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The last syllable with a full vowel in a French prosodic unit is stressed, and that the last stressed syllable in an English prosodic unit has primary stress. This shows that stress is not phonemic in French, and that the difference between primary and secondary stress is not phonemic in English; they are both elements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosodic_unit |
Biscuit conditionals (also known as relevance or speech act conditionals) are conditionals where the truth of the consequent does not depend on the truth of the antecedent. There are biscuits on the table if you want some. If you need anything, my name is Joshua. If I may be honest, you're not looking goodIn Metalingui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_sentence |
With a largely qualitative method, the goal of this approach is to discover and analyze data through comparative analyses, though it is quite flexible in its use of techniques. Middle-range theory is an approach to sociological theorizing aimed at integrating theory and empirical research. It is currently the de facto ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociological_theory |
Scientists concluded that while the hippocampus is needed in the creation of new memories, it is not needed in the retrieval of old ones; they are two separate processes. They also realized that the hippocampus and the medial temporal lobes, both of the areas removed from Molaison, are the areas responsible for convert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuropsychology |
LinguaSys is an IBM Business Partner. LinguaSys' multilingual technology is used on enterprise servers and consumer smartphones.LinguaSys has developed an app TGPhoto which allows the user to snap a photo of some text and show a translation to one of fifty languages. The software works on Android, and Blackberry smartp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinguaSys |
Berceuse élégiaque, Op. 42 (BV 252a), is an orchestral work composed by Ferruccio Busoni in 1909. Originally written for solo piano, to be added as the seventh piece in his 1907 collection Elegies, Busoni adapted it for orchestra later the same year. This orchestral version was sub-titled "Des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berceuse_élégiaque |
As mentioned above as pelotons are formed they are covered by a plant derived membrane, which eventually takes on the properties of endoplasmic reticulum surrounded by Golgi apparatuses. The presence of these organelles is indicative of their purpose, which is thought to be the excretion of digestive enzymes into the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchid_mycorrhiza |
A pop-up book is any book with three-dimensional pages, often with features that "pop up" as the page is turned. The terminology serves as an umbrella term for movable book, pop-ups, tunnel books, transformations, volvelles, flaps, pull-tabs, pop-outs, pull-downs, and other features each performing in a different manne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_up_book |
For married men, the longer they were in relationships, the less likely they were to engage in infidelity, until the eighteenth year of marriage, at which point the chance that men will engage in infidelity began to increase.Research on pregnancy and its effects on sexual desire and rates of infidelity conducted in sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_infidelity |
For real-valued functions, there is a simple relationship between the values of the Fourier transform for positive and negative ξ {\displaystyle \xi } (see conjugation below). This makes it possible to avoid the subject of negative frequencies by using the sine and cosine transforms. But most authors prefer using Eq.1 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transformations |
Linkin Park's album Hybrid Theory was certified 12× platinum (diamond) by the RIAA and sold at least 10,222,000 copies in the United States. In 2000, Godsmack released their second studio album Awake, which was certified double platinum. The album's title track peaked at number 1 on the Mainstream Rock chart. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_metal |
However, there are other number systems that are not accurately described by these axioms; in particular, the theory defined in the same way for integers instead of real numbers is undecidable, even for existential sentences (Diophantine equations) by Matiyasevich's theorem.The existential theory of the reals is the fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_theory_of_the_reals |
Results showed calcium current decreased as concentration of ethanol increased. Similar results have shown to be true in single-channel recordings from isolated nerve terminal of rats that ethanol does in fact block VGCCs.Studies done by Katsura et al. in 2006 on mouse cerebral cortical neurons, show the effects of pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_channel_blockers |
The infant would also have difficulty breathing.There might be a need for early delivery if the baby gets too big and perhaps Caesarean section would be needed. Since the baby is bigger, there's a higher chance of injury when coming out of the mother's body. To increase the blood glucose level in blood, a glucose/water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_nutrition |
