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A total of 46 lithium ion (Li-ion) battery cells were connected in series to supply 5 kWh (18 MJ) of electrical energy. These highly efficient batteries were originally developed for space applications where reliability is essential. The same batteries providing power to Nuna II during cloudy weather are also used by S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuna_2 |
A hotfix or Quick Fix Engineering update (QFE update) is a single, cumulative package that includes information (often in the form of one or more files) that is used to address a problem in a software product (i.e., a software bug). Typically, hotfixes are made to address a specific customer situation. Microsoft once u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Update |
A more contemporary example of the color stability of pigments is found in the paints used on automobiles today, which must survive intense daily exposure to very harsh lighting, under extreme conditions. The useful life of many (but not all) pigment formulations has been projected out to be several centuries and beyon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_print |
The Galilean design is also used in low magnification binocular surgical and jewelers' loupes because they can be very short and produce an upright image without extra or unusual erecting optics, reducing expense and overall weight. They also have large exit pupils, making centering less critical, and the narrow field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_binoculars |
The US rejected the proposal of the Iraqi army to leave Kuwait if a solution for Palestine is found. Military means are employed by the US in 1991, as Resolution 678 allows. Also, the coalition is created, with 73% of the armed force being American. The United States armed forces lead many attacks on the Iraqi army in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_policy_in_the_Middle_East |
Hydrogen cyanide, discovered in the late 18th century, was used in the 1880s for the fumigation of citrus trees in California. Its use spread to other countries for the fumigation of silos, goods wagons, ships, and mills. Its light weight and rapid dispersal meant its application had to take place under tents or in enc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B |
Some of the main tenets of Israeli property law are: In land law, a system of title registration (Torrens title) is in place, allowing any person to quickly retrieve (usually through the internet) a summary of ownership and other rights towards any parcel of land. The legal transfer of land is only effectuated when a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentees'_Property_Laws |
Some people, especially those with antiphospholipid syndrome, may have SLE without four of the above criteria, and also SLE may present with features other than those listed in the criteria.Recursive partitioning has been used to identify more parsimonious criteria. This analysis presented two diagnostic classification... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_lupus_erythematosus_(SLE) |
The game's art director was Yusuke Naora, who had previously worked as a designer for Final Fantasy VI. With the switch into 3D, Naora realized that he needed to relearn drawing, as 3D visuals require a very different approach than 2D. With the massive scale and scope of the project, Naora was granted a team devoted en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII |
As of 2013, widespread Blue Button usage supported downloading human-readable data in ASCII. In January 2013, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced an implementation guide for data holders and developers to enable automated data exchange among Blue Button+ compliant applications using structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Button |
In June 1945, he survived a second stroke, and during the summer of 1946 — a third one. While in hospital, Burdenko finished a report on healing of gunshot wounds.Burdenko died on 11 November 1946, just several months after the third stroke. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. He was survived by his wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Burdenko |
Autochord (Hammond Piper in 1970, Lowrey Magic Genie in c.1975) Automatic walking bass (Gulbransen) Arpeggiator (Hammond organ, etc.) Built-in Leslie speaker / Rotary speaker (Gulbransen, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe LSL in 1961, etc.)and even built-in tape recorders. These features made it easier to play complete, layered "o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_divider_organ |
The "matheme", for Lacan, is not simply the imitation of science by philosophy, but the ideal of a perfect means for the integral transmission of knowledge. Natural language, with its constant "metonymic slide", fails here, where mathematics succeeds. Contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou identifies "matheme" with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheme |
They quickly failed, plugged the well and left the area. Methane gas escaped from the well and was used by the Wheaton family, owners of a nearby dairy farm. They used this gas, released by the oil prospectors, for many years to provide lighting for their home and gas for their stove. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Springs_State_Park |
