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: 142 In other works, developing magic is difficult. In Rick Cook's Wizardry series, the extreme danger presented by magic and the difficulty of analyzing the magic have stymied magic and left humanity at the mercy of the dangerous elves until a wizard summons a computer programmer from a parallel world — ours — to app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_doctor |
The poor were in fact responsible for their own problems which could have been avoided through self-restraint.Ricardo, who was an admirer of Smith, covered many of the same topics, but while Smith drew conclusions from broadly empirical observations he used deduction, drawing conclusions by reasoning from basic assumpt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_liberalism |
Features such as low cost, low usage of fossil fuels and use of locally available resources can give some advantages in terms of sustainability. For that reason, these technologies are sometimes used and promoted by advocates of sustainability and alternative technology. Besides using natural, locally available resourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_Technology |
Among the examples Moore cites in the book is that of phenylketonuria (PKU), which is caused by a mutation in a single gene, but can easily be treated through dietary intervention. He argues that PKU, like all traits, is both genetic and environmental in origin. He also critiques the fundamental concept of a discrete "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dependent_Gene |
A quinone dimethide (or "xylylene") is a compound with the formula C6H4(=CH2)2. Thus they are related to quinone monomethides (the topic of this article) by replacing the keto group with methylidene. A well studied example is tetracyanoquinodimethane. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinone_methide |
Kevin Knox, who was in charge of doughnuts food quality at Starbucks from 1987 to 1993, recalled on his blog in 2010 how George Howell, coffee veteran and founder of the Cup of Excellence, had been appalled at the dark roasted beans that Starbucks was selling in 1990. Talking to The New York Times in 2008, Howell state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks_(app) |
Plant density is defined as the number of plants present per unit area of ground. In nature, plant densities can be especially high when seeds present in a seed bank germinate after winter, or in a forest understory after a tree fall opens a gap in the canopy. Due to competition for light, nutrients and water, individu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_density |
Paramount rulers distinguished themselves from the extended nobility by prefixing the word kʼuhul to their ajaw title. A kʼuhul ajaw was "divine lord", originally confined to the kings of the most prestigious and ancient royal lines. Kalomte was a royal title, whose exact meaning is not yet deciphered, but it was held ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_culture |
In fact, bar-headed geese had for a long time not been directly tracked (using GPS or satellite logging technology) flying higher than 6,540 metres (21,460 ft), and it is now believed that they do take the high passes through the mountains. The challenging northward migration from lowland India to breed in the summer o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar-headed_goose |
Where the latter means that there is a smaller chance that much SEI is formed after the initial cycles. Another category of electrolytes are the inorganic glass and ceramic electrolytes. These are not mentioned very often but they do have their applications and have their own advantages and disadvantages compared to or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_capacitor |
Marie arranged the 1615 marriage of Louis to Anne of Austria, the daughter of King Philip III of Spain. In 1617, however, Louis conspired with Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes to dispense with her influence, having her favorite Concino Concini assassinated on 26 April of that year. After some years of weak government by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_monarchy |
Masks come both with and without covers for the ears. Some designs have an extended flap that covers the muzzle but does not go around the lower jaw or interfere with grazing. Most attach with velcro, but a few high-end designs made with mesh and stretch lycra need to incorporate zippers instead. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_mask |
The biotic potential is the quantitative expression of the ability of a species to face natural selection in any environment. The main equilibrium of a particular population is described by the equation: Number of Individuals = Biotic Potential/Resistance of the Environment (Biotic and Abiotic)Chapman also relates to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_potential |
In general the lenses never became popular for anamorphic films because they are very heavy and had breathing problems. Arri have sold most of them to India and are not even renting them out any more. The current market for PL mount anamorphic lenses is being serviced by Vantage Film (makers of the Hawks lenses), Panav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriscope_(lens) |