Appealing to the Old Testament traditions that required two or three witnesses to establish a testimony, the two witnesses of Revelation represent the whole church in its specific role as witness.Three and a half years and its variants of 42 months and 1,260 days are employed throughout Revelation (Rev. 11:2-11; 12:4-6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_numerology |
Three nearby candidates were all found to be background stars.Some researchers suspected that Bellatrix was a member of 32 Orionis group. The 32 Ori group should be termed the Bellatrix Cluster on the basis that the sky position and distance of Bellatrix are similar to those of the 32 Ori group. The proper motion of Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Orionis |
At present, all main fusion experiments use NBIs. Traditional positive-ion-based injectors (P-NBI) are installed for instance in JET and in ASDEX-U. To allow power deposition in the center of the burning plasma in larger devices, a higher neutral-beam energy is required. High-energy (>100 keV) systems require the use o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Beam_Injection |
This contrasts with strong belief, which implies a substantial commitment to the believed claim. It involves certainty in the form of being sure about it. For declarative knowledge, this stronger sense of belief is relevant.A few epistemologists, like Katalin Farkas, claim that, at least in some cases, knowledge is not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_knowledge |
The mass distributions determined from these methods reveal masses that far exceed the luminous mass seen and are thus a strong indication of dark matter in galaxy clusters.Inverse Compton scattering of low energy photons through interactions with the relativistic electrons in the ICM cause distortions in the spectrum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracluster_media |
This is ideal for identifying contrasting colours, such as red and green. Double-opponent cells are particularly important in computing local cone ratios from visual information from their receptive fields.Single opponent colour-sensitive neurons can be divided into two categories depending on the signals they receive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_center |
Agulhas Current – The western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean that flows down the east coast of Africa Agulhas Return Current – An ocean current in the South Indian Ocean flowing from the Agulhas retroflection along the subtropical front East Madagascar Current – Current that flows southward on the east ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_oceanography |
The vowels in Punic and Neo-Punic are: short a, i, and u; their long counterparts ā, ī, and ū; and ē and ō, which had developed out of the diphthongs ay and aw, respectively (for example Punic mēm, 'water', corresponds to Hebrew mayim). Two vowel changes are noteworthy. In many cases a stressed long ā developed into /o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_alphabet |
Productive forces, productive powers, or forces of production (German: Produktivkräfte) is a central idea in Marxism and historical materialism. In Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' own critique of political economy, it refers to the combination of the means of labor (tools, machinery, land, infrastructure, and so on) wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productive_forces |
The necessity for the doubled scale reading follows from consideration of the relations of the fixed ray (between the mirrors), the object ray (from the sighted object) and the direction of the normal perpendicular to the index mirror. When the index arm moves by an angle, say 20°, the angle between the fixed ray and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant |
A simplicial k-complex K {\displaystyle {\mathcal {K}}} is a simplicial complex where the largest dimension of any simplex in K {\displaystyle {\mathcal {K}}} equals k. For instance, a simplicial 2-complex must contain at least one triangle, and must not contain any tetrahedra or higher-dimensional simplices. A pure or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(simplicial_complex) |
In 2004, Dmitri Asonov and Rakesh Agrawal of the IBM Almaden Research Center announced that computer keyboards and keypads used on telephones and automated teller machines (ATMs) are vulnerable to attacks based on the sounds produced by different keys. Their attack employed a neural network to recognize the key being p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis |
Similarly 5GX and 2GX may have even fewer side groups but it was not rigorously proven. The phthalocyanine aromatic nucleus has a large conjugated system with a CBN (Conjugated bond number) of 48. However it is the charges on the isothiouronium side groups that still keeps it water-soluble. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcian_blue_stain |
Differing relative to the above methods, an option-based methodology takes into consideration the options and opportunities related to the investment. It relies on option pricing models (e.g. Black–Scholes) for stock options to achieve a valuation of a given intellectual property asset. In these cases, patents may be v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_valuation |
The transplastomic plants were engineered to have resistance to the antibiotic spectinomycin and engineered to produce a green fluorescent protein molecule (GFP). Therefore, it was hypothesized that any offspring produced by from these two lines of tobacco plant should not be able to grow on spectinomycin or be fluores... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastid_transformation |
