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The name plum derived from Old English plume "plum, plum tree", borrowed from Germanic or Middle Dutch, derived from Latin prūnum and ultimately from Ancient Greek προῦμνον proumnon, itself believed to be a loanword from an unknown language of Asia Minor. In the late 18th century, the word plum was used to indicate "so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_tree |
Those industrialists and managers who were able to break old forms of organizational arrangements exercised negative capability.This thesis of negative capability is a key component in Unger's theory of false necessity and formative context. The theory of false necessity claims that our social worlds are the artifact o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability |
An estimated 3 million pregnant women in the USA were prescribed DES from 1941 through 1971. DES was also widely prescribed to women in Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand during a similar period. Women who were prescribed DES during pregnancy have been shown to have a modestly increased risk of breast c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_defects_of_diethylstilbestrol |
Many modern melodic hardcore bands are incorporating elements of melodic hardcore and emo, relying more heavily upon melody than their hardcore punk predecessors. There are also bands that take influence from post-hardcore and melodic metalcore.As modern melodic hardcore diverges into one more metalcore leaning track a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodic_hardcore |
Grandmaster Chess is a 1992 chess video game for DOS and Macintosh developed by IntraCorp and its subsidiary Capstone that was focused on neural network technology and an artificial intelligence (AI) able to learn from mistakes.Capable of using VGA and SVGA modes, features multiple skill levels, different sets of piece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster_Chess |
The meaning of "felsic" refers to high silica (SiO2) content from 62 to 78 wt% in rock. In terms of mineralogy, the felsic volcanic rocks are rich in feldspar and quartz. A typical mineral assemblage is quartz + feldspar (albite/oligoclase) + amphibole (chlorite) + micas (biotite and/or muscovite). The mineralogy seems... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archean_felsic_volcanic_rocks |
While Cope anticipated publishing a full report with illustrations, he never did so, and instead the first accurate illustrated description of a hadrosaur skull and skeleton would be produced by his great rival, Othniel Charles Marsh. While Marsh corrected several anatomical errors, he retained Cope's postulated diet o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrosaur_diet |
The evidence of paper use on the Indian subcontinent appears first in the second half of the 7th century. Its use is mentioned by 7th– and 8th-century Chinese Buddhist pilgrim memoirs as well as some Indian Buddhists, as Kakali and Śaya – likely Indian transliteration of Chinese Zhǐ (tsie). Yijing wrote about the pract... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper |
Furthermore, the mouse (methylthio)methanethiol-recognizing receptor, MOR244-3, as well as other selected human and mouse olfactory receptors, responded similarly to normal, deuterated, and carbon-13 isotopomers of their respective ligands, paralleling results found with the musk receptor OR5AN1. Based on these finding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Turin |
In 1965 he married Cynthia in New York; they moved to California, where he participated in a series of seminars at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Koestler spent most of 1966 and the early months of 1967 working on The Ghost in the Machine. In his article "Return Trip to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler |
While the company had a long relationship with GM going back to the 1920s, the first investment of GM taking a 34% stake in Isuzu was seen in 1972, when the Chevrolet LUV became the first Isuzu-built vehicle to be sold in the United States. To symbolize the new beginning, Isuzu also developed a new logo for 1974, with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu |
Additionally, they have used cutting-edge manufacturing techniques that lessen waste production and the overall environmental impact of their products. In 2019, Nike began an innovative program called "Move to Zero," which is an effort to achieve zero waste and zero carbon in the organization's supply chain and product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_Nike,_Inc. |
While well-marked Clearflight Pieds have all 10 primaries and both long tail feathers clear, many specimens show just a few clear flight feathers and occasionally none at all are affected.Poorly marked Clearflight Pieds can look rather like Recessive Pieds, but they may be distinguished from them by the white iris ring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearflight_Pied_budgerigar_mutation |
In addition, Russian italics for lowercase letters are often based on Russian cursive (such as lowercase т, which resembles Latin m). Most handwritten Russian, especially in personal letters and schoolwork, uses the cursive alphabet. In Russian schools most children are taught from first grade how to write with this sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cursive |
