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While we recognize the popularity of the international ball-and-cane version of hockey, we also realize that thousands of potential United States and Canadian players are more familiar with the Canadian stick-and-puck type sport. We see no reason why the two versions of the sport cannot grow side by side. The 1966 Nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_in-line_hockey |
A fuzzy subset A of a set X is a function A: X → L, where L is the interval . This function is also called a membership function. A membership function is a generalization of an indicator function (also called a characteristic function) of a subset defined for L = {0, 1}. More generally, one can use any complete lattic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_mathematics |
The diligence, a solidly built stagecoach with four or more horses, was the French vehicle for public conveyance with minor varieties in Germany such as the Stellwagen and Eilwagen. The diligence from Le Havre to Paris was described by a fastidious English visitor of 1803 with a thoroughness that distinguished it from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_coach |
Soon Mosaic Communications Corporation was in business in Mountain View, California, with Andreessen as a vice-president. Since the University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, the company changed its name to Netscape Communications (suggested by product manager Greg Sands) and named it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_navigator |
On the Elkahira Elyoum TV show, Dr. Hatem El-Gabaly announced the pig extermination was based on the fear that the bird flu could mutate in the unkempt pig herds. The decision was reached because so many of the areas used by pig growers are specifically trash dumps and do not follow any veterinary supervision, unlike m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_actions_concerning_pigs |
1948 – E. C. Kerslake charts Prince Charles, Air Force, and Foley Islands. 1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first to ascend Mount Everest. 1954 – Lino Lacedel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_European_exploration |
The northwest wall of the intersection at Houston Street and the Bowery in New York City has been a target of artists since the 1970s. The site, now sometimes referred to as the Bowery Mural, originated as a derelict wall that graffiti artists used freely. Keith Haring once commandeered the wall for his use in 1982. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_artist |
When everything is ready, the user presses a lever (green) in the front of the box and activates a harpsichord-like jack that rises and plucks the string, sounding a C. And so on, until the user has set the 11 pitches that will permit him to tune the entire keyboard. The original illustration of this table-top device i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonomètre_of_Loulié |
Thermal desorption: the adsorbent material is flash-heated so that all adsorbed VOCs are carried away from the adsorbent and injected into the separation system. This is how work injectors in gas chromatography machines, which literally volatilize introduced samples. For VOCs adsorbed on bigger amount of adsorbent mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_scent |
All-flying tailplanes were used on many pioneer aircraft and the popular Morane-Saulnier G, H and L monoplanes from France as well as the early Fokker Eindecker monoplane and Halberstadt D.II biplane fighters from Germany all flew with them, although at the cost of stability: none of these aircraft, with the possible e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_tail |
The society has regional working groups and affiliates in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. The role of these working groups is to promote CMR in these regions. There are also special interest groups focusing on Pediatrics/Congenital and Intervent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Cardiovascular_Magnetic_Resonance |
Shortly after the introduction of the Banshee in 1987, Suzuki released the LT500R QuadRacer. This unique quad was powered by a 500 cc liquid-cooled two-stroke engine with a five-speed transmission. This ATV earned the nickname "Quadzilla" with its remarkable amount of speed and size. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_terrain_vehicle |
A possible reason was the two World Wars, which de-glamorized war and caused shortages of tin and lead that made model soldiers expensive. Another reason may have been the lack of magazines or clubs dedicated to miniature wargames. Miniature wargaming was seen as a niche within the larger hobby of making and collecting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_strategy_game |
The exhibition traveled to 13 museums in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Korea from 2000 through 2003. In 2001, she received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Liverpool University and, in 2002, was presented with the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from Bard College and the Skowhegan Medal for work in assorted med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_Piece |
Hydrogen is sometimes used for short periods of time. Multiple gases can also be mixed in varying ratios within the chamber to produce multi-species plasmas. At these parameters, the ion Larmor radius is a few millimeters, and the Debye length is tens of micrometres. Importantly, it also implies that the Alfvén wavelen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Plasma_Device |
