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A model that Hymes developed as a framework for the analysis of a speech event within its cultural context is the mnemonic SPEAKING model. The model consists of sixteen components, which Hymes believed were necessary to consider in order to accurately and satisfactorily describe any particular speech event: message for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography_of_communication |
3D user interaction systems are based primarily on motion tracking technologies, to obtain all the necessary information from the user through the analysis of their movements or gestures, these technologies are called, tracking technologies. Trackers detect or monitor head, hand or body movements and send that informat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_user_interface |
DXVA works in conjunction with the video rendering model used by the video card. DXVA 1.0, which was introduced as a standardized API with Windows 2000 and is currently available on Windows 98 or later, can use either the overlay rendering mode or VMR 7/9. DXVA 2.0, available only on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Video_Acceleration |
Natural predators of the corsac fox include gray wolf, Eurasian eagle-owl, eagles, and (rarely, for pups) the upland buzzard. Golden eagles are major predators, with 38% of remains found belonging to the corsac fox at a golden eagle nest in Mongolia.The Corsac fox is a nocturnal and nomadic hunter of the steppes. It do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsac_fox |
In 2012, a group of games studios, specialists and academics came together to create the Game Accessibility Guidelines which won the FCC's Chairman's award for Advancement in Accessibility. This website has many tips for game developers as to how to make their games more accessible to those who have disabilities. They ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_accessibility |
SmartDO was originated in 1995 by its founder (Dr. Shen-Yeh Chen) during his Ph.D. study in Civil Engineering Department of Arizona State University. During 1998 to 2004, SmartDO was continuously developed and applied on aerospace industry and CAE consulting application as an in-house code. In 2005, Dr. Chen establishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartDO |
The rise in eclectic architecture created a need for interior specialists who had the skill, understanding and knowledge of past historical styles, to produce suitable accompanying interiors. This resulted in the emergence of interior designer as a regarded profession. Prominent interior designers in this era (between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclecticism_in_architecture |
This produces competition within the private sector to gain these contracts that then reward the organizations that can supply more cost-effective and quality goods and services. Some contracts also have specific clauses to promote working with minority-led, women-owned businesses and/or state-owned enterprises. Compet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procurement |
The problem then becomes one of determining the diameter of this cylinder so that its volume equals that of the crown of the tree. The volume of each of the individual disks can be calculated by using the formula for the volume of a cylinder: volume of disk = π ⋅ height ⋅ radius 2 = π ⋅ height ⋅ ( diameter 2 ) 4 {\disp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_crown_measurement |
With a doctrine that calls itself science among non-scientists but is rejected by the vast majority of the real practitioners, an amicable coexistence and collaboration between intelligent design advocates and upholders of mainstream science education standards is rare. With mainstream scientific and educational organi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design_movement |
Then the truth value of a sentence is defined to be its truth value under any variable assignment, and it is proved that this truth value does not depend on which assignment is chosen. This technique does not work if there are no assignment functions at all; it must be changed to accommodate empty domains.Thus, when th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_Logic |
Bauer's early work involved constructing computing machinery (e.g. the logical relay computer STANISLAUS from 1951–1955). In this context, he was the first to propose the widely used stack method of expression evaluation. Bauer was a member of the committees that developed the imperative computer programming languages ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_L._Bauer |
The commission sold $77.5 million (equivalent to $502 million in 2021) in bonds in January 1966 to finance this project. Construction of the bypass of the Rays Hill and Sideling Hill tunnels involved building a cut across both hills. The new alignment began at the Breezewood interchange, where a portion of the original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Turnpike |
Because the game software is integrated into the game unit and almost never designed to be changed by the user, these game systems are typically marketed as electronic toys or collectibles rather than game consoles. Several manufacturers produced these devices beginning in the 1990s, though the concept became best know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld_TV_game |
