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One of the simple applications of the concept of enthalpy is the so-called throttling process, also known as Joule–Thomson expansion. It concerns a steady adiabatic flow of a fluid through a flow resistance (valve, porous plug, or any other type of flow resistance) as shown in the figure. This process is very important... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_enthalpy |
In 2006, scientists reported a relationship between personality and political views of Americans on a left–right spectrum as follows: "Preschool children who 20 years later were relatively liberal were characterized as: developing close relationships, self-reliant, energetic, somewhat dominating, relatively under-contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_psychology |
Finally, the planchet is struck. After striking, it becomes a coin and is no longer a planchet. Occasionally, a planchet will escape the mint without having been struck. This is a blank planchet error, and is usually worth a few dollars for modern coins. Occasionally, blank planchets can be rare and valuable, such is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet |
Zantedeschia has often been used in paintings and is featured in many of Diego Rivera's works of art (see The Flower Vendor, amongst others). It was a favourite subject of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe. During the flower language boom in the Victorian era, there were strict social codes and flowers were considered the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_Lily |
This simple relation is useful for the analysis of solar cells using luminescence-based characterization methods. Luminescence used for characterization of solar cells is useful because of the ability to image the luminescence of solar cells and modules in short periods of times, while spatially resolved measurements o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(optoelectronic) |
Animation Cel animation Computer animation Cutout animation Drawn-on-film animation Stop motion Live action Puppet film Video art Single-channel video Video installationFilm, as a form of mass communication, is itself also considered a medium in the sense used by fields such as sociology and communication theory (see a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_media |
On 28 February 2018, InSight was shipped via C-17 cargo aircraft from the Lockheed Martin Space building in Denver to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in order to be integrated to the launch vehicle. The lander was launched on 5 May 2018 and arrived on Mars at approximately 19:54 UTC on 26 November 2018. The spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight |
Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) is a subfield of machine learning that combines reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning. RL considers the problem of a computational agent learning to make decisions by trial and error. Deep RL incorporates deep learning into the solution, allowing agents to make decisions fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_reinforcement_learning |
This tendency toward devaluation of art has led many to claim that Dada was an essentially nihilistic movement. Given that Dada created its own means for interpreting its products, it is difficult to classify alongside most other contemporary art expressions. Due to perceived ambiguity, it has been classified as a nihi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism |
Mass remains a factor in the speed with which these non-uniformly charged molecules migrate through the matrix toward their respective electrodes.If several samples have been loaded into adjacent wells in the gel, they will run parallel in individual lanes. Depending on the number of different molecules, each lane show... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophoresis_gel |
To find a labeling with a given size, they eliminate squares that, if doubled, would overlap another point, and they eliminate points that can be labeled in a way that cannot possibly overlap with another point's label. They show that these elimination rules cause the remaining points to have only two possible label pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_2-satisfiability |
Proteins may be classified according to both structural and sequence similarity. For structural classification, the sizes and spatial arrangements of secondary structures described in the above paragraph are compared in known three-dimensional structures. Classification based on sequence similarity was historically the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding_problem |
The treaty does not mention NATO membership prospects of any other countries, as none of them has been a party to the treaty, while only 4 out of the 15 NATO member states at the time have been parties to it. Some commentators, such as Stephen F. Cohen, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev in 2008, have advanced in later years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany |
This document gave the DOC oversight over some of the ICANN operations.In July 2008, the DOC reiterated an earlier statement that it has "no plans to transition management of the authoritative root zone file to ICANN". The letter also stresses the separate roles of the IANA and VeriSign.On September 30, 2009, ICANN sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN |
He debuted as a soloist with his digital single "No More" produced by Zion.T on August 25, 2020. On October 5, 2020, he (alongside fellow contestant from OUI Kang Seok-hwa) debuted as a member of boy group WEi with their debut EP titled Identity: First Sight. Cha Jun-ho (alongside Woollim contestants Hwang Yunseong, Ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produce_X_101 |
They also realized that obtaining contracts to build large astronomical observatories would provide publicity for their company. In 1885, Swasey completed work at McCormick Observatory on the 45-foot dome, which was the largest in the world, and had a unique, 3 shutter design. In 1887, Swasey built the mount for the 36... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Swasey |
Applying the more detailed form of those calculations to the Ivy Mike device yields vaporized pusher gas expansion velocity of 290 kilometres per second (180 mi/s) and an implosion velocity of perhaps 400 km/s (250 mi/s) if +3⁄4 of the total tamper/pusher mass is ablated off, the most energy efficient proportion. For t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_warhead |
Summer Eights, along with Torpids, the two intercollegiate bumps races of Oxford University, held on the Isis in Oxford. The Welsh Boat Race is a rowing race between the Swansea University Rowing Club and the Cardiff University Boat Club. It is rowed annually each Spring on the Taff River or the River Tawe in South Wal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_racing |
Because of disagreements between the allies about the partition of the region, the Second Balkan War erupted, and in its aftermath the arbitrary region of Macedonia was split into the following entities, that existed or still exist in this region: Macedonia (as a region of Greece) refers to three regions in northern Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(terminology) |
The United States Department of Energy claims that coal, itself, might even be a fuel option in the future, assuming the system can be made resistant to impurities such as sulfur and particulates that result from converting coal into hydrogen. MCFCs also have relatively high efficiencies. They can reach a fuel-to-elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_Fuel_Cell |
Before 4.56 Ga, the presolar nebula was a dense molecular cloud consisting of hydrogen and helium gas with dispersed dust grains. When the Sun ignited and entered its T-Tauri phase, it melted nearby dust grains. Some of the melt droplets were incorporated into chondrites as small spherical objects called chondrules. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_evolution |
The Ordnance Survey also offers OS Custom Made, a print-on-demand service based on digital raster data that allows a customer to specify the area of the map or maps desired. Two scales are offered – 1:50,000 (equivalent to 40 km by 40 km) or 1:25,000 (20 km by 20 km) – and the maps may be produced either folded or flat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey |
From the period starting in the late 1890s until the completion of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in 1932, Two Medicine was one of the most visited sections of the park. Once part of a larger chalet complex, the Two Medicine Store is located along the shores of Two Medicine Lake and the building is a National Historic Landm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Medicine |
The journal is abstracted and indexed by Biobase, Chemical Abstracts, Embase/Excerpta Medica, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.831, ranking it 30th out of 33 journals in the category "Virology". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Virology |
There are niches at the sides of the door, and a well-designed bas-relief above the door. The Temple Semi-underground also has beautifully carved. The walls are made up of 48 red sandstone columns with many carved stones set into it. It is clear that the former settlers of the city had a superb technique of carving and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Bolivia |
This distinction was popularized by Barry Boehm in a very influential paper on his Spiral Model for iterative software development. With iterative models it is possible to do work in various stages of the model in parallel. So for example it is possible—and not seen as a source of error—to work on analysis, design, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_analysis_and_design |
In the multivariate Bernoulli event model, features are independent Booleans (binary variables) describing inputs. Like the multinomial model, this model is popular for document classification tasks, where binary term occurrence features are used rather than term frequencies. If x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} is a boolean e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_Naive_Bayes |
In the second phase, experiments were done on 18th century parchments to determine the best way of drying waterlogged parchment. The most effective method involved soaking the parchment in ethanol to replace the water, placing it between blotting sheets, and vacuum-packing it. In the third phase, this technique was tes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faddan_More_Psalter |
