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For instance, symptoms such as loss of libido and sexual dysfunction are subtle, arise gradually, and may falsely indicate a differential cause. Many men with pituitary tumor-associated hyperprolactinemia may forego clinical help until they begin to experience serious endocrine and vision complications, such as major h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_prolactin |
Arbutus unedo grows to 4–7 m (13–23 ft) tall, rarely up to 15 m (50 ft), with a trunk diameter of up to 80 cm (31 in). It grows in hardiness zones 7–10.The leaves are green and glossy on the upper side, dull on the underside, 8–10 cm (3–4 in) long and 3–4 cm (1–1+1⁄2 in) broad, laurel-like and with a serrated or serrul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo |
Similarly, the chainsaw returns, but has been reintroduced as a special-use weapon that relies upon fuel, but can be used to instantly cut through enemies and provide a greater-than-normal drop of ammunition for the player.Many enemies also return from the original Doom and Doom II, such as the Revenant, Demon (now ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(2016_video_game) |
Numbers were generally felt to be diminishing and a total Canadian population was estimated at 500 to 1000 pairs. By 1987, population increases were being noted, and the Alberta population alone was estimated at 1,800 pairs. The upswing was likely due to a greater availability of food on the wintering grounds, making t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferruginous_hawk |
This type of breeder is usually regarded by the Animal Welfare, ASPCA, and other groups as likely to exhibit one or more of the following characteristics: Ignorance of selective breeding goals and techniques, and lack of familiarity with the breed standard of the type of animal being bred. Exclusive focus on the breed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_breeder |
Uses for transparencies are as varied as the organizations that use them. Certain classes, such as those associated with mathematics or history and geography use transparencies to illustrate a point or problem. Until the advent of LaTeX, math classes in particular used rolls of acetate to illustrate sufficiently long p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(overhead_projector) |
Oysters can be eaten on the half shell, raw, smoked, boiled, baked, fried, roasted, stewed, canned, pickled, steamed, or broiled, or used in a variety of drinks. Eating can be as simple as opening the shell and eating the contents, including juice. Butter and salt are often added. Poached oysters can be served on toast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_bed |
The densest at least k {\displaystyle k} problem is defined similarly to the densest at most k {\displaystyle k} subgraph problem. The problem is NP-complete, but admits 2-approximation in polynomial time. Moreover, there is some evidence that this approximation algorithm is essentially the best possible: assuming the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_subgraph |
The "prey model" diet attempts to create a diet that simulates the proportions of ingredients and nutrients seen in a prey animal's diet. In the wild, a predator gains nutrients not only from the meat and organs of the prey they are eating. A wild animal would also gain nutrients from the food their prey has previously... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_feeding |
Some organisms can exude extracellular enzymes that can act on the sequestered proteins. However, those enzymes too may be trapped on the clay crystals, resulting in a complex interaction between proteins, microbial enzymes and mineral surfaces.Ammonium fixation occurs mainly between the layers of 2:1 type clay mineral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_nutrients_in_soil |
For practical reasons, the Swiss franc was initially created as having parity with the French franc of the day (introduced 1795), with 1 franc equivalent to 5 grams of silver at 90% purity. The official exchange rate with the cantonal concordate currency was seven Batzen to one franc. The first coins of the Swiss franc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Swiss_franc |
Enterochromaffin-like cells or ECL cells are a type of neuroendocrine cell found in the gastric glands of the gastric mucosa beneath the epithelium, in particular in the vicinity of parietal cells, that aid in the production of gastric acid via the release of histamine. They are also considered a type of enteroendocrin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterochromaffin-like_cell |
Poorly coded pages are sometimes colloquially called tag soup. Validating via W3C can only be done when a correct DOCTYPE declaration is made, which is used to highlight errors in code. The system identifies the errors and areas that do not conform to web design standards. This information can then be corrected by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_web_design |
The reflective side is usually made by a composition of bronze, copper, tin, and lead. The word "mirror" means "to reflect" or "to look into" in Chinese, so bronze mirrors have been used as a trope for reflecting the reality. The ancient Chinese believe that mirror can act as a representation of the reality, which coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_art |
