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When students are given a choice in terms of content to be learned, it ensures the teacher that his or her learners are interactive in the learning process. According to Ernie Stringer, "Action learners move through continuous cycles of this inquiry process to improve their understanding, extend their knowledge, or ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_education |
Thin film coatings may be applied to decrease friction or further increase hardness. There are cutting tools typically used in milling machines or machining centers to perform milling operations (and occasionally in other machine tools). They remove material by their movement within the machine (e.g., a ball nose mill)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milling_machine |
Mint lemonade is lemonade flavored with mint. It may be made with whole mint leaves, mint-flavored syrup, or pureed mint leaves, and may be served over ice cubes or blended with ice into a slush or smoothie. It is sometimes called a virgin mojito.It is found in North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_lemonade |
Skype Translator is a speech to speech translation application developed by Skype, which has operated as a division of Microsoft since 2018. Skype Translator Preview has been publicly available since December 15, 2015. Skype Translator is available as a standalone app and, as of October 2015, is integrated into the Sky... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Translator |
Exponent CMS is a free, open-source, open standards modular enterprise software framework and content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP. Exponent CMS editing system allows website content to be edited on the page as it appears - without back-end administration. The default installation inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponent_CMS |
Several lawsuits have been brought against the forums and moderators, claiming libel and damage. A recent case is the Scubaboard lawsuit, where a business in the Maldives filed a suit against Scubaboard for libel and defamation in January 2010. For the most part, though, forum owners and moderators in the United States... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_software |
In any case, these toxins have a significant on the longevity of infected beet leafhoppers.Another study tested some of the characteristics that are important for transmission of S. citri by the beet leafhopper. Researchers tested the impacts of modes of acquisition on the latent period of S. citri within the leafhoppe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beet_leafhopper |
Plant pathogenic fungi use two distinct effector secretion systems and each secretory pathway is specific to an effector family: apoplastic effectors act in the apoplast, the extracellular space outside the host plant's cells. In the model pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, apoplastic effectors are secreted into a distinct c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal_effectors |
The set of permutations on n items can be given the structure of a partial order, called the weak order of permutations, which forms a lattice. The Hasse diagram of the inversion sets ordered by the subset relation forms the skeleton of a permutohedron. If a permutation is assigned to each inversion set using the place... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_order_of_permutations |
A snow groomer (informally called a "piste basher" in the United Kingdom) is a tracked vehicle equipped in front with a shovel (or dozer blade) and behind with a cutter (or roller). It is usually driven by diesel engines. When the machine drives over a snowfield, it pushes snow ahead of it and, at the same time, smooth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_grooming |
The Energy Saving Trust give the following advice. "The main damp issue to be avoided with external wall insulation is rising damp. If you already have a problem with this, then it will have to be fixed before the insulation is fitted, otherwise you run the risk of trapping the damp inside the wall structure and so mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_wall_insulation |
At about 80 seconds, the rocket experienced maximum dynamic pressure (max q). The dynamic pressure on a rocket varies with air density and the square of relative velocity. Although velocity continues to increase, air density decreases so quickly with altitude that dynamic pressure falls below max q.The propellant in ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V_rocket |
The C and C++ programming languages are closely related but have many significant differences. C++ began as a fork of an early, pre-standardized C, and was designed to be mostly source-and-link compatible with C compilers of the time. Due to this, development tools for the two languages (such as IDEs and compilers) are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C++ |
These changes were found for electrodes placed over bilateral parieto-occipital regions. This study showed that the P2 generated around the visual cortex region is sensitive to the difference between two and three-dimensional images, without using actual depth or information integrated across both eyes.Much in line wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P200 |
