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The site remained in operation for several years following the fire. Since its closure in 1972, the area has remained off limits, primarily due to low levels of plutonium contamination. Between 2002 and 2004, 21,998 cubic yards of contaminated debris and soils were shipped to what was then known as Envirocare, located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOMARC_missile |
In the late 17th century Christian Petzold became organist at the Sophienkirche (lit. 'Sophia's Church') of Dresden. By the time Johann Sebastian Bach started to visit Dresden, Petzold was well acquainted with several of the city's musicians, including the violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, with whom Bach was also acquai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuets_in_G_major_and_G_minor |
Extreme Blue uses IBM engineers, interns, and business managers to develop technology and business plans for new products and services. Each summer an Extreme Blue team also works on a project. These projects mostly involve rapid prototyping of high-profile software and hardware projects. Publicly released projects inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Blue |
In the United Kingdom, if a local or national election has resulted in a tie in which candidates receive exactly the same number of votes after three recounts, the winner must be decided by random selection. On 5 May 2017, Local election candidates in Northumberland drew straws to decide the winner in South Blythe Ward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_straws |
It is often located in a corner to eliminate worldly distractions and allow prayer to be more concentrated. Here is where the icons that the family owns should be located, normally including at least icons of Christ, the Theotokos, and the Patron Saint(s) of the family. An oil lamp normally hangs in front of the icons. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_corner |
The Minto Group is a Canadian real estate company, based in Ottawa, Ontario. It builds homes in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, and Florida. It also manages multi-residential and commercial properties in Ontario and Alberta. It has built 85,000 new homes, and manages $2.9 billion in assets, including 13,000 multi-residential... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minto_Group |
Geary showed how the correlated ratio z {\displaystyle z} could be transformed into a near-Gaussian form and developed an approximation for t {\displaystyle t} dependent on the probability of negative denominator values x + μ x < 0 {\displaystyle x+\mu _{x}<0} being vanishingly small. Fieller's later correlated ratio a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio_distribution |
Anti-malware (sometimes also called antivirus) programs block and remove some or all types of malware. For example, Microsoft Security Essentials (for Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7) and Windows Defender (for Windows 8, 10 and 11) provides real-time protection. The Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool removes mali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_exploit |
This norm agrees with the Sobolev norm on C∞c(Ω) so that Hk0(Ω) can be regarded as a closed subspace of Hk(Ω). Unlike Hk0(Ω), Hk(Ω) is not naturally a subspace of Hk(T2), but the map restricting smooth functions from T2 to Ω is continuous for the Sobolev norm so extends by continuity to a map ρk: Hk(T2) → Hk(Ω). Invari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobolev_spaces_for_planar_domains |
These innovations made the technology suitable for mass market adoption. In laboratory settings atomic clocks had replaced quartz clocks as the basis for precision measurements of time and frequency, resulting in International Atomic Time. By the 1980s, quartz technology had taken over applications such as kitchen time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock |
Conformal bootstrap methods are applicable because it is also believed to be a unitary three dimensional conformal field theory. Most important critical exponents of the three dimensional XY model are α , β , γ , δ , ν , η {\displaystyle \alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta ,\nu ,\eta } . All of them can be expressed via just... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_XY_model |
In general, suicide terrorists are in their early 20s (207–08). Females are fewer in Islamist groups: "Islamist fundamentalism may actually reduce the number of suicide terrorists by discouraging certain categories of individuals" (208–09). Female suicide terrorists tend to be older than male (209–10). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Win |
He was born, in Leipzig, to the German noble Puttkamer family with the titular rank of baron (Freiherr). According to family tradition, each firstborn Puttkamer son is given the forename Jesco.Puttkamer finished high school in Konstanz, and studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule (RWTH Aachen Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesco_von_Puttkamer |
2 fighter squadrons (VF) of 12 F-4s or F-14s, or 2 strike fighter squadrons (VFA) of 12 F/A-18As on Midway class carriers Marine fighter attack squadrons (VMFA) with F-4s or F/A-18As could occasionally substitute for a VF or VFA squadron 2 attack squadrons (VA) of 12 A-7Es or 2 to 1 strike fighter squadrons of 12 F/A-1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_air_wing |
