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The Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus or Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus (Hippopotamus minor or Phanourios minor) is an extinct species of hippopotamus that inhabited the island of Cyprus from the Pleistocene until the early Holocene. The 200-kilogram (440 lb) Cyprus dwarf hippo was roughly the same size as the extant pygmy hippopo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_dwarf_hippopotamus |
The judges called him the "mastermind" and "driving force" behind the bombings. Memon has consistently claimed innocence.Memon then filed a Review Petition seeking review of Supreme Court’s judgment confirming his death sentence. On 30 July 2013, Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_Memon |
Since the law changed in 2004, off-premises sales are now allowed anywhere in the state, with local approval, after noon. Retail alcohol sales remain barred on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and Memorial Day (until noon).Massachusetts also has a "Day of Rest" statute that provides that all employees are entitled to on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States |
To transform a circle into a square, the diameter is divided into eight parts; one part after being divided into twenty-nine parts is reduced by twenty-eight of them and further by the sixth less the eighth .2.11. Alternatively, divide into fifteen parts and reduce it by two of them; this gives the approximate side ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulba_Sutras |
First generation techniques work on the basis of the simple dichotomy of ‘fits/doesn’t fit’ in the matching of the error situation in context with related error identification and quantification and second generation techniques are more theory based in their assessment and quantification of errors. ‘HRA techniques have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_diagrams_approach |
For example, a testator might write in the will that "Mary will receive the house held in trust if she is married" or "if she has children," etc. An executory bequest is a bequest that will be granted only if a particular event occurs in the future. For example, a testator might write in the will that "Mary will receiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bequest_and_devise |
Hormones produced in the pancreatic islets are secreted directly into the blood flow by (at least) five types of cells. In rat islets, endocrine cell types are distributed as follows: Alpha cells producing glucagon (20% of total islet cells) Beta cells producing insulin and amylin (≈70%) PP cells (gamma cells or F cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_islet |
However, the 2006 TORCH report stated that up to half of the volatile particles had actually landed outside the former USSR area currently making up of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. An unconnected large area in Russian SFSR south of Bryansk was also contaminated, as were parts of northwestern Ukrainian SSR. Studies in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_meltdown |
Block lava flows are typical of andesitic lavas from composite volcanoes. They behave in a similar manner to ʻaʻā flows but their more viscous nature causes the surface to be covered in smooth-sided angular fragments (blocks) of solidified lava instead of clinkers. As with ʻaʻā flows, the molten interior of the flow, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andesite |
Maoism–Third Worldism (MTW) is a broad tendency which is mainly concerned with the infusion and synthesis of Marxism—particularly of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist persuasion—with concepts of non-Marxist Third Worldism, namely dependency theory and world-systems theory. There is no general consensus on part of Maoist–Thir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism–Third_Worldism |
Three main techniques for attaching a bicycle tire to a bicycle rim have been developed: clincher, wired and tubular. Clinchers originally did not have wire in the beads and the shape of the bead interlocked with a flange on the rim, relying on air pressure to hold the tire bead in place. However, this type of tire is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_tire |
The Rieskrater Museum, sometimes known in English as the Ries Crater Museum, focuses on meteors and their collisions with Earth. The museum is housed in a 16th-century barn in Nördlingen, Germany which was part of the medieval city's center.The area (Nördlinger Ries) is the location of a meteor's impact with Earth c. 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rieskrater_Museum |
Historically, social work practice has been divided between two different categories: micro practice and macro practice. Although there is often an overlap in skills between the two areas, micro-practitioners generally focus on working with individuals whereas macro-practitioners generally work on creating change in la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_practice |
Also determine from which side the curve approaches the asymptotes and where the asymptotes intersect the curve. Equate first and second derivatives to 0 to find the stationary points and inflection points respectively. If the equation of the curve cannot be solved explicitly for x or y, finding these derivatives requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_sketching |
