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In chemical terms, creatinine is a lactam and an imidazolidinone, so a spontaneously formed cyclic derivative of creatine.Several tautomers of creatinine exist; ordered by contribution, they are: 2-Amino-1-methyl-1H-imidazol-4-ol (or 2-amino-1-methylimidazol-4-ol) 2-Amino-1-methyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-4-one 2-Imino-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increased_creatinine |
Totally Minnie (1988; TV special) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – (cameo) The Prince and the Pauper (1990; featurette) Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) Mickey's House of Villains (2002) Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) Mickey's T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Aiders |
That stock price had fallen to 3.00 euros in the Summer of 2014, reaching briefly 1.02 Euros by October 24 of 2014, and stabilitzing around 3.00 euros since.The President of the Spanish Market Regulator CNMV saw the IPO of eDreams, the first one in the Spanish market for 4 years, as a sign of confidence in the economy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDreams |
All components are accessible by and integrated through a database-oriented programming language. Unlike many tools for managing mainframe data, which are geared to the needs of professional programmers in MIS departments, NOMAD is particularly designed for (and sold to) application end-users in large corporations. End... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software |
A similar layout is ASD-SPACE. Commonly used in 2D-based fighting games, ASD-SPACE maps A, S, and D to "left", "down", and "right" movement, while the spacebar is used for "up" (jumping). This allows an easier access to "360 degree" motions than a normal inverted-T layout, as well as being more ergonomic than simply pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASD_keys |
However, such platforms allow them to roam freely with no restrictions allowing them to silence the minority voice, showcase momentum for their views or creating the impression of approval. Finally, social media causes the disruption of the public square. Some social media platforms have user policies and technical fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_democracy |
In the United States and Europe, cinnamon and sugar are often used to flavour cereals, bread-based dishes such as toast, and fruits, especially apples; a cinnamon and sugar mixture (cinnamon sugar) is sold separately for such purposes. It is also used in Portuguese and Turkish cuisine for both sweet and savoury dishes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_stick |
In depth-first search (DFS), the search tree is deepened as much as possible before going to the next sibling. To traverse binary trees with depth-first search, perform the following operations at each node: If the current node is empty then return. Execute the following three operations in a certain order:N: Visit the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorder_traversal |
At even higher power densities, the vapor can be ionized to form a plasma. The recoil pressure is determined by using the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. d P d T = d Δ H L V d T Δ V L V ≈ d Δ H L V T L V V L V {\displaystyle {dP \over dT}={d\Delta H_{LV} \over dT\Delta V_{LV}}\thickapprox {d\Delta H_{LV} \over T_{LV}V_{LV... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_beam_welding |
In Sexagenary cycle, a new Chinese year begins on start of spring, which usually falls on February 4. The annual flying star that visits the center palace has to be subtracted by one every Chinese year. Once Star 1 is reached, annual star would loop back around to 9 in next year. Star 1 occupies center palace in 1999, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Star_Feng_Shui |
If the cells have the same refractive index n r {\displaystyle n_{\text{r}}} , then J ~ 0 2 = ( 1 + 2 n r 2 ) ( J 0 , 2 + 2 n r 2 J 0 , 1 ) J 0 , 1 {\displaystyle {\tilde {J}}_{0}^{2}=\left(1+2n_{\text{r}}^{2}\right)\left(J_{0,2}+2n_{\text{r}}^{2}J_{0,1}\right)J_{0,1}} . For maximum efficiency, each subcell should be o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction_cell |
Non-mutational stimulation of GATA2 expression and consequential aggressiveness in EVI1-positive AML appears due to the ability of EVI1, a transcription factor, to directly stimulate the expression of the GATA2 gene. The reason for the overexpression of GATA2 that begins in the early stages of prostate cancer is unclea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATA2 |
In December 2007, Congress passed H.R. 2764, moving "In God We Trust" to either the obverse or reverse of the coins. This is the same bill that created a program that included quarters for Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the U.S. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_dollar_coins |
The significance of the dots is disputed. Some hold them to be marks of erasure; others believe them to indicate that in some collated manuscripts the stigmatized words were missing, hence that the reading is doubtful; still others contend that they are merely a mnemonic device to indicate homiletic explanations which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretic_Text |