To create a corner reflector that will reflect radar waves coming from any direction, 8 corner reflectors are placed back-to-back in an octahedron (diamond) shape. The reflecting surfaces must be larger than several wavelengths of the radio waves to function.In maritime navigation they are placed on bridge abutments, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector |
The exact cause remains under investigation.2018The Opportunity rover entered safe mode on 13 June 2018 during the 2018 Mars dust storm. The opacity of the atmosphere was such that almost all sunlight was blocked and the rover's solar panels were unable to recharge its batteries even for minimal maintenance and communi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode_in_spacecraft |
Adult greater spotted eagles are generally a rather uniform dark brown to blackish brown, though the coloration may appear purplish and glossy, or appear more starkly contrasted, when freshly moulted.The upperwing coverts are often a shade paler than the rest, though these eagles generally appear uniformly dark with tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_spotted_eagle |
The term was used in both the original 1933 version, as well as the 2005 remake, of King Kong. When Kong is brought to New York City, he is chained with this metal on stage. The impression given by the film from Carl Denham to the audience is that the "chrome steel" has some unique properties of having a higher tensile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_steel |
Very few Hebrew surnames existed before Hebraization, such as Cohen (priest), Moss (Moses) and Levi (Levite). Several Hebrew surnames, such as Katz, Bogoraz, Ohl and Pak are in fact Hebrew acronyms even though they sound and are often perceived as being of non-Jewish origin (in these cases, from German, Russian, Polish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebraization_of_surnames |
Born in Budapest, Kurti went to high school at the Minta Gymnasium, but due to anti-Jewish laws he had to leave the country, gaining his master's degree at the Sorbonne in Paris. He obtained his doctorate in low-temperature physics in Berlin, working with Professor Franz Simon. Kurti and Simon continued to work togethe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kurti |
American schools may oppose grade skipping, or limit it to one or at the most two grades, regardless of the student's academic and social situation. There is no research that supports these limits, and the decision to limit grade skipping is mostly based on the intuition of school personnel. Refusing to promote the stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_skipping |
Although graphite was known to react with uranium, this could be managed because the carbide formed only where the two touched.To produce uranium metal, Spedding and Wilhelm tried reducing uranium oxide with hydrogen, but this did not work. They then investigated a process (now known as the Ames process) originally dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_A._Wilhelm |
There are many interface standards between analog telephone central office equipment and customer-premises equipment. Single voice paths generally include analog audio connections, either a two-wire circuit or four-wire circuit plus signaling paths to indicate call progress and status information, such as ringing, answ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_standard |
Quick determination of the cause may lead to urgent measures to save the eye and life of the patient. High clinical suspicion should be kept for painless vision loss in patients with atherosclerosis, deep venous thrombosis, atrial fibrillation, pulmonary thromboembolism or other previous embolic episodes. Those caused ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinal_artery_occlusion |
The Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) illustrates the concepts of superposition and interference with linear algebra in dimension 2, rather than differential equations. It can be seen as a simplified version of the double-slit experiment, but it is of interest in its own right, for example in the delayed choice quantum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_system |
Cuneiform law refers to any of the legal codes written in cuneiform script, that were developed and used throughout the ancient Middle East among the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites. The Code of Hammurabi is the best-known of the cuneiform laws, but there were a number of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_law |
Sauvignon gris: used to make rosé from Sauvignon blanc, it has a superior richness in sugar and heavier aromas. It is particularly well suited to the production of sweet wines Grenache Gris: this is the rosé form of Grenache. It is used in the amber versions of Grenache from Rivesaltes AOC, a natural sweet wine white w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_wines |
Since the late 1980s, and particularly after the independence of Ukraine (1991) and disappearance of Soviet censorship the whole generation of writers emerged: Sofia Maidanska, Ihor Kalynets, Moysey Fishbein, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhiy Zhadan, Oksana Zabuzhko, Oleksandr Irvanets, Yuriy Izdryk, Maria Matios, Ihor Pavlyuk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_literature |
A ban was ordered on 27 December 2005 against the use of the devices for the impending New Year celebrations. Officials cited a variety of possible injuries from use of the device, mostly involving delayed explosions to the facial region resulting in eye injury, among others. Post-traumatic conjunctivitis was cited as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_cannon |
