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Tracheids may have a single evolutionary origin, possibly within the hornworts, uniting all tracheophytes (but they may have evolved more than once).Water transport requires regulation, and dynamic control is provided by stomata. By adjusting the amount of gas exchange, they can restrict the amount of water lost throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion-tension_theory |
Above Sea Anaga's Cliffs, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 592 m (1,942 ft) above Atlantic Ocean Cape Hangklip, Western Cape, South Africa, 453.1 m (1,487 ft) above False Bay, Atlantic Ocean Cape Point, Western Cape, South Africa, 249 m (817 ft) above Atlantic Ocean Chapman's Peak, Western Cape, South Africa, 596 m (1,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff |
The first book publication of Damon Runyon's story, "Little Miss Marker," was in a 1934 collection titled Damon Runyon's Blue Plate Special. A Hollywood columnist wrote in 1940, "Every time Spencer Tracy enters the Metro commissary, executives and minor geniuses look up from their blue plate specials to look at the act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-plate_special |
It also works in conjunction with many of the benzodiazepines but has no amnesic properties. Versed (Midazolam) has the shortest half-life of all of the benzodiazepines, lasting about an hour, and making it ideal for short appointments or simple procedures. It has many of the same anxiolytic and amnesic benefits of oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_sedation_dentistry |
Sphingomonas histidinilytica is a Gram-negative and non-spore-forming bacteria from the genus of Sphingomonas which has been isolated from hexachlorocyclohexane contaminated soil from a dump site in Ummari near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh in India. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingomonas_histidinilytica |
A newer form of a management doctorate is the Doctor of Management (D.M., D.Mgt., DBA, or DMan). It is a doctoral degree conferred upon an individual who is trained through advanced study and research in the applied science and professional practice of management. This doctorate has elements of both research and practi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_administration |
In other words, despite the fact they are unable to individualize a subject, they are effective in distinguishing between people. Combinations of personal attributes like gender, race, eye color, height and other visible identification marks can be used to improve the performance of traditional biometric systems. Most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_data |
In 1966, Rotman and Papermaster accidentally discovered fluorochromasia while studying intracellular enzymes using fluorogenic substrates. They studied its mode of action and presented a molecular model in which intracellular retention of fluorescein depends on the integrity of the cell membrane. Non- polar molecules o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorochromasia |
Government and Administrationassessing the efficiency and achievement of the government by investigation Conference FeedbackProvide a dial-in number, and ask participants to call in to give their feedback after a conference session. Make participation open to all, and eliminate paper forms and manual tabulation. Job Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_telephone_survey |
This table gives some values of an unknown function f ( x ) {\displaystyle f(x)} . Interpolation provides a means of estimating the function at intermediate points, such as x = 2.5. {\displaystyle x=2.5.} We describe some methods of interpolation, differing in such properties as: accuracy, cost, number of data points n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation_function |
This type of coil has advantages over other types of current transformers. It is not a closed loop, because the second terminal is passed back through the center of the toroid core (commonly a plastic or rubber tube) and connected along the first terminal. This allows the coil to be open-ended and flexible, allowing it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogowski_coil |
Silver chromate has been investigated for possible use as a catalyst for the photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater. Although Ag2CrO4 nanoparticles are somehow effective for this purpose, the high toxicity of chromium(VI) to humans and the environment requires additional complex procedures for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag2CrO4 |
Since ancient times, temples, churches, and many government buildings in many countries have traditionally been white, the color associated with religious and civic virtue. The Parthenon and other ancient temples of Greece, and the buildings of the Roman Forum were mostly made of or clad in white marble, though it is n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_light |
The Health Lottery received criticism on launch for only pledging to donate 20.3% of ticket costs to charity, compared to the National Lottery's 28%, and that the lottery's structure was designed to contravene British law regarding lotteries. In the UK, winning the lottery is correlated to expressing more preference fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_ticket |
