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They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, passed through what is now called the Strait of Magellan, crossed the Pacific, and arrived in Cebu, where Magellan was killed by Philippine natives in a battle. His second in command, the Spaniard Juan Sebastián Elcano, continued the expedition and, on September 6, 1522, arrived at Sevi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_geodesy |
During the day they migrate through depths between 150–600 m (490–1,970 ft), but at night they stay in waters that are 50 m (160 ft) or less in depth.Heat exchange in southern bluefin tuna is a unique adaption among teleost fishes. They are endotherms, which means that they can maintain their internal temperature eleva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_bluefin_tuna |
The Modular Airborne FireFighting System (MAFFS) is a self-contained unit used for aerial firefighting that can be loaded onto both military cargo transport Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Embraer C-390 Millennium, which then allows the aircraft to be used as an air tanker against wildfires. This allows the U.S. Forest Ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_Airborne_FireFighting_System |
Kröhnke condensation of enamino nitrile 20 with enone 21 yielded fused pyridine 22. The mechanism of this Kröhnke-type reaction likely proceeds via a vinylogous cyanamide 23 which undergoes elimination of hydrocyanic acid, deprotonation to form enamine 24 and cyclization to form intermediate 25, which is then dehydrate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kröhnke_pyridine_synthesis |
Worker bees secrete the wax used to build the hive, clean, maintain and guard it, raise the young and forage for nectar and pollen; the nature of the worker's role varies with age. For the first 10 days of their lives, worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_honey_bee |
A fully automatic brain segmentation algorithm based on closely related ideas of multi-scale watersheds has been presented by Undeman and Lindeberg and been extensively tested in brain databases. These ideas for multi-scale image segmentation by linking image structures over scales have also been picked up by Florack a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_segmentation |
When a few ants have successfully bent a leaf onto itself or drawn its edge toward another, other workers nearby join the effort. The probability of a worker joining the concerted effort is dependent on the size of the group, with workers showing a higher probability of joining when group size is large. When the span b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_ant |
electrical grid is squirrels. "Similar concerns exist in Germany, where in 2005, a "cyber squirrel" crippled the entire electrical grid south of the River Elster for an hour. This squirrel was described as "a furry suicide bomber" ("pelzige Selbstmordattentäter").Squirrels have been the cause of many power outages in P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_disruptions_caused_by_squirrels |
The lcm can be expressed as the products of Farey fractions as lcm = e ψ ( N ) = 1 2 ( ∏ r ∈ F N , 0 < r ≤ 1 / 2 2 sin ( π r ) ) 2 {\displaystyle {\text{lcm}}=e^{\psi (N)}={\frac {1}{2}}\left(\prod _{r\in F_{N},0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farey_graph |
The effect of this is that gastrin secretion declines and the pyloric sphincter contracts tightly to limit the admission of more chyme into the duodenum. This gives the duodenum time to work on the chyme it has already received before being loaded with more. The enteroendocrine cells also secrete glucose dependent insu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalic_phase |
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary degenerative disease of the central nervous system resulting from a spinal motor neuron (SMN) protein shortage. This is due to the deletion or mutation of Survival of Motor Neuron 1 (SMN1). Due to the faulty SMN1 gene, SMA patients do not have enough SMN protein. SMA patien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Kornblihtt |
The satellites are deployed in a circular orbit along the equator at an altitude of 8,063 km (5,010 mi) (medium Earth orbit) at a velocity of approximately 11,755 mph (18,918 km/h), each making 5 orbits a day. Due to problems with a component of the first four satellites launched, three of those four have been placed o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_(satellite) |
It was said that the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, had complained "bitterly" about being "bombarded" by letters from Charles, but this was denied by Irvine. Letters to Irvine in June 2001 had complained about the Human Rights Act and were critical of the "degree to which our lives are becoming ruled by a truly absurd d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_spider_memos |
He was born on 12 July 1899 in Mostar (Herzegovina), where he finished elementary school (four grades) and junior high school. After graduating from the Sarajevo comprehensive grammar school in 1919, he began studies at the Faculty of Technology at the University of Belgrade in October of the same year. During his fift... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sima_Milutinović |
