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Atari DOS 2.0S consisted of two portions, a memory-resident portion that facilitated access to disk files by programs, and a disk-resident portion providing menu-driven utilities to format, copy, delete, rename, and otherwise manipulate files on Atari's 810 disk drive. The menu system was too large to keep memory-resid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimized_Systems_Software |
This greatly reduces reverse-link transmissions, which are spectrally inefficient and have a longer latency on most cellular networks. When the transmit pipeline goes idle, a NAK-based RLP must eventually retransmit the last segment a second time, in case the last fragment was lost, to reach a .01% packet loss rate. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Link_Protocol |
In a very heavy crowd, the officer may not be able to see who is responsible for snatching a weapon, and may not even notice that it has happened. For this reason, riot police may have holsters with positive locking mechanisms or other extra means of retention, if their agencies can afford such tools. However, this can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot-control_agent |
For stereo material, the I²S specification states that left audio is transmitted on the low cycle of the word select clock and the right channel is transmitted on the high cycle. It is typically synchronized to the falling edge of the serial clock, as the data is latched on the rising edge. The word select clock change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I²S |
Prussia's victory over the Second French Empire in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) is sometimes partly credited to the training of Prussian officers with the wargame Kriegsspiel, which was invented around 1811 and gained popularity with many officers in the Prussian army. These first wargames were played with dice wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_post_exercise |
Before the Great Schism, mainstream Christianity confessed "one holy catholic and apostolic church", in the words of the Nicene Creed. Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Episcopalians and most Protestant Christian denominations still maintain this belief. Furthermore, the Catholic Church makes the claim that it alon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_inconsistent_revelations |
Han turns the tables by flying close to the tower, forcing the tractor beam to lock onto the structure and pull it instead at full power. The tower impales the Star Destroyer and it crashes into Nar Shaddaa. Fett, back in his old ship Slave I, chases the Millennium Falcon into a nearby acidic gas cloud. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Gun |
Ivory works have always been valued, and because of their survival rate and portability were very important in the transmission of artistic style, especially in Carolingian art, which copied and varied many Late Antique ivories. African elephant ivory became increasingly available in Europe from the 13th century, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_carving |
Mindfulness practices are becoming more common within educational institutions including Elementary and Secondary schools. This has been referred to as part of a 'contemplative turn' in education that has emerged since the turn of the millennium. The applications of mindfulness in schools are aimed at calming and relax... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_meditation |
Beginning in February 1995, McCartney teamed up with Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra lead singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, as well as an ardent Beatles fan. Lynne had previously worked with former Beatle George Harrison on his 1987 album Cloud Nine and in the Traveling Wilburys, with Ringo Starr on his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Pie |
In some cases, tram trains use previously abandoned or lightly used heavy rail lines in addition to or instead of still in use mainline tracks. Some of the issues involved in such schemes are: compatibility of the safety systems power supply of the track to the power used by the vehicles (frequently different voltages,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail |
The Colorado River toad is sympatric with the spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus spp. ), Great Plains toad (Anaxyrus cognatus), red-spotted toad (Anaxyrus punctatus), and Woodhouse's toad (Anaxyrus woodhousei). Like many other toads, they are active foragers and feed on invertebrates, lizards, small mammals, and amphibians. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_toad |
The option contract provides an important role in unilateral contracts. In unilateral contracts, the promisor seeks acceptance by performance from the promisee. In this scenario, the classical contract view was that a contract was not formed until the performance that the promisor seeks was completely performed. This w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_contract |
The HDHomeRun can also be controlled via a command-line application which is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. The control library is open source and is available under the LGPL for use in custom applications. Select retail packaged HDHomeRun units are distrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDHomeRun |
These are standardized, and can accept any similarly-sized tapered (male) fittings. 24/40 is common for 250 mL or larger flasks, while smaller sizes such as 14/20 or 19/22 are used for smaller flasks. Because of the round bottom, cork rings are needed to keep the round bottom flasks upright. When in use, round-bottom f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-bottom_flask |
The total resistance of the setup (Rtot) is the sum of the three resistances: Rb, Rm, and Rt. Rb the resistance of the electrolyte solution between the tip of the micro-pipette and the electrode in the bulk of the solution. Rm is the resistance of the electrolyte solution between the electrode in the micro-pipette and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_ion-conductance_microscopy |
A few six-inch-maps came first, followed shortly by a one-inch series with contour lines. In 1881 an amateur geologist Charles Callaway surveyed in detail the Durness and Inchnadamph regions and presented a paper to the Geological Society saying the overlying gneiss could not have been formed more recently than the unm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlands_controversy_of_Northwest_Scotland |
Most students that participated in steroids played the sports, football or soccer, and were most likely to do steroids if they participated in both sports. Professional sports, influence young athletes, and when professional athletes participate in drugs, it can lead young adults to use drugs without realizing the side... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_education |
From 12% to 64% of families of a child with ADHD use an alternative therapy, with the lower estimates likely come from narrower definitions of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). School teachers, family and friends are the most common source of suggestion of alternative therapies for ADHD. In 2003, 64 percent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_therapies_for_developmental_and_learning_disabilities |
There is no specific institution that centrally manages and markets the project; Mediaspree is merely a label. The planning for individual building projects lies with property owners, investors, and the borough (in particular, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg). The association Regionalmanagement mediaspree e.V. (originally, me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaspree |
It is also used to stain copolymers preferentially, the best known example being block copolymers where one phase can be stained so as to show the microstructure of the material. For example, styrene-butadiene block copolymers have a central polybutadiene chain with polystyrene end caps. When treated with OsO4, the but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium(VIII)_oxide |
In 1783 the French Academy of Sciences claimed that the latitude and longitude differences between the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Paris Observatory were incorrect, and it was proposed (to the Royal Society) that the differences could be reconciled by high precision triangulation over the intervening terrain. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_Triangulation_of_Great_Britain |
The PsAQoL was first published in 2004 by Galen Research. The development of the measure was a joint effort between Galen Research, the University of Leeds and St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin. The study was funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign in the UK.Qualitative interviews were conducted with 48 pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoriatic_Arthritis_Quality_of_Life |
OpenHarmony is an open-source version of HarmonyOS developed and donated by Huawei to the OpenAtom Foundation. It supports devices running a mini system with memory as small as 128 KB, or running a standard system with memory greater than 128 MB. The open source HarmonyOS is based on the Huawei LiteOS kernel. OpenHarmo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_systems |
This can also be observed in the nucleation of ice in supercooled small water droplets. The decay rate of the exponential gives the nucleation rate and is given by R = N S Z j exp ( − Δ G ∗ k B T ) {\displaystyle R\ =\ N_{S}Zj\exp \left({\frac {-\Delta G^{*}}{k_{B}T}}\right)} Where Δ G ∗ {\displaystyle {\displaystyle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_freeze |
The internet, and the subsequent internet age, took the information commons to another level by empowering consumers to create and distribute information on a mass scale. The internet facilitated the decentralized production and distribution of information because it bypasses the control of some of more traditional pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_commons |
In April 2008, the Florida Senate voted for a $60 fine for displaying truck nuts, but it did not pass the House.In 2011, a 65-year-old South Carolina woman was ticketed by the town's police chief for obscenity displaying truck nuts on her pickup. The case, originating in Bonneau, South Carolina (population approximatel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_nuts |
Sennheiser electronic was founded by his grandfather, Fritz Sennheiser, and he joined the family business with his brother Daniel. In 2013, both Daniel and Andreas were promoted to the position of CEO. Andreas focused on gaming handsets and affordable wireless headphones including Sennheiser PC350. Along with his broth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sennheiser_Electronic |
