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Anthotyros (Greek: Ανθότυρος) or (Anthotyro in modern Greek, "flowery cheese") is a traditional fresh cheese is a whey cheese using the whey from Kefalotyri or Graviera production and can be made from milk from goats, sheep or a combination. There are dry Anthotyros and fresh Anthotyros. Dry Anthotyros is a matured che... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_cheese |
In 1923, parallel efforts by Gaston Ramon at the Pasteur Institute and Alexander Glenny at the Wellcome Research Laboratories (later part of GlaxoSmithKline) led to the discovery that a safer vaccine could be produced by treating diphtheria toxin with formaldehyde. In 1944, Maurice Hilleman of Squibb Pharmaceuticals de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_manufacturer |
government or the involvement of the military. After Americans immigrated to new regions, they would set up new democratic governments, and then seek admission to the United States, as Texas had done. In 1845, O'Sullivan predicted that California would follow this pattern next, and that even Canada would eventually req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny |
Sitoiganap (EU)/Gliovac/ERC1671 is an immunotherapy vaccine that trains the body’s immune system to attack a Glioblastoma (brain tumor) using cells taken from the patient’s own tumor, along with tumor cells from three other donors.ERC1671 is an immunotherapy vaccine designed to train the body’s immune system to attack ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitopoietic_Research_Corporation |
Further, lever safety pins are common features for additional security, and female-end "self-locking" levers are also available. Because the groove is cut all the way around the male end, there is no specific rotational alignment necessary to couple, as there would be with threaded connectors, and there is no opportuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_and_groove |
A sector tandem switch connects local telephone exchanges (class-5 switches) and carries traffic within the local access and transport area (LATA). An access tandem switch connects local telephone exchanges to long-distance telephone companies (or interexchange carriers, "IXCs"). The point at which an access tandem con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-4_telephone_switch |
Counter-Examples in Topology. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Torres, Igor (2017). "A tale of three hedgehogs". arXiv:1711.08656 . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_space |
This has been seen as an upside-down reading of Duverger's laws holding that a plurality rule election systems tend to favor a two-party system, while proportional representation tends to multipartism. By suggesting, in contrast, that electoral systems are an effect of party systems rather than a cause, it has been sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromega_rule |
The exact chemical process by which carbon so significantly delays sulfation is not fully understood. However the presence of UltraBattery's parallel ultracapacitor apparently protects the negative terminal from the large surface preponderance of lead sulfate crystals that affects VRLA batteries operated at high rates ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraBattery |
After the construction of recombinant lambda or cosmid libraries the total DNA is transferred into an appropriate E. coli host via a technique called in vitro packaging. The necessary packaging extracts are derived from E. coli cI857 lysogens (red- gam- Sam and Dam (head assembly) and Eam (tail assembly) respectively).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmid |
By the end of the year, Atari was losing about $1 million a day, and its owner, Warner Communications, sought to sell the company. For some time, no one was interested. Meanwhile, at Commodore International a fight was brewing between Jack Tramiel, the president, and Irving Gould, the primary shareholder. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Corporation |
"Preface" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) "Antibodies" (Charles Stross) "Trojan Horse" (Michael Swanwick) "Birth Day" (Robert Reed) "The Hydrogen Wall" (Gregory Benford) "The Turing Test" (Chris Beckett) "Dante Dreams" (Stephen Baxter) "The Names of All the Spirits" (J. R. Dunn) "From the Corner of My Eye" (Alexander Gl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I.s |
Universal Satellites Automatic Location System (USALS), also known (unofficially) as DiSEqC 1.3, Go X or Go to XX is a satellite dish motor protocol that automatically creates a list of available satellite positions in a motorised satellite dish setup. It is used in conjunction with the DiSEqC 1.2 protocol. It was deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Satellites_Automatic_Location_System |
In the movie Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer, the setting expands to include the diamond planet Spectra. All the light in the universe passes through Spectra before coming to Earth. However, Earth soon falls into wintry darkness when the diamond-obsessed Dark Princess decides to steal Spectra for her own. Rainbow Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Brite_(1984_TV_series) |
MintChip is a digital currency that provides the underlying system to facilitate the exchange of value between consumers and merchants in real-time. It was designed to reduce the cost and risk of financial transactions. This technology was created by the Royal Canadian Mint, backed by the Government of Canada and denom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip |
This enzyme is not to be confused with Bisphosphoglycerate mutase which catalyzes the conversion of 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate to 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate.Phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM) is any enzyme that catalyzes step 8 of glycolysis - the internal transfer of a phosphate group from C-3 to C-2 which results in the convers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoglycerate_mutase |
The university offers more than 150 undergraduate and 100 graduate and professional programs in over 15 academic units, among several online specializations such as Digital Marketing and an online MBA program launched in January 2016. In 2015, the university announced its expansion to include an engineering-based medic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoveries_and_innovation_by_the_University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana–Champaign |
In 1980, Robert Plutchik diagrammed a wheel of eight emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation, inspired by his Ten Postulates. Plutchik also theorized twenty-four "Primary", "Secondary", and "Tertiary" dyads (feelings composed of two emotions). The wheel emotions can be paired in f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification |
A genetic predisposition for Graves' disease is seen, with some people more prone to develop TSH receptor-activating antibodies due to a genetic cause. Human leukocyte antigen DR (especially DR3) appears to play a role. To date, no clear genetic defect has been found to point to a single-gene cause.Genes believed to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_toxic_goitre |
The beginning of set theory as a branch of mathematics is often marked by the publication of Cantor's 1874 paper, "Ueber eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen" ("On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers"). This paper was the first to provide a rigorous proof that there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor |
To that end, the satirical edge of Swift's character is largely absent in Poor Richard. Richard was presented as distinct from Franklin himself, occasionally referring to the latter as his printer.In later editions, the original Richard Saunders character gradually disappeared, replaced by a Poor Richard, who largely s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Richard's_Almanack |
The package includes eight competitive card games, such as cribbage and go fish, as well as six variations of solitaire. Competitive games are played against the game's artificial intelligence (AI), or against another player. Two players can use two separate Game Boy Color consoles and connect them with a link cable, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyle_Card_Games |
Australia has a large child care industry, but in many locations (especially in inner-city suburbs of large cities and in rural areas) the availability is limited and the waiting periods can be up to several years. The Australian Government's Child Care Subsidy scheme provides generous assistance with child care costs,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_care |
They alternate with each other in certain languages, such as French, and in the diphthongs of some languages, with the non-syllabic diacritic and are used in different transcription systems to represent the same sound. Languages that use the Latin script commonly use the letter ⟨i⟩ to represent this sound, though the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel |
See water of crystallization. Linkage isomerism occurs with ligands with more than one possible donor atom, known as ambidentate ligands. For example, nitrite can coordinate through O or N. One pair of nitrite linkage isomers have structures (NH3)5CoNO2+2 (nitro isomer) and (NH3)5CoONO2+ (nitrito isomer). Coordination ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_atom |
Not all patients with diabetes go on to develop diabetic nephropathy. The main risk factors that increase the likelihood of developing diabetic nephropathy are: Poor control of blood glucose Uncontrolled high blood pressure Type 1 diabetes mellitus, with onset before age 20 Past or current cigarette use A family histor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_kidney_disease |
When thrown against a hard surface, the glass would shatter and the contents would instantly ignite, liberating choking fumes of phosphorus pentoxide and sulphur dioxide as well as producing a great deal of heat.Strict instructions were issued to store the grenades safely, preferably underwater and certainly never in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._76_special_incendiary_grenade |
In The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology, Persian astrologer Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787-886) describes no less than 55 lots, although it's clear that these are only the ones he considers significant. This count does not even include all of the lots of Paulus. Beginning in the tenth century, many Arabic manu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_parts |
