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Two rectangular bronze plates of 38 millimetres (1.5 in) in length, 7 millimetres (0.28 in) in width and about 1.8 millimetres (0.071 in) thickness are entirely covered with gold foil and bent around the edges for fixation. Furthermore, there are five rectangular fitting plates whose broken edges were put together. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daensen_folding_chair |
These early peoples lacked a writing system, and made works on perishable materials, so few records of them exist from this time.Indigenous Australian rock art is the oldest and richest unbroken tradition of art in the world, dating as far back as 60,000 years and spread across hundreds of thousands of sites. These roc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania |
The manipulation of voice onset time (VOT) during dichotic listening tests has given many insights regarding brain function. To date, the most common design is the utilisation of four VOT conditions: short-long pairs (SL), where a Consonant-Vowel (CV) syllable with a short VOT is presented to the left ear and a CV syll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotic_listening_test |
These paradoxes have in common a contradiction arising from either self-reference or circular reference, in which several statements refer to each other in a way that following some of the references leads back to the starting point. Barber paradox: A male barber shaves all and only those men who do not shave themselve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxes_of_infinity |
Scott domains are intended to represent partial algebraic data, ordered by information content. An element x ∈ D {\displaystyle x\in D} is a piece of data that might not be fully defined. The statement x ≤ y {\displaystyle x\leq y} means " y {\displaystyle y} contains all the information that x {\displaystyle x} does".... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_domain |
Women still contribute to their communities in many regions mainly through agricultural work. In Southern Asia, Western Asia, and Africa, only 20% of women work at paid non-agricultural jobs. Worldwide, women's rate of paid employment outside of agriculture grew to 41% by 2008.One of the main forms of paid employment f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_labor_participation |
Melanocytes are present, connected to numerous keratinocytes in this and other strata through dendrites. Merkel cells are also found in the stratum basale with large numbers in touch-sensitive sites such as the fingertips and lips. They are closely associated with cutaneous nerves and seem to be involved in light touch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermal_cells |
There were no traveling shots moving through space or Pans displaying layers or planes moving in parallax, which is the true definition of what the Multiplane methods accomplished later. In 1933, former Walt Disney Studios animator/director Ub Iwerks invented the first multiplane camera using movable layers of flat art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplane_camera |
In fact, just about any content producer – including individual independent filmmakers—can make their content available on Amazon Prime. In many platform ecosystems there are switching costs that make it difficult or costly to change ecosystems. Platforms and their complements often make investments in co-specializatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_ecosystem |
About the same time, the Greeks created an additional letter, o mega, probably by writing o micron with an underline, that was used for /ɔː/. Digraphs <ει> and <ου>, no longer pronounced as diphthongs /ej/ and /ow/, were adopted for /eː/ and /oː/. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_script |
Hubertus Strughold was inducted in 1978 but removed as a member in 2006. Other closely related members include Willy Ley (1976), a German-American science writer, and Hermann Oberth (1976), a German scientist who advised von Braun's rocket team in the U.S. from 1955 to 1958. Two lunar craters are named after Paperclip ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip |
The mayor described President Franklin D. Roosevelt, like Kościuszko, as a "champion of liberty during a difficult period", referring to the World War II occupation of Poland by Germany. He also stated, "I am confident that Poland will live again. Any land that breeds such lovers of freedom can never be kept enslaved. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosciuszko_Bridge |
The ill-fated Dulcify strode away to win by seven lengths in 1979. He later started favourite in the Melbourne Cup but had to be put down after breaking a pelvis during the race. One of only two triple winners of the Cox Plate, Kingston Town, won in 1980, 1981 and 1982. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_Plate |
An important special case of a metric connection is a Riemannian connection. This is a connection ∇ {\displaystyle \nabla } on the tangent bundle of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g) such that ∇ X g = 0 {\displaystyle \nabla _{X}g=0} for all vector fields X on M. Equivalently, ∇ {\displaystyle \nabla } is Riemannian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_connection |
