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Roadrunner Records, expecting to make a fair profit from album promotions, dropped the band's funding, causing Machine Head to leave the label. At the same time the band was leaving Roadrunner, Luster departed from the band for musical differences. By 2002, Machine Head had sold over 1.3 million albums worldwide, and o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Head_(band)
Also, as part of a move to make products more friendly to beginners, booster packs include a basic land in place of one of the commons, and pre-constructed decks will be rebranded as "Intro Packs" including a 41-card preconstructed deck and one booster pack. There were design changes to the fat pack, which for Shards o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alara_block
In other contexts, the concern may be the net-obligation or net-cashflow. Here the fund manager employs Interest rate immunization or cashflow matching. Immunization is a strategy that ensures that a change in interest rates will not affect the value of a fixed-income portfolio (an increase in rates results in a decrea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_risk_management
As a mathematical concept, flux is represented by the surface integral of a vector field, Φ F = ∬ A F ⋅ d A {\displaystyle \Phi _{F}=\iint _{A}\mathbf {F} \cdot \mathrm {d} \mathbf {A} } Φ F = ∬ A F ⋅ n d A {\displaystyle \Phi _{F}=\iint _{A}\mathbf {F} \cdot \mathbf {n} \,\mathrm {d} A} where F is a vector field, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_flux
The site was then converted into a wetland reserve.The Pontefract and District Archaeological Society won the Pitt Rivers award for their work on the preservation of the ships and heritage that was found in the abandoned river bed after the water was diverted. The find provided a unique insight into river trade in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddball_(dragline_excavator)
As a consequence of the Falklands War of 1982, Chemring established a new factory to produce aluminium glass chaff decoys; these were deployed across the vessels of the Royal Navy to counteract the threat of sea-skimming missiles. In 1986, Chemring acquired Pains Wessex, a firm specialising in pyrotechnics; since renam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemring_Group
Control of retinoic acid levels is maintained by a suite of proteins that control synthesis and degradation of retinoic acid.The molecular basis for the interaction between all-trans-retinoic acid and the Hox genes has been studied by using deletion analysis in transgenic mice carrying constructs of GFP reporter genes....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinoic_Acid
As children read and interpret syntactically ambiguous sentences, the speed at which initial syntactic commitments are made is lower in children than in adults. Furthermore, children appear to be less skilled at directing their attention back to the part of the sentence that is most informative in terms of aiding reana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity
In the field of psychology, triangulations are necessary steps in the child's development. When a two-party relationship is opened up by a third party, a new form of relationship emerges and the child gains new mental abilities. The concept was introduced in 1971 by the Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Ernst L. Abelin, especiall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_(psychology)
Recently the case of genus-1 fillings was settled affirmatively, as well (see reference by Bangert et al. below). Namely, it turns out that one can exploit a half-century old formula by J. Hersch from integral geometry. Namely, consider the family of figure-8 loops on a football, with the self-intersection point at the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_geometry
The nutrient content of soils at different elevations further complicates the demarcation of altitudinal zones. Soils with higher nutrient content, due to higher decomposition rates or greater weathering of rocks, better support larger trees and vegetation. The elevation of better soils varies with the particular mount...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitudinal_zonation
In his "table talk", Hitler described how the presence of German and English soldiers in the combat areas which he had served in during World War I had, in his view, improved the quality of the young people who he saw there in 1940, in a "Nordicizing process, the results of which are today incontestable". He also said...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_theory
For example, the following sentence patterns are common in topic-prominent languages:Mandarin Japanese They do not have articles, which are another way of indicating old vs. new information. The distinction between subject and object is not reliably marked.The Lolo–Burmese language Lisu has been described as highly top...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-prominent_language
Nitrous oxide is one of the most prominent anthropogenic ozone-depleting gases in the atmosphere. It is released into the atmosphere primarily through natural sources such as soil and rock, as well as anthropogenic process like farming. Atmospheric nitrous oxide is also created in the atmosphere as a product of a react...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_monitoring
