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On update, ZPAQ divides the input files into fragments, computes their SHA-1 hashes, and compares them to the hashes stored in the archive. If there is a match, then the fragments are assumed to be identical, and only a pointer to the previously compressed fragment is stored. Otherwise the fragment is packed into a blo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPAQ
The FAO Country Profiles keeps updated for the public the list of LIFDC countries. This list is revised every year according to the methodology explained below. The new list of the LIFDC, stands at 62 countries, four less than in the (2012) list. These are: Georgia, Syrian Arab Republic, Timor-Leste, Republic of Moldov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO_Country_Profiles
Molecular Integrated Microsystems (MIMS) Microsystems in which functions found in biological and nanoscale systems are combined with manufacturable materials. Molecular Electronics (ME) Any system with atomically precise electronic devices of nanometer dimensions, especially if made of discrete molecular parts rather t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nanotechnology
: 379 Byte summarizes that shared services "can include not only low-level file system and device-driver services but also higher-level networking and even database services. believes that locating such application-oriented services close to the microkernel will improve their efficiency by reducing the number of functi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS
The deep circumflex iliac artery arises from the lateral aspect of the external iliac artery nearly opposite the origin of the inferior epigastric artery. It ascends obliquely and laterally, posterior to the inguinal ligament, contained in a fibrous sheath formed by the junction of the transversalis fascia and iliac fa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_circumflex_iliac_artery
With the earliest sets two quartz crystals were needed for transmitting and receiving on each channel, which was costly. By the mid-1960s "mixer" circuits made frequency-synthesized radios possible, which reduced cost and allowed full coverage of all 23 channels with a smaller number of crystals (typically 14). The nex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio
The Signal Foundation is officially tax-exempt as of February 2019.In January 2021, the tech billionaire Elon Musk tweeted his support for the Signal app with two words "Use Signal", showing his favor for the app as an alternative to WhatsApp. Musk doubled down stating he had financially supported Signal in the past an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Whisper_Systems
The Indian Army first announced plans to acquire 145 guns for ₹30 billion (US$376 million). Purchase plans were overtaken when the procurement process was restarted in July 2010. India's Ministry of Defence cleared the proposal for buying 145 guns for US$660 million on 11 May 2012 through the US Government's Foreign Mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M777_howitzer
The whole thing Bibel described as an attempt to „ academically liquidate“ him and he explained it by saying that Bauer, in his opinion, was obsessed with power and was against Bibel for personal reasons. Bauer and his colleagues rejected the subject and could not identify themselves with Bibel's scientific approach. B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Bibel
In this regard, Grierson's definition of documentary as "creative treatment of actuality" has gained some acceptance; however, this position is at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's credos of provocation to present "life as it is" (that is, life filmed surreptitiously), and "life caught unawares" (life prov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_documentary_film
He said, "It was actually a little more difficult than I expected because it took a lot for me to figure out how to portray this guy and what exactly his motives were going to be throughout. I thought maybe I was overthinking it, and I met with this really great acting coach who helped me walk through and make sense of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_3D
Srigupta, from his shame, is converted immediately and enlightened (Zürcher (Prince Moonlight) 208). In a Sui dynasty text named the Shenri Jing, however, Yueguang takes on a higher importance. After enlightening Srigupta, the Buddha delivers a prophecy concerning Yueguang, stating that he will later be born as a saint...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_eschatology
Sensory phenomena are associated with Tourette syndrome and tic disorders, and defined as "uncomfortable feelings or sensations preceding tics that usually are relieved by the movement". The tics of Tourette's are temporarily suppressible and preceded by a premonitory urge which is similar to the need to sneeze or scra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_phenomena
The primary cause of this rapid expansion is explained simply by the species having few natural predators within the United States, little desire on the part of Americans to hunt or eat the armadillo, and the animals' high reproductive rate. The northern expansion of the armadillo is expected to continue until the spec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_banded_armadillo
