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Materialise Mimics calculates surface 3D models from stacked image data such as Computed Tomography (CT), Micro CT, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Confocal Microscopy, X-ray and Ultrasound, through image segmentation. The ROI, selected in the segmentation process is converted to a 3D surface model using an adapted m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimics |
Thus at the summer solstice the ecliptic is 67 (degrees) and a fraction away from the pole, while at the winter solstice it is 115 (degrees) and a fraction away. Hence (the points) where the ecliptic and the equator intersect should give the north polar distances of the spring and autumn equinoxes. But now (it has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Heng |
In addition to creating better conceptual models, more applied research is needed to: 1) identify the most promising strategies for fostering ways of caring about nature, 2) find ways to reframe debates and strategically communicate to the existing values that people have, 3) identify the most promising strategies for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_psychology |
One version of flaming volcano is prepared by blending the ingredients with ice. It is sometimes served with dry ice to provide for a fog effect. The base liquor is usually some form of rum, with brandy commonly added, but vodka and even gin appear in some recipes. Other versions might use lime juice, grapefruit juice,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Volcano_(cocktail) |
For the 100th anniversary of the IAU HD 32518 and the planet HD 32518b were selected NameExoWorlds campaigns for Germany. The approved name of the planet HD 32518 b is Neri, named after the river Neri in Ethiopia, which runs through parts of the Mago National park. The name was suggested by pupils of a physics course a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_32518_b |
In group theory, the trichotomy theorem divides the finite simple groups of characteristic 2 type and rank at least 3 into three classes. It was proved by Aschbacher (1981, 1983) for rank 3 and by Gorenstein & Lyons (1983) for rank at least 4. The three classes are groups of GF(2) type (classified by Timmesfeld and oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichotomy_theorem |
The space or airborne radiometric sensor (optional simulation).It simulates any landscape as a 3D matrice of cells that contain turbid material and triangles. Turbid material is used for simulating vegetation (e.g., tree crowns, grass, agricultural crops,...) and the atmosphere. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DART_radiative_transfer_model |
The uranium to zirconium ratio in different parts of the solid differs a lot, in the brown lava a uranium-rich phase with a U:Zr ratio of 19:3 to about 19:5 is found. The uranium-poor phase in the brown lava has a U:Zr ratio of about 1:10. It is possible from the examination of the Zr/U phases to determine the thermal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor) |
Proportional taxes on consumption are considered by some to be regressive; that is, low-income people tend to spend a greater percentage of their income in taxable sales (using a cross section timeframe) than higher income people. A regressive tax is when the average tax rate is lower, with higher income. So income and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_tax |
Although Leont'ev's exposition is clear and well structured, it is not as well-structured as the formulation by Yrjö Engeström. Kaptelinin remarks that Engeström "proposed a scheme of activity different from that by Leont'ev; it contains three interacting entities—the individual, the object and the community—instead of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_theory |
Some research indicates that political corruption is contagious: the revelation of corruption in a sector leads others in the sector to engage in corruption.It is argued that the following conditions are favorable for corruption: Information deficits Lacking freedom of information legislation. In contrast, for example:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption |
The town of Saint-Quentin was overrun by the German Army in September 1914, and the factory was taken over as an extension of Krupp to repair guns and machine guns, and also to make barbed wire. When the town became the centre of fighting in 1916 the Germans expelled the populace and systematically stripped the town of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.M._(automobile) |
These processes of expansion and acceleration integrate to create social value in a word-of-mouth seeding program for a new product. Furthermore, when deciding upon an optimal seeding program, the researchers conclude that “Influencer Seeding Programs” yield higher customer equity than “random Seeding Programs”. Of cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeding_trial |
This was a deliberate design goal on Motorola's part, who used the 603 project to build the basic core for all future generations of PPC chips. Apple tried to use the 603 in a new laptop design but was unable due to the small 8 KB level 1 cache. The 68000 emulator in the Mac OS could not fit in 8 KB and thus slowed the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_PC |