The SPRT chunk indicates that an image is intended to be a sprite. It should thus have a mask plane or transparent colour and shouldn't be fullscreen. How this is handled depends on the program using the image. The only data stored here is the sprite order, used by many programs to place the sprite in the foreground (a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILBM |
The inheritance rights of the fetus were means of fulfilling the testator's will. The interests of the fetus could be protected by a custodian, usually a male relative, but in some cases a woman herself could be appointed the custodian. The Digest granted the fetus consanguinity rights, vesting the protection of fetal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_rights |
Sex toys are illegal in India. Selling sex toys is a punishable offense under section 292 of Indian penal code, as sex toys are considered an "obscene" product. Besides sex toys, any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, drawing, painting, representation, figure or any other object, is also considered obscene by section 292 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_aid |
QRH includes various checklists for dealing with abnormal and emergency situations, based on the equipment and furnishings on the airplane. The aircraft manufacturer-designated checklists are always included in a QRH, and often the airline company or operator will include its own procedures. Therefore, there is no sing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Reference_Handbook |
An actual observer of a demonstration can get only one point of view at a time. To a get a broad view he would have to climb to the roof of a building adjacent to the demonstration, but then he might not be able to read the banners. If he mingled with the crowd he could only see a small portion of the demonstration. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory |
824 Kcal / 100 ml) Facts per 100 ml Total fat: 100 ml Saturated fat: 14 ml Polyunsaturated fat: 7 ml Monounsaturated fat: 79 ml Cholesterol: 0 Total of carbohydrates: 0 Proteins: 0 Sugars: 0 Fibre: 0 Sodium: 0 == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_pomace_oil |
Anatomically, there are 3 levels of binocular vision required to view stereo images: Simultaneous perception Fusion (binocular 'single' vision) StereopsisThese functions develop in early childhood. Some people who have strabismus disrupt the development of stereopsis, however orthoptics treatment can be used to improve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopic_image |
Minneapolis, Minnesota - paid, USI Wireless Mountain View, California - free (no longer operating) - Google WiFi Naperville, Illinois - free, downtown area only, known as "napernet" New York City - LinkNYC began service in 2016; intended to have thousands of stations Newton, North Carolina - free, downtown area Ocala,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_wireless_network |
The arm is between the Carina–Sagittarius Arm (the local portions of which are toward the Galactic Center) and the Perseus Arm (the local portion of which is the main outer-most arm and one of two major arms of the galaxy). Long thought to be a minor structure, namely a "spur" between the two arms mentioned, evidence w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Arm |
An infrared excess indicative of a debris disk was first discovered by IRAS. Further observations of the system have been made using Keck and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The disk consists of two separate belts. The inner ring extends from a distance of 1.5 to 2 astronomical units from the barycenter of the central bin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_98800 |
This equipment can boost or detract from base attributes or give additional benefits to the character. Shards can also be used to activate special turrets on maps to strategically defend points. The hero's base combat level starts at 1 at the start of a round, and as the player defeat enemies and complete other objecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleborn_(video_game) |
An early study of compression driven shock tubes was published in 1899 by French scientist Paul Vieille, though the apparatus was not called a shock tube until the 1940s. In the 1940s, interest revived and shock tubes were increasingly used to study the flow of fast moving gases over objects, the chemistry and physical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_tube |
Israa Al Seblani (born 1991) is a Lebanese-American physician and endocrinologist. She is a survivor of the 2020 Beirut explosion that occurred on 4 August 2020. Later that month, a video went viral of Seblani having her bridal portraits taken when the explosion occurred. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israa_Seblani |
From a consumer's perspective, a product worth purchasing would have sufficiently high quality and be offered at a sufficiently low price. In both cases, whether a given job or product is acceptable depends on the searcher's beliefs about the alternatives available in the market. More precisely, search theory studies a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_theory |
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the "technical aspect of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_engineer |
In organic solidarity, people are much more integrated and interdependent and specialisation and cooperation are extensive. Progress from mechanical to organic solidarity is based firstly on population growth and increasing population density, secondly on increasing "morality density" (development of more complex socia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_evolutionism |
