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By specialization to the divisor function d = σ0 we have ζ 2 ( s ) = ∑ n = 1 ∞ d ( n ) n s ζ 3 ( s ) ζ ( 2 s ) = ∑ n = 1 ∞ d ( n 2 ) n s ζ 4 ( s ) ζ ( 2 s ) = ∑ n = 1 ∞ d ( n ) 2 n s . {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\zeta ^{2}(s)&=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {d(n)}{n^{s}}}\\{\frac {\zeta ^{3}(s)}{\zeta (2s)}}&=\sum _{n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_Dirichlet_series |
{\displaystyle L_{ij}={\frac {1}{D_{j}}}\left(A_{ij}-\sum _{k=1}^{j-1}L_{ik}L_{jk}D_{k}\right)\quad {\text{for }}i>j.} This works as long as the generated diagonal elements in D stay non-zero. The decomposition is then unique. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesky_factorization |
To illustrate the magnitude of the bias in the standard deviation, consider a dataset that consists of sequential readings from an instrument that uses a specific digital filter whose ACF is known to be given by ρ k = ( 1 − α ) k {\displaystyle \rho _{k}=(1-\alpha )^{k}} where α is the parameter of the filter, and it t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbiased_estimation_of_standard_deviation |
However, it should be mentioned that cryo-electron microscopy allows the observation of biological specimens in their hydrated natural state, albeit embedded in water ice. Until now, resolutions of 30 nanometer are possible using the Fresnel zone plate lens which forms the image using the soft X-rays emitted from a syn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_X-ray_microscopy |
Other names in common use include adenylylsulfate kinase (phosphorylating), 5'-phosphoadenosine sulfate kinase, adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate kinase, adenosine phosphosulfate kinase, adenosine phosphosulfokinase, adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate-3'-phosphokinase, and APS kinase. This enzyme participates in 3 metabolic pathway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylyl-sulfate_kinase |
Early hang glider pilots learned their sport through trial and error and gliders were sometimes home-built. Training programs have been developed for today's pilot with emphasis on flight within safe limits, as well as the discipline to cease flying when weather conditions are unfavorable, for example: excess wind or r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_glider |
For screws inserted only a small distance, the equivalent circuit is a shunt capacitor, increasing in value as the screw is inserted. However, when the screw has been inserted a distance λ/4 it resonates equivalent to a series LC circuit. Inserting it further causes the impedance to change from capacitive to inductive,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_resonator_filter |
Although science fiction had been published before the 1920s, it did not begin to coalesce into a separately marketed genre until the appearance in 1926 of Amazing Stories, a pulp magazine published by Hugo Gernsback. By the end of the 1930s the field was booming. In 1938 Abraham and Martin Goodman, two brothers who ow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Science_Stories |
Commonly used estimators (estimation methods) and topics related to them include: Maximum likelihood estimators Bayes estimators Method of moments estimators Cramér–Rao bound Least squares Minimum mean squared error (MMSE), also known as Bayes least squared error (BLSE) Maximum a posteriori (MAP) Minimum variance unbia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_estimator |
BMP-1 – Has six stop lights but no autoloader. BMP-1PS – Finland has modified all its BMP-1s and BMP-1Ps to BMP-1PS and BMP-1K1 level (q.v.). The former is similar to the original BMP-1P but has four additional 76 mm Wegmann smoke grenade launchers on the right front of the turret and two Lyran 71 mm mortars on the lef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP-1_variants |
In South Africa, chicken feet are mainly eaten in townships in all nine provinces, where they are known as "walkie talkies" (together with the head, intestine, hearts and giblets), "runaways","chicken dust" and "Amanqina" (in isiXhosa) The feet are submerged in hot water, so the outer layer of the skin can be removed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_feet |
A Secret and/or a ConfigMap is sent to a node only if a pod on that node requires it, which will only be stored in memory on the node. Once the pod that depends on the Secret or ConfigMap is deleted, the in-memory copy of all bound Secrets and ConfigMaps are deleted as well. The data from a ConfigMap or Secret is acces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes |
Infants with Schindler disease tend to die within 4 years of birth, therefore, treatment for this form of the disease is mostly palliative. However, Type II Schindler disease, with its late onset of symptoms, is not characterized by neurological degeneration. There is no known cure for Schindler disease, but bone marro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler_disease |
Hartstein et al. plotted the number of cache block re-accesses versus their re-reference times for a large number of workloads and found that most also follow an exponential relationship. R ( t ) = R 0 t − β {\displaystyle R(t)=R_{0}t^{-\beta }} where R(t) is the rate of re-referencing. It was found that the exponent β... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law_of_cache_misses |
