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The representation of convection in climate models has so far restricted the ability of scientists to accurately simulate African weather extremes, limiting climate change predictions. Convection-permitting models (CPMs) are able to better simulate the diurnal cycle of tropical convection, the vertical cloud structure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change_on_the_water_cycle |
As President of the Society for Mathematical Biology, Schnell implemented structural changes that strengthened the organization's foundation and membership. To allow members of the Society for Mathematical Biology to meet and interact within more focused areas in smaller groups, Schnell established the SMB Subgroups, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Schnell |
Scott recounts that he once posed a question about the origin of the lambda symbol to Church's former student and son-in-law John W. Addison Jr., who then wrote his father-in-law a postcard: Dear Professor Church, Russell had the iota operator, Hilbert had the epsilon operator. Why did you choose lambda for your operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_expansion |
In some recent repetitions of the experiment, modern accelerator technology has been used to arrange for the observation of two counter-rotating particle beams. In other repetitions, the energies of gamma rays emitted by a rapidly moving particle beam have been measured at opposite angles relative to the direction of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_shift |
The review did ultimately state that the certainty of these results was low, so future evidence could very well alter this conclusion. One-third occur in non-sun-exposed areas; thus, the pathogenesis is more complex than UV exposure as the cause.The use of a chemotherapeutic agent such as 5-Fluorouracil or imiquimod ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal-cell_carcinoma |
Together these can be used to give a particularly compact form for Maxwell's equations with sources: ∂ F = J . {\displaystyle \partial \mathbf {F} =\mathbf {J} .} This equation, when decomposed according to geometric algebra, using geometric products which have both grade raising and grade lowering effects, is equivale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivector |
It may also used as the embolic agent in a Uterine Fibroid Embolectomy (UFE). In biomedical engineering research, PVA has also been studied for cartilage, orthopaedic applications, and potential materials for vascular graft.PVA is commonly used in household sponges that absorb more water than Polyurethane sponges. PVA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(vinyl_alcohol) |
The xHCI architecture was designed to be highly scalable, capable of supporting 1 to 255 USB devices and 1 to 255 root hub ports. Since each USB device is allowed to define up to 31 endpoints, an xHCI that supported 255 devices would have to support 7,906 separate total endpoints. Classically, each memory buffer associ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Host_Controller_Interface |
The Intel 440BX is the third Pentium II chipset released by Intel, succeeding the 440FX and 440LX. With the new 100 MHz front side bus, Pentium II CPUs were able to scale better in performance by reducing the difference between processor clock and bus speed. The previous 66 MHz bus had become a serious bottleneck and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_440BX |
Ideally an urban canyon is a relatively narrow street with tall, continuous buildings on both sides of the road. But now the term urban canyon is used more broadly, and the geometrical details of the street canyon are used to categorize them. The most important geometrical detail about a street canyon is the ratio of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_canyon |
There are concerns over complacency in that if a child is noted to have high DQ, it might be treated as a substitute for parental controlWhitney DeCamp, a sociologist at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, suggests that “the DQ categories are too broad, so less-risky behaviours are lumped into the same category a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_intelligence |
Other positions involve the use of a waist belt to anchor the hands to the front, back or sides. Other popular positions are the spread eagle, with the limbs splayed out and fastened by wrists and ankles to bedposts, door frame or some other anchoring point; the hogtie, which secures each wrist to its corresponding ank... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_bondage |
proclinateDirected or leaning forward, such as in bristles in particular locations of insects' heads. prognathoushaving mouth parts extended forward of the head, in contrast to opisthognathous and hypognathous. prolegfleshy leg like structures arising from the abdominal segments of caterpillars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_gland |
Gravitational Tides are caused by changes in the relative location of the Earth, sun, and moon, whose orbits are perturbed slightly by Jupiter. Newton's law of universal gravitation states that the gravitational force between a mass at a reference point on the surface of the Earth and another object such as the Moon is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_tide |
