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The report sparked a number of investigations and national security books covering the allegations. One, Nest of Spies, is written by some of the former intelligence agents that authored the report.In 2021, Wilful Blindness by Sam Cooper was published, covering how the allegations in Sidewinder evolved into larger scal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sidewinder |
Large slow-speed Diesel engines may require additional support for the side forces on the piston. These engines typically use crosshead pistons. The main piston has a large piston rod extending downwards from the piston to what is effectively a second smaller-diameter piston. The main piston is responsible for gas seal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflector_piston |
Color images are not specified by the algorithm, however, one can sum all RGB component differences when calculating edge strength, and use all RGB components when interpolating the pixels. Or one could split to YCbCr, process only the luma component and stretch the chroma using a different algorithm. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_Cubic_Convolution_Interpolation |
For a cadaver to be viable and ideal for anatomical study and dissection, the body must be refrigerated or the preservation process must begin within 24 hours of death. This preservation may be accomplished by embalming using a mixture of embalming fluids, or with a relatively new method called plastination. Both metho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver |
The journal is abstracted and indexing in the following databases: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Chemical Abstracts Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences Current Contents/SciSearch Database Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences MSCI Engineering Index INSPEC PASCAL/CNRS Research Alert SSSA/CISA/E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_State_Communications |
Honeytokens do not necessarily prevent any tampering with the data, but instead give the administrator a further measure of confidence in the data integrity. Honeytokens are fictitious words or records that are added to legitimate databases. They allow administrators to track data in situations they wouldn't normally b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken |
From these, all subgroups of the Lorentz group can be constructed, up to conjugation, by multiplying by one of the elements of the Klein four-group. As with any connected Lie group, the coset spaces of the closed subgroups of the restricted Lorentz group, or homogeneous spaces, have considerable mathematical interest. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_transformation |
Anguillidae unlike its other relatives have a fully developed lateral line along their trunk. Lateral lines provide the ability for Anguillidae to sense their surrounding environment through water displacement which aids in predation and hunting especially because they are predominantly nocturnal generalists. Olfactory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_eel |
It upholds an expansive right to an adequate standard of living, and makes special mention of care given to those in motherhood or childhood. Articles 28–30 establish the general means of exercising these rights, the areas in which the rights of the individual cannot be applied, the duty of the individual to society, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_declaration_of_human_rights |
Epigenetic editing using an inducible mechanism offers a wide array of potential use to study epigenetic effects in various states. One research group employed an optogenetic two-hybrid system which integrated the sequence specific TALE DNA-binding domain with a light-sensitive cryptochrome 2 protein (CIB1). Once expre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenome_editing |
The secondary output of locate (marked by the second occurrence of the a: label) contains the records that did not meet the selection criterion. These records are translated to upper case (by the xlate stage) and passed to the secondary input stream of faninany (marked by the second occurrence of the i: label). The pip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS_Pipelines |
Bock, Hans; Gottwald, Siegfried; Mühlig, Rolf-Peter (1973). Zum Sprachgebrauch in der Mathematik ein Lernprogramm mit 133 Lerneinheiten (in German). Düsseldorf. ISBN 978-3-513-00823-7. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Gottwald |
In September 2008, The Daily Telegraph commented that YouTube was "notorious" for "some of the most confrontational and ill-formed comment exchanges on the internet", and reported on YouTube Comment Snob, "a new piece of software that blocks rude and illiterate posts". The Huffington Post noted in April 2012 that findi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google |
Man-eating leopards have earned a reputation as being particularly bold and difficult to track. British hunters Jim Corbett (1875–1955) and Kenneth Anderson (1910–1974) wrote that hunting leopards presented more challenges than any other animal. Indian naturalist J. C. Daniel (1927–2011), former curator of the Bombay N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_attack |