Moreover, this means that cultural differences within agrarian societies are greater than the differences between them.The landowning strata typically combine government, religious, and military institutions to justify and enforce their ownership, and support elaborate patterns of consumption, slavery, serfdom, or peon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_studies |
Full Circle with Michael Palin is a 10-part 1997 documentary television series, first broadcast on BBC One in 1997. Presented by Michael Palin, Full Circle was the third of a series of programmes in which Palin made and documented lengthy journeys. The first was Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin, a 7-part ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Circle_with_Michael_Palin |
In first-order logic it is expressible as ∀ x → , y → . ( R ( x → , y → ) → ∃ z → . S ( x → , z → ) ) {\displaystyle \forall {\vec {x}},{\vec {y}}. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_integrity |
As with disco clubgoers, rave participants and EDM enthusiasts used the drug because its "rush" or "high" was perceived to enhance the experience of dancing to pulsating music and lights. Nitrous oxide is a dissociative inhalant that can cause depersonalisation, derealisation (feeling like the world is not real), dizzi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_drug |
It turns out that Om and Ishvar were on their way to visit Dina. They are still friends, and she gives them meals and money when the house is empty. Dina and the beggars discuss their lives and how Maneck has changed from a pleasant and friendly college student to a distant refrigeration specialist. Om and Ishvar leave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fine_Balance |
The model is useful in describing hemoglobin's sigmoidal binding curve.The KNF model (or induced fit model or sequential model) arose to address the possibility of differential binding states. Developed by Koshland, Némethy and Filmer in 1966, the KNF model describes cooperativity as a sequential process, where ligand ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_model |
The solution of the Conway puzzle is straightforward once one realizes, based on parity considerations, that the three 1 × 1 × 3 blocks need to be placed so that precisely one of them appears in each 5 × 5 × 1 slice of the cube. This is analogous to similar insight that facilitates the solution of the simpler Slothoube... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_puzzle |
Brettstapel is commonly produced as part of a prefabricated wall, ceiling or roof panel. The prefabrication takes place in dedicated factories using specialist machinery and an experienced team ensuring tight quality control and fast construction. The structural panels are generally manufactured in 600mm wide sections,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brettstapel |
ortholog One of a set of genes (or more generally any DNA sequences showing homology) which are present in different genomes but are descended from the same ancestral sequence, i.e. they are directly related to one another by vertical descent from a single gene or sequence in the last common ancestor of those genomes. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_genetics_(M–Z) |
Critics of Christian anarchism include both Christians and anarchists. Christians often cite Romans 13 as evidence that the State should be obeyed, while secular anarchists do not believe in any authority including God as per the slogan "no gods, no masters". Christian anarchists often believe Romans 13 is taken out of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism |
Aliwal shoal is part of a large offshore reef complex. The narrow ridge parallel to the coastline about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) offshore, more specifically referred to as the Crown, is the part usually referred to as Aliwal shoal, and this area is inside the sanctuary zone of the Marine Protected Area. The shallowest par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliwal_Shoal |
To date, more than 1,000 cities and towns have declared themselves World cities, including Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nivelles, and Königswinter.As a social movement, mundialization expresses the solidarity of populations of the globe and aims to establi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_citizenship |
A number of datable minerals occur as common detrital grains in sandstones, and if the strata have not been buried too deeply, these minerals grains retain information about the source rock. Fission track analysis of these minerals provides information about the thermal evolution of the source rocks and therefore can b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_track_dating |
During this time, she edited literary books such as Neuere Deutsche Literatur (Newer German Literature, 1991; 1992), as well as an anthology by the Italian scholar of German literature Cesare Cases in German translation (1996). These were followed by additional literary translations (from Italian and English language i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagmar_Reichardt |
