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Hirundo rustica gutturalis barn swallow males attract females by mimicking the food-begging calls of nestlings. Leptuca musica/beebei fiddler crab males build sand hoods or mud pillars next to the entrances of their burrows. Females approach the structures built by males for safety, regardless of whether they're search... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_trap_hypothesis |
There are conditions, however, when this default withdrawal is not applicable. In particular, the initial withdrawal is related to the prior standard of living of the retiree, not just the withdrawal that is reasonably sustainable. Also, the withdrawal for a period is reduced when a test indicates that such retrenchmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_study |
Initially named a coaling station due to the use of coal for steam generation, a fuelling station was built for the purpose of replenishing coal supplies for ships or railway locomotives. The term is often associated with 19th and early 20th century seaports associated with blue water navies, who used coaling stations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuelling_station |
On March 1, 1945, as the Ninth Army participated in pushing the Germans back across the Rhine, the 655th was ordered to move forward to Hoensbroek, Holland, with Map Storage and Distribution remaining in Maastricht, Holland. Then over the next two weeks, as the Allies again pushed forward, the 655th advanced to Mönchen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/655th_Engineer_Topographic_Battalion |
Medium gained several new publishers to host their content on the platform. There was an aborted attempt to introduce advertising to the site, leading to Medium cutting its staff by 50 employees in January 2017 and closing offices in New York and Washington, D.C. Williams explained that "we had started scaling up the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_(website) |
Around 8000 BC during the Pre-pottery Neolithic period, and before the invention of pottery, several early settlements became experts in crafting beautiful and highly sophisticated containers from stone, using materials such as alabaster or granite, and employing sand to shape and polish. Artisans used the veins in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_pot |
In macroeconomics, a general glut is an excess of supply in relation to demand, specifically, when there is more production in all fields of production in comparison with what resources are available to consume (purchase) said production. This exhibits itself in a general recession or depression, with high and persiste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_glut |
Corporate transparency in Taiwan is assessed using Information Disclosure and Transparency Ranking System (IDTRS) launched in 2003 by Securities and Futures Institute. Whole process is on voluntary basis with evaluation executed annually in two-stage process where the ranking committee and companies with possibility of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_transparency |
Common topics of design for hydraulic engineers include hydraulic structures such as dams, levees, water distribution networks including both domestic and fire water supply, distribution and automatic sprinkler systems, water collection networks, sewage collection networks, storm water management, sediment transport, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_Engineering |
O'Shea has stated that, given the available evidence, the highest upper bound he would consider plausible for the giant squid's total length would be 15 m (49 ft), and that the likelihood that there exist 20-metre giant squid is "so exceedingly remote that you couldn't justify the effort in writing about it".Including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_size |
If we find eigenmodes orthogonal to this approximated lowest eigenmode, we can approximately find the next few eigenfrequencies as well. In general, we can express A {\displaystyle A} and B {\displaystyle B} as a collection of terms quadratic in the coefficients c i {\displaystyle c_{i}}: where K {\displaystyle K} an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz_method |
It was also incorporated in the names created for several bacteria by microbiologists at the time, such as in the name "Vibrion septique" from a 1922 paper in The Journal of Medical Research. In an issue of the journal Modern Medicine from 1893, the term "cholera vibrion" is used to refer to Vibrio cholerae. In the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrion |
This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world between 1900 and 1999. It includes dates of declarations of independence, changes in country name, changes of capital city or name, and changes in territory such as the annexation, cession, concession, occupation, or secession of land. Territorial conqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_geopolitical_changes_(1900–1999) |
Sexual selection in amphibians involves sexual selection processes in amphibians, including frogs, salamanders and newts. Prolonged breeders, the majority of frog species, have breeding seasons at regular intervals where male-male competition occurs with males arriving at the waters edge first in large number and produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection_in_amphibians |
