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The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. adopted more sweeping revisions of its Confession in 1903. Chapter 16.7, on the works of unregenerate men, was rewritten. The last sentence of chapter 22.3, which forbade the refusing of a proper oath when imposed by lawful authority, was removed. Chapter 25.6, on the head of the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith |
While the Earth does, in fact, move through a relatively dense medium in comparison to that of interstellar space, the drag is so minuscule that it could not be detected. In 1912, astronomer Henry Pickering commented: "While the interstellar absorbing medium may be simply the ether, is characteristic of a gas, and fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_vacuum |
Two hydrated bilayers experience strong repulsion as they approach each other. These forces have been measured using the Surface forces apparatus (S.F.A), an instrument used for measuring forces between surfaces. This repulsion was first proposed by Langmuir and was thought to arise due to water molecules that hydrate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbilayer_Forces_in_Membrane_Fusion |
However, only the standard modes, or modes that at least use almost exactly the same H-sync and V-sync timings as one of the standard modes, can be expected to work with the original late-1980s and early-1990s VGA monitors. The use of other timings may in fact damage such monitors and thus was usually avoided by softwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_card |
In its summary, the institute found that the "wealth taxes were not as equitable as they appeared".In a 2011 study, the London School of Economics examined wealth taxes that were being considered by the Labour party in the United Kingdom between 1974 and 1976 but were ultimately abandoned. The findings of the study rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax |
This would in turn allow the consumer to avoid endorsing products that are damaging to the environment as well as the society.Furthermore, there is still no agreement on who defines if a product is sustainable or unsustainable. Therefore, decisions made about the availability of a product can cause conflicts between th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_editing |
She also urged female scientists to support one another.Cortelyou served as a founding member and treasurer of the National Council on the Participation of Women in Science, formed in March 1959 as an offshoot of the conference. The Council was short-lived because, despite getting startup funds from the American Associ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethaline_Hartge_Cortelyou |
The Tracker was intended as a replacement for the Grumman AF Guardian, which was the first purpose-built aircraft system for anti-submarine warfare. The Guardian operated in two aircraft "hunter-killer" pairs, with one aircraft (the AF2-W) carrying the detection gear to find the submarine and to direct the second aircr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-2_Tracker |
McBain Medal, a joint award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), for research in the field of colloid, polymer and interface science, 2012 Honorary Professor of Semey State Medical University, Kazakhstan, 2012 Honorary Professor of Shakarim State University of Semey, Kazak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaliy_Khutoryanskiy |
SummerDominant skin characteristics (an individual's skin may include more than one): "very pale"; "It is the Summer person's lot in life to never have a suntan"; "transparent"; "fine-textured"; "light with a rosy-red or lilac undertone that does not come to the surface"; "not prone to blushing"; "The overall look of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_analysis |
Currently, only the United States and France possess nuclear-powered aircraft-carriers.The United States Navy has by far the most nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, with ten Nimitz-class carriers and one Gerald R. Ford-class carrier in service. The last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier left the U.S. fleet as of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_navy |
Eventually, a dissatisfied great power that approaches the power of the current hegemon will cause a new global war and the cycle repeats.Robert Keohane coined the term "Hegemonic stability theory" in a 1980 article. Keohane's 1984 book After Hegemony used insights from the new institutional economics to argue that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemonic_stability_theory |
This discounted the conventional assumption that dopamine mediates pleasure. Even with more-intense dopamine alterations, the data seemed to remain constant. However, a clinical study from January 2019 that assessed the effect of a dopamine precursor (levodopa), antagonist (risperidone), and a placebo on reward respons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system |
Nothing is original, but all are endless copies of reality. Since we do not imagine the reality of simulations, both imagined and real are equally hyperreal, for example, the numerous simulated rides, including the submarine ride and the Mississippi boat tour. When entering Disneyland, consumers form into lines to gain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality |
The conductivity decreases for x < 2 or when all Si is substituted for P in the crystal lattice (and vice versa); it can be increased by adding a rare-earth compound to NASICON, such as yttria.NASICON materials can be prepared as single crystals, polycrystalline ceramic compacts, thin films or as a bulk glass called NA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASICON |
However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and if he were correct it is unclear why d'Herbinville would have been involved. It has been speculated that he was du Motel's "supposed fiancé" at the time (she ultimately married someone else), but no clear evidence has been found supporting this conjecture. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évariste_Galois |
1986: The Intel 82786 is a programmable graphics processor with a BIT_BLT instruction to move rectangular sections of bitmaps.1987: The IBM 8514/A display adapter, introduced with the IBM Personal System/2 computers in April 1987, includes bit block transfer hardware. 1987: The Atari Mega ST 2 ships with a blitter chip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter |
In order to enhance accuracy in methods of observation and computation, Hongwu Emperor reinforced the adoption of parallel calendar systems, the Han and the Hui. In the following years, the Ming Court appointed several Hui astrologers to hold high positions in the Imperial Observatory. They wrote many books on Islamic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_astronomy |
An anchor system is installed on the starboard side aft to assist in retracting from the beach. These vessels are normally transported to their areas of operation onboard larger amphibious vessels such as LSDs, LHDs and LHAs. Introduction of the larger LCU-1610 class resulted in the US Navy constructing the Anchorage c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Craft_Utility |
Even with good visibility, misleading visual inputs such as sloping cloud decks, unfamiliar runway grades, or false horizons can also form optical illusions, resulting in the pilot misjudging the vertical orientation, aircraft speed or altitude, and/or distance and depth perception; these could even combine with nonvis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_disorientation |
This economy particularly gained traction in the vicinity of Northampton, Massachusetts and its neighboring Williamsburg, where a number of small firms and cooperatives emerged. Among the most prominent of these was the cooperative utopian Northampton Association for Education and Industry, of which Sojourner Truth was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_silk |
Urea contains a carbonyl group. The more electronegative oxygen atom pulls electrons away from the carbon atom, forming a polar bond with greater electron density around the oxygen atom, giving it a partial negative charge. In a simplistic sense, nitric acid dissociates in aqueous solution into protons (hydrogen cation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urea_nitrate |
Along with other factors, the presence of a protoplanetary disk sets a maximum limit on the age of stars. Stars with protoplanetary disks are typically young, having moved onto the main sequence only a relatively short time ago. Over time, this disk would coalesce to form planets, with leftover material being deposited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_age_estimation |
After the war, the Klöckner Group fell under the supervision of the Allies. Their aim was to break up the large corporation. Despite these difficult conditions, Klöckner & Co managed to make a fresh start surprisingly quickly. Like the other Klöckner enterprises, the trading company benefited from the rapid upswing in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klöckner_&_Co_SE |
When the bucket coil was cooled by liquid nitrogen to reduce its electrical resistance, it was able to achieve an acceleration of around 30 g (300 m/s²). The mass driver was inspired and designed by Gerard K. O'Neill of Princeton University (who was on sabbatical at MIT during the 1976–77 academic year) and Henry Kolm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Driver_1 |
Friends for International TB Relief is a small non-governmental organization whose mission is to help prevent tuberculosis and the spreading of TB. FIT not only diagnoses patients, but also provides preventative tuberculosis detection to pilot a comprehensive patient-centered TB program that aims to stop TB transmissio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitubercular_agents |
It has been stated that the U.S. pharmaceutical industry is able to invent drugs that would not be profitable in countries with lower prices, because of the high drug prices in the United States.Critics of pharmaceutical companies point out that only a small portion of the drug companies' expenditures are used for rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_drug_prices_in_the_United_States |
White clover grows well as a companion plant among lawns, grain crops, pasture grasses, and vegetable rows. It is often added to lawn seed mixes, as it is able to grow and provide green cover in poorer soils where turfgrasses do not perform well. White clover can tolerate close mowing and grazing, and it can grow on ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifolium_repens |