In mathematics, the Ramanujan conjecture, due to Srinivasa Ramanujan (1916, p. 176), states that Ramanujan's tau function given by the Fourier coefficients τ(n) of the cusp form Δ(z) of weight 12 Δ ( z ) = ∑ n > 0 τ ( n ) q n = q ∏ n > 0 ( 1 − q n ) 24 = q − 24 q 2 + 252 q 3 − 1472 q 4 + 4830 q 5 − ⋯ , {\displaystyle \... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_conjecture |
In 1976, Dharma Realm Buddhist University was formally established at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, with the very first class arriving in 1977. The first Chancellor was Venerable Master Hsuan Hua. Other founding members include Bhikshuni Heng Hsien and Professor Ron Epstein. From 1977 to 1984, DRBU operated with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_Realm_Buddhist_University |
A few knots have become more or less standard for attaching the various parts of the fly lines and backing, etc., together. A detailed discussion of most of these knots is available in any good book on fly fishing, and several studies have been done evaluating their performance. Some of the knots that are in most every... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_fishing |
The ability to decompose | b ⟩ {\displaystyle |b\rangle } into the eigenbasis of A {\displaystyle A} and to find the corresponding eigenvalues λ j {\displaystyle \lambda _{j}} is facilitated by the use of quantum phase estimation. The state of the system after this decomposition is approximately: ∑ j = 1 N β j | u j ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm_for_linear_systems_of_equations |
Other connective tissue, which forms dense strands called suspensory ligaments, extends inward from the skin of the breast to the pectoral tissue to support the weight of the breast. Heredity and the quantity of fatty tissue determine the size of the breasts.Men typically find female breasts attractive and this holds t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sexuality |
A simple tensor (also called a tensor of rank one, elementary tensor or decomposable tensor (Hackbusch 2012, pp. 4)) is a tensor that can be written as a product of tensors of the form T = a ⊗ b ⊗ ⋯ ⊗ d {\displaystyle T=a\otimes b\otimes \cdots \otimes d} where a, b, ..., d are nonzero and in V or V∗ – that is, if the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-free_treatment_of_tensors |
"Research conducted at the Experimental Lakes Area indicates that creating reservoirs through the flooding of boreal wetlands, which are sinks for CO2, converts the wetlands into sources of atmospheric carbon. In these ecosystems, variation in organic carbon content has been found to have little effect on the rates of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_reservoirs |
The term was derived in the late 19th century from the Greek verb eutheneo, εὐθηνέω (eu, well; the, root of τίθημι tithemi, to cause). (To be in a flourishing state, to abound in, to prosper.—Demosthenes. To be strong or vigorous.—Herodotus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthenics |
Scalpel blades are usually individually packed in sterile pouches but are also offered non-sterile. Double-edged scalpels are referred to as "lancets". Scalpel blades are usually made of hardened and tempered steel, stainless steel, or high carbon steel; in addition, titanium, ceramic, diamond and even obsidian knives ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalpel |
Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a project combining artificial intelligence and blockchain to democratize access to artificial intelligence. He was a Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is also chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Goertzel |
M1–R + M2–X → M1–X + M2–R.In redox-transmetalation/ligand exchange the ligands of two metal complexes switch places with each other, bonding with the other metal center. The R ligand can be an alkyl, aryl, alkynyl, or allyl group and the X ligand can be a halogen, pseudo-halogen, alkyl, or aryl group. The reaction can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetalation |
Today, these two words are usually just simply written as ng and mga.Originally, there was a large tilde that spanned both n and g (as in n͠g) when a vowel follows the Ng digraph. This tilde indicates that the n͠g and the vowel should be pronounced as one syllable, such as n͠ga in the three-syllable word pan͠galan (Eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_orthography |
Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evolution in several plant families. They occur worldwide in the tropics and subtropics and even some temperate coastal areas, mainly between latitudes 30° N and 30° S, with the greatest mangrove area within 5° of the equator. Mangrove plant families first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_virome |
In March 1994, Lotus decided to attack this problem by re-positioning Improv as an add-in for 1-2-3, although the programs had nothing in common other than Improv's ability to read data in 1-2-3 files. This had no effect on the sales, and after the release of the minor 2.1 upgrade, development ended in August 1994. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv |
Busby was held for 19 hours under the Explosive Substances Act 1883, before being released with no further action. Following his release, Busby told the BBC he believed that the fact that two of the officers who had raided his property had felt unwell was explained by "psychological problems associated with their knowl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal |
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. As of September 2022 all of the Bible has been translated into 724 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,617 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translation |
Paper clips are still sometimes called "Gem clips", and in Swedish the word for any paper clip is "gem". Definite proof that the modern type of paper clip was well known in 1899 at the latest, is the patent granted to William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut on April 27 of that year for a "Machine for making wire ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_clip |
Sound reinforcement and public address loudspeakers have sensitivities of perhaps 95 to 102 dB for 1 W @ 1 m—an efficiency of 4–10%. Rock concert, stadium PA, marine hailing, etc. speakers generally have higher sensitivities of 103 to 110 dB for 1 W @ 1 m—an efficiency of 10–20%.A driver with a higher maximum power rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeaker |
This happened in the RBMK reactor that was destroyed in the Chernobyl disaster as the automatic control mechanism was mostly disabled (and the operators were trying somewhat recklessly to rapidly restore a high power level. Due to poor control rod design, the operators were unaware that there was a maximal level of neu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_coefficient_of_reactivity |
During this period, a number of pioneering physicians and anthropologists, such as Marc Armand Ruffer, G. Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones, Douglas E. Derry, and Samuel George Shattock, clarified the medical nature of ancient skeletal pathologies. This work was consolidated between the world wars with methods such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleopathology |
The World Resources Institute estimates that Australia was responsible for 1.1% of all CO2 emissions between 1850 and 2002. Consolidated historical data measures Australia's total fossil fuels and cement production emissions (excluding LULUCF) at 18.18 billion tons out of the world's 1.65 trillion tons, or 1.10%. Howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_Australia |
Typically a manual control input, for example by means of a finger control on the steering-wheel, enables the speech recognition system and this is signaled to the driver by an audio prompt. Following the audio prompt, the system has a "listening window" during which it may accept a speech input for recognition.Simple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_Command |
Here, among 13,359 prey items, bird constituted 35.9% with primary prey of this group being house sparrow (Passer domesticus) and European greenfinch (Chloris chloris) and that avian prey was more reliable and productive in the area than rodent prey due to the cyclic populations of the latter. Elsewhere in Germany, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_biology_of_the_tawny_owl |
Water maser emission is observed primarily at 22 GHz, due to a transition between rotational energy levels in the water molecule. The upper state is at an energy corresponding to 643 kelvins about the ground state, and populating this upper maser level requires number densities of molecular hydrogen of order 108 cm−3 o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamaser |
Multi-stakeholder Sustainability Initiatives (MSIs) are partnerships between a group of stakeholders (NGOs, companies, suppliers, governments, etc.) that aim to improve the sustainability of production, sourcing, and manufacturing practices for a specific product or sector through the use of voluntary, market-based app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_sourcing |
Then, the interaction coefficient is calculated as I s = G x ( home ) + G y ( home ) − G x ( away ) − G y ( away ) . {\displaystyle I_{s}=G_{x}({\mbox{home}})+G_{y}({\mbox{home}})-G_{x}({\mbox{away}})-G_{y}({\mbox{away}}).} If Is is negative, it means that both species grow worse in their own site compared to their com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant–soil_feedback |
Tryptophan (symbol Trp or W) is an α-amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. Tryptophan contains an α-amino group, an α-carboxylic acid group, and a side chain indole, making it a polar molecule with a non-polar aromatic beta carbon substituent. Tryptophan is also a precursor to the neurotransmitter se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan |
1913: Marconi and its main competitor Telefunken amalgamated to form Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited (AWA). 1919: The first radio "broadcast" in Australia was organised by Ernest Thomas Fisk of AWA on 19 August 1919. He arranged for the National Anthem to be broadcast from one building to another at the end of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Australian_radio |
In user experience design and behavioural design, such as web design, visual hierarchy is used to prioritize navigational structures and content, so that audiences focus on elements that facilitate system usage, or increases the chance that they notice content that contains psychological nudges. Color is one of many fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_hierarchy |
