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all-cis-8,11,14,17-eicosatetraenoic acid is an ω-3 fatty acid. It is an intermediate between stearidonic acid (18:4 ω-3) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5 ω-3)Some chemistry sources define 'arachadonic acid' to designate any of the eicosatetraenoic acids. However, almost all writings in biology, medicine and nutriti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicosatetraenoic_acid |
It accepts file system I/O requests and translates them into device specific calls, and can incorporate low-level device drivers that directly manipulate hardware to either read input or write output. It also includes a cache manager to improve disk performance by caching read requests and write to the disk in the back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2_subsystem |
The Aleutian Low is characterized by heavily influencing the path and strength of cyclones. Extratropical cyclones which form in the sub-polar latitudes in the North Pacific typically slow down and reach maximum intensity in the area of the Aleutian Low. Tropical cyclones that form in the tropical and equatorial region... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Low |
A glottochronological study estimates the age of the common ancestor of existing languages to a little more than 1000 years. However, Mikko Heikkilä dates the beginning of the diversification (with South Estonian as the first split) rather precisely to about 150 AD, based on loanword evidence (and previous estimates te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnic_language |
The Sport Relief Mile was created to give the campaign a focus with an event that was open to anyone to run, walk, jog, wheel, bounce or crawl, regardless of ability or age. It was also designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's first sub-four-minute mile. Participants could also choose to cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_Relief |
So, for example, @248 would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight, representing 248⁄1000 of a day, just over 5 hours and 57 minutes. There are no time zones in Swatch Internet Time; instead, it is globally based on what is conventionally known as Central European Time, West Africa Time, and UTC+1, which is the time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time |
On August 2, 2006, the House cafeteria menus were changed back without any announcement. The change was made by the new House Administration Committee Chairman, Vern Ehlers, who replaced Ney following his resignation due to a scandal. When asked about his decision, Ehlers responded, "It's no big deal ... It's not news.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries |
A detector with two or more counters firing the high-level discriminator in 30 nsec is "alerted"; a detector with three or more counters firing the high-level discriminator if 30 nsec is "triggered. Alerted stations carry out local data acquisition tasks and inhibit further triggering of the station. Time-to-voltage co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Air_Shower_Array |
A large oil company is typically organized in functional silos corresponding to disciplines such as drilling, production and reservoir management. This is regarded as inefficient by the IO movement, pointing out that the activities in any well or field by any of the silos will involve or affect all of the others. While... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Operations |
Shells are almost always composed of polymorphs of calcium carbonate - either calcite or aragonite. In many cases, such as the shells of many of the marine gastropods, different layers of the shell are composed of calcite and aragonite. In a few species which dwell near hydrothermal vents, iron sulfide is used to const... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollusk_shell |
Although neutrino oscillation is a phenomenon that is quite well understood today, there are still some experimental observations that question the completeness of our understanding. The most prominent of these observations is the so-called reactor antineutrino anomaly (RAA) (see Figure 3). A number of short baseline r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEREO_experiment |
In 1014–15 the Zirid ruler Badis ibn al-Mansur ordered merchants and artisans of Kairouan to be transferred to al-Manṣūriyya, which may have helped provoke a revolt in 1016 which damaged the city. In 1057, under pressure from the Banu Hilal invasions, the Zirids abandoned al-Manṣūriyya for Mahdiyya and the city was dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_period |
: Fig.1 The definition of a weighted automaton is generally given over an arbitrary semiring R {\displaystyle R} , an abstract set with an addition operation + {\displaystyle +} and a multiplication operation × {\displaystyle \times } . The automaton consists of a finite set of states, a finite input alphabet of charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_automaton |
Linda Richards, who established quality nursing schools in the United States and Japan, and was officially the first professionally trained nurse in the US, graduating in 1873 from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton, a pioneer American teacher, patent clerk, nurse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_care |
