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Since most non-preferential elections require the voter to mark only one single candidate, or one single party list, it becomes impossible to speculate how many votes for the first candidate or party on the ballot are genuine supporters and how many are donkey votes. In some elections (e.g. Germany and some US states),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_vote |
The European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array (EURECA) is a planned dark matter search experiment using cryogenic detectors and an absorber mass of up to 1 tonne. The project will be built in the Modane Underground Laboratory and will bring together researchers working on the CRESST and EDELWEISS experiments.EU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Underground_Rare_Event_Calorimeter_Array |
These lagoons can be as large as 7.5 acres (30,000 m2). Lagoons not protected with an impermeable liner can leak into groundwater under some conditions, as can runoff from manure used as fertilizer. A lagoon that burst in 1995 released 25 million gallons of nitrous sludge in North Carolina's New River. The spill allege... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_agriculture |
Social media marketing provides organizations with a way to connect with their customers. However, organizations must protect their information as well as closely watch comments and concerns on the social media they use. A flash poll done on 1225 IT executives from 33 countries revealed that social media mishaps caused... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_marketing |
Once the solid groundwork is set, participants can shift into the middle stage and begin agenda building, that is, clarifying the concerns while staying on topic; interruptions are kept at a minimum and recognition is reinforced. Last but not least, solutions will be proposed as the conflict enters the later stage, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_resolution_research |
The National Bureau of Air Accidents Investigation of Ukraine (NBAAI, Ukrainian: Національне бюро з розслідування авіаційних подій та інцидентів з цивільними повітряними суднами) is the national civil aviation incident investigation authority of Ukraine, a "specialist expert organization" consisting of 40 experts and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Air_Accidents_Investigation_of_Ukraine |
In computing, a fatal exception error or fatal error is an error that causes a program to abort and may therefore return the user to the operating system. When this happens, data that the program was processing may be lost. A fatal error is usually distinguished from a fatal system error (colloquially referred to in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_exception_error |
While most other countries during World War II developed submachine guns, the Empire of Japan had only produced one, the Type 100 submachine gun, based heavily on the German MP28. Like most other small arms created in Imperial Japan, the Type 100 could be fitted with a bayonet. It used the 8×22mm Nambu cartridge, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submachine_gun |
If the convention is a bid forcing only to the next step, such as a Jacoby transfer, then pass is forcing only over a double. ... when one opponent doubles or redoubles a conventional takeout and thereby suggests they may defend our chosen strain doubled for penalty. (1♦) 2♦ (Dbl) PassCommonly 2♦ is artificial for take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing_pass |
Dionysius is best known as the inventor of Anno Domini (AD) dating, which is used to number the years of both the Gregorian calendar and the (Christianised) Julian calendar. Almost all churches adopted his computus for the dates of Easter. From around the year 500 until his death, Dionysius lived in Rome. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Exiguus |
By measuring an infant's attention to certain audiovisual stimuli, a response that is consistent with the McGurk effect can be recorded. From just minutes to a couple of days old, infants can imitate adult facial movements, and within weeks of birth, infants can recognize lip movements and speech sounds. At this point,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_Effect |
{\displaystyle e^{\frac {-i\omega T}{2}}e^{-in\omega T}=e^{-i\omega T\left({\frac {1}{2}}+n\right)}\quad {\text{for }}n=0,1,2,\ldots .} Comparison to the above eigenstate expansion yields the standard energy spectrum for the simple harmonic oscillator, E n = ( n + 1 2 ) ℏ ω . {\displaystyle E_{n}=\left(n+{\tfrac {1}{2}... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path-integral_formulation |
Shotis puri or simply shoti (Georgian: შოთის პური) is a type of traditional Georgian bread, made of white flour and shaped like a canoe. Shoti is baked in a specific bakery called tone or torne/turne (old Georgian). The word is cognate with tandoor. The bread is served as any other bread, but it tends to be more popula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotis_puri |
Marie Jahoda, in 1958, devised a list of characteristics that are present in the majority of people who are regarded as normal. Known as Ideal Mental Health, these were: Efficient self perception Realistic self esteem and acceptance Voluntary control of behaviour True perception of the world Sustaining relationships an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Jahoda |