Productive resources are regarded as the collective property of the society. Workers run the enterprise, use its capital assets as they see fit, and distribute the profits among themselves. Here, societal "ownership" of the enterprise manifests itself in two ways: 1) All firms pay tax on their capital assets, which goe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracy |
On the release date of the Potato Sack bundle, players found the games within it had recently received updates. Most provided an immediate cosmetic change by replacing or adding assets that referred to potatoes. When players started looking deeper into these new assets, they discovered a series of glyphs that referred ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_Sack |
Historically, the baccalaureus was the undergraduate degree awarded to students who graduated from the course of trivium (grammar, dialectic and rhetoric) at a faculty of liberal arts (either at the Charles University or at the University of Olomouc). It was a necessary prerequisite to continue either with the faculty ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccalaureate_degree |
Between 2006 and 2009, Yudkowsky and Robin Hanson were the principal contributors to Overcoming Bias, a cognitive and social science blog sponsored by the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In February 2009, Yudkowsky founded LessWrong, a "community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky |
In official contexts, this system is always used, while the Gregorian calendar is sometimes used in informal contexts. To avoid confusion, the Gregorian year is always written out in full in Taiwan. For example, 95.01.29 refers to 2006-01-29, not 1995-01-29 (which would be rendered as 84.01.29). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Asia |
In a little more than a century in the climate of New York City, pollution and acid rain have heavily pitted its surfaces. In 2010, Dr. Zahi Hawass sent an open letter to the president of the Central Park Conservancy and the Mayor of New York City insisting on improved conservation efforts. If they were not able to pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra's_Needle_(New_York_City) |
On 21 March 1974, the workers on the LG-2 site rioted and used their bulldozers to destroy the site that they were working on while other workers set buildings afire.In response to the riot at the LG-2 site, Bourassa created a royal commission headed by Judge Robert Cliche, the union official Guy Chevrette and a promin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay_Project |
In Chile, opinion over the effectiveness and the fairness of the water markets model is deeply divided. Specific concerns that have arisen include the hoarding of water rights without using them for speculative purposes and the lack of state regulation to ensure that the market works properly and fairly. Some researche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_trading |
1932: Born in Lago, Calabria, to Giuseppe and Serafina Ziccarelli, the youngest of four children, the others being Carolina, Mafalda and Nicolino. 1939-1945: Prepares to leave with his mother for America to meet his father and brother. American troops invade Italy on the day of departure and they are unable to leave. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Scanga |
Midrash exegesis was largely in the nature of homiletics, expounding the Bible not primarily in order to understand the documents of the past (although in some instances it is indeed the case), but to find religious edification, moral instruction, and sustenance for the thoughts and feelings of the present. The contras... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_commentary |
Third wave theories re-examine student development theory through critical theory and post-structural perspectives. Critical frameworks are used to analyze structures of power, privilege, and oppression in order to call attention to systemic inequality, transformative practices, and social justice. Critical theoretical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_development_theories |
Cultivars in this use category are referred to in Quechua as khaya (name of the dried, processed product) or p'usqu (sour/fermented), and in Aymara as luk’i.The other use-category, sweet oca, contains cultivars with lower levels of oxalic acid. The traditional Andean preparation methods for this use-category are also g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_tuberosa |
Voiceless vowels are also an areal feature in languages of the American Southwest (like Hopi and Keres), the Great Basin (including all Numic languages), and the Great Plains, where they are present in Numic Comanche but also in Algonquian Cheyenne, and the Caddoan language Arikara. Sonorants may also be contrastively,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unvoiced_consonant |
SiGe ( or ), or silicon–germanium, is an alloy with any molar ratio of silicon and germanium, i.e. with a molecular formula of the form Si1−xGex. It is commonly used as a semiconductor material in integrated circuits (ICs) for heterojunction bipolar transistors or as a strain-inducing layer for CMOS transistors. IBM in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon–germanium |
In 1991, the Belgian government contracted the École d'aviation civile (aviation civil school) created in 1953 to Sabena. It was first called Belgian Aviation School and then Sabena Air Training Center as a subsidiary of Sabena Flight Academy. The same year, it was decided to carry out practical training in flight in P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAE_Phoenix |
