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The D-segment is the 4th category of the European segments for passenger cars, and is described as "large cars".It is equivalent to the Euro NCAP "large family car" size class, and the present-day definition of the mid-size car category used in North America. Compact executive cars are part of the D-segment size catego...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_family_car
Epiretinal membrane is typically diagnosed by appearance with optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the macula. Features include a thickening of the nerve fiber layer, a serrated appearance to the surface of the retina just beneath a thickened layer of glial tissue at the retinal-vitreous interface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiretinal_membrane
Option consommateurs has received funding from the Government of Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs for the years 2017 to 2023, and from Centraide of Greater Montreal. It also receives support from Chambre de la sécurité financière, Chambre des notaires du Québec, and the Government of Québec. == References ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_consommateurs
Several liquid rocket motors were tested as part of this program. Early tests demonstrated shifts in the center of gravity that required active damping, which in turn led to the lengthening of the overall fuselage to become the "long round". This version used forward-mounted boosters, which were mounted so their exhaus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Slug_missile
In the mid-1970s, community organizations, under the banner of the NPA, worked to fight against redlining in South Austin, Illinois. One of these organizations was SACCC (South Austin Coalition Community Council), formed to restore South Austin's neighborhood and to fight against financial institutions accused of propa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
Multiple organizations have highlighted appeals to LGBT rights recognition that fail to address the issue of unnecessary "normalising" treatments on intersex children, using the portmanteau term "pinkwashing". In June 2016, Organisation Intersex International Australia pointed to contradictory statements by Australian ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_human_rights
The southerly brown lemmings behave differently than more northern collared lemming type, increasing almost limitlessly within preferred habitat whereas the collared type tends to spread to suboptimal habitats and therefore does not appear reach the high regional densities of the brown. Authorities now generally agree ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_owl
For example, a high school football player would be more appropriate in comparing themselves to an all-star high school football player, rather than a Super Bowl-winning football player with over 10 years of experience. An upward social comparison refers to a person comparing oneself to a person that is perceived as be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_self
In this continuum of community participation covered by CBD, new-generation CDD projects are located at the extreme right (Tanaka, 2006). Since community-driven development has only recently diverged from the broad community-based development there are a few contrasts visible in the five characteristics of CDD programm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-driven_development
Splinting the abdomen while coughing provides support to an incised area and decreases pain on coughing. This is accomplished by applying gentle pressure to the surgical site for bracing during a cough.Recurrent surgery on the pelvic organs may not be due to a failure of the surgery to correct the cystocele. Subsequent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystocele
Argonne welcomes all members of the public age 16 or older to take guided tours of the scientific and engineering facilities and grounds. For children under 16, Argonne offers hands-on learning activities suitable for K–12 field trips and scout outings. The laboratory also hosts educational science and engineering outr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonne_National_Laboratory
From November 2004 until late 2006, Clark worked for Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA), to promote open source technologies and open standards in the country. This work included pushing the Thai localization of OpenOffice.org office suite and the Mozilla Firefox web browser, along with other open sou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_(programmer)
The supercontinent cycle is the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust. There are varying opinions as to whether the amount of continental crust is increasing, decreasing, or staying about the same, but it is agreed that the Earth's crust is constantly being reconfigured. One complete sup...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercontinent_cycle
Even the 1974 nationwide speed-limit reduction to 55 mph, which merely slowed the movement of merchandise, was followed by the recession of the late 1970s.In the years and decades following Executive Order 12564, efforts to begin random drug testing and pre-employment drug screening of truck drivers were not expedited,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_driver
Great care must be taken during cementation to avoid contamination of the operative field as this will lower the bond strength of the cement and lead to premature failure. For this reason rubber dam is often advocated for placement, though this can bring its own difficulties. In the majority of cases, with good four ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin-retained_bridge
This is a creation of the Springbok Radio Preservation Society of South Africa with assistance from the SABC, in which certain of the Society's restored programmes are streamed. The service started operating on 1 October 2008 and operates a 12-hour service from Mondays to Sundays, repeated four times. The service conce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springbok_Radio
1860–1865 Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIA), 1878 Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis (SRICF), 1879 Cabalistic Order of the Rosicrucian (Kabbalistique de la Rose Croix), 1888 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 1888 Order of the Temple & the Graal and of the Catholic Order of the Rose-Croix (l'Ordre de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism
In London, Exhibition Road was developed into a shared space in 2012 after a design competition in 2003, a court case, and numerous community consultations.In Seven Dials, London, the road surface has been re-laid to remove the distinction between the roadway and the footway and kerbs have been lowered to encourage peo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Space
By 1830 the CMS missionaries had revised the orthography for writing the Māori language; for example, 'Kiddeekiddee' became, what is the modern spelling, 'Kerikeri'. This orthography continues in use, with only two major changes: the addition of wh to distinguish the voiceless bilabial fricative phoneme from the labio-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māori_language
The ballast tractor's name derives from the nautical term “sailing ballast” describing heavy material added to a vessel to improve stability. For a ballast tractor, ballast is added over the driving wheels to maximize traction. The additional weight increases the friction between the tyres and the road surface, allowin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast_tractor
Popper saw the classical Greeks as initiating the slow transition from tribalism towards the open society, and as facing for the first time the strain imposed by the less personal group relations entailed thereby.Whereas tribalistic and collectivist societies do not distinguish between natural laws and social customs, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_society
Curative treatment consists of open heart surgery soon after birth, preferably immediately after diagnosis. Often, a synthetic patch is used to recreate the lost section of aorta. Recent research has revealed that an initial single-stage repair using direct anastomoses and repair of any existing cardiac defects is the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupted_aortic_arch
The third iteration of PlasMapper was published on 26th April, 2023. This version includes massive overhaul to its visual genome and sequence editors, while also adding new features such as the PlasMapDB, codon optimization using Optipyzer, and BLAST capabilities, making it a one-stop shop for synthetic biologists spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlasMapper
Cloud seeding missions require firing salts and silver iodine crystals into the atmosphere. The increased concentration of particulate matter, or micro-pollutants, increases risk for respiratory illnesses. In 2017, a study was conducted before and after cloud seeding missions, which recorded an increase of particulate ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates
Kenneth Irwin Gross (14 October 1938 – 10 September 2017) was an American mathematician. Born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1938, Gross received from Brandeis University his bachelor's degree in 1960 and his master's degree in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in 1966 from Washington University in St.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_I._Gross
Comprehensive documentation on the BCI2000 system can be found on the BCI2000 Wiki. This documentation contains user tutorials, a comprehensive user reference, technical reference, programming reference, and description of user contributions. A 2010 book "A Practical Guide to Brain–Computer Interfacing with BCI2000" au...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCI2000
Kathleen Barr as Rudolph and Twinkle Michael Lloyd provides Rudolph's singing voice Eric Pospisil as Young Rudolph John Goodman as Santa Claus Eric Idle as Slyly the Arctic fox Bob Newhart as Leonard the polar bear Myriam Sirois as Zoey (Rudolph's love), Glitter, and Schoolroom Doe Debbie Lytton provides Zoey's singing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer:_The_Movie
Travelers must also provide a copy of their passport and itinerary, clearances from the District Court of American Samoa and Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center, consent for a background check by the Department of Homeland Security of American Samoa, police and health clearances from the country of origin, and a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_visa
Wright was born in 1949. His father was an Ivy League-educated university law professor, and his mother was a psychiatrist and the superintendent of a state mental hospital. Wright received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Haverford College. He finished a four-year program of medicine in 1977 at George Washington ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Wright_IV
Violence Jack (1973 debut), a manga and anime series by Go Nagai, is set in a post-apocalyptic world with corruption and psychotic gangs. It is credited with creating the post-apocalyptic manga and anime genre, depicting its post-apocalyptic world as a desert wasteland with biker gangs, anarchic violence, ruined buildi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_fiction
farinaceoussee also farinose, pollinose, pruinose, pulverulent, rorulent mealy or powdery looking; applied to surfaces or wings farinosesee also farinaceous, pollinose, pruinose, pulverulent, rorulent dotted with many single flour-like spots; mealy fatiscentsee also corticinus, fissate, rimose with superficial cracks, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_arthropod_cuticle
This behaviour can also be seen in the change in isopycnal slopes (surfaces of equal buoyancy), which show limited response despite intensification of western winds. Therefore, the increased momentum (due to enhanced wind stress) is diverted into the oceanic mesoscale and transferred to the bottom of the ocean instead ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_saturation_and_eddy_compensation
A Richter magnitude scale 9.2 megathrust earthquake produced a 15-meter (49-foot) tsunami. For nine years after 1629 the area had aftershocks. The closest land to Weber Deep is at the east end of the Banda Sea, surrounded by Watubela archipelago, Timor, Buru, Seram, Ambon and Kur Island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber_Deep