Predatory publishers present themselves as academic journals but use lax or no peer review processes coupled with aggressive advertising in order to generate revenue from article processing charges from authors. The definitions of 'predatory', 'deceptive', or 'questionable' publishers/journals are often vague, opaque, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journals
(No compass is affected by nonferromagnetic metal, although a magnetic compass will be affected by any kind of wires with electric current passing through them. )Large ships typically rely on a gyrocompass, using the magnetic compass only as a backup. Increasingly, electronic fluxgate compasses are used on smaller vess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Compass
As with many words derived with the "æ" ligature, simplification to either "ae" or just "e" is common, especially in North America. In the US, the majority of college, university, and residency programmes, and even the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, still use the spelling with the digraph ae, though hospital...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopaedic_Surgery
Insurgent forces can cause harm and create chaos (whereby the conventional army suffers a loss of confidence and esteem); or they can drive the conventional elements into an attack which further exacerbates the civilian condition. The major militaries of today are largely set up to fight the "last war" (previous war) a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_military
Dialkylbiaryl phosphine ligands are phosphine ligands that are used in homogeneous catalysis. They have proved useful in Buchwald-Hartwig amination and etherification reactions as well as Negishi cross-coupling, Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling, and related reactions. In addition to these Pd-based processes, their use has...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialkylbiaryl_phosphine_ligands
Then, the natural bacterial replication pathways use them to accurately replicate the plasmid containing d5SICS–dNaM. The successful incorporation of a third base pair is a significant breakthrough toward the goal of greatly expanding the number of amino acids which can be encoded by DNA, from the existing 20 amino aci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase_analogue
In a Swedish (2003) study benzodiazepines were implicated in 39% of suicides by drug poisoning in the elderly 1992–1996. Nitrazepam and flunitrazepam accounted for 90% of benzodiazepine implicated suicides. In cases where benzodiazepines contributed to death, but were not the sole cause, drowning, typically in the bath...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_overdose
Since 2013 he has also been an associate professor at the Center for Gender and Africa Studies at the Free State University (Bloemfontein) in South Africa. From 2017 to 2023 he was President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes ( EADI) in Bonn. Since 2015 he has been a Senior Rese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Melber
Glass-ceramics exhibit advantageous thermal, chemical, biological, and dielectric properties as compared to metals or organic polymers.The most commercially important property of glass-ceramics is their imperviousness to thermal shock. Thus, glass-ceramics have become extremely useful for countertop cooking and industr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicate_glass
In the 1960s, the university formulated an expansion plan. With financial assistance from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the support of the Ford Foundation, advice from Dunwoody Industrial Institute in the US, and a donation of land by Chile's Agricultural Development Institute INDAP (from the Spanish "Inst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Santa_María_Technical_University
Dark matter searches in isolated noble gas scintillators with xenon and argon have set limits on WIMP interactions, such as recent cross sections from LUX and XENON. Particles scattering in the target emit photons detected by PMTs, identified via pulse shape discrimination developed on DEAP results. Shielding reduces t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_Low-Energy_Astrophysics_with_Neon
Projects within this area operate to utilize mobile phones' ability to collect and transmit data quickly, cheaply, and relatively efficiently. Data concerning the location and levels of specific diseases (such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB, Avian Flu) can help medical systems or ministries of health or other organizations i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_health
In many of these cancers such as AML, eIF4E is enriched in nuclei and several of eIF4E’s activities are found to be elevated in primary patient specimens, including capping, splicing, RNA export, and translation. In the first clinical trials targeting eIF4E, old antiviral drug ribavirin was used as a m7G cap competitor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryotic_translation_initiation_factor_4E
kicker See main article: kicker kill button In a kill game, a button that shows which player has the kill action. See main article: kill game kill game, kill pot See main article: kill game kill hand A hand with different betting rules in a kill game. See main article: kill game kitty A pool of money built by collectin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_aces
