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The complexity of a language's orthography is directly related to the difficulty of learning to read in that language. Orthographic complexity also contributes to how dyslexia manifests in readers of different languages.Deep orthographies are writing systems, such as those of English and Arabic, that do not have a one-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographies_and_dyslexia |
Aminoglycosides are useful primarily in infections involving aerobic, Gram-negative bacteria, such as Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, and Enterobacter. In addition, some Mycobacteria, including the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, are susceptible to aminoglycosides. Streptomycin was the first effective drug in the treatme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminoglycoside_antibiotics |
No treatment is indicated for essential fructosuria, while the degree of fructosuria depends on the dietary fructose intake, it does not have any clinical manifestations. The amount of fructose routinely lost in urine is quite small. Other errors in fructose metabolism have greater clinical significance. Hereditary fru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fructosuria |
This view arose as a way to justify enslavement of African Americans and genocide of Native Americans in a society that was officially founded on freedom for all. This was a notion that developed slowly and came to be a preoccupation with scientists, theologians, and the public. Religious institutions asked questions a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_identity |
Another great unappreciated source of compost and soil improvement is the roots of crops themselves, which, in the biointensive system are left to decompose in the soil, where they help to both fertilize and “sew it together”, creating stable soil structure. Thus, crops such as alfalfa, which has exceptionally deep roo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biointensive_agriculture |
The suggestion that thiomersal has contributed to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders has had a number of effects. Public health officials believe fear driven by advocates of a thiomersal-autism link has caused parents to avoid vaccination or adopt "made up" vaccination schedules that expose their children to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_and_vaccines |
Famous barbecue judge Ardie Davis compared the emergence of beer can chicken to the domestication of animals: "It just happened everywhere at once. "Beer can chicken may have been prepared throughout the American South in the 1980s; however, the first documentation can be found in the Houston Chronicle in 1993. The rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_can_chicken |
There is no limitation on the language combinations which can be recognized. However, following a scandal involving an illegal immigrant who obtained sworn translator status, The president of the tribunal of the first instance at Antwerp, launched an experimental scheme whereby aspiring sworn translators and interprete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_translation |
However, seed banks alone have not been able to provide sufficient insurance against catastrophic loss. In some jurisdictions, like Colombia, laws have been proposed that would make seed saving itself illegal.Many heirloom vegetables have kept their traits through open pollination, while fruit varieties such as apples ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_plant |
{\displaystyle \exp \left(-z+vz+{\frac {1}{u}}\log {\frac {1}{1-uz}}\right)=\exp(-z+vz)\left({\frac {1}{1-uz}}\right)^{1/u}.} Now we have n ! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_statistic |
The Jamaican codes of 1684 were copied by the colony of South Carolina in 1691. The South Carolina slave-code served as the model for many other colonies in North America. In 1755, the colony of Georgia adopted the South Carolina slave code.Virginia's slave codes were made in parallel to those in Barbados, with individ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_codes |
Leucochloridium is a genus of parasitic trematode worms in the order Diplostomida. It Is the sole genus in the family Leucochloridiidae. Members of this genus cause pulsating swellings in the eye-stalks of snails (a phenomenon colloquially called a zombie snail), so as to attract the attention of predatory birds requir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium |
ORGCON was the first ever conference dedicated to digital rights in the UK, marketed as "a crash course in digital rights". It was held for the first time in 2010 at City University in London and included keynote talks from Cory Doctorow, politicians and similar pressure groups including Liberty, NO2ID and Big Brother ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Rights_Group |
The Guerbet reaction, reported in 1899, is an early example of a hydrogen auto-transfer process. The Guerbet reaction converts primary alcohols to β-alkylated dimers via alcohol dehydrogenation followed by aldol condensation and reduction of the resulting enones. Application of the Guerbet reaction to the development o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_auto-transfer |
