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Clinical research of the medication began in 1971, and it was first marketed in 1983, specifically in Chile under the brand name Drogenil and in West Germany under the brand name Flugerel. Flutamide was not introduced in the United States until 1989; it was specifically approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flutamide |
The Cave of Crystals is a horseshoe-shaped cavity in limestone. Its floor is covered with perfectly faceted crystalline blocks. Huge crystal beams jut out from both the blocks and the floor. The crystals deteriorate in air, so the Naica Project attempted to visually document the crystals before they deteriorated furthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Crystals |
For much of the early 20th century, crowds were segregated by gender. The Ladies Stand was originally in the opposite pocket to where it currently stands, (where the kiosk and DOSA Football Clubrooms currently stand) but was blown over by a gale in 1946, it was again blown down in 1995 and was rebuilt in late 1999. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCA_Ground |
The magazine was first published in fall 2004 (Volume 1, Issue 1). The first issue noted different staff members for the website and magazine. Staff included Editor-in-Chief Michael J. Miller, Editor Jeremy Kaplan, Technical Director Loyd Case, Senior Technical Analyst Dave Salvator, and others. Subsequent issues were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtremeTech |
The first patented capo was designed by James Ashborn of Wolcottville, Connecticut year 1850.Musicians commonly use a capo to raise the pitch of a fretted instrument so they can play in a different key using the same fingerings as playing open (i.e., without a capo). In effect, a capo uses a fret of an instrument to cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capo_(musical_device) |
The ectosome (the outer region of a sponge) is separated from the choanosome (the inner region) by aquiferous canals that are divided up into more or less regular polygonal areas. Three to six oscula are found in the upper area. These may be up to 15 mm (0.59 in) in diameter. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycale_anisochela |
EMM386 is the expanded memory manager of Microsoft's MS-DOS, IBM's PC DOS, Digital Research's DR-DOS, and Datalight's ROM-DOS which is used to create expanded memory using extended memory on Intel 80386 CPUs. There also is an EMM386.EXE available in FreeDOS. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMM386 |
To illustrate these concepts, consider a 230 V AC mains supply used in many countries around the world. It is so called because its root mean square value is 230 V. This means that the time-averaged power delivered is equivalent to the power delivered by a DC voltage of 230 V. To determine the peak voltage (amplitude),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_(AC_current) |
Hyper-real Religion is a sociological term to describe a new consumer trend in acquiring and enacting religion. The term was first described in the book Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament by Adam Possamai. The term is used to explore the intersection between postmodernity and religion. The idea has be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-real_Religion |
Death row statements either admit the crime, leaving the witness with an impression of honesty and forthrightness, or deny the crime, leaving the witness with an impression of innocence. They may also denounce witnesses as dishonest, critique law enforcement as corrupt in an attempt to portray innocence, or seek an ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_linguistics |
In 1983, a communication satellite project called Paksat was initiated, with the establishment of the 10-meter diameter satellite ground station for interception of satellite transmissions was set up that was mainly designed against India. According to the scientists involved in this programme, the real aim was to laun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_&_Upper_Atmosphere_Research_Commission |
In the end it found resonance not only within Europe but also as far as Japan. After the first publications, Haberlandt's fellow scientists described the book as a botany novel and wanted to keep it away from their students to prevent heretical thoughts. This disagreement was also projected onto people who worked toget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiological_Plant_Anatomy |
The song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Bieber's second number-one debut and his fourth song to top the chart. One week later, "Despacito" topped the charts in the US, which became his fifth number-one single and made Bieber the first artist in history to notch new No. 1s in back-to-back weeks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber_on_Twitter |
The Shahjahan Mosque at Thatta, Sindh was built under, and probably largely by Shah Jahan, but strongly reflects Central Asian Islamic style, as the emperor had recently been campaigning near Samarkand. Singularly, the innumerable Chaukhandi tombs are of eastern influence. Although constructed between 16th and 18th cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Islamic_architecture |