Most native fish stocks have suffered because of predation by introduced species and dam construction. In a study from 1993 to 1995, it was found that the main stem of the San Joaquin River was mainly populated by fathead minnow, red shiner, threadfin shad and inland silverside, all of which were introduced. Downstream... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Joaquin_River |
Very few rhinos survive outside national parks and reserves due to persistent poaching and habitat loss over many decades. White rhinoceros is an exception as its numbers in Africa have increased from 100 in 1916 to more than 18,000 in 2016 due largely to the increase in private game reserves intended for hunting. Some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-game_hunter |
The doctrine has also been used to provide public access across and provide for continued public interest in those areas where land beneath tidally influenced waters has been filled. In some cases, the uses of that land have been limited (to transportation, for instance) and in others, there has been provision for publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_trust_doctrine |
The most prominent function of the pars compacta is motor control, though the substantia nigra's role in motor control is indirect; electrical stimulation of the substantia nigra does not result in movement, due to mediation of the striatum in the nigral influence of movement. The pars compacta sends excitatory input t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantia_nigra |
Alternatively, the second investment opportunity is a bond issued by small company and that bond also pays annual interest of 5%. If given a choice between the two bonds, virtually all investors would buy the government bond rather than the small-firm bond because the first is less risky while paying the same interest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_prices |
In 2021, Hanson and Prushinkaya performed a survey on working conditions of cooperatives in the [[US, in which cooperativists expressed that they were making wages above the minimum for good living conditions. According to the report, they received, on average, 3,52 $/hour more than at their previous job. Research show... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Societies |
Thus pea residue would have short- and long-term benefits to soil fertility, whereas cereal straw would reduce next year's soil supply of available nutrients. Over time, the nutrients fixed by soil microbes and humus are released and available to crops. Nutrients from residue are not fully recovered by crops. Just like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_residue |
During the pre-examination process, the student may receive comments on the work and respond with modifications. After the pre-examiners approve, the doctoral candidate applies the faculty for permission to print the thesis. When granting this permission, the faculty names the opponent for the thesis defence, who must ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctoral_degrees |
Efficiency of parenthood: an idea that increases the proportion of children who will adopt ideas of their parents. Cultural separatism exemplifies one practice in which one can expect a higher rate of meme-replication—because the meme for separation creates a barrier from exposure to competing ideas. Proselytic: ideas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_theory |
The area of the deltoid is 2 π a 2 {\displaystyle 2\pi a^{2}} where again a is the radius of the rolling circle; thus the area of the deltoid is twice that of the rolling circle.The perimeter (total arc length) of the deltoid is 16a. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_deltoid |
For instance, only 17% of survey-takers were confident that the bill did not contain death panels, 11% recognized that there was no provision for illegal immigrants to get free healthcare, and all but 14% thought that the bill required smokers to pay $1000 per year.Krosnick also went further in his study to discover th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Krosnick |
Estrogens and progesterone typically regulate motivation to engage in sexual behaviour for females in mammalian species, though the relationship between hormones and female sexual motivation is not as well understood. In particular, estrogens have been shown to correlate positively with increases in female sexual motiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_hormones_on_sexual_motivation |
Activation of RyRs causes the release of calcium from the SR, which subsequently initiates a cascade of events leading to muscle contraction. These muscle contractions are caused by calcium's bonding to troponin and unmasking the binding sites covered by the troponin-tropomyosin complex on the actin myofilament and all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(anatomy) |
If alkali builds up due to ion exchange, and remains on the surface of the glass, the decay process will accelerate. The presence of sodium or potassium ions in the alkali build up will increase the pH on the surface of the glass, causing it to become basic. This will dissolve silica from the glass as well as releasing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_disease |