Allen, James P., The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study, Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-03246-0 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-107-66467-8 (paperback). Loprieno, Antonio, Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-44384-9 (hardback), ISBN 0-521-44849-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptological_pronunciation |
She would also come to care for Eric Strauss, possessing a special connection with him due to being unknowingly selected as an agent of order. She eventually becomes Doctor Fate, often working alongside Eric in tandem while being guided by Nabu, who possessed Kent Nelson's body and is assisted by a friendly demon name ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Force |
This is similar in many ways to foliations, except a texture does not necessarily carry structural information in terms of deformation events and orientation information. Structures occur on a hand-specimen scale and above. Microstructure analysis describes the textural features of the rock, and can provide information... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_microstructure |
It has been systematically developed since then in the research community that has gathered around it. Initially, it was overshadowed by the cognitive revolution (later supplanted by cognitive science), but has now become better known.Powers and other researchers in the field point to problems of purpose, causation, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_control_theory |
The historian Joseph Needham (1900–1995) states: What were the factors leading to the first escapement clock in China? The chief tradition leading to Yi Xing (AD 725 ) was of course the succession of 'pre-clocks' which had started with Zhang Heng about 125. Reason has been given for believing that these applied power t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Heng |
The party had previously been member of various governments from 1916 to 1917, 1940 to 1945, 1950 to 1953 and 1968 to 1971. The party was a junior partner in governments led by the Liberals from 2001 to 2011 and again from 2016 to 2019. The party is preceded by 11 years by the Young Conservatives (KU), today the youth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_conservatism |
Carbide-derived carbons with a mesoporous structure remove large molecules from biofluids. As other carbons, CDCs possess good biocompatibility. CDCs have been demonstrated to remove cytokines such as TNF-alpha, IL-6, and IL-1beta from blood plasma. These are the most common receptor-binding agents released into the bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunable_nanoporous_carbon |
Minimum message length (MML) is a Bayesian information-theoretic method for statistical model comparison and selection. It provides a formal information theory restatement of Occam's Razor: even when models are equal in their measure of fit-accuracy to the observed data, the one generating the most concise explanation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_message_length |
The occurrence of high levels of ketones in the blood during starvation, a low carbohydrate diet, prolonged heavy exercise, or uncontrolled type 1 diabetes mellitus is known as ketosis, and, in its extreme form, in out-of-control type 1 diabetes mellitus, as ketoacidosis. The glycerol released by lipase action is phosp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty-acid_metabolism |
This is a version very useful to organizations where the output of activities under the accountability of a single person/function can be reviewed and vetoed by multiple stakeholders, due to the collaborative nature of the culture.Perform The person/function carrying out the activity.Accountable The person/function ult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix |
The East Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (EA FLEG) Ministerial Conference took place in Bali in September 2001. The Conference brought together nearly 150 participants from 20 countries, representing government, international organizations, NGOs, and the private sector. The event was co-hosted by the World B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_logging |
The average depth of the southern lake basin is between 0.5 and 2 meters, that of the northern lake basin is between 0 and 1.8 meters, and that of the eastern archipelago is between 0 and 2 meters. The very shallow average depth means the lake's surface area can vary dramatically based on annual rainfall. The Lake Chad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad |
While more-limited satellite internet services have been available through geosynchronous commsats orbiting in geostationary orbit for years, these have been of quite limited bandwidth (not broadband), high-latency, and provided at such a relatively high price that demand for the services offered has been quite low.In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_internet_constellation |
By the fact that Euclidean distance is a metric, the matrix A has the following properties. All elements on the diagonal of A are zero (i.e. it is a hollow matrix); hence the trace of A is zero. A is symmetric (i.e. a i j = a j i {\displaystyle a_{ij}=a_{ji}} ). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance_matrix |
Members of the team travelled to the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle to set up an alternative media centre during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity. The project joined with that of other media activists and, out of the necessity to bypass the corporate media and report on a WTO confe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Network_Liberty_Alliance |