On 19 December 1987 at about 8:00 p.m., Vector left Limay, Bataan en route to Masbate with a crew of 13, and loaded with 8,800 barrels of petroleum products shipped by the ship's charterer, Caltex Philippines, now Chevron. The following morning, at about 6:30 a.m., the passenger and cargo ferry Doña Paz left the port o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT_Vector
The anatomical study of Lenin's brain by the German neurologist and psychiatrist Oskar Vogt in 1924 was a significant event in the history of neuroscience. The study aimed to understand the neural basis of Lenin's political and intellectual abilities. The research was conducted at the request of the Soviet government, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Study_of_Vladimir_Lenin's_brain
With Edward Kolb, Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field of particle astrophysics, combining cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. His research focuses on the earliest moments of creation, and he has made contributions to inflationary cosmology, p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Turner
In brackish water, its leaves show epinasty and chlorosis, and eventually die. Rafts of harvested water hyacinth have been floated to the sea where it is killed.Azotobacter chroococcum, a species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, is probably concentrated around the bases of the petioles, but the bacteria do not fix nitrogen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Hyacinth
A total lunar eclipse occurred on 28 August 2007, lasting just over 90 minutes. The Moon entered the Earth's penumbra at 7:53:40 UTC. The first partial phase began in earnest at 8:51:16 UTC when the Moon entered the Earth's umbra. It exited the penumbra at 13:20:57 UTC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2007_lunar_eclipse
NSSL researchers teamed up with several universities to build a mobile Doppler radar: a Doppler radar mounted on the back of a truck. The mobile radar can be driven into position as a storm is developing to scan the atmosphere at low levels, below the beam of WSR-88D radars. NSSL has used mobile radars to study tornado...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Severe_Storms_Laboratory
The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) (Welsh: Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen) is an eco-centre in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development. CAT, despite its name, no longer concentrates its efforts exclusively on alternative technology, but provides information on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Alternative_Technology
Zigmond Lebensohn, MD, provides specifics in his account of the event in Comprehensive Psychiatry:"Dr Impastato's records reveal the following handwritten entry for January 7, 1940: 'Volts 70, T-.1 sec MA 400. Had delayed (15sec?) reaction during apnea, face flushed, eyes opened, normal expression–looking forward, no b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Impastato
A drug that depends on such metabolic transformations in order to act is termed a prodrug. Acetylation is an important modification of proteins in cell biology; and proteomics studies have identified thousands of acetylated mammalian proteins. Acetylation occurs as a co-translational and post-translational modification...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_acetylation
There are no pristine coral reefs left in the world. Coral reefs in these countries are headed toward becoming ecologically extinct. Without the abundance of Marine resources, the Philippines and Indonesia will experience a major hit to their economy. On September 24, 2007, Reef Check (the world’s largest reef conserva...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_coral_reefs
George's Hall, London he performed a fake "clairvoyant" act where he would read a message sealed inside an envelope. The spiritualist Oliver Lodge who was present in the audience was duped by the trick and claimed that Devant had used psychic powers. In 1936 Devant in his book Secrets of My Magic revealed the trick met...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumistic_automatism
If the computer hadn't recognized this problem and taken recovery action, I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful Moon landing it was. During the mission, the cause was diagnosed as the rendezvous radar switch being in the wrong position, causing the computer to process data from both the rendezvous and lan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
The DE 2 spacecraft (low-altitude mission) complemented the high-altitude mission Dynamics Explorer 1 and was placed into an orbit with a perigee sufficiently low to permit measurements of neutral composition, temperature, and wind. The apogee was high enough to permit measurements above the interaction regions of supr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_Explorer_2
The company offers the Casebook Platform, a set of core components that can be used for a variety of Human Services software developments. In 2019, the company launched provider management software aimed at small and medium-sized providers in human services .Because of its historical background in the Child Welfare spa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casebook_PBC
Eka-caesium was discovered on January 7, 1939, by Marguerite Perey of the Curie Institute in Paris, when she purified a sample of actinium-227 which had been reported to have a decay energy of 220 keV. Perey noticed decay particles with an energy level below 80 keV. Perey thought this decay activity might have been cau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francium
These systems do not alert the driver of a lane departure if a turn signal is used. These systems intend to prevent crashes and drowsiness by reducing the number of times a lane switch occurs without the use of a turn signal. Lane departure systems can be disabled so that no alert will occur, but it is recommended that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_safety_technology
When a level is sufficiently large and open-ended, it may be described as an open world, or "sandbox game", though this term is often used incorrectly. Open-world game designs have existed in some form since the 1980s, such as the space trading game Elite, and often make use of procedurally generated environments. In a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_mode
