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During motor activity, serotonin released in synapses that contact motor neurons promotes muscle contraction. During high level of motor activity, the amount of serotonin released increases and a spillover occurs. Serotonin binds to extrasynaptic receptors located on the axonal initial segment of motor neurons with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue |
The robosquirrel project stems directly from Owings' long-term research on the interactions of ground squirrels and rattlesnakes together with his assessment/management view of communication. Robosquirrel was developed to test implication of the assessment/management approach by developing robotic squirrels that could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_H._Owings |
"Analytic propositions are thought to be true in virtue of their meaning alone, while a posteriori propositions are thought to be true in virtue of their meaning and of certain facts about the world. According to the analytic explanation of the a priori, all a priori knowledge is analytic; so a priori knowledge need no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_posteriori |
The Eastern Agricultural Complex of the United States is one of about 10 places in the world where humans independently domesticated wild plants and initiated agriculture. The Riverton Site is one of the best known and earliest sites of extensive cultivation in the eastern U.S. By 1800 BCE, Native Americans were cultiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverton_Site |
The development of Leprosy is caused by infection with either Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis, two closely related bacteria. Roughly 200,000 new cases of infection are reported each year, and 80% of new cases are reported in Brazil, India, and Indonesia. M. leprae infection localizes within the skin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterial_disease |
Direct equiangular hendecagons, <11>, <11/2>, <11/3>, <11/4>, and <11/5> have 147 3/11°, 114 6/11°, 81 9/11°, 49 1/11°, and 16 4/11° internal angles respectively. 147° internal angles from an equiangular hendecagon, <11> 114° internal angles from an equiangular hendecagram, <11/2> 81° internal angles from an equiangula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiangular_polygon |
To provide implementations of hypothesis tests that are more efficient than exact tests such as permutation tests (which are often impossible to compute) while being more accurate than critical values for asymptotic distributions. To provide a random sample from the posterior distribution in Bayesian inference. This sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Simulation |
The complicated expression given above can be represented as the product of four separate factors: k H k D = S × M M I × E X C × Z P E {\displaystyle {\frac {k_{{\ce {H}}}}{k_{{\ce {D}}}}}=\mathbf {S} \times \mathbf {MMI} \times \mathbf {EXC} \times \mathbf {ZPE} } .For the special case of deuterium isotope effects, we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_isotope_effect |
Other important observational tools include radiological imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). These imaging techniques are extremely sensitive and can image tiny molecular concentrations on the order of 10−10 M such as found with extrastriatal D1 rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychopharmacology |
Basso blocks are a stacking variant of conventional apple boxes. Their design gives the same elevation ability of Apples, but takes 66% less storage space. A full set of Basso Blocks is equivalent to twelve 1/2 Apples. A set of 1/2 Basso Blocks is equivalent to twenty-four 1/4 Apples.Elephant blocks are a three legged ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_box |
The orientation of face determines the focus with which the face negotiator will direct her or his attention and energy of the conflict messages. Because of different concerns, caused by different underlying cultural values, face negotiators may orient towards self-face (one's own image), other face (the other conflict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_negotiation_theory |
Modern astronomers have discovered the faint remnant of this explosion and determined that it was only 7,100 light-years from the Earth.Supernova SN 1054 was another widely observed event, with astronomers recording the star's appearance in 1054 CE. It may also have been recorded, along with other supernovae, by the An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supernova_observation |
The Wasserwerfer 10000 (WaWe 10, literally "Water Launcher 10000") is a water cannon used for riot control developed by Rosenbauer on the Mercedes-Benz Actros chassis for the Federal Police (Bundespolizei) and Bereitschaftspolizei in Germany. Named for its 10,000 litres (2,600 US gal) water capacity, it is the successo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserwerfer_10000 |
Most people have a strong intuition that some animals, such as cats and dogs, are conscious, while others, such as insects, are not; but the sources of this intuition are not obvious, and are often based on personal interactions with pets and other animals they have observed. Philosophers who consider subjective experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness |
In 1854, British mathematician George Boole published a landmark paper detailing an algebraic system of logic that would become known as Boolean algebra. His logical calculus was to become instrumental in the design of digital electronic circuitry.In 1937, Claude Shannon produced his master's thesis at MIT that impleme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_system_(numeral) |
Steam locomotives usually do not have condensers so the feedwater is not recycled and water consumption is high. The use of deionized water would be prohibitively expensive so other types of water treatment are used. Chemicals employed typically include sodium carbonate, sodium bisulfite, tannin, phosphate and an anti-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_feedwater |
Even in a subcritical assembly such as a shut-down reactor core, any stray neutron that happens to be present in the core (for example from spontaneous fission of the fuel, from radioactive decay of fission products, or from a neutron source) will trigger an exponentially decaying chain reaction. Although the chain rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_physics |
In Mari, the equivalent deities of Išar and Mešar are found. An Ugaritic reference to a god named Ṣaduq has also been found, a possible forerunner of Sydyk.It has also been conjectured that a related deity named or titled "Tzedek" (i.e. "righteousness") was worshipped in pre-Israelite Jerusalem as the names of two king... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydyk |
ESP-3 has two grapple fixtures to aid deployment. ESP-3 was the first major station element to be installed completely by robotics, using only the shuttle and station's robotic arms, an external berthing camera system (BCS) and a Photovoltaic Radiator Grapple Fixture (PVRGF). Astronauts robotically installed the platfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Stowage_Platform |
The Lieber Code included the humane treatment of civilian populations in areas of conflict, and also forbade the execution of POWs. At the same time, the involvement during the Crimean War of a number of such individuals as Florence Nightingale and Henry Dunant, a Genevese businessman who had worked with wounded soldie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_Law |
Delton Chen names the economic growth pattern that will result from these activities as optimal growth. By giving the carbon currency a predictable rising floor price, the carbon currency will attract investment demand from institutional investors and households. Furthermore, projects that are effective at mitigating c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Carbon_Reward |
In the episode "Love, Lionel", he has a huge crush on Wanda and had trouble revealing his feelings to her, as she and her other friends already know him for his cracking of jokes and where Nancy tries to help him get over his fear and come clean. Sean (voiced by George Yionoulis) is Lionel's cousin who's autistic. He l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Nancy_(TV_series) |
Their hibernacula are located in holes in large trees with varying levels of insulation. However, the range of insulation levels is relatively narrow, as there are often small numbers of suitably large trees. There can be hibernacula differences even within a species. In Columbian ground squirrels, hibernacula size is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernaculum_(zoology) |
One of the most prominent and influential studies to date regarding leadership in a globalized world is the Hofstede dimensions of culture. The study reveals similarities as well as differences across cultures and emphasizes the need to be open-minded to understand the differences in other cultures. Hofstede utilizes s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_leadership |
Modern numismatics is the study of the coins of the mid-17th century onward, the period of machine-struck coins. Their study serves more the need of collectors than historians, and it is more often successfully pursued by amateur aficionados than by professional scholars. The focus of modern numismatics frequently lies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics |
Human germline engineering is a widely debated topic, and in more than 40 countries, it is formally outlawed. While there is no current legislation explicitly prohibiting germline engineering in the United States, the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2016 bans the use of US FDA funds to engage in research regarding hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_germline_engineering |
In the United States Pacific coast, they have been found from southern California north to the southernmost tip of Alaska. The largest populations of green sea turtles within the United States coastline are in the Hawaiian Islands and Florida. Globally, the largest populations of sea turtles are in the Great Barrier Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle |
Object resurrection occurs via the following process. First, an object becomes garbage when it is no longer reachable from the program, and may be collected (destroyed and deallocated). Then, during object destruction, before the garbage collector deallocates the object, a finalizer method may be run, which may in turn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_resurrection |