Traditional 7.1 surround speaker configuration introduces two additional rear speakers to the conventional 5.1 arrangement, for a total of four surround channels and three front channels, to create a more 360° sound field. Most surround sound recordings are created by film production companies or video game producers; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_audio |
Coombs, Allen W. M. (July 1983), "The Making of Colossus", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 5 (3): 253–259, doi:10.1109/MAHC.1983.10085, S2CID 597530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Coombs |
Furthermore, occupational exposure banding has become an important component of the Hierarchy of Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs).The U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed a process that could be used to apply occupational exposure banding to a broader spectrum of occupatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_exposure_banding |
The original concept of the club, by Lord Castlereagh and others, dates from the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars. They envisaged a club where gentlemen who travelled abroad might meet and offer hospitality to distinguished foreign visitors. The original rules of 1819 excluded from membership anyone “who has not trave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travellers_Club |
His father was Roman von Antropoff, a lawyer and owner of a manor house and his mother was Sophie Emilie von Antropoff. Antropoff had four brothers and one sister: Roman Andreas von Antropoff Elisabeth Molly von Antropoff Sergei von Antropoff Nikolai Alexander von Antropoff Karl Alexander von AntropoffFrom 1889 to 1892... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_von_Antropoff |
For example, in Canada, the federal Human Assisted Reproduction Act provides for the use of hired surrogate mothers. The legal mother of the child may be the egg donor. Similar laws are in place in the United Kingdom and Australia. In Brazil in 2019, two male identical twins were ordered to both pay maintenance for a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternity_testing |
A Markov boundary of Y {\displaystyle Y} in S {\displaystyle {\mathcal {S}}} is a subset S 2 {\displaystyle {\mathcal {S}}_{2}} of S {\displaystyle {\mathcal {S}}} , that S 2 {\displaystyle {\mathcal {S}}_{2}} itself is a Markov blanket of Y {\displaystyle Y} , but any proper subset of S 2 {\displaystyle {\mathcal {S}}... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_blanket |
Nonetheless, many people use the terms "virus" and "worm" interchangeably to describe any self-propagating program.Keystroke logging A keylogger is a tool designed to record ("log") every keystroke on an affected machine for later retrieval, usually to allow the user of this tool to gain access to confidential informat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_hackers |
A rapid transit railway system (also called a metro, underground, heavy rail, or subway) operates in an urban area with high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Heavy rail is a high-capacity form of rail transit, with 4 to 10 units forming a train, and can be the most expensive form of tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport_system |
Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. Because they supply power only occasionally, the power supplied commands a much higher price per kilowatt hour than base load p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_plant |
Alt-azimuth mount: AZ1, AZ2, AZ3, and AZ4 Equatorial mount: EQ1, EQ2, EQ3, and EQ5 SynScan GoTo mount: EQ3 SynScan, EQ5 SynScan, HEQ5, EQ6, AZ-EQ5, AZ-EQ6 and EQ8 Equatorial travel mount: Star adventurer, Star adventurer mini, Star adventurer 2i WiFi, Star adventurer GTI Multi-Purpose mount: AllView mount, and Virtuoso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky-Watcher |
Jazz is an American musical artform that originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style's West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music |
Full (2048 × 1080 or 4096 × 2160) (~1.9:1 aspect ratio, official name by DCI is Full Container. Not widely accepted in cinemas.) MXF Interop (MPEG-2) – Deprecated Full Frame (1920 × 1080) 12 bits per pixel precision (36 bits total) XYZ' colorspace; the prime mark indicates gamma encoding (gamma=2.6) Maximum bit rate is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package |
The Anglophone problem (French: Problème anglophone) in Cameroon refers to a socio-political issue rooted in the country's colonial legacies from the Germans, British, and the French. It principally opposes many Cameroonians from the Northwest and Southwest regions, who consider themselves Anglophones, to the Camerooni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglophone_problem |
She was project scientist for NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS) in 1992 and 1993 and subsequently director of Project Phoenix (HRMS reconfigured) under the auspices of the SETI Institute. She was co-creator with Margaret Turnbull of the HabCat in 2002, a principal component of Project Phoenix. Tarter has p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Tarter |