The idea was for a "hackathon" with developers producing open source solutions. The World Bank's Disaster Risk Reduction Unit (Stuart Gill) and NASA's Open Government team (Robbie Schingler) joined the partnership and these "founding partners" (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, NASA and the World Bank) decided on the name "Ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_Hacks_of_Kindness |
From the earliest times, two different methods of rawmix preparation were used: the mineral components were either dry-ground to form a flour-like powder, or were wet-ground with added water to produce a fine slurry with the consistency of paint, and with a typical water content of 40–45%.The wet process suffered the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_kiln_emissions |
Since the 1960s, it is produced industrially by the fermentation of carbohydrates such as glucose or molasses using fungi such as Aspergillus itaconicus or Aspergillus terreus.For A. terreus the itaconate pathway is mostly elucidated. The generally accepted route for itaconate is via glycolysis, tricarboxylic acid cycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaconic_acid |
In reviews dated 2009 and 2011, Guralnik states that in the GHK model the boson is massless only in a lowest-order approximation, but it is not subject to any constraint and acquires mass at higher orders, and adds that the GHK paper was the only one to show that there are no massless Goldstone bosons in the model and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_the_Higgs_field |
Marsh rabbits display a blackish brown or dark reddish dorsal surface. The belly is a dingy brownish gray in most but can also have a dull white appearance in mainland rabbits. The leading edges of the ears display small black tufts with ochre on the inside. rough hair on the dorsal side can be fringed with black hairs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_rabbit |
Soft-cut limiters are a type of rev limiter that partially cuts off fuel to the engine. These limiters may also retard the ignition timing. If using a soft-cut rev limiter, the engine will start to cut fuel or retard ignition timing before the set RPM until it slowly reaches it and remains there. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev_limiter |
He supervised the development of automatic submerged arc welding. During World War II Paton supervised the design and production of equipment and technology for automated welding of special steels for tanks, bombs, and other military hardware. Paton supervised the wide implementation of welding in industry, including t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Paton |
Article 19 of Directive 2011/83/EU on Consumer Rights has limited such payment surcharges to "the cost borne by the trader" since 13 June 2014, but because of the prevalence of these surcharges, the United Kingdom enacted the legislation earlier than required with effect from 6 April 2013 under the Consumer Rights (Pay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_pricing |
Chromate conversion coatings are usually applied by immersing the part in a chemical bath until a film of the desired thickness has formed, removing the part, rinsing it and letting it dry. The process is usually carried out at room temperature, with a few minutes of immersion. Alternatively, the solution can be spraye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromate_conversion |
According to Longo, "by the turn of the first millennium CE, a sophisticated bluefin tuna trap fishery emerged. ... This trap fishery, called tonnara in Italian, madrague in French, almadraba in Spanish, and armação in Portuguese, forms an elaborate maze of nets that capture and corral bluefin tuna during their spawni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_bluefin_tuna |
SAFE FOODS is a European project established in 2004 that deals with food safety. It aims to contribute to the restoration of consumer confidence in the safety of the European food chain, to protect the consumer from foodborne illness, and to refine risk analysis practices for food safety via an interdisciplinary appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE_FOODS |
The OX-5 was built between 1915 and 1919 and was by far the most popular OX variant. Like most engines of the era, the OX-5's high-temperature areas were built mostly of cast iron, using individual cylinders bolted to a single aluminum crankcase, wrapped in a cooling jacket made of a nickel-copper alloy. Later versions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OX-5_engines |
The GIG distribution is conjugate to the normal distribution when serving as the mixing distribution in a normal variance-mean mixture. Let the prior distribution for some hidden variable, say z {\displaystyle z} , be GIG: P ( z ∣ a , b , p ) = GIG ( z ∣ a , b , p ) {\displaystyle P(z\mid a,b,p)=\operatorname {GIG} (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_inverse_Gaussian_distribution |
Strings are a sequence of characters used to store words or plain text, most often textual markup languages representing formatted text. Characters may be a letter of some alphabet, a digit, a blank space, a punctuation mark, etc. Characters are drawn from a character set such as ASCII. Character and string types can h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_typing |