Mendel's trailblazing foundation for the science of genetics went unnoticed, to his lasting disappointment. 1865 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz realized that benzene is composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms in a hexagonal ring. 1869 – Friedrich Miescher discovered nucleic acids in the nuclei of cells.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_biology_and_organic_chemistry
In all iterations of the game, the Main Menu is presented as the interior of a team's home garage, with crew members working on cars, and fans observing from an upper balcony. Beginning with NTG: Inside Line, the race day menu was presented as the infield garage of each racetrack. The Loading Screen is presented as a b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR_The_Game
Drill and discipline are crucial parts of the Drill Instructor School curriculum. Every student is continuously evaluated, corrected, and mentored, with special attention paid to the smallest of details, such as the placement of a finger within 1/4 inch of its required location along a trouser seam, angle of the weapon...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_instructor
The teachings of the empiricists preceded systemization of a positivist method for problems of comprehension and analysis, which was later represented by legal positivism. For example, John Locke's empiricism did not prevent him from being an advocate of natural law.Logical positivists such as Rudolf Carnap and A. J. A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_positivism
A compound DC motor connects the armature and fields windings in a shunt and a series combination to give it characteristics of both a shunt and a series DC motor. This motor is used when both a high starting torque and good speed regulation is needed. The motor can be connected in two arrangements: cumulatively or dif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_current_motor
Violet is informed that she must be juiced immediately before she explodes and is last seen en route to the Juicing Room, and her father follows after, crying, "I've got a blueberry for a daughter!" In the 2005 film, 10-year old Violet is described as being "brash, rude and insanely competitive".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicious_knid
According to one model of repetition, defined by Gilles Deleuze, is the synthesis of time through memory that creates something new for the subject who is remembering. The past is repeated and related to other past events, creating a new understanding of the past. However, this repetition is still closed, as the subjec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_improvisation
Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known for appearing in independent films and portraying a wide variety of roles both comedic and dramatic in films such as Lawn Dogs (1997), The Green Mile (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Match...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Rockwell
Fei–Ranis model of economic growth has been criticized on multiple grounds, although if the model is accepted, then it will have a significant theoretical and policy implications on the underdeveloped countries' efforts towards development and on the persisting controversial statements regarding the balanced vs. unbala...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei–Ranis_model_of_economic_growth
The passenger pigeon was featured in the writings of many significant early naturalists, as well as accompanying illustrations. Mark Catesby's 1731 illustration, the first published depiction of this bird, is somewhat crude, according to some later commentators. The original watercolor that the engraving is based on wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeons
A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2018 suggested an alternative method of addressing health literacy. This alternative method is the use of "culturally-related/accepted" music and singing amongst low-literacy populations. In the example of this study, the music was shown to incre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_literacy
A large number of potent small-molecule Cdc25 Inhibitors have been identified that bind to the active site and belong to various chemical classes, including natural products, lipophilic acids, quinonoids, electrophiles, sulfonylated aminothiazoles and phosphate bioisosteres. Although some progress has been made in deve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdc25
"Medical Informatics and the Concept of Disease", Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 21: 85–101: 2000. "Behavior at the Organismal and Molecular Levels: The Case of C. elegans", Philosophy of Science 67 2000( Proceedings): S273-S288. "Preventing severe mental illnesses--new prospects and ethical challenges", with Patri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_F._Schaffner
Example: P4 Electron count: 4 × P = 4 × 5 = 20 It is a 5n structure with n = 4, so it is tetrahedralExample: P4S3 Electron count 4 × P + 3 × S = 4 × 5 + 3 × 6 = 38 It is a 5n + 3 structure with n = 7. Three vertices are inserted into edgesExample: P4O6 Electron count 4 × P + 6 × O = 4 × 5 + 6 × 6 = 56 It is a 5n + 6 st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedral_skeletal_electron_pair_theory
