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The Czech alphabet consists of 42 letters. The letters Q, W, and X are used exclusively in foreign words, and the former two are respectively replaced with KV and V once the word becomes "naturalized" (assimilated into Czech); the digraphs dz and dž are also used mostly for foreign words and are not considered to be di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_alphabet |
SPEARpesticides estimates pesticide effects and contamination. The calculation is based on monitoring data of invertebrate communities as ascertained for the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). A simplified version of SPEARpesticides is included in the ASTERICS software for assessing the ecological quality of rivers. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEARpesticides |
In a 1998 report on the former South African government and its security forces, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) castigated South Africa's last hard-line apartheid president P.W. Botha and held him responsible for gross human rights violations, including all violence sanctioned by the State Security Counc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Management_System |
Simulation tools exist to optimize building systems. Some common impact measure categories are: Energy Consumption Water Consumption Material Use Recyclability of Materials Air Quality Water Quality Land and Soil Quality Virgin Resource Depletion Biodiversity and Habitat Loss Occupant and Worker Health Longevity of Bui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Impact_Measures |
With equilibrium defined as 'competitive equilibrium', the first fundamental theorem can be proved even if indifference curves need not be convex: any competitive equilibrium is (globally) Pareto optimal. However the proof is no longer obvious, and the reader is referred to the article on Fundamental theorems of welfar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth_box |
This work culminated in the demonstration of the ThermoLift system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in August, 2018. The demonstration showed that the ThermoLift technology (TCHP), is able to achieve coefficients of performance (COP) for the cycle that well exceeded the DOE’s target COPs for cold-climate heat pumps (al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuilleumier_cycle |
Heavily influenced by Dioscorides, it is believed that his book was written after Dioscorides' Materia Medica. The acclaimed Greek herbalist Dioscorides worked alongside Greek physician Galen to categorize pharmacological agents. The Andalusian physician Ibn Juljul systematized substances from India, Southeast Asia, or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_medicine |
Despite significant analytical challenges, palaeoproteomics is constantly evolving and adopting new technology. Latest high-performance mass spectrometry, for example, TimsToF (trapped ion mobility-time-of-flight) in a DIA mode (data independent acquisition) may help with the separation, selection and resolution of anc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_protein |
That is, if one starts with a family of compact CR manifolds embedded in C 2 , {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} ^{2},} and the CR structure of the family J t {\displaystyle J_{t}} changes in a real-analytic way with respect to the parameter t , {\displaystyle t,} and the CR Yamabe constant of the family of manifolds is unifo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CR_structure |
: 99 Chicago's Captain Bode ordered his ship's radar to be used only intermittently out of concern that it would reveal his position, a decision that conformed with general Navy radar usage guidelines but which may have been incorrect in this specific circumstance. He allowed a single sweep every half hour with the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Savo_Island |
However, some scientists refuse to publish their data and methods.Data manipulation is a serious issue/consideration in the most honest of statistical analyses. Outliers, missing data and non-normality can all adversely affect the validity of statistical analysis. It is appropriate to study the data and repair real pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_statistics |
In the stochastic calculus, Tanaka's formula for the Brownian motion states that | B t | = ∫ 0 t sgn ( B s ) d B s + L t {\displaystyle |B_{t}|=\int _{0}^{t}\operatorname {sgn}(B_{s})\,dB_{s}+L_{t}} where Bt is the standard Brownian motion, sgn denotes the sign function sgn ( x ) = { + 1 , x > 0 ; 0 , x = 0 − 1 , x... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaka's_formula |
There are several different symbols that are included in the flag (based on what is indicated by its creator): The hands represent the signing Deaf community and Sign language. The infinite fingers allude to the projection of the use of Sign language in the world, with more than 200 existing Sign Languages. The fingers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_flag |
Females will lay around 5,000 eggs on newly submerged vegetation in nests that are built by the males.A significant amount of lore regarding the ferocity of the red-belied piranha can be traced to President Theodore Roosevelt following the completion of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. The former president r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-bellied_piranha |