Mirabella-Davis wanted to make a film about his grandmother's experience, but he realized that hand washing, her primary OCD symptom, was not very cinematic. Instead, he chose to focus on pica and explore the attraction that people with this disorder have to ingesting objects.Mynette Louie and Mollye Asher were slated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_(2019_film) |
Based on experimental determination of the BI-1 topology, Bultynck et al. proposes that its C-terminal α-helical 20 amino acid peptide catalyzes Ca2+ flux both in vivo and in vitro. The Ca2+-leak properties were conserved among animal, but not plant and yeast orthologs. By mutating one of the critical aspartate residue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testis-enhanced_gene_transfer_family |
And I think the better and truer the science, the better and truer the science fiction".The feelings of friendship and respect between Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke were demonstrated by the so-called "Clarke–Asimov Treaty of Park Avenue", negotiated as they shared a cab in New York. This stated that Asimov was required t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov |
Gaffney, known for his "long history of pushing extreme anti-Muslim views", wrote weekly columns for The Washington Times from the late 1990s to 2016. According to John Esposito, a Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, Gaffney's "editorial track record in the W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times |
In the case of pathological gambling, along with fluvoxamine, clomipramine has been shown effective in the treatment, with reducing the problems of pathological gambling in a subject by up to 90%. Whereas in trichotillomania, the use of clomipramine has again been found to be effective, fluoxetine has not produced cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_control_disorder |
Gelesis100 is an oral superabsorbent hydrogel, which is produced from carboxymethylcellulose and citric acid. The cross-linked product forms a hydrophilic matrix, which absorbs water. Taken in capsule form by mouth, as Gelesis100 absorbs water, it expands in the stomach and small intestine. After absorbing water, a sem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelesis100 |
The CH-7 is a stealth, flying wing UCAV similar to the X-47B, with a 22m wingspan and a 10m length. It can fly at 920 km/h and at an altitude of 13,000m. The endurance life is around 15 hours with an operational radius of 2000 km. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASC_Rainbow |
DSPD is diagnosed by a clinical interview, actigraphic monitoring, and/or a sleep diary kept by the patient for at least two weeks. When polysomnography is also used, it is primarily for the purpose of ruling out other disorders such as narcolepsy or sleep apnea.DSPD is frequently misdiagnosed or dismissed. It has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome |
Armstrong won the first case, lost the second, stalemated at the third, and then lost the final round at the Supreme Court.At the time the regenerative receiver was introduced, vacuum tubes were expensive and consumed much power, with the added expense and encumbrance of heavy batteries. So this design, getting most ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_radio_receiver |
The ascending colon is smaller in calibre than the cecum from where it starts. It passes upward, opposite the colic valve, to the under surface of the right lobe of the liver, on the right of the gall-bladder, where it is lodged in a shallow depression, the colic impression; here it bends abruptly forward and to the le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending_colon |
In the catalogue of stars in the Calendarium of Al Achsasi Al Mouakket, this star was designated Thanih al Naamat (ثاني النعامات - thānī al-naʽāmāt), which was translated into Latin as Secunda Struthionum, meaning the second ostrich. This star, along with η Cet (Deneb Algenubi), τ Cet (Thalath Al Naamat), ζ Cet (Baten ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta_Ceti |
His distinctive contribution to reading and dyslexia research was to show that John Marshall's 'two route model of reading' could explain the dyslexias in both alphabetic and logographic orthographies such as Chinese and Japanese. According to the two-route model, the reader simultaneously processes words as a whole an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Butterworth |
A single, forward firing, 7.7×58mm Arisaka Type 97 machine gun was mounted in the hull. The diameter of the turret ring for both tanks was made as large as possible to allow for any future up-gunning of the tanks. The tank was powered by a Mitsubishi 135 hp diesel engine. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_Chi-Ni_medium_tank |
After the Manchuria expedition, Roerich spent many years living in India. His father Nicholas Roerich died in 1947. Due to political unrest in the area, Roerich moved with his mother Helena Roerich from their home in Nagger to Kalimpong where he lived until 1956. Helena Roerich died in 1955, and in 1957, Roerich return... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Roerich |
Form Z or double-make double-break contacts are comparable to Form C contacts, but they almost always have four external connections, two for the normally open path and two for the normally closed path. As with forms X and Y, both current paths involve two contacts in series, mechanically linked and operated by a singl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_contact |