Marx developed a comprehensive, theoretical understanding of political reality early in his intellectual and activist career by means of a critical adoption and radicalization of the categories of 18th and 19th century German Idealist thought. Of particular importance is Hegel's appropriation of Aristotle's organicist ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_theory |
Triacontanol was first isolated in 1933 from alfalfa wax. It was identified as a saturated straight chain primary alcohol. Triacontanol is found in various plant species as a minor component of the epicuticular wax. In wheat, triacontanol is about 3-4% of the leaf wax.. The effects of triacontanol may also be seen when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissyl_alcohol |
gave them to me now..." (lit. If you-would to-me them now give-participle...) Što sam god vidio... "Whatever I saw..." (lit. What I-am ever see-participle...)In certain rural dialects this rule is (or was until recently) very strict, whereas elsewhere various exceptions occur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic |
Despite this, Perier valued the king's prestige, calling on him, on 21 September 1831, to move from his family residence, the Palais-Royal, to the royal palace, the Tuileries. The banker Périer established the new government's principles on 18 March 1831: ministerial solidarity and the authority of the government over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Monarchy |
It is among the largest internet repositories of academic material in the world. Materials to RePEc can be added through a department or institutional archive or, if no institutional archive is available, through the Munich Personal RePEc Archive. Institutions are welcome to join and contribute their materials by estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RePEc |
The battlefield plan involved the Soviet South Western Front. The South Western Front was to attack out of bridgeheads across the Northern Donets River north and south of Kharkov. The Soviets intended to exploit with a cavalry corps (the 3rd Guards) in the north and two secretly formed and redeployed tank corps (the 21... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_operation |
The brothers imported their glass from Europe, but designed and constructed their windows in Portland. They often used opalescent glass in their work, a style that John La Farge and Louis Tiffany had pioneered in the 1870s. Their church windows were done in a Classical style often based on famous religious paintings, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Povey_Brothers_Studio |
: 77 Most of them – the glycolytic enzymes – are involved in the glycolytic pathway, i.e., the conversion of stored energy into muscle power. : 78 The two most abundant myofibrillar proteins, myosin and actin,: 79 are responsible for the muscle's overall structure. The remaining protein mass consists of connective tiss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_meat |
Launch vehicle system tests assess the readiness of a launch system to safely reach orbit. Launch vehicles undergo system tests before they launch. Wet dress rehearsals (WDR) and more extensive static fire tests prepare fully assembled launch vehicles and their associated ground support equipment (GSE) prior to launch.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_dress_rehearsal |
Planar Systems, Inc. is an American digital display manufacturing corporation with a facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. Founded in 1983 as a spin-off from Tektronix, it was the first U.S. manufacturer of electroluminescent (EL) digital displays. Planar currently makes a variety of other specialty displays, and is an indepe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarity_Visual_Systems |
This is partly because individuals possess useful knowledge but do not realise its importance, may have no incentive to transmit the information, or may have incentive to transmit false information about their preferences. He contended that the only rational solution is to utilize all the dispersed knowledge in the mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem |
Occasionally, ectopic locations of flukes such as the lungs, diaphragm, intestinal wall, kidneys, and subcutaneous tissue can occur. During the migration of flukes, tissues are mechanically destroyed and inflammation appears around migratory tracks of flukes. The second phase (the biliary phase) begins when parasites e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciolosis |
In 1804 the government placed a contract with Nock to replace all the Nock locks on their stock of Duke of Richmond pattern muskets with standard ones. Although the Nock locks were recognised as being superior, the need for standardisation took precedence.In 1789 Nock was appointed gunmaker-in-ordinary to King George I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Nock |
As a result, the Government announced it would subsidise Rio Tinto to keep the Tiwai Point smelter operating in the short term, garnering criticism from business commentators and opposition politicians. However, on 2 April 2013, John Key said Rio Tinto had rejected the Government's offer, preferring a "longer-term deal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelter |
It offered thermal-controlled active venting, tool-less hard drive bays, internal theater lighting and an array of external LEDs. Area-51 was offered in either semi-gloss black or lunar shadow (silver) finishes, with a non-motorized front push-panel. Command Center software and AlienFX features are offered via a discre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienware |
There are many possible causes for a page not to exist. Some of the common ones are: The page was deleted by the owner or administrator of the website. The page was moved to a different location or renamed without updating the links that point to it. The page was never created in the first place or is still under const... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404_error |
Phaethon is believed to be the origin of the Geminids meteor stream that can be observed from the ground every December. DDA development is led by Ralf Srama and colleagues from the Institute of Space Systems (IRS) at the University of Stuttgart in cooperation with von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH (vH&S) company. DDA will ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_dust_measurement |
In the battery used for electric vehicles, Nominal battery performance is usually specified for working temperatures somewhere in the +20 °C to +30 °C range; however, the actual performance can deviate substantially from this if the battery is operated at higher or, in particular, lower temperatures, so some electric c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_dissipation |
The New Objectivity (a translation of the German Neue Sachlichkeit, sometimes also translated as New Sobriety) is a name often given to the Modern architecture that emerged in Europe, primarily German-speaking Europe, in the 1920s and 30s. It is also frequently called Neues Bauen (New Building). The New Objectivity rem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Objectivity_(architecture) |
The fraudulent claim continues to be referenced and to increase vaccine hesitancy.In the case of the 2020 United States presidential election, disinformation was used in an attempt to convince people to believe something that was not true and change the outcome of the election. Repeated disinformation messages about th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_attack |
X. virginica survive mostly on nectar and pollen. Newly emerged bees do not have food stored in their nest, but they are occasionally brought nectar. X. virginica use their maxillae to penetrate the corolla of plants and reach the nectar stores, a behavior known as nectar robbing. This happens when the bee pierces the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_carpenter_bee |
The development of the modern adjustable gastric band is a tribute both to the vision and persistence of the early pioneers, particularly Lubomyr Kuzmak and a sustained collaborative effort on the part of bio-engineers, surgeons and scientists.Early research on the concept of band “adjustability” can be traced back to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable_gastric_band |
In case of equally shared resources, the FSSE would be equal to the system spectrum efficiency. To achieve max-min fairness, the FSSE should be maximized. FSSE is useful especially when analyzing advanced radio resource management (RRM) schemes, for example channel adaptive scheduling, for cellular networks with best-e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_measure |
This system, modern even by today's standards, was in late development when the war ended. The British had already arranged licence building of the Bofors 40 mm, and introduced these into service. These had the power to knock down aircraft of any size, yet were light enough to be mobile and easily swung. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiaircraft_warfare |
A consumer-brand relationship, also known as brand relationship, is the relationship that consumers think, feel, and have with a product or company brand (Fournier, 1998; Veloutsou, 2007). For more than half a century, scholarship has been generated to help managers and stakeholders understand how to drive favorable br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_relationship |
The dependence of the complexity on the tolerance ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon } is O ( log ( 1 / ε ) ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {O}}(\log(1/\varepsilon ))} , i.e., the complexity of FMM is O ( N log ( 1 / ε ) ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {O}}(N\log(1/\varepsilon ))} . This has expanded the area of applicability of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_multipole_method |
Many retrotransposons share features with endogenous retroviruses, the property of recognising and fusing with the host genome. However, there is a key difference between retroviruses and retrotransposons, which is indicated by the env gene. Although similar to the gene carrying out the same function in retroviruses, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon |
Liver AVMs are detectable in over 70% of people with HHT, but only 10% experience problems as a result.In the brain, AVMs occasionally exert pressure, leading to headaches. They may also increase the risk of seizures, as would any abnormal tissue in the brain. Finally, hemorrhage from an AVM may lead to intracerebral h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_hemorrhagic_telangiectasia |
Wen, Bo; Xie, Xuanhua; Gao, Song; Li, Hui; Shi, Hong; Song, Xiufeng; Qian, Tingzhi; Xiao, Chunjie; et al. (May 2004). "Analyses of Genetic Structure of Tibeto-Burman Populations Reveals Sex-Biased Admixture in Southern Tibeto-Burmans". The American Journal of Human Genetics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_G_(mtDNA) |