Some groups could easily plant their crops in open fields along river valleys, but others had forests covering their land. Thus, since Neolithic times, slash-and-burn agriculture has been widely used to clear land to make it suitable for crops and livestock.Large groups wandering in the woodlands was once a common form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_burning |
The SD9 had two separate power systems; one set of CR-123A lithium batteries in the handgrip powered the camera functions, while another pair of CR-V3 batteries or four AA size rechargeable batteries in a battery tray in the base powered the digital functions. This split power system showed that the camera functions (i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_SD9 |
Base personnel received an alert written by the staff sergeant on duty with Miller, minutes before the twister struck Tinker several minutes later around 10:00 p.m., damaging several military aircraft (with total damage estimated at $10 million) that could not be secured in time before it crossed the base grounds.Follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Warning |
In a stroke of genius, he was the first to cook chicken in the tandoor, and the spice blend he made and used for cooking the chicken in this manner became known as tandoori masala. In Delhi, Kundan Lal opened a restaurant called Moti Mahal, which is where dishes he created using tandoori masala reached national fame wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandoori_masala |
In light of the accident at the Chernobyl generating station in 1986 the leaders of commercial nuclear reactors worldwide set aside their competitive and regional differences and came together in 1989 to create the World Association of Nuclear Operators, or WANO. WANO's inaugural meeting was held in Moscow on 15 May 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Association_of_Nuclear_Operators |
In the field of political leadership, the Chinese doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven postulated the need for rulers to govern justly, and the right of subordinates to overthrow emperors who appeared to lack divine sanction.Pro-aristocracy thinkers have postulated that leadership depends on one's "blue blood" or genes.Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_skills |
Beginning around 250 AD, the Classic period is largely defined as when the Maya were raising sculpted monuments with Long Count dates. This period saw the Maya civilization develop many city-states linked by a complex trade network. In the Maya Lowlands two great rivals, the cities of Tikal and Calakmul, became powerfu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_culture |
He is an ambassador for educational charity Potential Plus UK which aims to support the emotional and learning needs of gifted and exceptional children. Forshaw also regularly contributes at SciBar events (literally science in a bar) and Café Scientifique events in the UK. He has supervised several PhD students and pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Forshaw |
Public health is usually studied at the master's degree level. Australia is one of the few countries where studies in Public Health are available at undergraduate level. Indeed, Australian undergraduate students may major in specific areas of Public Health such as Health Promotion/Education, Epidemiology, Healthcare Ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Psychology |
The term chryselephantine is also used for a style of sculpture fairly common in European 19th-century art, especially Art Nouveau. In this context, it describes statuettes with the skin represented in ivory and with clothing and other detail made of other materials, such as gold, bronze, marble, silver or onyx. For in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chryselephantine_statue |
There are usually plenty of windows, as appreciating the view was a large part of their purpose. Often they are built on a slope, so that from the front, only the door to the main room can be seen; the door to the servants' spaces underneath was hidden at the back (Wrest Park). The Banqueting House, Gibside is an examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqueting_house |
Even today, 'the knotted cords must be present and displayed when village officers leave or begin service, and draping the cords over the incoming office holders instantiates the moral and political authority of the past.' These examples are indicative of how the quipu system was not only fundamental mathematically and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu |
But this shift from the physical sciences to the biological sciences is problematic, in the absence of any bridge between these two sciences, one quantitative, physics based on mathematical language and the other qualitative, based on the laws of genetics and molecular biology. OP aims to study the effect of a mechanic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_oncology |
Some cancers with specific defects in DNA repair may be more sensitive to proton radiation.Proton therapy lets physicians deliver a highly conformal beam, i.e. delivering radiation that conforms to the shape and depth of the tumor and sparing much of the surrounding, normal tissue. For example, when comparing proton th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_therapy |