Shooters compete one at a time against the clock. Most matches are scored simply by "total time" minus bonuses and plus penalties. Other matches are scored by "rank points".Shooters are timed using electronic timers which record the duration for each stage to one one-hundredth of a second. The timer starts when the ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_action_shooting |
Aubin considered the Yamabe problem on conformal deformation to constant scalar curvature, which Yamabe had reduced to a problem in the calculus of variations. Following prior work of Neil Trudinger, Aubin was able to resolve the problem in high dimensions under the condition that the Weyl curvature is nonzero at some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Aubin |
A nanoelectromechanical systems mass spectrometer (NEMS-MS) is an instrument measuring the mass of analyte particles by detecting the frequency shift caused by the adsorption of the particles on a NEMS resonator. NEMS-MS was invented by Prof. Michael Roukes and Dr. Kamil Ekinci at the California Institute of Technology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoelectromechanical_systems_mass_spectrometer |
Logonym is a polysemic term, and a neologism (coined from Greek: λόγος / word, and Greek: ὄνομα / name). The term has several meanings, spanning across different fields of study. It was primarily defined as a term that designates various types of titles, including titles of literary and other artistic works, and also c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logonym |
In the First Tetralogy, the plays are performed as if by a repertory theater company, with the same actors appearing in different parts in each play. Featuring Ron Cook as Richard III, Peter Benson as Henry VI, Brenda Blethyn as Joan, Bernard Hill as York, Julia Foster as Margaret, Brian Protheroe as Edward, Paul Jesso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_histories |
In human geography there are two types of ontology: small "o" which accounts for the practical orientation, describing functions of being a part of the group, thought to oversimplify and ignore key activities. The other "o", or big "O", systematically, logically, and rationally describes the essential characteristics a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleatic_principle |
Since G is finitely presentable and therefore accessible, the process of iterating this argument eventually terminates with finite groups, and produces a decomposition of G as the fundamental group of a finite graph-of-groups with finite vertex and edge groups. By a basic result of Bass–Serre theory it then follows tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muller–Schupp_theorem |
Oranda-zaka (オランダ坂), also known as the Dutch Slope or Hollander Slope, is a scenic sloping street in the Higashiyamate area of Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Its name is derived from the numerous western, notably Dutch merchants that settled in the area in the second half of the 19th century. == References ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranda-zaka |
As soon as wartime restrictions on producing passenger locomotives were eased in February, 1945, the PRR placed an order for 50 production examples. This was a fateful step, since the problems encountered with the prototypes had not been ironed-out nor had they been tested with the intensity required to be sure of prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_locomotive |
An electronic submission refers to a manuscript submitted by electronic means: that is, via e-mail or a web form on the Internet, or on an electronic medium such as a compact disc, a hard disk or a USB flash drive. Traditionally, a manuscript referred to anything that was explicitly "written by hand". However, in popul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_submission |
Despite a general trend toward disarmament in the early 2000s, the George W. Bush administration repeatedly pushed to fund policies that would allegedly make nuclear weapons more usable in the post–Cold War environment. To date the U.S. Congress has refused to fund many of these policies. However, some feel that even c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament |
Thallium is a chemical element with the symbol Tl and atomic number 81. This soft gray other metal resembles tin but discolors when exposed to air. The two chemists William Crookes and Claude-Auguste Lamy discovered thallium independently in 1861 by the newly developed method of flame spectroscopy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_6_element |
As part of Ogbu's analysis, he defines the position of voluntary minorities versus the position of involuntary minorities. Voluntary minorities in the United States include immigrant minorities such as Chinese and Korean immigrants as well as autonomous minorities such as Mormons and Jews. Involuntary minorities compri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_culture |
Traditionally, gene therapy has been divided into two categories: biological (viral) vectors and chemical or physical (nonviral) approaches. Although viral vectors are currently the most effective approach to delivering DNA into cells, they have certain limitations, including immunogenicity, toxicity, and limited capac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoinjection |
Studying dose response, and developing dose–response models, is central to determining "safe", "hazardous" and (where relevant) beneficial levels and dosages for drugs, pollutants, foods, and other substances to which humans or other organisms are exposed. These conclusions are often the basis for public policy. The U.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dose_response |
Poe had a keen interest in cryptography. He had placed a notice of his abilities in the Philadelphia paper Alexander's Weekly (Express) Messenger, inviting submissions of ciphers which he proceeded to solve. In July 1841, Poe had published an essay called "A Few Words on Secret Writing" in Graham's Magazine. Capitalizi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe |
Apophysomyces variabilis has its highest prevalence in Asia and Lichtheimia spp. in Europe. It is the third most common serious fungal infection to infect people, after aspergillosis and candidiasis.Diabetes is the main underlying disease in low and middle-income countries, whereas, blood cancers and organ transplantat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucormycosis |
Each balanced-flow idealisation gives a different estimate for the wind speed in the same conditions. Here we focus on the schematisations valid in the upper atmosphere. Firstly, imagine that a sample parcel of air flows 500 meters above the sea surface, so that frictional effects are already negligible. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_flow |
Gallant, D., A. Poulin, & E. Tremblay (2006). Évaluation statistique et optimisation du programme de monitoring de la mye commune (Mya arenaria) au parc national du Canada Kouchibouguac. Parcs Canada – Rapports techniques en matière de sciences des écosystèmes, 045, ix + 67p. (in French with English abstract; ISBN 0-66... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft-shell_clam |
), Really Red, Verbal Abuse and MDC were from Texas. Portland, Oregon hardcore punk bands included Poison Idea and Final Warning, while north of there, Washington state included the Accüsed, Melvins, the Fartz, and 10 Minute Warning (the latter two included future Guns N' Roses member Duff McKagan). Other prominent har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_punk |
A study was conducted with a group of children as well as a separate group of adults; both groups were to watch a video. The video was of a negatively emotional news story. While they watched the video their facial expressions were recorded, as well they self reported how they felt after viewing the video. The results ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_distress |
Kleene's "(strong) logic of indeterminacy" K3 (sometimes K 3 S {\displaystyle K_{3}^{S}} ) and Priest's "logic of paradox" add a third "undefined" or "indeterminate" truth value I. The truth functions for negation (¬), conjunction (∧), disjunction (∨), implication (→K), and biconditional (↔K) are given by: The differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-valued_logic |
Together with the Sabatier reaction, the Bosch reaction is studied as a way to remove carbon dioxide and to generate clean water aboard a space station.The reaction is also used to produce graphite for radiocarbon dating with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry. The Bosch reaction is being investigated for use in maintaining... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_reaction |
A microfibril is a very fine fibril, or fiber-like strand, consisting of glycoproteins and cellulose. It is usually, but not always, used as a general term in describing the structure of protein fiber, e.g. hair and sperm tail. Its most frequently observed structural pattern is the 9+2 pattern in which two central prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfibril |
In 1970 he became director of the IDEP, which he managed until 1980. In 1980 Amin left the IDEP and became a director of the Third World Forum in Dakar. In Amin's life and thinking the three activities have been closely connected: work in economic management, teaching/research, and the political struggle.“Samir Amin ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Amin |
The law of non-contradiction (which states that contradictory statements cannot both at the same time be true) is still valid. For instance, in Heyting arithmetic, one can prove that for any proposition p that does not contain quantifiers, ∀ x , y , z , … ∈ N: p ∨ ¬ p {\displaystyle \forall x,y,z,\ldots \in \mathbb {N}... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_mathematics |
{\displaystyle m_{\mathrm {p} }=10\,001\,965.729{\mbox{ m.}}} The polar Earth's circumference is simply four times quarter meridian: C p = 4 m p {\displaystyle C_{p}=4m_{p}} The perimeter of a meridian ellipse can also be rewritten in the form of a rectifying circle perimeter, Cp = 2πMr. Therefore, the rectifying Earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_arc |
In December 2008, the old-style bulbs in the aerobeacons were replaced with 400 watt metal halide bulbs.Due to coastal erosion, by the early 1990s Nauset Light was less than 50 feet (15 m) from the edge of the 70-foot (21 m) cliff on which it stood. In 1993, the Coast Guard proposed decommissioning the light. Following... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauset_Light |