The unified disc format was called DVD and was introduced in 1997. Sony was one of the leading developers of the Blu-ray optical disc format, the newest standard for disc-based content delivery. The first Blu-ray players became commercially available in 2006. The format emerged as the standard for HD media over the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony |
They do not consciously attribute their own conclusions to books and other sources, which, in fact, on closer inspection, actually say the opposite. They do not eagerly seek out the highest possible figures in a series of statistics, independently of their reliability, or otherwise, simply because they want, for whatev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism_(negationism) |
L = spacing in feet between the center of the outer axles of any two or more consecutive axles. N = number of axles being considered.Two or more consecutive axles may not exceed the weight computed by the bridge formula, even the gross weight of the truck. This means that the "outer group" or axles 1-5 which comprises ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bridge_Gross_Weight_Formula |
The Nosé–Hoover thermostat is a deterministic algorithm for constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations. It was originally developed by Nosé and was improved further by Hoover. Although the heat bath of Nosé–Hoover thermostat consists of only one imaginary particle, simulation systems achieve realistic constant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose–Hoover_thermostat |
Relgis also published, in 1924, the 3 volumes of his main novel Petru Arbore (a Bildungsroman named after its main protagonist). Two new volumes of his topical essays saw print in later years: the first one, published by the printing offices of fellow journalist Barbu Brănișteanu, was Umanitarism și socialism ("Humanit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Relgis |
A staple of macOS's developer tools since the days of NeXTSTEP, FileMerge graphically compares two or more versions of a file. True to its name, FileMerge allows the user to easily merge the two or more versions into one file. The utility is often used to track changes to source code. macOS's opendiff command provides ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Developer_Tools |
The word polymer derives its meaning from this, which means "many mers". A repeat unit (mer) is not to be confused with the term monomer, which refers to the small molecule from which a polymer is synthesized.One of the simplest repeat units is that of the addition polymer polyvinyl chloride, -n-, whose repeat unit is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeat_unit |
Until the end of the 20th century tundra tires were mostly used by bush operators flying in remote areas. In the early part of the 21st century many sales of tundra tires have been to recreational pilots. Bill Duncan, president of Alaskan Bushwheels a tundra tire manufacturer explains: "It's the baby boomers. Here you ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_tire |
Cray decided to spin off the Colorado Springs laboratory to form Cray Computer Corporation. This new entity took the Cray-3 project with them.The 500 MHz Cray-3 proved to be Cray's second major failure. In order to provide the tenfold increase in performance that he always demanded of his newest machines, Cray decided ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Computer_Corporation |
Australian Cricket retired Phillip Hughes' One-Day International shirt number, 64, in remembrance of him, after his death during a match in 2014.In 2017, BCCI retired unofficially Sachin Tendulkar's One-Day International shirt number 10.Cricket Association of Nepal retired Paras Khadka's shirt number , 77, following th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retired_number |
Institutional pedagogy is a practice of education that is centered on two factors: 1. the complexity of the learner, and the "unconscious" that the educator brings to the classroom. This unconscious is another name for the diversity of social, economic, cultural and other unspoken elements that an educator interacts wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_pedagogy |
The electrostatic force exerted by a charge Q on another charge q separated by a distance r is given by Coulomb's Law where r ^ {\displaystyle \mathbf {\hat {r}} } is a vector of length 1 pointing from Q to q and ε0 is the vacuum permittivity. The work W required to move q from A to any point B in the electrostatic for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_potential_energy |
Contrary to utilitarianism, Pareto found that the welfare of an economy cannot be measured by aggregating the individual utilities of its inhabitants. Since individual utilities are subjective, their measurements may not be directly comparable. This led Pareto to conclude that if at least one person's utility increased... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought |
As a result, a common belief among archaeologists is that such works were crafted in the hopes of bringing good luck on a hunt. Statuettes and Ivory CarvingsWhile it is the rounded female statuettes, dubbed venus figurines, that have garnered the most attention, sculpted objects also featured more "normal" human depict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_art |
