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Department of the Interior (1935–1959) – inter alia registered the arms of associations and institutions, as "badges". Provincial administrations (1949–1963) – inter alia registered the arms of municipalities in their respective provinces. Department of Education, Arts & Sciences (1959–1963) – inter alia registered the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldic_authority |
These guilds over time became wealthy, and themselves made charitable donations as evidenced by inscriptions. The guilds covered almost every aspect of life in the camps around the site where the workmen lived during the period of construction, which in the case of large projects might be several years.The work was led... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_temple_architecture |
Printing first became widespread in the Northern Song. Northern Song lyric poetry was developed by Yan Shu, Liu Yong, and Zhang Xian, and it became a popular pastime among the lower class. Ouyang Xiu developed the popular style of lyric poetry while Yan Jidao developed the refined style. Lyric poetry contrasted with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_history |
Most horned breeds have a single pair, but a few breeds may have several.Another trait unique to domestic sheep as compared to wild ovines is their wide variation in color. Wild sheep are largely variations of brown hues, and variation within species is extremely limited. Colors of domestic sheep range from pure white ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_sheep |
The clearest exposition of the principles of sexual division of labour across the full range of human societies can be summarised by a large number of logically complementary implicational constraints of the following form: if women of childbearing ages in a given community tend to do X (e.g., preparing soil for planti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour |
Ascending vertically from the banjo is a tool-post, at the top of which is a horizontal tool-rest. In woodturning, hand tools are braced against the tool rest and levered into the workpiece. In metal spinning, the further pin ascends vertically from the tool rest and serves as a fulcrum against which tools may be lever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-working_lathe |
In this way, the corporation can automatically print promotional messages on each envelope while simultaneously cancelling the piece of mail. Messages change throughout the year, and include seasonal messages ("Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noel") and promotional messages (such as Canada Post's web address). Other post offi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorial_cancellation |
The main advantage of BiB packaging is that it prevents oxidation of the wine during dispensing. Rather than working as a conventional tap, the bladder uses gravity pressure to squeeze the liquid out of the bladder, whereas a conventional barrel tap works by allowing incoming air to displace the contents. After opening... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag-in-box |
When multiple copies of a polypeptide encoded by a gene form a complex, this protein structure is referred to as a multimer. When a multimer is formed from polypeptides produced by two different mutant alleles of a particular gene, the mixed multimer may exhibit greater functional activity than the unmixed multimers fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein–protein_interaction |
EU Directive 92/75/EC (1992) established an energy consumption labelling scheme. The directive was implemented by several other directives thus most white goods, light bulb packaging and cars must have an EU Energy Label clearly displayed when offered for sale or rent. The energy efficiency of the appliance is rated in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Energy_Label |
A particularly relevant and useful example is displayed by electrolyte solutions confined in nanopores that contain surface charges, i.e. at electrified interfaces, as shown in the nanocapillary array membrane (NCAM) in the accompanying figure. All electrified interfaces induce an organized charge distribution near the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanofluidics |
: 378 However, even in patients with mild OI, contact sports, as well as activities likely to put unnecessary stress on the joints, such as jumping, are contraindicated due to the risks they pose. : 378 Individuals with more limited mobility are encouraged to change positions regularly throughout the day; people who si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteogenesis_imperfecta |
The size of such systems is also often in the nanometer range. Nanomaterials of various shapes, composition and size in the nanometer range are produced and analyzed in the laboratory. Nanoparticles have due to their small size special chemical and physical properties that differ significantly from the properties of ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_of_Nano_and_Quantum_Engineering |
They are about 4.5 - 5.0 cm long in males, and half that in females. Female body size is larger than males, possibly due to long gestation periods. Dental Formula: 0/3 I, 0/1 C, 3/2-3 P 3/3 M = 30-32 total | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_duiker |
