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c_gz4dpzjvzx20 | The canal was closed to boating traffic in October 2016 after Hurricane Matthew caused a flash flood in Chesapeake, Virginia. The runoff from this storm filled the canal with silt and sand, making it impassable. The necessary dredging for navigation on the canal was completed November 2017 to a depth of approximately f... | Dismal Swamp Canal |
c_dmtvv8ohizqp | The duckweed clogs the intakes on power boats, quickly causing them to overheat. The Elizabeth River runs almost parallel to the canal, and was not affected by the 2016 flash flood, being much wider and much deeper than the canal. As of March 2018, the canal has been reopened by the U.S. | Dismal Swamp Canal |
c_oirfltaq6qe7 | Army Corps of Engineers. The ICW has remained open during all of this via the Elizabeth River and the North Landing River. The Virginia portion of the canal was located in Norfolk County, which today is the city of Chesapeake, where the northern portion of the canal at Deep Creek connects with the Southern Branch Eliza... | Dismal Swamp Canal |
c_dy1blyci1032 | The southern end of the canal leads to the Albemarle Sound. The Dismal Swamp Canal Visitor Center is the only visitor center in the continental U. S. greeting visitors by both a major highway and a historic waterway. It is located in Camden County, North Carolina, on scenic U.S. | Dismal Swamp Canal |
c_s3jf9jyb1qj6 | Highway 17 three miles south of the Virginia/North Carolina border. The canal is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. The historic canal is now recognized as part of the Underground Railroad and along with the Great Dismal Swamp, is n... | Dismal Swamp Canal |
c_8rqddssldasf | In modern times, the architecture of Islamic buildings, not just religious ones, has gone through some changes. The new architectural style doesn't stick with the same fundamental aspects that were seen in the past, but mosques for the most part still feature the same parts—the miḥrāb (مِـحْـرَاب), the minarets, four-i... | Islamic architecture |
c_825fnzykwy0s | In modern times, the practice of tameshigiri has come to focus on testing the swordsman's abilities, rather than the sword's cutting capability. The swords used are typically inexpensive ones.Practitioners of tameshigiri sometimes use the terms Shitō (試刀, sword testing) and Shizan (試斬, test cutting, an alternate pronun... | Tameshigiri |
c_33qhf1560myf | To be able to cut consecutive times on one target, or to cut multiple targets while moving, requires that one be a very skilled swordsman.Targets today are typically made from goza, the top layer of the traditional tatami floor covering, either bundled or rolled into a cylindrical shape. They may be soaked in water to ... | Tameshigiri |
c_5e5quzvf9vh0 | Green bamboo is used to approximate bone.Once the goza target is in this cylindrical shape, it has a vertical grain pattern when stood vertically on a target stand, or horizontally when placed on a horizontal target stand (dotton or dodan). This direction of the grain affects the difficulty of the cut. The difficulty o... | Tameshigiri |
c_q10bk1u38dxx | When cutting a straw target that is standing vertically, the easiest cut is the downward diagonal. This is due to a combination of the angle of impact of the cut against the grain (approximately 30-50 degrees from the surface), the downward diagonal angle of the swing, and the ability to use many of the major muscle gr... | Tameshigiri |
c_o0vujz8se99q | The third in difficulty is the straight downward cut, not in terms of the grain but in terms of the group of muscles involved. The most difficult cut of these four basic cuts is the horizontal direction (against a vertical target) which is directly perpendicular to the grain of the target. Historical European Martial A... | Tameshigiri |
c_ayy3l899vpc0 | In modern times, the scientific community widely favours monogenism due to evidence that shows modern humans share a common evolutionary origin in Africa. | Environmental monogenism |
c_xdhej3rozktb | In modern times, the surgical treatment of tuberculosis is confined to the management of multi-drug resistant TB. A patient with MDR-TB who remains culture positive after many months of treatment may be referred for lobectomy or pneumonectomy with the aim of cutting out the infected tissue. The optimal timing for surge... | Antitubercular agents |
c_3u8mncc8nnyn | From 1983 to 2000, they performed 180 operations in 172 patients; of these, 98 were lobectomies, and 82 were pneumonectomies. They report a 3.3% operative mortality, with an additional 6.8% dying following the operation; 12% experienced significant morbidity (particularly extreme breathlessness). Of 91 patients who wer... | Antitubercular agents |
