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It has also been described as 32 minutes and 6 seconds ahead of Madras Time (UTC+5:21:14).Even when Indian Standard Time (IST) was adopted on 1 January 1906, Calcutta Time remained in effect until 1948 when it was abandoned in favour of IST.In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Calcutta time was the dominant ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_Time |
In none of its old manuscripts does the book bear the name of Gelasius but is simply called Liber sacramentorum Romanae ecclesiae ("Book of Sacraments of the Church of Rome"). However, an old tradition linked the book to Pope Gelasius I, apparently based on Walafrid Strabo's ascription of what is evidently this book to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelasian_Sacramentary |
King Yeongjo implemented a policy of gradual emancipation in 1775, and he and his successor King Jeongjo made many proposals and developments that lessened the burden on nobi, which led to the emancipation of the vast majority of government nobi in 1801. In addition, population growth, numerous escaped slaves, growing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattel_slaves |
Data from ManufacterGeneral characteristics Length: 14 ft 8 in (4.47 m) Height: 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) Can be reduced to 7 ft 10 in (2.39 m) for storage Empty weight: 750 lb (340 kg) Fuel capacity: 7.5 U.S. gallons (28 L; 6.2 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 914 Turbocharged 4 cylinder piston aircraft engine, 115 hp (86 kW) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Super_Sky_Cycle |
The basic idea is to reflect a beam of X-rays from a surface and to measure the intensity of X-rays reflected in the specular direction (reflected angle equal to incident angle). It has been shown that a reflection off a parabolic mirror followed by a reflection off a hyperbolic mirror leads to the focusing of X-rays. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_optics |
Polish gas tank: A Polish modification built in the Wojskowy Instytut Gazowy ("Military Gas Institute") and tested on the Rembertów proving ground on 5 July 1926. Instead of a turret, the tank had twin gas cylinders. It was designed to create smoke screens, but could also be used for chemical attacks. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FT-17_tank |
A variation in the orbital period of the system has been observed over a time frame of 25 years, which may be explained by a magnetic activity cycle of the lower mass component. There is a temperature difference of about 900 K between the two components, which remains unexplained as direct contact would tend to even ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZ_Piscium |
As mentioned above, the cross product can be interpreted in three dimensions as the Hodge dual of the exterior product. In any finite n dimensions, the Hodge dual of the exterior product of n − 1 vectors is a vector. So, instead of a binary operation, in arbitrary finite dimensions, the cross product is generalized as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_cross_product |
Handwerker was a Jewish man who emigrated from what is now Ukraine in 1912 and whose influence is felt today around the world. Coney Island is most famous for being a traditional boardwalk amusement park and the site of the world's first rollercoaster, a precursor of modern theme parks. Hot dogs are a staple of amuseme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cuisine |
In the past, the only way to find out winners in advance was through radio news and print wire reports summarizing the ceremonies in progress, before the Internet and social media and their more widely-reaching and immediate reports effectively made tape delay a pointless endeavor. The Academy Awards regularly air live... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeshift_channel |
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy. It is primarily u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_Medicine |
The random walk hypothesis may be derived from the weak-form efficient markets hypothesis, which is based on the assumption that market participants take full account of any information contained in past price movements (but not necessarily other public information). In his book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Princeto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis_software |
Killing fields are used to discuss isometries in general relativity (in which the geometry of spacetime as distorted by gravitational fields is viewed as a 4-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold). In a static configuration, in which nothing changes with time, the time vector will be a Killing vector, and thus the Kil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_vectors |
Remark: This attitude towards risk and uncertainty which assumes that Nature will play with us, is rather naive. As noted by Resnik (1987, p. 32) "... But that rule surely would have few adherence...". Nevertheless, it is often used in combination with the Maximin rule in the formulation of Hurwicz's optimism-pessimisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-gap_decision_theory |
