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Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property directed by Jamie King, produced by The League of Noble Peers and released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. Two parts, and one special The Pirate Bay trial edition of the first part, have been released so far, and The Leagu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Film |
The 1950s version is as follows: Several other notes: A single stroke can be represented in more than one corner, as is the case with many curly strokes. (e.g. the code for 乙 is 1771) If the character is fenced by 囗, 門 (门), or 鬥, the lower corners are used to denote what is inside the radical, instead of 00 for 囗 or 22... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-Corner_Method |
Chariot racing (Greek: ἁρματοδρομία, translit. harmatodromia, Latin: ludi circenses) was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sports. In Greece, chariot racing played an essential role in aristocratic funeral games from a very early time. With the institution of formal races and permanent racetra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot_racing |
Observationes Medicae is a 1641 book by Nicolaes Tulp. Tulp is primarily famous today for his central role in the 1632 group portrait by Rembrandt of the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, which commemorates his appointment as praelector in 1628. "Observationes Medicae" is also the title commonly used by early Dutch doctors ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observationes_Medicae_(Tulp) |
Biotribology is the study of friction, wear and lubrication of biological systems especially human joints such as hips and knees. In general, these processes are studied in the context of contact mechanics and tribology. Additional aspects of biotribology include analysis of subsurface damage resulting from two surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofluid_mechanics |
Radio Rentals operated mainly in the UK, having started life in Boyces Street, Brighton, Sussex, England. Growth of a public television service after the war encouraged more people to want TV sets but they were expensive, leaving an opportunity for companies like RR to offer them at a monthly rental price which was muc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DER_rental |
During the week of February 20, 2006, controllers conducted initial in-flight tests of three onboard science instruments, the Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer, the PEPSSI plasma-sensor, and the LORRI long-range visible-spectrum camera. No scientific measurements or images were taken, but instrument electronics, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons_KBO_Search |
IARU World Championships take place in odd year, starting 1995. Since 2004, an IARU Region 1 Championship takes place each even year. 2016 Herceg-Novi, Montenegro 2014 Bar, Montenegro 2012 Beatenberg, Switzerland 2009 Obzor, Bulgaria 2008 Pordenone, Italy 2007 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia 2006 Primorsko, Bulgaria 2005 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_telegraphy |
In archaeology the beachcombing lifestyle is associated with coastal shell-middens that sometimes accumulate over many hundreds if not thousands of years. Evidence at Klasies River Caves in South Africa, and Gulf of Zula in Eritrea, show that a beachcombing option is one of the earliest activities separating anatomical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachcombing |
A physician needs to investigate the cause of anovulation. Common causes are: Polycystic ovary syndrome Hypothalamic dysfunction Perimenopause Ovulatory dysfunction Thyroid disorders Hyperprolactinemia Eating disorders, dieting or other disordered eating Female athlete triadWith excessive or prolonged bleeding the diag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anovulatory_cycle |
Numerous civil rights groups and privacy groups oppose surveillance as a violation of people's right to privacy. Such groups include: Electronic Privacy Information Center, Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union and Privacy International. There have been several lawsuits such as Hepting v. AT&T ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_technology |
The collection The Solar System Beyond Neptune (2008) defines objects with a semi-major axis between those of Jupiter and Neptune and a Jupiter-relative Tisserand's parameter above 3.05 as centaurs, classifying the objects with a Jupiter-relative Tisserand's parameter below this and, to exclude Kuiper belt objects, an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_object |
Since the diminished sixth is meant to be enharmonically equivalent to a perfect fifth, this anomalous interval has come to be called the wolf fifth. Besides the above-mentioned quarter comma meantone, other tuning systems may produce severely dissonant diminished sixths. Conversely, in 12-tone equal temperament, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_interval |
The Hong Kong company Masklab also makes KF-style respirators. Australian/New Zealand P2 (AS/NZ 1716:2012): similar to EU grades.The NPPTL has also published a guideline for using non-NIOSH masks instead of the N95 in the COVID-19 response. The OSHA has a similar document. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtering_facepiece_respirator |