Software drivers were written for many protocols; its ability to communicate with a variety of devices - and to have new drivers written when required - became a primary selling point for Citect. The runtime software ran on a DSI card; a 32 bit co-processor that was inserted into an available ISA slot in the PC. This w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citect |
The microbial communities utilizing the sinking organic carbon as an energy source, are partial to nitrogen-rich compounds because much of these bacterium are nitrogen-limited and much prefer it over carbon. As a result, the carbon to nitrogen ratio of sinking organic carbon in the deep ocean is elevated compared to fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_to_nitrogen_ratio |
: 52 The system is designed to absorb theoretical maximum energy of 47.5 million foot-pounds (64.4 MJ) at maximum cable run-out. Prior to the introduction of the angled flight deck, two systems were used (in addition to deck cables) to keep landing aircraft from running into parked aircraft further forward on the fligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrestor_cable |
Although cover crops are normally used to serve one of the above discussed purposes often serve as habitat for wildlife. The use of cover crops adds at least one more dimension of plant diversity to a cash crop rotation. Since the cover crop is typically not a crop of value, its management is usually less intensive, pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_crop |
He was born in Kensington in London the son of Dr Albert E. D. R. Peters (1863-1945), a physician, and his wife, Agnes Malvina Watts (1867-1950).He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, then studied Medicine at King's College London and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.In the First World War he served in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Peters |
Early surgery with carpal tunnel release is indicated where there is evidence of median nerve denervation or a person elects to proceed directly to surgical treatment. Recommendations may differ when carpal tunnel syndrome is found in association with the following conditions: diabetes mellitus, coexistent cervical rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_arm |
In practice, however, the school she created was in fact radical and adjusted to the modern views of equal education of men and women: the school provided its students all the education necessary to prepare for university studies. Also, unlike many other girls' schools of the same kind, it also provided the same mathem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Rönström |
The 2AFA to NFA conversion requires 2 Θ ( n log n ) {\displaystyle 2^{\Theta (n\log n)}} states in the worst case, see Geffert and Okhotin. It is an open problem whether every 2NFA can be converted to a 2DFA with only a polynomial increase in the number of states. The problem was raised by Sakoda and Sipser, who comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way_automaton |
Some problems in physics are too complex to solve by direct analysis, or progress could be limited by available analytical tools. Thus, even when the exact representation is known, an approximation may yield a sufficiently accurate solution while reducing the complexity of the problem significantly. Physicists often ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_inequality |
Early numeracy is a branch of numeracy that aims to enhance numeracy learning for younger learners, particularly those at-risk in the area of mathematics. Usually the mathematical learning begins with simply learning the first digits, 1 through 10. This is done because it acts as an entry way to the expansion of counti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_numeracy |
After witnessing India win only one medal, bronze, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and one medal, silver, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Mittal decided to set up the Mittal Champions Trust with $9 million to support ten Indian athletes with world-beating potential. In 2008, Mittal awarded Abhinav Bindra with Rs. 1.5 Crore (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Mittal |
It is called jamur kuping in Indonesia and cendawan telinga kera in Malaysia, meaning "the ear mushroom" and "monkey's ear mushroom" respectively, and in the Philippines it is called tenga ng daga, meaning "rat's ear", due to its appearance. In Chinese cooking, it is often referred to as "Black Treasure". In New Zealan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_ear_fungus |
While the best-known theories of imperialism were largely developed in the years 1902–1916, and through the 1960s and 70s with the rise of dependency and world-systems theories, the study of imperialism continues across several research centers, journals, and independent writers. Relevant journals include the Journal o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_imperialism |
The java.util.SortedSet interface extends the java.util.Set interface. Unlike a regular Set, the elements in a SortedSet are sorted, either by the element's compareTo(T o) method, or a method provided to the constructor of the SortedSet. The first and last elements of the SortedSet can be retrieved using the first() an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collections_Framework |