In 1920 Roy Fedden designed a piston engine gas starting system, used on the Bristol Jupiter engine in 1922. A system used in early Rolls-Royce Kestrel engines ducted high-pressure air from a ground unit through a camshaft driven distributor to the cylinders via non-return valves, the system had disadvantages only over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_engine_starting |
He concentrated more on music, playing in a band. He also started playing the violin at 15 and played in his school orchestra.Binnig studied physics at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, gaining a bachelor's degree in 1973 and remaining there to do a PhD with in Werner Martienssen's group, supervised by Eckhardt ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Binnig |
The J-machine project was started in 1988 based on work in Bill Dally's doctoral work at Caltech.The philosophy of the work was "processors are cheap and memory is expensive," the J in the project's title standing for jellybean which are small cheap candies. In order to make use of large numbers of processors, the mach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J–Machine |
While progressive rock is often cited for its merging of high culture and low culture, few artists incorporated literal classical themes in their work to any great degree, and only a handful of groups purposely emulated or referenced classical music. Writer Emily Robinson says that the narrowed definition of "progressi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock |
Byproducts can compete with other reagents for benzyne trapping, cause side-reactions, and may require additional purification. Additionally, the HDDA reaction can be useful for substrates with sensitive functionality that might not be tolerated by other benzyne formation conditions (e.g. strong base). The thermally-in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadehydro_Diels-Alder_reaction |
The annual international festival consists of an exhibition, a conference, social events, and the ACRA (Annual Cocktail Robot Award). The exhibition presents robots that can mix cocktails, serve cocktails, consume cocktails, have bar conversations, light or smoke cigarettes or manage to impress the jury with (quote Rob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboexotica |
: 7 After hatching, the precocial ducklings climb to the opening of the nest cavity, jump down from the nest tree and make their way to water. The mother calls them to her, but does not help them in any way. They prefer nesting over water so the young have a soft landing, but will nest up to 140 m (460 ft) away from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_duck |
The potential energy of a charged particle in an electric field is related to the charge of the particle and to the strength of the electric field: where Ep is potential energy, q is the charge of the particle, and U is the electric potential difference (also known as voltage). When the charged particle is accelerated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_flight_mass_spectrometer |
It was there that Hayden claims he developed the entrepreneurial spirit that he later applied when he started CompuAdd. After several years in this position, which required a great deal of overtime, he decided that he needed more time to contemplate his future. He noticed that quality assurance was less demanding work ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuAdd |
At least one system, Metrino, provides wheelchair and freight access by using a cogway in the track, so that the vehicle itself can go from a street-level stop to an overhead track. Some designs have included substantial extra expense for the track needed to decelerate to and accelerate from stations. In at least one s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Rapid_Transit |
Darth Tanis – Ancient Dark Lord of the Sith who lived at least 4000 years before Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, as Sith accounts from the year 3966 BBY describe kyber weaponry developed by him on the planet Malachor. Darth Tanis is only mentioned in The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, where it is reveale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sith_Lord |
In mathematics, any vector space V {\displaystyle V} has a corresponding dual vector space (or just dual space for short) consisting of all linear forms on V , {\displaystyle V,} together with the vector space structure of pointwise addition and scalar multiplication by constants. The dual space as defined above is def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_dual_space |
and 'Why do we exist?' – questions that have troubled thinking people at least as far back as the ancient Greeks." Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Michael Moorcock praised the authors: "their arguments do indeed bring us closer to seeing our world, universe and multiverse in terms that a previous generation might eas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Design_(book) |
Some cities (such as Los Angeles and Jersey City) that once closed down their streetcar networks are now restoring, or have already rebuilt, at least some of their former streetcar/tram systems. Most light rail services are currently committed to articulated vehicles like modern LRVs, i.e. trams, except for large under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail |
However, generally speaking, the windy, humid weather makes it feel significantly chillier than indicated by real temperatures. Spring is usually delightful, yet very sudden changes may occur: summer-like and winter-like temperatures often alternate, and there may be a large difference between day and night temperature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraná_Delta |
The distribution of common and proper nouns is unlike that of reflexive, reciprocal, and personal pronouns. The relevant observation in this regard is that a noun is often reluctantly coreferential with another nominal that is within its binding domain or in a superordinate binding domain, e.g. a. Susani admires hersel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_(linguistics) |
The functioning and principles behind Shrapnel shells are fundamentally different from high-explosive shell fragmentation. Shrapnel is named after Lieutenant-General Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), a British artillery officer, whose experiments, initially conducted on his own time and at his own expense, culminated in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_shell |
A mass balance must be performed, and used along with Darcy's law, to arrive at the transient groundwater flow equation. This balance is analogous to the energy balance used in heat transfer to arrive at the heat equation. It is simply a statement of accounting, that for a given control volume, aside from sources or si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater_flow_equation |
Some 2 dozen other cases of intravascular NK cell lymphoma have been reported by 2018. In 2008, 29 case reports of purported intravascular T-cell lymphoma were reviewed; only two of these cases were associated with evidence strongly suggesting that the malignant cells were cytotoxic T-cells. Subsequently, a few more ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravascular_large_B-cell_lymphoma |
Progressive metal band Tool invited Hicks to open a number of concerts in its 1993 Lollapalooza appearances, where Hicks once asked the audience to look for a contact lens he had lost. Thousands of people complied.Members of Tool felt that Hicks and they "were resonating similar concepts". Intending to raise awareness ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks |
The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a packager better known as "Texstar". From 2000 to 2003, Texstar maintained his repository of RPM packages in parallel with the PCLinuxOnlin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS |
Hubble's law can be easily depicted in a "Hubble diagram" in which the velocity (assumed approximately proportional to the redshift) of an object is plotted with respect to its distance from the observer. A straight line of positive slope on this diagram is the visual depiction of Hubble's law. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_curve |
Overall, the scheme is found to be robust, efficient and accurate for most computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications discussed here further. The simplest problem for the validation of the numerical algorithms is the Lid Driven cavity problem. Computed results in form of tables, graphs and figures for a fluid with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_compact_finite_difference_scheme |
The parameterization σ: R 2 → R 3 ; ( u , v ) ↦ ( x , y , z ) {\displaystyle \sigma :\mathbb {R} ^{2}\rightarrow \mathbb {R} ^{3};(u,v)\mapsto (x,y,z)} with parameter 0 < a < 1 {\displaystyle 0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather_surface |
Both examples indicate probability-outcome dependence, as based on affect-rich outcomes, which changes the shape of PT’s S-shaped curve. In Experiment 2, the size of the affect-rich jump in the weighting function is much greater ($500 – $450 = $50) than the size of the affect-poor jump ($500 – $478 = $22). Thus, weight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion_(psychology) |
{\displaystyle u_{1},\ldots ,u_{n}.} The determinant of this matrix is the U-resultant. As with the original U-resultant, it is zero if and only if P 1 , … , P k {\displaystyle P_{1},\ldots ,P_{k}} have infinitely many common projective zeros (that is if the projective algebraic set defined by P 1 , … , P k {\displayst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resultant |
A child diagnosed with expressive language delay (ELD) has trouble with language usage in some way. As this diagnosis is very broad, each child diagnosed with ELD can be very different in terms of the language skills they have problems with. Some may have difficulty with using the correct words and vocabulary, some hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_delay |
Visceral factors lead one to focus on the present more than on some time in the future when making decisions that are associated with the visceral factor. In Loewenstein's opinion, visceral states have the most enormous impact on the following behaviors: drug addiction, sexual behavior, motivation and effort, and self-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_bias |
Venture capital (commonly abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual reven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_fund |
