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Intuitively, the algorithm combines the square root speedup from the birthday paradox using (classical) randomness with the square root speedup from Grover's (quantum) algorithm. First, n1/3 inputs to f are selected at random and f is queried at all of them. If there is a collision among these inputs, then we return th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHT_algorithm
Comicraft has produced a 64-page book detailing the basics of lettering comics: Comic Book Lettering: The Comicraft Way ISBN 978-0-9740567-3-9Comics and books either lettered by, or featuring fonts created by, Starkings/Comicraft include: Batman: The Killing Joke (DC) (By Alan Moore and Brian Bolland) — hand-lettered b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comicraft
The homeless epidemic facing Portland has increased in previous years, particularly after the spread of COVID-19. Following the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020, Portland had cut $26.9 million dollars from the police force’s budget. Furthermore, the Portland Police Bureau had specified responding to high-pri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Park
The primary is at the end of its main sequence life and is likely in the short contraction phase known as a hook, where core hydrogen fusion has ceased but shell burning has not yet started, before ascending towards the red giant branch. Photometric and spectroscopic observations have allowed the direct determination o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Phoenicis
Simple Green is an American brand of cleaning products produced by Sunshine Makers, Inc. Their best known product is Simple Green All-Purpose Cleaner, which totaled sales of at least US$5.7 million in 2004.It is advertised as an environmentally friendly, non-toxic, and biodegradable cleaner. It received critical attent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Green
An early system for recreational scuba, the Wet Phone, was launched by Sound Wave Systems in 1977, but failed. By the mid-1980s miniaturized electronics made it possible to use single-sideband modulation, which greatly improved intelligibility in good conditions. By 1988 several systems using single side-band were foun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diver_communications
"As long ago as 1848", wrote Martin Bates, "Sir William Tite had deduced that nearly all the land south of Thames Street in the City of London 'had been gained from the river by a series of strong embankments'." Evidence of such land gain is now commonplace.Although they have not been investigated very systematically b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embanking_of_the_tidal_Thames
These design modifications will not be shared with other companies. These semi-custom core designs also have brand freedom, for example Kryo 280.In addition to licences for their core designs and BoC licence, Arm offers an "architectural licence" for their instruction set architectures, allowing the licensees to design...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_(company)
The concept of lifelong learning (as facilitated by a learning society) would allow for higher education to be undertaken at any stage of the students life (perhaps even on more than one occasion) rather than at the traditional undergraduate stage. Based very much in the “world education culture” model”, learning socie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_society
They type of objects in the collection, available space, and need for ease of accessibility tend to determine what type of storage system is utilized for a particular collection. There are many generic storage systems that can be purchased and modified to fit the needs of a specific collection, and this is generally mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_property_storage
In computer storage, disk buffer (often ambiguously called disk cache or cache buffer) is the embedded memory in a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) acting as a buffer between the rest of the computer and the physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is used for storage. Modern hard disk drives com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_buffer
They are also rated as "absolute" if the strength of the field can be calibrated from their own known internal constants or "relative" if they need to be calibrated by reference to a known field. A magnetograph is a magnetometer that continuously records data over time. This data is typically represented in magnetogram...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID_magnetometers
In Shinto, it is believed that the god resides within a sacred object housed at the shrine. It is possible for a deity to be in more than one place at a time, as such a Kami may be housed at many shrines, as well as being omnipresent and omniscient. Sukuna Hikona is enshrined at, Oarai Isosaki-jinja. In the Montoku Jit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukunabikona
While there is no direct evidence of conditions on Earth 4 to 3.8 Ga, there is no reason to think that the Earth was not also affected by this late heavy bombardment. This event may well have stripped away any previous atmosphere and oceans; in this case gases and water from comet impacts may have contributed to their ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_evolution_of_life
