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Ideology: without offering a general definition for "ideology", Marx on several instances has used the term to designate the production of images of social reality. According to Engels, “ideology is a process accomplished by the so-called thinker consciously, it is true, but with a false consciousness. The real motive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Marxism |
It is a type of nitrofuran.Nifurtimox came into medication use in 1965. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. It is not available commercially in Canada. It was approved for medical use in the United States in August 2020. In regions of the world where the disease is common nifurtimox is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifurtimox |
Essentially, producing more engines which run on ethanol could result in decreased consumption of processed sweets, which contain high fructose corn syrup. This engineering of cofactors is applicable to the beer and wine industry since it allows for the regulation of ethanol levels in alcoholic beverages. Advancements ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofactor_engineering |
The only Galeus species in the southwestern Atlantic, the southern sawtail catshark is found off the southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, and may occur as far north as São Paulo. Its total range is estimated to encompass less than 20,000 km2 (7,700 sq mi) of area. This species has been rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_sawtail_catshark |
COSL's overseas revenue surged 133% year on year in the first half of 2015 to 209.8 million yuan, driven by demand for its services in Indonesia, West Africa and the Middle East. COSL had an office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia briefly in the early 2000s when it had its first western Vice President, Alan Good, a British bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Oilfield_Services |
The commutator subgroup of any abelian group is trivial. The commutator subgroup of the general linear group GL n ( k ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {GL} _{n}(k)} over a field or a division ring k equals the special linear group SL n ( k ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {SL} _{n}(k)} provided that n ≠ 2 {\displaystyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfinite_derived_series |
The PB theory is that child development, besides its physical growth, consists of the learning of repertoires some of which are basic in the sense they provide the behaviors for many life situations and also they determine what and how well the individual can learn. That theory states that humans are unique in having a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_repertoire |
The reflection coefficient is determined by the load impedance at the end of the transmission line, as well as the characteristic impedance of the line. A load impedance of Z L {\displaystyle Z_{L}} terminating a line with a characteristic impedance of Z 0 {\displaystyle Z_{0}\,} will have a reflection coefficient of Γ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_reflection |
Open research questions related to treatment include how to predict who will respond to SSRIs, which non-drug treatments are effective, and how to manage people who have PMS in addition to other medical conditions.Researchers are also working towards a single, uniform set of diagnostic criteria and to identify any obje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premenstrual_syndrome |
Subsequent works also focused on the grammar of classical Armenian and ashkharabar (modern Armenian). His Russian translation of the eighteenth-century Catholicos Simeon Yerevantsi's history work, Jambr, was published in 1958.In 1944-1945, Malkhasiants completed a monumental four-volume Armenian-language dictionary, Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Malkhasyants |
The history of the problem begins in antiquity and coincides with that of some of its special cases. The case m = 1 , {\displaystyle m=1,} coincides with that of the calculation of the arithmetic series, the sum of the first n {\displaystyle n} values of an arithmetic progression. This problem is quite simple but the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomials_calculating_sums_of_powers_of_arithmetic_progressions |
This ρ {\displaystyle \rho } will be the first fixed point of a certain (continuous and non-decreasing) function ξ ↦ h ( ψ ( ξ ) ) {\displaystyle \xi \mapsto h(\psi (\xi ))} . To find it, apply the same rules (from the base Ω {\displaystyle \Omega } representation of α {\displaystyle \alpha } ) as to find the canonical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_collapsing_function |
Like the Command Module of the Apollo spacecraft, the Shenzhou reentry capsule has no reusable capabilities; each spacecraft is flown once and then "thrown away" (usually sent to museums). Few details are known about the Shenzhou reentry capsule, except that it uses some technology from the Soyuz TM design. The new Soy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentry_module |
Additional hydrogen can be recovered from the steam by use of carbon monoxide through the water gas shift reaction, especially with an iron oxide catalyst. This reaction is also a common industrial source of carbon dioxide: CO + H2O → CO2 + H2Other important methods for CO and H2 production include partial oxidation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_molecule |
