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Palaeoapterodytes ictus is an extinct species of penguin from the late Oligocene or early Miocene of Argentina, the only member of its genus. Its fossil remains, consisting of only of a severely worn proximal part of a humerus, were found in the Patagonia Formation. Ameghino named his genus Apterodytes (meaning "wingle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoapterodytes |
As a result, it is common to express energy expenditure as the rate of oxygen consumption in relation to body mass (ex. ml/kg/min).Though some recent data may suggest otherwise, it is traditionally well accepted that a strong linear relationship exists between the rate of oxygen consumption and running speed (see figur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_energetics |
WW2D was a cross-platform, free and open-source application based on Java and OpenGL technologies and can be run on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (x86 and x86-64) and Solaris on SPARC. WW2D uses images from WorldWind's servers. WW2D Plus One - an update to WW2D providing a 3D view. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_WorldWind |
However, danger invulnerability was able to effectively predict "delinquency, lifetime drug use, and drug use frequency." Gender differences in the data showed that adolescent males were more likely to feel invulnerable to danger and psychological effects. The researchers did not observe any difference between the ages... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability |
The landscaping altered the prevailing summer wind making mill operation even harder, so Samuel Corwith sold the mill to them for $900. Ayers and Lombard sold it back to Samuel in 1895 for $1 and he immediately conveyed it to his son, James, for $10. Dr. Edward L. Keyes bought the Lombard/Ayers estate in 1896 and the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill_at_Water_Mill |
In 1942, stationary gas chambers were built at Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek and Auschwitz. After the Nazi takeover of PKP, the train movements, originating inside and outside occupied Poland and terminating at death camps, were tracked by Dehomag using IBM-supplied card-reading machines and traditional waybills... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_trains |
The research in strategic fair division has two main branches. One branch is related to game theory and studies the equilibria in games created by fair division algorithms: The Nash equilibrium of the Dubins-Spanier moving-knife protocol; The Nash equilibrium and subgame-perfect equilibrium of generalized-cut-and-choos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_fair_division |
pH is of utmost importance as coir pith tends to have a high pH after some months of use, resulting in plant stunting and multiple deficiencies. Coir also has the disadvantage of being extremely sensitive to the Leucocoprinus greenhouse fungus. The addition of beneficial microbes to the coir media have been successful ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coir |
Like NASA, Lunex favored the direct ascent mode, and therefore required much larger boosters. As part of the project, they designed an entirely new rocket series known as the Space Launcher System, or SLS (not to be confused with the Space Launch System part of the Artemis program), which combined a number of solid-fue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_rocket |
The heart of the biblical story is God's covenant with the nation of Israel. The Tanakh begins with the Genesis creation narrative and traces Israelite origins to the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob and his family settle in Egypt where their descendants live for 430 years. After the Exodus, the Israelites ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_scriptures |
At about 10:00 am on May 1, a collar connecting two sections of 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) pipe ruptured in Weston, Massachusetts, disrupting the connection between the MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel and the City Tunnel.With the water supply cut off, the emergency water supply reserve system from surrounding ponds was routed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Boston_water_emergency |
He concretely showed that for any δ > 0 {\displaystyle {\displaystyle \delta >0}} and sufficiently large x {\displaystyle {\displaystyle x}} in terms of δ {\displaystyle {\displaystyle \delta }} , there will always be at least exp ( log x ( log log x ) 2 + δ ) {\displaystyle {\displaystyle \exp {\left({\frac {\... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Larsen_(mathematician) |
A traditional Irish superstition sees bells rung at weddings in order to keep evil spirits away and bring a happy, lucky marriage. Some brides will adorn their bouquets with bells or use them in their table centrepieces to follow the superstitious tradition. Upward-facing-horseshoes as bringers of good luck transcend m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_superstitions |
There is a simple way of winning if the pawn is a bishop pawn or central pawn (i.e. on the c-, d-, e-, or f-file) and its king can reach the promotion square of the pawn. In the diagram, 1. Rc2+ would start the process of winning as in the Lucena position (below). However, White also wins more easily by: 1. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rook_and_pawn_versus_rook_endgame |