There have been recent claims that the DMCA-embedded concepts of direct financial benefit, interference with standard technical measures, and the legislative red flag test for identifying infringing material are significantly challenged by the explosion of user-generated content unleashed by Web 2.0 technologies. Web 2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA_takedown_notice
( p times ) . . . a ^ | n ⟩ = 0 {\displaystyle Tr=\sum \limits _{n,m}c_{n,m}\langle m|{\hat {a}}...({\text{p times}})...{\hat {a}}|n\rangle =0} for p > m {\displaystyle p>m} . This result would be unintuitive in a classical description, but fortunately such a case has no classical counterpart because we cannot put an u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_order_coherence
Echoes of Apollo is an international organisation formed in January 2009 by Pat Barthelow (USA) and Robert Brand (Australia). Robert has worked on international space projects including Apollo 11 communications and Pat has limited experience with Bouncing amateur radio transmissions off the Moon - EME (communications)....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoes_of_Apollo
Zeroing weak references is a feature in Objective-C ARC that automatically clears (sets to nil) weak-reference local variables, instance variables, and declared properties immediately before the object being pointed to starts deallocating. This ensures that the pointer goes to either a valid object or nil, and avoids d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
In Finland, no party has had an absolute majority in the parliament since independence, and multi-party coalitions have been the norm. Finland experienced its most stable government (Lipponen I and II) since independence with a five-party governing coalition, a so-called "rainbow government". The Lipponen cabinets set ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_agreement
Warfare is a good example of a cost of group living, and Richard Sosis, Howard C. Kress, and James S. Boster carried out a cross-cultural survey which demonstrated that men in societies which engage in war do submit to the costliest rituals.Studies that show more direct positive associations between religious practice ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology_of_religion
In the UK, Everard Calthrop, a railway engineer and breeder of Arab horses, invented and marketed through his Aerial Patents Company a "British Parachute" and the "Guardian Angel" parachute. As part of an investigation into Calthrop's design, on 13 January 1917, test pilot Clive Franklyn Collett successfully jumped fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram-air_parachute
Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions defines the LGN as "one of two elevations of the lateral posterior thalamus receiving visual impulses from the retina via the optic nerves and tracts and relaying the impulses to the calcarine (visual) cortex".What is seen in the left and right visual field i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight
The thrips species Gynaikothrips australis feeds on the underside of new leaves of F. obliqua, as well as F. rubiginosa and F. macrophylla. As plant cells die, nearby cells are induced into forming meristem tissue. A gall results and the leaves become distorted and curl over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-leaved_fig
Asus ZenFone is a series of Android smartphones designed, marketed and produced by Asus. The first-generation ZenFones were announced at the 2014 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Various models are powered by a series of Intel Atom, Qualcomm Snapdragon, and MediaTek processors. Some ZenFone also features ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_ZenFone
WAGASCI-BabyMIND is a new detector located next to the INGRID and ND280 detectors, devoted to neutrino interaction studies. It provided the first neutrino beam data using a full detector setup during the 2019/2020 winter run.The WAGASCI-BabyMIND consists of several sub-detectors: Two new water-scintillator detectors (W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RE13_experiment
With the rise of the self-advocacy movement within the disability movement, "jargonized" language has been much objected to by advocates and self-advocates. Jargon is largely present in everyday language, in newspapers, government documents, and official forms. Several advocacy organizations work on influencing public ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_language
Polyphase power enabled the use of water-power (via hydroelectric generating plants in large dams) in remote places, thereby allowing the mechanical energy of the falling water to be converted to electricity, which then could be fed to an electric motor at any location where mechanical work needed to be done. This vers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-phase_AC
This is Black's most solid response, preparing 3...d5. It is closely related to the French Defence, to which it often transposes. White can transpose to the Advance Variation of the French Defence with 3.d4 d5 4.e5. Alternatively, White can transpose to a sort of Tarrasch French with 3.d4 d5 4.Nd2, or try to demonstrat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Defense,_Alapin_Variation