Diazenes (and the related diphosphenes) can also exhibit cis–trans isomerism. As with organic compounds, the cis isomer is generally the more reactive of the two, being the only isomer that can reduce alkenes and alkynes to alkanes, but for a different reason: the trans isomer cannot line its hydrogens up suitably to r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_isomer |
In CIE Ra the arithmetic mean is taken of the color differences for the individual samples. In CQS the individual results are combined through a root mean square instead, so that a small number of poorly rendered objects reflects with greater strength in the overall result. Negative values of CQS are made impossible du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quality_scale |
A thicker, higher-fat variety, süzme yoğurt or "strained yogurt", is made by straining the yoğurt curds from the whey. One of the most common Turkish drinks, ayran, is made from yoğurt. Also, yoğurt is often used in the preparation of cakes, some soups and pastries. Kashk is a fermented and strained sour yogurt that ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_cuisine |
By contrast, the Sun rotates once every 25–35 days depending on latitude, with an equatorial velocity of 1.93 km/s. A main sequence star's magnetic field and the stellar wind serve to slow its rotation by a significant amount as it evolves on the main sequence.Degenerate stars have contracted into a compact mass, resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_mass_stars |
Wittgenstein revised the Ogden translation. C. K. Ogden (1922), prepared, with assistance from G. E. Moore, F. P. Ramsey, and Wittgenstein himself, for Routledge & Kegan Paul, a parallel edition including the German text on the facing page to the English text: 1981 printing: ISBN 0-415-05186-X, 1999 Dover reprint. Davi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus |
The views on the most effective method for community prevention of tooth decay are mixed. The Australian government states that water fluoridation is the most effective means of achieving fluoride exposure that is community-wide. The World Health Organization states water fluoridation, when feasible and culturally acce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country |
The differences between the bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomes are exploited by pharmaceutical chemists to create antibiotics that can destroy a bacterial infection without harming the cells of the infected person. Due to the differences in their structures, the bacterial 70S ribosomes are vulnerable to these antibioti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_(peptidyl)_site |
GLaDOS subjects Chell to new tests until Wheatley helps her escape again. They sabotage Aperture's production of turrets and neurotoxin to prevent GLaDOS from killing them, then confront GLaDOS and perform a core transfer; replacing her with Wheatley as the laboratory's controller. Wheatley, immediately driven mad with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_Testing_Initiative |
These include habitat modules and rovers in support of crewed missions. A Human Landing System (HLS) is a spacecraft that can convey crew members from NRHO to the lunar surface, support them on the surface, and return them to NRHO. Each crewed landing needs one HLS, although some or all of the spacecraft may be reusabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program |
Up until the 1990s, studies using indirect measures of the person and environment typically operationalized fit by combining the measures into a single index representing the difference between the person and environment. Despite their intuitive appeal, difference scores are plagued with numerous conceptual and methodo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person–environment_fit |
Each memory cell or register can store a real number. Under the control of the program, the real RAM can transfer real numbers between memory and registers, and perform arithmetic operations on the values stored in the registers. The allowed operations typically include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and divisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_RAM |
In large amounts perchlorate interferes with iodine uptake into the thyroid gland. In adults, the thyroid gland helps regulate the metabolism by releasing hormones, while in children, the thyroid helps in proper development. The NAS, in its 2005 report, Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion, emphasized that this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClO4 |
The process often starts with a planning stage in which plans are prepared by an architect and approved by the client and any regulatory authority. Then the site is cleared, foundations are laid and trenches for connection to services such as sewerage, water, and electricity are established. If the house is wooden-fram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_construction |
Commissioner (Grade Senior VII Officer) Deputy Commissioner - Operations, Administration (Grade VII Officer) Senior Assistant Commissioner - Operations, Administration, Development & Youth (Grade VII Officer) Regional (Hong Kong, Kowloon, New Territories) / Cadet Corps / Support Force Commander / Administration Force /... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Aid_Service |