When initially spread they can cause an increase in ammonia within the soil and burn seeds, it is recommended to use these after plants have developed, to ensure crop success. Other ARS studies have found that algae used to capture nitrogen and phosphorus runoff from agricultural fields can not only prevent water conta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_fertilizer |
The "value-added tax" has been criticized as the burden of it falls on personal end-consumers of products. Some critics consider it to be a regressive tax, meaning that the poor pay more, as a percentage of their income, than the rich. Defenders argue that relating taxation levels to income is an arbitrary standard, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_Added_Tax |
In 2017, new videos were released on the site titled Ne Paniquez Pas, Restez Calme, and later in English as Don't Panic. Stay Calm, in which they parody educational videos instructing people on how to act in life-threatening situations. The same year, a set of older Têtes à claques videos dubbed in Spanish appeared on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Têtes_à_claques |
Even if toilets are available, behavior change efforts may still be needed to promote the use of toilets. 'Open defecation free' (ODF) is a term used to describe communities that have shifted to using toilets instead of open defecation. This can happen, for example, after community-led total sanitation programs have be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_defecation |
In the next part of the experiment, different participants were asked to identify the same point-light display animals but with static images instead of moving dots. Five-year-olds and adults gave results of chance performance, while the younger participants were omitted due to the higher error rates from the harder na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_motion |
{\displaystyle \rho V=\{A/{\sim }\mid A\in V,A=\Box A\}.} Then ρ F = ⟨ ρ F , ≤ , ρ V ⟩ {\displaystyle \rho \mathbf {F} =\langle \rho F,\leq ,\rho V\rangle } is an intuitionistic general frame, called the skeleton of F. The point of the skeleton construction is that it preserves validity modulo Gödel translation: for an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_companion |
For example, runoff from sugar plantations in Florida has spawned the infamous algae bloom called "red tide" in water tributaries across the state, creating respiratory issues in humans and killing vital ecosystems for years.Studies have shown that, in most cases, greater than 50% of the amount of fertilizer applied to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology_in_agriculture |
The name Vortumnus most likely derives from Etruscan Voltumna. Its formation in Latin was probably influenced by the Latin verb vertere meaning "to change", hence the alternative form Vertumnus. Ancient etymologies were based on often superficial similarities of sound rather than the principles of modern scientific lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertumnus |
Allowing purchases on credit enforced a kind of debt slavery, obligating employees to remain with the company until the debt was cleared. Regarding this reputation, economic historian Price V. Fishback wrote: The company store is one of the most reviled and misunderstood of economic institutions. In song, folktale, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store |
The same is then true for matching undersize parts with undersize counterparts. Inherent in this example is that for this product's application, the 12 mm dimension does not require extreme accuracy, but the desired fit between the parts does require good precision (see the article on accuracy and precision). This allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchangeable_part |
Array storage has to accommodate arrays of different dimensions and typically large sizes. A core task is to maintain spatial proximity on disk so as to reduce the number of disk accesses during subsetting. Note that an emulation of multi-dimensional arrays as nested lists (or 1-D arrays) will not per se accomplish thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array_DBMS |
Nevertheless this small literature has consistently reported a persistent anterograde amnesia that is indistinguishable from the anterograde amnesia observed after focal hippocampal lesions. Deficits in recall are greater than for recognition, and the deficit is found across all types of material (e.g. visual and verba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornix_of_the_brain |
The specific anthropological technique practiced by Bertillon is often called the Bertillon system. This system consisted of five initial measurements — head length, head breadth, length of middle finger, length of the left foot, and length of the cubit. Along with these measurements, Bertillon used photography, now kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Bertillon |
The sample Taylor diagram shown in Figure 1 provides a summary of the relative skill with which several global climate models simulate the spatial pattern of annual mean precipitation. Eight models, each represented by a different letter on the diagram, are compared, and the distance between each model and the point la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_diagram |
Scheele achieved astonishingly prolific and important results without the expensive laboratory equipment to which his Parisian contemporary Antoine Lavoisier was accustomed. Through the studies of Lavoisier, Priestley, Scheele, and others, chemistry was made a standardized field with consistent procedures. Although Sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Scheele |
