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Danheiser was born in New York and received his B.A. in 1972 at Columbia College. While working as an undergraduate under the direction of Gilbert Stork, Danheiser developed a method for the regiospecific alkylation of beta-diketone enol ethers (the "Stork-Danheiser Alkylation"). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_L._Danheiser |
Saad has been a professor of marketing at Concordia University since 1994. As of 2020, he holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. During this time he has also held visiting professorships at Cornell University, Dartmouth College, and the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad |
"The eight individuals were all extremely intelligent, but "that is not enough to make someone a serial breakthrough innovator." Nearly all these innovators showed very high levels of social detachment, or separateness (a notable exception being Benjamin Franklin). "Their isolation meant that they were less exposed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logology_(science) |
Type physicalism has also been criticized from an illusionist perspective. Keith Frankish writes that it is "an unstable position, continually on the verge of collapsing into illusionism. The central problem, of course, is that phenomenal properties seem too weird to yield to physical explanation. They resist functiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_physicalism |
Mangold conceived the film's time-travel element and its use of the Antikythera mechanism as the MacGuffin. To suit the story, artistic liberty was taken with the film's dial, giving it the ability to detect time fissures. Mangold considered time travel on par with the previous films: "It's no more of a wild swing in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Dial_of_Destiny |
The company eventually took Formula 409 to a 55 percent share of the spray-cleaner market, and six years later, Harrell, Woodcock & Linkletter sold the company to Clorox for $7 million.In early 2020 Formula 409 became impossible to find in stores and disappeared from the "products" listing at the Clorox website. Some w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_409 |
UNICEF considers domestic work to be among the lowest status, and reports that most child domestic workers are live-in workers and are under the round-the-clock control of their employers. Some estimates suggest that among girls, domestic work is the most common form of employment.During times of economic crisis many f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_sector |
Step is based on bodies and forces placed by the user: Bodies range from tiny particles to huge polygons, and each body has unique properties that influence the outcome of the simulation, such as mass and velocity, and their derivations such as kinetic energy. Forces can be either placed directly by the user or produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_(software) |
If the access to randomness is removed from the definition of BPP, we get the complexity class P. In the definition of the class, if we replace the ordinary Turing machine with a quantum computer, we get the class BQP. Adding postselection to BPP, or allowing computation paths to have different lengths, gives the class... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_=_BPP_problem |
However, in Brazil the term was also used to distinguish between negros crioulos (blacks born in Brazil from African slave ancestors) and negros africanos (born in Africa). Over time, the term and its derivatives (Creole, Kréol, Kreyol, Kreyòl, Kriol, Krio, etc.) lost the generic meaning and became the proper name of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language |
However, let χ i = i {\displaystyle \chi _{i}=i} for i {\displaystyle i} not equal to 7 , {\displaystyle 7,} but χ 7 = 8. {\displaystyle \chi _{7}=8.} The set of indices on which ω {\displaystyle \omega } and χ {\displaystyle \chi } agree is a member of any ultrafilter (because ω {\displaystyle \omega } and χ {\display... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fundamental_theorem_of_ultraproducts |
Once the young gametophyte germinates and ruptures the spore coat, it produces a multi-layered mass from which the adult plant will develop.Cavicularia is classified in the family Blasiaceae along with the genus Blasia, from which it is distinguished by the absence of a collar around the base of the sporophyte capsule,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavicularia_densa |
{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\frac {\partial \eta }{\partial t}}\,&+\,{\frac {\partial }{\partial x}}\,\left\,=\,{\frac {1}{6}}\,h^{3}\,{\frac {\partial ^{3}u_{b}}{\partial x^{3}}},\\{\frac {\partial u_{b}}{\partial t}}\,&+\,u_{b}\,{\frac {\partial u_{b}}{\partial x}}\,+\,g\,{\frac {\partial \eta }{\partial x}}\,=\,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boussinesq_equation_(water_waves) |
MSU files use Intra-Package Delta (IPD) compression technology. IPD technology reduces the download size of an MSU file but still delivers a self-contained package that contains the updated files. forfiles — Selects a file (or set of files) and executes a command on that file. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setx |