As we can see from this example, when a=0 (marginal cost is horizontal), the Bertrand conjecture is consistent ϕ ∗ = − 1 {\displaystyle \phi ^{*}=-1} . As the steepness of marginal cost increases (a goes up), the consistent conjecture increases. Note that the consistent conjecture will always be less than 0 for any fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjectural_variation |
As a general rule, barbershop quartets use a TTBB (tenor—tenor—baritone—bass) arrangement, with the second tenor singing the lead. Since the 1940s, barbershop singers have tuned their seventh chords with just intonation to maximize the overtones, yielding a distinctive "ringing" sound. Tenor: The tenor generally harmon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbershop_quartet |
The purpose of the Kinshasa Convention, as stated in Chapter I, Article 1, is to: Prevent, combat and eradicate, in Central Africa, the illicit trade and trafficking in small arms and light weapons, their ammunition and all parts and components that can be used for their manufacture, repair and assembly; Strengthen the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa_Convention |
One of these plays, Prometheus Bound, however, may actually be the work of Aeschylus's son Euphorion.Seven works of Sophocles have survived, the most acclaimed of which are the three Theban plays, which center around the story of Oedipus and his offspring. The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_classics |
Maker's Asylum offers various independent programs that focus on their mission of "Learning by Making" and enabling more makers such as DIY Hour (8+), Innovation School (13+) and SDG School (15+). All their programs do not have an upper limit on age as they believe that anyone can start their maker journeys at any time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker's_Asylum |
V is for vascular malformations, which are blood vessel abnormalities. Patients with CLOVES have different venous, capillary, and lymphatic channels - typically capillary, venous and lymphatic malformations are known as "slow flow" lesions. Some patients with CLOVES have combined lesions (which are fast flow) and some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOVES_syndrome |
A diagnosis of myocardial infarction is created by integrating the history of the presenting illness and physical examination with electrocardiogram findings and cardiac markers (blood tests for heart muscle cell damage). A coronary angiogram allows visualization of narrowings or obstructions on the heart vessels, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial_infarction_diagnosis |
The legal test of the "reasonable person" has been criticised for being genderblind to be applied in some areas of the law, particularly sexual harassment. Women are subjected to more normalised and endemic sexual harassment than men. On the grounds of this, the American case of Ellison v. Brady 924 F.2d 872 (1991), th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-blind |
The background represents the Earth and the local view of the sky. The blue circle directly in the centre represents the Earth, and the upper blue is the portion of the sky which is above the horizon. The red and black areas indicate portions of the sky below the horizon. During the daytime, the Sun sits over the blue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock |
The ban on marijuana imposed by the United States authorities was alien to Japanese culture, as the drug had never been widely used in Japan before. Though these laws against marijuana are some of the world's strictest, allowing five years imprisonment for possession of the drug, they exempt hemp growers, whose crop is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_hemp |
Despite historical consumer preference for refined white flour, whole wheat flour products are ascendant largely due to changing consumer attitudes. The Whole Grains Council industry association reports an approximate doubling of the whole wheat flour production from 2003 to 2007. In another visible example, whole whea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifine_mill |
The wavelength of 54 MHz (Channel 2) is 5.5 m (18 feet) (λ × f = c) so the antennas must be a minimum of 2.25 m (90 inches) apart. It is also important that the cables connecting the antennas to the signal splitter/merger be exactly the same length, to prevent phasing issues, which cause ghosting with analog reception.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_aerial |
They govern the logical behavior of these symbols by determining how the validity of an inference depends on the fact that these symbols are found in it. They usually include the idea that if a proposition is necessary then its negation is impossible, i.e. that " ◻ A {\displaystyle \Box A} " is equivalent to " ¬ ◊ ¬ A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_logic |
Early broadband modems offered Ethernet handoff allowing the use of one or more public IP addresses, but no other services such as NAT and DHCP that would allow multiple computers to share one connection. This led to many consumers purchasing separate "broadband routers," placed between the modem and their network, to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_modem |