The crinkle-collared manucode (Manucodia chalybatus) is a species of bird-of-paradise. The crinkle-collared manucode is found throughout lowlands and hill forests in mainland New Guinea and Misool Island of West Papua. The diet consists mainly of fruits and figs. Widespread and a common species throughout its habitat r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinkle-collared_manucode |
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a rapidly expanding field both in academia and research. Most of the literature on SHM is based on experimental observations and physically expected models. There are some mathematical models that give analytical theory to model the damage. Such mathematical models for structures w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_framework |
This is how the credit line will be used during each transaction: Client withdraws money (“cash-out” transaction): agent account is credited in same amount. Client deposits money (“cash-in” transaction): agent account is debited in same amount.In case the agent's credit line had reached its limits, and the agent's bank... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_agent |
Carrier grade open framework (CGOF) is a hardware-independent architecture for the telecommunications industry. CGOF is based on a collection of open standards and is offered as a basis for new solution development. CGOF specifies the functional components needed to create next generation network (NGN) solutions, the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Grade_Open_Framework |
Use of switches depends on the user's muscle tone, spasticity, visual ability, cognitive function and interests. Switch adapted toys can generate blinking or changing lights and music, speaking, vibration, noises, fans, aromatherapy, massage, songs with number, alphabet or nursery rhyme content and even voice recording... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_adapted_toys |
Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers who worked in Fruton's lab include: Mary Ellen Jones, Melvin Fried, Hannelore Würz, Peter Heinrich, Karen Nilsson, Bob Metrione, Yoshihiro Okuda, George Taborsky, Christine Zioudrou, Maxine Singer, Louis Cohen, Frederick Newth, John Thanassi, Charles Drey, Derek George Smyth,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_S._Fruton |
Introduced species have been observed to undergo rapid evolutionary change to adapt to their new environments, with changes in plant height, size, leaf shape, dispersal ability, reproductive output, vegetative reproduction ability, level of dependence on the mycorrhizal network, and level of phenotype plasticity appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_weed |
The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts—including the Dead Sea Scrolls—date to about the 2nd century BCE (fragmentary) and some are stored at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The oldest extant complete text survives in a Greek translation called the Septuagint, dating to the 4th century CE (Codex Sinaiticus).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_the_Bible |
The equivalence of Re(Sm) to the time-average of the instantaneous Poynting vector S can be shown as follows. The average of the instantaneous Poynting vector S over time is given by: The second term is the double-frequency component having an average value of zero, so we find: According to some conventions, the factor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector |
In the 1930s, they promoted a new pecan pie recipe that featured corn syrup, followed by a similar, nut-free chess pie recipe, in a bid to drive sales. Later, they promoted it as an alternative to maple syrup for waffles. As cooking in the home declined in the 21st century, so that fewer people made candies or pies at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Syrup |
Craft service or craft services is the department in film, television and video production which provides cast and crew with snacks, drinks and other assistance. Craft service workers are nicknamed "crafties" because they provide their services to the other departments, known as crafts, in a set. In the United States a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft_services |
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1928, adopted unanimously on June 7, 2010, after recalling resolutions 825 (1993), 1540 (2004), 1695 (2006), 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009) and 1887 (2009) on the topics of North Korea and nuclear weapons, the Council extended the mandate of a panel of experts monitoring sanctions a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1928 |
In any given text some of the words may have more than one meaning, causing ambiguity in analysis. Lexical categorisation looks at the context of a word to try to determine the correct meaning in the context of the input. This can involve part-of-speech tagging and word sense disambiguation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer-based_machine_translation |
This device is also known as home phototherapy system, bilirubin blanket, or bidirectional fiber-optic phototherapy blanket.Different types of phototherapy for jaundice involve a blue light of varying types of light, wavelengths, and degrees of irradiance. The light waves promote breakdown of bilirubin and allow it to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_light |
