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An ionized helium atom can then split relatively abundant carbon monoxide to produce ionized carbon, which in turn can lead to organic chemical reactions.The local interstellar medium is a region of space within 100 parsecs (pc) of the Sun, which is of interest both for its proximity and for its interaction with the So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_gas |
ABF – Adobe Binary Screen Font AFM – Adobe Font Metrics BDF – Bitmap Distribution Format BMF – ByteMap Font Format BRFNT – Binary Revolution Font Format FNT – Bitmapped Font – Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) FON – Bitmapped Font – Microsoft Windows MGF – MicroGrafx Font OTF – OpenType Font PCF – Portable Compiled Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_data_format |
Much of Noether's work in the first epoch of her career was associated with invariant theory, principally algebraic invariant theory. Invariant theory is concerned with expressions that remain constant (invariant) under a group of transformations. As an everyday example, if a rigid yardstick is rotated, the coordinates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether |
The Peregrine soliton is a solution of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation that can be written in normalized units as follows: i ∂ ψ ∂ τ + 1 2 ∂ 2 ψ ∂ ξ 2 + ψ 8 / 4 ψ = 0 {\displaystyle i{\frac {\partial \psi }{\partial \tau }}+{\frac {1}{2}}{\frac {\partial ^{2}\psi }{\partial \xi ^{2}}}+\psi ^{8/4}\psi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_soliton |
In 2000-2005 he was co-chair of the Scenarios Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He led the North Temperate Lakes research site of the Long Term Ecological Research Network program at the University of Wisconsin in 1999-2009. He is a former president of the Ecological Society of America. As of 2011, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Carpenter |
Intentional falsehood or concealment of truth (obreption and subreption) renders a rescript invalid, since no one should benefit through his own deceit. According to some, however, a rescript is valid if voluntary misrepresentation affects only the secondary reason of the grant. This is certainly true where there is no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_rescripts |
In addition, several conditions of abnormal steroidogenesis due to genetic mutations in receptors, as opposed to enzymes, also exist, including: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) insensitivity: prevents synthesis of sex steroids by the gonads in both sexes Follicle-stimulating (FSH) hormone insensitivity: prevents ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inborn_errors_of_steroid_metabolism |
A light rail transit (LRT) system is an urban rail transit system with a "light" passenger capacity compared to heavy rail and metro systems. Its operating characteristics are that it uses railcars, called light rail vehicles (LRVs), operating singly or in short multiple unit trains on fixed rails in a right-of-way tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_rail |
Revues like The Bing Boys Are Here in Britain, and those of Florenz Ziegfeld and his imitators in America, were also extraordinarily popular. The musicals of the Roaring Twenties, borrowing from vaudeville, music hall and other light entertainments, tended to emphasize big dance routines and popular songs at the expens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre |
Most countries in the world are members of the World Trade Organization which limits in certain ways but does not eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers. Most countries are also members of regional free trade areas that lower trade barriers among participating countries. The European Union and the United States are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Trade |
Many times, a team put together like this will seem underwhelming but perform higher than expectations. This strategy could be adopted by teams with limited financial freedom to put together a competitive team. This process has been refined by the Blackhawks who provide yet another example of the longevity that can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_analytics |
When particular GPCRs are activated by their specific chemokines Gβγ directly activates PI3Kγ which is involved in the recruitment of neutrophils that contribute to inflammation. It has been discovered that the inhibition of PI3Kγ significantly reduces inflammation. PI3Kγ is the intended target molecule in the preventi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_beta-gamma_complex |
285–222 BC). Heron identifies the gastraphetes as the forerunner of the later catapult, which places its invention some unknown time prior to c. 420 BC.Unlike later Roman and medieval crossbows, spanning the weapon was not done by pulling up the string, but by pushing down an elaborate slider mechanism. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastraphetes |
In a cellular automaton, a gun is a pattern with a main part that repeats periodically, like an oscillator, and that also periodically emits spaceships. There are then two periods that may be considered: the period of the spaceship output, and the period of the gun itself, which is necessarily a multiple of the spacesh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_Glider_Gun |
These studies demonstrated that the pSTS is active only during the perception of speech, whereas area Spt is active during both the perception and production of speech. The authors concluded that the pSTS projects to area Spt, which converts the auditory input into articulatory movements. Similar results have been obta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_processing_in_the_brain |
Federated learning communities: Similar to a learning cluster, but with an additional seminar course taught by a "Master Learner", a faculty member who enrols in the other courses and takes them alongside the students. The Master Learner's course draws connections between the other courses. Coordinated studies: This mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_learning |