For a country like the U.S. with a government budget deficit and trade or current account deficit (i.e., foreign sector surplus), a policy that expands the government budget deficit must by definition increase the sum of the foreign and private sector surplus taken together. Recall the equation: (T-G) + (S - I) + (M - ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_balances |
The Opel Astra was revised in January 2007, with the introduction of different colors of the posterior lighthouses and a new front. GM Russia launched SKD assembly of Astra on a temporary production site near Saint Petersburg in February 2008, with a potential capacity of 25,000 vehicles annually.The Chevrolet Astra wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Astra |
Mosquitoes are the worst of the disease-transmitting insects, infecting around 700 million people and killing 1 million annually, so implementing this technology in parts of the world where mosquito-borne diseases are prevalent could improve health and save lives.Even in areas without malaria or other diseases, the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzigo |
It happens at contact surfaces of a structure either with the ground, or with adjacent structures, or with gravity waves from tsunami. Water hammer: Water hammer (or more generally, fluid hammer) is a pressure surge or wave caused when a fluid (usually a liquid but sometimes also a gas) in motion is forced to stop or c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_support |
It is important to note that as Tarski originally formulated it, this theory applies only to formal languages, cf. also semantics of first-order logic. He gave a number of reasons for not extending his theory to natural languages, including the problem that there is no systematic way of deciding whether a given sentenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski's_theory_of_truth |
After the complex is formed, the C-CDK6 enzymatic complex phosphorylates the protein pRb. After its phosphorylation, pRb releases its binding partner E2F, a transcriptional activator, which in turn activates DNA replication. The CDK6 complex ensures a point of switch to commit to division responding to external signals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin-dependent_kinase_6 |
The following system is well-known to embedded systems programmers, who sometimes must construct RTCs in systems that lack them. Most computers have one or more hardware timers that use timing signals from quartz crystals or ceramic resonators. These have inaccurate absolute timing (more than 100 parts per million) tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock |
These brilliant colors play a role in intraspecies recognition and also serve as camouflage. The total length (including tail) of the different Phelsuma species varies between about 6.5 and 30 centimetres (2.6 and 11.8 in), but the extinct Rodrigues giant day gecko was even larger. Day geckos have toe pads consisting o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_gecko |
In the original version, emulation referred to observers understanding objects in their potential to help them achieve desired results. They gained this understanding (or were triggered in their understanding) by seeing demonstrators achieving these very results with these objects. The actions performed by the demonstr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulation_(observational_learning) |
One of the most well-known examples of a cumulative song is the Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which uses a two-line stanza, where the second line is cumulative, as follows: and so on until The first gift (the partridge) is always sung to a "coda melody" phrase. For the first four verses, the additional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_song |
A typical 2-way speaker uses a woofer and a tweeter as mentioned earlier. Usually the tweeter is much smaller and thinner than a woofer. What this means is that the radiating surfaces (at the voice-coil or the dome/dust-cap depending on design, also known as the "acoustic centre") of the drivers are not in the same pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeaker_time_alignment |
The Armed Helicopter Developmental Work Team (武装直升机开发工作小组) was formed to develop a new medium helicopter design, as opposed to basing the new design on the light helicopters then in service. The 602nd and 608th Research Institutes started development of the 6-ton class China Medium Helicopter (CHM) program in 1994. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_helicopters |
MPEG compression reduces the data rate by removing redundant visual information, both on a per-frame basis and also across multiple frames. Note: HDV specifically employs MPEG-2 compression, but the concepts of long-GOP and I-frame-only compression discussed below apply to all versions of the MPEG standard: MPEG-1, MPE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intermediate_Codec |
At least one part-time participant of the Great Peace March, Kevin James Shay, participated in a previous two-year march called Walk of the People – A Pilgrimage for Life that went across the U.S. and Europe in 1984–85. Shay walked with the Great Peace March for its first week in California. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peace_March_for_Global_Nuclear_Disarmament |