Other abilities like "Soul Splitter" and "Interdiction" are acquired, which allow the player to control multiple characters to traverse puzzle areas. Health, Wrath, and Reaper resource meters display on-screen whenever they change, along with an experience meter that shows how close the player is to the next character ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darksiders_II |
Outside Romanesque architecture, the art of the period was characterised by a vigorous style in both sculpture and painting. The latter continued to follow essentially Byzantine iconographic models for the most common subjects in churches, which remained Christ in Majesty, the Last Judgment, and scenes from the life of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_sculpture |
Croatian folklorist Maja Bošković-Stulli argued for the presence of motifs of the tale type in the South Slavic epic ballad of Lov lovio Teftedar Alaga: Alaga's brother is tasked with killing Alaga's barren wife, but all of a sudden she gives birth to a boy with golden hands and legs and silver hair. In the same vein, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Golden_Children_(folklore) |
However, he was soon attacked by a formation of at least 15 Fokker D.VIIs, an aircraft widely considered to be the best operational German fighter of the First World War. The ensuing melee was observed by many Allied troops. In the engagement, he was wounded three times, twice losing consciousness momentarily, but mana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Snipe |
To increase the sense of motion it is customary to scan the very same frame in two consecutive phases. In each phase only half of the lines are scanned; only the lines with odd numbers in the first phase and only the lines with even numbers in the second phase. Each scan is known as a field. So the field rate is two ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_frame |
This type of machine is often referred to in the literature as a synchronous machine. This machine can also be run by connecting the stator coils to the grid and supplying the rotor coils with AC from an inverter. The advantage is that it is possible to control the rotating speed of the machine with a fractionally rate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_machine |
Spectroscopic observations can be used in myriad contexts, including measuring the chemical composition and physical properties of astronomical objects as well as measuring object velocities from the Doppler shift of spectral lines. Unless they are corrected for, telluric contamination can produce errors or reduce prec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluric_contamination |
Vitamin B12 deficiency can potentially cause severe and irreversible damage, especially to the brain and nervous system. At levels only slightly lower than normal, a range of symptoms such as feeling tired, weak, feeling like one may faint, dizziness, breathlessness, headaches, mouth ulcers, upset stomach, decreased ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B_12 |
Some historians have attributed the decline to the rise of Roosevelt's New Deal.Historian William E. Akin rejects this conclusion. Instead, Akin argues that the movement declined in the mid-1930s due to the technocrats' failure to devise a 'viable political theory for achieving change'. Akin postulates that many techno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocratic_government |
Common names include ghost fungus and Australian glow fungus. Drummond reported that the local Aboriginal people were fearful when shown the luminescent fungus and called out chinga, a local word for spirit; Drummond himself likened it to a will-o'-the-wisp. On the Springbrook Plateau in southeastern Queensland, the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalotus_nidiformis |
A pottery center/guest house in Avanos, Turkey, created the Avanos Hair Museum; its displays are thousands of locks of hair, all from female visitors. Reportedly the local potter, Chez Galip, was bidding farewell to a friend of his when he asked for something to remember her by, and she cut off a piece of her hair to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_museum |
Lenia is a family of continuous cellular automata created by Bert Wang-Chak Chan. The space, time and states of the Game of Life are generalized to continuous domains, using large neighborhoods, fractional updates, and real number states, respectively. Carter Bays has proposed a variety of generalizations of the Game o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-like_cellular_automaton |
This is because of blurring caused by Brownian relaxation of large magnetics size SPIONs. Although magnetic size critically affects the MPI performance, it is often poorly analyzed in publications reporting applications of MPI using SPIONs. Often, commercially available tracers or home-made tracers are used without tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_particle_imaging |
Despite its low yield, interest in aerial seeding has recently grown, while searching for a quick system to obtain reforestation and fight global warming. The advantage of using an airplane/helicopter is the ability to quickly seed large areas, even remote areas, otherwise impractical to be used in active reforestation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_seeding |
Jürgen Litfin: Tod durch fremde Hand. Das erste Maueropfer in Berlin und die Geschichte einer Familie. Verlag der Nation, Husum 2006, ISBN 978-3-373-00524-7. Mathias Mesenhöller: Die grausame Mauer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Litfin |
