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The third grave was marked by the local population, similar to the second grave. The fourth grave was identified by a priest.Throughout the Rwandan genocide, bodies were buried in mass graves, left exposed, or disposed of through rivers. At least 40,000 bodies have been discovered in Lake Victoria which connects to Aka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_burial |
The EM field tensor can also be written F α β = ∂ A β ∂ x α − ∂ A α ∂ x β , {\displaystyle F^{\alpha \beta }={\frac {\partial A^{\beta }}{\partial x_{\alpha }}}-{\frac {\partial A^{\alpha }}{\partial x_{\beta }}}\,,} where A α = ( φ c , A x , A y , A z ) , {\displaystyle A^{\alpha }=\left({\frac {\varphi }{c}},A_{x},A_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electromagnetism_and_special_relativity |
A good or service that is to be delivered in terms of a contract with a customer qualifies as a performance obligation if the good or service is “distinct”. In this context a good or service is distinct if: The stipulated item can be consumed by the customer, either on its own, or in combination with other items that a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFRS_15 |
The term later came into use in incel forums to refer to sexually active, genetically superior men, or "alpha males". Within the manosphere, Chads are generally viewed as constituting the top decile in terms of genetic fitness. In online animation drawings in the manosphere, a Chad is further tagged with an explicit la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(slang) |
Exactly the same error would arise by subtracting 52 cm {\displaystyle 52\,{\text{cm}}} from 54 cm {\displaystyle 54\,{\text{cm}}} as approximations to 52.5 cm {\displaystyle 52.5\,{\text{cm}}} and 53.5 cm {\displaystyle 53.5\,{\text{cm}}} , or by subtracting 2.00052 km {\displaystyle 2.00052\,{\text{km}}} from 2.00054... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_cancellation |
Many languages have some form of an unrounded open vowel. For languages that have only a single open vowel, the symbol for this vowel ⟨a⟩ may be used because it is the only open vowel whose symbol is part of the basic Latin alphabet. Whenever marked as such, the vowel is closer to a central than to a front . However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel |
It is empirically true that this volume is about 0.26Vc (where Vc is the volume at the critical point). This approximation is quite good for many small, non-polar compounds – the value ranges between about 0.24Vc and 0.28Vc. In order for the equation to provide a good approximation of volume at high pressures, it had t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlich–Kwong_equation_of_state |
Patterson frequently discusses such issues as copyright reform, biohacking, the Military Commissions Act, Proposition 8 and civil rights issues, and programming languages on her personal blog. Patterson has also contributed multiple articles to the blog BoingBoing.In spring of 2008, she published a paper with David Cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_L._Patterson |
All orderings between subjects, verbs, and objects are possible in Cherokee sentences, but word order preferences are influenced by a number of factors. Some preferences are determined by information structure; items that express new information typically precede those that refer to entities already in the conversation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_language |
In mathematics, especially homological algebra, a differential graded category, often shortened to dg-category or DG category, is a category whose morphism sets are endowed with the additional structure of a differential graded Z {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} } -module. In detail, this means that Hom ( A , B ) {\display... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_graded_category |
However, that turns out not to be the case: Take an arbitrary path xt for t ∈ [0, 1) in X − A approaching some a ∈ A and interpret it as a path in X/A ⊂ SP(X/A). Then any lift of this path to SP(X) is of the form xtαt with αt ∈ A for every t. But this means that its endpoint aα1 is a multiple of a, hence different from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dold–Thom_theorem |
This enables training very deep recurrent neural networks with a very long time span t. A later LSTM version published in 2000 modulates the identity LSTM connections by so-called forget gates such that their weights are not fixed to 1.0 but can be learned. In experiments, the forget gates were initialized with positiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_neural_network |
Standard roller screws are typically identified by screw diameter (typically ranging from 3.5mm – 200mm) and lead (1mm – 62mm). The threading of the screw (3 – 6 starts) is either rolled (lower capacity) or ground (higher capacity). The diameters of the nut and rollers (7 – 14 in quantity) are simple functions of the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_screw |
Finite semiotics, developed by Cameron Shackell (2018, 2019), aims to unify existing theories of semiotics for application to the post-Baudrillardian world of ubiquitous technology. Its central move is to place the finiteness of thought at the root of semiotics and the sign as a secondary but fundamental analytical con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics |
In Topkapı Palace one of his most notable works, the Chamber or Pavilion of Murad III, was built in 1578. In 1580 he built the Şemsi Pasha Complex, a small mosque, tomb, and medrese complex on the waterside of Üsküdar which is considered one of the best small mosques he designed. In 1580–1581 he built the Kılıç Ali Pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_architecture |
But capitalism progressively gives way to the exclusion of subjectivity by modern technology, which replaces living work by automated technological processes, eliminating at one stroke the power of creating value and ultimately value itself: possessions are produced in abundance, but unemployment increases and there is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenological_definition_of_God |
Research in many areas is now being directed by private companies. "On the global level, "nstitutions dominating a specific sector also, at every level, present the risk of reliance on technical bodies that use their own references and deliberate in an isolated environment. This process can be observed with the 'commun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_governance |
If a graph G is oriented acyclically with outdegree k, then its edges may be partitioned into k forests by choosing one forest for each outgoing edge of each node. Thus, the arboricity of G is at most equal to its degeneracy. In the other direction, an n-vertex graph that can be partitioned into k forests has at most k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_degeneracy |
This is called the Gauss equation, as it may be viewed as a generalization of Gauss's Theorema Egregium. For general Riemannian manifolds one has to add the curvature of ambient space; if N is a manifold embedded in a Riemannian manifold (M,g) then the curvature tensor RN of N with induced metric can be expressed using... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_tensor |
Fed by its larger tributaries and many small mountain streams, it reaches flood heights of 48 feet (15 m) above mean water level and a velocity of 15 to 20 feet per second (6 m/s). The rapid runoff of approximately 95 percent of precipitation during heavy general rains has caused Imjin, on occasion, to rise at a rate o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imjin_River |
The authors Zeng et al. argue that competition between patrilineal kin communities produces two mechanisms with limiting effect on Y-chromosome diversity. One mechanism being these patrilineal groups by virtue of common descent produce elevated levels of Y-chromosome homogeneity and high inter-group diversity. The seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hitchhiking |
As conspiracy beliefs about AIDS grow in a given sector of these black men, consistent condom use drops in that same sector. Female use of condoms was not similarly affected.In the African continent, condom promotion in some areas has been impeded by anti-condom campaigns by some Muslim and Catholic clerics. Among the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latex_condom |
Emceeing is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes and wordplay, delivered at first without accompaniment and later done over a beat. This spoken style was influenced by the African American style of "capping", a performance where men tried to outdo each other in originality of their language and tried to gain the favo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music |
Writing in Architecture Week (August 4, 2004), Hauer explains that "Continuity and potential infinity have been at the very center of my sculpture from early on." Hauer made an extensive study of biomorphic form, especially what he calls "saddle surfaces," which combine convex and concave curvature and thus allow for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_constructivism |
According to the limit-of-means criterion, they provide the same utility to player i, but according to the overtaking criterion, y {\displaystyle y} is better than x {\displaystyle x} for player i. See overtaking criterion for more information. The folk theorems with the overtaking criterion are slightly weaker than wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_theorem_(game_theory) |
Most research has assumed that Ötzi died roughly on the spot where he was found. In 2010, it was proposed that Ötzi died at a much lower altitude and was buried higher in the mountains, as posited by archaeologist Alessandro Vanzetti of the Sapienza University of Rome and his colleagues. According to their study of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ötzi |
Unlike synthetic polymers, there has been a success with a wider range of natural polymers: collagen, plasma clots, fibrin, alginate and decellularized ovarian tissue.The microenvironment of the structure should mimic that of the natural ovary, so the artificial ovary should support the follicles structurally, but also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_ovaries |
Walther's law of facies, or simply Walther's law, named after the geologist Johannes Walther (1860-1937), states that the vertical succession of facies reflects lateral changes in environment. Conversely, it states that when a depositional environment "migrates" laterally, sediments of one depositional environment come... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther's_law |