Additionally, a lecture theatre at the University of Liverpool's Physics department, as well as a Biophysics laboratory in the Biological science department, are named after him. In 2012 a gritter in Barkla's home town of Widnes was named in his honour, following a competition run by the local newspaper. In Widnes they...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Glover_Barkla
}+\overbrace {2(2053-2052)(2052-2050)} ^{{\text{This is }}2ab. }+\overbrace {(2052-2050)^{2}} ^{{\text{This is }}b^{2}. }\end{aligned}}} Now apply this to all five observations and observe certain patterns: ( 2051 − 2052 ) 2 ⏞ This is a 2 .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel's_correction
Some languages allow dynamic arrays (also called resizable, growable, or extensible): array variables whose index ranges may be expanded at any time after creation, without changing the values of its current elements. For one-dimensional arrays, this facility may be provided as an operation "append(A,x)" that increases...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-based_indexing
The simplest theory for the story is that it is merely an Irish joke or Irish bull, and that the selection of Kilkenny as opposed to somewhere else in Ireland is arbitrary, perhaps favoured by the alliteration of the phrase "Kilkenny cats". John G. A. Prim in Notes and Queries in 1850 conceded that this was the most co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilkenny_cats
With the onset of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the late 18th century, there was a rapid increase in the industrial exploitation of labour, including child labour. Industrial cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool rapidly grew from small villages into large cities and improving child mortality r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour
Modern Pentax K mount lenses can be used on the Q with an adapter that has a mechanical shutter. Other adapted lenses use the electronic shutter. The camera's small sensor size (1/2.3 inches) means that the Q has a crop factor of 5.6× (compared to full-frame 35mm cameras), as well as a short flange focal distance (FFD)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_Q
The manor, whose Lord was an abbot from a nearby monastery, had 13 "hides" of arable land of six virgates each. The acreage of a hide and virgate varied; but at Elton, a hide was 144 acres (58 ha) and a virgate was 24 acres (10 ha). Thus, the total of arable land amounted to 1,872 acres (758 ha).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-field_system
Charles Leavitt was hired by Warner Bros. in February 2004 to rewrite an early draft of the film, then titled Okavango. The story had been stuck in development hell at the studio for years before producers Paula Weinstein and Gillian Gorfil finally decided on the story of an African farmer caught up in the conflict bet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diamond
However, Charles developed an ambivalent relationship with his father's values and with the Church of England as a whole.During his early youth, Dodgson was educated at home. His "reading lists" preserved in the family archives testify to a precocious intellect: at the age of seven, he was reading books such as The Pil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
The keyboard is a functionally separate unit which could be connected by non-multiplexed and multiplexed interfaces. Multiplexed keyboard units feature additional data direction line, allowing sending scan line number to the keyboard using same data lines used for return scan code, decreasing overall number of wires be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX_turbo_R
The definition places virtually no restrictions on which functions of the data can be called the "estimators". The attractiveness of different estimators can be judged by looking at their properties, such as unbiasedness, mean square error, consistency, asymptotic distribution, etc. The construction and comparison of e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_estimator
Memantine is, in general, well tolerated. Common adverse drug reactions (≥1% of people) include confusion, dizziness, drowsiness, headache, insomnia, agitation, and/or hallucinations. Less common adverse effects include vomiting, anxiety, hypertonia, cystitis, and increased libido.Like many other NMDA antagonists, mema...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memantine
Pit caving was pioneered by the English geologist John Beaumont (c. 1650–1731) who gave an account of his descent into Lamb Leer Cavern to the Royal Society in 1681. French caver Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859–1938) first achieved the descent and exploration of the Gouffre de Padirac, France, as early as 1889 and the firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_cave
The company was founded in 1988 as Synta Optics, at first producing only eyepieces. In 1992, the manufacturing was moved to Suzhou (Jiangsu) in China. Their first telescopes (4.5“ (114 mm) -Newtonians) were distributed by Celestron and Tasco. In 1993, the first refracting telescopes were produced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_Synta_Optical_Technology