15 But if the unbelieving partner desires to separate, let it be so; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. For God has called us to peace." The first section, "not I but the Lord", roughly matches Jesus' teaching on divorce, found in an antithesis (Matthew 5:32) with parallels in Matthew 19:9, Luke 16:18, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_privilege |
For the last thirty years of his life, he served as clerk of the State Insurance Department. His funeral service was held at Union Chapel, before interment in the City Cemetery. Hugh O'Keefe Nesbitt Starnes (1856-1926) was born in Augusta, Georgia, to Ebenezer Nesbitt Starnes and Mary Ann White. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Chapel,_Marietta,_Georgia |
Noether's theorem or Noether's first theorem states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system with conservative forces has a corresponding conservation law. The theorem was proven by mathematician Emmy Noether in 1915 and published in 1918. The action of a physical system is the integral ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether’s_theorem |
Post-translation modification of coactivators can result in a dynamic model of steroid hormone action by way of multiple kinase pathways initiated by cell surface growth factor receptors. Under the guidance of a multitude of protein remodelers to form a multiprotein coactivator complex that can interact with the phosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_estrogen-receptor_modulator |
The first compact crossover was the 1980 AMC Eagle that was based on the compact-sized Concord line. Its four-wheel drive system was an almost unheard-of feature on regular passenger cars at the time and it came with full-time all-wheel drive, automatic transmission, power steering, power front disk brakes standard as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_crossover_SUV |
The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA) (S. 1260), formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act, was United States legislation sponsored by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Todd Young (R-IN) authorizing $110 billion for basic and advanced technology research over a five-year period. Investment i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Innovation_and_Competition_Act |
Murray Rosenblatt (September 7, 1926 – October 9, 2019) was a statistician specializing in time series analysis who was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He was also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, in 1965, and was a member of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rosenblatt |
Postmodernism is associated with the decline of the left's credibility, specifically in the failure of state socialism to offer an attractive and, later, even a viable alternative to Western capitalism. Both Marxism and socialism derived their philosophical foundation from the Enlightenment. Postmodernism is a critique... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernist_school |
The heyday of the rigid airship was abruptly ended by the destruction of the Hindenburg by fire on 6 May 1937. The disaster not only destroyed the biggest zeppelin in the world but caused considerable reputation damage to rigid airships in general. Amid widespread public safety concerns, several nations opted to perman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid_airship |
"Frängsmyr was born in 1938, the son of Johan and Linnea Karlsson. He grew up in Sjöbotten outside Bureå in Västerbotten, as the fifth of eight children; the family took the name Frängsmyr in 1954, after Frängsmyren, a wetland area near Sjöbotten. Tore Frängsmyr worked as a freelance journalist at the newspaper Norra V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tore_Frängsmyr |
The Biografisch Portaal (Biography Portal) is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in Amsterdam, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible. The project was started in February 2010 with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, with the goal to grant digital... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biografisch_Portaal |
The addition of polyethylene glycol (PEG) to the process causes silica particles to aggregate into a macroporous continuous block, allowing access to a monolithic morphology. PEG polymers with allyl or silyl end groups with a molecular weight of greater than 2000 g mol−1 are required. The Stöber process is initiated un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stober_process |
Ideas about the transmutation of species were strongly associated with the radical materialism of the Enlightenment and were greeted with hostility by more conservative thinkers. Cuvier attacked the ideas of Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, agreeing with Aristotle that species were immutable. Cuvier believed that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmutation_of_species |
Consumption-based emission accounting (also called consumption-based carbon accounting) traces back the impacts of demand for goods and services to the end consumer. It places responsibility to demand along the global supply chain all the way to the end consumer. In contrast, a production-based approach to calculating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint |
Since NaO2 will decompose reversibly to an extent back to the elemental components, this means sodium–air batteries have some intrinsic capacity to be rechargeable. Sodium–air batteries can only function with aprotic, anhydrous electrolytes. When a DMSO electrolyte was stabilized with sodium trifluoromethanesulfonimide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal–air_electrochemical_cell |