Squeezed states of light were first produced in the mid 1980s. At that time, quantum noise squeezing by up to a factor of about 2 (3 dB) in variance was achieved, i.e. Δ 2 X ≈ Δ 2 X g / 2 {\displaystyle \Delta ^{2}X\approx \Delta ^{2}X_{g}/2} . As of 2017, squeeze factors larger than 10 (10 dB) have been directly obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_state |
Menaquinone-4 (also known as menatetrenone from its four isoprene residues) is the most common type of vitamin K2 in animal products since MK-4 is normally synthesized from vitamin K1 in certain animal tissues (arterial walls, pancreas, and testes) by replacement of the phytyl tail with an unsaturated geranylgeranyl ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K2 |
A hypoelastic material can be rigorously defined as one that is modeled using a constitutive equation satisfying the following two criteria: The Cauchy stress σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} at time t {\displaystyle t} depends only on the order in which the body has occupied its past configurations, but not o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoelastic_material |
Let f , g ∈ R n {\displaystyle f,g\in R^{n}} , their inner product is defined to beIf f = ∑ n f n , g = ∑ n g n {\displaystyle f=\sum _{n}f_{n},g=\sum _{n}g_{n}} , then | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius_characteristic_map |
Evi Roxburgh was born into a family of lawyers in Edinburgh, Scotland. She enrolled in Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt College (now Heriot-Watt University), graduating with her diploma in electrical engineering in 1923. It is widely believed that she was the first woman to qualify in electrical engineering because "the only ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Roxburgh |
This response is characterized by the animal curling back its top lip exposing the front teeth and gums, then inhaling and holding the posture for several seconds. The behavior may be performed over particular locations, in which case the animal may also lick the site of interest, or may perform the flehmen with the ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flehmen_response |
Basic letters (𑻱𑻭𑻶𑻮𑻶𑻦𑻭 anrong lontara’) in Makasar script represent a syllable with inherent /a/. There are 18 basic letters, shown below: Note that the Makassar script has never undergone a standardization process like the Buginese Lontara script later on, so there are many variations of writing that can be fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makasar_script |
Red blood cells are thus much more common than the other blood particles: there are about 4,000–11,000 white blood cells and about 150,000–400,000 platelets per microliter. Human red blood cells take on average 60 seconds to complete one cycle of circulation.The blood's red color is due to the spectral properties of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_erythrocytes |
As opposed to golden eagles found further east in Eurasia, the adults of this subspecies are a tawny golden-brown on the upperside. The nape patch is often gleaming golden in color and the feathers here are exceptionally long. Aquila chrysaetos homeyeri Severtzov, 1888 – commonly known as the Iberian golden eagle. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_eagle |
The Hyperbar name comes from the unusually high boost pressure of 7.5 bar and the resulting mean effective pressure of 32.1 bar. For comparison, the turbocharged diesel engine in a typical passenger car has a mean effective pressure of about 20 bar. In addition, with boost available even when idling, this arrangement a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leclerc_tank |
Although the Kerr solution appears to be singular at the roots of Δ = 0, these are actually coordinate singularities, and, with an appropriate choice of new coordinates, the Kerr solution can be smoothly extended through the values of r {\displaystyle r} corresponding to these roots. The larger of these roots determine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Kerr_black_hole |
In regard to writing, co-executive producer Edward Kitsis said that "sometimes it was a scene we always wanted to do, a scene that never got shot, sometimes it was just something interesting". "Buried Secrets" revisits the first season storylines of sexual tension between Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) and Michael Dawson (H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost:_Missing_Pieces |
Photography has been used to create images of nudity that fit into any category; artistic, educational, commercial, and erotic. Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885 – 1971) was a professional American photographer who often photographed Ziegfeld Follies "showgirls". Male naked bodies were not pictured as frequently at the time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_nudity |
The theory of trigonometric series had remained the largest component of Zygmund's mathematical investigations.His work has had a pervasive influence in many fields of mathematics, mostly in mathematical analysis, and particularly in harmonic analysis. Among the most significant were the results he obtained with Calder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Zygmund |
Males grow up to a head-and-body length of 1.3–1.6 m (4 ft 3 in – 5 ft 3 in) with a tail that adds a further 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) to the total length and are referred to by Australians as "Big Reds". Females are considerably smaller, with a head-and-body length of 85–105 cm (33–41 in) and tail length of 65–85 cm (26–33 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_kangaroo |
