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The quarto format was made by folding a large sheet of printing paper twice, forming 4 leaves with 8 pages. The average quarto measured 7 by 9 inches (18 by 23 cm) and was typically made up of 9 sheets, giving 72 total pages. Octavos—made by folding a sheet of the same size three times, forming 8 leaves with 16 pages—w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio |
Two trends are apparent: bryophytes (liverworts, mosses and hornworts) have developed the gametophyte as the dominant phase of the life cycle, with the sporophyte becoming almost entirely dependent on it; vascular plants have developed the sporophyte as the dominant phase, with the gametophytes being particularly reduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_leaves |
Thompson was skeptical that an implosion could be made sufficiently symmetric. Oppenheimer arranged for Neddermeyer and Edwin McMillan to visit the National Defense Research Committee's Explosives Research Laboratory near the laboratories of the Bureau of Mines in Bruceton, Pennsylvania (a Pittsburgh suburb), where the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_3_nuclear_bomb |
The physical similarities suggest that there is a similar underlying biology between ESCO2 and thalidomide. As a result, it is speculated that thalidomide affects chromosomes and cell division in a similar manner to ESCO2. For this reason, Roberts syndrome is sometimes called Pseudothalidomide Syndrome. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_syndrome |
The Bank regulation in the United States for example is highly fragmented with 3 federal agencies, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and numerous others on the state and the private level. There is usually significant cooperation between t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_banking |
Semi-quantitative compositional and element analysis of a sample using AES is dependent on measuring the yield of Auger electrons during a probing event. Electron yield, in turn, depends on several critical parameters such as electron-impact cross-section and fluorescence yield. Since the Auger effect is not the only m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_induced_Auger_electron_spectroscopy |
Atlantic bluefin tuna are eaten by a wide variety of predators. When they are newly hatched, they are eaten by other fishes that specialize on eating plankton. At that life stage, their numbers are reduced dramatically. Those that survive face a steady increase in the size of their predators. Adult Atlantic Bluefin are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_bluefin_tuna |
It was developed in 1973. Heil later sold the rights to Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. Frampton frequently used a Heil Talk Box after receiving one as a Christmas present from Heil in 1974, and it can be prominently heard on his 1975 album Frampton. Amateur radioIn the late 1970s Heil Sound entered the amateur radio market... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Heil |
Visitors to the museum were able to compare the composition, weight, and hardness of minerals, learn to use a microscope to examine natural objects, and build their own collections of natural objects to be displayed in a special room of the museum. In addition to emphasis on allowing interaction with objects, Gallup al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_museum |
After his 1991 retirement, Kerimov was a Consultant to the Main Space Flights Control Centre of the Russian Federal Space Agency, and wrote The Way to Space, a history of the Soviet space program. He was a Hero of Socialist Labour, a laureate of Stalin, Lenin and State prizes of the Soviet Union, and a lieutenant gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerim_Kerimov |
For this reason, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration designated the Blue Hill Observatory one of 26 International Benchmark stations within the United States. During the 1950s, the site housed a research group that used radar to scan approaching thunder storms as far away as western New York State, as p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Hill_Meteorological_Observatory |
After the raid, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said that "the operation was carried out brilliantly by special forces;" he claimed he had wanted a negotiated end to the crisis, but the final attack was made necessary by the reported killing of hostages. The Russian presidential special envoy for human rights in Chechnya, Ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis |
Genital mutilation is common in some situations of war or armed conflict, with perpetrators using violence against the genitals of men, women, and non-binary people. These different forms of sexual violence can terrorize targeted individuals and communities, prevent individuals from reproducing, and cause tremendous pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genital_mutilation |
He was the first Indian to receive any of the medals in this category since the inception of this event in 1997. On 1 October 2012, he received a sixth rank in the "most versatile calculator" category based on his performance in surprise tasks at the fifth Mental Calculation World Cup in Germany. He secured a 10th plac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit_Garg |