Support for this claim comes in several places throughout John, such as in John 5:16–18: So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, "My father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working." For this reason they t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_deicide |
Targray Technology International Inc., commonly referred to as Targray, is a Canadian multinational materials distributor headquartered in Kirkland, Quebec that provides commodities and distribution of pulses, biofuel, cotton, carbon trading, lithium-ion battery, energy storage, and solar photovoltaics.Targray was esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targray |
Nevertheless, the International Committee of the Red Cross has sought to provide some clarification through its commentaries on the Geneva Conventions, noting that the Conventions are "so general, so vague, that many of the delegations feared that it might be taken to cover any act committed by force of arms". Accordin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_conflict |
Popular magazines: (86 million words) Nearly 100 different magazines, from a range of domains such as news, health, home and gardening, women's, financial, religion, and sports. Newspapers: (81 million words) Ten newspapers from across the US, with text from different sections of the newspapers, such as local news, opi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_of_Contemporary_American_English |
Doctors Frank Speizer and Martin Vessey hoped to better understand the effects of long-term use of oral contraceptives on the health of women. After receiving funding from the National Cancer Institute in 1974, the study was directed towards the wives of doctors. When it was discovered that such responses were not idea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurses'_Health_Study |
No interaction studies have been conducted. Because of its mechanism, tetrahydrobiopterin might interact with dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors like methotrexate and trimethoprim, and NO-enhancing drugs like nitroglycerin, molsidomine, minoxidil, and PDE5 inhibitors. Combination of tetrahydrobiopterin with levodopa ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrobiopterin |
For U.S. food and dietary supplement labeling purposes, the amount of the substance in a serving is expressed as a percent of the Daily Value (%DV). For chromium labeling purposes, 100% of the Daily Value was 120 μg. As of May 27, 2016, the percentage of daily value was revised to 35 μg to bring the chromium intake int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium |
Xenohormones or environmental hormones produced outside of the human body which exhibit endocrine hormone-like properties. They may be either of natural origin, such as phytoestrogens, which are derived from plants, or of synthetic origin. These compounds are able to activate the same endocrine receptors as their natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_hormones |
Echo Park was considered a victory for the American environmental movement, but it only happened in exchange for a dam upstream at Flaming Gorge, and increasing the size of the proposed dam at Glen Canyon to replace the storage that would have been provided by Echo Park. A common misconception is that the environmental... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam |
On May 20, 2006, Kirk Hammett revealed that the band had fifteen songs written and were writing on average two to three songs per week. Hetfield also praised producer Rick Rubin for his production style in giving the band their own freedom and keeping the pressure at a minimum, despite the sessions becoming sometimes b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic |
Enlil sends the messenger god Birdu to request Ninurta to return the Tablet of Destinies. Ninurta's reply to Birdu is fragmentary, but it is possible he may initially refuse to return the Tablet. In the end, however, Ninurta does return the Tablet of Destinies to his father. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninurta |
This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it. ... A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Public_License |
Comparing the three mechanisms proposed, it can be seen that: The calculated ablation pressure is one order of magnitude greater than the higher proposed plasma pressures and nearly two orders of magnitude greater than calculated radiation pressure. No mechanism to avoid the absorption of energy into the radiation case... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_Bomb |
Allergy testing may reveal the specific allergens to which an individual is sensitive. Skin testing is the most common method of allergy testing. This may include a patch test to determine if a particular substance is causing the rhinitis, or an intradermal, scratch, or other test. Less commonly, the suspected allergen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergic_rhinitis |
The N-terminal has a multi-helical structure that forms an orthogonal bundle. The C-terminal domain contains an ATP-binding site and is therefore probably the site of ATP hydrolysis. In eukaryotes, helicase function is provided by the MCM (Minichromosome maintenance) complex. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DnaB_helicase |