"As a result of Edwards's research, the United States House of Representatives' science and technology subcommittee conducted a congressional investigation into the matter. They concluded that the CDC made "scientifically indefensible" claims that the lead levels in DC were not harmful, knowingly using flawed data. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Edwards_(professor) |
By homology searches of available sequences, they also predicted the presence of a long form of human and mouse PGRP (PGRP-L).In 2001, Roman Dziarski and coworkers discovered and cloned three human PGRPs, named PGRP-L, PGRP-Iα, and PGRP-Iβ (for long and intermediate size transcripts). They established that human genome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidoglycan_recognition_protein |
No other artist was quite as able as Ellington to utilize jazz elements, though Henderson and Redman had attempted, quite so seamlessly with a large orchestra. Many of Ellington's compositions were written for specific members of his band, highlighting their individual talents and relying on their input to cultivate hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_jazz |
The term long products may include hot rolled bar, cold rolled or drawn bar, rebar, railway rails, wire, rope (stranded wire), woven cloth of steel wire, shapes (sections) such as U, I, or H sections, and may also include ingots from continuous casting, including blooms and billets. Fabricated structural units, such br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_products |
Many AC meters are designed to give readings that are only meaningful for the sinusoidal waveforms of normal ac power. Waveforms for switched-mode power supplies as used in much electronic equipment may be very far from sinusoidal, causing power readings of such meters to be meaningless. Meters specified to read "RMS p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_load |
In 1751, Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt tried to extract copper from kupfernickel at a cobalt mine in the village of Los, Sweden, and instead produced a white metal that he named nickel after the spirit that had given its name to the mineral. In modern German, Kupfernickel or Kupfer-Nickel designates the alloy cupronicke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel |
The Hiyama coupling is limited by the need for fluoride in order to activate the organosilicon reagent. Addition of fluoride cleaves any silicon protecting groups (e.g. silyl ethers), which are frequently employed in organic synthesis. The fluoride ion is also basic, so base sensitive protecting groups, acidic protons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiyama_coupling |
Let’s consider a simple case. If the seed orchard genotypes are unrelated the second term is zero, if there is no inbreeding, the first term becomes simple. For no relatedness and no inbreeding, status number (NS, effective number of parents) becomes: NS = 1/ ∑ i = 1 N {\displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{N}} pi2Similar but les... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_production_and_gene_diversity |
While not widely reported, it has been noted that the genre, or domain, of a text has an effect on the correlation obtained when using metrics. Coughlin (2003) reports that comparing the candidate text against a single reference translation does not adversely affect the correlation of metrics when working in a restrict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_of_machine_translation |
The mean duration of a tropical year is 365.24219 days, while the long-term average duration of a synodic month is 29.530587981 days. Thus the average lunar year (twelve new moons) is 10.87513 days shorter than the average solar year (365.24219 − (12 × 29.530587981)), causing months of the Hijri calendar to advance abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_calendar |
The final table is set when a sufficient number of people have been eliminated from the tournament leaving an exact number of players to occupy one table (typically no more than ten players). first position The playing position to the direct left of the blinds in Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold 'em, also known as under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_aces |
Bletting is a process of softening that certain fleshy fruits undergo, beyond ripening. There are some fruits that are either sweeter after some bletting, such as sea buckthorn, or for which most varieties can be eaten raw only after bletting, such as medlars, persimmons, quince, service tree fruit, and wild service tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletting |
Proteins currently known to belong to the Ni2+-Co2+ Transporter (NiCoT) family (TC# 2.A.52) can be found in organisms ranging from Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria to archaea and some eukaryotes. Members of this family catalyze uptake of Ni2+ and/or Co2+ in a proton motive force-dependent process. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NiCoT_family |
A street may assume the role of a town square for its regulars. Jane Jacobs, an economist and prominent urbanist, wrote extensively on the ways that interaction among the people who live and work on a particular street—"eyes on the street"—can reduce crime, encourage the exchange of ideas, and generally make the world ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_street |
