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The largest room in a show cave is the Salle de la Verna in the French Pyrenees. The largest passage ever discovered is in the Son Doong Cave in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park in Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam. It is 4.6 km (2.9 mi) in length, 80 m (260 ft) high and wide over most of its length, but over 140 m (460 ft) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_system |
He vehemently and consistently argued against the view that models were converging.Further in contrast to Müller-Armack who emphasised the social aspect, for Erhard the social market economy was always first and foremost a market economic system. By proclaiming "the freer an economy is, the more social it is", Erhard o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy |
National Socialist black metal (also known as NSBM) is a subgenre that promotes neo-Nazi or similar beliefs through its lyrics and imagery. Artists typically meld neo-Nazi ideology with ethnic European paganism, but a few meld these beliefs with Satanism or occultism. Some commentators see this ideology as a natural de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Metal |
September 18: The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad reorganizes, ending a trusteeship that began on October 23, 1935. December 31: The Oahu Railway and Land Company abandons its line outside Honolulu.1948The Bingham and Garfield Railway is closed and replaced by a private railroad. January 1: The Chicago, Rock ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Class_I_railroads_(1930–1976) |
Proponents contend that nuclear power is a safe, sustainable energy source that reduces carbon emissions. This is because nuclear power generation causes one of the lowest levels of fatalities per unit of energy generated compared to other energy sources. Coal, petroleum, natural gas and hydroelectricity each have caus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_power |
The ice was typically packed up tightly with sawdust, and the hold was then closed to prevent warmer air entering; other forms of protective dunnage used to protect ice included hay and pine tree cuttings. This requirement for large quantities of sawdust coincided with the growth in the New England lumber industry in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade |
Acetaldehyde is produced when cells process ethanol. Acetaldehyde, is a DNA damaging metabolite that can interact with DNA to crosslink the two strands of the DNA duplex. The mechanisms the cells use for repairing these crosslinks are error prone, thus leading to mutations that in the long term can cause cancer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_abuse_of_alcohol |
Hormonal contraception is highly effective: when taken on the prescribed schedule, users of steroid hormone methods experience pregnancy rates of less than 1% per year. Perfect-use pregnancy rates for most hormonal contraceptives are usually around the 0.3% rate or less. Currently available methods can only be used by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal_birth_control |
The witch rumors frightened Nicks so much that she gave up black for a period of time (approximately 1978 to 1982), instead opting to wear colors such as apricot and sea foam green. Nicks later stated that she felt ugly in the new colors, ultimately gave up, and went back to black in 1983. That same year, when asked wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Nicks |
The cultural acceptability of premarital sex varies between individuals, cultures and time periods. Western cultures have traditionally been disapproving of it, on occasions forbidding it. In other cultures, such as the Muria people of Madhya Pradesh, sexuality prior to marriage is accepted and at times expected.Indivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarital_sex |
Contrary to the other modes of termination, chain transfer results in the destruction of only one radical, but also the creation of another radical. Often, however, this newly created radical is not capable of further propagation. Similar to disproportionation, all chain-transfer mechanisms also involve the abstraction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_polymerization |
The rules for vowel inclusion were as follows: If there are two vowels side by side, both have to be written, unless the second could be readily determined. The vowels have to be written if their omission created ambiguity. (Example: krk – can be interpreted as kerék – (wheel) and kerek – (rounded), thus the writer had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hungarian_alphabet |
Educational aim is a goal of the educational experience or process. This page lists the generic educational aims which one might encounter in educational theory, research or practice, including new concepts in published literature. The discussion and study of educational aims are usually found in philosophy of educatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_educational_aims |
In both short-term memory and long-term memory Smith measured output interference in three age groups (aged 20–39, 40–59, 60–80 years). The results of recall performance revealed significant differences due to age where the older group recalled fewer items than the middle group who recalled fewer items than the younges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactive_interference |