Let L / K {\displaystyle L/K} be the quadratic extension Q ( i ) / Q {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} (i)/\mathbb {Q} } . The Galois group is cyclic of order 2, its generator σ {\displaystyle \sigma } acting via conjugation: σ: c + d i ↦ c − d i . {\displaystyle \sigma :c+di\mapsto c-di.} An element a = x + y i {\displaystyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_Theorem_90 |
For example, if color is important to the experience of Fauvist art, then it is likely that areas of the brain that process color will be engaged when looking at such art. The claims of descriptive neuroaesthetics are regarded as hypothesis-generating and are typically qualitative in nature. Experimental neuroaesthetic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroesthetics |
Each face has two long edges, two of medium length and two short ones. If the medium edges have length 2 {\displaystyle 2} , the long ones have length 1 + ( 1 − ξ ) / ( − ϕ − 3 − ξ ) ≈ 4.121 448 816 41 {\displaystyle 1+{\sqrt {(1-\xi )/(-\phi ^{-3}-\xi )}}\approx 4.121\,448\,816\,41} and the short ones 1 − ( 1 − ξ ) / ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_hexagonal_hexecontahedron |
In 1945, the first concept of Hypertext had originated by Vannevar Bush as he wrote in his article As We May Think. And a computer game called Adventure was invented as responding users' needs via the first hypertextual narrative in the early 1960s. And then Douglas Engelbart and Theodor Holm Nelson who made Xanadu col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_design |
However, with either technique, the probability of post-operative reherniation exists and at a considerably high maximum of 21%, prompting patients to potentially undergo recurrent disk surgery.New treatments are emerging that are still in the beginning clinical trial phases. Glucosamine injections may offer pain relie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerative_disc_disease |
Grade EN 1.4303 (Casting grade CA6NM) with 13% Cr and 4% Ni is used for most Pelton, Kaplan, and Francis turbines in hydroelectric power plants because it has good casting properties, good weldability and good resistance to cavitation erosion. Precipitation hardening grades. Grade EN 1.4542 (also known as 17-4 PH), the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastable_austenitic_stainless_steel |
Breivik had been active on several anti-Islamic and nationalist blogs, including document.no, and was a regular reader of Gates of Vienna, the Brussels Journal and Jihad Watch. Breivik frequently praised the writings of blogger Fjordman. He used Fjordman's thinking to justify his actions, citing him 111 times in the ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik |
Therefore, Colombia's score reflects the close level of involvement between government and private actors.Another challenge is that the Political Terror Scale only measures actual violations of physical or integrity rights or acts of violence and therefore countries ruled by truly repressive and coercive regimes may re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_terror_scale |
The Transit satellite system was used extensively for Doppler surveying, navigation, and positioning. Observations of satellites in the 1970s by worldwide triangulation networks allowed for the establishment of the World Geodetic System. The development of GPS by the United States in the 1980s allowed for precise navig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_geodesy |
Cherry AG (formerly Cherry Corporation and stylized as CHERRY) is a German computer peripheral-device maker. The company has its roots in the United States and is headquartered in Germany. It has additional offices in the United States, France, and China. They manufactured a large range of products including sensors, v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_MX |
A toroidal planet is a hypothetical type of telluric exoplanet with a toroidal or doughnut shape. While no firm theoretical understanding as to how toroidal planets could form naturally is necessarily known, the shape itself is potentially quasistable, and is analogous to the physical parameters of a speculatively cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_planet |
In the fall and winter they move farther out and farther south to the warmer waters on the edge of the continental shelf. They first come in to land in North America in April at the southern end of their range, but are found along the coast through their entire range by July. They start moving back out to sea again in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_mackerel |
During the fourth year Harry spends at Hogwarts, Voldemort's temporary body is sustained by Nagini's venom, harvested by Peter Pettigrew. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry assumes Nagini's viewpoint during her attack on Arthur Weasley in one of his dreams; Albus Dumbledore believes this an effect of H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementor |
Natural gas could be considered the least environmentally harmful fossil fuel because it has the lowest CO2 emissions per unit of energy and is suitable for use in high efficiency combined cycle power stations. For an equivalent amount of heat, burning natural gas produces about 30 percent less carbon dioxide than burn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_natural_gas |