In the context of self-organizing structures, Gánti considered the Jeewanu a promising model system to understand the origin and fundamentals of life, and one that had never received due attention. In 2011, a German scientist stated that the Jeewanu story pertains to concepts of life, its beginnings, as well as possibl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeewanu
Benzenedicarboxylic acid is a group of chemical compounds which are dicarboxylic derivatives of benzene. Benzenedicarboxylic acid comes in three isomers: Phthalic acid (1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid) Isophthalic acid (1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid) Terephthalic acid (1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid)All isomers share the mol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzenedicarboxylic_acid
Through playful scenarios where individuals adopt roles, participants "formulate hypotheses free from preconceptions, initiating research by imagining truths, then seeking to substantiate these imaginings through the discovery of actual artifacts and specimens. "Acting as a lead researcher, Jones constructed a represen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_Jones
Event log analysis is known as event composition in active databases, chronicle recognition in artificial intelligence and as real-time logic evaluation in real-time systems. Essentially, event log analysis is used for pattern matching, filtering of event occurrences, and aggregation of event occurrences into composite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_monitoring
Normalization process theory focuses attention on agentic contributions – the things that individuals and groups do to operationalize new or modified modes of practice as they interact with dynamic elements of their environments. It defines the implementation, embedding, and integration as a process that occurs when pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_Process_Theory
According to Matthews and Dewitt, "The moral, doctrinal and disciplinary results of the Council of Trent laid the foundations for Roman Catholic policies and thought right up to the present. ": 337 Christian humanism taught the radical new idea that any Christian with a "pure and humble heart could pray directly to God...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_morality
Short, non-coding sequences that are repeated head-to-tail are called tandem repeats. Microsatellites consisting of 2–5 basepair repeats, while minisatellite repeats are 30–35 bp. Tandem repeats make up about 4% of the human genome and 9% of the fruit fly genome. Tandem repeats can be functional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_sequence
These locations were overcrowded and not in good condition.On 26 July 1952, Florence Matomela joined many others in a Defiance Campaign against the Apartheid pass laws at the New Brighton Railway Station which also included Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba and Vuyisile Mini and other men. She was one of the first women arre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defiance_Campaign
It is therefore likely that plant and animal cryptochrome proteins show a unique case of convergent evolution by repeatedly evolving new functions independently of each other from a single common ancestral cry gene.Research by Worthington et al. (2003) indicates that cryptochromes first evolved in bacteria and were ide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptochrome
Charles Caldwell, born in 1772 and died in 1853, was one of the earliest supporters of polygenism in America. Caldwell attacked the position that environment was the cause of racial differences and argued instead that four races, Caucasian, Mongolian, American Indian, and African, were four different species, created s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygenesis_(biology)
A more radical approach was made in 1997 when the IUBS/IUMS International Committee on Bionomenclature (ICB) presented the long debated Draft BioCode, proposed to replace all existing Codes with an harmonization of them. The originally planned implementation date for the BioCode draft was January 1, 2000, but agreement...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_code
In the encoding stage, the teammates gain information on the other team members' domains of knowledge and categorize it by ascribing each knowledge domain to the corresponding team member. Sometimes, this acquaintance can emerge through "who did what" or "who knows what" conversation, or even through direct instruction...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactive_memory
However, some industries may develop their own, custom ranking systems. An example from the automotive industry uses a 10-point system for finer granularity, where, for example, a one represents "none" (no effect), a six "moderate" (vehicle or item operable, but comfort or convenience items inoperable), and a 10 "hazar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconformity_(quality)
Once the market analysis is complete the improved knowledge gained should indicate a proffered target market. Enabling the marketers to understand where the prime advertising space would be to gain sufficient exposure, what factors affect that certain demographic, and how to promote to the audience effectively. The sec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_planning
Hyalin is a protein released from the cortical granules of a fertilized animal egg. The released hyalin modifies the extracellular matrix of the fertilized egg to block other sperm from binding to the egg, and is known as the slow-block to polyspermy. All animals have this slow-block mechanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyalin
Musically, A Certain Ratio sounded far removed from their post-punk roots, relying more on their sound's dance and funk elements. Operating at a seemingly unstoppable pace since a string of tours in 2018 and 2019, the new studio album 1982 was recorded straight off the back of the band's three incredible EPs released t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Certain_Ratio