c_a9sv29myuz0j | Some complications of treated tuberculosis like recurrent hemoptysis, destroyed or bronchiectasic lungs and empyema (a collection of pus in the pleural cavity) are also amenable to surgical therapy.In extrapulmonary TB, surgery is often needed to make a diagnosis (rather than to effect a cure): surgical excision of lym... | Antitubercular agents |
c_0kbgmm5g4d6l | In spinal TB, surgery is indicated for spinal instability (when there is extensive bony destruction) or when the spinal cord is threatened. Therapeutic drainage of tuberculous abscesses or collections is not routinely indicated and will resolve with adequate treatment. In TB meningitis, hydrocephalus is a potential com... | Antitubercular agents |
c_t3558ys6f14c | In modern times, the symbol is commonly found in Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, and Ukraine as an indicator of locations of cultural interest, beginning in Finland in the 1950s and spreading to the other Nordic countries in the 1960s. There has been modern specu... | Looped square |
c_iddgenh05jd7 | In modern times, the term Croatian Littoral is also applied to entire Adriatic coast of the Republic of Croatia in general terms, which is then divided into the Southern Croatian Littoral (Južno hrvatsko primorje) comprising Dalmatia, and the Northern Croatian Littoral (Sjeverno hrvatsko primorje) comprising Istria and... | Croatian Littoral |
c_hsugmdhkmr4q | In modern times, the term longsword most frequently refers to a late Medieval and Renaissance weapon designed for use with two hands. The German langes Schwert ("long sword") in 15th-century manuals did not necessarily denote a type of weapon, but the technique of fencing with both hands at the hilt.The French épée bât... | Two-handed sword |
c_n375mexu34rf | The French épée de passot was also known as épée bâtarde (i.e., bastard sword) and also coustille à croix (literally a cross-hilted blade). The term referred to a medieval single-handed sword optimized for thrusting. The épée de passot was the sidearm of the franc-archers (French or Breton bowmen of the 15th and 16th c... | Two-handed sword |
c_zweqe8ysqrkv | The term passot comes from the fact that these swords passed (passaient) the length of a "normal" short sword.The "Masters of Defence" competition organised by Henry VIII in July 1540 listed "two hande sworde", "bastard sworde", and "longe sworde" as separate items (as it should in Joseph Swetnam's context).Antiquarian... | Two-handed sword |
c_adf3jwe31ou9 | During the first half of the 20th century, the term "bastard sword" was used regularly to refer to this type of sword.The Elizabethan long sword (cf. George Silver and Joseph Swetnam) is a single-handed "cut-and-thrust" sword with a 1.2-meter-long (4 ft) blade similar to the long rapier. "Let thy (long) Rapier or (long... | Two-handed sword |
c_ywxh6g5sig9c | In modern times, the term war drums is used as a metaphor for preparation for war. | Military drums |
c_yvl4jv6wvbr8 | In modern times, the town has been a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church, as the Archdiocese of Soteropolis. First awarded in 1932, it has had seven holders and has been vacant since 6 October 2005, with the death of its last incumbent, Ettore Cunial. | Soterioupolis |
c_2jzo26fkmqkn | In modern times, the tradition has continued in certain places in Europe. In Germany, Christmas markets sell decorated gingerbread before Christmas. (Lebkuchenhaus or Pfefferkuchenhaus are the German terms for a gingerbread house.) Making gingerbread houses is a Christmas tradition in many families. | Gingerbread house |
c_z0wv0jjpdejq | They are typically made before Christmas using pieces of baked gingerbread dough assembled with melted sugar. The roof 'tiles' can consist of frosting or candy. The gingerbread house yard is usually decorated with icing to represent snow.A gingerbread house does not have to be an actual house, although it is the most c... | Gingerbread house |
c_m5xva9qsz4s2 | It can be anything from a castle to a small cabin, or another kind of building, such as a church, an art museum, or a sports stadium, and other items, such as cars, gingerbread men and gingerbread women, can be made of gingerbread dough.In most cases, royal icing is used as an adhesive to secure the main parts of the h... | Gingerbread house |
c_zlnb2jnp8szk | Named Pepperkakebyen (Norwegian for "the gingerbread village"), it is claimed to be the world's largest such city. Every child under the age of 12 can make their own house at no cost with the help of their parents. | Gingerbread house |
c_ed36bg1foxc5 | In 2009, the gingerbread city was destroyed in an act of vandalism. A group of building design, construction, and sales professionals in Washington, D.C., also collaborate on a themed "Gingertown" every year.In San Francisco, the Fairmont and St. Francis hotels display rival gingerbread houses during the Christmas seas... | Gingerbread house |