Phase I of the development program began in December, 2000. The three-year program was undertaken by Northrop Grumman at a contract cost of $410 million, and focused on the basic design of the radar system. Phase II is a six-year, $888 million contract awarded by the Air Force's Electronic Systems Center in May, 2004, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Platform_Radar_Technology_Insertion_Program |
1 Katha or Cottah (কাঠা) = 720 Sqr. Feet (approx) = 66.8902 Sqr. Meter = 1.65 Decimal (শতাংশ/শতক) approx 1 Bigha (বিঘা) = 20 Katha (কাঠা) = 14,400 square feet = 1320 square meter (approx) 1 Acre (একর) = 3.0245 Bigha (বিঘা) approx. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottah |
GNU Hurd is a collection of microkernel servers written as part of GNU, for the GNU Mach microkernel. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation, designed as a replacement for the Unix kernel, and released as free software under the GNU General Public License. When the L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd |
The burnt fuels are thorium with reactor-grade plutonium (RGPu), thorium with weapons-grade plutonium (WGPu), and Mixed oxide fuel (MOX, no thorium). For RGPu and WGPu, the initial amount of U-233 and its decay around a million years can be seen. This has an effect on the total activity curve of the three fuel types. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste_disposal |
An alternative method of instigating fermentation is using a ginger beer starter, often called a "ginger bug", which can be made by fermenting a mixture of water, brewer's or baker's yeast (not the SCOBY described above), ginger, and sugar. This is kept for a week or longer, with sugar regularly added, e.g., daily, to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_beer |
The number of needed tests is of the order of p = exp ( log p 2 ) , {\displaystyle {\sqrt {p}}=\exp \left({\frac {\log p}{2}}\right),} and thus exponential in the input size. So the computational complexity of this algorithm is exponential. An algorithm with a polynomial complexity has been described by Stan Wagon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_theorem_on_sums_of_two_squares |
Photons from the gate light field entered the cavity from the side, where each photon interacted with an additional "control" light field, changing a single atom's state to be resonant with the cavity optical field, which changing the field's resonance wavelength and blocking transmission of the source field, thereby "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_transistor |
Nevertheless, Kenny returned from the year-long absence in the season six finale "Red Sleigh Down", and has remained a starring character since, although he only appears once in Season 20. His character no longer dies in each episode, and has only been killed occasionally in episodes following his return. Kenny's super... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweek_Tweak |
The current generation of sequencing technologies produce only short reads, putting tremendous limitation on the ability to detect distinct transcripts; short reads must be reverse engineered into original transcripts that could have given rise to the resulting read observations. This task is further complicated by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_sequencing |
The genus of a handlebody is the genus of its boundary surface. Up to homeomorphism, there is exactly one handlebody of any non-negative integer genus. The importance of handlebodies in 3-manifold theory comes from their connection with Heegaard splittings. The importance of handlebodies in geometric group theory comes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handlebody |
The credits were hidden in this way due to the BBC not wanting individual credits for the game development team to be included in the game. The ZX Spectrum version was released in 1993 after a successful campaign by Your Sinclair readers as Alternative Software were unsure whether the Spectrum release would be commerci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek_Attack |
Nor have regulations of financial institutions in these countries diverged in form from those of other "conventional" countriesWhen it comes to the manner in which Islamic securities are offered, the process and rules for such offerings, even in those jurisdictions with special licensing regimes, are, in effect, the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_and_loss_sharing |
Assuming error-free measurements, if the Earth's gravity field were completely regular and gravity constant, leveling loops would always close precisely: ∑ i = 0 n Δ h i = 0 {\displaystyle \sum _{i=0}^{n}\Delta h_{i}=0} around a loop. In the real gravity field of the Earth, this happens only approximately; on small loo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_leveling |
One advantage of such an installation is the fact that the weight of the rope is balanced between the carriages; therefore, the engine no longer needs to use any power to lift the cable itself. This practice is used on funiculars with slopes below 6%, funiculars using sledges instead of carriages, or any other case whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_plane |
