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Later investigations by the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services found that the CDC had violated its own protocols in developing its tests. In November 2020, NPR reported that an internal review document they obtained revealed that the CDC was aware that the first batch of tests which were issued in earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention |
The battery's available energy capacity is subject to a quick discharge resulting in a low life span and low energy density.Nickel–cadmium battery (NiCd): Uses nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes. Cadmium is a toxic element, and was banned for most uses by the European Union in 2004. Nickel–cadmiu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_energy |
The resulting milky opalescence is called the louche (Fr. opaque or shady, IPA ). The release of these dissolved essences coincides with a perfuming of herbal aromas and flavours that "blossom" or "bloom," and brings out subtleties that are otherwise muted within the neat spirit. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe |
Cyclostrophic flow describes a steady-state flow in a spatially varying pressure field when the frictional and Coriolis actions are neglected; and: the centripetal acceleration is entirely sustained by the pressure gradient.Trajectories do bend. The name 'cyclostrophic' stems from the Greek words 'kyklos' (circle) and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_wind |
Under normal usage, swarf is carried up and away from the tip of the drill bit by the fluting of the drill bit. The cutting edges produce more chips which continue the movement of the chips outwards from the hole. This is successful until the chips pack too tightly, either because of deeper than normal holes or insuffi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drilling |
It is a general-purpose algorithm, meaning it does not depend on the number being of a special form. ECPP is currently in practice the fastest known algorithm for testing the primality of general numbers, but the worst-case execution time is not known. ECPP heuristically runs in time: O ( ( log n ) 5 + ε ) {\displays... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_primality_proving |
Kangaroo Jack is the title character of an American film of the same name. A giant kangaroo is featured in the movie Welcome to Woop Woop. The Hallmark Properties television series Zoobilee Zoo has a character named Whazzat Kangaroo (the Canadian actress and singer Stephanie Louise "Stevie" Vallance plays this role). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_emblems_and_popular_culture |
Physical examination has been described as a ritual that plays a significant role in the doctor-patient relationship that will provide benefits in other medical encounters. When a physical exam is expected by the patient but is not performed by the provider, patients may express concern for the lack of depth of investi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_examination |
Adults of C. castanops in Texas begin to molt in August and continue through March. The new pelage was found to be thicker, but had no change in color In Kansas, semiannual molts in adults have been reported: 1. Molt from winter to summer early in the spring and 2. Molt in autumn in September and October There is sexua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-faced_Pocket_Gopher |
Public interest is generally not "what the public is interested in", but rather "what is in the interest of the public".Other defences recognised in one or more common law jurisdictions include: Privilege: A circumstance that justifies or excuses an act that would otherwise constitute a tort on the ground that it stemm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_libel |
The moods and psychological states of characters are often conveyed by colored lights, while object colors, in conjunction with the colors attributed to characters costumes, hair, and skin tones, establish relationships or conflicts.The way that light affects our perception of color can be defined by the principles of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_motion-picture_film |
The formation of planets like Uranus and Neptune is more problematic, since no theory has been capable of providing for the in situ formation of their cores at the distance of 20–30 AU from the central star. One hypothesis is that they initially accreted in the Jupiter-Saturn region, then were scattered and migrated to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebular_hypothesis |
The southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest consists of several stands covering a combined area of between 60,000 and 70,000 acres (24,000 and 28,000 ha), although less conservative estimates have placed the forest's coverage at around 90,000 acres (36,000 ha). The largest southern spruce–fir stand is located atop the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Appalachian_spruce–fir_forest |
They attracted interest after Jean-Louis Loday noticed that the classical Chevalley–Eilenberg boundary map in the exterior module of a Lie algebra can be lifted to the tensor module which yields a new chain complex. In fact this complex is well-defined for any Leibniz algebra. The homology HL(L) of this chain complex i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_algebra |