Furthermore, the AZA and the zoos and aquariums accredited with the AZA use the help of educators, veterinarians, and people doing research. With their assistance, zoos and aquariums are able to have the proper necessities needed in recovery programs to prevent animals from going extinct. Annually, it is subjected that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_animal |
Latta v. Otter, 771 F.3d 456 (9th Cir. 2014) is a court case that resulted from a federal lawsuit filed by four couples from Boise, Idaho, where same-sex marriage remained illegal until the couples' victory in 2014. Prior to Latta v. Otter, only 16 U.S. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_orientation_discrimination |
Foam concrete is a versatile building material with a simple production method that is relatively inexpensive compared to autoclave aerated concrete. Foam concrete compounds utilising fly ash in the slurry mix is cheaper still, and has less environmental impact. Foam concrete is produced in a variety of densities from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_Concrete |
The WPS protocol consists of a series of EAP message exchanges that are triggered by a user action, relying on an exchange of descriptive information that should precede that user's action. The descriptive information is transferred through a new Information Element (IE) that is added to the beacon, probe response, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wifi_Protected_Setup |
The Bobo doll experiment was a study carried out by Albert Bandura who was a professor at Stanford University. It focused on the study of aggression using three groups of preschoolers as the subjects. Bandura took inflatable plastic toys called Bobo dolls and weighted them down to always stand upright. The preschoolers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_experiment |
The X-ray luminosity is about 1 × 1029 erg/s and the emission varies with the pulsation period, suggesting a connection with the pulsation process. The peak X-ray emissions are in the 0.6–0.8 keV energy range, which occurs for plasmas with temperatures of 7–10 million K. == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Doradus |
In industrial applications, it is often useful to modify the crystal properties of the paraffin wax, typically by adding branching to the existing carbon backbone chain. The modification is usually done with additives, such as EVA copolymers, microcrystalline wax, or forms of polyethylene. The branched properties resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraffin_wax |
In his work Kαvώv ('canon', a straight edge or ruler, thus any type of measure or standard, referred to as 'canonic'), Epicurus laid out his first rule for inquiry in physics: 'that the first concepts be seen,: p.20 and that they not require demonstration '. : pp.35–47 His second rule for inquiry was that prior to an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method |
In mathematical group theory, the Schur multiplier or Schur multiplicator is the second homology group H 2 ( G , Z ) {\displaystyle H_{2}(G,\mathbb {Z} )} of a group G. It was introduced by Issai Schur (1904) in his work on projective representations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schur_cover |
The opening track, "Thinking, That's All", and "Call It in the Air" are screamo-esque songs, the former channeling the sound of Unwound. Linton said Adkins came up with the basic form of "Thinking, That's All", which the other members added to. The band had been playing "Rockstar" live for sometime, prior to signing wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_Prevails |
Direct costs of turnover: replacement and recruiting costs (advertising, interviewing, testing…), training time and costs ), leaving costs – payroll and HR administration, selection and placement costs, orientation costs, lost wages/salaries, administrative costs, loss of human capital, and customer satisfaction proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_turnover |
Recent case law (Oxfordshire County Council vs Oxford City Council and Robinson) makes it clear that registration as a green would render any development which prevented continuing use of the green as criminal activity under the Inclosure Act 1857 and the Commons Act 1876. This leads to some most curious areas being cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_green |
For nearly the whole of the 20th century, bipedal robots were very difficult to construct and robot locomotion involved only wheels, treads, or multiple legs. Recent cheap and compact computing power has made two-legged robots more feasible. Some notable biped robots are ASIMO, HUBO, MABEL and QRIO. Recently, spurred b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipedal_robot |
Using a special byte other than null for terminating strings has historically appeared in both hardware and software, though sometimes with a value that was also a printing character. $ was used by many assembler systems,: used by CDC systems (this character had a value of zero), and the ZX80 used " since this was the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_algorithm |
The data divide is the unequal relationship between those capable of collecting, storing, mining, and general management of immense volumes of data, and those whose data is collected. Using the framework of the digital divide, the data divide posits that the evolving nature of data and big data has created divisions an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_divide |