On the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the navy took over the Granton Hotel, close to Granton Harbour and commissioned it as HMS Claverhouse for Reserve training. From April 1940 it was in use for Merchant Navy Defence Courses, and also served as the headquarters for the Motor Launches of the local Coastal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Claverhouse |
That H α {\displaystyle \mathrm {H} _{\alpha }} is non-increasing in α {\displaystyle \alpha } for any given distribution of probabilities p i {\displaystyle p_{i}} , which can be proven by differentiation, as − d H α d α = 1 ( 1 − α ) 2 ∑ i = 1 n z i log ( z i / p i ) , {\displaystyle -{\frac {d\mathrm {H} _{\alpha ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renyi_divergence |
The concept came from a number of personal experiences and abstract pictures which had been in Asghar Farhadi's mind for some time. Once he decided to make the film, about a year before it premiered, it was quickly written and financed. Farhadi described the film as the "logical development" from his previous film, Abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separation |
The theory of biases in the introduction process as a cause of orientation or direction in evolution may be contrasted with other theories that have been used by evolutionary biologists to reason about the role of variation in evolution: Organisms respond adaptively to conditions of life, and these responses are inheri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_in_the_introduction_of_variation |
These time periods are defined based on the solstices (Sanskrit: अयन; IAST: ayana) and equinoxes (Sanskrit: विषुवत्; IAST: viṣuvat).The time taken by the Sun to move from the winter solstice to the summer solstice is known as northward movement (Sanskrit: उत्तरायण, romanized: uttarāyaṇa) and time taken by the Sun to mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_basis_of_the_Hindu_calendar |
Therefore, doppler imaging substantially aids in the diagnosis of carotid artery stenosis by ultrasound. Internal carotid artery (ICA) is located posterolateral, and larger when compared to the external carotid artery (ECA). ICA has low resistive pattern (difference between the blood velocities during heart systole and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid_ultrasonography |
Robert Mesle, in his book Process Theology, outlines three aspects of a process theology of liberation: There is a relational character to the divine which allows God to experience both the joy and suffering of humanity. God suffers just as those who experience oppression and God seeks to actualize all positive and bea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_theologian |
Due to the longer rounds the ammunition load decreased to 108 rounds. The new turret also had PPLR X 160 episcopes instead of Chrétien diascopes and was fitted with a S 190 G attachment point on the roof above the back hatch, to use the reserve machine gun as an AA-weapon. Analogous to the Char B1 bis designation for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_D2 |
Because the drum motor is totally enclosed, requires no maintenance and has a smooth clean profile without any additional equipment or protrusions. It cannot contaminate food, electrical equipment or pharmaceutical substances. Furthermore, when manufactured in stainless steel, the drum motor can be hygienically cleaned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_motors |
Even air fresheners called "organic," "green," or with "essential oils" emitted hazardous chemicals, including carcinogens. In 2009, Stanley M. Caress of the University of West Georgia and Anne C. Steinemann of the University of Washington published results from two national epidemiological studies of health effects fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_fresheners |
If R and S are rings and there exists a ring homomorphism R → S, then the characteristic of S divides the characteristic of R. This can sometimes be used to exclude the possibility of certain ring homomorphisms. The only ring with characteristic 1 is the zero ring, which has only a single element 0 = 1 . If a nontrivia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic_p |
The seawater corrosion resistance of copper–nickel alloys results in a thin, adherent, protective surface film which forms naturally and quickly on the metal upon exposure to clean seawater.The rate of corrosion protective formation is temperature dependent. For example, at 27 °C (i.e., a common inlet temperature in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_alloys_in_aquaculture |
Libburnia is the name of a project to develop various pieces of disk recording software. libisofs is the library to create or modify ISO 9660 disk images. libburn is the underlying programming library. It is used by xorriso, cdrskin and 3rd party disk recording applications can also use this library directly. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libburnia |
An enigmatic star around 2.7 times as massive as the Sun, it is more luminous (65–70 times that of the Sun) than its should be for its surface temperature of 10,400 K, and hence is either a 3.2 million year-old very young pre-main sequence star that has not settled down to a stable main sequence life stage, or a 260-mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_(constellation) |