Furthermore, US abortion experts refute the claim that a "born-alive" fetus is a common event and oppose enactment of laws that would mandate resuscitation against the wishes of the parents.Only 1.3% of abortions occur after 21 weeks of pregnancy in the US. Although it is very uncommon, women undergoing surgical aborti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-term_abortion |
Aurora was formed on 1 July 1998 under the Electricity Companies Act 1997 by the disaggregation of the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission (HEC), and is subject to the Corporations Act 2001. The company is wholly owned by the Government of Tasmania, with its two shareholders being the Minister for Energy (as the Portfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Energy_(Tasmania) |
The halting problem for Turing machine with one-sided tape is easily decidable most of the time; it is in GenPThe situation for two-sided tape is unknown. However, there is a kind of lower bound for machines of both types. The halting problem is not in ExpGenP for any model of Turing machine, The Post correspondence pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic-case_complexity |
The QL achieved some note due to Linus Torvalds crediting it with being the machine on which he became practiced at programming prior to developing Linux, in part due to the limited software support. The combination of the market failure of the Sinclair QL and a portable TV product called the TV80 led Sinclair Research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_trinity |
It is generated by Kτ and the image of SU(1,1)m corresponding to a Jordan frame. Let ρ be the conjugate-linear period 2 automorphism of g τ {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}_{\tau }} defined by ρ ( a , T , b ) = ( − a ∗ , − T ∗ , − b ∗ ) . {\displaystyle \displaystyle {\rho (a,T,b)=(-a^{*},-T^{*},-b^{*}).}} | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_(Jordan_algebra) |
The nuclear receptor co-repressor 1 also known as thyroid-hormone- and retinoic-acid-receptor-associated co-repressor 1 (TRAC-1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCOR1 gene.NCOR1 is a transcriptional coregulatory protein which contains several nuclear receptor interacting domains. In addition, NCOR1 appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_receptor_co-repressor_1 |
Richard Arkwright obtained a patent for his water frame spinning machinery in 1769. Although its technology was similar to that of Lewis Paul, John Wyatt, James Hargreaves and Thomas Highs, Arkwright's powers of organisation, business acumen and ambition established the cotton mill as a successful business model and re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_mill |
Returns (a copy of) the object or a redirect to the same, although a sensible object proxy may be substituted (for instance a table of contents instead of a large document). May also return a discriminated list of alternate object locators. If access is denied, returns an explanation of the object's current (perhaps pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Resource_Key |
Patriot Games spent two weeks as the No. 1 film, eventually grossing $178,051,587 in worldwide box office business. It has garnered generally positive reviews, and earned a 73% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews.Conversely, the movie was criticized by Clancy for deviating too much from the source mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Games |
In architecture, Hellenistic engineers constructed monumental lighthouses such as the Pharos and devised central heating systems. The Tunnel of Eupalinos is the earliest tunnel which has been excavated with a scientific approach from both ends. Automata like automatic doors and other ingenious devices were built by Hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_technology |
Welfare capitalism in the United States refers to industrial relations policies of large, usually non-unionised, companies that have developed internal welfare systems for their employees. Welfare capitalism first developed in the United States in the 1880s and gained prominence in the 1920s.Promoted by business leader... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_capitalism |
If a real-valued, differentiable function f, defined on an interval I of the real line, has zero derivative everywhere, then it is constant, as an application of the mean value theorem shows. The assumption of differentiability can be weakened to continuity and one-sided differentiability of f. The version for right di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-differentiability |
This is attained by female birds when they are eight to nine years of age and for male birds when they are 10 to 11 years of age. The average lifespan is unknown but is assumed to be relatively long. As part of a study conducted in 2002 on Tern Island in Hawaii, 35 ringed great frigatebirds were recaptured. Of these 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_frigatebird |
As needed, the signal is replicated and retransmitted. Being a coherent representation of the original signal, the transmitting radar will not be able to distinguish it from other legitimate signals it receives and processes as targets. As the signal is stored in memory, it can be used to create false targets both behi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio_frequency_memory |
