which blocks have physically been flushed at this time . Recovery then simply becomes ... computer science garbage collect any allocated space orphaned in leaks. This also permits the filesystem ... of soft updates are that it is very complex to implement correctly, that it still causes a lot ... full papers mckusick mckusick.pdf Soft Updates A Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous ... html index.html Journaling Versus Soft Updates Asynchronous Meta data Protection in File Systems . USENIX ... notes on soft updates and asynchronous writes in Unix File System UFS . Category Computer file systems Compu storage stub de Softupdates ja Soft updates ... more details
Soft shelled may refer to Chinese Soft shelled Turtle , species from the genus Pelodiscus Wattle necked Soft shelled Turtle , turtle from the genus Palea Rafetus swinhoei Yangzte soft shell Turtle disambig ... more details
A soft reference is one of the strengths or levels of non strong reference strong reference defined in the Java programming language Java programming language , the others being weak reference weak and phantom reference phantom . The Garbage collection computer science garbage collector will always collect weakly referenced objects, but will only collect softly referenced objects when its algorithms decide that memory is low enough to warrant it. Soft and weak references provide two quasi priorities for non strongly referenced objects. Soft references may be used, for example, when writing a cache weakly referenced objects may disappear too quickly to make the cache useful. See also Weak reference Phantom reference Circular reference External links http www.pawlan.com monica articles refobjs Java developer article Reference Objects and Garbage Collection http weblogs.java.net blog enicholas archive 2006 05 understanding w.html Understanding Weak References Category Data types Category Memory management compu lang stub ... more details
for the Canterbury scene band Soft Heap In computer science , a soft heap is a variant on the simple heap data structure heap data structure that has constant amortized analysis amortized time for 5 types of operations. This is achieved by carefully corrupting increasing the keys of at most a certain fixed percentage of values in the heap. The constant time operations are create S Create a new soft heap insert S , x Insert an element into a soft heap meld S , S Combine the contents of two soft heaps into one, destroying both delete S , x Delete an element from a soft heap findmin S Get the element with minimum key in the soft heap It was designed by Bernard Chazelle in 2000. The term corruption in the structure is the result of what Chazelle called carpooling in a soft heap. Each node in the soft heap contains a linked list of keys and one common key. The common key is an upper bound on the values of the keys in the linked list. Once a key is added to the linked list, it is considered corrupted because its value is never again relevant in any of the soft heap operations only the common keys are compared. It is unpredictable which keys will be corrupted in this manner it is only known that at most a fixed percentage will be corrupted. This is what makes soft heaps soft you can t be sure whether or not any particular value you put into it will be corrupted. The purpose of these corruptions is effectively to lower the information entropy of the data, enabling the data structure to break through information theory information theoretic barriers regarding heaps. Other heaps such as Fibonacci ... for an error rate of . Applications Surprisingly, soft heaps are useful in the design of deterministic ... than the remaining n 3 uncorrupted elements in the soft heap. Therefore, L divides the elements ... 10.1.1.5.9705 The soft heap an approximate priority queue with optimal error rate. J. ACM 47, 6 Nov ... kaplanh.pdf A simpler implementation and analysis of Chazelle s soft heaps. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ... more details
In anatomy , the term soft tissue refers to Tissue biology tissues that connect, support, or surround other structures and Organ anatomy organ s of the body, not being osseous tissue bone . Soft tissue ... Cancer Institute ref It is sometimes defined by what it is not. For example, soft tissue has ... . Normally the soft tissue is very hydrated because of the ground substance. The fibroblasts are the most common cell responsible for the production of soft tissues fibers and ground substance. Variations ... does the role of collagen. In soft tissues the collagen limits the deformation and protects ... mechanics Euler Cauchy s stress principle lagrangian stress T versus Strain materials science stretch ratio of a preconditioned soft tissue. Soft tissues have the potential to undergo big deformations ... , as can be seen in Figure 1. The soft tissues are also viscoelastic , incompressible and usually anisotropic . Some viscoelastic properties observable in soft tissues are Relaxation physics relaxation ... D. title Continuum biomechanics of soft biological tissues