The Rose Bay Promenade was designed as an integrated scheme that allowed both pedestrians and motorists a unique opportunity to view the waters of Rose Bay and the harbour beyond. The Rose Bay Promenade was designed to optimise this view. The concrete balustrade were low to allow motorists a view over it as they travel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bay_Sea_Wall |
The concept of multiculturalism was preceded by the concept of cultural pluralism, which was first developed in the 1910s and 1920s, and became widely popular during the 1940s. The concept of cultural pluralism first emerged in the 1910s and 1920s among intellectual circles out of the debates in the United States over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot |
for almost the century in some regional floras, i.e. Indonesia and Australia. In 1984 Coode regarded the taxon E. grandis as a synonym of E. angustifolius in his work Elaeocarpus in Australia and New Zealand, as it does not differ morphologically from the widespread and quite variable E. angustifolius. This was never e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_fig |
Prochilodus nigricans, or black prochilodus, is a species of prochilodontid fish from the Amazon Basin in South America. It supports major fisheries; according to IBAMA, it is the third most caught taxon in the Brazilian Amazon by weight, after Brachyplatystoma vaillantii and Semaprochilodus spp. The black prochilodus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_prochilodus |
From childhood onward, regardless of sex, vellus hair covers almost the entire area of the human body. Exceptions include the lips, the backs of the ears, palms of hands, soles of the feet, certain external genital areas, the navel, and scar tissue. Density of hair – i.e. the number of hair follicles per unit area of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgenic_hair |
Hardware acceleration: Whether dedicated cryptographic accelerator expansion cards can be taken advantage of. Trusted Platform Module: Whether the implementation can use a TPM cryptoprocessor. Filesystems: What filesystems are supported. Two-factor authentication: Whether optional security tokens (hardware security mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software |
The second law of thermodynamics puts a fundamental limit on the thermal efficiency of all heat engines. Even an ideal, frictionless engine can't convert anywhere near 100% of its input heat into work. The limiting factors are the temperature at which the heat enters the engine, T H {\displaystyle T_{\rm {H}}\,} , and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency |
When both individual's control qubits (genotype) are alike, no information will be exchanged. When the control qubits differ, the target qubits (phenotype) will be exchanged between the two individuals. This procedure produces a constantly changing predator-prey dynamic in the simulation. Therefore, long-living qubits,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_artificial_life |
An iris also can be inserted in this position to make the beam smaller in diameter, reducing the light cast without the sharp edges of the shutters. ERS instruments from ETC, Altman, Selecon, and a variety of others have interchangeable lens tubes (or barrels) which can both create a very sharp or very soft beam as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_lights |
Singer also references the expanding circle in some of his other works.Moral circle expansion has also been addressed by some later writers, whose definitions of it may not be exactly the same as Singer's. Robert Wright responds to Singer with a more critical conception in his 1994 book The Moral Animal: The most cynic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_circle_expansion |
Eurorad is an online radiological case database that has been freely available since 2009. Radiologists are able to submit cases which are then reviewed before being published on the site. The database’s origins can be found in the late 1990s when the Europeans Association of Radiology (EAR) realized a comprehensive ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Society_of_Radiology |
Moisture affects the burning process, with unburnt hydrocarbons going up the chimney. If a 50% wet log is burnt at high temperature, with good heat extraction from the exhaust gas leading to a 100 °C exhaust temperature, about 5% of the energy of the log is wasted through evaporating and heating the water vapour. With ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_hardening_(woodworking) |
The first computer simulations occurred in 1990, and its first published experiment appeared on 1 August 1993. As of 1993 the project appeared to be in the early experimental stages. The weapon was able to produce doughnut-shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating effects when hitting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun |
Ceremonial maces in the United Kingdom began as lethal weapons of medieval knights in England, Scotland, and Wales, evolving into ceremonial objects carried by sergeants-at-arms. In the United Kingdom, they now represent the monarch's authority in parliaments and councils, and royal maces are borne in procession at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom |
The definitions of narrative journalism vary. Some prefer to refer to the genre as "literary journalism" to emphasize the use of literary devices or techniques, while others use the broad term "creative non-fiction" to distinguish the genre from "hard" journalism. Simply put, narrative is the way in which a story is co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism |
Example: 123456 × 789 {\displaystyle 123456\times 789} To find the first (rightmost) digit of the answer, start at the first digit of the multiplicand: The units digit of 9 × 6 {\displaystyle 9\times 6} is 4. {\displaystyle 4.} The first digit of the answer is 4 {\displaystyle 4} . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system |
Instead, they employ their versions of the Metonic cycle. However, since the Metonic cycle is not very accurate for sidereal years, the Southeast Asian calendar is slowly drifting out of sync with the sidereal, approximately one day every 100 years. Yet no coordinated structural reforms of the lunisolar calendar have b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendar |
If X 1 > Y {\displaystyle X_{1}>Y} , then pick X 1 {\displaystyle X_{1}} , else pick X 2 {\displaystyle X_{2}} . Now, Bob can win with probability strictly greater than 1/2. Suppose Alice's numbers are different, then conditional on Y ∉ {\displaystyle Y\not \in } , Bob wins with probability 1/2, but conditional on Y ∈... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem |
The reactor vessel failure may be caused by heating of its vessel bottom by the corium, resulting first in creep failure and then in breach of the vessel. Cooling water from above the corium layer, in sufficient quantity, may obtain a thermal equilibrium below the metal creep temperature, without reactor vessel failure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor) |
The net outcome is the disruption of membrane integrity and function, which ultimately leads to the lysis of microorganisms. Some defensins are synthesized as propeptides which may be relevant to this process. Alpha defensins of the mouse bowel were historically called cryptdins when first discovered. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_defensin |
Proof assistants are finding acceptance in the mathematical community. Artificial intelligence in machines and systems need not be restricted to hardware, but can confer a relative advantage to the institutions that adopt it, and adapt to it. Canonical forms in a suitable format and in a critical mass for acceptance ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_systems |
The first championship was held during the summer of 2000. Players were invited to register and take part in regional finals during the months of July and August, but were restricted to using Pokémon Red and Blue. Battles were played using Pokémon Stadium and were subject to several championship and battle rules. Anyon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_competitive_play |
The lex loci arbitri is the Latin term for "law of the place where arbitration is to take place" in the conflict of laws. Conflict is the branch of public law regulating all lawsuits involving a "foreign" law element where a difference in result will occur depending on which laws are applied. When a case comes before a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_property_laws |
The Program on Negotiation established the Great Negotiator Award in 2000 to honor individuals of extraordinary achievement in dispute resolution. The award is designed not only to honor the accomplishments of outstanding negotiators, but also to focus public attention on the important role of negotiation as society fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_on_Negotiation |
There was no inquiry as to whether a reasonable person would consider Lord Cottenham to be biased, or as to the circumstances which led Lord Cottenham to hear the case. In certain limited situations, bias can also be imputed when the decision-maker's interest in the decision is not pecuniary but personal. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_justice |
It is believed that the first coins were struck by the Lydians in what is modern-day Turkey in the seventh century B.C. Until 1550, the hammering method of coins remained the primary method of coin-making. Marx Schwab in Germany developed a new process for stamping that involved as many as 12 men turning a large wheel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_stamping |
There exist animals that are sensitive to various types of infrared, but not by means of quantum-absorption. Infrared sensing in snakes depends on a kind of natural thermal imaging, in which tiny packets of cellular water are raised in temperature by the infrared radiation. EMR in this range causes molecular vibration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_source |
Following this, on June 29, the company announced a decision to have native ads, causing frustration about Stack Exchange's goals. Next, on July 11, the company announced 2 new collectives, with much negative feedback on the lack of community around them. Finally, on July 17, Stack Exchange Inc. announced a conference ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange |
Fairbottom Bobs is a Newcomen-type beam engine that was used in the 18th century as a pumping engine to drain a colliery near Ashton-under-Lyne. It is probably the world's second-oldest surviving steam engine. The engine was installed at Cannel Colliery at Fairbottom near Ashton-under-Lyne around 1760 or 1764. It becam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbottom_Bobs |
The Emde degradation (also called Emde-reaction or Emde-reduction) is a method for the reduction of a quaternary ammonium cation to a tertiary amine with sodium amalgam: This organic reaction was first described in 1909 by the German chemist Hermann Emde and was for a long time of great importance in structure elucidat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emde_degradation |
Let zZ be a zero of f. We can write f(z) = (z − zZ)kg(z) where k is the multiplicity of the zero, and thus g(zZ) ≠ 0. We get f ′ ( z ) = k ( z − z Z ) k − 1 g ( z ) + ( z − z Z ) k g ′ ( z ) {\displaystyle f'(z)=k(z-z_{Z})^{k-1}g(z)+(z-z_{Z})^{k}g'(z)\,\!} and f ′ ( z ) f ( z ) = k z − z Z + g ′ ( z ) g ( z ) . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_argument_principle |
This phenomenon is due to an increase in salt concentrations at or near the top of the column, thereby displacing the molecules at that position, while molecules bound lower are released at a later point when the higher salt concentration reaches that area. These principles are the reasons that ion exchange chromatogra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Exchange_Chromatography |
A meat thermometer or cooking thermometer is a thermometer used to measure the internal temperature of meat, especially roasts and steaks, and other cooked foods. The degree of "doneness" of meat or bread correlates closely with the internal temperature, so that a thermometer reading indicates when it is cooked as desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_thermometer |
Because of sequence similarity, no functional differences have been observed among the sMafs in terms of their bZIP structures. sMafs form homodimers by themselves and heterodimers with other specific bZIP transcription factors, such as CNC (cap 'n' collar) proteins and Bach proteins (BACH1 and BACH2). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAFF_(gene) |
Biomachining is the machining process of using lithotropic bacteria to remove material from metal parts, contrasted with chemical machining methods such as chemical milling and physical machining methods such as milling. Certain bacteria, such as Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and Thiobacillus thiooxidans, which are also us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomachining |
Two pentaquark states (exotic baryons), named P+c(4380) and P+c(4450), were discovered in 2015 by the LHCb collaboration. There are several more exotic hadron candidates and other colour-singlet quark combinations that may also exist. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron |
Mars 6 lander transmitted data during descent, but failed upon impact. Mars 4 flew by the planet at a range of 2200 km returning one swath of pictures and radio occultation data, which constituted the first detection of the nightside ionosphere on Mars. Mars 7 probe separated prematurely from the carrying vehicle due t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars |
So far the full strength of this assumption has not been used. For convergence of the integral, only continuity was used. For well-definedness, we only needed f to be holomorphic on an open set U containing the contours Γ ∪ Ω′ but not necessarily σ(T). The assumption will be applied in its entirety in showing the homom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphic_functional_calculus |
If the database contains data from a hundred people, each person's data contributes just 1%. The key insight of differential privacy is that as the query is made on the data of fewer and fewer people, more noise needs to be added to the query result to produce the same amount of privacy. Hence the name of the 2006 pape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy |
According to Potawatomi philosopher Kyle Powys Whyte and Lower Brule Sioux historian Nick Estes, the first "environmental apocalypse" is the coming of colonialism. Settlers used industrial military technologies to systematically kill Native Americans and force their removal. Then, they harnessed indigenous land for agr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_racism_in_the_United_States |
In a simple mechanistic picture, gold(I) simultaneously coordinates to two phosphine ligands and the carbon isocyanate group which is then attacked by the carbonyl group. Further studies on the bonding mode of Au(I) indicate that this simple picture may have to be revised. Heterogeneous gold catalysis is an older scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organogold_chemistry |
For many years economical interplanetary travel meant using the Hohmann transfer orbit. Hohmann demonstrated that the lowest energy route between any two orbits is an elliptical "orbit" which forms a tangent to the starting and destination orbits. Once the spacecraft arrives, a second application of thrust will re-circ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_space_travel |
By comparison, brushing with a nonfluoride toothpaste has little effect on cavities.The effectiveness of salt fluoridation is about the same as that of water fluoridation, if most salt for human consumption is fluoridated. Fluoridated salt reaches the consumer in salt at home, in meals at school and at large kitchens, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation |
The Ruzsa sum triangle inequality is a corollary of the Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality (which is in turn proved using the ordinary Ruzsa triangle inequality). Proof. The proof uses the following lemma from the proof of the Plünnecke-Ruzsa inequality. Lemma. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruzsa_triangle_inequality |
In 1960 an LP of 20 species of birds from the Moscow Region was produced by the studio with editing by A.N. Kachalina and director B. D. Vladimirsky. He then began to make trips across the Soviet Union, sometimes accompanied by the ornithologist Vladimir Vladimirovich Leonovich (1924-1998). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Veprintsev |
The conditions of confinement for CIA detainees were harsher than the CIA had represented to policymakers and others. The CIA repeatedly provided inaccurate information to the Department of Justice, impeding a proper legal analysis of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. The CIA has actively avoided or impede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites |
The hive commonly referred to as the Kenyan top-bar hive was developed by Dr. Maurice V. Smith and Dr. Gordon Townsend from the University of Guelph in Canada, sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) under an initial four year overseas project which began in Kenya in 1971. The hive and its dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_top-bar_hive |
Mindfulness as a practice is described as: "Mindfulness is a way of paying attention that originated in Eastern meditation practices" "Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally" "Bringing one's complete attention to the present experience on a moment-to-moment basis"Ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_meditation |
National Tissue and Sediment Sample Archive: Many of NOAA's projects incorporate different programs to obtain the desired information. The National Status and Trends program of NOAA's started using mussel, oyster, and zebra mussel samples collected under the Mussel Watch Program in 1985 as a means to start specimen ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussel_Watch_Program |
A more theoretically justified method is to calculate the shielding constant using the Hartree-Fock method. Douglas Hartree defined the effective Z of a Hartree–Fock orbital to be: where ⟨ r ⟩ H {\displaystyle \langle r\rangle _{\rm {H}}} is the mean radius of the orbital for hydrogen, and ⟨ r ⟩ Z {\displaystyle \langl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_screening |
In the DINA this barracks house was called Quetropillán. It had two permanent agents, who served as drivers and assistants, and a secretary, who kept the accounts and assisted the homeowner in administrative tasks. In addition, the team included a gardener, a cook, and two chemists: Francisco Oyarzún and Eugenio Berrío... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Andrea |
Serial numbers help make legitimate documents easier to track and audit. However, they are barely useful as a security feature because duplicates of an existing serial number are not easily detectable, except for a series of identical counterfeits. To support correct identification serial numbers normally have a check ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_printing |
Since unveiling the occupational exposure banding technique in 2017, NIOSH has sought feedback from its users and has evaluated the reliability of this tool. There has been an overwhelming response of positive feedback. Users have described Tier 1 as a helpful screening tool, Tier 2 as a basic assessment for a new chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_exposure_banding |
American alligators are considered an apex predator throughout their range. They are opportunists and their diet is determined largely by both their size and age and the size and availability of prey. Most American alligators eat a wide variety of animals, including invertebrates, fish, birds, turtles, snakes, amphibia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_alligator |
For example, a photon can be detected as the consequences of being absorbed by an electron in a photomultiplier that accepts its energy, which is then used to trigger the cascade of events that produces a "click" from that device. In the case of the double-slit experiment, a photon appears as a highly localized point i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_experiment |
With this approximation, each asperity contact during sliding is equivalent to a stationary one; there is no direct coupling between the sliding velocity and electron motion. An alternative view (beyond the Born–Oppenheimer approximation) is that sliding acts as a quantum mechanical pump which can excite electrons to g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_electrification |
The somewhat similar slaty-breasted rail of tropical Asia has a stouter bill, a chestnut crown and white-spotted upperparts. Juvenile and freshly moulted water rails may show a buff undertail like spotted crake, but that species' plumage is spotted with white, and it has a much shorter, mainly yellowish bill. The range... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_rail |