The following species have been named in honour of David Livingstone: Livingston's cichlid, Nimbochromis livingstonii Livingstone's eland, Taurotragus oryx livingstonii Livingstone's fruit bat, Pteropus livingstoniiThe mineral livingstonite is named in his honor. It was described in 1874 from Mexico. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingstone's_heart |
Owen Lattimore wrote that the Mongols have a clan structure comprising ruling and subordinate clans, and that the elite clans are themselves internally divided into junior and elder lineages. Karl Kaser attributes the inexistence of different terms to designate an elder and a younger brother in European languages to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_social_stratification |
Alexander Martin Lippisch (November 2, 1894 – February 11, 1976) was a German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. Within the Opel-RAK program, he was the designer of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lippisch |
Serbia: "Rape (Raping) is defined in Article 178 by the use of force or threat of direct attack against the body of another person and punished with imprisonment from two to ten years." (statehood disputed) Vatican City / Holy See: Canon 1395 §3. provides a coercion-based definition of sexual violence, see below. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_consent_in_law |
A ray of light is characterized by the direction normal to the wave front (wave normal). When a ray encounters a surface, the angle that the wave normal makes with respect to the surface normal is called the angle of incidence and the plane defined by both directions is the plane of incidence. Reflection of the inciden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specularly_reflected |
The expression correctly predicts the output voltage if there is no current leaving port 2, but is increasingly inaccurate as the load increases. If, however, we attempt to use the circuit in reverse, driving it with a voltage at port 2 and calculate the resulting voltage at port 1 the expression gives completely the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_function_matrix |
The National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden (NSC) is located in Linköping and operates the Triolith supercomputer which achieved 407.2 Teraflop/s on the Linpack benchmark which placed it 79th on the November 2013 TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. In mid-2018 "Triolith" will be superseded by "Tetra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_Europe |
A catalyst increases the rate of a reaction without being consumed in the reaction. The use of a catalyst does not affect the position and composition of the equilibrium of a reaction, because both the forward and backward reactions are sped up by the same factor. For example, consider the Haber process for the synthes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chatelier's_principle |
"The disparity between male and female artists on country radio became even more obvious during the back half of this decade, with one study finding that male artists accounted for 5.5 to 1 in total airplay during the years 2000–2018. In 2018, that number only increased, with a ratio of male vs. female at 9.7 to 1. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_pop |
An example with n = 1 {\displaystyle n=1} is the circle: we can take V1 to be the unit tangent vector field, say pointing in the anti-clockwise direction. The torus of dimension n {\displaystyle n} is also parallelizable, as can be seen by expressing it as a cartesian product of circles. For example, take n = 2 , {\dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigged_manifold |
This discovery was important in relying on hCG as an early marker of pregnancy. In the Aschheim and Zondek test, an infantile female mouse was injected subcutaneously with urine of the woman to be tested, and the mouse later was killed and dissected. Presence of ovulation indicated that the urine contained hCG and mean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCG_pregnancy_strip_test |
However, within months Henry began a magnificent new palace in a version of Renaissance style. This, called Richmond Palace has been described as the first prodigy house, a term for the ostentatious mansions of Elizabeth's courtiers and others, and was influential on other great houses for decades to come as well as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Style_architecture |
All these problems are solved with a dynamic programming approach. This dynamic programming method involves traversing the two trees in a postorder. Proceeding from the leaves and then going up in the two trees, for each couple of internal nodes (one for each tree), the cost of a most parsimonious DTL reconciliation is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_reconciliation |
During this process, gall-like structures are produced by the host Absidia glauca. This coupled with further evidence has led to the assumption that trisporiods are not strictly species specific and that trisporiods represent the general principle of mating recognition in Mucorales. == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisporic_acid |
