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With the advent of Google Maps and the proliferation of wireless data services from Sprint and AT&T, Hunter founded US Fleet Tracking in 2005. Google Maps provided the ability to convert the dispatch platform into a web-based application without the need for specialized local maps and aerial imagery, and the proliferat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Fleet_Tracking |
There are three symbols for NAND gates: the MIL/ANSI symbol, the IEC symbol and the deprecated DIN symbol sometimes found on old schematics. For more information see logic gate symbols. The ANSI symbol for the NAND gate is a standard AND gate with an inversion bubble connected. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negated_AND_gate |
One core was inspired by the character Red from The Shawshank Redemption played by Morgan Freeman, who would have been completely familiar with every detail of the entirety of a ten-by-ten-foot room, and utterly fascinated by anything outside its sphere of influence. Another core would have been named Quint after the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Portal_characters |
It was concluded that IP administration should not be used over intravenous therapy due to high radiation absorption in the intestines. This shows an important limitation to the use of IP therapy. The provided examples show a variety of uses for intraperitoneal injections in animals for in vitro studies. Some of the ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraperitoneal_injection |
Unlike the Huawei P40 hardware, the P50 uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon SM8325 888 4G processor. The P50 operates on Octa-core (1x2.84 GHz Kryo 680 & 3x2.42 GHz Kryo 680 & 4x1.80 GHz Kryo 680) which is an upgrade from the previous version on the P40. The P50 operates on the Adreno 660 GPU. The phone has 8GB RAM only and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_P50 |
However, Nabulsi soap is still widely sold in Nablus and the West Bank. It is also exported to Jordan, Kuwait, and Arab-Israeli cities such as Nazareth.Considered an important aspect of Nablus's cultural heritage, the preservation of the Nabulsi soap-making industry has been the focus of several local projects, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabulsi_soap |
The Heiltsuk were formerly known as the Bella Bella people and lived along the central coast of British Columbia. To the Bella Bella Raven was known as the Real Chief or He'mask.as. Raven is revered by them as a benevolent figure. He helps people, but he is also a trickster spirit whose unreflected behaviour gets him i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_Tales |
The (continuous) Laplace operator in n {\displaystyle n} -dimensions is given by Δ u ( x ) = ∑ i = 1 n ∂ i 2 u ( x ) {\displaystyle \Delta u(x)=\sum _{i=1}^{n}\partial _{i}^{2}u(x)} . The discrete Laplace operator Δ h u {\displaystyle \Delta _{h}u} depends on the dimension n {\displaystyle n} . In 1D the Laplace operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-difference_method |
They are defined in four classes. Registrants who have lived in the United States for less than a year are exempt from military training and service, but become eligible after a year of cumulative residence (counting disjoint time periods). A registrant who left the United States before his Order to Report for Inductio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_deferment |
Magnetic Field Imaging (MFI) is a non-invasive and side-effect-free cardiac diagnostic method. In more recent technology, magnetocardiography (MCG) has become the clinically predominant application for recording the heart's magnetic signals. that detects and records the electromagnetic signals that are associated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_imaging |
When the ray interacts with the generated plane it can call on one of many selected hit or miss shaders. The variation of hit and miss shaders creates different textures. Raytracing pipeline state, a counterpart to the current Graphics and Compute pipeline state objects. Pipeline state objects are hardware settings tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_DXR |
When PL/I was designed, programs only ran in batch mode, with no possible intervention from the programmer at a terminal. An exceptional condition such as division by zero would abort the program yielding only a hexadecimal core dump. PL/I exception handling, via ON-units, allowed the program to stay in control in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I_programming_language |
In the Mexican culture, many adult figures tell their children stories in order to teach children values such as individuality, obedience, honesty, trust, and compassion. For example, one of the versions of La Llorona is used to teach children to make safe decisions at night and to maintain the morals of the community.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illness_narrative |
The book was translated into English by Ray Brassier. Meillassoux is associated with the speculative realism movement. In this book, Meillassoux argues that post-Kantian philosophy is dominated by what he calls "correlationism", the theory that humans cannot exist without the world nor the world without humans. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Meillassoux |
Field research also can involve study of other kingdoms of life, such as plantae, fungi, and microbes, as well as ecological interactions among species. Field courses have been shown to be efficacious for generating long-term interest in and commitment for undergraduate students in STEM, but the number of field courses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_survey |
Civilian peacetime rationing of food has been employed after natural disasters, during contingencies, or after failed governmental economic policies regarding production or distribution, as well as due to extensive austerity programs implemented to cut or restrict public spending in countries where the rationed goods p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_rationing |