It is common for little leagues trade team pins during the Little League World Series. Pin trading often has specialist categories of pins to trade in – some popular categories include Golly pins from Robertson's Jam, Hard Rock Café, Disney, political pins, sports pins (including bowling, rugby, the Olympic Games and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_pin_trading |
{\displaystyle F_{\mathbf {X} }(x)=\lim _{n\to \infty }{\frac {1}{n}}\sum _{i=1}^{n}I(X_{i}\leq x).} (This is the Cesaro limit of the indicator functions. In cases where the Cesaro limit does not exist this function can actually be defined as the Banach limit of the indicator functions, which is an extension of this li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_sequence |
DISC1 shows strong interaction with the microtubule-associated protein MAP1A that controls the polymerization and stabilization of microtubule networks in neurons, and thereby influence cell shape and intracellular transport of vesicles and organelles. MAP1A binds to the far N-terminus (aa 293–696) of DISC1, and the am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC1 |
VectorStyler by Numeric Path is a professional vector graphics app, currently in advanced beta, available for both macOS and Windows 10 systems. It offers a comprehensive set of vector drawing tools, vector-based brushes, shape and image effects, corner shapes, mesh and shape-based gradients, collision snapping, multi-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors |
Symptoms often begin in early childhood and include excessive tearing, abnormal sensitivity to light (photophobia), eye pain and redness, and painful skin lesions on the palms and soles. About half of individuals with type II tyrosinemia are also mentally disabled. Type II tyrosinemia occurs in fewer than 1 in 250,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrosinemia_type_II |
Physical force exerted on the piezoelectric can be classified as one of two types; bending or compression. Stress of the compression type can be understood as a force exerted to one side of the piezoelectric while the opposing side rests against a fixed surface, while bending involves a force being exerted on the piezo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric_accelerometer |
The straight-peen hammer has the wedge oriented parallel to the hammer's handle, while the cross-peen hammer's wedge is oriented perpendicular. The diagonal-peen hammer's head, as the name implies, is at a 45° angle from the handle. They are commonly used by blacksmiths during the forging process to deliver blows for f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-peen_hammer |
Fuel costs for fossil fuel and biomass sources, and which may be negative for wastes. Likely annual hours per year run or load factor, which may be as low as 30% for wind energy, or as high as 90% for nuclear energy. Offset sales of heat, for example in combined heat and power district heating (CHP/DH).These costs occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_electrical_generation |
In 1920 the company began making and selling small machine tools, including drill presses and lathes, as well as woodworking tools, such as jointers and table saws. They were sold through the Sears catalog, some of them re-branded under the Craftsman name. In 1965, the company changed its name to Clausing Industrial, I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Press_(tool_company) |
The Widmer column was developed as a doctoral research project by student Gustav Widmer at ETH Zurich in the early 1920s, combining a Golodetz-type arrangement of concentric tubes and the Dufton-type rod-with-spiral core. It consists of four concentric glass tubes and a central glass rod, with a thinner glass rod coile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflux_condenser |
Begin by taking hold of the rope in one hand with its end facing you. Coil the rope in arm's length sections with your free hand (extending it away from the other as far as it will reach to ensure each segment is of equal length as it is gathered). Alternate tucking the new gather in front and behind the previous coil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_coil |
The status of this group as a star cluster has changed in recent years. The group was considered to be a cluster for most of the 20th century. Looking at better, but imprecise metrics, a study in 1970 said that six of the brightest stars formed a cluster, the fainter four did not. Several independent studies since 1998... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocchi's_Cluster |
The Duffing map (also called as 'Holmes map') is a discrete-time dynamical system. It is an example of a dynamical system that exhibits chaotic behavior. The Duffing map takes a point (xn, yn) in the plane and maps it to a new point given by x n + 1 = y n {\displaystyle x_{n+1}=y_{n}} y n + 1 = − b x n + a y n − y n 3 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffing_map |
The traditional Béchamp reduction cogenerates gray-black iron oxides. The Laux process is based on the finding that the oxide coproduct is strongly affected by various additives, such as ferrous chloride, aluminium chloride, and even simply sulfuric acid, which are added before heating the iron-nitrobenzene mixture. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechamp_reduction |