There was no direct link between social classes across generations, but in each generation educational attainment was a predictor of social class, which is consistent with other studies. Also, participant's childhood ability moderately predicted their educational and social class attainment (.31 and .38). Participant's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility |
A key source of equal incident intensity to the fill, overlapping the even fill, will create a 2:1 reflected ratio (1 key + 1 fill over 1 fill) = 2:1. The same two equal incident strength sources placed on opposite side of a face will work to cancel each other out creating overall dimensionally flat appearance with dar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fill_light |
Church conversions, where large under-used religious buildings have been transformed into other uses, are nothing new. The impressive Lincoln College Library in Oxford (formerly the city's baroque church of All Saints), the spacious OAP's Day Centre contained within the shell of York's Church of St Sampson, and the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_reordering |
Wankel Diesel engine describes the idea of using the Diesel principle in a Wankel rotary engine. Several attempts to build such an engine have been made by different engineers and manufacturers in the 1960s and 1970s. Due to technical problems and the general disadvantages of the Wankel design, the Wankel Diesel engine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_Diesel_engine |
At that time, the Eveready and Energizer batteries held 52 percent market share. The company under Ralston lost market share to rival Duracell. In 1992, it bought the British Ever Ready Electrical Company (manufacturer of Gold Seal and Silver Seal batteries) from Hanson Trust, bringing its former subsidiary back under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eveready_Battery |
Nu Fornacis, Latinized from ν Fornacis, is a single, variable star in the southern constellation of Fornax. It is blue-white in hue and faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 4.69. This body is located approximately 370 light years distant from the Sun based on paralla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Fornacis |
After reaching agreements with SACEM, the site subsequently relaunched as Deezer, which reached seven million users by the end of 2009.By the early-2010's, online streaming had begun to displace radio airplay as a significant factor in the commercial success of music. Spotify officially launched in the United States in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_music_streaming |
The north gateway, which was 3 metres wide, had been blocked at some stage. A cobbled road 5 metres wide ran through the centre of the milecastle.A section of a Roman milestone was found on the west side of the milecastle in the 1962 excavations. It is inscribed with the letters "MP". The milestone is in Carlisle Museu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milecastle_64 |
Experimental variations such as the slit width (effective bandwidth) of the spectrophotometer will also alter the spectrum. To apply UV/Vis spectroscopy to analysis, these variables must be controlled or accounted for in order to identify the substances present.The method is most often used in a quantitative way to det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_max |
Transitional cell carcinoma is commonly multifocal, more than one tumor occurring at the time of diagnosis. Transitional cell carcinoma can metastasize, or spread to other parts of the body via the surrounding tissues, the lymph system, and the bloodstream. It can spread to the tissues and fat surrounding the kidney, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_epithelium |
In many situations the sample fraction may be varied by stratum and data will have to be weighted to correctly represent the population. Thus for example, a simple random sample of individuals in the United Kingdom might not include some in remote Scottish islands who would be inordinately expensive to sample. A cheape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_Theory |
The body of another woman (known as Borremose III or Borremose Woman) was recovered in 1948, approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) south from Borremose man. Her approximate age range at the time of death was 20–35 years old. Borremose Woman was found lying face down, the body wrapped in a woolen garment. The scalp and ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borremose_bodies |
In giving evidence, Huxley states "Well, as I was saying, Owen and me is in the same trade; and we both cuts up monkeys, and I finds something in the brains of them. Hallo! says I, here's a hippocampus. No, there ain't says Owen. Look here says I. I can't see it he says and he sets to werriting and haggling about it, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hippocampus_Question |
Before the advent of telescopic photography, eight moons of Saturn were discovered by direct observation using optical telescopes. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was discovered in 1655 by Christiaan Huygens using a 57-millimeter (2.2 in) objective lens on a refracting telescope of his own design. Tethys, Dione, Rhea and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn |
The probe was powered instead by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). The spacecraft was originally named Odysseus, because of its lengthy and indirect trajectory to study the solar poles. It was renamed Ulysses, the Latin translation of "Odysseus", at ESA's request in honor not only of Homer's mythological h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft) |
This reaction shows the oxidation of phenol by iron and peroxide. This combination of iron, which comes from iron oxide in the sediment, and the peroxide, commonly released by animals and plants into the environment, is known as the Fenton Reagent. This reagent is used to oxidize phenol groups by the use of a radical h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote |
Exhaled gas must be passed through a carbon dioxide scrubber where the carbon dioxide is absorbed before the gas is made available to be breathed again. In rebreathers the scrubber is a part of the breathing loop. Color indicating dye was removed from US Navy fleet use in 1996 when it was suspected of releasing chemica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_lime |
Overall the quality of evidence available was found to be low, and the authors were unable to recommend one method of caries removal over the other. There was no evidence of a difference between the marginal integrity or durability of the restorations placed. However, there was some evidence that the laser-produced les... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_laser |
As she gazes out at the city beyond, she soon finds that the sharp minute hand has begun to dig into her neck. Slowly, the minute hand decapitates her. At one point, pressure against her neck causes her eye to fall and roll down into the gutter and then to the street below. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Predicament |
The rides generally have wheels mounted on the base and the rest of the ride is then dismantled and folded up to allow for over the road transport. Food stands are usually tow-behind trailers, although there are still some booths that require complete take down and packing. Some large carnival operators use the railroa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_funfair |
By the time he was undertaking technical school studies in metallurgy and assaying, Morris had developed a small garden and nursery, and contributed to the cost of his fees by selling plants (pepper trees) that he had grown. Morris took up work with the Central Mine in Broken Hill, eventually becoming chief assayer for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Morris |
The Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) is a small gull. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus Ichthyaetus is from ikhthus, "fish", and aetos, "eagle", and the specific melanocephalus is from melas, "black", and -kephalos "-headed".This gull breeds almost entirely in the Western Palearctic, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_gull |
Anergy may be taken advantage of for therapeutic uses. The immune response to grafting of transplanted organs and tissues could be minimized without weakening the entire immune system— a side effect of immunosuppressive drugs like cyclosporine. Anergy may also be used to induce activated lymphocytes to become unrespons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_anergy |
Blindsnakes of the family Typhlopidae are known to consume Myrmecia broods, although smaller blindsnakes avoid them since they are vulnerable to their stings. Predatory invertebrates such as assassin bugs and redback spiders prey on jack jumpers and other Myrmecia ants. Thorny devils and echidnas, particularly the shor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_jumper_ant |
The original model served as a general guideline, and did not explore or account for several aspects of diamond cut: Because every facet has the potential to change a light ray's plane of travel, every facet must be considered in any complete calculation of light paths. Just as a two-dimensional slice of a diamond prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_cut |
Marx calls the constant part of the capital outlay "constant" because according to his labour theory of value, constant capital inputs - once produced, purchased, withdrawn from the market and used to create new products - do not by themselves add new value to output, or increase in value in the production process. Ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_capital |
For example, if a company sold a machine worth $10,000 for $15,000, it can start recording profit only when the buyer pays more than $10,000. In other words, for each dollar collected greater than $10,000 goes towards your anticipated gross profit of $5,000. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_recognition |
The dough for white dumplings is made of first boiled and then mashed potatoes (moderately cooled, but still warm), potato flour and a little bit of salt. The ratio of potatoes and flour is about 3:1 or 4:1. In some recipes, a whole egg may be added to the dough (this helps shaping if the mashed potatoes cooled too muc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_dumplings |
Spiroketals were obtained from precursor ketone diols, and were therefore formed thermally in acid. Similar to Isobe's synthesis, the Forsyth synthesis sought to reduce the number of steps, and to increase potential for designing analogues late in the synthesis. To do this, Forsyth et al. designed the synthesis to allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okadaic_acid |
