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When kappa particles shed from a killer paramecium are ingested, R bodies extend within the acidic food vacuole of the predatory paramecium, distending and rupturing the membrane. This liberates the contents of the food vacuole into the cytoplasm of the paramecium. While feeding kappa particles to sensitive paramecium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_bodies |
General Motors stopped producing the truck versions of the Corvair in 1964 and the Greenbrier was the only remaining 95 in (2,413 mm) wheelbase Corvair for 1965. Eventually, Chevrolet and Volkswagen would abandon rear-engined vans in favor of conventional or front-wheel-drive water-cooled engines. Although the Greenbri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Greenbrier |
Specifically, for knowledge to be made explicit, it must be translated into information (i.e., symbols outside our heads). More recently, together with Georg von Krogh and Sven Voelpel, Nonaka returned to his earlier work in an attempt to move the debate about knowledge conversion forward.A second proposed framework fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Management |
Stiborius and Tannstetter proposed to omit one leap year every 134 years, and to drop the 19-year metonic cycle used by the Church to calculate the Easter date. Instead of the metonic cycle, they proposed to simply use the true astronomic calculation for the full moon dates to determine Paschal Full Moon. Furthermore, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Stöberl |
The cabinet was scanned and photographed by arcade enthusiasts in 2016, who also sourced one of four known remaining Sky Skipper arcade boards to build a faithful cabinet restoration. The board from the Nintendo of America cabinet is the only known unmodified boardset of the game. Nintendo copied the ROM image from thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Skipper |
This article mainly deals with halogenation using elemental halogens (F2, Cl2, Br2, I2). Halides are also commonly introduced using salts of the halides and halogen acids. Many specialized reagents exist for and introducing halogens into diverse substrates, e.g. thionyl chloride. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halogenation |
The SSP stood four candidates at the election on a manifesto pledging to introduce a £10 minimum wage, ban zero hour contracts, nationalise the energy industry – including oil and gas fields – and end austerity.Following the party's failure to make a breakthrough at that election, the SSP's annual conference voted "to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Party |
A text-based email client is an email client with its user interface being text-based, occupying a whole terminal screen. Other kind of email clients are GUI-based (cf. email client) or Web-based, see Webmail. Text-based email clients may be useful for users with visual impairment or partial blindness allowing speech s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_email_client |
The “miracle” occurred again on 20–21 August 2006 in almost exactly the same fashion, although initial reports seem to indicate that it occurred only with statues of Ganesh, Shiva, and Durga. The first reported occurrence was on the evening of the 20th in the city of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, from where it quickly spr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha_drinking_milk_miracle |
The direction of rotation of the wheel can be determined by applying Fleming's left hand rule. While rotating and when a spoke of the wheel just leaves the mercury the circuit breaks but due to inertia of motion the wheel continues its motion and brings the next spoke in contact with the mercury thereby restoring the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlow's_wheel |
In Mongolia, the horses live outdoors all year, dealing with temperatures from 30 °C (86 °F) in summer down to −40 °C (−40 °F) in winter, and they graze and search for food on their own. The mare's milk is processed into the national beverage airag. Some animals are slaughtered for meat. Other than that, they serve as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_Horse |
According to this view the Cuyania terrane would be an allochthonous block of Laurentian origin that was left in Gondwana after the continents went apart. But such views are not unchallenged since Cuyania is alternatively suggested to have drifted across Iapetus Ocean as a microcontinent starting in Laurentia and accre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famatinian_orogeny |
In industry, crushers are machines which use a metal surface to break or compress materials into small fractional chunks or denser masses. Throughout most of industrial history, the greater part of crushing and mining part of the process occurred under muscle power as the application of force concentrated in the tip of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Crusher |
There are examples of individuals and organisations purchasing tradable emission permits and 'retiring' (cancelling) them so they cannot be used by emitters to authorise their emissions. This makes the emissions 'cap' lower and therefore further reduces emissions. It is argued that this removes the credits from the car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_emission_trading |