The advent of telephony, which initially used the same earth-return lines used by telegraphy, made it essential to use balanced circuits as telephone lines were even more susceptible to interference. One of the first to realise that all-metal circuits would solve the severe noise problems encountered on earth-return te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-return_telegraph |
Access to video surveillance recordings may require a judge's writ, which is readily available. However, there is little legislation and regulation specific to video surveillance.All countries in the European Union are signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights which protects individual rights including the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_video |
A null route or black hole route is a network route (routing table entry) that goes nowhere. Matching packets are dropped (ignored) rather than forwarded, acting as a kind of very limited firewall. The act of using null routes is often called blackhole filtering. The rest of this article deals with null routing in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhole_routing |
In quantum physics, Fermi's golden rule is a formula that describes the transition rate (the probability of a transition per unit time) from one energy eigenstate of a quantum system to a group of energy eigenstates in a continuum, as a result of a weak perturbation. This transition rate is effectively independent of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_golden_rule |
For instance, Dunaliella salina grow in extremely salty water; these unusual media exclude other types of organisms, allowing the growth of pure cultures in open ponds. Open culture can also work if there is a system of harvesting only the desired algae, or if the ponds are frequently re-inoculated before invasive orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_pond |
The non-human apes (the gibbons, gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos) tend to walk on the lateral side of the foot, that is with an 'inverted' foot, which may reflect a basic adaptation to walking on branches. It is often held that their feet lack longitudinal arches, but footprints made by bipedally walking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_arch_of_the_foot |
Political science or politics as a study largely situates itself within this definition of sociology and is sometimes regarded as a well developed sub-field of sociology, but is seen as a stand alone disciplinary area of research due to the size of scholarly work undertaken within it. Politics offers a complex definiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_sociology |
The development of large scale hymnographic forms begins in the fifth century with the rise of the kontakion, a long and elaborate metrical sermon, reputedly of Syriac origin, which finds its acme in the work of St. Romanos the Melodist (6th century). This dramatic homily which could treat various subjects, theological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_music |
British singer and comedian George Formby was a ukulele player, though he often played a banjolele, a hybrid instrument consisting of an extended ukulele neck with a banjo resonator body. Demand surged in the new century because of its relative simplicity and portability. Another British ukulele player was Tony Award-w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele_bass |
When the lander disconnects from the orbiter, it spends most of its time in a low-power hibernation mode while it coasts through space before entering the Martian atmosphere. The lander must coast through space for about 3 days by itself before landing, meanwhile the orbiter has to do a Mars orbit insertion. The DECA d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiaparelli_EDM_lander |
The airsoft replica itself also has a tank for compressed gas as propellant (such as green gas). So as the slide/bolt is pulled back, it loads a shell into the chamber. As the trigger is pulled, it releases a small burst of propellant and the pellet is forced out the barrel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft_gun |
Most manufacturers recommend checking the AED before every period of duty or on a regular basis for fixed units. Some units need to be switched on in order to perform a self check; other models have a self check system built in with a visible indicator. All manufacturers mark their electrode pads with an expiration dat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillators |
If it is omitted in the past or future tense, the time interpretation will be misunderstood as referring to the present only. Polish equatives sometimes involve both the operation of wh-movement and deletion. All instances of unbounded deletion obeying island constraints are instances of wh-movement and deletion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equative |
A pork steak, also called Boston butt or pork blade steak, is a steak cut from the shoulder of the pig. Pork steaks are mentioned as far back as 1739, though without details about how they were cut or how they were cooked.Shoulder steaks are cut from the same primal cut of meat most commonly used for pulled pork, and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_steak |