In early aviation, the Wright brothers held patents on certain aspects of aircraft, while Glenn Curtiss held patents on ailerons which was an advance on the Wrights' system, but antipathy between the patent holders prevented their use. The government was forced to step in and create a patent pool during World War I.In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_anticommons |
Stead that he feared that a Uitlander rebellion would cause trouble for Britain if not controlled by him: It seemed to me quite certain that if I did not take a hand in the game the forces on the spot would soon make short work of President Kruger. Then I should be face to face with an American Republic—American in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameson_Raid |
Therefore, several signs are considered together, classed as either major or minor features. An individual with two major features, or one major feature and at least two minor features can be given a definite diagnosis of TSC. If only one major feature or at least two minor features are present, the diagnosis is only r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberous_Sclerosis_Complex |
The 2003 Spike Video Game Awards was the first video game award show to be hosted by Spike TV. It was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2, 2003, and aired on December 4. The event was hosted by David Spade and featured appearances by Lil' Kim, Jaime Pressly, DMX, P.O.D., Orlando Jones,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_VGAs |
Women generally experience more hurt, sadness, anxiety, and confusion than men, perhaps because they often blame themselves for the jealous situation. Conversely, men have been found to deny jealous feelings and focus on increasing their self-esteem. Generally speaking, women tend to be more focused on the relationship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_transgression |
They see the choice to obtain an artificial hymen and related procedures as empowering by allowing women to obtain control over their sexuality. Research on hymen reconstruction focused on interviewing the women obtaining these procedures has further revealed their personal experiences. Some of these studies have highl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_hymen |
Judges score routines based on difficulty, form, technique, and composition. Deductions are taken for execution errors, poor form, falls, pauses, "empty" swings (extra swings that do not lead into another skill), steps on the dismount, and other mistakes. Falls incur an automatic deduction of 1 full point in the 2009 F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uneven_parallel_bars |
Among contemporary political philosophers, he is frequently cited by the courts of law in the United States and Canada and referred to by practising politicians in the United States and the United Kingdom. In a 2008 national survey of political theorists, based on 1,086 responses from professors at accredited, four-yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls |
Ephedrine in its natural form, known as máhuáng (麻黄) in traditional Chinese medicine, has been documented in China since the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD) as an antiasthmatic and stimulant. In traditional Chinese medicine, máhuáng has been used as a treatment for asthma and bronchitis for centuries.In 1885, the chemica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedrine_sulphate |
However, fundamentals in visual thinking lay the ground work for many design disciplines such as art and architecture. Two of the most influential aspects of visual composition in these disciplines are patterns and color. Patterns are not only prevalent in many different aspects of everyday life, but it is also telling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking |
The imperative mood second-person singular is formed from the future-present base of most verbs by adding -и (stressed ending in present-future, or if base ends on more than one consonant), -ь (unstressed ending, base on one consonant) or -й (unstressed ending, base on vowel). Plural (including polite на вы) second-per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar |
The invention of 1975 has as many detectors as the number of gases to be measured. Each detector has two chambers which both have an optically aligned infrared source and detector, and are both filled with one of the gases in the sample of air to be analyzed. Lying in the optical path are two cells with transparent end... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_gas_analyzer |
Much of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy centers on showing how various essentialist ideas have absurd conclusions through reductio ad absurdum arguments (known as prasaṅga, "consequence" in Sanskrit). In the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Nāgārjuna's reductio ad absurdum arguments are used to show that any theory of substance or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum |
By the mid-1990s, the scene had also fragmented into many different styles of dance music, making large parties more expensive to set up and more difficult to promote. The sound driving the big raves of the early 1990s had by the end of 1993 split into two distinct and polarising styles, the darker jungle and the faste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave_dance |
In 1910, Fritz Heinrich Lewy was studying in Berlin for his doctorate. He was the first doctor to notice some unusual proteins in the brain, comparing them to earlier findings by Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora. In 1913, Lafora described another case, and acknowledged Lewy as the discoverer, naming them cuerpos intracelulares... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewy_bodies |
The process is controlled at the transcription stage of DNA into messenger RNA.Studies are being performed attempting to program E. coli to solve complicated mathematics problems, such as the Hamiltonian path problem.A computer to control protein production of E. coli within yeast cells has been developed. A method has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_coli |
Aphanotus brevicornis – North American flour beetle Tribolium castaneum – red flour beetle Tribolium confusum – confused flour beetle Tribolium destructor – destructive flour beetle Tenebrio molitor – yellow mealworm beetle Tenebrio obscurus – dark mealworm beetle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_beetle |