The subgenre has also been represented in television, such as in the television series I Dream of Jeannie, Kröd Mändoon. Examples on radio are the BBC's Hordes of the Things and ElvenQuest. Fantasy comedy films can either be parodies (Monty Python and the Holy Grail), comedies with fantastical elements (Being John Malk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_comedy |
SDSS J1106+1939 (SDSS J110644.95+193930.6) is a quasar, notable for its energetic matter outflow. It is the record holder for the most powerful matter outflow by a quasar. The engine is a supermassive black hole, pulling in matter at the rate of 400 solar masses per year and ejecting it at the speed of 8000 km/s. The o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDSS_J1106+1939 |
The sewing machine was an important productivity tool for mechanized shoe production. With the widespread availability of machine tools, improved steam engines and inexpensive transportation provided by railroads, the machinery industry became the largest sector (by profit added) of the U. S. economy by the last quarte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_improving_technologies |
Plug loads are often synonymous with terms such as "receptacle loads", "miscellaneous loads", "unregulated loads", or "process energy/loads." While many building codes/standards haven't defined "plug loads" specifically, they have defined these related terms, which are usually broader energy use categories. "Process en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_load |
The term Energiewende is regularly used in English language publications without being translated (a loanword).The term Energiewende was first contained in the title of a 1980 publication by the German Öko-Institut, calling for the complete abandonment of nuclear and petroleum energy. : 223 The most groundbreaking clai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende |
The start of the period is conventionally taken as being 1620, under the late Ming dynasty, with the death of the Wanli Emperor (1573–1620), although the most characteristic style probably began from about 1628. During the Wanli reign ceramics under government sponsorship slowly degenerated in quality until production ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_porcelain |
A numbering ν {\displaystyle \nu } of a set A {\displaystyle A} is called complete (with respect to an element a ∈ A {\displaystyle a\in A} ) if for every partial computable function f {\displaystyle f} there exists a total computable function h {\displaystyle h} so that (Ershov 1999:482): ν ∘ h ( i ) = { ν ∘ f ( i ) i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_numbering |
Losses for the livestock industry alone were estimated to be as high as $18 million. In Barcaldine, Queensland, up to one-fifth of all sheep are killed by dingoes annually, a situation which has been described as an "epidemic". According to a survey among cattle owners in 1995, performed by the Park and Wildlife Servic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_behavior_of_dingoes |
In addition, OTC option transactions generally do not need to be advertised to the market and face little or no regulatory requirements. However, OTC counterparties must establish credit lines with each other, and conform to each other's clearing and settlement procedures. With few exceptions, there are no secondary ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_option |
As a back-up plan, Szilard also considered where he might find a few tons of heavy water; deuterium would not absorb neutrons like ordinary hydrogen, but would have the similar value as a moderator. Such quantities of material would require a lot of money.Szilard drafted a confidential letter to the President, Franklin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard |
A telescopic lip (20 or 40 inches) can help to reduce the length of the leveler to 10 feet. Dock levelers (and indeed dock plates and dock boards) are used where a building has a truck-level door, i.e. a door with a floor level roughly at the same height as the floor of the truck's trailer. Some buildings only have dri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_plate |
Charon is a discontinued web browser for the Inferno operating system. It had a limited support for JavaScript but none for CSS. It was originally written by Howard Trickey in Limbo for Inferno. It runs under the wm window manager, but can also run directly on the draw device. As part of the acme standalone project, Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(web_browser) |
Although few cases are recorded, a case study of a fatal encounter was published in Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria: "A 70-year-old, previously healthy woman developed a sudden coma. Four days before, she had started to present hematuria. Shortly after admission, her coma was rated as Glasgow 3. Physical examination reve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonomia_obliqua |
Fluid models are continuous deterministic analogs of queueing networks obtained by taking the limit when the process is scaled in time and space, allowing heterogeneous objects. This scaled trajectory converges to a deterministic equation which allows the stability of the system to be proven. It is known that a queuein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_network |