During the 1880s, the Monsignor of the Catholic Armenians of Marash attempted to sell the manuscript for its weight in gold (which is just over 7 pounds). The Zeytun people rejected the sale of the manuscript. In 1887 at the Church of the Holy Mother of God, the gospel escaped a fire, guarded by Surenian ishkhans. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeytun_Gospels |
The mechanism by which cyclin E-Cdk2 inhibits pre-RC formation involves downregulation of APC-Cdh1-mediated proteolysis and accumulation of the protein Geminin, which is responsible for sequestration of the pre-RC component Cdt1.Oscillations in Cyclin E-Cdk2 activity are modulated via transcriptional and post-transcrip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoreduplication |
The ATR 72MP is an ATR 72-600 derivative developed by Leonardo for search and rescue, maritime patrol, command and control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR). Leonardo Electronics designed its Airborne Tactical Observation and Surveillance (ATOS) backbone to manage its sens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATR_72 |
Social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, TikTok, and Twitter have also adopted pay-per-click as one of their advertising models. The amount advertisers pay depends on the publisher and is usually driven by two major factors: the quality of the ad, and the maximum bid the advertiser is w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-per-click |
The system consists of a small, metal-reinforced hole found commonly on small or portable computers and electronics equipment such as laptops, computer monitors, desktop computers, gaming consoles, and video projectors, combined with a metal anchor attached to a rubberized metal cable secured with a key or combination ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_lock |
Furthermore, as the skills for quarrying and stone dressing became available, masonry bridges began to be designed and built. As all metal materials had to be imported, iron bridges were rarely appropriate and were in any case still too novel for colonial application. Iron bridges were only used for major crossings on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_bridges_of_New_South_Wales |
In later years Lucas took up the cause of population-control, "a problem not talked about nearly enough", discussing the dangers of world overpopulation in The Greatest Problem (1960). Having laid out the statistics to 1959 and future projections, he argued that the "reckless proliferation" of homo sapiens, as well as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._L._Lucas |
Louis married Mary Woodbridge Goddard (c1850-1884) on May 15, 1872, in Norwich, Connecticut, and had the following children: Mary Woodbridge Tiffany (1873–1963) who married Graham Lusk; Charles Louis Tiffany I (1874–1874); Charles Louis Tiffany II (1878–1947) who married Katrina Brandes Ely; Hilda Goddard Tiffany (1879... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Comfort_Tiffany |
One way of training the SMA consists in applying a cyclic thermal load under constant stress field. During this process, internal defects are introduced into the microstructure which generates internal permanent stresses that facilitate the orientation of the martensitic crystals. Therefore, while cooling a trained SMA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_memory |
This project was initially called Getsuyō Asa no Shachiku Shokei ni Tawawa o Otodokeshimasu (月曜朝の社畜諸兄にたわわをお届けします, "I shall offer tawawa to our brothers in corporate slavery on Monday mornings") before Himura gave its current name after the 46th illustration, and has since posted more than 200 illustrations. These illus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawawa_on_Monday |
With the help of Thomas Derham, the British ambassador in Rome, and of the Royal Society, Sisson was commissioned to supply a 3 feet (0.91 m) transit telescope, a 3 feet (0.91 m) mural quadrant and a 2 feet (0.61 m) portable quadrant, which were dispatched by sea to Leghorn and installed in 1741 in the Institute's obse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sisson |
The control of subsidiaries that produce the raw materials needed in the production process gives a company the power to refuse access to resources to competitors and new entrants. They have the ability to cut off the chain of supply for competing buyers and thus, strengthen their position in their respective industry.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_power_utility |
The first Pyle stop would take place at the halfway pressure, which is 5 bars (70 psi) corresponding to a depth of 40 metres (130 ft). The second Pyle stop would be at 30 metres (98 ft). A third would be at 25 metres (82 ft) which is less than 9 metres (30 ft) below the first required stop, and therefore is omitted.The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_theory |
John Wesley in his sermon #85, "On Working Out Our Own Salvation", stated that: "prevenient grace elicits the first wish to please God, the first dawn of light concerning His will, and the first slight transient conviction of having sinned against Him." Wesley insisted on prevenient grace as a solution to two great pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevenient_grace |
