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Dynamic Science Fiction was an American pulp magazine which published six issues from December 1952 to January 1954. It was a companion to Future Science Fiction, and like that magazine was edited by Robert W. Lowndes and published by Columbia Publications. Stories that appeared in its pages include "The Duplicated Man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Science_Fiction |
A typical engagement burst is 28 rounds.In 1980 an upgraded model, the GDF-002 was produced, which featured an improved sight, and the ability to be directed by an off-gun digital control system. A few years later a third version of the system was being produced, the GDF-003, which was broadly similar to the GDF-002, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyguard_system |
An agricultural drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle used in agriculture operations, mostly in yield optimization and in monitoring crop growth and crop production. Agricultural drones provide information on crop growth stages, crop health, and soil variations. Multispectral sensors are used on agricultural drones to im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_drone |
The European Service Module is the service module component of the Orion spacecraft, serving as its primary power and propulsion component until it is discarded at the end of each mission. The service module supports the crew module from launch through separation prior to reentry. It provides in-space propulsion capabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_module |
It is important to listen to what the patient tells you as this is the first place to correct any misconceptions that are held right away. I: invitation, i.e. prompting the patient to invite the clinician to deliver the news→ Using phrases such as "Shall I share the results of the scan with you now?" or "Is this a good... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIKES |
The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge has a 2,300-foot (700 m) main span between its two suspension towers, with the span rising 150 feet (46 m) above mean high water. : 115 The side spans, between suspension towers and anchorages at each end, are 735 feet (224 m). Thus, the overall length, from anchorage to anchorage, is 3,770 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx–Whitestone_Bridge |
In a 100-gram (3.5 oz) serving, raw Swiss chard provides 84 kilojoules (20 kcal) of food energy and has rich content (> 19% of the Daily Value, DV) of vitamins A, K, and C, with 122%, 1038%, and 50%, respectively, of the DV. Also having significant content in raw chard are dietary fiber, vitamin K and the dietary miner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_cicla |
Conducted emissions are the effects in power quality that occur via electrical and magnetic coupling, electronic switch of semiconductor devices, which form a part of electromagnetic compatibility issues in electrical engineering. These affect the ability of all interconnected system devices in the electromagnetic envi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conducted_emissions |
The "BITIT" blacksmith tokens (Wood 33) is considered to be the most common of the Blacksmiths series, and one of the most controversial in numismatic literature. The obverse contains the profile of George III with what Wood described as a "large pug nose", while the reverse has a seated Britannia holding a shamrock. U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksmith_token |
The gaucho plays an important symbolic role in the nationalist feelings of this region, especially that of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The epic poem Martín Fierro by José Hernández (considered by some the national epic of Argentina) used the gaucho as a symbol against corruption and of Argentine national traditio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucho |
Personal protective equipment: Most protective eyewear, particularly those compliant with ANSI Z87.1, block UV-C. Similarly, clothing, plastics, and most types of glass (excluding fused silica) effectively impede UV-C.Since the early 2010s there has been growing interest in the far-UVC wavelengths of 200-235 nm for who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_irradiation |
Pamphila says that, having learnt geometry from the Egyptians, Thales was the first to inscribe in a circle a right-angled triangle, whereupon he sacrificed an ox. This is sometimes cited as history's first mathematical discovery. Due to the variations among testimonies, such as the story of the ox sacrifice being accr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus |
Grifo-S5: As an upgrade of earlier Mirage 5, Mirage 50 has a more powerful engine and longer nose to house the X-band Agave radar. Grifo-S5 is designed to be fitted into the more spacious nose of Mirage 50 for its upgrade market. As with earlier Grifo-M5, more extensive work is needed to relocate the avionics rack to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grifo_radar |
Together with the Aqua Anio Vetus, Aqua Anio Novus and Aqua Claudia, it was an exceptional technical achievement and is regarded as one of the "four great aqueducts of Rome. "At 91 km, it is the longest of the eleven aqueducts that supplied Rome and, although its source was further downstream than the Anio Novus, techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Marcia |