Whereas on the earlier song Smith described himself as "Northern white crap that talks back", in the opening lines of Hex Enduction Hour he complains that the fact that contemporary music lacks culture is his "brag", observing that a "taste for bullshit reveals a lust for a home of office" and references "obligatory ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_Enduction_Hour |
Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) chips were developed and then widely adopted, enabling complex semiconductor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-large-scale_integration |
Thus, the structure, distribution and mechanism of these sensory systems vary amongst different classes and species of aquatic animals and they also differ greatly to those of terrestrial animals. The basic functions of communication in aquatic animals are similar to those of terrestrial animals. In general, communicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_communication_in_aquatic_animals |
Three group members formed a triangle while another man stood on top of their shoulders, holding a lighted candle and a sign that read, "Bring the troops home for Christmas and the rest of the year". The protest marked the 10th anniversary of LEPOCO's first protest against the war when they formed in 1965, which was al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Candle |
In content management for single-source publishing, top-class content management systems increasingly provide for transclusion and substitution. Component content management systems, especially, aim to take the modular design principle to its optimal degree. MediaWiki provides transclusion and substitution and is a goo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion |
This setting is usually chosen by a jumper setting on the drive called "cable select", usually marked CS, which is separate from the Device 0/1 setting. Note that if two drives are configured as Device 0 and Device 1 manually, this configuration does not need to correspond to their position on the cable. Pin 28 is only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Secure_Erase |
Let S = ⟨ 5, 7, 9 ⟩. Then we have: The set of elements in S: S = {0, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, ...}. The minimal set of generators of S: {5, 7, 9}. The embedding dimension of S: e(S) = 3. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_monoid |
The high degrees of partial melting are caused by the high water content of the mantle. With the addition of slab-derived volatiles, and incompatible elements derived from the release of low-volume partial melts of the subducted slab, the depleted mantle in the mantle wedge undergoes melting. Evidence for variable enri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boninite |
There are a number of methods with distinct names and uses that share a common relationship. Cluster analysis is, like LCA, used to discover taxon-like groups of cases in data. Multivariate mixture estimation (MME) is applicable to continuous data, and assumes that such data arise from a mixture of distributions: imagi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_class_model |
The state is planning to fund the project using bonds issued by the water agencies, not the state, which if successful would not require approval by the state legislature or a public vote. The study said the annual payment plan is required to sell revenue bonds at reasonable rates. But several of the agencies who would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Water_Fix_and_Eco_Restore |
These evaluations indicate that TP receptor antagonists can be more effective than drugs which selectively block the production of TXA2 thromboxane synthase inhibitors. This seemingly paradoxical result may reflect the ability of PGH2, whose production is not blocked by the inhibitors, to substitute for TXA2 in activat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thromboxane_receptor_antagonist |
For cargo transportation it pulled an ammunition trailer. After trials in both Manchukuo and Japan, the design was standardized as the Type 94 tankette. It was reclassified as the Type 94 (Type 2594; tankette) and was designed for "reconnaissance", but could also be utilized for supporting infantry attacks and transpor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_the_Japanese_Army |
An example of a snarf is the Evil twin attack, using a simple shell script running software like AirSnarf to create a wireless hotspot complete with a captive portal. Wireless clients that associate to a snarf access point will receive an IP, DNS, and gateway and appear completely normal. Users will have all of their D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snarfing |
The text of the first of the three books of the Principia was presented to the Royal Society at the close of April 1686. Hooke made some priority claims (but failed to substantiate them), causing some delay. When Hooke's claim was made known to Newton, who hated disputes, Newton threatened to withdraw and suppress Book... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophiæ_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica |
He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue (Gard), the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied science and then medicine at the University of Strasbourg, where he took the double degree of M.D. and D.Sc., one of his theses being a Théorie d'un coup de canon (November 1829); next year he published a book, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Louis_Armand_de_Quatrefages_de_Bréau |