Although, due to the humid climate of Central America, relatively few Maya paintings have survived to the present day integrally, important remnants have been found in nearly all major court residences. This is especially the case in substructures, hidden under later architectural additions. Mural paintings may show mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Maya_art |
The members of 2 ω {\displaystyle 2^{\omega }} can be identified with binary decimal expansions, but since the decimal expansions . d 1 d 2 … d n 0111 … {\displaystyle .d_{1}d_{2}\ldots d_{n}0111\ldots } and . d 1 d 2 … d n 10 {\displaystyle .d_{1}d_{2}\ldots d_{n}10} denote the same real number, the interval {\displa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncomputable_real_number |
Flavor is described as slightly acidic. The vines are said to be indeterminate but compact, and disease resistant. While the concentration of anthocyanins is still very low compared to other fruits like blueberries, the pigments do improve the resistance of the fruits to the fungus Botrytis cinerea. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_tomato |
It was also of silver, nielloed, surmounted by "a globe of pure gold weighing 118 pounds, and golden lilies weighing 4 pounds , and above these a golden cross with precious and rare stones, which cross weighed 80 pounds of gold". The roof had eight panels rising to the globe and cross.The Early Medieval Eastern Orthodo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_curtain |
The preparatory attentional and memory (PAM) theory proposes two types of processes involved in successful prospective memory performance. The first component of this theory involves a monitoring process that begins when a person constructs an intention that is then maintained until it is performed. This monitoring com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospective_memory |
People are notoriously susceptible to forming inaccurate judgments based on biases and limited information. Evolutionary theories propose that negative affective states tend to increase skepticism and decrease reliance on preexisting knowledge. Consequently, judgmental accuracy is improved in areas such as impression f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_affectivity |
made the standard of "clear and present danger" based on Mill's idea. In the majority opinion, Holmes writes: The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill |
The book received a number of accolades, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and was also a finalist for the Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. 2018: In Fab4 Mania, Carol Tyler referenced her personal writings from 1965 for a first-hand account of seeing the Beatles in pers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiographical_comics |
Climbers have also free soloed multi-pitch routes. Multi-pitch climbing is more complex and riskier than single-pitch climbing as the climbers will remain exposed on the route (e.g. a rock climbing route, an ice climbing, or a mixed climbing route) for longer, and it will often involve the use of hanging belays, long a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-pitch_climbing |
Bīne's 1931 painting Dievs, Māra, Laima, depicting three gods from Latvian mythology, remains one of the most prominent examples of Dievturi iconography. A book about Bīne by the art historian Agita Gritāne was published in 2020. The same year, an exhibition of his works was held in Kuldīga to commemorate the 125th ann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jēkabs_Bīne |
Portable sawmills are sawmills small enough to be moved easily and set up in the field. They have existed for over 100 years but grew in popularity in the United States starting in the 1970s, when the 1973 oil crisis and the back-to-the-land movement had led to renewed interest in small woodlots and in self-sufficiency... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_sawmill |
When jarring without a compounder or accelerator you rely only on pipe stretch to lift the drill collars upwards after the jar releases to create the upwards impact in the jar. This accelerated upward movement will often be reduced by the friction of the working string along the sides of the well bore, reducing the spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_string |
Seniors (women ages 20 and up) wrestle in seven weight classes ranging from 44 to 72 kg (97–159 lb). Wrestlers after weigh-in may only wrestle in their own weight class. Wrestlers in the senior age category may wrestle up a weight class except for the heavyweight division (which starts at a weight more than 96 kg (212 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_wrestling |
A bridge, Norddalsbron, was built along the Ofoten Line, extra long for military reasons, to be able to cut the line in case of war. In 1940, during the war, the bridge was blown up. However, because of lack of explosives, the demolition was not well done, and the bridge could be repaired by the Germans. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofoten_Line |
Dishes similar to tandoori chicken may have existed during the Harappan civilization. According to archaeologist and vice-chancellor of Deccan College Professor Vasant Shinde, the earliest evidence for a dish similar to tandoori chicken can be found in Harappan civilization and dates back to 3000 BCE. His team has foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_tandoor |