The second-arriving sound had only a very small (albeit measurable) effect on the perceived location of the fused sound. They designated this phenomenon as the precedence effect, and noted that it explains why sound localization is possible in the typical situation where sounds reverberate from walls, furniture and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedence_effect |
The plaque on the right is an equation of time table to correct for the time differences caused by the axial tilt of the Earth as well as its orbital eccentricity. As the plaque indicates with an additional correction, the equation of time table does not correct for daylight saving time.Like most of Moore's work comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Enters_the_Cosmos |
Pergolide acts as an agonist of dopamine D2 and D1 and serotonin 5-HT1A, 5-HT1B, 5-HT2A, 5-HT2B, and 5-HT2C receptors. It may possess agonist activity at other dopamine receptor subtypes as well, similar to cabergoline. Although pergolide is more potent as an agonist of the D2 receptor, it has high D1 receptor affinity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergolide |
These were carbureted engines and the relative "imprecise" nature of such limited the MPG abilities of the concept that now under MPI (Multi-Port fuel Injection) allows for higher MPG too. The newer Honda stratified charge (lean-burn engines) operate on air–fuel ratios as high as 22:1. The amount of fuel drawn into the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_burn |
Choke – this consists of an inductor, a coil of fine wire wound around a cylindrical form. The impedance (resistance to AC current) of an inductor increases with the frequency of the current. The isolation choke is a low pass filter, it is constructed to have a high impedance at radio frequencies which prevents the RF ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fading_antennas |
Since then, secretaries of the president have mimicked their employer's signatures on these documents (known as "proxy" signatures). Many movie stars have their secretaries sign their letters and photographs for them. When Ronald Reagan was an actor during the 1940s, he had his mother sign his name to much of his fan m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autograph_collecting |
Electromagnetic suspension (EMS) is the magnetic levitation of an object achieved by constantly altering the strength of a magnetic field produced by electromagnets using a feedback loop. In most cases the levitation effect is mostly due to permanent magnets as they don't have any power dissipation, with electromagnets... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_suspension |
Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.57 mas, the distance to the two stars is approximately 590 light-years (180 parsecs). As of 2016, the secondary had an angular separation of 2.90″ along a position angle of 165° from the primary. They are moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +7 km... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Arietis |
At the beginning of the 2000s, Collins along with Dr Robert Evans, also of Cardiff University, has published works on what they term the "Third Wave of Science Studies" and, in particular, the idea of interactional expertise. This aims to address questions of legitimacy and extension and public involvement in scientifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Collins |
The rapid heart rate, if fast enough, reduces the opportunity for the "pump" to fill between beats decreasing cardiac output and consequently blood pressure. The following symptoms are typical with a rate of 150–270 or more beats per minute: Pounding heart Rapid heart beat Shortness of breath Chest pain Rapid breathing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supraventricular_tachycardia |
SystemML was created in 2010 by researchers at the IBM Almaden Research Center led by IBM Fellow Shivakumar Vaithyanathan. It was observed that data scientists would write machine learning algorithms in languages such as R and Python for small data. When it came time to scale to big data, a systems programmer would be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_SystemDS |
In the 1950s and 1960s industrial exposure to cadmium was high, but as the toxic effects of cadmium became apparent, industrial limits on cadmium exposure have been reduced in most industrialized nations and many policy makers agree on the need to reduce exposure further. While working with cadmium it is important to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_poisoning |
Xuanzang, with a team of disciple translators, commenced translating the voluminous work in 660 CE using the three versions to ensure the integrity of the source documentation. Xuanzang was being encouraged by a number of the disciple translators to render an abridged version. After a suite of dreams quickened his deci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfection_of_Wisdom |
This means that the amino acid can have two different configurations, "D" or "L" which are mirror images of each other. With a few important exceptions, living organisms keep all their amino acids in the "L" configuration. When an organism dies, control over the configuration of the amino acids ceases, and the ratio of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_dating |