In 2008, the group The Hackers Choice launched a project to develop a practical attack on A5/1. The attack requires the construction of a large look-up table of approximately 3 terabytes. Together with the scanning capabilities developed as part of the sister project, the group expected to be able to record any GSM cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1 |
Skin surface microscopy started in 1663 by ] and was improved with the addition of immersion oil in 1878 by Ernst Abbe. The German dermatologist, Johann Saphier, added a built-in light source to the instrument. Goldman was the first dermatologist to coin the term "dermascopy" and to use the dermatoscope to evaluate pig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatoscopy |
The actors were frequently bruised during filming. Leoni said "more of my makeup was to cover the real bruises than to create fake ones". Michael Lantieri, who worked on the previous films, returned as the special effects consultant. Lantieri said that Jurassic Park III was the most physically demanding film of the ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_Adventures:_Prey |
NGC 956 is an asterism in the constellation Andromeda. The object was found on December 23, 1831 by the British astronomer John Herschel, who originally believed the object to be an open cluster. However, an analysis in 2008 led to the conclusion that this "object" was merely a chance alignment of stars that only appea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_956 |
Merle Dandridge reprised her role as Alyx for initial recording sessions in March 2019, but after playtests indicated that Alyx needed a younger voice, Ozioma Akagha was cast in September 2019. Akagha avoided using irritation in her performance, as "you don't want someone in your head that sounds irritated with you".Ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life:_Alyx |
Minnesota nice is a cultural stereotype applied to the behavior of people from Minnesota, implying residents are unusually courteous, reserved, and mild-mannered compared to people from other states. Even though there isn't an official definition, the term usually means that people from Minnesota are known for being po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_nice |
Submarine hunting ability is increased by the combination of a destroyer's towed array and hull-mounted sonar and an LCS's VDS.In July 2015, the Navy awarded three contracts to reduce the weight of the package elements down to or below 105 metric tons total to meet mission package weight requirements. Since both elemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship |
Aspirin, an antiplatelet drug, is given as a loading dose to reduce the clot size and reduce further clotting in the affected artery. It is known to decrease mortality associated with acute myocardial infarction by at least 50%. P2Y12 inhibitors such as clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor are given concurrently, also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_attacks |
In the 18th century, Johann Friedrich Mayer conducted experiments on the use of gypsum (hydrated calcium sulphate) as a fertilizer.In 1843, John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert began a set of long-term field experiments at Rothamsted Research in England, some of which are still running as of 2018.In the United St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_science |
The financial situation of the Kuffner dynasty deteriorated with the onset of World War I. The observatory was closed in 1915 and, after several failed attempts, was reopened only in 1947. The Vienna city council acquired the facility in 1987, and initiated a total refurbishment that lasted from 1989 to 1995 when it wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuffner_Observatory |
As can be seen from the thrust equation, the effective speed of the exhaust controls the amount of thrust produced from a particular quantity of fuel burnt per second. An equivalent measure, the net impulse per weight unit of propellant expelled, is called specific Impulse, I s p {\displaystyle I_{sp}} , and this is on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_launch |
If the data are consistent with the null hypothesis, then the null hypothesis is not rejected. In neither case is the null hypothesis or its alternative proven; the null hypothesis is tested with data and a decision is made based on how likely or unlikely the data are. This is analogous to the legal principle of presum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic_burden_of_proof |
Walker S. Carlos Poston challenged Stonequist's Marginal Man theory and claimed that existing models of minority identity development did not reflect the experiences of biracial and multiracial individuals. Poston proposed the first model for the development of a healthy biracial and multiracial identity in 1990. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biracial_and_multiracial_identity_development |
Some batteries, such as Ellenabben in Karlskrona archipelago and the Femöre Fortress outside Oxelösund, were preserved. Some part of the battery at Landsort was also preserved. On 1 July 2000 the Swedish Amphibious Corps was organized, including Vaxholm Amphibian Regiment (Amf 1), Älvsborg Amphibian Regiment (Amf 4) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Coastal_Artillery |
