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An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services within an organization, usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders. The term is used in contrast to public networks, such as the Internet, but uses the same techno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_network |
Other notable forks include: Aquamacs – based on GNU Emacs (Aquamacs 3.2 is based on GNU Emacs version 24 and Aquamacs 3.3 is based on GNU Emacs version 25) which focuses on integrating with the Apple Macintosh user interface Meadow – a Japanese version for Microsoft Windows | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_pinky |
Child-parent psychotherapy has been demonstrated to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in children with developmental disabilities and may help enhance caregivers' understanding of their children's disabilities and individual needs. Two 2014 case studies demonstrated the efficacy of child-parent psychoth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_disability |
QWERTY () is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard (Q W E R T Y). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to E. Remington and Sons in 1873. It became popular with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY_keyboard |
Identifying effective countermeasures that reduce the risk of biological damage is still a long-term goal for space researchers. These countermeasures are probably not needed for extended duration lunar missions, but will be needed for other long-duration missions to Mars and beyond. On 31 May 2013, NASA scientists rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_radiation_carcinogenesis |
Because it is impossible to judge whether a new mutation is beneficial (or might be advantageous in the unforeseeable future) or not, koinophilic animals avoid them all, at the cost of avoiding the very occasional potentially beneficial mutation. Thus, koinophilia, although not infallible in its ability to distinguish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinophilia |
In the context of e-commerce, affinity marketing consists in sharing referrals by promoting icons and links connected to other websites that meet the customers' needs. The aim of employing affinity marketing schemes on the internet is to increase sales, enhance website visibility, encourage traffic. Search engines are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_marketing |
Once reinforcement was introduced to the 3D printed concrete structure, these impacts were greater than conventional construction methods, specifically for global warming and smog formation potential.Another LCA conducted a similar study comparing conventional and 3D printed concrete walls but varied the complexity of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_concrete_printing |
The global supply of labor almost doubled in absolute numbers between the 1980s and early 2000s, with half of that growth coming from Asia. At the same time, the rate at which new workers entered the workforce in the Western world began to decline. The growing pool of global labor is accessed by employers in more advan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_labour |
Penile vibratory stimulation (PVS) and electroejaculation are two other alternatives for men with anejaculation due to spinal cord injury. The penile vibratory stimulator is a plier-like device that is placed around the glans penis to stimulate it by vibration, and provides the first-line method for sperm retrieval in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_semen_collection |
The relationship given in Figure 8 below was developed for a horizontal, rectangular channel with q = 10 ft2/s. This graph is limited by the following due to the nature of a hydraulic jump: 1. y2/y1 > 1: depth increases over the jump so that y2 > y12. Fr2 < 1: downstream flow must be subcritical3. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_jumps_in_rectangular_channels |
The cross section is not strictly circular, however: the radius of curvature is increased before the wing achieves maximum thickness to minimize the chance of boundary layer separation. This elongates the wing and moves the point of maximum thickness back from the leading edge. Supersonic airfoils are much more angular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_foil |
Hence, these are dubbed left-handed materials or negative index materials (NIMs), among other nomenclatures.Only fabricated NIMs exhibit this capability. Photonic crystals, like many other known systems, can exhibit unusual propagation behavior such as reversal of phase and group velocities. However, negative refractio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodicity_(metamaterials) |
Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt around 568 BC. However, the armies of Pharaoh Amasis II defeated the Babylonians (though the author did not elaborate and there are no known detailed accounts of this invasion). Herodotus reports that this Pharaoh had a long and prosperous reign. The Egyptians were conquered by the Persians... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_prophecy |