The bawdiness of Ryder's illustrations led the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to ship it, and several had to be left out of the first edition, including an image in which Sophia is seen urinating into a chamberpot and one in which Amelia and Kate-Careless sit by the fire knitting codpieces. Parts of the text were also e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djuna_Barnes |
14.1 MeV neutrons can also produce neutrons by knocking them loose from nuclei. On the other hand, these very high-energy neutrons are less likely to simply be captured without causing fission or spallation. For these reasons, nuclear weapon design extensively uses D–T fusion 14.1 MeV neutrons to cause more fission. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron |
Wilhelm, and adopted it as his personal sound signature. Burtt also found use for the effect in More American Graffiti (1979); and over the next decades he incorporated it into other films that he worked on, such as Willow (1988), Gremlins, Anchorman, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Lethal Weapon 4, The Fifth Element and se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream |
Idoxuridine is an anti-herpesvirus antiviral drug. It is a nucleoside analogue, a modified form of deoxyuridine, similar enough to be incorporated into viral DNA replication, but the iodine atom added to the uracil component blocks base pairing. It is used only topically due to cardiotoxicity. It was synthesized by Wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoxuridine |
In the workplace, some unspoken rules can have a significant impact on one's job satisfaction, advancement opportunities, and career trajectory. In sports, Scottish football club, Rangers until 1989 had an unwritten rule of not signing any player who was openly Catholic. Yorkshire County Cricket Club also historically ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unspoken_rule |
For a time a fleet of Piper Navajo aircraft were operated for charters and light parcel express, initially under the name "Hummingbirds" and eventually "Eastwind Flights". In the fall of 1989, the Board of Directors chose to focus on flight training and the assets of Eastwind were sold. In more recent times the college... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncton_Flight_College |
Similarity learning is an area of supervised machine learning in artificial intelligence. It is closely related to regression and classification, but the goal is to learn a similarity function that measures how similar or related two objects are. It has applications in ranking, in recommendation systems, visual identit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarity_learning |
Multinational organizations often deploy global teams which span various national locations to serve as mechanisms for coordinating core operations across geographical and cultural boundaries. These virtual teams help to enhance knowledge sharing and integration across company locations, thereby expanding the geographi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_team |
The Nuclear Suppliers Group communicated its guidelines, essentially a set of export rules, to the IAEA in 1978. These were to ensure that transfers of nuclear material or equipment would not be diverted to unsafeguarded nuclear fuel cycle or nuclear explosive activities, and formal government assurances to this effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_nonproliferation |
It has recognized "evidence obtained from at least one properly randomized controlled trial" with good internal validity (i.e., a rating of "I-good") as the highest quality evidence available to it. The GRADE Working Group concluded in 2008 that "randomised trials without important limitations constitute high quality e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trials |
These minerals have a very important role in the retention of radioactive contaminants. A very localized and produced enzymatically ligand concentration is involved and provides a nucleation site for the onset of biomineral precipitation. This is particularly relevant in precipitations of phosphatase activity-derivate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioremediation_of_radioactive_waste |
Races involving mixed fleets (different classes of boat, different ages, weights and abilities of sailors) can be organised on a handicap basis. The most commonly used handicapping system is the Portsmouth yardstick, which assigns a different rating to each class of boat in a mixed fleet and (at least in theory) gives ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinghy_racing |
A false ending is a device in film and music that can be used to trick the audience into thinking that the work has ended, before it continues. The presence of a false ending can be anticipated through a number of ways. The medium itself might betray that the story will continue beyond the false ending. A supposed "end... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_ending |
Kampo pae, name used by the Noke Kuin (formerly Katukina) Dow kiet, a word used by the Matses Sapo, kampô, kampu, vacina de sapo or vacina da floresta, in Brazilian Portuguese"Kambô" is a common name of Phyllomedusa bicolor, an Amazonian tree frog, also known as the blue-and-yellow frog, bicolored tree-frog, giant monk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambo_(drug) |