No other artefacts were found at the time, but the subsequent Tullie House/PAS excavations at the findspot discovered a number of copper and iron objects, a bead and two Roman coins dating to 330–337. The coins were found within the artificial stone feature in which the helmet had been deposited and may have been burie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby_Garrett_Helmet |
Steel blocks are hardened and tempered. The hardness is important because it slows down the gauge's rate of wear during use (this is why other kinds of gauges, such as pins, thread plugs, and rings, are also hardened.) The cutting of the blocks to size is accomplished with grinding followed by lapping. Usually no plati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_pin |
Géologie régionale de la France, (Dunod, 1889) – Regional geology of France. La Géologie comparée (1895) – Comparative geology. Guide dans la collection des météorites avec le catalogue des chutes représentées au muséum, (Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1898, Muséum d’histoire naturelle) – Guide to the collection of meteo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas-Étienne_Meunier |
Today, the sciences of social psychology, neuropsychology and evolutionary psychology have taken new approaches to the understanding of human social behavior. Personality and social psychology is a scientific method used by health professionals for researching personal and social motivators in and between the individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_education |
Mermaids: The Body Found is a mockumentary television program originally aired on American TV channels Animal Planet (May 27, 2012) and Discovery Channel (June 17, 2012). It tells a story of a scientific team's investigative efforts to uncover the source behind mysterious underwater recordings of an unidentified marine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mermaids:_The_Body_Found |
Waste management, like natural and chemical resource management, is continuously evolving in developing countries including Tanzania. The country's profile in Waste Atlas Platform shows that currently (2012) 16.9 million tonnes of MSW or 365 kg/cap/year are produced. The current practice of solid waste disposal is to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource_and_waste_management_in_Tanzania |
In pure and applied mathematics, quantum mechanics and computer graphics, a tensor operator generalizes the notion of operators which are scalars and vectors. A special class of these are spherical tensor operators which apply the notion of the spherical basis and spherical harmonics. The spherical basis closely relate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_operator |
Coronaviruses infect domestic pets such as cats, dogs, and ferrets. There are two forms of feline coronavirus which are both members of the species Alphacoronavirus 1. Feline enteric coronavirus is a pathogen of minor clinical significance, but spontaneous mutation of this virus can result in feline infectious peritoni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus |
The system consists of a bullet-trap tail section which slides over the muzzle of the rifle, an explosive midsection and a front standoff rod. The grenade is propelled by a normal ball or tracer round to a maximum range of thirty meters and is detonated by the impact of the standoff rod against the door to be breached,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMON_breach_grenade |
Oleoresins are naturally-occurring mixtures of an oil and a resin; they can be extracted from various plants. Other resinous products in their natural condition are a mix with gum or mucilaginous substances and known as gum resins. Several natural resins are used as ingredients in perfumes, e.g., balsams of Peru and to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin |
Following purchase and after experiencing the product or service, the consumer enters the final stage, namely post-purchase evaluation. Foxall suggested that post-purchase evaluation can provide key feedback to marketers because it influences future purchase patterns and consumption activities.The post purchase stage i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_behavior |
The National Obesity Observatory (NOO) was a publicly funded body that is part of a network of Public Health Observatories across Britain and Ireland. It published data, information, and intelligence related to obesity, overweight, and their underlying causes. NOO is now part of who now carry out their work. NOO worke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Obesity_Observatory |
A white pages schema is a data model, specifically a logical schema, for organizing the data contained in entries in a directory service, database, or application, such as an address book. In a white pages directory, each entry typically represents an individual person that makes use of network resources, such as by re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_pages_schema |
The bacterial mass is later digested by the ruminant in its digestive system (stomach and small intestine). Horses use cellulose in their diet by fermentation in their hindgut. Some termites contain in their hindguts certain flagellate protozoa producing such enzymes, whereas others contain bacteria or may produce cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose |
Triangles within technical analysis are chart patterns commonly found in the price charts of financially traded assets (stocks, bonds, futures, etc.). The pattern derives its name from the fact that it is characterized by a contraction in price range and converging trend lines, thus giving it a triangular shape. Triang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(chart_pattern) |
Some suttas state that "from the fading and cessation of ignorance without remainder comes the cessation of saṅkhāras..." et cetera (this is said to lead to the cessation of the entire twelve-fold chain in reverse order).According to Jayarava Atwood, while some dependent origination passages (termed lokiya, worldly) " ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_arising |
Most companies would operate a mixture the two, also known as hybrid cloud delivery.Employing a hybrid delivery cloud strategy lets organizations use different cloud delivery services for specific applications. For instance, a public cloud may be a more cost-effective service for the compute-intensive task of processin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Cloud |
The expression kabukimono (歌舞伎者) referred originally to those who were bizarrely dressed and swaggered on a street. The history of kabuki began in 1603, when Izumo no Okuni, possibly a shrine maiden of Izumo Taisha Temple, began performing a new style of dance drama in the dry riverbeds of Kyoto, and they were then cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_traditional_dance |
Sedna is the largest trans-Neptunian Sun-orbiting object not known to have a satellite. Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004 were the only published attempt to find a satellite, and it is possible that a satellite could have been lost in glare from Sedna itself.Observations from the SMARTS telescope sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna |
This indicates that f(0) is unequivocally 1, and thus the pair (0,1) is in the graph of f. Next, for each n and m, Φ will contain the pair ( { ( n , m ) } , ( n + 1 , ( n + 1 ) ⋅ m ) ) {\displaystyle (\{(n,m)\},(n+1,(n+1)\cdot m))} . This indicates that, if f(n) is m, then f(n + 1) is (n + 1)m, so that the pair (n + 1,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene's_recursion_theorem |
For example, in the 1995 Clipper Chip system, the Clinton administration in the United States reneged on its original policy because it was deemed that it would soon be too easy to crack the chips. One alternative proposed was the implementation of the digital signature, which could be used to protect network sovereign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Sovereignty |
Using list_del_rcu to remove element B from this list transitions to the second state. Note that the link from element B to C is left intact in order to allow readers currently referencing element B to traverse the remainder of the list. Readers accessing the link from element A will either obtain a reference to elemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update |
Two ribbon graph representations are said to be equivalent (and define homeomorphic graph embeddings) if they are related to each other that a homeomorphism of the topological space formed by the union of the vertex disks and edge rectangles that preserves the identification of these features. Ribbon graph representati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_graph |
For example, suppose there is a rule S→SS in a grammar. If productions are done one at a time, then starting from S, we can get first SS, and then, applying the rule again, SSS. However, if all applicable rules are applied at every step, as in an L-system, then we cannot get this sentential form. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindenmayer_systems |
As for the everyday use more simple ware was made, generally of only one color, and would be produced in large quantities for the general public use. Maya pottery only weakly correlates to socio-economic levels of Maya society because of the value the culture emphasized ceramics. Rituals were where the Maya registered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_ceramics |
Using peer nomination questionnaire, students evaluated their fellow students using positive and negative playmate nominations. "Shyness-sensitivity was significantly and negatively correlated with measures of peer acceptance in the Canadian sample. Inconsistent with Western results, it was found that items describing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyness |
There are at least two categories of web analytics, off-site and on-site web analytics. Off-site web analytics refers to web measurement and analysis regardless of whether a person owns or maintains a website. It includes the measurement of a website's potential audience (opportunity), share of voice (visibility), and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics |
As a result of the diminished efficiency, the tailings carried sufficient value to make them profitable to cyanide operators who subsequently worked them. Had there been less desire to maximize the volume of ore running through the mill and greater attention to efficiency, there would have remained little profit for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hope_Mine |
The configuration at the top is with a SBR upper with a length of 20 inches with the configuration below consisting of a 16 inch upper with a length of 26.5 inches. The initial a prototype lacks a safety and adjustable outside of interchangeable butt pads, but the creators say "it should work without issue".The lower r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman_AR-15_Bullpup |