OEP, for example, often, but not always, involve the application of OER to the teaching and learning process. Open educational practices aim to take the focus beyond building further access to OER and consider how in practice, such resources support education and promote quality and innovation in teaching and learning.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_practices |
Sheer fabric examples can be found in museums, such as this brusttuch or a shawl. During the 19th century, the rise in whitework embroidery as a fashion item coincided with the popularity of lace. As whitework was produced at a lower cost to lace at this time, it was more accessible to a wider proportion of the populat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitework_embroidery |
Japan was selected as the site for the 1970 World Exposition and 330 hectares in the Senri Hills in Osaka Prefecture were set aside as the location. Japan had originally wanted to host a World Exposition in 1940 but it was cancelled with the escalation of the war. The one million people who had bought tickets for 1940 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism_(architecture) |
Steven Weinberg and a number of string theorists (see string landscape) have invoked the 'weak anthropic principle': i.e. the reason that physicists observe a universe with such a small cosmological constant is that no physicists (or any life) could exist in a universe with a larger cosmological constant. Many cosmolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Cosmology |
Also, TCP relies on packet dropping to throttle itself and avoid congestion, meaning its congestion control is purely reactive, not proactive or preventive. This interacts badly with large buffers, leading to bufferbloat. Multihoming: the IP address and port number are too low-level to identify an application in two di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_InterNetwork_Architecture |
IBM created this e-book format and used it extensively for OS/2 and other of its operating systems. The INF files were often digital versions of printed books that came with some bundles of OS/2 and other products. There were many other newsletters and monthly publications (e.g.: EDM/2) available in the INF format too.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats |
Since then the Napoleonic inheritance laws in Germany broke up the parcels of vineyards further, leading to the establishment of many cooperatives. However, many notable and world-famous wineries in Germany have managed to acquire or hold enough land to produce wine not only for domestic consumption, but also export. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine_wine |
Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Sturmer, headed a publishing house that disseminated anti-Semitic propaganda picture books in schools during the Nazi dictatorship. This was accomplished through the National Socialist Teachers League, of which 97% of all German teachers were members in 1937.The League encouraged the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda |
For example, in the C# code below, the variables and methods of the Employee base class are inherited by the HourlyEmployee and SalariedEmployee derived subclasses. Only the Pay() method needs to be implemented (specialized) by each derived subclass. The other methods are implemented by the base class itself, and are s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance |
Slots and slats are sometimes used just for the section in front of the ailerons, ensuring that when the rest of the wing stalls, the ailerons remain usable. The first slats were developed by Gustav Lachmann in 1918 and simultaneously by Handley-Page who received a patent in 1919. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-lift_device |
The Art Assignment is a PBS Digital Studios webseries focused on contemporary art that debuted in February 2014. The Art Assignment is hosted by Sarah Urist Green who was a curator of contemporary art for the Indianapolis Museum of Art from 2007 to 2013.Green's goal for this web series is to demystify the art making pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_Assignment |
Normally, the fabrication of composite includes wetting, mixing or saturating the reinforcement with the matrix. The matrix is then induced to bind together (with heat or a chemical reaction) into a rigid structure. Usually, the operation is done in an open or closed forming mould. However, the order and ways of introd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layup_mold |
EPIC has pursued several successful consumer privacy complaints with the US Federal Trade Commission, concerning Snapchat (faulty privacy technology), WhatsApp (privacy policy after acquisition by Facebook), Facebook (changes in user privacy settings), Google (roll-out of Google Buzz), Microsoft (Hailstorm log-in), and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Privacy_Information_Center |
The Tech Transparency Project has observed that while public posts on boogaloo Facebook pages tend to be satirical, members of private boogaloo groups "exchang detailed information and tactics on how to organize and execute a revolt against American authorities". Some of the private groups ban the sharing of memes to k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_movement |