Electric propulsion is commonly used for station keeping on commercial communications satellites and for prime propulsion on some scientific space missions because of their high specific impulse. However, they generally have very small values of thrust and therefore must be operated for long durations to provide the to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Propulsion |
The conga line is a novelty line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US and UK during the first half of the 20th century. In order to perform the dance, dancers form a long, processing line, which would usually turn into a circle. It has three shuffle steps on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conga_line |
Kūkai had received the transmission of esoteric teachings in China decades before the Great Antibudist Persecution, being a direct disciple of the Chinese monk Huiguo, who in turn had studied with Amoghavajra. Returning to Japan in 806, he took several items of doctrine and described what distinguished esoteric Buddhis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_esotericism |
Buzz, the eager elevator operator, pitches a new invention: the bendy straw, which Buzz calls the "Buzz-sucker." Norville insults the idea and cruelly fires Buzz, ignoring his pleas that he needs the job. Meanwhile, Aloysius, a Hudsucker janitor, discovers Amy's true identity and informs Mussburger. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hudsucker_Proxy |
Viu offers a wide-range catalogue of movies and TV shows from across Asia, including popular and new titles. First-run TV episodes are available on the platform with advertisements in between, at least 72 hours after broadcast; Paid users can access episodes without advertisements, at least eight hours after broadcast.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viu_(streaming_service) |
a Messerschmitt Bf 110 aircraft crashed at Floors Farm with an airman bailing out and landing at Floors Farm. David McLean, a local ploughman, ran out of his cottage at the rear of Floors Farm after hearing an aeroplane crashing and saw a parachutist coming down. McLean assisted the slightly injured airman back to his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaglesham |
It is even possible to fit some functions that appear non-linear in the coefficients by transforming the coefficients into new coefficients that do appear linear. For example, a function of the form a + b 2 x i 1 + c x i 2 {\displaystyle a+b^{2}x_{i1}+{\sqrt {c}}x_{i2}} for coefficients a , b , c {\displaystyle a,b,c} ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_predictor_function |
The IEBUPDTE utility is used to maintain source libraries. Some of the functions that IEBUPDTE can perform include the following: Creating and updating libraries Modifying sequential data sets or PDS members Changing the organization of a data set from sequential to partitioned or from partitioned to sequential.IEBUPDT... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_mainframe_utility_programs |
Conductron later became McDonnell-Douglas Electronics. In 1967, both Dr. Antonio Ferri and Roy Marquardt resigned from the company, completely ending the founders' association with their firms. Roy Marquardt subsequently engaged in numerous charitable activities in the Los Angeles area, while Antonio Ferri became the V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquardt_Corporation |
Advocates of the technology cite the following advantages: Lower procurement cost Lower costs of operation and maintenance, due to the lack of transmitter and moving parts Covert operation, including no need for frequency allocations Physically small and hence easily deployed in places where conventional radars cannot ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_covert_radar |
The method of logarithms was publicly propounded for the first time by John Napier in 1614, in his book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms). The book contains fifty-seven pages of explanatory matter and ninety pages of tables of trigonometric functions a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_logarithms |
There is a common folklore belief that elephants are afraid of mice. The earliest reference to this claim is probably by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, book VIII. As translated by Philemon Holland (1601), "Of all other living creatures, they cannot abide a mouse or a rat." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_mice |
A wrestler hits the opponent with a chair. In modern wrestling, folding chairs are used with the strike being performed with the flat face of the chair to slow the swing and distribute the impact, to prevent injury. Although chair shots to the body are legal in the WWE, chair shots to the head were banned in March 2010... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_drop |
In the propositions following Proposition 6 in Section 2 of the Principia, he applies it to specific curves, for example, conic sections. In the case of Proposition 44, it is applied to any orbit, under the action of an arbitrary force directed towards a fixed point, to produce a corresponding revolving orbit. In Fig. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_theorem_of_revolving_orbits |