A water molecule has an HOH bending mode at about 1600 cm−1, so the absence of this band can be used to distinguish an OH group from a water molecule. When the OH group is bound to a metal ion in a coordination complex, an M−OH bending mode can be observed. For example, in 2− it occurs at 1065 cm−1. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxide |
The nuclease domain is responsible for physical cleavage of DNA strands and may introduce either single stranded or double-stranded breaks. FokI is an example of a sequence-specific endonuclease whose non-specific nuclease domain introduces double stranded breaks and has been used in a variety of experiments including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimeric_nuclease |
Acclimatization can occur over different time periods for different people, but NIOSH recommends allowing workers to be exposed to gradually higher levels of heat over 7–14 days for acclimatization. New workers without recent exposure to heat may require additional time to adjust. On the first day of an acclimatization... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_heat_stress |
Moreover, the learner will collaborate and connect differently with various members. The learner will establish stronger relationships with some members and have a low level of connection with others. Not all nodes will be equal. Some of the member roles include searcher, assemblator, designer of data, innovator of sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Learning_Networks |
Since 2017, the premises of the Fraunhofer-Center HTL in Bayreuth are being extended by a technical center with a fiber pilot plant, which is to be completed in late 2019. The costs for this plant amount to 20 Million Euros, which are predominantly taken over by the Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs and the German... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer-Center_for_High_Temperature_Materials_and_Design_HTL |
These functions are then combined to make more complex transformations, as shown here: If we label streams, as shown, with lower case letters, then the above diagram can be represented succinctly as follows: c = G(F(a),F(b)); Just as in functional notation F can be used twice because it only works with values, and ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-Based_Programming |
He attended college at Middlebury College, where he graduated in 1837, and Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1840. Around this time he met and married Harriet Wood, similarly devout in her religious beliefs. Since Leonard was already committed to missionary work among the Ojibwe, the couple soon found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_windmill |
A higher dosage of estradiol gel containing 1.5 mg estradiol per daily application has been found to produce mean estradiol levels of 40 to 100 pg/mL and estrone levels of 90 pg/mL, while 3 mg per day has been found to result in respective mean estradiol and estrone levels of 60 to 140 pg/mL and 45 to 155 pg/mL. Topica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_estradiol |
{\displaystyle T={\frac {PV}{\mathrm {constant} _{2}}}={\frac {2.51\times 10^{6}~{\text{Pa}}\times 10^{-4}~{\text{m}}^{3}}{0.333~{\text{Pa}}\,{\text{m}}^{3}{\text{K}}^{-1}}}=753~{\text{K}}.} That is a final temperature of 753 K, or 479 °C, or 896 °F, well above the ignition point of many fuels. This is why a high-compr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_compression |
Later, some ships survived mine blasts, limping into port with buckled plates and broken backs. This appeared to be due to a new type of mine, detecting ships by their proximity to the mine (an influence mine) and detonating at a distance, causing damage with the shock wave of the explosion. Ships that had successfully... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_mine |
As many social scientists point out: in automobile traffic, we adhere to or accept as right and proper traffic rules, in particular those relating to stopping, turning, etc. because without them, we recognize that the situation would be chaotic, dangerous, even catastrophic. Most technical rules, for example relating t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_rule_system_theory |
A client extension component included with Rational Rhapsody allows users to connect to a Design Manager server. After connecting to the server, models can be moved into project areas with specific modelling domains based on the industry standard languages supported by Rational Rhapsody. Rhapsody Model Manager also int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Rhapsody |
Producers would often work with engineers to ensure that loud, active, bombastic or selections requiring a wide dynamic range in order to be reproduced faithfully would always be either near the beginning of odd sides or near the ends of even sides. Often a small amount of overlap occurred which upon transfer to tape y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_disc |
The nomenclature differs across memory technologies, but for commodity DDR SDRAM, DDR2 SDRAM, and DDR3 SDRAM memory, the total bandwidth is the product of: Base DRAM clock frequency Number of data transfers per clock: Two, in the case of "double data rate" (DDR, DDR2, DDR3, DDR4) memory. Memory bus (interface) width: E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_bandwidth |