About the same time, umbrellas came into general use as people found their value, and got over the shyness natural to its introduction. Jonas Hanway, the founder of the Magdalen Hospital, has the credit of being the first man who ventured to dare public reproach and ridicule by carrying one habitually in London. As he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_umbrella |
Treatment of a Grignard reagent with oxygen gives the magnesium organoperoxide. Hydrolysis of this material yields hydroperoxides or alcohol. These reactions involve radical intermediates. {R-O-O-H}}}&{\color {Gray}+\ {\ce {{HO-MgX}+ H+}}}\\&{\Bigg \downarrow }{\ce {R-MgX}}\\&{\ce {R-O-MgX}}&{\color {Gray}+\ {\ce {H3O+... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grignard_reagens |
Disposal of tailings from the processing operation of the Batu Hijau mine takes place in the ocean, using a process called Submarine Tailings Disposal (STD). Indonesia is currently the only location that PT. Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara uses this process, claiming that it is more an environmentally sound practice despit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu_Hijau_mine |
Similar to other gating-modifier toxins of the ICK family, Protoxin-I works by shifting the voltage dependence of activation of voltage-gated sodium channels to more positive potentials. Protoxin-I differs from other ICK toxins as Protoxin-I exhibits little selectivity between sodium channels, and is thus able to poten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoxin-I |
The theory was popular in Finnish historiography after the war, but, it has since been shown not to correspond to historical events, since the closer relationship with Germany had begun as the result of an informed choice. This falsification began in the 1960s with foreign research, led by Hans Petter Krosby in the US ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driftwood_theory |
The harm within the risk (HWR) test determines whether the victim was among the class of persons who could foreseeably be harmed, and whether the harm was foreseeable within the class of risks. It is the strictest test of causation, made famous by Benjamin Cardozo in Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. case under New ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_cause |
Chillout Sessions 8 is the eighth installment in the Chillout Sessions series, released by Ministry of Sound. Disc One Emilíana Torrini – "Sunny Road" Lior – "Daniel" Breaks Co-Op – "The Otherside" Alexkid – "Turn It Round Again" Boozoo Bajou feat. Wayne Martin – "Moanin'" Radiohead – "Climbing Up The Walls (Zero 7 Mix... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillout_Sessions |
English for Specific Purposes scholarship has been around since the 1960s, but ESP scholars did not begin using genre as a pedagogical approach until the 1980s, when John Swales published Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings, in which Swales laid out the methodological approach that brought togethe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_studies |
Relying on their own perceptions of symptoms of hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia is usually unsatisfactory as mild to moderate hyperglycemia causes no obvious symptoms in nearly all patients. Other considerations include the fact that, while food takes several hours to be digested and absorbed, insulin administration can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_management |
The oxidase test is used to determine if an organism possesses the cytochrome c oxidase enzyme. The test is used as an aid for the differentiation of Neisseria, Moraxella, Campylobacter and Pasteurella species (oxidase positive). It is also used to differentiate pseudomonads from related species. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidase_negative |
These possible causes are remembered as the 6 Hs and the 6 Ts. See Hs and Ts Hypovolemia Hypoxia Hydrogen ions (Acidosis) Hyperkalemia or Hypokalemia Hypoglycemia Hypothermia Tablets or Toxins Cardiac Tamponade Tension pneumothorax Thrombosis (e.g., myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism) Tachycardia Trauma (e.g., h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulseless_electrical_activity |
Data centers widely use rate limiting to control the share of resources given to different tenants and applications according to their service level agreement. A variety of rate limiting techniques are applied in data centers using software and hardware. Virtualized data centers may also apply rate limiting at the hype... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_limiting |
In 2018 the US congress significantly increased and extended the section 45Q tax credit for sequestration of carbon oxides. This has been a top priority of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) supporters for several years. It increased $25.70 to $50 tax credit per tonnes of CO2 for secure geological storage and $15.3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-energy_with_carbon_capture_and_storage |
This is the Diophantus identity, which results immediately from the similar property of the absolute value. Gaussian integers form a principal ideal domain. This implies that Gaussian primes can be defined similarly as primes numbers, that is as those Gaussian integers that are not the product of two non-units (here th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_theorem_on_sums_of_two_squares |