In literature, the competent man (or peak-human) is a stock character who exhibits a very wide range of abilities and knowledge, making him a form of polymath. While not the first to use such a character type, the heroes and heroines of Robert A. Heinlein's fiction (with Jubal Harshaw being a prime example) generally h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man
The Plan's "hidden agenda" was "he reconstruction of the natural environment to fit the requirements of republican authority." Even though "he Commissioners wrote as if all they cared about was protecting the investments of land developers and maintaining government-on-the-cheap ... the plan ... however, served to tran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners'_Plan_of_1811
Pineda-Cortel also does research to determine the effects of climate change and other environmental factors on dengue incidence and number of cases per region. Her studies show a strong correlation between the incidence of dengue and temperature, rainfall and humidity. Because the Philippines lie in the tropics, these ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ruth_B._Pineda-Cortel
Many of his Middle dialogues (written from 387 to 361, after the establishment of his Academy), and later dialogues (written in the period between 361 and his death in 347) incorporate Socrates' character and are often included here as well. However, this interpretation of the corpus is not universally accepted. The ti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_dialogue
In that sense, if this argument is accepted, our minds mutually interpenetrate. 'Mind' in the human sense is not locked inside this or that skull but instead is relational, stretching between us. According to evolutionary psychologist Michael Tomasello, a human child normally achieves egocentric perspective reversal—vi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_social_mind
Siberian cranes return to the Arctic tundra around the end of April and beginning of May. The nest is usually on the edge of lake in boggy ground and is usually surrounded by water. Most eggs are laid in the first week of June when the tundra is snow free. The usual clutch is two eggs, which are incubated by the female...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_crane
Atriplex cinerea can be distinguished from other species of the genus Atriplex if it has all of the following features: A perennial shrub which can be dioecious (unlike A. semibraccata, A. acutibractea, A. angulate, A. eardleyae, A. leptocarpa, A. limbata, A. papillate, A. pseudocampanulata, A. pumilio, A. spinbractea,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atriplex_cinerea
A very simple bridge-finding algorithm uses chain decompositions. Chain decompositions do not only allow to compute all bridges of a graph, they also allow to read off every cut vertex of G (and the block-cut tree of G), giving a general framework for testing 2-edge- and 2-vertex-connectivity (which extends to linear-t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeless_graph
In traditional European ("Western") rhythms, the most fundamental parts typically emphasize the primary beats. By contrast, in rhythms of sub-Saharan African origin, the most fundamental parts typically emphasize the secondary beats. This often causes the uninitiated ear to misinterpret the secondary beats as the prima...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyrhythm
As a further improvement of hyaluronic acid solution, usefulness of a mixture of high-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and sugar has also been reported,. ESD is characterized by three steps: injecting fluid into the submucosa to elevate the lesion from the muscle layer, circumferential cutting of the surroun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoscopic_submucosal_dissection
A signal-flow graph or signal-flowgraph (SFG), invented by Claude Shannon, but often called a Mason graph after Samuel Jefferson Mason who coined the term, is a specialized flow graph, a directed graph in which nodes represent system variables, and branches (edges, arcs, or arrows) represent functional connections betw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_graph
The airport was relocated to an eastern, suburban location in 1986, after which the runway and terminal were converted to the Metropolitan Long-distance Bus Terminal.Ninth of July Park continues to host Independence Day parades on its namesake date, often with the attendance of the President of Argentina. Its considera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_of_July_Park
Petroleum is imperative for the following industries: fuel (home heating, jet fuel, gasoline, diesel, etc.) transportation, agriculture, pharmaceutical, plastics/resins, man-made fibers, synthetic rubber, and explosives. If the modern world remains reliant on petroleum as a source of energy, the price of crude oil coul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_fuel
The SID lets mobile phones that conform to the TIA Cellular or PCS Standard analog, CDMA or TDMA standards recognize when they are in their home system vs. roaming or in another system that can provide them with service. IFAST inherited the assignment of SID ranges to countries and has continued the allocation of block...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Forum_on_ANSI-41_Standards_Technology