: 17 Beckman had previously attempted to find a source of reliable hydrogen lamps, seeking better sensitivity to wavelengths in the ultraviolet range than was possible with tungsten. As described in July 1941, the Beckman spectrophotometer could use a "hot cathode hydrogen discharge tube" or a tungsten light source int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DU_spectrophotometer |
Hannah Holliday Stewart (January 25, 1924 – February 23, 2010) was an American abstract sculptor who was a prominent member of the Houston art scene and exhibited across the United States, including at the Smithsonian Institution. She was part of a generation of second-wave feminist artists who incorporated ancient myt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Holliday_Stewart |
The unauthorised notes, being replicas of the 1993 design, were in purple and without a hologram. Despite this the upgraded June 1998 notes, also in purple but with a hologram were also withdrawn. On 1 August 1998 a new 20-dinar note, of the same design as the upgraded note (with a hologram) but in peach colour, was re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahraini_dinar |
The ghost-faced bat survives on a diet of small insects (such as large-bodied moths). They use echolocation to identify their food at night and are able to catch insects in the darkness with little or no additional light. Very little is known about their reproduction and development. These bats only seem to carry one e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost-faced_bat |
It is expressed as a percentage, and can be greater or less than 100%. There is no consensus over the magnitude of long-term leakage effects.Carbon leakage may occur for a number of reasons: If the emissions policy of a country raises local costs, then another country with a more relaxed policy may have a trading advan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_leakage |
VLC, like most multimedia frameworks, has a very modular design which makes it easier to include modules/plugins for new file formats, codecs, interfaces, or streaming methods. VLC 1.0.0 has more than 380 modules. The VLC core creates its own graph of modules dynamically, depending on the situation: input protocol, inp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_Media_Player |
The Falcon 9 v1.1, upgraded from the original Falcon 9, is a 60 percent heavier rocket with 60% more thrust. The flight was contracted with a payload mass that is very small relative to the rocket's capability, at a discounted rate because it was a technology demonstration mission for SpaceX, approximately 20% of the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASSIOPE |
In addition, to reduce glare on the frame, some had a diffuser surrounding the magnifier to soften the light. As accuracy increased, the circular arc vernier was replaced with a drum vernier. Frame designs were modified over time to create a frame that would not be adversely affected by temperature changes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_instrument |
The new platform bore little resemblance to its predecessor. While programmers expected to be able to recompile their Visual Basic source to a .NET target, the reality of the situation was that Visual Basic .NET was a vastly different paradigm.Obvious syntax differences aside, Visual Basic .NET provides much the same f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Visual_Basic_and_Visual_Basic_.NET |
Individual Learning Plan or ILP is a user (student) specific program or strategy of education or learning that takes into consideration the student's strengths and weaknesses. While normal classroom or distance education is based on the premise that all should get equal attention (a democratic principle), be exposed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Learning_Plan |
QCA can be performed probabilistically or deterministically with observations of categorical variables. For instance, the existence of a descriptive inference or implication is supported deterministically by the absence of any counter-example cases to the inference; i.e. if a researcher claims condition X implies condi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_comparative_analysis |
Descartes puts forward two main arguments for dualism in Meditations: firstly, the "modal argument," or the "clear and distinct perception argument," and secondly the "indivisibility" or "divisibility" argument. The argument is distinguished from the zombie argument as it establishes that the mind could continue to exi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind–body_dualism |
The Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine, named after its inventor Herbert Akroyd Stuart and the manufacturer Richard Hornsby & Sons, was the first successful design of an internal combustion engine using heavy oil as a fuel. It was the first to use a separate vapourising combustion chamber and is the forerunner of all hot-bulb e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsby-Akroyd_oil_engine |
Menagerie II: Presentable Liberty is a 2014 indie psychological horror video game made by Robert "Wertpol" Brock as a part of the Menagerie series. In the game, the player is trapped in a jail cell which (for the majority of the game) they cannot leave. Instead, the player's interaction is mainly limited to reading let... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentable_Liberty |
An updated version of the Kaossilator 2 was introduced at NAMM 2015. The Kaossilator 2S adds unlimited undo, redo and support for importing loops into Ableton Live. All loops on the Micro SD card are WAV files available as a mix, as well as separate tracks. The Kaossilator 2S eliminates the second sound bank and remove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg_Kaossilator |