Grain boundary theory predicts that an increase in boundary misorientation will increase the energy of the boundary but decrease the energy per dislocation. Thus, there is a driving force to produce fewer, more highly misoriented boundaries. The situation in highly deformed, polycrystalline materials is naturally more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_(metallurgy) |
In 2004, the Al-Islah Mosque in Hamtramck, Michigan, US, attracted national attention when it requested permission to broadcast its call to prayer. This upset many of the non-Muslim residents of the area, which has a large and long-established Polish Catholic population. Proponents pointed out that the city was already... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeakers_in_mosques |
MP2 (including RI-MP2, energies and analytic gradients) SCS, SOS-MP2, and OO-MP2 CCD, QCISD, CCSD, OOCCD, VOOCCD (T), (2), (dT), and (fT) corrections EOM-XX-CCSD methods for open-shell and electronically excited species (XX=EE, SF, IP, EA, DIP, DEA, 2SF; energies, properties, and gradients for most methods), including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Chem |
Buolamwini was born in Edmonton, Alberta, grew up in Mississippi and attended Cordova High School. At age 9, she was inspired by Kismet, the MIT robot, and taught herself XHTML, JavaScript and PHP. She was a competitive pole vaulter.As an undergraduate, Buolamwini studied computer science at Georgia Institute of Techno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Buolamwini |
The Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America. The first version, with a text different from the one used at present, was written in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army officer in the Civil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance |
The obsession with youth and beauty sends thousands of people to stores searching for a quick fix. Looking into cosmetics retailers, teenagers are trying on makeup to make them look more mature while middle-aged women are sourcing for the best anti-aging cream for her skin. The beauty industry relies on all kinds of pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetic_advertising |
Paglia states that young people from the 2000s do not "have patience for the long, slow take that deep-think European directors once specialized in", an approach which gave "luxurious scrutiny of the tiniest facial expressions or the chilly sweep of a sterile room or bleak landscape".According to director, producer, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_house_film |
Asymptotic stability of fixed points of a non-linear system can often be established using the Hartman–Grobman theorem. Suppose that v is a C1-vector field in Rn which vanishes at a point p, v(p) = 0. Then the corresponding autonomous system x ′ = v ( x ) {\displaystyle x'=v(x)} has a constant solution x ( t ) = p . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_theory |
Between 1842 and 1845, the Bank withdrew and had recoined some £14 million in lightweight gold, about one-third the amount of that metal in circulation. This not only kept the sovereign to standard, it probably removed most of the remaining guineas still in commerce. The unlucky holder of a lightweight gold coin could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_sovereign |
The following is a list of sample problems appearing in the book: "Boy shepherd B with his one sheep behind him asked shepherd A "Are there 100 sheep in your flock?". Shepherd A replies "Yet add the same flock, the same flock again, half, one quarter flock and your sheep. There are then 100 sheep altogether." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suanfa_tongzong |
The expeditions were organised by the Zoology Department of the British Museum of Natural History in London to expand their holdings of Australian bird specimens following the sale of both the Rothschild and Mathews collections to the United States. The expeditions were sponsored by Australian-born philanthropist Major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hall_Australian_expeditions |
New threats and problems abound, both in our everyday lives and in the larger institutions of our societies. Scientists can communicate with one-another in a direct way across the world. The overlap of supercomputers and genetics means that genetic structures can be decoded instantaneously, promising huge advances in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Giddens |
In Australian English, for some time, terms such as "spastic" and "crippled" were considered the proper words to describe persons with various disabilities and even appeared on traffic signs warning drivers of such persons near the road. More recently, these terms have fallen out of use and replaced with the more socia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic_(word) |
Émile Gallé (8 May 1846 in Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of Art Nouveau glass art and Art Nouveau furniture, and was a founder of the École de ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Gallé |
