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Opening of the bridge in 1932 completed the North coast standard gauge line between Sydney and Brisbane, avoiding the winding route via Tenterfield.The viaduct along with the wharf remains are important relics of the development of the north coast railway. The viaduct is representative of similar structures constructed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Bridge_(New_South_Wales) |
Swedin consulted on Clouds Over Cuba and consulted on and appeared in What If...? Armageddon 1962. Clouds Over Cuba (2012, created by and aired at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum) This program won an Emmy Award for "New Approaches: Documentaries". What If...? Armageddon 1962 (2014, Military Channel) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_G._Swedin |
The LSE function is often encountered when the usual arithmetic computations are performed on a logarithmic scale, as in log probability.Similar to multiplication operations in linear-scale becoming simple additions in log-scale, an addition operation in linear-scale becomes the LSE in log-scale: A common purpose of us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogSumExp |
In cognitive psychology, the telescoping effect (or telescoping bias) refers to the temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are. The former is known as backward telescoping or time expansion, and the lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_effect |
There also exists an ingeniero técnico (I.T. ), who is a professional that holds a degree and a minimum formation of three courses in an engineering official college. Both types of engineers have full competency in their respective professional field of engineering, being the difference that the three-year engineers ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_engineering |
Kesselring was initially responsible for the bombing of southeastern England and the London area, but as the battle progressed, command responsibility shifted, with Generalfeldmarschall Hugo Sperrle's Luftflotte 3 assuming responsibility for the night-time "blitz" attacks while Luftflotte 2 conducted the main daylight ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kesselring |
When the air pressure inside the plastic tank reaches a certain level, the tank stops filling with water. A high-pressure valve located in the center of the vessel holds the air and water inside until the user flushes the toilet.During flushing, the user activates the valve via a button or lever, which releases the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_closet |
It uses diacritics to map the much larger set of Brahmic consonants and vowels to the Latin script. The Devanagari-specific portion is very similar to the academic standard, IAST: "International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration", and to the United States Library of Congress standard, ALA-LC, although there are a fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization |
MUSE system mainly serves as a low-cost alternative to traditional histological analysis for cancer diagnostics with simpler and less time-consuming techniques. By integrating microscopy and fresh tissue fluorescence staining into an automated optical system, the overall acquiring time needed for getting digital images... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microscopy_with_UV_surface_excitation |
Even smaller were the village-based cantons of Camuñas (in Albacete) and Jumilla (in Murcia). The latter is said to have issued a manifesto stating: La nación jumillana desea vivir en paz con todas las naciones vecinas y, sobre todo, con la nación murciana, su vecina; pero si la nación murciana, su vecina, se atreve a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republicanism |
This theory can also be extended for the speech recognition domain. As an example, in an extension of a theory for unsupervised learning of invariant visual representations to the auditory domain and empirically evaluated its validity for voiced speech sound classification was proposed. Authors empirically demonstrated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Theory_(learning_framework) |
Online fair division is a class of fair division problems in which the resources, or the people to whom they should be allocated, or both, are not all available when the allocation decision is made. Some situations in which not all resources are available include: Allocating food donations to charities (the "food bank"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_fair_division |
The central pattern generators responsible for locomotion in vertebrates reside as half-center modules in the cervical and lumbar region of the spinal cord. Each CPG generates a basic motor output pattern that is responsible for the rhythmic contractions of flexor-extensor muscles that correspond to the forelimbs and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_substrate_of_locomotor_central_pattern_generators_in_mammals |
In any case, spironolactone has been found to reduce the bioavailability of oral estradiol, which could be due to induction of estradiol metabolism via CYP3A4. Spironolactone has also been found to inhibit UGT2B7. Spironolactone can also have numerous other interactions, most commonly with other cardiac and blood press... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spironolactone |
