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The western part of the country observed Samarkand Time 5 or 6 hours ahead of UTC. The eastern part observed Tashkent Time 6 or 7 hours ahead of UTC. In 1991 the clocks did not move forward in the spring to maintain single daylight time only in the summer. That fall a unified time zone was adopted 5 hours ahead of UTC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Uzbekistan |
Between 1540 and 1542, Hernando de Soto, the Spanish conquistador, traversed what became the southeastern United States. There he encountered many different mound-builder peoples who were perhaps descendants of the great Mississippian culture. De Soto observed people living in fortified towns with lofty mounds and plaz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_Builders |
It is rotating rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 207 km/s. This is giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is an estimated 10% larger than the polar radius. It has an estimated 2.35 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 41 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_Leporis |
Even though a fixed flat panel can be set to collect a high proportion of available noon-time energy, significant power is also available in the early mornings and late afternoons when the misalignment with a fixed panel becomes too excessive to collect a reasonable proportion of the available energy. For example, even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_tracker |
One beneficial consequence of this was that he developed an awareness of the importance of the physiological aspect of colour perception, and was therefore able to demonstrate that Newton's theory of light and colours is too simplistic; that there is more to colour than variable refrangibility. "Although he soon reject... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colors |
The offender's communication immediately following a transgression has the greatest predictive value on whether forgiveness will be granted.Consequently, offenders who immediately apologize, take responsibility and show remorse have the greatest chance of obtaining forgiveness from their partner. Further, self-disclosu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_transgression |
The Yongning Temple Stele (Chinese: 永寧寺碑) is a stele erected by the Chinese Ming dynasty in 1413 with a trilingual inscription to commemorate the founding of the Yongning Temple (永寧寺) in the Nurgan outpost, near the mouth of the Amur River, by the eunuch Yishiha. The location of the temple is the village of Tyr near Ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongning_Temple_Stele |
The protein contains three domains. The amino N-terminal domain contains the active site, responsible for the glucosylating activity of the toxin. Both TcdA and TcdB use this highly conserved N-terminal region (74% homology between both toxins) to alter identical substrates.The carboxy C-terminal domain contains repeat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_difficile_toxin_A |
Engagement is related to better performance. For instance, engaged contact workers from hotels and restaurants produce better service quality as perceived by their customers; the more engaged university students feel the higher their next year's Grade Point Average; the higher the level of engagement of flight attendan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_engagement |
A special effects supervisor's primary responsibility ensuring the safety of their crew and everyone on set. Knowledge of laws and safety protocols are essential when using explosives, firearms, or any other potentially dangerous devices or materials on a production. Local safety officials may also visit the set and pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects_supervisor |
After its first year, a journalist, Tom Thackrey, suggested that the main event of this tournament should be no-limit Texas hold 'em. The Binions agreed and ever since no-limit Texas hold 'em has been played as the main event. Interest in the main event continued to grow steadily over the next two decades. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Hold'em |
Morauta became the minister of IPBC in 2011 and reiterated his criticisms: "A loan in which Treasury was not involved; a loan which never had NEC approval; a loan which was never tabled in Parliament. It was negotiated and signed behind closed doors by people with no experience in the complex world of international hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG_Gas |
This is indicated by tool use, an ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic memory, and using their own experience to predict the behavior of conspecifics. Another behaviour exhibiting intelligence is cutting their food in correctly sized proportions for the size of their young. In captivity, magpies have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_magpie |
Like light, temperature that is too high can cause weakening, discoloration, and or disintegration of organic materials.With wood clocks, temperature is critical to conservation and preservation. Extreme heat and freezing temperature will significantly damage the wood's surface. Incorrect temperatures or uncontrolled c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_clocks |