Because of its location in the galactic disk, σ Cyg is obstructed by interstellar dust and is reddened by around 0.2 magnitudes and loses about 0.6 magnitudes at visual wavelengths. Allowing for this, the star is over 50,000 times as luminous as the sun. Spectral analysis of the star showed that photospheric SiII and H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Cygni |
Like conventional photography, holography requires an appropriate exposure time to correctly affect the recording medium. Unlike conventional photography, during the exposure the light source, the optical elements, the recording medium, and the subject must all remain motionless relative to each other, to within about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography |
A multipart/signed message is used to attach a digital signature to a message. It has exactly two body parts, a body part and a signature part. The whole of the body part, including mime fields, is used to create the signature part. Many signature types are possible, like "application/pgp-signature" (RFC 3156) and "app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME_media_type |
Due to the fact that the Conventional Model primary focus is on the individual and their wholeness measured by one's personal and emotional well being during a specific period of time, it has been contested that this model is not the best suited when it comes to addressing one's illness in the long term. Thus, the conv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levine's_conservation_model_for_nursing |
: 52 Construction continued at an increased rate as new workers arrived. When the canal reached Montezuma Marsh (at the outlet of Cayuga Lake west of Syracuse), it was rumored that over 1,000 workers died of "swamp fever" (malaria), and construction was temporarily stopped. However, recent research has revealed that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Canal |
Kodak Black was placed into a youth detention center three times in one year, and then placed on probation.In October 2015, he was arrested in Pompano Beach and charged with robbery, battery, false imprisonment of a child, and possession of cannabis. He was later released.In April 2016, Kodak Black was arrested in Hall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Black |
A typical remediation may consist of electrodes spaced 15 to 20 feet apart with operating times usually less than a year. The design and cost of an ERH remediation system depends on a number of factors, primarily the volume of soil/groundwater to be treated, the type of contamination, and the treatment goals. The physi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistance_heating_remediation |
Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His prolific body of work mainly focuses on religiosity, Middle Eastern studies, postcolonialism, and not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talal_Asad |
Health technology assessment is intended to provide a bridge between the world of research and the world of decision-making. HTA is an active field internationally and has seen continued growth fostered by the need to support management, clinical, and policy decisions. It has also been advanced by the evolution of eval... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Technology_Assessment |
Our generic formula φ now is a sentence, in normal form, and its prefix starts with a universal quantifier and ends with an existential quantifier. Let us call the class of all such formulas R. We are faced with proving that every formula in R is either refutable or satisfiable. Given our formula φ, we group strings of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_proof_of_Gödel's_completeness_theorem |
After William the Conqueror became king in 1066, he ordered that January 1 be re-established as the civil New Year to coincide with his coronation. From about 1155, England and Scotland joined much of Europe to celebrate the New Year on March 25, falling in line with the rest of Christendom.In the Middle Ages in Europe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year |
In the study of mechanisms, a four-bar linkage, also called a four-bar, is the simplest closed-chain movable linkage. It consists of four bodies, called bars or links, connected in a loop by four joints. Generally, the joints are configured so the links move in parallel planes, and the assembly is called a planar four-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-bar_linkage |
Challis was born in Braintree, Essex where his father, John Challis, was a stonemason. After attending various local schools, he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1825 as Senior Wrangler and first Smith's prizeman. He was elected a fellow of Trinity in 1826 and was ordained in 1830. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Challis |
Their chemical compositions, as measured by APXS, are significantly different from each other. Most importantly, all of the rocks in Columbia Hills show various degrees of alteration due to aqueous fluids. They are enriched in the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, and bromine—all of which can be carried around in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover |
Therese "Terry" Kucera is an astrophysicist in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Solar Physics Laboratory. Her research interests center on the solar atmosphere, especially solar prominences and prominence cavities. She currently serves as Project Scientist for NASA's STEREO project.Dr. Kucera came to NASA/Goddard in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kucera |