From 2005 until 2008, Conrad was a Columbia Distinguished Faculty Fellow, and was promoted to the endowed position of Walter O. Lecroy Professor in 2006. In 2008, Conrad left Columbia to join MIT's physics department as a professor.Conrad is a member of several physics collaborations, including MicroBooNE, DAEδALUS, Sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Conrad |
In 2008 the Campus Party crossed the Atlantic Ocean to be celebrated in the Americas, the first Latin American edition was held in São Paulo in February, and the second in Bogotá in June of the same year. Since 2008 the festival has been held annually in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, with a special Ibero-America edition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Party |
The Lindemann–Weierstrass theorem can often be used to prove that some sets are algebraically independent over Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } . It states that whenever α 1 , … , α n {\displaystyle \alpha _{1},\ldots ,\alpha _{n}} are algebraic numbers that are linearly independent over Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } , ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_independence |
Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), nicotine-derived nitrosamine ketone (NNK), N-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN), and N′-nitrosoanatabine have been found in the e-cigarette vapor at different levels between different devices. Since e-liquid production is not rigorously regulated, some e-liquids can have amounts of impuriti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_electronic_cigarette_aerosol |
The topping lift, also called "lazy jacks", holds the boom and sail up off the deck when the sail is not raised. The topping lift also serves to tame the junk sail acting as a cradle while hoisting and lowering and is also not an essential part of the junk sail rig. The sheets control of the trim of the sail. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_rig |
Given a knot in the 3-sphere, the knot complement is all the points of the 3-sphere not contained in the knot. A major theorem of Gordon and Luecke states that at most two knots have homeomorphic complements (the original knot and its mirror reflection). This in effect turns the study of knots into the study of their c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knots_and_graphs |
The HomoloGene is linked to all Entrez databases and based on homology and phenotype information of these links: Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG), FlyBase, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)As a result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomoloGene |
A standard cell potential can be determined by looking up the standard electrode potentials for both electrodes (sometimes called half cell potentials). The one that is smaller will be the anode and will undergo oxidation. The cell potential is then calculated as the sum of the reduction potential for the cathode and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_reaction |
ROGD has been condemned as unevidenced and nonscientific by the majority of the worlds' major psychological bodies. Lambda Legal and Cooley LLP filed an amicus brief opposing the ban on behalf of LGBT advocacy organizations such as PFLAG, the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, and the TransActive Gender Project. The Ped... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Evidence-Based_Gender_Medicine |
All RUS measurements are performed on samples that are free vibrators. Because a complete analytical solution for the free vibrations of solids does not exist, one must rely upon approximations. Finite element methods are based on balancing the forces applied to a differential volume element, then calculating its respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_ultrasound_spectroscopy |
HP's first touch-enabled netbook, enabling multitouch gestures and menus. It features an anodized aluminum case in black, red or blue and weights 2.6 lbs. It offers face recognition for log-on to Windows 7. The series features Intel Atom N450 CPU, mobile broadband, HP video playback and 10-hour battery run time. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_TouchSmart |
To avoid such charges, some carriers will report the name as "unavailable", or will report the name as "(city), (state)" based on the phone number, particularly for wireless callers. For toll-free numbers, they may report a string such as TOLLFREE NUMBER if the name is not available in a database. Smartphones can use a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_identification |
An approximation of 0.3 g/kg/day divided into 4 equal spaced intervals has been suggested since creatine needs may vary based on body weight. It has also been shown that taking a lower dose of 3 grams a day for 28 days can also increase total muscle creatine storage to the same amount as the rapid loading dose of 20 g/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine |
Horrocks is remembered on a plaque in Westminster Abbey and the lunar crater Horrocks is named after him. In 1859 a marble tablet and stained-glass windows commemorating him were installed in the Parish Church of St Michael, Much Hoole. Toxteth Unitarian Chapel contains a memorial plaque commemorating his achievements.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Horrocks |