In 1950, Alan Turing's famous article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" was published, which proposed what is now called the Turing test as a criterion of intelligence. This criterion depends on the ability of a computer program to impersonate a human in a real-time written conversation with a human judge to the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbox_Challenge |
Whereas the natural map from H/K to G/P is an isomorphism, the natural map from H*/K to G/P is only an inclusion onto an open subset. This inclusion is called the Borel embedding after Armand Borel. In fact P ∩ H = K = P ∩ H*. The images of H and H* have the same dimension so are open. Since the image of H is compact, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_symmetric_domain |
Much of the development during the quantitative revolution is now apparent in the use of geographic information systems; the use of statistics, spatial modeling, and positivist approaches are still important to many branches of human geography. Well-known geographers from this period are Fred K. Schaefer, Waldo Tobler,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_geographer |
In subsequent years, other distant fishing nations, such as Belize, China, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Korea, have joined Russia fishing the jack mackerel belt, and by 2007, these nations were taking 18% of the global catch.There are fears the fishery may collapse due to overfishing. From 2006 to 2011, the bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_jack_mackerel |
The leaves are retained through the winter, dropping just before or as new growth resumes in late winter or early spring.Quercus minima is native to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, primarily in Florida but extending from there to the Carolinas and eastern Louisiana. There are reports of the species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_live_oak |
Weighted means are typically used to find the weighted mean of historical data, rather than theoretically generated data. In this case, there will be some error in the variance of each data point. Typically experimental errors may be underestimated due to the experimenter not taking into account all sources of error in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_variance |
The developmental switch in subunit composition is thought to explain the developmental changes in NMDA neurotoxicity. Homozygous disruption of the gene for GluN2B in mice causes perinatal lethality, whereas disruption of the GluN2A gene produces viable mice, although with impaired hippocampal plasticity. One study sug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMDA_Receptor |
Many modern beachcombers follow the "drift lines" or "tide lines" on the beach and are interested in the (mostly natural) objects that the sea casts up. For these people, "beachcombing" is the recreational activity of looking for and finding various curiosities that have washed in with the tide: seashells of every kind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_comber |
Thus, the HIV genome may be vulnerable to oxidative damage, including breaks in the single-stranded RNA. For HIV, as well as for viruses in general, successful infection depends on overcoming host defense strategies that often include production of genome-damaging reactive oxygen species. Thus, Michod et al. suggested ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV |
The truncated icosidodecahedron can also be represented as a spherical tiling, and projected onto the plane via a stereographic projection. This projection is conformal, preserving angles but not areas or lengths. Straight lines on the sphere are projected as circular arcs on the plane. Schlegel diagrams are similar, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_icosidodecahedral_graph |
Between 4:10 and 4:13 p.m. EDT, 21 power stations throughout that grid shut down. New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who formerly headed the Department of Energy, in a live television interview two hours into the blackout characterized the United States as "a superpower with a third-world electricity grid." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 |
In accordance with the quinquennial plan of the Soviet air forces, the Spiral program to develop a 2-stage launcher plane began in 1965 and was entrusted to OKB-155 A.I.Mikojan whose chief of the engineering and design department was Lozino Lozinsky (55 years). The project received the name of SPIRAL and was to prepare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight_programs |
A function f: I → R {\displaystyle f:I\to \mathbb {R} } is said to be operator convex if for all n {\displaystyle n} and all A , B ∈ H n {\displaystyle A,B\in \mathbf {H} _{n}} with eigenvalues in I , {\displaystyle I,} and 0 < λ < 1 {\displaystyle 0<\lambda <1} , the following holds Note that the operator λ A + ( 1 − ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_inequalities |
Traditional music in most of the continent is passed down orally (or aurally) and is not written. There are subtle differences in pitch and intonation that do not easily translate to Western notation. African music most closely adheres to Western tetratonic (four-note), pentatonic (five-note), hexatonic (six-note), and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_music |