When clothes are run through the cycle, the intended mode of action is that bacteria contained in the water are sterilized as they interact with the silver present in the washing tub. As a result, these washing machines can provide antibacterial and sterilization benefits on top of conventional washing methods. Samsung... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_nanoparticles |
On March 16, 2012, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's "The Art of Video Games" exhibit opened featuring a chipmusic soundtrack at the entrance by artists 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer. 8 Bit Weapon also created a track called "The Art of Video Games Anthem" for the exhibit as well. In July 2017, they released "Class App... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Bit_Weapon |
Also, hypersensitivity of the central nervous system to low-grade hyperthyroidism can result in an anxiety disorder before other Graves' disease symptoms emerge. E.g., panic disorder has been reported to precede Graves' hyperthyroidism by 4 to 5 years in some cases, although it is not known how frequently this occurs.H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_and_symptoms_of_Graves'_disease |
One may define field extensions of the field with one element as the group of roots of unity, or more finely (with a geometric structure) as the group scheme of roots of unity. This is non-naturally isomorphic to the cyclic group of order n, the isomorphism depending on choice of a primitive root of unity: F 1 n = μ n ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_with_one_element |
Roulette-wheel selection is perhaps the most popular selection scheme used in evolutionary computation. It involves mapping the fitness of each program to a slice of the roulette wheel proportional to its fitness. Then the roulette is spun as many times as there are programs in the population in order to keep the popul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression_programming |
Dragon king (DK) is a double metaphor for an event that is both extremely large in size or effect (a "king") and born of unique origins (a "dragon") relative to its peers (other events from the same system). DK events are generated by or correspond to mechanisms such as positive feedback, tipping points, bifurcations, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_king_theory |
F P {\displaystyle \mathbf {F} ^{\mathrm {P} }} is the deterministic nonhydrodynamic force, which may be almost any form of interparticle or external force, e.g. electrostatic repulsion between like charged particles. Brownian dynamics is one of the popular techniques of solving the Langevin equation, but the hydrodyna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokesian_dynamics |
Functional programs do not have assignment statements, that is, the value of a variable in a functional program never changes once defined. This eliminates any chances of side effects because any variable can be replaced with its actual value at any point of execution. So, functional programs are referentially transpar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_language |
An estimate of the range of distances from the Sun allowing the existence of liquid water appears in Newton's Principia (Book III, Section 1, corol. 4).The concept of a circumstellar habitable zone was first introduced in 1913, by Edward Maunder in his book "Are The Planets Inhabited?". The concept was later discussed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone |
Retailers and marketing agents have had to adapt to the ever-growing and conscious flow of demand for organic foods. Organic products are perceived as premium products, which requires the market to handle them in such a way to create, preserve, and possibly enhance this perception.As a consequence of the fact that cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food_culture |
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green tags, Renewable Energy Credits, Renewable Electricity Certificates, or Tradable Renewable Certificates (TRCs), are tradable, non-tangible energy certificates in the United States that represent proof that 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated from a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Energy_Certificate_(United_States) |
Transfection is the process of introducing exogenous DNA into eukaryotic cells. It is a more specific term for animal cells, as the process of carcinogenesis in these cells is also included in the definition of transformation. Typically, transfection describes the changes in a cell's genome due to the introduction of f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exogenous_DNA |
In the most widely cited theory of generative art, in 2003 Philip Galanter describes generative art systems in the context of complexity theory. In particular the notion of Murray Gell-Mann and Seth Lloyd's effective complexity is cited. In this view both highly ordered and highly disordered generative art can be viewe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art |
Research shows that high number of marginalized parents do not actively engage in their children's schooling. There is also a wide gap between the rhetoric of best parental involvement practices and actual parental involvement practices. Effective parental Involvement in the education of their children involves; parent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_education |