Anticholinergic side effects such as dry mouth and constipation are either greatly reduced in comparison to imipramine and most other TCAs or fully lacking with iprindole. However, it still has significant antihistamine effects and therefore can produce sedation, though this is diminished relative to other TCAs similar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iprindole |
In molecular genetics terms, the wild-type virus is said to provide complementation in trans. Interference via competitive inhibition: TIPs reduce wild-type virus replication specifically by competing for intracellular viral replication resources (e.g., packaging proteins like the capsid). This mechanism of action redu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_interfering_particle |
Before 1964 no continuous soft-x-ray radiation sources existed. In that year, research began using the synchrotron radiation that occurs as a side effect of electron acceleration in the DESY ring. : 29 Synchrotron radiation was first used for absorption spectroscopy at the synchrotron in 1967. The European Molecular Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESY_(particle_accelerator) |
The McLibel film quoted McDonald's as offering little comment on the European Court decision, other than to point out that it was the Government and not McDonald's who was the losing party and that "times have changed and so has McDonald's". On a website aiming to state its view on issues raised about it, McDonald's st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case |
In addition, the expression of genes that encode for enzymes is typically regulated by the availability of a given substrate. For example, presence of a low-molecular weight soluble substrate such as glucose will inhibit enzyme production by repressing the transcription of associated cellulose-degrading enzymes.Environ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal_extracellular_enzyme_activity |
fast sailing ship design was the extreme clipper, properly defined as a cargo vessel with a 40-inch-or-more dead rise at half floor. This refers to a sail-powered cargo hull with a relatively flat-floored rear half, tapering as one moves forward along the hull to a relatively sharp forward half. Extreme clippers succes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_clipper |
The first generation Honda Stream (Body codes: RN1/2/3/4/5) went on sale in Japan on 27 October 2000, and in Europe in 2001. It was largely based on the Civic, with the same flat chassis but added 100 mm in length to accommodate the third row of seats. In advertising and promotional brochures Honda describes it as a sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Stream |
The knowledge and experience learned through such routine engineering lent itself readily to any extraordinary engineering foot projects required by the army, and it is here that the scale of Roman military engineering exceeded that of any of its contemporaries in both imagination and scope. One of the most famous of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_military_engineering |
At the end of the Championship, Wales won three games and drew the match against Scotland, lifting the tournament as out-right winners. Richards played one final game for Wales, when he faced Ireland at the Cardiff Arms Park, in the third Welsh match of the 1924 Five Nations Championship. Although Richards scored the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Richards_(rugby_union) |
Alexander Parkes was born at Suffolk Street, Birmingham, the fourth son of James Mears Parkes and his wife Kerenhappuch Childs. Samuel Harrison, described by Sir Josiah Mason as the inventor of the split-ring (or key-ring) and widely credited with the invention of the steel pen, was his great-uncle. Parkes was twice ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Parkes |
White was born in San Antonio Texas in 1938. He grew up in and around Boston, Massachusetts, and obtained his B.A. in Biology from Harvard University in 1959. Originally planning to become a fisheries biologist, White changed his mind and decided to travel to places like New York City, San Francisco, London, and the Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_White |
Because of this, these devices have their own famed user interfaces and operating systems that have large homebrew communities dedicated to creating their own visual elements, such as icons, menus, wallpapers, and more. Post-WIMP interfaces are often used in these mobile devices, where the traditional pointing devices ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface |
Qualitative change is evidenced by a change in kind, rather than a change in amount, as exemplified by the switch from caterpillar to butterfly. Assessments of qualitative change in adulthood involve assigning written or numerical data to a stage within a defined stage model, according to defined assessment criteria. R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_adult_development |
It is said that females with a large head possess a birth canal that can better accommodate large-headed neonates. Mothers with large heads usually give birth to neonates with large heads. Therefore, the detected pattern of covariation contributes to ease childbirth and has likely evolved in response to strong correlat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstetrical_dilemma |