This difference does not significantly disfavor anticodon binding because the third nucleotide in a codon, known as the wobble position, has weaker tRNA anticodon binding specificity than the first and second nucleotides. In this model, the motif structure is explained by the fact that the first and second positions of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_shift |
Chlorambucil produces its anti-cancer effects by interfering with DNA replication and damaging the DNA in a cell. The DNA damage induces cell cycle arrest and cellular apoptosis via the accumulation of cytosolic p53 and subsequent activation of Bcl-2-associated X protein, an apoptosis promoter.Chlorambucil alkylates an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorambucil |
Extinction refers to the loss of performance after a conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus. It can also refer to the loss of an operant response when it is no longer reinforced. Research done by Bouton (2002) has shown that extinction is not an example of unlearning, but a new type of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-dependent_memory |
Many have interpreted Plato as stating – even having been the first to write – that knowledge is justified true belief, an influential view that informed future developments in epistemology. Plato also identified problems with the justified true belief definition in the Theaetetus, concluding that justification (or an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato |
Within statistical mechanics, inexact differentials are often denoted with a bar through the differential operator, đ. In LaTeX the command "\rlap{\textrm{d}}{\bar{\phantom{w}}}" is an approximation or simply "\dj" for a dyet character, which needs the T1 encoding. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inexact_differential |
If not, it generally applies by default. This "security of tenure" is expressly subject to common reasons and associated mechanisms for a landlord to obtain back the premises. If a landlord is selling a block and a qualifying tenant occupies more than 50%, the tenant should be given the right of first refusal at the as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_baron |
The Source Code Control System (SCCS) is a system for controlling file and history changes. Software is typically upgraded to a new version by fixing bugs, optimizing algorithms and adding extra functions. Changing software causes problems that require version control to solve. Source code takes up too much space becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System |
Evaluation of this symbol must yield the function for addition to make the example work as intended. Thus some dialects of lisp allow an additional parameter for eval to specify the context of evaluation (similar to the optional arguments to Python's eval function - see below). An example in the Scheme dialect of Lisp ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eval |
The event would bring together experts from across the technology sector to come up with innovative solutions to end the sharing of indecent images and the interaction of adults with children for sexual purposes online. In May 2014, the industry solutions event (WePROTECT 2014 ) took place at Gray's Inn in London. In a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeProtect |
The meridian 25° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 25th meridian east forms a great circle with the 155th meridian west. Most of the border between Libya and Egypt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_meridian_east |
The ampere balance (also current balance or Kelvin balance) is an electromechanical apparatus used for the precise measurement of the SI unit of electric current, the ampere. It was invented by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. The current to be measured is passed in series through two coils of wire, one of which is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere_balance |
Purely recreational amphibian cars include the 1960s Amphicar and the contemporary Gibbs Aquada. With almost 4,000 pieces built, the Amphicar is still the most successfully produced civilian amphibious car to date. The Gibbs Aquada stands out due to its capability of high-speed planing on water. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_tank |
Sky Mirror is a public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor. Commissioned by the Nottingham Playhouse, it is installed outside the theatre in Wellington Circus, Nottingham, England. Sky Mirror is a 6-metre-wide (20 ft)-wide concave dish of polished stainless steel weighing 10 tonnes (9.8 long tons) and angled up towards th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Mirror |
and Eurocheque International Holding N.V. merged into a single company, Europay International S.A., and were relocated to Waterloo, Belgium. This location also housed the Europe, Middle East and Africa region of MasterCard International, and the seat of the joint venture of Eurocard MasterCard, Maestro International. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocard_(credit_card) |
The term market participant is another term for economic agent, an actor and more specifically a decision maker in a model of some aspect of the economy. For example, buyers and sellers are two common types of agents in partial equilibrium models of a single market. The term market participant is also used in United St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_participant |