In such an economy rents would only be a part of the total income, while in rentier economies rents take up a substantial part. Rentier states thus rely on external rents and not on the productivity of the domestic sector. This creates a rentier economy which influences multiple aspects of a state's society. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_state |
Homogentisate 1,2-dioxygenase (homogentisic acid oxidase, homogentisate oxidase, homogentisicase) is an enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of homogentisate to 4-maleylacetoacetate. Homogentisate 1,2-dioxygenase or HGD is involved in the catabolism of aromatic rings, more specifically in the breakdown of the amino ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogentisate_1,2-dioxygenase |
Some /y/, /yː/, /ø/, /øː/, /ɛ/, /ɛː/, /øy/, and all /ɛi/ were obtained by i-umlaut from /u/, /uː/, /o/, /oː/, /a/, /aː/, /au/, and /ai/ respectively. Others were formed via ʀ-umlaut from /u/, /uː/, /a/, /aː/, and /au/.Some /y/, /yː/, /ø/, /øː/, and all /ɔ/, /ɔː/ were obtained by u-umlaut from /i/, /iː/, /e/, /eː/, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_language |
This can be very convenient for executing high-level languages, because most arithmetic expressions can be easily translated into postfix notation. For example, consider the expression A*(B-C)+(D+E), written in reverse Polish notation as A B C - * D E + +. Compiling and running this on a simple imaginary stack machine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine |
It was the origination of a research program that has included his further theoretical and empirical studies and those of other sociologists, such as Lynn Smith-Lovin, Dawn Robinson and Neil MacKinnon. Definition of the situation and self-other definitions are two of the leading concepts in affect control theory. The f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_sociology |
Another, perhaps more important influence predators may have on prey animals may be the landscape of fear their presence can create, promoting landscape heterogeneity. The ability of predators to trigger this effect may however be limitted in the presence megafauna over 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb), which are largely imm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaherbivore_theory |
Regardless of whether a book is bound with a hardcover or bound with a paperback cover, the binding of the signatures determines the durability of the book-as-artefact. In the case of perfect binding, the pages are aligned, cut, and glued with a strong and flexible layer that holds the book together. In a paperback boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookbinding |
Blaine, who actively sought Catholic votes when he ran for president in 1884, believed that possibility of hurtful agitation on the school question should be ended. In 1875, the proposed amendment passed by a vote of 180 to 7 in the House of Representatives, but failed by four votes to achieve the necessary two-thirds ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_Amendment |
This means that the boundary must either come from nowhere or the whole future ends at some finite extension. An interesting "philosophical" feature of general relativity is revealed by the singularity theorems. Because general relativity predicts the inevitable occurrence of singularities, the theory is not complete w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking-Penrose_singularity |
Type Ib progenitors have ejected most of the hydrogen in their outer atmospheres, while Type Ic progenitors have lost both the hydrogen and helium shells; in other words, Type Ic have lost more of their envelope (i.e., much of the helium layer) than the progenitors of Type Ib. In other respects, however, the underlying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_1b_supernova |
It is also known to explicitly fail in certain integrable systems, in which the presence of a large number of constants of motion prevent thermalization.It is also important to note that the ETH makes statements about specific observables on a case by case basis - it does not make any claims about whether every observa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenstate_thermalisation_hypothesis |
Government spokesman Shamim Ahsan alleged it was caused by a technical malfunction. The country was unable to import enough fuel for all its power stations to use, so some of them were recently shut down. October 22-present - Ukraine and Moldova - Air and missile attacks by Russian forces as part of its Invasion of Ukr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages |
Setsuko married in 1950 a Canadian historian, Jim Thurlow, whom she had met in Japan. The couple settled in Canada 1955, at the time when Asian immigration was restricted to family of Canadians. In 1957, they moved to Japan for a social project in Hokkaido, to come back to Toronto in 1962. Setsuko served there as a soc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsuko_Thurlow |
In the wake of the transgender street prostitutes riot in impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood at a popular all-night restaurant, Gene Compton's Cafeteria. in 1966, San Francisco transsexual activists worked with Harry Benjamin (the nation's leading medical expert on transsexuality), the Erickson Educational Foundation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_movements_in_the_United_States |
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