The composition of the five largest exporters of arms changed between 2014 and 2018 remained unchanged compared to 2009–13, although their combined total exports of major arms were 10 percent higher. In 2014–18 there can be seen significant increases in arms exports from the US, France and Germany, while Chinese export... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry |
The G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series was revived as an ongoing in May 2010 by IDW Publishing, with #155 ½ and followed by #156 onwards in July 2010, picking up from the end of the Marvel Comics series, and written by original G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_card |
The simplest measure is the recurrence rate, which is the density of recurrence points in a recurrence plot: RR = 1 N 2 ∑ i , j = 1 N R ( i , j ) . {\displaystyle {\text{RR}}={\frac {1}{N^{2}}}\sum _{i,j=1}^{N}{R}(i,j).} The recurrence rate corresponds with the probability that a specific state will recur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence_quantification_analysis |
The Universal Book of Mathematics defines "schizophrenic number" as: An informal name for an irrational number that displays such persistent patterns in its decimal expansion, that it has the appearance of a rational number. A schizophrenic number can be obtained as follows. For any positive integer n let f(n) denote t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenic_number |
In 1863, the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon, connecting the Great Western Railway's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City, London's financial district. In the same year, a select commit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_line_(London_Underground) |
Worker bees provide another example of the use of marginal value theorem in modeling optimal foraging behavior. Bees forage from flower to flower collecting nectar to carry back to the hive. While this situation is similar to that of the starlings, both the constraints and currency are actually different for the bees. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_foraging_theory |
Redundancy: store the replication of the same data across multiple servers, for high availability, backup, and disaster recovery purposes. Cost saving: it is possible to use cheaper, commodity servers to store large volumes of data at low cost. Performance: offer better performance than a single server in some scenario... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_block_storage |
At the trial, investigators said McGuire was not happy with his own research and wanted to use "any dishonest means possible" to complete his work. McGuire had returned to the United States in July 1987, and because no extradition treaty exists between the U.S. and Rwanda, McGuire did not return to Rwanda. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey |
Replays. A digital signature scheme on its own does not prevent a valid signed message from being recorded and then maliciously reused in a replay attack. For example, the branch office may legitimately request that bank transfer be issued once in a signed message. If the bank doesn't use a system of transaction ids in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signing |
De Schutter told the Independent in March 2012: "What we are seeing now is that these financial markets have developed massively with the arrival of these new financial investors, who are purely interested in the short-term monetary gain and are not really interested in the physical thing – they never actually buy the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_speculation |
The main mechanism to construct small-world networks is the Watts–Strogatz mechanism. Small-world networks can also be introduced with time-delay, which will not only produce fractals but also chaos under the right conditions, or transition to chaos in dynamics networks.Soon after the publication of Watts–Strogatz mech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_networks |
Cultural competence is estimated from the similarity in responses between pairs of subjects since the agreement between a pair of respondents is a function of their individual competencies. In the formal model, the similarity is the probability that matched responses occur (match method. or the probability of particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_consensus_theory |
Political scientist David Art suggested that in its campaign to restrict immigration, UKIP had "flirted with xenophobia", while Daniel T. Dye stated that part of the party's appeal was its "sometimes-xenophobic populism", and the journalist Daniel Trilling stated that UKIP tapped into the "anti-immigrant and anti-Musli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party |
Prithvi or Bhumi, goddess regarded as "Mother Earth"; Sanskrit for Earth Agni, god of fire Varuna, god of oceans Vayu, god of wind Indra, god of rain, lightning and thunders Aranyani, goddess of the forests and the animals that dwell within it | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_spirit |