The Divine Principle lists the Muslim world as one of the world's four major divisions (the others being East Asia, Hindu, and Christendom). Unification movement support for Islamist anti-communists came to public attention in 1987 when church member Lee Shapiro was killed in Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Principle |
Surviving medieval English paxes include only two examples each in silver and wood. New College, Oxford has one of the silver ones, of about 1520, with gilded figures in its Crucifixion, and engraving probably by a foreign goldsmith in London. The Victoria and Albert Museum has an English recusant example in engraved s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_(liturgical_object) |
The Delta IV, Atlas V, and Falcon family of launch vehicles are made available for commercial ventures for the United States, while Russia promotes eight families of vehicles. Between 1996 and 2002, 245 launches were made for commercial ventures while government (non-classified) launches only total 167 for the same per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_economy |
It can be illustrated by so-called unprecedented approach it took to produce Delphi 2006 binary compatible Delphi 2007 release: How to add a "published" property without breaking DCU compatibility Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine Objective-C is the most promising competitor to SOM (although not being actively... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model |
In 1999, The Guardian described Gibson as "probably the most important novelist of the past two decades", while The Sydney Morning Herald called him the "noir prophet" of cyberpunk. Throughout his career, Gibson has written more than 20 short stories and 12 critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contribute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson |
AGAL is used extensively in Flash game engines such as Away3D and Flare3D for various effects. AGAL is commonly used to provide dynamic lighting, high dynamic ranging (HDR), alpha masking, multipass rendering, displacement mapping, and environment mapping. Flare3D extends AGAL with a proprietary Shader language called ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage3D |
Using reverse engineering, open source communities have come to understand the QQ protocol better and have attempted to implement client core libraries compatible with more user-friendly clients, free of advertisements. Most of these clients are cross-platform, so they are usable on operating systems which the official... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ |
Many different strains of these bacteria have been identified as PSB, including Pantoea agglomerans (P5), Microbacterium laevaniformans (P7) and Pseudomonas putida (P13) strains are highly efficient insoluble phosphate solubilizers. Recently, researchers at Colorado State University demonstrated that a consortium of fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate_solubilizing_bacteria |
He enjoys Gullberg's account of the Fibonacci, Lucas and Pell sequences; and he finds the two-page account of Fermat's Last Theorem "at exactly the right level for those who are mathematically disadvantaged, but with some sophistication as well." He loved the chapter on probability. He claims that after he showed colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gullberg |
If the firm engages in such behaviour has a position of substantial market share, so much so that they are able to generate supernormal profits and force smaller companies out of the industry then it is most likely deemed unlawful. Opponents of robber barons believe that the realities of the marketplace are sometimes m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticompetitive_practice |
It has also been observed to cause villus ischemia, and increase intestinal motility. The net result of these changes is induced diarrhoea.Enteritis necroticans is an often fatal illness, caused by β-toxin of Clostridium perfringens. This causes inflammation and segments of necrosis throughout the gastrointestinal trac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_intestine_inflammation |
Up to 80% of people with DLB have visual hallucinations, typically early in the course of the disease. They are recurrent and frequent; may be scenic, elaborate and detailed; and usually involve animated perceptions of animals or people, including children and family members. Examples of visual hallucinations "vary fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies |
When a group is unanimous in its support of a norm, an individual feels greater pressure to follow suit. However, even a small break in unanimity can lead to a decrease in the power of such normative influence. In Asch's study, when even one other confederate dissented from the majority and provided the correct answer,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_social_influence |
Non-autonomous mechanics describe non-relativistic mechanical systems subject to time-dependent transformations. In particular, this is the case of mechanical systems whose Lagrangians and Hamiltonians depend on the time. The configuration space of non-autonomous mechanics is a fiber bundle Q → R {\displaystyle Q\to \m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-autonomous_mechanics |
In the post-Crisis George Pérez rebooted the lasso by establishing that it was forged by the god Hephaestus from the Golden Girdle of Gaea once worn by Antiope, sister of Hippolyta. It is so strong that not even Hercules can break it. It is given to Diana after Hippolyta consults the Goddesses. Originally the lasso was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso_of_Truth |
