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Absolute rainbow dots are used to detect errors caused by scratches, and whether any fading has occurred. Absolute rainbow dots are predefined dots carrying a unique value. These dots can be inserted in the rainbow picture in pre-specified areas. If fading occurs these dot values will change accordingly, and at the rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_storage |
Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. Furthermore, in most states obtaining the permit is required to bring a weapon into public, (e.g. shopping center). If the gun remains in one's vehicle but is not on said person's property, a permit is required in places like New Jersey. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry |
The optional plano-convex lens is used to avoid vignetting in the image. The focusing screen is where the photographic lens image is projected. The screen must be placed at precisely the correct distance from the flange focal mount of whatever lens is being used (most popularly the Canon FD or Nikon F mount), referred ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-of-field_adapter |
Together with the Discover Card (and its issuing bank, the Greenwood Trust Company, owned by Sears), this was named the Sears Financial Network. Early Discover Cards bore a small embossed symbol representing the Sears Tower, then the company's headquarters. Discover was part of Dean Witter, and then Morgan Stanley, unt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discover_Network |
The 1966 lawsuit was an attempt by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC) to desegregate building-trade unions nationwide. Many technical building unions had little or no African-American representation into the mid-1960s. During Lyndon Johnson's presidency, the federal government recognized the need for more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Arch |
Light of Hope (LoH) is a project that aims to provide e-learning facilities to rural schools in Bangladesh. LoH provides laptops, projectors, audio-visual e-learning materials, and solar energy systems to schools in remote areas, where there is inadequate infrastructure and limited or no electricity. LoH also provides ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Hope |
The HBM theoretical constructs originate from theories in Cognitive Psychology. In early twentieth century, cognitive theorists believed that reinforcements operated by affecting expectations rather than by affecting behavior straightly. Mental processes are severe consists of cognitive theories that are seen as expect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_belief_model |
Building bike trails on rail corridors has occurred in limited examples; however, developing rail rights of way for a bike trail can restrict a train corridor to a single track. Also reclaiming a railway corridor to use trains again limits the use of double tracks. The bike path is usually where the second track would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-track_railway |
The biological function of SAA1 has not been fully understood despite intensive research in the last three decades. Research tools such as the SAA1 knockout mice and transgenic mice have become available only recently. It has been well established, however, that elevated plasma concentration of SAA1 is associated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum_amyloid_A1 |
Further purification can be done by mixing the hot melt with kitchen-salt, NaCl. After this red hot lead from another melting pot is added and stirred thoroughly.Some tin was added to the alloy for casting small characters and narrow spaces, to better fill narrow areas of the mould. The good properties of tin were well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_metal |
The last diminisher procedure is a procedure for fair cake-cutting. It involves a certain heterogenous and divisible resource, such as a birthday cake, and n partners with different preferences over different parts of the cake. It allows the n people to achieve a proportional division, i.e., divide the cake among them ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_diminisher |
Alvarado Hotel and Santa Fe Depot in Albuquerque, New Mexico, completed in 1902; Charles Frederick Whittlesey, architect. The hotel was demolished in 1970 and the depot burned down in 1993. The buildings have since been replaced by the Alvarado Transportation Center, which is also in Mission style. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Revival_architecture |
Additionally, in striving to be more socially responsible, a company can inadvertently make it harder for smaller, diverse suppliers to compete with the larger, more established ones. Generally, the larger suppliers are better equipped to drive sustainability improvements compared with smaller ones. In rewarding the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_sustainability |
For main-group elements, there are stereochemically active lone pairs E whose number can vary between 0 to 3. Note that the geometries are named according to the atomic positions only and not the electron arrangement. For example, the description of AX2E1 as a bent molecule means that the three atoms AX2 are not in one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSEPR_model |