Attached to the muzzle of the weapon is the Blast Attenuation Device (BAD), used to reduce the blast effects on the mortar crew. To increase cooling efficiency, the breech end is finned; though first-hand accounts attest that the level of cooling is negligible. The cannon also has a crew-removable breech plug and firin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M252_mortar |
Keratin 6B is a type II cytokeratin, one of a number of isoforms of keratin 6. It is found with keratin 16 and/or keratin 17 in the hair follicles, the filiform papillae of the tongue and the epithelial lining of oral mucosa and esophagus. This keratin 6 isoform is thought be less abundant than the closely related kera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratin_6B |
Whereas the dark, post-apocalyptic reimagined Battlestar Galactica series revolved around a final struggle for survival, Caprica is concerned with a world intoxicated by success. Ronald D. Moore states: "It's about a society that's running out of control with a wild-eyed glint in its eye." The Twelve Colonies are at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica |
The company also announced a deal to co-develop/commercialize at least one of CytomX Probody's conjugates against CD71 (transferrin receptor 1).In March 2020, AbbVie announced plans to evaluate the Kaletra/Aluvia HIV medicine as possible COVID-19 treatment. The company entered into various partnerships with health auth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbbVie |
In linguistics, a yes–no question, also known as a binary question, a polar question, or a general question, is a question whose expected answer is one of two choices, one that provides an affirmative answer to the question versus one that provides a negative answer to the question. Typically, in English, the choices a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes–no_question |
On 10 October 2016, Mother Mushroom was arrested while trying to visit an imprisoned political activist. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that she was arrested in Khanh Hoa and charged with crimes under Article 88 of Vietnam's Penal Code, which prohibits "conducting propagand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Mushroom |
Allouis (LW, SW) Le Blanc (VLF) Issoudun (SW) Paris-Eiffel Tower (FM, TV) Lyon-Metallic tower of Fourvière (FM, TV) Sélestat (MW shut down) HWU transmitter (LW, SW) Col de la Madone transmitter (LW, SW) Lafayette transmitter (VLF) Limeux transmitting station (FM, TV) TV Mast Niort-Maisonnay (TV) Transmitter Le Mans-May... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transmission_sites |
Denintuzumab mafodotin (INN; development codes SGN-19A or SGN-CD19A) is a humanized monoclonal antibody-drug conjugate designed for the treatment of CD19-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It consists of an anti-CD19 mAb linked to monomethyl auristatin F (MMAF), a cytotoxic agent. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denintuzumab_mafodotin |
In January 2021, Malwarebytes was targeted by the same nation state actor implicated in the SolarWinds attack and suffered a limited access breach. CEO Kleczynski published a blog post detailing the company’s attack and response.In February 2021, Malwarebytes published its 2021 State of Malware Report which shared cybe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malwarebytes |
The following alternatives to free trade have been proposed: protectionism, imperialism, balanced trade, fair trade, and industrial policy. Protectionism involves tariffs to protect domestic goods and industry from international competition, and to raise government revenue in lieu of other forms of taxation. Imperialis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Trade |
The estimated cost to implement and operate congestion pricing in San Francisco still is unknown, because it will depend on the program design according to the final alternative selected for implementation and the specific technology used.The study established as a goal that the system has to be self-funded, meaning th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_congestion_pricing |
Tsultrim Allione points out that in Tibetan Buddhism adhistana blessings are an important part of the pointing-out instruction received from the guru and lineage. Receiving these blessings is dependent on the student having proper motivation, aspiration and intentionality (bodhicitta) and sufficient "devotion" (Sanskri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_blessing |
Perez was born and raised in West Philadelphia. She studied physics and mathematics at Columbia University, earning an undergraduate degree magna cum laude in 2005. She moved to the California Institute of Technology for her graduate studies, earning a master's in 2008 and a PhD in 2011. She developed the ATLAS experim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerstin_Perez |
Some of the basic concepts of general relativity can be outlined outside the relativistic domain. In particular, the idea that mass/energy generates curvature in space and that curvature affects the motion of masses can be illustrated in a Newtonian setting. General relativity generalizes the geodesic equation and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_theories_modified_by_general_relativity |
The young are born in May, as pregnancy lasts roughly six months. Copulation rates tend to increase as days grow shorter.To initiate copulation males capture the attention of females with continuous flapping of their wings (probably to spread the odor from male scent glands), though this usually only serves to encourag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_flying_fox |