One of the driving forces of the development of the V-chip was the signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by President Bill Clinton. The television industry was given the opportunity to establish ratings for its programming. The act also ordered that half of all television sets at least 13″ after July 1, 1999, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-chip |
The Buddha identified two paramount mental qualities that arise from wholesome meditative practice or bhavana, namely samatha ("calm," "serenity" "tranquility") and vipassana (insight). As the developing tradition started to emphasize the value of liberating insight, and dhyana came to be understood as concentration, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_meditation |
Both types stop sperm from entering the woman's uterus, thereby preventing pregnancy from occurring. Another type of contraception is the birth control pill, which stops ovulation from occurring by combining the chemicals progestin and estrogen. Many women use this method of contraception, however, they discontinue usi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_reproductive_health |
A diesel engine may be more fuel-efficient than an avgas engine. However, very few diesel aircraft engines have been certified by aviation authorities. Diesel aircraft engines are uncommon today, even though opposed-piston aviation diesel powerplants such as the Junkers Jumo 205 family had been used during the Second W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_A |
The control pressure is regulated with a mechanical device called the control pressure regulator (CPR) or the warm-up regulator (WUR). Depending on the model, the CPR may be used to compensate for altitude, full load, and/or a cold engine. The injectors are simple spring-loaded check valves with nozzles; once fuel syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosch_D-Jetronic |
In 2021, researchers published the first in-depth study of Web browser tab interfaces in over a decade. They found that many people struggle with tab overload and conducted surveys and interviews about people's tab use. Thereby they formalized pressures for closing tabs and for keeping tabs open. The authors then devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tab |
The log-likelihood of the power parameter appears in panel (b). The horizontal reference line is at a distance of χ12/2 from the maximum and can be used to read off an approximate 95% confidence interval for λ. It appears as though a value close to zero would be good, so we take logs. Possibly, the transformation could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box–Cox_transformation |
Archaeomagnetic dating is the study and interpretation of the signatures of the Earth's magnetic field at past times recorded in archaeological materials. These paleomagnetic signatures are fixed when ferromagnetic materials such as magnetite cool below the Curie point, freezing the magnetic moment of the material in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeomagnetic_dating |
Dowd, who had defended Senator John McCain of Arizona during the Keating Five investigation in the late 1980s, cited how he took exception to Mitchell's scolding of McCain and others for having a conflict of interest with their actions in the case and how the baseball investigation would be a "burden" for him when Mitc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Report |
Prior to this, Medieval Christianity tended to emphasize the four senses of Scripture: the literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogical; however, interpretation is always subject to the Church's magisterium. The process for determining the original meaning of the text is through examination of the grammatical and syntac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical-grammatical_method |
And he reflects upon all this, and holds his peace, and does his own business. He is like one who retires under the shelter of a wall in the storm of dust and sleet which the driving wind hurries along; and when he sees the rest of mankind full of wickedness, he is content if only he can live his own life and be pure f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_corruption |
K3Ta3B2O12 is another catalyst solely activated by UV and above light. It does not have the performance or quantum yield of NaTaO3:La. However, it can split water without the assistance of co-catalysts and gives a quantum yield of 6.5%, along with a water splitting rate of 1.21 mmol/h. This ability is due to the pillar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photocatalytic_water_splitting |
It is the most recent dialect, which appeared by the settlement of families from various other Brazilian regions attracted by the cheap land offer in recently deforested areas. Recifense – used in Recife and its metropolitan area. Amazônico Ocidental — used in the extreme Western Amazon region, namely: Southwestern Ama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language |
While a first year undergraduate student, he published his first paper, in which he solved a problem of Aleksandr Khinchin, and wrote to Khinchin about the solution. Another important influence was the Leningrad number theorist Yuri Linnik, who was Sprindzuk's advisor for his Russian doctorate of sciences. In 1965 Spri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Gennadievich_Sprindzuk |