The mayian happens the night before the wedding and is celebrated according to which part of Punjab the participants are from.Vatna/Haldi: Four lamps or diyas are lit and the bride sits facing them. Oil is constantly poured into the lamps, so that the glow from the diyas is reflected on her face. Vatna involves applyin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_wedding_traditions |
The first Odia newspaper Utkala Deepika, launched in 1866 under editors Gourishankar Ray and Bichitrananda. In 1869 Bhagavati Charan Das started another newspaper, Utkal Subhakari. More Odia newspapers soon followed like Utkal Patra, Utkal Hiteisini from Cuttack, Utkal Darpan and Sambada Vahika from Balasore and Sambal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriya_language |
Many wasp lineages, including those in the families Vespidae, Crabronidae, Sphecidae, and Pompilidae, attack and sting prey items that they use as food for their larvae; while Vespidae usually macerate their prey and feed the resulting bits directly to their brood, most predatory wasps paralyze their prey and lay eggs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_wasp |
Finally, step 3 computes the matrix V h = V h W ∗ {\displaystyle V_{h}=\mathbf {V} _{h}W^{*}} recovering from its rows the two right singular vectors v {\displaystyle v} as ∗ {\displaystyle ^{*}} and ∗ {\displaystyle ^{*}} . We validate the first vector: M v = σ u {\displaystyle Mv=\sigma u} and M ∗ u = σ v {\display... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh–Ritz_method |
Resources in space, both in materials and energy, are enormous. The Solar System alone has, according to different estimates, enough material and energy to support anywhere from several thousand to over a billion times that of the current Earth-based human population, mostly from the Sun itself.Asteroid mining will als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_space |
The request might or might not be eventually acted upon, and may be disallowed when processing occurs. 203 Non-Authoritative Information (since HTTP/1.1) The server is a transforming proxy (e.g. a Web accelerator) that received a 200 OK from its origin, but is returning a modified version of the origin's response. 204 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_304 |
SGLT2 inhibitors are called gliflozins. They lead to a reduction in blood glucose levels, and therefore have potential use in the treatment of type II diabetes. Gliflozins enhance glycemic control as well as reduce body weight and systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The gliflozins canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium/glucose_cotransporter_2 |
In the early part of nursing's history, there was little formal nursing knowledge. As nursing education developed, the need to categorize knowledge led to development of nursing theory to help nurses evaluate increasingly complex client care situations.Nursing theories give a plan for reflection in which to examine a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_theory |
He is assured of a lifetime job with a modest, though adequate, salary and liberal pension benefits upon retirement. On the other hand, it is very unlikely that his salary will increase much before he retires. While attending a convention, Mr. A is offered a job with a small, newly founded company which has a highly un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_polarization |
As the cell containing the cilium goes through the cell cycle, ciliogenesis must be regulated. Cilia usually form during the G1 of the cell cycle and disassemble during mitosis. It is not known why the cilia assemble and then disassemble, but it is believed that the presence of cilia may interfere with mitosis and, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliogenesis |
All wickedness is ultimately because people hate each other or are jealous or suspicious or afraid. These emotions and motivations cause people to act antisocially". The response by the populace to the kɛmamɔi is that "they valued his work and would learn the lessons he came to teach them, about social responsibility a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials |
Either 221 is prime, or 38 is a Fermat liar, so we take another a, say 24: a n − 1 = 24 220 ≡ 81 ≢ 1 ( mod 221 ) . {\displaystyle a^{n-1}=24^{220}\equiv 81\not \equiv 1{\pmod {221}}.} So 221 is composite and 38 was indeed a Fermat liar. Furthermore, 24 is a Fermat witness for the compositeness of 221. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat_primality_test |
One of the first Western thinkers to develop the contemporary idea of natural rights was French theologian Jean Gerson, whose 1402 treatise De Vita Spirituali Animae is considered one of the first attempts to develop what would come to be called modern natural rights theory.The Polish-Lithuanian union made a natural ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_theory |
This way a player could play the same smaller board multiple times in a row, without their opponent being able to respond. Therefore, players are forced to consider the larger game board instead of simply focusing on the smaller boards. Visualizing the game tree: Visualizing future branches of the game tree is more dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tic-tac-toe |
The first pelts in demand were beaver and sea otter, as well as occasionally deer, bear, ermine and skunk.Fur robes were blankets of sewn-together, native-tanned, beaver pelts. The pelts were called castor gras in French and "coat beaver" in English, and were soon recognized by the newly developed felt-hat making indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_trade |