Thomas gave a reading of the unfinished play to students at Cardiff University in March 1953. He then travelled to America in April to give the first public readings of the play, even though he had not yet written its second half. He gave a solo reading of the first half on 3 May at the Fogg Museum, Harvard, where the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood |
Because the Mandelbrot set is a simply connected set, any point enclosed by a closed shape whose borders lie entirely within the Mandelbrot set must itself be in the Mandelbrot set. Border tracing works by following the lemniscates of the various iteration levels (colored bands) all around the set, and then filling the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotting_algorithms_for_the_Mandelbrot_set |
The aspect of reincarnation is one strongly mentioned in Mayan beliefs and religion. The Popol Vuh gives importance to the Maize deity, and how the Mayan people themselves descended from maize people created by this god. In the Popol Vuh that the Kʼicheʼ Maya wrote, one of the few surviving codices, it tells the story ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_death_rituals |
Irrigation equipment can also be configured to move in a straight line, where it is termed a lateral move, linear move, wheel move or side-roll irrigation system. In these systems the water is supplied by an irrigation channel running the length of the field. The channel is positioned either at one side or in a line th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_irrigation |
Daclatasvir reaches steady state in human subjects after about 4 days of once-daily 60 mg oral administration, with a peak dose in concentration occurring about 2 hours after administration. It comes in the form of an oral tablet, with a bioavailability of 67%. Daclatasvir is predominantly metabolized by the liver enzy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daclatasvir |
Many airline companies, or a few key content-creating companies, produce in-flight magazines to provide details about their fleet, as well as articles about destinations, travel, and tourism information. In-flight publishing and media are a niche in the magazine industry. Airline titles have controlled distribution cos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflight_magazine |
There are two equivalent ways to define the meaning of the Miller indices: via a point in the reciprocal lattice, or as the inverse intercepts along the lattice vectors. Both definitions are given below. In either case, one needs to choose the three lattice vectors a1, a2, and a3 that define the unit cell (note that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_face |
The government charged three members of the Buffalo, New York-based El Ariete Society, a communist group, in 1920. The defendants were acquitted by a judge as the government failed to prove that the defendants had any connection with the seditious publications that were presented as evidence, or that any active conspir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seditious_conspiracy |
and his thesis title "Vulnerability, Health and Risk: towards a normative framework for public health policy". Since 2012 he has been a Fellow of Pembroke College, and the University Hatton Professor in the Philosophy of Public Health. He is also a member of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and of C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_D._John |
The British Columbia Teachers Federation supported the change because in the past some students avoided certain subjects for fear that poor marks on provincial exams would bring down their average.In the fall of 2009, Simon Fraser University (SFU) changed its requirements so that high school students only need to pass ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation |
A hypertensive emergency is very high blood pressure with potentially life-threatening symptoms and signs of acute damage to one or more organ systems (especially brain, eyes, heart, aorta, or kidneys). It is different from a hypertensive urgency by this additional evidence for impending irreversible hypertension-media... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_hypertension |
The designs feature the goddess Nike writing on a shield, Minerva with a spear, shield, trophy and palm tree, etc. Most such coins were issued during the reign of the Emperor Domitian (81-96 AD).Unusually, a 'Judaea Capta' coin was also minted by the Jewish ruler Agrippa II, the great-grandson of Herod the Great. Broug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaea_Capta_coinage |
In June, the company launched a version compatible with Windows 10. While the game platform has had a presence on the PC since 2004, when its web version was created, this was the first time it was upgraded with a standalone launcher built for Windows.Throughout 2017, Roblox engaged in a number of updates to its server... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oof_(sound) |
He and his colleagues identified criteria necessary for the process of laser action at gamma-ray energies. He collaborated on theoretical issues, on experiments to demonstrate isomer separation by selective photoionization (1983), and on modeling of the kinetics of gamma-ray lasers. Decades of his gamma-ray laser work,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Baldwin |