In Hamilton's paradigm, fitnesses calculated according to in the weaning-to-weaning perspective are inclusive fitnesses, and fitnesses calculated in the conception-to-conception perspective are personal fitnesses. This distinction is independent of whether the altruism involved in child rearing is toward descendants or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_fitness |
The graph of a cubic function is a cubic curve, though many cubic curves are not graphs of functions. Although cubic functions depend on four parameters, their graph can have only very few shapes. In fact, the graph of a cubic function is always similar to the graph of a function of the form y = x 3 + p x . {\displayst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_functions |
C2H7NO may refer to: 1-Aminoethanol, an organic compound with the formula CH3CH(NH2)OH N,O-Dimethylhydroxylamine, a methylated hydroxylamine commercially available as its hydrochloride salt Ethanolamine, an organic chemical compound with the formula HOCH2CH2NH2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C2H7NO |
Among the Yorùbá people of West Africa, and also in Dahomean religion, Trinidad, and in Brazil, The deity Sopona, also known as Obaluaye, is the deity of smallpox and other deadly diseases (like leprosy, HIV/AIDS, and fevers). One of the most feared deities of the orisha pantheon, smallpox was seen as a form of punishm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_virus |
The risks of impacting such objects and mitigation methods have been discussed in literature, but many unknowns remain. An additional consideration is that due the non-homogeneous distribution of interstellar matter around the Sun, these risks would vary between different trajectories. Although a high density interstel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_calculation |
Roman Jakobson has asserted that no such language is known; however, that is disputed by some linguists who oppose the theory. For example, Robert Blust showed that a system of voiceless, voiced and voiced aspirated (not murmured) stops, as postulated in the traditional reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, exists in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottalic_theory |
Weighted sterling or weighted silver refers to items such as candlesticks, candy dishes, salt and pepper shakers, and trophies that have a heavy thick weighted foot or pedestal base, in order to keep them steady and not easy to topple over. Wax, plaster, copper, or lead is used in the base to give the item strength, st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_sterling |
In the second type of indeterminate music (the only type of indeterminate music according to Cage's definition), chance elements involve the performance. Notated events are provided by the composer, but their arrangement is left to the determination of the performer. According to Cage, examples include Johann Sebastian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_music |
There are a growing number of research projects and groups focusing directly or indirectly on microbiomes of the built environment. BIMERC - the Berkeley Indoor Microbial Ecology Research Consortium. This group is focused on "understanding the microbial components of indoor air, including the identification of the sour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiomes_of_the_built_environment |
Dan Ackerman of CNET wrote, "In our brief hands-on time with the ThinkPad Yoga, while it's made of tough, light magnesium alloy, it didn't feel as slick and coffee shop ready as the IdeaPad version (and it lacks the extremely high-res screen of the Yoga 2), but the hidden keyboard think is so fascinating, you'll find ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Yoga |
They are used as supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) or as aggregates for cements and concretes. They have been extensively used since ancient times to produce materials for building applications. For example, pumice and other volcanic glasses were added as a natural pozzolanic material for mortars and plasters ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete |
Therefore, the Greeks chose the simpler of the two explanations. Another observation used in favor of the geocentric model at the time was the apparent consistency of Venus' luminosity, which implies that it is usually about the same distance from Earth, which in turn is more consistent with geocentrism than heliocentr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_system |
The eggs are 31.3 mm × 23.0 mm (1.23 in × 0.91 in) and weigh around 8.5 g (0.30 oz). They are incubated by the female and hatch after 16–19 days. While the female is on the nest the male brings her food. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_jay |
As of 2007, coyotes were the most abundant livestock predators in western North America, causing the majority of sheep, goat, and cattle losses. For example, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, coyotes were responsible for 60.5% of the 224,000 sheep deaths attributed to predation in 2004. The tot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_latrans |
Battering rams still have a use in modern times. Police forces often employ small, one-man or two-man metal rams, known as enforcers, for forcing open locked portals or effecting a door breaching. Modern battering rams sometimes incorporate a pneumatic cylinder and piston driven by compressed air, which are triggered b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battering_rams |