The final phases, the Crew Training phase, lasts a year and a half and is dedicated to detailed vehicle operations procedures, ISS training, and the English language. Training primarily takes place at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. The center facilities have full size mockups of all major Soviet and Russia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_simulator |
The nut kernels of all the species are edible, but the walnuts most commonly traded are from the J. regia, the only species which has a large nut and thin shell. J. nigra kernels are also produced commercially in the US. Two-thirds of the world export market and 99% of US walnuts are grown in California's Central Valle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_tree |
Though he does not use the term "culture of fear," what Curtis describes in his film is a reflection of this concept. He looks at the American neo-conservative movement and its depiction of the threat first from the Soviet Union and then from radical Islamists. Curtis insists there has been a largely illusory fear of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_fear |
This method of skinning is very popular among taxidermists, as the backbone is easier to access and cleaner than the stomach and between the legs. A dorsal incision is made by laying the animal on its abdomen and making a single cut from the base of the tail to the shoulder region. The animal’s skin is easier to remove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinning |
In probability theory and statistics, the U-quadratic distribution is a continuous probability distribution defined by a unique convex quadratic function with lower limit a and upper limit b. f ( x | a , b , α , β ) = α ( x − β ) 2 , for x ∈ . {\displaystyle f(x|a,b,\alpha ,\beta )=\alpha \left(x-\beta \right)^{2},\qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-quadratic_distribution |
He highlights six characteristics needed from a rhetorical situation that are necessary to creating discourse. A situation calls a rhetor to create discourse, it invites a response to fit the situation, the response meets the necessary requirements of the situation, the exigence which creates the discourse is located i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_studies |
The VAX 8600 features one SBI but could be configured with two. The SBIs are provided by SBI adapters that interface the SBI to an internal adapter bus connected to the M Box. Each SBI has 16 slots for I/O devices, although only 15 are usable as one slot is reserved for the SBI adapter. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_8000 |
It is straightforward to check that these operations are well-defined, that is, they give the same result for different choices of representatives of fractions. The localization of a module can be equivalently defined by using tensor products: S − 1 M = S − 1 R ⊗ R M . {\displaystyle S^{-1}M=S^{-1}R\otimes _{R}M.} The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localization_of_rings_and_modules |
In mathematics, especially in homological algebra and algebraic topology, a Künneth theorem, also called a Künneth formula, is a statement relating the homology of two objects to the homology of their product. The classical statement of the Künneth theorem relates the singular homology of two topological spaces X and Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunneth_formula |
Close to the Earth's surface, the gravitational field is approximately constant, and the gravitational potential energy of an object reduces to U = m g h {\displaystyle U=mgh} where m {\displaystyle m} is the object's mass, g = G M E / R E 2 {\displaystyle g=GM_{E}/R_{E}^{2}} is the gravity of Earth, and h {\displaysty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_engineering:_A–L |
The design of the self-sealing suction cup was initially inspired by the suckers of the octopus and its ability to pick up different sized items by individually actuating its suction cups based on the item's size and physical features.The internal geometry of the self-sealing suction cup was designed to the smallest po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sealing_suction_cup |
Although the emotional impact of separation is similar to that of divorce, some argue that a temporary separation may also occur to enhance the marriage as a tool to stay together. Some experts regard a six-month separation as good amount of time for a temporary separation, since it is long enough to set up a second ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_separation |
Fag stag and fruit fly are slang terms for a heterosexual man who either enjoys or prefers the company of, or simply has numerous friends who are, gay or bisexual people. Both terms include derogatory terms for homosexuals (fag and fruit).The term, which originated in the United States in the 1990s, is the male equival... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fag_stag |
When input comes in faster than the speed of the process, accumulation starts to occur. This means that the machine either does not have enough capacity, is not being fully utilized or has an under-qualified operator. This method is not effective at identifying bottlenecks where the queues are at several process steps,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_bottleneck |