scromiting A medical disorder whose proper name is cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, where abdominal pain occurs in some heavy users of cannabinoids. Seattle Hempfest Annual cannabis pride protest-festival, or "protestival", organized by Vivian McPeak, held since 1991, originally called the Washington Hemp Expo. The 3-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_resin |
Benjamin starred in several web-only video series, including in the role of Owen on C-SPOT's 2008 Gaytown and the role of Chance Stevens on CBS Interactive's 2009 Heckle U. He also hosted Owen Benjamin Presents, a 2008 C-SPOT production.In 2008, Benjamin had a supporting role in the comedy film The House Bunny. In 2009... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Benjamin |
Excluding leading letters "s m i t h y c o d e", the letter frequencies are as follows: a – 4 e – 3 g, m, p, q, s, t – 2 c, d, f, i, j, k, o, r, v, w, x, z – 1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithy_code |
Joint international investigations are generally carried out with members of the umbrella organisation International Consumer Research & Testing (ICRT), which is based in London. Thereby Stiftung Warentest is often responsible for the project supervision. In addition to Stiftung Warentest, the most important partner or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest |
The term "textual poachers" was originated by de Certeau and has been popularized by Jenkins. Jenkins uses this term to describe how some fans go through content like their favourite movie and engage with the parts that they are interested in, unlike audiences who watch the show more passively and move on to the next t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_culture |
The armament includes an unmanned turret armed with: four launchers for the 130 mm 9M120 Ataka-T anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) two 30 mm 2A42 with 850 rounds either two AG-17D or two AGS-30 30 mm grenade launchers with 600 rounds one 7.62 mm PKTM machine gun with 2,000 rounds | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMPT_Terminator |
Solar energy is often used to supply power for satellites and spacecraft operating in the inner solar system since it can supply energy for a long time without excess fuel mass. A Communications satellite contains multiple radio transmitters which operate continually during its life. It would be uneconomic to operate s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-powered_vehicle |
This gene encodes the p180 catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase α-primase. Pol α has limited processivity and lacks 3′ exonuclease activity for proofreading errors. Thus it is not well suited to efficiently and accurately copy long templates (unlike Pol Delta and Epsilon). Instead it plays a more limited role in replica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_polymerase_alpha_catalytic_subunit |
The singularity at r = rs divides the Schwarzschild coordinates in two disconnected patches. The exterior Schwarzschild solution with r > rs is the one that is related to the gravitational fields of stars and planets. The interior Schwarzschild solution with 0 ≤ r < rs, which contains the singularity at r = 0, is compl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_solution |
Japanese exhibition catalogues often provide captions, a certain amount of text, or both in a second language (usually English), and occasionally also a smaller amount in a third language. This is not always so: the large catalogue (over 360 pages) for a major exhibition of the wood-block artist Yasunori Taninaka is in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_catalogue |
Smoking pipe cleaners normally use some absorbent material, usually cotton or sometimes viscose. Bristles of stiffer material, normally monofilament nylon or polypropylene are sometimes added to better scrub out what is being cleaned. Microfilament polyester is used in some technical pipe cleaners because polyester wic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_cleaner |
PCl5 is prepared by the chlorination of PCl3. This reaction is used to produce around 10,000 tonnes of PCl5 per year (as of 2000). PCl3 + Cl2 ⇌ PCl5 (ΔH = −124 kJ/mol)PCl5 exists in equilibrium with PCl3 and chlorine, and at 180 °C the degree of dissociation is about 40%. Because of this equilibrium, samples of PCl5 of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus(V)_chloride |
RIM Park is situated amidst two of Waterloo's key heritage points. The perimeter of the Park's area borders the Grand River, which was designated as a heritage river in 1994 due to its centrality in the agricultural and industrial settlement of Ontario by European settlers. RIM Park gives Waterloo area residents and to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM_Park |
He also had a beam cannon on his chest. In Nextwave, he has become a living Swiss Army knife of sorts, containing various tools and weapons for a multitude of situations, both useful and esoteric. When asked if he could impregnate a human woman from several feet away, Aaron simply states "I am full of very useful devic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Man |
The tip of the tail is black, with two to five black transverse rings above it.The Asian wildcat has a long, tapering tail, always with a short black tip, and with spots at the base. The forehead has a pattern of four well-developed black bands. A small but pronounced tuft of hair up to one cm long grows from the tip o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_wildcat |