Type I IFNs bind to IFNAR1 or IFNAR2, forming a binary complex. The binary complex further recruits the remaining IFNAR subunit, completing the ternary complex and activating downstream JAK/STAT signaling. IFN ligation to IFNAR brings the receptor associated kinases, JAK1 and Tyk2, into close proximity, resulting in ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon-α/β_receptor |
For all types of motor insurance policies in Bangladesh, the limit of liability has been fixed by the law. Currently, the limits are too low to compensate the victims. In respect of Act Only Liability Motor Vehicle Insurance, the compensation for personal injuries and property damage to third parties is BDT 20,000 for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_insurance |
The Flanders Marine Institute (Dutch: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, VLIZ) provides a focal point for marine scientific research in Flanders, northern Belgium. The Flemish government established the institute in 1999 together with the province of West Flanders and the Fund for Scientific Research. VLIZ promotes the accu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_Marine_Institute |
Slave morality does not aim at exerting one's will by strength, but by careful subversion. It does not seek to transcend the masters, but to make them slaves as well. The essence of slave morality is utility: The good is what is most useful for the whole community, not just the strong. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master–slave_morality |
The condition has become especially common among children and young people – in some universities over 70% of students have self described as suffering from eco-anxiety. However, as of early 2021, validated ways to assess the prevalence of climate or eco-anxiety were not well established. A survey published in Septembe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety |
At least one IBM PC clone manufacturer resold the Supertalker II as a value-add for their systems.Mountain began manufacturing data storage devices, such as floppy disk duplicators and hard disk and tape drives, in the early 1980s, becoming a major OEM of these products. The company's Model 3200, a 5.25-inch floppy dup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Computer |
Issuable to: the President of the Czech Republic (and former presidents) ministers of the Government of the Czech Republic members of the Parliament of the Czech Republic justices of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic the president of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic the president of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_passport |
A dirt cone is a type of depositional glacial feature. Dirt cones are not actually made entirely of dirt. They have a core of ice, snow, or firn that gets covered with material and insulated. The material, if it is thick enough, will protect the underlying core from ablation. The thickness of material needed to insulat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_cone |
1...c5, the Sicilian Defence, is the most common continuation in modern practice. The Sicilian Defence allows Black to fight for the center by preparing to meet a d2–d4 advance with ...cxd4. The Sicilian is among the sharpest and most analysed openings in chess, and it has eighty chapters, B20–B99, set aside for it in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Pawn_Game |
Some early minicomputers (e.g. DEC PDP-8, Data General Nova) had only a few registers and only a limited direct addressing range (8 bits). Hence the use of memory indirect addressing was almost the only way of referring to any significant amount of memory. Half of the DEC PDP-11's eight addressing modes are deferred. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_word |
Mining has been identified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a priority industry sector in the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) to identify and provide intervention strategies regarding occupational health and safety issues. The Mining Safety and Health Administration (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining |
Environmental Science & Technology Letters is an online-only peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing brief research reports in the fields of environmental science and technology. It was first opened to submissions in 2013, with its first articles published online in January 2014. It was established by the American ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Science_&_Technology_Letters |
The then headmaster of Doon, John Mason, was supportive of the project, and MacDougall started filming at the school in 1997. He was allowed to live on campus, take meals with the students, and film wherever and whenever he wanted. "There was never an attempt to direct or censor my work ... Perhaps because I was never ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doon_School_Quintet |
Horses that live in an untamed state but have ancestors that have been domesticated are called "feral horses". For instance, when the Spanish reintroduced the horse to the Americas, beginning in the late 15th century, some horses escaped, forming feral herds; the best-known being the mustang. Similarly, the brumby desc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_horse |
It was this that popularized BASE jumping more widely among parachutists. Carl Boenish continued to publish films and informational magazines on BASE jumping until his death in 1984 after a BASE jump off the Troll Wall. By this time, the concept had spread among skydivers worldwide, with hundreds of participants making... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping |
In Washington and northern Oregon approximately $68 million in losses were estimated. E. amylovora has spread throughout the USA and much of the world,causing heavy losses, although it so far has not caused severe damage in northern Europe and, as long as E. amylovora is not introduced to Central Asia where wild apple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_blight |
Laura Fermi recalled that:Dorothy McKibbin stayed calm and unruffled surrounded by large boxes and crates to be hauled by truck to the mesa and by the piles of small parcels that shopping women dumped on the floor to make room for further purchases in their bags. All women brought their difficulties and their checks to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_McKibbin |
The rights to a property may be transferred from one "owner" to another. A transfer tax is a tax on the passing of title to property from one person (or entity) to another. An owner may request that, after death, private property be transferred to family members, through inheritance. In certain cases, ownership may be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_ownership |
When a person perceives a stimulus and the stimulus is no longer the focus of their attention, it leaves an impression. When the body is awake and the senses are functioning properly, a person constantly encounters new stimuli to sense and so the impressions of previously perceived stimuli are ignored. However, during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle |
December 2008, Jain Software was named a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum for its affordable computing access.Jain Software announced the Jain Software Companion in June 2009, with Bharti Airtel Limited of India as Internet service provider. Companion was a low-cost product including keyboard, mouse and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_Software |
There are many techniques that are used to counterbalance a street car. Looking at the profile of most street cars, the front bumper has the lowest ground clearance followed by the section between the front and rear tires, and followed yet by a rear bumper usually with the highest clearance. Using this method, the air ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downforce |
Develops, recommends, administers, and evaluates standards and procedures for all FAA airmen medical certification activities and associated recordkeeping systems. By federal law, all aviators must be medically certified. Airman medical certificates are issued by the division on the basis of physical examinations perfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Aerospace_Medical_Institute |
Porous MXenes (Ti3C2, Nb2C and V2C) have been produced via a facile chemical etching method at room temperature. Porous Ti3C2 has a larger specific surface area and more open structure, and can be filtered as flexible films with, or without, the addition of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The as-fabricated p-Ti3C2/CNT films s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXenes |
A type of pictorial maps are maps that use anthropomorphic images. Anthropomorphic maps date back to when Sebastian Münster used a queen to depict Europe in 1570. The map, The Man of Commerce, by Augustus F. McKay is the earliest anthropomorphic map known of in the United States, created in 1889. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorial_maps |
Perhaps the best known is the Era of Martyrs, sometimes also called Anno Diocletiani (after Diocletian), which was associated with the Alexandrian calendar and often used by the Alexandrian Christians to number their Easters during the 4th and 5th centuries, and continues to be used by the Coptic and Ethiopian churches... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Calendar |
The data modeling technique can be used to describe any ontology (i.e. an overview and classifications of used terms and their relationships) for a certain area of interest. In the case of the design of an information system that is based on a database, the conceptual data model is, at a later stage (usually called log... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-relationship_diagrams |
This moisture would most likely be from melting and evaporating glaciers and not heavy rain.Sources of midden as old as 6,000 years ago can also be used to view the climate through the presence of certain pollen and the attributed rainfall necessary for those plants to be present and flowering. However, the changing pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_midden |
He found that sulfuric acid could absorb large volumes of coal gas. He gave the resulting solution to Henry Hennell, a British chemist, who found in 1826 that it contained "sulphovinic acid" (ethyl hydrogen sulfate). In 1828, Hennell and the French chemist Georges-Simon Serullas independently discovered that sulphovini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_alcohol |
HD 205739's designation is from the Henry Draper catalogue. The star was also observed by Hipparcos, which released its catalogue in 1997. The observations that led to the discovery of the planet HD 205739 b started when the N2K Consortium started an extended search for planets around 300 stars not usually targeted by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_205739_b |