Italy has been a secular state since the enactment of the Constitution in 1948 (stressed by a Constitutional court's decision in 1985), but still recognizes a special status for the Catholic Church. The reverse progression can also occur, however; a state can go from being secular to being a religious state, as in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_state
In particular, road construction was expanding at a very rapid pace. This was part of Hitler's war preparations as Germany needed a state-of-the-art highway system in order to be able to move troops and materials quickly. As a side effect, cars and other forms of motorized transport became increasingly attractive to th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism
The Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) is an Earth system modeling software that integrates atmospheric, oceanographic, and cryospheric modeling across scales from regional to planetary. It includes climate and weather modeling and simulations that were used initially by researchers in 2013. The atmospheric mode...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_for_Prediction_Across_Scales
The Makoko floating school comprised alternative sustainable buildings and structures designed to adapt to the resident communities' aquatic lifestyle. The floating school utilized local materials such as bamboo, timber and resources to produce architecture that applied to the physical, social needs of people and refle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoko_Floating_School
Males typically do not leave their territory for the entirety of the breeding season, fasting and competing until all energy sources are depleted. The Juan Fernandez fur seals deviate from this typical behavior, using aquatic breeding territories not seen in other fur seals. They use rocky sites for breeding, but males...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_seal
In terms of retention factor (k), retardation factor (R) is defined as follows: R = 1 k + 1 {\displaystyle \ R={\frac {1}{k+1}}} and conversely: k = 1 − R R {\displaystyle \ k={\frac {1-R}{R}}} == References ==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retention_factor
Gopher menu items are defined by lines of tab-separated values in a text file. This file is sometimes called a gophermap. As the source code to a gopher menu, a gophermap is roughly analogous to an HTML file for a web page. Each tab-separated line (called a selector line) gives the client software a description of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_Protocol
Multi-Mac is another application switching utility designed specifically for the Macintosh 512K, though it is more known for its mysteriousness. Showing up sometime in late 1985, after the introduction of Switcher, and being credited as being made by Jwa van der Vuurst with a copyright by Aubrac Systems, it makes over ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder
This gives a simple form of sharding and scalable shared-nothing architecture across the servers. The server computes a second hash of the key to determine where to store or read the corresponding value. The servers keep the values in RAM; if a server runs out of RAM, it discards the oldest values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached
Medical academics use the term and have recognized its importance in transgender studies since the 1990s. After the terms cisgender and cissexual were used in a 2006 article in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Serano's 2007 book Whipping Girl, the former gained further popularity among English-speaking activists and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
When temperatures are low enough for moisture in the air to freeze, it accumulates on the surface of fur as frost crystals that can be brushed or beaten away. Fur ruffs on hoods collect moisture from breath; when it freezes it can be brushed away with one hand. For footwear, animal skin provides greater condensation co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit_clothing
EwE has three main components: Ecopath – a static, mass-balanced snapshot of the system Ecosim – a time dynamic simulation module for policy exploration Ecospace – a spatial and temporal dynamic module designed for exploring the combined impacts of fishing, the placement of protected areas, and changing environmental c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecopath
These upgrades improve upon the T-72B tank's mobility and bring the upgraded vehicle up to par with the T-80UD. Further improvements were made to the fire-control system, which is now an adaptation of the 1A45 Irtysh system, with 1G46 day sight, TKN-4S, TPN-4 or TPN-4 Buran-Catherine night sights (the latter equipped w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTU-72
The more attentive the child is to these seductive words, and the more earnestly he responds to the suggestions emanating from all sides, the more devastating will be the eventual conflicts. The child possesses no perspective that will allow him to see things as they are. He has no basis for reasoned judgements, no mea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind
Ion beam milling – thins samples until they are transparent to electrons by firing ions (typically argon) at the surface from an angle and sputtering material from the surface. A subclass of this is focused ion beam milling, where gallium ions are used to produce an electron transparent membrane or 'lamella' in a speci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Microscope