HyTrust's CEO and chairman is John De Santis – formerly vice president of Cloud Services at VMware and chairman and CEO of TriCipher, a software security infrastructure company. In November 2013, HyTrust acquired HighCloud Security, a cloud encryption and management software provider. This acquisition added encryption ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyTrust |
University of Pennsylvania conducted a research along with the Brigham & Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts), Children's Hospital Boston & the University Hospital of Freiburg, Germany which determined that Gamma Oscillations in the brain could help distinguish false memories from the real ones. Their analysis conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Electrical_Oscillation_Signature_Profiling |
The organisation is currently active in Papua New Guinea, Peru, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon; and has previously finished work in Brazil and Ecuador.In Peru the charity is working with two Indigenous communities at the frontline of deforestation, the Ashaninka and the Awajún. Cool Earth has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Earth |
Informally, Functional Decision Theory recommends the agent to select her decision procedure that produces the best outcome. It claims that the agent possesses a model of her decision procedures (which a reliable predictor must also know to high certainty), and which she can alter accordingly. As a visual example, when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Decision_Theory |
The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. Males and young birds also have red markings on the neck or head. This species is found across the Palearctic including parts of North Africa. Across most of its range it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_spotted_woodpecker |
Santa Rita was located in the heart of Apache country and was plagued by Apache raids. Historians often state that an infamous massacre of Apache by John Johnson in 1837 took place at Santa Rita, although it is more likely that the incident took place further south, near the Animas Mountains. (See Apache-Mexico Wars) J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chino_mine |
Applied moral philosophy (or applied ethics) is the branch of moral philosophy concerned with philosophical inquiry into moral issues that arise in everyday contexts and institutional design frameworks (e.g. how social institutions are structured). Applied moral philosophy involves the use of philosophical theories and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_philosophy |
The ceremony was preceded by the Awards of the Presentation of Heritage Research, celebrating 'ground-breaking and innovative research from all aspects of heritage', held in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre the previous day.The 2012 ceremony was held at Senate House (University of London), on Friday 2 March. The 'Research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_Awards |
Islami Bishwakosh (Bengali: ইসলামী বিশ্বকোষ, romanized: Islāmī Bishshokōsh, lit. 'Islamic encyclopedia') is an encyclopedia published by the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. It is of 25 volumes and also a concise version. The project's leading founder was Abdul Haque Faridi, a Bangladeshi educator and scholar. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islami_Bishwakosh |
Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, later the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, commanded 13,000 Allied cavalry and 44 guns of the horse artillery at the Battle of Waterloo, on 18 June 1815. At about 2:30 pm, at a critical stage in the battle, he led a charge of the 2,000 heavy cavalry of the Household Brigade and the Union Bri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Uxbridge's_leg |
Side 10, The Art of Bugs, was the other Bugs-centric side on the first volume. All three Cecil Turtle encounters are on this side, as are the debuts of Beaky Buzzard and Marvin the Martian. Another notable cartoon is The Old Grey Hare, which is famous for its end gag involving the title card.Notes: This set also contai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Age_of_Looney_Tunes |
Those length and diameter are mostly based on origin and preparation route for the synthesis of nanocellulose. Those nanocellulose materials are used to remove organic pollutants in water such as dyes, oils and pesticides traces present in water. Currently, fully biobased membrane using nanocellulose are fabricated whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology_for_water_purification |
Dispensers with like-colored balls were placed on opposite sides of the field, as were the lines of balls. Corner goals were placed at the corners of the field, with three-inch walls to hold racquetballs. In the operator control period, a triangular high goal was present at the center of the field. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Pipe_Hustle |
During its daily two-minute sequence, which includes a trumpet fanfare, mist, and flashing lights, the machine displays one of three metal symbols as a prediction of the weather for the following 24-hour period: a sun for clear and sunny weather, a blue heron for drizzle and transitional weather, or a dragon and mist f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Machine |