EiffelStudio is an open-source development with beta versions of the next release made regularly available. The Eiffel community actively participates in its development; its official website is Eiffel.org, where projects and resources are listed. The source code base is usually available for check-out via Subversion o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EiffelStudio |
In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine book reviewer Bryan Walsh described him as "the world's best green journalist". In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "mobilizing growing popular support in the USA and around the world for strong ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben |
Patients with hair loss are at risk for psychological conditions such as increased anxiety and depression. Autoimmune causes of hair loss may put patients at risk for other autoimmune conditions such as hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and vitiligo. Alopecia areata patients may develop insulin resistance putting them a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncicatricial_alopecia |
During the 1974 interview, von Däniken asserted that he had indeed seen the library and the artifacts in the tunnels, but he had embellished some aspects of the story to make it more interesting: "In German we say a writer, if he is not writing pure science, is allowed to use some dramaturgische Effekte – some theatric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Däniken |
The suitability of Paleolithic tents/shelters for coincidental camera obscura formation was explored during a set of experiments under the direction of Matt Gatton in 2005 and 2006. The first set of experiments took place on a bison ranch in Oldham County, Kentucky, where a small, rudimentary bison hide teepee was erec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeo-optics |
A photo mask, composed of silicon nitride, is patterned on the top of this sacrificial oxide. A second layer is added to the wafer to create a planar surface. After that, the silicon is thermally oxidized, so the oxide grows in regions where there is no Si3N4 and the growth is between 0.5 and 1.0 μm thick. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_mechanical_polishing |
Down puff: A ball of goose down is located at the opposite end of the ear pick away from the tip. This is used to clean out tiny specks of flaky ear wax on the outer ear that may have broken off during the process of ear cleaning. Safety stop: A means of preventing deep insertion into ear canal to prevent eardrum injur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_pick |
In operation, fluid is injected at pressures high enough to hold open the interconnected network of joints against the Earth stresses, and to effectively circulate fluid through the HDR reservoir at a high rate. During routine energy production, the injection pressure is maintained at just below the level that would ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_geothermal_system |
The first Olmec mirrors were found during archaeological excavations in the early 1940s. A mirror and a mirror fragment were discovered in 1942 during excavations at La Venta directed by Matthew W. Stirling, however, these were not recognised as being mirrors. In 1943 a complete mirror was found and was recognised for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrors_in_Mesoamerican_culture |
At 0.1c, an Orion starship would require 100 years to travel 10 light years. The astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that this would be an excellent use for stockpiles of nuclear weapons. As part of the development of Project Orion, to garner funding from the military, a derived "space battleship" space-based nuclear-blast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) |
The lime principally used for internal plastering is that calcined from chalk, oyster shells or other nearly pure limestone, and is known as fat, pure, chalk or rich lime. Hydraulic limes are also used by the plasterer, chiefly for external work. Perfect slaking of the calcined lime before being used is very important ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasterer |
Britain had continued on the path of parallel development of cruiser tanks and infantry tanks. Development of the Rolls-Royce Meteor engine for the Cromwell tank, combined with efficiency savings elsewhere in the design, almost doubled the horsepower for cruiser tanks. This led to speculation of a "Universal Tank", abl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_tank |
These foods included lemons, limes, oranges, sauerkraut, cabbage, malt, and portable soup. In 1928, the Canadian Arctic anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson showed that the Inuit avoid scurvy on a diet of largely raw meat. Later studies on traditional food diets of the Yukon First Nations, Dene, Inuit, and Métis of Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C |
Where media remains a powerful information source for political information, it can create political bias in the informational representation of political actors and policy issuesAn example of quantification of political bias in the media is a propaganda model, a concept introduced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_bias |