Meanwhile, "height" parentage (see below) is not used because there is no obvious choice of cutoff. This choice of method might at first seem arbitrary, but it provides every hill with a clear and unambiguous parent peak that is taller and more prominent than the hill itself, while also being connected to it (via ridge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence |
The fundamental architecture for transition is identical for 802.11 with and without 802.11r: the client device (known as the Station, or STA) is entirely in charge of deciding when to transition and to which BSS it wishes to transition. In the early days of 802.11, transition was a much simpler task for the client dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11r-2008 |
Then, he says, his disciples will dwell in him, as he dwells in the Father, and the Father dwells in him, and the Father will dwell in them. This is so, according to the theory of perichoresis, because the persons of the Trinity "reciprocally contain one another, so that one permanently envelopes and is permanently env... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitarian_Christianity |
In terms of purpose, most constructed languages can broadly be divided into: Engineered languages (engelangs /ˈɛnd͡ʒlæŋz/), further subdivided into logical languages (loglangs), philosophical languages and experimental languages, devised for experimentation in logic, philosophy, or linguistics; Auxiliary languages (aux... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language |
A solution without compensating forces or redefinitions of force and equilibrium was published by Richard C. Tolman and Paul Sophus Epstein in 1911. They applied the notion of a relativistic mass that was different in the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction so that force and acceleration do not always h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_angle_lever_paradox |
In the 2010 article "Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerful web tools for classrooms", W. Richardson stipulated: The act of writing in a Weblog, or 'blogging' can go a long way toward teaching skills such as research, organizations, and the synthesis of ideas. Teachers/instructors have come to realize just how impor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_learning |
A concurrent conflict will also exist when "there is a significant risk that the representation of one or more clients will be materially limited by the lawyer's responsibilities to another client, a former client or a third person or by a personal interest of the lawyer." Comment 8 to Model Rule 1.7 states, by way of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest |
The second dorsal fin and the anal and caudal fins range from dark violet to black with white tips.In general, barracudas are elongated fish with powerful jaws. The lower jaw of the large mouth juts out beyond the upper. Barracudas possess strong, fang-like teeth that are unequal in size and set in sockets in the jaws ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_barracuda |
He is now professor of the Department of Sociology, Korea University and the former presidents of the Association for North Korean Migrants Studies and the Association for the Studies of Koreans Abroad, the head of the Brain Korea 21 Project Group for Conflict Society, the vice director of the Asiatic Research Institut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Jin_Yoon |
1st Line Defence is an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Landmine clearance company. 1st Line Defence operate globally and they are the risk mitigation consultants chosen by many organisations due to being UK Home Office Authorised and Police Licensed – and add invaluable expertise and su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_clearance_organization |
Believing that theories should not be applied where they have not been tested, it has been argued that dramaturgy should only be applied in instances that involve people associated with a total institution, for which the theory was designed.In addition to this, it also has been said that dramaturgy does not contribute ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy_(sociology) |
The nomenclature of the Irish personal names is more interesting than the rather repetitive formulae and reveals details of early Gaelic society, particularly its warlike nature. For example, two of the most commonly occurring elements in the names are CUNA ᚉᚒᚅᚐ – 'hound' or 'wolf' (Modern Irish cú) and CATTU ᚉᚐᚈᚈᚒ – '... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_inscription |
The child tax credit is available to taxpayers who have children under the age of 17 (or in 2021 under the age of 18). Since 2018, the CTC is $2,000 per qualifying child. It is available in full to single filers who make up to $200,000 and married couples filing jointly who make up to $400,000. Above these limits, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Tax_Credit |
The study of a communicative ecology requires decisions to be made concerning the scope of both data collection and analysis. Prior to data collection, a decision must be made as to the investigative frame of the study, whereas decisions regarding the analytical scope of a study may be made after a rich picture of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_ecology |