On 6 May 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant be shut down as an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or higher is likely to hit the area within the next 30 years.Problems in stabilizing the Fukushima I nuclear plant had hardened attitudes to nuclear power. As of June 2011, "more than 80 percen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_regulation |
Assistance falls into two categories: Mobile Station Based (MSB) Information used to acquire satellites more quickly. It can supply orbital data or almanac for the GPS satellites to the GPS receiver, enabling the GPS receiver to lock to the satellites more rapidly in some cases. The network can provide precise time.Mob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS |
Modern aerospace began with Engineer George Cayley in 1799. Cayley proposed an aircraft with a "fixed wing and a horizontal and vertical tail," defining characteristics of the modern aeroplane.The 19th century saw the creation of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1866), the American Rocketry Society, and the I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace |
There is also evidence of a recent large inflow of mass.The interstellar medium of Messier 64 consists of two counter-rotating disks that are approximately equal in mass. The inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy. The stellar population of the galaxy exhibits no measurable counter-rotation. Possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Eye_Galaxy |
The thin plate spline (TPS) model is the most widely used model for transformations when working with shape contexts. A 2D transformation can be separated into two TPS function to model a coordinate transform: T ( x , y ) = ( f x ( x , y ) , f y ( x , y ) ) {\displaystyle T(x,y)=\left(f_{x}(x,y),f_{y}(x,y)\right)} wher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_context |
Chemically, it is a fusion protein consisting of the antigen-binding fragment (Fab) of a monoclonal antibody with the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA/E-120, "estafenatox"). The Fab binds to 5T4, an antigen expressed by various tumor cells, and the superantigen induces an immune response by activating T l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naptumomab_estafenatox |
The Scheimpflug principle explains the relationship between lens tilts and swings, and the plane of sharp focus. The ability to distort the shape of the image by skewing the film plane: This is most often to reduce or eliminate, or deliberately exaggerate, convergence of lines that are parallel in the subject. If a cam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellows_camera |
The modes can be differentiated by the speed at which they switch stability and the relative phases of leaning and steering as the bike experiences that mode. Any bike motion consists of a combination of various amounts of the possible modes, and there are three main modes that a bike can experience: capsize, weave, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics |
In order to protect the privacy of the private land owner where the point identified by the 1918 survey falls, a proxy marker was erected in 1940 about half a mile away, at the 130/AA intersection (39.8282°N 98.5796°W / 39.8282; -98.5796 (Center of the United States, Proxy Marker)).Its inscription reads: The GEOGRAPH... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_United_States |
Although expensive, pipelines are the cheapest way to move hydrogen over long distances. Hydrogen gas piping is routine in large oil-refineries, because hydrogen is used to hydrocrack fuels from crude oil. Hydrogen piping can in theory be avoided in distributed systems of hydrogen production, where hydrogen is routinel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_Economy |
Secure Data Recovery Services began operations in 2007 with the establishment of its first lab facility in Los Angeles, California. Additional labs in Cleveland, Ohio and Toronto, Ontario in Canada, soon followed, each with Class 10 ISO 4 cleanrooms and advanced data security standards and certifications. The company n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDataRecovery |
The offspring of semi-supercentenarians (subjects who reached an age of 105–109 years) have a lower epigenetic age than age-matched controls (age difference = 5.1 years in blood) and centenarians are younger (8.6 years) than expected based on their chronological age. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_clock_(aging) |
To guarantee this, land use planning come into the fold. In a broader sense, this is a tool through which State defines the type of use land will have within a settlement, e.g. a city, while also determining the guidelines for its use in order to ensure effectiveness and sustainability. Land use, in this case, is assig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-use_planning |
The Second World War triggered a strong demand for charcoal again. At that time, motor vehicles were also powered by wood or charcoal. Today it is of no particular economic importance, in particular due to the loss of wood gases during charcoal production, the calorific value yield from wood is extremely low. Charcoal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal_pile |
Slides should be checked on an annual basis to check the condition of preserved specimens. Desiccants and freeze-drying: Silica gel or freeze-drying methods can be applied to specimens that require preservation of the shape of a delicate organ such as a flower. Disadvantages of this technique are that the specimen is e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_herbaria |