Alice E. Marwick is a communication scholar, academic, and author, who currently works as an Associate Professor in the Communication department and Principal Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an affiliated researcher with the Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Marwick |
In some churches, 'squints' (holes in the screen) would ensure that everyone could see the elevation, as seeing the bread made flesh was significant for the congregation. Moreover, while Sunday Masses were very important, there were also weekday services which were celebrated at secondary altars in front of the screen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood_loft |
In mathematics, a Jónsson–Tarski algebra or Cantor algebra is an algebraic structure encoding a bijection from an infinite set X onto the product X×X. They were introduced by Bjarni Jónsson and Alfred Tarski (1961, Theorem 5). Smirnov (1971), named them after Georg Cantor because of Cantor's pairing function and Cantor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jónsson–Tarski_algebra |
Ice pigging has the benefits of solid conventional pigging, but without the associated drawbacks; the Ice Pig can flow like a liquid through obstructions such as changes in diameter and valves, and it can be inserted and ejected from the pipe using small diameter fittings. If an Ice Pig does become stuck it can be left... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pigging |
A method for searching for feasible matches, is to search through a tree. Each node in the tree represents a set of matches. Root node represents empty set Each other node is the union of the matches in the parent node and one additional match. Wildcard is used for features with no match Nodes are “pruned” when the set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_identification |
The DebrisSat 2 (DS-2, aka REMDEB-DS2, COSPAR: 1998-067PR) was also based on a 2U CubeSat with two deployable panels solar panels and communications. The spacecraft contained a GPS receiver as well as an inter-satellite link to provide location and attitude data back to the platform to assess the VBN camera performance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoveDEBRIS |
In other words, if we suppose that the quotient of two sample means is considered, no work can be found where, in order to make inferences, the way in which the quotient is used as a point estimate of μ m μ f , {\displaystyle {\frac {\mu _{m}}{\mu _{f}}},} is discussed. By assuming that differences between populations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism_measures |
Packaged metering manholes are most prevalent in the United States (with occasional installations in Canada and Mexico). As such, the majority of manufacturers are located there. While there are a number of resellers (manufacturer's representatives, supply companies, etc.), there are several primary manufacturers of pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaged_Metering_Manhole |
Siderite is commonly found in hydrothermal veins, and is associated with barite, fluorite, galena, and others. It is also a common diagenetic mineral in shales and sandstones, where it sometimes forms concretions, which can encase three-dimensionally preserved fossils. In sedimentary rocks, siderite commonly forms at s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spathic_iron_ore |
Motion controllers using accelerometers are used as controllers for video games, which was made more popular since 2006 by the Wii Remote controller for Nintendo's Wii console, which uses accelerometers to detect its approximate orientation and acceleration, and serves an image sensor, so it can be used as a pointing d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_controls |
Formally, the sequence of partial sums of some infinite summation converges if for every fixed power of X {\displaystyle X} the coefficient stabilizes: there is a point beyond which all further partial sums have the same coefficient. This is clearly the case for the right hand side of (1), regardless of the values a n ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_power_series_ring |
Let p {\displaystyle p} be a prime number and let K = Q ( μ p ) {\displaystyle K=\mathbb {Q} (\mu _{p})} be the field generated over Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} } by the p {\displaystyle p} th roots of unity. Iwasawa considered the following tower of number fields: K = K 0 ⊂ K 1 ⊂ ⋯ ⊂ K ∞ , {\displaystyle K=K_{0}\subs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwasawa_theory |
251-278.Gildersleve, Patrick, Renaud Lambiotte, and Taha Yasseri. "Between news and history: Identifying networked topics of collective attention on Wikipedia." Journal of Computational Social Science (2023): 1-31.Graells-Garrido, Eduardo, Mounia Lalmas, and Filippo Menczer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia |
Intrapersonal communication has not been researched as thoroughly as other types of communication. One reason is that there are additional problems concerning how to study it and how to conceptualize it. A difficulty in this regard is that it is not as easy to observe as interpersonal communication. This is due to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_speech |