QB64 (Windows, Linux and macOS) — Self-hosting BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS. Aims at full compatibility with Microsoft QBasic and QuickBASIC. BASIC code is translated to C++ and then compiled to executable form. QBasic (DOS on the PC) — by Microsoft. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_dialects |
Each Drive Beam complex is composed of a 2.5 km-long linac, followed by a Drive Beam Recombination Complex: a system of delay lines and combiner rings where the incoming beam pulses are interleaved to ultimately form a 12 GHz sequence and a local beam current as high as 100A. Each 2.5 km-long Drive Beam linac is powere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Linear_Collider |
It has a higher density than the geologically dead Rhea, the largest inner moon, but lower than that of active Enceladus. While the majority of Dione's surface is heavily cratered old terrain, this moon is also covered with an extensive network of troughs and lineaments, indicating that in the past it had global tecton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn |
Surviving evidence of a wheel-axle combination, from Stare Gmajne near Ljubljana in Slovenia (Ljubljana Marshes Wooden Wheel), is dated within two standard deviations to 3340–3030 BCE, the axle to 3360–3045 BCE. Two types of early Neolithic European wheel and axle are known: a circumalpine type of wagon construction (t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeled_vehicle |
600 BCE), however, are missing or lost. Its theories and development has been compiled from historic secondary literature such as those found in the shastras, sutras and the Indian epic poetry as well as from the texts of Buddhism and from Jain literature. The Tattvôpaplava-siṁha by the skeptic philosopher Jayarāśi Bha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_philosophy |
In the years 2021-2022 Biden promoted 2 bills that can reduce the US greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50% from the level of 2005: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Build Back Better Act. The Build Back Better act faced strong opposition in the Senate and was not approved. The group of experts who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration |
Wavefunctions that can represent such manifolds cannot be supersymmetric. Therefore, TS breaking is intrinsically related to the concept of non-integrability in the sense of dynamical systems, which is actually yet another widely accepted definition of deterministic chaos.All the above features of TS breaking work for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetric_theory_of_stochastic_dynamics |
A government trifecta is a political situation in which the same political party controls the executive branch and both chambers of the legislative branch in countries that have a bicameral legislature and an executive that is not fused. The term is primarily used in the United States, where the term originated—being b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_trifecta |
Since laws aimed at the good of the entire community may not be suitable for certain cases or persons, the legislator has the right (sometimes even the duty) to dispense from the law.Dispensation is not a permanent power or a special right as in privilege. If the reason for the dispensation ceases entirely, then the di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrimonial_dispensation |
Sometimes referred to as prime notation, one of the most common modern notations for differentiation is due to Joseph-Louis Lagrange and uses the prime mark, so that the derivative of a function f {\displaystyle f} is denoted f ′ {\displaystyle f'} . Similarly, the second and third derivatives are denoted ( f ′ ) ′ = f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative |
Although Snow's chemical and microscope examination of a water sample from the Broad Street pump did not conclusively prove its danger, his studies of the pattern of the disease were convincing enough to persuade the local council to disable the well pump by removing its handle (force rod). This action has been commonl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow |
Polyethylene (polyethene, polythene, PE) is a family of similar materials categorized according to their density and molecular structure. It is also known as poly and is obtained by the addition polymerisation of ethylene. It may be of low density or high density depending upon the process used in its manufacturing. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoplastic |
Biological factors consist of anything physical that can cause adverse effects on a person's mental health. Biological factors include genetics, prenatal damage, infections, exposure to toxins, brain defects or injuries, and substance abuse. Many professionals believe that the cause of mental disorders is the biology o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_mental_disorders |
As many more settlers arrived in Canada, indigenous peoples were strongly motivated to relocate to newly created reserves, where the Canadian government encouraged Aboriginal people to build permanent houses and adopt farming in place of their traditional hunting and trapping. Not familiar to this sedentary lifestyle, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_architecture |
The solute carrier family 18 member 2 (SLC18A2) also known as vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC18A2 gene. SLC18A2 is an integral membrane protein that transports monoamines—particularly neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, and histamine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicular_monoamine_transporter_2 |