According to the questionnaire results, “All peer educators responded positively and the majority of students respondents positively evaluated. Although some students preferred to seek health information online, approximately one-quarter of the student respondents would contact peer educators”. Ultimately, peer educati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_education |
When Mugulu hears from his sons that Kintu had been brought to heaven, he begins setting up the first of many tasks he wants Kintu to accomplish. Kintu quickly completes his first task of eating an overabundance of food and impresses Mugulu. Mugulu then creates a second task for Kintu to accomplish and tells him if he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambi_(mythology) |
To make a throw, the competitor starts in a circle of 2.5 m (8 ft 2+1⁄4 in) diameter, which is recessed in a concrete pad by 20 millimetres (0.79 in). The thrower typically takes an initial stance facing away from the direction of the throw. They then spin anticlockwise (for right-handers) 1+1⁄2 times while staying wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discus_throw |
It can be shown to be correct for certain classes of functions if the right-hand side operator is properly defined.One may, alternatively, attempt to invert the Weierstrass transform in a slightly different way: given the analytic function F ( x ) = ∑ n = 0 ∞ a n x n , {\displaystyle F(x)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }a_{n}x^{n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_transform |
Figure 1 shows a basic structure of GluN1/GluN2 subunits that forms the binding site for memantine, Mg2+ and ketamine. Mg2+ blocks the NMDA receptor channel in a voltage-dependent manner. The channels are also highly permeable to Ca2+. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMDA_channel |
Many companies started building very large facilities, called internet data centers (IDCs), which provide enhanced capabilities, such as crossover backup: "If a Bell Atlantic line is cut, we can transfer them to ... to minimize the time of outage. "The term cloud data centers (CDCs) has been used. Data centers typicall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_availability |
Radiofluorination is the process by which a radioactive isotope of fluorine is attached to a molecule and is preferably performed by nucleophilic substitution using nitro or halogens as leaving groups. Fluorine-18 is the most common isotope used for this procedure. This is due to its 97% positron emission and relativel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiofluorination |
Now assume that the output buffers of all these channels are also filled with packets that need to be transmitted to the next channel. If these four channels form a cycle, it is impossible to transmit packets any further because the output buffers and input buffers of all channels are already full. This is known as cyc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_restriction_routing |
Pinning games are also games of contrary movement. However, no hitting is allowed. Instead, the attacking player may pin a blot by moving a piece onto the same point. The blot is not removed from the board, but is trapped and not permitted to move until the covering man is moved off. Plakoto is an example of a pinning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables_games |
When a blind is imperfect, its success is judged on a spectrum with no blind (or complete failure of blinding) on one end, perfect blinding on the other, and poor or good blinding between. Thus, the common view of studies as blinded or unblinded is an example of a false dichotomy.Success of blinding is assessed by ques... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_blinding |
Technically, there are twice more combinations of letters involved in a hetero-ambigram than in a homo-ambigram. For example, the 180° rotational ambigram "yeah" contains only two pairs of letters: y/h and e/a, whereas the heterogram "yeah / good" contains four: y/d, e/o, a/o, and h/g. A single word ambigram cannot be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram |
Collegiate (NCAA Division I FBS, formerly Division I-A): Five games have gone to seven overtimes, and one game has gone to nine overtimes. On 3 November 2001, the Arkansas Razorbacks beat the Ole Miss Rebels 58–56; the game had been tied 17–all at end of regulation. On 1 November 2003, Arkansas beat the Kentucky Wildca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_death_extra_time |
When the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994, the new government's priorities included redressing apartheid's legacy of economic exclusion. Under apartheid, legislation and practice had restricted the access of non-Whites to job opportunities, capital, business and property ownership, and other forms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_economic_empowerment |
Let a sample of size n of the simultaneously distributed variables A {\displaystyle A} and B {\displaystyle B} for i = 1 , … , r ; j = 1 , … , k {\displaystyle i=1,\ldots ,r;j=1,\ldots ,k} be given by the frequencies n i j = {\displaystyle n_{ij}=} number of times the values ( A i , B j ) {\displaystyle (A_{i},B_{j})} ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramér's_V_(statistics) |