The Corinthian order (Greek: Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Latin: Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric order which was the earliest, followed by the Ionic order. In Anc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_pillar |
The Round-Robin Letter is the name of an incident in the United States Army that occurred between July 28 and August 3, 1898, during the Spanish–American War. After disease incapacitated thousands of Army soldiers in the wake of the Siege of Santiago, high-ranking officers of Fifth Army Corps drafted a round-robin lett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-Robin_Letter_(Spanish–American_War) |
N-linked glycosylation, is the attachment of an oligosaccharide, a carbohydrate consisting of several sugar molecules, sometimes also referred to as glycan, to a nitrogen atom (the amide nitrogen of an asparagine (Asn) residue of a protein), in a process called N-glycosylation, studied in biochemistry. The resulting pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-linked_glycosylation |
Towards the end of the war, more powerful anti-tank weapons such as the bazooka, Panzerschreck, and PIAT were introduced which were fatal to tanks at ranges longer than the tank's flamethrower could reach. British Churchill Crocodiles supported the U.S. Army in the summer of 1944 during the fight over the Normandy hedg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_tank |
In economics, resource allocation is the assignment of available resources to various uses. In the context of an entire economy, resources can be allocated by various means, such as markets, or planning. In project management, resource allocation or resource management is the scheduling of activities and the resources ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_allocation |
Akoma Ntoso is an international legal document standard that serves as the basis for modern machine-readable and fully digital legislative and judicial processes. This is achieved by providing a coherent syntax and well-defined semantics to represent legal documents in a digital format. It is designed to be suitable as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso |
Since most GEVs are designed to operate from water, accidents and engine failure typically are less hazardous than in a land-based aircraft, but the lack of altitude control leaves the pilot with fewer options for avoiding collision, and to some extent that negates such benefits. Low altitude brings high-speed craft in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle |
According to Ingrid Volkmer, "public sphere" is defined as a process through which public communication becomes restructured and partly disembedded from national political and cultural institutions. This trend of the globalized public sphere is not only as a geographical expansion form a nation to worldwide, but also c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Media |
The Livatu is a unit used by the Turaga indigenous movement and the Tangbunia Bank in Vanuatu to reckon the worth of items of traditional currency such as pigs and textiles. One livatu is equivalent to one fully curved boar's tusk, a symbolic item of value in Vanuatu culture. Long dyed mats, a less valuable item of exc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livatu |
In 2000, controversial and self-described "transgenic artist" Eduardo Kac appropriated standard laboratory work by biotechnology and genetics researchers in order to both utilize and critique such scientific techniques. In the only putative work of transgenic art by Kac, the artist claimed to have collaborated with a F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-it-yourself_biology |
The only research report available to the public was done by its creator, Yair-Ein-Eli. Eli began research in Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with David Starosvetsky, graduate student Gil Cohen of Technion, Digby Macdonald of Pennsylvania State University, and Rika Hagiwara of Kyoto University. Eli's reasonin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon–air_battery |
Fines are usually imposed on drivers of non-qualifying vehicles who use the lanes.Following the introduction of HOVs, some drivers placed inflatable dolls in the passenger seat, a practice that persists today, even though it is now illegal. Cameras that can distinguish between humans and mannequins or dolls were tested... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_occupancy_vehicle_lane |
Many think that Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus, but they differ as to the latter's origins; some thinking him a Samian, while Neanthes, in the fifth book of his 'Fables' states he was a Syrian, from the city of Tyre: as a famine had arisen in Samos, Mnesarchus went there to trade, and was naturalized.Pythagoras a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras |
ASIMO attended the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria in September 2010, which allowed Honda to study the results of human and robot interaction and use the results to guide development of future versions of the robot. In April 2011, ASIMO was demonstrated at the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, Missouri, US to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO |
This has led to the idea that there is a special cognitive module suited for learning language, often called the language acquisition device. Chomsky's critique of the behaviorist model of language acquisition is regarded by many as a key turning point in the decline in the prominence of the theory of behaviorism gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_psychology |
Two or more wires may be wrapped concentrically, separated by insulation, to form coaxial cable. The wire or cable may be further protected with substances like paraffin, some kind of preservative compound, bitumen, lead, aluminum sheathing, or steel taping. Stranding or covering machines wind material onto wire which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire |
Public reaction was lukewarm, and the opera's run ended after 18 performances. It was not performed again until 1886. Bizet did not have a major success until Carmen in 1875. He died after the thirty-third performance. Carmen went on to become one of the most performed operas of all time. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Empire_style |
Despite the more advanced technology of a POS system as compared to a simple cash register, the POS system is still vulnerable to employee theft through the sales window. A dishonest cashier at a retail outlet can collude with a friend who pretends to be an ordinary customer. During checkout, the cashier can bypass sca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale |
High-quality separators are critical for battery performance. The self-discharge rate depends upon separator thickness; thicker separators reduce self-discharge, but also reduce capacity as they leave less space for active components, and thin separators lead to higher self-discharge. Some batteries may have overcome t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel-metal_hydride_batteries |
The saying is sometimes attributed to Groucho Marx, but according to The Yale Book of Quotations, there is no reason to believe Groucho actually said this. Instead, it traces the Groucho attribution to a post from July 9, 1982 on the Usenet group net.jokes; however, the closest match in the Google Groups archives is re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_fruit_flies_like_a_banana |
The eyes of most labyrinthodonts were situated at the top of the skull, offering good vision upwards, but very little lateral vision. The parietal eye was prominent, although there is uncertainty as to whether it was a true image producing organ or one that could only register light and dark, like that of the modern tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinthodontia |
Motivated by problems in algebraic topology, Jean Leray introduced the notion of a sheaf and found himself faced with the problem of computing sheaf cohomology. To compute sheaf cohomology, Leray introduced a computational technique now known as the Leray spectral sequence. This gave a relation between cohomology group... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_sequence |
Some time after Joseph Csaky's 1911-14 sculptural figures consisting of conic, cylindrical and spherical shapes, a translation of two-dimensional form into three-dimensional form had been undertaken by the French sculptor Henri Laurens. He had met Braque in 1911 and exhibited at the Salon de la Section d'Or in 1912, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubist_sculpture |
As early as 1917, there were documented cases of pilots' loss of consciousness due to g (G-LOC) that were referred to as "fainting in the air".In 1931 a professor of physiology, Frank Cotton, from the University of Sydney described a new way of determining the center of gravity of the human body. This made it possible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-suit |
The academy was founded in 1940. It was named Air Force Academy in 1946. In 1968 it was named after Yuri Gagarin (Гагарин, Юрий Алексеевич). In Soviet times, only the officers with a primary military education (летное училище- flight school) and holding the position of major could study at the academy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagarin_Air_Force_Academy |
The Antlia Cluster (or Abell S0636) is a cluster of galaxies located in the Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster. The Antlia Cluster is the third-nearest to the Local Group after the Virgo Cluster and Fornax Cluster. Antlia's distance from Earth is 40.5 megaparsecs (132.1 megalight-years) to 40.9 Mpc (133.4 Mly) and can be vie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlia_Cluster |
The quantum rotor model is a mathematical model for a quantum system. It can be visualized as an array of rotating electrons which behave as rigid rotors that interact through short-range dipole-dipole magnetic forces originating from their magnetic dipole moments (neglecting Coulomb forces). The model differs from sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_rotor_model |
Respiratory diseases can be classified in many different ways, including by the organ or tissue involved, by the type and pattern of associated signs and symptoms, or by the cause of the disease. The study of respiratory disease is known as pulmonology. A physician who specializes in respiratory disease is known as a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammatory_respiratory_disease |