Compulsions may be actions directly related to the obsession, such as someone obsessed with contamination compulsively washing their hands, but they can be unrelated as well. In addition to experiencing the anxiety and fear that typically accompanies OCD, affected individuals may spend hours performing compulsions ever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive-compulsive_disorder |
For any cardinal k, we define a statement, denoted by MA(k): For any partial order P satisfying the countable chain condition (hereafter ccc) and any family D of dense sets in P such that |D| ≤ k, there is a filter F on P such that F ∩ d is non-empty for every d in D. Since it is a theorem of ZFC that MA(c) fails, Mart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_topology |
A shared mesh (also known as 'traditional' or 'best effort' mesh) is a wireless mesh network that uses a single radio to communicate via mesh backhaul links to all the neighboring nodes in the mesh. This is a first generation mesh where the total available bandwidth of the radio channel is ‘shared’ between all the neig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_mesh |
False precision is the gist of numerous variations of a joke which can be summarized as follows: A tour guide at a museum says a dinosaur skeleton is 100,000,005 years old, because an expert told him that it was 100 million years old when he started working there 5 years ago. If a car's speedometer indicates the vehicl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision |
In addition, recrystallization may occur in a discontinuous manner, where distinct new grains form and grow, or a continuous manner, where the microstructure gradually evolves into a recrystallized microstructure. The different mechanisms by which recrystallization and recovery occur are complex and in many cases remai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recrystallization_temperature |
For simplicity, the following example uses the simplest integration method, the Euler method; in practice, higher-order methods such as Runge–Kutta methods are preferred due to their superior convergence and stability properties. Consider the initial value problem y ′ ( t ) = f ( t , y ( t ) ) , y ( a ) = y a {\display... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_step_size |
Similarly, on 30 July 2020, the Danish Health Authority director Søren Brostrøm said face covers did not make sense in the current situation with low infection levels, but that they needed to evaluate whether it could make sense in the long term.Sweden was notable as a country where face masks were not recommended to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_mandate |
The Widom–Larsen theory is a proposed explanation for supposed Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) developed in 2005 by Allan Widom and Lewis Larsen. In the paper describing the idea, they claim that ultra low momentum neutrons are produced in the cold fusion apparatuses during weak interactions when protons capture "h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widom–Larsen_theory |
These templates are categorized as "Framed" or "Unframed," and they can have a navigation bar at the top, bottom, left, or right of the content.There are several websites that are specifically geared towards creating webquests. Questgarden, Zunal, and Teacherweb all allow teachers to create accounts, and these websites... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebQuest |
Shō took advantage of his weakened state and struck the metal, causing further malfunction. The control metal burst out of his head and the organism that made up the armor began to consume Lisker's body. Shō then used his Mega-Smasher to put him out of his misery. Lisker is tall, with curly blond hair. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_Booster_Armor_Guyver |
These pillars were carved with tables of oracles, corresponding to the numbers rolled on the astragaloi. These ranged from the lowest result of five, consisting of five ones, to the highest result of thirty, consisting of five sixes. Each result also had an attached divinity to it, for example the roll of five ones, st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astragalomancy |
See Psophometric weighting to see a comparison of frequency response curves for the C-message weighting and Psophometric weighting filters. dBK dB(K) – decibels relative to 1 K; used to express noise temperature. dB/K dB(K−1) – decibels relative to 1 K−1. — not decibels per kelvin: Used for the G/T factor, a figure of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel |
Knowing only these two features of themselves, the group will deliberate in order to design a social structure, during which each person will seek his or her maximal advantage. The idea is that proposals that we would ordinarily think of as unjust—such as that black people or women should not be allowed to hold public ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls |
There are five sub-types of MJD that are characterized by the age of onset and range of symptoms. The sub-types illustrate a wide variety of symptoms that patients can experience. However, assigning individuals to a specific sub-type of the disease is of limited clinical significance. Type I affects approximately 13% o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machado–Joseph_disease |