Conservation efforts for the northern bald ibis in Syria began with the discovery of an unreported relict colony of this species in early 2002 in the Palmyra desert. The bald ibises still breeding in Syria, discovered during an extensive biodiversity survey carried out as part of a FAO cooperation project, are the last... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_bald_ibis |
Other automatic weapons are subdivided into several categories based on the size of the bullet used, whether the cartridge is fired from a closed bolt or an open bolt, and whether the action used is locked or is some form of blowback. Fully automatic firearms using pistol-caliber ammunition are called machine pistols o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_guns |
One glass in the British Museum is unusual in a number of respects: between a named couple is a smaller figure of Hercules, and the inscription: "ORFITVS ET CONSTANTIA IN NOMINE HERCVLlS ACERENTINO FELICES BIBATIS" or "Orfitus and Constantia, may you live/drink in happiness in the name of Hercules of Acerentia". This m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_glass |
Gize (1816) studied the extraction of crystalline quinine from the cinchona bark and Pelletier and Caventou (1820) in France extracted pure quinine alkaloids, which they named quinine and cinchonine. The total synthesis of quinine was achieved by American chemists R.B. Woodward and W.E. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodium_falciparum |
Demand quickly outstripped capacity, forcing Iwasaki to extend the factory. Iwasaki knew that a privately owned business was not enough to meet such high demands and decided to incorporate a company. On August 14, 1938, the inauguration ceremony of Iwasaki Tsushinki (communication instruments) was held at Iwasaki's own... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwatsu_Electric |
The ampere-turn system is constructed in a similar way by considering magnetomotive force and magnetic field strength to be electrical quantities and rationalizing the system by dividing the units of magnetic pole strength and magnetization by 4π. The units of the first two quantities are the ampere and the ampere per ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMU_system_of_units |
Because sampling involves chance, the probabilities ( ∫k ) of obtaining each of these samples become of interest. These binomial probabilities depend on the starting frequencies (pg and qg) and the sample size (2Nk). They are tedious to obtain,: 382–395: 55 but are of considerable interest. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_genetics |
They started with the issue of fire safety and moved on to broader issues of the risks of injury in the factory environment. Their findings led to thirty-eight new laws regulating labor in New York state, and gave them a reputation as leading progressive reformers working on behalf of the working class. In the process,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire |
Similar to the dentate gyrus, NPY has been found to increase cellular proliferation and differentiation in the sub-ventricular zone by specifically activating Y1 receptors in the ERK1/2 pathway. Additionally, NPY was found in neuronal fibers that pass through the sub-ventricular zone and extend to other brain areas. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropeptide_Y |
Born in Brussels on 9 May 1937, Charles J. Joachain obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 1963 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels). From 1964 to 1965 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Joachain |
The Boehm–Demers–Weiser garbage collector, often simply known as Boehm GC, is a conservative garbage collector for C and C++ developed by Hans Boehm, Alan Demers, and Mark Weiser.Boehm GC is free software distributed under a permissive free software licence similar to the X11 license. The first paper introducing this c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector |
Evidence supports a genetic link between the Kell blood group (on chromosome 7 q33) and the ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide, or PTC, a bitter-tasting thiourea compound. Bitter taste receptor proteins in the taste buds of the tongue that recognise PTC are encoded on nearby chromosome locus 7 q35-6. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kell_blood_group_system |
The Allen Brain Atlas website contains a downloadable 3-D interactive Brain explorer. The explorer is essentially a search engine for locations of gene expression; this is particularly useful in finding regions that express similar genes. Users can delineate networks and pathways using this application by connecting re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Brain_Atlas |
Due to the evolution of technology today some companies or groups of people don’t know the importance of legacy systems. Some of their functions are too important to be left unused, and too expensive to reproduce again. The software industry and researchers have recently paid more attention towards component-based soft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_modernization |
Weight function – is a mathematical device used when performing a sum, integral, or average to give some elements more "weight" or influence on the result than other elements in the same set. The result of this application of a weight function is a weighted sum or weighted average. Weight functions occur frequently in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_aerospace_engineering |