Significant technological developments transformed the music industry during the 1920s, allowing for an increase in the mass consumption of music. Phonographs and records became standard household items; indicative of the widespread popularization of recorded music is the fact that nearly 100 million records were sold ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_jazz |
Brown rice is a whole grain rice with the inedible outer hull removed. This kind of rice sheds its outer hull or husk but the bran and germ layer remain on, constituting the brown or tan colour of rice. White rice is the same grain without the hull, the bran layer, and the cereal germ. Red rice, gold rice, and black ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rice |
Inferior health conditions, lower GDP, and poor human development create conditions for dissatisfaction, and hence civil wars. If a country is poor, it may be easier for rebels to organize an army to start a civil war. Weaker states provide an easier path for rebellion, since they lack sufficient capacity to effectivel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_trap |
They are the primary antagonists to the naturally evolved humans of the Twelve Colonies, who are descendants of a single race of humans from the planet Kobol. One of the series’ core themes is that of historic recurrence, made explicit in the line "All of this has happened before and will happen again". Characters with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylons |
Various scandals involving prominent politicians have drawn attention to the close links between the energy lobby and the U.S. government, particularly the influence wielded by the energy lobby in the Bush administration. Lobbying continued after the Bush administration. In June 2005, documents emerged that revealed th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuels_lobby |
In anatomy, a spatium or anatomic space is a space (cavity or gap). Anatomic spaces are often landmarks to find other important structures. When they fill with gases (such as air) or liquids (such as blood) in pathological ways, they can suffer conditions such as pneumothorax, edema, or pericardial effusion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomic_space |
Laramee's work is included in the collections of the MacArthur Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, and other public and private collections. Her public ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Andree_Laramee |
In Unicode, characters can have a unique name. A character can also have one or more alias names. An alias name can be an abbreviation, a C0 or C1 control name, a correction, an alternate name or a figment. An alias too is unique over all names and aliases, and therefore identifying. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_alias_names_and_abbreviations |
As an adaptive behavior, magnetotropism is recognizing as a method to improve agriculture success, using the well-studied plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana, a typical small plant which is native in the Europe and Asia with well-known genomic functions. In 2012, Xu et al. conducted a Near-Null Magnetic Field experiment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotropism |
The bridge provided a critical link between Central Russia and Volga region, allowing to continue the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway further east, toward Siberia and Turkestan. The construction works involved approximately 2,500 thousand people, required more than 10 thousand cubic metres of masonries and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Belelubsky |
Studies that are more recent have looked at the effects of DAF in people who do not stutter to see what it can prove about the structure of the auditory and verbal pathways in the brain. Indirect effects of delayed auditory feedback in people who do not stutter include a reduction in the rate of speech, an increase in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_auditory_feedback |
(D'1) Unlike lattices, (D1) and (D'1) are not equivalent in general for skew lattices, but they are for symmetric skew lattices. The condition (D1) can be strengthened to x ∧ ( y ∨ z ) ∧ w = ( x ∧ y ∧ w ) ∨ ( x ∧ z ∧ w ) {\displaystyle x\wedge (y\vee z)\wedge w=(x\wedge y\wedge w)\vee (x\wedge z\wedge w)} (D2) in which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew_lattice |
Next suppose n ≥ 2. For each i, choose z i ∈ E − ∪ j ≠ i I j {\displaystyle z_{i}\in E-\cup _{j\neq i}I_{j}} where the set on the right is nonempty by inductive hypothesis. We can assume z i ∈ I i {\displaystyle z_{i}\in I_{i}} for all i; otherwise, some z i {\displaystyle z_{i}} avoids all the I i {\displaystyle I_{i}... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_avoidance_lemma |
She intends to encrypt them under her public key, and then upload the encrypted messages to some server. Now when Alice wants to share these n encrypted messages with Bob, Alice can use a proxy re-encryption scheme to allow the server to re-encrypt these n encrypted messages so that Bob can decrypt these re-encrypted m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity-based_conditional_proxy_re-encryption |
A diagnosis is the assessment that a particular condition is present while an indication is a reason for use. The opposite of an indication is a contraindication, a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment because the risks of treatment clearly outweigh the benefits. In the United States, indications for prescri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indication_(medicine) |