Mating occurs in the summer from May to August, during which testes and ovaries grow significantly in size. The ovaries become a dark orange color and eggs are visible on the surface. Embryonic development occurs in 24–26 hours. Eggs are pelagic and 0.71–0.92 mm (0.028–0.036 in) in length. Sexual maturity is reached at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_horse_mackerel |
Phonetic notes Semivowels contrast with unstressed high vowels in verbal conjugation, as in (eu) rio /ˈʁi.u/ and (ele) riu /ˈʁiw/. Phonologists discuss whether their nature is vowel or consonant. In most of Brazil and Angola, the consonant hereafter denoted as /ɲ/ is realized as a nasal palatal approximant , which nasa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language |
Along with national funding bodies, the ERC aims to improve the climate for European frontier research. The Scientific Council has been keen to learn from the ERC's peers in national research councils (European and overseas) and to engage in dialogue and appropriate collaboration. Also, some countries – such as Poland ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERC_Starting_Grant |
The consonant phonemes of Māori are listed in the following table. Seven of the ten Māori consonant letters have the same pronunciation as they do in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For those that do not, the IPA phonetic transcription is included, enclosed in square brackets per IPA convention. The pronunci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māori_language |
This compound crosses the basal membrane into the surrounding granulosa cells, where it is converted either immediately into estrone, or into testosterone and then estradiol in an additional step. The conversion of androstenedione to testosterone is catalyzed by 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17β-HSD), whereas the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen |
In the 1990s, voice evacuation started to become the standard for large facilities, and is still growing in popularity. The use, design, operation and installation of Voice evacuation systems is governed in Europe by CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization EN 60849 and in the UK by the British S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_alarm_notification_appliance |
Taking all the graduate courses in physics and mathematics that had interested him, Bardeen graduated in five years instead of the usual four. This allowed him time to complete his master's thesis, supervised by Leo J. Peters. He received his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1929 from Wisconsin.Bar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen |
Nepenthes chang is known with certainty only from the Banthad Mountains of central Thailand, where it has been recorded from two localities: Khao Kuap and the island of Ko Chang. The species grows terrestrially on peaty soil in open, steep forest. It has an altitudinal distribution of 300–600 m above sea level. It is p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_chang |
Zaker (2006) defines a sequence of graphs called t-atoms, with the property that a graph has Grundy number at least t if and only if it contains a t-atom. Each t-atom is formed from an independent set and a (t − 1)-atom, by adding one edge from each vertex of the (t − 1)-atom to a vertex of the independent set, in such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundy_number |
Microsoft Enterprise Library 6 was released in April 2013. New features include: Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) Simplifying the library all around Generalized and updated Transient Fault Handling Application Block ("Topaz") to help increasing resiliency to errors Registration by convention and other improvem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Enterprise_Library |
Since the Early modern period, an increasing number of religious cleansings were entwined with ethnic elements. Since religion is an important or a central marker of ethnic identity, some conflicts can best be described as "ethno-religious conflicts".Nazi antisemitism provides another example of the contentious divide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_persecution |
Burkhard Rost is a scientist leading the Department for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Rost chairs the Study Section Bioinformatics Munich involving the TUM and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) in Munich. From 2007-2014 R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkhard_Rost |
Typically a military computer is much more robust than an industrial computer enclosure. Most electronics will be protected with a layer of conformal coating. There will be more structure inside to support the components, the plug-in cards will be individually supported and secured to assure they do not pop out of thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_computers |
Hallam-Baker has a degree in electronic engineering from the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton and a doctorate in Computer Science from the Nuclear Physics Department at Oxford University. He was appointed a Post Doctoral Research Associate at DESY in 1992 and CERN Fellow in 1993. Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hallam-Baker |