Place a turn around the rope or spar and come up to the left of the standing part of the line. Cross over the standing part and make a turn around the rope or spar in the opposite direction. Finally, pass the working end over the second turn and tuck it under the first turn. Set the knot and tighten the knot. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossel_hitch |
This finding was subsequently disputed by various other experts, who noted that the ATF's finding was based primarily on their inability to find any other cause for the initial fire. Some people complained that it delayed victims' lawsuits against the fertilizer company, gave the defendants more legal ammunition, and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion |
The mid-1990s marked the development of smaller more efficient marine radars. While such marine radars are illegal if used in land-mobile situations, a number of chasers were quick to adopt them in an effort to have mobile radar. These radars have been found to interfere with research radars, such as the Doppler on Whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_chasing |
Gill was chair of the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1986. His candidacy citation read: "Dr A. E. Gill is internationally recognised for his work in geophysical fluid dynamics and leads a small but highly productive team working on problems in dynamic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Gill_(meteorologist) |
.NET Reflector was originally developed by Lutz Roeder as freeware. Its first versions can be tracked back to January 2001.Archive.org hosts a collection of the early versions of Reflector. On 20 August 2008, Red Gate Software announced they were taking responsibility for future development of the software.In February ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Reflector |
From Arabic al-qaria () "the village." aloque aloquín alpargata alquequenje alquería alquermes alquerque: Two meanings, from al-qirq and al-qariq. القرق () alquez alquezar alquibla alquicel alquiler: Rent. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language_influence_on_the_Spanish_language |
The first recorded acid attacks in South Asia occurred in Bangladesh in 1967, India in 1982, and Cambodia in 1993. Since then, research has witnessed an increase in the quantity and severity of acid attacks in the region. However, this can be traced to significant underreporting in the 1980s and 1990s, along with a gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_attacks |
Digital Image had support for Adobe Photoshop plugins. Later versions also included Photo Story 3.1. The latest version of this product was Digital Image 2006. This version had native support for Raw camera formats from Canon (.CRW) and Nikon (.NEF) On 19 September 2006, Microsoft released an "anniversary edition" whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Digital_Image |
An artificially conscious machine should be able to anticipate events correctly in order to be ready to respond to them when they occur or to take preemptive action to avert anticipated events. The implication here is that the machine needs flexible, real-time components that build spatial, dynamic, statistical, functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_consciousness_in_fiction |
A layered intrusion is a large sill-like body of igneous rock which exhibits vertical layering or differences in composition and texture. These intrusions can be many kilometres in area covering from around 100 km2 (39 sq mi) to over 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) and several hundred metres to over one kilometre (3,300 ft) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layered_intrusion |
The term air mattress may also refer to a certain inflatable swimming pool or beach toy, which has an air-sac "pillow" and several (usually four or five) tubes running its length. Also called a "lilo" (UK, AUS, NZ, SA), "pool air mat", "air mat", "pool lounge", or "float(ing) mat(tress)", it is used to recline on the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_mattress |
Typical uses of detonators include: A warning, caution or stop signal in dense fog, when signals are difficult to see A warning of a train stopped on the line ahead by an incident or accident—the train crew are usually responsible for placing the detonators A warning of ongoing engineering works ahead When a signaller ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonator_(railway) |
Fredman, Michael L.; Weide, Bruce (1978), "The complexity of computing the measure of ∪ {\displaystyle \cup } ", Communications of the ACM, 21 (7): 540–544, doi:10.1145/359545.359553, MR 0495193, S2CID 16493364. van Leeuwen, Jan; Wood, Derick (1981), "The measure problem for rectangular ranges in d-space", Journal of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klee's_measure_problem |
Linalool is hydrogenated to give dihydro- and tetrahydrolinalool, which are fragrances that are more resilient toward oxidants, as might be found in household cleaning products. Linalyl acetate, a popular scent, is produced by esterification of linalool (as well as occurring naturally). Isomerization of linalool gives ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linalool |