First, GaAs bandgap is 1.43ev which is almost ideal for solar cells. Second, because Gallium is a by-product of the smelting of other metals, GaAs cells are relatively insensitive to heat and it can keep high efficiency when temperature is quite high. Third, GaAs has the wide range of design options. Using GaAs as acti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_cell
Until Windows 10 version 1703, Windows Defender had a dedicated GUI similar to Microsoft Security Essentials. Additionally, Windows Security and Maintenance tracked the status of Windows Defender. With the first release of Windows 10, Microsoft removed the "Settings" dialog box from Windows Defender's GUI in favor of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Defender
In 2004, NTT Docomo of Japan proposes LTE as the international standard. In September 2006, Siemens Networks (today Nokia Networks) showed in collaboration with Nomor Research the first live emulation of an LTE network to the media and investors. As live applications two users streaming an HDTV video in the downlink an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long-Term_Evolution
PET microfibers generated by apparel wear, washing or machine drying can become airborne, and be dispersed into fields, where they are ingested by livestock or plants and end up in the human food supply. SAPEA have declared that such particles 'do not pose a widespread risk'. PET is known to degrade when exposed to sun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(ethylene_terephthalate)
Professional divers may be required to wear a harness suitable for lifting the diver out of the water in an emergency, and there will usually be an emergency recovery plan and the necessary extraction equipment and personnel available. Private recreational divers are not usually required to make any special provisions ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_factors_in_diving_equipment_design
There are few similarities in the sequences of the different types of lysozymes. Lysozyme type C and alpha-lactalbumin are similar both in terms of primary sequence and structure, and probably evolved from a common ancestral protein. Around 35 to 40% of the residues are conserved in both proteins as well as the positio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside_hydrolase_family_22
For Amin, Eurocentrism is not only a worldview but a global project, homogenising the world on a European model under the pretext of ‘catching-up’. In practice, however, capitalism does not homogenise but rather polarises the world. Eurocentrism is thus more of an ideal than a real possibility. It also creates problems...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Amin
A similar trend as seen in coding sequence evolution was seen with gene expression levels. Interspecific expression divergence was higher than intraspecific expression polymorphism. Positive selection in Accessory gland proteins (Acps) (produced by males) and Female Reproductive Tract Proteins (Frtps) has also been rep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_conflict
The acoustic startle reflex is thought to be caused by an auditory stimulus greater than 80 decibels. The reflex is typically measured by electromyography, brain imaging or sometimes positron electron tomography. There are many brain structures and pathways thought to be involved in the reflex. The amygdala, hippocampu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startle_response
Hollis Scarborough, the creator of the Reading Rope and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories, is a leading researcher of early language development and its connection to later literacy.Scarborough published the Reading Rope infographic in 2001 using strands of rope to illustrate the many ingredients that are involv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_speed
The plankton enters a small opening in the device and is trapped and preserved between two layers of silk mesh. These vessels also collect at the same time underway data such as sea surface temperature, salinity, fluorometry, light and other oceanographic-meteorological parameters. All plankton in five nautical mile (9...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAR_Southern_Ocean_Continuous_Plankton_Recorder_Survey
Computer-aided garden design describes the use of CAD packages to ease and improve the process of garden design. Professional garden designers tend to use CAD packages designed for other professions. This includes architectural design software for the drafting of garden plans, 3-D software and image-editing software fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_garden_design
Some scuttles and mugs have concentric circles on the bottom, which retain some water thus helping to build lather.In use, the shaving brush is dunked into the wide spout, allowing it to soak into the water and heat up. The soap is placed in the soap holder. When needed, one can take the brush and brush it against the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_mug
In contrast, design of multiple-stage passive filters must take into account each stage's frequency-dependent loading of the preceding stage. It is feasible to make active filters tunable over a wide range, compared with passive filters. Since inductors are not used, filters can be made in a very compact size and do no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_filter
As such, consumers must rely on third-party regulatory certification. For organic producers, certification identifies suppliers of products approved for use in certified operations. For consumers, "certified organic" serves as a product assurance, similar to "low fat", "100% whole wheat", or "no artificial preservative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USDA-certified_organic
The new technique produced pieces painted with highly detailed figurative scenes or decorative schemes. As with Italian maiolica, to which in some ways Limoges painted enamel was a belated French riposte, the imagery tended to be drawn from classical mythology or allegory, though it includes religious scenes, often fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoges_enamels
His soul and thoughts finally gaining clarity for the first time in years, Jordan was resurrected, again taking his place as a Green Lantern. Together, Kyle Rayner and fellow Green Lanterns John Stewart, Guy Gardner, a resurrected Kilowog, Hal Jordan, and Ganthet imprisoned the parasite back in the Central Power Batter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_(character)