Butyrate has been shown to be a critical mediator of the colonic inflammatory response. It is responsible for about 70% of energy from the colonocytes, being a critical SCFA in colon homeostasis. Butyrate possesses both preventive and therapeutic potential to counteract inflammation-mediated ulcerative colitis (UC) and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3H7COOH
Nitriles are precursors to transition metal nitrile complexes, which are reagents and catalysts. Examples include tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) hexafluorophosphate (+) and bis(benzonitrile)palladium dichloride (PdCl2(PhCN)2).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrile_oxide
The Imperial Japanese Navy faced a numerical disadvantage against the United States Navy, and prior to the Pacific War, they formulated a strategy of attacking the American fleets through ambush tactics, with heavy reliance on torpedoes. This plan principally emphasized submarines, but with the development of the type ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_cruiser
Many critics have rejected at least some of Gibson's claims. Psychologist Richard Gregory asserted that Gibson's bottom-up approach to perception is incomplete. He argued that visual illusions like the Necker cube are the result of the brain's indecision between two equally plausible hypotheses about the cube's orienta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_optic_array
In China, the Daihatsu Charade was called Xiali and was produced by Tianjin FAW, under the registered mark of "China FAW". From September 1986 to 2009, it sold over 1.5 million units in that country. It also provided the basis for countless unlicensed Chinese copies, often depending on fibreglass moldings taken from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Charade
Their diagnosis is histological: only a biopsy of the tumour can make an exact diagnosis. They are often suspected of being malignant prior to operation, being solid ovarian tumours that tend to occur most commonly in post menopausal women. This group of tumours is significantly less common than testicular germ cell tu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_cord–gonadal_stromal_tumour
It is said that the children had no place to hide the body, so they cut it up in small pieces which they hid around the mansion. Rumors exist that teenagers who had broken into the mansion saw ghosts of the children and claimed to see shadows of the doctor's murder through the light coming from an open door. The legend...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads
Ray Monk writes that Karl's aim was to turn his sons into captains of industry; they were not sent to school lest they acquire bad habits, but were educated at home to prepare them for work in Karl's industrial empire. Three of the five brothers would later commit suicide. Psychiatrist Michael Fitzgerald argues that Ka...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
: 60 TSR's Amazing Engine was a universal game system, a simple beginner's system. : 27 In 1996, Hero Games partnered with R. Talsorian and decided to create a new, simpler rules system to attract new players, merging it with the Interlock game system and calling it Fuzion. : 150 Dragonlance: Fifth Age (1996) was built...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game_system
Assuming that the density at the base of the chimney is continuous, the buoyancy anomaly b ′ {\displaystyle b'} of a particle which is displaced a distance Δz within the chimney is:According to Kovalevsky et al. (2020) the buoyancy budget equation is:The left-hand side represents the time evolution of the total buoyanc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ocean_convection
On 13 November 2006, Sun released its compiler, javac, under the GNU General Public License.As of September 2007, as well as javac, Sun has released the code of HotSpot (the virtual machine) and almost all the Java Class Library as free software. Following their promise to release a fully buildable JDK based almost com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Java_implementations
Dao Look Gai or Dao Luk Gai, also known as the Chick Stars or Pleiades (M45), is a Thai folk tale from Surin province, in northeastern Thailand. It is a fable that explains why Pleiades is called Dao Look Gai (Thai: Dao 'star'; Look Gai or Luk Gai 'chick') and why it has 7 stars in the sky. This fable is popular in cen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dao_Look_Gai_(Thai_Folk_Tale)
The major difference between omnichannel and multichannel is the level of integration. Multichannel is usually identified as a non-integrated way to approach customers and inventory holdings, while omnichannel requires coherent and absolute inventory integration. More and more organizations have realized the opportunit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multichannel_retailing
TE10 locomotives have A-B-A or A-B-B-A unit configurations, which called 3TE10M, and 4TE10S respectively. B–unit of 3TE10 have reduced set of driving controls, intended for service movement of the locomotive. The last 3-unit TE10 rebuild called 3TE10MK, equipped with computer-aided cab controls. Newer E5K family is sim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_unit