However, the Tiger II claim is disputed by historians on the grounds that the nearest unit known to be equipped with Tiger IIs was 70 miles from Dessau on the date when the kill was claimed. Near the end of World War II, more experimental versions of the 90 mm gun were tested including the higher-velocity T18 and T19 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90_mm_gun |
The enzymatic mechanism of influenza virus sialidase has been studied by Taylor et al., shown in Figure 1. The enzyme catalysis process has four steps. The first step involves the distortion of the α-sialoside from a 2C5 chair conformation (the lowest-energy form in solution) to a pseudoboat conformation when the sialo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuraminidase |
Magicicada are unable to obtain all of the essential amino acids from the dilute xylem fluid that they feed upon, and instead rely upon endosymbiotic bacteria that provide essential vitamins and nutrients for growth. Bacteria in the genus Hodgkinia live inside periodical cicadas, and grow and divide for years before pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicada |
A model rocket is a small rocket designed to reach low altitudes (e.g., 100–500 m (330–1,640 ft) for 30 g (1.1 oz) model) and be recovered by a variety of means. According to the United States National Association of Rocketry (NAR) Safety Code, model rockets are constructed of paper, wood, plastic and other lightweight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_rocket |
Microsoft Agent characters are stored in files of the .ACS extension, and can be stored in a number of compressed .ACF files for better World Wide Web distribution. Microsoft Office 97 and Microsoft Bob Actor characters are stored in files of the .ACT extension. Microsoft Agent character definition files are stored in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent |
Later, when Egypt decided to manufacture the Hakim rifle, a licensed copy of the Swedish Ag m/42, they redesigned the breech to accept the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge rather than use the original 6.5×55mm Ag m/42 cartridge. Its military use continues today (2012) in some former Yugoslavia republics. The Zastava M76 snip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.92×57mm_Mauser |
Lentricchia, Frank (1980) After the New Criticism. Moati Raoul (2009), Derrida/Searle, déconstruction et langage ordinaire Norris, Christopher (1987) Derrida (ISBN 0-674-19823-9). Norris, Christopher (1982) Deconstruction: Theory and Practice. Thomas, Michael (2006) The Reception of Derrida: Translation and Transformat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida |
One of the most notable post-war users of the MP 18/I were the Freikorps who armed themselves with weapons appropriated from military depots. After the armistice Germany country found itself embroiled with domestic strife in the form of the Spartacist Uprising. Many submachine guns that had not been sent to the front w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann_Submachine_Gun |
Dieldrin, a pesticide used to control termites, textile pests, insect-borne diseases and insects living in agricultural soils. In soil and insects, aldrin can be oxidized, resulting in rapid conversion to dieldrin. Dieldrin's half-life is approximately five years. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_Organic_Pollutant |
As Thor grabs his hammer to kill the serpent, the giant cuts the line, leaving the serpent to sink beneath the waves and return to its original position encircling the earth. The Eddic poem Hymiskviða has a similar ending to the story, but in earlier Scandinavian versions of the myth in skaldic poetry, Thor successfull... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jörmungandr |
The SP1 is a woodsball/scenario marker, being released in the same lineup as the Vibe, EOS, and Ion XE. It is the Vibe's woodsball counterpart (it has 7 mounting rails on its body for flashlights, laser sights and scopes), in the same way that the SP8 is the Ion's counterpart. It is also limited to 11 BPS. It uses the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Parts |
In contrast, public projects in the colonial era were forced into crowded spaces and local layout constraints, and the ancient Vastu sastra were viewed with prejudice as superstitious and rigid about a square grid or traditional materials of construction. Sachdev and Tillotson state that these prejudices were flawed, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastu_Shastra |
The following second-generation biofuels are under development, although most or all of these biofuels are synthesized from intermediary products such as syngas using methods that are identical in processes involving conventional feedstocks, first-generation and second-generation biofuels. The distinguishing feature is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Biofuels |
A jump scare (also spelled jump-scare and jumpscare) is a technique often used in horror films and video games, intended to scare the audience by surprising them with an abrupt change in image or event, usually co-occurring with a loud, jarring sound. The jump scare has been described as "one of the most basic building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_scare |
The tube is notable for its extremely fine grid, and extremely close control grid to cathode spacing, yielding excellent high-frequency performance. It is also known as EF95 under its Mullard–Phillips designation and was produced in the former Soviet Union as type 6Zh1P (Russian: 6Ж1П) under the Russian designation sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6AK5 |