After Britain's colonial period, jurisdictions that had inherited and adopted England's common law developed their courts of final appeal in differing ways: jurisdictions still under the British crown are subject to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. For a long period, the British Dominions used Lon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_common_law |
In the case of the Florentine Romanesque, one can speak of "proto-renaissance", but at the same time an extreme survival of the late antique architectural tradition in Italy, as in the cases of the Basilica of San Salvatore, Spoleto, the Temple of Clitumnus, and the church of Sant'Alessandro in Lucca. The Baptistery is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Baptistery |
Although no longer used commercially, traction engines of all types continue to be maintained and preserved by enthusiastic individuals and are frequently exhibited at agricultural shows in Europe (particularly the UK), Canada and the United States. They are often a main attraction in a live steam festival (see List of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_engine |
The accumulators each comprise a 20-inch (51 cm) ram which sits a very heavy weight to maintain the desired pressure.The entire hydraulic system along with the gas lighting system was installed by William Sugg & Co Ltd. The gas lighting was initially by open-flame burners within the lanterns, but was soon updated to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge |
Datura metel is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is called yáng jīn huā (洋金花). However, the ingestion of D. metel in any form is dangerous and should be treated with extreme caution. According to Drug & Cosmetic Act 1940 & Rule 1995, Datura metel is banned in India except f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_metel |
It is occasionally unclear whether a piece of music is 'hidden.' For example, "Her Majesty," which is preceded by fourteen seconds of silence, was originally unlisted on The Beatles' Abbey Road but is listed on current versions of the album. That song and others push the definition of the term, causing a lack of consen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_track |
However, for larger pipe (driven by higher consumption) the 60 cm (2& ft) per second criteria meant extremely high consumption and an oversized polishing system. The industry responded to this issue and through extensive investigation, choice of higher purity materials, and optimized distribution design was able to red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-pure_water |
In July 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tanovea to treat lymphoma in dogs. Lymphoma, also called lymphosarcoma, is a type of cancer that can affect many species, including dogs. Tanovea is the first conditionally approved new animal drug for dogs to achieve the FDA's full approval. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabacfosadine |
The color of a light source affects the apparent color of an object the light shines on. For example, the color of an object might appear different in the light from the sun versus from an incandescent (tungsten) light bulb. With the incandescent light bulb, the object might appear more orange or "brownish", and dark c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology |
Reactions in aqueous solutions are usually metathesis reactions. Metathesis reactions are another term for double-displacement; that is, when a cation displaces to form an ionic bond with the other anion. The cation bonded with the latter anion will dissociate and bond with the other anion.A common metathesis reaction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_chemistry |
Prime Minister Qarase and Opposition Leader Chaudhry withheld comment pending a study of the proposed changes, but Fiji Law Society President Graeme Leung cautiously welcomed the committee's recommendations. The society had wanted the amnesty clauses deleted, he said, but the amendments went some way towards allaying t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation,_Tolerance,_and_Unity_Bill |
Chinese law and mortgage practices have progressed with safeguards to prevent foreclosures as much as possible. These include mandatory secondary security, rescission (Chinese Contract Law), and maintaining accounts at the lending bank to cover any defaults without prior notice to the borrower. A mortgagee may sue on a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreclosure |
The lake has undergone a considerable amount of change over the last 100 years including flooding by copper mine debris, dredging, and eutrophication. Others have used this technique to explore the evolutionary effects of eutrophication, predation, and metal contamination. Resurrection ecology provided the best empiric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_ecology |
The electrostatic potential at position r due to an electric dipole at the origin is given by: Φ ( r ) = 1 4 π ϵ 0 p ⋅ r ^ r 2 {\displaystyle \Phi (\mathbf {r} )={\frac {1}{4\pi \epsilon _{0}}}\,{\frac {\mathbf {p} \cdot {\hat {\mathbf {r} }}}{r^{2}}}} where p is the (vector) dipole moment, and є0 is the permittivity o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_operator |