2012: In the sci-fi video game Star Citizen, the zoo hypothesis is vaguely referenced in a lore point and is referred to as the Fair Chance Act. In the document, humans are generally forbidden from terraforming, mining, and inhabiting planets if the world is found to harbor lifeforms capable of developing intelligence.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_Hypothesis |
76 is: a composite number; a square-prime, of the form (p2, q) where q is a higher prime. It is the ninth of this general form and the seventh of the form (22.q).a Lucas number. a telephone or involution number, the number of different ways of connecting 6 points with pairwise connections. a nontotient. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76_(number) |
In a 1905 letter to their parents, João Batista tells that little Júlio "is bad at writing, and a failure in mathematics". His grade reports at Colégio Pedro II show that he once failed an Algebra exam, and barely passed one on Arithmetic. He later attributed these results to the teaching practices of the time, based o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Júlio_César_de_Mello_e_Souza |
In its free state, Ro binds to a variety of misfolded RNAs including misfolded 5S rRNAs, and is thought to act as some sort of quality control mechanism. Crystal structures of Ro complexed either with Y RNA or another RNA showed that Ro binds single-stranded 3′ ends of RNAs relatively nonspecifically, whereas Y RNA bin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_RNA |
In 2006, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) published a report of findings on the presence of child pornography legislation in the then-184 INTERPOL member countries. It later updated this information, in subsequent editions, to include 196 UN member countries. The report, entitled “Child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_pornography |
His appearance in 2010 made him the first master of ceremonies since 1995. He stated: "I have resisted many other offers like this, but there are just some things you don't turn down." His performance as host received a mixed response with positive reviews from the New York Daily News and the Associated Press, but also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais |
By 1949, a minor academic field aiming to incorporate electronic and computational methods to legal problems had been founded by American legal scholars, called jurimetrics. Though broadly said to be concerned with the application of the "methods of science" to the law, these methods were actually of a quite specifical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_law |
This was the first time a brain–computer interface was implanted via the patient’s blood vessels, eliminating the need for open brain surgery. Currently a number of groups are exploring a range of experimental devices using brain–computer interfaces, which have the potential to fundamentally change the way of life for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_technology |
Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch originating from the Afrikaners of South Africa, with over 7.1 million native speakers; Low German, considered a separate collection of unstandardized dialects, with roughly 4.35–7.15 million native speakers and probably 6.7–10 million people who can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_language |
John Melchior Bosco (1815–1888) was concerned about the education of street children who had left their villages to find work in the rapidly industrialized city of Turin, Italy. Exploited as cheap labor or imprisoned for unruly behavior, Bosco saw the need for creating a space where they would feel at home. He called i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_progressivism |
It results in a 20-year re-offense rate of less than 2.3 percent (versus 80 percent in the untreated control group), according to a large 1963 study involving a total of 1036 sex offenders by the German researcher A. Langelüddeke. This was much lower than otherwise expected, compared with overall sex offender recidivis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_abuser |
Thuis is often one of the five most-watched Belgian shows and regularly garners over one million viewers (with 6.6 million Flemings in total). During the 1990s, foreign soap operas such as Neighbours and The Bold and the Beautiful were extremely popular, the latter having achieved a cult status in Belgium and airing in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera |
The CFP franc was created in December 1945, together with the CFA franc, used in Africa. The reason for the creation of these francs was the weakness of the French franc immediately after the Second World War. When France ratified the Bretton Woods Agreement in December 1945, the French franc was devalued in order to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFP_franc |
Therefore there are multiple threats to the long-term survival of the pied tamarin that stem from habitat destruction and from interspecific competition. The pied tamarin is found in old-growth forests, sand forest and smaller secondary forest fragments. Their density is higher in secondary forest fragments than in pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saguinus_bicolor |
The cantic cubic honeycomb, cantic cubic cellulation or truncated half cubic honeycomb is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of truncated octahedra, cuboctahedra and truncated tetrahedra in a ratio of 1:1:2. Its vertex figure is a rectangular pyramid. John Horton Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_alternated_cubic_honeycomb |