Labored breathing is distinguished from shortness of breath or dyspnea, which is the sensation of respiratory distress rather than a physical presentation. Still, many simply define dyspnea as difficulty in breathing without further specification, which may confuse it with e.g. labored breathing or tachypnea (rapid bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labored_breathing |
Upon graduation in September 1956, Everett was invited to join the Pentagon's newly-forming Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), managed by the Institute for Defense Analyses. Between 23–26 October 1956 he attended a weapons orientation course managed by Sandia National Laboratories at Albuquerque, New Mexico to le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III |
In the early 1990s, Sherman began work on a series of bronze sculptures, drawings and prints, to give visual interpretation to the “…complexity and deep humanity of biblical characters.” His study of the Old Testament Bible resulted in a personal, mystical visualization of a rich biblical past and our developing mythol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sherman_(artist) |
Cold Camera Photography is a technique used by astrophotographers to reduce the electronic noise that accumulates during long exposures with the electronic sensors in DSLRs and dedicated CMOS or CCD astro-cameras. Cooling is usually accomplished with a Peltier thermo-electric cooler. By cooling the cameras sensor one c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_camera_photography |
The competition involves running off an elevated ramp of 20 to 35 feet high at the end of a pier and attempting to 'fly' the furthest distance. There was an initial prize of £1,000 for anyone who could travel beyond 50 yards (46 m). Since starting, the prize money and qualifying distance has increased and in 2009 at Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Birdman |
The value of "saving face" has been seen in application of a Confucian form of protest and collective action. Evidence of face saving has been seen in a labor strike by Chinese railroad worker in 1867 in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, where Chinese workers protested peacefully and negotiated for an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept) |
In mathematics, specifically, in category theory, a 2-functor is a morphism between 2-categories. They may be defined formally using enrichment by saying that a 2-category is exactly a Cat-enriched category and a 2-functor is a Cat-functor.Explicitly, if C and D are 2-categories then a 2-functor F: C → D {\displaystyle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-functor |
Sixty medium wave frequencies were set aside in 1941 under the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) for nighttime use by only one, two or three specific AM stations, covering a wide area via skywave propagation. These frequencies were known as the "clear channels", and the stations on them are thus cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_stations |
An off-by-one error or off-by-one bug (known by acronyms OBOE, OBO, OB1 and OBOB) is a logic error that involves a numerical value incorrectly bigger or smaller by one. It often occurs in computer programming when a loop iterates one time too many or too few. Such problem arises, for instance, when a programmer writes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error |
There are many social, ethical and legal implications of automated decision-making systems. Concerns raised include lack of transparency and contestability of decisions, incursions on privacy and surveillance, exacerbating systemic bias and inequality due to data and algorithmic bias, intellectual property rights, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_decision_making |
Conversions are also carried out by Ex Hindu Baba Deen Mohammad Shaikh mission which converted 108,000 people to Islam since 1989.Within Pakistan, the southern province of Sindh had over 1,000 forced conversions of Christian and Hindu girls according to the annual report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_conversion |
The Tandon Corporation was an American disk drive and PC manufacturer founded in 1975 (incorporated in 1976 as Tandon Magnetics Corp.) by Sirjang Lal Tandon, a former mechanical engineer. The company originally produced magnetic recording read/write heads for the then-burgeoning floppy-drive market. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandon_Corporation |
Aside from measuring the concentration of protein in meat, calculating bioavailability is another way in determining the total amount of component and quality. The calculation is done when food molecules are digested in various steps. Since human digestion is very complicated, a wide range of analytical techniques are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodomics |
Imagine backtracking values for the first row – what information would we require about the remaining rows, in order to be able to accurately count the solutions obtained for each first row value? We consider k × n boards, where 1 ≤ k ≤ n, whose k {\displaystyle k} rows contain n / 2 {\displaystyle n/2} zeros and n / 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Programming |
Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, posits a scenario where humans are farmed or kept on a reserve, just as humans preserve endangered species like chimpanzees. Apple co-founder and AI skeptic Steve Wozniak stated in 2015 that robots taking ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_aftermath_scenarios |