The term "sting" was popularized by the 1973 Robert Redford and Paul Newman movie The Sting, though the film is not about a police operation: it features two grifters and their attempts to con a mob boss out of a large sum of money. In 1998, three agencies joined forces to conduct a sting operation where they successfu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_operations |
"Hearts / Wires" is a single by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on April 4, 2016 as the third single from their eighth studio album, Gore. "Hearts / Wires" came as a free download audio file for each physical copy of Gore purchased from the band's official web store. No official music video exists fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_/_Wires |
The plan to expand the capital was done to accommodate the increasing demand for residential and commercial properties, because of a growing middle-class in Ethiopia. The integration of Addis Ababa and the Oromia Special Zone would violate the 1995 Constitution (which demarcated the capital from Oromia), and so it need... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Addis_Ababa_Master_Plan |
Because the transistor's internal structure is usually optimized for forward-mode operation, interchanging the collector and the emitter makes the values of α and β in reverse operation much smaller than those in forward operation; often the α of the reverse mode is lower than 0.5. The lack of symmetry is primarily due... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction_transistor |
Starfish produce a large number of secondary metabolites in the form of lipids, including steroidal derivatives of cholesterol, and fatty acid amides of sphingosine. The steroids are mostly saponins, known as asterosaponins, and their sulphated derivatives. They vary between species and are typically formed from up to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyloric_caeca |
Tetrafluoroammonium salts are extremely hygroscopic. The NF+4 ion, when dissolved in water, readily decomposes into NF3, H2F+, and oxygen gas. Some hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is also formed during this process: NF+4 + H2O → NF3 + H2F+ + 1⁄2 O2NF+4 + 2 H2O → NF3 + H2F+ + H2O2Reaction of NF+4SbF−6 with alkali metal nitrate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrafluoroammonium |
Warner graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and in 1963 with a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis, written under the supervision of Isadore M. Singer, is entitled Conjugate Locus of a Riemannian Manifold. At the University of Californ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilson_Warner |
{\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{i-1}2^{-l_{j}}.} This perspective is particularly useful in light of Kraft's inequality, which says that the sum above will always be less than or equal to 1 (since the lengths come from a prefix free code). This shows that adding one in the algorithm above never overflows and creates a code... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Huffman_code |
SBR rubber compound to with chemicals formulations SB Rubber 100 kg carbon 220 150 kg zinc oxide 20.5 kg stearic acid 13.5 kg accelerator 11.2 kg Oil 33.5 kg Al2O3 10.23 kgCompounding is the operation of bringing together all the ingredients required to mix a batch of rubber compound. Each component has a different mix... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_manufacturing |
Yahoo! Livetext was an audio-free video messaging app built by Yahoo for the iPhone and Android. Launched in July 2015, Livetext represented Yahoo's attempt to compete in mobile messaging with apps like Snapchat, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Livetext never gained significant traction and shut down eight months late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Livetext |
( 1 − x 2 ) ( z − z 0 ) 2 − y 2 z 0 2 = 0 {\displaystyle (1-x^{2})(z-z_{0})^{2}-y^{2}z_{0}^{2}=0} is an implicit representation. Hence the right circular conoid is a surface of degree 4. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoid |
The cohesion-tension theory is a theory of intermolecular attraction that explains the process of water flow upwards (against the force of gravity) through the xylem of plants. It was proposed in 1894 by John Joly and Henry Horatio Dixon. Despite numerous objections, this is the most widely accepted theory for the tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylem |
The difficulties lie in remembering to test, estimating meal size, taking the meal bolus and eating within the prescribed time, and being aware of snacks and meals that are not the expected size. When implemented correctly, flexible regimens offer greater ability to achieve good glycemic control with easier accommodati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_insulinotherapy |
Mayes, Lawrence (1 September 2003), Glories – an Atmospheric Phenomenon, archived from the original on 16 August 2007, retrieved 4 September 2007 Nave, R (n.d. ), Glories, retrieved 4 September 2007 Nussenzveig, H. Moysés (1 January 2012). "The Science of the Glory". Scientific American. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon) |
The travel begins with a short preamble in which Lemuel Gulliver gives a brief outline of his life and history before his voyages. 4 May 1699 – 13 April 1702During his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and finds himself a prisoner of a race of tiny people, less than 6 inches (15 cm) tall, who ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels |
Neutron spectroscopy is a spectroscopic method of measuring atomic and magnetic motions by measuring the kinetic energy of emitted neutrons. The measured neutrons may be emitted directly (for example, by nuclear reactions), or they may scatter off cold matter before reaching the detector. Inelastic neutron scattering o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_spectroscopy |
More recently, scholars have followed Crouch in demonstrating the role of professional political communication's contribution to distrust and wrong beliefs, where strategic use of emotion is becoming key to gaining trust for truth statements.The term "post-truth politics" may have originally been coined by the blogger ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics |
The first known mention of tooth decay and toothache occurs on a Sumerian clay tablet now referred to as the "Legend of the worm". It was written in cuneiform, recovered from the Euphrates valley, and dates from around 5000 BC. The belief that tooth decay and dental pain is caused by tooth worms is found in ancient Ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_pain |
These problems were largely done away with as part of the 1971 policy change which, among other things, outlined a fully voluntary mechanism for application project financing. Under the first package deal ESRO pursued a project to establish a European satellite system by the early 1980s in partnership with the European... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Research_Organisation |
But Bohr said, “I saw the actual reports” of the Solvay Congress.Then in 1912, Bohr came across the John William Nicholson theory of the atom model that quantized angular momentum as h/2π. According to a centennial celebration of the Bohr atom in Nature magazine, it was Nicholson who discovered that electrons radiate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_Atomic_Model |
Pickup trucks or SUVs towing trailers also present similar problems.There is no precise equation to determine the speed at which a vehicle will aquaplane. Existing efforts have derived rules of thumb from empirical testing. In general, cars start to aquaplane at speeds above 72–93 km/h (45–58 mph). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaplaning |
In the following example, the goal is to add the action of stepping the gauge forward to the list of actions to be executed in the event that a button is clicked. The routine extend referenced in the example above is a feature of a class in a graphical user interface (GUI) library to provide event-driven programming ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_object |
Spirodela polyrhiza (orth. var. S. polyrrhiza) is a species of duckweed known by the common names common duckmeat, greater duckweed, great duckmeat, common duckweed, and duckmeat. It can be found nearly worldwide in many types of freshwater habitat. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirodela_polyrrhiza |
Methanol is occasionally used to fuel internal combustion engines. It burns forming carbon dioxide and water: 2 CH3OH + 3 O2 → 2 CO2 + 4 H2OMethanol fuel has been proposed for ground transportation. The chief advantage of a methanol economy is that it could be adapted to gasoline internal combustion engines with minimu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_alcohol |
His surname "King" parallels Green Arrow's surname "Queen", and his codename is a reference to the traditional symbol of cowardice. The Dumb Bunny (Athena Tremor, occupation: model), the stupid but super-strong daughter of Princess Power (parodying Wonder Woman) and Steve Tremor (parodying Steve Trevor). In later conti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior_Five |
A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permission, usually from a local council. The main purpose of building codes is to pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_code |
Circumpositional phrases involve both a preposition and a postposition, whereby the complement appears between the two. Circumpositions are common in Pashto and Kurdish. English has at least one circumpositional construction, e.g. a. From now on, he won't help.German has more of them, e.g. b. Von mir aus kannst du das ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepositional_phrase |
Parisian stitch is a longer horizontal/vertical stitch used in needlepoint next to a smaller parallel stitch to create a basketweave pattern. The end points on either end alternate in a staggered pattern.According to Thérèse de Dilmont in the Encyclopedia of Needlework: This stitch, though it is generally worked on sil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parisian_stitch |
Energy poverty affects teaching and learning. Lack of access to energy reduces children performance and attendance.Example In sub-Saharan African countries, energy poverty is especially challenging, due to the high cost of extending grid electricity in existing scattered rural settlement. For example, in Tanzania, ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_poverty_and_gender |
IEC 62264 consists of the following parts detailed in separate IEC 62264 standard documents: Part 1:2013 Object Models and Attributes of Manufacturing Operations (Second edition 2013-05) Part 2:2013 Object model attributes (Second edition 2013-06) Part 3:2016 Activity models of manufacturing operations management (Seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62264 |