Telex began in the UK as an evolution from the 1930s Telex Printergram service, appearing in 1932 on a limited basis. This used the telephone network in conjunction with a Teleprinter 7B and signalling equipment to send a message to another subscriber with a teleprinter, or to the Central Telegraph Office. In 1945, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletypewriter_Exchange_Service |
Al Ahly of Egypt, for defender Mohamed Abdelwahab, who died in 2006 during a club training session. Atlante of Mexico, for longtime goalkeeper Federico Vilar. Internazionale of Italy, for longtime defender Giacinto Facchetti, who went on to serve as club president and died in that office. Milan of Italy, for longtime d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_retired_numbers |
These maneuvers place the two spacecraft in such close proximity that the mathematics of “orbital mechanics” no longer dominate the ability to bring them closer still. These operations are typically executed by one independently controlled spacecraft at ranges greater than 2,000 feet (610 m) of another. They can be cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Berthing_Mechanism |
Crack growth is reported to be very slow by Luxfer, a major manufacturer of aluminium high-pressure cylinders. Cracks are reported to develop over periods in the order of 8 or more years before reaching a stage where the cylinder is likely to leak, which allows timely detection by properly trained inspectors using eddy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustained_load_cracking |
Some computer languages implement name–value pairs, or more frequently collections of attribute–value pairs, as standard language features. Most of these implement the general model of an associative array: an unordered list of unique attributes with associated values. As a result, they are not fully general; they cann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key-value_pair |
and later created a specialized aerospace company, Lindstrand Technologies Ltd. (both based in Oswestry) to manufacture and repair aerostats, airships, gas balloons, passenger-carrying tethered aerostats and other fabric engineering products (including architectural structures, innovative fire-safety devices for road t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Lindstrand |
They held the walk in the South American capitol of Buenos Aires on 28 September 1990, a day that was named the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America. Due to the overwhelming Catholic influence, some SlutWalks have taken on an anti-Catholic tone in response to sermons, such as the one in Costa Rica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture |
The Disc contains magical substances. One such is octiron, a dense black metal that is a large part of the Discworld's crust. Its melting point is above the range of metal forges. The gates of Unseen University are made out of it, as is Old Tom, the university's bell. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterweight_Continent |
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) of 1938 recognized homeopathic preparations as drugs, but with significant exceptions. A principal sponsor of the Act was New York Senator and homeopathic physician Royal Copeland, who ensured that homeopathy's own Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the United States (HPUS) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_prevalence_of_homeopathy |
Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon who used what John McCarthy calls an "approximation" in 1958 wrote that alpha–beta "appears to have been reinvented a number of times". Arthur Samuel had an early version for a checkers simulation. Richards, Timothy Hart, Michael Levin and/or Daniel Edwards also invented alpha–beta ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha–beta_pruning |
{\displaystyle D_{0}(n)=n!q(z)={\frac {1}{2}}n!\sum _{k=0}^{n}{\frac {(-1)^{k}}{k! }}+{\frac {1}{2}}n! {\frac {1}{n! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_statistic |
People who agreed to get sterilized would receive land, housing, and money or loans. This program led millions of men to receive vasectomies, and an undetermined amount of these were coerced. There were reports of officials blocking off villages and dragging men to surgical centers for vasectomies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforced_sterilization |
Kuwait ordered 14 Lightnings in December 1966; 12 F.53Ks and two T.55Ks. The first Kuwait aircraft, a T.55K first flew on 24 May 1968 and deliveries to Kuwait started in December 1968. The Kuwaitis somewhat overestimated their ability to maintain such a complex aircraft, not adopting the extensive support from BAC and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning |
A projection television uses a projector to create a small image or video from a video signal and magnify this image onto a viewable screen. The projector uses a bright beam of light and a lens system to project the image to a much larger size. A front-projection television uses a projector that is separate from the sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_projection_television |
Significant change occurred when the Manchester Ship Canal was opened in 1894. The tidal section of the river below Frodsham now flowed into the ship canal, rather than the River Mersey, and the exit lock from Weston Docks also joined the canal rather than the estuary. A new ship lock was constructed at Weston Marsh, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_Navigation |