Baldwin was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2009. She underwent chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Baldwin had gone 10 years without a cervical screening test (pap smear), twice canceling, partially due to the expense, since she had no health insurance. She sought medical attention when she began bleeding.Following... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Ganga |
Barbara Heyns’ 1978 landmark study of 2,978 6th and 7th graders in the Atlanta city public schools was the first thorough investigation of summer learning. Heyns found that while poor children and black children came close to keeping up with middle-class children in cognitive growth when school was in session, they lag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss |
Other common habitats include very cold habitats and highly saline, acidic, or alkaline water, but archaea include mesophiles that grow in mild conditions, in swamps and marshland, sewage, the oceans, the intestinal tract of animals, and soils. Similar to PGPR, Archaea are now considered as a source of plant growth pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea |
The most important medical examination is the one before starting diving, as the diver can be screened to prevent exposure when a dangerous condition exists. The other important medicals are after some significant illness, where medical intervention is needed there and has to be done by a doctor who is competent in div... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_fitness_to_dive |
Pellets of the Eurasian eagle-owl average around 75 mm × 32 mm (3.0 in × 1.3 in), thus they are around the same size as those of most other large Bubo owls, even the notably smaller great horned owl (B. virginianus). In some cases, pellets of Bubo owls can range up to 150 mm (5.9 in) in length. Eagle-owl pellets averag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_biology_of_the_Eurasian_eagle-owl |
This apparatus was designed to produce several fixed frequencies at different levels of intensity. It could either deliver the tone to a subject's ear or transmit sound oscillations to the skull. An experimenter would generally use an audiometer to find the auditory threshold of a subject. The data received from an aud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_experiment |
Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e., by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another. A similar right of access also exists on land held by a government, lands that are typically called public land, state land, or Crown land. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_way |
A grand jury is a jury—a group of citizens—empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought. A grand jury may subpoena physical evidence or a person to testify. A grand jury is separate from the courts, which do not preside o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury |
The Internet Explorer (IE) web browser also exposes many APIs that are often used by applications, and as such could be considered a part of the Windows API. IE has been included with the operating system since Windows 95 OSR2 and has provided web-related services to applications since Windows 98. Specifically, it is u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API |
Tally-marks: To keep track of their flocks, their sacks of grain and their money the ancients used tallying: accumulating stones or marks scratched on sticks or making discrete symbols in clay. Through the Babylonian and Egyptian use of marks and symbols, eventually Roman numerals and the abacus evolved (Dilson, p. 16–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_design |
An article released from The Brink, Pioneering Research from Boston University, addresses the correlation between increased availability for gun safety, and its inverse relationship to gun violence, leading to gun violence's decrease in areas with greater gun safety. The article states: "Legislation at the federal, sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence |
The line is quoted to have opened in October 1826, but the section north of Gartsherrie at least must have opened during May 1826, although the earliest "opening" may have been for trial runs only. On 1 June 1826 a coal merchant, James Shillinglaw advertised coal from Gartsherrie for sale in Edinburgh: "The Gartshearie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkland_and_Kirkintilloch_Railway |
- て/扌 + 氷/氵 = 掲 - 氷/氵 + 氷/氵 = 渇 - ね/示 + 氷/氵 = 褐 - え/訁 + 氷/氵 = 謁 - く/艹 + え/訁 + 氷/氵 = 藹 - な/亻 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 偈 - れ/口 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 喝 - 氷/氵 + ん/止 + selector 1 = 歇 - ま/石 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 碣 - ま/石 + 龸 + 氷/氵 = 竭 - そ/馬 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 羯 - 心 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 葛 - む/車 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 蝎 - ひ/辶 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 遏 - ち/竹 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 靄 - と/戸 + 宿 + 氷/氵 = 鞨 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_pattern_dots-456 |
The main hurdle in implementing the working set model is keeping track of the working set. The working set window is a moving window. At each memory reference a new reference appears at one end and the oldest reference drops off the other end. A page is in the working set if it is referenced in the working set window. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_set |