Lennox speaks English, Russian, French, and German. He is married to Sally and has three children and 10 grandchildren. He has a brother named Gilbert Lennox, previously an elder in Glenabbey Church, Glengormley. The hymn writer and recording artist Kristyn Getty is John's niece, being Gilbert's daughter. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennox |
A 2011 report in Nature published findings that demonstrated a "primitive farming behaviour" in D. discoideum colonies. Described as a "symbiosis" between D. discoideum and bacterial prey, about one-third of wild-collected D. discoideum colonies engaged in the "husbandry" of the bacteria when the bacteria were included... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyostelium_discoideum |
His/her education will have been such as to make him/her capable of closely and continuously following progress in his/her branch of engineering science by consulting newly published works on a worldwide basis, assimilating such information, and applying it independently. He/she is thus placed in a position to make con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer |
Tramlines 2017 ran from Friday 21 July 2017 to Sunday 23 July 2017. Headliners included The Libertines, Metronomy, Primal Scream, The Coral, Kano and All Saints. 2017 also saw the return of the Devonshire Green stage, alongside the Ponderosa Park stage and The Folk Forest. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramlines_Festival |
However, a variety of factors can affect the accuracy of a test. Factors affecting accuracy of various meters include calibration of meter, ambient temperature, pressure use to wipe off strip (if applicable), size and quality of blood sample, high levels of certain substances (such as ascorbic acid) in blood, hematocri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose_meter |
Depression is linked with a hyperactive right hemisphere, with evidence of selective involvement in "processing negative emotions, pessimistic thoughts and unconstructive thinking styles", as well as vigilance, arousal and self-reflection, and a relatively hypoactive left hemisphere, "specifically involved in processin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function |
GNMT did not create its own universal interlingua but rather aimed at finding the commonality between many languages using insights from psychology and linguistics. The new translation engine was first enabled for eight languages: to and from English and French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Neural_Machine_Translation |
Pullman's publishers have primarily marketed the His Dark Materials series to young adults, but Pullman also intended to speak to adults. The Amber Spyglass is partly a re-evaluation of the Biblical tale of Adam and Eve. Pullman said Lyra's sexual awakening "is exactly what happens in the Garden of Eden … Why the Chris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amber_Spyglass |
For example, a twitcher who fails to see a rare bird has dipped out; if other twitchers do see the bird, he may feel gripped off. Suppression is the act of concealing news of a rare bird from other twitchers.Many birders maintain a life list, that is, a list of all of the species they have seen in their life, usually w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_watching |
Corporations' owners have limited liability and the business has a separate legal personality from its owners. Corporations can be either government-owned or privately owned, and they can organize either for profit or as nonprofit organizations. A privately owned, for-profit corporation is owned by its shareholders, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_structure |
Yet, before the experiments of Stanciu and Hansteen, all-optical controllable magnetization reversal in a stable magnetic state was considered impossible.In quantum field theory and quantum chemistry the effect where the angular momentum associated to the circular motion of the photons induces an angular momentum in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetization_reversal_by_circularly_polarized_light |
Kenzaburo Ito started development of the Mantis Bug Tracking project in 2000. In 2002, Kenzaburo was joined by Jeroen Latour, Victor Boctor and Julian Fitzell to be the administrators and it became a team project. Version 1.0.0 was released in February 2006. Version 1.1.0 was released in December 2007. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_Bugtracker |
On December 23, 2017, postal worker DeShaune Stewart arrived at the Dublin Postal Office naked, then shot and killed his supervisor, Lance Hererra-Dempsey. Following the shooting, Stewart made his way to a nearby apartment complex and also killed the Dublin postmaster, Ginger Ballard by throwing her to the ground, caus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal |
However a study of patients presenting dermatitis showed that 3% were sensitized to limonene. Limonene has been observed to cause cancer in male rats by reacting with major urinary protein α2u-globulin, which is not produced by female rats. There is no evidence for carcinogenicity or genotoxicity in humans. The IARC cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_oil |
Tesnière 1959 expresses the idea of valence as follows (translation from French): One can therefore compare the verb to a sort of atom with bonds, susceptible to exercising attraction on a greater or lesser number of actants. For these actants, the verb has a greater or lesser number of bonds that maintain the actants ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valency_(linguistics) |