. The modifications that had made this development possible rendered useless for roping cattle. "David Cope, in 1972, discussed a cugaphone, which, in 1997, he describes as an instrument built from a trumpet mouthpiece attached to a long piece of 3/8-inch bore plastic tubing with a kitchen funnel, usually in hand, at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirly_tube |
Startup companies such as Uber, which was valued at $50 billion in early 2015, are assigned post-money valuations based on the price at which their most recent investor put money into the company. The price reflects what investors, for the most part venture capital firms, are willing to pay for a share of the firm. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_analysis |
Workplace incivility has been defined as "low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target....Uncivil behaviors are characteristically rude and discourteous, displaying a lack of regard for others" (p. 457). Incivility is distinct from violence. Examples of workplace incivility include insulting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_intervention |
CLI languages are computer programming languages that are used to produce libraries and programs that conform to the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specifications. With some notable exceptions, most CLI languages compile entirely to the Common Intermediate Language (CIL), an intermediate language that can be exec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_languages |
However, | ϕ ⟩ + | ψ ⟩ {\displaystyle |\phi \rangle +|\psi \rangle } and e i θ ( | ϕ ⟩ + | ψ ⟩ ) {\displaystyle e^{i\theta }(|\phi \rangle +|\psi \rangle )} will correspond to the same physical state. This is sometimes described by saying that "global" phase factors are unphysical, but "relative" phase factors are phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_state_vector |
According to this view, it would make little sense to translate a statement such as "Galileo should not have been forced to recant on heliocentricism" into a command, imperative, or recommendation - to do so might require a radical change in the meaning of these ethical statements. Under this criticism, it would appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotivism |
As they returned to their universe, Drakkon was accidentally transported with them. After his arrival, he was taken prisoner by Promethea agents. After Promethea held Drakkon in a special top-secret containment facility for an unknown amount of time, Saba appears and tries to kill him. However, he accidentally frees Dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Grid |
This led some people to question whether it is some property of the hydrazine, which is responsible for mediating the antidepressant effect, even going as far as to state that the MAOI activity could be a secondary side-effect. However, with the discovery of tranylcypromine (the first non-hydrazine MAOI), it was shown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin–norepinephrine–dopamine_reuptake_inhibitor |
Immediately after Barr's unmasking of Danchenko, Graham posted it to the Senate Judiciary Committee's web site. The declassification order was criticized by former law enforcement officials as an unmasking that could endanger other sources and make the FBI's work harder. About two weeks after he was unmasked, Danchenko... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_pee_tape |
The Minié ball is a cylindro-conoidal bullet with grease-filled cannelures on its exterior and a conical concavity in its base. Minié designed the bullet with a small iron plug, and lead skirting that would expand under the pressure of gunpowder deflagration causing the bullet to obturate, and grip the rifling grooves.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minie_ball |
In 1961, members of a team led by Nicolae Vlassa (an archaeologist at the National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca) reportedly unearthed three inscribed but unfired clay tablets, twenty-six clay and stone figurines, a shell bracelet, and the burnt, broken, and disarticulated bones of an adult female someti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tărtăria_tablets |
World Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency. The international environmental organization Greenpeace established World Park Base in 1987 in order to press its demand for the Antarctic Treaty nations to declare the continent of Antarctica a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Park_Base |
and Harold Levine. In 1975 he became an AMS Centennial Fellow at MIT and a year later he joined the Brown University faculty as Tamarkind instructor. In 1979 Gaffney became professor at Northeastern University where he has remained ever since. He has served as department chair, graduate director, chair of the undergrad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Gaffney |
The main advantage of polyharmonic spline interpolation is that usually very good interpolation results are obtained for scattered data without performing any "tuning", so automatic interpolation is feasible. This is not the case for other radial basis functions. For example, the Gaussian function e − k ⋅ r 2 {\display... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyharmonic_spline |