The course has been opposed by three main groups: Secularists from the Mouvement laïque québécois (Quebec Secular Movement) because they believe that ethics and religious culture should not be taught within a single course ; also, they believe that teaching both of these subjects together induce people to think that it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_and_religious_culture |
Selective predation on male frogs by the polecat decreases the occurrence of polyandry in frog populations. However, because amphibians have little calorific value, the polecat never grows fat on them, no matter how many it consumes. In Central Europe, the diet in winter months is dominated by birds including quail, gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat |
Individuals who tend to approach problems with these methods of coping may strengthen their resistance to stress by allocating more access to these positive emotional resources. Social support from caring adults encouraged resilience among participants by providing them with access to conventional activities.Positive e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_resilience |
In mathematics, the Fictitious domain method is a method to find the solution of a partial differential equations on a complicated domain D {\displaystyle D} , by substituting a given problem posed on a domain D {\displaystyle D} , with a new problem posed on a simple domain Ω {\displaystyle \Omega } containing D {\dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_domain_method |
Iowa nice is a cultural label used to describe the stereotypical attitudes and behaviors of residents within the U.S. state of Iowa, particularly in terms of the friendly agreeableness and emotional trust shown by individuals who are otherwise strangers. While the term's precise meaning is difficult to define, 'Iowa ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_nice |
In the early 20th century the term propaganda was used by the founders of the nascent public relations industry to refer to their people. Literally translated from the Latin gerundive as "things that must be disseminated", in some cultures the term is neutral or even positive, while in others the term has acquired a st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda |
A modern BWR fuel assembly comprises 74 to 100 fuel rods, and there are up to approximately 800 assemblies in a reactor core, holding up to approximately 140 short tons of low-enriched uranium. The number of fuel assemblies in a specific reactor is based on considerations of desired reactor power output, reactor core s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_nuclear_reactor |
Prior to the advent of coal mining, the entire region was a low-productive rice crop area in what was once a part of the Jungle Mahals. The ownership of land had passed on from local adivasis to agricultural castes before mining started. However, the Santhals and the Bauris, referred to by the colonial administrators a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satgram_Area |
In an attempt to characterize and analyze the mechanism concerning the proliferation of neuronal cells within the subventricular zone, Decressac et al. observed the proliferation of neural precursors in the mouse subventricular zone through injection of the neuropeptide Y (NPY). NPY is a commonly expressed protein of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subventricular_zone |
Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the purpose of classifying organisms that do not fit anywhere else. They are typically defined by either their designated members' often superficial similarity to each other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastebasket_taxon |
This one, however, was female, very attractive, and naked. She was the same height as the other beings he had encountered, with a small, pointed chin and large, blue catlike eyes. The hair on her head was long and white (somewhat like platinum blonde) but her underarm and pubic hair were bright red. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antônio_Vilas-Boas |
Picture-in-picture (PiP) is a feature that can be found in television receivers, personal computers and smartphones, consisting of a video stream playing within an inset window, freeing the rest of the screen for other tasks. For televisions, picture-in-picture requires two independent tuners or signal sources to suppl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture-in-picture |
Other important functional equations for the gamma function are Euler's reflection formula which implies and the Legendre duplication formula The duplication formula is a special case of the multiplication theorem (see Eq. 5.5.6): A simple but useful property, which can be seen from the limit definition, is: In particu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_Gamma_Function |
Rosalind Clair Gill (born 1963) is a British sociologist and feminist cultural theorist. She is currently Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London. Gill is author or editor of ten books, and numerous articles and chapters, and her work has been translated into Chinese, German, Portuguese,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Gill |