The actual amount of cyanide in the mixture varies according to the recipes used by each foundry. Cyanide is also used in jewelry-making and certain kinds of photography such as sepia toning. Although usually thought to be toxic, cyanide and cyanohydrins increase germination in various plant species. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_anion |
Carlson is a Deadhead (a fan of the rock band Grateful Dead); he has attended more than fifty Dead concerts, and the title of his 2018 book Ship of Fools was inspired by the Grateful Dead song of the same name.In 2011, group of protesters gathered outside his house in Kent, Washington, D.C., to protest Carlson. In 2017... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_on_X |
The bit is not defined in the International System of Units (SI). However, the International Electrotechnical Commission issued standard IEC 60027, which specifies that the symbol for binary digit should be 'bit', and this should be used in all multiples, such as 'kbit', for kilobit. However, the lower-case letter 'b' ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_digit |
Currently retired from the HMF lineup, the Penland Pro was backed by the ATV legend Mike Penland, the Penland Pro Series was developed for off-road racers and trail riders. The Penland Pro comes with a Torque Range Modifier. The removable Torque Range Modifier increases power in the low-to-mid RPM range. == References ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMF_Engineering |
Eucalyptus regnans is the tallest of all flowering plants, and possibly the tallest of all plants, although no living specimens can make that claim. The tallest measured living specimen, named Centurion, stands 100.5 metres (330 feet) tall in Tasmania. Before the discovery of Centurion, the tallest known specimen was I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_regnans |
The manager software daemon (NMd) runs on the RNC-EMS machine and is responsible for polling the RNCs. Every RNC is polled twice, once over each of the data communication networks. The agent software daemon (NAd) runs on every RNC as part of the application software. It accesses the RNC application log to respond to ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_automatic_restoration |
Such samples are commonly collected in capped test tubes, often with a small amount of some sort of preservative. Cerebrospinal fluid sampling, generally by lumbar puncture Pleural fluid sampling, generally by thoracocentesis Amniotic fluid sampling, generally by amniocentesis Peritoneal fluid sampling, generally by pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sample |
For example, the proofs in Villamayor (1992), Encinas & Villamayor (1998), Encinas & Hauser (2002), and Kollár (2007) use this idea. However, this method only ensures centers of blowings up that are regular in W. The following example shows that this method can produce centers that have non-smooth intersections with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_of_singularities |
Created in the 80's, it is executed by swinging the bike to a vertical position on its rear wheel while the rider sits and hops on it to maintain balance. Nose manual: The same concept as a manual, only performed with the back wheel in the air and the front wheel on the ground. Bunny hop: A bunny hop is achieved when a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_BMX |
In their loose-string experiment with 13 captive rooks they distinguished between bold and shy animals. The results were mixed, ranging from some pairs cooperating successfully every time to some pairs never cooperating. In 81% of cases a rook should have waited for a partner, but it did not and started pulling. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_pulling_paradigm |
A user without disabilities, with proper training in manual brushing, and with good motivation, can achieve standards of oral hygiene at least as satisfactory as the best electric brushes, but untrained users rarely achieve anything of the kind. Not all electric toothbrushes are equally effective and even a good design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_teeth |
Coastal plains mostly rise from sea level until they run into elevated features such as mountains or plateaus. Plains can be formed from flowing lava; from deposition of sediment by water, ice, or wind; or formed by erosion by the agents from hills or mountains. Biomes on plains include grassland (temperate or subtropi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain |
Block ciphers can be used as stream ciphers by generating blocks of a keystream (in place of a Pseudorandom number generator) and applying an XOR operation to each bit of the plaintext with each bit of the keystream.Message authentication codes (MACs) are much like cryptographic hash functions, except that a secret key... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_cipher |
Since she knew how much surfactant was in her sliding trough as well as the area covered by the monolayer film, she could calculate the area on the surface of the water occupied by single molecule. She calculated this area to be 20 square angstroms (20 Å2). Later, as her investigations became known in the scientific co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Pockels |
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