Similar to Jimmy Wakely and Marty Robbins, Wilf Carter's 1949 recording "Bluebird on Your Windowsill" was described by Richard Carlin as "the kind of cowboy pop that is treasured as a kitsch classic." Wilf Carter's songs were also used to score cowboy films, such as John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach. Though these popular cow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_pop |
The fundamental interacting force of physisorption is Van der Waals force. Even though the interaction energy is very weak (~10–100 meV), physisorption plays an important role in nature. For instance, the van der Waals attraction between surfaces and foot-hairs of geckos (see Synthetic setae) provides the remarkable ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_adsorption |
Prisma Labs is a company based in Sunnyvale, California that launched the Prisma and Lensa apps. It was founded in 2016 by Andrey Usoltsev, Alexey Moiseenkov, and a team of Russian developers. Usoltsev is also the CEO. In 2016, the company launched the Prisma app, which uses artificial intelligence to duplicate photos ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisma_Labs |
Organisms communicate and cooperate to perform a wide range of behaviors. Mutualism, or mutually beneficial interactions between species, is common in ecological systems. These interactions can be thought of "biological markets" in which species offer partners goods that are relatively inexpensive for them to produce a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_(biology) |
The litigation could continue for years, if not for the defeat of Texas Instruments in the dispute with Sprague in April 1966. Texas Instruments realized that they could not claim priority for the whole set of key IC patents, and lost interest in the patent war. In the summer of 1966, Texas Instruments and Fairchild ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_circuit |
Ronald Coase has pointed out, all business organizations represent an attempt to avoid certain costs associated with doing business. Each is meant to facilitate the contribution of specific resources - investment capital, knowledge, relationships, and so forth - towards a venture which will prove profitable to all cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_law |
There is an alternative way of deriving the lens equation, starting from the photon arrival time (Fermat surface) t = ∫ 0 z s n d z c cos α ( z ) {\displaystyle t=\int _{0}^{z_{s}}{ndz \over c\cos \alpha (z)}} where d z / c {\displaystyle dz/c} is the time to travel an infinitesimal line element along the source-obse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_Lensing_Formalism |
Extravascular hemolysis refers to hemolysis taking place in the liver, spleen, bone marrow, and lymph nodes. In this case little hemoglobin escapes into blood plasma. The macrophages of the reticuloendothelial system in these organs engulf and destroy structurally-defective red blood cells, or those with antibodies att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolytic_crisis |
Lissajous figures are sometimes used in graphic design as logos. Examples include: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (a = 1, b = 3, δ = π/2) The Lincoln Laboratory at MIT (a = 3, b = 4, δ = π/2) The open air club Else in Berlin (a = 3, b = 2, δ = π/2) The University of Electro-Communications, Japan (a = 5, b = 6,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve |
In the winter of 2011–2012, Alabama, Delaware and Arkansas confirmed the disease in bats and new cases showed up in northeastern Ohio, and Acadia National Park in Maine. Confirmed cases appeared in 2013 in Georgia, South Carolina, Illinois, and the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. In March, 2014, WDNR and USG... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-nose_syndrome |
In vertebrates, the evolutionary conserved family of microRNAs miR-430/427/302 is expressed early in development. It has important roles in controlling mesoderm and endoderm specification, and it does it by regulating the protein expression levels of some Nodal signaling components. This family is composed by the teleo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodal_signaling |
{\displaystyle 2y^{3}-ay^{2}-2cy+(ac-{\tfrac {1}{4}}b^{2})=(2y-a)(y^{2}-c)-{\tfrac {1}{4}}b^{2}=0\ .} Then (since b ≠ 0) 2 y − a ≠ 0 {\displaystyle 2y-a\neq 0} so we may divide by it, giving y 2 − c = b 2 4 ( 2 y − a ) . {\displaystyle y^{2}-c={\frac {b^{2}}{4(2y-a)}}\ .} | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartic_equation |
Ambiguity: the same mention can often refer to many different entities, depending on the context, as many entity names tend to be polysemous (i.e. have multiple meanings). The word Paris, among other things, could be referring to the French capital or to Paris Hilton. In some cases (as in the capital of France), there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_Linking |
He predicted that German thought would prove a more explosive force than the French Revolution. Heine had had few serious love affairs, but in late 1834 he made the acquaintance of a 19-year-old Paris shopgirl, Crescence Eugénie Mirat, whom he nicknamed "Mathilde". Heine reluctantly began a relationship with her. She w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine |
In 2008–2009, the Western Australia State Government provided additional funding to public libraries but then decreased that amount in 2009–2010 by 40%. Steps were made for the Local Government Association to represent the libraries to the State Government, but this was insufficient. Instead, a grassroots campaign was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cart_drill_team |