Hybrid rocket fuel grains can be manufactured via casting techniques, since they are typically a plastic or a rubber. Complex geometries, which are driven by the need for higher fuel mass flow rates, makes casting fuel grains for hybrid rockets expensive and time-consuming due in part to equipment costs. On a larger sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid-propellant_rocket |
Analysis paralysis is a critical problem in athletics. It can be explained in simple terms as "failure to react in response to overthought". A victim of sporting analysis paralysis will frequently think in complicated terms of "what to do next" while contemplating the variety of possibilities, and in doing so exhausts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis |
The anti-capitalist tradition of classical anarchism has remained prominent within contemporary currents.Contemporary news coverage which emphasizes black bloc demonstrations has reinforced anarchism's historical association with chaos and violence. Its publicity has also led more scholars in fields such as anthropolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism |
The viral genome was published in 2006. The genome is 10140 nucleotides in length excluding the poly(A) tail and contains a single large open reading frame encoding a 328-kilo Dalton (kDA) polyprotein. 5' of the central coding sequence is a 1144-nucleotide nontranslated leader sequence (UTR). 3' coding sequence is a 31... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformed_wing_virus |
One of the first games to introduce loot box-like mechanics was FIFA 09, made by Electronic Arts (EA), in March 2009 which allowed players to create a team of association football players from in-game card packs they opened using in-game currency earned through regular playing of the game or via microtransactions. Anot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box |
Ultimately, the connectivity (and consequently the functionality) of the tissue is changed from what the original template suggested. Another disadvantage lies in the fact that the cultured neurons lack a body and are thus severed from sensory input as well as the ability to express behavior – a crucial characteristic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_neural_networks |
Colonel Henri Dijon – A reclusive, rich, eccentric old man, who fought in the Spanish–American War and lives alone on an Antebellum sugar plantation island (as Dijon is a type of mustard, his name is a reference to the character of Colonel Mustard in the game Cluedo). Ethel Prune – The Colonel's younger sister and Lill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colonel's_Bequest |
On the other hand, Mark Colyvan, a philosopher, would have preferred to see heavier coverage of the game-theoretic aspects of the subject, and notes that the mathematical idealizations used here can lead to inaccurate conclusions for real-world problems. Despite these quibbles, Colyvan writes that "this book provides a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chases_and_Escapes |
People like me, in other words. Whether I realize it or not, I have benefited from my skin color and my gender—and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it. "In March 2019, Boot proposed to retire the neoconservative label, saying that the term "neocon thinking" is falsely asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Boot |
Comparisons have also been made to Grant Morrison's comic series The Invisibles; Morrison believes that the Wachowskis essentially plagiarized their work to create the film. The Wachowskis responded that they enjoy the comic, but did not use it for inspiration. In addition, the similarity of the films' central concept ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise) |
In connexion with this class of work and in the course of a visit to the United States in 1944 by a member of the Museum staff, the opportunity was taken to establish contact with the Military Geology Unit of the US Geological Survey, with most helpful results. Considerable assistance was also given to the Naval Intell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Services_Topographic_Department |
The common Icelandic turf house has a large foundation made of flat stones; upon this is a wooden frame to hold the load of the turf. The turf is fitted around the frame in blocks, often with a second layer, or in the more fashionable herringbone pattern. Traditionally, the only external wood is the doorway, which woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_turf_house |
This type of search is far less efficient than a feature search, because target no longer “pops out” of the display. Subjects instead need to examine each object individually in order to identify the target, resulting in much longer response times.The experimental setup is similar to a typical conjunction search task: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_indexing_theory |
Maltotriose is a trisaccharide (three-part sugar) consisting of three glucose molecules linked with α-1,4 glycosidic bonds.It is most commonly produced by the digestive enzyme alpha-amylase (a common enzyme in human saliva) on amylose in starch. The creation of both maltotriose and maltose during this process is due to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltotriose |
Anania is considered by modern scholars as the "father of the exact sciences in Armenia." Modern historians consider him as the greatest scientist of medieval Armenia and, possibly, all Armenian history, up to the 20th century astrophysicist Viktor Ambartsumian. He is widely regarded as the founder of the natural scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anania_Shirakatsi |