The first fully online, for-credit university course was developed in 1994–95, and taught in the Fall 1995 at the University of Waterloo by Professor Paul Beam. It was English 210e (Technical Writing). The technology for the course was built by Jeremy Auger, who later went on to become a co-founder of Desire2Learn (D2L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments |
In military circles, the most basic argument against Safeguard was that adding an ABM requires the Soviets to build another ICBM to counter it, but the same is true if the US builds another ICBM instead. The Air Force was far more interested in building more of their own ICBMs than Army ABMs, and lobbied against the Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program |
As any program code, widgets can be used for malicious purposes. One example is the Facebook "Secret Crush" widget, reported in early 2008 by Fortinet as luring users to install Zango adware.One important factor with client-side widgets is that often the host can not control the content. The content or the functionalit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_widgets |
Analogous instabilities have been known for over a century for ordinary fluids such as air and water, and these instabilities drive common phenomena such as weather patterns, as well as vortices and other phenomena in common industrial flows of liquids. He has developed molecular constitutive equations for entangled po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_G._Larson |
T 3 ( ⟨ 32 , 35 ⟩ ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {T}}^{3}(\langle 32,35\rangle )} and T 3 ( ⟨ 64 , 181 ⟩ ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {T}}^{3}(\langle 64,181\rangle )} for p = 2 {\displaystyle p=2} , T 3 ( ⟨ 243 , 38 ⟩ ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {T}}^{3}(\langle 243,38\rangle )} and T 3 ( ⟨ 243 , 41 ⟩ ) {\displaystyle {\math... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin_transfer_(group_theory) |
Researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy, in addition to the Congressional Budget Office, have documented a large gap in the quality and outcomes and health services being delivered. Unwarranted variation in medical treatment, cost, and outcomes suggests a substantial area for improvement and savings in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_effectiveness_research |
Electric reefs require electrical power to maintain them. In Maldives, several electric reefs successfully survived a 1998 bleaching event that killed off nearly all local wild coral, however after being depowered they were killed by the bleaching event of 2016.A study conducted in the Bahamas in 2015 showed that the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrified_reef |
This view is strengthened by the discovery of alignments in Knowth, Dowth, and the Lough Crew Cairns leading to the interpretation of these monuments as calendrical or astronomical devices. Formerly, the Newgrange mound was encircled by an outer ring of immense standing stones, of which twelve of a possible thirty-seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange |
If x i = y {\displaystyle x_{i}=y} , the element has been found. If x i < y {\displaystyle x_{i} y {\displaystyle x_{i}>y} , do the same as in the previous case, but instead consider i − 1 , i − 2 , i − 4 , … {\displaystyle i-1,i-2,i-4,\ldots } .The error is defined to be η = | i − i ∗ | {\displaystyle \eta =|i-i^{*}|}... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_augmented_algorithm |
Closing the valve increases the local pressure, inducing the formation of larger-amplitude negative reflected expansion waves. A servo motor controlled by the ECU opens and shuts the valve. The valve goes from being almost fully closed at idle speed, through to fully open at higher engine speeds. This ensures low to mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-stroke_power_valve_system |
The original proposal was made in 1987 and announced in 1988 for implementation on the Freedom space station. The experiment was tested, accepted in 1989 and due for launch in 1995 but after various problems with other flights it was demoted from first to fifth place on the schedule. The experiment, called the Particle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_Astrophysics_Magnet_Facility |
The combining of component signals to form the composite signal does the same, causing a checkerboard video artifact known as dot crawl. Dot crawl is a defect that results from crosstalk due to the intermodulation of the chrominance and luminance components of the signal. This is usually seen when chrominance is transm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_video_input |
Investigation of yttrium-90 and other radioisotopes for cancer treatment began in the 1960s. Many key concepts, such as preferential blood supply and tumor vascularity, were discovered during this time. Reports of initial use of resin particles of 90Y in humans were published in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, the safety... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_internal_radiation_therapy |
Instant noodles are a popular food in many parts of the world, undergoing changes in flavor to fit local tastes. In 2018, the World Instant Noodles Association reported that 103,620 million servings were consumed worldwide. China (and Hong Kong) consumed 40,250 million servings and Indonesia consumed 12,540 million, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_noodle |