Depending on the parameter to be optimized (process window area, depth of focus, exposure latitude), the optimum assist feature configuration can be very different, e.g., pitch between assist feature and bar being different from two-bar pitch, symmetric or asymmetric, etc.. At pitches smaller than 58 nm, there is a tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography |
There are technical difficulties to overcome before ADS can become economical and eventually be integrated into future nuclear waste management. The accelerator must provide a high intensity and also be highly reliable - each outage of the accelerator in addition to causing a scram will put the system under immense the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcritical_nuclear_reactor |
Scholastic honor societies commonly add a criterion relating to the student's character. Most honor societies are invitation-only, and membership in an honor society might be considered exclusive, i.e., a member of such an organization cannot join other honor societies representing the same field. Academic robes and re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_societies |
The uterus inner surface is covered by villi. Within a uterus, 30–80 ova 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) across are packed into a single rigid, amber-colored capsule; of these, only one ovum is fertilized and develops into an embryo, while the remaining ova begin to break down. The embryo consumes these other ova and transfers t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_smooth-hound |
These improvements occurred even with low investment in new exploration and upgrading technology because of the low oil prices during the last 20 years. However, Maugeri feels that encouraging more exploration will require relatively high oil prices.Edward Luttwak, an economist and historian, claims that unrest in coun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_Peak_Theory |
Hundreds of people found themselves trapped in elevators at the start of the blackout, requiring urgent response from the FDNY. By late evening, the New York City Fire Department had reportedly confirmed that all stalled elevators in approximately 800 Manhattan high-rise office and apartment buildings had been cleared.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 |
KLFs 15 and 17 are distantly related without any defined protein interaction motifs.The Sp family members diverged from KLFs since Filozoa. They are typically divided into two groups of Sp1-4 and Sp5-9. One of the signatures is the "Btd box" CxCPxC preceding the KLF-DBD. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruppel-like_transcription_factors |
Europe places second-highest after Southeast Asia among all continents for age-standardised rate (ASR) specific to oral and oropharyngeal cancer. It is estimated that there were 61,400 cases of oral and lip cancer within Europe in 2012. Hungary recorded the highest number of mortality and morbidity due to oral and phar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_cancers |
In May 2015, visual snow was described as a persisting positive visual phenomenon distinct from migraine aura in a study by Schankin and Goadsby. In December 2020, a study found local increases in regional cerebral perfusion in patients with visual snow syndrome. In September 2021, two studies found white matter altera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow_syndrome |
In 2016, American senator Ted Cruz hired Cambridge Analytica to aid his presidential campaign. The Federal Election Commission reported that Cruz paid the company $5.8 million in services. Although Cambridge Analytica was not well known at the time, this is when it started to create individual psychographic profiles. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal |
In 2019, a class action lawsuit over faulty microphones in some devices enabled Pixel owners to claim up to $500 in compensation. Display: 5.0" 60 Hz AMOLED display with 1080×1920 pixel resolution (Pixel); 5.5" AMOLED 60 Hz display with 1440×2560 pixel resolution (Pixel XL) Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Storage: U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Stand |
Contract management or contract administration is the management of contracts made with customers, vendors, partners, or employees. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_management |
The term functional silo syndrome was coined in 1988 by Phil S. Ensor (1931–2018) who worked in organizational development and employee relations for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Eaton Corporation, and as a consultant. "Silo" and "stovepipe" (as in "stovepipe organization" and "stovepipe system") are now used i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_silos |
Pandora's business model was threatened by changes to royalty structures affecting internet radio in the United States, with the Copyright Royalty Board having ordered increases to per-song performance royalties (which are not paid by terrestrial radio) in March 2007. Pandora was a member of an industry group, SaveNetR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Radio |
2005 TN74 and (309239) 2007 RW10 were thought to be Neptune trojans at the time of their discovery, but further observations have disconfirmed their membership. 2005 TN74 is currently thought to be in a 3:5 resonance with Neptune. (309239) 2007 RW10 is currently following a quasi-satellite loop around Neptune. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_Trojan |