c_t76bskwlpnve | In modern times, there are fewer proponents of these views. One reason is that, as Stephen Maitzen argues, anthropology has long established that while religious belief in general is essentially universal, belief in what Calvin would recognize as God is very unevenly distributed among cultures (consider for example God... | Argument from nonbelief |
c_ap396oubqldv | Why is theistic belief apparently non-existent among early humans but common at later times, at least in some regions? According to Marsh, the hiddenness problem is harder to answer once we appreciate that much nonbelief is 'natural', owing to the kinds of minds people naturally possess and to their place in evolutiona... | Argument from nonbelief |
c_m70f9x1q9z71 | In modern times, tracking equipment such as radar, sonar, and reconnaissance satellites make evading a total blockade by a world power nearly impossible. Drug smugglers and groups like the Tamil Tigers are able to run blockades due to the partial nature of the blockade, or because the navy imposing the blockade is weak... | Blockade runner |
c_f08sute6lb49 | In modern turf roof construction, bitumen roofing felt combined with dimpled plastic drainage membranes are usually used in place of birch bark. Bitumen roofing felt is nailed to the sarking and a dimpled cavity drainage membrane is laid over the top (dimples face down) to form a drainage layer. The turf is then laid o... | Sod roof |
c_4zzlvaozdtzj | In modern usage the term "standard gauge" refers to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). Standard gauge is dominant in a majority of countries, including those in North America, most of western Europe, North Africa and the Middle east, and in China. | Track gauge |
c_yhrcvomervsa | In modern usage, "Tissue culture" generally refers to the growth of cells from a multicellular organism in vitro. These cells may be cells isolated from a donor organism (primary cells) or an immortalised cell line. The cells are bathed in a culture medium, which contains essential nutrients and energy sources necessar... | Tissue culture |
c_ec01dgmd6jf7 | On the other hand, the strict meaning of "tissue culture" refers to the culturing of tissue pieces, i.e. explant culture. Tissue culture is an important tool for the study of the biology of cells from multicellular organisms. It provides an in vitro model of the tissue in a well defined environment which can be easily ... | Tissue culture |
c_jqggvw1dv32a | In animal tissue culture, cells may be grown as two-dimensional monolayers (conventional culture) or within fibrous scaffolds or gels to attain more naturalistic three-dimensional tissue-like structures (3D culture). Eric Simon, in a 1988 NIH SBIR grant report, showed that electrospinning could be used to produced nano... | Tissue culture |
c_4uqzekk7k6gy | It was noted that as opposed to the flattened morphology typically seen in 2D culture, cells grown on the electrospun fibers exhibited a more rounded 3-dimensional morphology generally observed of tissues in vivo.Plant tissue culture in particular is concerned with the growing of entire plants from small pieces of plan... | Tissue culture |
c_grxv429vco5m | In modern usage, "tissue culture" generally refers to the growth of cells from a tissue from a multicellular organism in vitro. These cells may be cells isolated from a donor organism (primary cells) or an immortalised cell line. The cells are bathed in a culture medium, which contains essential nutrients and energy so... | Human cell line |
c_2g37vousw674 | On the other hand, the strict meaning of "tissue culture" refers to the culturing of tissue pieces, i.e. explant culture. Tissue culture is an important tool for the study of the biology of cells from multicellular organisms. It provides an in vitro model of the tissue in a well defined environment which can be easily ... | Human cell line |
c_da0j782o3t07 | In animal tissue culture, cells may be grown as two-dimensional monolayers (conventional culture) or within fibrous scaffolds or gels to attain more naturalistic three-dimensional tissue-like structures (3D culture). Eric Simon, in a 1988 NIH SBIR grant report, showed that electrospinning could be used to produce nano-... | Human cell line |
c_mh8aolce8sck | In modern usage, a definition is something, typically expressed in words, that attaches a meaning to a word or group of words. The word or group of words that is to be defined is called the definiendum, and the word, group of words, or action that defines it is called the definiens. For example, in the definition "An e... | Definition |
c_mmmd9rlayiv4 | These include, lexical definitions, or the common dictionary definitions of words already in a language; demonstrative definitions, which define something by pointing to an example of it ("This," , "is an Asian elephant. "); and precising definitions, which reduce the vagueness of a word, typically in some special sens... | Definition |