In the practical design of primarily round structural process ductwork in the cement, lime and lead industries, the duct size involved ranges from 18 inches (45 cm) to 30 feet (10 m). The air temperature may vary from ambient to 1000 °F (515 °C). Process ductwork is subject to large loads due to dust buildup, fan sucti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_duct_work |
Further research confirmed that the odds on a relation between schizophrenia and deletions at 1q21.1, 3q29, 15q13.3, 22q11.21 en Neurexin 1 (NRXN1) and duplications at 16p11.2 are at 7.5% or higher. Common variations in the BCL9 gene, which is in the distal area, confer risk of schizophrenia and may also be associated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1q21.1_duplication_syndrome |
(See Arctic exploration and History of Antarctica.) Some flat Earth conjectures that propose that Earth is a north-pole-centered disk conceive of Antarctica as an impenetrable ice wall that encircles the planet and hides any edges. This disk model explains east-west circumnavigation as simply moving around the disk in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence_for_the_spherical_shape_of_Earth |
A numeric character reference in HTML refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and uses the format nnnn;or hhhh;where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding_in_HTML |
The Leyland Lion, coded as PSR1, (or LPSR1 if Left Hand Drive) was a bus chassis manufactured by Leyland as its first production rear engined single decker. It was announced in 1960, although the first two were built in 1959. 56 LPSR1 and 28 PSR1 were sold to 1967 which was low for Leyland at the time. It was the third... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Lion_PSR1 |
Merchants define their relevant key terms, choose desired categories and a geographic area for the ad to appear (local, regional or national). From there, they create their ad, containing their company name, address, a short description and a trackable toll-free telephone number of the PPCall provider, which redirects ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-per-call_advertising |
The IGBT combines the simple gate-drive characteristics of power MOSFETs with the high-current and low-saturation-voltage capability of bipolar transistors. The IGBT combines an isolated-gate FET for the control input and a bipolar power transistor as a switch in a single device. The IGBT is used in medium to high-powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated-gate_bipolar_transistor |
Dant has work in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Musee d’Art Contemporain in Lyons, The New Art Gallery Walsall, the Deutsche Bank and UBS collections, and in many leading private collections including that of Charles, Prince of Wales. He has exhibited at Tate Mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dant |
"Anthology of Interest I" is the sixteenth episode in the second season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 29th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 21, 2000. This episode, as well as the later "Anthology of Interest II", serves to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_of_Interest_I |
SMSQ/E is a computer operating system originally developed in France by Tony Tebby, the designer of the original QDOS operating system for the Sinclair QL personal computer. It began life as SMSQ, a QDOS-compatible version of SMS2 intended for the Miracle Systems QXL emulator card for PCs. This was later developed into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMSQ/E |
They had been keeping them in plastic sacks in their bathroom. The deaths occurred accidentally due to aluminium phosphide reacting with water or moisture, and becoming phosphine, leading to their death within hours.Aluminium phosphide poisoning is considered a wide-scale problem in the Indian subcontinent. == Referenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_phosphide |
A glow plug engine, or glow engine, is a type of small internal combustion engine typically used in model aircraft, model cars and similar applications. The ignition is accomplished by a combination of heating from compression, heating from a glow plug and the catalytic effect of the platinum within the glow plug on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_plug_(model_engine) |
The mean, normal SA in healthy young adult females and males is 66° and 80°, respectively, and very similar magnitudes are found in the elderly population (65 years and older). In ECG analysis, the SA is categorized into normal (below 105°), borderline abnormal (105–135°) and abnormal (greater than 135°). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_vectorcardiometry |
Another molecule that is precluded based on this principle is diberyllium. Beryllium has an electron configuration 1s22s2, so there are again two electrons in the valence level. However, the 2s can mix with the 2p orbitals in diberyllium, whereas there are no p orbitals in the valence level of hydrogen or helium. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MO_diagram |
Finally, in late 1989, a round of upgrades to FullWrite and Full Impact were announced. Full Impact 2.0s was released in 1990, including 3-D charts and the ability to include voice notes, a major feature of a coincident release of FullWrite 1.5s as well. A separate release in 1989 added Clear Access at $99, a 3rd party... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Impact |