A default rule can be applied to a theory if its precondition is entailed by the theory and its justifications are all consistent with the theory. The application of a default rule leads to the addition of its consequence to the theory. Other default rules may then be applied to the resulting theory. When the theory is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_reasoning |
Pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas also had organized law enforcement. The city-states of the Maya civilization had constables known as tupils. In the Aztec Empire, judges had officers serving under them who were empowered to perform arrests, even of dignitaries. In the Inca Empire, officials called curaca enf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcer |
In 2001, he joined the EPFL Faculty of Basic Sciences, then became associate professor, before being appointed full professor in physics in 2008. In 2007, he was appointed executive director of the Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas (CRPP), of which he became director in 2013, and which became the Swiss Plasm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrogio_Fasoli |
Energy in the image is some function of the features of the image. This is one of the most common points of modification in derivative methods. Features in images and images themselves can be processed in many and various ways. For an image I ( x , y ) {\displaystyle I(x,y)} , lines, edges, and terminations present in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_contour |
What is different from the Alpine use is that these 2WTs are being used for tillage and crop establishment of maize, wheat, and potato crops, and with their small 60-70cm-wide rotovators and special cage wheels are puddling the terraces for transplanted and broadcast rice. Farmers are also using the engines as stationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_(earthworks) |
Land development puts more emphasis on the expected economic development as a result of the process; "land conversion" tries to focus on the general physical and biological aspects of the land use change. "Land improvement" in the economic sense can often lead to land degradation from the ecological perspective. Land d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_conversion |
By 1910, the tower of the original courthouse was badly cracked and leaning over the front entrance. A bigger courthouse would also better serve the County's population which had grown from 5,073 in 1880 to 18,347 in 1910. Judge Felix Ewing recommended the site at the top of California Street for a new courthouse. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_County_Courthouse |
This could be of use when developing permeable gas transfer membranes where tortuosity and roughness could impede gas flow. It also turns out that z- and r-crystals do not interact with ceramic particles in the same way. The z-crystals pack particles in the x-y plane while r-crystals pack particles primarily in the z-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-casting |
The Office of Special Development (OSD) in the 1960s developed a real-time remote sensing, monitoring, and predictive activity system on trails used by insurgents in Laos, Cambodia, and the Republic of Vietnam. This was done from an office in Bangkok, Thailand, that was ostensibly established to catalog and support the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraperformance_Nanophotonic_Intrachip_Communications |
Both pectate lyase and P22 tailspike protein contain right-handed helices; left-handed versions have been observed in enzymes such as UDP-N-acetylglucosamine acyltransferase and archaeal carbonic anhydrase. Other proteins that contain beta helices include the antifreeze proteins from the beetle Tenebrio molitor (right-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_helix |
P30 mutants also display distinct morphological features such as multiple lobes and a rounded shape as opposed to elongated, which suggests P30 may interact with the cytoskeleton during formation of the attachment organelle. A number of eukaryotic cell surface components have been implicated in the adherence of M. pneu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_pneumoniae |
Autogenous vaccines have been researched since as early as the 1900s. This type of vaccine was first introduced by Sir Almroth Edward Wright in 1903 and in the following years, several case reports were published regarding the preparation and indications of autogenous vaccines. Autogenous vaccines were used in adults, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenous_vaccines |
MG can be difficult to diagnose, as the symptoms can be subtle and hard to distinguish from both normal variants and other neurological disorders.Three types of myasthenic symptoms in children can be distinguished: Transient neonatal myasthenia occurs in 10 to 15% of babies born to mothers afflicted with the disorder, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasthenia_gravis |
Such difference in the elevation of the rails is intended to compensate for the centripetal acceleration needed for an object to move along a curved path, so that the lateral acceleration experienced by passengers/the cargo load will be minimized, which enhances passenger comfort/reduces the chance of load shifting (mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_curve |