constitution, but decided against it partly to avoid confusion with Christian Science. Early chiropractors also tapped into the Populist movement, emphasizing craft, hard work, competition, and advertisement, aligning themselves with the common man against intellectuals and trusts, among which they included the America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_medicine |
In the early 1930s, Johnston contracted rheumatic fever and the illness affected his heart. A physician uncle told Johnston's father not to send Johnston to college because the young man would not survive long enough to get much use out of the education. Johnston said he later learned that the disease was associated wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_S._Johnston |
Examples shown below list both proteins that contain the ITAM themselves and proteins that use ITAM-based signalling with the help of associated proteins which contain the motif. CD3γ, CD3δ, CD3ε, TYROBP (DAP12), FcαRI, FcγRI, FcγRII, FcγRIII, Dectin-1, CLEC-1, CD28, CD72 == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoreceptor_tyrosine-based_activation_motif |
While the technique is now known as 'branch tables', early compiler users called the implementation 'computed GoTo', referring to the instruction found in the Fortran series of compilers. The instruction was eventually deprecated in Fortran 90 (in favour of SELECT & CASE statements at the source level). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_table |
(Final rule published September 17, 2015)Mandatory produce safety standards The FDA must establish science-based, minimum standards for the safe production and harvesting of fruits and vegetables. Those standards must consider naturally occurring hazards, as well as those that may be introduced either unintentionally o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act |
Vancomycin has long been considered a drug of last resort, due to its efficiency in treating multiple drug-resistant infectious agents and the requirement for intravenous administration. Recently, resistance to even vancomycin has been shown in some strains of S. aureus (sometimes referred to as vancomycin resistant S.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_of_last_resort |
Conversely, if the player loses, they are assumed to have performed at a lower level. If the game is a draw, the two players are assumed to have performed at nearly the same level. Elo did not specify exactly how close two performances ought to be to result in a draw as opposed to a win or loss. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating |
Cherenkov radiation (; Russian: Эффект Вавилова–Черенкова, lit. 'Vavilov–Cherenkov effect') is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of light in that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilov–Cherenkov_effect |
It is related to them very much as a synthetic language is related to our own analytic English. The three terms are purely quantitative—and relative, that is, a language may be “analytic” from one standpoint, “synthetic” from another. I believe the terms are more useful in defining certain drifts than as absolute count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language |
While outside of the breeding season, the sex ratio is one to one, Spencer Gulf males outnumber females by up to 11 to one in the spawning aggregation. If this is due to fewer females taking part or to males breeding for a longer period of time than females is not known. With densities of one cuttlefish per square metr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_cuttlefish |
Within the crossbow, the lever was embedded with a special metal trigger composed of a latch and sear; the entire trigger being shaped like a crab's claw arm. Upon pushing the lever forward, the trigger was moved forward to catch the drawstring and becomes locked firm by friction and tensional forces from grooves insid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_crossbow |
In Western Europe before the 19th century, the most common way for girls to access education was at home, through private tutoring, and not at school, due to the strong resistance to women's involvement in schools. This attitude began to change in the 17th and 18th centuries, when girls' schools were established in bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sex_education |
A kang which covers the entire floor is called a dikang (Chinese: 地炕; pinyin: dì kàng; lit. 'ground kang'). Like the European masonry stove, a massive block of masonry is used to retain heat. While it might take several hours of heating to reach the desired surface temperature, a properly designed bed raised to suffici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_bed-stove |
Many early Android OS smartphones were equipped with a dedicated search button for quick access to a web search engine and individual apps' internal search feature. More recent devices typically allow the former through a long press or swipe away from the home button.The dedicated option key, also known as menu key, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Ops |
One study which examined the link between exposure to artificial light at night (ALAN) and levels of breast cancer in South Korea found that regions which had the highest levels of ALAN reported the highest number of cases of breast cancer. Seoul, which had the highest levels of light pollution, had 34.4% more cases of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Pollution |