Other digital magazines which focused on comics journalism during this period included Darryl Holliday & Erik Rodriguez' The Illustrated Press and Josh Kramer's The Cartoon Picayune. Jen Sorensen was editor of the "Graphic Culture" section of Splinter News (formerly Fusion) from 2014 to 2018, while Matt Bors has edited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_journalism |
In a normal default theory, all defaults are normal: each default has the form ϕ: ψ ψ {\displaystyle {\frac {\phi :\psi }{\psi }}} . A normal default theory is guaranteed to have at least one extension. Furthermore, the extensions of a normal default theory are mutually inconsistent, i.e., inconsistent with each other. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_reasoning |
She then discusses the role of amulets in infant burials before moving on to look at those included in the burials of adult women. She argues that certain female burials with particular collections of amulets represent "cunning women" who served their tribe in a magical capacity, using their abilities for both malevole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Amulets_and_Curing_Stones |
As the carrier frequency of a signal is varied, the magnitude of the change in amplitude will vary. The coherence bandwidth measures the separation in frequency after which two signals will experience uncorrelated fading. In flat fading, the coherence bandwidth of the channel is larger than the bandwidth of the signal. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_fading |
Mounted to the rail are a set of iron sights with a hooded foresight and adjustable flip rear aperture. The SL8 can also mount the G36 carry handle and integrated sight assembly, after removing the mechanical iron sights. The SL8 has an unloaded weight of 4.3 kg, overall length of 980–1030 mm and a trigger rated at 20 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_&_Koch_G36 |
Yuri Antoshkin held the position of General Manager, Prestigio EMEA, from 2006 to October 2014. Over this decade the company's sales increased almost 30 times followed by the established cooperation with the largest Russian electronic retailers (Euroset, Eldorado, M.video and others). The Prestigio brand has become the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASBIS |
Basslines are important in many forms of dance and electronic music, such as electro, drum and bass, dubstep, and most forms of house and trance. In these genres, basslines are almost always performed on synthesizers, either physical, such as the Minimoog and the Roland TB-303, or virtual, such as Sytrus and ZynAddSubF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_line |
For this reason, large batteries used for power storage generally list two or more capacities, normally the "2 hour" and "20 hour" rates, with the 2 hour rate often being around 50% of the 20 hour rate. Solar panels have similar issues due to the speed at which the cell can convert solar photons into electrons, ambient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_optimizer |
A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. It can also be defined as a continuous row of any masonry unit such as bricks, concrete masonry units (CMU), stone, shingles, tiles, etc.Coursed masonry construction arranges units in regular courses. Oppositely, coursed rubble masonry construction us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_(architecture) |
Candidatus Dechloromonas species phosphoritropha and phosphorivorans are PAOs with classical metabolism genotype. Dechloromonas has been found in high abundances in wastewater treatment plants across the world. The two species described here, Dechloromonas phosphoritropha and phosphorivans, are the two most abundant sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphosphate-accumulating_organisms |
Many mass graves were discovered during the Vietnam War. In the fall of 1969, the body count unearthed from these mass graves was around 2,800. The victims buried in these mass graves included government officials, innocent civilians, women and children. They were tortured, executed and in some cases, buried alive.In Q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_burial |
The valves of the ventilation system were opened, and a large area outside the building was contaminated. The fire was extinguished by scientists and maintenance men in protective clothing running along the hole in the containment vessel with buckets of wet sand, throwing the sand down at the moment they passed the smo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk_River_Laboratories |
The concept of the cyborg is often associated with science fiction. However, many artists have incorporated and reappropriated the idea of cybernetic organisms into their work, using disparate aesthetics and often realising actual cyborg constructs; their works range from performances, to paintings and installations. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg |
This has not been the case. Instead, many features were added to CMS to extend its usage into areas better served by new systems." A generation later, as we face a diversity of platforms built in the collaborative open source world, it is easy to understand Creasy's hopes for CP/CMS as a development incubator, and his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS |
Tarter's astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan's novel Contact. In the film version of Contact, the protagonist Ellie Arroway is played by Jodie Foster. Tarter conversed with the actress for months before and during filming, and Arroway was "largely based" on Tarter's work. She has also been featured in John B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Tarter |
Robert J. Schoelkopf III (born January 24, 1964) is an American physicist, most noted for his work on quantum computing as one of the inventors of superconducting qubits. Schoelkopf's main research areas are quantum transport, single-electron devices, and charge dynamics in nanostructures. His research utilizes quantum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Schoelkopf |
Diesel engines have long been popular in bigger cars and have been used in smaller cars such as superminis in Europe since the 1980s. They were popular in larger cars earlier, as the weight and cost penalties were less noticeable. Smooth operation as well as high low-end torque are deemed important for passenger cars a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_motor |
At this point, Human Kite turns out to be Kyle when he exclaims "You bastards!" in reaction to Kenny's death. Inevitably, Kenny wakes up in his bed, unharmed. The rest of the Friends show up at his bedroom door asking him why he ran away from the cult and that they have to defeat Cthulhu, completely unaware of the fact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterion_Rises |
The NTPS grew out of a successful series of introductory flight test courses taught for military test organizations in the United States and Canada. Using an instrumented De Havilland Dove (DH-104), introductory, two-week performance and flying qualities flight test courses were taught for Edwards AFB, California; Patu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Test_Pilot_School |
An ideal hemispherical analyzer consists of two concentric hemispherical electrodes (inner and outer hemispheres) of radii R 1 {\displaystyle R_{1}} and R 2 {\displaystyle R_{2}} held at proper voltages. In such a system, the electrons are linearly dispersed, depending on their kinetic energy, along the direction conne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherical_electron_energy_analyzer |
At the time of its opening, Dunton was assigned responsibility within Ford of Europe for vehicle design, interior styling, chassis and body interior engineering, engine calibration and product planning. Ford's Merkenich Centre in Cologne, Germany was given principal responsibility for body and electrical engineering, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunton_Technical_Centre |
The emitter-base junction of a bipolar NPN transistor behaves as a Zener diode, with breakdown voltage at about 6.8 V for common bipolar processes and about 10 V for lightly doped base regions in BiCMOS processes. Older processes with poor control of doping characteristics had the variation of Zener voltage up to ±1 V,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zener_diode |
A sweet liquid called Paanakam, made of water, jaggery and peppercorns is prepared as the favorite offering to Lord Rama during Rama Navami festival. In Kerala, it is considered auspicious and is widely used in cooking. It is a vital ingredient in many varieties of payasam, a sweet dish. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggery |
Philip provided his Macedonian soldiers in the phalanx with sarissa, a spear which was 4–6 meters in length. The sarissa, when held upright by the rear ranks of the phalanx (there were usually eight ranks), helped hide maneuvers behind the phalanx from the view of the enemy. When held horizontal by the front ranks of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_warfare |
Labyrinth fish (such as gouramis and bettas) have a labyrinth organ above the gills that performs this function. A few other fish have structures resembling labyrinth organs in form and function, most notably snakeheads, pikeheads, and the Clariidae catfish family. Breathing air is primarily of use to fish that inhabit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_conservation |
The script is known by a wide variety of names. As it was derived from the Old Uyghur alphabet, the Mongol script is known as the Uighur(-)Mongol script. From 1941 onwards, it became known as the Old Script, in contrast to the New Script, referring to Cyrillic. The Mongolian script is also known as the Hudum or 'not ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Script |
The house was listed for sale in 2015 for $2.8 million, and again in 2017 for $1.5 million. In addition to its use as a home, it was marketed as a potential educational, office, museum, lodging, or event space. After a failed attempt was to sell the house by auction in May 2017, it was relisted for $2.8 million as was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Nest |
Values of 0.3 to 0.5 are transitional, suggesting anoxic bottom mud under an oxygenated ocean. Studies of the Black Sea, which is considered a modern model for ancient anoxic ocean basins, indicate that high DOP, a high ratio of reactive iron to total iron, and a high ratio of total iron to aluminum are all indicators ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_catastrophe |