In 1938, Aberhart's Alberta Social Credit Party had 41,000 paid members, forming a broad coalition ranging from those who believed in Douglas' monetary policies to moderate socialists. : 127 The latter group helped influence the party to form alliances with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and various communist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit |
Both moons have very circular orbits which lie almost exactly in Mars's equatorial plane, and hence a capture origin requires a mechanism for circularizing the initially highly eccentric orbit, and adjusting its inclination into the equatorial plane, most probably by a combination of atmospheric drag and tidal forces, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid |
Between them, the two decoy lists won 360 of the 475 constituency seats, more than half of the total of 630 seats available, despite winning a combined total of less than 0.2% of the national proportional part of the vote. In the case of Forza Italia (part of the House of Freedoms), the tactic was so successful that it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additional_member_system |
The original idea of "constraints" was introduced by Ivan Sutherland in 1975. It is derived from ideas employed in Sketchpad system made in 1963.: 29 In his work he argued that the usefulness of a technical drawing made by a computer program relied on their structured nature. Compared to traditional drawings that lack ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_(computer-aided_design) |
He wrote that adolescents replace parents with the peer group and that this reliance on the peer group diminishes as youth enter adulthood and take on adult roles.Fasick relates youth culture as a method of identity development to the simultaneous elongation of childhood and the need for independence in adolescence. Ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_culture |
The major types of historic framing in England are 'cruck frame', box frame, and aisled construction. From the box frame, more complex framed buildings such as the Wealden House and Jettied house developed. The cruck frame design is among the earliest, and was in use by the early 13th century, with its use continuing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_timbered |
Mosca and Pareto's texts on the Italian elite contributed to the theories of Robert Michels (1875–1936). Michels was a German socialist fascinated by the distinction between the largely lower class run parliament in Germany and upper class run parliament in Italy. He wrote Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_psychology |
Ultimately, in January 2021, the city decided to install a two-way protected bike path on the Manhattan-bound roadway, replacing the leftmost vehicular lane. The bike lane would allow the existing promenade to be used exclusively by pedestrians. Work on the bike lane started in June 2021, and the new path was completed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge |
It was reported that with this BCI setup, all study participants were able to initiate the phone call with minimal practice in natural environments.The scientists claim that their studies using a single channel fast Fourier transform (FFT) and multiple channel system canonical correlation analysis (CCA) algorithm suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_mind-computer_interface |
The 2017 United Nations Ocean Conference estimated that the oceans might contain more weight in plastics than fish by the year 2050. Some long-lasting plastics end up in the stomachs of marine animals. Plastic attracts seabirds and fish. When marine life consumes plastic allowing it to enter the food chain, this can le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_patch |
There exists a point of crossover between the physisorption and chemisorption, meaning a point of transfer. It can occur above or below the zero-energy line (with a difference in the Morse potential, a), representing an activation energy requirement or lack of. Most simple gases on clean metal surfaces lack the activat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemisorption |
Other research has shown a link with long-term memory (LTM) deficit.It is diagnosed when a heterozygous pathogenic variant of the CREBBP gene is identified in the individual. It exhibits an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern, but some documented cases show heterozygous individuals exhibiting germline mosaicism. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubinstein–Taybi_syndrome |
The concept of political lesbianism, associated particularly with second wave feminism and radical feminism, includes, but is not limited to, lesbian separatism, notable proponents being Sheila Jeffreys and Julie Bindel. Feminist attitudes to female sexuality have varied in scope throughout the movement's history. Gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_female_sexuality |
The equation for a rectangular object is identical to that of a sphere, with the object being approximated as an ellipsoid and the axis of length being chosen as the characteristic length scale. Such considerations are important in natural streams, for example, where there are few perfectly spherical grains. For grains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_Number |
He solved the problem of A. G. Vitushkin about the semi-additivity of analytic capacity. This enabled him to solve an even older problem of Paul Painlevé on the geometric characterization of removable sets. Tolsa succeeded in solving the Painlevé problem by using the concept of so-called curvatures of measures introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Tolsa |
The Restless Flycatcher is found throughout east, south-east and south-west Australia and Papua New Guinea. From Cairns in Far North Queensland into west of Central Queensland and most of New South Wales, Victoria, southern South Australia and south-west of Western Australia. During winter many south and south-eastern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_flycatcher |