It has been conjectured that both stories were created to illustrate an already existing proverb.The French author Jean de La Fontaine also adapted the first of these fables as Le chartier embourbé (Fables VI.18) and draws the moral Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera (Help yourself and Heaven will help you too). A little earli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helps_those_who_help_themselves |
The last rock in an end is called the hammer, and throwing the hammer gives a team a tactical advantage. Before the game, teams typically decide who gets the hammer in the first end either by chance (such as a coin toss), by a "draw-to-the-button" contest, where a representative of each team shoots to see who gets clos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling_broom |
The ability to experience pain in an animal, or another human for that matter, cannot be determined directly but it may be inferred through analogous physiological and behavioral reactions. Although many animals share similar mechanisms of pain detection to those of humans, have similar areas of the brain involved in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_animals |
A zester (also, citrus zester or lemon zester) is a kitchen utensil for obtaining zest from lemons and other citrus fruit. A kitchen zester is approximately four inches (100 mm) long, with a handle and a curved metal end, the top of which is perforated with a row of round holes with sharpened rims. To operate, the zest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zester |
Unlike the Masters Premium line, these drums are only made from maple, with the choice of 5,4 mm. These drums are available only in Europe. Session Studio Classic (SSC) – Introduced at Winter NAMM 2012, the Session Studio Classic line reintroduces the Session Series for the first time in five years. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Drums |
There are no publicly available balance sheets from Rae Technology but the highly competitive and rather small PIM market should not have generated a lot of income. A full license of that program was sold for $199, upgrades for $29. With patents for web site design software pending, the efforts and technology for this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Technology |
The rapid growth of agricultural education began during the late 19th century. In 1862, the United States Congress created the Department of Agriculture to gather and distribute agricultural information. The Morrill Act, which provided the land-grant schools, became law that same year. The Hatch Act of 1887 gave federa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_education |
Although this article constructs the frame fields as a coordinate system on the tangent bundle of a manifold, the general ideas move over easily to the concept of a vector bundle, which is a manifold endowed with a vector space at each point, that vector space being arbitrary, and not in general related to the tangent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_frame |
World-disclosing arguments are a group of philosophical arguments that according to Nikolas Kompridis employ a disclosive approach, to reveal features of a wider ontological or cultural-linguistic understanding—a "world", in a specifically ontological sense—in order to clarify or transform the background of meaning (ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument |
The appearance or the disappearance of a periodic orbit through a local change in the stability properties of a fixed point is known as the Hopf bifurcation. The following theorem works for fixed points with one pair of conjugate nonzero purely imaginary eigenvalues. It tells the conditions under which this bifurcation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopf_bifurcation |
ECOT was founded in 2000 by William "Bill" Lager, under an agreement with Lucas County Educational Service Center, and was managed by his company, Altair Learning Management. Lager made extensive contributions to Ohio Republican politicians.In 2016, the Ohio Department of Education determined that ECOT had been oversta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Classroom_of_Tomorrow |
Packet craft were used extensively in European coastal mail services since the 17th century, and gradually added cramped passenger accommodation. Passenger accommodations were minimal: transportation, "firing" (i.e. a place to cook), drinking water (often tasting of indigo or tobacco, which the water casks had previous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_ship |
In 2001 Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas compiled a traveling exhibit containing 34 other Chinese fossils. The show is titled Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origin of Flight. The San Diego Natural History Museum paid a set fee to the Dinosaur Museum to display this show in 2004. When the show opened, Dr. Ji Qiang told reporters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoraptor |
In 2008, the U.S. Treasury Department partnered with Comerica Bank to offer the Direct Express Debit MasterCard prepaid debit card.In July 2013, the Association of Government Accountants released a report on government use of prepaid cards, concluding that such programs offer a number of advantages to governments and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_Debit_Cards |
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