Such codon usage bias may arise for different reasons, some selective, and some neutral. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae synonymous codon usage has been shown to influence mRNA folding stability, with mRNA encoding different protein secondary structure preferring different codons.Another reason why synonymous changes are n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonymous_substitution |
Photonic metamaterial SRRs have reached scales below 100 nanometers, using electron beam and nanolithography. One nanoscale SRR cell has three small metallic rods that are physically connected. This is configured as a U shape and functions as a nano-inductor. The gap between the tips of the U-shape function as a nano-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_metamaterials |
An incremental encoder interface is an electronic circuit that receives signals from an incremental encoder, processes the signals to produce absolute position and other information, and makes the resulting information available to external circuitry. Incremental encoder interfaces are implemented in a variety of ways,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_encoder |
On 9 September, was made the first flight instruction of cadets in that aircraft. On 10 July 1969, the School of Aeronautics was renamed the Academia da Força Aérea (Air Force Academy) also well known in Brazil just by the acronym AFA. In 1971, the Air Force Academy was definitely transferred from Afonsos AFB to Pirass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Air_Force_Academy |
Pancreatic lipase hydrolyses triglycerides and diglycerides by cleaving acyl chains at the sn-1 and sn-3 position and releases free fatty acids and 2-monoglycerides.The pancreatic lipase consists of 465 amino acids. Schematic picture of pancreatic lipase is shown in figure 2. Pancreatic and gastric lipases share little... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_and_development_of_gastrointestinal_lipase_inhibitors |
In June 2014, the party published another pamphlet outlining its case for "a modern democratic republic". In response to the publication of Scotland's Future, the party issued a statement which said the Scottish Government's document had set out a vision that represents "very significant advance for the people of Scotl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Scottish_Socialist_Party |
Less than 22,500 years ago, Lake Taupō, having filled to about 75 m (246 ft) above its current level and draining initially via a Waihora outlet to the northwest, cut through its Oruanui ignimbrite dam near the present Taupō outlet to the northeast at a rate which left no terraces around the lake. About 60 km3 (14 cu m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oruanui_eruption |
Hilbert’s sixth problem was a proposal to expand the axiomatic method outside the existing mathematical disciplines, to physics and beyond. This expansion requires development of semantics of physics with formal analysis of the notion of physical reality that should be done. Two fundamental theories capture the majorit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_sixth_problem |
The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation is a 1995 non-fiction book by journalist Dick J. Reavis about the Waco siege. Reavis is a professor of English at North Carolina State University and former reporter for the San Antonio Light and San Antonio Express. The book was first published by Simon & Schuster in 1995, and it wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes_of_Waco:_An_Investigation |
ADOIT is an enterprise architecture management tool that provides functionalities and methods for enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation. The platform supports alignment and improvement of dependencies between business and IT as well as manages and analyses the dependencies between different organiza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADOIT |
There is no known treatment; however, there is a case report of an epileptic woman who began to experience phonagnosia along with other impairments. Her EEG and MRI results showed "a right cortical parietal T2-hyperintense lesion without gadolinium enhancement and with discrete impairment of water molecule diffusion". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cues |
Bizarro World appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League. Here, Bizarro is sent to Bizarro World by Superman to keep him out of trouble. When Darkseid invades the planet, Bizarro steals a duplicating ray from Lex Luthor and fires it at Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Guy Gardner), an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World |
A second-order fluid is a fluid where the stress tensor is the sum of all tensors that can be formed from the velocity field with up to two derivatives, much as a Newtonian fluid is formed from derivatives up to first order. This model may be obtained from a retarded motion expansion truncated at the second-order. For ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_fluid |
The JCT works on the most popular type of standard construction contracts and the latest suite of contracts from the JCT are the 2016 editions. The form of contract most favoured by public bodies is the NEC contract suite.In the UK, specific requirements relating to payments and adjudication provisions were introduced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_law |