Some people lack genes that typically produce the protein coagulation factors that allow normal clotting. Various types of hemophilia and von Willebrand disease are the major genetic disorders associated with coagulopathy. Rare examples are Bernard–Soulier syndrome, Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome and Glanzmann's thrombasthen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_diathesis |
The idea that European astronomers should establish a common large observatory was broached by Walter Baade and Jan Oort at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands in spring 1953. It was pursued by Oort, who gathered a group of astronomers in Leiden to consider it on June 21 that year. Immediately thereafter, the sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESO_Messenger |
A gemstone will be placed on top of the lower lens and may be properly examined by looking down at it through the top lens. To operate the polariscope, a gemologist may turn the polarizing lenses by hand to observe various characteristics about a gemstone. Polariscopes make use of their polarizing filters to reveal pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarimetric_radar |
After reaching the top, it slides forward and hangs over the drop track for a few moments until the car is suddenly released, dropping riders 60 feet (18 m). Riders experience g-forces from deceleration as the car enters a pull-out curve which transitions the vertical fall into a horizontal brake run. Riders face upwar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Drop |
About 20–25% of children "demonstrate severe emotional and behavioral problems" when going through a divorce, compared to 10% of children exhibiting similar problems in married families. Despite this, approximately 75–80% of these children will "develop into well-adjusted adults with no lasting psychological or behavio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resilience |
The ecology of epiphytes in marine environments differs from those in terrestrial ecosystems. Epiphytes in marine systems are species of algae, bacteria, fungi, sponges, bryozoans, ascidians, protozoa, crustaceans, molluscs and any other sessile organism that grows on the surface of a plant, typically seagrasses or alg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyte |
Research by anthropologist Tine Molendijk integrates insights from psychology, philosophy, theology and social sciences to achieve a holistic understand of not only the psychological but also the ethical, spiritual/existential, organizational, political and societal dimensions of moral injury. Her research has shown th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury |
Xiaowei is a virtual assistant from Tencent, the $346 billion Chinese company that operates WeChat, a messaging app with 1 billion users, and one of the main tech ecosystems in China. Xiaowei has weather reports, traffic updates, music requests, news snippets. There’s voice recognition and facial recognition, and a "Sk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaowei |
In China, the Postal area when written in Chinese characters (preferably Simplified Chinese characters), has the order of the largest unit first, ending with the addressee, i.e. country, province, municipality, town, street or road, building name, floor/level, house/flat number, company name, addressee. This is the mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address |
The tactic of generalizing ¬ A {\displaystyle \neg A} to A → C {\displaystyle A\to C} does not work to prove all classically valid statements involving double negations. In particular, unsurprisingly, the naive generalization of the double negation elimination ¬ ¬ B → B {\displaystyle \neg \neg B\to B} cannot be provab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_logic |
Instead, the element is prepared, in milligram amounts, by the neutron irradiation of 226Ra in a nuclear reactor. Owing to its scarcity, high price and radioactivity, actinium has no significant industrial use. Its current applications include a neutron source and an agent for radiation therapy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinium |
There about 15 minor tractates. The first eight or so contain much original material; the last seven or so are collections of material scattered throughout the Talmud. Ancient authorities mention especially seven such tractates, which are doubtless the earliest ones. Their name and form suggests that they originated in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_tractate |
The design is not yet wholly modern, incorporating as it does two pilot-operated paddles or oars which appear to work as flap valves.He continued his research, and in 1804 constructed a model glider which was the first modern heavier-than-air flying machine, having the layout of a conventional modern aircraft with an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_flying_machines |
He had sailed with Columbus. After discovering their medicinal properties, Chanca developed a chutney to administer them. In the early 17th century, officials of the East India Company on the Indian subcontinent subsisted on preserved foodstuffs such as lime pickles, chutneys and marmalades. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutney_powder |
An Ottoman embassy was sent to Louis XIII in 1607, and from Mehmed IV to Louis XIV in 1669 in the person of ambassador Müteferrika Süleyman Ağa, who created a sensation at the French court and triggered a fashion for things Turkish. The Orient came to have a strong influence in French literature, as about 50% of French... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_in_early_modern_France |