At that distance, the brightness of the star is diminished by an extinction of 0.26 magnitude due to interstellar dust.Cowley et al. (1969) assigned this star a stellar classification of B9 IV, which would indicate it is a B-type star in the subgiant stage that has exhausted the hydrogen supply at its core and is expan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KK_Andromedae |
The trophic level of a fish is the position it occupies on the food chain. The article establishes the importance of the mean trophic level of fisheries as a tool for measuring the health of ocean ecosystems. In 2000, the Convention on Biological Diversity selected the mean trophic level of fisheries catch, renamed the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_down_the_food_web |
Gibbs then sought to publicize Grassmann's work, stressing that it was both more general and historically prior to Hamilton's quaternionic algebra. To establish priority of Grassmann's ideas, Gibbs convinced Grassmann's heirs to seek the publication in Germany of the essay "Theorie der Ebbe und Flut" on tides that Gras... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs |
This was central to the way that Cabinet collections work. They are not fixed ‘textbooks’ but flexible resources that teachers and students may work with to create meaningful works. It was in this way that the collections do not form an end in themselves, but a means of working. They are the very flexible resource that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Teaching_Collection |
Around 20% of all young voters aged under-30 supported the grouping, about two-thirds of its voters were male and more than three-fifths lived in smaller towns and rural areas. This has been highlighted as a significant change from previous right-wing alliances involving Korwin-Mikke where the base of support was almos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Liberty_and_Independence |
As the cast turret was found to be difficult to manufacture, the design of the turret was changed to a sloped pentagonal shape made of welded armor plate. In June 1942, the modified T35E1 was standardized as the 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10. By fall 1943, with its M5 and M9 competitors being eliminated from the design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M10_tank_destroyer |
Research on methylnaltrexone continued in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Chicago through the 1990s. More recent investigations, however, discovered opioid receptors on peripheral sensory neurons.In December 2005, Wyeth and Progenics entered into an exclusive, worldwide agreement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylnaltrexone_bromide |
Riverhillsoft's Overblood, released in 1996, is considered the first survival horror game to make use of a fully three-dimensional virtual environment. The Note in 1997 and Hellnight in 1998 experimented with using a real-time 3D first-person perspective rather than pre-rendered backgrounds like Resident Evil.In 1998, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_horror_game |
In contrast, offspring that face early adversity exhibit endocrine dysregulation, as well as reductions in neuronal plasticity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) that persist into adulthood. Another study provides evidence of increased methylation of stress-response genes including brain-derived neurotrophic factor and nuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_trauma |
By the entrance were the slaves, mostly war captives, who were significant as trade objects, protective attendants, and even sacrificial victims. Commoners (were either those living with a chief, often quite close relatives, or less definitely associated transients along the sides. They always belonged to some chief wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_social_stratification |
In the Philippines, banana chips can be found sold at local stores. In Kenya, chips are made from arrowroot and cassava. In the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, and Australia, a new variety of Pringles made from rice has been released and marketed as lower in fat than its potato counterparts. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_crisp |
Tenmoku takes its name from the Tianmu Mountain (天目 Mandarin: tiān mù; Japanese: ten moku; English: Heaven's Eye) temple in China where iron-glazed bowls were used for tea. The style became widely popular during the Song dynasty. In Chinese it is called Jian Zhan (建盏), which means "Jian (tea)cup".According to chronicle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenmoku |
There are two variants of the Hub 5, Type A with Lantiq chipset (ECI), and Type B with Broadcom. It is possible to replace the firmware of the Hub 5 Type A (and the identical 'Plusnet Hub One' and 'BT Business Hub 5' Type A) with OpenWrt, unlocking it from BT and providing the features of OpenWrt. In April 2018, script... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Home_Hub |
In business intelligence, location intelligence (LI), or spatial intelligence, is the process of deriving meaningful insight from geospatial data relationships to solve a particular problem. It involves layering multiple data sets spatially and/or chronologically, for easy reference on a map, and its applications span ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_intelligence_(business_method) |
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