Memetic algorithms have been successfully applied to a multitude of real-world problems. Although many people employ techniques closely related to memetic algorithms, alternative names such as hybrid genetic algorithms are also employed. Researchers have used memetic algorithms to tackle many classical NP problems. To ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_algorithm |
state or any of its subdivisions and the other contract partner(s), because contractual rights are property rights for purposes of the Fifth Amendment. The United States Supreme Court held in Lynch v. United States, 292 U.S. 571 (1934) that valid contracts of the United States are property, and the rights of private in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Incrimination_Clause |
The conquest of Asia by Alexander the Great exposed the Greeks to the cultures and cosmological ideas of Syria, Babylon, Persia and central Asia. Greek overtook cuneiform script as the international language of intellectual communication and part of this process was the transmission of astrology from Cuneiform to Greek... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_astrology |
The Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway was a railway company in Scotland, built to serve coal and ironstone pits in the Hamilton and Bothwell areas, and convey the mineral to Glasgow and to ironworks in the Coatbridge area. It was allied to the North British Railway, and it opened in 1877. Passenger ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow,_Bothwell,_Hamilton_and_Coatbridge_Railway |
Non-CpG methylation continues to accumulate in these stages.Chromatin accessibility in germline was evaluated by different approaches, like scATAC-seq and sciATAC-seq, scCOOL-seq, scNOMe-seq and scDNase-seq. Stage-specific proximal and distal regions with accessible chromatin regions were identified. Global chromatin a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_epigenome |
Šumma izbu, “If a reject (= anomalous birth)” is an ancient Mesopotamian compendium of around 2,000 teratological omens, on 24 tablets probably formed from three separate earlier series on odd human births, šumma sinništu arâtma, “if a woman is pregnant” (tablets 1–4), the šumma izbu proper, on physically malformed bir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_izbu |
: 106 A major development and test contract was awarded to Convair on 14 January 1955 for a 10-foot (3 m) diameter missile to weigh about 250,000 lb (113,400 kg). Atlas development was tightly controlled by the Air Force's Western Development Division, WDD, later part of the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division. Contra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_missile |
The second assumption claims that change is a key element in relational life, in other words, as our lives change, our relationships change with it. Third, is the assumption that, “contradictions or tensions between opposites never go away and never cease to provide tension,” which means, we will always experience the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_dialectics |
Suppose T ( S ) {\displaystyle T({\mathcal {S}})} is not linearly independent, and let for some α j ∈ F {\displaystyle \alpha _{j}\in F} . Thus, owing to the linearity of T {\displaystyle T} , it follows that This is a contradiction to B {\displaystyle {\mathcal {B}}} being a basis, unless all α j {\displaystyle \alpha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_linear_algebra |
The Merck Veterinary Manual has been published since 1955 for professional veterinarians and other professionals in the veterinary field. It is the most widely used veterinary medicine textbook. It is still published in a print version and the 11th edition is scheduled for release on July 12, 2016. The Merck Veterinary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Manual |
. , α n ∈ A P {\displaystyle \alpha _{1},...,\alpha _{n}\in AP} belongs to N F {\displaystyle NF} . Here + {\displaystyle +} is a function symbol rather than an actual addition, and A P {\displaystyle AP} denotes the class of additive principal numbers.It is also useful to replace the third case by the following one ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_psi_function |
The other Thirteen Colonies followed in Massachusetts' wake and began issuing bills of credit, an early form of paper currency distinct from banknotes, to fund military expenditures and for use as a common medium of exchange. By the 1760s, these bills of credit were used in the majority of transactions in the Thirteen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_money |
It is therefore required that M1 binds both membrane and RNA simultaneously.The M1 protein binds to the viral RNA. The binding is not specific to any RNA sequence, and is performed via a peptide sequence rich in basic amino acids.It also has multiple regulatory functions, performed by interaction with the components of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_protein |
However, they adopt the principle of line drawing to replace the silhouette. In the middle of the 7th century BC, there appears the black and white style: black figures on a white zone, accompanied by polychromy to render the color of the flesh or clothing. Clay used in Athens was much more orange than that of Corinth,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_vase |