At Westminster Theological Seminary in the late 1970s, Norman Shepherd, a professor of systematic theology was dismissed due to controversy over his teaching on justification. His views involved a reconfiguration of covenant theology that went beyond those of Murray, his predecessor. Shepherd denied any notion of a wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_Theology |
Geisinger Medical Center began a blood conservation program in 2005 and reported a recorded savings of $273,000 in its first six months of operation. The Cleveland Clinic lowered their direct costs from US$35.5 million in 2009 to $26.4 million in 2012—a savings of nearly $10 million over 3 years.Health risks appear to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodless_surgery |
reservoir cannula A reservoir cannula is an oxygen conserving supplemental oxygen administration device which accumulates constant flow oxygen in a small reservoir below the nose during exhalation and delivers in a bolus it at the beginning of the next inhalation, which ensures that most of it reaches the parts of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing_hood |
Lagomorphs and rodents share many morphological characteristics and are grouped together in the clade Glires. Anteaters of the family myrmecophagidae are unusual in that they lack a defined cervix; they are thought to have lost the characteristic rather than other mammals developing a cervix on more than one lineage. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterine_cervix |
The bulk of the material produced by the intelligent design movement, however, is not intended to be scientific but rather to promote its social and political aims. Polls indicate that intelligent design's main appeal to citizens comes from its link to religious concepts. An August 2005 poll from The Pew Forum on Relig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design_movement |
Panasonic returned to the overseas market in 2012, with the release of the Panasonic Eluga Android-powered smartphone. In July 2013, Panasonic announced the company will not supply a new model of smartphone to NTT DoCoMo Inc., because NTT DoCoMo will focus with Sony and Samsung products. In Q2 2013, Panasonic Mobile Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic |
Early estimates have suggested that it is not of Earth-like composition, yet it is nonetheless composed mostly of elements heavier than helium. The planet's effective temperature is 900 K, and is thus the hottest of the planets discovered in the Kepler-11 system. Kepler-11b orbits its host star every 10.30375 days at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-11b |
Shamoon was designed to erase and overwrite hard drive data with a corrupted image and report the addresses of infected computers back to the computer inside the company's network. The malware had a logic bomb which triggered the master boot record and data wiping payload at 11:08 am local time on Wednesday, August 15.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamoon |
Ethnic identity is a "social identity arising through group formation, individual identification with a group, and interaction between different ethnic groups. "Henry E. Brady and Cynthia S. Kaplan compiled a study called "Categorically Wrong? Nominal versus Graded Measures of Ethnic Identity" that takes a look at ethn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_identity |
This engine was particularly prone to early head gasket failure, a problem that was not completely resolved with the introduction of the TUD5 engine with a more rigid cast iron block. In 1994 displacement was increased to 1.5 L (1,527 cc), with a bore and a stroke of 77 mm × 82 mm (3.03 in × 3.23 in), and the block rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_TU_engine |
Most of Earth's land hosts vegetation, but ice sheets (10%, not including the equally large land under permafrost) or cold as well as hot deserts (33%) occupy also considerable amounts of it. The pedosphere is the outermost layer of Earth's land surface and is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth’s_surface |
Ghost followers, also referred to as ghosts and ghost accounts or lurkers, are users on social media platforms who remain inactive or do not engage in activity. They register on platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. These users follow active members, but do not partake in liking, commenting, messaging, and posting. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_followers |
The story echoes an accident of 11 April 1800, when the Chatham and Rochester coach was emerging from the gateway of the Golden Cross, and "a young woman, sitting on the top, threw her head back, to prevent her striking against the beam; but there being so much luggage on the roof of the coach as to hinder her laying h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross |
Inexpensive dial-type hygrometers make use of this principle using a coiled strip. Deliquescence is the process by which a substance absorbs moisture from the atmosphere until it dissolves in the absorbed water and forms a solution. Deliquescence occurs when the vapour pressure of the solution that is formed is less th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygroscopy |
Following the change, the drop in antisocial incidents was substantial and immediate suggesting that the Radburn-like pattern contributed to it since all other factors remained practically unchanged. Observational studies rest on cross-sectional statistical analysis of neighbourhoods to derive potential correlations be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_Grid |