The fragmentary state of the palimpsest leaves much in doubt. But it would certainly add to the mystery had Archimedes used the Suter board in preference to the Codex board. However, if Netz is right, this may have been the most sophisticated work in the field of combinatorics in Greek antiquity. Either Archimedes used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest |
Philip had the support of the nobility and had the resources for his ambitions. Philip won over the Duke of Burgundy by giving him his daughter, also named Joan, in marriage, with the counties of Artois and Burgundy as her eventual inheritance. On March 27, 1317, a treaty was signed at Laon between the Duke of Burgundy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law |
In the Netherlands, one- and two-digit numbers are used. Nodes with the same number are placed far apart. Signs also name the network section and say which local authority maintains the network.Belgium uses two- and three-digit numbers, and they are assigned by the local maintaining organization instead of a central ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered-node_cycle_network |
Shortly after, in 1947 and 1948, experimental spectroscopic work was performed by Price that confirmed Longuet-Higgins' structure for diborane. The structure was re-confirmed by electron diffraction measurement in 1951 by K. Hedberg and V. Schomaker, with the confirmation of the structure shown in the schemes on this p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lipscomb |
Recent technological advances are slowly improving wheelchair and powerchair technology. A variation on the manually-propelled wheelchair is the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), designed by the MIT Mobility Lab. This wheelchair is designed to be low-cost, constructed with local materials, for users in developing countrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelchair_access |
Although research is ongoing, treatment options are currently limited; vitamins are frequently prescribed, though the evidence for their effectiveness is limited.Pyruvate has been proposed in 2007 as a treatment option. N-acetyl cysteine reverses many models of mitochondrial dysfunction. In the case of mood disorders, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_disorders |
These patrons often endowed the cathedrals with money for successive enlargements and building programs. Cathedrals are also traditionally places of pilgrimage, to which people travel from afar to celebrate certain important feast days or to visit the shrine associated with a particular saint. An extended eastern end i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_architecture |
The refining of tantalum from its ores is one of the more demanding separation processes in industrial metallurgy. The chief problem is that tantalum ores contain significant amounts of niobium, which has chemical properties almost identical to those of Ta. A large number of procedures have been developed to address th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum |
Between December 1943 and March 1948 young men in the United Kingdom, the so-called Bevin Boys, had been conscripted for the work in coal mines. In Belgium in 1964, in Portugal and in Greece from 2010 to 2014 due to the severe economic crisis, a system of civil mobilization was implemented to provide public services as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labourers |
Overusing groundwater, old or young, can lower subsurface water levels and dry up streams, which could have a huge effect on ecosystems on the surface. When the most easily recoverable fresh groundwater is removed this leaves a residual with inferior water quality. This is in part from induced leakage from the land sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_depletion |
The Fakkham script, was derived from the old Sukhothai script (also known as Proto-Thai script), and used extensively in Lan Na between the beginning of the 15th century and the end of the 16th century. The Fakkham script was possibly introduced to Lan Na by a religious mission from Sukhothai. The script was named afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakkham_script |
Pearl millet varieties from the world collection probably have more variation in physical characteristics than any other millet. Kernel shape has different classifications: obovate, hexagonal, lanceolate, globular and elliptical. In Africa, pearl millet is classified as either globular or lanceolate and hexagonal. Most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_millet |
When Germany declared in February 1915 that it would commence unrestricted submarine warfare, the Royal Navy responded with the building of airship stations around the coast. Being close to the Dover Straits the open fields east of Capel-le-Ferne were seen as ideal location for a base and work began in April 1915. Alth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNAS_Capel |
Over time, the party began to strategically gain more power and get rid of competition. However, the democratic means the communist parties in these states initially used to gain power lost credibility once they were seen as violent tyrannies in service of an alien power. Ultimately, populist platforms - giving farmers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_crisis |
Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft that provides all-weather surveillance, command, control and communications, to the United States, NATO and other air defense forces. Based on the 707-320B, production ended in 1992 after 68 had been built. Boeing E-6 Mercury A version of the 707-32... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-137_Stratoliner |
An artificial organ is an engineered device that can be extra corporeal or implanted to support impaired or failing organ systems. Bioartificial organs are typically created with the intent to restore critical biological functions like in the replacement of diseased hearts and lungs, or provide drastic quality of life ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_repair |
The third most distinct group is monitoring scheme category C. These schemes were designed by scientists who also analyse the data, but the local stakeholders collect the data, take decisions on the basis of the findings and carry out the management interventions emanating from the monitoring scheme. Examples are provi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_monitoring |
The initial treatment of R-CPD is injection of Botox into the cricopharyngeus muscle. Botox will temporarily weaken or paralyze the muscle. The direct effects of Botox last for three months on average. For most patients with R-CPD, injection of Botox into the cricopharyngeal muscle will reverse the symptoms, and for ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difficulty_swallowing |
The department is located in the E building of the Hans Christian Ørsted Institute, on Universitetsparken 5 in Copenhagen, Denmark. From the founding of the University of Copenhagen in 1479, mathematics had been part of the Faculty of Philosophy. In 1850 it was moved to the new faculty of Mathematics and Natural Scienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCPH_Department_of_Mathematical_Sciences |
Coincidentally, another Jabber/XMPP client was a Grand Prize Winner: Mats Bengtsson for Coccinella.The word "Tkabber" is built of two words: "Tk" and "Jabber" which alludes to the GUI toolkit used and the family of network protocols implemented. No one really knows how it is pronounced. Russian speakers (including the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tkabber |
The mechanism of reaction formation is often characteristic of obsessional neuroses. When this mechanism is overused, especially during the formation of the ego, it can become a permanent character trait. This is often seen in those with obsessional character and obsessive personality disorders. This does not imply tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation |
Celeste is a two-dimensional platform game. The player controls Madeline, who has the ability to run, jump, climb walls for a limited time, jump off walls, and dash in mid-air in one of eight directions. Certain objects grant Madeline additional abilities. Green gems refill her dash ability without the need to land on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_(video_game) |
Phosphorus exist in different 'pools' in the soil 1) organic (available), 2) occluded (adsorbed), 3) bound (chemically bound). Each of these pools can be extracted using progressively more aggressive chemicals. Some workers (Eidt especially), think that the ratios between these pools can give information about past lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_geology |
Primary endosymbiosis involves the engulfment of a cell by another free living organism. Secondary endosymbiosis occurs when the product of primary endosymbiosis is itself engulfed and retained by another free living eukaryote. Secondary endosymbiosis has occurred several times and has given rise to extremely diverse g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiosis_hypothesis |
A combat engineer (also called pioneer or sapper) is a type of soldier who performs military engineering tasks in support of land forces combat operations. Combat engineers perform a variety of military engineering, tunnel and mine warfare tasks, as well as construction and demolition duties in and out of combat zones.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_engineering |
Manhattan is well known for its street parades, which celebrate a broad array of themes, including holidays, nationalities, human rights, and major league sports team championship victories. The majority of higher profile parades in New York City are held in Manhattan. The primary orientation of the annual street parad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_schist |
For absolute effect sizes, a larger absolute value always indicates a stronger effect. Many types of measurements can be expressed as either absolute or relative, and these can be used together because they convey different information. A prominent task force in the psychology research community made the following reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_sizes |
Simek opined that a "spring-like fertility goddess" must be assumed rather than a "goddess of sunrise" regardless of the name, reasoning that "otherwise the Germanic goddesses (and matrons) are mostly connected with prosperity and growth". Simek pointed to a comparison with the goddess Rheda, also attested by Bede.In 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ēostre |
Kagan was born in Shavli, in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Šiauliai, Lithuania) in 1869, to a poor Lithuanian Jewish family. In 1871 his family moved to Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro), where he grew up. Kagan entered the Imperial Novorossiya University in Odesa in 1887, but was expelled for revolutionar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Kagan |