So inner Jihad is the path for the realization of the One who is the ultimate message of the Islam. This inner Jihad continues until every breath of man echoes that reality who is the origin of every thing and all things return to him. Nasr adds that every religious deed is Jihad because it is a striving between one's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelver_Shiism |
An epileptic seizure, informally known as a seizure, is a period of symptoms due to abnormally excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Outward effects vary from uncontrolled shaking movements involving much of the body with loss of consciousness (tonic-clonic seizure), to shaking movements involving on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epileptic_seizure |
At this point, the actor will start to resent the institution, while the institution brings harsher and harsher repression. Eventually, the whole community will stigmatize the actor as a deviant and the actor will not be able to tolerate this, but will ultimately accept his or her role as a criminal, and will commit cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviance_(sociology) |
Article 296 3. (Exploitation of sexual acts / Sexual acts with minors against payment) Amended 27 September 2013, states: "Any person who carries out sexual acts with a minor or induces a minor to carry out such acts and who makes or promises payment in return is liable to a custodial sentence not exceeding three years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sex_tourism |
Research interests includes: Arithmetic algebraic geometry (see Glossary of arithmetic and Diophantine geometry). Special values of L-functions. Conjectures of: Bloch Beilinson Deligne Bloch–Kato conjecture (see also List of conjectures). Galois module theory. Motivic cohomology. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Flach_(mathematician) |
Social capital gain: the newly arrived employee increases his or her social capital and experiences socialization through the new employment. Setting the culture right (innovation and adaptation): import new type of knowledge, ideas, experience and skills introduction of change. Cost savings: leave of relatively expens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_turnover |
"The Caltech men's basketball team, the Beavers, compete in the NCAA Division III and the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Since their previous victory in 1985, the Beavers had not won a conference game in 21 years—a 259-game losing streak (the streak ended at 310 games when the team won a confe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Hoops |
"G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N. (You Know I've Got A)", an answer song to Avril Lavigne's hit "Girlfriend", is one example. "California Gurls" (2010) by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg was a response to "Empire State of Mind" (2009) by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_song |
Research and development in the clinical use of diagnostic neurography has taken place at Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic, UCLA, UCSF, Harvard, the University of Washington in Seattle, University of London, and Oxford University (see references below) as well as through the Neurography Institute. Recent patent litigatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_neurography |
An additional video module allowed output to TTL monochrome monitors, colour monitors or SCART televisions.Video RAM was shared with system RAM. Before using graphics modes, memory had to be allocated for them with the GRAPHICS or GRCHAR commands.An expansion card (the Professional Expansion Board) provided: Extra RAM.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_:YES |
The old and revised systems can be distinguished by the 1M, 2M and 3R classes used only in the revised system and the 2A and 3A classes used only in the old system. Class numbers were designated using Roman numerals (I–IV) in the US under the old system and Arabic numerals (1–4) in the EU. The revised system uses Arabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_safety |
The first distinctive West Point cadet sword appeared in late 1840. A small sword with straight cross quillon, shield shaped langets, wire wrapped grips and an urn pommel. This sword was made by the Ames Manufacturing Company, Chicopee, Massachusetts. It is believed that cadet swords were purchased by the Ordance Depar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point_Cadets'_Sword |
An anxiotropic (/ˌæŋksiəˈtɹoʊpɪk/) agent is one that modifies anxiety, a human emotion that has homologous processes in animals. In psychopharmacology anxiotropic agents consist of two categories of psychoactive drugs: anxiolytics that reduce anxiety and may be used therapeutically, and anxiogenic compounds that increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiotropic |
Three-phase systems can produce a rotating magnetic field with a specified direction and constant magnitude, which simplifies the design of electric motors, as no starting circuit is required.Most household loads are single-phase. In North American residences, three-phase power might feed an apartment block, while the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power |
ASMR is usually precipitated by stimuli referred to as "triggers". ASMR triggers, which are most commonly auditory and visual, may be encountered through the interpersonal interactions of daily life. Additionally, ASMR is often triggered by exposure to specific audio and video. Such media may be specially made with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Sensory_Meridian_Response |