Jeff Raikes, ex-president of the Microsoft Business Division, stated: "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else". An analogous argument was made in an early paper by Kathleen Conner and Richard Rummelt. A subsequent study of digital rights management for e-books by Gal Oestreic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_content |
Kanda Naibu (神田乃武) used the Century Dictionary as the basis for his Mohan English–Japanese Dictionary (模範英和大辞典, Sanseido, 1911). Saito's Idiomological English–Japanese Dictionary (熟語本位英和中辞典, Ōbunsha, 1915) was edited by Saitō Hidesaburō (斎藤秀三郎).Jūkichi Inouye (井上十吉), a graduate of London University, edited Inouye's E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_dictionary |
Steven Marquess has posted a criticism that FIPS 140-2 validation can lead to incentives to keep vulnerabilities and other defects hidden. CMVP can decertify software in which vulnerabilities are found, but it can take a year to re-certify software if defects are found, so companies can be left without a certified prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2 |
Many Uyghurs outside China saw it as a formal acknowledgement of the sufferings of Uyghurs in China, hoping it will add fuel to their campaign at the international level. Uyghur Human Rights Project executive director Omer Kanat called the report "a game-changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis", add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Human_Rights_Office_report_on_Xinjiang |
This search covered regions of the sky away from the galactic plane at the "W1" wavelength (the 3.4 μm wavelength used by WISE) and is estimated to be able to detect a 10-Earth mass object out to 800–900 AU.Malena Rice and Gregory Laughlin applied a targeted shift-stacking search algorithm to analyze data from TESS sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine |
The Kuznetsov class is classified as heavy aviation cruisers, reflecting their greater weight as well as the larger number of aircraft they can operate. In addition to helicopters, they are also capable of operating conventional fixed-wing aircraft like the Sukhoi Su-33 and the Mikoyan MiG-29K. The ships have an angled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_cruiser |
In December, Compton was placed in charge of the plutonium project, which was codenamed X-10. Its objectives were to produce reactors to convert uranium to plutonium, to find ways to chemically separate the plutonium from the uranium, and to design and build an atomic bomb. It fell to Compton to decide which of the dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-10_Pile |
Van Straten was born in 1913 in Darien, Connecticut, the daughter of Dutch immigrants. Her mother spoke six languages and was the highest paid officer in the Netherlands before she came over to the United States. Jacques van Straten, her father, worked for the world-famous movie company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with its m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_van_Straten |
2014 - Dries Buytaert filed for US Federal Trademark for the Drupal word mark, in his individual capacity. An Assignment has not been recorded to Drupal VZW, Drupal Association, or Drupalcon, Inc. 2020 - As part of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company received between $150,000 and $350,000 in federally backed small busin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal_Association |
There are approximately 69 PETase-like enzymes comprising a variety of diverse organisms, and there are two classifications of these enzymes including type I and type II. It is suggested that 57 enzymes fall into the type I category whereas the rest fall into the type II group, including the PETase enzyme found in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETase |
Virus-host interactions are another example of an evolutionary arms race, and many plant viruses encode suppressors of both RdDM and RNAi in an attempt to evade the host plant's defenses.RdDM is also involved in protecting the plant from other biotic stresses, including bacterial infections, fungal infections, and pred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-directed_DNA_methylation |
Traditionally motorcycles used wire-spoked wheels with inner tubes and pneumatic tyres. Although cast wheels were first used on a motorcycle in 1927, it would not be until the 1970s that mainstream manufacturers would start to introduce cast wheels on their roadgoing motorcycles. Spoked wheels are usually made using st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_wheel |
Keggins (2021) explained the reason behind wearing masks to multiple reasons, including the spread of different types of flu in Asia over the years, such as; Spanish flu, Italian flu, Hong Kong flu, Avian flu, and Swine flu. Additionally, the spread of SARS, an increase of Pollen count and Hay fever, Great Kanto earthq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture |
As of 2019 there is still a chance of keeping global warming below 1.5 °C if no more fossil fuel power plants are built and some existing fossil fuel power plants are shut down early, together with other measures such as reforestation. Alternatives to fossil fuel power plants include nuclear power, solar power, geother... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_plant |