Resistors in series with a fan's power pin are the simplest method of reducing fan noise, but they add to the heat generated inside the computer case. Since the voltage drop is proportional to the current, the fan may not start. They need to be of the appropriate power rating. For variable fan control, potentiometers c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWM_fan |
Commons-based peer production (CBPP) is a term coined by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler. It describes a model of socio-economic production in which large numbers of people work cooperatively; usually over the Internet. Commons-based projects generally have less rigid hierarchical structures than those unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production |
In 1950, the Iran's Association of Calligraphers was founded by Hossein Mirkhani, Ali Akbar Kaveh, Ebrahim Bouzari, Hassan Mirkhani and Mehdi Baiani. For an overview of Persian calligraphy's development within Afghanistan, see "Calligraphy during last two centuries in Afghanistan" (1964), by Azizuddin Vakili. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_calligraphy |
Campylobacter jejuni, a cause of gastroenteritis, is spread by the fecal–oral route from animals, or by eating insufficiently cooked poultry, or by contaminated water. Haemophilus influenzae, an agent of bacterial meningitis and respiratory tract infections such as influenza and bronchitis, is transmitted by droplet co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite |
In 2002, the first 3.6 tonne, 17 kW, hydrogen-powered mining locomotive powered by Nuvera Fuel Cells for Placer Dome was demonstrated in Val-d'Or, Quebec. In April 2006, the world's first hydrail railcar, which was developed by East Japan Railway Company, was developed. In October 2006, the Railway Technical Research I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrail |
PUGNAc treatment also inhibited insulin-stimulated Akt T308 phosphorylation and downstream GSK3β S9 phosphorylation. In a later study, insulin stimulation of COS-7 cells caused OGT to localize to the plasma membrane. Inhibition of PI3K with wortmannin reversed this effect, suggesting dependence on phosphatidylinositol(... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-GlcNAc |
Note: Cloud-based PDSes are sometimes called personal data clouds or personal clouds. (HAT) Hub-of-All-Things Personium.io - open-source personal datastore SOLID Project - SOLID (Social Linked Data) is an open-source web decentralization project led by Tim Berners-Lee. Atsign - Open source end-to-end encrypted and publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data_service |
ERPCC's goal was to design a streamlined, comfortable, quiet, and fast accelerating and braking streetcar that would be operated by a seated operator using floor mounted pedal controls to better meet the needs of the street railways and appeal to riders. ERPCC prepared a detailed research plan, conducted extensive rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCC_streetcars |
Big Mac Sauce is delivered to McDonald's restaurants in sealed canisters designed by Sealright, from which it is meant to be directly dispensed using a calibrated "sauce gun" that dispenses a specified amount of the sauce for each pull of the trigger.In 2012, McDonald's executive chef Dan Coudreaut released a YouTube v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac |
As the name implies, "freebase" is the base form of cocaine, as opposed to the salt form. It is practically insoluble in water whereas hydrochloride salt is water-soluble. Smoking freebase cocaine has the additional effect of releasing methylecgonidine into the user's system due to the pyrolysis of the substance (a sid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_hydrochloride |
Schlömilch (Zeitschrift, Vol.I, p. 192, 1856) also improved Jacobi's remainder, and showed the relation between the remainder and Bernoulli's function Genocchi (1852) has further contributed to the theory. Among the early writers was Wronski, whose "loi suprême" (1815) was hardly recognized until Cayley (1873) brought ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_(mathematics) |
In Turkish Cuisine, a typical breakfast consists of bread, cheese (beyaz peynir, kaşar etc.), butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam, honey, and kaymak. Sucuk (spicy Turkish sausage), pastırma, börek, simit, poğaça and soups are eaten as a morning meal in Turkey. A common Turkish specialty for breakfast is call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_breakfast |
Scientific realism is the view that the universe described by science is real regardless of how it may be interpreted. Within philosophy of science, this view is often an answer to the question "how is the success of science to be explained?" The discussion on the success of science in this context centers primarily on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_realism |
Dental pain and swelling are the two hallmark symptoms of a mouth infection. Fever is sometimes present, but not as frequently as tooth pain or persistent swelling. The swelling will occur at the tooth root or at the spaces occupied by the infection. Other symptoms that usually accompany an infection like increased hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouth_infection |