In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the tetrahedron-octahedron honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from octahedron and tetrahedron cells, in a rhombicuboctahedron vertex figure. A geometric honeycomb is a space-filling of polyhedral or higher-dimensional cells, so that there are no gaps. It is an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_tetrahedral-octahedral_honeycomb |
Epidemics occurred in the British Isles and throughout Europe, for instance, during the English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War, and the Napoleonic Wars. Many historians believe that the typhus outbreak among Napoleon's troops is the real reason why he stalled his military campaign into Russia, rather than starvation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic_typhus |
U. elliptica, in Koch's description (1849), has smooth shoots, oblong acuminate double-toothed leaves unequal at base, with upper surface roughly hairy and lower covered with dense fine hairs, and a short petiole; clustered flowers on long stalks, with five-lobed fringed perianth and five stamens; and elliptic samara, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus_elliptica |
One is piezomagnetism, which consists of linear coupling between a magnetic field in a solid and a deformation (analogous to piezoelectricity). The other is a linear coupling between magnetic and electric fields in a media, which would cause, for example, a magnetization proportional to an electric field. Both these ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiferroics |
Ting joined the MIT Chemistry Department in 2002 where she was the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor until 2016. In 2016, she moved to Stanford University, Departments of Genetics, of Biology, and, by courtesy, of Chemistry. Her research harnesses the power of directed evolution and synthetic organic chemistry to develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Y._Ting |
This, coupled with the horizontal motion used maximises the opportunity for the finer particles to pass, thus enhancing the quality and efficiency of separation. Easily maintainedMost modern day gyratory screening machines employ the use of screen cleaners, which act to prevent any clogging of the gyratory sifters. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyratory_equipment |
The GTPase Associated Center (GAC) is a region on the large ribosomal subunit that consists of two smaller regions of 23S ribosomal RNA called the L11 stalk and the sarcin-ricin loop (SRL). As a highly conserved rRNA loop in evolution, the SRL is critical in helping GTPases bind to the ribosome, but is not essential fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF-G |
Platinum coins are a popular investment, and each year the number of such coins sold by Sberbank of Russia increases by 30–50%. Most experts agree that such investments should have a long-term character, as the rise of the platinum price is relatively slow – about 80% over the last 5 years, except for a rapid rise foll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_coin |
Since prehistoric times humans have exploited certain anadromous fishes during their migrations into freshwater streams, when they are more vulnerable to capture. Societies dating to the Millingstone Horizon are known which exploited the anadromous fishery of Morro Creek and other Pacific coast estuaries. In Nevada the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrating_fish |
Maharashtra govt has formed 'Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana Society' (RGJAY Society) to implement and monitor this scheme in coordination with the National Insurance Company (NIC). RGJAY Society and NIC has identified eligible hospitals throughout the Maharashtra and has empanelled them to implement this scheme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Jyotiba_Phule_Jan_Arogya_Yojana |
A stellar-wind bubble is a cavity light-years across filled with hot gas blown into the interstellar medium by the high-velocity (several thousand km/s) stellar wind from a single massive star of type O or B. Weaker stellar winds also blow bubble structures, which are also called astrospheres. The heliosphere blown by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_wind_bubble |
Wallerian degeneration is an active process of degeneration that results when a nerve fiber is cut or crushed and the part of the axon distal to the injury (which in most cases is farther from the neuron's cell body) degenerates. A related process of dying back or retrograde degeneration known as 'Wallerian-like degene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallerian_degeneration |
(As opposed to 33-36% for the pilot-boats and the rescue boats). All yachts, except the Asgard, and all pilot-boats, are cutter rigged (one mast). The yachts have their main boom extending the stern for several feet that with a relatively tall mast enhanced performance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Archer |
The term was coined in mediaeval Latin as cunicularium (plural cunicularia), from Classical Latin cunicularis "pertaining to the rabbit", itself from cuniculus, from which the English "cony" (the European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus) derives. The Latin is taken from the Greek κύνικλος kúniklos (kýniklos) (compare mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunicularium |
The human ear has evolved with two basic tools to encode sound waves; each is separate in detecting high and low-frequency sounds. Georg von Békésy (1899–1972) employed the use of a microscope in order to examine the basilar membrane located within the inner-ear of cadavers. He found that movement of the basilar membra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_of_the_inner_ear |
The academy selects the Nominees and Winners for the Webby Awards and the Lovie Awards, which have been described as the leading honors for websites and individual achievement in technology and creativity. The Webby Awards have been described as the "Oscars of the Internet" in the media, and popular television series s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Academy_of_Digital_Arts_and_Sciences |
Supported atomic types are integer, float, boolean and string, and typing is done implicitly. Workflows are constructed by assigning outputs of component instances to inputs of following components. Component instances can also be wrapped as functions. In addition to standard if-else and switch-case statements, Anduril... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_(workflow_engine) |
Lidar Radar Stereo photogrammetry from aerial surveys Structure from motion / Multi-view stereo applied to aerial photography Block adjustment from optical satellite imagery Interferometry from radar data Real Time Kinematic GPS Topographic maps Theodolite or total station Doppler radar Focus variation Inertial surveys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Terrain_Model |
The sealed ultra-high-pressure circuit ran at between 1,200 and 1,600 psi (8.27 and 11.03 MPa), depending on the rate of firing. The HP boiler worked at approx 850 psi (5.86 MPa), and the low-pressure boiler at 200 to 250 psi (1.38 to 1.72 MPa). The UHP and HP boilers were of a water-tube design, while the LP boiler wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_high-pressure_system |
Adolfo Hohenstein (18 March 1854 – 12 April 1928) was a German painter, advertiser, illustrator, set designer and costume designer. Hohenstein is considered the father of Italian poster art and an exponent of the Stile Liberty, the Italian Art Nouveau. Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Giovanni Mario Mataloni, Leopoldo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Hohenstein |
Frogs can easily adapt at the surroundings using hindlimbs. The main reason is it can jump high to easily escape to its predator and also to catch prey. It can perform some tricks using the hindlimbs such as the somersault and hindersault. Frogs have 4 digits in fore limb while hindlimb have 5 digits. All digits are wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind_limb |
It remains to be seen where the advantage is over using a gaussian rather than a poor approximation. When applied in two dimensions, this formula produces a Gaussian surface that has a maximum at the origin, whose contours are concentric circles with the origin as center. A two-dimensional convolution matrix is precomp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_filter |
The mouth contains a great number and variety of bacteria, and when sucrose, the most common of sugars, coats the surface of the mouth, some intraoral bacteria interact with it and form lactic acid, which decreases the pH in the mouth. The critical pH for tooth enamel is generally accepted to be pH 5.5. When acids are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enamel_of_teeth |
On May 23, 2015, Nash and his wife died in a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike near Exit 8A in Monroe Township, New Jersey. After a visit to Norway, where Nash had received the Abel Prize, they had made arrangements to be picked up by a limo at Newark Airport. But because of a change in flight plans at the last m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr. |
The further processing of green coke by calcining in a rotary kiln removes residual volatile hydrocarbons from the coke. The calcined petroleum coke can be further processed in an anode baking oven to produce anode coke of the desired shape and physical properties. The anodes are mainly used in the aluminium and steel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_coke |
More generally, for any distribution over high-dimensional, real-valued vectors, if two particular elements of the vector are perfectly correlated (or perfectly anti-correlated), those two elements will become stuck, and Gibbs sampling will never be able to change them. The second problem can happen even when all state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_sampling |
1895: W&H manufactured a universal handpiece with adjustable head angle, to provide optimum access to the treatment site. 1926: The first file contra-angle headpiece manufactured by W&H, the Cursor, simplified mechanical root canal preparation. 1933: W&H engineer Roda was inspired to integrate a light source into W&H's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W&H_Dentalwerk |
A type of incompatibility that is found as often in plants as in animals occurs when the egg or ovule is fertilized but the zygote does not develop, or it develops and the resulting individual has a reduced viability. This is the case for crosses between species of the frog order, where widely differing results are obs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_sterility |