Each pipeline consists of one Geometry Engine board, one, two or four Raster Manager boards and one Display Generator board.The implementation comprises twelve ASIC designs fabricated in 0.5 and 0.35 micrometre processes with three layers of metal interconnect. These ASICs require a 3.3 V power supply. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniteReality |
It was later shown with transport measurements that, below 50K, a single layer of WTe2 instead acts like an insulator but with an offset current independent of doping by a local electrostatic gate. When using a contact geometry that shorted out conduction along the device edges, this offset current vanished, demonstrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten_ditelluride |
Not every aspect of the Earth System can be returned to a previous state: notably the warming of the deep sea or deep ocean and the associated sea level rise which has already taken place may be essentially irreversible this century. Conversely, there are certain aspects of the Earth System that need to be improved wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_restoration |
Pirate decryption is the decryption, or decoding, of pay TV or pay radio signals without permission from the original broadcaster. The term "pirate" is used in the sense of copyright infringement. The MPAA and other groups which lobby in favour of intellectual property (specifically copyright and trademark) regulations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_decryption |
Another interesting Virtual Human, Buford was developed at Rockwell International to find reach and clearance areas around a model positioned by the operator. The figure represented a 50th-percentile human model and was covered by CAD-generated polygons. Buford is composed of 15 independent links that must be redefined... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_humans |
One criticism to the UCS analysis and several other that have analyze the benefits of PEVs is that these analysis were made using average emissions rates across regions instead of marginal generation at different times of the day. The former approach does not take into account the generation mix within interconnected e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EV_Everywhere_Challenge |
Aluminium oxide powder is used in some CD/DVD polishing and scratch-repair kits. Its polishing qualities are also behind its use in toothpaste. It is also used in microdermabrasion, both in the machine process available through dermatologists and estheticians, and as a manual dermal abrasive used according to manufactu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_oxide |
Revision lists (ru. Реви́зские ска́зки) (Revizskie skazki), are a series of census lists of the taxable population of the Russian Empire, taken between the early 18th century up until the end of the 19th century. The lists were taken to account and register information to collect tax revenue to fund the Imperial Army. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_list |
: 9–10 Because the deep water carries abundant nutrients up from the ocean floor, the upwelling area differs from the rest of the Great Australian Bight, especially the areas offshore of Western Australia and the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, which are generally nutrient-poor. Every summer, the upwelling sustains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_South_Australian_Coastal_Upwelling_System |
Ben oil is pressed from the seeds of the Moringa oleifera, known variously as the horseradish tree, ben oil tree, or drumstick tree. The oil is characterized by an unusually long shelf life and a mild, but pleasant taste. The name of the oil is derived from the presence of behenic acid. The oil's components are: Seeds ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_oil |
These strategies, like the treatment of many symptoms hereditary ataxias, have small scale evidence for their usefulness but are not yet established by large studies.As with all hereditary diseases, concerns about the impact on family members, especially children, are often very important. Individuals diagnosed with SC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinocerebellar_ataxia_type_1 |
Slowly, the international computing industry shifted the emphasis from hardware (in which Israel had no comparative advantage) to software products (in which human capital plays a larger role). The country became one of the first nations to compete in global software markets. By the 1980s a diverse set of software firm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi |
Incomplete reaction products (single addition adduct, unreacted starting materials) will have a markedly different molecular weight from the desired product, especially for higher-generation compounds, making purification more straightforward. The reactive focal group A must be terminated onto a final acceptor at some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(amidoamine) |
Biochemical sedimentary rocks are created when organisms use materials dissolved in air or water to build their tissue. Examples include: Most types of limestone are formed from the calcareous skeletons of organisms such as corals, mollusks, and foraminifera. Coal, formed from plants that have removed carbon from the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedimentary_Rock |