Countries formerly part of the British Empire are likely to retain a modified version of the British laws including the basic principles regarding road safety. In Malta for example, a single yellow line, means no waiting (i.e. no parking, but alighting of passengers is permitted). The sign is applicable all day. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_yellow_line |
In 2009, Dynalite was acquired by Philips Lighting, and henceforth took on its new name, Philips Dynalite. In 2018 Philips spun off its lighting department, which rebranded to become Signify N.V. Philips Dynalite is Signify's global brand for connected lighting control and building automation. Its products are availabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynalite |
Neptunium (named for the planet Neptune, the next planet out from Uranus, after which uranium was named) was discovered by Edwin McMillan and Philip H. Abelson in 1940 in Berkeley, California. They produced the 239Np isotope (half-life = 2.4 days) by bombarding uranium with slow neutrons. It was the first transuranium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinide_elements |
Although bit of a misnomer as the boats aren't without limits, unlimited hydroplanes have much fewer restrictions than with limited hydroplane racing. These 30 foot, 6,800 lbs boats most often powered by a Lycoming T55-L7 turbine engine (used from the Vietnam era to the present day in the CH-47 Chinook military helicop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroplane_racing |
The definition of the ampere underwent a major revision. The previous definition, which is difficult to realise with high precision in practice, was replaced by a definition that is easier to realise. Previous definition: The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_defining_constants |
Genetic evidence suggests that the water rail is the most closely related of its genus to the Pacific Gallirallus rails, and is basal to that group. The water rail was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae under its current scientific name, Rallus aquaticus. The binomial name is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_rail |
Sejong made many improvements, and increased the ranges of these cannons (called hwapo and later hwatong "fire tube" and chongtong "gun tube"): The cheonja-hwapo (천자화포/天字火砲), with a maximum range of about 1,610 m (5,280 ft) (1300 bo) with an arrow or dart, and about 1,240 m (4,070 ft) (1000 bo) with four arrows or dart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_cannon |
The light gathering ability of a 16" telescope coupled with Meade's "Advanced Coma-Free" design in a Dark-Sky Preserve provides exceptional astrophotographic capability. On July 9, the telescope was aligned to better enable long duration astrophotography. Using today's stacking technology and cooled CCD cameras will yi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killarney_Provincial_Park_Observatory |
By mid-2009 the project's main astrophysical interest is in the Sagittarius Stream, an immense stellar stream emanating from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy that wraps around the Milky Way. Mapping such interstellar streams and their dynamics with high accuracy may provide crucial clues for understanding the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkyWay@home |
In addition to these proprietary operating systems, both Linux and NetBSD have been ported to the Jazz-based MIPS Magnum machines. Some models of MIPS Magnum were rebadged and sold by Groupe Bull and Olivetti. In addition, headless (i.e., without a framebuffer or video card) versions were marketed as servers under the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_Magnum |
The memorial was left while the television camera was turned away; he told Mission Control he was doing some cleanup activities around the rover. Scott disclosed the memorial in a post-flight news conference. He also placed a Bible on the control panel of the rover before leaving it for the last time to enter the LM.Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_15 |
A model of the human processor is shown below. Many studies have been done to estimate the cycle times, decay times, and capacities of each of these processors. Variables that affect these can include subject age, aptitudes, ability, and the surrounding environment. For a younger adult, reasonable estimates are: Long-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useable |
In response to these market changes Eric Duckworth initiated changes of policy. Fulmer sought to extend its services to include the full range from R&D and testing to small scale manufacture, to extend its area of expertise to cover a wider range of materials and to develop new markets. It sought to collaborate with or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulmer_Research_Institute |
Changing behavioral patterns, may in turn, help reduce some of the stress that is put on at work as well. Employee assistance programs can include in-house counseling programs on managing stress. Evaluative research has been conducted on EAPs that teach individuals stress control and inoculation techniques such as rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_reduction |