Launched at the end of 1985 as a 1986 model, the Mercury Sable replaced the Mercury Marquis as the mid-size Mercury line, slotted between the Topaz and Grand Marquis/Colony Park. Developed alongside the Ford Taurus, the Sable was marketed alongside its Marquis predecessor for 1986, as Ford sought to protect its investm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Sable |
Strongly connected for all x, y ∈ X, xRy or yRx. This property, too, is sometimes called "total", which is distinct from the definitions of "left/right-total" given below. Trichotomous for all x, y ∈ X, exactly one of xRy, yRx or x = y holds. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_relation |
Ice ages have played important roles in facilitating speciation among vertebrate species. This concept of refugia has been applied to numerous groups of species and their biogeographic distributions. : 97 Glaciation and subsequent retreat caused speciation in many boreal forest birds, such as with North American sapsuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_isolation |
Recall first appeared in Colonial America in the laws of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631. This version of the recall involved one elected body removing another official. During the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation stipulated that state legislatures might recall delegates from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_election |
It doesn't need a separate finalise step to play in other DVD recorders; finalisation is just done in the background, which makes it bit easier to use (i.e. you can't forget to do it), but it does put extra wear on the disc, as the same area of the disc is updated every time it is used. Due to DVD-Video not being able ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_formats |
The reaction occurs by the presence of a catalyst, usually sodium hydroxide (NaOH) or caustic soda and potassium hydroxide (KOH), which forms fatty esters (e.g., methyl or ethyl esters), commonly known as biodiesel. It takes approximately 10% of methyl alcohol by weight of the fatty substance to start the transesterifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatropha_Oil |
DNP can be performed to enhance the NMR signals but also to introduce an inherent spatial dependence: the magnetization enhancement takes place in the vicinity of the irradiated electrons and propagates throughout the sample. Spatial selectivity can finally be obtained using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_nuclear_polarization |
22 ^ The Japanese home video release of the film includes a live performance of "Aria" from Hirasawa's "Phonon 2555" concert tour (when that tour's DVD was released, this same performance was included, but with alternative angles overlaid on top of the version on this DVD). Video of a public appearance made by Hirasawa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Hirasawa_discography |
Power generation. Working with Southern California Edison, Marks and his colleagues pioneered computational intelligence based methods for early detection of intermittent shorted windings in multi ton electric generators while the rotors were still turning. " detection and localization of shorted turns in the DC field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Marks_II |
The presence of free fatty acids in olive oil is caused by a reaction (lipolysis) started when lipolytic enzymes (that are normally present in the pulp and seed cells of the olive) come in contact with the oil (that is contained in particular vacuoles) due to loss of integrity of the olive. High values of free acidity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil_acidity |
Some changes to eye movement behaviors might also occur as a result of SMS. Symptoms typically last anywhere from one to three days upon entering weightlessness, but may recur upon reentry to Earth's gravity or even shortly after landing. SMS differs from terrestrial motion sickness in that sweating and pallor are typi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Gravity |
A Phlyax play (Ancient Greek: φλύαξ, also phlyakes), also known as a hilarotragedy (Ἱλαροτραγῳδία), was a burlesque dramatic form that developed in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in the 4th century BCE. Its name derives from the Phlyakes or “Gossip Players” in Doric Greek. From the surviving titles of the plays th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlyax_play |
Numerous pathologies can affect the placenta. Placenta accreta, when the placenta implants too deeply, all the way to the actual muscle of uterine wall (without penetrating it) Placenta praevia, when the placement of the placenta is too close to or blocks the cervix Placental abruption, premature detachment of the plac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-placental_barrier |
The most straightforward example of this principle occurs when the government must condemn or destroy property to prevent spread of disease or other threat to the public health or safety. "Thus, in order to protect the health and safety of the community, government may condemn unsafe structures, may close unlawful busi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_taking |