By the end of the war, statistics showed that on average, one in every five attacks made by Hedgehog resulted in a kill (compared with less than one in 80 with depth charges).In response to this new deadly threat to its U-boats, the Kriegsmarine brought forward its programme of acoustic torpedoes in 1943, beginning wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_(weapon) |
Wellhausen taught that the chronological data of the books of Kings and Chronicles were artificially put together at a date much later than the events they were ostensibly describing and were basically not historical. This was a necessary consequence of his a priori assumption that the biblical books as we have them to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Numbers_of_the_Hebrew_Kings |
Électricité de France (EDF) – the country's main electricity generation and distribution company – manages the country's nuclear power plants. EDF is substantially owned by the French government, with around 85% of EDF shares in government hands. 78.9% of Areva shares are owned by the French public sector company CEA a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messmer_Plan |
150 – 250 CE), Tilopa received the radiant light (Sanskrit: prabhasvara) and Illusory Body (Sanskrit: maya deha) teachings. The illusory body, clear light, and dream yoga sadhanas are entwined.Tilopa's oral instructions state: Know dreams as dreams, and constantly meditate on their profound significance. Visualize the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_yoga |
Psychology has long studied the non-logical aspects of argumentation. For example, studies have shown that simple repetition of an idea is often a more effective method of argumentation than appeals to reason. Propaganda often utilizes repetition. "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth" is a law of propaga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_theory |
They also argued that, according to their legal origins theory, common law systems were better at protecting shareholder rights than civil law jurisdictions, on the whole. With other people involved later, these studies were extended to labour law, and constitutional law protections for property, and other issues which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leximetrics |
In order to avoid being seen as an illegal re-establishment of the RDPT, the party avoided placing former RDPT leaders in leadership positions, and stated that its objective was "a democratic development of French Polynesia in close collaboration with the French people and according to the preamble of the Constitution ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Ai'a |
If p1 is given, p3 may be calculated (given the value of the refractive index n) and therefore p1 suffices to determine the direction of the light ray. The refractive index of the medium the ray is traveling in is determined by ‖ p ‖ = n {\displaystyle \|\mathbf {p} \|=n} . For example, ray rC crosses axis x1 at coordi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_optics |
Bayes' theorem is used in Bayesian methods to update probabilities, which are degrees of belief, after obtaining new data. Given two events A {\displaystyle A} and B {\displaystyle B} , the conditional probability of A {\displaystyle A} given that B {\displaystyle B} is true is expressed as follows: where P ( B ) ≠ 0 {... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_approach |
Then, we can write the decision function as follows. f ( x ) = α 0 + ∑ i = 1 | L | α i K i ( x ) {\displaystyle f(x)=\alpha _{0}+\sum _{i=1}^{|L|}\alpha _{i}K_{i}(x)} The problem can be written as min f L ( f ) + λ R ( f ) + γ Θ ( f ) {\displaystyle \min _{f}L(f)+\lambda R(f)+\gamma \Theta (f)} where L {\displaystyle L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_kernel_learning |
In the 1960s, a series of Robert Zajonc's laboratory experiments demonstrated that simply exposing participants to a familiar stimulus led them to rate it more positively than other, similar stimuli that had not been presented before. At first, Zajonc looked at language and the frequency of words used. He found that ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect |
However, progress was halted by the onset of World War I in 1914. The outstanding issue of improving the particle detection performance of standard photographic emulsions, in order to detect other types of particle - protons, for example, produce about one quarter of the ionisation caused by an 𝛂-particle - was taken ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_emulsion |
Nagkesar oil is extracted from seeds of the nagkesar tree (Mesua ferrea, Hindi: नागकेसर). It belongs to the Calophyllaceae family. It is an East Indian evergreen tree and is often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume. It is the source of hardwood used for railroad ties. It is Sri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagkesar_seed_oil |
An emerging item of regalia was the orb, described in Tudor inventories as a gold ball with a cross, which underlined the monarch's sovereignty. Orbs had been pictorial emblems of royal authority in England since the early Middle Ages, but a real orb was probably not used at any English coronation until Henry VIII (r. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceptre_with_the_Cross |