Ammophila urnaria feeds on nectar and can often be seen on the flower heads of sorrel or onion. The breeding season is in summer. The female wasp digs a succession of burrows in sandy soil, provisioning each burrow with one or more paralysed caterpillars, lays an egg on the first caterpillar in each and seals the hole.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammophila_urnaria |
In this tournament, Woods defeated Aiden English in the first round, but lost to Jinder Mahal in the semi-finals. On January 28, 2018, Woods entered the Royal Rumble match at number 12, but was eliminated by Mahal. At Fastlane, The New Day faced The Usos for the Smackdown Tag Team Championship, but went to a no contest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_Creed |
No quantification of the amount of protein producing the current was presented, so the results lack comparability with the bacterial Mg2+ transport proteins. The alternative techniques of 28Mg2+ radiotracer analysis and mag-fura 2 to measure Mg2+ uptake have not yet been used with Alr1p. 28Mg2+ is currently not availab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_transporter |
A hypersurface that is a smooth manifold is called a smooth hypersurface. In Rn, a smooth hypersurface is orientable. Every connected compact smooth hypersurface is a level set, and separates Rn into two connected components; this is related to the Jordan–Brouwer separation theorem. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_hypersurface |
In special relativity, a four-vector (or 4-vector) is an object with four components, which transform in a specific way under Lorentz transformations. Specifically, a four-vector is an element of a four-dimensional vector space considered as a representation space of the standard representation of the Lorentz group, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-vector |
Once humans moved out of their natural state and formed societies, Locke argued, "that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority to unite and incorporate into such a society. And this is that, and that only, which did or could g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism |
Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media did not award any academic degrees. However, it did offer certificate programs in the areas of film production, digital video, and photography. These certificate programs took students a minimum of six semesters (or about two to three years) to compl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Filmmakers'_School_of_Film,_Photography,_and_Digital_Media |
He said: "The introduction of a luminiferous ether will prove to be superfluous inasmuch as the view here to be developed will not require an absolutely stationary space provided with special properties, nor assign a velocity vector to a point of the empty space in which electromagnetic processes take place." * Einstei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute |
Yeast uses trehalose as carbon sources in response to abiotic stresses. In humans, the only known function of trehalose is its ability to activate autophagy inducer. Trehalose has also been reported for anti-bacterial, anti-biofilm, and anti-inflammatory (in vitro and in vivo) activities, upon its esterification with f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trehalose |
Black bass should not be confused with a multitude of unrelated fish species found around the world and called "bass", such as the butterfly peacock bass (Cichla ocellaris), speckled peacock bass (Cichla temensis), Papuan black bass (Lutjanus goldiei) (also called Niugini bass), Australian bass, rock bass (Ambloplites ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_fishing |
Computer-assisted legal research (CALR) or computer-based legal research is a mode of legal research that uses databases of court opinions, statutes, court documents, and secondary material. Electronic databases make large bodies of case law easily available. Databases also have additional benefits, such as Boolean sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_legal_research |
Inkjet transfer or inkjet photo transfer is a technique to transfer a photograph or graphic, printed with an inkjet printer onto textiles, cups, CDs, glass and other surfaces. A special transfer sheet, usually ISO A4 size, is printed on with a regular inkjet printer. The photo has to be printed as a mirror image (excep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkjet_transfer |
Chromium(III) phosphate describes inorganic compounds with the chemical formula CrPO4. (H2O)n, where n = 0, 4, or 6. All are deeply colored solids. Anhydrous CrPO4 is green. The hexahydrate CrPO4•6H2O is violet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium(III)_phosphate |
Segre developed his entire career at the University of Turin, first as a student of Enrico D'Ovidio. In 1883 he published a dissertation on quadrics in projective space and was named an assistant to professors in algebra and analytic geometry. In 1885 he also assisted in descriptive geometry. He began to instruct in pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrado_Segre |
He also compiled the most extensive and accurate catalog of stellar positions up to that time. Tycho Brahe's observations and calculations at Uraniborg allowed him to lay the groundwork for astronomers in the future.Despite the success Tycho Brahe had on Hven, he eventually left the island after a disagreement with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe |
In 1855, Boole married Mary Everest (niece of George Everest), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's principles. The Booles had five daughters: Mary Ellen (1856–1908) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George (1882–1943), Eric (*1884), William (188... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole |
MIDAS Heritage – the UK Historic Environment Data Standard is a British cultural heritage standard for recording information on buildings, archaeological sites, shipwrecks, parks and gardens, battlefields, areas of interest and artefacts.The data standard suggests the minimum level of information needed for recording h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDAS_Heritage |