Usually, singular solutions appear in differential equations when there is a need to divide in a term that might be equal to zero. Therefore, when one is solving a differential equation and using division one must check what happens if the term is equal to zero, and whether it leads to a singular solution. The Picard–L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_solution |
The resolution condemns the missile test launches carried out by North Korea on July 4, 2006. The wording and strength of the statement was a compromise between the United States, Japan, and France, who favoured a strong statement and sanctions and the People's Republic of China and Russia, who favoured a less severe s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1695 |
In 2008 this was followed by a $151 million order for 89,000 M4 carbine rifles. In a 2002 restructuring, Colt's Manufacturing Company, Inc, spun off Colt Defense, LLC, to supply military, law enforcement and security markets. Colt's Manufacturing Company itself become a subsidiary of New Colt Holding Corp, LLC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_revolver |
Registration may be seen as an annoyance or hindrance, especially if it is not inherently necessary or important (for example, in the context of a search engine) or if the system repeatedly prompts users to register. A system's registration process might also be time-consuming or require that the user provide the infor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_user |
For example, when parents in an indigenous Mazahua community where assigned the task of organizing children to build a roof over a market stand in such a way that they would learn to do it themselves, parents and children both collaborated on a horizontal structure. Switching between knowledge performer and observing h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_learning |
Researches demonstrate that people usually underestimate the level of actual inequality, which is also much higher than their desired level of inequality.In many societies, such as the USSR, the distribution led to protests from wealthier landowners. In the current U.S., many feel that the distribution is unfair in bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_inequality |
Ever since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, there has been legal debate over the action. On August 10, 1945, the Japanese government addressed a communication to the International Committee of the Red Cross, asking it to denounce the U.S. government as performing a crime under internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Shimoda_v._The_State |
If M {\displaystyle M} is a binary matroid that is not Eulerian, then it has a unique Eulerian extension, a binary matroid M ¯ {\displaystyle {\bar {M}}} whose elements are the elements of M {\displaystyle M} together with one additional element e {\displaystyle e} , such that the restriction of M ¯ {\displaystyle {\ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_matroid |
Though numbers fluctuate, the herd comprises about 218,000 animals (based on a July 2017 photocensus). They migrate over 1,500 mi (2,400 km) a year between their winter range and calving grounds at the Beaufort Sea, the longest land migration route of any land mammal on Earth. Their range spans the Alaska-Yukon border ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine_caribou |
Clitocybe dealbata, also known as the ivory funnel, is a small white funnel-shaped toadstool widely found in lawns, meadows and other grassy areas in Europe and North America. Also known as the sweating mushroom, it derives this name from the symptoms of poisoning. It contains potentially deadly levels of muscarine. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitocybe_dealbata |
Outdoor sculptures may be made entire or in part of polyester, epoxy, phenol, or acrylic materials. Unfortunately, treatment for plastic sculptures may be limited as some changes from degradation in plastics are not reversible. Painted sculptures: As Brian Consodine writes, painted sculptures are actually a multi-layer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_outdoor_artworks |
After World War II, an organized and institutionalized form of the deep state was set up with American guidance to counter a possible Soviet invasion, under the Special Warfare Department (Turkish: Özel Harp Dairesi, or ÖHD). The ÖHD, termed the "Turkish Gladio" by some, was described by its former leader Kemal Yamak a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_Turkey |
The site has helped attract visitors to the downtown Yonkers area especially due to its accessibility by mass transit. The placement by the Saw Mill River, a major Hudson River tributary, has called attention to the current restoration work and continued the revitalization of downtown Yonkers. Groundwork Hudson Valley ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Barge |
Culturgen (culture + -gen) is a term used to denote a theoretical 'unit' of culture or cultural evolution. More specifically, analogous to a gene, it is a cultural artifact or element of behaviour whose repetition or reproduction is transmissible from one generation. It has largely been displaced by the similar term me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturgen |
On 15 July 2008 Fuglesang was selected as a mission specialist of the STS-128, launched on 28–29 August 2009. STS-128 (ISS assembly mission "17A") delivered equipment allowing the ISS crew to be expanded from three to six astronauts. During STS-128 Fuglesang also became the first spacewalker outside Russia and United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christer_Fuglesang |
The male has a larger beak than the female. The beak is unusual, as the lower and upper mandibles do not meet for much of its length, allowing the tongue to hold a nut against the top mandible while the lower mandible works to open it. The palm cockatoo also has a distinctive red cheek patch that changes colour when th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_cockatoo |
While CTE's main use is in the diagnosis and follow up in Crohn's disease, many of the findings on Crohn's disease found on CTE can be caused by a wide variety of other conditions. Spasm and collapse of the small intestine, which can happen in Crohn's disease, can obscure imaging of that portion of the bowel even with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computed_tomography_enterography |
Civilians experienced with popular contemporary lever-action rifles were commonly unable to sustain an equivalent rate of fire from the unfamiliar bolt action M1903 rifle.Since its inception, the emphasis of the program has shifted towards specifically youth training. From 1916 until 1996 the CMP was administered by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Marksmanship_Program |
Examples include victims of identity theft and people erroneously targeted due to a similar name. Alternatively, the alleged debtor may dispute that the debt is payable. In such cases the alleged debtor can require that the collector or creditor prove that the debt is payable—in no jurisdiction does a debt exist merely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_collection |
From 1956 the 80 was replaced by the John Deere 820. The 820 differed primarily in styling, with Deere's latest paint scheme and larger fenders. The brakes were enlarged with the 820 as well. In 1957 a larger, more powerful engine was introduced.An industrial version of the 820 was produced, as well as the 820 Rice Spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Deere_Model_R |
The DOS-BIOS or System BIOS would then combine multiple physical sectors into logical sectors for the file system to work with. These changes were transparent to the file system implementation in the DOS kernel. The underlying DOS-BIOS translated these logical sectors into physical sectors according to partitioning inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_file_system |
There is scientific evidence suggesting that exposure to the narration of an emotional experience has several effects on the target person: increased autonomic arousal among subjects listening to a distressed person, heightened anxiety among subjects who listened to other people disclosing intimate aspects of themselve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sharing_of_emotions |
A FIDA assay works in complex solutions (e.g. plasma ), and provides information regarding analyte concentration, affinity constants, molecular size and binding kinetics. A single assay is typically completed in minutes and only requires a sample consumption of a few µl.Fluorescence polarization/anisotropy can be used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_to_investigate_protein–protein_interactions |
A key principle in the dissection of human cadavers (sometimes called androtomy) is the prevention of human disease to the dissector. Prevention of transmission includes the wearing of protective gear, ensuring the environment is clean, dissection technique and pre-dissection tests to specimens for the presence of HIV ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androtomy |
The human being is seen as a threefold Spirit, possessing a mind, by means of which he governs the threefold Body. This threefold body he transmutes into a threefold Soul upon which he nourishes himself "from impotence into omnipotence". The Ego (not as defined by Freud) is the threefold Spirit, the God Within, which u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian_Fellowship |
The W47 is the only US ICBM or SLBM warhead to have been live fired in an atmospheric missile and warhead test, on May 6, 1962. This event took place during shot Frigate Bird which was part of the Dominic test series. While stationed about 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) southwest of Los Angeles, the American submarine USS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W47 |
The United States Army often utilized nets to reduce the helmets' shine when wet and to allow burlap scrim or vegetation to be added for camouflage purposes. Most nets were acquired from British or Canadian Army stocks or cut from larger camouflage nets. The Army did not adopt an official issue net until the "Net, Helm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_helmet |
This exempts them from the more stringent laws regarding the certification and operation of more powerful two-wheelers which are often classed as electric motorcycles, such as licensing and mandatory safety equipment. E-bikes can also be defined separately and treated under distinct electric bicycle laws. In UK legisla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bike |