The lobes are 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) long and 1–2.5 cm (0.4–1 in) wide, while the V-shaped sinuses between intrude almost to the midrib of the leaf. The leaf margins are slightly recurved. On the underside of each lobe, there are 3–10 nerves converging on the lobe apex. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_speciosa |
Every Sino-Vietnamese book in Vietnam after the Phật thuyết are dated either from 17th century to 20th century, and most are hand-written/copied works, only few are printed texts. The Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies's library in Hanoi had collected and kept 4,808 Sino-Vietnamese manuscripts in total by 1987.During French ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character |
AustraliaThe Australian War Memorial in Canberra, AustraliaBelgiumThe Stampe en Vertongen Museum at Antwerp International Airport has a V-1 on display.CanadaThe Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax, Nova ScotiaDenmarkThe Danish War Museum (Krigsmuseet, formerly Tøjhusmuseet) in CopenhagenFranceThe Grand Bunker Mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Blitz |
This is a building for office use. At the same time, with the development of science and technology, some new technologies can be applied to buildings, especially to repair some old or damaged buildings. For example, there is a new technology for repairing the ruins of Tiwanaku, 3D printing. Some parts of the Tiwanaku ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Bolivia |
The DP hypothesis, which is widely accepted, was very fruitful, leading to a lot of interesting work; but I’ve never really been convinced by it. I think these structures are fundamentally nominal phrases. As far as determiners are concerned, like say that, I suspect that they are adjuncts. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner_phrase |
Straw feminism is a form of straw man argument used by antifeminists in which a distorted or fabricated version of feminism is used in an attempt to mock or dismiss feminist arguments. A straw feminist then is a fabricated character that often uses oversimplifications, misrepresentations and stereotypes in order to dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_feminism |
There are two types of cup centers. The woodworking variety is a variation of the traditional live center. This type of cup center has a central point like a normal live center and also has a ring surrounding it. The ring supports the softer material around the center point and prevents the wood from splitting under pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe_center |
The most important of the works produced by the Banū Mūsā was the Kitāb maʻrifat masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kurīyah ("Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures"), of which a commentary was made by the persian polymath Naṣīr al‐Dīn al‐Ṭūsī in the 13th century. A Latin translation by the 12th century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banū_Mūsā_brothers |
Since 1989, she has been a physics professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela. She was also a visiting professor at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for theoretical physics in Munich, Germany.Her article titled "Strong-weak coupling duality and non-perturbative effects in string theory" had a b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamaría_Font |
In 2001, a 50% complete skeleton of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus was discovered in the Hell Creek Formation by a crew from the Burpee Museum of Natural History. Dubbed Jane (BMRP 2002.4.1), the find was thought to be the first known skeleton of a pygmy tyrannosaurid, Nanotyrannus, but subsequent research revealed that it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus_rex |
In May 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law three bills. These bills are; Money laundering (Prevention and Prohibition bill), 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition bill) 2022, and the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Bill, 2022. The Central Bank of Nigeria also listed Regulations to pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundry |
On October 15, 2003, Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. Within a week, when the Schindlers' final appeal was exhausted, State Rep. Frank Attkisson and the Florida Legislature passed "Terri's Law" in an emergency session giving Governor Jeb Bush the authority to intervene in the case. Governor Bush immediately ordered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case |
In Poland, a bachelor's degree usually requires a praca licencjacka (bachelor's thesis) or the similar level degree in engineering requires a praca inżynierska (engineer's thesis/bachelor's thesis), the master's degree requires a praca magisterska (master's thesis). The academic dissertation for a PhD is called a dyser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis_defense |
The primary value of augmented reality is the manner in which components of the digital world blend into a person's perception of the real world, not as a simple display of data, but through the integration of immersive sensations, which are perceived as natural parts of an environment. The earliest functional AR syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_reality |