Ryan is a strong supporter of encouraging students, especially female students, in pursuing maths and physics in third level education. In her words, "I think we need to encourage girls to believe they can do maths and physics... it might not always be easy, but it’s worth doing". And she believes it is "important for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinéad_M._Ryan
Fatal accidents involving pedestrians in Lower Manhattan also increased greatly as a result. Rush-hour congestion within the Holland Tunnel has persisted for more than thirty years due to the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge's one-way westbound toll.A renovation of the Holland Tunnel's tiled ceilings, which were deteriorating...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Tunnel
Some tunnels are not for transport at all but rather, are fortifications, for example Mittelwerk and Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Excavation techniques, as well as the construction of underground bunkers and other habitable areas, are often associated with military use during armed conflict, or civilian responses to thre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_fire
The shapes of the modulation filters have been estimated and an “envelope power spectrum model” (EPSM) based on these filters can account for AM masking patterns and AM depth discrimination. The EPSM has been extended to the prediction of speech intelligibility and to account for data from a broad variety of psychoacou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_envelope_and_fine_structure
Some universities have their own independent, open honor societies, which are not affiliated with any national or international organization. Such organizations typically recognize students who have succeeded academically irrespective of their field of study. These include: Aquinas Honor Society at University of St. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_societies
Tecumseh's younger brother Tenskwatawa, known as the Prophet, was a spiritual leader among the northwestern tribes, advocating for a return to traditional ancestral ways. Though Tecumseh resisted the 1809 treaty, he was reluctant to confront the United States directly. He traveled through tribal lands, urging warriors ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe
The material described originally as "xenon hexafluoroplatinate" is probably not Xe+−. The main problem with this formulation is "Xe+", which would be a radical and would dimerize or abstract a fluorine atom to give XeF+. Thus, Bartlett discovered that Xe undergoes chemical reactions, but the nature and purity of his i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_hexafluoroplatinate
Semantic integration is the process of interrelating information from diverse sources, for example calendars and to do lists, email archives, presence information (physical, psychological, and social), documents of all sorts, contacts (including social graphs), search results, and advertising and marketing relevance de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Integration
The proof is by reduction from the ε-approximate Generalised Circuit problem. Hardness holds even in the following conditions: The valuations are piecewise-constant; It is allowed to use a constant number of additional cuts (that is, we search for a consensus halving for n agents using n+d cuts, for some constant d). W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_division
After a tie for 16th place at the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, Goosen was in contention the very next week in Munich, Germany at the BMW International Open. He led after the first three rounds at 17 under par, two ahead of Bernhard Langer and three ahead of Nick Dougherty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retief_Goosen
A command center enables an organization to function as designed, to perform day-to-day operations regardless of what is happening around it, in a manner in which no one realizes it is there but everyone knows who is in charge when there is trouble. Conceptually, a command center is a source of leadership and guidance ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_center
Two Melanin-concentrating hormone receptors (MCHR) have recently been characterized: MCH-R1 and MCH-R2. These two receptors share approximately 38% homology. MCH-R1 is expressed in all mammals. MCH-R2 is only found in some primates and carnivores including dogs, ferrets and humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin-concentrating_hormone_receptor
Site training materials: Specially-designed instructional tools that assist site staff in introducing the study to patients, explaining study procedures to patients, and performing informed consent procedures with patients. Study Web site: Serving as an online hub for study information and sometimes pre-screening, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_recruitment
Costs are being driven by a number of factors including: demographic shifts the declining number of people per dwelling growing density convergence and regional urbanization solid population growth (for example high prices in Australia and Canada as a rising population pushes up demand) supply and demand a shortfall in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_affordability
A bivalve shell is part of the body, the exoskeleton or shell, of a bivalve mollusk. In life, the shell of this class of mollusks is composed of two hinged parts or valves. Bivalves are very common in essentially all aquatic locales, including saltwater, brackish water, and freshwater. The shells of bivalves commonly w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivalve_shell