As a simplified example, consider a test object with a life distribution that roughly matches a normal distribution. Tests at various stress levels would yield different values for the mean and standard deviation of the distribution. (its parameters) One would then use a known model or attempt to fit a model to relate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_life_testing |
This PSA target was part of the wider objective to "tackle the adult skills gaps", by increasing the number of adults with the skills required for employability and progression to higher levels of training. The rationale behind the Skills for Life strategy was thus, firstly, to lift basic skills in the face of the chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skills_for_Life |
For a testamentary trust, as the settlor is deceased, they will generally not have any influence over the trustee's exercise of discretion, although in some jurisdictions it is common for the testator to leave a letter of wishes for the trustee. In practical terms testamentary trusts tend to be driven more by the needs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testamentary_trust |
Between 2011 and 2018 ARC used an Ubuntu-like versioning schema for bundled releases consisting of individual components. Individual components have own versioning, corresponding to code tags. Version of the core ARC packages is often used instead of the formal release number in everyday communication. Starting with AR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Resource_Connector |
(meaning is changed) This can possibly be explained by the differing uses of the suffix -ly, and another adverbial suffix, -e. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are two different uses of the suffix -ly: when the suffix transforms a word into an adjective (e.g. brotherly), and when it forms an adverb. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_adverb |
Its spherical particle is 50–60 nm in diameter, and contains a circular double-stranded DNA genome of around 17 kb, which is predicted to encode 20 polypeptides. A related strain, Zamilon 2, has been identified in North America. All known virophages are associated with helpers in the giant DNA virus family Mimiviridae.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamilon_virophage |
In addition to membership in the organizations for their various specialties, adolescent medicine providers often belong to The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and/or The North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.Founded in 1987, the International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_medicine |
In 1578, Balthasar Russow wrote in his Livonian Chronicle about Estonians who placed more importance on the festival than going to church. He complained about those who went to church, but did not enter, and instead spent their time lighting bonfires, drinking, dancing, singing and following pagan rituals. Midsummer ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer |
Francione argues that the animal rights movement only emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s. Until that time, concern for animals was limited to ensuring that animals were well cared for during their exploitation. The animal rights position calls for the total abolition of animal use and exploitation, as "animals, like h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_Without_Thunder_(book) |
Degenerative myopia has been reported as one of the main causes of visual impairment. Pseudomyopia is the blurring of distance vision brought about by spasm of the accommodation system. Nocturnal myopia: Without adequate stimulus for accurate accommodation, the accommodation system partially engages, pushing distance o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_sighted |
Kötter's treatise "Fundamentals of a purely geometrical theory of algebraic plane curves" gained the 1886 prize of the Berlin Royal Academy.In 1901, he published his report on "The development of synthetic geometry from Monge to Staudt (1847)"; it had been sent to the press as early as 1897, but completion was deferred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Kötter |
Today, industrial producers continue this tradition. Currently, the four factories of canned sardines are in Rovinj, Zadar, Postira, and Sali (the latter founded in 1905). Several famous dishes made with sardines include, for instance, komiška pogača (a pie with salted sardines and tomato sauce), saur or inšavor (sardi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned_sardines |
The site of endothelial lipase enzymatic activity is the surface of endothelial cells. LIPG regulates lipoprotein metabolism through the hydrolysis of HDL phospholipids. This high-density lipoprotein is an amphipathic lipid, meaning the lipid is composed of both a hydrophobic and a hydrophilic component. Cholesterol ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothelial_lipase |
Meaning, Justification, and Truth, in: Pragmatics & Cognition, 13, 2005, 109 – 119. On Calmness: Dealing Rationally with What Is beyond Our Control, in: (edited by A. Krebs, A. Ben-Ze’ev) Philosophy of Emotion II, London, 2017, 51 – 57; also in: Philosophia, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9924-y, translated w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Kambartel |