The FAO estimates that the global forest carbon stock has decreased 0.9%, and tree cover 4.2% between 1990 and 2020. The forest carbon stock in Europe (including Russia) increased from 158.7 to 172.4 Gt between 1990 and 2020. In North America, the forest carbon stock increased from 136.6 to 140 Gt in the same period. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_deforestation |
Bossard Group also increased its majority stake in Torp Fasteners, based in Oslo, Norway, from 60% to 100% at the beginning of 2020. Bossard has held a stake in the company, which specializes in high-quality fasteners, since January 2015. In December 2020 Bossard acquired shares in MultiMaterial-Welding GmbH, thus expa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bossard_Holding_AG |
The hammer orchid (Drakaea spp., an endangered genus of orchid that is native to Australia) is one of the most notable examples. The orchid has both visual and olfactory mimics of a female wasp to lure males to both deposit and pick up pollen.The orchid Epipactis helleborine is physiologically and morphologically adapt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimicry_in_plants |
The exception would be the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria: it was reported once in 1950 that individual swarms were seen migrating from the Arabian peninsula over 5,000 km (3,105 miles) to the west coast of Africa in seven weeks.Migrating monarchs tend to have darker orange and larger wings than they do during th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration |
Cells require energy to operate membrane ion pumps and other mechanisms of cellular homeostasis. Cold reduces the metabolic rate of cells, which conserves energy stores (ATP) and oxygen needed to produce energy. Cold therefore extends the length of time that cells can maintain homeostasis and avoid damaging hypoxia and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_hypothermic_circulatory_arrest |
The 14th-century temple building was surveyed, rotten timbers were replaced, and the foundations were strengthened. Sculpted wooden architectural elements were painstakingly cleaned of layers of a motor oil coating that had been applied annually for protection. Also at the request of UNESCO, IFM launched a project for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Monuments_Fund |
Urban and Peri-urban agriculture (UPA) expands the economic base of the city through production, processing, packaging, and marketing of consumable products. This results in an increase in entrepreneurial activities and the creation of jobs, as well as reducing food costs and improving quality. UPA provides employment,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agriculture |
If X {\displaystyle X} is a metric space of bounded diameter then asdim ( X ) = 0 {\displaystyle \operatorname {asdim} (X)=0} . asdim ( R ) = asdim ( Z ) = 1 {\displaystyle \operatorname {asdim} (\mathbb {R} )=\operatorname {asdim} (\mathbb {Z} )=1} . asdim ( R n ) = n {\displaystyle \operatorname {asdim} (\mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic_dimension |
Consider two engines, M {\displaystyle M} and L {\displaystyle L} , which are irreversible and reversible respectively. We construct the machine shown in the right figure, with M {\displaystyle M} driving L {\displaystyle L} as a heat pump. Then if M {\displaystyle M} is more efficient than L {\displaystyle L} , the ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_theorem_(thermodynamics) |
In 2009 total site output hit 1,002 TWh, making it the first nuclear power plant in the world to produce 1 PWh (1,000 TWh). Gravelines in France achieved the same in 2010.As of the end of 2020, the 8 Bruce units had produced a combined total of 1,479.59 TWh.After Units 1–2 completed refurbishment activities and were br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_nuclear_generating_station |
The company also offers an e-learning program for adults called "EF English Live," which was formerly known as "EF Englishtown." EF English Live program has been certified for pedagogical quality by the Education Alliance Finland. Through a division called EF Tours, the company offers educational tours, service learnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_Education_First |
They published that HSB-2, a particular T-cell line, is highly susceptible to infection. Ablashi's pioneering research concluded by suggesting that the virus name be changed from HBLV to HHV-6, in accord with the published provisional classification of herpes viruses.Years later, HHV-6 was divided into subtypes. Early ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_herpesvirus-6 |
Ray D'Inverno suggests: I would also recommend looking at the relevant sections of the text of Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, known for short as ‘MTW’. MTW is a rich resource and is certainly worth consulting for a whole string of topics. However, its style is not perhaps for everyone (I find it somewhat verbose in place... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_(book) |
Camerini proposed an algorithm used to obtain a minimum bottleneck spanning tree (MBST) in a given undirected, connected, edge-weighted graph in 1978. It half divides edges into two sets. The weights of edges in one set are no more than that in the other. If a spanning tree exists in subgraph composed solely with edges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_bottleneck_spanning_tree |