An FBD represents the body of interest and the external forces acting on it. The body: This is usually a schematic depending on the body—particle/extended, rigid/non-rigid—and on what questions are to be answered. Thus if rotation of the body and torque is in consideration, an indication of size and shape of the body i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_diagram |
is the standard deviation of the i {\displaystyle i} -th measurement ( i = 1 , … , n {\displaystyle i=1,\ldots ,n\,\!} ), F ( x , y ∗ ) = 0 {\displaystyle F(x,y^{*})=0\,\!} are the p {\displaystyle p\,\!} | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_validation_and_reconciliation |
When all five blocks have reached the ultimate size of 1,240 feet (380 m) four street lengths out of total eight have been eliminated. Block lengths of 1,000 feet (300 m) or larger rarely appear in grid plans and are not recommended as they hinder pedestrian movement (Pedestrianism, below). From the pedestrian perspect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_plan |
Economics () is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes what's viewed as basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics |
The thoracic diaphragm, or simply the diaphragm (; Ancient Greek: διάφραγμα, romanized: diáphragma, lit. 'partition'), is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle in humans and other mammals that extends across the bottom of the thoracic cavity. The diaphragm is the most important muscle of respiration, and separates the th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_diaphragm |
The following example is from Trappe & Washington (2006), with some details added. We want to factor n = 455839. Let's choose the elliptic curve y2 = x3 + 5x – 5, with the point P = (1, 1) on it, and let's try to compute (10!)P. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_factorisation |
The FitFinder Network covered 52 UK universities, including Oxbridge, Durham University, UCL, Manchester University, Leeds, Warwick, Bath, LSE, KCL, Imperial College London, and most Red Brick universities. Prior to its closure, Martell had said that FitFinder was going to be expanded outside of universities in the nea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FitFinder |
Mora knives were mostly produced by the KJ Eriksson and Frosts Knivfabrik (Frost's Knife Factory) companies; they merged their brands under Mora of Sweden, later renamed Morakniv, but a number of other knife-makers also make mora-style knives. The Morakniv company uses blades of 12C27 stainless steel, UHB-20C carbon st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_knife |
The Monod equation is a mathematical model for the growth of microorganisms. It is named for Jacques Monod (1910 – 1976, a French biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965), who proposed using an equation of this form to relate microbial growth rates in an aqueous environment to the concentration of a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monod_equation |
Advancements in technology, has given rise to newer, more efficient methods of diagnosis, most prominent being in the domain of neuroimaging. The high spatial resolution from fMRI has implications on certain brain regions contributing to memory. The usage of task fMRI for examination of memory or other higher cognitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe_epilepsy |
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman contains a considerable number of direct cultural references for a PBS Kids show, which makes up a large chunk of the series's comedic style. In the season 2 premiere, when Nina does a rather sloppy job at making chocolate candy, Ruff remarks that it is the "Jackson Pollock candy." In the follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetch!_with_Ruff_Ruffman |
Other notable projects included the Kingston Bridge, Glasgow (1970) and the Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge (1980) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. There were many other bridges in Scotland and also in New Zealand, where he was lured to advise on a particularly difficult structure in the early 1970s, and where he made a home fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fairhurst |
Boiler types varied in these earlier examples, with vertical boilers dominant in the first decade (as a space saver) and then with very small diameter horizontal boilers. Other examples of steam motor cars incorporated an express-baggage or luggage type car body, with coupling apparatus provided to allow the steam moto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_motor |
Shri B. G. Kher, the then Chief Minister of Bombay State, formally inaugurated the college in October 1951. The first convocation was held in May 1953 where Shri H.V. Divetia, Vice-Chancellor of Gujarat University, delivered the convocational address. In 1962, Kaivalyadhama was declared an "All India Institute of Highe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Mimamsa |
In the British zone the food situation was dire, as found during a visit by the British (and Jewish) publisher Victor Gollancz in October and November 1946. In Düsseldorf the normal 28-day allocation should have been 1,548 calories (6,480 kJ) including 10 kilograms (22 lb) of bread, but as there was limited grain the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_zone |