The original one, who inspired the folklore, went on a killing spree after the United States military released gas made from the red seeds into the town in 1956, causing the residents to temporarily experience an uncontrollable, murderous rage. The second, the New Raincoat Killer, hopes to gain immortality by consuming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Premonition |
Later the Aqua Traiana powered Rome's important flour mills which became critical to its survival during the Gothic Siege of Rome (537–538) when the Janiculum mills were famously put out of action by the Ostrogoths who cut the urban aqueducts. General Belisarius restored the supply of flour by using mills floating in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Traiana |
Physical therapists might use neuromuscular/sensory stimulation techniques such as quick stretch, resistance, joint approximation, and tapping to increase tone by facilitating or enhancing muscle contraction in patients with hypotonia. For patients who demonstrate muscle weakness in addition to hypotonia strengthening ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_infant_syndrome |
A stored-value card (SVC) is a payment card with a monetary value stored on the card itself, not in an external account maintained by a financial institution. This means no network access is required by the payment collection terminals as funds can be withdrawn and deposited straight from the card. Like cash, payment c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fare_card |
This was later expanded to thirteen locations through downloadable content. Every car can have its setup adjusted before a race.The game also features a new weather modelling system where changes in the weather affect the relative level of grip and require players to take a more nuanced approach to driving. The weather... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_Rally_2.0 |
When working memory is absent from the reader's representations of the working memory, they experience something called "deactivation." When deactivation occurs, the student has an understanding of the material and is able to retain information. If deactivation occurs during the first reading, the reader does not need ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Psychology |
They proposed (as first articulated by Biegert in 1957) that during infancy the neurocranium extensively overlaps the orbit, a condition that prohibits brow ridge development. As the splanchnocranium grows, however, the orbits begin to advance, thus causing the anterior displacement of the face relative to the brain. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supraorbital_ridge |
The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) () is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. At rest, it lies between the base of the mandible and the third cervical vertebra. Unlike other bones, the hyoid is only distantly articulated to other bone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone |
This has potentially negative implications for users; for instance, since the service provider has to take action to connect users who want to communicate using the service, it will also have the power to prevent users from communicating in the first place.Following the discovery of vulnerabilities, there is a growing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_and_encryption |
An act of Congress to which collecting institutions that receive federal funding must adhere to is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. This act requires consultation, among other things, with Native American tribes, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiian organizations to reach agreements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_property_exhibition |
It is susceptible to moisture, so must be laid on a course that stops rising dampness, must be roofed or covered to keep out water from above, and may need protection through some sort of plaster, paint or sheathing.In China, rammed earth walls were built by the Longshan people in 2600–1900 BC, during the period when c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_building |
The impressionable years hypothesis is a theory of political psychology that posits that individuals form durable political attitudes and party affiliations during late adolescence and early adulthood. In United States political history, the theory has been used to explain the waxing and waning in the strength of the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionable_years_hypothesis |
In January 2005, Pichler became Head of the Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology at the University of Tübingen and successfully completed his habilitation there in 2007. He has been a Full Professor at the University of Tübingen since 2008 and also Chair of the Department of Preclinical Imaging and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Pichler |
The most important requirement is the prevention of the discharge of dissolved methane from untreated leachate into public sewers, and most sewage treatment authorities limit the permissible discharge concentration of dissolved methane to 0.14 mg/L, or 1/10 of the lower explosive limit. This entails methane stripping f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leachate |