They can belong to these families and genera: Family CrangonidaeGenus Crangon: Crangon crangonFamily PalaemonidaeGenus Palaemon: Palaemon varians, Palaemon serratus, Palaemon elegans, Palaemon pacificus Genus Palaemonetes: Palaemonetes paludosus, Palaemonetes kadiakensis, Palaemonetes pugio Genus Macrobrachium: Macrobr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeder_shrimp |
The cream-colored courser (Cursorius cursor) is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. Both parts of the scientific name derive from Latin cursor, "runner", from currere, "to run" which describes their usual habit as they hunt their insect prey on the ground in dry open semi-desert regions of Wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream-coloured_courser |
A ReplicaSet's purpose is to maintain a stable set of replica pods running at any given time. As such, it is often used to guarantee the availability of a specified number of identical Pods. The ReplicaSet can also be said to be a grouping mechanism that lets Kubernetes maintain the number of instances that have been d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes |
In January 2009 Otter Creek Park closed to the public, and the observatory ceased being open to the general public. In 2010, the park was transferred to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, and it reopened in May 2011 as the Otter Creek Outdoor Recreation Area. The observatory has never closed; it re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otter_Creek_Observatory |
It had led to great achievements of political construction and consolidation in Germany and Italy; but it was more clear than ever a threat to the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, which were essentially multi-national. European culture had been enriched by the new vernacular contributions of little-known or forgotten peop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism |
Russia's Luna-Glob1 plans to use four penetrators provided by JAXA. JAXA is also considering to have the SELENE-2 carry penetrators. Britain's BNSC once stated that they were interested in acquiring several Japanese penetrators for their MoonLITE probe. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Lunar_Exploration_Program |
On November 4, 2008, Komuro was arrested and charged with fraud, for taking ¥500,000,000 in exchange for a promise to sell to a Hyōgo-based investor the copyright to his songs, which he had already sold to somebody else (which was Avex Group Holdings according to reports). Reportedly, he planned to use the money to pay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuya_Komuro |
John Lintner's dividend policy model is a model theorizing how a publicly-traded company sets its dividend policy. The logic is that every company wants to maintain a constant rate of dividend even if the results in a particular period are not up to the mark. The assumption is that investors will prefer to receive a ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_policy |
First, the obvious designs only work at a particular Mach number, and the amount of lift captured will change dramatically as the vehicle changes speed. Another problem is that the waverider depends on radiative cooling, possible as long as the vehicle spends most of its time at very high altitudes. However these altit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverider |
The onset of World War II was financially disastrous for Spiegel. As much domestic manufacturing had shifted to wartime production, many of their popular catalog products were no longer available in significant quantities. A labor shortage also affected the company's operations, and when the U.S. government discouraged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_Catalog |
Single cell sequencing. The traditional RNA-Seq methodology is commonly known as "bulk RNA-Seq", in this case RNA is extracted from a group of cells or tissues, not from the individual cell like it happens in single cell methods. Some tools available to bulk RNA-Seq are also applied to single cell analysis, however to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RNA-Seq_bioinformatics_tools |
The actions of the committee were designed to allow for improved ties between the United States and Vietnam, for which the unresolved fate of U.S. MIAs had long been a sticking point. By the mid-1990s, the belief by Americans from a few years earlier that live prisoners still existed had mostly passed; in the words of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue |
Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds. Many prominent researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfulness |
A Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) is a large pressurized container that was used on Space Shuttle missions to transfer cargo to and from the International Space Station (ISS). Two MPLMs made a dozen trips in the Shuttle cargo bay and initially berthed to the Unity module and later the Harmony module on the ISS. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Purpose_Logistics_Module |
Places where portaging occurred often became temporary and then permanent settlements. The importance of free passage through portages found them included in laws and treaties. One historically important fur trade portage is now Grand Portage National Monument. Recreational canoeing routes often include portages betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage |
The system allowed users to "transfer money between accounts, pay bills and arrange loans... compare prices and order goods from a few major retailers, check local restaurant menus or real estate listings, arrange vacations... enter bids in Homelink's regular auctions and send electronic mail to other Homelink users." ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_banking |
Perhaps the most refined of the designs was the British Wooler wobble-plate engine of 1947. This 6-cylinder engine was designed by John Wooler, better known as a motorcycle engine designer, for aircraft use. It was similar to the Bristol axial engine but had two wobble-plates, driven by 12 opposed pistons in 6 cylinder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swash_plate_engine |
In languages such as Pascal that require declaration before use, mutually recursive functions require forward declaration, as a forward reference cannot be avoided when defining them. As with directly recursive functions, a wrapper function may be useful, with the mutually recursive functions defined as nested function... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_recursion |
Tianlongsi station (Chinese: 天隆寺站; pinyin: Tiānlóngsì Zhàn; lit. 'Tianlong Temple station'), is a station of Line 1 of the Nanjing Metro. It began operations on 28 May 2010, as part of the southern extension of line 1 from Andemen to CPU. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianlongsi_station |
The context switch is critical operation in the system and the time of its execution determines if how effective the system is. Because of that the context switch in the DioneOS system was optimized for short time. The most important parts were written in assembler, so the switch can be done in 12–17 μs (for fosc=25 MH... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DioneOS |
Another example was the use of time and wages book in Australia. The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (1967) explained: Except where mechanical timing devices are used for the purposes of recording starting times and finishing times of employees, each employer shall provide a time book or time sheet i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_book |
Elias Lönnrot is best known for his collection of epic Finnish poems published under the title Kalevala. John Fanning Watson in the United States published the "Annals of Philadelphia".With increasing industrialization, urbanization, and the rise in literacy throughout Europe in the 19th century, folklorists were conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore_studies |
Both players spend gold bars to construct different buildings (houses, schools, factories, hospitals and forts), plant crops, build fishing boats or PT boats, or to fund rebel activity on the enemy island. As each island's population grows, the ruler is responsible for housing their people, feeding their populace and k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(video_game) |
PARSO 16 (PARSO 16) - 128.200/263.050 Sector 16 is a low altitude sector that contains departure and arrival traffic into airports such as PWM, BXM, PSM, LEW, AUG, RKD and BOS. There is also a significant amount of overflight traffic proceeding between BOS and ME. The sector coordinates with Portland ATCT, BCT, Cape TR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Air_Route_Traffic_Control_Center |
In 2012, Gawker’s Max Read came across another good one: hundreds of thousands of books that were just compilations of Wikipedia articles with titles like “Celebrities With Big Dicks.” One author he found was just publishing random data sets like “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon |
{\displaystyle H^{1}(M,\mathbf {O} )\to H^{1}(M,\mathbf {O} ^{*})\to 2\pi iH^{2}(M,\mathbb {Z} )\to H^{2}(M,\mathbf {O} ).} When M is a Stein manifold, the middle arrow is an isomorphism because H q ( M , O ) = 0 {\displaystyle H^{q}(M,\mathbf {O} )=0} for q > 0 {\displaystyle q>0} so that a necessary and sufficient co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphically_convex_hull |
In comparison to wak2-1, 13 out of the 50 upregulated genes in the wild-type was suppressed in wak2-1 and 37 were expressed similarly to the wild type. 20 genes within those downregulated showed reduced expression in wak2-1 cells, 24 were activated and the remainder had levels similar to the wild type.These patterns al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall-associated_kinase |
Japanese Buddhologist Hajime Nakamura calls this negation the "logic of not" (na prthak). Further examples of the Diamond Sūtra's via negativa include statements such as: "As far as 'all dharmas' are concerned, Subhuti, all of them are dharma-less. That is why they are called 'all dharmas'." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra |
By 2019 methods in eDNA research had been expanded to be able to assess whole communities from a single sample. This process involves metabarcoding, which can be precisely defined as the use of general or universal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers on mixed DNA samples from any origin followed by high-throughput ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_DNA |