An English study recruiting non-cyclist older adults aged 50 to 83 to participate as either conventional pedal bike cyclists, electrically assisted e-bike cyclists, or a non-cyclist control group in outdoor trails measured cognitive function through executive function, spatial reasoning, and memory tests and well-being...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling
The format, which Adobe has made public, is based on OpenType. The package consists of the glyph outline in TrueType or CFF (PostScript style outlines) form; standard OpenType tables declaring the glyph's metrics and behavior in composition; and metadata, extra information included for identifying the glyphlet, its own...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType_math
At their earliest appearance in the fossil record, the ground sloths were already distinct at the family level. Sloths dispersed into the Greater Antilles during the Oligocene, and the presence of intervening islands between the American continents in the Miocene allowed a dispersal of some species into North America, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth
After dry roasting, peanuts are removed from the oven as quickly as possible and directly placed in a blower-cooler cylinder. There are suction fans in the metal cylinder that can pull a large volume of air through, so the peanuts can be cooled more efficiently. The peanuts will not be dried out because cooling can hel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter
Portability: Devices/nodes connected within the mobile computing system should facilitate mobility. These devices may have limited device capabilities and limited power supply but should have a sufficient processing capability and physical portability to operate in a movable environment. Connectivity: This defines the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_computer
Suppose the fecal occult blood (FOB) screen test is used in 2030 people to look for bowel cancer: The small positive predictive value (PPV = 10%) indicates that many of the positive results from this testing procedure are false positives. Thus it will be necessary to follow up any positive result with a more reliable t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_and_negative_predictive_values
SS7 separates signaling from the voice circuits. An SS7 network must be made up of SS7-capable equipment from end to end in order to provide its full functionality. The network can be made up of several link types (A, B, C, D, E, and F) and three signaling nodes – Service Switching Points (SSPs), Signal Transfer Points...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_System
In mid-June 2004, Winer temporarily shut down free blog-hosting services there, without any notice, citing server and personal problems. Criticism from many bloggers was intense. Dave Winer, who had originally promised to get the blogs back up and running within a two-week period, was able to restore them much faster t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs.com
Levels of sBCMA among patients with MM were elevated when compared with healthy controls (P<0.0001) and those with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) (P=0.0157). Furthermore, sBCMA levels were significantly higher among patients with smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) and untreated active MM patie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum_B-cell_maturation_antigen
The objective of the play is to win tricks. A trick consists of four cards, one from the hand of each player, in rotation, the first card played to a trick generally being called the lead. A player is required to follow suit to the card led, if possible. Failure to follow suit when a player has a card of the suit playe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid_whist
On the one hand, many of them harassed and pillaged the Chinese, which gave them a genuine grievance. On the other, it is quite clear that the Chinese were increasingly encroaching upon the territory of these peoples, getting the better of them by trickery, and putting many of them under subjection. By vilifying them a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian
Let F be a field of characteristic different from 2. Then there is an isomorphism K n M ( F ) / 2 ≅ H e ´ t n ( F , Z / 2 Z ) {\displaystyle K_{n}^{M}(F)/2\cong H_{{\acute {e}}t}^{n}(F,\mathbb {Z} /2\mathbb {Z} )} for all n ≥ 0, where KM denotes the Milnor ring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milnor_conjecture
Neither was directly replaced, although the DSM-III index refers people looking for the former to "dysthymic disorder" (a long-term and relatively mild form of depression), and the latter to "dependent personality disorder". In 1981, Maslach and fellow American psychologist Susan E. Jackson published an instrument for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burnout
Hoards may be of precious metals, coinage, tools or less commonly, pottery or glass vessels. There are various classifications depending on the nature of the hoard. A founder's hoard contains broken or unfit metal objects, ingots, casting waste, and often complete objects, in a finished state. These were probably burie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoard
The predicted growth is associated advancement in technology and industrialization of those countries for the past decade. GDP – per capita: purchasing power parity – $9,300, €7,500 (2005 est. ), $8,200, €6,800 (92) (2003), $7,900, €5,000 (2002) World median income: purchasing power parity $1,041, €950 (1993) GDP – com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_economy
The change (and the receipt, when requested) are returned to the person who paid by the same means. In intra-city routes, where they compete with official buses, the drivers usually coordinate their travel by radio so that they can arrive at the bus station just before public transport buses and take the most passenger...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi
Up until 2004, ICCF correspondence chess was played only via email and postal mail. For playing by these two forms of transmission, the ICCF sanctioned the use of ICCF numeric notation, sometimes known as Koch notation. However, if players agreed to use a mutually agreeable notation system, this was accepted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_Chess
The tangent modulus is useful in describing the behavior of materials that have been stressed beyond the elastic region. When a material is plastically deformed there is no longer a linear relationship between stress and strain as there is for elastic deformations. The tangent modulus quantifies the "softening" or "har...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_modulus
Zeiss Industrial Metrology specializes in high-accuracy measurement systems, including coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs), computed tomography measurement machines (non-medical), optical measuring equipment, metrology software and measurement sensor systems. The Industrial Metrology subsidiary provides this equipment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_AG
In the Alternate Mode one of up to four high speed links are used in whatever direction is needed. SBU1, SBU2 provide an additional lower speed link. If two high speed links remain unused, then a USB 3.0/3.1 link can be established concurrently to the Alternate Mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Type-C
The human body can briefly survive the hard vacuum of space unprotected, despite contrary depictions in much popular science fiction. Human flesh expands to about twice its size in such conditions, giving the visual effect of a body builder rather than an overfilled balloon. Consciousness is retained for up to 15 secon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_suit
Akira Battle Angel Alita/Gunm The webcomic Dresden Codak stars a transhuman cyborg named Kimiko Ross who augments her body over the course of the strip's stories. The comic Transmetropolitan is about a transhuman society several centuries in the future that includes many cyborgs, uploaded humans, and genetically modifi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism_in_fiction
K2-38b has a very tight orbit around its host star. The planet takes just 4 days to complete a single orbit at a distance of about 0.05 AU. For comparison, Mercury orbits every 88 days at 0.38 AU from the Sun. The eccentricity of K2-38's orbit is slightly larger than that of Mars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-38b
MOUN soon provided expert consultations to other sub-regional planning commissions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf region. Before this, regional planning in Saudi Arabia had mostly been conducted by international consultants, but MOUN provided an opportunity for direct involvement in planning by qua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Urban_Observatories_in_Saudi_Arabia
In western Scotland, including Galloway: markland (merkland, marg-fhearann) 8 ouncelands (varied) ounceland (unceland, tir-unga) 20 pennylands pennyland (peighinn) basic unit; sub-divided into halfpenny-land and farthing-land.Also: quarterland (ceathramh Of variable value: one-quarter of a Markland. groatland (Scottish...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_units
The name Nazareth cookie came from the people of Nazareth, Pennsylvania who came from Germany. The cookie later took on other names in other countries. In England they were called sugar biscuits as well as jumbles. Sugar cookies were also called gemmells, crybabies, gimbletts, cimbellines, jumbles, and plunketts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_cookie
Migrant social structures in Chinese megacities are often based on place of origin, such as a shared hometown or province, and recruiters and foremen commonly select entire work-crews from the same village. In two separate June 2011 incidents, Sichuanese migrant workers organized violent protests against alleged police...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora
AC is a common feature of glucagonoma syndrome. Infrequently, angular cheilitis may be one of the manifestations of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, and sometimes cases of oropharyngeal or esophageal candidiasis may accompany angular cheilitis. Angular cheilitis may be present in human immunodeficiency virus infectio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_stomatitis