The main dance genres of Ukrainian folk dance are round dance, as one of the oldest types of folk dance art, the performance of which is associated with calendar rites, and everyday dance, which includes metelitsa, hopak, kozachok, hutsulka, kolomyika, square dance, polka. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_dances |
It is not clear if the railway will rebuild it or put it on display. Former Locomotive #33, has been restored to operating condition, and is currently under ownership of the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio. The Illinois Railway Museum had two former Consolidation Locomotives, #34 and #35. #35 remained in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Superior_and_Ishpeming_Railroad |
Molly's Game is a 2017 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (in his directorial debut), based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom. It stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, Joe Keery, Brian D'Arcy James, and Bil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly's_Game |
Museum informatics is an interdisciplinary field of study that refers to the theory and application of informatics by museums. It represents a convergence of culture, digital technology, and information science. In the context of the digital age facilitating growing commonalities across museums, libraries and archives,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_informatics |
Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were transported from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia. Australian penal colonies in late 18th century included Norfolk Island and New South Wales, and in early 19th century also Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and Moreton Bay (Queensland).Advoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_colony |
Olavius algarvensis is 12–25 mm long, about 0.25 mm wide, and has between 100 and 150 segments. Like all other species in the genus Olavius, this species has no digestive tract. Instead, the body cavity contains the ventral nerve cord (inside a muscular sheath) and two blood vessels which are surrounded by a "fluffy" l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olavius_algarvensis |
Some genera of ants such as Azteca use the additional worker ants early in the colonies formation to monopolize and take control of resources in close proximity of the colony thus stopping other con-specific colonies from acquiring those resources. This strategy allows the pleometrotic colonies to monopolize the area a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleometrosis |
The largest single ivory find was made between 1957 and 1963 when a British School team led by David Oates discovered a room at the Nimrud palace that was dubbed the "ivory room", which had apparently served as the main storage centre for ivory objects amassed by the Assyrian kings. Subsequent excavations by the Iraqi ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrud_ivories |
SketchUp was developed by startup company @Last Software of Boulder, Colorado, co-founded in 1999 by Brad Schell and Joe Esch. SketchUp was created in August 2000 as a 3D content creation tool and was envisioned as a software program for design professionals. The program won a Community Choice Award at its first trades... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_SketchUp |
1998–99, New York News Publishers Association: Distinguished Column Writing Award. 1988, American Association for the Advancement of Science/Westinghouse Science Journalism Award, for a cover story in Newsweek, "The Search for Adam and Eve." 1983, American Institute of Physics–United States Steel Foundation Science Wri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tierney_(journalist) |
Instead, it glides as it leaps among trees. The kagwang belongs to the order Dermoptera that contains only two species, one of which is found in the Philippines, while the other, the Sunda flying lemur, is found in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Recent research from genetic analysis suggests two other sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_flying_lemur |
In 1866 health issues forced him to move to Beloit, Wisconsin, then a bustling industrial city, where he was persuaded to patent the basic function of the device. Although Wheeler died before he could witness the success of his invention, his sons carried on the legacy. Some of the companies that succeeded the original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_windmill |
The Schur multipliers of the alternating groups An (in the case where n is at least 5) are the cyclic groups of order 2, except in the case where n is either 6 or 7, in which case there is also a triple cover. In these cases, then, the Schur multiplier is (the cyclic group) of order 6. These were first computed in (Sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_group |
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (; 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman |
It is important to dispose of water that has been stored in PET bottles that have been exposed to high temperatures for a prolonged period of time or are beyond the expiration date because harmful chemicals may leach from the plastic.In 2008, researchers from Arizona State University found that storing plastic bottles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_bottles |