The Beaker was introduced in Sicily from Sardinia and spread mainly in the north-west and south-west of the island. In the northwest and in the Palermo kept almost intact its cultural and social characteristics, while in the south-west there was a strong integration with local cultures. The only known single bell-shape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-Beaker_culture |
Treatment plans in schema therapy generally encompass three basic classes of techniques: cognitive, experiential, and behavioral (in addition to the basic healing components of the therapeutic relationship). Cognitive strategies expand on standard cognitive behavioral therapy techniques such as listing pros and cons of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_therapy |
Each rider may exert themselves as they wish and all riders travel at the same speed. The UK has specialist time trial events that have National competition records over 10, 25, 50 and 100-mile events against the clock. There are also 12 and 24-hour time trials ran by the CTT and VTTA riders. There are also place to pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_bicycle |
Antony Williams was born in St Asaph, Wales, June 1964 to Ernest Edward Williams, owner of a building contracting firm, and Eirlys Elizabeth Williams. He has one older sister, Rae. He grew up in a small village near Caerwys. Williams attended Primary School in both Holywell and Nannerch until 1975. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_John_Williams |
In the final portion of the work (Book V), Kepler dealt with planetary motions, especially relationships between orbital velocity and orbital distance from the Sun. Similar relationships had been used by other astronomers, but Kepler—with Tycho's data and his own astronomical theories—treated them much more precisely a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler |
When the confessions had been obtained in the exact form and contents as desired by the mob, they left with the parting admonition and warning that, if the defendants changed their story at any time in any respect from that last stated, the perpetrators of the outrage would administer the same or equally effective trea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_confessions |
From 1969 through 1978 (inclusive), Thor-Delta was NASA's most used launcher, with 84 launch attempts. (Scout was the second-most used vehicle with 32 launches.) Satellites for other government agencies and foreign governments were also launched on a cost-reimbursable basis, totaling sixty-three satellites. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_rocket |
It may not be obvious to the eye which of the two rocks is closer to the button (centre) or if a rock is actually biting or not. There are specialized devices to make these determinations, but these cannot be brought out until after an end is completed. Therefore, a team may make strategic decisions during an end based... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling_broom |
Probably the most widely used current applications of refrigeration are for air conditioning of private homes and public buildings, and refrigerating foodstuffs in homes, restaurants and large storage warehouses. The use of refrigerators and walk-in coolers and freezers in kitchens, factories and warehouses for storing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Carnot_engine |
The company introduced the first amateur Kinora camera in 1908, using rolls of photographic paper or celluloid one inch wide that could be sent to the company for processing. A Kinora Grand for reels of 1,000 pictures of 2 1/2" by 3" also featured in their advertising booklet. By 1914, when the company's London factory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinora |
Only 8 confirmed PCEBs containing a white dwarf with a brown dwarf companion are known, including WD 0137-349 AB. In the past history of these close white dwarf-brown dwarf binaries, the brown dwarf is engulfed by the star in the red giant phase. Brown dwarfs with a mass lower than 20 Jupiter masses would evaporate dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-type_star |
On USS Texas (BB-35) (currently in drydock in Galveston, Texas). Texas has 9 out of 10 of her original 14-inch gun barrels that served on her from 1914 to 1923. These nine guns served with Pennsylvania from 1925 to 1940. They were refurbished, relined, and reinstalled on Texas in late 1944. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14"/45_caliber_gun |
Defenders of the Nostratic theory argue that were this to be true, it would remain that in classifying languages genetically, positives count for vastly more than negatives (Ruhlen 1994). The reason for this is that, above a certain threshold, resemblances in sound/meaning correspondences are highly improbable mathemat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostratic_languages |
The Weisslers' 1996 revival of Chicago has been especially noted for its celebrity casting over the years, including Melanie Griffith, Wendy Williams, Jerry Springer, and Pamela Anderson, which has likely contributed to the show's extreme longevity (still running in 2022, and the longest-running revival on Broadway). B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_casting |