... Deux ans après, elle était au pair: si elle ne gagnait rien, ses parents ne payaient plus rien pour son logis et sa nourriture. Sylvie Rogron was sent out to an apprenticeship at an annual cost of one hundred écus. ... After two years, she was 'at par': if she didn't earn anything, her parents no longer paid anythi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_pair |
The conceptual gap between the wave theory and selectionism had become unbridgeable.The other difficulty posed by pure transverse waves, of course, was the apparent implication that the aether was an elastic solid, except that, unlike other elastic solids, it was incapable of transmitting longitudinal waves. The wave t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical_refraction |
They found that elderly married couples in the US suffered significant mortality risks compared to those in Ireland where older people living in more rural areas receive more social support from their families, and they live with their children, while in the US elderly people live in care homes. As a result, mortality ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowhood_effect |
However, they believed that these remedies to capital's difficulties were inherently limited and tend to decrease in effectiveness over time so that monopoly capital would tend toward economic stagnation. This book is regarded as the cornerstone of Sweezy's contribution to Marxian economics. Sweezy had dealt with the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Sweezy |
The Isle of Sark Shipping Company operates small ferries from Sark to St Peter Port, Guernsey. The service takes 55 minutes for the 9 miles (14 km) crossing. A high-speed passenger ferry is operated in summer by the French company Manche Iles Express to Saint Helier, Jersey. A 12-passenger boat, the Lady Maris II, oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sark |
There are various methods and leadership styles a team manager can take to increase personnel productivity and build an effective team. In the workplace teams can come in many shapes and sizes who all work together and depend on one another. They communicate and all strive to accomplish a specific goal. Management team... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_management |
The Elements is still considered a masterpiece in the application of logic to mathematics. In historical context, it has proven enormously influential in many areas of science. Scientists Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton were all influenced by the Elements, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid's_Elements |
Davis is a licensed Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and President/CEO of Kilberry Leadership Advisors. He has been consulting to senior executives for the past 10 years. Previously, he was partner with the Toronto office of RHR International. He has lectured on organizational behavior at the University of Wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intangibles_of_Leadership |
This is why I added the content back in the regulation section. I thought the critiques section should be used for critiques of TCM itself and not a critique of a regulation change involving TCM, also since the change hasn't even gone into affect yet it wasn't important enough to be so highly placed. As to why I revert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Traditional_Chinese_medicine/Archive_10 |
The Swiss Heritage Society (SHS) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of Switzerland's architectural heritage. Its focus is on the preservation of important landmarks, the development of the structural environment, and the promotion of good architectural design. The Swiss Heritage Society was found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Heritage_Society |
Among the big national broadcasters: Channels from the Sony network always use the top right corner, without exception. Star channels also use the top right, with the exception of National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild, which use the top left corner in line with their international counterparts. Past exceptions include T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_on-screen_graphic |
While less similar in general morphology, the species that are most closely related to painted-snipes are other members of the suborder Thinocori: jacanas, seedsnipes, and the plains wanderer.The species †Rostratula minator was described in 1988 from deposits of the early Pliocene found in Langebaanweg, South Africa. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_snipe |
Wrote Burton: Our first visit was to the comercio, or camp bazar, situated immediately behind the tattered church. The flags of all nations waved over board huts, mat hovels, and canvas tents, which, foul in the extreme, formed a hollow square round a pool of filthy water. There were even bed and breakfasts with ambiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Humaitá |
More pollution is generated as the amount of time and energy a ride-share driver spends between customers with no passengers increases. There are also more vehicles on the road as a result of passengers who would have otherwise taken public transportation, walked, or biked to their destination. Ride-sharing services ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_disobedience |