The proteins used in the main glucose transport system have been shown to have a half-life of 12 hours. In the studies that put yeast cells through "ammonia starvation" the entire system shut down after 50 hours which gives strong evidence that a lack of ammonia/ammonium can create increase risk of having a stuck ferme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast_nutrient |
In fluid dynamics, a blast wave is the increased pressure and flow resulting from the deposition of a large amount of energy in a small, very localised volume. The flow field can be approximated as a lead shock wave, followed by a self-similar subsonic flow field. In simpler terms, a blast wave is an area of pressure e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_front |
André Felibien also briefly mentions some techniques for patination of bronze sculptures in his work Principes in 1699.The beginning of modern science-based chemical or electrochemical coloring of metals is marked by Leopoldo Nobili's (1784–1835) discovery of Nobilis colored rings in 1826. Leonhard Elsner, Alexander Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_coloring_of_metals |
Consequently, for the electromagnetic field of the forward signal, the ferrite has very low characteristic wave impedance, and the field tends to be excluded from the ferrite. This results in a null of the electric field of the forward signal on the surface of the ferrite where the resistive film is placed. Conversely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolator_(microwave) |
FNPs deliver a range of acute, chronic and preventive healthcare services. In addition to diagnosing and treating illness, they also provide preventive care, including routine checkups, health-risk assessments, immunization and screening tests, and personalized counseling on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. FNPs also m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_nurse_practitioner |
Paper-based books are turned over to the designer, production artist and printer after the content is finished, resulting in a closed book structure. The networked book is assembled, in whole or in part, by a community of authors according to the thesis imagined by the editor/author and within the space created by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked_book |
Honeycomb toffee is known as hokey pokey (especially in the Kiwi classic Hokey Pokey ice cream) in New Zealand. A very popular ice-cream flavour consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee is also known as hokey pokey. It is also used to make hokey pokey biscuits. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb_toffee |
The observed luminosity of the Crab Pulsar is comparable to the spin-down luminosity, supporting the model that rotational kinetic energy powers the radiation from it. With neutron stars such as magnetars, where the actual luminosity exceeds the spin-down luminosity by about a factor of one hundred, it is assumed that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_spin-down |
AMD have also been naming their CPUs since 90 nm generations under the K8 micro-architecture after the name of cities around the world. For the CPUs under the Phenom brand, the names of stars were used as code names. For Opteron server CPUs and platforms, cities related to the Ferrari Formula One team were used. Mobile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_names |
Two measures are statistically far from the others. Besides the previously mentioned study by Ewing and Brau, the old theoretical work of Hay and Dunning are among the doubtful determinations which will be broached soon. Without considering these values, the experimental work provides a confidence interval at a very na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeCl |
In statistics the Cramér–von Mises criterion is a criterion used for judging the goodness of fit of a cumulative distribution function F ∗ {\displaystyle F^{*}} compared to a given empirical distribution function F n {\displaystyle F_{n}} , or for comparing two empirical distributions. It is also used as a part of othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cramér–von_Mises_criterion |
I will not rest until I have accomplished that." At a speech on the donation of a RAK 2 replica to the Deutsches Museum, von Opel also mentioned Opel engineer Josef Schaberger as a key collaborator. "He belonged," von Opel said, "with the same enthusiasm as Sander to our small secret group, one of the tasks of which wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_rocket_propellant |
Most bombsights until this time required that the plane maintain a constant attitude (usually level), though dive-bombing sights were also common. The LABS system was originally designed to facilitate a tactic called toss bombing, to allow the aircraft to remain out of range of a weapon's blast radius. The principle of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-control_system |
In biology, paternal care is parental investment provided by a male to his own offspring. It is a complex social behaviour in vertebrates associated with animal mating systems, life history traits, and ecology. Paternal care may be provided in concert with the mother (biparental care) or, more rarely, by the male alone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_care |
Rather, myelin ensheaths the axon in segments: in general, each axon is encased in multiple long myelin sheaths separated by short gaps called nodes of Ranvier. Myelin is formed in the central nervous system (CNS; brain, spinal cord and optic nerve) by glial cells called oligodendrocytes and in the peripheral nervous s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelin_Sheath |