They are also known as tostones or patacones in many Latin American countries. In Honduras, banana chips are called tajadas, which may be sliced vertically to create a variation known as plantain strips.Chips fried in coconut oil and sprinkled with salt, called upperi or kaya varuthathu, are a snack in South India in K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_banana |
Preliminary calls only waste time when communication is good and the message short. It is NOT necessary to blow into a microphone to test it, nor to repeat portions of messages when no repetition has been requested.Do Nots: Don't transmit while surrounded by other persons loudly discussing the next maneuver or event. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotelephony_procedure |
In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Peter Nicholls writes that "soft SF" is a "not very precise item of SF terminology" and that the contrast between hard and soft is "sometimes illogical." In fact, the boundaries between "hard" and "soft" are neither definite nor universally agreed-upon, so there is no single stan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_science_fiction |
Along with reduced flower size, plants exhibiting selfing syndrome typically have reduced numbers of open flowers compared to those that outcross. Selfing plants have also been found to have a larger geographic range, close to two times larger range than plants that outcross and can also be found around 110 kilometers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfing_syndrome |
Symptoms in men include burning and pain while urinating, increased urinary frequency, discharge from the penis (white, green, or yellow in color), red or swollen urethra, swollen or tender testicles, or sore throat. Symptoms in women may include vaginal discharge, burning or itching while urinating, painful sexual int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection |
The m {\displaystyle m} probability is the probability that an identifier in matching pairs will agree (or be sufficiently similar, such as strings with low Jaro-Winkler or Levenshtein distance). This value would be 1.0 {\displaystyle 1.0} in the case of perfect data, but given that this is rarely (if ever) true, it ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_resolution |
Commercial purposes of bots include influencers using them to boost their supposed popularity, and online publishers using bots to increase the number of clicks an ad receives, allowing sites to earn more commission from advertisers. Credential stuffing attacks use botnets to log in to many user accounts with stolen pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_and_command_server |
Cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant found in the shrub Catha edulis (khat). DMT (dimethyltryptamine), a naturally occurring psychedelic drug that is widespread throughout the plant kingdom and endogenous to the human body. DMT is the main psychoactive constituent in the psychedelic South American brew, ayahuasca, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_I_controlled_substance |
The cross-isobar angle of the diverted ageostrophic flow near the surface ranges from 10° over open water, to 30° over rough hilly terrain, and can increase to 40°-50° over land at night when the wind speed is very low.After sundown the wind gradient near the surface increases, with the increasing stability.Atmospheric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundary_layer |
Rockwell and Moses collected specimens of seabirds and spent a month in a cave they secured after driving away land crabs. The two men joined with the rest of the expedition to travel to Rio de Janeiro, where they experienced difficulty in finding replacements for their crew, and then to Ascension Island, Saint Helena,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blossom_Expedition |
NGC 1514 is a planetary nebula in the zodiac constellation of Taurus, positioned to the north of the star Psi Tauri along the constellation border with Perseus. Distance to the nebula is 466 pc, according to GAIA DR2 data.It was discovered by William Herschel on November 13, 1790, describing it as "a most singular phen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1514 |
The subroutine EXPR pushes the result of the expression onto the arithmetic stack (in this case, the line number). DONE verifies no other text follows the expression and gives an error if it does. XFER pops the number from the stack and transfers execution (GOes TO) the corresponding line number, if it exists. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC |
As such, the observed size of the universe always increases. Since proper distance at a given time is just comoving distance times the scale factor (with comoving distance normally defined to be equal to proper distance at the present time, so a ( t 0 ) = 1 {\displaystyle a(t_{0})=1} at present), the proper distance to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_time |
The CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) model in Italy is a relatively young movement that began to gain traction in 2011.The first CSA established in Italy was the C.A.P.S. (Agrarian Community of Social Promotion) in Pisa, while the largest CSA is Arvaia in Bologna, boasting 220 active members and 500 associates. As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture |
Brout was awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics (with Guralnik, Hagen, Kibble, Higgs, and Englert) by The American Physical Society "For elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brout |
Lingual braces are one of the many types of the fixed orthodontic treatment appliances available to patients needing orthodontics. They involve attaching the orthodontic brackets on the inner (lingual vs. buccal) sides of the teeth. The main advantage of lingual braces is their near invisibility compared to the standar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingual_braces |
Breeder reactors are specifically designed to create more fissionable material than they consume.MOX fuel has been in use since the 1980s, and is widely used in Europe. In September 2000, the United States and the Russian Federation signed a Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement by which each agreed to dispose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium |
Raisins were so valued that they transcended the food realm and became rewards for successful athletes, as well as premium barter currency. Having dried fruits was essential in ancient Rome as these instructions for housekeepers around 100 BC tell: "She must keep a supply of cooked food on hand for you and the servants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_fruits |
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is a classification of diseases that all result from alcohol exposure during pregnancy. Symptoms of these disorders include poor cerebellar-dependent learning, motor coordination and impaired balance. In rats with FASD, it was shown that they had decreased concentrations of CBP a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBP_histone_acetyltransferase |
Beta Centauri is a triple star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is officially called Hadar (). The Bayer designation of Beta Centauri is Latinised from β Centauri, and abbreviated Beta Cen or β Cen. The system's combined apparent visual magnitude of 0.61 makes it the second-brightest object in Cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Centauri |
A joke can be reused in different joke cycles; an example of this is the same Head & Shoulders joke refitted to the tragedies of Vic Morrow, Admiral Mountbatten and the crew of the Challenger space shuttle. These cycles seem to appear spontaneously, spread rapidly across countries and borders only to dissipate after so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke_cycle |
The pork belly futures contract became an icon of futures and commodities trading. It is frequently used as a placeholder for commodities in general and appears in several depictions of the arena in popular entertainment, such as the 1974 film For Pete's Sake and the 1983 film Trading Places. Inaugurated on August 18, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_bellies |
Jonathan Cross describes a highly rhythmic passage in the first movement of the Symphony in Three Movements as "gloriously octatonic, not an unfamiliar situation in jazz, where this mode is known as the 'diminished scale', but Stravinsky of course knew it from Rimsky. The 'rumba' passage... alternates chords of E-flat7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished_scale |
On 15 October, news broke suggesting AbbVie was reconsidering their proposed takeover deal due to changes in US "Tax Inversion" law and on 16 October AbbVie's board recommended that shareholders vote against the deal. This news sent Shire's share price down over 27%; however, AbbVie would be subject to a $1.6 billion b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_(pharmaceutical_company) |
Its provinces in southern Italy were threatened by the Normans who arrived in Italy at the beginning of the 11th century. During a period of strife between Constantinople and Rome culminating in the East-West Schism of 1054, the Normans advanced slowly but steadily into Byzantine Italy. Reggio, the capital of the tagma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_culture |
During the engagement, which lasted nearly four hours, the Princess Augusta took several shot near the water line and sustained extensive damage to her rigging. Still, she suffered only three men wounded, though one desperately. The French vessel sheered off on the approach of two schooners manned with Sea Fencibles fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Fencibles |
Generally, one uses .08 ounces (2.26 g) of tea per 8 US fl oz (237 ml) of water. Unlike green teas, which turn bitter when brewed at higher temperatures, black tea should be steeped in water brought up to 212 °F (100 °C) for 3–5 min.Whole-leaf black teas, and black teas to be served with milk or lemon, should be steepe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_tea |
This insect is often used as a model organism and reared for laboratory experiments due to being easy to rear and handle, short developmental time, few instars, and high fecundity. The phylogenetic placement of O. fasciatus is ideal to use as an outgroup to make comparisons to more derived holometabolous insects, actin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_milkweed_bug |
halocarbonates, including carbonate fluorides, carbonate chlorides, carbonate bromides phosphates, including fluoride phosphates, chloride phosphate, phosphate molybdates, phosphate arsenates borates halide borates, including fluoride borates borate chlorides, borate bromides, borate iodides chalcogenide borates, inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-anion_compounds |