In physics, particularly in quantum field theory, the Weyl equation is a relativistic wave equation for describing massless spin-1/2 particles called Weyl fermions. The equation is named after Hermann Weyl. The Weyl fermions are one of the three possible types of elementary fermions, the other two being the Dirac and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl_equation |
In Britain, this revival first occurred during King George III's reign, and his granddaughter, Queen Victoria, was a major proponent of the cameo trend, to the extent that they would become mass-produced by the second half of the 19th century. The visual art form of the cameo has even inspired at least one writer of mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_(carving) |
Two general formulas were used in determining the size of the machine and the projectile it throws. The first is to determine the length of the bolt for a sharp-thrower, given as d = x / 9, where d is the diameter of the hole in the frame where the skein was threaded and x is the length of the bolt to be thrown. The se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_siege_engine |
On May 6, 2009, being approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China, China XD Company formally changed its name to be China XD Group and decided to name it China XD Group for short. The company has supplied to national engineering projects, such as China's first 330 kV... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_XD_Group |
It has been termed a "fundamental analytical explanation" for gains from trade.Coming at the end of the classical tradition, John Stuart Mill (1848) parted company with the earlier classical economists on the inevitability of the distribution of income produced by the market system. Mill pointed to a distinct differenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics |
In the case of a low-pass filter, for example, where the mismatch is most severe near the cut-off frequency, the transition from pass-band to stop-band is far less sharp than expected. The figure below illustrates the issue: A lattice filter, equivalent to two sections of constant k low-pass filter, has been derived by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_network |
The Ainu language does not have its own writing system, and traditions were passed down orally. During the Meiji period, the Ainu continued to use the "tying rope" for arithmetic and record keeping. Similar customs include straw calculation in Okinawa, Fuxi Xi knots in East Asia, and the Quipu system among the Inca of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_culture |
After studying the surrounding environment at three potential spaceport island sites (Enggano-Bengkulu, Morotai-North Maluku, and Biak-Papua), LAPAN (21/11) announced Morotai Island as a future spaceport site. Planning started in December 2012. The launch site's completion is expected for 2025. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Aeronautics_and_Space |
Compared to the latter, the former has a wider range of channels, covers a wider area, and does not require a license to transmit. In addition, a PoC radio supports advanced functions, such as, video calls, multimedia messages, GPS location tracking, and emergency notifications. PoC radios are widely used in the indust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PoC_radio |
The USSR also used locust control as a way to expand its influence in the Middle East and Central Asia.FAO's Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS) in Rome monitors the weather, ecological conditions, and the locust situation on a daily basis. DLIS receives results of survey and control operations carried out by nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_locust |
Proteins can be separated in the first dimension according to their molecular mass (the shorter the protein, the far it drifts), and in the second dimension according to their abundance Some limitations of immunoelectrophoresis Though immunoelectrophoresis has a number of benefits, it also has certain drawbacks, such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoelectrophoresis |
The digital signature and the transaction details were then sent to InternetCash's payment server, where the transaction was completed. This two-stage approach allowed full flexibility on the deployment of the "InternetCash Payment Window", which was effectively providing the payment security to the system, so it could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InternetCash.com |
The β {\displaystyle \beta } coefficient should not be interpreted as the effect of x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} on y i {\displaystyle y_{i}} , as one would with a linear regression model; this is a common error. Instead, it should be interpreted as the combination of (1) the change in y i {\displaystyle y_{i}} of those a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobit_model |
They provisionally named this ancient group; "Population Y", after Ypykuéra, "which means 'ancestor' in the Tupi language family". A 2021 genetic study dismissed the existence of an hypothetical Australasian component among Indigenous Americans. The signal of the hypothetical Australasian component, can also be reprodu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Amerindian_genetics |