These fembots were a line of powerful, lifelike gynoids with the faces of protagonist Jaime Sommers's best friends. They fought in two multi-part episodes of the series: "Kill Oscar" and "Fembots in Las Vegas," and despite the feminine prefix, there were also male versions, including some designed to impersonate partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynoid |
Calcium carbonate most commonly occurs in two common polymorphs (crystalline forms): aragonite and calcite. Aragonite is much more soluble than calcite, so the aragonite saturation horizon, and aragonite compensation depth, is always nearer to the surface than the calcite saturation horizon. This also means that those ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_alkalinity_enhancement |
A significant result of this distinction is that a given internal energy change Δ U {\displaystyle \Delta U} can be achieved by different combinations of heat and work. (This may be signaled by saying that heat and work are path dependent, while change in internal energy depends only on the initial and final states of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics |
Despite their success in overcoming submergence in water, however, water striders are not as competent in oil, and experimental oil spills have suggested that oil spilled in freshwater systems can drive water strider immobility and death.The tiny hairs on the legs provide both a hydrophobic surface as well as a larger ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_strider |
However, it is not native and display a genetic bottleneck resulting from a founder effect. A study in 2008 showed that the coconuts in the Americas are genetically closest related to coconuts in the Philippines, and not to any other nearby coconut populations (including Polynesia). Such an origin indicates that the co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_plants |
in the northern Midwest of North America. Removing R. cathartica led to a decrease of around 50% in the biomass of invasive earthworms.Soils enriched by extra nitrogen from decayed buckthorn leaves and additional earthworm activity have a negative impact on North American forest ecosystems: "Invasive earthworms, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhamnus_cathartica |
Tailed bridge guitars like the Fender Jaguar differ in timbre from guitars with short bridges, due to the resonance that occurs in their extended floating bridge. Certain instruments are built with sympathetic strings, auxiliary strings which are not directly played but sympathetically produce sound in response to tone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_resonance |
Two of the coins were silver with a face value of $15 while the third coin was gold and had a face value of $175. The $15 coins were sold individually or in a set. The individual coins were packaged in a burgundy leatherette case while the set was featured in a wooden display case. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint_Olympic_coins |
minor genetic differences have been identified in a vasopressin receptor gene that corresponds to major species differences in social organization and the mating system. Another potential example with behavioral differences is the FOCP2 gene, which is involved in neural circuitry handling speech and language. Its prese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_state |
He is critical of Roman Catholic attitudes to family planning and population control, stating that leaders who forbid contraception and "express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation" will get just such a method in the form of starvation.As a supporter of the Great Ape Project—a movement to extend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins |
However, some drivers sometimes mistake the accelerator for the brake, leading to sudden unintended acceleration and causing 16,000 accidents per year in the US. There are also drivers who intentionally practice left-foot braking. Early cars had a hand lever to control the throttle, either directly, or by controlling a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_controls |
Time variance (TVAR) also known as σ x 2 ( τ ) {\displaystyle \sigma _{x}^{2}(\tau )} is the time stability of phase versus observation interval tau. It is a scaled variant of modified Allan variance. TDEV is a metric often used to determine an aspect of the quality of timing signals in telecommunication applications a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_deviation |
Since Operation Lindbergh, remote surgery has been conducted many times in numerous locations. To date Dr. Anvari, a laparoscopic surgeon in Hamilton, Canada, has conducted numerous remote surgeries on patients in North Bay, a city 400 kilometres from Hamilton. Even though he uses a VPN over a non-dedicated fiberoptic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_surgery |
Data universalism has been critiqued by many scholars concerned about data privacy and data justice, claiming that it conceals cultural specifications and diversity. Datafication ought to be viewed through the lens of epistemic diversity and justice to achieve data obedience. So, people are encouraged to critically exa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_universalism |