The production and consumption of lead-based paints is a worldwide issue. Many Asian countries, especially China, depend on the import, export, production, and consumption of paints. However, the paints produced in China and other Asian countries are problematic. Paints used for toys, paint to make finger paint, interi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_abatement |
The project will include several pieces of public art. During construction, artworks by local artists were placed on the construction facade that builds the bridge towers. The Canadian bridge towers were undertaken by artists from the Walpole Island First Nation and the Caldwell First Nation, with the American bridge t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_International_Bridge |
A bar used to fix an upper mast in place. fife rail A freestanding pinrail surrounding the base of a mast and used for securing that mast's sails' halyards with a series of belaying pins. Fifie A sailing boat with two masts with a standard rig consisting of a main dipping lug sail and a mizzen standing lug sail. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerline_(nautical) |
The Hunley, the first combat submarine to successfully complete its mission, has been at the Lasch Conservation Center for over 15 years while scientists and conservators formulate a plan for its restoration. Once the Hunley's conservation and restoration is complete it will be relocated to a new museum built in its ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-restoration_of_the_H.L._Hunley |
Arboreal predators include small mammals such as the pine marten, wildcats and the stoat, which preys on nestlings; birds, including owls and raptors such as the goshawk and buzzards, may also take the red squirrel. The red fox, cats and dogs can prey upon the red squirrel when it is on the ground. Humans influence the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_squirrel |
November 2011: Autumn statement announcing electrification of the line July 2012: Addition of Leeds to Selby announced as part of HLOS November 2014: Deputy prime minister states government's desire for the whole route to be electrified March 2015: Civil engineering including overbridge raising works start at various p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpennine_Route_Upgrade |
The project was first hinted at early in the month of February 2013, then officially announced in the following month of March that same year.More information was published in volume 10 of the magazine "VOCALOID wo Tanoshimou", which came out on March 11. The singers were picked out of 40 voices, two being picked fairl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZOLA_Project |
Full spectrum dominance is used in a number of non-military fields to describe a comprehensive tactical effort to support a strategy. In marketing, full spectrum dominance may refer to an integrated campaign that takes into account reaching an audience across a wide variety of platforms and media to guarantee visibilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance |
SNPedia (pronounced "snipedia") is a wiki-based bioinformatics web site that serves as a database of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Each article on a SNP provides a short description, links to scientific articles and personal genomics web sites, as well as microarray information about that SNP. Thus SNPedia ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNPedia |
The Soviet Union used a fairly standard organizational structure for S-75 units. Other countries that have employed the S-75 may have modified this structure. Typically, the S-75 is organized into a regimental structure with three subordinate battalions. The regimental headquarters will control the early-warning radars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-2_Guideline |
1954: Resolution 3 of the 10th CGPM gave the kelvin scale its modern definition by choosing the triple point of water as its upper defining point (with no change to absolute zero being the null point) and assigning it a temperature of precisely 273.16 kelvins (what was actually written 273.16 degrees Kelvin at the time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_temperature |
The convention of showing a dent at the base of the heart thus spread at about the same time as the convention of showing the heart with its point downward. The modern indented red heart has been used on playing cards since the late 15th century.Various hypotheses attempted to connect the "heart shape" as it evolved in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_symbol |
This success marked one of beginnings of the general use of alternating current for electrification in Germany, and showed that distance transmission of electric power could be economically useful. In the same year the Stadtbahn Halle/Saale (City railway Halle–Saale) opened, the first electric tram system (of notable s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEG-Telefunken |
Moral Politics has two different purposes. Lakoff uses the techniques of cognitive linguistics to attempt to better understand the mental frameworks that lie behind contemporary American politics, describing which mental concepts make up a "liberal", and which a "conservative". (What Lakoff means by these two terms is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_(book) |