The term means, roughly, "being hoofed" or "hoofed animal". As a descriptive term, "ungulate" normally excludes cetaceans as they do not possess most of the typical morphological characteristics of other ungulates, but recent discoveries indicate that they were also descended from early artiodactyls. Ungulates are typi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooved_mammal |
After public protests, Toyota sold 200 of its RAV4 EVs; they later sold at over their original forty-thousand-dollar price. Later, BMW of Canada sold off a number of Mini EVs when their Canadian testing ended. The production of the Citroën Berlingo Electrique stopped in September 2005. Zenn started production in 2006 b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_van |
The Graph Editor; for editing motion by creating keyframes that can be used for pose-to-pose animation.Users can either create new projects or import data from Source-based games to extend their SFM animations. SFM also supports several cinematographic effects and techniques such as motion blur, Tyndall effects, dynami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Filmmaker |
0.25 µm SOI CMOS process; manufacturing to be moved to Mikron 256-pin ceramic QFP production planned for 2016 (previously this device was planned to go into production in 2014 under the name 1907VE1T or 1907VM1T) radiation tolerance to not less than 200 kRad SoC including SpaceWire, GOST R 52070-2003 (Russian version o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOMDIV-32 |
The approximate number system (ANS) is a cognitive system that supports the estimation of the magnitude of a group without relying on language or symbols. The ANS is credited with the non-symbolic representation of all numbers greater than four, with lesser values being carried out by the parallel individuation system,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_number_system |
For example, a major concern of every nation is the proper allocation of available national economic and financial resources. The legal solution to this problem falls within the scope of constitutional economics. Another example is to study the "compatibility of effective economic decisions with the existing constituti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_economics |
Sino-Portuguese architecture, also known as Chinese Baroque, Straits/Singapore Eclectic architecture or Peranakan architecture is an Asian hybrid style incorporating elements of both Chinese and Portuguese architectural styles. It is common in urban centers where Chinese settlers lived in southern China and the Peranak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Portuguese_architecture |
They can also catalyze the dissolution of minerals.Prior to the International Mineralogical Association's listing, over 60 biominerals had been discovered, named, and published. These minerals (a sub-set tabulated in Lowenstam (1981)) are considered minerals proper according to Skinner's (2005) definition. These biomin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_mineralization |
Nowack and Feltman published an article entitled "Eliciting the Photic Driving Response" which states that the EEG photic driving response is a sensitive neurophysiological measure which has been employed to assess chemical and drug effects, forms of epilepsy, neurological status of Alzheimer's patients, and physiologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance |
A database storing the sequence alignments of the most conserved regions of protein families. These alignments are used to derive the BLOSUM matrices. Only the sequences with a percentage of identity lower than the threshold are used. By using the block, counting the pairs of amino acids in each column of the multiple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLOSUM |
The present era features the largest number of unlockable buildings. The player has immediate access to buildings that were not unlocked in the previous era, as well as bus terminals, high-density zones, oil plants, incinerators, airports, a courthouse, and others. Through progression, the player unlocks pump plants, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_Creator_(Nintendo_DS) |
Malvern water has been bottled and distributed in the UK and abroad from as early as the reign of James I, with water bottling at the Holy Well being recorded in 1622. Various local grocers have bottled and distributed Malvern water during the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it was first bottled on a large commercia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern_water |
Breast torture (also called breast play, nipple torture or tit torture) is a BDSM activity in which sexual stimulation is provided through the intentional application of physical pain or constriction to the breasts, areolae or nipples of a submissive. It is a popular activity among the kink community. The recipient of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_torture |
60% of the company's revenues come from the United Kingdom. In 2007, however, the company began the process of opening new offices in Russia, Latvia, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey, expanding on a presence in eastern Europe they established in the middle of the 1990s. In the United Kingdom, EC Harris issues reports on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_Harris |