During a Phalcon Hangout on 6 September 2020, the team announced that work has started on Phalcon 5. With this announcement, the projects new repositories were officially made public. Phalcon v5.0.0 was released during a live Hangout on September 23, 2022. A lot of members of the community joined and congratulated the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalcon_(framework) |
North of the Tropic of Cancer, the noon shadow will always point north, and conversely, south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the noon shadow will always point south. The solar noon shadows of objects on points beyond and below subsolar points will point towards true north and true south respectively only when the solar de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_path |
This development in methodology would prove crucial for other historians who would use the history of mentalities to attempt to edit views of people and make microhistories out of them. These historians would largely concern themselves with social and cultural history in order to form their history of mentalities, narr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mentalities |
864 122.86 mm ≈ 864 m. Previously used quartz rod had 0.1 mm deviation from 1 meter – intended length – and it was taken account in new measurements. Because of accuracy, curvature of earth had to take in account when building the baseline: the middlepoint 432 m is 14.6 mm lower than zero & 864 -points. (Fig 17 in ref ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummela_Standard_Baseline |
The court held that because the type of negligence was foreseeable and the very "type of eventuality the safety devices were designed to guard against," the defendant was liable for the plaintiff's damages.Another example can be found in Christensen v. Royal Sch. Dist.,124 P.3d 283 (Wash. 2005). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_negligence |
The biosynthesis begins with L-Glutamine, which is derived to L-ornithine in plants. The major contribution of L-ornithine and L-arginine as a precursor to the tropane ring was confirmed by Edward Leete. Ornithine then undergoes a pyridoxal phosphate-dependent decarboxylation to form putrescine. In some animals, the ur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_trafficking |
Physicians who have not studied medicine in Germany, among others, must prove their language skills by means of a German B2 certificate and a successfully completed Fachsprachprüfung. In addition, doctors who have not studied in the EU, EEA or Switzerland must prove that their studies are equivalent. For this purpose, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_license |
Research over several decades has demonstrated that sexual orientation can be at any point along a continuum, from exclusive attraction to the opposite sex to exclusive attraction to the same sex.The results of a large-scale, longitudinal study by Savin-Williams, Joyner, and Rieger (2012) indicated that stability of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fluidity |
The Chebyshev pseudospectral method for optimal control problems is based on Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. It is part of the larger theory of pseudospectral optimal control, a term coined by Ross. Unlike the Legendre pseudospectral method, the Chebyshev pseudospectral (PS) method does not immediately offer h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_pseudospectral_method |
Metafont, not strictly part of TeX, is a font description system which allows the designer to describe characters algorithmically. It uses Bézier curves in a fairly standard way to generate the actual characters to be displayed, but Knuth devotes substantial attention to the rasterizing problem on bitmapped displays. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX_markup |
†Clonophycus belium Late Sinian to Early Cambrian †Clonophycus bellus Late Sinian to Early Cambrian †Clonophycus biattina Middle Proterozoic to Late Proterozoic - Australia (N.Territory) China(Hupei) †Clonophycus dissides Late Precambrian †Clonophycus elegans (type) Middle Proterozoic - Australia †Clonophycus guizhouen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonophycus |
Whenever people tried to give more substance and detail to the nature of the scattering centers, and the mechanics of scattering, and the meaning of the length of scattering, all these attempts ended in failures.The scattering lengths computed in the Drude model, are of the order of 10 to 100 inter-atomic distances, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drude_model |
Multicast is a network addressing method for the delivery of information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of the network only once, creating copies only when the links to the multiple destinations split (typically network switches and rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_multicast |
Comparisons with stone structures on Tuamotu atolls show that a population of between 100 and 200 people could have produced all of the Malden structures. Marae of a similar type are found on Raivavae, one of the Austral Islands. However, no studies have been conducted on the agricultural potential of the island to cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malden_Island |
Rip cut comes from rip: to split or saw timber in the direction of the grain, and cut: to divide with a sharp-edged instrument. Wood may also be split along the grain (riven), but the split will follow the grain and usually not be flat. Knots also prevent riving thus the need for rip cuts. A kerf is the opening in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_cut |