The band's album Love was among the nominations for "Best British Album" at the 1989 BRIT Awards. "Somewhere in My Heart", the second single from Love, was the band's biggest hit, reaching No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Following the release of the Stray album, "Good Morning Britain" was considered to be a comeback for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Camera |
For example, mass spectrometry (MS) has very much gained in popularity as an on-line analytical technique following HPLC. It is limited, however, in that MS, like nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) or electrospray ionization techniques (ESI), is only feasible when using very small quantities of solute and so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic_HPLC_columns |
The card's official mascot is a white dog. The card reader makes a "waon" sound upon successful transaction, a Japanese onomatopoeia for dog barks. Unlike the nanaco card issued by Seven & I Holdings, the basic Waon card can be purchased without any registrations. Like other FeliCa-based systems, Waon has a mobile paym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waon |
They studied directly under Milton Friedman and his disciple, Arnold Harberger, and were exposed to Friedrich Hayek. Upon their return to Chile, their neoliberal policy proposals—which centered on widespread deregulation, privatization, reductions to government spending to counter high inflation, and other free-market ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism |
Superman later manages to stop Granny Goodness from using the equation on them. In "Unknown Factors", after an encounter with Halo (who contains the spirit of a Mother Box), Goodness theorizes that she can access the Anti-Life Equation, and contacts Darkseid after the encounter to let him know she has found it. In "Ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Life_Equation |
The cutters have a reduced radar cross-section through shaping. The bridge is equipped with a handheld device that allows crew members to remotely control the ship's functions, including rudder movement and docking.In September 2008, Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, was awarded US$88 million to build the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel-class_cutter |
The township site, with surviving foundations and archaeological evidence of commercial and residential buildings and activities, covers an area of approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) (north-south) by 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) (east-west). The surveyed town site runs roughly parallel with, and on the eastern side of,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuridala_Township_site |
An alternative ion beam sculpting technique has been developed using a commercially available FIB system. This sculpting method can fabricate symmetrically circular nanopores with smooth edge, and, in addition, it can sculpt multiple nanopores of similar shape and size simultaneously. Dependent on the resolution and wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-beam_sculpting |
In holistic nursing the nurses are taught on the five core values in caring, critical thinking, holism, nursing role development and accountability. These values help the nurse to be able to focus on the health care on the clients, their families and the allied health practitioners who is also involved in patient care.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_nursing |
. , l f } {\displaystyle \{1,.,...,l_{e}\}\to \{0,1,.,...,l_{f}\}} . That is, we assume that the English word at location i {\displaystyle i} is "explained" by the foreign word at location a ( i ) {\displaystyle a(i)} . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_alignment_models |
Examples of synthetic scaffolds are: Polyethylene terephthalate membranes (PET membranes) Polycarbonate-permeable membranes (PC membranes) Porous polylactic glycolic acid (PLGA)Historical use of electrospinning to produce synthetic scaffolds dates back to at least the late 1980s when Simon showed that technology could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_mucosa_tissue_engineering |
A lazy future is a future that deterministically has lazy evaluation semantics: the computation of the future's value starts when the value is first needed, as in call by need. Lazy futures are of use in languages which evaluation strategy is by default not lazy. For example, in C++11 such lazy futures can be created b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises |
Then, in 1959 Susumu Ohno proved that these satellite-like structures found exclusively in female cells were actually derived from female X chromosomes. He called these structures Barr bodies after one of the investigators who originally documented their existence. Ohno’s studies of Barr bodies in female mammals with m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-chromosome_dosage_compensation |
After the success of Delphine's bath water product, Rivera opined "even the notion of 'gamer girl bath water' plays with all manner of stereotypes about women in games and how some men see them: as mythical unicorns to lust after". Lela London, writing for The Telegraph, opined that "for women to truly escape gaming's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamerGirl_Bath_Water |