Space weather is the environmental condition within the Solar System, including the solar wind. It is studied especially surrounding the Earth, including conditions from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere and thermosphere. Space weather is distinct from terrestrial weather of the troposphere and stratosphere. The term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_phenomena |
Cleidocranial Dysplasia (CCD) is a disorder characterised by the identification of a heterozygous pathogenic variant in RUNX2 (CBFA1) and/or various clinical presentations and radiographs. There is a wide range of clinical presentations found in patients with CCD, including patients with a classical presentation of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_eruption |
The sneakoscope appears again on the Hogwarts Express, and again in Harry and Ron's dormitory. Harry later discovers that Scabbers, Ron's rat, who is present each time the Sneakoscope is spinning, is actually Peter Pettigrew in Animagus form. In Goblet of Fire, Alastor Moody has several sneakoscopes that he somehow dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_of_Erised |
Nets can be placed by low-powered vessels making it fuel efficient. Drift nets are also effective at bringing in large amounts of fish in one catch.Prior to the 1960s net size was not limited, and commercially produced nets were commonly as long as 50 kilometres (31 mi). In 1987 the U.S. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_netting |
Public perception of climate change as a distant issue may threaten climate action. If the public's perception of their relative distance to climate change is driven by a construal level process, then the level at which the public construes climate change is an important determinant of their support for climate action.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_distance |
Population pyramids are often viewed as the most effective way to graphically depict the age and distribution of a population, partly because of the very clear image these pyramids provide. A great deal of information about the population broken down by age and sex can be read from a population pyramid, and this can sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid |
A concave mirror, or converging mirror, has a reflecting surface that is recessed inward (away from the incident light). Concave mirrors reflect light inward to one focal point. They are used to focus light. Unlike convex mirrors, concave mirrors show different image types depending on the distance between the object a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving_mirror |
Many of these were shramanas, who represented a non-Vedic tradition rooted in India's pre-Aryan history. The emphasis of the Upanishads turned to knowledge, specifically the ultimate identity of all phenomena. This is expressed in the notion of Brahman, the key idea of the Upanishads, and much later philosophizing has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheistic_religion |
1967 – Andrei Sakharov presents the requirements for baryogenesis, a baryon-antibaryon asymmetry in the universe. 1967 – John Bahcall, Wal Sargent, and Maarten Schmidt measure the fine-structure splitting of spectral lines in 3C191 and thereby show that the fine-structure constant does not vary significantly with time.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_cosmological_theories |
Another example of an adaptive function other than prey immobilization is the role of viperid venom in allowing the snake to track a prey animal it has bitten, a process known as "prey relocalization." This important adaptation allowed rattlesnakes to evolve the strike-and-release bite mechanism, which provided a huge ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_snake_venom |
Top-down processing relies on the surrounding information in a sentence to fill in the missing information. If the sentence does not make sense to the observer then there will be little at the top of the process for the observer to go off of. If a puzzle piece of a familiar picture was missing, it would be very simple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_restoration_effect |
On August 2, 2010, Trillian 5.0 was released as a public beta. Newer features included a resize-able interface, History synchronization, a new ribbon inspired interface with Windows theme integration, new "marble-like" icons for service providers, the option to revert to the Trillian 3 & 4 interfaces, and a new social ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(software) |
By looking at the Drosophila melanogaster population data, Lee et al. found a reduced amount of heterogeneity within 25 base pairs of focal substitutions. They accredit this to small-scale hitchhiking effects. They also found that neighboring fixations that changed amino acid polarities while maintaining the overall po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_(population_genetics) |
Conservation status is a measure used in conservation biology to assess an ecoregion's degree of habitat alteration and habitat conservation. It is used to set priorities for conservation. Conservation status and biological distinctiveness were the two measures used by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to develop the Globa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregion_conservation_status |
The name Nemesis was kept for the game's worldwide release, as the game retains some of the elements that were otherwise exclusive to the MSX titles, such as hidden bonus stages. It was later ported with full color support as one of the four games in the Konami GB Collection Vol. 1 for Game Boy Color entitled "Gradius"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradius |
The epic deals with a rivalry between the cities of Uruk and Aratta. Enmerkar, the king of Uruk, wishes to adorn his city with jewels and precious metals, but cannot do so because such minerals are only found in Aratta and, since trade does not yet exist, the resources are not available to him. Inanna, who is the patro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna |
At the hardware interface level, SATA and PATA (Parallel AT Attachment) devices are completely incompatible: they cannot be interconnected without an adapter. At the application level, SATA devices can be specified to look and act like PATA devices.Many motherboards offer a "Legacy Mode" option, which makes SATA drives... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_SATA |
Under the new law, they simply have to notify the Civil Registry that they wish to change the gender information on their birth certificates. Sex reassignment surgery, psychological therapies or any other type of diagnosis are no longer required. The law took effect in early 2015. On 13 July 2017, the Michoacán Congres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights |
Cold stratification is the process of subjecting seeds to both cold and moist conditions. Seeds of many trees, shrubs and perennials require these conditions before germination will ensue. In the wild, seed dormancy is usually overcome by the seed spending time in the ground through a winter period and having its hard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratification_(botany) |
Evidence for pressure solution has been described from sedimentary rocks that have only been affected by compaction. The most common example of this is bedding plane parallel stylolites developed in carbonates. In a tectonic manner, deformed rocks also show evidence of pressure solution including stylolites at a high a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_solution |
The particles would be collected in an aerogel and returned to Earth inside a small sealed capsule. Analysis of the dust could confirm the origin of the suspected meteorites on Earth from Mars.SCIM was studied in 2002 for the 2007 Mars Scout Program mission as a relatively low-cost, low-risk Mars sample return. It achi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_Collection_for_Investigation_of_Mars |
Window cleaning is considered the most dangerous job in the UK. Several window cleaners die each year, and many are injured.Many window cleaning businesses are claiming that laws are about to come into force due to European Directive 2001/45/EC that will make ladders illegal for window cleaners. However, the government... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_washer |
The ruddy darter is to be found in temperate regions throughout Europe as far east as Siberia and as far south as the northern Sahara. Its conservation status is regarded as secure, and indeed numbers seem to be increasing in some locations such as central England. It is present in the following countries: Albania; Alg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddy_darter |
However, there are applications in which the hobbyist can benefit from the range of fasteners that are available. They are easier and require less skill to install than some of the other more traditional techniques. Knock-down fasteners are typically used for carcase joinery; furniture designs using them are usually of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-down_fastener |
Epyc server CPUs with Zen 4, codenamed Genoa, were officially unveiled at AMD's Accelerated Data Center Premiere Keynote on November 8, 2021, and released a year later in November 2022. They have up to 96 Zen 4 cores and support both PCIe 5.0 and DDR5. Furthermore, Zen 4 Cloud (a variant of Zen 4), abbreviated to Zen 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Zen |
Abdominal thrusts are performed with the rescuer embracing the belly of the choking victim from behind. Then, the rescuer closes their own dominant hand, grasps it with the other hand, and presses forcefully with them on the area located between the chest and the belly button of the victim, in a direction of in-and-up.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choking |
The Identity Cards Act 2006 implemented a national ID scheme backed by a National Identity Register – an ambitious database linking a variety of data including Police, Health, Immigration, Electoral Rolls and other records. Several groups such as No2ID formed to campaign against ID cards in Britain and more importantly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_age |
Feelings of school belonging can have a significant influence on academic development and outcomes for students. School belonging is related to students' expectancy of success, effort in school, and perceived value of school and education. Greater feelings of school belonging has been shown to increase engagement and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_belonging |
Simmons & Simmons is an international law firm with headquarters in London, UK. About half of its staff are in the London office, in CityPoint, off Moorgate. It has offices in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. The firm serves customers worldwide, with practices covering asset management, investment f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simmons_&_Simmons |