For example, when the data appears as “731960,” subtract 50 from the 73 and add 100 to the 19, and the wind would be 230° at 119 knots with a temperature of –60 °C. If the wind speed is forecast to be 200 knots or greater, the wind group is coded as 99 knots. For example, when the data appears as “7799,” subtract 50 fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winds_aloft |
The equations used are nonlinear partial differential equations which are impossible to solve exactly through analytical methods, with the exception of a few idealized cases. Therefore, numerical methods obtain approximate solutions. Different models use different solution methods: some global models and almost all reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_forecasting |
The United Kingdom's insurance companies agreed with the Department of Health and Social Care that until 2017 customers would not need to disclose predictive genetics tests to them, but this agreement explicitly excluded the government-approved test for Huntington's when writing policies with a value over £500,000. As ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington’s_disease |
Vancouverism developed in part as a product of Vancouver's geographical context. Wedged between the sea, mountains and the border with the United States, the Greater Vancouver Regional District partnered with the area's municipalities to encourage controlled development. Early recognition that British Columbia's farmla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism |
The basic steps in conducting research using a simple tax-benefit model are: Gross micro-data describing households' income, expenditure and family composition are collected and processed; These data enter a tax-benefit model; First simulation takes place; Disposable income of each household is calculated and the resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax-benefit_model |
The first edition of the two scales was completed by the 1890s. A second edition (or "first revision") was begun in 1891 and completed just before the First World War. From 1907 till the early 1940s, a third edition (or "second revision") was begun but never completed: only areas with significant changes on the ground ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Great_Britain_County_Series |
The matrix increases in dimensionality as the number of structures to be simultaneously aligned increases. Reducing the protein to a coarse metric such as secondary structure elements (SSEs) or structural fragments can also produce sensible alignments, despite the loss of information from discarding distances, as noise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_structural_alignment |
There is an increased risk of hypertriglyceridemia, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, and stroke if three or more standard drinks of alcohol are taken per day. A systematic review reported that reducing alcohol intake lowers blood pressure in a dose-dependent manner in heavy drinkers. For people who drank two or fewer drin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_and_health |
Exposure to phenylenediamine can occur during manufacturing or during the use of hair dyes. According to the Product Safety Summary Sheet by DuPont, Para-Phenyenediamine (PPD) is labeled as toxic and can cause adverse effects on aquatic organisms and could cause long-term effects in aquatic environments.In October 2017... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_dye |
1980 Margaret Mead Award: Brigitte Jordan1981 Margaret Mead Award: Nancy Scheper-Hughes1984 Margaret Mead Award: Sue E. Erstoff1985 Margaret Mead Award: Susan C.M. Scrimshaw1986 Margaret Mead Award: Jill Korbin1989 Margaret Mead Award: Mark Nichter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_anthropology |
Lapis Lacedaemonius (Latin: stone from Lacedaemon), also known as Spartan basalt, is a form of andesite or volcanic rock known today only from a single source in the village of Krokees on the Peloponnese in Greece. In addition, ancient sources mention a quarry of lapis Lacedaemonius in Taygetus. The stone has a dark gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_Lacedaemonius |
The company or individual responsible for the problem that has occurred will promise to correct the problem and return to the standard it was before or they will promise to stop the problem from reoccurring in the future by implementing new standards and guidelines in order to rebuild their reputation. This is often a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_communication |
In geometric topology, the de Rham invariant is a mod 2 invariant of a (4k+1)-dimensional manifold, that is, an element of Z / 2 {\displaystyle \mathbf {Z} /2} – either 0 or 1. It can be thought of as the simply-connected symmetric L-group L 4 k + 1 , {\displaystyle L^{4k+1},} and thus analogous to the other invariants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Rham_invariant |
The pit was then stacked with carefully arranged layers of birch bark, above an insulating and filtering layer of linden husks. The bark was very carefully stacked, so that there was no airspace between layers and so combustion could be controlled. A completed pit might be filled ten or twenty feet high (3–6 m). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_leather |