Cwik, Christian; Displaced minorities: The Wayuu and Miskito people, in: The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity, Ed. : Steven Ratuva. (London, New York, Singapure, Palgrave Macmillan 2019) url=permanent dead link] Dozier, Craig; Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence, University of Alabama P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_Coast |
Brain trauma in the developing human is a common cause (over 400,000 injuries per year in the US alone, without clear information as to how many produce developmental sequellae) of neurodevelopmental syndromes. It may be subdivided into two major categories, congenital injury (including injury resulting from otherwise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodevelopmental_disorder |
BCcampus hosted a working forum on OER for senior post-secondary institution representatives in Vancouver in October 2012, with the objective of developing a common understanding of what OER could mean for the province and of building a shared vision of how to develop and use the resources. The session also studied way... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources_in_Canada |
To avoid the problems with non-uniform sized or shaped clusters, CURE employs a hierarchical clustering algorithm that adopts a middle ground between the centroid based and all point extremes. In CURE, a constant number c of well scattered points of a cluster are chosen and they are shrunk towards the centroid of the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURE_algorithm |
Ω ) . {\displaystyle \mathbf {u} '=T\mathbf {F} (\mathbf {u} ,\lambda ),\,\mathbf {u} (0)=\mathbf {u} (1+N.\Omega ).} | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_continuation |
It is usual in North American English to use full stops after initials; e.g. A. A. Milne, George W. Bush. British usage is less strict. A few style guides discourage full stops after initials. However, there is a general trend and initiatives to spell out names in full instead of abbreviating them in order to avoid amb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop |
Washing with water or alkali treatment after staining causes base catalyzed hydrolysis and removal of the pendant positively charged side chains and the resulting compound is Phthalocyanine Blue, which forms a blue water-insoluble dye precipitate. The precipitates are so robust that they withstand harsh conditions like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcian_blue_stain |
{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\sin \left(x+y\right)&=\sin x\cos y+\cos x\sin y,\\\cos \left(x+y\right)&=\cos x\cos y-\sin x\sin y,\\\tan(x+y)&={\frac {\tan x+\tan y}{1-\tan x\tan y}}.\end{aligned}}} Difference sin ( x − y ) = sin x cos y − cos x sin y , cos ( x − y ) = cos x cos y + sin x sin y , t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secant_function |
On 21 October 2008, the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh issued in the Bangladesh Gazette the Right to Information Ordinance (No. 50 of 2008), based loosely on the Indian Right to Information Act, 2005. The Ordinance was passed by the current government of Bangladesh in the first session of this parliament on 29 Marc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_records_law |
The Ministry of Water Resources is a ministry within the government of Iraq. Headed since May 2020 by Mehdi Rasheed Mehdi, it is responsible for water management, including maintenance of the extensive system of irrigation canals and dams and other related tasks. Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the ministry was kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Water_Resources_(Iraq) |
D. pulex can reproduce by cyclical parthenogenesis or obligate parthenogenesis. During cyclical parthenogenesis D. pulex cycles between a sexual stage and a parthenogenetic stage. During the sexual stage females produce haploid eggs by meiosis, and these eggs require fertilization by a male to develop further. During t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnia_pulex |
Plants can burn within hours of exposure to these herbicides. In contrast, Photosystem I inhibitors such as Diquat and paraquat work by entering plant cells and immediately diverting electrons away from photosynthetic chain, poisoning photosynthesis. In addition, hydroxyl radicals (•OH) are formed which interact with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccant |
A meta-analysis of 74 clinical studies with 3321 patients found that VNS produced an average 51% reduction in seizures after 1 year of therapy. Approximately 50% of patients had an equal to or greater than 50% reduction in seizures at the time of last follow-up. Long term studies have shown that response to VNS increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve_stimulation |
In Dual Survival's first two seasons, each episode featured Lundin and Canterbury in a different survival scenario: marooned on a deserted island, lost in a foreboding jungle, stranded in an arid desert, etc. They had to survive for a number of days with minimal gear that pertained to the scenario. Along the way, Lundi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Survival |