The 2014 Awards was the first year of the China Car of the Year. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class took the award, with the Range Rover and Ford Mondeo coming second and third. Mercedes-Benz S-Class Car of the Year Porsche Panamera E-Hybrid Green Car of the Year DS 5 Design Car of the Year Porsche 918 Spyder Performance Car of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Car_of_the_Year
By definition, PFS refers to the date on which progression is detected. An advantage of measuring PFS over measuring OS is that PFS appears sooner than deaths, allowing faster trials. PFS also allows for greater insight into consequences of diseases and treatments that fall below the threshold of mortality, such as pai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progression-free_survival
For improved shifting, the shift lever was shortened, stiffened and moved rearward by 78 mm (3.1 in). A number of safety improvements were made in order to comply with new American safety regulations: these included trigger-operated outside door handles, a secondary front hood latch, collapsing steering column, soft ve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_beetle
Water towers and storage tanks, often prominent features in a small town, are two types of buildings which have been shaped or decorated to look like everyday objects. There are many versions of these types of novelty architecture. Water towers exist in many forms, among them peaches, coffee pots, and teapots; corn cob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_architecture
KarTrak ACI tags consisted of a plate with 13 horizontal labels put in a vertical arrangement that are also understood as data lines, which could have 13 different forms. These labels, or symbols, stand for the single digits 0-9, the number 10 as an extra feature for the checksum line, and the "START" and "STOP" labels...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KarTrak
The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser designed for long range, high speed and an armament of naval guns around 203 mm (8 in) in calibre. The first heavy cruisers were built in 1915, although it only became a widespread classification following the London Naval Treaty in 1930. The heavy cruiser's immediate precursors ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_missile_cruisers
Tetraacetylethane is the organic compound with the nominal formula 2. It is a white solid that has attracted interest as a precursor to heterocycles and metal complexes. It is prepared by oxidation of sodium acetylacetonate: I2 + 2 NaCH(C(O)CH3)2 → 2 + 2 NaIReminiscent of the case of acetylacetone, tetraacetylethane ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraacetylethane
Integra acquired ELI, and eventually renamed Integra as Electric Lightwave. Electric Lightwave, formerly known as Integra was a privately owned provider of fiber-based, carrier-grade networking, communications and technology solutions, headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, United States. In 2016, the company split in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Lightwave
Jelcz M11 is a Polish step entrance city bus manufactured by Jelczańskie Zakłady Samochodowe in Jelcz-Laskowice near Oława. It was manufactured from 1985 until 1990. From constructional side it was a hybrid made from modified body chassis of Jelcz PR110 and frame and drivetrain of Ikarus 260. During its production ther...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelcz_M11
That same year, along with Jeff Rubin, Knight designed and implemented a network file system that provided the first transparent remote file access over the ARPANET. In 1974, Knight designed and implemented the prototype version of the MIT Lisp Machine processor, with the production version following in 1976. The Lisp ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_(scientist)
LNLC regions are generally not found near coasts, owing to the fact that coastal areas receive more nutrients from terrestrial sources and upwelling. In marine systems, seasonal and decadal variability of primary productivity in LNLC regions is driven in part by large-scale climatic regimes (e.g. El Niño-Southern Oscil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-nutrient,_low-chlorophyll_region
These dyes produce brilliant colors that work well with animal fibers, especially silk. Because of poor colorfastness, aniline dyes are seldom used with textiles today. archil Archil is a dye produced from the lichen Roccella tinctoria which also produces cudbear and litmus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_dyeing_terms
The Antiaris tree is found in grassy savanna and coastal plateaus. In Africa, there are three varieties clearly distinguished by habitat and their juvenile forms. One is confined mainly to wooded grassland, the other two are found in wet forests; rainforest, riverine forest and semi-swamp forests. It generally does not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiaris_toxicaria