The IRA also used secondary devices to attack British reinforcements sent in after an initial blast as occurred in the Warrenpoint Ambush. IRA bombs became highly sophisticated, featuring anti-handling devices such as a mercury tilt switch or microswitches. These devices would detonate the bomb if it was moved in any w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_weapon |
Other methods are developed in fields related to DST. Based on Stiles' assimilation model, "Osatuke et al.", describes a method that enables the researcher to compare what is said by a client (verbal content) and how it is said (speech sounds). With this method the authors are able to assess to what extent the vocal ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogical_self |
The mixture of water and dissolved or suspended materials that occupy the soil pore space is called the soil solution. Since soil water is never pure water, but contains hundreds of dissolved organic and mineral substances, it may be more accurately called the soil solution. Water is central to the dissolution, precipi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_soil |
Adding and doubling formulas are useful also to compute P, the n-th multiple of a point P on an elliptic curve: this operation is considered the most in elliptic curve cryptography. An elliptic curve E, over a field K can be put in the Weierstrass form y2 = x3 + ax + b, with a, b in K. What will be of importance later ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_curve |
A recurring motif in the Austin Powers films repeatedly puns on names that suggest male genitalia. In the science fiction television series Star Trek, "B-4" is used as the name of one of four androids models constructed "before" the android Data, a main character. A librarian in another Star Trek episode was named "Mr.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pun |
Ciné film or cine film is the term commonly used in the UK and historically in the US to refer to the 8 mm, Super 8, 9.5 mm, and 16 mm motion picture film formats used for home movies. It is not normally used to refer to professional formats such as 35 mm or 70 mm film, and is incorrect if applied to any video format. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cine_film |
The study revealed that the stressor (sound, heat, or stress) conditioning increases the receptibility to glucocorticoid, a kind of anti-inflammatory hormone. The effects of glucocorticoid thus mitigate the inflammation from an acoustic trauma that can lead to hearing loss. In fact, high doses of corticoids are often p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise-induced_hearing_loss |
The world's deepest oil platform is the floating Perdido, which is a spar platform in the Gulf of Mexico in a water depth of 2,450 metres (8,040 ft). Non-floating compliant towers and fixed platforms, by water depth: Petronius Platform, 535 m (1,755 ft) Baldpate Platform, 502 m (1,647 ft) Troll A Platform, 472 m (1,549... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_platform |
Kathleen M. Butler (27 February 1891 – 19 July 1972) was nicknamed the "Godmother of Sydney Harbour Bridge" and also known as the "Bridge Girl". As the first person appointed to Chief Engineer J.J.C, Bradfield's team, as his Confidential Secretary, (a role which today would be called a technical adviser or project mana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_M._Butler |
The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters) is a public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in the United Kingdom, and ranked in the top 100 universities in the world.The university has sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Sound_and_Vibration_Research |
For patients lying supine on the operating room table, a nurse may place a flat donut pillow under their pelvis to provide pressure relief at the sacrum. Lying supine under anaesthesia also creates pressure points on the head, which can impair skin function and also affect the blood circulation to the face, possibly le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donut_pillow |
The result is usually a sentence which is comical, surreal and/or takes on somewhat of a nonsensical tone. Stern and Price's original Mad Libs book gives the following sentence as an example: "___________! he said ________ as he jumped into his convertible ______ and drove off with his _________ wife." exclamation adve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs |
Let p: X → Spec Z {\displaystyle p\colon X\to \operatorname {Spec} \mathbf {Z} } denote the structural morphism. There is a natural isomorphism between O X {\displaystyle {\mathcal {O}}_{X}} -algebra homomorphisms p ∗ ( S ~ ) → ⨁ n ≥ 0 L ⊗ n {\displaystyle \textstyle p^{*}({\tilde {S}})\to \bigoplus _{n\geq 0}{\mathc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ample_divisor |
An electrostatic energy of polygonal knots was studied by Fukuhara in 1987 and shortly after a different, geometric energy was studied by Sakuma. In 1988, Jun O'Hara defined a knot energy based on electrostatic energy, Möbius energy. A fundamental property of the O'Hara energy function is that infinite energy barriers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_energy |