Google Native Client (NaCl) is a discontinued sandboxing technology for running either a subset of Intel x86, ARM, or MIPS native code, or a portable executable, in a sandbox. It allows safely running native code from a web browser, independent of the user operating system, allowing web apps to run at near-native speed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Native_Client |
Before triple oppression was termed, black female scholars of the 19th century discussed the unique oppressions of black women. As an abolitionist, Sojourner Truth affirmed the struggles she faced as a result of both her race and gender. Truth voiced opposition to the Fifteenth Amendment with the reasoning that more ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_oppression |
In these cases, security patches need to be applied to close the relay. Internet initiatives to close open relays have ultimately missed their intended purpose, because spammers have created distributed botnets of zombie computers that contain malware with mail relaying capability. The number of clients under spammers'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mail_relay |
The name "perovskite solar cell" is derived from the ABX3 crystal structure of the absorber materials, referred to as perovskite structure, where A and B are cations and X is an anion. A cations with radii between 1.60 Å and 2.50 Å have been found to form perovskite structures. The most commonly studied perovskite abso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perovskite_solar_cell |
He interrupted the Secretary-General and the moderator, asking that global-warming skeptics be allowed to speak. After a few minutes, he was escorted from the premises by Vatican officials. In response to the papal encyclical "Laudato Si'", which outlined the Church's moral case for addressing climate change, and in an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute |
Having designed the processes of management system and analysed the performances using useful measurements, the final step is how to improve the system and maintain its effectiveness. Therefore, implementing the improvements is a key activity to examine the processes and improve the flow of the management system. An or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process-based_management |
In 1938, almost every breaststroke swimmer was using this butterfly style. Yet, this stroke was considered a variant of the breaststroke until 1952, when it was accepted by FINA as a separate style with its own set of rules. The 1956 Summer Olympics were the first Olympic games where the butterfly has swum as a separat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_stroke |
On 22 August 1944, to meet the requirements of the USAAF group about to be formed to train in the atomic mission, a production phase of Silverplate B-29s was ordered from the Glenn L. Martin Company's modification center at Offutt Field, south of Omaha, Nebraska, under the designation Project 98146-S. The first three o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverplate |
The different divisions of compounds in the pumiliotoxin-A class arise from differences in the carbon backbone and/or the substituents attached to it. The difference between allopumiliotoxins and pumiliotoxins occurs at the 7 position. At this position, allopumiliotoxins have a hydroxyl substituent whereas pumiliotoxin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopumiliotoxin |
Even a relatively modest 3 dB increase/decrease in sensitivity corresponds to a doubling/halving of acoustical power. When measuring in 'half space', the boundary of the ground plane cuts the available space that the sound radiates into in half and doubles the acoustical power at the receiver, for a corresponding 3 dB ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_RMS |
In a similar attempt to inform the public, the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis included (among others) presentations from G. Stanley Hall, Edward B. Titchener, Mary Whiton Calkins, John B. Watson, and Adolph Meyer. The exhibits also included public testing and experimentation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_psychology |
A classical hunting oscillation is a swaying motion of a railway vehicle (often called truck hunting or bogie hunting) caused by the coning action on which the directional stability of an adhesion railway depends. It arises from the interaction of adhesion forces and inertial forces. At low speed, adhesion dominates bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_oscillation |
Some factors limit participation in clothing swaps- social outlooks and quality concerns. When obtaining second-hand clothing, certain members of society see this as a new social label. They believe that their social status depends on whether their closets are full of first vs. second-hand clothing. Second-hand clothin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_swap |
Alabama (Board of Pardons and Paroles), Connecticut (Board of Pardons and Paroles), Georgia (Board of Pardons and Paroles), Idaho (Commission of Pardons and Paroles), Minnesota (Board of Pardons), Nebraska (Board of Pardons), Nevada (Board of Pardon commissioners, South Carolina (Board of Probation, Parole and Pardon),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole_board |