So, under these circumstances, temperatures tend to increase overall (though temperatures might decrease in some places as the distribution of energy changes). As temperatures increase, the amount of thermal radiation emitted also increases, leading to more outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), and a smaller energy imbala... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outgoing_longwave_radiation |
He calculated the angle of association and gave a convincing demonstration of pictures of intricate plastic models, but did not provide a proof of embeddedness. Schoen noted that the gyroid contains neither straight lines nor planar symmetries. Karcher gave a different, more contemporary treatment of the surface in 198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroid |
There are many types of organisations that carry out the recovery of disabled vehicles; however, they can be divided into two distinct areas: Recovery Operators (who undertake the recovery) and Motoring Organisations. Motoring organisations—or as they are often known, 'The Clubs'—are organisations to which the vehicle'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_recovery |
The work of the main producers in the style concentrated on single decorative items such as vases, jugs and bowls, rather than sets of tableware. There were a relatively large numbers of basic shapes in the plain clay body, and these were heavily decorated, typically with a great variety of glaze effects in more than o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Lava |
The factory's workers included around 17,000 women from the surrounding towns and villages, who worked filling shells and bullets and assembling detonators and fuzes for the war effort. They became known as the "Aycliffe Angels" after a Nazi propaganda broadcast from Lord Haw-Haw threatened that "The little angels of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROF_Aycliffe |
Here some interesting results enter, from the physics. It has been shown that physics models in each of the three geometries are "dual" for some models. Again, n-dimensional anti-de Sitter space and (n−1)-dimensional conformal space with "Lorentzian" signature (in contrast with conformal space with "Euclidean" signatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlanger_program |
The wind-induced collapse occurred on November 7, 1940, at approximately 11:00 a.m. (PST). Leonard Coatsworth, an editor at The News Tribune in Tacoma, was the last person to drive on the bridge: Around me I could hear concrete cracking. I started back to the car to get the dog, but was thrown before I could reach it. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) |
The broadening of freedom of expression created “the online world...in which we are allowed to voice our own opinions.” The reduction of the inequalities of power and wealth meant that everyone has an equal status on the internet and is allowed to do as much as the next person. Technology inevitably progresses. The int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopia |
An activating pulse generated self-sustaining loops of communication activity among the neurons. A second pulse ended this activity. The pulses switched the system between stable states: flow (recording a "memory"), and stasis (holding it). Small world neuronal networks have also been used as models to understand seizu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_networks |
SplendidCRM, Inc. was founded in November 2005 by Paul Rony. The project began as an experiment to test the effectiveness of the Microsoft .NET development environment at porting an application from the LAMP software bundle to the Microsoft ASP.NET framework. It was soon noted that there were few initiatives at the tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SplendidCRM |
Discovered by Fox et al. in 2002, paraspeckles are irregularly shaped compartments in the interchromatin space of the nucleus. First documented in HeLa cells, where there are generally 10–30 per nucleus, paraspeckles are now known to also exist in all human primary cells, transformed cell lines, and tissue sections. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_speckles |
The IEEE 802.3ch-2020 2.5GBASE-T1, 5GBASE-T1, and 10GBASE-T1 standards are derived from the IEEE 802.3bp-2016 1000BASE-T1 Ethernet over single twisted pair standard, and share very little in common with the similarly named 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T standards at the PHY layer. 2.5GBASE-T1, 5GBASE-T1, and 10GBASE-T1 can ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5GBASE-T_and_5GBASE-T |
Other factors that can increase rate of progression of sarcopenia include decreased nutrient intake, low physical activity, or chronic disease. Additionally, epidemiological research has indicated that early environmental influences may have long-term effects on muscle health. For example, low birth weight, a marker of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopenia |
A fractionating column or fractional column is equipment used in the distillation of liquid mixtures to separate the mixture into its component parts, or fractions, based on their differences in volatility. Fractionating columns are used in small-scale laboratory distillations as well as large-scale industrial distilla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation_tower |