In economics and social choice theory, a no-justified-envy matching is a matching in a two-sided market, in which no agent prefers the assignment of another agent and is simultaneously preferred by that assignment. Consider, for example, the task of matching doctors for residency in hospitals. Each doctor has a prefere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-justified-envy_matching |
Rice's theorem can also be put in terms of functions: for any non-trivial property of partial functions, no general and effective method can decide whether an algorithm computes a partial function with that property. Here, a property of partial functions is called trivial if it holds for all partial computable function... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_theorem |
Multiple tribes in the state of Meghalaya in northeast India practise matrilineal descent. Often referred to as Khasi people and Garo people, among the Khasi people which is a term used as a blanket term for various subgroups in Meghalaya who have distinguishing languages, rites, ceremonies, and habits, but share an et... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineal_society_of_Meghalaya |
Eunectes murinus is found in South America east of the Andes, in countries including Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, the island of Trinidad, and as far south as northern Paraguay. The type locality given is "America".On April 29, 2021, green anacondas were added to Florida's list of pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_anaconda |
One study suggested that because the EDAR mutation arose in a cool and dry environment, it may have been adaptive by increasing skin lubrication, thus reducing dryness in exposed facial structures.The 370A mutation is found in 60-90% of Han Chinese and in the majority of people in nearby Asian populations of very speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectodysplasin_A_receptor |
Girls suffer from low self-esteem when they fail to win friends' approval or cannot find someone with whom to share common activities and common interests. In contrast, boys are more concerned with establishing and asserting their independence and defining their relation to authority. As such, they are more likely to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubertal_growth_spurt |
In the United States, the phrase "gay agenda" was popularized by a video series produced by a California evangelical religious group called Springs of Life Ministries. The first video of the series, The Gay Agenda, was released in 1992 and distributed to hundreds of Christian right organizations. Tens of thousands of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_agenda |
ASUE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sparsamen und Umweltfreundlichen Energieverbrauch e. V.) - The Association for the Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Use of Energy - is a German association founded in 1977. The association's aim is to assist in the development and production of energy-saving and eco-friendly technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUE_(Germany) |
The one-child policy has a factor in China's rapid increase in higher educational attainment. : 59 Research shows that a stricter fertility policy would induce higher female educational achievement. Prior to the one-child policy, roughly 30% of women attended higher education, whereas between 1990 and 1992, 50 percent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Child_Policy |
There have been no long-term sequelae of the known adverse events (local or systemic reactions) and no pattern of frequently reported serious adverse events for anthrax vaccine adsorbed.The approved FDA package insert for anthrax vaccine adsorbed contains the following notice: "The most common (>10%) local (injection-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax_vaccine_adsorbed |
Mu-metal was invented in 1923 by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, London, who made the cable, initially, for the Western Union Telegraph Co. Western Union were in competition with AT&T and the Western Electric Company who were using permalloy. The patent for permalloy was held by Western Electric whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_coil |
In order to decrypt a Trithemius cipher, one first locates in the tabula recta the letters to decrypt: first letter in the first interior column, second letter in the second column, etc.; the letter directly to the far left, in the header column, is the corresponding decrypted plaintext letter. Assuming a standard shif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_tableau |
These served a wide array of purposes, such as irrigation, flood control, river diversion, soil-retention, or a combination of these functions. The impermeability of Roman dams was increased by the introduction of waterproof hydraulic mortar and especially opus caementicium in the Concrete Revolution. These materials a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_architecture |
Educators must provide learners practice in recognizing frames of reference. By doing so, educators encourage practice in redefining problems from different perspectives. The goal is to create a community of learners who are "united in a shared experience of trying to make meaning of their life experience".Educators ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_learning |