Homer Jacobson illustrated basic self-replication in the 1950s with a model train set – a seed "organism" consisting of a "head" and "tail" boxcar could use the simple rules of the system to consistently create new "organisms" identical to itself, so long as there was a random pool of new boxcars to draw from. Edward F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_life
There is no single formal Densa organization; instead, various projects using that name exist as informal groups, usually meant by their founders as a joke rather than a serious organization. Even within Mensa itself, a SIG (special interest group, an informal sub-group of Mensans sharing a particular common interest) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densa
The book's cover was created by Gold and designer Laura Shaw, and its depiction of purple irises became an iconic image of Gold's literary work that later influenced the development of a Taro Gold brand logo.Gold's book Living Wabi Sabi: The True Beauty of Your Life received a Benjamin Franklin Literary Award and was a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taro_Gold
The Dawn mission was designed to study two large bodies in the asteroid belt in order to answer questions about the formation of the Solar System, as well as to test the performance of its ion thrusters in deep space. Ceres and Vesta were chosen as two contrasting protoplanets, the first one apparently "wet" (i.e. icy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)
A decision procedure for determining whether a formula is well-formed goes as follows: "deconstruct" the formula by applying the construction rules backwards, thereby breaking the formula into smaller subformulae. Then repeat this recursive deconstruction process to each of the subformulae. Eventually the formula shoul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_NAND
When using income metrics, it has to be made clear how income should be defined. Should it include capital gains, imputed house rents from home ownership, and gifts? If these income sources or alleged income sources (in the case of "imputed rent") are ignored (as they often are), how might this bias the analysis? How s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_metrics
Amoebiasis is usually transmitted by the fecal-oral route, but it can also be transmitted indirectly through contact with dirty hands or objects as well as by anal-oral contact. Infection is spread through ingestion of the cyst form of the parasite, a semi-dormant and hardy structure found in feces. Any non-encysted am...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_infections
The molecular formula C4H7N (molar mass: 69.10 g/mol, exact mass: 69.05785 u) may refer to: Butyronitrile, or propyl cyanide Isopropyl cyanide Pyrroline 2-Azabicyclopentane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4H7N
Aquascaping is the craft of arranging aquatic plants, as well as rocks, stones, cavework, or driftwood, in an aesthetically pleasing manner within an aquarium—in effect, gardening under water. Aquascape designs include a number of distinct styles, including the garden-like Dutch style and the Japanese-inspired nature s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquascaping
It is described as being able to deliver “network-derived intelligence to cloud, security and observability tools to help eliminate security blind spots and reduce tool costs.” It is used in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and accesses network traffic at the source.In October 2022, Gigamon integrated its Pipeline w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigamon
Muscular exercise as well as other cellular functions requires oxygen to produce ATP and properly function. This normal function is called aerobic metabolism and does not produce lactic acid if enough oxygen is present. During heavy exercise such as long distance running or any demanding exercise, the body's need for o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_wind
The use of social media as a journalistic source may also be taken out of context and misinterpreted which in turn misrepresents the public. People who are unsure about whether journalists can reliably make claims using social media may question the value and integrity of the journalists' reports. The media and media n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_news_source
The rider's leg to the inside of the turn is held securely along the girth to support the horse's rib cage and give them a focal point for the turn. The athleticism required for this maneuvering comes from optimum physical fitness of the rider and especially the horse. Improper preparation for such a sport can cause in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_racing
Dementia – a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal. Neurodegeneration frequently results in dementia. Dementia can also arise from other causes. See: Multi-infarct dementia, frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia and dementia with Lewy ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_human_brain
P.A. Thom & Company won the contract for the bridge's reconstruction, and they placed an order with Lloyds, Foster and Company for the required ironwork. However, P.A. Thom encountered difficulties in finding stable foundations for the bridge, which ultimately led to financial troubles. As a result, Lloyds, Foster and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Bridge