The rubric cultural anthropology is generally applied to ethnographic works that are holistic in approach, are oriented to the ways in which culture affects individual experience, or aim to provide a rounded view of the knowledge, customs, and institutions of a people. Cultural anthropology focuses on how individuals m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural_anthropology |
The patient is encouraged to walk using crutches from the first day, and most of the times can put partial weight on the knee. Improving symptoms, restoring function, and preventing further injuries are the main goals when rehabilitating. By the end of rehabilitation, normal range of motion, function of muscles and coo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_of_meniscus |
A 1305 charter of Edward I identifies the towns of Lostwithiel, Bodmin, Liskeard, Truro and Helston as locations for proving Cornish tin. Truro had been replaced with Penzance by the time of Charles II. In Devon Edward I's charter identified Tavistock, Ashburton and Chagford, to which Plympton was added in 1328. By 183... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_coinage |
On June 1, 2006, e-Messenger was renamed to eBuddy. On October 26, 2006, eBuddy received $6.33M (€5M) in Series A funding. On May 2, 2008, eBuddy received $9.55M (€6.5M) in Series B funding. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBuddy |
Langer was awaken from his night's rest on Little Boy by the sounds of the photographer's flash bulbs popping while they were documenting the Enola Gay before its historic flight. At 2:45 am on August 6, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew lifted off. They dropped Little Boy about 5 hours later on Hiroshima and mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Marvin_Langer |
The mnemonic-accumulator hypothesis postulates that the parietal lobe holds a memory strength signal, which is compared with internal criteria to make old/new recognition judgments. This relates to signal-detection theory, and accounts for recollected items being perceived as 'older' than familiar items. The attention ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_memory |
My goal when combining a variety of images or junk picked up on street corners, is to create some scene that feels real to me, something that conjures and feels as close to my own memories as possible. "Hammonds works in multi-media often mixing sculpture with drawing in installations. Her work has been exhibited widel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Hammonds |
The target can be a non-coding transcript overlapping the promoter or the chromosomal DNA. The RNA-loaded Ago then recruits other proteins such as RHA, also known as nuclear DNA helicase II, and CTR9 to form an RNA-induced transcriptional activation (RITA) complex. RITA can directly interacts with RNAP II to stimulate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_activation |
The foundation undertakes an array of projects including artificial reef deployment, estuary restoration, mangrove plantings, oyster reef creation, coral propagation, natural disaster recovery, erosion control, and education. Notable projects include: In Antigua, undertaking 4,700 modules were deployed around the islan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_balls |
A pleochroic halo, or radiohalo, is a microscopic, spherical shell of discolouration (pleochroism) within minerals such as biotite that occurs in granite and other igneous rocks. The halo is a zone of radiation damage caused by the inclusion of minute radioactive crystals within the host crystal structure. The inclusio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleochroic_halo |
(2012), "The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: from the four basic operations", American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 119, no. 9, pp. 753–758, arXiv:1110.0165, doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.119.09.753, S2CID 218548926 Fine, Benjamin; Rosenberger, Gerhard (1997), The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Undergraduate Texts in Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fundamental_theorem_of_algebra |
Garden parsley is a bright green, biennial plant in temperate climates, or an annual herb in subtropical and tropical areas. Where it grows as a biennial, in the first year, it forms a rosette of tripinnate leaves 10–25 cm long with numerous 1–3 cm leaflets, and a taproot used as a food store over the winter. In the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroselinum_sativum |
Rain comes in infrequent heavy storms. It is unusual in that it is the only macaw to inhabit such a climatic zone. Most macaws nest in holes in large trees, however here there are no very large trees in its range so it nests in vertical fissures in cliff faces. The bird has been captured for the pet trade in the past a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-fronted_macaw |
Democratic education is a type of formal education that is organized democratically, so that students can manage their own learning and participate in the governance of their school. Democratic education is often specifically emancipatory, with the students' voices being equal to the teacher's.The history of democratic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_education |
Humans that have committed extraordinary wrongs are condemned to roam as lonely, often mischief mongers, spirits for a length of time before being reborn. Many kinds of such spirits (Vetalas, Pishachas, Bhūta) are recognized in the later Hindu texts. According to Hinduism, demons are not inherently evil beings, but goo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_spirits |