The graph's global cycles provide complete characterization for voting deadlocks and may include any combination of materialized and non-materialized conflicts. Only cycles of (only) materialized conflicts are also cycles of the regular conflict graph and affect serializability. One or more (lock related) non-materiali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_ordering |
The Court held both claims patent-ineligible, however, on the ground that the computer-equipment limitation was too trivial to avoid preempting the idea, since the method could not feasibly be used except with a computer. In Flook, the claim could have instead been to "a method of operating a hydrocracking plant wherei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-or-transformation_test |
Thus, the detector has minimal effect on loading the line. The probe tuning stub can be seen on figure 3 branching from the line linking the probe to the detector. Figure 2 has a slightly different arrangement; the main probe into the waveguide leads to a vertical co-axial tuning and adjustment section but the detector... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotted_line |
Custom-made devices manufactured in the European Union are subject to Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (Medical Device Regulation ), which replaced and repealed Directive 93/42/EEC (Medical Devices Directive ). Under the MDD, manufacturers of custom-made devices were required to follow the relevant Essential Requirements set o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom-made_medical_device |
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_protection |
The height of the tree is how high the tree goes up on the stick to a merchantable top. Tree height is measured to a merchantable top, the point at which a tree can be accepted for use by a sawmill. This point can be reached either by defects (extreme sweep, crook, deviating branching, or other defects) or at a diamete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_stick |
Guru–shishya means "succession from guru to disciple". Paramparā (Sanskrit: परम्परा, paramparā) literally means an uninterrupted row or series, order, succession, continuation, mediation, tradition. In the traditional residential form of education, the shishya remains with his or her guru as a family member and gets th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru–shishya_tradition |
This tradition of not using one's proper name has persisted to the present day, even though flamenco is now legitimate. Sometimes the artistic name consists of the home town appended to the first name (Manolo Sanlúcar, Ramón de Algeciras); but many, perhaps most, such names are more eccentric: Pepe de la Matrona (becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_name |
The third portion of the subclavian artery runs downward and lateralward from the lateral margin of the scalenus anterior muscle to the outer border of the first rib, where it becomes the axillary artery. This is the most superficial portion of the vessel, and is contained in the subclavian triangle. It is covered, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subclavian_artery |
Diners in a restaurant may leave uneaten food for the restaurant to discard, or take it away for later consumption. To take the food away, the diner might request a container, or ask a server to package it. Such a container is colloquially called a doggy bag or doggie bag. This most likely derives from a pretense that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggy_bag |
Due to the surfactant nature of PFOA, it has been found to concentrate in the top layers of ocean water. PFOA is detected widely in surface waters, and is present in numerous mammals, fish, and bird species. PFOA is in the blood or vital organs of Atlantic salmon, swordfish, striped mullet, gray seals, common cormorant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid |
Additionally, the norm behaves well in towers of fields: if M is a finite extension of L, then the norm from M to K is just the composition of the norm from M to L with the norm from L to K, i.e. N M / K = N L / K ∘ N M / L . {\displaystyle \operatorname {N} _{M/K}=\operatorname {N} _{L/K}\circ \operatorname {N} _{M/L}... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_norm |
It can also be found as necrotizing vasculitis, progressing into peripheral gangrene.The neurological complications per central nervous system lesions are increasingly reported. The neurological complications found are meningoencephalitis, subdural effusion, cerebral hypoperfusion, cerebral ischemia and infarct, cerebe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_disease |
The opera was completed on 14 May 1979, and first premiered only in its musical form on 8 May 1980 at the Théâtre du Monument National in Montréal, under the conductor Lorraine Vaillancourt. Vivier dedicated the piece to his "maître and friend" Gilles Tremblay, whom he had studied composition with for four years. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopernikus_(Vivier) |
The device offers Wi-Fi with DLNA, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, a standard microUSB port, a 3.5 mm audio jack and TV-out. A GPS receiver with S-GPS+Xtragps is included, along with the optional Samsung Mobile Navigator by Route 66. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnia_HD |
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