After the Human Genome Project researchers focused on evolutionary comparisons of the genome structures of different species. The whole genome of any species can be sequenced completely and repeatedly to obtain a comprehensive single-nucleotide map. This method makes it possible to compare genomes for any two species r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_diversity_and_karyotype_evolution_of_mammals |
The Zincke reaction is an organic reaction, named after Theodor Zincke, in which a pyridine is transformed into a pyridinium salt by reaction with 2,4-dinitro-chlorobenzene and a primary amine. The Zincke reaction should not be confused with the Zincke-Suhl reaction or the Zincke nitration. Furthermore, the Zincke reac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zincke_reaction |
In 2006, a poll was taken, aimed at the community. Adults were asked to share and opinions about what concept they would like to see for a future model from the Lego Group. Some of the common ideas submitted were more town and everyday buildings, structures with more architectural detail, realistic buildings, minifigur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Modular_Buildings |
On July 2, 2020, a BBC News reporter was still able to find many boogaloo-related TikTok posts by users who had employed various methods to avoid detection by moderators on the platform.A Twitter spokesperson said that Twitter views boogaloo content as free expression and does not ban accounts solely for their use of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement |
Astaxanthin is present in most red-coloured aquatic organisms. The content varies from species to species, but also from individual to individual as it is highly dependent on diet and living conditions. Astaxanthin, and other chemically related asta-carotenoids, has also been found in a number of lichen species of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astaxanthin |
The subcarrier is within the bandwidth of the main luminance signal and consequently can cause undesirable artifacts on the picture, all the more noticeable in black and white receivers. A small sample of the subcarrier, the colorburst, is included in the horizontal blanking portion, which is not visible on the screen.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogue_TV |
He pioneered research on electrical contact with single atoms and molecules, light emission and molecular imaging using STM. His accomplishments include the first STM-manipulation of molecules at room temperature, the realization of molecular abacus using buckyballs (C60), the discovery of single molecule rotors and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gimzewski |
2003 – Generation II Group, Inc. 2005 – Advanced Prosthetic Components 2005 – Royce Medical, Inc. 2005 – Innovative Medical Products, Ltd. 2005 – GBM Medical AB. 2006 – Innovation Sports, Inc. 2006 – Gibaud Group 2007 – SOMAS 2010 – Orthopaedic Partner Africa 2012 – Evolution Industries 2013 – TeamOlmed 2016 – Touch Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Össur |
Shigella species are classified by three serogroups and one serotype: Serogroup A: S. dysenteriae (15 serotypes) Serogroup B: S. flexneri (9 serotypes) Serogroup C: S. boydii (19 serotypes) Serogroup D: S. sonnei (one serotype)Groups A–C are physiologically similar; S. sonnei (group D) can be differentiated on the basi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigella |
The spectral data provided by glass manufacturers is also often more precise for these two wavelengths.Both, d and e spectral lines are singlets and thus are suitable to perform a very precise measurements, such as spectral goniometric method.In practical applications, measurements of refractive index are performed on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refraction_index |
Smaart can be used to find the delay time between two signals, in which case the computer needs two input channels and the software uses a transfer function measurement engine. Called "Delay Locator", the software calculates the impulse responses of two continuous audio signals, finding the similarities in the signals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smaart |
In other words, "the very existence of social subjects (who would become audience members) is already a rhetorical effect. "Political speeches, manifestos, and resistance movements participate in this type of discourse, to establish an identity and a call to action within that identity. A leader's speech calling a "nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutive_rhetoric |
In 2003, however, four galaxies (NGC 821, NGC 3379, NGC 4494, and NGC 4697) were found to have little to no dark matter influencing the motion of the stars contained within them; the reason behind the lack of dark matter is unknown.In the 1950s, strong radio sources were found to be associated with very dim, very red o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_spectrum |
It also increases the probability of continuing to strive towards pre-existing goals that seem difficult to reach instead of just giving up.The effects of positive thinking are not yet thoroughly researched, but some studies suggest that there is a correlation between positive thinking and well-being. For example, stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_life |
anuttarayogatantra, also known as Mahayoga) are in turn seen as the highest tantric practices in Tibetan Buddhism. Anuttarayoga tantric practice is divided into two stages, the generation stage and the completion stage. In the generation stage, one meditates on emptiness and visualizes one's chosen deity (yidam), its m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantric_sex |
