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The definitions have varied over time, and vary in different parts of the world. The Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence states that: "domestic violence" shall mean all acts of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occur within the family or domestic u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_unit
Through numerous case studies and worked examples, it has been shown how the Life Quality Index can be used to assist decision-makers in evaluating the effectiveness of regulations and activities aimed at reducing risk to life, health and the environment. The LQI is a versatile tool that can be used to assess a wide ra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Quality_Index
A prime example concerning the spread of exotoxins is the adaptive evolution of Shiga toxins in E. coli through horizontal gene transfer via transduction with Shigella species of bacteria. Strategies to combat certain bacterial infections by targeting these specific virulence factors and mobile genetic elements have be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_transfer
The Marciano Foundation released a statement a month later that the closure was permanent.In the country of Georgia 40 employees were fired May 2022 as part of a restructuring. The newly formed union, the Georgian Trade Union of Science, Education, and Culture Workers said in a statement they said the employees were fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_museum
This expansion was due in part to voracious readers, with over half of Harlequin's customers purchasing 30 novels per month. By this time, the romance novel audience had become more educated, with 45% having a college degree, and more than half of the audience worked outside the home.By the 2000s, romance had become th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_novel
Standardization of spelling is connected with the development of writing and the establishment of modern standard dialects. Languages with established orthography are those languages that enjoy an official status and a degree of institutional support in a country. Therefore, normative spelling is a relatively recent de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_spellings
(Note that some authors refer to SO ( 1 , 3 ) {\displaystyle {\text{SO}}(1,3)} or even O ( 1 , 3 ) {\displaystyle {\text{O}}(1,3)} when they actually mean SO + ( 1 , 3 ) {\displaystyle {\text{SO}}^{+}(1,3)} .) The set of the four connected components can be given a group structure as the quotient group O ( 1 , 3 ) / SO...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_Lorentz_group
Homefueler is a home hydrogen station. It uses single phase AC power and water for the pressurized alkaline electrolyzer to generate hydrogen, a diaphragm compressor handles a filling pressure of 5,000 psig (350 bar). Storage is 13 kg, daily production is 2 kg H2. The hydrogen dispensing system is aimed at providing en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homefueler
Finally, a Laser printer which would produce typeset quality documents also shared among all the users on the network.By January 1985 Apple was ready to launch the LocalTalk network which would allow a small office to inexpensively share its newly introduced LaserWriter printer. But the dedicated file server was up to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Office
BREEAM In-Use is widely used by members of the International Sustainability Alliance (ISA), which provides a platform for certification against the scheme. The newest version v6, available from 2020 includes also Residential programs. BREEAM Refurbishment provides a design and assessment method for sustainable housing ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREEAM
In addition to these public prayers, there are also private prayers prescribed for both monastics and laypersons; in some monasteries, however, these are read in church. These include Morning and Evening Prayers and prayers (and, in Russia, canons) to be prayed in preparation for receiving the Eucharist. The full cycle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_worship
Following an eligibility issue she was forced to resign in late 2017 due to her British citizenship. Australian law requires the replacement to be from the same party and so she was replaced by Steven Martin. Martin then refused to resign himself, which would have allowed Lambie to return. He was expelled from the Lamb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_discipline
Volume 4 /Galore Music 2011 VA - Haute Couture 2011 mixed by Claudia Cazacu /Couture (Spinnin) 2011 VA - Space Ibiza Unmixed /CR2 Live & Direct Unmixed 2011 Mixed by Claudia Cazacu - Haute Couture 2011 mixed by Claudia Cazacu /Couture (Spinnin) 2011 VA - BPM Japan Charity Album Vol. 3 /BPM JAPAN 2011 VA - Progressive T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Umek_discography
In modern politics, a gadfly is someone who persistently challenges people in positions of power, the status quo or a popular position. For example, Morris Kline wrote, "There is a function for the gadfly who poses questions that many specialists would like to overlook. Polemics is healthy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_gadfly