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile, AGRICOLA, ASFA, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, CAB International, ProQuest, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Geobase, Global Health, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Summon by Serial Solutions. According to the Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Ecology_(journal) |
A diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for diving. The most commonly recognised application is to reduce pressurized breathing gas to ambient pressure and deliver it to the diver, but there are also other types of gas pressure regulator used for diving applications. The g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submersible_pressure_gauge |
In addition, he deduced that a current run through the loops of wire results in a magnetic response.This metamaterial idea resulted in variations. Cutting the loops results in a magnetic resonator, which acts like a switch. The switch, in turn, would allow Pendry to determine or alter the magnetic properties of the mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_metamaterials |
In: Michèle-Caroline Heck, Fréderique Lemerle, Yves Pauwels (Hrsg. ): Théorie des arts et création artistique dans l’Europe du Nord du XVIe au début du XVIII siècle, Villeneuve d’Ascq (Lille). 2002, pp. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branchwork |
The Abbot Suger, a close advisor of the French King, who directed the government during the King's absence during the Crusades, rebuilt the ambulatory with Gothic rib vaults primarily to create greater space for stained glass windows. The medieval French church, Following the doctrine of Saint Augustine, associated lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Gothic_stained_glass_windows |
Parc Monceau was designed by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (15 August 1717 – 26 December 1806), a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer and author. In 1773, he was asked by the Duc de Chartres, the son of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans and the future Philippe Egalité, to design a garden around a small house that he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_paysager |
Thus, a person in the light source's frame would describe the apparent tilting of the beam in terms of aberration, while a person in the observer's frame would describe it as a light-time effect. The relationship between these phenomena is only valid if the observer and source's frames are inertial frames. In practice,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_aberration |
The Chilean jack mackerel was original described in 1920 by the American ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols (1883-1958), in 1996 Konchina et al treated it as a synonym of the Pacific jack mackerel (Trachurus symmetricus) but as a valid subspecies. It is treated as a valid species by most authorities. The specific nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_jack_mackerel |
After working for a short period as a post-doctoral researcher and genetics tutor at Swansea University, on research projects including biomarkers for prostate cancer and identifying thresholds dose-response for direct-acting genotoxins, Doak gained a Research Councils UK (RCUK) Academic Fellowship in 2007 which was su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareen_Doak |
Soon after migrating to the United States in 1891, he patented an air brake system for streetcars (trams). Despite his legal efforts, the patents were passed from company to company until they ended up at Westinghouse. During World War II, the US government commandeered the O-ring patent as a critical war-related item ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_ring |
Like tics, stereotypies are patterned and periodic, and are aggravated by fatigue, stress, and anxiety. Unlike tics, stereotypies usually begin before the age of three, involve more of the body, are more rhythmic and less random, and are associated more with engrossment in another activity rather than premonitory urges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypy |
The Bomber was a three-bay biplane of wooden structure with fabric covering, originally developed from the Short 184 seaplane's fuselage combined with wings developed from those on the Short Admiralty Type 166 seaplane. The fuselage was of box section with curved upper decking mounted on the lower wing. The tailplane i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Bomber |
An engineered wood joist, more commonly known as an I-joist, is a product designed to eliminate problems that occur with conventional wood joists. Invented in 1969, the I-joist is an engineered wood product that has great strength in relation to its size and weight. The biggest notable difference from dimensional lumbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_joist |
The Tagada is operated by a human operator who will synchronize the bounces with the music beat. Most operators give time for riders to get to their seats again before making the ride bounce (this occurs if turbulence is too strong). Sometimes riders will be told the ride is over and the gates will not open and the ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagada |
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