Barton was the first student to win four gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, culminating in full marks at the 2001 Olympiad held in Washington, D.C., shared with Gabriel Carroll, Xiao Liang and Zhang Zhiqiang.Barton is one of seven people to have placed among the five top ranked competitors (who are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_W._Barton
: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 0674006712 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York: Penguin Press, 2004. ISBN 0143035592 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Negri
Photosynthetica is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on photosynthesis. It was established in 1967 and is published by the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The editor-in-chief is Helena Synkova (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic). Up...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetica
In this model stellar winds from T Tauri stars would collide with the surrounding medium and generate shocks leading to emission. With the discovery of the jet in HH 46/47, it became clear that HH objects were not reflection nebulae, but shock driven emission nebulae which were powered by jets ejected from protostars. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HH_46/47
SAR makes use of the amplitude and the absolute phase of the return signal data. In contrast, interferometry uses differential phase of the reflected radiation, either from multiple passes along the same trajectory and/or from multiple displaced phase centers (antennas) on a single pass. Since the outgoing wave is prod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometric_synthetic-aperture_radar
The fibrations of the 600-cell include 6 fibrations of its 72 great decagons: 6 fiber bundles of 12 great decagons. Each fiber bundle delineates 20 helical rings of 30 tetrahedral cells each, with five rings nesting together around each decagon. The Hopf map of this fibration is the icosahedron, where each of 12 vertic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-3-5_triangular_honeycomb
Not all identities satisfied by ln {\displaystyle \ln } extend to complex numbers. It is true that e Log ⁡ z = z {\displaystyle e^{\operatorname {Log} z}=z} for all z ≠ 0 {\displaystyle z\not =0} (this is what it means for Log ⁡ z {\displaystyle \operatorname {Log} z} to be a logarithm of z {\displaystyle z} ), but the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_logarithm
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, was ranked in the top 10 in all but one of 16 specialties, in the top 4 in 13 specialties, and was the #1 ranked hospital in 8 of the 12 data-driven specialties. This year U.S. News expanded its common procedures and conditions list to 9 individual measures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_Imaging_Resource
A series of pipes, each with a wheel of about 1.5 m diameter permanently affixed to its midpoint, and sprinklers along its length, are coupled together. Water is supplied at one end using a large hose. After sufficient irrigation has been applied to one strip of the field, the hose is removed, the water drained from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation_system
Vietnamese creation myths are mythological narratives recounting the origin of the universe, the world, and the origin of the Vietnamese people. Since the middle of the 20th century, a number of scholars have begun to collect and study Vietnamese mythology. Typical among scholars is Nguyễn Đổng Chi, he published the bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_creation_myths
Such S. pyogenes infection in children usually manifests as severe soft tissue infection with onset 4 to 12 days from the chickenpox diagnosis. There is also 40 to 60 times increase in risk of S. pyogenes infection within the first two weeks of chickenpox infection in children. However, 20 to 30% of S. pyogenes infecti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus_pyogenes
The Five Star Movement (M5S), a prominent political party in Italy, has been utilizing online voting since 2012 to select its candidates for Italian and European elections. These votes are conducted through a web-based application called Rousseau, accessible to registered members of Beppe Grillo's blog.Within this plat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_democracy
Let P be a G-torsor with a local trivialization { U i → X } {\displaystyle \{U_{i}\to X\}} in étale topology. A trivial torsor admits a section: thus, there are elements s i ∈ P ( U i ) {\displaystyle s_{i}\in P(U_{i})} . Fixing such sections s i {\displaystyle s_{i}} , we can write uniquely s i g i j = s j {\displayst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsor_(algebraic_geometry)
Discovering that Kurosawa's professional and private life was at a nadir and confronting the challenges of working in Japan, he returned to Los Angeles where he worked with Sam Francis in his Litho Shop and with a number of other leading artists in his capacity as an assistant at ACE Gallery in Venice, California. He a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dailey
Many Wilf-equivalences stem from the trivial fact that |Avn(β)| = |Avn(β−1)| = |Avn(βrev)| for all n, where β−1 denotes the inverse of β and βrev denotes the reverse of β. (These two operations generate the Dihedral group D8 with a natural action on permutation matrices.) However, there are also numerous examples of no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_pattern