There are eight major evidence-based medications for treating nicotine dependence: bupropion, cytisine (not approved for use in some countries, including the US), nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine lozenge/mini-lozenge, nicotine nasal spray, nicotine patch, and varenicline. These medications have been shown to si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_dependence |
In most areas vertebrates contribute the most to biomass consumed, varying from 66% to 96% in various studies, and birds made up between 32% and 85% of the vertebrates. Invertebrates dominate numerically, and young are fed large numbers of them. Bats generally contribute less than 14% of prey biomass but some pairs see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_falcon |
The breeding season in India is mainly February to May (before the Monsoons) while it is March to June in Sri Lanka. When they sit still, the appear hunched. The Hindi name used by hunters is kafni churi and refers to the hunched neckless appearance as if dressed in a fakir's kafni (robe). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malabar_trogon |
Though they were mimicked, enslaved Africans were not allowed to join the festivities. In response, the Africans organized underground Carnivals of their own, taking place in cabins and backyards. Inspired by ancient traditions, Africans incorporated masks, feathers, beads, and drumming.In 1789, Spanish governor of Tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_band |
"John Kenneth Galbraith noted that "trickle-down economics" had been tried before in the United States in the 1890s under the name "horse-and-sparrow theory", writing: Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics |
That way, incrementing a value from 1 to 2 requires only one bit to change, instead of two. Gray codes are widely used to prevent spurious output from electromechanical switches and to facilitate error correction in digital communications such as digital terrestrial television and some cable TV systems. The use of Gray... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varec_code |
The American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae, found in North America. It spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from side to side in water as it seeks crustacean and insect prey. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_avocet |
In September 2002, the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil organized a world meeting for culture, bringing together mayors and technical directors of culture from different cities of the world, with observers from civil society. The cities of Porto Alegre and Barcelona have proposed the drafting of a reference document for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_diversity |
The two-factor model of delusions posits that dysfunction in both belief formation systems and belief evaluation systems are necessary for delusions. Dysfunction in evaluations systems localized to the right lateral prefrontal cortex, regardless of delusion content, is supported by neuroimaging studies and is congruent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_delusions |
commutatum, communal with stems growing from rhizomes. Common names of this variety include white prairie aster, western heath aster, and little grey aster, as well as cluster aster.S. falcatum is one of the parents of the two allopolyploidal Symphyotrichum species S. ascendens and S. defoliatum. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphyotrichum_falcatum |
A conditionally complete lattice is a lattice in which every nonempty subset that has an upper bound has a join (that is, a least upper bound). Such lattices provide the most direct generalization of the completeness axiom of the real numbers. A conditionally complete lattice is either a complete lattice, or a complete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_order |
Hypogonadism can involve just hormone production or just fertility, but most commonly involves both. Examples of hypogonadism that affect hormone production more than fertility are hypopituitarism and Kallmann syndrome; in both cases, fertility is reduced until hormones are replaced but can be achieved solely with horm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_hypogonadism |
Lessing wrote an afterword for a UK edition. Freeman Dyson was also a fan, admitting to basing his concept of Dyson spheres on a section of the book, even calling "Stapledon sphere" a better name for the idea. Among SF writers, Arthur C. Clarke has been most strongly influenced by Stapledon. Some of Stapledon's contemp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker |
a. Collagenase (breakdown of collagen) in the jaw bone leads to bone degeneration, providing room for cysts to develop. Substances released by the body's immune system as a result of the connective tissue breakdown, such as cytokines and growth factors, contribute to the mobilization and proliferation of epithelial cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periapical_cyst |
In the average person, the diaphragm should be intersected by the 5th to 7th anterior ribs at the mid-clavicular line, and 9 to 10 posterior ribs should be viewable on a normal PA inspiratory film. An increase in the number of viewable ribs implies hyperinflation, as can occur, for example, with obstructive lung diseas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chest_X-rays |