To detect possible deviations in the electron sector, spin-polarized torsion balances are used. Time dilation is confirmed in heavy ion storage rings, such as the TSR at the MPIK, by observation of the Doppler effect of lithium, and those experiments are valid in the electron, proton, and photon sector. Other experimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity |
Increased costs may then be passed on to consumers.The theme also highlights how an abundance of quality water can change people's jobs and lives for the better. The 2016 celebration created recognition for those working to improve water quality and availability, and the need for many to transition to other and better ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Water_Day |
Medical photographers document patients at various stages of an illness, injuries and before and after surgical procedures. They record the work of healthcare professionals to assist in the planning of treatment and education of the public and other healthcare professionals. The nature of the work requires a respect fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_photography |
Sweden and the Nordic Model was held as a model of the mixed economy and managed capitalism. The school advocated Radical Democracy as a solution to the authoritarian and undemocratic features of the mixed economy. Lukács’ death in 1971 deprived the members of the Budapest School of the degree of protection he had been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_School |
These particular Cypriot frescoes have been identified with three different religious images: Christ Pantocrator surrounded by a frieze of angels, the Preparation of the Throne attended by the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist, and the Virgin Mary flanked by Archangels Michael and Gabriel. The collection announced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looted_art |
In 1963, the Robbins Report on universities in the United Kingdom concluded that such institutions should have four main "objectives essential to any properly balanced system: instruction in skills; the promotion of the general powers of the mind so as to produce not mere specialists but rather cultivated men and women... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University |
The local assembly of the T-72 started in Taji in early 1989 as suggested by Iraqi officials. A number of Iraqi officials such as Lt. General Amer Rashid however did not like the idea of being dependent on knockdown kits supplied by another country and pushed for the complete production of the T-72M1 tank instead. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_of_Iraq |
T lymphocytes are cells of the immune system that attack and destroy virus-infected cells, tumor cells and cells from transplanted organs. This occurs because each T cell is endowed with a highly specific receptor that can bind to an antigen present at the surface of another cell. The T cell receptor binds to a complex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor_antigens_recognized_by_T_lymphocytes |
In 2015, Barry Ace won the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for visual arts. Ace won the Ontario Association of Art Galleries' Curatorial Writing Award in 2012 for his essay "A Reparative Act," which was written for Robert Houle's Paris/Ojibwa exhibition catalogue. He also won the Deputy Minister's Outstanding Achievement Awar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Ace |
Minor revisions of the MMU introduced with the Pentium Pro introduced the physical address extension (PAE) feature, enabling 36-bit physical addresses with 2+9+9 bits for three-level page tables and 12 lowest bits being directly copied to the result. Large pages (2 MB) are also available by skipping the bottom level of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Management_Unit |
Rather, the above is just a change of basis on Alice's part of the system. This change has moved the entanglement from particles A and B to particles C and A. The actual teleportation occurs when Alice measures her two qubits (C and A) in the Bell basis | Φ + ⟩ C A , | Φ − ⟩ C A , | Ψ + ⟩ C A , | Ψ − ⟩ C A . {\displays... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entanglement_swapping |
In a 2010, clinical trial, 34% of patients with refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma achieved complete remission and another 40% had partial remission. Tumor reductions were achieved in 94% of patients. In ALCL, 87% of patients had tumors shrink at least 50% and 97% of patients had some tumor shrinkage.Reports in 2013, showed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brentuximab_vedotin |
The founder Gustav Mankenberg was born on August 12, 1857, in the town of Wittstock on the river Dosse/Germany as eighth child to the self-employed master blacksmith Johann Friedrich Mankenberg. He learnt the trade of a metal craftsman in Berlin, i.e. a craftsman processing metal objects of any kind by shaping, casting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankenberg |
Abell 1835 was discovered by French and Swiss astronomers of the European Southern Observatory, namely Roser Pelló, Johan Richard, Jean-François Le Borgne, Daniel Schaerer, and Jean-Paul Kneib. The astronomers used a near-infrared instrument on the Very Large Telescope to detect the galaxy; other observatories were the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell_1835_IR1916 |