Ericson fluctuations constitute one of the most characteristic features of quantum chaotic scattering in the regime of strongly overlapping resonances such as a compound nucleus. These fluctuations were predicted in 1960 by Torleif Ericson in two seminal articles, further developed in 1963, based on the same statistica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericson_fluctuations |
")The various distinctions in sexual activity are made clear in the following poem of Martial (2.28): rīdētō multum quī tē, Sextille, cinaedum dīxerit et digitum porrigitō medium.sed nec pēdīco es nec tū, Sextille, futūtor, calda Vetustīnae nec tibi bucca placet.ex istīs nihil es fateor, Sextille: quid ergō es? nescio,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_obscenity |
The genetics of this type of muscular dystrophy revolve around the PABPN1 gene. This gene suffers mutations that cause the PABPN1 protein to have extra alanine (amino acids), this manifests itself physically in the symptoms of this MD.The expansion caused by the mutations on the PABPN1 gene ultimately interrupts the ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculopharyngeal_muscular_dystrophy |
Canines including wolves, dogs, dingoes, and coyotes eat some plant matter, but they have a general preference and are evolutionarily geared towards meat. However, the maned wolf is a canid whose diet is naturally 50% plant matter. Like most arboreal species, squirrels are primarily granivores, subsisting on nuts and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore |
Early Muslim armies stayed in encampments away from cities because ʿUmar feared that they may get attracted to wealth and luxury, moving away from the worship of God, accumulating wealth and establishing dynasties. Staying in these encampments away from the cities also ensured that there was no stress on the local popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Islam |
Darensbourg has pioneered the development of synthetic mimics of hydrogenase enzymes. These include synthetic complexes featuring Fe-based organometallics species, which serve as precursor for producing iron only Hydrogenase enzyme active site. These enzymes are capable of carry out reaction even in the absence of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcetta_Y._Darensbourg |
These proteins also provide docking sites for physical interaction between helicases and polymerases, thereby ensuring that duplex unwinding is coupled with DNA synthesis.For DNA polymerases to function, the double-stranded DNA helix has to be unwound to expose two single-stranded DNA templates for replication. DNA hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryotic_DNA_replication |
Most cycling power meters use strain gauges to measure torque applied, and when combined with angular velocity, calculate power. Power meters using strain gauges are mounted in the bottom bracket, rear freehub, or crankset. Certain newer devices do not use strain gauges and instead measure power through handlebar-mount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_power_meter |
Pre-conditions relate to certification exams and provide a natural progression through the ISTQB Scheme which helps people pick the right certificate and informs them about what they need to know. The ISTQB Core Foundation is a pre-condition for any other certification. Additional rules for ISTQB pre-conditions are sum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Software_Testing_Qualifications_Board |
To find out whether this solution is a minimum or a maximum, the denominator expression is differentiated again: This is always positive for positive values of R S {\displaystyle R_{\mathrm {S} }} and R L {\displaystyle R_{\mathrm {L} }} , showing that the denominator is a minimum, and the power is therefore a maximum,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_power_theorem |
An alternative approach is to add a strain rate dependence to the yield stress and use the techniques of rate independent plasticity to calculate the response of a materialFor metals and alloys, viscoplasticity is the macroscopic behavior caused by a mechanism linked to the movement of dislocations in grains, with supe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston-Tonks-Wallace_plasticity_model |
Born in Leuven on July 11, 1814, Melsens was first home-schooled by his mother. He then went on to high school in Leuven. He studied ancient languages, as well as English, German and Italian, and began his career in the offices of a commercial firm in Antwerp, with the Josson brothers. Not really having a commercial st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Melsens |
Rational knowledge does not fully satisfy humankind's innate desire to know God, since reason is primarily concerned with sensible objects and thus can only infer its conclusions about God indirectly.The theological virtue of faith, too, is incomplete, since Aquinas states that it always implies some imperfection in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatific_vision |
The FhuA protein has a beta-barrel domain (residues 161 to 714) that is closed by a globular cork domain (residues 1 to 160). Within the cork domain is the TonB binding region (residues 7 to 11). The large membrane spanning monomeric β-barrel domains have 22 β-strands of variable length, several of which extend signifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luria–Delbrück_experiment |