Teams with similar points totals are grouped off for each successive round. Just as chess Swiss tournaments are arranged to ensure players have a balance of playing with black pieces and white pieces, so too debate tournaments attempt to provide teams with a balance of places in the speaking order (i.e. Opening Governm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_system_tournament |
Fandor is a film streaming service, dedicated to independent films, documentaries, international titles, and classics, and is a division of the American entertainment company, Cinedigm. Relaunched in 2021, Fandor offers thousands of films, ranging from silent films from the earliest years of cinema, up to current festi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandor |
Then for N random vectors are all pairwise ε-orthogonal with probability 1 − θ. This N growth exponentially with dimension n and N ≫ n {\displaystyle N\gg n} for sufficiently big n. This property of random bases is a manifestation of the so-called measure concentration phenomenon.The figure (right) illustrates distribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_vectors |
Administrative accord 009-2010 regulates cadenas nacionales in Nicaragua. The accord and the telecommunications regulator TELCOR both require the carriage of cadenas by radio, broadcast television and subscription television services. Foreign television services carried on cable/satellite platforms are forced to cease ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadena_nacional |
Amoxicillin was one of several semisynthetic derivatives of 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA) developed by the Beecham Group in the 1960s. It was invented by Anthony Alfred Walter Long and John Herbert Charles Nayler, two British scientists. It became available in 1972 and was the second aminopenicillin to reach the mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin |
Mice, attracted by the oil's scent, climb in and become covered in the slippery oil, making it impossible for them to crawl or jump out. In both cases, the unharmed mouse can be released outdoors. However, if several mice are caught simultaneously, and especially if the trap is subsequently left unchecked for several d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_trap |
Manufacturing started by the end of 1983, with the mechanical part of the powercars being developed and constructed by Krupp, Henschel and Krauss-Maffei. The electrical parts were developed by Siemens, AEG and Brown, Boveri & Cie. Both the parts were assimilated and finished by Friedrich Krupp in Essen (powercar 410 00... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercity_Experimental |
Smith testified against segregation in schools as an expert witness in the Brown v. Board of Education case and in 1986 won the Society's Kurt Lewin Award. Goodwin Watson (1899 – 1976) was an American psychologist and founding member and first president of SPSSI. His primary interest was the use of psychological resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_the_Psychological_Study_of_Social_Issues |
The boys of the CCC worked to restore a furnace stack and also repaired six original buildings that had not been dismantled when the village was abandoned. In the 1930s the name became "Greenwood Furnace State Forest Park". Greenwood Furnace State Park became an official part of the Pennsylvania state park system in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Furnace_State_Park |
Zunil is an impact crater near the Cerberus Fossae on Mars, with a diameter of 10.26 kilometres (6.38 miles). It is named after the town of Zunil in Guatemala. The crater is located in the Elysium quadrangle. Visible in images from the Viking 1 and Viking 2 Mars orbiters in the 1970s, Zunil was subsequently imaged at h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zunil_(crater) |
Cognitive musicology is a branch of cognitive science concerned with computationally modeling musical knowledge with the goal of understanding both music and cognition. The use of computer models provides an exacting, interactive medium in which to formulate and test theories and has roots in artificial intelligence an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music |
Yuyao Optoelectronic ceased to be the parent company of Zhejiang Sunny in April 2000, sold 51.06% shares of Zhejiang Sunny to the aforementioned Staff Shareholding Committee. : 90 Zhejiang Sunny was renamed to Sunny Group Limited (Chinese: 舜宇集团有限公司) in May 2000.: 27 According to media, Wang Wenjian was the founder of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Optical |
Environmental responsibility is a potent issue among businesses in this modern age. It has become necessary for corporation to formulate methods of promoting green causes for the present and the future. Green accounting helps promote a sustainable future for businesses as it brings green public procurement and green re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_accounting |
Beginning in 1915, Dr. Ralph Parshall of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service altered the subcritical Venturi flume to include a drop in elevation through the throat of the flume. This created a transition from subcritical flow conditions to supercritical flow conditions through the throat of the flume. Modifications to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parshall_flume |
Thurman, Joseph E.; A. E. Louzine; Kazutaka Kogi (1988). Higher productivity and a better place to work: practical ideas for owners and managers of small and medium-sized industrial enterprises. International Labour Organization. ISBN 978-92-2-106409-1. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_improvement_in_small_enterprises |