After catching it interacting with the family dog, he realises that the prototype contains Zoe's consciousness and attempts without success to force her to admit her identity. She is able to defeat the tests he attempts, and convinces him that she is just a robot. Upon learning that Graystone is about to erase her memo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylons |
For example, the tetanus toxin is a single protein macromolecular antigen but will stimulate many immune responses due to the tertiary structure of the protein yielding many different epitopes. The toxin that creates the immune response will have an epitope on it that stimulates the response. Denaturing the protein may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-reactivity |
Ferritin is an iron storage protein that is found in plants and animals. It is usually formed from 24 subunits that self-assemble into a spherical shell that is approximately 2 nm thick, with an outer diameter that varies with iron loading up to about 16 nm. Up to ~4500 iron atoms can be stored inside the core of the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Biology |
The pied butcherbird also eats fruit, such as those of sandpaper figs (Ficus coronata), native cherry (Exocarpos cupressiformis), African boxthorn (Lycium ferocissimum) and grapes (Vitis vinifera), and nectar of the Darwin woollybutt (Eucalyptus miniata).The pied butcherbird often perches on a fencepost, stump or branc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_butcherbird |
Traffic on a network can be intercepted and read by computers on the network other than the sender and receiver (particularly over unencrypted open Wi-Fi). This traffic includes cookies sent on ordinary unencrypted HTTP sessions. Where network traffic is not encrypted, attackers can therefore read the communications of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_cookies |
Jabo (pronounced , variant spellings Dyabo, Djabo) is the self-designation of an ethnic group located in the southeastern part of the Republic of Liberia in West Africa. They have also sometimes referred to themselves as Gweabo or Nimiah tribe.English speakers also use the name of the group for a single member of that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabo_people |
A b-fold coloring of a graph G is an assignment of sets of size b to vertices of a graph such that adjacent vertices receive disjoint sets. An a:b-coloring is a b-fold coloring out of a available colors. Equivalently, it can be defined as a homomorphism to the Kneser graph KGa,b. The b-fold chromatic number χ b ( G ) {... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_chromatic_number |
Harold Holt, former Prime Minister of Australia. When Holt disappeared on the beach in 1967 with the consensus that he had drowned, different theories emerged suggesting he had faked his death for any number of reasons, most famously that he was a Chinese spy who had been collected by a Chinese submarine, or that he fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faked_death |
We now compute the scalar α0 using the relationship α 0 = r 0 T r 0 p 0 T A p 0 = = 73 331 ≈ 0.2205 {\displaystyle \alpha _{0}={\frac {\mathbf {r} _{0}^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {r} _{0}}{\mathbf {p} _{0}^{\mathsf {T}}\mathbf {Ap} _{0}}}={\frac {{\begin{bmatrix}-8&-3\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}-8\\-3\end{bmatrix}}}{{... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preconditioned_conjugate_gradient_method |
In the second discovering page the letter 'm'-/m/ is discovered with 'mɑn', 'dɑm' and eventually 'mɑd' as discovering words. In the third discovering page the letter 't'-/t/ is discovered with 'mɑt' en 'ɑnt' and possibly 'tɑn' as discovering words. In the fourth discovering page the letter 'e'-/e/ is discovered with 't... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_Science |
Work began on the current version of GGobi in 1999. The main reason for the different versions was the change in technology. Current version for MS Windows is 2.1.10a (12 March 2010) with an update for 64 bit usage from 10 June 2012. Released under a combination of three free software licenses, GGobi is free software. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGobi |
Slimy sculpins often inhabit swift rocky-bottomed cold streams, oligotrophic lakes, and even brackish waters at a preferred temperature range of 9-14 °C. Nocturnally active fishes, they usually roam around in deeper waters ranging from 37–108 meters deep. During the breeding season, females often lay their eggs under s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slimy_sculpin |
Arch kites a single kite with an arch form, multiple arches, or an arch top Art kites Video kites, kites on photographs, fine-art illustrations containing kite images, paintings, sculptures, flight-simulator images of kites, engineering drawings, sewing plans, drawings of kite plans, story illustrations in children's b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_types |
Let f ( z ) {\displaystyle f(z)} and g ( z ) {\displaystyle g(z)} be two complex polynomials of degree at most n, f ( z ) = ∑ i = 0 n u i z i , g ( z ) = ∑ i = 0 n v i z i . {\displaystyle f(z)=\sum _{i=0}^{n}u_{i}z^{i},\qquad g(z)=\sum _{i=0}^{n}v_{i}z^{i}.} (Note that any coefficient u i {\displaystyle u_{i}} or v i ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bézout_matrix |