IGN rated this episode 7.5 out of 10: "South Park often parodies the overblown drama found in Hollywood blockbuster movies, and this is episode is a disaster parody of sorts...It seems like the episode had larger ambitions, but becomes bogged down in the parody bit with the lice." For the week of March 19 to March 25,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lice_Capades |
Tixagevimab/cilgavimab, sold under the brand name Evusheld, is a combination of two human monoclonal antibodies, tixagevimab (AZD8895) and cilgavimab (AZD1061) targeted against the surface spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 used to prevent COVID-19. It is being developed by British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tixagevimab/cilgavimab |
When primordial black holes explode at the end of their life, they send a myriad of particles flying across the universe. In 1992, Cline set out to investigate how accurately the current models described the hadronic and leptonic spectrum of these bursts, and predicted values for the upper limit of the particle densiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Cline |
All white men and women who identified as Jewish and who had a racial preference excluded blacks, and all white Jewish women also avoided Asian men. White men with a religious preference were four times as likely to exclude black women, and white women with the same were twice as likely to exclude black men. However, r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_dating_service |
This approach of alternatively applying substitution and permutation transformation has been used by IBM in the Lucifer cipher system, and has become the standard for national data encryption standards such as the Data Encryption Standard and the Advanced Encryption Standard. A product cipher that uses only substitutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_cipher |
Figures of Kokopelli and Itzamna (as the Mayan tonsured maize god) in Pre-Columbian America often include phallic content. Additionally, over forty large monolithic sculptures (Xkeptunich) have been documented from Terminal Classic Maya sites with the majority of examples occurring in the Puuc region of Yucatán (Amrhei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallic_symbol |
A major advance in 3D computer graphics was created at UU by these early pioneers – hidden surface determination. In order to draw a representation of a 3D object on the screen, the computer must determine which surfaces are "behind" the object from the viewer's perspective, and thus should be "hidden" when the compute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_primitives |
Clay panels are used for the dry construction of wall and ceiling claddings and facing shells. The boards are mounted on a steel profile or wooden frame construction by means of screws or nails. For ceiling claddings, washers must be used depending on the type of clay panel. The panels can be sawn with standard tools, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_panel |
The missile is directed to its target by either an electro-optical (EO) or semi-active laser (SAL) seeker; the EO camera is similar to a basic cellphone camera, containing a 1-megapixel video camera that allows the shooter to select the area to engage in a fire-and-forget mode. The EO seeker cannot operate at night, so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVAIR_Spike |
: 211 Clinical use of APC has also been proposed for improving the outcome of pancreatic islet transplantation in treating type I diabetes. : 2392 Ceprotin was approved for medical used in the European Union in July 2001. Ceprotin is indicated in purpura fulminans and coumarin-induced skin necrosis in people with sever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_protein_C |
Cepheus is the first poker playing program that "essentially weakly solved" the game of heads-up limit Texas hold 'em. This was the first imperfect information game played competitively by humans to be essentially solved. It was developed by the Computer Poker Research Group (CPRG) at the University of Alberta and was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheus_(poker_bot) |
In 1984 Kocienski received the Hickinbottom Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997. He won the Marie Curie Medal in 1997. Since 2000 he has been a foreign member of Polish Academy of Sciences. == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kocienski |
In large part this has been attributed to the dramatic fall in gas prices (45%) during the 1980s. In the 1990s it was popular among college students, where campuses have limited parking space. Together with Prof. James Davidson from Harvard, Dace Campbell, Ivan Lin and Habib Rached from Washington, and others, began to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpool |
In cases in which the computer case is hidden from view (e.g. at some public access kiosks where the case is in a locked box and only a monitor, keyboard, and mouse are exposed to view) and the user has no possibility to run software checks, a user might thwart a keylogger by typing part of a password, using the mouse ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_keylogger |
E {\displaystyle E} is a machine-learning model that provides a prediction for the energy of atom i {\displaystyle i} based on the descriptor output. An accurate machine-learning potential requires both a robust descriptor and a suitable machine learning framework. The simplest descriptor is the set of interatomic dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interatomic_potential |