Vahey, D.C., Aiken, L.H., Sloane, D.M., Clarke, S.P., Vargas, D. Nurse Burnout and Patient Satisfaction. Medical Care, 2004, 42(2): Suppl, II57-66. Rogers, A.E., Hwang, W.T., Scott, L.D., Aiken, L.H., Dinges, D.F. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Aiken |
Ammonia is a colourless gas with a characteristically pungent smell. It is lighter than air, its density being 0.589 times that of air. It is easily liquefied due to the strong hydrogen bonding between molecules. Gaseous ammonia turns to the colourless liquid which boils at −33.1 °C (−27.58 °F), and freezes to colourle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_fuel |
Bigelow Aerospace develops BA 330 module (based on the former NASA TransHab design) intended to be used for activities like microgravity research, space manufacturing, and space tourism with modules serving as orbital "hotels". To promote private crewed launch efforts, Bigelow offered the US$50 million America's Space ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_spacecraft |
Ulceration erodes the gastric mucosa, which protects the tissue of the stomach from the stomach acids. Peptic ulcers are most commonly caused by a bacterial Helicobacter pylori infection. Epstein–Barr virus infection is another factor to induce gastric cancer.As well as peptic ulcers, vomiting blood may result from abn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_infection |
Introduce a connection that depends also on an initial one-form ∂ μ ω {\displaystyle \partial _{\mu }\omega } via B μ = A μ + ∂ μ ω . {\displaystyle B_{\mu }=A_{\mu }+\partial _{\mu }\omega .} Then D μ φ ≡ ∂ μ φ + k B μ φ {\displaystyle D_{\mu }\varphi \equiv \partial _{\mu }\varphi +kB_{\mu }\varphi } is covariant and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl_connection |
The Coal Authority is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). On behalf of the country, it owns the vast majority of unworked coal in Great Britain, as well as former coal mines, and undertakes a range of functions including: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Authority |
The less steep side (at the low point) is their dip slope (intersecting 'ground' surface, and disappearing underground) and the steeper other side (the opposite, and at the high point) is their escarpment. In case of hogbacks, the steepness of the dip slope and escarpment will be about the same. Dip slopes can also be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dip_slope |
It is also because of the presumption of unequal bargaining power that residential spaces are afforded more protections. States, counties, and cities have different laws, and likewise, varying levels of protections for the tenants and landlords of commercial spaces. Commercial leases are leases for spaces that are for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord–tenant_law |
Campione d'Italia is an enclave and exclave of Italy surrounded by Switzerland. Büsingen am Hochrhein is an enclave and exclave of Germany surrounded by Switzerland. The shortest distance from Büsingen's borders to the main portion of German territory is only about 700 metres (about 2,300 ft). Likoma and Chizumulu Isla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detached_part |
"Even if we cannot say with confidence that the scope of the term 'possessions' mandates a right of privacy in real estate, it certainly does not rule out such a right." He noted that this interpretation was at odds with Oliver, and said the fault lay with the Oliver Court, which had "misinterpreted its own Fourth Amen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-fields_doctrine |
High costs and high risk of failure: When a business attempts to innovate its product, it injects much capital and time into it, which requires severe experimentation. Constant experimentation could result in failure for the business and will also cause the business to incur significantly higher costs. Furthermore, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_innovation |
The British school was more interested in class, culture and politics, and placed human subjects at the centre of analysis. Where mode of production analysis was abstract, they focused on people. Where world-systems theory had little to say about the local, the Cultural Materialists began and ended there. Others connec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy_in_anthropology |
The stories leading up to this were all relatively short. This and the next took up over 100 pages each. This is a story about an android named Shion who works in a Japanese nursing facility. Shion comes with only extensive nursing training but lacks the knowledge of how to communicate with the residents. After months ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stories_of_Ibis |
Some wastes contain chemicals capable of suppressing microbiological growth or activity. Potential sources include industrial wastes, antibiotics in pharmaceutical or medical wastes, sanitizers in food processing or commercial cleaning facilities, chlorination disinfection used following conventional sewage treatment, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_oxygen_demand |
The new computer (TsVM-101), weighs one-eighth that of its predecessor (8.3 kg versus 70 kg) while also being much smaller than the previous Argon-16 computer. While as of July 2016 it is not known whether the propulsion system is still called KTDU-80, it has been significantly modified. While previously the system had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS |
Digital pets are a subgenre of artificial life game where players train, maintain, and watch a simulated animal. The pets can be simulations of real animals, or fantasy pets. Unlike genetic artificial life games that focus on larger populations of organisms, digital pet games usually allow players to interact with one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_simulation |
Due to Japan's aging population, the Late-stage Elderly Medical System represents one third of the country's total healthcare cost. When retiring employees shift from Employee Health Insurance to the Late-stage Elderly Medical System, the national cost of health insurance is expected to increase since individual health... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_insurance |
In 1919 the Société purchased the important Neolithic site of La Hougue Bie, excavating it in 1924 revealing a Neolithic chambered passage grave c.4000BC. The site was then restored and opened as a museum. The Sociéte flourished throughout the 20th century, notwithstanding the difficult years of the German military occ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_Jersiaise |
The team cruised through the 1986 regular season, building a double-digit lead before July that only widened in the second half of the season. After the Mets dropped the opening game of the 1986 National League Championship Series to the Houston Astros, Ojeda pitched a complete game to easily win Game 2. He also starte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ojeda |
To apply the strategy, a high-molecular-weight DNA strand is sheared into random fragments, size-selected (usually 2, 10, 50, and 150 kb), and cloned into an appropriate vector. The clones are then sequenced from both ends using the chain termination method yielding two short sequences. Each sequence is called an end-r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-genome_shotgun |
The three most common symptoms of Opitz G/BBB syndrome (both type I & II) are hypertelorism (exceptionally wide-spaced eyes), laryngo-tracheo-esophalgeal defects (including clefts and holes in the palate, larynx, trachea and esophagus) and hypospadias (urinary openings in males not at the tip of the penis) (Meroni, Opi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opitz_G/BBB_syndrome |
In January 1910, a doctor volunteered to do the surgery at no cost.After his successful surgery, Ramanujan searched for a job. He stayed at a friend's house while he went from door to door around Madras looking for a clerical position. To make money, he tutored students at Presidency College who were preparing for thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan |
An incomplete comparison is a misleading argument popular in advertising. For example, an advertiser might say "product X is better". This is an incomplete assertion, so it can not be refuted. A complete assertion, such as "product X sells for a lower price than product Y" or "the new product X lasts longer than the ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incomplete_comparison |
Further large-scale use of technologies was employed in training soldiers during and after WWII using films and other mediated materials, such as overhead projectors. The concept of hypertext is traced to the description of memex by Vannevar Bush in 1945. Slide projectors were widely used during the 1950s in educationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technologist |
(Schneider 1984, 72) Schneider preferred to focus on these often ignored processes of "performance, forms of doing, various codes for conduct, different roles" (p. 72) as the most important constituents of kinship. His critique quickly prompted a new generation of anthropologists to reconsider how they conceptualized, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship |
Counseling and stigma One of the most common reasons why an individual does not attend counseling is because they are worried about the falling into a stigma (being considered crazy, or having serious “issues”). This stigma, which was prevalent 30 years ago, still exists today. Fortunately, an implementation of the ELM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaboration_likelihood_model |
It is approximately 0.33 acres of grassland surrounded by privacy fencing with razor wire. Outdoor cameras are used to monitor access for security purposes and record research events. Current research focuses on establishing the baseline rate and pattern of decomposition in the unique southern Illinois environment. Add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_farm |
For instance, alginate polymerization is started by calcium ions in the substrate, which diffuse into the liquified bioink and permit for the arrangement of a strong gel. Drop-based bioprinting is commonly utilized due to its productive speed. However, this may make it less appropriate for more complicated organ struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printable_organs |
The earliest portable kerosene "glass globe" lanterns, of the 1850s and 1860s, were of the dead-flame type, meaning that it had an open wick, but the airflow to the flame was strictly controlled in an upward motion by a combination of vents at the bottom of the burner and an open topped chimney. This had the effect of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_lamp |