Larry the Liquidator, Other People's Money (1990) – A self-absorbed corporate raider "Larry the Liquidator" (Danny DeVito), sets his sights on New England Wire and Cable, a small-town business run by family patriarch (Gregory Peck) who is principally interested in protecting his employees and the town. Larry ultimately... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_raider |
Earth's global radiation balance fluctuates as the planet rotates and orbits the Sun, and as global-scale thermal anomalies arise and dissipate within the terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric systems (e.g. ENSO). Consequently, the planet's 'instantaneous radiative forcing' (IRF) is also dynamic and naturally fluctuates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_Forcing |
In this regime, diatomic or polyatomic gases (the gases found in most atmospheres) begin to dissociate as they come into contact with the bow shock generated by the body. Surface catalysis plays a role in the calculation of surface heating, meaning that the type of surface material also has an effect on the flow. The l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_flow |
In 1890, Charles Nash Abbott (1830–1894), advisor to Ireland's Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, designed a new Congested Districts Board (CDB) hive in Dublin, Ireland. It was commissioned by and named after the Congested Districts Board for Ireland which provided support for rural populations until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_gum |
In How the Hippies Saved Physics (2011), Kaiser writes that Rauscher had always been interested in science, and as a child had designed and built her own telescopes. Raised near Berkeley, she started hanging around the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when she was in high school. She enrolled at Berkeley for her first degr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rauscher |
Run-of-the-river hydroelectric stations are those with small or no reservoir capacity, so that only the water coming from upstream is available for generation at that moment, and any oversupply must pass unused. A constant supply of water from a lake or existing reservoir upstream is a significant advantage in choosing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity |
In most cases therefore these colours are simply dissolved in a little acetic and citric acids, thickened with gum and printed without any further addition. The addition of tannic acid, however, can be made to, and considerably increases the fastness of, the basic dyes. Mordant colours like logwood black are applied in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric_printing |
In characteristic 0, the 4371-dimensional representation of the baby monster does not have a nontrivial invariant algebra structure analogous to the Griess algebra, but Ryba (2007) showed that it does have such an invariant algebra structure if it is reduced modulo 2. The smallest faithful matrix representation of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_monster_group |
The carillon is a keyboard instrument. Though it shares similarities with other instruments in this category, such as the organ or pedal piano, its playing console is unique. Playing is done with the hands on a manual keyboard composed of rounded, wooden batons. The manual has short chromatic keys (i.e. "black keys") r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillon |
The competitors have to grip the stone, lap it in a squatting position and finally drive up, to load the stone on top of a podium. There are five (occasionally six) stones of increasing weight, to be hoisted on top of a podium for each stone. In the early competitions of the 80s and 90s, these podiums were of varying h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_stone |
This form of nasal helmet was the forerunner of deeper, cylindrical helmets with greater facial protection, enclosed helmets, and eventually the great helm. The existing nasal formed the basis for increased facial protection, eventually, by 1200, producing a face covering plate which was pierced for sight and ventilati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_helmet |
The net input is so strong that a single action potential from a climbing fiber is capable of producing an extended complex spike in the Purkinje cell: a burst of several spikes in a row, with diminishing amplitude, followed by a pause during which activity is suppressed. The climbing fiber synapses cover the cell body... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granular_layer_(cerebellum) |
Gripping systems for drones have been developed using electro permanent magnets. for drones have been starting to use EPM for their configuration. Nicadrone is an startup company that is creating module circuits to integrate to commercial available drones for pickup and delivery of packages remotely. Related Videos: EP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropermanent_magnet |
There is a variety of types of bows available, including long bows, short bows, recurve bows, compound bows, and crossbows, all made of various materials. Arrows are also made from various materials including wood, fiberglass, carbon fiber and others. Arrowheads have different configurations and materials as well. Prim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_game_hunting |