This order was eventually increased by a further 530. The whole order was completed by November 1916, and the vessels entered Royal Navy service. The vessels were 80 feet (24 m) in length and capable of 20 knots (37 km/h). They were armed with a 3-pounder gun, towed paravanes to attack submarines and, later, depth char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_chaser |
Although often grouped with other relatively young sunbelt cities, which grew largely in the age of the automobile, Miami and Coral Gables had an extensive early transit system, with a peak in the 1920s. In the city's early years, following its incorporation in 1896, there were several de facto streetcar or trolley sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_South_Florida |
Localeze is a content manager for local search engines. The company, a service of Neustar, provides businesses with tools to verify and manage the identity of their local listings across the Web. The company works with local search platform partners and location-based service partners, national brands and local busines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localeze |
Tetanospasmin spreads via the lymphatic system and bloodstream throughout the body, where it is taken up into various parts of the nervous system. In the nervous system, tetanospasmin acts by blocking the release of the inhibitory neurotransmitters glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid at motor nerve endings. This blocka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_tetani |
Using the fact that it is an eigenvector of the Casimir operator and has an eigenvector for H, it follows easily that any irreducible admissible representation is a subrepresentation of a parabolically induced representation. (This also is true for more general reductive Lie groups and is known as Casselman's subrepres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory_of_SL2(R) |
A key part of safeguarding work is assessment. Professionals conducting assessments of families where neglect is taking place are said sometimes to make the error of not asking the right questions, such as: Is neglect occurring? Why is neglect occurring? What is the situation like for the child? Are improvements in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguarding |
In 1999, the international architect and Peutz-admirer Wiel Arets, and Jo Coenen were commissioned to restore the building to its original state (done by building contractor Laudy-Heijmans). Only minor changes were made to the original design. For instance, the floors were made 17 cm thicker to hide the piping and wiri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaspaleis |
A hole was blown in the hangar roof 250 feet above; about 40 windows in the hangar were shattered. The command module suffered a three-inch gash in one panel.The Apollo 16 command module Casper is on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, following a transfer of ownership from NASA to the Smi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16 |
Adhering to standards for formats is critical for interoperability between software tools. Many individual archives or data repositories have their own standards and requirements for data deposited on their servers - knowledge of these requirements ought to inform the data collection strategy and tools used, and should... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_documentation_tools_and_methods |
More common is an arrangement where the sky is imaged onto an intermediate focal plane containing an opaque spot; this focal plane is reimaged onto a detector. Another arrangement is to image the sky onto a mirror with a small hole: the desired light is reflected and eventually reimaged, but the unwanted light from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_vortex_coronagraph |
Cycles of the Labours of the Months in late medieval art, of which many examples survive from books of hours, concentrate on peasants laboring on different tasks through the seasons, often in a rich landscape background, and were significant both in developing landscape art and the depiction of everyday working-class p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts) |
The s = 1⁄2 spins of the two electrons in degenerate orbitals gives rise to 2 × 2 = 4 independent spin states in total. Exchange interaction splits these into a singlet state (total spin S = 0) and a set of 3 degenerate triplet states (S = 1). In agreement with Hund's rules, the triplet states are energetically more fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplet_oxygen |
Volcanic activity is frequent along the island arc southeast from Puerto Rico to the coast of South America. Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic do not have active volcanoes; however, they are at risk from earthquakes and tsunamis. The Puerto Rico Trench has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Trench |
PLS is a computer file format for a multimedia playlist. It is typically used by media players for streaming media over the Internet, but may also be used for playing local media. For online streaming, typically the .PLS file would be downloaded just once from the media source—such as from an online radio station—for i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLS_(file_format) |