The criteria used to select the landing zones were a location in the south polar region and on the near side, a slope less than 15 degrees, with boulders less than 50 cm (20 in) in diameter, a crater and boulder distribution, being sunlit for at least 14 days, and with nearby ridges not shadowing the site for long dura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragyan_(rover) |
Palestine Power Generation Company Plc, founded in 2010, operates a natural gas power generating plant in the West Bank. On 23 February 2015, IEC intentionally cut off the West Bank power for about 45 minutes due to unpaid bills. Two days later it again cut off power, stating it was a warning to the PA to begin paying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Electric_Corporation |
Kruskal's algorithm (also known as Kruskal's method) finds a minimum spanning forest of an undirected edge-weighted graph. If the graph is connected, it finds a minimum spanning tree. (A minimum spanning tree of a connected graph is a subset of the edges that forms a tree that includes every vertex, where the sum of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal's_algorithm |
On 18 November 2015, Sky announced Sky Q, a range of products and services to be available in 2016. The Sky Q range consists of three set-top boxes (Sky Q 1TB, Sky Q 2TB and Sky Q Mini), a broadband router (Sky Q Hub) and mobile applications. The Sky Q set-top boxes introduce a new user interface, Wi-Fi hotspot functio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Glass |
2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Andre Geim, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the material graphene." Novoselov was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics since Brian Josephson in 1973, and in any field since Rigoberta Menchú (Peace) in 1992. 2010 Knight Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Novoselov |
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as "the lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class." In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat |
Braunstein, Christian (2006). Heraldiska vapen inom det svenska försvaret (PDF). Skrift / Statens försvarshistoriska museer, 1101-7023 ; 9 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Statens försvarshistoriska museer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapper_Corps |
Brachiation allows robots to travel by swinging, using energy only to grab and release surfaces. This motion is similar to an ape swinging from tree to tree. The two types of brachiation can be compared to bipedal walking motions (continuous contact) or running (ricochetal). Continuous contact is when a hand/grasping m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_locomotion |
Increasing attention and regulation (as under the Swiss referendum "against corporate rip-offs" of 2013) has been brought to executive pay levels since the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Research on the relationship between firm performance and executive compensation does not identify consistent and significant relatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_governance |
Persons Using Television (PUT) and Persons Viewing Television (PVT) are both the percentage of all persons in a certain viewing area that are viewing television during a specific time period. The difference is that PVT term is used especially by Arbitron. It is a kind of persuasion process used to influence audience, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persons_using_television |
Mercury links were installed between the UK and various Overseas stations, including in Canada, Australia, Singapore, Cyprus, Germany, France, Middle East, Washington, Nairobi and Colombo. The machine was used for UK diplomatic messaging for more or less a decade, but saw almost no military use. In 1960, it was anticip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(cipher_machine) |
There is a certain amount of money to divide, denoted by E {\displaystyle E} (=Estate or Endowment). There are n claimants. Each claimant i has a claim denoted by c i {\displaystyle c_{i}} . Usually, ∑ i = 1 n c i > E {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{n}c_{i}>E} , that is, the estate is insufficient to satisfy all the claims... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_rule_(bankruptcy) |
DSM and BASF have the major share of industrial production. A biosynthesis alternative utilizes genetically engineered yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae to synthesize retinal and retinol, using xylose as a starting substrate. This was accompished by having the yeast first synthesize β-carotene and then the cleavin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A |
The magazine was established in Sydney in November 2004 by the Sydney magazine publishing executive Kylie Ahern and science journalist Wilson da Silva. with the first issue published in July 2005.In June 2006, the magazine launched a daily Internet news and features service.The magazine was the originator of Hello from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(Australian_magazine) |
When representing the signals in digital form, the results are scaled and rounded, and offsets are typically added. For example, the scaling and offset applied to the Y′ component per specification (e.g. MPEG-2) results in the value of 16 for black and the value of 235 for white when using an 8-bit representation. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_matrix |
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