Along with lamellipodia, blebs serve an important role in cell migration. Migrating cells are able to polarize the formation of blebs so blebbing only occurs on the leading edge of the cell. A 2D moving cell is able to use adhesive molecules to gain traction in its environment while blebs form at the leading edge. By f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_blebbing |
Using data from the ECA study, Eaton, Anthony, Mandel, and Garrison (1990) found that members of three occupational groups, lawyers, secretaries, and special education teachers (but not other types of teachers) showed elevated rates of DSM-III major depression, adjusting for social demographic factors. The ECA study in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-control-support_model |
Projects emerging from CRCA have been seen at venues including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ISEA and the Whitney Museum of Art as well as numerous museums, galleries and scientific contexts. CRCA, as an Organized Research Unit (ORU) at UCSD, ended on July 1, 2012. The functions, support and facilities that CRCA managed w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Research_in_Computing_and_the_Arts |
Perfluoropentane (PFP) or dodecafluoropentane; also known as Perflenapent (INN/USAN) is a fluorocarbon, the fluorinated analogue of pentane. It is a liquid that boils at slightly over room temperature. It has several biomedical applications including: propellant for pressurized metered dose inhalers; gas core in microb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluoropentane |
Hunting and gathering techniques, also known as foraging: Artisan fishing — a term which particularly applies to coastal or island ethnic groups using traditional techniques for subsistence fishing. Aboriginal whaling, including the subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale in the Arctic. Agriculture: Horticulture — pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_economy |
Carpooling usually means to divide the travel expenses equally between all the occupants of the vehicle (driver or passenger). The driver does not try to earn money, but to share with several people the cost of a trip he/she would do anyway. The expenses to be divided basically include the fuel and possible tolls. But ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpool |
Here "many zeros" may mean many distinct zeros, or as few as one zero but with a high multiplicity, or even many zeros all with high multiplicity. Charles Hermite used auxiliary functions that approximated the functions e k x {\displaystyle e^{kx}} for each natural number k {\displaystyle k} in order to prove the trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number_theory |
There are three light infantry brigades, (4ª Brigada de Infantaria Leve de Montanha, 11ª Brigada de Infantaria Leve and 12ª Brigada de Infantaria Leve Aeromóvel), and an airborne infantry brigade (Brigada de Infantaria Paraquedista). The 12º Light Infantry Brigade and the Airborne Infantry Brigade both belong to the Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_infantry |
Bangladesh: Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) was established on March 13, 2003, through a legislative Act of the Government of Bangladesh to regulate gas, electricity and petroleum products for the whole of Bangladesh. Bhutan: Bhutan Electricity Authority (BEA) was established as a functional autonomous a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_regulatory_bodies |
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) have been reported in MS for several years. In fact, one of the families, Human Endogenous Retrovirus-W was first discovered while studying MS patients. Recent research as of 2019 point to one of the HERV-W viruses (pHEV-W), and specifically one of the proteins of the viral capsid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathophysiology_of_multiple_sclerosis |
Inside it includes an unlockable classic biographies section, a memorable moments video compilation, which features ten of the most memorable moments as judged by the FIFA 06 developers, a video compilation with a retrospective view of every game in the FIFA series and the chance to play the first ever game in the FIFA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Ultimate_Team |
Bluegrass developed in the 1940s from a mixture of several types of music, including old-time, country, and blues, but particularly mountain string bands, which in turn evolved from banjo-and-fiddle outfits. The music's creation is often credited to Bill Monroe and his band, the Blue Grass Boys. One of the defining cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_music |
Organoids can be used for the study of brain development, for example identifying and investigating genetic switches that have a significant impact on it. This can be used for the prevention and treatment of specific diseases (see below) but also for other purposes such as insights into the genetic factors of recent br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_organoid |
Buenos Aires in Argentina once had one of the most extensive tramway networks in the world with over 857 km (533 mi) of track, most of it dismantled during the 1960s in favour of bus transportation. A new line, the PreMetro line E2 system feeding the Line E of the Buenos Aires Underground has been operating since 1987 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_street_car |