With the development of standard steam locomotives (the so-called Einheitsdampflokomotiven) for the Deutsche Reichsbahn he was able to carry through his proposals for rationalising the construction and operation of steam locomotives. These were: to have the fewest possible locomotive classes, to avoid sub-classes and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Paul_Wagner |
The Life Safety Code (NFPA 101) and Section 803.1 of the International Building Code limit finishes for interior walls and ceilings to materials in three classes (A, B, or C, with A being the lowest flame spread and C being the highest) and gives greater restrictions for certain rooms: In order to meet classification i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_burning_characteristics_rating |
Opinions vary among economists about the effects of population change on a nation's economic health. US scientific research in 2009 concluded that the raising of a child cost about $16,000 yearly ($291,570 total for raising the child to its 18th birthday). In the US, the multiplication of this number with the yearly po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalistic_politics |
The Steeple Aston Cope is a cope made between 1320 and 1340. It is notable for being one of the few surviving examples of English medieval embroidery (also known by the Latin name Opus Anglicanum), and is the earliest known depiction of a lute in England. It was made with silk, silver and gold threads.It was cut up dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeple_Aston_Cope |
Mesh tubes of soft crocheted poly fibers are also used, although stiff extruded mesh or woven mesh bags can also be used. Organic/natural materials such as hemp, burlap (like "gunny sacks") can be used. Since these may rot, they should only be used with cohesive fills (containing a significant proportion of clay) that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthbag_construction |
Research has indicated the presence of magnetosome cells within human brain tissues. Biosynthesis of magnetite particles in vertebrates like mammals is implied to be similar to that observed in bacterial cells, although no evidence is provided. The difference between bacterial magnetosomes and human magnetosomes appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosome |
In May 1954, Texas Instruments had designed and built a prototype and was looking for an established radio manufacturer to develop and market a radio using their transistors. (The Chief Project Engineer for the radio design at Texas Instruments' headquarters in Dallas, Texas was Paul D. Davis, Jr., who had a degree in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_Radio |
Some instruments have ranges that do not fit on the staff well when using one of the common clefs. In order to avoid the use of excessive ledger lines, music for these instruments may be written one, or even two, octaves away from concert pitch, using treble or bass clef. These instruments are said to "transpose at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposing_instruments |
If the client uses a software (CPU) renderer and the result is stored in the system memory, then client and compositor can use shared memory to implement the buffer communication without extra copies. The Wayland protocol already natively provides this kind of shared memory buffer through the wl_shm and wl_shm_pool int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_compositor |
One might expect that if one changes doSomething to doSomethingElse that it might cause a problem, but in this case one can cause problems without changing doSomething, it can be caused as easily as moving lines of source code around for clarity. Worse, the programmer has little or no control over the resulting layout ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_binary_interface_problem |
Each finite nonempty subset S {\displaystyle S} has both maximal and minimal elements. An infinite subset need not have any of them, for example, the integers Z {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} } with the usual order. The set of maximal elements of a subset S {\displaystyle S} is always an antichain, that is, no two differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal_and_minimal_elements |
Hameroff then responded to Reimers. "Reimers et al have most definitely NOT shown that strong or coherent Frohlich condensation in microtubules is unfeasible. The model microtubule on which they base their Hamiltonian is not a microtubule structure, but a simple linear chain of oscillators." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction |
This minor planet was named by the Academic Senate of the Vienna University in honor of then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), in recognition of his help to Austria after World War I. The naming was mentioned in the Astronomische Nachrichten in 1922 (AN 216, 192). Hoover became the 31st president of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/932_Hooveria |
The two species have very minimal overlap in the territory. Douglas squirrels are territorial; in winter, each squirrel occupies a territory of about 10 000 square metres, but during the breeding season a mated pair will defend a single territory together. Douglas squirrels are active by day, throughout the year, often... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_squirrel |
Shaking the unit for 10 to 15 seconds every 2 or 3 minutes as necessary permits the device to be used continuously. It is often viewed as a toy, or an emergency backup for other flashlights.Fraudulent counterfeit versions of these flashlights have been sold, most of which incorporate hidden coin-sized non-rechargeable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_powered_flashlight |