journal Proceedings of the Royal Society ... location New York year 1993 page 568 isbn 0387979476 ref Pseudoelasticity Even though soft tissues have ... the independence of strain rate, preconditioned soft tissues still present hysteresis, so the mechanical ... Fung Residual stress In physiological state soft tissues usually present residual stress that may ... equation for preconditioned soft tissues which is math W frac 1 2 left q c left e Q 1 right right ... Soft tissues have the potential to grow and remodel reacting to chemical and mechanical long ... tissues is very know in bones by the Wolff s law bone remodeling . Mechanobiology is the science ... have a major role in the Etiology Medicine etiology of some common soft tissue diseases ... volume 466 pages 1551 1597 doi 10.1098 rspa.2010.0058 ref and any soft tissue fibrosis . Other instance ... pressure detected by the artery arterial wall. See also Biomaterial Biomechanics Rheology Soft tissue ... more details
glass from silicate s dissolved. It is a new branch of materials science that differs from ... 26th ref . French hits, the term soft chemistry is employed as such in the early twenty first century ... soft chemistry sol gel can be stored in several types mineral structures of various qualities smoothness ..., a compound with the label soft chemistry combines the advantages of the mineral resistance ... to its practitionners, the soft chemistry is only in its early success and opens up vast prospects. References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Soft Chemistry Category Chemistry Category Biochemistry fr chimie ... more details
soft g can refer to The soft g sound in many languages, see hard and soft g . A g with breve Disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ... more details
The term soft ontology , coined by Eli Hirsch in 1993, refers to the embracing or reconciling of apparent ontological differences, by means of relevant distinctions and contextual analyses. Hirsch used the term to broaden and expand on what William James discussed in his landmark 1907 work in epistemology , Pragmatism . James gave a now famous example of dispute over a squirrel blockquote The corpus of the dispute was a squirrel a live squirrel supposed to be clinging to one side of a tree trunk while over against the tree s opposite side a human being was imagined to stand. This human witness tries to get sight of the squirrel by moving rapidly round the tree, but no matter how fast he goes, the squirrel moves as fast in the opposite direction, and always keeps the tree between himself and the man ... dispute and explains, at some length, the connection between verbal and soft ontological disagreements they are, according to Hirsch, partly but not completely overlapping sets of problems . Soft .... One can choose to construct a hard or soft ontology, depending on the flexibility one intends to obtain. Other related terms in philosophy and in cognitive science include ontological relativity as in Willard Van Orman Quine Quine and cognitive relativism as in Jack Meiland . Soft Ontology computer science Difference and similarity with respect to philosophical ontology ontology , as proposed in computer science circles by Aviles et al. 2003 , is a definition of a domain in terms of a flexible ... of in computer science , in Gruber s terms 1993 as definitions of conceptualization . Unlike standard ... perspective, the soft ontology approach transfers the task of interpretation to the observer ... to the domain. Soft ontologies also result inherently from user defined ontology practices ... . http doi.ieeecomputersociety.org 10.1109 DEXA.2003.1232001 Soft Ontologies and Similarity Cluster ... Ontology information science ... more details
File Cola3.JPG thumb thumb A glass of cola A soft drink also called soda , pop , coke , soda pop , or carbonated ... corn syrup , or a sugar substitute in the case of diet drinks . A soft drink may also contain caffeine ... to be soft drinks. Other beverages not considered to be soft drinks are hot chocolate , Tea hot tea , coffee , milk , milkshake s, and schorle . Soft drinks are called soft in contrast to hard drinks alcoholic beverage s . Small amounts of Ethanol alcohol may be present in a soft drink ... www.bangordailynews.com detail 126224.html ref Widely sold soft drink flavors are cola , lemon lime , root beer , orange soft drink orange , grape soda grape , cream soda vanilla , ginger ale , fruit punch , Lemonade sparkling lemonade , Squash drink squash , and flavored water . Soft drinks may ... 2008 The first marketed soft drinks non carbonated in the Western world appeared in the 17th century ... of Paris was granted a monopoly for the sale of lemonade soft drinks. Vendors carried tanks of lemonade on their backs and dispensed cups of the soft drink to thirsty Parisians. Carbonated drinks Image Soft drink shelf.JPG thumb left 250px Soft drinks displayed on supermarket shelves. In late ... water, also known as soda water , is the major and defining component of most soft drinks ..., most soft drinks were dispensed and consumed at a soda fountain, usually in a drugstore or ice ... half of the 20th century, canned soft drinks became an important share of the market. Soft drink ... machine s also began to appear in the 1920s. Production Soft drink production Soft drinks are made ... of soft drinks can be done at factories, or at home. Soft drinks can be made at home by mixing ..., particle size, etc. ref cite book last Ashurst first P. title Soft drink and fruit juice problems solved publisher Woodhead Publishing Limited year 2009 isbn 9781845693268 ref Soft drink packaging Unreferenced section date December 2008 Image Coke 003.jpg thumb 300px US soft drink containers ... more details