Tuna, swordfish, and some species of sharks show some warm-blooded adaptations – they can heat their bodies significantly above ambient water temperature. Streamlining and swimming performance varies from fish such as tuna, salmon, and jacks that can cover 10–20 body-lengths per second to species such as eels and rays ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_conservation
In 1958, British developmental psychologist John Bowlby published the paper "the Nature of the Child's Tie to his Mother," in which the precursory concepts of "attachment theory" were developed. This included the development of the concept of the affectional bond, which is based on the universal tendency for humans to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_bonding
The manufacturer often provides some way of accessing deeper configuration mechanisms. Azul Systems' Vega 3 Java Compute Appliance is an example; special hardware modifications to the chip enable Java application scaling. Special software kernel - the vendor uses or creates a general-purpose computer, and designs a new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_appliance
Metabolomic Pathway Analysis, shortened to MetPA, is a freely available, user-friendly web server to assist with the identification analysis and visualization of metabolic pathways using metabolomic data. MetPA makes use of advances originally developed for pathway analysis in microarray experiments and applies those p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolomic_Pathway_Analysis
Ernst Kris supplements Freud's general formulations with a specific notion of "regression in the service of the ego"...the specific means whereby preconscious and unconscious material appear in the creator's consciousness'. Kris thus opened the way for ego psychology to take a more positive view of regression. Carl Jun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_regression
Thure E. Cerling received his Bachelor of Science degree in geology and chemistry from Iowa State University, in Ames, Iowa, in 1972, and, in 1973, his Master of Science in geology from Iowa State. In 1977 he was awarded a Ph.D. in geology from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1977 to 1979 he worked as a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thure_E._Cerling
The global average interest and fee rate is estimated at 37%, with rates reaching as high as 70% in some markets. The reason for the high interest rates is not primarily cost of capital. Indeed, the local microfinance organizations that receive zero-interest loan capital from the online microlending platform Kiva charg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfinance_institution
A typical command to draw a circle would be: <02> C 256,256,100, where the single ASCII character <02> (or STX) represents the Plot command, C indicates a circle, and the three numbers represent the circle's X-Y position and radius. A CG system could also include 8" floppy diskette drives, a disk operating system for s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatics_Inc.
A lead can be made from a variety of materials, including cotton, horsehair (woven or braided hair, usually from a horse's tail), leather, nylon or other synthetic materials. Lead ropes, as the name implies, are round and made of various types of rope, usually between 5/8 and 3/4 inch (about 2 cm) in diameter. Lead lin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_rope
In the second stage, there is a symmetric equilibrium in which each bidder exits at his observed value - Xenia exits at X and Yakov at Y.In the first stage, we take Xenia's viewpoint. Assume that Yakov's strategy is to jump if-and-only-if his signal is at least T. We calculate Xenia's best response. There are four case...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_bidding
Four New Card Games (1962) Abbott's New Card Games (1963, again in paperback in 1968) The New Eleusis (1977) Mad Mazes (1990) SuperMazes (1997) Auction 2002 and Eleusis (2001) Diez juegos que no se parecen a nada (2008, translated by Marc Figueras)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Abbott_(game_designer)
At very high altitude, 3,500 to 5,500 metres (11,500 to 18,000 ft), maximum SaO2 falls below 90% as the arterial PO2 falls below 60mmHg. Extreme hypoxemia may occur during exercise, during sleep, and in the presence of high altitude pulmonary edema or other acute lung conditions. Severe altitude illness occurs most com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness
In 2009 and 2015, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued letters of no objection for two industrial petition for pressure-assisted thermal processing. At this time, there are no commercial low-acid products treated by PATP available in the market. During pascalization, the food's hydrogen bonds are selectively disru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascalization
Double consciousness is the dual self-perception experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society. The term and the idea were first published in W. E. B. Du Bois's autoethnographic work, The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, in which he described the African American experience of double consciousnes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_consciousness
For plain-carbon steel furnaces, as soon as slag is detected during tapping the furnace is rapidly tilted back towards the deslagging side, minimising slag carryover into the ladle. For some special steel grades, including stainless steel, the slag is poured into the ladle as well, to be treated at the ladle furnace to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_arc_furnace