Eli Lilly and Company developed and marketed the first rapid-acting insulin analogue (insulin lispro rDNA) Humalog. It was engineered through recombinant DNA technology so that the penultimate lysine and proline residues on the C-terminal end of the B-chain were reversed. This modification did not alter the insulin rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_analog |
In this case, define L = ∫ a b | ∑ i , j = 1 n g i j ( γ ( t ) ) ( d d t x i ∘ γ ( t ) ) ( d d t x j ∘ γ ( t ) ) | d t . {\displaystyle L=\int _{a}^{b}{\sqrt {\left|\sum _{i,j=1}^{n}g_{ij}(\gamma (t))\left({\frac {d}{dt}}x^{i}\circ \gamma (t)\right)\left({\frac {d}{dt}}x^{j}\circ \gamma (t)\right)\right|}}\,dt\,.} Note... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_metric |
As this system involves a transversal, we must use split masses on point B {\displaystyle B} . We may arbitrarily assign the mass at A {\displaystyle A} to be 3 {\displaystyle 3} , and by ratios of lengths, the mass at C {\displaystyle C} is 2 {\displaystyle 2} and the mass at B {\displaystyle B} is split 3 {\displayst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_point_geometry |
Seam carving (or liquid rescaling) is an algorithm for content-aware image resizing, developed by Shai Avidan, of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), and Ariel Shamir, of the Interdisciplinary Center and MERL. It functions by establishing a number of seams (paths of least importance) in an image and autom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving |
Pnictogens can react with hydrogen to form pnictogen hydrides such as ammonia. Going down the group, to phosphane (phosphine), arsane (arsine), stibane (stibine), and finally bismuthane (bismuthine), each pnictogen hydride becomes progressively less stable (more unstable), more toxic, and has a smaller hydrogen-hydroge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_group |
Send tracks (sometimes simply called Sends) are the software audio routing equivalent to the aux-sends found on multitrack sound mixing/sequencing consoles. In audio recording, a given song is almost always made up of multiple tracks, with each instrument or sound on their own track (for example, one track could contai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_track |
In fact, some swimmers wore two or more of these suits at once to increase buoyancy. In total, 23 out of the 25 swimming world records broken at the Beijing Olympics were broken by swimmers wearing this suit. In subsequent competitions, many world records were broken by swimmers wearing the LZR suit. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_doping |
In the context of cults and apostasy the term atrocity story, also referred to as atrocity tale, as defined by the American sociologists David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe refers to the symbolic presentation of action or events (real or imaginary) in such a context that they are made flagrantly to violate the (presuma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda |
Iron is needed for bacterial growth making its bioavailability an important factor in controlling infection. Blood plasma as a result carries iron tightly bound to transferrin, which is taken up by cells by endocytosing transferrin, thus preventing its access to bacteria. : 30 Between 15 and 20 percent of the protein c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_deficiency |
The Arias intensity (IA) is a measure of the strength of a ground motion. It determines the intensity of shaking by measuring the acceleration of transient seismic waves. It has been found to be a fairly reliable parameter to describe earthquake shaking necessary to trigger landslides. It was proposed by Chilean engine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arias_Intensity |
According to the Wujing Zongyao, the thunderclap bomb's case was made of bamboo and wrappings: The thunderclap bomb contains a length of two or three internodes of dry bamboo with a diameter of 1.5 in. There must be no cracks, and the septa are to be retained to avoid any leakage. Thirty pieces of thin broken porcelain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_crash_bomb |
The magenta hyperbolae, which cross the x axis, are timelike curves, which is to say that these hyperbolae represent actual paths that can be traversed by (constantly accelerating) particles in spacetime: Between any two events on one hyperbola a causality relation is possible, because the inverse of the slope—represen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime_Interval |
The three dialects described here are Hmong Daw (also called White Miao or Hmong Der), Mong Leeg (also called Blue/Green Miao or Mong Leng), and Dananshan (Standard Chinese Miao). Hmong Daw and Mong Leeg are the two major dialects spoken by Hmong Americans. Although mutually intelligible, the dialects differ in both le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_language |
The WaveLAN chipsets that power ORiNOCO-branded cards were commonly used to power other wireless networking devices, and are compatible with a number of other access points, routers and wireless cards. The following brand and models utilise the chipset, or are rebrands of an ORiNOCO product: 3Com AirConnect Apple AirPo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORiNOCO |
Genotypes that are inhibitory KIR receptor dominant are likely susceptible to infection and reproductive disorders but protective against autoimmune diseases, whereas activating KIR receptor dominant genotypes are likely susceptible to autoimmunity but protective against viral infection and cancer. The relationship bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_inhibitor_receptor |