Tarenflurbil, Flurizan or R-flurbiprofen, is the single enantiomer of the racemate NSAID flurbiprofen. For several years, research and trials for the drug were conducted by Myriad Genetics, to investigate its potential as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease; that investigation concluded in June 2008 when the company an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarenflurbil |
Glass can be decorated by sandblasting the surface of a piece in order to remove a layer of glass, thereby making a design stand out. Items that are sandblasted are usually thick slabs of glass into which a design has been carved by means of high pressure sandblasting. This technique provides a three-dimensional effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_glass |
Binge-watching overlaps with marathon viewing which places more emphasis on stamina and less on self-indulgence. In a survey conducted by Netflix in February 2014, 73% of people define binge-watching as "watching between 2–6 episodes of the same TV show in one sitting". Some researchers have argued that binge-watching ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_watching |
John Kircher, Doug Hacker, Anne Cook, Dan Woltz and David Raskin have developed eye-tracking technology at the University of Utah that they consider a polygraph alternative. This is not an emotional reaction like the polygraph and other methods but rather a cognitive reaction. This technology measures pupil dilation, r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_detection |
As cellular decompositions of the projective plane, they have Euler characteristic 1, while spherical polyhedra have Euler characteristic 2. The qualifier "globally" is to contrast with locally projective polyhedra, which are defined in the theory of abstract polyhedra. Non-overlapping projective polyhedra (density 1) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_tiling |
The Bill defined remote gambling as, Gambling in which persons participate by the use of remote communication. This would be using the internet, the telephone, radio, television of any other device used for communication. Any operator must have a separate licence for remote gambling and non-remote gambling. The licence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling |
The raw material was bar iron, or (from the introduction of mild steel in the late 19th century), a bar of steel. This was drawn into a flat bar (known as a tin bar) at the ironworks or steel works where it was made. The cross-section of the bar needed to be accurate in size as this would be the cross-section of the pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_plate |
In order to start this procedure, the neuropsychologist first looks at the participant’s behaviors and what kind of complications they may have. Based on the given information, the person performs a standardized test. While the participant is performing the test, the neuropsychologist examines how they are answering ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_process_approach |
In international law, the exception is allowed by the UN's International Law Commission (ILC) to be used by a state facing "grave and imminent peril": 1. Necessity may not be invoked by a State as a ground for precluding the wrongfulness of an act not in conformity with an international obligation of that State unless ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_necessity |
Using the distributed load equation provided the A e {\displaystyle A_{e}} can be replaced with area of the piston surface where the pressure is acting on. F r = P ( π r 2 ) {\displaystyle F_{r}=P(\pi r^{2})} Where: F r {\displaystyle F_{r}} represents the resultant force r {\displaystyle r} represents the radius of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_cylinder |
IBM code page 880 is mostly a superset of DKOI K1, adding support for Cyrillic letters not used in Russian but used in Serbian Cyrillic, Macedonian Cyrillic, Belarusian Cyrillic or Soviet-era Ukrainian Cyrillic (i.e. including the Ukrainian Ye but not the Ukrainian Ge). 0x6A is a continuous vertical bar (like in code p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKOI |
Because of this, there is even a competition at the "City Park Big Bass Fishing Rodeo & Fishtival". to catch the most cichlids. According to a fisherman Joe Adams, who participates in the competition, "They will eat just about anything ... I know one guy who catches them with French fries ... pieces of a hot dog and pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_cichlid |
In the early steps of the Frankfurt Nok Project, researchers had difficulty finding sites to excavate. The team began collaborating with Umaru Yusuf Potiskum and they started finding distinct Nok culture sites, although most were looted. Scientific field work began in 2005 to systematically investigate Nok archaeologic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture |
Salt domes are the site of many of the world's hydrocarbon provinces. The rock salt of the salt dome is mostly impermeable, so, as it moves up towards the surface, it penetrates and bends existing rock along with it. As strata of rock are penetrated, they are, generally, bent upwards where they meet the dome, forming p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_domes |
He combats all selfishness, and regards marriage not merely as becoming and natural, but as the principle of the family and state, and the preservation of the whole human race. He zealously protests against the exposure of children as an unnatural custom, and at every opportunity recommends the practice of benevolence. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Musonius_Rufus |