Whilst the drinking of punch from punchbowls was an actual social practice of the times, the Sydney Cove punchbowls were specially commissioned and expensive items which had other purposes. Such punchbowls were prestigious items owned by individuals of high rank in society, such as John Hosking Sydney's first elected M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_punchbowls |
Faune de France is a 99 volume synthesis of Zoology of France published between 1921 and 1999. The books are written in the French language. They contain identification keys. Launched in 1921 by the French Federation of Natural Science Societies, the Faune de France collection was published from 1921 to 1966 (nos.1 to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faune_de_France_(book_series) |
Episodic heating often observed in active regions, including major events such as flares and coronal mass ejections could be provoked by cascade effects, similar to those described by the mathematical theories of catastrophes. In the hypothesis that the solar corona is in a state of self-organized criticality, the stre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoflare |
These systems have a fairly limited range, usually 3 to 20 miles (4.8 to 32 km) depending on terrain. Repeaters installed on tall buildings, hills, or mountain peaks are often used to increase the range when it is desired to cover a larger area than line-of-sight. Examples of land mobile systems are CB, FRS, GMRS, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_communication |
Battersby chose to investigate mimics for myoglobin and cytochrome P450, designing artificial targets wherein a single metal-containing coordination complex was synthesised and its behaviour compared with the natural system it was replacing. The small-molecule targets were porphyrins carrying substituents in positions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_R._Battersby |
One of the simplest cases to visualise is a vibrating string, as in the illustration; the string has fixed points at each end, and each harmonic mode divides it into an integer number (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) of equal-sized sections resonating at increasingly higher frequencies. Similar arguments apply to vibrating air colum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music) |
This provided on-the-go shifting to suit varied needs; the operator was offered ten forward gears and two reverse, instead of the usual five and one. Another addition to these tractors was the independent ("live") power take-off (PTO), which meant that the farmer could run the PTO even when the clutch was disengaged (c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmall_tractor |
Breathing in this method works by physically preventing the abdominal contractions required to expel stomach contents. Supportive therapy and diaphragmatic breathing has shown to cause improvement in 56% of cases, and total cessation of symptoms in an additional 30% in one study of 54 adolescent patients who were follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumination_syndrome |
Enos flew into space aboard Mercury-Atlas 5 on November 29, 1961. He completed his first orbit in 1 hour and 28.5 minutes.Enos was scheduled to complete three orbits, but the mission was aborted after two, due to two issues: capsule overheating and a malfunctioning "avoidance conditioning" test subjecting the primate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enos_(chimpanzee) |
On the B-52 SRAMs were carried externally on two wing pylons (six missiles on each pylon) and internally on an eight-round rotary launcher mounted in the bomb bay; maximum load-out was 20 missiles. The capacity of the B-1B was eight missiles on up to three rotary launchers (one in each of its three stores bays) for a m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-Range_Attack_Missile |
Numerous computational methods have been developed for the detection and characterization of epistasis. Many of these rely on machine learning to detect non-additive effects that might be missed by statistical approaches such as linear regression. For example, multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) was designed spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifier_genes |
The logical connections or “associations” between control centres are completely general. A client may establish associations with more than one server and a client may establish more than one association with the same server. Multiple associations with same server can be established at different levels of quality of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60870-6 |
The DNA formed after reverse transcription (the provirus) is longer than the RNA genome because each of the terminals have the U3 - R - U5 sequences called long terminal repeat (LTR). Thus, 5' terminal has the extra U3 sequence, while the other terminal has the U5 sequence. LTRs are able to send signals for vital tasks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroviridae_protein |
Neoplastic polyps of the bowel are often benign hence called adenomas. An adenoma is a tumor of glandular tissue, that has not (yet) gained the properties of cancer.The common adenomas of the colon (colorectal adenoma) are the tubular, tubulovillous, villous, and sessile serrated (SSA). A large majority (65–80%) are of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonic_polyp |