The concentration used depends on the strength of induction required, as well as the genotype of cells or plasmid used. If lacIq, a mutant that over-produces the lac repressor, is present, then a higher concentration of IPTG may be necessary.In blue-white screen, IPTG is used together with X-gal. Blue-white screen allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside |
According to The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman, the Christian Church of the Middle Ages considered the age of accountability, when a person could be tried and even executed as an adult, to be age 7. While certain religions have their guidelines on what it means to be an adult, generally speaking, there are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult |
Some classes of vehicle ownership, or use, are "Crown Exempt" from the requirement to be covered under the Act including vehicles owned or operated by certain councils and local authorities, national park authorities, education authorities, police authorities, fire authorities, health service bodies, the security servi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance |
These schematics are important in the study of map projections, both to illustrate distortion and to provide the basis for the calculations that represent the magnitude of distortion precisely at each point. Because all ellipses on the map occupy the same area, the distortion imposed by the map projection is evident. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissot's_indicatrix |
The fundamental matrix is a relationship between any two images of the same scene that constrains where the projection of points from the scene can occur in both images. Given the projection of a scene point into one of the images the corresponding point in the other image is constrained to a line, helping the search, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_matrix_(computer_vision) |
Socially, they constituted the petite bourgeoisie, composed of scholar-bureaucrats (scholars, professionals, and technicians) who administered the dynastic rule of the Joseon dynasty.In his 1847 address, Emmanuel Vogel Gerhart asserted that scholars have an obligation to rigorously continue their studies, so as to rema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholar |
The IndIGO Consortium has spearheaded the proposal for the LIGO-India gravitational-wave observatory, in association with the LIGO laboratory in US. In addition to the LIGO-India project, the other activities of IndIGO involve facilitating international collaborations in gravitational-wave physics and astronomy, initia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Initiative_in_Gravitational-wave_Observations |
Armstrong unveiled a plaque commemorating the flight, and with Aldrin, planted the flag of the United States. Although Armstrong had wanted the flag to be draped on the flagpole, it was decided to use a metal rod to hold it horizontally. However, the rod did not fully extend, leaving the flag with a slightly wavy appea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong |
Surgical masks are not effective against nanomaterials. : 12–14 Smaller nanoparticles of size 4–20 nm are captured more efficiently by filters than larger ones of size 30–100 nm, because Brownian motion results in the smaller particles being more likely to contact a filter fiber. In the United States, the Occupational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_safety_hazards_of_nanomaterials |
The mass fraction wi can be calculated using the formula w i = x i M i M ¯ = x i M i ∑ j x j M j {\displaystyle w_{i}=x_{i}{\frac {M_{i}}{\bar {M}}}=x_{i}{\frac {M_{i}}{\sum _{j}x_{j}M_{j}}}} where Mi is the molar mass of the component i and M̄ is the average molar mass of the mixture. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_fraction |
Iwatsu took part in trade shows in the United States, South Korea, Switzerland, Germany, and so on. The Trade Department was established in February 1966 to diversify export markets and expand overseas sales. An international bid was conducted by the Kuwaiti government in 1967 as part of its plan to expand telephone se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwatsu_Electric |
The Parallel Line Internet Protocol (PLIP) is a computer networking protocol for direct computer-to-computer communications using the parallel port normally used for connections to a printer.The Parallel Line Internet Protocol provides link layer services for the Internet Protocol, the protocol used for forming small l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Line_Internet_Protocol |
Given a sample from a normal distribution, whose parameters are unknown, it is possible to give prediction intervals in the frequentist sense, i.e., an interval based on statistics of the sample such that on repeated experiments, Xn+1 falls in the interval the desired percentage of the time; one may call these "predic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_interval |
A flexible organic light-emitting diode (FOLED) is a type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) incorporating a flexible plastic substrate on which the electroluminescent organic semiconductor is deposited. This enables the device to be bent or rolled while still operating. Currently the focus of research in industria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_OLED |