When some are not adiabatic, then the system is not adiabatically enclosed, though adiabatic transfer of energy as work can occur across the adiabatic walls. The adiabatic enclosure is important because, according to one widely cited author, Herbert Callen, "An essential prerequisite for the measurability of energy is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_enclosure |
IF tumors have features which overlap other types of fasciitis disorders such as proliferative fasciitis and nodular fasciitis. However, the age, history of debilitation, tumor location over boney protuberances, and tumor histopathology of having two distinctly different zones tend to distinguish IF from these two as w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischemic_fasciitis |
One or two dumbbells or kettlebells can also be used, together or opposite one another. A trapbar can also be used, necessitating an inside grip. Standing calf raise machines can also be used to execute the shrugging movement, by resting the pads on the shoulders and trying to raise the shoulders as high as possible. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_shrug |
Since the particle starts at F = 0 {\displaystyle F=0} for θ = − α {\displaystyle \theta =-\alpha } and ends at F = 0 {\displaystyle F=0} for θ = α {\displaystyle \theta =\alpha } , there are two cases to be considered. First case b , c {\displaystyle b,c} are complex conjugates and a > 0 {\displaystyle a>0} . The part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery–Hamel_flow |
The OODA loop or observe–orient–decide–act loop is a cycle developed by military strategist and United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd. Boyd applied the concept to the combat operations process, often at the operational level during military campaigns. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_Loop |
On 7 April a joint raid by four Australian aircraft, with several from No. 14 Squadron, bombed Gaza and the Ramleh aerodrome, hitting two hangars. At El Arish hospital, Dr. Duguid described the strong moon light on 8 April 1917, "... now it is climbing the heavens. 10.30pm. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Gaza |
In addition to the match fixing that is committed by players, coaches and/or team officials, it is not unheard of to have results manipulated by corrupt referees. Since 2004, separate scandals have erupted in prominent sports leagues in Portugal, Germany (Bundesliga scandal), Brazil (Brazilian football match-fixing sca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_fixing |
For slower speeds, like on modems, things become somewhat more difficult, as the protocols often have "invisible" assumptions about timing and performance that make it inefficient with very limited bandwidth. AppleTalk included miniatures that made this even more difficult. In particular, AppleTalk had several internal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk_Remote_Access |
Both produce local changes in active intention; but revisions of the first type appear to be in fulfillment of an altered programmatic intention or to reflect an altered active intention in the work as a whole, whereas those of the second do not. He suggests that where a revision is "horizontal" (i.e., aimed at improvi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism |
"Fake geek girl" is a pejorative term for a woman who is accused of feigning interest in geeky topics such as video games or comic books to get attention from men. The topic was the subject of controversy in 2012 and 2013, when multiple articles were published supporting or condemning the concept.Much of the controvers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_girl |
Hallyu 2.0 or the New Korean Wave refers to the second generation of the Korean Wave, beginning in 2008. This generation is characterized by the spread of Korean popular culture through social media and the transition to K-pop as the primary South Korean cultural export. The period marked the rapid expansion of the Sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Wave |
In 1797 he was severely wounded during a raid on the government farm at Toongabbie. He was taken to hospital where he subsequently recovered, escaped and continued to fight. Four years later in 1801, Governor King declared that Aboriginals near Parramatta, Georges River and Prospect could be shot on sight and in the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Archaeological_Site |
The need for exact compliance with processes and communication channels, specific information requirements as well as specific data protection requirements and legal obligations coincide here and are of particularly serious consequences. Using the "Process Guide" allows for warnings to be displayed during the execution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMC_Process_Guide |
The eagle rays are a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom. Eagle rays feed on mollusks and crustaceans, crushing their shells with their flattened teeth. They are excellent swimmers and are able to breach the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_ray |
Brody is known for his extensive writing about the placebo effect and about the pharmaceutical industry. He has been critical of increasing medical costs, and has been called a "watchdog" in regard to relationships between pharmaceutical companies and medical research. In 2010, he challenged his fellow physicians to id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Brody |