In the 1980s, the importance of Harriet Brooks' contributions to physics became recognized as foundational work in the field of nuclear science. She was the first person to show that the radioactive substance emitted from thorium was a gas with molecular weight of 40–100, a discovery crucial to the determination of tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Brooks |
Interspecific competition is a major factor in macroevolution. Darwin assumed that interspecific competition limits the number of species on Earth, as formulated in his wedge metaphor: "Nature may be compared to a surface covered with ten-thousand sharp wedges ... representing different species, all packed closely toge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecific_competition |
is a probability distribution over the state values of X {\displaystyle X} , and α X {\displaystyle \alpha _{X}\,\!} are the strength parameters. The Dirichlet PDF of a multinomial opinion ω X = ( b X , u X , a X ) {\displaystyle \omega _{X}=(b_{X},u_{X},a_{X})\,\!} is the function D i r ( p X ; α X ) {\displaystyle \m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_logic |
Companies that collect DNA data have received warrants from law enforcement seeking to access their databases. GEDMatch and Family Tree DNA have cooperated with such requests, while larger companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe have stated they would fight such attempts by law enforcement. These warrants attempt to co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_search_warrant |
Such a test is known as an MBAS assay (methylene blue active substances assay). The MBAS assay cannot distinguish between specific surfactants, however. Some examples of anionic surfactants are carboxylates, phosphates, sulfates, and sulfonates. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_Blue |
These books also served a role in familiarizing new computer owners with the concepts of programming; some titles added suggested modifications to the program listings for the user to carry out. Applying a patch to modify software to be compatible with one's system, or writing a utility program to fit one's needs, was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computing |
CHIPS differs from the Fedwire payment system in three key ways. First, it is privately owned (by The Clearing House Payments Company LLC), whereas the Fed is part of a regulatory body. Second, it has 47 member participants (with some merged banks constituting separate participants), compared with 9,289 banking institu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_House_Interbank_Payments_System |
The poor woman, recognizing her distinguished guest, hurried to cover the challahs with tears in her eyes. When the baker asked Rabbi Yisroel to do the honors by reciting the Kiddush, the Rabbi first asked him, "Can you tell me why we cover the challahs?" "Of course," replied the baker. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challah_cover |
Vessel safety surveys are inspections of the structure and equipment of a vessel to assess the condition of the surveyed items and check that they comply with legal or classification society requirements for insurance and registration. They may occur at any time when there is reason to suspect that the condition has ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessel_safety_survey |
California, Ohio and Nevada use postmile systems in which the markers indicate mileage through the state's individual counties. However, Nevada and Ohio also use the standard milepost system concurrently with their respective postmile systems. California numbers its exits off its freeways according to a milepost system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled-access_highways |
Ayagapata is a type of votive slab associated with worship in Jainism. Numerous such stone tablets were discovered during excavations at ancient Jain sites like Kankali Tila near Mathura in India. Some of them date back to the 1st century. These slabs are decorated with objects and designs central to Jain worship such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive_offering |
In each P-region, the current node x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} is replaced with the local maximizer x ¯ i {\displaystyle {\bar {x}}_{i}} and in each N-region x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} is replaced with the local minimizer. (Expect x ¯ 0 {\displaystyle {\bar {x}}_{0}} at A, the x ¯ i {\displaystyle {\bar {x}}_{i}} near x i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remez_algorithm |
The project was announced on 6 December 2002 as a fork of the Multimedia Container Format (MCF), after disagreements between MCF lead developer Lasse Kärkkäinen and soon-to-be Matroska founder Steve Lhomme about the use of the Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) instead of a binary format. This coincided with a 6-mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska |
The square–cube law can be stated as follows: When an object undergoes a proportional increase in size, its new surface area is proportional to the square of the multiplier and its new volume is proportional to the cube of the multiplier. Represented mathematically: where A 1 {\displaystyle A_{1}} is the original surfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube-square_law |