Skeletal animation or rigging is a technique in computer animation in which a character (or other articulated object) is represented in two parts: a surface representation used to draw the character (called the mesh or skin) and a hierarchical set of interconnected parts (called bones, and collectively forming the skel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation |
: 111 Suits that fit correctly and are not excessively stretchy also help.The recommended procedure in all such inversion incidents, is for the diver to bend at the knees and powerfully swing the arms to do a backward or forward roll to the upright position without delay, to allow the gas to flow to the shoulders and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_suit |
Marsupials have two lateral vaginas and a medial vagina. The "vagina" of monotremes is better understood as a "urogenital sinus". The uterine systems of placental mammals can vary between a duplex, where there are two uteri and cervices which open into the vagina, a bipartite, where two uterine horns have a single cerv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalia |
In sociology, gender identity describes the gender with which a person identifies (i.e., whether one perceives oneself to be a man, a woman, outside of the gender binary), but can also be used to refer to the gender that other people attribute to the individual on the basis of what they know from gender role indication... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_formation |
Although the gopher's front claws are too weak to dig through the clay (particularly during dry seasons), its large incisors and strongly protuberant orientation are well-adapted for this purpose. Tunnel systems constructed by the camas pocket gopher can be complex, with some tunnels exceeding 240 m (260 yd) in length.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camas_pocket_gopher |
This is a fundamental character of temperature and thermometers.As it is customarily stated in textbooks, taken alone, the so-called "zeroth law of thermodynamics" fails to deliver this information, but the statement of the zeroth law of thermodynamics by James Serrin in 1977, though rather mathematically abstract, is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_sensor |
Ceiba speciosa, the floss silk tree (formerly Chorisia speciosa), is a species of deciduous tree that is native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America. It has several local common names, such as palo borracho (in Spanish literally "drunken stick"), or árbol del puente, samu'ũ (in Guarani), or paineira... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorisia_speciosa |
The centerbore of a wheel is the hole in the center of the wheel that centers it over the mounting hub of the car. Some factory wheels have a centerbore that matches exactly with the hub to reduce vibration by keeping the wheel centered. Wheels with the correct centerbore for the car they will be mounted on are known a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_sizing |
Originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC workstation in 1986, AIX has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series and later Power and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server. It is currently supported on IBM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system |
Class consciousness: class consciousness refers to the awareness, both of itself and of the social world around it, that a social class possesses and its capacity to act in its own rational interests based on this awareness. Thus class consciousness must be attained before the class may mount a successful revolution. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Marxism |
A pistol stabilizing brace (PSB) or arm brace is a device like a buttstock, but purportedly meant to be in contact with or wrap around the shooter's forearm like a wrist brace or splint, instead of being pressed against the shoulder, as an alternative measure of countering recoil and muzzle rise with one-handed shootin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_stock |
An intracavernous (or intracavernosal) injection is an injection into the base of the penis. This injection site is often used to administer medications to check for or treat erectile dysfunction in adult men (in, for example, a combined intracavernous injection and stimulation test). The more common medications admini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracavernous_injection |
Canopic jars are vessels which were used for storing the internal organs removed during mummification. These were named after the human-headed jars that were worshiped as personifications of Kanops (the helmsman of Menelaus in Greek mythology) by the inhabitants of ancient Canopus. The practice of evisceration is first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_art |
If the rearing or collecting results are of interest, assign a Hopkins number to the collection. (A single Hopkins number cannot be assigned to insects collected from more than one host species, or to insects of the same host species when the collections are separated appreciably by time, space, or host condition). Fil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopkins_Notes_and_Records_System |
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