To achieve this outcome, Beadle recognised that tree planting programs were completely unfeasible, given the extent of the problem and the arid conditions. Clayton and Beadle also targeted the revegetation of the twenty million hectares of western NSW that were in an eroded condition. To achieve both of these objective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Morris |
BAs is a cubic (sphalerite) semiconductor in the III-V family with a lattice constant of 0.4777 nm and an indirect band gap of 1.82 eV. Cubic BAs is reported to decompose to the subarsenide B12As2 at temperatures above 920 °C. Boron arsenide has a melting point of 2076 °C. The thermal conductivity of BAs is very high: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron_arsenide |
The government's austerity programme, which involves reduction in government policy, has been linked to a rise in food banks. A study published in the British Medical Journal in 2015 found that each one percentage point increase in the rate of Jobseeker's Allowance claimants sanctioned was associated with a 0.09 percen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_assistance |
Some aspects of brane physics have been applied to cosmology. For example, brane gas cosmology attempts to explain why there are three dimensions of space using topological and thermodynamic considerations. According to this idea it would be since three is the largest number of spatial dimensions in which strings can g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-dimensional_space |
At the time, Namco primarily focused on developing ports of arcade games like Ridge Racer and Cyber Sled, which often contained content exclusive to their PlayStation releases. Believing console-exclusive features would give consumers more incentive to buy it, the team chose to scrap a straightforward port and instead ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Combat |
Although the consumption may arise from an active choice, the choice is still the consequence of a social conditioning which the individual is unconscious of. Baudrillard says, "One is permanently governed by a code whose rules and meaning—constraints—like those of language—are, for the most part, beyond the grasp of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture |
The use of collaborative game-based role-play for learning provides an opportunity for learners to apply acquired knowledge and to experiment and get feedback in the form of consequences or rewards, thus getting the experiences in the "safe virtual world".The built-in learning process of games is what makes a game enjo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game-based_learning |
It has been proposed by astrophysicists D. S. Mathewson, V. L. Ford and N. Visvanathan that the SMC may in fact be split in two, with a smaller section of this galaxy behind the main part of the SMC (as seen from Earth perspective), and separated by about 30,000 ly. They suggest the reason for this is due to a past int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubecula_Minor |
He hypothesizes this second relexification of Eastern Yiddish took place in the 15th century, at which time the descendants of the Khazars no longer spoke a Turkic language but rather a mixed Slavo-Turkic.Wexler's hypotheses are based on analyses of numerous Jewish languages and introduce creolization as a factor in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wexler_(linguist) |
The top of the mill's main vertical axle and the end of the main drive shaft are pivoted at the centre of their own separate tie beam, which is below and parallel with the main roof tie beam and set in the gin gang's side walls at either end. The mill's tie beam has to be stabilised with two massive oak beams which run... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_gang |
Known as North House and South House, these were completed 1995–7.Mackintosh's architectural output was small, but he did influence European design. Popular in Austria and Germany, his work received acclaim when it was shown at the Vienna Secession Exhibition in 1900. It was also exhibited in Budapest, Munich, Dresden,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh |
Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser-assisted sub-epithelial keratectomy (or laser epithelial keratomileusis) (LASEK) are laser eye surgery procedures intended to correct a person's vision, reducing dependency on glasses or contact lenses. LASEK and PRK permanently change the shape of the anterior central cornea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratotomy |
The architect will use a minimum of heuristics to ensure that each partition is well defined and clean of kludges, work-arounds, short-cuts, or confusing detail and exceptions. As users needs evolve, (once the system is fielded and in use), it is a lot easier subsequently to evolve a simple concept than one laden with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architects |
In social decision making, to rank all alternatives is not usually a goal. It often suffices to find some alternative. The approach focusing on choosing an alternative investigates either social choice functions (functions that map each preference profile into an alternative) or social choice rules (functions that map ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow's_Theorem |