In April 2012, an analysis of previously available data from Fermi's Large Area Telescope instrument produced statistical evidence of a 130 GeV signal in the gamma radiation coming from the center of the Milky Way. WIMP annihilation was seen as the most probable explanation.At higher energies, ground-based gamma-ray te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_gravity |
The earliest English recipes are for roast or boiled turtle, only later being used in a soup. About 1740–1750, it began to be widely imported to England, from Ascension Island or the West Indies. Samuel Birch is credited with being the first to serve turtle soup in London, spicing it with lemons and cayennes; it quickl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_soup |
The nonzero quark masses introduce a non-trivial dependence on the longitudinal momentum, and thereby highlight the need to understand the representation of rotational symmetry within the formalism. Exploring AdS/QCD wave functions as part of a physically motivated Fock-space basis set to diagonalize the LFQCD Hamilton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_front_quantization |
In particular, BIC is argued to be appropriate for selecting the "true model" (i.e. the process that generated the data) from the set of candidate models, whereas AIC is not appropriate. To be specific, if the "true model" is in the set of candidates, then BIC will select the "true model" with probability 1, as n → ∞; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaike_information_criterion |
The language's name "europanto" is a portmanteau of Europa (the word for Europe in some European languages) and the Greek root παντώς- ("pantos-"; in English "all", "whole") and bears an intentional similarity with the name of the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language, Esperanto. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europanto |
Ultrasonic, which has a brush action where the bristles vibrate at ultrasonic frequencies (> 20 kHz). Ionic, which has a brush that aims to impart an electrical charge to the tooth surface with the intent of disrupting the attachment of dental plaque.For some vibrating toothbrush designs, a brushing technique similar t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_toothbrush |
The main aim of education in ancient India was to develop a person's character, master the art of self-control, bring about social awareness, and to conserve and take forward ancient culture. The Buddhist and Vedic systems had different subjects. In the Vedic system of study, the students were taught the four Vedas – R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education |
Key features of a waveguide join are; whether or not it is air-tight, allowing the waveguide to be pressurized, and whether it is a contact or a choke connection. This leads to three sorts of flange for each size of rectangular waveguide. For rectangular waveguides there exist a number of competing standard flanges whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide_flange |
In calculus, the reciprocal rule gives the derivative of the reciprocal of a function f in terms of the derivative of f. The reciprocal rule can be used to show that the power rule holds for negative exponents if it has already been established for positive exponents. Also, one can readily deduce the quotient rule from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_rule |
With respect to NMR excitations of nuclear states for hydrogen-containing molecules in these regions, different relaxation times for the induced excited energy states are expected. The relaxation time is significantly shorter for a molecule in the surface area, compared to a molecule in the bulk volume. This is an effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_magnetic_resonance_in_porous_media |
Normative beliefs tell us what we ought to do, e.g., be polite to everyone. Social axioms are a guide as to what it is "possible" to do. Leung and Bond (2008) provide a formal definition of social axioms: "Social axioms are generalized beliefs about people, social groups, social institutions, the physical environment, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Axioms_Survey |
There is currently no international court to administer international human rights law, but quasi-judicial bodies exist under some UN treaties (like the Human Rights Committee under the ICCPR). The International Criminal Court (ICC) has jurisdiction over the crime of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_law |
A Game Boy Color adaptation was made by RFX Interactive and released in Europe in 2000. Tonic Trouble received a mixed response from critics, who approved of the controls, score, level design, and graphics, but criticized the camera system, gameplay, visuals, and its derivative nature. The game sold 1.1 million copies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_Trouble |
"Inter-personal difference of molecular pathology is diverse, so as inter-personal difference in the exposome, which influence disease processes through the interactome within the tissue microenvironment, differentially from person to person. As the theoretical basis of precision medicine, the "unique disease principle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalised_medicine |
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