A set of enzymes and transporters named DltABCE that adds alanines to both wall and lipo-teichoic acids were found.Note that the set of genes are named "Tag" (teichoic acid glycerol) instead of "Tar" (teichoic acid ribitol) in B. subtilis 168, which lacks the TarK/TarL enzymes. TarB/F/L/K all bear some similarities to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichoic_acid |
Conversely, the tenor and plectrum guitars use the respective banjo necks on guitar bodies. They arose in the early 20th century as a way for banjo players to double on guitar without having to relearn the instrument entirely.Instruments that have a five-string banjo neck on a wooden body (for example, a guitar, bouzou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectrum_banjo |
Nefs were extravagant ship-shaped table ornaments in precious metal that had been popular for some centuries among the very wealthy. Earlier types, such as the Burghley Nef, usually functioned as containers for salt, spices or other things, but the figures on deck in this example leave no room for a function of this so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Galleon |
This sixth generation Surface computer line has all been updated to Intel's eighth generation Kaby Lake Refresh Core-i5 and Core-i7 CPUs. It is available with either 8 or 16 GB of RAM, 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB or 1 TB of Solid State Storage, and business or consumer models. Business models are pre-installed with Windows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Pro_6 |
Josef Max (1804–1855), German-Czech sculptor Emanuel Max (1810–1901), German-Czech sculptor Wilhelm Knechtel (1837–1924), German-Czech gardener and botanist Ernst Schwarz (1895–1983), German philologist Volker Oppitz (born 1931), German economist and mathematician Věra Bradáčová (born 1955), athlete | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nový_Bor |
phpDocumentor is an open-source documentation generator written in PHP. It automatically parses PHP source code and produces readable API and source code documentation, based on PHPDoc-formatted comments and the structure of the source code itself. It supports documentation of both object-oriented and procedural code. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpDocumentor |
In a study conducted by the NASPA in 2007 and 2009 suggest, "that fraternity members are more likely than non-fraternity members to commit rape".In another article by Antonia Abby she found that there are certain characteristics that male perpetrators that put them at risk of committing sexual assault. As she stresses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_sexual_assault |
The species is nocturnal and shows maximum activity levels shortly after sunset. It is three times less active on nights with a moon than on moonless nights; it is more active in the open on nights without a moon, while keeping in the shade of vegetation when the moon is shining. It feeds largely on seeds, which it stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno_kangaroo_rat |
White-throated magpie-jays are omnivorous, consuming a wide range of animal and plant matter. Items included in the diet include invertebrates such as insects and caterpillars, frogs, lizards, eggs and nestlings of other birds, seeds, fruits, grain, and nectar from Balsa blossoms. Younger birds take several years to ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-throated_magpie-jay |
The term fire-retardant as applied to organic (i.e., containing carbon) materials, is intended to refer to reduced fire hazard, as all will burn under certain circumstances. The tests used specified in building codes, such as NFPA 701, are more correctly flame resistance tests, which test a fabric's ability to resist i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-retardant_fabric |
32-bit-per-channel images are used to represent values brighter than what sRGB color space allows (brighter than white); these values can then be used to more accurately retain bright highlights when either lowering the exposure of the image or when it is seen through a dark filter or dull reflection. For example, a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_CPU |
Okishio's theorem was therefore received in the West as establishing that Marx's proof of this fundamental result was inconsistent. More precisely, the theorem says that the general rate of profit in the economy as a whole will be higher if a new technique of production is introduced in which, at the prices prevailing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okishio's_theorem |
A quota-capped divisor method is an apportionment method in which the next seat is allocated only to a party from a set of eligible parties. Eligible parties should satisfy two conditions: Their current allocation is smaller than their upper quota (where the quota is computed based on the total number of seats includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_smallest_divisors |
Determiners may be predeterminers, central determiners or postdeterminers, based on the order in which they can occur. For example, "all my many very young children" uses one of each. "My all many very young children" is not grammatically correct because a central determiner cannot precede a predeterminer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner |
Propane is denser than air. If a leak in a propane fuel system occurs, the vaporized gas will have a tendency to sink into any enclosed area and thus poses a risk of explosion and fire. The typical scenario is a leaking cylinder stored in a basement; the propane leak drifts across the floor to the pilot light on the fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propane_gas |
TSPO (Translocator protein) acts to regulate heart rate and contractile force by its interaction with voltage-dependent calcium channels in cardiac myocytes. The interaction between TSPO and calcium channels can alter cardiac action potential durations, thus contractility of the heart. In healthy individuals, TSPO has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translocator_protein |
The basis for comprehensive planning comes from the government's duty and right to protect the health and welfare of its citizens. The power for local governments to plan generally comes from state planning enabling legislation; however, local governments in most states are not required by law to engage in comprehensiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_planning |
As the theme of the show revolves around science, many distinguished and high-profile scientists have appeared as guest stars on the show. Famous astrophysicist and Nobel laureate George Smoot had a cameo appearance in the second season. Chemical engineer and Nobel laureate Frances Arnold portrayed herself in the 12th ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory |
The Plücker lines meet in threes at the 60 Kirkman points. (Dolgachev 2012, p.124) plurigenus Plural plurigenera The dth plurigenus of a variety is the dimension of the space of sections of the dth power of the canonical line bundle. point-star A family of lines with a common point polar 1. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_classical_algebraic_geometry |
The insurance cost is much lower than for other agricultural vehicles and ATVs,. However, there are some restrictions and requirements for registering ATVS as an agricultural vehicle: the ATV may never be driven with a passenger, even if a passenger seat is available. in addition to the street registration requirements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_terrain_vehicle |
In the web site where he links a preprint of his paper, Zeilberger writes, "When I was young and handsome, I couldn't see an identity without trying to prove it bijectively. Somehow, I weaned myself of this addiction. But the urge got rekindled, when I read Arthur Benjamin and Jennifer Quinn's masterpiece Proofs that R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_That_Really_Count |
Course reserve is a term used in academic libraries to describe materials set aside for a specific academic course or other use. Most often materials are put on course reserve by library staff at the request of the course's instructor. Materials on reserve typically have shorter loan periods than other library material... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_reserve |
Subsequent contracts were let to CAP Group (became Sema Group in 1988) for further operational IECC systems involving the supply of turnkey hardware and software. These included the first IECC to go live at Liverpool Street in Easter 1989 quickly followed by York. In September 2020 the original Liverpool Street IECC wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Electronic_Control_Centre |
The β-amino acid moiety is a non-ribosomal peptide synthesized from tyrosine. The necessary enzymes for its biosynthesis include a phenol hydroxylase (SgcC), a nonribosomal peptide synthetase adenylation enzyme (SgcC1), an NRPS peptidyl–carrier protein (SgcC2), a halogenase (SgcC3), an aminomutase (SgcC4), and an NRPS-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-1027 |
Although members of the genus Syrmaticus are capable of subsisting almost entirely on vegetarian materials for months at a time, this is not true for many of the subtropical genera. For example, the great argus (Argusianus argus) and crested argus may do most of their foraging during rainy months in the canopy of the j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_bird |
Starting in 1894, Fritz R. Huitfeldt invented a binding with a secure toe iron which allowed the heel to move freely and evolved through the 1930s as the standard design. His innovations included: Adding vertical metal brackets on either side of the ski to hold the ski boot (1894), augmented in 1897 by passing the iron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_bindings |
Because delimiter collision is a very common problem, various methods for avoiding it have been invented. Some authors may attempt to avoid the problem by choosing a delimiter character (or sequence of characters) that is not likely to appear in the data stream itself. This ad hoc approach may be suitable, but it neces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter |
The DQSA and its reinforcement of provision §503A of the FDCA solidifies FDA authority to enforce FDCA regulation of against compounders of bioidentical hormone therapy.In the United Kingdom, on the other hand, compounding is a regulated activity. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regulates compou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone_replacement_therapy |
These are brown, concentric circles with a yellow tinge at the circumference, usually about 0.5-2.5cm in diameter. Necrosis can generally be observed within 48 hours of infection. The spores can reside on the external seed coat of infected seeds, but the mycelium can also penetrate under the seed coat, where it has the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternaria_brassicicola |