Her empirical work examines the opportunities and risks afforded by digital and online technologies, including for children and young people at home and school, for developments in media and digital literacies, and for audiences, publics and the public sphere more generally. More broadly, she is interested in how citiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Livingstone |
Gents, which describes the lives of three West Indian immigrants who run a public urinal in London, is considered to be a leading fiction on tolerance. Collins claimed it was stimulated in part by his memories of apartheid when he lived as a child in South Africa. Collins's other fictions include the somewhat luridly e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Collins |
In November 2010, Motorola voluntarily dismissed the Illinois Complaints, (asserted as counterclaims in the actions brought by Apple on October 29, 2010, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin). Later that November, Apple also filed counterclaims in the Southern District of Florida, alleging M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility_v._Apple_Inc. |
In 2012 the last Convair CV-600 (Rhoades Aviation) went out of service. Convair CV-640 Conversion from a Convair CV-340 or -440 with Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engines with four-blade propellers, in place of piston engines with three-blade propellers. The conversions were performed by Convair. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_CV-240 |
The most recent debate around nuclear energy and the non-alternative coal-burning power plants constitutes one more consensus on what not to do. Thirdly, significant achievements in IC can be observed through development studies.Economic cooperation – One of the biggest challenges in 2019 with globalization is that man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization |
Tuff Gong is the official Caribbean distributor of Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Disney Music Group.In Rockstar Games and Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto IV, Tuff Gong Radio is based on the record label and is featured as one of the many fictional radio stations featured in-game. The station is dedic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuff_Gong |
Empty forest is a term coined by Kent H. Redford's article "The Empty Forest" (1992), which was published in BioScience. An "empty forest" refers to an ecosystem that is void of large mammals. Empty forests are characterized by an otherwise excellent habitat, and often have large, fully grown trees, although they lack ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_forest |
Bridges hired award-winning gem cutter Victor Tuzlukov to cut the stone at his company's facility in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Russia, Tuzlukov is now based in Bangkok.Planning for the cutting began in February, 2018, and continued for six weeks. Tuzlukov used a 3D model of the rough stone to create a synthetic Yttrium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_Merelani |
Historically, Poland was partitioned multiple times between the German Empire/Prussia, the Habsburg Empire, and the Russian Empire. Under Prussian control were the Polish regions of eastern Pomorze, Wielkopolska and Upper Silesia, regions historically exposed to German influence. Russia controlled central Poland under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_border |
(Hofmann uses the symbol ≈ {\displaystyle \scriptstyle \approx } .) Peer Strømholm (1968) wrote:The basis of Fermat's approach was the comparition of two expressions which, though they had the same form, were not exactly equal. This part of the process he called "comparare par adaequalitatem" or "comparer per adaequali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequality |
The second goal is not achieved by the exemplary initial schedule, as shown in the adjacent figure. A following mutation does not change this, but schedules the work step d earlier, which is a necessary intermediate step for an earlier start of the last work step e of the order. As long as only the latest completion ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_function |
The theory behind kernel embeddings of distributions has been primarily developed by Alex Smola, Le Song , Arthur Gretton, and Bernhard Schölkopf. A review of recent works on kernel embedding of distributions can be found in.The analysis of distributions is fundamental in machine learning and statistics, and many algor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_embedding_of_distributions |
Many other realizations of block ciphers, such as the AES, are classified as substitution–permutation networks.The root of all cryptographic block formats used within the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards lies with the Atalla Key Block (AKB... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARX_cipher |
In Kenya, the African openbill stork is subject to deliberate poisoning from poachers. They are being poisoned through a special baiting technique that uses a live decoy. The poachers set up the decoy and then disturb flocks of storks so that they have no other choice than to settle near the decoy. The African openbill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_openbill |
In enzymology, an isoleucine—tRNA ligase (EC 6.1.1.5) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + L-isoleucine + tRNAIle ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } AMP + diphosphate + L-isoleucyl-tRNAIleThe 3 substrates of this enzyme are ATP, L-isoleucine, and tRNA(Ile), whereas its 3 products are AMP, diphosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoleucine—tRNA_ligase |