c_a9skt8iqaxvq | In modern usage, a missile is a self-propelled precision-guided munition system, as opposed to an unguided self-propelled munition, referred to as a rocket (although these too can also be guided). Missiles have four system components: targeting and/or missile guidance, flight system, engine, and warhead. Missiles come ... | Aerial warfare |
c_u8a0drgej1ab | All known existing missiles are designed to be propelled during powered flight by chemical reactions inside a rocket engine, jet engine, or other type of engine. Non-self-propelled airborne explosive devices are generally referred to as shells and usually have a shorter range than missiles. In ordinary British-English ... | Aerial warfare |
c_qdmspmntuvtk | In modern usage, a short kurta is referred to as the kurti. However, traditionally, the kurti refers to upper garments which sit above the waist without side slits, and are believed to have descended from the tunic of the Shunga period (2nd century B.C. ).In the Punjab region, the kurti is a short cotton coat. Another ... | Punjabi clothing |
c_3ua1jp7go19f | In modern usage, an aquamanile (plural aquamanilia or simply aquamaniles) is a ewer or jug-type vessel in the form of one or more animal or human figures. It usually contained water for the washing of hands (aqua + manos) over a basin, which was part of both upper-class meals and the Christian Eucharist. Historically (... | Aquamanile |
c_4wh47v69zevf | The water was supplied by a subdeacon, and aquamanile was a symbol of subdeaconate. The term was later transferred onto secular ewers. Most surviving examples are in metal, typically copper alloys (brass or bronze), as pottery versions have rarely survived. | Aquamanile |
c_gpxo88pthw8c | In modern usage, civil time refers to statutory time as designated by civilian authorities. Modern civil time is generally national standard time in a time zone at a fixed offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), possibly adjusted by daylight saving time during part of the year. UTC is calculated by reference to a... | Civil time |
c_nlpqzxpc6ilz | In traditional astronomical usage, civil time was mean solar time reckoned from midnight. Before 1925, the astronomical time 00:00:00 meant noon, twelve hours after the civil time 00:00:00 which meant midnight. HM Nautical Almanac Office in the United Kingdom used Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) for both conventions, leading... | Civil time |
c_x1utuf90zw8g | In 1928, the International Astronomical Union introduced the term Universal Time for GMT beginning at midnight.In modern usage, GMT is no longer a formal standard reference time: it is now a name for the time zone UTC+00:00. Universal Time is now determined by reference to distant celestial objects: UTC is derived from... | Civil time |
c_epgn3klz1wnk | In modern usage, ethos denotes the disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, corporation, culture, or movement. For example, the poet and critic T. S. Eliot wrote in 1940 that "the general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behavior of politicians". Similar... | Ethos |
c_go3whq3xz1xq | In modern usage, metric is used almost exclusively in commercial transactions. These units are mostly historical, although they are still used in some limited contexts and in Maltese idioms and set phrases. Many of these terms are directly related to Arabic units and some to Sicilian units. The Weights and Measures Ord... | Maltese units of measurement |
c_lrdq4jrrbva1 | In modern usage, some alterations can be made to represent phonemes not represented in classical phonology. A mark similar in appearance to a tilde (~), called majlīyānā (ܡܲܓ̰ܠܝܼܵܢܵܐ), is placed above or below a letter in the Maḏnḥāyā variant of the alphabet to change its phonetic value (see also: Geresh): Added below... | Syriac script |
c_jaqm0mfrp14e | In modern usage, stocking specifically refers to the form of hosiery configured as two pieces, one for each leg (except for American and Australian English, where the term can also be a synonym for pantyhose). The terms hold-ups and thigh highs refer to stockings that stay up through the use of built-in elastic, while ... | Nylon stocking |
c_10rm13i0m1lt | This results in a reinforcement that covers only the tip of the toes as opposed to the whole toe. These can be with or without a reinforced heel. Denier: The lower the denier number the sheerer the garment. | Nylon stocking |
c_qk4e1u2qwyh7 | Stockings knitted with a higher denier tend to be less sheer but more durable. Fishnet: Knitted stockings with a very wide open knit resembling a fish net. Fencenet: Similar to fishnet, but with a much wider pattern. | Nylon stocking |