There are also brushed or brushless electric motors - brushless motors are more powerful, long lasting and efficient, but also much more expensive than brushed motors. Nitro powered models use glow plug engines, small internal combustion engines fueled by a special mixture of nitromethane, methanol, and oil (in most ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_car |
A phoropter or refractor is an ophthalmic testing device. It is commonly used by eye care professionals during an eye examination, and contains different lenses used for refraction of the eye during sight testing, to measure an individual's refractive error and determine their eyeglass prescription. It also is used to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoropter |
Main goals for new GUI toolkit were: Font sensitivity: Possible for the font to be set in every application. Changeable window sizes: Windows have a sizing gadget which allows users to change the window size until it suits their needs Flexibility: Elements can be changed by the user regarding their own personal tastes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_User_Interface |
The SRP protocol has been revised several times, and is currently at revision 6a. The SRP protocol creates a large private key shared between the two parties in a manner similar to Diffie–Hellman key exchange based on the client side having the user password and the server side having a cryptographic verifier derived f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol |
119 is an emergency telephone number in some countries A number to report youth at risk in France 119 is the emergency number in Afghanistan that belongs to police and interior ministry. The South Korean emergency call number The Chinese fire station call number 119 is the number for the UK's NHS Test and Trace service... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/119_(number) |
Willys introduced the model CJ-2A in 1945, the first full-production four-wheel-drive vehicle for sale in the general marketplace. Due to the ubiquitous World War II Jeep's success, its rugged utilitarianism set the pattern for many four-wheel-drive vehicles to come. Hot on its heels, Dodge also started production of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-wheel_drive |
The correspondence theory of truth states that truth consists in correspondence with reality. Or in the words of Thomas Aquinas: "A judgment is said to be true when it conforms to the external reality". Truthmaker theory is closely related to correspondence theory; some authors see it as a modern version of corresponde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthmaker_theory |
Folksonomies are a trade-off between traditional centralized classification and no classification at all, and have several advantages: Tagging is easy to understand and do, even without training and previous knowledge in classification or indexing The vocabulary in a folksonomy directly reflects the user's vocabulary F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy |
The hypothalamus is considered to be the central control for reproduction due to its role in hormone regulation. Hence, factors that determine when a seasonal breeder will be ready for mating affect this tissue. This is achieved specifically through changes in the production of the hormone GnRH. GnRH in turn transits t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_breeder |
After elucidating the study of the commutative algebra case, von Neumann embarked in 1936, with the partial collaboration of Murray, on the noncommutative case, the general study of factors classification of von Neumann algebras. The six major papers in which he developed that theory between 1936 and 1940 "rank among t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann |
Melodies are played in unison on both pipes, often with one pipe tuned slightly higher than the other to produce acoustic beats.The Yemeni instrument is called a mizmār. It is attached to the player's mouth using a muzzle.In Italy, the Sicilian zampogna bagpipe, also called a ciaramedda, is additionally referred to as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_clarinet |
Ignorance of standard testing procedures, and the stress created by this unfamiliarity, can negatively impact resulting scores, thereby skewing test results simply through a lack of experience with the testing protocols. While initial test data about the benefits of lifelong learning programs point toward benefits in r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong_learning |
S. megalanthus is commonly known as "yellow dragon fruit", "yellow pitahaya", "kirin fruit", or "yellow pitaya". This name leads at times to confusion, as unrelated cultivars of other dragonfruit species can also have yellow skinned fruit. One example of a yellow dragonfruit cultivar not related to S. megalanthus is 'A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenicereus_megalanthus |
Koshiro's first composing job was with Nihon Falcom in 1986 at the age of 18. Falcom used compositions from the PC-8801 demo tape he had sent them in their Dragon Slayer action role-playing game Xanadu Scenario II, for its opening theme and several dungeon levels. He also wrote the opening song in Romancia that same ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Koshiro |
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