In 2005, under Anderson's supervision, a more internationally oriented sister conference was added, under the name TEDGlobal. It was held, in chronological order: in Oxford, UK (2005), in Arusha, Tanzania (2007, titled TEDAfrica), in Oxford again (2009 and 2010), and in Edinburgh, UK (2011, 2012, and 2013). In 2014, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEDx_talk |
According to the current Ortografía, Latin expressions (e. g. curriculum vitae, grosso modo) are treated as unadapted foreign words, so they are also typographically emphasized. From 1870 to 2010, Latin expressions in Spanish texts were accentuated according to the Spanish orthographical rules (e. g. currículum vítae) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_alphabet |
Topical decongestants are decongestants applied directly to the nasal cavity. Their effectiveness by themselves in the common cold appears to have a small benefit in adults.Topical decongestants should only be used by patients for a maximum of 5–7 days in a row, because rebound congestion may occur in the form of rhini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topical_decongestant |
"Clusters of memes, or memeplexes (also known as meme complexes or as memecomplexes), such as cultural or political doctrines and systems, may also play a part in the acceptance of new memes. Memeplexes comprise groups of memes that replicate together and coadapt. Memes that fit within a successful memeplex may gain ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_theory |
Similar freight cars in North America are called boxcars. Covered goods wagons for transporting part-load or parcel goods are almost as old as the railway itself. Because part-load goods were the most common freight in the early days of the railway, the covered van was then the most important type of goods wagon and, f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_wagon |
In order for an injury to be healed by regeneration, the cell type that was destroyed must be able to replicate. Cells also need a collagen framework along which to grow. Alongside most cells there is either a basement membrane or a collagenous network made by fibroblasts that will guide the cells' growth. Since ischae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing |
"Ballroom dance" refers most often to the ten dances of Standard and Latin, though the term is also often used interchangeably with the five International Ballroom dances. Sequence dancing, which is danced predominantly in the United Kingdom, and its development New Vogue in Australia and New Zealand, are also sometime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballroom_dancing |
One of George Washington's Washington's observations was that ... "...men look towards the direction from which their rivers flow. The settlement of the trans-Allegheny region during the eighteenth century had impressed this fact upon his mind to such an extent that the construction of artificial waterways between the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuylkill_and_Susquehanna_Navigation_Company |
Paroxysmal hypertension is episodic and volatile high blood pressure, which may be due to stress of any sort, or from a pheochromocytoma, a type of tumor involving the adrenal medulla.Patients with paroxysmal hypertension who test negative for pheochromocytoma are said to be suffering from a clinical entity called "pse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxysmal_hypertension |
Instead, he moved to Alashan, west of Ningxia, and lived in the residence of the local Mongol prince. He then moved to Ningxia during the Xinhai Revolution when the Muslims took control of Ningxia, and finally moved to Xinjiang with Sheng Yun. Prince Duan "went no farther than Manchuria for exile, and was heard of ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Protocol |
They found that these cells would shut down their RNAi mechanism via maintaining RNA in a double-stranded state; i.e. if RNA remains in a double-stranded state, then the RNAi mechanism of gene silencing is effectively disabled. The authors speculated that this response was an evolutionary trend toward a redundant immun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancer_chromosome |
The respirator was an affordable alternative to the more expensive designs that had been used prior to its development (such as "Drinker's" by Philip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw in 1928), and accordingly came into common usage in Australia. More widespread use emerged during the 1940s and 1950s, when the Both respir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Australian_inventions |
The Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) is a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) responsible for developing standards for exchanging information and conducting business in the U.S. mortgage finance industry. It has more than 175 member organizations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISMO |
The basic Indo-European root for the divine creation is *dheh1, 'to set in place, lay down, or establish', as attested in the Hittite expression nēbis dēgan dāir ("...established heaven (and) earth"), the Young Avestan formula kə huvāpå raocåscā dāt təmåscā? ("What skillful artificer made the regions of light and dark?... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_cosmogony |