Eidonomy is the study of the external appearance of an organism. It is thus the opposite of anatomy, which refers to internal morphology. While predominant early in the history of biology, eidonomy is little studied in particular anymore as it is rife with the effects of convergent evolution, or evolution of similar fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidonomy |
Released February 2021, Update 2 added: Advertising component for iOS, including AdMob support based on the Google Firebase SDK VCL TControlList control, a flexible and virtualized list control, designed as a high-performance control for very long lists and a modern look and feel VCL TNumberBox control, a modern-lookin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++_Builder |
The paper provides "fully automated proof of the soundness of MTProto 2.0's authentication, normal chat, end-to-end encrypted chat, and re-keying mechanisms with respect to several security properties, including authentication, integrity, confidentiality and perfect forward secrecy" and "proves the formal correctness o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software) |
The phrase "greed versus grievance" or "greed and grievance" refers to the two baseline arguments put forward by scholars of armed conflict on the causes of civil war, though the argument has been extended to other forms of war, such as violent conflict in general, rebellion and insurgency, for example. "Greed" is shor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed_versus_grievance |
115 Gr (7.5 g) full metal jacket: 1,405 feet per second (428 m/s) 124 Gr (8.0 g) full metal jacket: 1,350 feet per second (410 m/s)Cor-Bon/Glaser offers the .38 Super +P in several full-power self-defense–style loads with advertised velocities such as 115 gr 1,425 ft/s (434 m/s) and 125 gr 1,350 ft/s (410 m/s). Tests w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.38_Super_Comp |
Thus X Y = Y X {\displaystyle XY=YX} . Since X {\displaystyle X} and Y {\displaystyle Y} commute, there is a real orthogonal matrix W {\displaystyle W} such that both W X W T {\displaystyle WXW^{\mathrm {T} }} and W Y W T {\displaystyle WYW^{\mathrm {T} }} are diagonal. Setting U = W V T {\displaystyle U=WV^{\mathrm {T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_symmetric_matrix |
In China, masks are thought to have originated in ancient religious ceremonies. Images of people wearing masks have been found in rock paintings along the Yangtze. Later mask forms brings together myths and symbols from shamanism and Buddhism. Shigong dance masks were used in shamanic rituals to thank the gods, while n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_mask |
The glass is alkali-lime-lead-silica and, when the paste was fired or cooled, wollastonite and diopside crystals formed within the glass fragments. The lack of “inclusions of crushed pottery” suggests these fragments did not come from a glaze. The reason for their addition would be to act as a flux, and so “accelerate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_ceramics |
A Gap penalty is a method of scoring alignments of two or more sequences. When aligning sequences, introducing gaps in the sequences can allow an alignment algorithm to match more terms than a gap-less alignment can. However, minimizing gaps in an alignment is important to create a useful alignment. Too many gaps can c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_penalty |
Grothendieck saw that it would be possible to use Serre's idea to define a cohomology theory that he suspected would be the Weil cohomology. To define this cohomology theory, Grothendieck needed to replace the usual, topological notion of an open covering with one that would use étale coverings instead. Grothendieck al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck_topologies |
The mechanism of resistance to the phage T1 appears to have been due to mutations in the fhuA gene - a membrane protein that acts as the T1 receptor. The tonB gene product is also required for infection by T1. The FhuA protein is actively involved in the transport of ferrichrome, albomycin and rifamycin. It also confer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luria–Delbrück_experiment |
The Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) is a quasi government-public institute under the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Formed in May 2009, the main functions of KIAT include analyzing and formulating Korean R&D and industrial policy, acting as an industrial technology innovation fundin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Institute_for_Advancement_of_Technology |
There are three main certification trademarks in this market. Free Range Egg & Poultry Australia (FREPA) standards are those in which most supermarket brands of free range chicken meat are accredited under. These standards require indoor stocking densities of up to 30 kg/m2 indoors (about 15 birds per square metre), an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Range |
Generators (such as hydroelectric sites) could be located far from the loads. AC and DC competed for a while, during a period called the war of the currents. The DC system was able to claim slightly greater safety, but this difference was not great enough to overwhelm the enormous technical and economic advantages of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_industry |