Only one asteroid, 4 Vesta, which has a relatively reflective surface, is normally visible to the naked eye. When favorably positioned, 4 Vesta can be seen in dark skies. Rarely, small asteroids passing close to Earth may be visible to the naked eye for a short amount of time. As of April 2022, the Minor Planet Center ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_body |
A generator can also be driven by human muscle power (for instance, in field radio station equipment). Human powered electric generators are commercially available, and have been the project of some DIY enthusiasts. Typically operated by means of pedal power, a converted bicycle trainer, or a foot pump, such generators... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_generators |
The bank opened its first offices at 216 Broadway in Lower Manhattan in 1824 at the corner of Ann Street. In 1848, the bank agreed to sell its building to its neighbor Barnum's American Museum (the building collapsed during Barnum's subsequent remodeling) and in 1850 the bank moved into its newly constructed headquarte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Banking |
BIA prediction equations can be either generalized or population-specific, allowing this method to be potentially very accurate. Selecting the appropriate equation is important to determining the quality of the results.For clinical purposes, scientists are developing a multi-frequency BIA method that may further improv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_water |
It is very high and wide to accommodate a thousand monks. The platform of the hall was constructed with stones arranged as a network of channels, and the floor was finished with a coat of clay. Fires are set at outdoor openings at the four sides of the platform, while the heat flows inwards warming the entire hall. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_bed-stove |
Most of the example cultures in this article are based on (matrilineal) clans. Any clan might possibly contain from one to several or many descent groups or family groups – i.e., any matrilineal clan might be descended from one or several or many unrelated female ancestors. Also, each such descent group might have its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality |
Class 5 - In this class the documentation is now integrated with expert systems that may influence the display of content. For example, the IETM system may aggregate data from a large number of users input, feed that to the expert system that analyzes it and then the result gets fed back to the user through the IETM sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_electronic_technical_manual |
Not all requests generate replies. Event: The server informs the client of an event, such as keyboard or mouse input, a window being moved, resized or exposed, etc. Error: The server sends an error packet if a request is invalid. Since requests are queued, error packets generated by a request may not be sent immediatel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System_core_protocol |
A roll bar gave protection from overturn accidents. In early 1966, Brown's vehicle became available for examining human factors and other testing. Marshall built a small test track with craters and rock debris where the several different mock-ups were compared; it became obvious that a small rover would be best for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle |
With a 10% sales tax (tax amount in bold): The manufacturer spends $1.00 for the raw materials, certifying it is not a final consumer. The manufacturer charges the retailer $1.20, checking that the retailer is not a consumer, leaving the same gross margin of $0.20. The retailer charges the consumer ($1.50 × 1.10) = $1.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_Added_Tax |
The space Jr(π) carries a natural distribution, that is, a sub-bundle of the tangent bundle TJr(π)), called the Cartan distribution. The Cartan distribution is spanned by all tangent planes to graphs of holonomic sections; that is, sections of the form jrφ for φ a section of π. The annihilator of the Cartan distributio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_bundle |
Cosmic time, or cosmological time, is the time coordinate commonly used in the Big Bang models of physical cosmology. Such time coordinate may be defined for a homogeneous, expanding universe so that the universe has the same density everywhere at each moment in time (the fact that this is possible means that the unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_time |
Now located to Lonavala it contains 100 wax statues of celebrities at Lonavala Square Mall. The biggest in India wax museum named Mother's Wax Museum was opened in November 2014 in New Town, Kolkata. Another branch opened in July 2008 at the historical site of Old Goa with a collection of religious statues. Madame Tuss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_museum |
The animals most at risk of having serious problems with aflatoxins are trout, ducklings, and pigs, while cattle are less at risk. Another animal feed product is genetically altered grass and animals including cattle, sheep, and horses eat tons of it. Ergot alkaloids are associated with grasses that are produced in a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_X_disease |