During the winter in the Baltic Sea, the bird usually stays close to the ice boundary. North of the Åland islands, the sea often freezes all the way from Sweden to Finland, and then the bird migrates to open waters. Exceptionally, the species can range as far south as the Caribbean and off the coast of northern South A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_black-backed_gull |
An ordinary paint scrapper is useful in removing light scale and paint, but for heavier growths, a high-pressure water jet cleaning tool may perform the cleaning process satisfactorily. If possible, both sides of the metal should be cleaned before cutting. Fouling and heavy corrosion on the back of the metal can clog t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_cutting_and_welding |
Plumber's snakes have a coiled (helix-shaped) metal wire with a broader gap between the coils at the terminal end. The operator turns a crank to rotate the helix as it moves through the pipe. If the clog is caused by a dense, but shreddable obstacle, such as tree roots or glass wool, the auger might break it up enough ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber's_snake |
The following types of thesis are used in Finland (names in Finnish/Swedish): Kandidaatintutkielma/kandidatavhandling is the dissertation associated with lower-level academic degrees (bachelor's degree), and at universities of applied science. Pro gradu(-tutkielma)/(avhandling) pro gradu, colloquially referred to simpl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis |
Ms van der Hoeven also underscored that natural gas will be vital to powering Asia's massive electrification in the years ahead.Other energy leaders spoke as well, including Malaysia's Minister of Energy Peter Chin Fah Kui, Lao's Minister of Energy and Mines Soulivong Daravong, the Director General of the International... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_International_Energy_Week |
There is ongoing research to optimize the industrial processes and the various parameters to produce it and to develop the applications for this wood. There is also research in order to find new wood heat treatment processes, even trying to combine different wood modification processes. AlphaInterloc is a company that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermally_modified_wood |
Methane (CH4) is one of the more potent greenhouse gases and is mainly produced by the digestion or decay of biological organisms. It is considered the second most important greenhouse gas, yet the methane cycle in the atmosphere is currently only poorly understood. The amount of methane produced and absorbed yearly va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_carbon_cycle |
More than 99% of the ballots were cast online with just 16 by postal mail for the 2014 awards and 12 for the 1939 awards. Authors Mary Robinette Kowal and Rob Shearman hosted the Retro Hugo Award ceremony.On 1 March 2014, the convention committee announced that comedian Jonathan Ross would be the host of the Hugo Award... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loncon_3 |
James had been making tapes of his music since his school days, which then circulated amongst his friends. He also included tracks of his own music in his early DJ performances. He has often said that he had little inclination in this period to release his music. James preferred to keep his music exclusively for playin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogue_Bubblebath |
In April 2020 EDF estimated the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus pandemic could potentially reduce electricity consumption in France by 20%. EDF estimated annual nuclear output in France would be about 300 TWh in 2020 and 330-360 TWh in 2021 and 2022, down from a pre-coronavirus estimate of 375-390 TWh. Some nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Électricité_de_France |
Asteroid laser ablation is a proposed method for deflecting asteroids, involving the use of a laser array to alter the orbit of an asteroid. Laser ablation works by heating up a substance enough to allow gaseous material to eject, either through sublimation (solid to gas) or vaporization (liquid to gas). For most aster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_laser_ablation |
From then, until the late 1970s, there had not been many applications of the diesel engine in aircraft. In 1978, Piper Cherokee co-designer Karl H. Bergey argued that "the likelihood of a general aviation diesel in the near future is remote. "However, with the 1970s energy crisis and environmental movement, and resulti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_ignition_engine |
Mithila Solar PV Station is a 10 MW solar station located at Dhanusha District, Province No. 2; Nepal. The plant is owned and run by Eco Power Development Pvt. Ltd., an IPP. The plant came in operation in February 2021.The station occupies an area of about 40 Bighas of land (approx. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithila_Solar_PV_Station |
FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation. Digital audio compressed by FLAC'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Lossless_Audio_Codec |
Chromium(III) oxide, nickel(II) oxide, and cobalt(II) oxide are less soluble in vanadates; they convert the vanadates to less corrosive ionic form and their vanadates are tightly adherent, refractory, and acting as oxygen barriers.The corrosion rate by vanadates can be lowered by lowering the amount of excess air for c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_temperature_corrosion |
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