Since the Réunion pink pigeon was only mentioned explicitly by Dubois, little can be said about its extinction. The last reports of native pigeons were by Père Bernardin in 1687 and by Guillaume Houssaye in 1689, although the Alectroenas may have existed for a somewhat longer time. Jean Feuilley in 1705 mentioned that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réunion_pink_pigeon |
The Nature of Economies, a dialog between friends concerning the premise: "human beings exist wholly within nature as part of the natural order in every respect" (p. ix), argues that the same principles underlie both ecosystems and economies: "development and co-development through differentiation and their combination... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs |
These opposing strategies, with the ensuing keen play, have long made the Meran a favorite for enterprising players of either color. An example is Gligoric–Ljubojevic, Belgrade 1979.Though appearing in contemporary master play with less frequency than the Meran, there are other possibilities: 6...Be7, 6...Bb4, introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Slav_Defense |
Marx failed to systematically theorize the impact of demographic effects on economic reproduction, except that he studied the reserve army of labour and criticized the "overpopulation" theories of Thomas Malthus. Malthus was anxious that population growth would outstrip the capacity of the economy to sustain all the ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproduction_(economics) |
Over time, the extreme heat of the core "sweated" the rocks that contained these molecules, pushing them up through the porous layers of the Earth. As they move up toward the surface, the hydrocarbons fueled the development of large microbial colonies, which served as the basis for life on Earth. The migrating fossil f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold |
Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that affect the security and prosperity of nations. Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development. This field is a subset of human geography, itself a subset of the more general study of geography.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_geography |
Asystole (New Latin, from Greek privative a "not, without" + systolē "contraction") is the absence of ventricular contractions in the context of a lethal heart arrhythmia (in contrast to an induced asystole on a cooled patient on a heart-lung machine and general anesthesia during surgery necessitating stopping the hear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_asystole |
Belladonna has been used in herbal medicine for centuries as a pain reliever, muscle relaxer, and anti-inflammatory, and to treat menstrual problems, peptic ulcer disease, histaminic reaction, and motion sickness.At least one 19th-century eclectic medicine journal explained how to prepare a belladonna tincture for dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna |
The first testing of silica fume in Portland-cement-based concretes was carried out in 1952. The biggest drawback to exploring the properties of silica fume was a lack of material with which to experiment. Early research used an expensive additive called fumed silica, an amorphous form of silica made by combustion of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silica_fume |
The Hills went back to their regular lives. They were willing to discuss the alleged UFO encounter with friends, family and the occasional UFO researcher, but the Hills apparently made no effort to seek publicity.On October 25, 1965, a front page story in the Boston Traveller asked "UFO Chiller: Did THEY Seize Couple?"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill_incident |
Though the most famous Atlantean figures reside in Tula, the Olmecs were the first to use Atlantean figures on a relief discovered in Potrero Nuevo. Mayan sculptors also created "Atlantean" figures in Chichen Itza. Furthermore, the Aztecs also created warrior statues strongly inspired by these Atlantean figures in Tula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean_figures |
If the cevian happens to be a median (thus bisecting a side), its length can be determined from the formula m ( b 2 + c 2 ) = a ( d 2 + m 2 ) {\displaystyle \,m(b^{2}+c^{2})=a(d^{2}+m^{2})} or 2 ( b 2 + c 2 ) = 4 d 2 + a 2 {\displaystyle \,2(b^{2}+c^{2})=4d^{2}+a^{2}} since a = 2 m . {\displaystyle \,a=2m.} Hence in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cevian |
In February 1987 the UK and France ordered E-3 aircraft in a joint project which saw deliveries start in 1991. France operates its E-3F aircraft independently of NATO, UK E-3Ds formed the E-3D Component of the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force (NAEWCF), receiving much of their tasking directly from NATO.Fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-3_Sentry |
Depending on the severity of dyshidrosis, it may result in hyperkeratosis, rhagades, ulcerations, and poor wound healing due to altered epidermal moisturization.Sudomotor dysfunction is one of the most common and earliest neurophysiological manifestations of small fiber neuropathies. In some cases, it may be the only d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudomotor |
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