Homburg wrote a thesis on the Disproportionation of Propene. In 1978 and 1979 he worked at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Groningen and from 1979 to 1983 he was research fellow in the History of Science in the Chemistry Department of the University of Nijmegen. Here he worked on a study of the developm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Homburg |
Two alternations (13) and (17), and the quarter tesseractic (2) are repeated in other families. The , , Coxeter group generates 31 permutations of uniform tessellations, 23 with distinct symmetry and 4 with distinct geometry. There are two alternated forms: the alternations (19) and (24) have the same geometry as the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runcicantellated_tesseractic_honeycomb |
In 1913, George Allan Hancock, the owner of Rancho La Brea, granted the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County exclusive excavation rights at the Tar Pits for two years. In those two years, the museum was able to extract 750,000 specimens at 96 sites, guaranteeing that a large collection of fossils would remain c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits |
Improved habitat for pests. If fields are not left bare for a portion of the year, rodents and insects populations may increase. Burning of the stubble of perennial rice could reduce these populations, but burning may not be permitted in some areas. Furthermore, rodents and insects living underground would survive burn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_rice |
The amount of extract which was not converted to yeast biomass, carbon dioxide or ethanol can be estimated by removing the alcohol from beer which has been degassed and clarified by filtration or other means. This is often done as part of a distillation in which the alcohol is collected for quantitative analysis but ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(alcoholic_beverage) |
Fluted columns styled under the Doric order of architecture have 20 flutes. Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite columns traditionally have 24. Fluting is never used on Tuscan order columns.Fluting is always applied exclusively to the shaft of the column, and may run either the entire shaft length from the base to the capi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluted_column |
The maximum distance is given by the maximum time that the signal from the mobile/BTS needs to reach the receiver of the mobile/BTS on time to be successfully heard. At the air interface the delay between the transmission of the downlink (BTS) and the uplink (mobile) has an offset of 3 timeslots. Until now the mobile s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_advance |
There have been some historically notable instances of people getting lost and either being rescued or dying. George Shannon, the youngest adult member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition got lost on two occasions after being separated from the expedition. On August 26, 1804, he was sent to retrieve two pack horses; he w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_lost |
Following the success of the original Home Alone (1990), which grossed $285 million in North America, the third-highest amount at the time, an extensive marketing and cross-promotion campaign was undertaken for Home Alone 2. About 80 licensed products were released to tie-in with the movie, while corporate partners inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkboy |
Whereas in the real world, noise factors are difficult to control; in an experimental setting, control over these factors is easily maintained. For the cake-baking example, the experimenter can fluctuate bake-time and oven-temperature to understand the effects of such fluctuation that may occur when control is no longe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_Parameter_Design_(RPD) |
Filters were installed to reduce contaminants from escaping the area of the plant into the area or atmosphere. Cement has been laid near to the seabed to control contaminants from accidentally entering the ocean. Michio Aoyama, a scientist at Fukushima University's Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, estimated th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup |
In Charlie's Angels, the titular Charlie Townsend, the owner of the detective agency that employed the series leads, was never seen, and was portrayed solely as a voice (provided by actor John Forsythe) heard on a speakerphone. Vera Peterson from Cheers and Maris Crane from its spin-off Frasier are two of the most wide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen_character |
The least common multiple of two integers that are not both zero can be computed from their greatest common divisor, by using the relation lcm ( a , b ) = | a ⋅ b | gcd ( a , b ) . {\displaystyle \operatorname {lcm} (a,b)={\frac {|a\cdot b|}{\operatorname {gcd} (a,b)}}.} | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_factor |
Following Grand Central Terminal's completion, one of the first plans for development on the Helmsley Building's current site took place in 1914, when the Winter Sports Club secured an option from New York Central to build property on the east side of Park Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets. The development of Termin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmsley_Building |