In 1932 the FAI recognized gliding, and formed a new section: the Commission Internationale de Vol à Voile (CIVV). This eventually took over the role of ISTUS. The FAI decided that the Silver C was sufficiently meritorious to be internationally recognised, and issued the first 300 before turning the awarding over to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAI_Gliding_Commission |
Some games of the series were met with controversy upon release, such as Theatre Europe. In 1983, the company received recognition for being "one of the top software houses" in the United Kingdom, and was a finalist for BBC Radio 4's New Business Enterprise Award for that year.In 1988, Cockayne took a decision to alter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Software_Services |
Product development within the telecommunication industry has traditionally followed rigorous standards for stability, protocol adherence and quality, reflected by the use of the term carrier grade to designate equipment demonstrating this high reliability and performance factor. While this model worked well in the pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Function_Virtualization |
In October 2014, Mexico's Industrial Construction Chamber announced that Grupo Garza Ponce was among the bidders for the construction of Mexico City's New International Airport. In the bidding process were other construction companies based in Nuevo León, Jalisco, and State of Mexico. This new construction was intended... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Garza_Ponce |
For example, in food stores, bread is normally sold in packaging decorated or tinted with golden or brown tones to promote the idea of home-baked and oven-freshness. People can mistake a cherry-flavored drink for being lime or lemon flavored if that drink was a green color. Additionally, a flavor can be intensified by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology |
This warm dust can be observed as a brightening in the mid-infrared light. If the circumstellar medium extends further from the supernova, the mid-infrared brightening can cause an infrared echo, causing the brightening to last more than 1000 days. These kind of supernovae belong to the rare 2010jl-like supernovae, nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_II_Supernova |
Impure properties are properties that, unlike pure properties, involve reference to a particular substance in their definition. So, for example, being a wife is a pure property while being the wife of Socrates is an impure property due to the reference to the particular "Socrates". Sometimes, the terms qualitative and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_(metaphysics) |
On 11 April 2015, she appeared in the fourteenth edition of "Amici di Maria De Filippi" with Francesco Renga and Loredana Bertè. In 2015, she starred with Margherita Buy in Io e lei by Maria Sole Tognazzi, a lesbian retelling of Edouard Molinaro's Il vizietto. The actress said she was very happy to have participated in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Ferilli |
As a result, she does not curse or drink alcohol on any videos she releases. By January 2009 she had reduced her lifecasting by a few hours a week, and by April 2009 her lifecast channel fell silent. When Ezarik first moved to Los Angeles, she was managed by Richard Frias who also manages YouTube celebrities HappySlip ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_Brain_Podcast |
X+Y, released in the US as A Brilliant Young Mind, is a 2014 British drama film directed by Morgan Matthews and starring Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins.The film, inspired by the 2007 documentary Beautiful Young Minds, focuses on a teenage English mathematics prodigy named Nathan (Asa Butterfield) who has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X+Y |
The non-generality of MTP has consequences for how a computer operating system can present the MTP device, both to other programs and to the user. According to its specification, the main purpose of MTP is to facilitate communication between media devices with transient connection. A secondary purpose being to enable c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol |
In May 2011, her installation, Dancing with Che: Enter through the Gift Shop (Kelowna Art Gallery, 2013) toured across Canada. Barbara Astman: I as artifact featured a new series of works accompanied by a comprehensive publication (McIntosh Gallery, 2014) and Barbara Astman Looking: Then and Now (Corkin Gallery), a two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Astman |
In 1922, the Reclamation Service presented a report calling for the development of a dam on the Colorado River for flood control and electric power generation. The report was principally authored by Davis, and was called the Fall-Davis report after Interior Secretary Albert Fall. The Fall-Davis report cited use of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam |
Since then, it has been the largest independent dermatology company in the world.In November 2021, Galderma bought California-based Alastin, a firm specialising in specialist skincare products, for an undisclosed price.In June 2022, Galderma announced positive results in two Phase III trials for liquid botulinum toxin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galderma |