The Conference established the nautical date line and adopted an ideal form of the terrestrial time zone system for use at sea. It recommended that time changes required by changes of longitude be made in one-hour steps. This recommendation was adopted between 1920 and 1925 by all major fleets, including British, Frenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-French_Conference_on_Time-keeping_at_Sea
Lindsay Zoladz of The New York Times said the record disregards traditional album structures, calling it a "collection of peaks and valleys". For this reason, Mitch Mosk of Atwood Magazine said the album traverses "lush valleys" of ambience and "stirring peaks" of intimacy, ultimately deeming it genreless. His colleagu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_a_Conditional_Form
WGWG (as WCIV) shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34, using PSIP to display WCIV's virtual channel as 4 on digital television receivers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGWG
SPN is routinely used to designate pitch in this system. A4 may be tuned to other frequencies under different tuning standards, and SPN octave designations still apply (ISO 16).With changes in concert pitch and the widespread adoption of A440 as a musical standard, new scientific frequency tables were published by the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation
Any of the division lines composing the variations of the field above may be blazoned with most of the different line shapes; e.g. paly nebuly of six, Or and sable. One very common use of this is barry wavy azure and argent; this is often used to represent either water or a body of water in general, or the sea in parti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_of_the_field
In March 1975, he headed the National Commission for Indigenous Medicines His tireless efforts for the promotion of science and technology earned him Hilal-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan in 1980. In 1983, he played a major role in the establishment of the Third World Academy of Sciences and became its Founding ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salimuzzaman_Siddiqui
1,10-Phenanthroline (phen) is a heterocyclic organic compound. It is a white solid that is soluble in organic solvents. The 1,10 refer to the location of the nitrogen atoms that replace CH's in the hydrocarbon called phenanthrene. Abbreviated "phen", it is used as a ligand in coordination chemistry, forming strong comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,10-Phenanthroline
In the small, fragmented populations of the acorn woodpecker, minimal immigration is sufficient for population persistence. Despite the potential genetic consequences of having a small population size, the acorn woodpecker is able to avoid extinction and the classification as an endangered species because of this envir...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_population_size
Let be a closed interval in R, and let {Uα} be a collection of open sets that covers . Then the Heine–Borel theorem states that some finite subcollection of {Uα} covers as well. This statement can be proved by considering the set S = {s ∈ : can be covered by finitely many Uα} .The set S obviously contains a, and is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least-upper-bound_principle
For many languages, such as Albanian, Irish and Russian, velarization is generally associated with more dental articulations of coronal consonants. Thus, velarized consonants, such as Albanian /ɫ/, tend to be dental or denti-alveolar, and non-velarized consonants tend to be retracted to an alveolar position.Sanskrit, H...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_consonant
If the piers were placed there by Solomon, then this would have been the same location of the “banks” a retaining wall used to raise up the ground level, as a foundation for the porch. According to Josephus, this and the “east wall” were indeed built by Solomon. Evidence suggests that the magnificent halls of Triple Ga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon's_Porch
The Office Resource Kit and tools are included on the respective Office CD/DVD and/or separately. The tools are also available for download from Microsoft web site.Microsoft has also released Resource Kits for Internet Explorer, Windows Media, Internet Information Services, Back Office and several server products such ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Resource_Kit
Ganymede is the only Galilean moon of Jupiter named after a male figure—like Io, Europa, and Callisto, he was a lover of Zeus. The Galilean satellites retain the Italian spellings of their names. In the cases of Io, Europa and Callisto, these are identical to the Latin, but the Latin form of Ganymede is Ganymedes. In E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymedian_magnetosphere
In Scotland, anyone wishing to teach must be registered with the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). Teaching in Scotland is an all graduate profession and the normal route for graduates wishing to teach is to complete a programme of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) at one of the seven Scottish Universities wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher
As a way to help manage large and complex software.SADT was among a series of similar structured methods, which had emerged since the 1960 such as: Structured programming in circa 1967 with Edsger W. Dijkstra. Structured design around 1975 with Larry Constantine and Ed Yourdon Structured analysis in circa 1978 with Tom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_analysis_and_design_technique
In 2019 coal was still used to a limited extent to fuel three co-generation plants in Sweden that produced electricity and district heating. The operators of these plants planned to phase out coal by 2020, 2022 and 2025 respectively. In August 2019 one of the three remaining coal burning power producers announced that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_phaseout
The ability to produce such a high-frequency vocalization by such a large animal is unusual. As explained above, this is because larger body mass positively correlates with longer vocal folds and thus lower frequency emission. Larger body size also corresponds with a decreased ability to emit high frequency vocalizatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutting_season
Raising the mowing height is an easy way to reduce stress on a turfgrass plant and make the plant less susceptible to attack by disease, but there is a fine line. Turf mowed, less than 2.5 inches (64 mm) and above 3 inches (76 mm) makes the plant more susceptible to disease. Managing the moisture available to the plant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_patch
The form factor was intended to allow these systems to be taken on board an airplane as carry-on baggage, though their high power demand meant that they could not be used in flight. The integrated CRT display made for a relatively heavy package, but these machines were more portable than their contemporary desktop equa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer
The Winchester conversion may only hold 2 cartridges in the magazine box, unless you purchase an extra deep magazine box and bottom metal from Sunny Hill, Williams Firearms, Jim Wisner or Ted Blackburn. Use of an extra deep magazine box necessitates replacement of the stock with another stock having greater depth of wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.470_Capstick
Everything in this typical three-story restaurant that occupies 260 square meters (2,800 sq ft) is based on items from a toilet room or a bathroom. The checkered tile covered walls are adorned with showerheads, while plungers hang from the ceiling along with feces-shaped lights. The chairs are actual toilets (not opera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Toilet_Restaurant
However, the rescuing vessel is entitled to a claim for salvage. Likewise, a vessel found badly damaged, abandoned, and adrift after enemy fire, does not become a prize of rescuing a friendly vessel, but the rescuers may claim salvage. A vessel is considered in peril if it is in immediate danger or is likely within a r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_rights
Client Acceptor Learner | | | | | | X----->|->|->| | | Accept! (N,I,V) | X<>X<>X------>|->| Accepted(N,I,V) - BROADCAST |<-------------------X--X Response(V) | | | | | | The failure scenario is the same for both protocols; Each Learner waits to receive F+1 identical messages from different Acceptors. If this does not o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
The reconfigurable system can also be classified according to the mechanism reconfigurability. Intra-reconfigurability for robots is referred as a system that is a single entity while having ability to change morphology without the assembly/disassembly. Inter-reconfigurability is defined as to what extent a robotic sys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reconfiguring_modular_robot
Their logo combined a red flaming chalice with the stripes of the leather pride flag.The San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley consists of four works of art along Ringold Alley honoring leather culture; it opened in 2017. The four works of art are: engraved standing stones that honor community leather ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_Pride_flag
troops should be withdrawn in less than a year, another 23% think that should be done within one or two years, and 2% want an immediate withdrawal. 26% of Americans think U.S. troops should remain for as long as it takes, 7% think they should stay another two to five years, and 2% think they should stay for another fiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_public_opinion_on_the_war_in_Afghanistan
As of 2016, Judicial Watch had an annual budget of about $35 million. Between 1997 and 2002 Judicial Watch received $7,069,500 in 19 grants from a handful of foundations. The bulk of this funding came from three foundations: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, a funder of politically conservative causes; The Carthage Foundati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Watch
In applications to quantum field theory, the convolution exponential, convolution logarithm, and other analytic functions based on the convolution are constructed as formal power series in the elements of the algebra (Brouder, Frabetti & Patras 2008). If, in addition, the algebra is a Banach algebra, then convergence o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_power