A biosynthetic pathway has been hypothesized based on proposed gene functions (see figure). btmM, with homology to Zn+2 aminopeptidases, is predicted to cleave the N-terminal methionine residue, which is not present in the bottromycin final product. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottromycin |
Hallmark Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company started a partnership in May 1998 to launch the Kermit Channel in Asia and Latin America expect to start in September 1998 with distribution handled by Hallmark Entertainment Network. This partnership had grown out of their co-production of Gulliver’s Travels. In 1998, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Channel |
The resulting Royal Commission of Inquiry found that the store' evacuation scheme was inadequate, the fire brigade was slow to be informed of the fire, and the firefighters were not properly trained or equipped. The Commission proposed a national fire service, however this was rejected. The Fire Services Act 1949 inste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Emergency_New_Zealand |
The trailer may be created at agencies (such as The Cimarron Group, MOJO, The Ant Farm, Ben Cain, Aspect Ratio, Flyer Entertainment, Trailer Park, Buddha Jones) while the film itself is being cut together at the studio. Since the edited film does not exist at this point, the trailer editors work from rushes or dailies.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_(book) |
Humans have a unique allele of this gene, which has otherwise been closely conserved through most of mammalian evolutionary history. This unique allele seems to have first appeared between 100 and 200 thousand years ago, and it is now all but universal in humans. This suggests that speech evolved late in the overall sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology_of_language |
Giner-Delgado, Carla, et al. described a variant of MLPA combining it with iPCR. They call these new method iMLPA and its procedure is the same as MLPA but there are necessary two additional steps at the beginning: First, a DNA treatment with restriction enzymes that cut on both sides of the region of interest is neces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplex_Ligation-dependent_Probe_Amplification |
Because of the parameter identification problem, ordinary least squares estimation of the structural VAR would yield inconsistent parameter estimates. This problem can be overcome by rewriting the VAR in reduced form. From an economic point of view, if the joint dynamics of a set of variables can be represented by a VA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_autoregression |
A charge controller, charge regulator or battery regulator limits the rate at which electric current is added to or drawn from electric batteries to protect against electrical overload, overcharging, and may protect against overvoltage. This prevents conditions that reduce battery performance or lifespan and may pose a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek_Pump_Express |
This collapse is supposed to occur upon any act of measurement; and in one interpretation, the only way to distinguish a measurement from a nonmeasurement is via the presence of consciousness. This theory is certainly not universally accepted (for a start, it presupposes that consciousness is not itself physical, surel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann–Wigner_interpretation |
It may be noted that this is the first aircraft delivered by M/s Embraer for which the contract was signed in 2008. The next aircraft is expected to arrive in December 2012. IAF took delivery of the second NETRA AEW&C on 11 September 2019 and deployed it at Bathinda Air Base in Punjab. The third Embraer platform was me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRDO_AWACS |
Sax cited a study which said that "girls in the all-girls classroom were less aware of 'being a girl' and less aware of gender stereotypes regarding science, compared to girls who were randomly assigned to the coed classroom. "In January 2012, a study of the University of Pennsylvania, involving a randomized experiment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sex_education |
During the protests that erupted in the wake of the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Slowloris arose as a prominent tool used to leverage DoS attacks against sites run by the Iranian government. The belief was that flooding DDoS attacks would affect internet access for the government and protesters equally, due to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security) |
The consumer uses the mobile billing option during checkout at an e-commerce site—such as an online gaming site—to make a payment. After two-factor authentication involving the consumer's mobile number and a PIN or one-time password (often abbreviated as OTP), the consumer's mobile account is charged for the purchase. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Payment |
Dauvit Broun sets out the problems with the various terms used to describe the Cumbric language and its speakers. The people seem to have called themselves *Cumbri the same way that the Welsh called themselves Cymry (most likely from reconstructed Brittonic *kom-brogī meaning "fellow countrymen"). The Welsh and the Cum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbric_language |