WePay was founded by Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico in 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts, and is now headquartered in Redwood City, California. The original inspiration for WePay occurred to Aberman when he had difficulty raising money for his brother's bachelor party. Aberman had to collect $4,200 from 14 friends spread ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WePay |
HE-AAC is supported in the open source FAAD/FAAD2 decoding library and all players incorporating it, such as VLC media player, Winamp, foobar2000, Audacious Media Player and SonicStage. The Nero AAC Codec supports decoding HE and HEv2 AAC. HE-AAC is also used by AOL Radio and Pandora Radio clients to deliver high-fidel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Efficiency_Advanced_Audio_Coding |
A United Nations University working paper titled "Urban Settlement" reviews the most commonly used data sources, and highlights the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring the size of urban versus rural populations. It says: "The city proper is determined by legal and administrative criteria, and typically comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_proper |
In the majority of cases of developmental APD, the cause is unknown. An exception is acquired epileptic aphasia or Landau-Kleffner syndrome, where a child's development regresses, with language comprehension severely affected. The child is often thought to be deaf, but normal peripheral hearing is found. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_auditory_processing_disorder |
The game Street Fighter II: The World Warrior was a huge success when it was released in 1991 and is regarded as one of the most influential video games of all time. It refined and popularized the fighting game genre and introduced many now-staples of the genre, such as combos and character selection but most notably, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_game_community |
In 2010, the Media Education Foundation filmed a documentary titled The Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear summarizing the work of Gerbner and others about the effects of violent media on people's opinions, attitudes, and beliefs. The documentary features Gerbner himself speaking about his re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome |
Typically when a banda plays a cumbia, the alto horn players switch to Latin percussion instruments such as timbales, maracas, cowbell, congas, bongos and guiro. Bandas generally contain between 10 and 20 members. They usually have a lead singer and a second voice, and occasionally a third voice. The voice often consis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_music |
In Lowell, MA after a typhoid outbreak in 1890 William Thompson Sedgwick applied bacteriological methods to the investigation and was able to establish a link between contaminated water and the disease. The United States by this time had begun to introduce filtration into its municipal water supplies as a means of remo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_municipal_treatment_of_drinking_water |
Some early workers who did not know the structure called it phospho-24-tungstic acid, formulating it as 3H2O·P2O5 24WO3·59H2O, (P2W24O80H6)·29H2O, which correctly identifies the atomic ratios of P, W and O. This formula was still quoted in papers as late as 1970.Phosphotungstic acid is used in histology as a component ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphotungstic_acid |
The Titan 4B rocket placed the IUS upper stages and payload into a 188 km x 718 km x 28.6° parking orbit. The first stage on the IUS burned at 18:14 GMT and put the second stage and payload into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The IUS second stage fired at 23:34 GMT. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Support_Program |
SQT measurements are scaled proportionately by relative impact and visually represented on triaxial graphs. Evaluation of sediment integrity and interrelationships between components can be determined by the size and morphology of the triangle. The magnitude of the triangle is indicative of the relative impact of conta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sediment_quality_triad |
Peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCL) are a group of NK-cell or T-cell malignancies that include extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma, nasal type, peripheral T cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (PTL, NOS), angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), and anaplastic lymphoma kinase positive or negative anaplastic large-cell ly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein–Barr_virus–associated_lymphoproliferative_diseases |
The propellant for the transfer to the operational orbit, and the maneuvers to vary inter-spacecraft separation distances made up approximately half of the spacecraft's launch weight. The highly elliptical orbits of the spacecraft initially reached a perigee of around 4 RE (Earth radii, where 1 RE = 6371 km) and an apo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_II_(spacecraft) |
3D cell culturing by magnetic levitation method (MLM) is the application of growing 3D tissue by inducing cells treated with magnetic nanoparticle assemblies in spatially varying magnetic fields, using neodymium magnetic drivers and promoting cell to cell interactions by levitating the cells up to the air/liquid interf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Cell_Culturing_by_Magnetic_Levitation |