Suppose that they hold prior beliefs about these unknowns: for them the probability distribution of the urn content is well approximated by some prior distribution for the total number of balls in the urn, and a beta prior distribution with parameters (x,y) for the initial proportion of these which are black, this prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoppe_urn |
Development on a Google-designed system-on-chip (SoC) first began in April 2016, after the introduction of the company's first Pixel smartphone, although Google CEO Sundar Pichai and hardware chief Rick Osterloh agreed it would likely take an extended period of time before the product was ready. The next year, the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Tensor |
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets formerly wore white and old gold (now called Tech Gold). The Wake Forest Demon Deacons, UCF Knights, and Vanderbilt Commodores wear old gold and black. The UAB Blazers team colors are Forest Green and Old Gold. The New Orleans Saints list their official team colors as black, old gold and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_gold |
There have been other studies. According to the Adam Smith Institute, "Clausing (2012), Gravelle (2010) and Auerbach (2005), the three best reviews we found, basically conclude that most of the tax falls on capital, not labour." A 2022 meta-analysis found that the impact of corporate taxes on economic growth was exagge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax |
R-422C is for use in medium- and low-temperature applications. The TXV power element will need to be changed to a 404A/507A element and critical seals (elastomers) may need to be replaced. R-422D is for use in low-temp applications, and is mineral oil compatible. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorodifluoromethane |
On July 10, 2008, Apple introduced native mobile apps for its iOS operating system. On iOS, a dedicated App Store application served as the storefront for browsing, downloading, updating, and otherwise managing applications, whereas iTunes on computers had a dedicated section for apps rather than a separate app. In Sep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_iTunes |
The most important linear molecule with more than three atoms is acetylene (H−C≡C−H), in which each of its carbon atoms is considered to be a central atom with a single bond to one hydrogen and a triple bond to the other carbon atom. Linear anions include azide (N−=N+=N−) and thiocyanate (S=C=N−), and a linear cation i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_molecular_geometry |
Under a pure licensing agreement, the licensor, under its terms and by common-law, can cancel the agreement at will and without cause, unless it is coupled with an interest or made irrevocable by contract. A license that has been coupled with an interest is not revocable by the licensor without exposure to liability an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_license |
Mostly large rolling element bearing are used as pitch bearings. The bearing is subjected to high bending moments, radial and axial loads in both directions. Therefore, the rolling elements for state of the art wind turbines are ball bearings, which are used in a double rowed four-point contact. This means each raceway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_bearing |
One good example of a fixed table is the S-box from DES (S5), mapping 6-bit input into a 4-bit output: Given a 6-bit input, the 4-bit output is found by selecting the row using the outer two bits (the first and last bits), and the column using the inner four bits. For example, an input "011011" has outer bits "01" and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_box |
Bonfires have also been lit by Catholic communities on 9 August since 1972 to protest and commemorate Internment.Historically in England, some time before 1400, fires were lit around Midsummer as a wake in the vigil for St John the Baptist. Folk would awake in the evening, and make three manners of fire: one with only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire |
The Shasta Dam has had a severe negative effect on populations of Pacific salmon in the Sacramento River watershed ever since its gates were first closed in 1943. The massive structure completely prevents salmon migration from the lower reaches of the river to the Upper Sacramento, Pit, McCloud and other tributary stre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_Dam |
The kaon beam passes through the upstream region and into the decay region, a roughly 60 m long region inside a large vacuum vessel, after which the decay products are detected in the straw tracker stations. The system measures the direction and the momentum of secondary charged particles which come from the decay regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NA62_experiment |
Speculative evolution is a long-standing trope within science fiction, often recognized as beginning as such with H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine, which featured several imaginary future creatures. Although small-scale speculative faunas were a hallmark of science fiction throughout the 20th century, ideas we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_evolution |
In Europe, land usage rights in medieval and early modern times allowed different users to access forests and pastures. Plant litter and resin extraction were important, as pitch (resin) was essential for the caulking of ships, falking and hunting rights, firewood and building, timber gathering in wood pastures, and gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_engineering |
Since the PCB and parts population stages happen in the same process in the same plant, a company would no longer need to wait for the delivery of ordered PCBs to begin manufacturing. The high temperatures usually seen by PCBs inside of a reflow soldering oven are avoided by use of this process. This means that any iss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_process |
After the police and his mother were called, McNair was allowed to borrow books from the library; the building that housed the library at the time is now named after him. A children's book, Ron's Big Mission, offers a fictionalized account of this event. McNair's brother, Carl, wrote Ronald's official biography, In the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair |
A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders. Puppet states have nominal sovereignty, except that a foreign power effectively exercises control through economic or military su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_state |
181–200. D. Foster and H.P Young, "On the Impossibility of Predicting the Behavior of Rational Agents", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 98, no. 22 (2001), 12848–12853. H.P Young and M.A. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Young |
Although an increase in the female contribution to subsistence tends to lead to matrilocal residence, it also tends simultaneously to lead to general non-sororal polygyny which effectively destroys matrilocality. If this polygyny factor is controlled (e.g., through a multiple regression model), division of labor turns ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilocal_residence |
The opinions of its commentators are thus replicated by a multimedia system that makes it extremely easy to spread the point of view advocated by the group. Monopoly "in cross": reproduction into local level, of the particularities of cross ownership. Research carried out in the early 1990s, detected the presence of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_consolidation |
Distinguished Professor, City University of New York, (Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center), 1982–present Professor, Mathematics, Boston University, 1972–1982 Visiting Professor, Mathematics, Courant Institute, 1981 Associate Professor, Mathematics, Boston University, 1967–1972 Visiting Associate Professor, Mathe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohit_Jivanlal_Parikh |
In propositional logic, affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency, is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement (e.g., "if the lamp were broken, then the room would be dark") under certain assumptions (there are no other l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illicit_conversion |
The most common symptom of cochlear synaptopathy is difficulty understanding speech, especially in the presence of competing noise. However, this type of hearing impairment is often undetectable by conventional pure tone audiometry, thus the name "hidden" hearing loss. Acoustic over-exposure can also result in decrease... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise-induced_hearing_loss |
Woodhouse's scrub jay is a medium-sized bird, approximately 27–31 cm (11–12 in) in length (including its tail), with a 39 cm (15 in) wingspan, and about 80 g (2.8 oz) in weight. The species has a blue head, wings, and tail; a gray-brown back; and grayish underparts. The throat is whitish with a partial blue breast band... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhouse's_scrub_jay |
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_&_Happiness |
Quantitative analysis determines the mass of each element or compound present. Other quantitative methods include gravimetry, optical atomic spectroscopy, and neutron activation analysis. Gravimetry is where the sample is dissolved, the element of interest is precipitated and its mass measured, or the element of intere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_composition |
In the United Kingdom, prior to 1840 letters were paid for by the recipient and the cost was determined by the distance from sender to recipient and the number of sheets of paper rather than by a countrywide flat rate with weight restrictions. Sir Rowland Hill reformed the postal system based on the concepts of penny p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Class_Mail |
Even though mothers spend more time with their kittens, male cats play an important role by breaking up fights among littermates.Observational learning is not limited to kitten-hood – it can also be observed during adulthood. Studies have shown that adult cats that see others performing a task, such as pressing a lever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_communication |
It is a strong source of X-rays. The pair is 46.4 ± 0.3 light-years distant from Earth.Beta Fornacis is a yellow-hued giant star of spectral type G8IIIb of magnitude 4.5 that has cooled and swelled to 11 times the Sun's diameter, 178 ± 2 light-years from Earth. It is a red clump giant, which means it has undergone heli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornax |
Clobetasol is believed to work by activating steroid receptors. It is a US Class I (Europe: class IV) corticosteroid, making it one of the strongest available. Clobetasol propionate was patented in 1968 and came into medical use in 1978. It is available as a generic medication. In 2020, it was the 171st most commonly p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clobetasol_propionate |
The creation of the Institute, including the construction of the building, cost £61 million. Funded by the UK Government (£38m) and the European Union's European Regional Development Fund (£23m), the building is the national centre for graphene research in the UK. It provides facilities for industry and university acad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Graphene_Institute |
A frontal assault is a military tactic which involves a direct, full-force attack on the front line of an enemy force, rather than to the flanks or rear of the enemy. It allows for a quick and decisive victory, but at the cost of subjecting the attackers to the maximum defensive power of the enemy; this can make fronta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_assault |
An introduction to infinitesimal calculus, 1905 Introduction to the theory of Fourier's series and integrals and the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, London 1906, revised 2nd edn. 1921, published under the title Introduction to the mathematical theory of the conduction of heat in solids; revised and enlar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Scott_Carslaw |