In Europe, plugs and sockets without additional control or surge protection circuits are outside the scope of the Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC and controlled by National regulations, and therefore must not be CE marked. In the UK the legal requirements for plugs and sockets are listed in Statutory Instrument 1994 N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_strips |
First pre-basic molt (or post-juvenile molt): Generally begins 45–60 days after individuals have left the nest. The molt begins in August and the time at which it begins varies between early and late clutches. This is a complete molt, except for the retention in some individuals of a few down feathers under the wing. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_blackbird |
(Because of this, the 1s in such a list form an approximation to the Sierpiński triangle.) This pattern breaks down after this, as the next Fermat number is composite (4294967297 = 641 × 6700417), so the following rows do not correspond to constructible polygons. It is unknown whether any more Fermat primes exist, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_polygon |
Proxy servers and other methods can be used to bypass the blocking of traffic from IP addresses. However, anti-proxy strategies are available. Consumer-grade internet routers can sometimes obtain a new public IP address on-demand from the ISP using DHCP lease renewal to circumvent individual IP address blocks. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_blocking |
Fourth, it allows suppliers to charge for water based on use, which is perceived by many as the fairest way to allocate the costs of water supply to users. Metering is considered good practice in water supply and is widespread in developed countries, except for the United Kingdom. In developing countries it is estimate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply |
Specialised stainless steel pulverizers generically known as Tissue Pulverizers are also available for this purpose. They require less manual effort, give good sample recovery and are easy to clean between samples. Advantages of this technique are higher yields of proteins and nucleic acids from small, hard tissue samp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead_beating |
This may have derived from their regular molting. The motif of lizards on Christian candle holders probably alludes to the same symbolism. According to Jack Tresidder, in Egypt and the Classical world, they were beneficial emblems, linked with wisdom. In African, Aboriginal and Melanesian folklore they are linked to cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard |
Parametric stereo is similar to intensity stereo, except that parameters beyond the intensity difference is used. In the MPEG-4 (HE-AAC) version, the intensity difference and time delay difference are used, allowing all bands to be used without hurting localization. HE-AAC also adds "correlation" information, which rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_stereo_coding |
Also, the change of nationality must be approved by World Rugby.As for the concept of "capturing"—i.e., being tied to a specific country—the criteria have evolved over the years. Under current World Rugby regulations, a player is captured once they play for one of three specific teams: A union's 15-a-side senior nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_sports_team |
During the Roman Empire, circa 100-300 AD, the Romans learned hoop driving from the Greeks and generally held the sport in high regard. The Latin term for hoop is also "trochus", at times referred to as the "Greek hoop". The stick was known as a "clavis" or "radius", had the shape of a key, and was made of metal with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_rolling |
For isotropic materials, the presence of fractures affects the Young and the shear moduli perpendicular to the planes of the cracks, which decrease (Young's modulus faster than the shear modulus) as the fracture density increases, indicating that the presence of cracks makes bodies brittler. Microscopically, the stress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_body |
The writing style reflects the author's intent to use the text for a lecture series. The narration addresses the audience while guiding it through explanations of the issues and anecdotal illustrations. Lewis' charismatic, eloquent, and energetic oration style is reflected in the writing. The tone has been described as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Against_Time:_Searching_for_Hope_in_AIDS-Ravaged_Africa |
This is repeated until all required decompression has been completed and the diver reaches the surface. The intermittent ascents before the first stop, between stops, and from the last stop to the surface are traditionally known as "pulls", probably because the ascent was originally controlled by the diver's tender pul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dive_tables |
Photons hitting a thin film of alkali metal or semiconductor material such as gallium arsenide in an image intensifier tube cause the ejection of photoelectrons due to the photoelectric effect. These are accelerated by an electrostatic field where they strike a phosphor coated screen, converting the electrons back into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_Effect |
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