Urbanization and environmental consequences has always moved hand in hand. Odum in 1989 has called cities as ‘parasites’ on natural and domesticated environment, since it makes no food, cleans no air and cleans only a little amount of water for reuse and Mayur (1990) has argued that such disharmony may result in enviro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_urbanism |
In 2021, researchers finetuned one generatively pretrained model (T0) on performing 12 NLP tasks (using 62 datasets, as each task can have multiple datasets) that showed good performance on new tasks, surpassing models trained directly on just performing one task (without pretraining). To solve a task, T0 is given the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-of-thought_prompting |
Maher predicted there would be violence by armed Trump supporters attempting to keep Trump in power and criticized Democratic Party politicians for not taking the threat seriously:"So my question to all Democratic candidates is: what's the plan? If you win, and the next day he claims he's voiding the election because o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher |
"The Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) requires that certain corporations collect information on "individuals with significant control". The CBCA says that individuals with significant control refer to "anyone with direct or indirect ownership or control over a significant number of shares of a corporation (i.e.,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_ownership |
Many of these were rather loose copies of famous ancient sculptures, especially those in the rich royal collections, including portrait busts; the factory was allowed to borrow these to copy. A wall-painting of Achilles being taught to play the lyre by the centaur Chiron, removed from a house in Herculaneum by the 1750... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capodimonte_porcelain |
Historically, some design elements near the outer perimeter of a die were added by punching because technology made it difficult to press both the central and perimeter design elements at the same time. Also, some dies were made without mintmarks or dates to permit their use at different mints and in later years. A die... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_coin |
The V+ Boxes have three video tuners, allowing the user to record two programmes to the hard drive while watching a live programme which can then be paused. V+'s main competitor on the British market, the Sky+ HD box, has two tuners. As with all other digital set-top boxes from Virgin Media. The set-top boxes support 7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V+ |
With the advent of hyperspectral data, vegetation index have been developed specifically for hyperspectral data. Discrete-Band Normalised Difference Vegetation Index Yellowness Index Photochemical Reflectance Index Descrete-Band Normalised Difference Water Index Red Edge Position Determination Crop Chlorophyll Content ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetation_index |
During the late 1940s the catchphrase "How's your Hooper?" was a well-known allusion to the size of a series' audience.In 1949, the Chagrin Valley Little Theater premiered a satire of contemporary radio by Everett Rhodes Castle titled "How's Your Hooper? ".A George Price cartoon in the May 14, 1949 issue of The New Yor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._E._Hooper |
Moreover, if a space is locally path connected, then it is also locally connected, so for all x ∈ X , {\displaystyle x\in X,} C x {\displaystyle C_{x}} is connected and open, hence path connected, that is, C x = P C x . {\displaystyle C_{x}=PC_{x}.} That is, for a locally path connected space the components and path co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally_connected_topological_space |
Intercepting an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in its boost phase requires imaging of the hard body as well as the rocket plumes. MWIR presents a strong signal from highly heated objects including rocket plumes, while LWIR produces emissions from the missile's body material. The US Army Research Laboratory r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multispectral_images |
The relationship between intrauterine infections and second-trimester pregnancy loss as well as early preterm delivery has been established. Most bacteria found in the uterus in association with preterm labor are of vaginal origin, with only a small minority originating from the abdominal cavity or from an inadvertent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_vaccine |
Grief also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. Bereavement and mourning refer to the ongoing state of loss, and grief is the reaction to that loss. Emotional responses may be bitterness, anxiety, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust and blaming others; these responses may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscarriage_and_grief |
The Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival was a series of political rock concerts which took place in Germany during the 1980s. Its purpose was to support protests against the planned nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf (German: Wiederaufbereitungsanlage Wackersdorf, abbreviated WAA Wackersdorf) in Wackersdorf. In 1986, the fift... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-WAAhnsinns_Festival |
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