Additionally, women around the world are denied an education as their families may find it more economically beneficial to invest in the education and wellbeing of their males instead of their females. In the parent's eyes the son will be the one who provides for them in their old age while the daughter will move away ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Mobility
The term collard has been used to include many non-heading Brassica oleracea crops. While American collards are best placed in the Viridis crop group, the Acephala cultivar group is also used ("without a head" in Greek) referring to a lack of close-knit core of leaves (a "head") like cabbage does, making collards more ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collard_greens
Patients present with hyperthyroidism and may be mistaken for Graves’ disease, if TSH receptor positive, or thyroiditis because of absent uptake on a thyroid radionuclide uptake scan due to suppression of thyroid function by exogenous thyroid hormones. Ingestion of thyroid hormone also suppresses thyroglobulin levels h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrotoxicosis_factitia
2018/19 EOSTA B.V. (Netherlands), for the "True Cost of Food” campaign which calculates and communicates the hidden costs of the food system 2016/17 Fairphone BV (Netherlands), for ethical electronics 2014/15 Interface Nederland BV (Netherlands), for Net-Works 2012 INENSUS GmbH (Germany), for MicroPowerEconomy – a Priv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Business_Awards_for_the_Environment
The chief argument in favour of the network model, in comparison to the hierarchical model, was that it allowed a more natural modeling of relationships between entities. Although the model was widely implemented and used, it failed to become dominant for two main reasons. Firstly, IBM chose to stick to the hierarchica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_model
The geometric median is the point to which the population has the smallest possible sum of distances (or equivalently, the smallest average distance). Because of this property, it is also known as the point of minimum aggregate travel. Unfortunately, there is no direct closed-form expression for the geometric median; i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population
Traditionally, semantics has been understood to be the study of how speakers and interpreters assign truth values to statements, so that meaning is understood to be the process by which a predicate can be said to be true or false about an entity, e.g. "]" or "]". Recently, this model of semantics has been complemented ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_languages
A case study of women and men in CS at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-1990s found that women and men tended to have different attitudes toward computing—women wanted to be productive with computer science, and men were more interested in computer science itself. It was also learned that women had significantly l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_disparity_in_computing
Lemche and Athas suggests that bytdwd could be a place-name and Athas that it refers to Jerusalem (so that the author might be claiming to have killed the son of the king of Jerusalem, rather than the son of the king from the "house of David"). R.G. Lehmann and M. Reichel proposes interpreting the phrase as a reference...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_stele
In the direct effects (also called main effects) hypothesis, people with high social support are in better health than people with low social support, regardless of stress. In addition to showing buffering effects, perceived support also shows consistent direct effects for mental health outcomes. Both perceived support...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_support
A traffic signal is typically controlled by a controller mounted inside a cabinet. Some electro-mechanical controllers are still in use (New York City still had 4,800 as of 1998, though the number is lower now due to the prevalence of the signal controller boxes). However, modern traffic controllers are solid state. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_control_and_coordination
According to Citroën, the 19_19 Concept's design was inspired by aerospace, with what the manufacturer calls a "double prospex bonnet" housing LED headlights that span the front of the vehicle, forming the brand's logo at its center, located above the "Origins" logo. The rear of the vehicle features tail lights that ec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_19_19_Concept
Finally, the goal is to decide whether which power cells are going to be move. Considering all x {\displaystyle x} vertices on the surface, finding the minimizer ω m i n {\displaystyle \omega _{min}} of the following convex function will produce the matched power diagram for the target: f ( ω ) = ∑ s i ∈ S ( ω i . μ S ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(optics)
Bourns, Inc. is an American electronics company that develops, manufactures and supplies electronic components for a variety of industries including automotive, industrial, instrumentation, medical electronics, consumer equipment and portable electronics.Established in Altadena, California in 1947 by Marlan and Rosemar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourns,_Inc.