Groundwater banking is accomplished in two ways: through in-lieu and direct recharge. In-lieu recharge is storing water by utilizing surface water "in-lieu" of pumping groundwater, thereby storing an equal amount in the groundwater basin. In-lieu recharge is the renewable surface water used to irrigate the farmland in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater_banking |
The earliest known recipe for the modern form of cheese fondue comes from a 1699 book published in Zürich, under the name "Käss mit Wein zu kochen" 'to cook cheese with wine'. It calls for grated or cut-up cheese to be melted with wine, and for bread to be dipped in it. However, the name "cheese fondue", until the late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_fondue |
Inversion is an interesting operator, especially powerful for combinatorial optimization. It consists of inverting a small sequence within a chromosome. In gene expression programming it can be easily implemented in all gene domains and, in all cases, the offspring produced is always syntactically correct. For any gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression_programming |
On 11 November 2020, another outage occurred on YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube TV, Google TV and Google Play. The outage started at roughly 12:20 UTC. Users experienced problems playing videos, error messages, and errors that caused loading loops. At 04:13 UTC, YouTube gave the all-clear on its Twitter. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages |
As there was no real comparison between the original DH.60 and the new DH.60G, the Gipsy Moth quickly became the mainstay of British flying clubs as the only real recreational aircraft in the UK. By 1929 it was estimated that of every 100 aeroplanes in Britain, 85 were Moths of one type or another, most of them Gipsy M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipsy_Moth |
Odd-chain fatty acids (OCFAs) are those fatty acids that contain an odd number of carbon atoms. The most common OCFAs are the saturated C15 and C17 derivatives, respectively pentadecanoic acid and heptadecanoic acid. The synthesis of even-chained fatty acid synthesis is done by assembling acetyl-CoA precursors, however... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_synthesis |
Its competition was an upgraded version of the Titan I with a new upper stage that produced the Titan C concept. In the end, neither SLS or Titan C would be developed, in its place the new Titan III was selected, combining the new missile of the Titan C with the solid boosters of the SLS. The SLS was also needed for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launching_System |
A minichromosome is a small chromatin-like structure resembling a chromosome and consisting of centromeres, telomeres and replication origins but little additional genetic material. They replicate autonomously in the cell during cellular division. Minichromosomes may be created by natural processes as chromosomal aberr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minichromosome |
The Analyst then taunts Neo in the Matrix with bullet time by threatening to kill Trinity with a pistol, and then forces Neo to meet him in a café that he and Trinity had frequented. The crew then uses that opportunity to unplug Trinity. At the café, surrounded by riot officers, Neo distracts the Analyst while the team... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix) |
In March 1985, the Army downsized the program to its six highest priority vehicles: four to be built on a heavy common chassis (weighing 55 to 62 tons) and two on a medium chassis (weighing up to 36 tons). The downsized program was renamed the "Heavy Force Modernization Program". In February 1990, the Army added a ligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_Systems_Modernization |
In the early 1970s, the United States Navy, following the doctrine of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt for larger numbers of smaller and cheaper ships, initiated design studies for a "minimum-cost" carrier of 50,000–60,000 tons. The new design was planned to be much cheaper than nuclear-powered carriers (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Carrier_(Medium) |
For example, the phase spectrum can be evaluated at two nearby times, and the partial derivative with respect to time be approximated as the difference between the two values divided by the time difference, as in ∂ ϕ ( t , ω ) ∂ t ≈ 1 Δ t ∂ ϕ ( t , ω ) ∂ ω ≈ 1 Δ ω {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\frac {\partial \phi ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_method |
David Copeland, a British neo-Nazi who killed three people in a bombing campaign against London's black, Asian, and gay communities in April 1999, quoted from The Turner Diaries while being interviewed by police. A copy of The Turner Diaries and other neo-Nazi propaganda were found in the home of Jacob D. Robida, who a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turner_Diaries |
Let X and Y be sets. Then apply the axiom of regularity to the set {X,Y} (which exists by the axiom of pairing). We see there must be an element of {X,Y} which is also disjoint from it. It must be either X or Y. By the definition of disjoint then, we must have either Y is not an element of X or vice versa. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_Foundation |