Glucose transporters are integral membrane proteins that mediate the transport of glucose and structurally related substances across cellular membranes. Two families of glucose transporter have been identified: the facilitated diffusion glucose transporter family (GLUT family), also known as uniporters, and the sodium-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium/glucose_cotransporter_1 |
Titanium has become popular as a jewelry material due to its various unique properties. Titanium is biocompatible (often referred to as hypoallergenic), or non-toxic to the human body. Similarly, titanium rings will not react with wearers who suffer allergies to other jewelry materials.It is highly resistant to most ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_ring |
The SDSS chart authors choose to represent data using TeeChart's standard 2D line display. Speed is also a factor when choosing how to most effectively plot data. Realtime data, at frequencies of up to tens or hundreds of data points or more per second, require the most processor economic approach to charting. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teechart |
Petal Maps offers the ability to zoom in and out to display the map. The user can control the map with the mouse to move to the desired location. Users can enter an address, intersection, or general area to search on the map. If someone wants to search for "cakes in London" to find restaurants that serve that dish near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petal_Maps |
Lookism has received scholarly attention both from a cultural studies and an economics perspective. In the former context, lookism relates to preconceived notions of beauty and cultural stereotyping based on appearance as well as gender roles and expectations. Important economic considerations include the question of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookism |
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) is the primary clinical symptom common to both GSD Ia and GSD Ib and most often prompts initial diagnosis of the disease. During fetal development in utero, maternal glucose transferred across the placenta prevents hypoglycemia. However, after birth, the inability to maintain blood glucos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen_storage_disease_type_I |
Multiple linear regression models have also been developed that account for maternal parity, age, and race, all which have been found to be important variables determining the length of human gestation. Multiparous women, women aged less than 19 or more than 34 years, and black women have been found to have shorter ges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_date_of_delivery |
In the theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere |
Brain imaging studies have identified the parietal lobe as being a key brain region for numerical cognition. Specifically within this lobe is the intraparietal sulcus which is "active whenever we think about a number, whether spoken or written, as a word or as an Arabic digit, or even when we inspect a set of objects a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_number_system |
The use of fluxes allowed nearly complete extraction of impurities from the liquid, which could then simply float to the top for removal. This produced the first steel of modern quality, providing a means of efficiently changing excess wrought iron into useful steel. Huntsman's process greatly increased the European ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucible_technique |
From the opening page of the 1969 Catalog: FunctionThe WHOLE EARTH CATALOG functions as an evaluation and access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting and where and how to do the getting. An item is listed in the CATALOG if it is deemed: Useful as a tool, Relevant to independent education, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalogue |
The American college or university is, in a way, a prototypical organized anarchy. Students constantly enter and leave the institution, and the faculty and staff working there for longer periods of time may have many competing demands on their attention and resources, such as course instruction, research, and conferenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_can_model |
Digital television and DVDs preserve their compressed video streams in the MPEG-2 format, which uses a fully defined Y′CbCr color space, although retaining the established process of chroma subsampling. Cinepak, a video codec from 1991, used a modified YUV 4:2:0 colorspace. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV_color_space |
Advertisers, then take the information they obtain from these polls and surveys to "craft individualized messages and ads" in order to draw and hook them into a world centered around a certain product or brand. The ads that surround the individual in these "cyberworlds" are meant to keep a firm grip on each individual.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_marketing |
After the September 11 attacks all air traveling and related industries were facing a severe crisis. This was also the case for the Swiss Army knife manufacturers especially Wenger S.A. Changing airport security regulations which precluded the carrying of pocket knives diminished the sales of Swiss Army knives at duty-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenger |
Due to its strategic location in the Indian Ocean, the island of Sri Lanka has been a confluence for settlers from various parts of the world. There are several mixed-race ethnicities in the Island. The most notable mixed-race group are the Sri Lankan Moors, who trace their ancestry to Arab traders who settled on the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_race |
Designer Raymond Cusick avoided the use of straight lines and right angles in his sets for the Sense Sphere, in deliberate contrast to the "alien" buildings of other stories. He recalled the work of architect Antoni Gaudí, who designed the Sagrada Família without using right angles. Cusick designed the spaceships sets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sensorites |
The most evident aspect of developmental potential is overexcitability (OE), a heightened physiological experience of stimuli resulting from increased neuronal sensitivities. The greater the OE, the more intense are the day-to-day experiences of life. Dąbrowski outlined five forms of OE: psychomotor, sensual, imaginati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_disintegration |
As the lake level rose, measures were taken to prepare the emergency spillway for use. On February 10, 2017, workers began clear-cutting trees on the hillside below the emergency spillway.Shortly after 8:00 am on February 11, 2017, the emergency spillway began carrying water for the first time since the dam's construct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Spillway |
(–)-2β-Carbomethoxy-3β-(4-tolyl)tropane (RTI-4229-32, tolpane) is a phenyltropane-based cocaine analogue that has similar properties in vitro to related drugs such as RTI-31. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTI-32 |
These lists of examples are by no means all inclusive. Some certification schemes, or the product certifiers that operate those Schemes, may require that the product supplier operate a Quality Management System registered to ISO 9000, or that the testing be performed by a laboratory accredited to ISO 17025. The decisio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_acceptance |
Basu was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015. In 2017 she published "Asteroseismic Data Analysis Foundations and Techniques" with William Chaplin. She won the American Astronomical Society's George Ellery Hale Prize in 2018 for her contributions to our understanding of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbani_Basu |
In his path breaking work, Three Muslim Sages: Avicenna, Suhrawardi, Ibn Arabi, Seyyed Hossein Nasr writes: The basic doctrine of Sufism, especially as interpreted by Muhyi al-Din …is that of the transcendent unity of Being (wahdat al-wujud) for which he has been accused by many modern scholars as being a pantheist, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal's_concept_of_Khudi |
It's important to note that while some organizations offer certification or identification cards for service dogs, there is no federally mandated or recognized certification process for service dogs in the US. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not require service dogs to be registered or certified. Handler... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_service_dogs |
For other, more exotic interest rate derivatives, similar adjustments are made to steps 1 and onward. For the "Greeks", largely as for equity, see under next section. An alternative approach to modeling (American) bond options, particularly those struck on yield to maturity (YTM), employs modified equity-lattice method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_binomial_tree |
During the Cold War, the United States and United Kingdom on one side and the Soviet Union on the other kept strategic bombers ready to take off on short notice as part of the deterrent strategy of mutually assured destruction (MAD). Most strategic bombers of the two superpowers were designed to deliver nuclear weapons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bomber |
Alaska was the first US jurisdiction to enact laws allowing protection for self-settled trusts (in 1997) and was shortly followed by Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota and a few others. These trusts are known as Domestic Asset Protection Trusts (DAPTs). Usually, a DAPT must comply with the following requirements: the trust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-protection_trust |
It is often useful to divide this by the number of days per year to arrive at the change in gamma per day. This use is fairly accurate when the number of days remaining until option expiration is large. When an option nears expiration, color itself may change quickly, rendering full day estimates of gamma change inaccu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_delta |
This is inaccurate. Some simple carbohydrates (e.g., fructose) follow different metabolic pathways (e.g., fructolysis) that result in only a partial catabolism to glucose, while, in essence, many complex carbohydrates may be digested at the same rate as simple carbohydrates. The World Health Organization recommends tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nutrition |
Ma states, "Although ISDN originated in traditional Chinese methods, it has developed from the ancient empirical approach to become modern medical art rooted in evidence-based thinking and practice." Ma also states that, "Dry needling technique is a modern Western medical modality that is not related to traditional Chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_needling |
