A result is the final consequence of a sequence of actions or events (broadly incidents and accidents) expressed qualitatively or quantitatively, being a loss, injury, disadvantage, advantage, gain, victory or simply a value. There may be a range of possible outcomes associated with an event possibly depending on the point of view, historical distance or relevance.

Reaching no result proves that actions are inefficient, ineffective, meaningless or flawed.

• in general any kind of research,action or phenomenon can lead to one or more results.
• in games (e.g. cricket, lotteries) or wars the result describes the victorious party and possibly effects on the environment.
• in mathematics: the final value of a calculation (e.g. arithmetic operation), function or statistical expression
• statistics uses polls, tests and logs to analyze, extract and interpolate information.
• in computer sciences: the return value of a function, state of a system or list of records matching a query (e.g. web search). The result type is the data type of the data returned by a function.
• in physics: the outcome of an experiment
• in forensics and justice: the proof of guilt or innocence of a suspect after evaluating evidence in a criminal investigation.
• in economics/accounting: the profit or loss at the end of a fiscal period. (see also: NOR)
• in democracy : the election of a representative or vote on a subject.

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L.A. Times - Fashion & Style

Bushy eyebrows are back
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Celebs such as Brooke Shields and Keira Knightley and designers such as Prada and Donna Karan are thickening the lines. STEP away from the tweezers. The tapered, pin-thin eyebrows you've been meticulously sculpting every week since the '90s are looking about as dated as a Menudo T-shirt.
Growing back those full, thick eyebrows
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Anastasia Soare, the aesthetician who's turned her talent for taming arches into a Hollywood eyebrow empire, shares her tips. FULL, thick eyebrows may be back on the fashion radar, but how do you achieve them after years of plucking thin-and-tidy shapes? We asked Anastasia Soare, the Romanian-born aesthetician who's turned her talent for taming arches into an eyebrow empire. Soare sculpts the brows of half of Hollywood's A-listers at her Beverly Hills salon, and her extensive line of products -- including gels, pencils and stencils -- has made hers the top-selling eyebrow line at beauty mega-store Sephora.
On shoe shopping: Pay more, spend less
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
How a pair of $700 Costume National boots forever changed the way I shop. KNEE-LENGTH in full-grain leather, the oxblood riding boots were so stiff, they stood on the shelf as straight as Redwood saplings. I lingered in front of them, admiring the softly rounded toes, not too pointy or blunt, that capped off the shapely foot bed and the thin strap that encircled the vamp, anchored by a subtle brass buckle.

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