The trochlear nucleus is unique in that its axons run dorsally and cross the midline at the trochlear decussation (located in the superior medullary velum) in the midbrain before emerging from the brainstem posteriorly/dorsally. In other words, trochlear nucleus on one side gives rise to the cochlear nerve on the contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochlear_nucleus |
The Spanish Armada was the Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidona in 1588. The Spanish Armada was sent by King Philip II of Spain, who had been king consort of England until the death of his wife Mary I of England thirty years earlier. The purpose of the expedition was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_history |
As Westfall describes, “Galileo was sure he had found what he wanted, a ticket to Florence.” Westfall describes that “n a word, Galileo had raised himself with one inspired blow from the level of an obscure professor of mathematics at the University of Padua to the status of the most desirable client in Italy.” Followi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage_in_astronomy |
Army) funded attempts at building a successful full sized man-carrying flying machine. December 17 - The Dayton, Ohio, native Wright Brothers make four flights in their Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina following years of research and development. Orville Wright takes off first and flies 120 ft (37 m)in 12 sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_aviation_–_20th_century |
The term "distant reading" is generally attributed to Franco Moretti and his 2000 article, Conjectures on World Literature. In the article, Moretti proposed a mode of reading which included works outside of established literary canons, which he variously termed "the great unread" and, elsewhere, "the Slaughterhouse of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_reading |
The November 1981 issue of Management Review (AMA Forum) contained a paper by George T. Doran called There's a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management's goals and objectives. It discussed the importance of objectives and the difficulty of setting them. Ideally speaking, each corporate, department, and section objective shou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria |
Born in Vienna in 1886, Paul Funk was the son of a deputy bank manager and went to high school in Baden and Gmunden. Then, studied mathematics in Tübingen, Vienna, and Göttingen, writing his PhD dissertation (Über Flächen mit lauter geschlossenen geodätischen Linien, 'On surfaces with many closed geodesic lines') under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Funk |
Most notably, the Lebel proved very slow in reloading compared to newer rifle designs. On horseback, carbine versions of the Lebel proved almost impossible to reload while on the move, while shortening the barrel to carbine length resulted in feeding problems due to an unreliable tube magazine that were never resolved.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthier_rifle |
When placing a hummingbird feeder, the feeder is best suited 15 to 20 feet from windows; 10 to 15 feet from the nearest cover, like shrubs or bushes; and in an open area that receives partial sun, so that hummingbirds can move from nectar source to nectar source.Hummingbird top-fill feeders are popular among bird lover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_table |
Kebabs are typically street or restaurant food, served with bread, salad and pickles, and are not usually prepared at home. Meat and vegetable stews are served with rice, bulgur, or bread. Kibbeh is a pie (or dumpling) made with meat and cereal. The most popular kibbeh is made with ground meat (typically lamb) and burg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_cuisine |
The first stage consists of one ground ignited Aerojet LR-87 liquid propellant rocket engine (with two combustion chambers and nozzles but a single turbopump system), while the second stage consists of an Aerojet LR91 Liquid-propellant engine.By the mid-1980s, with the stock of refurbished Atlas E/F missiles finally st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II |
Highly caffeinated, often highly sweetened "energy drinks" have become popular on the beverage market in the United States, as well as globally, in the past decade. Consumer demand has helped generate a new generation of "energy drink" brands containing similar amounts of caffeine, calories, and sugar.Various stimulant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_beverage |
A meta-analysis determined the dose-response relationships by sex and end point using lifetime abstainers as the reference group. A U-shaped relationship was found for both sexes. Compared with lifetime abstainers, the relative risk (RR) for type 2 diabetes among men was most protective when consuming 22 g/day alcohol ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_and_health |
The Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates reduced immigration to the United States (both legal and illegal), has noted that expedited removal, as authorized by the IIRIRA, gave the executive branch sufficient power to deport a large fraction of illegal immigrants, but that the executive branch had been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_removal |
If it did, the air would dry the membrane and a re-wet step would be necessary, accomplished by pressurizing the feed side of the membrane. Proprietary antifouling products, such as Nalco's Membrane Performance Enhancer Technology.In addition, different types and intensities of chemical cleaning may also be recommended... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_bioreactors |