The models that followed Norman’s original approach became more explicit about influencing behaviour, such as emotion design and persuasive technology. Perhaps since 2005, a greater number of theories have developed that explicitly address design for behaviour change. These include a diversity of theories, guidelines a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_behaviour_change |
The World Currency Unit (WCU) is an indexed unit of account that stands for a unit of real global purchasing power. Since each unit by design represents a stable unit of purchasing power, the stipulated interest rate on WCU-denominated bonds represents a real interest rate. In principle, the common denomination of bond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_currency_unit |
As a result, users who were more familiar with the logic of the old menus would be somewhat frustrated with the new, more visually oriented ribbon. The ribbon cannot be moved from the top to the side of the page, as floating toolbars could be. Some users with experience using previous versions of Microsoft Office have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartArt |
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci ( may-OO-chee, Italian: ; 13 April 1808 – 18 October 1889) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a major political figure in the history of Italy. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci |
Visual acuity can be defined as the angle with which one can resolve two points as being separate since the image is shown with 100% contrast and is projected onto the fovea of the retina. Thus, when an optometrist or ophthalmologist assesses a patient's visual acuity using a Snellen chart or some other acuity chart, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_threshold |
They are immune outside the house for words spoken and votes cast in the House. Each house of the Diet determines its own standing orders and has responsibility for disciplining its own members. A member may be expelled, but only by a two-thirds majority vote. Every member of the Cabinet has the right to appear in eith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diet |
Larry Hryb worked as the Director of Promotions for Clear Channel Communications in Hartford, Connecticut for WKSS from 1989 to late 2000. In early 2001, he began working with Microsoft; his first role at the company was as the editor in chief of MSN music. Hryb moved into Xbox division of Microsoft in 2003. Hryb was i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hryb |
The key insight in this algorithm is that if the end of the pattern is compared to the text, then jumps along the text can be made rather than checking every character of the text. The reason that this works is that in lining up the pattern against the text, the last character of the pattern is compared to the characte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer–Moore_string-search_algorithm |
Lava deltas form wherever sub-aerial flows of lava enter standing bodies of water. The lava cools and breaks up as it encounters the water, with the resulting fragments filling in the seabed topography such that the sub-aerial flow can move further offshore. Lava deltas are generally associated with large-scale, effusi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_flows |
Part of this change involves a movement in the way in which society conceptualises many of the background assumptions in terms of new notions, such as computational metaphors, stories and claims of an "open" or "free" norm that governs particular spheres of activity, such as "open science".The book, The Philosophy of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Berry |
Caldera Systems' role on the Executive Committee included representing the Linux and open source communities.The company was re-elected to its seat on the Executive Committee after it became Caldera International, and represented Java usage on SCO Unix platforms as well. Work to improve just-in-time compilation under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera_Systems |
The just war theory by Thomas Aquinas has had a lasting impact on later generations of thinkers and was part of an emerging consensus in Medieval Europe on just war. In the 13th century Aquinas reflected in detail on peace and war. Aquinas was a Dominican friar and contemplated the teachings of the Bible on peace and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unjust_war |
Angie Zapata was beaten to death by Allen Andrade in July 2008. After Andrade learned that Zapata had a penis, she smiled at him and said "I'm all woman"; his defense attorney stated the smile "was a highly provoking act, and it would cause someone to have an aggressive reaction" when arguing to have the charge against... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_panic_defense |
A new thread in Vala is a portion of code such as a function that is requested to be executed concurrently at runtime. The creation and synchronization of new threads are done by using the Thread class in GLib, which takes the function as a parameter when creating new threads, as shown in the following (very simplified... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language) |
Free flight models with badly unstable phugoid typically stall or loop, depending on thrust.An unstable or divergent phugoid is caused, mainly, by a large difference between the incidence angles of the wing and tail. A stable, decreasing phugoid can be attained by building a smaller stabilizer on a longer tail, or, at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phugoid |
National Geodetic Survey and National Institute of Standards and Technology have replaced the definition for the above-mentioned units by the international 1959 definition of the foot, being exactly 0.3048 meters.Despite no longer being in widespread use, the rod is still employed in certain specialized fields. In recr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit) |
Second, excellent eyesight is required to see fine details that are otherwise inconspicuous. To this end, the aspirant must successfully complete: a form discrimination test to ensure that the aspirant is able to tell apart two similar-appearing yet different items, a color perception test, and near and distant visual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questioned_document_examination |