Numbers works in a fashion somewhat different from traditional spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1-2-3. In the traditional model, the table is the first-class citizen of the system, acting as both the primary interface for work and as the container for other types of media like charts or digital images. In eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_(spreadsheet) |
Richard Wagner also issued a response to Wilamowitz-Moellendorf's critique, but his action only served to characterize Nietzsche as the composer's lackey. In his denunciation of The Birth of Tragedy, Wilamowitz says: Herr N. ... is also a professor of classical philology; he treats a series of very important questions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Tragedy |
From 1855 to 1874, Santa Anna lived in exile in Cuba, the United States, Colombia, and Saint Thomas. He had left Mexico because of his unpopularity with the Mexican people after his defeat in 1848. Santa Anna participated in gambling and businesses with the hopes that he would become rich. During his many years in exil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Anna's_leg |
Other students witnessed the prank and called the police because they thought it was a real abduction. In 2010, a fraternity member at Arizona State University stabbed a fellow member when he tried to throw him into a pool. Sigma Nu suspended all chapter events at University of North Carolina Wilmington after a fight b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Nu |
The method can be sharpened further to prove the asymptotic estimate J s , k ∼ C ( s , k ) X 2 s − 1 2 k ( k + 1 ) , {\displaystyle J_{s,k}\sim {\mathcal {C}}(s,k)X^{2s-{\frac {1}{2}}k(k+1)},} for large s {\displaystyle s} in terms of k {\displaystyle k} . In 2012 Wooley improved the range of s {\displaystyle s} for wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinogradov's_mean-value_theorem |
By November 2019, the German Aerospace Center estimated large electric planes could be available by 2040. Large, long-haul aircraft are unlikely to become electric before 2070 or within the 21st century, whilst smaller aircraft can be electrified. As of May 2020, the largest electric airplane was a modified Cessna 208B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_aviation |
The following table documents cases of allochronic speciation. Varying degrees of certainty exist as not all cases strongly meet the three primary criteria necessitated by allochronic speciation. Species marked with an asterisk (*) indicate stronger confidence assessed by Rebecca Taylor and Vicki Friesen (2017). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allochronic_speciation |
Zahavi borrowed the term "handicap principle" from sports handicapping systems. These systems are aimed at reducing disparities in performance, thereby making the outcome of contests less predictable. In a horse handicap race, provenly faster horses are given heavier weights to carry under their saddles than inherently... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_(evolution) |
The group G is Archimedean if all nonzero elements are Archimedean-equivalent. In this case, Ω is a singleton, so ℝΩ is just the group of real numbers. Then Hahn's Embedding Theorem reduces to Hölder's theorem (which states that a linearly ordered abelian group is Archimedean if and only if it is a subgroup of the orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_equivalence |
Privateering allowed sovereigns to raise revenue for war by mobilizing privately owned armed ships and sailors to supplement state power. For participants, privateering provided the potential for a greater income and profit than obtainable as a merchant seafarer or fisher. However, this incentive increased the risk of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer |
Bolt-action shotguns, while uncommon, do exist. One of the best-known examples is a 12-gauge manufactured by Mossberg featuring a 3-round magazine, marketed in Australia just after changes to the gun laws in 1997 heavily restricted the ownership and use of pump-action and semi-automatic shotguns. They were not a huge s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt-action_shotgun |
This included fears that the mandate would harm the yields of the country's major crops (despite claims to the contrary), that the country would not be able to produce enough organic fertilizer domestically, and organic farming being more expensive and complex than conventional agriculture. To put this into perspective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_production |
This organisation are working to help recycling take off in the UK and to create a market for recycled materials. Over the last decade, WRAP have helped and continue to help governments devise strategies to deal with these issues utilising their expertise, research and practical advice. Z/Yen Group is the City of Londo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_City_Awards |
The United States had abruptly terminated Lend-Lease when the war ended. In its place was a $3.75 billion loan from the United States and a $1.25 billion loan from Canada, most of which had been spent by August 1947. Nonetheless, there remained an implacable belief that the future would be like the past. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Explosive_Research |