The umbilical vein is a vein present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta into the growing fetus. The umbilical vein provides convenient access to the central circulation of a neonate for restoration of blood volume and for administration of glucose and drugs.The blood pressure insid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical_vein |
Jupyter supports execution environments (called "kernels") in several dozen languages, including Julia, R, Haskell, Ruby, and Python (via the IPython kernel). In 2015, about 200,000 Jupyter notebooks were available on GitHub. By 2018, about 2.5 million were available. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter |
In practice, the O(N) additions can often be performed by absorbing the additions into the convolution: if the convolution is performed by a pair of FFTs, then the sum of xn is given by the DC (0th) output of the FFT of aq plus x0, and x0 can be added to all the outputs by adding it to the DC term of the convolution pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rader's_FFT_algorithm |
Computations deal with algorithms and data; Communication involves protocols and messages; So the analog of a data flow diagram is some kind of message flow diagram. To visualize protocol layering and protocol suites, a diagram of the message flows in and between two systems, A and B, is shown in figure 3. The systems,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_protocols |
The Hirtenberger M6-895 60 mm mortar was procured as an urgent operational requirement (UOR) for the British Army. It can be fired in both the direct-lay and indirect fire role at a rate of 1–12 rounds a minute and can be operated in the hand held mode. The mortar replaced the L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar due to greater ava... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_mortar |
Caged IP3 helped elucidate the effect of IP3 on action potential and caged diacylglycerol has been used to determine the influence of fatty acid chain length on PKC dependent signaling.When studying protein-lipid interactions, another type of photoactivation has proved to provide many insights. Photolabile groups such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoactivatable_probes |
In 1997, in response to mounting concern over serious side effects of ephedra, the FDA proposed a ban on products containing 8 mg or more of ephedrine alkaloids and stricter labeling of low-dose ephedra supplements. The FDA also proposed that ephedra labels be required to disclose the health risks of ephedra, such as h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra_(medicine) |
Second mortgagors are subject to upfront fees associated with closing cost of obtaining the mortgage in addition to ongoing payments. These include application and origination fees as well as charges to the lender, appraiser and broker. The application fee is charged to potential borrowers for processing the second mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_mortgage |
Matrox's first graphics card product was the ALT-256 for S-100 bus computers, released in 1978. The ALT-256 produced a 256 by 256 pixel monochrome display using an 8 kilobyte (64 kilobit) frame buffer consisting of 16 TMS4027 DRAM chips (4 kilobits each). An expanded version followed, the ALT-512, both available for In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox |
There are two types of ossification centers – primary and secondary. A primary ossification center is the first area of a bone to start ossifying. It usually appears during prenatal development in the central part of each developing bone. In long bones the primary centers occur in the diaphysis/shaft and in irregular b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossification_center |
Nuclear stability, nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation: 1. Traditional Nuclear Disarmament, US-Russia nuclear disarmament, nuclear weapons in Europe; 2. Nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, Israeli nuclear weapons, Iranian nuclear program, proposal for a Middle Eastern zone free of weapon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Cotta-Ramusino |
2,500 wiring kits were donated by telephone companies. Of the first event, John Gage commented, "NetDay96 is a demonstration of what can happen when people coalesce around a community project In one day, we can begin to reverse California's abysmal record of putting technology into its classrooms. "President Bill Clin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetDay |
The relative reactivity of zinc and its ability to attract oxidation to itself makes it an efficient sacrificial anode in cathodic protection (CP). For example, cathodic protection of a buried pipeline can be achieved by connecting anodes made from zinc to the pipe. Zinc acts as the anode (negative terminus) by slowly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_metals |
In Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein, Valentine Michael Smith is able to do things that most other humans cannot, and is unable to explain any of this in English. However, once others learn Martian, they start to develop the ability to do these things; those concepts could be explained only in Martian. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_language |
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