The oxygen source for these microorganisms can be the organic material itself or alternatively may be supplied by inorganic oxides from within the input material. When the oxygen source in an anaerobic system is derived from the organic material itself, then the 'intermediate' end products are primarily alcohols, aldeh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_anaerobic_and_aerobic_digestion |
Alfredo Torero devised the traditional classification, the three divisions above, plus a fourth, a northern or Peruvian branch. The latter causes complications in the classification, however, as the northern dialects (Cajamarca–Cañaris, Pacaraos, and Yauyos–Chincha) have features of both Quechua I and Quechua II, and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages |
As the light waves enter the eye they excite electrons that can cause harm to the cells in the eye, but they can cause oxidative damage that may lead to macular degeneration or cataracts. Lutein and zeaxanthin bind to the electron free radical and are reduced rendering the electron safe. There are many ways to ensure a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye |
To play a musical piece a prima vista means to play it 'at first sight'. According to Payne, "the ability to hear the notes on the page is clearly akin to music reading and should be considered a prerequisite for effective performance ... Egregious errors can occur when a student, analyzing a piece of music, makes no e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sight_reading |
Without a steady flow of supplies, an invading force will soon find itself retreating. Before his invasion of Greece, Xerxes I spent three years amassing supplies from all over Asia; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it "drank the rivers dry".In most invasions, even in modern times, many fresh supplies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_scare |
Distortion is lowest throughout the region of the map close to those lines. Similar projections which wrap the east and west parts of the sinusoidal projection around the north pole are the Werner and the intermediate Bonne and Bottomley projections. The MODLAND Integerized Sinusoidal Grid, based on the sinusoidal proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinusoidal_projection |
One of the main theories explaining early Holocene extinctions is historic climate change. The climate change theory has suggested that a change in climate near the end of the late Pleistocene stressed the megafauna to the point of extinction. Some scientists favor abrupt climate change as the catalyst for the extincti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction |
In the early 1980s, NASA planned to launch a modular space station called Freedom as a counterpart to Mir, while the Soviets were planning to construct Mir-2 in the 1990s as a replacement for the station. Because of budget and design constraints, Freedom never progressed past mock-ups and minor component tests and, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir |
It brings forth happiness, which for Aristotle is the ideal state, the final goal in any activity. He does believe that we humans feel pleasure oftentimes by doing the wrong thing, but he does not necessarily believe that comedy and humor is the wrong thing. It is also not true for Aristotle that a comedy must involve ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_(drama) |
Meanwhile, prior to the war, the Nazis had sent a researcher to the British Museum for several years with the aim of "compiling an anti-Semitic history of Anglo-Jewry".After the war, the museum continued to collect from all countries and all centuries: among the most spectacular additions were the 2600 BC Mesopotamian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum |
In this case, one or more sheets are fed halfway through the sender's fax machine and taped end to end, forming an endless loop that cycles through the machine. Not only can solid black be used, but also images which will repeat endlessly on the receiver's machine until its toner runs out.The introduction of computer-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fax |
It is also possible that facultative bipedalism is a physical property of the lizard's movement rather than a developed behavior. In this scenario, it would be more energetically favorable to allow the forelimbs to rise with the rotation caused by the lizard's acceleration rather than work to keep the forelimbs on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facultative_biped |
Buddhism and science have been regarded as compatible by numerous authors. Some philosophic and psychological teachings found in Buddhism share points in common with modern Western scientific and philosophic thought. For example, Buddhism encourages the impartial investigation of nature (an activity referred to as Dham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_and_science |
The ETOPO1 1-arcmin global relief model, produced by the National Geophysical Data Center (Colorado), provides two layers of relief information. One layer represents the global relief including bedrock over Antarctica and Greenland, and another layer the global relief including ice surface heights. Both layers include ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Relief_Model |