PLAN 3000 was a desktop fileserver with a Motorola 68008 processor, a 5 1/4" hard disk with capacity of 24,40, or 56 MB, and a backup tape unit for 45 or 60 MB streaming tape cartridges. PLAN 5000 was a floor-standing unit that had one or two 8" hard disks with a total capacity of 289, 578, 867, or 1156 MB, and a backu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestar_Systems
Given a closed, convex subset K of Hilbert space V, the outward normal cone to the set K at the point x in K is given by N K ( x ) = { p ∈ V: ∀ x ∗ ∈ K , ⟨ p , x ∗ − x ⟩ ≤ 0 } . {\displaystyle N_{K}(x)=\left\{p\in V\colon \forall x^{*}\in K,\left\langle p,x^{*}-x\right\rangle \leq 0\right\}.} Given a closed, convex sub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_cone
Sanyo was the primary sponsor of the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League in Australia from 2000 to 2012. In Formula One, the company backed Benetton from 1989 to 1995, Williams from 1995 to 1997 and Stewart Grand Prix from 1997 to 1999. In the football sponsored the Argentinian club River Plate from 1992 unti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanyo
number of base pairs = mass in pg × 9.78 × 10 8 {\displaystyle {\text{number of base pairs}}={\text{mass in pg}}\times 9.78\times 10^{8}} or simply: 1 pg = 978 Mbp {\displaystyle 1{\text{pg}}=978{\text{ Mbp}}}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_reduction
The crystal structure of the solid is notable as it was the first example of a three-dimensional lattice structure found for a metal tetrafluoride and subsequently RhF4, PdF4 and PtF4 have been found to have the same structure. The structure has 6 coordinate, octahedral, iridium where two edges of the octahedra are sha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_tetrafluoride
Thus, when a Hebrew speaker would like to express his impatience with or disdain for philosophy, s/he can say filosófya-shmilosófya (פילוסופיה־שמילוסופיה‎). Modern Hebrew shm- is traceable back to Yiddish, and is found in English as well as shm-reduplication. This is comparable to the Turkic initial m-segment conveying...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word
It is often used in dentistry when the decay is very deep or very close to the nerve or pulp chamber. Because the tissue inside the tooth, i.e. the pulp, reacts badly to the drilling stimulus (heat and vibration), it frequently becomes severely inflamed and precipitates a condition called acute or chronic pulpitis. Thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_oxide_eugenol
The right rule is virtually identical to the introduction rule The left rule, however, performs some additional substitutions that are not performed in the corresponding elimination rules. The kinds of proofs generated in the sequent calculus are therefore rather different from those of natural deduction. The sequent c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_rule
A third mode of occurrence of tachylite is as the margins and thin offshoots of dikes or sills of basalt and diabase. They are sometimes only a fraction of an inch in thickness, resembling a thin layer of pitch or tar on the edge of a crystalline diabase dike, but veins several inches thick are sometimes found. In thes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachylite
Stargazing makes it difficult for a rider to control the horse, who then braces on the bit and is hard-mouthed. A ewe neck is counter-productive to collection and proper transitions, as the horse only elevates its head and doesn't engage its hind end. The horse's loins and back may become sore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine_conformation
Since 2018, the term "stochastic terrorism" has become a popular descriptor when discussing lone wolf attacks. While the exact definition has evolved over time, it commonly refers to the idea that demonizing or dehumanizing a targeted group or individual incites violence that is statistically likely, but cannot be prec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
Public education—at the time compulsory through primary school—began to teach the metric system. Governmental agencies and the Japanese Weights and Measures Association undertook a gradual course of education and conversion but opposition became vehemently outspoken in the early 1930s. Nationalists decried the "foreign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement
Alternatives include the Kempe dynamics in which one repeatedly finds and swaps the colors of Kempe chains, and the "heat bath" dynamics in which one chooses pairs of adjacent vertices and a valid recoloring of that pair. Both of these kinds of moves include the Glauber one-vertex moves as a special case, as changing t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereceda's_conjecture
Players in World of Warcraft will often spend weeks hunting for a special item which is based on a chance system, sometimes with only a 0.01% chance of it being dropped by a slain monster. The rarity of the item and difficulty of acquiring the item gives the player a status amongst their peers once they obtain the item...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction
A low sodium diet is a diet that includes no more than 1,500 to 2,400 mg of sodium per day.The human minimum requirement for sodium in the diet is about 500 mg per day, which is typically less than one-sixth as much as many diets "seasoned to taste". For certain people with salt-sensitive blood pressure or diseases suc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_sodium_diet