Asr prayer ends at sunset. According to Shia Islam it starts after the Zuhr prayer (Noon prayer) and ends at sunset.The Asr daily prayer is mentioned as the middle prayer in the Qur'an at sura 2 (Al-Baqara) and it is emphasized on the Muslims to protect this prayer meaning that it should be performed at all costs, ayat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asr_prayer |
The common starling appears to have arrived in Fiji in 1925 on Ono-i-lau and Vatoa islands. It may have colonised from New Zealand via Raoul in the Kermadec Islands where it is abundant, that group being roughly equidistant between New Zealand and Fiji. Its spread in Fiji has been limited, and there are doubts about th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_starling |
Where someone profits from unlawful acts, such as murder, fraud, or bribery, these profits may also be held in constructive trust. The most common of these is bribery, which requires that the person be in a fiduciary office. Certain offices, such as those of trustee and company director, are always fiduciary offices. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_trusts_in_English_law |
It has been held seventeen times to date: G-Bangladesh 2014 (GDayX): April 12 in Dhaka,. G-Ghana 2014: Feb 18–19 in Accra, Ghana. G-Delhi 2012: Sep 13–14 in Delhi, India. G-Mumbai 2012: Sep 6–7 in Mumbai, India. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Day |
Those artists who held this view wanted to give the audience their own part of this creative process. An early example is found in the early 1960s "change-paintings" of Roy Ascott, about whom Frank Popper has written: "Ascott was among the first artists to launch an appeal for total spectator participation". Aside from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art |
An anabatic wind, from the Greek anabatos, verbal of anabainein meaning "moving upward", is a warm wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side, driven by heating of the slope through insolation. It is also known as an upslope flow. These winds typically occur during the daytime in calm sunny weather. A hill or m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabatic_wind |
The true number of children who lived in orphanages during the communist era is not known, due to the fact that is not possible to obtain reliable data on practices and policies that took place under the regime. According to some sources in 1989 there were approximately 100,000 children living in orphanages at that dat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shame_of_a_Nation |
Hughes was a botanical artist and focused on plants, particularly orchids. Her illustrations include a variety of skills such as watercolor, oils, gouache and pencil. To be an effective botanical illustrator, one has to be intelligent, patient, knowledgeable, aesthetic and naturally artistic. Art history books, general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Olson_Hughes |
It is thus an effective bleach and is mostly used to make hypochlorites. It explodes on heating or sparking or in the presence of ammonia gas.Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) was the first chlorine oxide to be discovered in 1811 by Humphry Davy. It is a yellow paramagnetic gas (deep-red as a solid or liquid), as expected from i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_atom |
To simulate the thump, an F/A-18 Hornet is diving from 50,000 ft (15,200 m) to briefly go supersonic for reduced shock waves over Galveston, Texas, an island, and a stronger boom over water. By then, Lockheed Martin had begun machining the first part in Palmdale, California.In May 2019, the initial major structural par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Boom_Flight_Demonstrator |
Pacman conjecture parable of the broken window paradox of competition paradox of flexibility paradox of prosperity paradox of thrift paradox of toil paradox of value parallel economic model parental dividend Pareto efficiency Also called Pareto optimality. Pareto principle participation participatory economics partners... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_economics |
The construction of caves would wane after the 2nd century CE, possibly due to the rise of Mahayana Buddhism and the associated intense architectural and artistic production in Gandhara and Amaravati. The building of rock-cut caves would revive briefly in the 6th century CE, with the magnificent achievements of Ajanta ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rock-cut_architecture |
To improve the skyline of Birmingham, the "High Places" document was produced by the council to outline appropriate places for highrise buildings and to explain what the council expects from their design. Birmingham city centre is located on a sandstone ridge and is about 100 metres above sea level meaning that towers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_City_Plan |
So many casualties were suffered by this battalion that they were unable to withstand a strong counterattack, during which the survivors were captured. The few who managed to escape were forced back to the ridge from which they had launched their attack. These three battalions lost 1,500 men, including two commanding o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Gaza |
Separating uranium isotopes was difficult because the two isotopes have very nearly identical chemical properties, and could only be separated gradually using their small mass differences. Separating isotopes with a mass spectrometer was a technique Oliphant had pioneered with lithium in 1934.Lawrence began converting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lawrence |