c_if92sgyssldz | These are sometimes worn over another pair of stockings or pantyhose, such as matte or opaque, with a contrasting colour. Sometimes referred to as whalenets. Football stockings: typically made out of heavy cotton or a thick, durable synthetic fabric that reaches the knee. | Nylon stocking |
c_td0a76dlza3k | Full Fashioned: Fully fashioned stockings are knitted flat, the material is then cut and the two sides are then united by a seam up the back. Fully fashioned stockings were the most popular style until the 1960s. Hold-ups (British English) or Stay-ups: Stockings that are held up by sewn-in elasticated bands (quite ofte... | Nylon stocking |
c_koey95l4ekxg | In the US they are referred to as thigh-highs. Knee highs: Stockings that terminate at or just barely below the knee. Also known as half-stockings, trouser socks, or socks. | Nylon stocking |
c_c89t0r2rko98 | Matte: Stockings which have a dull or non-lustre finish. Mock seam: A false seam sewn into the back of a seamless stocking. Nude heel: Stockings without reinforcement in the heel area. | Nylon stocking |
c_jjpr42i3flyt | Opaque: Stockings made of yarn which give them a heavier appearance (usually 40 denier or greater). Point heel: in a Fully Fashioned stocking it is a heel in which the reinforced part ends in a triangle shape. RHT: Abbreviation of reinforced heel and toe. | Nylon stocking |
c_v1k7cytifwl5 | Open-toed: Stockings that stop at the base of the toe with a piece that goes between the first and second toes to hold them down. They can be worn with some open-toed shoes, especially to show off pedicured toes. Sandalfoot: Stockings with a nude toe, meaning no heavier yarn in the toe than is in the leg. | Nylon stocking |
c_aefe6fod7veb | They are intended to be worn with sandal or open-toe shoes. Seamed: Stockings manufactured in the old Full-Fashioned manner with a seam running up the back of the leg. In the past they were manufactured by cutting the fabric and then sewing it together. | Nylon stocking |
c_ytthw2d6haci | Seamless: Stockings knit in one operation on circular machines (one continuous operation) so that no seaming is required up the back. Sheers: Stockings generally of a 15 to 20 denier. | Nylon stocking |
c_zbo3w9w05w2k | Stocking Feet: Shoeless feet covered by stockings or socks. Suspender belt (British English) or Garter belt (American English): a belt with straps to keep stockings (not hold-ups) on place: usually they have 4 straps, but may have also 6 or 8. | Nylon stocking |
c_3sexi2xy6192 | Ultra sheer: A fine denier fiber which gives the ultimate in sheerness. Usually 10 denier. Welt: A fabric knitted separately and machine-sewn to the top of a stocking. Knit in a heavier denier yarn and folded double to give strength for supporter fastening. | Nylon stocking |
c_nr6joedzzdgm | In modern usage, the names Veil Nebula, Cirrus Nebula, and Filamentary Nebula generally refer to all the visible structure of the remnant, or even to the entire loop itself. The structure is so large that several NGC numbers were assigned to various arcs of the nebula. There are three main visual components: The Wester... | Veil Nebula |
c_66eabcc9rdrl | In modern usage, the names applied to K-type main sequence stars vary. When explicitly defined, late K dwarfs are typically grouped with early to mid-M-class stars as red dwarfs, but in other cases red dwarf is restricted just to M-class stars. In some cases all K stars are included as red dwarfs, and occasionally even... | K-type main-sequence star |
c_mti3patzl5h4 | In modern usage, the term "MIMO" indicates more than just the presence of multiple transmit antennas (multiple input) and multiple receive antennas (multiple output). While multiple transmit antennas can be used for beamforming, and multiple receive antennas can be used for diversity, the word "MIMO" refers to the simu... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_vfvzsta0mv6a | MIMO multiplies the capacity of a radio link by transmitting multiple signals over multiple, co-located antennas. This is accomplished without the need for additional power or bandwidth. | MIMO-OFDM |
c_e0202mufpott | Space–time codes are employed to ensure that the signals transmitted over the different antennas are orthogonal to each other, making it easier for the receiver to distinguish one from another. Even when there is line of sight access between two stations, dual antenna polarization may be used to ensure that there is mo... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_j961ma6moo7y | This arrangement makes it possible to eliminate the biggest obstacle to reliable broadband communications, intersymbol interference (ISI). ISI occurs when the overlap between consecutive symbols is large compared to the symbols’ duration. Normally, high data rates require shorter duration symbols, increasing the risk o... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_3skbrb8l0ioi | By dividing a high-rate data stream into numerous low-rate data streams, OFDM enables longer duration symbols. A cyclic prefix (CP) may be inserted to create a (time) guard interval that prevents ISI entirely. | MIMO-OFDM |