According to the Darts Regulation Authority, a regulation board is 451 mm (17.8 in) in diameter and is divided into 20 radial sections. Each section is separated with metal wire or a thin band of sheet metal. Quality dartboards are still made of sisal fibres from Eastern Africa, Brazil, and China; less expensive boards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dart_board |
Demet Mutlu is a Turkish entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Trendyol, an e-commerce operating in Turkey and Europe. She left Harvard Business School in 2010 and founded Trendyol. She is also an investor and co-founder of Peak Games, and one of the largest companies in the global mobile gaming industry which wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demet_Mutlu |
The Hawaiian monk seal experienced population drops in the 19th century and during World War II, and the Caribbean monk seal was exploited since the 1500s until the 1850s, when populations were too low to hunt commercially. The Mediterranean monk seal has experienced both commercial and illegal hunting since the Middle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_seal |
Players may fall into a bottomless pit by glitching through a wall if there is no ground collision. Such glitches can also allow players to go to areas that they are not supposed to go, such as entering beta areas in Grand Theft Auto IV by using a helicopter to clip through the ground and under the map. Another common ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartridge_tilting |
Depending on specific properties of the particle decay that physicists are interested in, they may desire to use a certain program for these tasks, but before the Les Houches Accords, there was no general interface for communicating between the programs. This enables physicists to choose more freely between different p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Houches_Accords |
Traditionally balloons are manufactured from plastic. With the rise of worldwide awareness for environmental conservation, some balloon manufacturers started making balloons out of biodegradable materials, which are made entirely of natural recyclable rubber trees. These balloons manufacturing processes preserve the na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon |
On August 29, 2007, Microsoft purchased Parlano and its persistent group chat product, MindAlign. On March 4, 2016, Microsoft had considered bidding $8 billion for Slack, but Bill Gates was against the purchase, stating that the firm should instead focus on improving Skype for Business. Qi Lu, EVP of Applications and S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Teams |
While overfishing has long been recognised as causing major ecological changes to the fish community on the Grand Banks, concern has been raised more recently about the damage which benthic trawling inflicts upon seabed communities. A species of particular concern is the slow growing, deep water coral Lophelia pertusa.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive_fishing_practices |
The L84 is one of two 5.3 liter V8s available in the 4th generation Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. The L84 is distinguished from the L82 by the presence of the Dynamic Fuel Management System and is either available or standard on mid- to high-level trims. The L84 is also the base engine on the 2021- Chevrolet Taho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_LS-based_small-block_engine |
Sultanate period (13th to 16th century CE): On the western side of the mound, ruins of residential building with a large circular bastion and a smaller bastion for phone which showed the sign of being in use in the subsequent periods as well. Pottery finds include red ware and glazed ware. Other artifacts found where c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Ka_Tila |
The unprocessed solution immediately after lysis but before any further extraction steps is often referred to as a crude lysate.For example, lysis is used in western and Southern blotting to analyze the composition of specific proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids individually or as complexes. Depending on the detergent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_lysate |
Internet fan fiction allows young writers access to a wider audience for their literary efforts than ever before, resulting in improved literacy.There are other ways that fandom members may participate in their fandom community such as gift exchanges or fic exchanges. A gift exchange is an organized challenge in which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction |
The residual decay heat causes rapid increase in temperature and internal pressure of the fuel cladding which leads to plastic deformation and subsequent bursting. During a loss-of-coolant accident, zirconium-based fuel claddings undergo high temperature oxidation, phase transformation, and creep deformation simultaneo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_Coolant_Accident |
The Guru Granth Sahib is widely accepted as containing the works of six Gurus, fifteen Bhagats (devotional poets), elevent Bhatts (bardic poets), and four Gursikhs (devoted Sikhs). The SGPC version of the Guru Granth Sahib has the works of 6 Gurus while the Nihang version has the works of 7 gurus including one couplet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh_scriptures |
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