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n. slang for a criminal defendant's previous record of criminal charges, convictions, or other judicial disposal of criminal cases (such as probation, dismissal or acquittal). Only previous felony convictions can be introduced into evidence. However, the record of "priors" can have an impact on sentencing, as with prior drunk driving convictions requiring mandatory jail sentences, and "three strikes, you're out," providing for extended sentences for the third felony conviction.

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An entropy E of this signal is used to evaluate different levels of unbalance.
As Entropy unfolds, an increasingly complex creation myth emerges.
where [S.sub.B] ([GAMMA]) is the system entropy in the macrostate [GAMMA], [kappa] is Boltzmann's constant and [W.sub.[GAMMA]] is proportional to the macrostate probability.
"Our study offers the first solid evidence that functional MRI scans of brain entropy are a new means to understanding human intelligence," says study lead investigator Glenn Saxe, MD, a professor in child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and a member of NYU Langone Health's Neuroscience Institute.
The distance between fuzzy sets and the entropy measure are very important to calculate the degree of fuzziness of a fuzzy set, and a lot of work as mentioned above has been contributed to the literature by various researchers.
Here [[??].sub.h] gives entropy of horizon and entropy of matter inside horizon is represented by [[??].sub.in].
In other words, Shannon's entropy is the minimum value of Kerridge's inaccuracy.
The uncertainty appearing in a HHMM can be quantified by entropy. This concept is applied for quantifying the uncertainty of the state sequence tracked from a single observational sequence and model parameters.
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