Research on both the 1 and 3-aza-Cope rearrangements has focused on finding good driving forces to lowering the activation barriers. Several versions of these rearrangements have been optimized for synthetic utility. The 1-aza-Cope rearrangement is normally paired with thermodynamic driving forces. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza-Cope_rearrangement |
The Orbitrap is a high-resolution Fourier transform mass spectrometer that has recently been adapted to allow for site-specific analyses. Molecules introduced into the Orbitrap are fragmented, accelerated, and analyzed. Because the Orbitrap characterizes molecular masses by measuring oscillations at radio frequencies, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-specific_isotope_analysis |
A rocket garden is a display of missiles, sounding rockets, or space launch vehicles, usually in an outdoor setting. The proper form of the term usually refers to the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.All rockets that have flown so far are at least partially expendable (in some rockets, certain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_garden |
Survey errors are sometimes analyzed in connection with survey cost. Cost constraints are sometimes framed as improving quality within cost constraints, or alternatively, reducing costs for a fixed level of quality. Survey methodology is both a scientific field and a profession, meaning that some professionals in the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_methodology |
Green cards (scientific structures): each card has one of three symbols. Combinations of the symbols are worth victory points. Purple cards (guilds) generally grant victory points based on the structures a player and/or his neighbors have built.Brown and grey cards only appear in the Age I and II decks; purple cards on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Wonders_(board_game) |
Environmental Earth Sciences is an international multidisciplinary scientific journal published 24 times a year by Springer. Its self-stated focus is on "all aspects of interaction between humans, natural resources, ecosystems, special climates or unique geographic zones, and the earth". Its subject areas include water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Earth_Sciences |
The following code defines a class named Person. In addition to initialize, the usual constructor to create new objects, it has two methods: one to override the <=> comparison operator (so Array#sort can sort by age) and the other to override the to_s method (so Kernel#puts can format its output). Here, attr_reader is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_syntax |
Occupational exposure and arsenic poisoning may occur in persons working in industries involving the use of inorganic arsenic and its compounds, such as wood preservation, glass production, nonferrous metal alloys, and electronic semiconductor manufacturing. Inorganic arsenic is also found in coke oven emissions associ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic_arsenic |
The T-40 amphibious scout tank was an amphibious light tank used by the Soviet Union during World War II. It was armed with one 12.7 mm (0.5 in) DShK machine gun. It was one of the few tanks that could cross an unfordable river without a bridge. It was primarily intended to equip reconnaissance units. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-40_tank |
The development of presynaptic dendrites forming dendrodendritic synapses in the Cerebellar Cortex of mice has also been found following the differentiation of that region. This type of dendritic reactive synaptogenesis is thought to occur in order to re-saturate the region which has become vacant postsynaptic sites fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrodendritic_synapse |
... The cosmos is conceived as a living unity that is born, develops, and dies on the last day of the year, to be reborn on New Year's Day. ... At every New Year, time begins ab initio. The New Year ritual reenacts the mythical beginning of the cosmos. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_time |
The next generation FLE software was developed during the years 1999–2001. Because of the collapse of the original Future Learning Environment project consortium in 1999 the research and design partners felt that they must continue the FLE development on their own. In 2000 the Fle2 project got funding from the Nordic C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fle3 |
Gambling self-exclusion (voluntary exclusion) programs are available in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, France, and other countries. They seem to help some (but not all) problem gamblers to gamble less often.Some experts maintain that casinos in general arrange for self-exclusion programs as a public r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive_gambling |
A decompiler, DeRez, which can be used to change a resource fork back into Rez code is also included. In the structure of the resource fork, there is a piece of data called a "resource map" which stores the positions of resource data items. This can be used to allow random access to resource data based on the defined I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork |
Efficacy rates of bleomycin in conjunction with cisplatin and etoposide in testicular cancer is approximately 90% successful. Bleomycin also does not induce myelosuppression with decreased bone marrow activity, or immunosuppression; suppressing the immune responses in patients unlike alternative cytotoxic drugs. Howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypeptide_antibiotic |