CDF files can be read using a proprietary CDF Player, downloadable from the Wolfram Research website but with a restricted license. In contrast to static formats such as PDF, the CDF Player contains an entire runtime library of Mathematica allowing document content to be generated in response to user interaction and di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_Document_Format |
Primary sensory abilities like brightness discrimination, visual contrast sensitivity, temporal discrimination thresholds, temporal resolution, and discrimination thresholds for motion directions do not appear to change in the loss of a modality like hearing. However, higher-level processing tasks may undergo compensat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_modal_plasticity |
Brentano has a theory of judgment which is different from what is currently the predominant (Fregean) view. At the centre of Brentano's theory of judgment lies the idea that a judgment depends on having a presentation, but this presentation does not have to be predicated. Even stronger: Brentano thought that predicatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Brentano |
Since the pioneering work of Linnaeus, species of organisms have had recognized scientific names in Latin, Greek, or a modernized derivative of one or both of those languages. In most groups of organisms, the scientific names are sufficient, enjoying widespread use among academics and amateurs alike. By contrast, non-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_the_World:_Recommended_English_Names |
Besides the main text-based search-engine function of Google search, it also offers multiple quick, interactive features. These include, but are not limited to: Calculator Time zone, currency, and unit conversions Word translations Flight status Local film showings Weather forecasts Population and unemployment rates Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Instant |
A mycotic aneurysm is an aneurysm that results from an infectious process that involves the arterial wall. A person with a mycotic aneurysm has a bacterial infection in the wall of an artery, resulting in the formation of an aneurysm. One of the causes of mycotic aneurysms is infective endocarditis. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arterial_aneurysm |
Similarly to benzodiazepines, the longer acting barbiturates produce a less severe withdrawal syndrome than short acting and ultra-short acting barbiturates. Withdrawal symptoms are dose-dependent with heavier users being more affected than lower-dose addicts. The pharmacological treatment of barbiturate withdrawal is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbiturate |
1. To promote the proportional, efficient, and competitive use and development of energy resources in the context of decentralization and regional development, prioritizing private investment, meeting demand, as well as the employment of alternative energy in the process of rural electrification. 2. To promote the deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Energy_and_Mines_(Peru) |
In number theory, a bi-twin chain of length k + 1 is a sequence of natural numbers n − 1 , n + 1 , 2 n − 1 , 2 n + 1 , … , 2 k n − 1 , 2 k n + 1 {\displaystyle n-1,n+1,2n-1,2n+1,\dots ,2^{k}n-1,2^{k}n+1\,} in which every number is prime.The numbers n − 1 , 2 n − 1 , … , 2 k n − 1 {\displaystyle n-1,2n-1,\dots ,2^{k}n-1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-twin_chain |
The human TMEM39B gene has a paralog called TMEM39A, also referred to by the alias SUSR2 (suppressor of SQST-1 aggregates in rpl-43 mutants), which is located at 3q13.33. The TMEM39A protein contains 488 amino acids and shares 51.2% identity with TMEM39B. Although the function of the paralog TMEM39A is not well-underst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMEM39B |
In the freemium business model, the basic product – the course content – is given away free. "Charging for content would be a tragedy", said Andrew Ng. But "premium" services such as certification or placement would be charged a fee – however financial aids are given in some cases.Course developers could charge licensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course |
United States victories against Mexico and American Indians led Union forces to be overconfident going into the Civil War. Failing to update their tactics to match new technology, such as rifling of firearms and the use of the Minie ball as ammunition, they assumed that superior numbers would give them rapid victories,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_disease |
A ring is called commutative if its multiplication is commutative. Commutative rings resemble familiar number systems, and various definitions for commutative rings are designed to formalize properties of the integers. Commutative rings are also important in algebraic geometry. In commutative ring theory, numbers are o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Theory |
But the opposite is true. However, children may not be exposed to sentences like (3-5) as evidence in favor of the correct grammar. Thus, the fact that all adult speakers agree that (4) is grammatical and (5) is not suggests that the linear rule was never even considered and that children are predisposed to a structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus |
It was fitted on a total of 13 submarines and served until June 1974. Ongoing problems with the W-47 warhead, especially with its mechanical arming and safing equipment, led to large numbers of the missiles being recalled for modifications, and the U.S. Navy sought a replacement with either a larger yield or equivalent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris |
At the time, the MTA had not yet activated the Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System, which would automatically activate the brakes of oversized trains that attempted to enter the tunnels. In addition, mass-transit ridership declined significantly following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, and the LI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Access |
According to the Traditionalist School, the "philosophia perennis" designates a worldview that is opposed to the scientism of modern secular societies and which promotes the rediscovery of the wisdom traditions of the pre-secular developed world. This view is exemplified by René Guénon in his 1945 book The Reign of Qua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_Philosophy |
Although we now could use the algebraic update equations given previously, it may be preferable to rewrite them. Let ρ = 1 − c s , {\displaystyle \rho ={\frac {1-c}{s}},} so that ρ = tan(θ/2). Then the revised update equations are a h k ′ = a k h ′ = a h k − s ( a h ℓ + ρ a h k ) {\displaystyle a'_{hk}=a'_{kh}=a_{hk}-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi_rotation |
Denis de Rougemont said that the troubadours were influenced by Cathar doctrines which rejected the pleasures of the flesh and that they were metaphorically addressing the spirit and soul of their ladies. Rougemont also said that courtly love subscribed to the code of chivalry, and therefore a knight's loyalty was alwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtly_love |
However, BDNF has also been identified as a key component of the hypothalamic pathway that controls body mass and energy homeostasis. "Most recently, we have shown that BDNF appears to be a major player not only in central metabolic pathways but also as a regulator of metabolism in skeletal muscle. Hippocampal samples ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myokine |
The affluent trading cities of the Hansa were characterised especially by religious and secular representative architecture, such as council or parish churches, town halls, Bürgerhäuser, i.e. the private dwellings of rich traders, or city gates. In rural areas, the monastic architecture of monks' orders had a major inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Gothic |
According to Dr. Chil-Yong Kang of Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry in Canada, the developer of this vaccine, antibodies against gp120 and p24 increased to 8-fold and 64-fold, respectively after vaccination.The VRC01 line of research produced an "eOD-GT8" antigen which specifically exposes t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_vaccines |
OnLocation (formerly Serious Magic DV Rack) was a program that is included with Adobe Premiere Pro to log physical media information and to tag ingested media with metadata. It was replaced by Adobe Prelude in Adobe Creative Suite 6. Ovation is a presentation software developed by Adobe Systems, originally released by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Spark_Video |
Antibiotics treats bacterial infections rather than viral infections. Common situations in which antibiotics are overused include the following: Apparent viral respiratory illness in children should not be treated with antibiotics. If there is a diagnosis of bacterial infection, then antibiotics may be used. Despite ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_misuse |
Seedlings are generally transplanted when the first pair of true leaves appear. A shade may be provided if the area is arid or hot. A commercially available vitamin hormone concentrate may be used to avoid transplant shock which may contain thiamine hydrochloride, 1-Naphthaleneacetic acid and indole butyric acid. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedling |
More symbolically, an accounting model expresses some principle of conservation in the formalgebraic sum of inflows = sinks − sourcesThis principle is certainly true for money and it is the basis for national income accounting. Accounting models are true by convention, that is any experimental failure to confirm them, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_model |
Scottish smallpipes are most commonly tuned to be played with the same fingering system as Highland bagpipes (sometimes called 'half-covered'), however they can also be tuned to accept a 'covered' fingering system (very similar to that of the 'closed' system used for Northumbrian smallpipes), where only one finger is l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes |
Some scenes include children playing with wheeled toys and older children looking after younger children on swings. Though many children play with what they find, and such makeshift playthings rarely preserve in archaeological contexts, there are extant examples of what could be toys from the past. Although, some toys ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_of_childhood |
The result holds regardless of the utility function. Indeed, the amount of the payoff is likewise irrelevant. Whichever gamble is selected, the prize for winning it is the same, and the cost of losing it is the same (no cost), so ultimately there are only two outcomes: receive a specific amount of money or nothing. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsberg_paradox |