In practice, the weights of the coins was not consistent and 240 of them seldom added up to a full pound; there were no shilling or pound coins and the pound as used only as an accounting convenience.Later kings debased the coin, both in weight and fineness. The original pound divided was the tower pound of 5,400 grain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Ounce |
Sometimes, as an alternative to special clothes, which can be costly, devices at a lower price can be attached to regular clothes in order to prevent a person from removing the clothes. Though many names are used for these objects, they are sometimes referred to as "mousetraps." Many versions exist, some of which are a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locking_clothing |
The roof of fourth ventricle is the dorsal surface of the fourth ventricle. It corresponds to the ventral surface of the cerebellum. The upper portion of the roof is formed by the cerebellum. The roof of ventricle is diamond shaped and can be divided into superior and inferior parts. The superior part or cranial part i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_of_fourth_ventricle |
The relationship between capitalism and conservation is one that has to be reckoned with due to an overarching neoliberal framework guiding most conservation efforts. According to ecologist William E. Rees, the "neoliberal paradigm contributes significantly to planetary unraveling" by treating the economy and the ecosp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberal_economics |
The company did not complete the project. They have plans for a similar plant in Arizona, and most recently (December 2013) in Texas, but there is no sign of 'breaking ground' in any of Enviromission's proposals. In December 2011, Hyperion Energy, controlled by Western Australians Tony Sage and Dallas Dempster, was rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft |
The thick layer of adipose tissue is more compliant than the structural elements of the body wall (i.e. ribs, muscles), therefore will more readily deform (absorb force) before the structural elements of the skin experience a force. The layer of adipose tissue also aids in the creation of the domed and cambered shape o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of_skin_in_locomotion |
The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop. Styles like slack-key guitar are well known worldwide, while Hawaiian-tinged music is a frequent part of Hollywood soundtracks. Hawaii also made a contribution to country music wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_music |
Evidence shows that alarms in pools are unreliable. The World Health Organization recommends that the most crowded hours be addressed by increasing the number of lifeguards at those times. Swimming in pairs ("buddy system"): Pair up swimmers, to keep surveillance on their buddy, and be available to help in case of a pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_drowning |
A graph database is a kind of NoSQL database that uses graph structures with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store information. General graph databases that can store any graph are distinct from specialized graph databases such as triplestores and network databases. An array DBMS is a kind of NoSQL DBMS t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_database_management_system |
Mincha or Minha may be recited from half an hour after halachic noontime until sunset. Sephardim and Italian Jews start the Mincha prayers with Psalm 84 and Korbanot, and usually continue with the Pittum hakketoret. The opening section is concluded with Malachi 3:4.Ashrei is recited, followed by half-Kaddish, the Amida... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_prayer |
A "Land Warrior Consortium" was formed by several of the contracting firms, with the goal of designing and building the first field-able LW system, designated LW v1.0, later LW-IC (Land Warrior – Initial Capability). The basic Windows and WinCE platforms were retained, and a new hybrid PAN was designed, which drew upon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Warrior |
Ringed seals occur throughout the Arctic Ocean. They can be found in the Baltic Sea, the Bering Sea and the Hudson Bay. They prefer to rest on ice floe and will move farther north for denser ice. Two subspecies, P. h. saimensis and ladogensis, can be found in freshwater. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringed_seal |
In this case, CPUs either cause a system failure (a "therm-trip") or throttle their speed down. Most modern processors will cause a therm-trip only upon a catastrophic cooling failure, such as a no longer operational fan or an incorrectly mounted heat sink. For example, a laptop's CPU cooling system may be designed for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Design_Power |
On 16 July 2009, Iranian news agencies reported that the head of Iran's atomic energy organization Gholam Reza Aghazadeh had abruptly resigned for unknown reasons after twelve years in office. Shortly afterwards WikiLeaks released a report disclosing a "serious nuclear accident" at the Iranian Natanz nuclear facility i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_pager_messages |