In June 2021, the president of Nauru stressed the urgency of finalizing regulations for mining in international waters to the council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), a body of the United Nations.ISA has been working on the Mining Code, regulations governing commercial mining of the deep seafloor, since 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabed_mining |
As of 2012, 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation services and 15% practice open defecation. Even while providing latrines is a challenge, people still do not use them even when available. Bangladesh had half the GDP per capita of India but has a lower mortality from diarrhea than India or the world average, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_class |
Internal lubrication of the pump is achieved by use of the operating fluid—normally called hydraulic fluid. Most hydraulic systems have a maximum operating temperature, limited by the fluid, of about 120 °C (250 °F) so that using that fluid as a lubricant brings its own problems. In this type of pump the leakage from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_piston_pump |
Buck-Gramcko described another operation technique, for treatment of radial dysplasia, which is called radialization. During radialization the metacarpal of the index finger is pinned onto the ulna and radial wrist extensors are attached to the ulnar side of the wrist, causing overcorrection or ulnar deviation. This ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_dysplasia |
Before the synthesis of this complex, examples of actinide-actinide bonding had been restricted to matrix isolation experiments and fullerene-encapsulated species. In 2022, he reported a terminal neptunium(V)-mono(oxo) complex. Before the synthesis of this complex all transuranium-ligand multiple bond complexes require... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Liddle |
Topolsky lauded SB Nation's similar interest in the future of publishing, including what he described as their beliefs in independent journalism and in-house development of their own content delivery tools. Jim Bankoff of SB Nation saw an overlap in the two sites' demographics and an opportunity to expand SB Nation's m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Verge |
{\displaystyle \nabla _{X,Y}^{2}T=\nabla _{X}\nabla _{Y}T-\nabla _{\nabla _{X}Y}T.} Note that with this definition, the connection Laplacian has negative spectrum. On functions, it agrees with the operator given as the divergence of the gradient. If the connection of interest is the Levi-Civita connection one can find ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_operators_in_differential_geometry |
This style of instruction is most often done in the setting of a self-contained learning environment or self-access center. Self-access centers can be as simple as a classroom set aside with dictionaries and shelves of paper-based exercises to state-of-the-art digital centers with various types of computer- and Interne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_access_language_learning_centers |
The net effect of innervated M3 receptors on blood vessels is vasodilation, as acetylcholine causes endothelial cells to produce nitric oxide, which diffuses to smooth muscle and results in vasodilation. They are also in the smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, which help in increasing intestinal motility and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system |
This unique aircraft had a wing which pivoted about the fuselage, remaining perpendicular to it during slow flight and rotating to angles up to 60 degrees as aircraft speed increased. Analytical and wind tunnel studies by Jones indicated that a transport-sized oblique-wing aircraft flying at speeds up to Mach 1.4 (1.4 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thomas_Jones_(engineer) |
Dutch has the same subjunctive tenses as German (described above), though they are rare in contemporary speech. The same two tenses as in German are sometimes considered a subjunctive mood (aanvoegende wijs) and sometimes conditional mood (voorwaardelijke wijs). In practice, potential subjunctive uses of verbs are diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood |
The monarchy was abolished later that year. When Juan Carlos, grandson of Alfonso XIII (the last king of Spain), was chosen to be the successor of General Francisco Franco, the arms adopted for his use in 1971 as Prince of Spain was quarterly Castile, Leon, Aragon, and Navarre. The heraldic achievement also included th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_King_of_Spain |
In nephrology, ultrasonography of the kidneys is essential in the diagnosis and management of kidney-related diseases. The kidneys are easily examined, and most pathological changes are distinguishable with ultrasound. It is an accessible, versatile, relatively economic, and fast aid for decision-making in patients wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound_machine |
The etymology of basileus is uncertain. The Mycenaean form was *gʷasileus (Linear B: 𐀣𐀯𐀩𐀄, qa-si-re-u), denoting some sort of court official or local chieftain, but not an actual king. Its hypothetical earlier Proto-Greek form would be *gʷatileus. Some linguists assume that it is a non-Greek word that was adopted b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basileus |