The SDA approved the final microSD specification on July 13, 2005. Initially, microSD cards were available in capacities of 32, 64, and 128 MB.The Motorola E398 was the first mobile phone to contain a TransFlash (later microSD) card. A few years later, its competitors began using microSD cards. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Speed |
From 1846, the Brussels authorities wished to provide the city with a large wooded park and proposed a development plan for La Cambre by converting an area of 107 ha (260 acres) of the Sonian Forest. The condition was that two-thirds of the trees would be preserved and a 100 metres (330 ft) zone around the park would r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_de_la_Cambre |
Words in High-Speed Memory are also called "registers" in the documentation. : p.1-3 The system also includes two input and two output tape buffer storage units of 62 words (744 digits) each. : p.0-5 The instructions are three address and all operations are storage-to-storage. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamatic_D-1000 |
The 'modulometer' is a proprietary type of quasi-PPM found on Nagra products. It has an integration time (−2 dB) of 7.5 ms, and a semi-logarithmic scale with an appearance between that of a VU meter and a DIN-type PPM. A stereo version ("double modulometer") uses a meter movement with two coaxial needles. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_programme_meter |
In 1988, he began his term as professor of geochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of earth and planetary science, with a joint appointment as a faculty scientist in the earth sciences division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) . Upon his arrival in Berkeley, DePaolo e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._DePaolo |
The Nyaya-sutras is attributed to Gautama, who was at least the principal author. According to Karl Potter, this name has been a very common Indian name, and the author is also reverentially referred to as Gotama, Dirghatapas and Aksapada Gautama. Little is known about Gautama, or which century he lived in. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyāya_Sūtras |
Some potential applications (e.g. low cost paints) are unable to use fluorosurfactants because of the price impact of compounding in even small amounts of fluorosurfactant. Use in paints was only about $100 million as of 2006.DWR is a finish (very thin coating) put on fabrics that makes them lightly rain resistant, tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorochemical_industry |
On January 6, 2021, in a joint session of the United States Congress, the counting of the votes of the Electoral College was interrupted by a breach of the United States Capitol chambers. The rioters were supporters of President Donald Trump who hoped to delay and overturn the President's loss in the 2020 election. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming |
Logitech – worldwide (except in Japan, where it is known as Logicool) for PC peripherals, remote controls, security cameras, mice, keyboards, webcams, computer speakers, and accessories for smartphones and tablet keyboards and covers Logitech video collaboration, including all B2B video conferencing equipment Logitech ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech |
In his 2003 book Science in the Private Interest, Krimsky argues that conflicts of interests are perceived and regulated very differently in public affairs and in science: The prophylactic measures that are taken to prevent conflict of interest in public affairs are considered irrelevant in science precisely because sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Krimsky |
Underneath, there is a large tubular opening in the inner pressure layer known as the appendix. Legs go in first, followed by the arms into the sleeves and head into the helmet. When the suit is on, an airtight seal is made by tightly rolling up the appendix and securing it with strong elastic bands. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokol_space_suit |
Forceps had a profound influence on obstetrics as it allowed for the speedy delivery of the baby in cases of difficult or obstructed labour. Over the course of the 19th century, many practitioners attempted to redesign the forceps, so much so that the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists' collection has severa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forceps_in_childbirth |
In four-legged animals, the metacarpals form part of the forefeet, and are frequently reduced in number, appropriate to the number of toes. In digitigrade and unguligrade animals, the metacarpals are greatly extended and strengthened, forming an additional segment to the limb, a feature that typically enhances the anim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacarpal_bones |
During the 20th century, the Green Revolution dramatically increased yields through advances in plant breeding and land management. This period of agricultural innovation is credited for saving millions of lives. However, these approaches are reaching their biological limits, leading to stagnation in yield improvement.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realizing_Increased_Photosynthetic_Efficiency |
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