The intersection A ∩ B {\displaystyle A\cap B} then describes choosing the first urn and a white ball from it. The probability can be calculated by the chain rule as follows: P ( A ∩ B ) = P ( B ∣ A ) P ( A ) = 2 3 ⋅ 1 2 = 1 3 . {\displaystyle \mathbb {P} (A\cap B)=\mathbb {P} (B\mid A)\mathbb {P} (A)={\frac {2}{3}}\cd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_rule_(probability) |
The E-Stick three-speed transmission was offered on the larger Rambler Classic models, along with an overdrive unit. The system was only available with 6-cylinder engines, and the lack of a clutch proved unpopular, so it was discontinued after 1964.The 1967 Volkswagen WSK (Wandlerschaltkupplungsgetriebe; English: Torqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_transmission |
Typical features: A wide hedge. Half crops are sometimes used on the outside. Pleachers are closely woven and the tops are entwined. Trimmed square. No binding.The Stake & Pleach style is used in Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Carmarthenshire and Montgomeryshire. The Flying Hedge style (a low hedge on a ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_laying |
Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) is a Chinese semiconductor integrated device manufacturer specializing in flash memory (NAND) chips. Founded in Wuhan, China, in 2016, with government investment and a goal of reducing the country's dependence on foreign chip manufacturers, the company was formerly a subsidiary o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Memory_Technologies |
The measurement of FIB is widespread and used for the purpose of providing safe waters. In Texas, the occurrence and distribution of FIB, in particular fecal coliforms and E. coli, were measured in streams that receive discharge from the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and the surrounding area. These streams re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminth_eggs |
Sara E. Cooper (Professor of Spanish and Women Studies) applied for a teaching position at California State University at Chico and she received the job, in spite of her focus on Spanish studies. She writes a journal article that highlights the ridicule she sometimes received during her public speeches, but insists on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_studies |
American country music contains numerous images of traditional values and family and religious life, as well as patriotic themes. Songs such as Merle Haggard's "The Fightin' Side of Me" and "Okie from Muskogee" have been perceived as patriotic songs showing an "us versus them" mentality directed at the counterculture o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_politics |
The Smart File System (SFS) is a journaling filesystem used on Amiga computers and AmigaOS-derived operating systems (though some support also exists for IBM PC compatibles). It is designed for performance, scalability and integrity, offering improvements over standard Amiga filesystems as well as some special or uniqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_File_System |
The United States Census Bureau also assigned classifications in its now-discontinued Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS) (formerly Truck Inventory and Use Survey (TIUS)).United States federal law requires drivers to have a commercial driver's license (CDL) to operate heavy-duty vehicles (Class 7 and 8) in commerce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-duty_truck |
Nantucket Lightship Closed Area (NLCA) was established in 1994 in an effort to protect benthic habitat and groundfish species. It is rectangular and runs in straight lines from 40° 20' to 40° 50' North, and 69° 00' to 70° 20' West.It is a year long closed area that prevents groundfish fishing. Fishing vessels that are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Maine_Closed_Areas |
More loosely, the OAS of a security can be interpreted as its "expected outperformance" versus the benchmarks, if the cash flows and the yield curve behave consistently with the valuation model. In the context of an MBS or callable bond, the embedded option relates primarily to the borrower's right to early repayment, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option-adjusted_spread |
The offer was refused and Haines continued in bit roles for Goldwyn. Haines scored his first big personal success with Brown of Harvard (1926) opposite Jack Pickford and Mary Brian. It was in Brown that he crystallized his screen image, a young arrogant man who is humbled by the last reel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haines |
Since an "always on" broadband is the norm expected by most newer applications being developed, this automatic background downloading trend is expected to continue to eat away at dial-up's available bandwidth to the detriment of dial-up users' applications. Many newer websites also now assume broadband speeds as the no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_access |
In uniprocessor systems, this can be done by disabling interrupts on entry into the critical section, avoiding system calls that can cause a context switch while inside the section, and restoring interrupts to their previous state on exit. Any thread of execution entering any critical section anywhere in the system wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_section |