The results showed that rats were more likely to decline to take the test when the difficulty of noise discrimination increased, suggesting rats knew they do not have the correct answers and declined to take the test to receive the reward. Another finding is that the performance was better when they had chosen to take ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition |
Neoschizomers are shown in bold and green color font (e.g.: BamHI). When "None on date" is indicated, that means that there were no registered isoschizomers in the databases on that date with a clearly defined cutting site. Isoschizomers indicated in white font and grey background correspond to enzymes not listed in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_restriction_enzyme_cutting_sites:_Bst–Bv |
Afghanistan Algeria: 85 in 1980 and 48 as of 2020 Angola: 100 in 1980 and 50 as of 2016 Armenia: 47 as of 2016 Azerbaijan: 43 as of 2016 Belarus: 126 BM-21 as of 2016. Used 9P138. Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 (BM-21) 36 (APR-40) Botswana: 20 APRA-40 as of 2021 Bulgaria: 24 as of 2016 Burkina Faso: 5 APR-40 as of 2021 Buru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_rocket |
"Majorcan cartographic school" is the term coined by historians to refer to the collection of predominantly Jewish cartographers, cosmographers and navigational instrument-makers and some Christian associates that flourished in Majorca in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries until the expulsion of the Jews. The label is u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_cartography |
The effects of this exclusion on black Americans' health continues to play out daily, generations later, in the same communities. This is evident currently in the disproportionate effects that COVID-19 has had on the same communities which the HOLC redlined in the 1930s. Research published in September 2020 overlaid ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining |
Auroras change with time. Over the night, they begin with glows and progress towards coronas, although they may not reach them. They tend to fade in the opposite order. Until about 1963 it was thought that these changes are due to the rotation of the Earth under a pattern fixed with respect to the Sun. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroral_light |
He broughtTelegram as an example of a company that helps most of its developers grow inside their region by organizing large-scale contests for such talents and, by doing so, gives them a reason and a chance to stay in Eastern Europe, while the best professionals get an opportunity to move to work in the Telegram headq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Perekopsky |
Mesures usuelles (French pronunciation: , customary measurements) were a French system of measurement introduced by Napoleon I in 1812 to act as compromise between the metric system and traditional measurements. The system was restricted to use in the retail industry and continued in use until 1840, when the laws of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesures_usuelles |
Bcfg2 is written in Python and enables system administrator to manage the configuration of a large number of computers using a central configuration model. Bcfg2 operates using a simple model of system configuration, modeling intuitive items like packages, services and configuration files (as well as the dependencies b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcfg2 |
With engine power doubled, it soon became apparent that the additional stresses placed on the Crusader components required significant re-work to increase reliability. Leyland had no spare capacity, and re-work commenced with the help of BRC&W. It was planned to fit this to BRC&W-built versions of their original A24 su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwell_tank |
During the Occupy Wall Street movement, many protesters inhabited Zuccotti Park and spent their days and nights there, despite park rules prohibiting staying overnight. Attempts were made by the NYPD to disperse the protesters, but not until November 15, 2011, were they substantially evicted. At that time, police offic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuccotti_Park |
In Hoyle's model from 1944, the companion went nova with ejected material captured by the Sun and planets forming from this material. In a version a year later it was a supernova. In 1955 he proposed a similar system to Laplace, and again proposed the idea with more mathematical detail in 1960. It differs from Laplace ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Solar_System_formation_and_evolution_hypotheses |
The IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal, established in 1987, is "for outstanding achievements in Hertzian waves presented annually to an individual for achievements which are theoretical or experimental in nature". The Submillimeter Radio Telescope at Mt. Graham, Arizona, constructed in 1992 is named after him. A crater that l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz |
Hunters and environmentalists argue the raccoon spreads uncontrollably, threatens protected bird species, and supersedes indigenous competitors. This view is opposed by the zoologist Frank-Uwe Michler, who finds no evidence that a high population density of raccoons leads to negative effects on the biodiversity of an a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_raccoon |