A besieging army, encamped in possibly squalid field conditions and dependent on the countryside and its own supply lines for food, could very well be threatened with the disease and starvation intended for the besieged. To end a siege more rapidly, various methods were developed in ancient and medieval times to counte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_warfare
A more accurate way of measuring cranial capacity, is to make an endocranial cast and measure the amount of water the cast displaces. In the past there have been dozens of studies done to estimate cranial capacity on skulls. Most of these studies have been done on dry skull using linear dimensions, packing methods or o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_capacity
To be an automatic process, the effect should, for each specific person, be fairly stable over time. Koole, Dijksterhuis and Van Knippenberg investigated this by asking Dutch students to rate each letter of the alphabet, together with some filler questions for distraction, twice within a four-week period. They found th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_letter_effect
Pausanias does not describe a central dividing barrier at Olympia, but archaeologist Vikatou presumes one. Pausanias offers several theories regarding the origins of an object named Taraxippus ("Horse-disturber"), an ancient round altar, tomb or Heroon embedded within one of the entrance-ways to the track. It was thoug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot_race
Lee et al. (2012) detected R1b two male skeletons from a German Bell Beaker site dated to 2600–2500 BC at Kromsdorf, one of which tested positive for M269 but negative for its U106 subclade (note that the P312 subclade was not tested for), while for the other skeleton the M269 test was unclear.Two studies published in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_People
Texas de Brazil is an American steakhouse chain founded by a Lebanese immigrant, using a misspelt Portuguese name to portray itself as a Brazilian steakhouse. Vasque is a European-sounding brand from Red Wing Shoes, an American company. Vichyssoise, a cold potato and leek soup, was recreated at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding
Gender does not create communication, communication creates gender.For example, females are often more expressive and intuitive in their communication, but males tend to be instrumental and competitive. In addition, there are differences in accepted communication behaviors for males and females. To improve communicatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_stereotype
In 1698, Tsar Peter I of Russia instituted a beard tax as part of an effort to bring Russian society in line with Western European models. To enforce the ban on beards, the tsar empowered police to forcibly and publicly shave those who refused to pay the tax. Resistance to going clean shaven was widespread with many be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_token
Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, massacres, and disease. In the wake of the Axis defeat, Germany, Austria (which had been a part of Germany until shortly before its surrender) and Japan were occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leader...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Instead, because the Moon's orbit is tilted at about 5 degrees to Earth's orbit, its shadow usually misses Earth. Solar (and lunar) eclipses therefore happen only during eclipse seasons, resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses each year, no more than two of which can be total. Total eclipses are more ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Eclipse
However, once they arrived, most passengers were surprised by what they found. Not only was the view breathtaking but the "work" camp offered amenities that were unavailable to some residents of the Treasure Valley. Not only was the site fully powered, but also it provided a central heating plant, running water and an ...
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The groups are able to achieve this consensus in part by refraining from political/public disputes over fundamental (e.g. metaphysical) arguments regarding religion and philosophy. Rawls elaborates that the existence of an overlapping consensus on conceptions of justice among major social groups holding differing—yet r...
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They are not able to prescribe or order tests which require ionising radiation. Legally, Physician Associates cannot work autonomously, as the provision of treatment is regulated by the Health and Social Care Act, which explicitly legislates the protected professional titles of the registered healthcare professionals t...
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The dimensions are slightly different for ball lock kegs versus pin lock kegs. While the quick-connect fittings and posts for both pin and ball locks are standardized, the posts themselves have several styles, and the attachment of the post to the keg depends on the manufacturer. Kegs manufactured by Cornelius are typi...
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These spots are larger than the ones on the Sun, covering up to 20% of the star. Spots with similar size as the ones on the Sun would hardly give rise to changes in intensity. In order to understand the magnetic field structure of a star, it is not enough to know that spots exist because their location and extent are a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_imaging
There are 47 NCLDV core genes currently recognised. These include four key proteins involved in DNA replication and repair: the enzymes DNA polymerase family B, the topoisomerase II A, the FLAP endonuclease and the processing factor proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Other proteins include DNA dependent RNA polymerase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleocytoplasmic_large_DNA_viruses
A product's excess supply function is the negative of the excess demand function—it is the product's supply function minus its demand function. In most cases the first derivative of excess demand with respect to price is negative, meaning that a higher price leads to lower excess demand. The price of the product is sai...
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