A general criticism of non-probabilistic decision rules, discussed in detail at decision theory: alternatives to probability theory, is that optimal decision rules (formally, admissible decision rules) can always be derived by probabilistic methods, with a suitable utility function and prior distribution (this is the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-gap_decision_theory |
In doing so, he came into conflict with Johannes Trithemius who refused to believe in Ficino's theory but created spells and incantations of his own related to beneficial communication with spirits. His works, including the Steganographia, were not published until the 17th century and were then immediately placed on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_magic |
The flag of Europe consists of a circle of 12 golden stars on a blue background. Originally designed in 1955 for the Council of Europe, the flag was adopted by the European Communities, the predecessors of the present European Union, in 1986. The Council of Europe gave the flag a symbolic description in the following t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union |
After it was revealed to the public, the cap badge of the Ranger Regiment was the subject of a controversy after some commentators claimed it bore a resemblance to the badge of the Selous Scouts, a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army which operated during the Rhodesian Bush War. A Daily Telegraph article claimed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Regiment_(United_Kingdom) |
Tesla deliveries vary significantly by month due to regional issues such as availability of car carriers and registration. On March 9, 2020, the company produced its 1 millionth electric car, becoming the first auto manufacturer to achieve such a milestone. In the third quarter of 2021, Tesla sold its 2 millionth elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_car |
Urum or Greek Tatar, spoken by Orthodox Christians, used the Greek alphabet. Judaeo-Spanish or Ladino, a Jewish dialect of Spanish, has occasionally been published in Greek characters in Greece. The Italian humanist Giovan Giorgio Trissino tried to add some Greek letters (Ɛ ε, Ꞷ ω) to Italian orthography in 1524. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letter |
The present Galaxy Zoo (4) combines new imaging from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with the most distant images yet from the Hubble Space Telescope CANDELS survey. The CANDELS survey makes use of the new Wide Field Camera 3 to take ultra-deep images of the universe. The project also includes images taken with the United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Zoo |
Daimler began importing the Renard Road Train in February 1907. Daimler fitted a number of four-cylinder 'pre-Knight' engines in the Road Train; Lanchester's development work resulted in a 75/80 hp Daimler-Knight 6-cylinder engine for the Daimler-Renard tractor unit in 1910. The Birmingham Small Arms company (BSA) boug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Lanchester |
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, the developer and intellectual property rights owner of Steam, described the disadvantages of physical retail distribution for smaller game developers as such:The worst days were the cartridge days for the NES. It was a huge risk – you had all this money tied up in silicon in a wareho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_distribution_of_video_games |
Another example is pre-end of life decommissioning of nuclear power stations, decided by the German government and debated in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. In Japan however, the decommissioning of the nuclear power plants remains difficult because with 42 operable reactors in place and only 9 reac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranded_assets |
Cooling preserves food by slowing down the growth and reproduction of microorganisms and the action of enzymes that causes the food to rot. The introduction of commercial and domestic refrigerators drastically improved the diets of many in the Western world by allowing food such as fresh fruit, salads and dairy product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_conservation |
Note that by design, network design games are congestion games. Therefore, they admit a potential function Φ = ∑ e ∑ i = 1 n e c e i {\displaystyle \textstyle \Phi =\sum _{e}\sum _{i=1}^{n_{e}}{\frac {c_{e}}{i}}} . Theorem. Suppose there exist constants A {\displaystyle A} and B {\displaystyle B} such that for every st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_stability |
In the history of the English language, the earliest recorded usage of yeoman occurs in the Late Middle English period, and then becoming more widespread in the Early Modern English period. The transition from Middle English to Early Modern English was a gradual process occurring over decades. For the sake of assigning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman |
In the U.S., F0 and F1 (T0 through T3) tornadoes account for 80 percent of all tornadoes. The rate of occurrence drops off quickly with increasing strength—violent tornadoes (stronger than F4, T8), account for less than one percent of all tornado reports. Worldwide, strong tornadoes account for an even smaller percenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensity_of_tornadoes |
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