An Information model is not a type of data model, but more or less an alternative model. Within the field of software engineering, both a data model and an information model can be abstract, formal representations of entity types that include their properties, relationships and the operations that can be performed on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_model_diagram |
'Allah' was one word being used for these purposes, with instances tied to defamatory language. We took steps to help protect our users by prohibiting use of the term in Yahoo! usernames. We recently re-evaluated the term 'Allah' and users can now register for IDs with this word because it is no longer a significant ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_mail |
One secure lifting carriage for shielded transportation of personnel, with a 50-tonne (55-ton) carrying capacity. One carriage suspends a mobile tool platform, extending up to 75 metres (246 ft), that can be fitted with a variety of end actuators useful for demolition.The cranes' carriage interchangeability allows the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement |
Depending on application, a record inside a domain, or subdomain might refer to a hostname, or a service provided by a number of machines in a cluster. Some websites use different subdomains to point to different server clusters. For example, www.example.com points to Server Cluster 1 or Datacentre 1, and www2.example.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_domain |
The first revolving restaurant in the Balkans was built on the top floor of the OTE tower as part of the 34th Thessaloniki International Fair in 1965. The revolving restaurant was then closed, but has been in continued service since 1969.John Graham, a Seattle architect and early shopping mall pioneer, is said to be th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_restaurant |
It is decidable whether a given grammar is a regular grammar, as well as whether it is an LL(k) grammar for a given k≥0. : 233 If k is not given, the latter problem is undecidable. : 252 Given a context-free language, it is neither decidable whether it is regular, nor whether it is an LL(k) language for a given k.: 254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar |
Newly arrived German immigrants in Texas, who were sausage-makers finding resistance to the sausages they used to make, have been credited with introducing the corn dog to the United States, though the serving stick came later. A US patent filed in 1927, granted in 1929, for a Combined Dipping, Cooking, and Article Hol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_pup |
The sanctuary had been treating a large number of racoons and skunks with canine distemper, which crossed over to the big cats. 18 big cats died in this epidemic.In September 1995, the Waystation was contacted after some big cats escaped from Ligertown in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. They rescued 27 lions and ligers from "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_WayStation |
In his book A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram points out that rule 184, when run on patterns with density 50%, can be interpreted as parsing the context free language describing strings formed from nested parentheses. This interpretation is closely related to the ballistic annihilation view of rule 184: in Wolfram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_184 |
The Société d'énergie de la Baie James is the company in charge of building the hydroelectric development known as the James Bay Project in northern Quebec. It was established in December 1971 by the Société de développement de la Baie James (SDBJ), a Crown corporation of the province of Quebec and became a wholly owne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay_Energy |
Hops are the flowers of the hops plant Humulus lupulus. These flowers contain over 440 essential oils, which contribute to the aroma and non-bitter flavors of beer. However, the distinct bitterness especially characteristic of pale ales comes from a family of compounds called alpha-acids (also called humulones) and bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_chemistry |
One of the JCP's main objectives is terminating the Japan–United States military alliance and the dismantling of all American military bases in Japan. It wants to make Japan a non-aligned and neutral country, in accordance with its principles of self-determination and national sovereignty. There are about 130 American ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party |
Venus Caelestis is the earliest known Roman recipient of a taurobolium (a form of bull sacrifice), performed at her shrine in Pozzuoli on 5 October 134. This form of the goddess, and the taurobolium, are associated with the "Syrian Goddess", understood as a late equivalent to Astarte, or the Roman Magna Mater, the latt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology) |
James Watt was born on 19 January 1736 in Greenock, Renfrewshire, the eldest of the five surviving children of Agnes Muirhead (1703–1755) and James Watt (1698–1782). His mother came from a distinguished family, was well educated and said to be of forceful character, while his father was a shipwright, ship owner and con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt |
David Shmoys is an ACM Fellow, a SIAM Fellow, and a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (2013). He has received the Sonny Yau Excellence in Teaching Award three times from Cornell's College of Engineering, and has been awarded a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shmoys |