It is preferentially used more than other benzoic acid salts or its esters in foods due to its better solubility and safety to humans. It is used in soft drinks, fruit juice, concentrates, soy milk, soy sauce and vinegar. It is the most widely used preservative in making bread and other bakery products. It is used as p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(C6H5COO)2Ca |
Trilinear filtering is an extension of the bilinear texture filtering method, which also performs linear interpolation between mipmaps. Bilinear filtering has several weaknesses that make it an unattractive choice in many cases: using it on a full-detail texture when scaling to a very small size causes accuracy problem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilinear_filtering |
The sword-billed hummingbird is listed as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on the IUCN Red List due to its large range, lack of significant population decline, and lack of major threats. There is also no census on global number of individuals, because of the large rang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword-billed_hummingbird |
In 2008, in collaboration with his colleague Stuart Rowan, Weder introduced stimuli-responsive mechanically adaptive polymer nanocomposites whose architecture and function was inspired by sea cucumbers. The mechanical properties of these materials, which were made by incorporating nanocellulose crystals as a reinforcin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Weder |
Except for flight training, airplane testing, and aerobatics, a stall is usually an undesirable event. Spoilers (sometimes called lift dumpers), however, are devices that are intentionally deployed to create a carefully controlled flow separation over part of an aircraft's wing to reduce the lift it generates, increase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_(fluid_dynamics) |
A gas cracker device splits the molecule at a rate much greater than that normally found in nature. In science and industry, gas crackers are used to separate two or more elements in a molecule. For example, liquid water, or H2O, is separated into hydrogen and oxygen gases. This is not to be confused with the splitting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_cracker |
Research in the Tao Laboratory in the Department of BioSciences at Rice University focuses on RNA viruses. While RNA is known for being the intermediate between the genetic information in DNA and the proteins created from it, in RNA viruses, RNA contains the genetic information. Many RNA viruses can cause disease in hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yizhi_Jane_Tao |
Magmas that have been so altered are said to be "evolved" to distinguish them from "primitive" magmas that more closely resemble the composition of their mantle source. (See igneous differentiation and fractional crystallization.) More highly evolved magmas are usually felsic, that is enriched in silica, volatiles, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_on_Mars |
government export regulations would not permit crypto systems using 128-bit keys to be exported. At this stage Western governments had, in practice, a split personality when it came to encryption; policy was made by the military cryptanalysts, who were solely concerned with preventing their 'enemies' acquiring secrets,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars |
Backcrossing as a treatment for blight was first proposed by Charles Burnham of the University of Minnesota in the 1970s. Burnham, a professor emeritus in agronomy and plant genetics who was considered one of the pioneers of maize genetics, realized that experiments conducted by the USDA to cross-breed American chestnu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_chestnut_tree |
In wideband digital broadcasting, self-interference cancellation is facilitated by the OFDM or COFDM modulation method. OFDM uses a large number of slow low-bandwidth modulators instead of one fast wide-band modulator. Each modulator has its own frequency sub-channel and sub-carrier frequency. Since each modulator is v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_frequency_network |
To complete current civil contracts and related work, $2.2 billion is added to the 2022 Business Plan estimate." New Contracts/Work to Complete Merced to Bakersfield: "The Authority is also looking towards new procurements for civil construction to Merced and Bakersfield, the track and systems work, stations, and final... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_California_High-Speed_Rail |
This can be done by creating content that supports the party line, or by using the platform to spread news about the party’s successes. Additionally, social media can be used to share images and videos that support the party’s beliefs. Another common method of spreading communist propaganda is through the use of poster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_propaganda |
Mechanically simpler – requires only a single liquid propellant resulting in less plumbing, fewer valves, and simpler operations. Denser fuel – fuels in the solid phase generally have higher density than those in the liquid phase, reducing overall system volume. Metal additives – reactive metals such as aluminium, magn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_rocket |
In France, the condemned were placed on a cartwheel with their limbs stretched out along the spokes over two sturdy wooden beams. The wheel was made to revolve slowly, and a large hammer or an iron bar was then applied to the limb over the gap between the beams, breaking the bones. This process was inhumanely repeated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel |
Wilhelm sharply replied that there was no reason for British concern and, that the German naval bill did not threaten the relative strengths of the two navies. No resolution was reached, and Wilhelm left the Kronberg meeting believing that he had convinced the British of the justness of Germany's position.A series of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_naval_arms_race |
From this, we see that as the value of an asset increases, the amount of income it produces should also increase (at the same rate), in order to maintain the cap rate. Capitalization rates are an indirect measure of how fast an investment will pay for itself. In the example above, the purchased building will be fully c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_rate |
The story deals with the resurrection of primary series antagonist Palpatine, revealed to have cheated death by transferring his spirit into a succession of cloned bodies. Other highlights include Luke Skywalker temporarily succumbing to the dark side of the Force, the return of Boba Fett (who seemingly died in Return ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Gun |
In 2001, the Cambodian National Assembly passed a law to create a court which would try the offenders of the most serious crimes during the regime. The court was named the “Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia”. The E.C.C.C's goals were to include justice, truth, and national reconciliation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_in_Cambodia |
Previously, GM had used a vacuum system which did not have the power to handle increasingly larger and complex (four side-windows vs. only two) convertible top mechanisms. Chief Engineer of the Buick Division, Charles A. Chayne, "...had introduced an electrically controlled hydraulic system into the 1946 Buick converti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_window |
The winner of the men's competition is of the coveted international "bejeweled" mustard-yellow belt. The belt is of "unknown age and value" according to IFOCE co-founder George Shea and rests in the country of its owner. In 2011, Sonya Thomas won the inaugural women's competition and its "bejeweled" pink belt. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan's_Hot_Dog_Eating_Contest |
The quantum state being teleported in this experiment is | χ ⟩ 1 = α | H ⟩ 1 + β | V ⟩ 1 {\displaystyle |\chi \rangle _{1}=\alpha |H\rangle _{1}+\beta |V\rangle _{1}} , where α {\displaystyle \alpha } and β {\displaystyle \beta } are unknown complex numbers, | H ⟩ {\displaystyle |H\rangle } represents the horizontal po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entanglement_swapping |
Methanogens are widely used in anaerobic digestors to treat wastewater as well as aqueous organic pollutants. Industries have selected methanogens for their ability to perform biomethanation during wastewater decomposition thereby rendering the process sustainable and cost-effective.Bio-decomposition in the anaerobic d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenic_archaea |
A graduate of the École Polytechnique (1956) and the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation University, promotion 1959), Lambert started his career as head of the technical department of the civil aviation in Algeria (1961). After that, he became director of the air safety organization Organisation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Lambert |
Although individual studies have shown a positive effect of combined antidepressant-sleep deprivation therapy, there is currently no widely-accepted consensus about whether combined treatment is superior to pharmacological intervention alone for individuals with unipolar depression. A meta analysis (2020) of more than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_therapy |
However, resources were not adjusted for inflation, caseload changes, or state spending changes. Unlike its predecessor AFDC, TANF had as its explicit goal the formation and maintenance of two-parent families and the prevention of out-of-wedlock births, reflecting the discourses that had come to surround long-term welf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_dependency |
These fans confirmed past fluvial flow on the planet and further supported the theory that liquid water was once present in some form on the Martian surface. In addition, observations of fans in Gale crater made by satellites from orbit have now been confirmed by the discovery of fluvial sediments by the Curiosity rove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvial_fan |
Exchange of output between two countries is a very common occurrence, as there is always trade taking place between different nations of the world. For example, Japan may trade its electronics with Germany for German-made cars. If the value of the trades being made by both the countries is equal at that point of time, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_output |
The resulting digital imagery is used to create increasingly accurate models of environmental processes, climate change, and much more. Advancements to remote sensing technology are particularly useful in locating the nonpoint sources of pollution and analyzing ecosystem health through image analysis across the electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Biology |