It eliminates the risk of file formatting and incompatibilities, which in turn allows users to spend their productive time on the creative aspects of their work. It preserves the formatting information during file transfers between applications or workstations. Hence, the need for rebuilding the effects and sequences i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Media_Framework_Interchange |
When one talks about Borel equivalence relations and requires f {\displaystyle f} to be Borel measurable, this is often denoted by E ∼ B F {\displaystyle E\sim _{B}F} . Countable Borel equivalence relations, and relations of similar complexity in the sense described above, appear in various places in mathematics (see e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countable_Borel_relation |
The term "urban legend", as used by folklorists, has appeared in print since at least 1968, when it was used by Richard Dorson. Jan Harold Brunvand, professor of English at the University of Utah, introduced the term to the general public in a series of popular books published beginning in 1981. Brunvand used his colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_and_myths |
It only occurs as a Dative Singular, oy, ιοι, οι (to him, to her).The emphatic pronoun autos (the very one, the same; cf. Greek αὐτός) can also be used anaphorically. Its composite ve(n)autos is a reflexive pronoun, himself (Greek ἑαυτός). The indefinite pronoun kos (somebody, something) is only attested in the nominat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrygian_language |
The first use of titanium as an implantable material was by Bothe, Beaton and Davenport in 1940, who observed how close the bone grew to titanium screws, and the difficulty they had in extracting them. Bothe et al. were the first researchers to describe what would later be called osseointegration (a name that would be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_Implants |
BBC Magazine cites a 1998 statement "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky", by U.S. President Bill Clinton, made during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, as a "non-denial denial". Clinton neither clearly addressed nor denied whether he was fellated by Lewinsky; since there is no definition in law o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial |
Captive European herring gulls typically show aversion to spoiled meat or heavily salted food, unless they are very hungry. The gulls may also rinse food items in water in an attempt to clean them or render them more palatable before swallowing.European herring gulls may be observed rhythmically drumming their feet upo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_herring_gull |
The quick ratio is calculated by deducting inventories and prepayments from current assets and then dividing by current liabilities, giving a measure of the ability to meet current liabilities from assets that can be readily sold. A better way for a trading corporation to meet liabilities is from cash flows, rather tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_liquidity |
371 = 7 × 53, sum of three consecutive primes (113 + 127 + 131), sum of seven consecutive primes (41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59 + 61 + 67), sum of the primes from its least to its greatest prime factor (sequence A055233 in the OEIS), the next such composite number is 2935561623745, Armstrong number since 33 + 73 + 13 = 371. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(number) |
In 1985, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) formed the Transfermium Working Group (TWG) to assess discoveries and establish final names for elements with atomic numbers greater than 100. The party held meetings with delegates fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassium |
The word itself used to be associated with something being on fire or being "lit" up until 1988 when it was first used in writing to indicate a person who was drunk in the book "Warbirds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator". Since this time "lit" has gained popularity through Rap songs such as ASAP Rocky's "Get Lit" in 2011. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang_word |
Males with fewer eyespots, thus with lower mating success, suffered from greater predation. She allowed females to mate with males with differing numbers of eyespots, and reared the offspring in a communal incubator to control for differences in maternal care. Chicks fathered by more ornamented males weighed more than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl |
In winter, the men left their homes and retired to the Great Hall, where they were led by the village elders in drinking and singing to repel the cold. The needs and beliefs of Banpo society created the prototype Chinese urban form. The springtime sacred procreation sites became, in time, the Holy Place called bo . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_urban_planning |
Inside what was to have been the rear courtyard of the museum stood (until it died after nearly 300 years in 1998) one of the oldest pine trees in the country. According to Arab legend, on the site of this pine tree, Ezra the Scribe sat and wrote the Torah for Israel. The stump may still be seen behind the museum. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Archeological_Museum |