Let X 1 , X 2 , X 3 ⊂ P 3 {\displaystyle X_{1},X_{2},X_{3}\subset \mathbb {P} ^{3}} be three surfaces. Suppose the scheme-theoretic intersection ⋂ X i {\displaystyle \bigcap X_{i}} is the disjoint union of a smooth curve C and a zero-dimensional schem S. One can ask: what is the degree of S? This can be answered by #fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_intersection
There are further factors that manipulate the oscillation of the bubbles’ size, such as temperature and composition of the gas and liquid phases. Depending on the dramatization of the oscillation from previously mentioned factors, stable or transient cavitation occurs. A rapid process will lead to transient cavitation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonophoresis
Title X funded programs saw 1.2 million fewer patients in 2015 compared to 2010 as funding decreased by $31 million. In 2015, an estimated 2.4 million additional women received Medicaid-funded contraceptive services from private doctors.Medicaid has increased from 20% to 71% from 1980 to 2006. In 2006, Medicaid contrib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_life_plan
Different batteries rely on different chemical reactions. Some reactions are readily reversible, some are not. The reactions used in most alkaline batteries fall into the latter category. In particular, the metallic zinc generated by driving a reverse current through the cell will generally not return to its original l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechargeable_alkaline_battery
What then, must Venus have no Sea, or do the Waters there reflect the Light more than ours do, or their Land less? or rather (which is most probable in my opinion) is not all that Light we see reflected from an Atmosphere surrounding Venus, which being thicker and more solid than that in Mars or Jupiter, hinders our se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Venus
Memory scrubbing consists of reading from each computer memory location, correcting bit errors (if any) with an error-correcting code (ECC), and writing the corrected data back to the same location.Due to the high integration density of modern computer memory chips, the individual memory cell structures became small en...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_scrubbing
The Country Party then ruled from 1924 to 1927 (3 years), followed by the Nationalist Party from 1928 to 1929 (1 year) in a coalition. The Country Party and the United Australia Party (later as the Liberal and Country Party) held power with and without a coalition from 1932 to 1945 (13 years) and 1947 to 1952 (5 years)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant-party_system
Appraisal theory is the theory in psychology that emotions are extracted from our evaluations (appraisals or estimates) of events that cause specific reactions in different people. Essentially, our appraisal of a situation causes an emotional, or affective, response that is going to be based on that appraisal. An examp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appraisal_theory
Electronic devices are often rated to operate only under certain humidity conditions (e.g., 10% to 90%). The optimal humidity for electronic devices is 30% to 70%. At the top end of the range, moisture may increase the conductivity of permeable insulators leading to malfunction. Too low humidity may make materials brit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_humidity
These may be taunts and insults aimed at the opposition teams or players to unnerve them, or obscene or slanderous chants targeted at individuals. A sampling of English football chants in the late 1970s found these types of chants to be the most numerous. Threats of violence may also be made to their rivals in chants; ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_chant
According to Aristotle, self-control and akrasia (incontinence) are not "identical with Virtue and Vice, nor yet as different in kind from them". : 1146a Temperance is distinct from self-control, both because self-control could be used to restrain good desires as much as bad ones, and because a temperate person would n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics
Rufford Abbey was formally built (between 1560 and 1590) and owned by George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury who was Bess of Hardwick Countess of Shrewsbury’s husband. Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club (NCCC) are a first class county cricket club who play at Trent Bridge in West Bridgford. They won the County Champion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Technology_Centre
Carl Jung further expounded Freud's view of the unconscious and categorized the unconscious into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. He believed that the personal unconscious held memories and experiences specific to every individual and the collective unconscious held memories, predispositions and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_cognition
In British and Irish secondary schools, form tutors are given the responsibilities of a form or class of students in a particular year group (up to 30 students). They usually work in year teams headed by a year leader, year head, or guidance teacher. Form tutors will provide parents with most of the information about t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutoring_agency