c_xils87ej00gb | If the guard interval is longer than the delay spread—the difference in delays experienced by symbols transmitted over the channel—then there will be no overlap between adjacent symbols and consequently no intersymbol interference. Though the CP slightly reduces spectral capacity by consuming a small percentage of the ... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_hyo1bmxgr9c2 | Fourier transforms convert signals back and forth between the time domain and frequency domain. Consequently, Fourier transforms can exploit the fact that any complex waveform may be decomposed into a series of simple sinusoids. In signal processing applications, discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) are used to operate o... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_v94x4p83wfq1 | DFTs may be applied to composite OFDM signals, avoiding the need for the banks of oscillators and demodulators associated with individual subcarriers. Fast Fourier transforms are numerical algorithms used by computers to perform DFT calculations.FFTs also enable OFDM to make efficient use of bandwidth. The subchannels ... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_va1s85shtyj9 | In practice, this means that the subchannels are allowed to partially overlap in frequency. MIMO-OFDM is a particularly powerful combination because MIMO does not attempt to mitigate multipath propagation and OFDM avoids the need for signal equalization. MIMO-OFDM can achieve very high spectral efficiency even when the... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_4e7wgxekkckd | When the transmitter does possess CSI (which can be obtained through the use of training sequences), it is possible to approach the theoretical channel capacity. CSI may be used, for example, to allocate different size signal constellations to the individual subcarriers, making optimal use of the communications channel... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_zlg3207v7pr5 | MU-MIMO is part of the IEEE 802.11ac standard, the first Wi-Fi standard to offer speeds in the gigabit per second range. MU-MIMO enables an access point (AP) to transmit to up to four client devices simultaneously. This eliminates contention delays, but requires frequent channel measurements to properly direct the sign... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_izv5yj6752ol | Each user may employ up to four of the available eight spatial streams. For example, an AP with eight antennas can talk to two client devices with four antennas, providing four spatial streams to each. Alternatively, the same AP can talk to four client devices with two antennas each, providing two spatial streams to ea... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_bukewrprhap9 | Prior to MU-MIMO beamforming, an access point communicating with multiple client devices could only transmit to one at a time. With MU-MIMO beamforming, the access point can transmit to up to four single stream devices at the same time on the same channel. The 802.11ac standard also supports speeds up to 6.93 Gbit/s us... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_cdsajtnez0ju | The maximum data rate assumes use of the optional 160 MHz channel in the 5 GHz band and 256 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation). Chipsets supporting six spatial streams have been introduced and chipsets supporting eight spatial streams are under development. Massive MIMO consists of a large number of base station ant... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_4czk0xsnos8k | While LTE networks already support handsets using two spatial streams, and handset antenna designs capable of supporting four spatial streams have been tested, massive MIMO can deliver significant capacity gains even to single spatial stream handsets. Again, MU-MIMO beamforming is used to enable the base station to tra... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_o1suyecxx6cq | Another focus of research for 5G wireless is CO-MIMO. In CO-MIMO, clusters of base stations work together to boost performance. This can be done using macro diversity for improved reception of signals from handsets or multi-cell multiplexing to achieve higher downlink data rates. However, CO-MIMO requires high-speed co... | MIMO-OFDM |
c_k16h87tq3b45 | In modern usage, the term "Subway Series" generally refers to a series played between the two current New York baseball teams, the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. Their stadiums remain directly accessible by subway: Yankee Stadium via the 161st Street–Yankee Stadium station, and Citi Field via the Mets–Willets ... | Subway Series |