In water solution, orthophosphoric acid and its three derived anions coexist according to the dissociation and recombination equilibria below Values are at 25 °C and 0 ionic strength. The pKa values are the pH values where the concentration of each species is equal to that of its conjugate bases. At pH 1 or lower, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_phosphate |
Griselda Blanco, the subject of the film Cocaine Godmother (2018), a former drug lord gunned down on September 3, 2012. Harry Greenberg, a Mafia associate of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. He was killed by Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Albert Tannenbaum, and Frankie Carbo in 1939. Danny ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_enforcer |
A common use of knock-in technology is for the creation of disease models. It is a technique by which scientific investigators may study the function of the regulatory machinery (e.g. promoters) that governs the expression of the natural gene being replaced. This is accomplished by observing the new phenotype of the or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_knockin |
The genuine Jew fails in this innate good breeding by which alone individuals honour their own individuality and respect that of others. There is no Jewish nobility, and this is the more surprising as Jewish pedigrees can be traced back for thousands of years. The familiar Jewish arrogance has a similar explanation....... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Weininger |
Afterwards the following variables with the following values exist: stem.1 = 9, stem.2 = 8, stem.3 = 7... Unlike arrays, the index for a stem variable is not required to have an integer value. For example, the following code is valid: In Rexx it is also possible to set a default value for a stem. After these assignment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx |
A Signal-regulatory protein (SIRP) is one of a family of transmembrane glycoproteins involved in immunological signalling, expressed mainly by myeloid cells.Members include: Signal-regulatory protein alpha, ligand=CD47 SIRPB1 SIRPD SIRPG, ligand=CD47 == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-regulatory_protein |
Sometimes lifelong learning aims to provide educational opportunities outside standard educational systems—which can be cost-prohibitive, if available at all. On the other hand, formal administrative units devoted to this discipline exist in a number of universities. For example, the 'Academy of Lifelong Learning' is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong_learning |
In July 1882 the volksraad decided to elect a new president the following year; Joubert and Kruger emerged as candidates. Kruger campaigned on the idea of an administration in which "God's Word would be my rule of conduct"—as premier he would prioritise agriculture, industry and education, revive Burgers's Delagoa Bay ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kruger |
By July 2016, the platform was available in 200 U.S. markets with several media partners, including The Washington Post and Associated Press. In October 2018, Stringr closed a $1-million funding round led by the Associated Press, McClatchy, Advection Growth Capital, and G5 Capital, bringing its total funding to $4.6 mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringr |
The Viterbi decoder implements a soft-decision algorithm to demodulate digital data from an analog signal corrupted by noise. Many FEC decoders can also generate a bit-error rate (BER) signal which can be used as feedback to fine-tune the analog receiving electronics. FEC information is added to mass storage (magnetic,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_coding |
invertible if it is both right-invertible and left-invertible.For an invertible homogeneous relation R , {\displaystyle R,} all right and left inverses coincide; this unique set is called its inverse and it is denoted by R − 1 . {\displaystyle R^{-1}.} In this case, R − 1 = R T {\displaystyle R^{-1}=R^{\operatorname {T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse_relation |
Among neural network models, the self-organizing map (SOM) and adaptive resonance theory (ART) are commonly used in unsupervised learning algorithms. The SOM is a topographic organization in which nearby locations in the map represent inputs with similar properties. The ART model allows the number of clusters to vary w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsupervised_machine_learning |
In this study, the resonance of one population of protons (1H) in an organic molecule was enhanced when a second distinct population of protons in the same organic molecule was saturated by RF irradiation. The application of the NOE was used by Anet and Bourn in 1965 to confirm the assignments of the NMR resonances for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Overhauser_effect |
On September 27, 2017, Amazon launched the Echo Spot, a hemispherical device that has the same functions as an Echo Show. The device has a 2.5-inch circular screen, and looks like an alarm clock. The device sold for $129.99. The Echo Spot has been discontinued in all regions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo |
by specifying the corresponding "LMBCS-n" name). Thereby, the group byte can be omitted for these characters. Lotus 1-2-3 retrieves the optimization group code from the file header of the corresponding source file, whereas for Lotus Notes the optimization group code is fixed to be always 01hex. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Multi-Byte_Character_Set |