Venture capital and private equity investments in renewable energy companies increased by 167 percent in 2006, according to investment analysts at New Energy Finance Limited.New investment into the sector jumped US$148 billion in 2007, up 60 per cent over 2006, noted a report by the Sustainable Energy Finance Initiativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_industry |
This is because along the Atlantic coastline the moon controls the tides predictably, ebbing and flowing on a regular (12- to 13-hour) schedule. However, in other parts of the world such as along the Pacific Coast, tides can be irregular. The Pacific Ocean is so vast that the moon cannot control the entire ocean at onc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide_clock |
A security patch is a change applied to an asset to correct the weakness described by a vulnerability. This corrective action will prevent successful exploitation and remove or mitigate a threat's capability to exploit a specific vulnerability in an asset. Patch management is a part of vulnerability management – the cy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_patching |
In the European Union (EU), for instance, various populist groups allege that their national political elites put the interests of the EU itself over those of their own nation-states. Similarly, in Latin America populists often charge political elites with championing the interests of the United States over those of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism |
He assured me that everyone in the band was into the idea. I was very happy to accept, especially as it was all in a good cause and we were long overdue some kind of reunion of this sort. It was great to see everyone again and catch up a bit, and it was also the first time I have actually 'seen' Depeche Mode perform! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoil_(band) |
He was an avid supporter of Henry George's proposal for taxing land values. Of George, he wrote, "No man, no graduate of a higher educational institution, has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought unless he has some first-hand acquaintance with the theoretical contribution of this great America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey |
Emotions are highly personal insofar as they play a critical role in defining an individual's subjective experiences and interact with how individuals think about and judge the world around them. Since individuals differ in their personal goals and past experiences, individuals within one society or group can vary grea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_accounts_of_emotion |
Luque approaches the problem with outliers by performing linear regressions over the set of data points (input, output). The algorithm deals with the data by allocating regions for noisy data. The scheme has the advantage of isolating noisy patterns which reduces the effect outliers have on the rule-generation system. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPO_underpricing_algorithm |
In Game 3 of the 2015 Eastern Conference Semifinals, Paul Pierce banked in a step-back 21-footer (6.5 m) at the buzzer to give the Washington Wizards a 103–101 win against the Atlanta Hawks and take a 2–1 series lead. In Game 1 of the 2016 Eastern Conference Semifinals, Kyle Lowry of the Toronto Raptors hit a half-cour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzer_beater |
Theia mania (Ancient Greek: θεία μανία) is a term used by Plato in his dialogue Phaedrus to describe a condition of divine madness (unusual behavior attributed to the intervention of a God). In this work, dating from around 370 BC, Socrates argues that madness is not necessarily an evil, claiming that "the greatest of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_madness |
OMD refers to the abnormal resting posture of the orofacial musculature, atypical chewing, and swallowing patterns, dental malocclusions, blocked nasal airways, and speech problems. OMD are patterns involving oral and/or orofacial musculature that interferes with normal growth, development, or function of structures, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orofacial_myofunctional_disorders |
The Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP) is a federally funded national research institute and a national laboratory site managed by the University of Punjab for the Ministry of Energy (MoE) of the Federal government of Pakistan. CHEP is dedicated towards the scientific advancement and understanding of high energy phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_High_Energy_Physics |
Critique of Economic Reason is a 1989 book by the French philosopher André Gorz. The book is a comprehensive examination of the assumptions and values underlying the dominant economic ideologies of the modern world, and a call for a reevaluation of the way we think about social life. The book is also a critique of work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Economic_Reason |
LSD: Dream Emulator is an exploration game that has been described as a "playable dream" in which the player explores surrealistic environments without any overarching goals. Gameplay takes place in a first-person perspective in a 3D environment with the player's control limited to moving frontward and backward, turnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD:_Dream_Emulator |
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