The location, directional pattern and power levels for each of the transmitters would also have to be very carefully chosen, as the ATSC system is subject to very strict limits on the maximum time difference between arrival of multiple versions of the same signal at the receiver. In problem reception areas, significant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Transmission_System |
This example shows a possible usage of continuations to implement coroutines as separate threads. The functions defined above allow for defining and executing threads through cooperative multitasking, i.e. threads that yield control to the next one in a queue: The previous code will produce this output: This is AAA 0 H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_continuations |
The two most common zinc functional group interconversion reactions are with halides and boron, which is catalyzed by copper iodide (CuI) or base. The boron intermediate is synthesized by an initial hydroboration reaction followed by treatment with diethyl zinc. This synthesis shows the utility of organozinc reagents b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organozinc_compound |
They are usually issued in proportion to shares owned (for example, for every 100 shares of stock owned, a 5% stock dividend will yield 5 extra shares). Nothing tangible will be gained if the stock is split because the total number of shares increases, lowering the price of each share, without changing the market capit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_dividend |
Microneurography recordings have elucidated the organization as well as normal and pathological function of a fair number of neural systems in human. Recently, the technique has also been used in clinical situations for diagnostic purposes to clarify the condition of the individual patient. Three main groups of neural ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microneurography |
Brain-reading has also been proposed as a method of improving human–machine interfaces, by the use of EEG to detect relevant brain states of a human. In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in patents for technology involved in reading brainwaves, rising from fewer than 400 from 2009–2012 to 1600 in 2014. Thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-reading |
The use of a royal cypher in the Commonwealth realms originated in the United Kingdom, where the public use of the royal initials dates at least from the early Tudor period, and was simply the initial of the sovereign with, after Henry VIII's reign, the addition of the letter 'R' for 'Rex' or 'Regina'. The letter 'I' f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Cypher |
Ecosystem decay is commonly caused by the harvesting of rain forest in appliance to certain laws or illegally for profit by humans. Certain countries such as Brazil prohibit the harvesting of Brazil nut trees and groves of this species causing forest fragmentation and thus causing ecosystem decay to occur. Cities, road... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_decay |
Beginning in the 1980s, inspired largely by Jaegwon Kim's work, philosophers proposed many varieties of supervenience, which David Lewis called the "unlovely proliferation". These varieties are based both on (1) and (2) above, but because (1) is more common we shall focus on varieties of supervenience based on it. We c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenal_ectoplasm |
Setting T = S / D {\displaystyle T=S/D} , the homomorphism k: S → S / L × S / R {\displaystyle k:S\rightarrow S/L\times S/R} defined by k ( x ) = ( L x , R x ) {\displaystyle k(x)=(L_{x},R_{x})} , induces an isomorphism k ∗: S ∼ S / L × T S / R {\displaystyle k*:S\sim S/L\times _{T}S/R} . This is the Kimura factorizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew_lattice |
Mattermost has been tested for community use by Wikimedia as Wikimedia Chat on Wikimedia Cloud Services as of late summer 2020.Among other adopters, companies having adopted Mattermost include CERN with a reported "10,000 monthly active users" having chosen Mattermost under the reasoning “didn’t want to use another ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattermost |
It was always a condition that Carnegie's dollars had to be matched by results, and at his death in August 1919, his will contained no provision for the Simplified Spelling Board. Without that source of funds (a total of $283,000 over the 14 years), the board's operations ceased in 1920, in which year it had published ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Spelling_Board |
Gradually, the raised mound was developed, somewhat returning the advantage to the pitchers. From 1893 to 1950, a stipulation was added that the mound be no more than 15 inches above the field. Before the mid-20th century, it was common for baseball fields to include a dirt pathway between the pitcher's mound and home ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher's_mound |
The Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) is an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle, the largest type of the Delta IV family. It is the world's third highest-capacity launch vehicle in operation, behind NASA's Space Launch System and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy and closely followed by CASC's Long March 5. It is manufactured by Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy |
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