Yet other examples are the cases of the grizzled skipper and Spodoptera littoralis where pheromones are released as a sexual recognition mechanism that drives evolution. In a type of mating signal, male orb-weaving spiders of the species Zygiella x-notata pluck the signal thread of a female's web with their forelegs. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_ecology |
Cherokee lore had been reported to state that Jutaculla (alternative English spelling is Judaculla; Cherokee name is Tsul'kălû'), a slant eyed giant, dwells in the cave in Devil's Courthouse. However James Mooney, the Cherokee anthropologist, 100 years earlier located Jutaculla to Tanasee Bald where Haywood, Jackson, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Courthouse |
Yams in West Africa are typically harvested by hand, using sticks, spades, or diggers. Wood-based tools are preferred to metallic tools as they are less likely to damage the fragile tubers; however, wood tools need frequent replacement. Yam harvesting is labor-intensive and physically demanding. Tuber harvesting involv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yam_(vegetable) |
Thus, sequences not reachable by chromosome walking can be sequenced. Chromosome walking can also be used from the new jump position (in either direction) to look for gene-like sequences, or additional jumps can be used to progress further along the chromosome. Combining chromosome jumping to chromosome walking through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome_jumping |
Object play for cats is the use of inanimate objects by the animal to express play behaviour. In the case of pet domestic cats, humans normally provide them with purchased, human-made toys such as toy mice, bird or feather toys, or toy insects. These may be suspended from a string attached to a wooden or fishing-style ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_toys |
This haraam status has caused controversy in Demak, Indonesia, where the authorities urged the swikee (frog leg soup) restaurant owners not to associate swikee with Demak city, since it would tarnish Demak's image as the first Islamic city in Java, and also opposed by its inhabitants that mainly follow Shafi'i school t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_legs |
At each step, the two clusters separated by the shortest distance are combined. The definition of 'shortest distance' is what differentiates between the different agglomerative clustering methods. In complete-linkage clustering, the link between two clusters contains all element pairs, and the distance between clusters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete-linkage_clustering |
The eagle-owl is mostly a nocturnal predator, hunting for a range of different prey species. Predominantly, their diet is composed of small mammals such as rodents and rabbits, but they also prey on larger mammals and birds of varying sizes. Other secondary prey can include reptiles, amphibians, fish, large insects and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_eagle_owl |
Before the increased standardization of the English language in the modern period, many new words entered its lexicon in exactly the way just described. A 15th century English cook may once have said something like: "Ah, I found this ewt and this nadder in my napron while baking numble-pie." A few generations later the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing |
The conscious act of artistically addressing all the senses with regard to a total experience made a resounding debut in 1849 when Richard Wagner conceived of a Gesamtkunstwerk, or an operatic work for the stage that drew inspiration from ancient Greek theater in its inclusion of all the major art forms: painting, writ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_installation |
The term muḥaddith (plural muḥaddithūn often translated as "traditionist") refers to a specialist who profoundly knows and narrates hadith, the chains of their narration isnad, and the original and famous narrators.According to the 8th century Imam, Sheikh Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i, a muhaddith is someone who has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_scholar |
Binary XML is also being explored as a means for streamlining the throughput requirements of XML. XML messages by their self-documenting nature usually have more 'overhead' (e.g., headers, nested tags, delimiters) than actual data in contrast to earlier protocols where the overhead was usually a relatively small percen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Object_Access_Protocol |
Sayshellian culture was noticeably different from that of the ultra-scientific Foundation Federation. It stressed mysticism (especially the influence of dreams) and the respect of nature, as evidenced by the percentage of Sayshellian wildlife that was still preserved from human influence. Sayshellians also had excellen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_universe |
The Kazan State Power Engineering University (KSPEU; Russian: Казанский государственный энергетический университет, КГЭУ; Tatar: Казан дәүләт энергетика университеты) is a public instite in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. It trains specialists in the power engineering and is one of three such universities in Russia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan_State_Power_Engineering_University |
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