There is clear evidence that dogs were derived from grey wolves during the initial phases of domestication. The wolf population(s) that were involved are likely to be extinct. Despite numerous genetic studies of both modern dogs and ancient dog remains, there is no firm consensus regarding either the timing or location... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_dogs |
Cyclic nucleotides can be found in many different types of eukaryotic cells, including photo-receptor rods and cones, smooth muscle cells and liver cells. Cellular concentrations of cyclic nucleotides can be very low, in the 10−7M range, because metabolism and function are often localized in particular parts of the cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_nucleotide |
Yahoo's free WiFi was made available for one year to the Times Square area in New York City beginning November 10, 2009. Microsoft made free WiFi available to select airports and hotels across the United States, in exchange for one search on the Bing search engine by the user.The City of Adelaide in South Australia in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_wireless_network |
Generative models such as the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and the more generally formulated Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN) are popular choices in modelling activities from sensor data. Discriminative models such as Conditional Random Fields (CRF) are also commonly applied and also give good performance in activity recog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_recognition |
It shows a substantial difference in level with regards to the finding. The slope of southern wadi channel seemed to have been rectified when the archaeologists compared it to the natural and twisted northern side. Arne Ramisch supported this idea by providing evidence that displays a low correlation of fraternal patte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid |
Procedures at its Ministry of Commerce were sped up, publication requirements were merged and social security registration with the Chamber of commerce was automated. The reforms cut 6 procedures for forming a new company from 13 to 7 and the cost from 59% of income per capita to 32%. The commercial registration fees w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship_policies_in_Saudi_Arabia |
De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima, usually referred to as Narratio Prima (Latin: First Account), is an abstract of Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory, written by Georg Joachim Rheticus in 1540. It is an introduction to Copernicus's major work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, published in 1543, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narratio_Prima |
Hardtack, baked with or without the addition of fat, was and still is a staple in Russian military rations, especially in the Navy, as infantry traditionally preferred simple dried bread when long shelf life was needed. Called galeta (галета) in Russian, it is usually somewhat softer and more crumbly than traditional h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocket_bread |
Recycling in human industrial systems (or technoecosystems) differs from ecological recycling in scale, complexity, and organization. Industrial recycling systems do not focus on the employment of ecological food webs to recycle waste back into different kinds of marketable goods, but primarily employ people and techno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient_cycling |
Implicit surface: x20 + x21 + x22 = 1This is the set of points in 3-dimensional Euclidean space found exactly one unit away from the origin. It is called the 2-sphere, S2, for reasons given below. The same idea applies for any dimension n; the equation x20 + x21 + ⋯ + x2n = 1 produces the n-sphere as a geometric object... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_homotopy_group_of_spheres |
Their findings support the notion that social factors in a child's development play a large role in the gender differences that later emerge, as "gender differences were not found in infancy…but they emerged by the toddler/preschool period and in childhood". One possible explanation for this developmental difference co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_emotional_expression |
This led to Horn suggesting they halt production and resume in London. For the next several months, recording took place at SARM East, SARM West, and AIR Studios in London. However, when the move was not enough to improve internal relations and differences in the album's direction, Rabin felt it was time to relocate th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Generator |
Subsequent evaluations revealed that a mere 12 minutes of oxygen supply remained in Pisces III. Reflecting on the close call, author R. Frank Busby later stated, "... the crew of PISCES III can be thankful they were not 250 miles, rather than 150 miles from Cork. "In 1975, Chapman published an account of his rescue in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Mallinson |
Solvent welding: used for similar plastic connections using solvent fittings, the solvent temporarily dissolves the polymer chains of the plastic and the parts to be joined are brought together. On rehardening, the polymer chains from each part are entangled and so form a solid weld. Metal welding: used to form strong ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_cannon |