Radioactive nuclear waste must be managed for thousands of years and nuclear power plants create fissile material that can be used for weapons. For each unit of energy produced, nuclear energy has caused far fewer accidental and pollution-related deaths than fossil fuels, and the historic fatality rate of nuclear is co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_power |
The adaptability dimension categorises sources as either dynamic or static. Dynamic sources adapt or change over time based on a learner’s help-seeking needs (e.g. instructors), while static sources cannot (e.g. textbooks and encyclopaedias). The helping source framework acknowledges how various aspects of sources may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help-seeking |
The Pacific oyster is one of the three main aquaculture species in New Zealand along with king salmon and the greenshell mussels. Pacific oyster aquaculture production has grown from an export value of $11 million in 1986 to $32 million in 2006. In 2006, the 23 Pacific oyster farms throughout New Zealand covered a tota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_oyster |
The diet of the Yangtze finless porpoise may vary according to the season and the dominant prey of the season. This variation in their diet suggest that the Yangtze finless porpoise may be opportunistic feeders. Among the fishes in their diet, the most common are Coilia brachygnathus, Pseudobrama simoni, Pelteobagrus n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_finless_porpoise |
Communities of color not only live close to landfills, but they are also more likely than their white counterparts to live near medical waste incinerators, diesel bus depots, and Superfund sites. Research shows that living in proximity with sources of air, water, and soil pollution is associated with asthma, eczema, ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_impact_of_discrimination_on_health |
This species hunts mainly on the wing, quartering over relatively open ground a bit like a harrier or soaring high above, dropping or diving steeply when prey is spotted. Brown & Amadon describe the hunting greater spotted eagle as "Although not a very active species it is not exactly sluggish, and on the wing it has t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_spotted_eagle |
Try to get your old product repaired if possible and if it can't be fixed, resell or recycle it responsibly. 4. Before you recycle your device, seal up any broken parts in separate containers so that hazardous chemicals don't leak. Wear latex gloves and a mask if you're handling something that's broken. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_waste_management |
Objective self-awareness is attention focused on the self as a socially evaluable object, as defined by Shelley Duval, Robert Wicklund, and other contemporary social psychologists. Since the original debut of Duval and Wicklund's self-awareness theory in 1972, many experimental psychologists have refined theory and ide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_self-awareness |
Both free-flow and demand regulators use mechanical feedback of the downstream pressure to control the opening of a valve which controls gas flow from the upstream, high-pressure side, to the downstream, low-pressure side of each stage. Flow capacity must be sufficient to allow the downstream pressure to be maintained ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-hose_regulator |
He received his doctorate (MD) in 1943 winning the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for best thesis.In 1938 he moved to Edinburgh to lecture in physiology at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1944. His proposers were Ivan de Burgh Daly, Philip Eggleton, William Ogilvy K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._A._Trowell |
Modern destroyers and frigates have sufficient endurance and seaworthiness for long voyages and so are considered blue water vessels, while corvettes (even the largest ones capable of carrying an anti-submarine warfare helicopter) are typically deployed in coastal or littoral zones so are regarded as brown-water or gre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_frigate |
The same CES functional form arises as a utility function in consumer theory. For example, if there exist n {\displaystyle n} types of consumption goods x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} , then aggregate consumption X {\displaystyle X} could be defined using the CES aggregator: X = s s − 1 . {\displaystyle X=\left^{\frac {s}{... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_elasticity_of_substitution |
The molecular formula C4H6 (molar mass: 54.09 g/mol) may refer to: 1,3-Butadiene 1,2-Butadiene Bicyclobutane Cyclobutene Dimethylacetylene (2-butyne) 1-Methylcyclopropene 3-Methylcyclopropene Methylenecyclopropane Trimethylenemethane 1-butyne | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4H6 |
The colonists are forced to recover and begin manufacture armaments to protect themselves against the new threat. Once sufficiently armed, the Humans strike back at the large robot cluster close to the original site of their discovery. The attack is successful, but a robot short circuit and activates a mysterious porta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Afterlight |
The five factor model of personality has significant relationships with the dark triad combined and with each of the dark triad's traits. The dark triad overall is negatively related to both agreeableness and conscientiousness. More specifically, Machiavellianism captures a suspicious versus trusting view of human natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_tetrad |