With works on paper like Machine Turn Quickly, Francis Picabia continued his involvement in the Dada movement through 1919 in Zürich and Paris, before breaking away from it after developing an interest in Surrealist art. Yves Tanguy, René Magritte and Salvador Dalí are particularly known for their realistic depictions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_painting |
But most anions are large, as is the most common Earth anion, oxygen. From this fact it is apparent that most of the space of a crystal is occupied by the anion and that the cations fit into the spaces between them. "The terms anion and cation (for ions that respectively travel to the anode and cathode during electroly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_ion |
Women did not normally work to fulfill a personal need to define their career and social worth; they worked out of necessity. In the third phase, labeled the "Roots of the Revolution" - encompassing the time from 1950 to the mid-to-late 1970s - the movement began to approach the warning signs of a revolution. Women's e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_labor_participation |
Wax-works, not intended as fine art, subsequently became popular attractions, consisting principally of images of historical or notorious personages, made up of waxen masks on lay figures in which sometimes mechanism is fitted to give motion to the figure. Such an exhibition of wax-works with mechanical motions was sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_sculpture |
The cocoons of insect are a case in point. An interesting example is the case of silk caps which cover the pupal cells of the Oriental hornet Vespa orientalis. Firstly, the silk insulates the pupa from the air outside the cell, and secondly, it acts as a thermostatic regulator. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_architecture |
The common noctule uses two main calls for echolocation. The frequencies of the first are 26–47 kHz, have most energy at 27 kHz and an average duration of 11.5ms. The frequency of the second call is 22–33 kHz, having most energy at 22 kHz and an average duration of 13.8ms. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_noctule |
Instability and change are inherent to these artworks, since artist-selected equipment and technologies fail and become obsolete. Many time-based media artworks are ephemeral by nature; rather than being composed of a unique original, they exist only when they are installed, so every iteration can be considered a diffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_performance_art |
AOABOS and ABPS each have associated with national medical organizations functioning as an umbrella for its various specialty academies, colleges and societies (see table). The American Board of Medical Specialties represents the largest of these organizations, with over 800,000 US physicians having received certificat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_certification |
A C3 plant uses the Calvin cycle for the initial steps that incorporate CO2 into organic material. A C4 plant prefaces the Calvin cycle with reactions that incorporate CO2 into four-carbon compounds. A CAM plant uses crassulacean acid metabolism, an adaptation for photosynthesis in arid conditions. C4 and CAM plants ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_photosynthesis |
In the same document, scientists also proposed the initial science, budget, strategies for construction, site, and other matters. The formal presentation before the Argentinian Science Ministry (MinCyT) was in 2010, while a meeting held at the offices of FAPESP in August 2011 was the kickoff in Brazil. In 2011, MinCyT ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Latin_American_Millimeter_Array |
In 1959, Alan Abel wrote a satirical story about an imaginary organization for The Saturday Evening Post but the editors rejected it. Abel then transformed his story into a series of press releases from the organization that garnered media attention. Looking to expand the range and impact of the hoax, Abel persuaded th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Indecency_to_Naked_Animals |
Peace education programs centered on conflict resolution typically focus on the social-behavioural symptoms of conflict; they train individuals to resolve inter-personal disputes through negotiation and (peer) mediation. The main elements of these programs include: learning to manage anger, "fighting fair"; improving c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_education |
Some of the ways in which binocular summation improves binocular visual performance are Brightness perception. The binocularly perceived brightness is larger than the brightness seen by each individual eye. This helps with detection of dim lights and also provoke pupil to decrease its size, which improves focusing. Fli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binocular_summation |
Early fishing vessels included rafts, dugout canoes, reed boats, and boats constructed from a frame covered with hide or tree bark, such as coracles. The oldest boats found by archaeological excavation are dugout canoes dating back to the Neolithic Period around 7,000-9,000 years ago. These canoes were often cut from c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_fishing_boat |