The tamarins live nearby the rapidly growing city of Manaus, and as the city's area increases in size, the tamarins habitat disappears. When they can avoid the busy automobile traffic and the electric power lines, the pied tamarin reside in the small sections of forest that still remain in Manaus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguinus_bicolor |
During 1939, thirty-two manufacturers, representing about 95 percent of the asphalt-prepared roofing industry, produced 34,225,187 squares ^ of prepared roofing. Almost one third of this, 11,173,856 squares, was in the form of asphalt shingles, which are used principally for roofing dwellings. The shingles produced in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_roll_roofing |
The 2006 NBC series Heroes tells the story of several ordinary people who each suddenly find themselves with a superpower. The British series Misfits incorporates super-human abilities to undesirables in society. In this case, young offenders put on community service all have super powers and each use them to battle vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhero_fiction |
Tin(IV) oxide occurs at concentrations of 0.1 to 300 parts per million in soils. Tin also occurs in concentrations of one part per thousand in igneous rocks.Lead makes up 14 parts per million of the Earth's crust, making it the 36th most abundant element there. On average, lead makes up 23 parts per million of soil, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_14_element |
The 1987 reprint contains an afterword by David Pocock, director of the Tom Harrisson Mass-Observation archive. In August 1939, Mass-Observation invited members of the public to record and send them a day-to-day account of their lives in the form of a diary. No special instructions were given to these diarists so they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-Observation |
On October 2, 2013, the most common hashtag throughout the United States was "#governmentshutdown", as well as ones focusing on political parties, Barack Obama, and healthcare. Most news sources have Twitter, and Facebook, pages, like CNN and the New York Times, providing links to their online articles, getting an incr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_news_source |
One of the most influential Catholic corporatism's was Heinrich Pesch's Solidarism, whose thought greatly influenced Christian Democratic thought. Pesch was quite in tune with the prior Catholic corporatist thinkers, and his solidarism was a systematization of the work of Wilhelm Von Ketteler, Vogelsang & Franz Hitze. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_corporatism |
1791: John Barber receives British patent #1833 for A Method for Rising Inflammable Air for the Purposes of Producing Motion and Facilitating Metallurgical Operations. In it he describes a turbine. 1884: Charles Algernon Parsons patents the steam turbine. In the patent application he notes that the turbine could be dri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_jet_power |
A schema for horizontal dials is a set of instructions used to construct horizontal sundials using compass and straightedge construction techniques, which were widely used in Europe from the late fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century. The common horizontal sundial is a geometric projection of an equatorial s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_for_horizontal_dials |
"He further stated how his fascination with aircraft started, "with hiring helicopters from Air Force to do a film on Vietnam. I was absolutely fascinated by these helicopters. "It is this fascination that led not only to the birth of one of the successful domestic airlines, the Lion Air, but also the Asian Aviation Ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Aviation_Centre_(Sri_Lanka) |
Additional terms referring to an intentional community can be alternative lifestyle, intentional society, cooperative community, withdrawn community, enacted community, socialist colony, communistic society, collective settlement, communal society, commune, mutualistic community, communitarian experiment, experimental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community |
While the Palestinian Authority makes no reservations within the Palestinian Legislative Council (there were reserved seats for Christians and Samaritans in the electoral law for the 1996 Palestinian general election), certain positions in local government are guaranteed to certain minority groups, in order to retain p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_political_positions |
As the siphon is a single system, the constant in all four equations is the same. Setting equations 1 and 4 equal to each other gives: 0 2 2 + g ( 0 ) + P a t m ρ = v C 2 2 − g h C + P a t m ρ {\displaystyle {0^{2} \over 2}+g(0)+{P_{\mathrm {atm} } \over \rho }={v_{C}^{2} \over 2}-gh_{C}+{P_{\mathrm {atm} } \over \rho ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon |
Mother tongue mirroring is the adaptation of the time-honoured technique of literal translation or word-for word translation for pedagogical purposes. The aim is to make foreign constructions salient and transparent to learners and, in many cases, spare them the technical jargon of grammatical analysis. It differs from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_teaching |
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