Prevention is mainly the role of the state, through the definition of strict rules of hygiene and a public services of veterinary surveying of animal products in the food chain, from farming to the transformation industry and delivery (shops and restaurants). This regulation includes: traceability: in a final product, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodborne_illness |
In addition, these shared ideas create a person's comprehension of their environment and world as a whole. Individuals believe that they have the same attitudes regarding certain ideas and experiences as the other. One particular aspect of social tuning, stereotyping, has been a popular theme in this field's research o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_tuning |
Only the latter was fulfilled by Galileo. Whether unknowingly or deliberately, Simplicio, the defender of the Aristotelian/Ptolemaic geocentric view in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, was often portrayed as an unlearned fool who lacked mathematical training. Although the preface of his book claims that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science/religion_wars |
The structure of WTTO's relationship with WDBB and WNAL changed to one of an affiliation; the stations also had the ability to air some of their own programming. The three stations functioned as a regional network of their own, providing coverage comparable to WBRC and WVTM-TV. By 1993, Abry had purchased WDBB and WNAL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTTO |
Coinciding with the United Tribes International Pow-wow, it is a tradition for the weekend following Labor Day to be the area's biggest garage sale weekend due to the influx of visitors in the area. On any given year, total garage sales number at least 500, while Fargo, North Dakota surpasses Bismarck as the state's la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_sale |
A crop pathosystem is usually the equivalent of every door in the town having the same lock, and every householder having the same key which fits every lock. A system of locking is ruined by uniformity, and this is exactly what we have achieved when protecting our genetically uniform crops with vertical resistance. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathosystem |
When found third in a codon of RNA, cytosine is synonymous with uracil, as they are interchangeable as the third base. When found as the second base in a codon, the third is always interchangeable. For example, UCU, UCC, UCA and UCG are all serine, regardless of the third base. Active enzymatic deamination of cytosine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytosine |
Type I Contact Ores: Ores along the basal contact are normally localized in footwall embayments, most of which have been deformed by superimposed deformation, but which in less-deformed areas range from broad shallow embayments (e.g., Alexo, Ontario) and shallow re-entrant embayments (e.g., many Kambalda ore bodies) to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambalda_type_komatiitic_nickel_ore_deposits |
A malfunction of BK channels can proliferate in many disorders such as: epilepsy, cancer, diabetes, asthma, and hypertension. Specifically, β1 defect can increase blood pressure and hydrosaline retention in the kidney. Both loss of function and gain of function mutations have been found to be involved in disorders such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-conductance_calcium-activated_potassium_channels |
The grivna as a silver bullion currency did not survive, but its meaning as a unit of weight became predominant. In 15th–17th centuries there were two weight grivnas (or grivenkas): the lesser grivna of 204.756 g (6.5831 ozt) and the greater grivna of 409.512 g (13.1661 ozt). Since the middle of the 17th century the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna |
The Navy ordered 23 P2Y-1s on 7 July 1931. By mid-1933 they were serving with VP-10F and VP-5F squadrons which made a number of long-range formation flights. At least 21 P2Y-1s were modified to P2Y-2s in 1936 and flown by VP-5F and VP-10F until 1938, when they were transferred to VP-14 and VP-15. The first P2Y-3s reach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_P2Y |
Public relations is the strategic communication process of providing information to the public in order to present a specific view of a product or organization. According to Public Relations Society of America, public relations is about influencing and building a relationship between an organization and its viewers acr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_communication |
COVID-19 negatively affected the academic success of students around the world. Some countries (and at least one US state) initiated special tutoring programs to reduce this impact. A knock-on was the significant growth of the private online tutoring industry as parents tried to reduce the impact of missed classes.In M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutoring |
A cutting edge low above the rails usually employed a cast iron or steel leading edge for durability against ice and for weight to discourage the tendency of the wedge to climb over hard-packed snow causing derailment by lifting the wheels off the rails. Under most conditions, the tendency to climb was reduced by weigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_Plow |
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