Identity correlation should link the appropriate system account login IDs to individuals who might be indistinguishable, as well as to those who appear to be drastically different from a system-by-system standpoint. Still, it should be associated with the same individual. For more details on this topic, please see: The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_correlation |
Information and data refers to information provided by domain databases and other information asset sources (which may be network centric) and systems data that implement that information. These information sources and systems data may define information exchanges or details for system interfaces. Systems nodes refers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_architecture_data_model |
Charles Darwin described sexual selection as depending on "the advantage which certain individuals have over others of the same sex and species, solely in respect of reproduction". Darwin noted that sexual selection is of two kinds and concluded that both kinds had operated on humans: "The sexual struggle is of two kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection_in_human_evolution |
7959 Alysecherri, provisional designation 1994 PK, is a bright, stony Hungaria asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 2 August 1994, by American astronomer Carl Hergenrother at Steward Observatory's Catalina Station on Mt Bigelow near Tucson, A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7959_Alysecherri |
The availability of unexploited ventures made European have significant potential in the execution of a fully-fledged industrial revolution. Lin (1995) further adds that although Europe was lagging behind China during the pre-modern era in terms of economic and technological advancements, the right time finally came fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Needham |
In 1994, Encyclopedia Magica Volume One, the first of a four-volume set, was published. The series lists all of the magical items published in two decades of TSR products from "the original Dungeons & Dragons woodgrain and white box set and the first issue of The Strategic Review right up to the last product published ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_of_Holding |
The OHA was established on November 5, 2007, led by Google with 34 members, including mobile handset makers, application developers, some mobile network operators and chip makers. Android, the flagship software of the alliance, is based on an open-source license and has competed against mobile platforms from Apple (iOS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance |
By contrast, virgin female sheep show maternal behavior toward foreign lambs upon cerebrospinal fluid infusion of oxytocin, which they would not do otherwise. Oxytocin is involved in the initiation of human maternal behavior, not its maintenance; for example, it is higher in mothers after they interact with unfamiliar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin |
Due to social media censorship algorithms, people wishing to discuss sex and particular sexual assault have adopted the 'algospeak' code word 'mascara' to refer to a boyfriend or romantic partner in a sexual context and then proceed to euphemistically describe bad experiences. The use of such code language can also lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse |
The third theory contends that there is greater interference of object-based attention when any flanking distractors (e.g., visual scene crowding or noise) are present. Particularly, if these distractors belong to the same object or object-group as that being attended (noise similar), as opposed to coming from differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-based_attention |
He recognized that the stars are much larger than the planets, and thus argued: And if you astrologers answer that it is precisely because of this distance and smallness that their influences are negligible, then why is it that you claim a great influence for the smallest heavenly body, Mercury? Why is it that you have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_astrology |
Charles North High School. 2013: Hinsdale Central High School 2012: Hinsdale Central High School 2011: Glenwood High School (Illinois) 2010: Hinsdale Central High School 2009: Hinsdale Central High School 2008: Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois) 2007: Glenbard East High School 2006: Timothy Christian S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBA_High_School_Mock_Trial_Invitational |
David Starr Jordan, while at Stanford University, included an account of this naming of the Dolly Varden Trout in one of his books. In 1874, Livingston Stone, a naturalist working for the U.S. government, wrote of this fish: Also called at (Upper) Soda Springs the 'Varden' trout. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Varden_trout |
Years later, Duarte fell in love with Prudencia "Nona" Lluberes, a Catalan descendant with whom he formalized a relationship that was interrupted due to his exile and his subsequent suffering from tuberculosis. The dates on which Duarte maintained these relationships are not known, given the imprecision about his priva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pablo_Duarte |