The sequences are named after the Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, who wrote about them in 1946. As he later wrote, the existence of de Bruijn sequences for each order together with the above properties were first proved, for the case of alphabets with two elements, by Camille Flye Sainte-Marie (1894). Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence |
Mountains can be seen as 'sky islands': refugia of endemics because species that live in the cool climates of mountain peaks are geographically isolated. For example, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France, Saxifraga florulenta is an endemic plant that may have evolved in the Late Miocene and could have once been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_fauna |
Infected valves can result in endocarditis in intravenous drug users. Patients who inject narcotics or other drugs intravenously may introduce infection, which can travel to the right side of the heart, most often caused by the bacteria S. aureus. In patients without a history of intravenous exposure, endocarditis is m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricuspid_valves |
The water was sourced from the east coast of Taiwan. The study showed that the DOM experimental groups were significantly better than the control group with regard to exhausting time and the ratio of lactic acid elimination to lactic acid increment. Summarizing the results, the researchers suggested that endurance, ada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ocean_minerals |
There is uncertainty as to when elephant warfare first started, but it is widely accepted that it began in ancient India. The early Vedic period did not extensively specify the use of elephants in war. However, in the Ramayana, Indra is depicted as riding either Airavata, a mythological elephant, or on the Uchchaihshra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephants |
Robertson was a well-liked figure in the university. He managed the Colvin Library, a departmental common room and library for chemistry students. He continued to run this even after his retirement. Robertson was described by his colleague John Lydon as:"a kindly, caring man…meticulous in those civilities we all intend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harry_Robertson |
oil production, thus establishing a pattern which deviated drastically from the model predicted by Hubbert for the contiguous 48-states as a whole. In November 2017 the United States once again surpassed the 10 million barrel mark for the first time since 1970.Peak oil as a proper noun, or "Hubbert's peak" applied more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_peak |
Altitudinal migration, as a short-distance migration pattern, has been easier to trace than long-distance patterns. Still, while the proximate causes and physiological adaptations for migrations are well understood, determining the ultimate causes have been difficult. This difficulty has been linked to limited success ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitudinal_migration |
6V6G – Glass "Shouldered Tube" ST envelope. 6V6GX – Glass "Shouldered Tube" ST envelope, Ceramic Base. 6V6 – Metal jacketed envelope. The metal envelope of 6V6 is connected to pin 1 of the base, and was normally used as a ground. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6P6S |
formed in 1971, building on the Krautrock tradition of groups such as Can. In Japan, the anti-establishment Zunō Keisatsu (Brain Police) mixed garage-psych and folk. The combo regularly faced censorship challenges, their live act at least once including onstage masturbation. A new generation of Australian garage rock b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_music |
In the year 1355 CE, Ibn al-Durayhim compiled the Book on the Usefulness of Animals (Arabic: كتاب منافع الحيوان). The work draws largely on the work of Ibn Bakhtīshūʿ and Aristotle. The manuscript is now housed in the Escorial Library (Ar.898). The text contains 91 illustrations of various animals. == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Durayhim |
At the cytokinesis furrow, it is the actin-myosin contractile ring that drives the cleavage process, during which cell membrane and wall grow inward, which eventually pinches the mother cell in two. The key components of this ring are the filamentous protein actin and the motor protein myosin II. The contractile ring a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokinesis |
In discussing the progressive soul of the 1970s, Martin cites this period's albums from Wonder (Talking Book, Innervisions, Songs in the Key of Life), War (All Day Music, The World Is a Ghetto, War Live), and the Isley Brothers (3 + 3). Isaac Hayes's 1969 recording of "Walk on By" is considered a "classic" of prog-soul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music |
His 1996 Das erfundene Mittelalter (English: The Invented Middle Ages) also received scholarly recensions, but was universally rejected as fundamentally flawed by historians. In 1997, the journal Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften (English: Ethics and Social Sciences) offered a platform for critical discussion to Illig's p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory |
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