The meteorite from Lake House was retrieved from storage and although the two objects were found to be unrelated, Professor Pillinger continued with his study of the larger meteorite. The meteorite landed on earth some 30,000 years ago and was apparently preserved by the frozen conditions during the last ice age. In no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salisbury_Museum |
They offer all the advantages of traditional trams but their lower weight, prefabricated beam type tracks offer the possibility of avoiding costly services diversions, lightweight OHL Over Head Lines and/or onboard power options e.g. hydrogen, biomethane, battery, may mean reduced/eliminated OHL. Thus installation cost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_tram |
The Renaissance style first appeared in the Crown of Bohemia in the 1490s. Bohemia together with its incorporated lands, especially Moravia, thus ranked among the areas of the Holy Roman Empire with the earliest known examples of the Renaissance architecture.The lands of the Bohemian Crown were never part of the ancien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_architecture |
By August 2013, data rates of about 1.6 Gbit/s were demonstrated over a single color LED. In September 2013, a press release said that Li-Fi, or VLC systems in general, do not absolutely require line-of-sight conditions. In October 2013, it was reported Chinese manufacturers were working on Li-Fi development kits.In Ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi |
"In April 2002, the CIA had captured its first important prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, who was transferred to a CIA black site and at the suggestion of psychologist James Mitchell the CIA embarked on interrogation methods which included sleep deprivation using bright lights and loud music – still prior to any legal authoriza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques |
In May 2000, Sergei Kiriyenko resigned and Nemtsov was elected leader of the party and its parliamentary group. Over 70% of delegates at the Union of Rightist Forces congress in May 2001 confirmed him as party leader. According to Nemtsov, the Union "always consisted of two factions, a Nemtsov faction and a Chubais fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov |
Exemplifying the Court's legal reasoning on this matter, it ruled in the 1998 case Clinton v. City of New York that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, which authorized the President to selectively void portions of appropriation bills, was a violation of the Presentment Clause, which sets forth the formalities governing th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine |
Chlormadinone acetate (CMA), sold under the brand names Belara, Gynorelle, Lutéran, and Prostal among others, is a progestin and antiandrogen medication which is used in birth control pills to prevent pregnancy, as a component of menopausal hormone therapy, in the treatment of gynecological disorders, and in the treatm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlormadinone_acetate |
The name "Erythraean Sea" has been or is still used for the following places: In the opening sentences of Herodotus' history, written in the 5th century BC, he refers to the Phoenicians having come originally from the Erythraean Sea. In the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, written in the 1st century AD, as well as in so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythraean_Sea |
Herzog & de Meuron have faced criticism for their vision for migrant workers in Beijing during the construction of the Beijing National Stadium. In a July 2008 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Jacques Herzog was criticised for not having done more to ensure the conditions under which migrant workers cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_&_de_Meuron |
The gathering in Washington, D.C. for the 2009 U.S. Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama also created a MCE. In this case, network overload was avoided by deploying multiple cell-on-wheels (CoW) units with their own wireless backhauls. This was a particularly major situation for cell carriers because many attendee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_call_event |
CrossFTP is a free FTP, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Google Storage, and Microsoft Azure storage client for Win, Mac, and Linux. CrossFTP adopts traditional FTP client GUI with local files displayed on the left, remote files on the right. CrossFTP Pro further includes SFTP, FTPS, and WebDav support, and features scheduli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossFTP |
The most widely practiced example of this reaction is the ethylation of benzene. Approximately 24,700,000 tons were produced in 1999. Highly instructive but of far less industrial significance is the Friedel-Crafts alkylation of benzene (and many other aromatic rings) using an alkyl halide in the presence of a strong L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene |
When Ambler finally left his car with his hands raised, he was tased multiple times and pinned by police, while pleading for his life and saying that he could not breathe. The network said it was "evaluating" the program in the wake of the worldwide George Floyd protests. In September 2020, Williamson County, Texas She... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_PD |