The British racing car manufacturer Lola Cars had repeatedly designed customer vehicles for Formula 1 teams since the 1970s, but had never been involved with a works team in the world championship. Lola's clients were Embassy Hill (1974 and 1975), Larrousse (1987 to 1991), and BMS Scuderia Italia (1993). After the 1993... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford-Cosworth_EC_/_ED_engine |
The methodology was based on the concept that in facing the event, the charge of the triggers may be attenuated over time. The VRET application BRAVEMIND differs from PE in that the patient does not reimagine the episode but instead wears a headset that places them in the familiar environment. This headset is equipped ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_exposure_therapy |
The carabine à tige, developed by Louis-Étienne de Thouvenin in 1844, was an improvement of Delvigne's design. The rifle barrel has a forcing plug in the breech of the barrel to mold the bullet into the rifling with the use of a special ramrod. While successful in increasing accuracy, it was difficult to clean. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet |
So the symmetrization (or anti-symmetrization) must be introduced to eliminate this redundancy in the first quantization description. In the second quantization language, instead of asking "each particle on which state", one asks "How many particles are there in each state?". Because this description does not refer to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_quantization |
The endosymbiosis relation of plants and endosymbionts can also be categorized into beneficial, mutualistic, neutral, and pathogenic. Typically, most of the studies related to plan symbioses or plant endosymbionts such as endophytic bacteria or fungi, are focused on a single category or specie to better understand the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_endosymbiotic_events |
In his paper, Mendel compared 7 pairs of discrete traits found in a pea plant: Through experimentation, Mendel discovered that one inheritable trait would invariably be dominant to its recessive alternative. Mendel laid out the genetic model later known as Mendelian inheritance or Mendelian genetics. This model provide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_on_Plant_Hybridization |
Some of the newest plants use stoker technology and others use the advanced oxygen enrichment technology. Several treatment plants exist worldwide using relatively novel processes such as direct smelting, the Ebara fluidization process and the Thermoselect JFE gasification and melting technology process.As of June 2014... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_from_waste |
The Y-factor method is a widely used technique for measuring the gain and noise temperature of an amplifier. It is based on the Johnson–Nyquist noise of a resistor at two different, known temperatures. Consider a microwave amplifier with a 50-ohm impedance with a 50-ohm resistor connected to the amplifier input. If the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-factor |
If the wavelength is small, the bodies repel each other. By a combination of these effects, he also tried to explain all other forces.Criticism: Maxwell objected that this theory requires a steady production of waves, which must be accompanied by an infinite consumption of energy. Challis himself admitted, that he hadn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_explanations_of_gravitation |
Lower energy photons are attenuated preferentially by differing absorber materials. This property is used in film dosimetry to identify the energy of radiation to which the dosimeter was exposed. Some film dosimeters have two emulsions, one for low-dose and the other for high-dose measurements. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_badge_dosimeter |
Hives, rash, intense itching, or fainting soon after a dose may be a sign of anaphylaxis. Common adverse effects include rash, itchy skin, blurred or double vision, halos around lights, changes in color vision, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Nalidixic acid may also cause convulsions and hyperglycemia, photosensitivity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalidixic_acid |
Health information technology (HIT) was promoted for management and secure exchange of medical information among researchers, health care providers, and consumers. HIT initiatives mentioning caBIG were: NCI and the American Society of Clinical Oncology initiated a collaboration to create an oncology-specific electronic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaBIG |
"With group norms and roles established, group members focus on achieving common goals, often reaching an unexpectedly high level of success." By this time, they are motivated and knowledgeable. The team members are now competent, autonomous and able to handle the decision-making process without supervision. Dissent is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman's_stages_of_group_development |
Many states have outlawed the use of traffic enforcement cameras.In April 2000, two motorists who were caught speeding in the United Kingdom challenged the Road Traffic Act 1988, which required the keeper of a car to identify the driver at a particular time as being in contradiction to the Human Rights Act 1998 on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_safety_camera |
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