The collected information serves as rich semantic description of how information is related and it also provides a visualization of the scholarly domain. The platform has been considered the only large-scale dataset that reconciles authors' affiliations through the disambiguation and linking with external authoritative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciGraph
The development of the OSA-UCS took place during many years, from 1947-1977. Not long after the first mathematical color model was developed by the CIE, David MacAdam showed that when selecting a color on the CIE chromaticity diagram, it could not be guaranteed that colors of the same perceived color difference around ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSA-UCS
However, this is likely a false etymology; the term "mark" is traditionally used in Rugby and other games that predate AFL to describe a free kick resulting from a catch, in reference to the player making a mark on the ground from which to take a free kick, rather than continuing to play on.There are many Indigenous AF...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngarra_ceremony
The first was Old Persian, which was deciphered in 1802 by Georg Friedrich Grotefend. The second, Babylonian cuneiform, was deciphered shortly after the Old Persian text. Because Elamite is unlike its neighboring Semitic languages, the script's decipherment was delayed until the 1840s. Even today, lack of sources and c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_cuneiform
The first archaeological signs of irrigation in Mesopotamia appear around 6000 BC at Choga Mami in central Mesopotamia, during the Samarra culture (6200-5700 BC). Mesopotamia south of this site is very poorly attested in this period - it is possible that the first communities developed there at the same time and also m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Mesopotamia
Wedler was presented with a National Achievement Award in 2011 by Learning Ally, an organisation focused on opening typed literature to visually impaired or dyslexic audiences.For his role in promoting chemistry and science to blind people Wedler became a Champion of Change as part of an initiative run by the White Hou...
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Sullivan has been the subject of several solo exhibitions including, The Missing Novella at Oakville Galleries in 2015; the 2011 exhibition Albatross Omnibus at The Power Plant;We May be Standing on the Shoulders of Giants but Some of us are Looking at the Stars in 2008 at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Sullivan_(artist)
The bride or bridegroom's maternal aunt (mami) carries it on her head, and another woman will carry a long stick with bells, shaking it. The women will then go into other friends' and families' homes; after being welcomed by sweets and drinks, they dance there and move on. It is a loud ceremony, filled with joy, dancin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_wedding_traditions
To pay for the trust USG would use cash it had accumulated during the bankruptcy, new long-term debt, a tax rebate from the federal government, and an innovative rights offering. Existing USG stock owners would be issued rights to buy new USG stock at a set price of $40 per share. These rights could be exercised or sol...
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To claim the refund, the birth certificate should include BOTH the address and name of the purchaser. In some instances, Baby Gender Mentor may request the finger press of the baby to conclude the refund process... PregnancyStore.com also updated their website to state that the warranty was only 100% of the purchase pr...
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Cactus leather is a plant-based leather produced from the mature leaves of the nopal (prickly-pear) cactus native to Mexico. Founded by entrepreneurs Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez, Desserto was the first company to manufacture cactus leather. Their goal was to create a sustainable material that fit the specifi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-based_leather
By 2012, only a few manufacturers offered Itanium systems, including HP, Bull, NEC, Inspur and Huawei. In addition, Intel offered a chassis that could be used by system integrators to build Itanium systems.By 2015, only HP supplied Itanium-based systems. With HP split in late 2015, Itanium systems (branded as Integrity...
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The magnetic needle compass was developed in the 11th century and it improved the accuracy of navigation by employing the astronomical concept of true north (Dream Pool Essays, 1088). The Chinese scientist Shen Kuo (1031–1095) was the first person known to write about the magnetic needle compass and by the 12th century...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_electromagnetic_theory
Vehicles with manual transmissions use a clutch to manage the linkage between the engine and the transmission, and decouple the transmission from the engine during gearshifts and when the vehicle is stationary. Without a clutch, the engine would stall any time the vehicle stopped, and changing gears would be difficult ...
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