Relatively speaking, bites from this species are not highly dangerous. In Britain there were only 14 known fatalities between 1876 and 2005—the last a 5-year-old child in 1975—and one nearly fatal bite of a 39-year-old woman in Essex in 1998. An 82-year-old woman died following a bite in Germany in 2004, although it is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_adder |
Most thermoglucosidasius strains have hydrolytic activity to starch, gelatin, and pullulan, as well as producing acid from adonitol, cellobiose, inositol, and D-xylitol. Colonies are offwhite and mucoid. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geobacillus_thermoglucosidasius |
According to Majid Rahnema, another leading postdevelopment scholar, things like notions of poverty are very culturally embedded and can differ a lot among cultures. The institutes which voice the concern over underdevelopment are very Western-oriented, and postdevelopment calls for a broader cultural involvement in de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_theory |
If ropes are tied frequently to a tree (e.g. to tether an animal or moor a boat), the friction of the rope can also lead to the removal of bark.The practice of girdling has been known in Europe for some time. Another example is the girdling of selected Douglas-fir trees in some Northern California oak woodlands, such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girdled_grapes |
The earliest mention of the vajra is in the Rigveda, part of the four Vedas. It is described as the weapon of Indra, the chief among the devas. Indra is described as using the vajra to kill sinners and ignorant persons. The Rigveda states that the weapon was made for Indra by Tvaṣṭṛ, the maker of divine instruments. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajra |
Users will be more likely to absorb and not grow tired of advertisements if they are, for example, embedded in the game as opposed to a bothersome pop-up ad.Personalizing advertisements is another strategy that can work well for brands, as it can increase the likelihood that the brand will be personified by the consume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotional_event |
In mathematics, concentration of measure (about a median) is a principle that is applied in measure theory, probability and combinatorics, and has consequences for other fields such as Banach space theory. Informally, it states that "A random variable that depends in a Lipschitz way on many independent variables (but n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_measure |
cD galaxies are one of the types frequently found to be the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of a cluster. Many fossil group galaxies are similar to cD BCG galaxies, leading some to theorize that the cD results from the creation of a fossil group, and then the new cluster accumulating around the fossil group. However, cD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_galaxy |
Several methods exist for the generation of organozinc compounds. Commercially available diorganozinc compounds are dimethylzinc, diethylzinc and diphenylzinc. These reagents are expensive and difficult to handle. In one study the active organozinc compound is obtained from much cheaper organobromine precursors: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organozinc_compounds |
The term often used by the media for this type of event is "flash rob", which originates from flash mobs, where a group of people assemble quickly, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then disperse. In Chile this kind of robbery is known as turbazo.In Brazil this kind of robbery is known as "arrastão". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_rob |
Rain gardens are a form of stormwater management using water capture. Rain gardens are shallow depressed areas in the landscape, planted with shrubs and plants that are used to collect rainwater from roofs or pavement and allows for the stormwater to slowly infiltrate into the ground . Rain gardens mimic natural landsc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_urban_drainage_systems |
: 192 As teachers invent more elaborate methods of deterring cheating, students invent even more elaborate methods of cheating (sometimes even treating it as a game), leading to what some teachers call a costly and unwinnable arms race. : 61 Increased punishment for academic misconduct also has little correlation with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty |
It was expected by Brexit lobbyists and voters that this depreciation would increase exports. However, due to trade uncertainties and the fact that the UK had relied on specific foreign sources for their intermediate inputs, deskilling in industries that relied on such inputs was prominent. Economists argue that the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskilling |
Human rights advocate considers it a violation of freedom of thought or opinion, or views the use of neuroleptic as degrading treatment that can also impede on their right to work due to sometimes handicapping side effects. Other argue for a right of self-determination or self ownership, considering it a paternalistic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpatient_commitment |