The milkround is the term commonly used in the UK to describe the semester of companies touring colleges each year, in order to advertise their companies and recruit students.An online university student website is also called Milkround, which is an online version of the traditional method in which business recruited u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_round |
In soil science, soil gradation is a classification of a coarse-grained soil that ranks the soil based on the different particle sizes contained in the soil. Soil gradation is an important aspect of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering because it is an indicator of other engineering properties such as compressib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_gradation |
As of 1994, of the estimated 65–75 million skiers worldwide, there were approximately 55 million who engaged in Alpine skiing, the rest engaged in cross-country skiing. Approximately 30 million skiers (of all kinds) were in Europe, 15 million in the US, and 14 million in Japan. As of 1996, there were reportedly 4,500 s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Water_Equivalency |
After its acquisition by Honeywell, it was renamed General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS). Bell Labs, General Electric and MIT developed Multiplexed Information and Computing Service (Multics), which introduced the concept of ringed security privilege levels. Digital Equipment Corporation developed many operatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_operating_system |
As part of the DAT announcement, IBM upgraded channels to have Indirect Data Address Lists (IDALs). a form of I/O MMU. Data streaming channels had a speed of 3.0 MB/s over a single byte interface, later upgraded to 4.5 MB/s. Channel set switching allowed one processor in a multiprocessor configuration to take over the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370 |
As a result, in 1979, Grinevald published a French translation of a selection of Georgescu-Roegen's articles entitled Demain la décroissance: Entropie – Écologie – Économie ('Tomorrow, the Decline: Entropy – Ecology – Economy'). Georgescu-Roegen, who spoke French fluently, approved the use of the term décroissance in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_degrowth |
Census data show that 78.7% of whites are covered by private insurance compared with 54% of blacks and 51% of Hispanics. About 29% of Hispanics in the United States have neither private nor government health insurance of any kind.A study done on Medicare recipients also showed that despite the uniform benefits offered,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_inequality |
The vehicle does not provide full NBC protection to the crew. The vehicle itself is unarmed; however, the crewmembers are typically armed with assault rifles (M16 or M4), pistols, flares, and/or colored smoke grenades. The M60 AVLM carries up to two M58 Mine Clearing Line Charges mounted on the vehicle. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M60_AVLB |
Given a sequence of distributions f i {\displaystyle f_{i}} , its limit f {\displaystyle f} is the distribution given by f = lim i → ∞ f i {\displaystyle f=\lim _{i\to \infty }f_{i}} for each test function φ {\displaystyle \varphi } , provided that distribution exists. The existence of the limit f {\displaystyle f} m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_distributions |
Since October 2017, then-California Governor Jerry Brown repeatedly extended the price-gouging ban for counties impacted by the October 2017 wildfires and subsequently for the counties impacted by the 2018 wildfires. One of his last acts as governor was to extend the prohibitions until May 31, 2019.Even though Californ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging |
Overall, despite some tolerance as Franco's regime relaxed in the late 60s and early 70s, Catalan and the rest of minority languages of Spain were strictly banned from higher education, administration and all official endeavors, thus being in practice confined to the private sphere and domestic uses (see Language polic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide |
The position accuracy of a true-range multilateration system—e.g., accuracy of the ( x , y ) {\displaystyle (x,y)} coordinates of point P in Fig. 1 -- depends upon two factors: (1) the range measurement accuracy, and (2) the geometric relationship of P to the system's stations C1 and C2. This can be understood from Fig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-range_multilateration |
Despite the fact that it is grounded in evolutionary economics and hence paying minimal focus on individual agency in routines, significant number of ideas remains aligned with the practice perspective. Moreover, Nelson and Winter expected the recent focus on endogenous change in routines when they contended that routi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisational_routines |
Philosopher and Director of Bioethics at non-profit Invincible Wellbeing David Pearce argues that "the question comes down to an analysis of risk-reward ratios - and our basic ethical values, themselves shaped by our evolutionary past." According to Pearce,"it's worth recalling that each act of old-fashioned sexual re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_babies |