To the east of these edges is a broad band of relatively flat moorland known as the Eastern Moors. Towards the western margins of the Peak District are a rather more broken series of edges, facing in a variety of directions, from those surrounding the high plateaux of Kinder Scout and Combs Moss to the imposing crags o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millstone_Grit |
A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice can also occur in one who, due to an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. Castration before puber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato |
The event of Kumamatsuri began with the capture of a young bear cub. As if he were a child given by the gods, the cub was fed human food from a carved wooden platter and was treated better than Ainu children for they thought of him as a god. If the cub was too young and lacked the teeth to properly chew food, a nursing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_worship |
Bioactive glasses are a group of surface reactive glass-ceramic biomaterials and include the original bioactive glass, Bioglass. The biocompatibility and bioactivity of these glasses has led them to be used as implant devices in the human body to repair and replace diseased or damaged bones. Most bioactive glasses are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioactive_glass |
In the northwest, 10 or 11 subfossil species have been found at Anjohibe, whereas only six species remain at nearby Ankarafantsika National Park.As with the extinctions that occurred on other land masses during the late Pleistocene and Holocene (known as the Quaternary extinction event), the disappearance of Madagascar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_lemurs |
462) put it, The temperature scale from cold to hot runs: The corresponding inverse temperature scale, for the quantity β = 1/kT (where k is the Boltzmann constant), runs continuously from low energy to high as +∞, …, 0, …, −∞. Because it avoids the abrupt jump from +∞ to −∞, β is considered more natural than T. Althou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature |
Quality is also determined by the honeydew having a nearly spherical shape with a surface free of scars or defects. A honeydew should also feel heavy for its size and have a waxy rather than a fuzzy surface. This reflects the integrity and quality of its flesh as the weight can be attributed to the high water content o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeydew_melon |
Road vehicles in Australia must comply with all applicable Australian Design Rules (ADRs) before they can be supplied to the market for use in transport (Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989 Cwth).The ADRs contain the following definitions for bicycles and mopeds: 4.2. Two-Wheeled and Three-Wheeled Vehicles 4.2.1. PEDAL CY... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws |
The Soviet laser pistol was a prototype handgun-shaped energy weapon designed for use by cosmonauts in a low or zero-gravity environment that renders conventional firearms ineffective. The weapon was magazine fed and used pyrotechnic flashbulb technology to project its beam. One variation of the gun was a six-shot lase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol |
The Froschauer Bible of 1531 and the Luther Bible of 1534 (both appearing in portions throughout the 1520s) were an important part of the Reformation. The first English translations of Psalms (1530), Isaiah (1531), Proverbs (1533), Ecclesiastes (1533), Jeremiah (1534) and Lamentations (1534), were executed by the Prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations |
The "new urban history" emerged in the 1960s as a branch of Social history seeking to understand the "city as process" and, through quantitative methods, to learn more about the inarticulate masses in the cities, as opposed to the mayors and elites. Much of the attention is devoted to individual behaviour, and how the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_history |
The Vox AC30 is a guitar amplifier manufactured by Vox. It was introduced in 1958 to meet the growing demand for louder amplifiers. Characterised by its "jangly" high-end sound it has become widely recognized by British musicians and others, such as George Harrison and John Lennon of the Beatles, Bill Wyman of the Roll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_AC30 |
Sometimes the suggestion is, that a price category fully replaces a value category, at other times both categories always co-exist, and require each other, so that production prices can adjust to product-values but product-values can also adjust to production prices. Sometimes the transformation from value to productio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_of_production |
A recursive procedure to generate all the terms in the Magnus expansion utilizes the matrices Sn(k) defined recursively through S n ( j ) = ∑ m = 1 n − j , 2 ≤ j ≤ n − 1 , {\displaystyle S_{n}^{(j)}=\sum _{m=1}^{n-j}\left,\quad 2\leq j\leq n-1,} S n ( 1 ) = , S n ( n − 1 ) = ad Ω 1 n − 1 ( A ) , {\displaystyle S_{n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_expansion |
An earthworm's digestive system consists of a mouth, pharynx, esophagus, crop, gizzard, and intestine. The mouth is surrounded by strong lips, which act like a hand to grab pieces of dead grass, leaves, and weeds, with bits of soil to help chew. The lips break the food down into smaller pieces. In the pharynx, the food... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorptive_state |
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