For example, note if the retailer does not explicitly state that it will not share private information with others without consent. Ensuring that the vendor address is protected with SSL (see above) when entering credit card information. If it does the address on the credit card information entry screen will start with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_store |
However, the promising results described here give a good first assessment of feasibility. Before being fully adopted in the construction sector, these treatments and materials must be fully tested in accordance with the building codes. In addition, with the recent use of biomaterials, new standards and test methods fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_hurds |
And suddenly by comparison his culture seemed backward and primitive and poor." In 1978 Norberg-Hodge founded The Ladakh Project, for which Local Futures is now the parent organization, in order to counter the overly rosy impressions of life in the urban consumer culture, and to re-instill respect for the traditional c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Norberg-Hodge |
Classical examples of this latter dynamics include population explosions of sea urchins in California's offshore kelp beds, for example, when human hunters began to kill too many sea otters, and/or sudden population explosions of jackrabbits if hunters or ranchers kill too many coyotes. The foreign species either flour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_release |
According to Sharma, Lanum & Saurez-Balcazar (2000, p. 1) "the goals of a 'needs assessment' is to identify the assets of a community and determine potential concerns that it faces". A needs assessment therefore becomes crucial in the initial stages of an intervention. A needs analysis is focused on identifying the pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needs_assessment |
In 1999, a Harvard University group led by Eric Mazur developed a process in which black silicon was produced by irradiating silicon with femtosecond laser pulses. After irradiation in the presence of a gas containing sulfur hexafluoride and other dopants, the surface of silicon develops a self-organized microscopic st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_silicon |
It is essential to discuss if the patient has personal or family history of a patent foramen ovale or other congenital heart disease that may have allowed an embolus into arterial circulation. Additionally patients may be asked about a history of deep vein thrombosis or factors that contribute to DVT, including high bl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_embolism |
The properties of a generic IH manifest themselves as a set of boundary conditions expressed in the language of Newman–Penrose formalism, κ = ^ 0 {\displaystyle \kappa \,{\hat {=}}\,0} (geodesic), Im ( ρ ) = ^ 0 {\displaystyle {\text{Im}}(\rho )\,{\hat {=}}\,0} (twist-free, hypersurface orthogonal), Re ( ρ ) = ^ 0 {\di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_horizon |
The resulting etched plastic therefore contains a permanent record of not only the location of the radiation on the plastic but also gives spectroscopic information about the source. Principally used for the detection of alpha radiation emitting radionuclides (especially radon gas), the radiation-sensitivity properties... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CR-39 |
Primary biliary cholangitis is more common in 45,X0 than 46,XX women. An unclear association exists between estrogen replacement therapy and liver dysfunction in Turner syndrome; some studies imply estrogen therapy worsens such conditions, while others imply improvement. Kidney issues, such as horseshoe kidney, are som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_syndrome |
Lattice corneal dystrophy type is a rare form of corneal dystrophy. It has no systemic manifestations, unlike the other type of the dystrophy, Lattice corneal dystrophy type II. Lattice corneal dystrophy was first described by Swiss ophthalmologist Hugo Biber in 1890.Lattice dystrophy gets its name from an accumulation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_type_amyloidosis |
Four factors, separately or in combination, can create rapids: gradient, constriction, obstruction, and flow rate. Gradient, constriction, and obstruction are streambed topography factors and are relatively consistent. Flow rate is dependent upon both seasonal variation in precipitation and snowmelt and upon release ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_water |
Searching for developmentally regulated genes the authors used gene trap screen analysis and identified mouse Jade1 as gene strongly regulated during embryogenesis. Insertion of the vector into the third intron of the Jade1 gene lead to the production of a 47-amino-acid truncated protein. The gene trap insertional muta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JADE1 |
Males usually do not participate in the raising of kittens; however, in captivity, males appear to be very protective of their offspring. Kittens begin to catch their own prey at around six months and leave the mother after eight or nine months. The lifespan of the jungle cat in captivity is 15 to 20 years; this is pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_cat |
From this, it can be surmised that the compounds associate with the micelles as they spend less time associated with the stationary phase.Foley proposed a similar retentive model to that of Armstrong and Nome which was a general model for secondary chemical equilibria in liquid chromatography. While this model was deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micellar_liquid_chromatography |