A Burmese marionette troupe has 27 character figures. Nat votaress (နတ်ကတော်ရုပ်, Nat Kadaw) – two figures Horse (မြင်း,Myin) – one figure Elephant (ဆင်, Hsin) – two figures (one white, one black) Tiger (ကျား, Kyar) – one figure Monkey (Myauk) – one figure Parrot (Thalika) – two figures Alchemist (ဇော်ဂျီ, Zawgyi) – on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoke_thé |
Medical neutrality refers to a principle of noninterference with medical services in times of armed conflict and civil unrest: physicians must be allowed to care for the sick and wounded, and soldiers must receive care regardless of their political affiliations; all parties must refrain from attacking and misusing medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_neutrality |
Five SNAP-27 units provided electric power for the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Packages (ALSEP) left on the Moon by Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17. The SNAP-27 power supply weighed about 20 kilograms, was 46 cm long and 40.6 cm in diameter. It consisted of a central fuel capsule surrounded by concentric rings of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_Power |
Bismarck Archipelago Admiralty Islands Arawe Islands Duke of York Islands Feni Islands Hermit Archipelago Kaniet Islands Lihir Group Ninigo Islands Schouten Islands St Matthias Islands Tabar Group Tami Islands Tanga Islands Vitu Islands D'Entrecasteaux Islands Fiji Islands Lau Islands (Also known as Lau Group, Eastern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archipelagos |
Or, for example, in radar the aim is to find the range of objects (airplanes, boats, etc.) by analyzing the two-way transit timing of received echoes of transmitted pulses. Since the reflected pulses are unavoidably embedded in electrical noise, their measured values are randomly distributed, so that the transit time m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_estimation |
Research and development are very difficult to manage, since the defining feature of research is that the researchers do not know in advance exactly how to accomplish the desired result. As a result, "higher R&D spending does not guarantee more creativity, higher profit or a greater market share". Research is the most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_and_development |
On April 15, 2022 an American team consisting of Heather MacLean, Kendall Ellis, Roisin Willis and Elle Purrier St. Pierre set the current best indoor time of 10:33.85 at The TRACK in Boston. Nevertheless the distance medley relay is only a world record discipline outdoors it is a subject to usual ratification procedur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_medley_relay |
He found a cavern shaped like an upside down funnel which widened as he approached the bottom. He measured the floor as about 60m in diameter and the crater's depth around 78m. The crater's mouth widened over time and in 2006 the crater's dimensions were measured as 50m x 42m x 49m. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_crater |
Lastly, democratic leaders are as likely to guide public opinion as they are to follow it. Democratic leaders are often aware of the power of nationalist sentiment and thus seek to encourage it when it comes to war, arguing that war is necessary to defend or spread the nation's way of life. Democratic leaders may even ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory |
Phrenology was one of the first to bring about the idea of rehabilitation of criminals instead of vindictive punishments that would not stop criminals, only with the reorganizing a disorganized brain would bring about change. Voisin believed along with others the accuracy of phrenology in diagnosing criminal tendencies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology |
An area of partisan dispute related to CDC funding is studying firearms effectiveness. Although the CDC was one of the first government agencies to study gun related data, in 1996 the Dickey Amendment, passed with the support of the National Rifle Association of America, states "none of the funds available for injury p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention |
Jean-Michel Frank (28 February 1895 – 8 March 1941) was a French interior designer known for minimalist interiors decorated with plain-lined but sumptuous furniture made of luxury materials, such as shagreen, mica, and intricate straw marquetry. He had an eye for exotic patterns, specifically in veneers, including snak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Frank |
While epidemiology is "the study of the distribution and determinants of states of health in populations", social epidemiology is "that branch of epidemiology concerned with the way that social structures, institutions, and relationships influence health." This research includes "both specific features of, and pathways... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_epidemiology |
Instead, a kind of lyceum was formed in 1910, called Turáni Társaság (Hungarian Turan Society, also called Hungarian Asiatic Society). The Turan society concentrated on Turan as geographic location where the ancestors of Hungarians might have lived. The movement received impetus after Hungary's defeat in World War I. U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turanism |
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