This method of fixing a barrel to a receiver has been used extensively by firearms manufacturers since before the 20th century, and can be viewed as a traditional barrel mounting method. Action threads are not the only method of fixing a barrel to a receiver (see Alternative methods below). Furthermore, recoil-operated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_threads |
Let z = x + i y {\displaystyle z=x+iy} and let σ ( x , y ) = σ ( z ) {\displaystyle \sigma (x,y)=\sigma (z)} be a real-valued function defined in a bounded domain D {\displaystyle D} . If σ > 0 {\displaystyle \sigma >0} and σ x {\displaystyle \sigma _{x}} and σ y {\displaystyle \sigma _{y}} are Hölder continuous, then ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoanalytic_function |
In fact, although Gauss also conjectured that there are infinitely many primes p {\displaystyle p} such that the ring of integers of Q ( p ) {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {p}})} is a PID, as of 2016 it is not yet known whether there are infinitely many number fields K {\displaystyle K} (of arbitrary degree) such t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_domain |
This was very often achieved by "silver stain" applied externally to the sheets of glass (see above). The addition of sulphur, together with carbon and iron salts, is used to form iron polysulphides and produce amber glass ranging from yellowish to almost black. With calcium it yields a deep yellow colour. Adding titan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_Glass |
The north–south component of the analemma results from the change in the Sun's declination due to the tilt of Earth's axis of rotation. The east–west component results from the nonuniform rate of change of the Sun's right ascension, governed by the combined effects of Earth's axial tilt and its orbital eccentricity.One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma |
Sedna (provisionally designated 2003 VB12) was discovered by Michael Brown (Caltech), Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), and David Rabinowitz (Yale University) on 14 November 2003. The discovery formed part of a survey begun in 2001 with the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California, us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna |
The voiceless alveolar sibilant is a common consonant sound in vocal languages. It is the sound in English words such as sea and pass, and is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet with ⟨s⟩. It has a characteristic high-pitched, highly perceptible hissing sound. For this reason, it is often used to get some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_non-sibilant_fricative |
A rolling coulter has an optional accessory called a "jointer". The jointer flips over a small part of the surface on top of the slice before the plowshare flips the main slice. It ensures that all of the plant debris gets covered by the flipped slice. == References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulter_(agriculture) |
It was also the first DCCG game to become a major success in the Western world, becoming one of the top-grossing mobile games of 2012. DCCG games with significant populations of players include The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, Kantai Collection and Million Arthur. In late 2012, Cinderella Girls was earning over one bil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_collectible_card_games |
With no books and no way to save or share settings, early users had to learn how to use the synthesizer themselves, by word of mouth, or from seminars held by Moog and Deutsch.Moog refined the synthesizer in response to requests from musicians and composers. For example, after Deutsch suggested Moog find a way to fade ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesiser |
These complications have given the grape a reputation for being difficult to grow: Jancis Robinson calls pinot a "minx of a vine" and André Tchelistcheff declared that "God made cabernet sauvignon whereas the devil made Pinot noir." It is much less tolerant of harsh vineyard conditions than the likes of Cabernet Sauvig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinot_Noir |
July 2006: Joshua Gardner was exposed as a fake Duke of Cleveland with a Wikipedia page. January 2007: English-language Wikipedians in Qatar were briefly blocked from editing, following a spate of vandalism, by an administrator who did not realize that the country's internet traffic is routed through a single IP addres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia |
The most famous of Thai amulets are the set of five rarest and highly sought after amulets Phra Somdej Wat Rakhang (Thai: พระสมเด็จวัดระฆัง), Phra Rod (Thai: พระรอด), Phra Nang Phaya (Thai: พระนางพญา), Phra Phong Suphan (Thai: พระผงสุพรรณ), and Phra Sum Kor (Thai: พระซุ้มกอ), together called Benja Phakhi (Thai: เบญจภาค... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_amulets |
He attributed the depiction to the screenwriter who was worried about the film encouraging people with mental illness to stop taking their medication.Nash did not take any medication after 1970, nor was he committed to a hospital ever again. Nash recovered gradually. Encouraged by his then former wife, de Lardé, Nash l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr. |