"Darwin's finches", residents of the Galápagos Islands, have been used since the 19th century as an example of how the descendants of one ancestor can evolve through adaptive radiation into several species as they adapt to different conditions on various islands. Charles Darwin wrote:...one might really fancy that from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoendemism |
In geometry, a (general) conical surface is the unbounded surface formed by the union of all the straight lines that pass through a fixed point — the apex or vertex — and any point of some fixed space curve — the directrix — that does not contain the apex. Each of those lines is called a generatrix of the surface. Ever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic_surface |
Military wrecks, however, remain under the jurisdiction – and hence protection – of the government that lost the ship, or that government's successor. Hence, a German U-boat from World War II still technically belongs to the German government, although Nazi Germany (the government at the time) is long-defunct. Many mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck |
Pigging systems are designed so that the pig is loaded into the launcher, which is pressured to launch the pig into the pipeline through a kicker line. In some cases, the pig is removed from the pipeline via the receiver at the end of each run. All systems must allow for the receipt of pigs at the launcher, as blockage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_Inspection_Gauge |
Fluid and electrolyte balance, in which fluid balance and electrolyte balance are intertwined homeostatically, is necessary to health in all organisms. It includes reference ranges for cation concentrations of biometals, which in reference to human medicine and veterinary medicine principally includes those for blood s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metals_in_medicine |
Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means of simulating protein dynamics. This includes the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins, and is reliant on simulations run on volunteers' personal comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home |
The repressilator is a genetic regulatory network consisting of at least one feedback loop with at least three genes, each expressing a protein that represses the next gene in the loop. In biological research, repressilators have been used to build cellular models and understand cell function. There are both artificial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressilator |
The satellite was launched on May 20, 2015, with an Atlas V rocket along with the main payload X-37B OTV-4 and 9 other CubeSat satellites (X-37B OTV-4, GEARRS 2, LightSail A, OptiCube 1, OptiCube 2, OptiCube 3, USS Langley, AeroCube 8A, AeroCube 8B and BRICSat-P) from Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida. ParkinsonSAT is a stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParkinsonSAT |
These methods are implemented in the same base class as the template method, but with empty bodies (i.e., they do nothing). Hook methods exist so that subclasses can override them, and can thus fine-tune the action of the algorithm without the need to override the template method itself. In other words, they provide a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Method |
It has been shown that the labor supply of married women in the U.S. , over time, varies inversely with the sex ratio.One study used 2021 National Archive of Criminal Justice Data and 2016 U.S. Census Bureau data to show the impact of different gender ratios on men's violence against women in 3165 U.S. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio |
The aim is to enter them onto the board using the throws of the dice and be first to move all 3 to the 'home corner' (coin de repos) on the 12th point of the board. The men may not pass over one another nor may there be more than one on a point except in the home corner. If a man moves to a point opposite that of an op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables_games |
Users take turns to speak and listen. This is normal communications protocol, and encourages clear communication, but does not allow audio monitoring of the diver between communications.Voice activated means that the unit is intended to transmit when the diver's voice activates the microphone. If there is sufficient so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diver_communications |
This may be due to a medical condition requiring bed rest (e.g. high-risk pregnancy), or the avoidance of certain defecation postures (e.g. sitting or squatting) Still another example is "BRP for bowel movement only". On the other hand, if a patient has a communicable disease, the physician may wish to restrict the cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathroom_privileges |
These newly concocted recipes for concrete provided durability to walls and barrelled vaults as well as a unique aesthetic appeal. The integrated stone and masonry design illustrate a refinement that came with the concrete revolution as a result of the new techniques and styles developed under Augustus. The craftsmansh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_architectural_revolution |
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