2, Marx states: Apologetic economists... say:... labour-power, then, represents his capital in commodity-form, which yields him a continuous revenue. Labour-power is indeed his property (ever self-renewing, reproductive), not his capital. It is the only commodity which he can and must sell continually in order to live... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_power |
However, in practice, mathematicians are typically grouped with scientists, and mathematics shares much in common with the physical sciences. Like them, it is falsifiable, which means in mathematics that, if a result or a theory is wrong, this can be proved by providing a counterexample. Similarly as in science, theori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_discipline |
Hatchlings have a visible pattern that can fade as they mature into a solid orange-red to ash-red colored snake. The earlier Blood Red corn snakes tended to have large clutches of smaller than average eggs that produce hard-to-feed offspring, though this is no longer the case. Crimson (Hypomelanistic + Miami) – Very li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_snake |
The scientific goal of the CDHS experiment was to study high energy neutrino interactions. When the incoming neutrinos (or antineutrinos) were interacting with the target iron, either charged current (ν + Fe → μ+ + anything) or neutral current (ν + Fe → ν + anything) events could be produced.One of the main objectives ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WA1_experiment |
{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}A_{-1}&=1,&A_{0}&=b_{0},\\B_{-1}&=0,&B_{0}&=1.\end{aligned}}} If the sequence of convergents {xn} approaches a limit the continued fraction is convergent and has a definite value. If the sequence of convergents never approaches a limit the continued fraction is divergent. It may diverge b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_continued_fraction |
They marketed the helmet with a loosely attached "diving suit" so that a diver could perform salvage work, but only in a mainly vertical position (otherwise water entered the suit).In 1829 the Deane brothers sailed from Whitstable for trials of their new underwater apparatus, establishing the diving industry in the tow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_demand_diving_helmet |
National Packaging Covenant - a self-regulatory agreement between packaging industries and government. natural- the existing air, water, land and energy resources from which all resources derive. Main functions include resource production (such as fish, timber or cereals), waste assimilation (such as CO2 absorption, se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_environmental_science |
The first battalion and CEC (compagnie d'équipage de casemates) 5 and 6 remained in their fortifications to surrender on 2 July.The 68th RIF occupied the sub-sector of Sessenheim. From 14 June the first and second companies were attached to the DF Regard and were assigned to guard the rail line between Épinal and Vaivr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortified_Sector_of_Haguenau |
Podzols cover about 4,850,000 square kilometres (1,870,000 sq mi) worldwide and are usually found under sclerophyllous woody vegetation. By extent Podzols are most common in temperate and boreal zones of the Northern Hemisphere but they can also be found in other settings including both temperate rainforests and tropic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spodic_soils |
The planuliform larva stage may be short-lived and lecithotrophic ("yolky") before becoming a juvenile, or may be planktotrophic, swimming for some time and eating prey larger than microscopic particles. However, many members of the order Heteronemertea and the palaeonemertean family Hubrechtiidae form a pilidium larva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_worms |
When releasing the parking brake, the same mechanism also provides assistance to the driver in disengaging the ratchet. Particularly on commercial vehicles with air operated brakes, this has the added benefit of making it much harder or even impossible to release the parking brake when insufficient air pressure is avai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking_brake |
It focuses on scientific research, for example in aerodynamics for concrete applications on aircraft, the design of launchers and new defense technologies, such as drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS). ONERA also uses its research and innovation capabilities to support both French and European industry. ONERA has co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONERA |
In 1998, microneurography recordings were performed for the first time on a spaceflight aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia with the purpose to explore the effect of microgravity on the human sympathetic nerve system. Two astronauts measured MSNA from peroneal nerves of their fellow astronauts. The findings support earli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microneurography |
Contemporary religious groups often claim archaeological sites as part of their heritage, and make use of archaeological sites and artifacts in their religious practice (e.g. Wallis 2003 ). These practices and religious interpretations of sites may clash with archaeological interpretations, leading to disputes about he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_religion_and_ritual |
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