In January Nervo played on the bill of Central America's first electronic music festival The Day After. The festival was held in Panama City, Panama and also featured David Guetta, Afrojack, Rehab and others.Nervo played twice at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida, U.S. They played on the "Ultra Worldwide" stage on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervo_(duo) |
Class S3 Marginally Suitable: Land having limitations which in aggregate are severe for sustained application of a given use and will so reduce productivity or benefits, or increase required inputs, that this expenditure will be only marginally justified.Within the Order Not Suitable, there are normally two Classes: Cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Suitability_classification |
Theories of Surplus Value was part of the large Economic Manuscripts of 1861–1863, entitled by Marx A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy and written as the immediate sequel to the first part of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy published in 1859. The total 1861–1863 manuscript consists ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_Surplus_Value |
German aircraft mostly used an angular splint-pattern camouflage, but Germany experimented with different schemes, particularly in the later stages of the war. They also experimented with various spray-on camouflage patterns for tanks and other vehicles, while Allied vehicles remained largely uni-coloured. As they had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_digital_camouflage |
In June 2022, Musk tweeted that 250 tons was achievable.Production rate for Raptor 2 had reached five per week by February 2022.SpaceX has completed many static fire tests on a vehicle using Raptor 2s, including a 31 engine test (intended to be 33) on 9 February 2023.SpaceX completed Starship Flight Test mission on 20 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_vacuum_engine |
AVB guarantees a latency of 2 ms for Class A traffic and 50 ms for Class B traffic over a maximum of 7 hops, with a transmission period of 125 μs for Class A and 250 μs for Class B traffic. An IEEE 802.1AS network timing domain includes all devices that communicate using the gPTP protocol. The grandmaster is a device c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_AVB |
Salt marsh lamb has long been appreciated in France and is growing in popularity in the United Kingdom. Places where salt marsh lamb are reared in the UK include Harlech and the Gower Peninsula in Wales, the Somerset Levels, Morecambe Bay and the Solway Firth. Saltgrass lamb – a type of lamb exclusive to Flinders Islan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_of_lamb |
The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population have remained at similar levels for the last few thousand years of recorded history. The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. Lower literacy levels are mostly attribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_world |
The leakage current of logic switching transistors increases with temperature. In rare instances, this may lead to thermal runaway in digital circuits. This is not a common problem, since leakage currents usually make up a small portion of overall power consumption, so the increase in power is fairly modest — for an At... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_reaction |
The paralemniscal pathway runs from the interpolar trigeminal nucleus via posterior nucleus (POm) of the thalamus to S2 and to diffuse targets in barrel cortex especially layer 5. Each pathway also has secondary projections to other layers within barrel cortex and other regions of cortex, including motor cortex. These ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_cortex |
Texas F.M. 3005 is known as Seawall Boulevard where it runs along the seawall. The sidewalk adjacent to Seawall Boulevard on top of the seawall is claimed to be the longest continuous sidewalk in the world at 10.3 miles (16.6 km) long.The seawall is 10 miles (16 km) long. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Seawall |
Regarded as the throne of Russia, the throne of St. George's Hall (or large throne room) is set atop the seven-stepped dais with a proscenium arch above and the symbol of the imperial family behind (the two-headed eagle). Peter I's Room (the smaller throne room) is modest in comparison to the former. The throne was mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_room |
Warne decided to put Jeremy Fisher into print.In July 1906, 20,000 copies of The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher were released in paper boards at a shilling and in decorated cloth at one shilling six pence in a small format. Another 5,000 copies were published in September 1906 and another 5,000 in September 1907. The book w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Mr._Jeremy_Fisher |
The smooth-coated otter is distributed in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and on Borneo, Sumatra and Java. An isolated population lives in the marshes of Iraq. It has often been recorded in saltwater near the coast, especially on smaller islan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth-coated_otter |