I agree if it were put into reservoirs, it would disable people sufficiently for an enemy to take control." On November 1966 Vue magazine ran "Why They Had to Outlaw LSD", in which writer WH Carr claimed that " few ounces of it, dumped in the water supply of a major city, could shake up millions. "Counter-culture icon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_terrorism |
It includes vocalizations that are used for conspecific communication in some cases. Biophony consists of the Greek prefix, bio, meaning life, and the suffix, phon, meaning sound, is a neologism used to describe the collective sound that vocalizing animals create in each given environment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_hypothesis |
The pieces are popular among collectors because they are the only U.S. quarter dollars issued strictly as a commemorative, not for circulation. The 2018 deluxe edition of R.S. Yeoman's A Guide Book of United States Coins lists the piece as ranging between $325 in almost uncirculated AU-50 on the Sheldon coin grading sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_quarter |
I built Beth-Bamoth for it was destroyed. I built Bezer for it was cut down by the armed men of Daybon, for all Daybon was now loyal; and I reigned from Bikran, which I added to my land. And I built Beth-Gamul, and Beth-Diblathaim...Beth Baal-Meon, and I placed there the poor people of the land. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesha_Stele |
In a barter economy, a general glut cannot occur. In a monetary economy, a general glut occurs not because sellers produce more commodities of every kind than buyers wish to purchase, but because buyers increase their desire to hold money.Say himself never used many of the later, short definitions of Say's law, and thu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say's_law |
Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) is a CCA developed at Google in 2016. While most CCAs are loss-based, in that they rely on packet loss to detect congestion and lower rates of transmission, BBR, like TCP Vegas, is model-based. The algorithm uses the maximum bandwidth and round-trip time at whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_slow_start |
Mark 3 was radically different. A high quality colour camera became available, a Pulnix TMC-X not much bigger than a Mini-Maglite. It was also much more sensitive, so the light could be smaller and a remote tilt mechanism became practicable. A coded control signal was needed that would go down the video cable to save u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MineCam |
From Blue Shield's point of view, it is not enough to develop and adopt international law norms such as the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict or the Doha Statement of the Conference of 'Ulamâ on Islam and Cultural Heritage'. It is necessary to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Cultural_Property_in_the_Event_of_Armed_Conflict |
One area where neuropsychological assessments can be beneficial is in forensic cases where the defendant's competency is being questioned due to possible brain injury or damage. A neuropsychological assessment may show brain damage when neuroimaging has failed. It can also determine whether the individual is faking a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropsychological_assessment |
Pulmonary glanders usually requires several months to develop, first manifesting through fever, dyspnea, paroxysmal coughing or persistent dry cough accompanied by labored breathing, possible diarrhea and polyuria, with all leading to a progressive loss of condition. Cutaneous glanders develops insidiously over an exte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_animal_disease |
Good faith (in a minority of states) or bad faith (sometimes called the "Maine Doctrine" although it is now abolished in Maine) Improvement, cultivation, or enclosure Payment of property taxes. This may be required by statute, such as in California, or just a contributing element to a court's determination of possessio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession |
Most likely, the American Bank Note Company engraved the printing plates for $5 and $10 notes while the National Bank Note Company engraved the printing plates for the $20 notes. All of the Demand Notes were printed by the American Bank Note Company. As designed, they were of the same size, and in appearance closely re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Note |
These 2-digit codes are based upon A4 = "11": The first digit is the factor the longer side (297 mm) is multiplied by and the second digit is the one for the shorter side (210 mm), so "24" is 2×297 mm × 4×210 mm = 594 mm × 840 mm. GOST 3450 from 1960 was replaced by ESKD GOST 2301 in 1968, but the numeric designations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size |
It covers operating hours ranging from 2500 to 4000 hours, with decreasing purchase rates ranging from US$0.1148/KWh down to US$0.046/KWh. In the second phase, the categories of solar generation were reduced to four when the residential category tariff increased to 1.0288 EGP/KWh. For the second category, non-residenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed-in_tariffs |
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