Maritime Security in its commercial and military forms has been the primary reason for Naval presence in areas with high shipping traffic but low levels of policing. Notable areas have historically included the Caribbean Sea, and currently include piracy on the West Coast of Africa Nigeria, the East Coast of Africa, pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_Security_Regimes |
In the study of the representation theory of Lie groups, the study of representations of SU(2) is fundamental to the study of representations of semisimple Lie groups. It is the first case of a Lie group that is both a compact group and a non-abelian group. The first condition implies the representation theory is discr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory_of_SU(2) |
When a fuzzy measure is used to define a function such as the Sugeno integral or Choquet integral, these properties will be crucial in understanding the function's behavior. For instance, the Choquet integral with respect to an additive fuzzy measure reduces to the Lebesgue integral. In discrete cases, a symmetric fuzz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_measure_theory |
The northern grasshopper mouse is found in North America, but primarily in dry areas. They are similar in body size to other mice; on average they are 164 mm (6.5 in) long and about 35 g (0.077 lb) in weight. The tail is most often less than 30% of the total body length, whereas other mice tend to have longer tails add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_grasshopper_mouse |
In complexity theory, the unsolved P versus NP problem asks if all problems in NP have polynomial-time algorithms. All the best-known algorithms for NP-complete problems like 3SAT etc. take exponential time. Indeed, it is conjectured for many natural NP-complete problems that they do not have sub-exponential time algor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_time |
The Pirani gauge consists of a metal sensor wire (usually gold plated tungsten or platinum) suspended in a tube which is connected to the system whose vacuum is to be measured. The wire is usually coiled to make the gauge more compact. The connection is usually made either by a ground glass joint or a flanged metal con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_Pirani_Vacuum_Gauge |
By the mid-1960s Mao badges began to become more prevalent, and were even distributed at international events such as the 1965 Leipzig Trade Fair, but it was not until the end of 1965 that small aluminium Mao badges, similar to the Cultural Revolution badges, first started to be produced in Shanghai.Mao badges exploded... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_Mao_badge |
Forming monogamous pair bonds is a central facet of the bobtail lizard's life. Their excellent sense of direction allows the male to follow or pursue the female repeatedly, even outside of mating season. When one of the pair is killed, these skinks have even been observed grieving or brooding for their pair partner.Soc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump-tailed_skink |
Wet weather may also cause moisture on the firearm. In such cases, it is common to dry and "acclimatize" the firearm in room temperature for a short while (i.e. an hour) before applying lubricant. The bolt and any snow covers should then be left open to help remove moisture.During a competition, exchange of broken fire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon_rifle |
From the beginning, the Swedes dismissed the opportunity to acquire their own strategic nuclear forces that could reach an adversary's major population centers, because Sweden had no strategic bombers. Instead, the Swedish Government sought to develop tactical nuclear weapons to be used against militarily significant t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_program |
Most of these regions are far from the equator and near the poles, and in this case, winter days are extremely short and summer days are extremely long (could last for the entirety of each season or longer). A polar climate consists of cool summers and very cold winters, which results in treeless tundra, glaciers, or a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_climate |
Forensic pathology was founded by Rudolf Virchow, a German pathologist, who developed the Virchow method which is one of the main and popular techniques still used by forensic pathologists today. The Virchow method is of doing autopsies as well as instituting cell theory which would shed light on the effects and damage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_pathology |
The World Energy Network research program of the Japanese New Sunshine Project was divided into 3 phases during the period 1993 to 2002, its goal was to study the distribution of liquid hydrogen with hydrogen tankers based on the LNG carrier technology of self-supporting tank designs such as the prismatic and spherical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_tanker |
The setup tools in use by various distributions often include modules to set up GRUB. For example, YaST2 on SUSE Linux and openSUSE distributions and Anaconda on Fedora/RHEL distributions. StartUp-Manager and GRUB Customizer are graphical configuration editors for Debian-based distributions. The development of StartUp-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRUB_2 |
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