After nine years of intensive study, it became clear to me that biochemistry would not solve the problem of why things have the basic shape they do. From 1968 to 1969, Sheldrake worked at the University of Malaya.Having an interest in Indian philosophy, Hinduism and transcendental meditation, Sheldrake resigned his pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake |
This makes it possible to always send audio data unprocessed at its original full volume, preventing sound quality deterioration due to reduction in bit depth and thus sound quality which would otherwise occur if changes in volume were made to the source stream before transmitting. It also makes possible the streaming ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPlay |
On several occasions scrapes were seen on the whales from lampreys moving about their bodies probably "actively seeking areas of greater access to blood or decreased water flow".Among a sample of 100 minke whales caught in the western North Pacific in 1995, 78% had the copepod P. balaenopterae anchored into their skin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_minke_whale |
The cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) is a species of Batoidea found throughout a large part of the western Atlantic and Caribbean, from New England to southern Brazil (the East Atlantic populations are now generally considered a separate species, the Lusitanian cownose ray (R. marginata)). These rays also belong to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cownose_ray |
: 857 Conversely, the polymath is a person with a level of expertise that is able to "put a significant amount of time and effort into their avocations and find ways to use their multiple interests to inform their vocations". : 857 A key point in the work of Root-Bernstein and colleagues is the argument in favor of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Genius |
Tamakeri (玉蹴り) (lit. ball kicking) is a sexual fetish and subgenre of BDSM within which a man's testicles are abused. The genre is also referred to as ballbusting ("bb" for short). Tamakeri is the Japanese term, but it is used by many non-Japanese people to describe media where Asian people—mainly women—are participati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denkianma |
Vital Sign Alert System is an alert system designed by nurses at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. The alert system, which replaced an ineffective early warning scoring (EWS) system, is a unique creation designed specifically to enhance patient monitoring on medical–surgical and step-down nursing u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital_Sign_Alert_System |
In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Blue receives a Charmander from his grandfather Professor Oak. Since it appeared in the Pokémon series, Charmander has received generally positive reception. Charmander first appeared in episode 11 of Pokémon Indigo League ("Charmander – The Stray Pokémon" (The Stray Pokémon – Hitokage)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmander |
Coconut coir from Mexico has been found to contain large numbers of colonies of the beneficial fungus Aspergillus terreus, which acts as a biological control against plant pathogenic fungi. Trichoderma is a naturally occurring fungus in coco peat; it works in symbiosis with plant roots to protect them from pathogenic f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_peat |
under the influence of the catalytic amount of (S)-(−)-proline. Pengxin Zhou, Long Zhang, Sanzhong Luo, and Jin-Pei Cheng obtained excellent results using the simple chiral primary amine t-Bu-CH(NH2)-CH2-NEt2.TfOH for the synthesis of both the Wieland-Miescher ketone and the Hajos-Parrish ketone as well as their analog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajos–Parrish–Eder–Sauer–Wiechert_reaction |
Stein began negotiations via fax, offering 75% of the revenue generated by Stein from the license. : 304 Elektronorgtechnica ("Elorg"), the Soviet Union's central organization for the import and export of computer software, was unconvinced and requested 80% of the revenue. Stein made several trips to Moscow and held lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris |
Stochastic dynamic programs can be solved to optimality by using backward recursion or forward recursion algorithms. Memoization is typically employed to enhance performance. However, like deterministic dynamic programming also its stochastic variant suffers from the curse of dimensionality. For this reason approximate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_dynamic_programming |
which is related to excess gestational weight gain.It is not uncommon for there to be a correlation between socioeconomic status and food security; that is, women of low socioeconomic status have been reported to have low food security, particularly in terms of the affordability of nutritious food. Some women of low so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestational_weight_gain |
Subsequent reappearance of a Windows Live Dashboard is seen with the initial "Windows Live Wave 2" unified installers from Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Mail and Writer that was released on May 30, 2007. In the "Windows Live Wave 2" suite of services, Windows Live Installer was the name of the website and software given ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Essentials |
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