The first plasterboard plant in the UK was opened in 1888 in Rochester, Kent. Sackett Board was invented in 1894 by Augustine Sackett and Fred Kane, graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It was made by layering plaster within four plies of wool felt paper. Sheets were 36 by 36 by 1⁄4 inch (914 mm × 914 mm × 6 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsum_board |
Under certain conditions, an initially protective autoimmune response can reach a tipping point, after which it will have a detrimental effect on the tissue, and might even develop into an autoimmune disease. Both genetic and environmental factors (such as infection) can underlie such a transition from a neuroprotectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protective_autoimmunity |
The term "New World" is still commonly employed when discussing historic spaces, particularly the voyages of Christopher Columbus and the subsequent European colonization of the Americas. It has been framed as being problematic for applying a colonial perspective of discovery and not doing justice to either the histori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World |
SER reports are used by electrical engineers to analyze large and small electrical system blackouts. After the Northeast blackout of 2003, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation specified that electrical system data should be time-tagged to the nearest millisecond. In 1984, the Tetragenics Company, a subsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_of_events_recorder |
During the 1980s, at the Maxi Trial against Cosa Nostra, informants Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno were protected by the FBI due to the lack of a witness protection program in Italy. Although pentiti (usually from politically motivated terrorist organizations) had come forward since the 1970s during the so-cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_protection |
In mathematics, the projection-slice theorem, central slice theorem or Fourier slice theorem in two dimensions states that the results of the following two calculations are equal: Take a two-dimensional function f(r), project (e.g. using the Radon transform) it onto a (one-dimensional) line, and do a Fourier transform ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_slice_theorem |
Although the maker of CranID does not explicitly state that this program can infer ‘race’, many forensic anthropologists use this program, and others like it, to determine the race of an unknown individual, even though many biological anthropologists have criticized the use of the concept. A study conducted on the Cran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranid |
At the back of the vehicle is the service module ((in Russian): приборно-агрегатный отсек (ПАО), Priborno-Agregatniy Otsek (PAO)). It has an instrumentation compartment ((in Russian): приборный отсек (ПО), Priborniy Otsek (PO)), a pressurized container shaped like a bulging can that contains systems for temperature con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_MS |
The CSI method is not without some shortcomings. In particular, its performance drops if chemical shift assignments are mis-referenced or incomplete. It is also quite sensitive to the choice of random coil shifts used to calculate the secondary shifts and it generally identifies alpha helices (>85% accuracy) better tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_shift_index |
AQC processes are of particular importance in laboratories analysing environmental samples where the concentration of chemical species present may be extremely low and close to the detection limit of the analytical method. In well managed laboratories, AQC processes are built into the routine operations of the laborato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_quality_control |
Laboratory staff worked in teams to create novel navigation systems, based on inertial guidance and on digital computers to support the necessary calculations for determining spatial positioning. Mark 14 Gunsight (1942)—Improved gunsight accuracy of anti-aircraft guns used aboard naval vessels in WWII Space Inertial Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draper_Laboratory |
The FAA intends to provide similar service within the NAS to what radar is currently providing (5 nmi en route and 3 nmi terminal radar standards) as a first step to implementation. However, ADS-B In capability is viewed as the most likely way to improve NAS throughput and enhance capacity.In December 2008, Acting FAA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance-Broadcast |
She defined a generalized notion of "labels" that are attached to entities—corresponding more or less to the full security markings one encounters on classified military documents, e.g. TOP SECRET WNINTEL TK DUMBO. Bell and LaPadula integrated Denning's concept into their landmark MITRE technical report—entitled, Secur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_systems |
The closure of every symmetric set in a commutative topological group is symmetric. If S is any subset of a commutative topological group G, then the following sets are also symmetric: S−1 ∩ S, S−1 ∪ S, and S−1 S.For any neighborhood N in a commutative topological group G of the identity element, there exists a symmetr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_groups |
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