In the 1950s, diesel engines were used only in heavy equipment so, to help sell off the surpluses in French refineries, the state created a favorable tax regime to encourage motorists and manufacturers to use diesel. The 1979 oil crisis prompted efforts to curb petrol (gasoline) use, while taking advantage of diesel fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests |
Hemolysins have proved to be a damaging factor for vital organs, through the activity of Staphylococcus aureus. S.aureus is a dangerous pathogen that may lead cells to necrotizing infections usually recognized by a massive inflammatory response leading to tissue damage or even tissue destruction. There is a clear examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolysin |
It is common to combine these, and add binders and lubricants to a powder, then press. (The formulation of these organic chemical additives is an art in itself. This is particularly important in the manufacture of high performance ceramics such as those used by the billions for electronics, in capacitors, inductors, se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_Engineering |
A total lunar eclipse took place on Sunday, July 26, 1953. The Moon passed through the very center of the Earth's shadow. While the visual effect of a total lunar eclipse is variable, the Moon may have been stained a deep orange or red colour at maximum eclipse. This was a great spectacle for everyone who saw it from A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1953_lunar_eclipse |
Social curiosity is defined as a drive to understand one's environment as it relates to sociality with others. Such curiosity plays a role in one's ability to successfully navigate social interactions by perceiving and processing one's own behavior and the behavior of others. It also plays a role in helping one adapt t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_behavior |
Lack of MMR often occurs in coordination with loss of other DNA repair genes. For example, MMR genes MLH1 and MLH3 as well as 11 other DNA repair genes (such as MGMT and many NER pathway genes) were significantly down-regulated in lower grade as well as in higher grade astrocytomas, in contrast to normal brain tissue. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mismatch_repair_deficiency |
The best known of these is the Sothic cycle, and careful study of this led Richard A. Parker to argue that the dates of the Twelfth dynasty could be fixed with absolute precision. More recent research has eroded this confidence, questioning many of the assumptions used with the Sothic Cycle, and as a result experts hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_chronology |
Each possible color is assigned an index, which allows each color to be referenced using less information than needed to fully describe the color. An example is the 256-color palette commonly used in the GIF file format, in which 256 colors to be used to represent an image are selected from the whole 24 bit color space... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_look-up_table |
A box caisson is a prefabricated concrete box (with sides and a bottom); it is set down on prepared bases. Once in place, it is filled with concrete to become part of the permanent works, such as the foundation for a bridge pier. Hollow concrete structures are usually less dense than water so a box caisson must be ball... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_(engineering) |
Held and McGrew counted thousands of IGOs worldwide in 2002 and this number continues to rise. This may be attributed to globalization, which increases and encourages the co-operation among and within states and which has also provided easier means for IGO growth as a result of increased international relations. This i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_organisations |
Ruddy ducks were imported into the UK in 1948 by conservationist Sir Peter Scott. As a result of escapes from wildfowl collections in the late 1950s, they became established in Great Britain, from where they spread into Europe. By the year 2000, the population had increased to around 6,000 individuals. This duck's aggr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddy_duck |
Moreover, it’s important to connect the ISP lines to high impedance circuitry both to avoid a damage of the components by the programmer and because the microcontroller often cannot supply enough current to pilot the line. Many microcontrollers need a dedicated RESET line to enter in the Programming Mode. It is necessa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-circuit_serial_programming |
It is used to gauge bilateral, symmetrical, and functional mobility of the hips, knees, and ankles. The dowel held overhead gauges bilateral and symmetrical mobility of the shoulders and the thoracic spine. The ability to perform the deep squat technique requires appropriate pelvic rhythm, closed-kinetic chain dorsifle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_injuries |
The first human to walk on the lunar surface was Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11. Apollo 11 was followed by Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17. Apollo 13 had a failure of the Apollo service module, but passed the far side of the Moon at an altitude of 254 kilometers (158 miles; 137 nautical miles) above the lunar sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Technology |
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