Its fruits are harvested from the forests of West Africa. The fruits contain about 2% catechin-caffeine, theobromine and kolatin. They are roasted, pounded or chewed, and can be added to drinks, such as tea or milk, or cereal such as porridge. When the whole nuts are chewed, they have a bitter flavour, but leave a swee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_acuminata |
The 20th-century author Yuen Ren Chao used this poem as an example to object to the use of vernacular Classical Chinese which is used less in conversational daily life—classical Chinese is more written than spoken.The poem is easy to understand when read in its written form in Chinese characters, due to each character ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den |
When the decision was appealed, the Board of Appeals of the Patent and Trademark Office sustained the examiner's rejection. Next, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) reversed the Board's decision, saying that the patent only claimed the right to the equation in the limited context of the catalytic chemical c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_v._Flook |
Émile Coué was one of the most influential figures in the subsequent development of self-hypnosis. His method of "conscious autosuggestion" became an internationally renowned self-help system at the start of the 20th century. Although Coué distanced himself from the concept of "hypnosis", he sometimes referred to what ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hypnosis |
Some poems are physically sensual, even bawdily imagining nude embraces, while others are highly spiritual and border on the platonic.The lyrical use of the word midons, borrowed from Guilhem de Poitou, allowed troubadours to address multiple listeners—the lords, men, and women of the court alike. A sort of hermaphrodi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtly_love |
Regional breeds are breeds that are reported to only be found in one "region", which may include several countries, and an international transboundary breed is one that is reported to be found in multiple regions. For example, the Holstein Fresian cattle is an international transboundary breed, because it is found in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transboundary_breed |
This bearing allowing the entire 250 ton vacuum tube to be rotated, compensating for the apparent rotation of the image as the Sun rises into the sky. The tower telescope was originally dedicated on October 15, 1969, and renamed in 1998 after Richard B. Dunn. A plaque at the facility reads: "Named in honor of one of so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunn_Solar_Telescope |
Attribution theory can be applied to juror decision making. Jurors use attributions to explain the cause of the defendant's intent and actions related to the criminal behavior. The attribution made (situational or dispositional) might affect a juror's punitiveness towards the defendant. When jurors attribute a defendan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_theory |
The soup usually also contains pieces of chili pepper, tomato, cucumber, lemon basil and pineapple. This soupy dish has a pronounced sourness with a hint of mild sweetness and light hot spicyness. Beef may also be used in the preparation of Indonesian-style pindang.In Malaysia, pindang is consumed in Southwest coast of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindang |
For example, propylene (C3) forms in a reaction of 2-butene (C4) with tungsten hexachloride and tetramethyltin (C1). In the same year Pettit who synthesised cyclobutadiene a few years earlier independently came up with a competing mechanism. It consisted of a tetramethylene intermediate with sp3 hybridized carbon atoms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_metathesis |
Tyrolit was cofounded on February 13, 1919, by Daniel Swarovski to manufacture grinding wheels for the production of Swarovski crystals. During World War I, the Swarovski Group was cut off from supplies of grinding wheels, and was thus forced to develop and produce its own grinding wheels. After the war, it was decided... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrolit |
Unlike neuromotor prostheses, neurocognitive prostheses would sense or modulate neural function in order to physically reconstitute or augment cognitive processes such as executive function, attention, language, and memory. No neurocognitive prostheses are currently available but the development of implantable neurocog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_limb |
The Pymatuning Land Company was formed and raised the needed funds to purchase the needed Ohio properties. The land was finally acquired in full by 1931 when Governor Gifford Pinchot approved $1.5 million to complete the dam. 7,000 men began work on the dam in 1931, and the project was completed in 1934. The final cost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pymatuning_spillway |
Saxo Grammaticus in Gesta Danorum tells the following about Bjørn and Sigvard, sons of Ragnar Lodbrok and king Ælla: Idque statuto tempore exsecuti, comprehensi ipsius dorsum plaga aquilam figurante affici iubent, saevissimum hostem atrocissimi alitis signo profligare gaudentes. Nec vulnus impressisse contenti, lacerat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle |
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