TED was accused of censoring the talk by not posting it.On May 7, 2012, TED curator Chris Anderson, in an email to Hanauer, commented on his decision and took issue with several of Hanauer's assertions in the talk, including the idea that businesspeople were not job creators. He also made clear his aversion to the talk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_talk |
Experiments were carried out under different conditions for two identical but separated beater wheel mills. The influence of pulverizing process parameter, such as electrical current of the driving motor, mill capacity, boiler production, coal types on mill vibration are investigated to identify the potential malfuncti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_pulveriser |
Marx developed a theory of historical materialism. He describes the mid-19th-century condition in The Communist Manifesto as follows: The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_progress |
The benefits suggested include operation in high radiation or high temperature environments. These modern versions of mechanical computation were highlighted in The Economist in its special "end of the millennium" black cover issue in an article entitled "Babbage's Last Laugh".Due to his association with the town Babba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage |
A dynamic porometer measures how long it takes for the humidity to rise from one specified value to another in an enclosed chamber clamped to a leaf. The resistance R {\displaystyle R} is then determined from the following equation: Δ t = ( R + A ) l Δ h 1 − h {\displaystyle \Delta t={\frac {\left(R+A\right)l\Delta h}{... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomatal_conductance |
Macular degeneration typically produces micropsia due to the swelling or bulging of the macula, an oval-shaped yellow spot near the center of the retina in the human eye. The main factors leading to this disease are age, smoking, heredity, and obesity. Some studies show that consuming spinach or collard greens five tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropsia |
Gunn stopped working on semiconductor physics in 1972, and pursued a number of different interests in his role as IBM Fellow. He spent nearly three years developing an APL computer model of a computer-controlled car, which showed that fuel consumption could be halved. This was part of a joint effort with John Cocke, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Gunn |
Although he admires Akiyama and Fukunaga for their intelligence, he admits to being most interested in how Nao participates in the games. He is apparently one of the smartest and cleverest among the hosts. He admits near the end of the manga that he understands the way Akiyama thinks well, a subtle indication that Lero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_Game |
Hans Neurath was the first to show that Astbury's models could not be correct in detail, because they involved clashes of atoms. Neurath's paper and Astbury's data inspired H. S. Taylor, Maurice Huggins and Bragg and collaborators to propose models of keratin that somewhat resemble the modern α-helix. Two key developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_helices |
A potential solution to these two problems is to include improved nutritional programs when work intensity increases. This way, women aren't forced to choose between more work and more food as the nutrition program will be improved as work intensity increases. Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen lists adequate nutrition as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_intensity |
The P80 is a throwback to the original Glock 17 Gen 1 type pistol chambered in 9×19mm with original Gen 1 frame and stippling and Gen 2 / Gen 3 internals.Glock 18: The Glock 18 is a selective-fire variant of the Glock 17, developed at the request of the Austrian counter-terrorist unit EKO Cobra, and as a way to interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_pistol |
Bonuses may be paid in cash, checks, fake credit cards or speakers. In Australia the same tactic is used. Receipts are issued, but the contact details are usually fake so that the goods cannot be returned. As an added measure, vehicles are leased so that they cannot be traced to either the distributor or 'sales person'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam |
"In his 2002 autobiography Memoirs, David Rockefeller wrote: For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic insti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_conspiracy_theories |
Television episodes can be purchased to own, and are transferable to an unlimited number of consoles. Downloaded files use 5.1 surround audio and are encoded using VC-1 for video at 720p, with a bitrate of 6.8 Mbit/s. Television content is offered from MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Turner Broadcasting and CBS; and movie co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_LIVE |
After analyzing 46 cases, Berrios found a female predominance of 80% in women over the age of 60. The study concluded that musical hallucinations were more likely to be seen in elderly women affected by deafness or brain disease than in individuals with no psychiatric illness at all.Keshevan and Berrios were the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_hallucinations |
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