c_jutdsyieh2pt | When interleague play was introduced in 1997 the teams finally got to play one another in a competitive fashion. The rivalry has included heated moments such as the Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza feud. Currently the Yankees lead the "Subway Series" 71–55 all time. | Subway Series |
c_titwjaxz423u | In modern usage, the term "broad gauge" generally refers to track spaced significantly wider than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). Broad gauge is the dominant gauge in countries in Indian subcontinent, the former Soviet Union (CIS states, Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine), Mongolia and Finland, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, C... | Track gauge |
c_t8ygm3v1p16i | In modern usage, the term "carriage house" has taken on several additional, somewhat overlapping meanings: Buildings that were originally true carriage houses that have been converted to other uses such as secondary suites, apartments, guest houses, automobile garages, offices, workshops, retail shops, bars, restaurant... | Carriage house |
c_oah9hm10kzug | In modern usage, the term "narrow gauge" generally refers to track spaced significantly narrower than 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in). Narrow gauge is the dominant or second dominant gauge in countries of Southern, Central Africa, East Africa, Southeast Asia, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Central America and South America, Duri... | Rail gauge |
c_h4dyb3waoswq | In modern usage, the term "short story" embraces what was once popularly termed "the sketch". Short stories of extreme brevity still exist under the names flash fiction or microfiction. | Sketch story |
c_h0bwqcdkq8nm | In modern usage, the word "bronco" is seldom used for a "wild" or feral horse, because the modern rodeo bucking horse is a domestic animal. Some are specifically bred for bucking ability and raised for the rodeo, while others are spoiled riding horses who have learned to quickly and effectively throw off riders. Inform... | Bucking horse |
c_18t2scu36k2g | In modern use Giants Dance has been used to refer to: A fictional stone circle that was moved from Ireland to Britain by Merlin Stonehenge, England: the megalithic stone circle Waun Mawn, Wales: a proposed identification of the dismantled megalithic stone circle == References == | Giant's Dance |
c_dxmzjttzr2o3 | In modern use “social physics” refers to using “big data” analysis and the mathematical laws to understand the behavior of human crowds. The core idea is that data about human activity (e.g., phone call records, credit card purchases, taxi rides, web activity) contain mathematical patterns that are characteristic of ho... | Social physics |
c_m13txntgb8ln | The combination of traditional epidemic models with social physics models of the classical general adaptation syndrome triad, "anxiety-resistance-exhaustion", accurately describes the first two waves of the COVID-19 epidemic for 13 countries. The differences between countries are concentrated in two kinetic constants: ... | Social physics |
c_zgqe1re0emxs | In modern use, seals are used to tamper-proof equipment. For example, to prevent gas and electricity meters from being interfered with to show lower chargeable readings, they may be sealed with a lead or plastic seal with a government marking, typically fixed to a wire that passes through part of the meter housing. The... | Royal seal |
c_dzd4okv9h725 | In modern use, specialised periscopes can also provide night vision. The Embedded Image Periscope (EIP) designed and patented by Kent Periscopes provides standard unity vision periscope functionality for normal daytime viewing of the vehicle surroundings plus the ability to display digital images from a range of on-veh... | Periscope |
c_z1x9mo7ph1he | In modern use, the term 'semimetal' sometimes refers, loosely or explicitly, to metals with incomplete metallic character in crystalline structure, electrical conductivity or electronic structure. Examples include gallium, ytterbium, bismuth, mercury and neptunium. Metalloids, which are in-between elements that are nei... | Post-transition metals |
c_42auut737xl6 | In modern vipassana-meditation, as propagated by the Vipassana movement, sati aids vipassana, insight into the true nature of reality, namely the three marks of existence, the impermanence of and the suffering of every conditioned thing that exists, and non-self. With this insight, the practitioner becomes a so-called ... | Mindfulness meditation |
c_zm323n835az4 | In modern warfare the relevance of watchtowers has decreased due to the availability of alternative forms of military intelligence, such as reconnaissance by spy satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles. However watch towers have been used in counter-insurgency wars to maintain a military presence in conflict areas in c... | Watch tower |
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