Angustus Labyrinthus is a complex of intersecting valleys or ridges near the Martian south pole (in the Mare Australe quadrangle), located at 81.68° S and 63.25° W. It was nicknamed the "Inca City" by NASA scientists due to its superficial resemblance to a ruined city. Like other formations in the area, the name 'Angus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angustus_Labyrinthus |
In 2019, Morrison was a Distinguished Visitor at UC Berkeley. His recent book, The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus studied scientific theories which were produced in Andalusia in 1400, and traveled first to the Ottoman court and then to the University of Padua, Italy. His research has also been supported by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Morrison |
The Jie may have been Yeniseian, although others maintaining an Iranian affiliation, and regardless of whether or not the Xiongnu were Turkic, they were a hybrid people. According to the Old Book of Tang, Ashina Simo "was not given a high military post by the Ashina rulers because of his Sogdian (huren 胡人) physiognomy.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_culture |
These include chelating agents, cyclodextrins, surfactants, bile acids and salts, and crown ethers. There are also reports on the use of cell penetrating peptides and chitosan as penetration enhancers in ocular drug delivery. The most commonly used penetration enhancers in ocular formulations are benzalkonium chloride ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_enhancers |
He served as a founding member, a founding member of the board, and the founding president of that organization. Arthur Jaffe began as chief editor of Communications in Mathematical Physics in 1979 and served for 21 years until 2001. He is a distinguished visiting professor at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jaffe |
Older men tend to have higher thresholds than younger women, but it is not a hard and fast rule, and other factors, for example drugs, affect seizure threshold. Immediately prior to treatment, a patient is given a short-acting anesthetic such as methohexital, propofol, etomidate, or thiopental, a muscle relaxant such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock_treatment |
The Uptown Hudson Tubes are a pair of tunnels that carry PATH trains between Manhattan, New York City, to the east and Jersey City, New Jersey, to the west. The tubes originate at a junction of two PATH lines on the New Jersey shore and cross eastward under the Hudson River. On the Manhattan side, the tubes run mostly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown_Hudson_Tubes |
A total of three larval instars are involved in the lifecycle of the species, and the entire larval development stage takes 2.5 days at a temperature of 29 °C. The larvae are capable of regulating their body temperature by moving to a different position in the maggot mass to maintain a preferred developmental temperatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysomya_rufifacies |
Most commentators associate Jaspers with the philosophy of existentialism, in part because he draws largely upon the existentialist roots of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and in part because the theme of individual freedom permeates his work. In Philosophy (3 vols, 1932), Jaspers gave his view of the history of philosophy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Jaspers |
If successful, the request will ultimately lead to the cancellation of all 44 claims of the Blackboard patent.In support of the challenge to the Blackboard patent, volunteers across the Internet found examples of older programs that used ideas claimed by the patent. These volunteers collaborated to make a Wikipedia art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATutor |
(Basic, 2011) There are differences and similarities worth noting when it comes to biological needs and social needs. Biological needs are required for survival in everyday life, whereas social needs are acquired and learned. Similarities between the two include the relevance that an individual requires both types of n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_need |
To capture a tower, all robots in the alliance must either drive onto the opposing team's batter, or scale the tower. Once the capture has been declared, the tower will turn to the capturing alliance's color, and their flag will be raised. For capturing, the alliance receives 1 ranking point in qualifications, and 25 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST_Stronghold |
Wastewater surveillance is the process of monitoring wastewater for contaminants. Amongst other uses, it can be used for biosurveillance, to detect the presence of pathogens in local populations, and to detect the presence of psychoactive drugs.One example of this is the use of wastewater monitoring to detect the prese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastewater_surveillance |
The propelling nozzle converts a gas turbine or gas generator into a jet engine. Power available in the gas turbine exhaust is converted into a high speed propelling jet by the nozzle. The power is defined by typical gauge pressure and temperature values for a turbojet of 20 psi (140 kPa) and 1,000 °F (538 °C). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Components_of_jet_engines |