The organ generating the airstream is called the initiator and there are three initiators used phonemically in non-disordered human oral languages: the diaphragm together with the ribs and lungs (pulmonic mechanisms), the glottis (glottalic mechanisms), and the tongue (lingual or "velaric" mechanisms).There are also me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airstream_mechanism
A myofibril (also known as a muscle fibril or sarcostyle) is a basic rod-like organelle of a muscle cell. Skeletal muscles are composed of long, tubular cells known as muscle fibers, and these cells contain many chains of myofibrils. Each myofibril has a diameter of 1–2 micrometres. They are created during embryonic de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myofibril
The YIMBY movement has been particularly strong in California, a state experiencing a substantial housing shortage crisis. Since 2017, YIMBY groups in California have pressured California state and its localities to pass laws to expedite housing construction, follow their own zoning laws, and reduce the stringency of z...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_urbanism
6,200 BCE) spanned circa 13 hectares (32 acres) and probably had about 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants.Modern state-based societies regularly pushed out stateless indigenous populations as their settlements expanded, or attempted to make those populations come under the control of a state structure. This was particularly t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_societies
Walkit.com was both shortlisted for and received a number of awards. These included one of "The Guardian's 100 top sites for 2009", one of "The Telegraph's 101 most useful websites of 2008" and one of "Time Out's 50 Best London Websites" in 2008 Archived 6 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Walkit was named the winner ...
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Most often, the payout ratio is calculated based on dividends per share and earnings per share: A payout ratio greater than 100 means the company is paying out more in dividends for the year than it earned. Dividends are paid in cash. On the other hand, earnings are an accountancy measure and do not represent the actua...
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The victory of this latter principle was proclaimed to all the world by the execution of Charles I. The doctrine of divine right, indeed, for a while drew nourishment from the blood of the royal "martyr"; it was the guiding principle of the Anglican Church of the Restoration; but it suffered a rude blow when James II o...
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A funifor is a type of cable car with two support ropes and a haul rope, looped around. Each system is composed of a single cabin shuttling back-and-forth. Many installations are built with two parallel, but independent, lines. The funifor design was developed by the Italian manufacturer, Hölzl, which later merged with...
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At first the Esperantists had to forgo further steps, such as the establishment of their own bank with a worldwide cheque endorsing and payment system and the issuing of coins and banknotes. At that time the various nations had strict rules governing international financial operations that were designed to shield them ...
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He was influenced by the Guarani culture, he had daily contact with the indigenous and their peasant modest lives. There, he learned to speak French first and then the Guaraní and Castilian. When Enrique was 6 or 7 years old, he learned what he called "the great family secret": his brothers and sisters were actually hi...
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OSIRIS-REx stands for "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer", and was launched on 8 September 2016. This mission plan was to orbit an asteroid, at the time named 1999 RQ36 (now 101955 Bennu), by 2020. After extensive measurements, the spacecraft collected a sample from ...
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This occurred as both rapidly ascending demand from the vinyl polymer chain market and the unusually strong seasonal demand and no new production capacity on the immediate horizon coincided. The price increase had its firm foundations in the incumbent bullish market dynamics of the mid-2000s. Occidental Chemical Corpor...
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Cybersex addiction is a form of sexual addiction and Internet addiction disorder. As a form of a compulsive behavior, it can be identified by three criteria: the failure of making a decision about engagement in the behavior, obsession with the behavior, and the inability to stop the behavior despite negative consequenc...
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With time, the starting Eh of a soil can be restored as water drains and the soil dries out. Soils with redox gradients formed by ascending groundwater are classified as gleysols, while soils with gradients formed by stagnant water are classified as stagnosols and planosols. Soil Eh generally ranges from −300 to +900 m...
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