The explosive growth of information technologies throughout the 21st century has brought with it entirely new privacy concerns, especially surrounding the collection and usage of personal data. As reliance on digital platforms has become almost necessary for participation in modern life, individuals have been asked to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_advertising |
It has been suggested, through research done by James C. McCroskey and Virginia P. Richmond, that United States society finds talkativeness attractive. It is something which is rewarded and positively correlated with leadership and influence. However, those who compulsively talk are not to be confused with those who ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_talking |
Another dramatic example is given by the so-called supernova condensates, usually shortened by acronym to SUNOCON (from SUperNOva CONdensate) to distinguish them from other stardust condensed within stellar atmospheres. SUNOCONs contain in their calcium an excessively large abundance of 44Ca, demonstrating that they co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_dust |
The International Energy Forum Secretariat is to ensure that the Forum is promoting a neutral platform for the exchange of information and views regarding conflicts and the future of the energy industry. Another goal of the executive board is to include both public and private entities in the global energy market in or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Energy_Forum |
The group creates standards through a technical committee with specialized sub-committees. Standards are drafted within the sub-committees and accepted through a voluntary consensus process and board approval. Typical standards include performance characteristics for rope products, usage guidelines and testing procedur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordage_Institute |
Arnold W. Braswell, Lieutenant General, United States Air Force, with the 33rd Fighter Wing, flew F-86 Sabrejets. James M. Kelly, Astronaut. Daniel James Jr., first African-American four-star general, was assigned to Otis AFB from 1951 to 1956. He served as a pilot with the 58th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, commander ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Air_National_Guard_Base |
Although open scanners have increased in popularity, they produce inferior scan quality because they operate at lower magnetic fields than closed scanners. Commercial 1.5-tesla open systems have become available recently, however, providing much better image quality than previous lower field strength open models.Mirror... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_magnetic_resonance_imaging |
Those who do not produce goods, such as laborers or the poor in the community are in effect excluded from the Tumin community as they do not have any services to exchange.The Tumin has been described by journalists as reinvigorating the economy of the municipality, but has also been criticized by the Mexican National B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumin_(currency) |
The enthalpy change becomes Δ H m i x = k T N 1 ϕ 2 χ 12 {\displaystyle \Delta H_{mix}=kTN_{1}\phi _{2}\chi _{12}\,} Assembling terms, the total free energy change is Δ G m i x = R T {\displaystyle \Delta G_{mix}=RT\,} where we have converted the expression from molecules N 1 {\displaystyle N_{1}} and N 2 {\displaysty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_parameter |
Many metabolic pathways are of commercial interest. For instance, the production of many antibiotics or other drugs requires complex pathways. The pathways to produce such compounds can be transplanted into microbes or other more suitable organism for production purposes. For example, the world's supply of the anti-can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical_pathways |
Kant maintained the view that human minds possess pure or a priori concepts. Instead of being abstracted from individual perceptions, like empirical concepts, they originate in the mind itself. He called these concepts categories, in the sense of the word that means predicate, attribute, characteristic, or quality. But... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_concept |
W is also useful for a base displacement reaction in poorly solvating media: F3B-OEt2 → BF3 + OEt2For any base, a constant energy contribution is observed for the breaking of the F3B-OEt2 bond. An ECW study of the enthalpies of a series of bases produces a W value that corresponds to the enthalpy of dissociation of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_model |
Deforestation and conversion of forested land to open agricultural fields and pastures has led to a northward shift in the range of the shiny cowbird, as this species prefers open habitats. These deforested areas may be home to host species that were previously not parasitized by cowbirds. These naive hosts likely do n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_cowbird |
Teleforce is a proposed defensive weapon by Nikola Tesla that accelerated pellets or slugs of material to a high velocity inside a vacuum chamber via electrostatic repulsion and then fired them out of aimed nozzles at intended targets. Tesla claimed to have conceived of it after studying the Van de Graaff generator. Te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce |
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