The Efik Language is written using the Latin alphabet. The letters employed when writing the Efik Language include: a, b, d, e, f, g, i, k, m, n, ñ, o, ọ, s, t, u, w, y, kp, kw, ny, nw, gh. The letters C, J, L, Q, V, X, and Z are not used. For Q, the letter "Kw" and for the English 'ng' sound, the 'ñ' is used. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efik_language |
The figure below emphasizes this point for wingtip cracks. These secondary cracks can grow to as long as 10-15 times the length of the original cracks in simple (uniaxial) compression. However, if a transverse compressive load is applied. The growth is limited to a few integer multiples of the original crack's length. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressive_strength |
"Touch Me Up" (Lamont Dozier)- 4:38 "Sunshine Will Never Be The Same" (Lamont Dozier) - 3:36 "Meadows of Springtime" (Aretha Franklin) - 5:26 "Mumbles / I've Got the Music in Me" (Clark Terry, Aretha Franklin, Bias Boshell) - 3:40 "Sweet Passion" (Aretha Franklin) - 7:12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Passion |
RNA-Seq of human pathogens has become an established method for quantifying gene expression changes, identifying novel virulence factors, predicting antibiotic resistance, and unveiling host-pathogen immune interactions. A primary aim of this technology is to develop optimised infection control measures and targeted in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptome_analysis |
Obstructive lung disease is a category of respiratory disease characterized by airway obstruction. Many obstructive diseases of the lung result from narrowing (obstruction) of the smaller bronchi and larger bronchioles, often because of excessive contraction of the smooth muscle itself. It is generally characterized by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstructive_lung_disease |
London became one of the most pro-graffiti cities in the world in the 2010s. Although officially condemned and heavily enforced, street art has a huge following and in many ways is embraced by the public, for example, Stik's stick figures. Dulwich Outdoor Gallery, in collaboration with Street Art London, is an outdoor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_artist |
In the US, a grain type may be identified on a whisky label if that type of grain constitutes 51% or more of the ingredients and certain other conditions are satisfied. About 25% of the United States' production of barley is used for malting, for which barley is the best-suited grain.Barley wine is a style of strong be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley |
The selectivity filter opens towards the extracellular solution, exposing four carbonyl oxygens in a glycine residue (Gly79 in KcsA). The next residue toward the extracellular side of the protein is the negatively charged Asp80 (KcsA). This residue together with the five filter residues form the pore that connects the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_ion_channel |
Researchers and policymakers who address controversial safety-related issues have been targets of threats or violence for hundreds of years from those with strong feelings who wish to obstruct certain knowledge for the basis of evidence-based policy. More recently, researchers and their institutions have come under att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafetyLit |
This means LTFS-formatted tape media can be used similarly to other removable media (USB flash drive, external hard disk drive, and so on). While LTFS can make a tape appear to behave like a disk, it does not change the fundamentally sequential nature of tape. Files are always appended to the end of the tape. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_Open |
1987 – Prix de la Psyché (awarded by the Association Française d'études et de Recherches Psychiatriques) 1994 – The Salomon Katz Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities, University of Washington 1997 – Gradiva Award for Best General Book (awarded by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkel_Borch-Jacobsen |
Magnetic sail designs operating in a plasma wind share a theoretical foundation based upon a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, sometimes called a fluid model, from plasma physics for an artificially generated magnetosphere. Under certain conditions, the plasma wind and the magnetic sail are separated by a magnetopause t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Sail |
After Keller left in 1972, he continued designing lights for a new company (Pro-Light, 1973), later moving on to Maglite (1979), Brinkmann, and ASP. The second generation Kel-Lite was designed by Norm Nelson in 1973, featuring a battery charger, adjustable lens, baton lights, and a push button switch. It was marketed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kel-Lite |
It was constructed between 1135 and 1164. Different from the other cathedrals of Primary Gothic, it has no tribunes above the aisles, but triforia as one of three levels, alike some Romanesque basilicas before and Classic Gothic afterwards. It used the new six-part rib vault in the nave, giving the church exceptional w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Gothic_architecture |
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