Wreaths were often made of periwinkle, basil, geranium, ferns, roses, blackberries, oak and birch branches, etc.During the festival, the wreath was usually destroyed: thrown into water, burned in a bonfire, thrown on a tree or the roof of a house, carried to a cemetery, etc. Sometimes the wreath was preserved and used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupala_Night |
Most Progressive-Onset variants does not have any approved disease-modifying treatment currently. Some possible treatments have been published, such as methylprednisolone pulses or riluzole, and some reduction of spasticity was reported in a pilot Italian study on low dose naltrexone but there is nothing conclusive sti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis_research |
First, because of the de facto dollar peg, foreign investors could invest in Asian countries without the risk of exchange rate fluctuation. Second, the free flow of capital kept foreign investment uninhibited. Third, the short-term interest rates of Asian countries were higher than the short-term interest rate of the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity |
This leads in turn to a tradeoff between reducing cell width and reducing cell height. The tradeoff is avoided by adding a cut/trim mask (see discussion below). Hence, for the EUV-targeted 7nm node, with an 18 nm metal linewidth (k1=0.44 for λ=13.5 nm, NA=0.33), the line tip gap of less than 25 nm (k1=0.61) entails EUV... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_patterning |
The Service Discipline or Priority order that jobs in the queue, or waiting line, are served: Note: An alternative notation practice is to record the queue discipline before the population and system capacity, with or without enclosing parenthesis. This does not normally cause confusion because the notation is differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall's_notation |
The average molar mass of mixtures M ¯ {\displaystyle {\overline {M}}} can be calculated from the mole fractions xi of the components and their molar masses Mi: M ¯ = ∑ i x i M i . {\displaystyle {\overline {M}}=\sum _{i}x_{i}M_{i}.} It can also be calculated from the mass fractions wi of the components: 1 M ¯ = ∑ i w ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_weight |
Amazon initially limited the first-generation Echo to Amazon Prime members or just by invitation, but it became widely available in the United States in mid 2015. In 2016, the Echo became available in the United Kingdom and Germany.As of November 2018, the Echo was available in 40 countries: Austria, Australia, Belgium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_Dot |
GetResult provides the ability to query for sensor readings without the metadata given consistent metadata (e.g. sensor, observed object). GetFeatureOfInterest returns the geoobject whose properties are monitored by sensors in Geography Markup Language encoding. GetFeatureOfInterestTime provides time periods in which m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_Observation_Service |
On July 24, 2020, Dior and 24kGoldn released the chart-topping song "Mood", which is currently certified quadruple platinum. Forbes described 2020 as "The Year Rap Artists Rule the Rock Charts", while Spin writer Al Shipley described the merger of pop punk and rap as 2020's "commercial juggernaut". In March 2022, emo r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_rap |
The starter ring gear is most commonly made by forming a length of square or rectangular steel bar into a circle and welding the ends together. This ring is then machined to create flat surfaces of the required inner and outer diameters. The gear teeth are then created using a hobbing tool, followed by processes to cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starter_ring_gear |
The Encyclopedia of Genetics (ISBN 0-12-227080-0) is a print encyclopedia of genetics edited by Sydney Brenner and Jeffrey H. Miller. It has four volumes and 1,700 entries. It is available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780122270802. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Genetics |
The problem of reconstructing W {\displaystyle W} from a small set of sampled entries is possible only under certain restrictions on the matrix, and these restrictions can be enforced by a regularization function. For example, it might be assumed that W {\displaystyle W} is low-rank, in which case the regularization pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_regularization |
Thus, REB22C2N and REB28.5C4 have rather large c-lattice constants. Because of the small size of the B6 octahedra, they cannot interconnect. Instead, they bond to the B12 icosahedra in the neighboring layer, and this decreases bonding strength in the c-plane. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_structure_of_boron-rich_metal_borides |
"Shorting" or "going short" (and sometimes also "short selling") also refer more broadly to any transaction used by an investor to profit from the decline in price of a borrowed asset or financial instrument. Derivatives contracts that can be used in this way include futures, options, and swaps. These contracts are typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_position |
In the case of Low German, spoken in eastern Netherlands and northern Germany, the debate is still current, as it could be considered a dialect of Dutch or German or a language of its own. An example of a related language that has only recently attained the status of an official national language is Luxembourgish. Sinc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism |
The Talbot Express van, sold solely in the United Kingdom, was the last Talbot-badged motor vehicle to be produced, quietly succeeding the outdated Dodge Spacevan modeline. Production of this badge-engineered version for the United Kingdom began in 1982 and continued until 1994, nearly eight years after the last Talbot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_ProMaster |
An enhancement of this arrangement uses 12 valves in a twelve-pulse bridge. The AC is split into two separate three phase supplies before transformation. One of the sets of supplies is then configured to have a star (wye) secondary, the other a delta secondary, establishing a 30° phase difference between the two sets o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_voltage_direct_current |
With these definitions in place, Milgrom and Roberts showed that if a sequence converges to a Nash equilibrium or correlated equilibrium then it is consistent with adaptive learning. This gave a certain generality to those processes. They then showed how these processes related to the elimination of dominated strategie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Milgrom |
To understand how optical flow is used in optical mice, imagine two photographs of the same object except slightly offset from each other. Place both photographs on a light table to make them transparent, and slide one across the other until their images line up. The amount that the edges of one photograph overhang the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_mouse |
He was the only tenured professor to be fired from Stanford. The termination generated nationwide media exposure and brought attention to the issue of academic freedom and freedom of speech.For a period he continued to be active with Venceremos, and in December 1972 was arrested on charges of harboring Ronald Beaty, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Bruce_Franklin |
A vote to reauthorize on a temporary basis failed in June 2016 but at the last minute the license was extended for 18 months until the end of 2017.On 27 November 2017, in the EU Council a majority of eighteen member states voted in favor of permitting the use of glyphosate for five more years. A qualified majority of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate |
While often caricatured as ultra-conservative, Spencer had been more radical, or left-libertarian, earlier in his career, opposing private property in land and claiming that each person has a latent claim to participate in the use of the earth (views that influenced Georgism), calling himself "a radical feminist" and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer |
Dismayed by the meagre amount of food compensation being provided to the victims, Jabbar started his first campaign seeking employment for them with the slogan "Khairat nahi, rozgar chahiye (We don’t require charity, we want jobs)". They were successful in setting up an economic rehabilitation centre called Swabhimaan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Jabbar_Khan_(activist) |
Critical distance for an animal is the distance a human or an aggressor animal has to approach in order to trigger a defensive attack of the first animal. The concept was introduced by Swiss zoologist Heini Hediger in 1954, along with other space boundaries for an animal, such as flight distance (run boundary), critica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_distance_(animals) |
Corso, Andrea; Jansen, Justin; Kokay, Szabolcs (2014). "A review of the identification criteria and variability of the Slender-billed Curlew." British Bird 107: 339–370. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269160426_A_review_of_the_identification_criteria_and_variability_of_the_Slender-billed_Curlew Identification... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender-billed_curlew |
It is very common for there to be a large amount of artifact while using bone-conduction ABR. This is especially true at high intensities (~50 dB nHL) and at earlier waves (i.e. Wave I). To avoid stimulus artifact, it is recommended that the bone oscillator be placed high on the temporal bone and that the inverting ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_conduction_auditory_brainstem_response |
Using BSATs in biomedical research prompts concerns about dual use. The federal government created the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity which promotes biosecurity in life science research. It is composed of government, education and industry experts who provide policy recommendations on ways to minimize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_agent |
The law of the handicap of a head start (original Dutch: Wet van de remmende voorsprong), first-mover disadvantage, or dialectics of lead, is a theory that suggests that an initial head start in a given area may result in a handicap in the long term. The term was coined in 1937 by Jan Romein, a Dutch journalist and his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_handicap_of_a_head_start |
DNA was first isolated by the Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher who, in 1869, discovered a microscopic substance in the pus of discarded surgical bandages. As it resided in the nuclei of cells, he called it "nuclein". In 1878, Albrecht Kossel isolated the non-protein component of "nuclein", nucleic acid, and later iso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_molecule |
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