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In popular culture:

• Induction (play) is an opening scene in a play, notably used in early English plays
• Induction (teachers) is the period of one year following qualification as a teacher in the UK
• Induction can refer to an initiation rite, at times in the form of hazing
  • Induction programme, the process used within many businesses to welcome new employees to the company and prepare them for their new role
• Orientation week, an induction programme for new students at Universities

In biology: This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Induction is used to refer to a period during which a Newly Qualified Teacher in England or Wales is both supported and assessed to ensure that regulatory standards are met. ... Initiation rites are formalized, ceremonial rites of passage as an individual moves from stage to stage within a social career or formally acquires such status. ... An induction programme is the prcoess used within many businesses to welcome new employees to the company and prepare them for their new role. ... Orientation (or orientation week or O-week) is the name given to the first week or two weeks of the university year in New Zealand and Australia. ...

• Induction (biology) is the initiation or cause of a change or process in developmental biology
• Enzyme induction and inhibition is a process in which a molecule (e.g. a drug) induces (i.e. initiates or enhances) or inhibits the expression of an enzyme
• Induction (birth), induction of childbirth

In psychology: Induction IS retarded This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Enzyme induction is a process in which a molecule ( a drug) induces ( initiates or enhances) the expression of an enzyme. ... Induction is a way of artificially bringing on labour in a woman. ...

• The act of inducing a hypnotic state is referred to as an induction procedure.
• Post Induction Therapy asserts that childhood trauma, including child abuse and neglect, is the origin of developmental immaturity.
• Induction period related to the Atkins Nutritional Approach
• Inductive reasoning aptitude is an aptitude or personality characteristic

In philosophy, logic, and computer science: Hypnotic drugs are a class of drugs that induce sleep, used in the treatment of severe insomnia. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... book The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known of the low-carbohydrate diets. ... Inductive reasoning is a measureable aptitude for how well a person can identify a pattern within a large amount of data. ...

• Inductive reasoning used in science and the scientific method
• Rhetorical induction
• Backward induction in game theory and economics
• Concept learning is the induction of a concept (category) from observations
• Theoretical foundations of induction, see:
  • Computational learning theory
  • Version Space
  • Statistical Learning Theory
  • PAC Learning
  • Algorithmic Information Theory.
  • Concept learning, for citations to foundational work by Watanabe, Solomonoff, Rendell, etc.

In mathematics: Aristotle appears first to establish the mental behaviour of induction as a category of reasoning. ... In game theory, backward induction is one of dynamic programming algorithms used to compute subgame perfect equilibria in sequential games. ... Concept learning refers to a learning task in which a human or machine learner is trained to to classify objects by being shown a set of example objects along with their class labels. ... In statistics, computational learning theory is a mathematical field related to the analysis of machine learning algorithms. ... A version space in concept learning or induction is the subset of all hypotheses that are consistent with the observed training examples (Mitchell 1997). ... Statistical learning theory is an ambiguous term. ... Probably approximately correct learning (PAC learning) is a framework of learning that was proposed by Leslie Valiant in his paper A theory of the learnable. ... In computer science, algorithmic information theory is a field of study which attempts to define the complexity (aka descriptive complexity, Kolmogorov complexity, Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity, or algorithmic entropy) of a string as the length of the shortest binary program which outputs that string. ... Concept learning refers to a learning task in which a human or machine learner is trained to to classify objects by being shown a set of example objects along with their class labels. ...

• Mathematical induction, a method of proof in the field of mathematics
  • Strong induction, or Complete induction, a variant of mathematical induction
  • Transfinite induction, a kind of mathematical induction
  • ∈-induction, a kind of transfinite induction
• Structural induction, a generalization of mathematical induction
• Statistical induction is the same as inferential statistics

In physics: Mathematical induction is a method of mathematical proof typically used to establish that a given statement is true of all natural numbers. ... Strong induction, also known as complete induction, is a variant on the principle of mathematical induction. ... Transfinite induction is the proof technique of mathematical induction when applied to (large) well-ordered sets, for instance to sets of ordinals or cardinals, or even to the class of all ordinals. ... In mathematics, ∈-induction is a variant of transfinite induction, which can be used in set theory to prove that all sets satisfy a given property P(x). ... Structural induction is a proof method that is used in mathematical logic (e. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with statistical inference. ...

• Electromagnetic induction in physics and engineering
• *Magnetic induction, or magnetic field
  • Electrostatic induction
  • Radio frequency induction
  • Induction heating
    • Induction cooker uses induction heating for cooking.
    • Induction sealing or "cap sealing"
• With combustion engines, forced induction is the use of a gas compressor added to the air intake

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