Monetary economics is the branch of economics that studies the different theories of money: it provides a framework for analyzing money and considers its functions (such as medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account), and it considers how money can gain acceptance purely because of its convenience as a pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_economics |
The company's products can be classified in four different categories: SilverFast SE / SE Plus / Ai Studio (Scanner Software) SilverFast HDR / HDR Studio (64Bit / 48 Bit Image Processing Software) SilverFast Archive Suite / Archive Suite SE SilverFast PrintTao 8 (Software for large format printers) SRDx Photoshop Plug-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserSoft_Imaging |
Completeness of feature set is very subjective, domain dependence eludes a formal definition. Feature generation model proposed by Nalluri and Gurumoorthy attempts to define the completeness of a feature set. They define domain independent form feature as a set of faces with distinct topological and geometric character... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_recognition |
In contrast to young Earth creationists, progressive creationists accept the geological column of the progressive appearance of plants and animals through time. To their viewpoint it accurately reflects the order in which God sequentially created kinds of organisms, starting with simple, single-celled organisms and pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_creationism |
A number of governmental and treaty organizations have made statements emphasizing the importance of AI alignment. In September 2021, the Secretary-General of the United Nations issued a declaration which included a call to regulate AI to ensure it is "aligned with shared global values. "That same month, the PRC publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment |
The Torsion grip is still made today as Doppelmayr (North America)'s primary grip option.Unlike Poma's grips, Doppelmayr grips are double position grips. When the chair enters a terminal, the angled roller is pushed down by a metal strip, which opens a grip jaw. The jaw remains open until the chair reattaches to the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachable_chairlift |
A graphene-based plasmonic nano-antenna (GPN) can operate efficiently at millimeter radio wavelengths. The wavelength of surface plasmon polaritons for a given frequency is several hundred times smaller than the wavelength of freely propagating electromagnetic waves of the same frequency. These speed and size differenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene_electronics |
The earliest archaeological evidence for a collapsible umbrella was unearthed in Samos in a context from about 700 BC and follows closely the shape of a slightly older Phrygian specimen excavated at Gordion. The sliding mechanism of the two pieces is remarkably similar to those in use today.In Classical Greece, the par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_umbrella |
In Europe, the five main prey species are, in order of extent of reporting and numeric abundance in dietary studies: the brown rat (Rattus norvegius), which has now occupied edge habitats (although generally associated with man) in almost every part of Europe excluding the colder north; the common vole (Microtus arvali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_biology_of_the_Eurasian_eagle-owl |
Apart from portable models which became available later, some system of support was necessary for the curlers. At first these were fixed to the ceiling, but these were soon replaced by a machine that was universally adopted. A vertical metal pipe held a circular unit, called a "chandelier" from which the heaters were s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_wave |
A new audio-only version of FaceTime, named FaceTime Audio, was announced during the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote speech on June 10, 2013, and released with iOS 7 on September 18, 2013. As an audio-only version of FaceTime, it effectively makes the protocol into a voice-over-Internet Prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie-Talkie_(Apple) |
Also, Bernard Katz and Doris Olin argue this point of view. In the second argument, we consider the amounts of money in the two envelopes as being fixed; what varies is which one is first given to the player. Because that was an arbitrary and physical choice, the counterfactual world in which the player, counterfactual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem |
In 2014, Sharp backed out of Linux kernel development, saying that "The focus on technical excellence, in combination with overloaded maintainers, and people with different cultural and social norms, means that Linux kernel maintainers are often blunt, rude, or brutal to get their job done". At the linux.conf.au (LCA) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PREEMPT_RT |
The pages post updates that include air-times of new episodes, preview and behind the scenes clips, merchandise and coupon opportunities, and interviews with the show's actors and directors. Access to exclusive content entices Facebook users to "like" the pages of their favorite shows. As of May 2011, 275 million users... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_television |
In computing, the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) software system was developed in the early 1990s from the work of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium (founded in 1988) that included Apollo Computer (part of Hewlett-Packard from 1989), IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, and others. The DCE suppli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environment |
A baby crocodile has an egg tooth on the end of its snout. It is a tough piece of skin which is resorbed less than two months after hatching. Crocodile eggs are similar to those of birds in that they have an inner membrane and an outer one. The egg tooth is used to tear open the inner membrane; the baby crocodile can t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tooth |
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