Qt is available under the following free software licenses: GPL 2.0, GPL 3.0, LGPL 3.0 and LGPL 2.1 (with Qt special exception). Note that some modules are available only under a GPL license, which means that applications which link to these modules need to comply with that license.In addition, Qt has always been avail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_Software |
The effect on populations was negligible and damage to agricultural crops did not decrease, and thus the campaign was halted due to its ineffectiveness. In a study taking data from 1917 to 1999, intentional killings were the overwhelming cause of death for crows, accounting for 68% of all recovered bird bands.Non-deadl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_crow |
The Invisible Government is a 1964 non-fiction book by David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, published by Random House. The book described the operations and activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the time. Christopher Wright of Columbia University wrote that the book argues "that to a significant extent major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism |
Let Person A (Alice) want to send a message to Person B (Bob). Hash algorithms won't be considered, so Alice has to sign every single bit of her message. Message-Bit b ∈ { 0 , 1 } {\displaystyle \in \{0,1\}} . Alice chooses M pairs of private keys { k 0 i , k 1 i } 1 ≤ i ≤ M {\displaystyle \{k_{0}^{i},k_{1}^{i}\}\quad ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_digital_signature |
Its headquarters is in New Delhi, and in 2015 it had 33 operations, including those in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, and Kolkata. It was listed among the top 20 most trusted brands in India by The Brand Trust Report, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory. In June 2005, Haier made a bid to acquire Maytag Corporatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier |
The usual taxonomic practice is that the individuals classified within the form are not necessarily known to be closely related (they may not form a clade). For instance, white-flowered plants of species that usually have coloured flowers can be grouped and named (e.g., as "f. alba"). Formae apomicticae are sometimes n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_(botany) |
This model reduces code size and the size of data structures containing pointers, at the cost of a much smaller address space, a good choice for some embedded systems. For instruction sets such as x86 and ARM in which the 64-bit version of the instruction set has more registers than does the 32-bit version, it provides... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_processor |
Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future included a long list of predictions, many of which O'Neill endorsed. Two of his maxims that O'Neill quotes seem to sum up O'Neill's attitude, as well: Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties, if it is desir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2081:_A_Hopeful_View_of_the_Human_Future |
But if the borrower owes $1,500 in payments and has a gross monthly income of $2,000, his DTI ratio would be 75%. Both a 50% and 75% DTI ratio would be too high for most lenders, as a DTI ratio of 43% is generally the cutoff for conventional mortgages. All other factors aside, the higher the DTI ratio, the less likely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_origination |
The blue-throated piping guan's breeding season in general spans from August to possibly April; it appears to be during the local wet season. Its nest has not been described in detail but is built from twigs and usually placed high up in the dense canopy. The clutch size is one to three eggs. The incubation period is k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-throated_piping-guan |
In the initial days, I-MAK partnered with humanitarian and community-led organizations to launch legal challenges to hepatitis C and HIV drugs in several countries, and successfully filed challenges against pharmaceutical patents that were determined to be unmerited. During this time, I-MAK worked alongside Nobel Peace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_for_Medicines,_Access,_and_Knowledge |
In sexual reassignment surgery, in the case of the male-to-female transgender patient, labiaplasty is usually the second stage of a two-stage vaginoplasty operation, where labiaplastic techniques are applied to create labia minora and a clitoral hood. In this procedure, the labiaplasty is usually performed some months ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_vaginal_rejuvenation |
yeast Unicellular, budding fungi. Not a formal taxonomic unit; a cross-phyla grouping of filamentous fungi. Classifications include sporogenous yeasts, asporogenous yeasts, apiculate yeasts, baker's yeast, brewer's yeast and beer yeasts, black yeasts, bottom yeasts, top yeasts, Chinese yeasts, flor yeasts, food yeasts,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mycology |
Mefenamic acid is used to treat pain and inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, postoperative pain, acute pain including muscle and back pain, toothache and menstrual pain, as well as being prescribed for menorrhagia.There is evidence that supports the use of mefenamic acid for perimenstrual migraine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefenamic_acid |