The providers committed resources to technically improve OpenDocument through existing standards bodies and to promote its usage in the marketplace, possibly through a stand-alone foundation. Scholars have suggested that the "OpenDocument standard is the wedge that can hold open the door for competition, particularly w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Document
The primary goals of health services research are to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety. HSR is more concerned with delivery and high quality access to care, in contrast to medical research, which focuses on the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_services_research
Thus if A ranks ahead of B and C (which compare equal) which are both ranked ahead of D, then A gets ranking number 1 ("first"), B and C each get ranking number 2.5 (average of "joint second/third") and D gets ranking number 4 ("fourth"). Here is an example: Suppose you have the data set 1.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank_order
The Swedish mining and forestry products company Stora has documented a stock transfer, in 1288 in exchange for an estate. The earliest recognized joint-stock company in modern times was the English (later British) East India Company. It was granted an English Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on 31 December 1600, with the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_securities
It has also appeared in the movie ‘Dante's Peak’ and ‘Surviving St. Helen's’ by the BBC, as well as used in most Volcanic Studies.Since 1991, he has been the director of the CEAM (Center of Environmental Studies of the Mediterranean) currently with 90 investigators at his charge. He is considered a specialist of the Me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millán_Millán
Note that Paul Kraus, who first catalogued the Jabirian writings and whose numbering will be followed here, conceived of his division of Jabir's alchemical writings (Kr. nos. 5–1149) as roughly chronological in order. The Great Book of Mercy (Kitāb al-Raḥma al-kabīr, Kr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur-mercury_theory_of_metals
The earliest use of a random graph model was by Helen Hall Jennings and Jacob Moreno in 1938 where a "chance sociogram" (a directed Erdős-Rényi model) was considered in studying comparing the fraction of reciprocated links in their network data with the random model. Another use, under the name "random net", was by Ray...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_graph_theory
In April 2012, while encountering financial difficulties, Ohio Precious Metals LLC ("OPM") merged with Dallas based NTR Metals. John Loftus and Steve Loftus, the owners of NTR Metals, changed the name to Elemetal. In March 2017, Juan P. Granda a former employee of NTR Metals, Miami was charged with buying gold from ill...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemetal
GKN had designed a bolt that had a splined section above the nut. By gripping the splined section of the bolt and counter rotating the nut, the fastener could be tightened without the need for any external reaction device. In a further development, a shear groove was placed below the spline, so designed that the bolt w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbar_Torque
Possibly the first flying arch bridges over a railway were on the London and Birmingham Railway (opened 1838), of which Mile Lane Bridge in Coventry survives. Other early examples can be found at Chorley, on the Bolton and Preston Railway, in 1841. These were a series of narrow 25-foot (7.6 m) long, strut-like arches b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_arch
However, a few oviparous fish practice internal fertilisation, with the male using some sort of intromittent organ to deliver sperm into the genital opening of the female, most notably the oviparous sharks, such as the horn shark, and oviparous rays, such as skates. In these cases, the male is equipped with a pair of m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_respiration
hull classification symbol CVL) was a similar concept to the escort carrier in most respects, but was fast enough to operate alongside fleet carriers. Escort carriers were too slow to keep up with the main forces consisting of fleet carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Instead, they were used to escort merchant ship co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort_carrier
Other common names for this species include shark ray, mud skate, shortnose mud skate, bow-mouthed angel fish, and bow-mouthed angel shark.The evolutionary relationships between Rhina ancylostoma and other rays are debated. Morphological evidence generally points to a close relationship between Rhina, Rhynchobatus and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowmouth_guitarfish
The phrase "Jesus, King of the Jews" is reported in the Gospel of John as having been inscribed upon the cross in three different languages, thereby sanctifying them as the first languages to proclaim Christ's divinity. These are: Greek, the language in which the New Testament of the Christian Bible was originally writ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_language
Engel emphasized that the biomedical approach is flawed because the body alone does not contribute to illness. Instead, the individual mind (psychological and social factors) play a significant role in how an illness is caused and how it is treated. Engel proposed a dialogue between the patient and the doctor in order ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model
1952 Hesburgh, provisional designation 1951 JC, is a rare-type carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 37 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 3 May 1951, by IU's Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States. It was named for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Hesburgh
The Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) was a facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory dedicated to the development and demonstration of technologies required for fusion-relevant deuterium-tritium processing. Facility design was launched in 1977. It was commissioned in 1982, and the first tritium was processed in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium_Systems_Test_Assembly
The French Revolution was a failed attempt to copy the American model. Although America has changed in its social composition since 1787, Parsons maintained that it preserves the basic revolutionary Calvinist value pattern. That has been further revealed in the pluralist and highly individualized America, with its thic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, from around 1550 BC, has Egyptian fraction expansions of different forms for prime and composite numbers. However, the earliest surviving records of the explicit study of prime numbers come from ancient Greek mathematics. Euclid's Elements (c. 300 BC) proves the infinitude of primes and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_factor
The French TBMs then completed the tunnel and were dismantled. A 900 mm (35 in) gauge railway was used on the English side during construction.In contrast to the English machines, which were given technical names, the French tunnelling machines were all named after women: Brigitte, Europa, Catherine, Virginie, Pascalin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_tunnel
Otherwise, the validity of an issued patent may be challenged as to the priority date of its claims that purport to relate back to an insufficient "provisional". Furthermore, during the year after filing the first provisional (and prior to filing a non-provisional application), it may be useful to file additional provi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_application
In slide rule terminology, "folded" means a scale that starts and finishes at values offset from a power of 10. Often folded scales start at π but may be extended lengthways to, say, 3.0 and 35.0. For mathematical reasons some scales either stop short of or extend beyond the D = 1 and 10 points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule_scale
One entire receptive field can overlap with other receptive fields, making it difficult to differentiate between stimulation locations, but lateral inhibition helps to reduce that overlap. When an area of the skin is touched, the central excitatory region activates and the peripheral region is inhibited, creating a con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_inhibition
There have been several projects to organise supercomputing applications within Europe. The first was the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA). This ran from 2002–2011. The organisation of supercomputing has been taken over by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRAC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_Europe
When moving from the mean to the weighted mean, more complexity is added. For example, in the context of survey methodology oftentimes the population size itself is considered an unknown quantity that is estimated. So in the calculation of the weighted mean is in fact based on a ratio estimator, with an estimator of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_sample_size
Justice Binnie wrote the decision for a unanimous Court. He began by describing the process of interpreting a patent through "claim construction". Claim construction is the process where the inessential part of the patent are distinguished from its essential elements which are protectable by patent. In this case, the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_World_Trust_v_Électro_Santé_Inc
As with all mining operations, deep sea mining raises questions about potential environmental damages to the surrounding areas. Because deep sea mining is a relatively new field, the complete consequences of full-scale mining operations are under investigation. Newer technology which is being developed has the potentia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_mining
The PPS can be crystallised, or vested, that is used to provide benefits, from age 55 (up from 50 prior to 6 April 2010). A PPS must be crystallised by the age of 75, minimising problems from the mortality drag of deferring the purchase of income benefits. On crystallisation, a pension commencement lump sum (PCLS), als...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_pension_scheme
It associates with foraging groups of tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and South American coatis (Nasua nasua) to snatch prey startled by these animals. This species is often seen soaring, and has a spectacular aerial courtship display. It builds a large stick platform nest in a tree and usually lays one dark-blo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hawk
Al2O and Al2S also exist but are very unstable. Very simple aluminium(II) compounds are invoked or observed in the reactions of Al metal with oxidants. For example, aluminium monoxide, AlO, has been detected in the gas phase after explosion and in stellar absorption spectra. More thoroughly investigated are compounds o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium
Silicon nitride is prepared by heating powdered silicon between 1300 °C and 1400 °C in a nitrogen atmosphere: 3 Si + 2 N2 → Si3N4The silicon sample weight increases progressively due to the chemical combination of silicon and nitrogen. Without an iron catalyst, the reaction is complete after several hours (~7), when no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_nitride