The first code selectors had levels for local exchange calls and calls to the local tandem exchange. An exchange with up to 23 outgoing routes would require a second code selection stage on some calls, and for more outgoing routes (up to 93) some third selection stages. But as a nearby business exchange might have 50 T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_telephone_system
The alternative notation also makes it straightforward to see how the GTR model can be applied to biological alphabets with a larger state-space (e.g., amino acids or codons). It is possible to write a set of equilibrium state frequencies as π 1 {\displaystyle \pi _{1}} , π 2 {\displaystyle \pi _{2}} , ... π k {\displa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_model
Shrek 2 Retold (2023) — A collaboration fan film that was originally announced in an April Fools video titled Shrek 2 Retold, in which the project director discussed the creation of Shrek Retold. Trailers for the project were released during Shrekfest 2019 and on the twentieth anniversary of the original film. The movi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reanimated_collab
Companies need to conduct cyber risk assessments before a product is put on the market and throughout its lifecycle effectively manage its vulnerabilities, regularly test it, and so on. Products assessed as 'critical' will need to undergo external audits. Companies would have to notify EU cybersecurity agency ENISA of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Resilience_Act
Bill Fagerbakke as Pi Diedrich Bader as Yuri Kevin Weisman as Dr. Finkel Lochlyn Munro as Slats Bentley Ali Hillis as Astro Spalding Pat Finn as Bill Wolfson Nolan Gould as Sam Wayne Wilderson as Tad Thompson C. Ernst Harth as Guard at the gate to HQ John Czech as Brazil Reese Schoeppe as Sasha Nico Ghisi as Bartleby Q...
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In karate, the handsword collarbone chop (tegatana-sakotsu-uchi), the handsword collarbone strike (tegatana-sakotsu-uchikomi) and the handsword face chop (tegatana-ganmen-uchi) all use this fundamental strike as a basis for attack.The knifehand strike can be used with either side of the hand. Having the thumb tucked in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knifehand_strike
Section § Methodless creativity versus inductive methodology says that both Lakatos' and Popper's methodology are not inductive. Yet Lakatos' methodology extended importantly Popper's methodology: it added a historiographical component to it. This allowed Lakatos to find corroborations for his methodology in the histor...
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Soon, Iturbide was unable to pay his army, creating discontent in a significant portion of his power base. When criticism of the government grew strong, Iturbide censored the press, an act that backfired against him. Opposition groups began to band together against him. Leaders such as Valentín Gómez Farías and Antonio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agustín_de_Iturbide
Brahe then created the Triangular Sextant in 1582. This device was around 3.2 meters in diameter and was fixed in one place instead of being mobile like the smaller versions. Three years later Brahe created a larger instrument called the Great Equatorial Armillary which allowed him to gauge planetary and stellar positi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uraniborg
Imatinib, sold under the brand names Gleevec and Glivec (both marketed worldwide by Novartis) among others, is an oral targeted therapy medication used to treat cancer. Imatinib is a small molecule inhibitor targeting multiple tyrosine kinases such as CSF1R, ABL, c-KIT, FLT3, and PDGFR-β. Specifically, it is used for c...
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The function of the bubble is not only to contain a store of air but to act as a physical gill. The air that it traps is in contact with oxygenated water, so as the animal's consumption depletes the oxygen in the bubble, more oxygen can diffuse in to replenish it. Carbon dioxide is more soluble in water than either oxy...
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Moreover, the conflation of women's work and care work can lead to the ignoring of cultural, political, racial, and ethnic differences among women.Furthermore, there are many differences in earning between high school graduates and college graduates. This difference is especially pertinent between male and female indiv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_work
With standardized production of locomotives, EMC simplified the processes for ordering, manufacturing, and servicing locomotives and introduced economies of scale that would lower unit costs. EMC offered support services including financing, training, and field maintenance that would ease the transition from steam to d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-Motive_Diesel
In addition, a new command-line tool called manage-bde replaced the old manage-bde.wsf.Starting with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, Microsoft has complemented BitLocker with the Microsoft Encrypted Hard Drive specification, which allows the cryptographic operations of BitLocker encryption to be offloaded to the sto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker_Drive_Encryption