It should not be confused with the Doppler frequency shift, which is caused by the motion of the cloud and precipitation particles. Unlike the differential reflectivity, correlation coefficient and linear depolarization ratio, which are all dependent on reflected power, the differential phase is a "propagation effect."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_meteorology |
The bumped cyclosporin A was found to interact efficiently with the hole-modified cyclophilin mutant, but not endogenous cyclophilin. The orthogonal CID pair was used to inhibit calcineurin-mediated dephosphorylation of nuclear factor of activated T cells in a cell- and tissue-specific manner. More recently, this first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_and_hole |
The B-25c Mitchell bomber was ditched on 4 April 1943 and remained 45 metres (148 ft) below the surface of Lake Murray (South Carolina) for 60 years. The recovery effort was headed by Dr. Robert Seigler and supervised by Gary Larkins of the Air Pirates. Rubicon Foundation divers participated in the recovery effort in 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_Foundation |
Lise Meitner ( LEE-zə MYTE-nər, German: ; born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working on radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry in Berlin, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner |
There are very specific procedures and steps that are taken to decide whether or not land will be admitted to the program. Moreover, CRP is considered to be undesirable by some land owners because it prevents or minimizes the use of their land for agricultural production and by decreasing farm income. Continuous Sign-U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_Reserve_Program |
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) is an annual academic conference on computer architecture, generally viewed as the top-tier in the field. Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symposium_on_Computer_Architecture |
One Silicon Valley lobbyist said the content industry had "a lot to learn," noting that they don't have grassroots support: "There are no Facebook pages to call your congressman to support PIPA and SOPA." The New York Times, which framed the netizens' revolt in terms of the new economy versus the old economy, headlined... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Blackout |
The stage was erected during 2008 and new sails were fitted on 21 November 2011 to complete the restoration of the mill. Larger mills have been lost such as the Great Yarmouth Southtown mill (120 ft to top of lantern that functioned as a lighthouse) or Bixley tower mill (137 feet to the cap top) both in Norfolk. In the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_mill |
Entomoremediation is a variant of bioremediation in which insects decontaminate soils. Entomoremediation techniques engage microorganisms, collembolans, ants, flies, beetles, and termites. It is dependent on saprophytic insect larvae, resistant to adverse environmental conditions and able to bioaccumulate toxic heavy m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_remediation |
When the user runs an analysis from within the control panel, his or her entries are converted to a C program, which is then compiled and executed. Outputs from the C program are returned to new tabs in the Excel workbook. The C program performs a multi-year budget simulation using random number generation routines fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Sector_Credit_Framework |
The state of the initial composite system is then described by the following tensor product: | ϕ ⟩ A ⊗ | e ⟩ B . {\displaystyle |\phi \rangle _{A}\otimes |e\rangle _{B}.} (in the following we will omit the ⊗ {\displaystyle \otimes } symbol and keep it implicit). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem |
The systems included cameras on the train stations and on the trains. The design aimed to avoid more fatal accidents by distributing real-time video feed both to the train drivers and to the operators in the command central. The installation included 1000 mesh nodes as well as 650 cameras.January 2009, Firetide install... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firetide |
The steam engine cross-head sliding surface provides the reaction to the connecting rod force on the crank-pin and varies between zero and a maximum twice during each revolution of the crankshaft.Unlike hammer blow, which alternately adds and subtracts for each revolution of the wheel, piston thrust only adds to the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_imbalance |
The Church also built public bathing facilities that were separate for both sexes near monasteries and pilgrimage sites; also, the popes situated baths within church basilicas and monasteries since the early Middle Ages. Catholic religious orders of the Augustinians' and Benedictines' rules contained ritual purificatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa_bath |
There is no such tort in English common law; thus, any jurisdiction that lacks a wrongful death statute will not allow a lawsuit for the wrongful death of a loved one. Where a wrongful death statute exists, the compensation or other remedy available is limited to the remedy specified in the statute (typically, an upper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Law |
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