Some extended research visits abroad (Helsinki, JILA/Boulder, Konstanz) fall into this period, as well as half a year at the Universita degli Studi di Milano in the group of Luigi Lugiato supported by an APART grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1995, Monika received her Habilitation in the field of Theoret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Ritsch-Marte |
Historically, bargeboards are sometimes moulded only or carved, but as a rule the lower edges were cusped and had tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated. An example in Britain was one at Ockwells in Berkshire (built 1446–1465), which was moulded and carved as if it were intended for internal work.M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bargeboard |
The Feast of the Annunciation is also intended to fall either before Easter or during Bright Week. Sometimes, Annunciation will fall on the day of Easter itself, a very special concurrence known as Kyrio-Pascha, with special liturgical practices appointed for such an occurrence. However, under the new calendar, Kyrio-P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian |
Pepper currently, has not officially left the band.Pepper joined his bandmates on stage on June 17, 2011, at the Hellfest (Clisson, France) to play "Vote with a Bullet" as well as on June 19, 2011, in Bilbao, Spain, where they additionally performed together on "Señor Limpio". Pepper stated that he looks forward to wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrosion_of_Conformity |
Bullet hell (弾幕, danmaku, literally "barrage" or "bullet curtain") is a subgenre of shooters in which the screen becomes crowded with complex "curtain fire" enemy patterns. It is also characterized by collision boxes that are smaller than the sprites themselves, to accommodate maneuvering through these crowded firing p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrolling_shooters |
The Dubrovnik chess set is a style of chess pieces influenced by the Staunton chess set and used to play the game of chess. These chessmen are considered to have significant historical importance and are regarded as a timeless design classic. Over the decades the Dubrovnik chessmen were redesigned several times. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik_chess_set |
A single exterior ditch surrounded the site. Although some of the Roman building material was reused in the 7th century Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, enough of the rampart survived until the 17th century, when it was described by the local historian Philemon Holland as a "huge ruin". It has since been largely swallow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othona |
Robert Taylor, founder of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory and Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center, noted that "most of the significant advances in computer technology—including the work that my group did at Xerox PARC—were simply extrapolations of Lick's vision. They were not really new vis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider |
Pluralistic ignorance was blamed for exacerbating support for racial segregation in the United States. It has also been named a reason for the illusory popular support that kept the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in power, as many opposed the regime but assumed that others were supporters of it. Thus, most people ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance |
doi:10.2143/anes.29.0.525718. Colless, Brian E., "The Byblos Syllabary and the Proto-alphabet", Abr-Nahrain / Ancient Near Eastern Studies 30 (1992) 15–62. Colless, Brian E (2010). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script |
Disruption of GlyR surface expression or reduced ability of expressed GlyRs to conduct chloride ions results in the rare neurological disorder, hyperekplexia. The disorder is characterized by an exaggerated response to unexpected stimuli which is followed by a temporary but complete muscular rigidity often resulting in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycine_receptor |
Floors can be effectively cleaned with a steam cleaner at over 60 °C, care should be taken to ensure good drying afterwards. Flaming the kennel floor ensures elimination or at least reduction of infectious eggs and larvae. Most disinfectants are not effective against nematode eggs, nor are hand disinfectants, so gloves... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nematode_infection_in_dogs |
Since the physical layer is optically isolated from the device, communication power and device power can share the same bus (further reducing the complexity of the network and components within). (Introduction) DeviceNet supports 125 kbit/s, 250 kbit/s and 500 kbit/s data rates. Depending on the chosen cable type, Devi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceNet |
Ecofriendly seat fabrics are standard on lower trim levels, and the vehicle's carpeting is mostly constructed from recycled plastic water bottles. This allows the new Escape to be mostly recyclable at the end of its lifecycle.Production of the 2013 Ford Escape began 11 April 2012, with ceremonies in June 2012. The prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Mariner_Hybrid |
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