Dryer defined three different types of negative markers in language. Beside negative particles and negative affixes, negative verbs play a role in various languages. The negative verb is used to implement a clausal negation. The negative predicate counts as a semantic function and is localized and therefore grammatical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_verb |
In 2006, the Defense Department announced the reinstatement of mandatory anthrax vaccinations for more than 200,000 troops and defense contractors. The vaccinations are required for most U.S. military units and civilian contractors assigned to homeland bioterrorism defense or deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan or South Kore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax_vaccine |
It is altered with wine aging by reactions between different active molecules present in the wine, these reactions generally giving rise to a browning of the wine, leading from red to a more tawny color. The use of a wooden barrel (generally oak barrels) in aging also affects the color of the wine. The color of a wine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine's_color |
In 2015, a study mapped the first genome of a 35,000 YBP Pleistocene wolf fossil found in the Taimyr Peninsula, arctic northern Siberia and compared it with those of modern dogs and grey wolves. The Taimyr wolf was identified through mDNA as Canis lupus but from a population which had diverged from the dog–grey wolf li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_dogs |
Operating models have become popular with service organisations, looking to improve processes to deliver greater value to customers and/or beneficiaries. One such operating model is the Service Operating Model Skills (SOMS) framework.SOMS is an operating model focused on the service sector. SOMS stipulates the expertis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_model |
Cinéma pur (French for "pure cinema") was an avant-garde film movement of French filmmakers, who "wanted to return the medium to its elemental origins" of "vision and movement". It declares cinema to be its own independent art form that should not borrow from literature or stage. As such, "pure cinema" is made up of no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_animation |
After Moseley's death in 1915, the atomic numbers of all known elements from hydrogen to uranium (Z = 92) were examined by his method. There were seven elements (with Z < 92) which were not found and therefore identified as still undiscovered, corresponding to atomic numbers 43, 61, 72, 75, 85, 87 and 91. From 1918 to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_numbers |
Flag of convenience ships have long been linked to crime on the high seas. For example, in 1982, Honduras shut down its open registry operations because it had enabled "illegal traffic of all kinds and had given Honduras a bad name".Ships registered by the Cambodia Shipping Corporation (CSC) were found smuggling drugs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_registry |
The November 2016 inaugural issue of Global Perspectives also published an Indigo Index, which rated 152 countries based on five key metrics for doing business as economies move away from being powered by natural resources to being powered by creativity and digital skills. The five metrics are: creativity and innovatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_Era |
Lego torsos often have black or white squares on the neck joint, this is to help with the automatic printing process when producing minifigures. Minifigures built from special, uniquely molded pieces were first introduced in "Life on Mars". Martians are composed of five tools: two pairs of double arms, a mechanical tor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_minifigure |
In 1906, Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a book which exposed the filthy conditions of Chicago slaughterhouses. Sinclair wrote the book while living in Chicago; he talked to workers and their families and his focus was the plight of the workers. However, the book turned people away from "tubercular beef" instead o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_history_of_food_regulation_in_the_United_States |
McDaniel in turn, brought in snowboard pioneers Mike Chantry and Keith Kimmel to consult on the design and construction of the park, to be located on the front side of Bear Valley's upper mountain. A surface lift was installed to bring snowboarders from the bottom of the area back to the top, without having to take a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain_park |
Recently, "inspired by these ideas, and fostered by international development agencies, land titling programs have been launched throughout developing and transition economies as part of poverty alleviation efforts." The goals of poverty alleviation and urban management, however, can lead to conflicts in the design of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_titling |
In astronomy, position angle (usually abbreviated PA) is the convention for measuring angles on the sky. The International Astronomical Union defines it as the angle measured relative to the north celestial pole (NCP), turning positive into the direction of the right ascension. In the standard (non-flipped) images, thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_angle |
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