Pointing out the majority of gay-identified men watched heterosexual pornography but few had recent heterosexual sex, he suggests many self-identified gay men have sexual fantasies about women and in an ideal world would be openly bisexual and freely explore sex with women, but society pressures gay men to "pick a side... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexual_erasure |
Running normal HP-UX applications on an Integrity VM host is heavily discouraged, because Integrity VM implements its own memory management, scheduling and I/O policies that are tuned for virtual machines and are not as effective for normal applications. HPE also provides more rigid partitioning of their Integrity and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_hypervisor |
It includes delivery and order fulfillment performance, production flexibility, warranty and returns processing costs, inventory and asset turns, and other factors in evaluating the overall effective performance of a supply chain.A supply chain can often be split into different segments: the earlier stages of a supply ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_Chain |
Ownership of Lunokhod 2 and the Luna 21 lander was sold by the Lavochkin Association for US$68,500 in December 1993 at a Sotheby's auction in New York (although the catalogue incorrectly lists lot 68A as Luna 17/Lunokhod 1). The buyer was computer gaming entrepreneur and astronaut's son Richard Garriott, who is also kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_programme |
However, this style of graph drawing is much older than its name, dating back to the work of Saaty (1964) and Nicholson (1968), who used arc diagrams to study crossing numbers of graphs. An older but less frequently used name for arc diagrams is linear embeddings. More recently, arc diagrams have been used within the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_diagram |
The studies capture the rise of Ireland and Singapore, both major regional headquarters for some of the largest BEPS tool users, Apple, Google and Facebook. In Q1 2015, Apple completed the largest BEPS action in history, when it shifted US$300 billion of IP to Ireland, which Nobel-prize economist Paul Krugman called "l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_haven |
Gδ set A Gδ set or inner limiting set is a countable intersection of open sets.Gδ space A space in which every closed set is a Gδ set.Generic point A generic point for a closed set is a point for which the closed set is the closure of the singleton set containing that point. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_Glossary |
A variation is to use heavy cables, especially where it is desirable to transpose or "roll" phases. In industrial applications, conductor bars are often pre-assembled with insulators in grounded enclosures. This assembly, known as bus duct or busway, can be used for connections to large switchgear or for bringing the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_wire_(electricity) |
The interaction entry also outlines the experimental conditions required to observe binding in vitro, chemical dynamics (including thermodynamics and kinetics). The second type of BIND entries are the molecular complexes. Molecular complexes are defined as an aggregate of molecules that are stable and have a function w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomolecular_Object_Network_Databank |
It is nonenzymatically cleaved to mercaptopurine, a purine analogue that inhibits DNA synthesis. By preventing the clonal expansion of lymphocytes in the induction phase of the immune response, it affects both cell immunity and humoral immunity. It also successfully suppresses autoimmunity. Mercaptopurine Thioguanine N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purine_analog |
This led to further development of algorithms that could better handle noise in image reconstruction. In 2010, a new algorithm called oversampling smoothness (OSS) was created to use a smoothness constraint on the imaged object. OSS would utilize Guassian filters to apply a smoothness constraint to the zero-density reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_diffractive_imaging |
On top of the player's own health, Legions have their own individual health meter that gradually depletes while they are summoned, and they are also susceptible to enemy attacks, which depletes higher amounts of their health. Their health regenerates automatically when they're not active. If the entirety of a Legion's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_Chain |
Older pups may sometimes join their mothers during their foraging trips. Adult male California sea lions play no role in raising pups, but they do take more interest in them than adult males of other otariid species; they have even been observed to help shield swimming pups from predators. Pups are weaned by a year but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_sea_lion |
The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use. The treaty's full name is the Convention on the Prohibition of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention |
This property of low phase noise makes them particularly useful in telecommunications where stable signals are needed, and in scientific equipment where very precise time references are needed. Environmental changes of temperature, humidity, pressure, and vibration can change the resonant frequency of a quartz crystal,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padding_capacitor |
In analog circuits, a coupling capacitor is used to connect two circuits such that only the AC signal from the first circuit can pass through to the next while DC is blocked. This technique helps to isolate the DC bias settings of the two coupled circuits. Capacitive coupling is also known as AC coupling and the capaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Coupling |
Establishing the viral etiology took many decades due to the difficulty of growing the virus in cell culture. In the 1940s and 1950s in the United States and Japan, caliciviridae could not be grown in culture, but as an experiment bacterial free filtrate of diarrhea was given to volunteers to check if viruses were pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliciviridae |
This allows the student to apply it to their personal life and gives the instructor more assurance the actual student is completing the assignment. Lastly, an instructor may not make the assignments heavily weighted so the students do not feel as pressured. : 89–90 Plagiarism is the misrepresentation of another person'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-based_testing |
1992 - EMS Prize 1993 – Max-Planck-Forschungspreis, together Vladimir Sverák (Charles University in Prague) 1998 — Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin 1999 – CICIAM Collatz Prize ICIAM Edinburgh 2000 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2006 – Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Müller_(mathematician) |
Democrat Charlie Wilson was the endorsed candidate of the Democratic Party for Ohio's 6th congressional district in Ohio to replace Ted Strickland in 2006. Strickland was running for Governor, and had to give up his congressional seat. Wilson, though, did not qualify for the ballot because only 46 of the 96 signatures ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_candidate |
Individuals will compare the rewards of the group (e.g. belonging, emotional support, informational support, instrumental support, spiritual support; see Uchino, 2004 for an overview) against potential costs (e.g. time, emotional energy). Those with negative or 'mixed' experiences with previous groups will likely be mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_group |
Watson Research Center and was then a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. At IBM, Milliron's publication record included studies on phase change nanomaterials and topics relevant to self-assembly of nanostructures. She also notably contributed to innovations in the field surrounding preparation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Milliron |
In 1989 Nijssen and Terry Halpin published 'the book Conceptual schema and relational database design: a fact oriented approach. The introduction it declared the background of this work: "Prof. G. M. Nijssen, the originator of NIAM design method, had for a long time given a higher priority to working on new aspects of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._M._Nijssen |
In the POSIX standard, Basic Regular Syntax (BRE) requires that the metacharacters ( ) and { } be designated \(\) and \{\}, whereas Extended Regular Syntax (ERE) does not. Examples: .at matches any three-character string ending with "at", including "hat", "cat", "bat", "4at", "#at" and " at" (starting with a space). at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions |
These questions were usually given in the Aristotelian format: HAND: PALM: : FOOT: ____ While most competent English speakers will immediately give the right answer to the analogy question (sole), it is more difficult to identify and describe the exact relation that holds both between pairs such as hand and palm, and b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogical_reasoning |
Linderstrøm-Lang was elected an International Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1947, an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950, an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1951, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaj_Ulrik_Linderstrøm-Lang |
Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus by a physical subtraction method in 1994. A virtual subtraction method was developed by Huichen Feng in the lab as a novel high-throughput sequencing technique of digital transcriptome subtraction (DTS)New Pathogen Discovery to search fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel_cell_polyomavirus |
Various types include dhalpuri, aloo (potato) roti, and even sugar (to keep the kids busy, while the mother finishes cooking). In Guyana, a rolled-out, thin, flat dough like a roti that is deep-fried in ghee is called a puri. Therefore, a dhalpuri is not really a puri. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandoori_roti |
In recent studies, street harassment was linked to indirect consequences that decrease the quality of women's lives. The decrease in quality of life is contributed to avoidant behaviors.A study in 2011 was aimed at recording the health effects of street harassment on women and girls. It was found that they were mentall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_harassment |
Following section 3.3 of Kibria et.al. let Z {\displaystyle Z} be a p {\displaystyle p} -vector sampled from a central spherical multivariate t distribution with ν {\displaystyle \nu } degrees of freedom: Z p ∼ t p ( 0 , I , ν ) {\displaystyle Z_{p}\sim t_{p}(0,\operatorname {I} ,\nu )} . X {\displaystyle X} is derived... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_t-distribution |
In 1982, the Irish Institute of New York installed a plaque in the park commemorating an important religious liberty challenge which occurred in colonial Manhattan in 1707, when Reverend Francis Makemie, the founder of American Presbyterianism, preached at a home near the park in defiance of the orders of Lord Cornbury... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_(New_York_City) |
Crystalline solids are found to have energy bands, instead of or in addition to energy levels. Electrons can take on any energy within an unfilled band. At first this appears to be an exception to the requirement for energy levels. However, as shown in band theory, energy bands are actually made up of many discrete ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_level |
One was the 600-room Hotel Esplanade (sometimes known as the "Grand Hotel Esplanade"), in Bellevuestrasse. Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo were guests there, and Kaiser Wilhelm II himself held regular "gentlemen's evenings" and other functions there in a room that came to be named after him – the Kaisersaal. The other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdamer_Platz |
The NIR reflectance is affected by leaf internal structure and leaf dry matter content, but not by water content. The combination of the NIR with the SWIR removes variations induced by leaf internal structure and leaf dry matter content, improving the accuracy in retrieving the vegetation water content.NDWI concept as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_difference_water_index |