The BBC approached Walter Tuckwell, a New Zealand-born entrepreneur who was handling product merchandising for other BBC shows, and asked him to do the same for the Daleks and Doctor Who. Tuckwell created a glossy sales brochure that sparked off a Dalek craze, dubbed "Dalekmania" by the press, which peaked in 1965. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek |
Due to the strict enforcement of anticlerical laws, people in strongly Catholic states, especially Jalisco, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Colima and Michoacán, began to oppose him, and this opposition led to the Cristero War from 1926 to 1929, which was characterized by atrocities on both sides. Some Cristeros applied terrori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism |
"In 2006, an illiterate Saudi woman, Fawza Falih, was convicted of practising witchcraft, including casting an impotence spell, and sentenced to death by beheading, after allegedly being beaten and forced to fingerprint a false confession that had not been read to her. After an appeal court had cast doubt on the validi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trial |
Musical performances by the Grateful Dead were commonplace, along with black lights, strobe lights, and fluorescent paint. The Acid Tests are notable for their influence on the LSD-based counterculture of the San Francisco area and subsequent transition from the beat generation to the hippie movement. The Jefferson Air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Tests |
On March 25, 2019, Apple announced Apple News+, a subscription-based service allowing access to content from over 300 magazines, as well as selected newspapers. The service was preceded by the digital media subscription app Texture, which Apple acquired in 2018.The Wall Street Journal, one of the newspapers available t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_News |
Australia: As of 2015, South Australia is the only Australian state or territory to keep reliable abortion statistics. During 2012, 92% of abortions were performed before 14 weeks' gestation, 6% between 14 and 20 weeks, and 2% (n=96) at a later stage. Of the 96 abortions carried out beyond 20 weeks, 53 were due to actu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-term_abortion |
The nominee's fee is a fee charged in relation to the work performed up to the point when the IVA is agreed. It is reclaimed from payments into the IVA before any dividend is paid to creditors. The supervisor's fee is an ongoing fee in relation to the work performed during an IVA. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_voluntary_arrangement |
The airline industry is moving from the use of traditional paper tickets towards the use of electronic tickets (e-tickets). These have been made possible by advances in online credit card transactions in partnership with the airlines. Long-distance bus companies are also switching over to e-ticketing transactions today... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Architecture |
Permanent mold casting is a metal casting process that employs reusable molds ("permanent molds"), usually made from metal. The most common process uses gravity to fill the mold, however gas pressure or a vacuum are also used. A variation on the typical gravity casting process, called slush casting, produces hollow cas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_mold_casting |
Beginning in the 1960s, it was used to treat children with ADHD based on earlier work starting with the studies by American psychiatrist Charles Bradley on the use of psychostimulant drugs, such as Benzedrine, with then called "maladjusted children". Production and prescription of methylphenidate rose significantly in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidate |
The Genesis library was initially modest, but eventually grew to contain games to appeal to all types of players. The initial pack-in game was Altered Beast, which was later replaced with Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991. Top sellers included Sonic the Hedgehog, its sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Disney's Aladdin. During d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_CDX |
It was assigned by the British HM Nautical Almanac Office in the late 1930s; the Royal Air Force insisted that all bright stars must have names, the star hitherto having lacked a proper name. Alpha has an apparent (or visual) magnitude of 1.91 and spectral type B2IV. It is a spectroscopic binary system, one estimate pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavo_(constellation) |
OMA was synchronized by Cesium Reference clock run by CSAV Czech Academy of Sciences, Kobylisy, Prague. Limited series of secondary 5MHz references with thermostat were manufactured by the institute. The secondary reference employed single transistor crystal oscillator with XF filter. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMA_(time_signal) |
Saussure likewise rejected the idea of the Darwinian linguists August Schleicher and Max Müller, who considered languages as living organisms arguing that linguistics belongs to life sciences. Saussure illustrates the historical development of languages by way of his distinction between the synchronic and the diachroni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diachrony_and_synchrony |
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