Soft tennis is a racket game played on a court of two halves, separated by a net. Like regular tennis ... to hit it back. Soft tennis differs from regular tennis in that it uses soft rubber balls instead ... , and Philippines . Since 2004 Soft tennis is introduced in Europe. Belgium , the Netherlands , Poland , Hungary , Czech Republic and Great Britain , India have active Soft tennis federations. All are members of the European Soft tennis Federation, and the International Federation JSTA. History At the end ... as soft tennis. Competition Most of the rules for soft tennis are the same as those for regular tennis ... a forward player in doubles to serve.The serve plays a good role in winning of a team. Image Soft tennis court lines.jpg right The dimensions of a soft tennis court class wikitable Line Name Indication ... links http softtennis istf.org index2.htm INTERNATIONAL SOFT TENNIS FEDERATION http www.softtennisteam.nl SoftTennisteam.nl http www.softtennis.nl Netherlands Soft Tennis Federation http wbsta.weebly.com WEST BENGAL SOFT TENNIS ASSOCIATION WEST BENGAL,INDIA http www.softtennis.org.uk Uk Soft Tennis Association http estf.org European Soft Tennis Federation http www.softtennis.org.tw Chinese Taipei Taiwan Soft Tennis Association http softtennis.sport.org.cn Chinese Soft Tennis Association http www.jsta.or.jp Japan Soft Tennis Association http softtennis.sports.or.kr Korea Soft Tennis Association http web.archive.org web 20091027090830 http geocities.com Colosseum Midfield 3988 Soft Tennis Association of Malaysia http www.sstf.org.uk Scottish Soft Tennis Federation http www.softtenis.cz Czech Soft Tennis Union http www.softtennis.de German Soft Tennis Association http szoft.extra.hu Hungarian Soft Tennis Association http www.softtennis.nl Netherlands Soft Tennis Federation http www.softtenis.sk Soft Tennis Association of Slovakia http www.soft tennis.ch Swiss Soft Tennis Association http www.psta.pl Polish Soft Tennis Association http www.perusta.com Peru Soft Tennis Association http ... more details
A soft loan ref http www.businessdictionary.com definition soft loan.html ref is a loan with a below market rate of interest. This is also known as soft financing . Sometimes soft loans provide other concessions to borrowers, such as long repayment periods or interest holidays. Soft loans are usually provided by governments to projects they think are worthwhile. The World Bank and other development institutions provide soft loans to developing countries. An example of a soft loan is People s Republic of China China s Exim Bank of China Export Import Bank , who gave a 2 billion soft loan to Angola in October 2004 to help build infrastructure. In return, the Angolan government gave China a stake in oil exploration off the coast. ref http www.iags.org chinainafrica.pdf ref The field of Natural Finance uses the term Soft Loan ref http www.naturalfinance.net 2010 08 introducing soft loans new corporate.html ref as an enforced ability based repayment loan where the softness is not based on below market interest, but rather on terms that don t include fixed dates for repayment, but do mandate repayment when borrower is able to. References reflist External links http timesofindia.indiatimes.com news india India Mongolia sign civilnuclear cooperation pact articleshow 5011170.cms Soft loan by India to Mongolia Dated 15 September 2009 economics stub Category Credit de Zinsg nstiges Darlehen ms Pinjaman mudah ... more details
Soft ball or softball can refer to Softball , a form of team sport similar to baseball soft ball squash , the international form of Squash sport , as distinguished from hardball squash , the North American form softball cricket , a form of cricket , as distinguished from hardball cricket Playing softball is a negotiation term In making confectionery the soft ball stage soft ball stage as syrup is heated is used to make Fudge dab ... more details
refer Soft landing flight , a type of landing , usually of a hot air balloon in descent by gradually reducing its buoyancy is it the same thing than item just below? cf. Hard landing Soft landing rocketry , any landing which does not result in the destruction of the payload vehicle Soft landing economics , a business cycle downturn which avoids recession Soft landing chemistry , a process in chemical instrumentation disambig ... more details
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