Kohut maintained that parents' failures to empathize with their children and the responses of their children to these failures were 'at the root of almost all psychopathology'. For Kohut, the loss of the other and the other's self-object ("selfobject") function (see below) leaves the individual apathetic, lethargic, em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_psychology |
Hofmann himself was subsequently injured when a third bomb went off prematurely in his car. That bomb exploded in a way that most of the blast did not hit Hofmann. The police investigated these bombings, and during a search of Hofmann's home found a studio in the basement where he could create counterfeited documents a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_letter |
Because calciseptine is a peptide, theoretically it can be broken down by proteases in the tissues where it is injected. It has been found that digestion of snake toxic peptides by proteases does occur in the prey tissues, but due to the relative stability of the toxins, the speed with which the toxins act and the amou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calciseptine |
To make use of the best available knowledge the FVE can call upon veterinary experts to play a key role in FVE decision making. These experts take part in a Working Group which are appointed to deal with a particular subject and during a defined period. Once formulated a position on a specific subject, this position ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Veterinarians_of_Europe |
A useful psychological test/scale must be both valid (i.e., there is evidence to support the idea that the test or scale measures what it is purported to measure and "how well it does so") and reliable (i.e., internally consistent or give consistent results over time, across raters, etc.). It is important that people w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_testing |
Dishu (Chinese: 嫡庶) was an important legal and moral system involving marriage and inheritance in ancient China. In pre-modern eras, upper-class men in ancient China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan often had more than one spouse to ensure the birth of a male heir to their assets and titles. In China, a priority system was cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishu_system |
This definition relies on focusing on socialist and other left-wing forms of populism; it does not apply to other groups commonly understood as populist which adopted right-wing stances on economic issues.An additional framework has been described as the "political-strategic" approach. This applies the term populism to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism |
Spur routes split away from the parent route without returning. They usually end in a settlement or area not served by the parent. Connector routes are spurs that connect the parent route with a nearby prominent route, usually an Interstate highway (e.g. Connector M-44 connects M-44 to I-96). Both Spurs and Connectors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_route |
They sought unsuccessfully to suppress that evidence, but the trial court held that the DEA had largely been acting independently of the state, making the evidence admissible under the open-fields doctrine. The court convicted them in a bench trial and they appealed.The Washington Court of Appeals first reconsidered th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-fields_doctrine |
On March 10, 2008, The New York Times reported that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution ring run by an escort agency known as Emperors Club VIP. During the course of an investigation into the escort agency, the federal government became aware of Spitzer's involvement with prostitutes due to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_of_Eliot_Spitzer |
A proposed direct link between it and a swastika floor mosaic in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens, which was built on top of a pagan site at Amiens, France in the 13th century, is considered unlikely. The stole worn by a priest in the 1445 painting of the Seven Sacraments by Rogier van der Weyden presents the swasti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika |
That ratio would be equal to G if the reference antenna were an isotropic radiator (irad). However a true isotropic radiator cannot be built, so in practice a different antenna is used. This will often be a half-wave dipole, a very well understood and repeatable antenna that can be easily built for any frequency. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain_(antenna) |
The historical habitat of the native oyster species, the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, ranged from the Norwegian Sea near North Ireland and the UK to Mediterranean Sea. Oysters were found in subtidal coastal waters and in the offshore deeper waters of the North Sea and Eastern Channel until the 19th century. Curr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_reef_restoration |
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) and James George Frazer (1854–1941) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropologists in Great Britain. Although the British anthropologist Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anthropology |
23 July 2002 – In late January, a test was performed to remove the "haze" from the narrow-angle camera lens by heating it. Warming the camera to 4 degrees Celsius (39 degrees Fahrenheit) for eight days produced positive results. Later, the heating was extended to 60 days, and a picture of the star Spica showed an impro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Cassini–Huygens |
As with all thermoelectric plants, nuclear power plants need cooling systems. The most common systems for thermal power plants, including nuclear, are: Once-through cooling, in which water is drawn from a large body, passes through the cooling system, and then flows back into the water body. Cooling pond, in which wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_nuclear_power |
It was cold and his family were poor and hungry. Because the family was Jewish, he suffered anti-Jewish taunts. When Bliss was eight years old, Russia lost the Russo-Japanese War, Russian pogroms against the Jews accelerated, and refugees came into Bliss's town from the nearby Russian town of Kishinev. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._Bliss |
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