In 1950 Morton Sultanoff, a physicist for the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving ground, invented a super high-speed camera that took frames at one-millionth of a second, and was fast enough to record the shock wave of a small explosion. High Speed digital cameras have been used to study how mines dropped from the air will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_camera |
Relatedness may be a factor, as plants in a network are more likely to be related; therefore, kin selection might improve inclusive fitness and explain why a plant might support a fungus that helps other plants to acquire nutrients. Receipt of defensive signals or cues from an infested plant would be adaptive, as the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_to_plant_communication_via_mycorrhizal_networks |
Thus, in mathematical terms, they never appear as indices to the scattering matrix, which is to say, they never appear as the observable inputs and outputs of the physical process being modelled. There are two principal ways in which the notion of virtual particles appears in modern physics. They appear as intermediate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_particle |
In such an approach, the description of word order extends more easily to languages that do not meet the criteria in the preceding section. For example, Mayan languages have been described with the rather uncommon VOS word order. However, they are ergative–absolutive languages, and the more specific word order is intra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order |
Germ-free poultry typically undergo multiple sterilization steps while still at the egg life-stage. This can involve either washing with bleach or an antibiotic solution to surface sterilize the egg. The eggs are then transferred to a sterile incubator where they are grown until hatching. Once hatched, they are provide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ-free_animal |
The optical nature of the reflector sight meant it was possible to feed other information into field of view. In the reflector sight version, range was measured by comparing the wingspan of the target seen through the sight to a pre-set number. The pre-set number was selected via a large dial on the front of the sight,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_gunsight |
Information from sensory receptors make their way to the brain through neurons and synapse at the thalamus. The pulvinar nuclei of the thalamus plays a major role in attention, and has a major role in filtering out unnecessary information in regards to sensory gating. In a proven clinical study, it has been found out t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_gating |
The drinks were made on the basis of natural juices. They were produced and stored in the cellars of the "Monopol" restaurant, which was located in the family house next to the factory premises. The drinks were poured into characteristic, brand and porcelain glass bottles, made to order. For the orangeade and soda wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Haberfeld |
Copepods are tiny crustaceans which usually reproduce either by broadcast spawning or by sac spawning. Broadcasting copepods scatter their eggs into the water, but sac spawners lay their eggs into an ovigerous sac. Sac spawners spawn few but relatively large eggs that develop slowly. By contrast, broadcast spawners spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_(biology) |
In the late 1990s, when the World Wide Web was in its infancy, courts were more receptive to extending the trespass to chattels tort to the electronic context. In CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc., a 1997 case that was the first to extend the trespass theory to computer networks, a federal district court held t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_chattel |
A recompression chamber is a hyperbaric treatment chamber used to treat divers suffering from certain diving disorders such as decompression sickness.Treatment is ordered by the treating physician (medical diving officer), and generally follows one of the standard hyperbaric treatment schedules such as the US Navy trea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_chamber |
Natural surface, single-track trails will require some ongoing maintenance. If the trail is properly designed and constructed, maintenance should be limited to clearing downed trees, trimming back brush and clearing drainages. Depending on location, if the trail is properly designed, there should be no need for major r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_track |
Baudets comes up with the word Oikophobia and explains this as a term that stands for a type of self hate of the (left) elite towards their own traditional culture. According to Baudet this becomes visible in the society in the dominant preference for open borders within Europe, modern art, multiculturalism. The book f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikofobie._De_angst_voor_het_eigene |
Shrimp fisheries produce unusually high levels of bycatch. Before the introduction of bycatch reduction devices in the 1980s, shrimp fishery had a bycatch ratio (ratio of the amount of non-target species caught to the amount of the target species caught) of 4.5–5.3:1. Since BRDs were introduced, the bycatch ratios may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_fishery |
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