University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, or USAO, is a public liberal arts college located in Chickasha, Oklahoma. It is the only public college in Oklahoma with a strictly liberal arts-focused curriculum and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. USAO is an undergraduate-only institution and grants Bachelor's Degrees in a variety of subject areas. The school was founded in 1908 as a school for women and from 1912 to 1965 was known as Oklahoma College for Women. It became coeducational in 1965 and today educates approximately 1,000 students. In 2001, the entire Oklahoma College for Women campus was listed as a National Historic District.
History
After Oklahoma was admitted to statehood in 1907, the new state legislature was tasked with establishing institutions of higher education in the former Indian Territory. Statistics gathered by the State Superintendent of Education showed that many young women from Oklahoma chose to attend women's colleges in Kansas, Texas, and Missouri. Colonel J.T. O'Neil, the state senator from Grady County, and his daughter, Anne Wade O'Neil, who had graduated from a women's college in Mississippi, appealed to the legislature to authorize the creation of a women's college. The University was founded on May 16, 1908, with the signing of Senate Bill 249 by Governor Charles Haskell. The bill, authored by Senator N.P. Stewart of Hugo, Oklahoma, authorized the foundation of the Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls. The legislature subsequently appropriated $100,000 for the establishment of the initial buildings for the school.
Circuit
Circuit may refer to:
In government and law
In media
In science and technology
In electrical engineering
- Analog circuit and digital circuit, which use continuous and discrete signal levels, respectively
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Electronic circuit, containing "active" (nonlinear) electronic components capable of performing amplification, computation, and data transfer
- Asynchronous circuit and synchronous circuit, which differ depending on the presence of a clock signal
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Integrated circuit, a set of electronic circuits on a small "chip" of semiconductor material
- Mixed-signal integrated circuit, containing both analog and digital signals
- Balanced circuit, in which paths are impedance-matched
- Printed circuit board, on which electronic components are supported and connected using copper tracks on a non-conductive substrate
- Series and parallel circuits, two ways in which electrical components may be interconnected
- Simple filters, incliding:
- LC circuit or tank circuit, consisting of an inductance and a capacitance
- RC circuit, consisting of a resistance and a capacitance
- RL circuit, consisting of a resistance and an inductance
- RLC circuit, consisting of a resistance, an inductance, and a capacitance
- Telecommunication circuit, on which information is transmitted
- Circuit analysis, the process of finding the voltages across, and the currents through, every component in an electrical circuit
- Circuit diagram, a graphical representation of an electrical circuit
- Hydraulic analogy, an analogy for "electron fluid" in a metal conductor
Electronic circuit
An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow. The combination of components and wires allows various simple and complex operations to be performed: signals can be amplified, computations can be performed, and data can be moved from one place to another.
Circuits can be constructed of discrete components connected by individual pieces of wire, but today it is much more common to create interconnections by photolithographic techniques on a laminated substrate (a printed circuit board or PCB) and solder the components to these interconnections to create a finished circuit. In an integrated circuit or IC, the components and interconnections are formed on the same substrate, typically a semiconductor such as silicon or (less commonly) gallium arsenide.
An electronic circuit can usually be categorized as an analog circuit, a digital circuit, or a mixed-signal circuit (a combination of analog circuits and digital circuits).
Circuit court
Circuit court is the name of court systems in several common law jurisdictions.
History
King Henry II instituted the custom of having judges ride around the countryside ("ride circuit") each year to hear cases, rather than forcing everyone to bring their cases to London (see Assize of Clarendon). Thus, the term "circuit court" is derived from the practice of having judges ride around the countryside each year on pre-set paths − circuits − to hear cases. Especially on the United States frontier, a judge might travel on horseback along with a group of lawyers. Abraham Lincoln was one such attorney who would ride the circuit in Illinois. In more settled areas, a stagecoach would be used. Eventually the legal caseload in a county would become great enough to warrant the establishment of a local judiciary. Most of these local judicial circuits (that is, in terms of the actual routes traveled by judges) have been thus replaced by judges regularly stationed at local courthouses, but in many areas the legacy term remains in usage.
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