In 1896 the family moved to Johnstown to set up a gelatin business after Charles Knox watched Rose making homemade gelatin in her kitchen. The Charles B. Knox Gelatin Company was located in a large four story factory building. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knox were very close: Charles shared all his business affairs with his w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox_gelatin |
Its localization is the weak equivalence principle that states the existence of a desired local inertial frame at a given world point. This is the case of equations depending on a gravitational field and its first order derivatives, e. g., the equations of mechanics of probe point masses, and the equations of electroma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle_(geometric) |
John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett have refuted claims that mainstream evolutionary psychology neglects development, arguing that their discipline is, in reality, exceptionally interested in and highly considerate of development. In particular, they cite cross-cultural studies as a sort of natural developm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_psychology |
Some of these shapes allow heat to dissipate more efficiently due to their high surface area to cross-sectional area ratio. The skin effect makes 50–60 Hz AC busbars more than about 8 millimetres (0.31 in) thickness inefficient, so hollow or flat shapes are prevalent in higher-current applications. A hollow section als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbar |
Cyclonic spray scrubbers are more efficient than spray towers, but not as efficient as venturi scrubbers, in removing particulate from the inlet gas stream. Particulates larger than 5 μm are generally collected by impaction with 90% efficiency. In a simple spray tower, the velocity of the particulates in the gas stream... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic_spray_scrubber |
This did not happen with the statements by the other figures. The experimenters inferred that the different responses to the statements were not due to passive reasoning errors. Instead, the participants were actively reducing the cognitive dissonance induced by reading about their favored candidate's irrational or hyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconfirmation_bias |
In conjunction with active film cooling, TBCs permit working fluid temperatures higher than the melting point of the metal airfoil in some turbine applications. Due to increasing demand for more efficient engines running at higher temperatures with better durability/lifetime and thinner coatings to reduce parasitic mas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_barrier_coating |
If one rater is usually higher or lower than the other by a consistent amount, the bias will be different from zero. If the raters tend to disagree, but without a consistent pattern of one rating higher than the other, the mean will be near zero. Confidence limits (usually 95%) can be calculated for both the bias and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rater_agreement |
Several other popular compression utilities also used LZW or closely related methods. LZW became very widely used when it became part of the GIF image format in 1987. It may also (optionally) be used in TIFF and PDF files. (Although LZW is available in Adobe Acrobat software, Acrobat by default uses DEFLATE for most te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel–Ziv–Welch |
Most cider mills were 20–30′ long by 20–25′ in width. At Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, 19th-century cider mill equipment is still used to make cider. In The Marble Faun, author Nathaniel Hawthorne contrasted the wine-making in Italy with the cider-making process of "New England vintages, where the big piles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_mill |
Commerce during this period increased dramatically, therefore contributing 400,000 nomismata annually. The expenditures of the period were large, but manageable by the treasury. Approximately 1,400,000 nomismata went to the payroll of the army annually while other military costs took another 800,000 nomismata annually. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_economy |
After nearly six years of litigation in Brazil, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey placed a hold on a trade bill which allows certain countries, including Brazil, to export certain products to the United States duty-free. Days later, by a decision of Brazil's Supreme Court, Sean was handed over to his father o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_child_abduction_in_the_United_States |
The first carousel to be installed at Euclid Beach Park was the Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 9 design. It debuted in 1905; in 1910, it was replaced by Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 19. This carousel had fifty eight horses and two chariots, which were decorated with leaf carvings surroun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Dips |
During the early stages of development, director Masayoshi Kikuchi had difficulty leading the team without prior directing experience. The visual style was established prior to the gameplay; according to Kikuchi, it could have become an adventure game or role-playing game. His superiors were not satisfied with early co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Set_Radio |
Instruction register sizes tend to be small, perhaps four or seven bits wide. Except for BYPASS and EXTEST, all instruction opcodes are defined by the TAP implementer, as are their associated data registers; undefined instruction codes should not be used. Two key instructions are: The BYPASS instruction, an opcode of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTAG |
According to Chang, the idea with TCM is that health is harmony, and disease is a lack of harmony, and one way of achieving harmony is through interaction of rhythms. Beginning in the field of Applied Kinesiology, where chiropractor George Goodheart (in the 1960s and 1970s) began exploring clinical observations through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosensory_therapy |
Anvils were first made of stone, then bronze, and later wrought iron. As steel became more readily available, anvils were faced with it. This was done to give the anvil a hard face and to stop the anvil from deforming from impact. Many regional styles of anvils evolved through time from the simple block that was first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anvil |
Bronisław Malinowski's Magic, Science and Religion (1954) discusses another type of magical thinking, in which words and sounds are thought to have the ability to directly affect the world. This type of wish fulfillment thinking can result in the avoidance of talking about certain subjects ("speak of the devil and he'l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking |
These knowledge sharing centers were being attended constantly by varied patrons from mature scholars and enthusiastic students to poets and courtiers. Major libraries often employed translators and copyists in large numbers, in order to render into Arabic the bulk of the available Persian, Greek, Roman and Sanskrit no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_libraries |
GTP is used. Rotary motors: FoF1-ATP synthase family of proteins convert the chemical energy in ATP to the electrochemical potential energy of a proton gradient across a membrane or the other way around. The catalysis of the chemical reaction and the movement of protons are coupled to each other via the mechanical rota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_motor |
The provision of sanitation programmes is usually more challenging than water supply as it provides a limited choice of technologies. This is exacerbated by the overwhelming and diverse needs of WASH.The World Health Organization recognises that the emergency setting is a challenging situation with respect to access to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_sanitation |
It is not recommended to dunk the bonnet in a bucket of cleaning solution and then wring it out with a mop-bucket wringer, as this will make the bonnet too wet. It is important to change or turn the bonnet early, as bonnets can become filled with soil in just a few hundred square feet. Once loaded with soil, the bonnet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_cleaning |
Some people have allergies or sensitivities to foods that are not problematic to most people. This occurs when a person's immune system mistakes a certain food protein for a harmful foreign agent and attacks it. About 2% of adults and 8% of children have a food allergy. The amount of the food substance required to prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_food |
Unlike its lighter congeners, the halogen iodine forms a number of stable organic compounds, in which iodine exhibits higher formal oxidation states than -1 or coordination number exceeding 1. These are the hypervalent organoiodines, often called iodanes after the IUPAC rule used to name them. These iodine compounds ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervalent_iodine |
The transition from the Late Pleistocene into the early Holocene was marked by climatic change from cold and dry to warmer, wetter conditions and rapid shifts in flora and fauna, with much of the open habitat of large herbivores being replaced by forests. In the early Holocene, it is proposed that along with changes in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_dogs |
Irish has no words for "yes" and "no". The answer to a question contains a repetition (the same as in Latin) of the verb, either with or without a negative particle. For analytic forms, only the verb is given and the subject is not repeated. If a verb has different dependent and independent forms, the dependent form fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_syntax |
The Marquesan ground dove or Marquesas ground dove (Pampusana rubescens) is a bird species in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It was formerly classified as endangered by the IUCN.This spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesan_ground_dove |
These "dots" can be located on both the obverse and reverse sides of these early cash coins and their quantity can range from one to multiple.This very simple symbol would mark the initial step in a development that would later evolve into the much more sophisticated symbolism that would later be found on the charms an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty_coinage |
To achieve the increase in the composite's strength, a process known as stress induced transformation toughening takes place. Stress induced transformation toughening results in uniform internal strain, which causes the zirconia structure to crack, and the zirconia particles to switch phases. Because of this phase swit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconia_alumina |
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