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In 1880, Scott obtained special permission to take the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam, as women were not normally allowed to sit for the exam. She came eighth on the Tripos of all students taking them, but due to her sex, the title of "eighth wrangler," a high honour, went officially to a male student.At the ceremo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Scott |
Patents for anything disclosed in ISO CD 11172 filed a year or more after its publication are questionable. If only the known MP3 patents filed by December 1992 are considered, then MP3 decoding has been patent-free in the US since 22 September 2015, when U.S. Patent 5,812,672, which had a PCT filing in October 1992, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 |
The West Eurasian lineage includes ancient Levantine and ancient Near Eastern dogs, ancient and modern European dogs, modern African dogs, and Bronze Age dogs from the Eurasian Steppe.Ancient and modern European dogs have a closer relationship with arctic dogs than do Near Eastern dogs, indicating a major admixture eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_of_the_dog |
The 'Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) is the state organization in Ghana involved with surveillance of the use of nuclear energy in Ghana. It is similar in aim to the Ghana Nuclear Society (GNS), with the difference being that the GNS is a nonprofit organisation, whereas the GAEC is part of the parliament of Ghana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Atomic_Energy_Commission |
Determining the percentage of any specific food item in a crocodile's diet is difficult because their defecation in water makes scat analysis impossible, and capturing individual animals to analyze their stomach contents is painstaking. In addition, as an animal that feeds rarely, sometimes only a few times in a year, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_biology_of_the_Nile_crocodile |
Hogsmeade Station is the closest train stop to Hogwarts; the Hogwarts Express stops here after travelling from King's Cross. Scenes involving Hogsmeade Station in the Harry Potter films were shot at Goathland railway station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, built in 1865 and virtually unchanged, that serves the vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_Nine_and_Three_Quarters |
He believes the real number as of 2015 was $7.40 per day.Using a single monetary poverty threshold is problematic when applied worldwide, due to the difficulty of comparing prices between countries. Prices of the same goods vary dramatically from country to country; while this is typically corrected for by using PPP ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold |
Iodine-131 is used for unsealed source radiotherapy in nuclear medicine to treat several conditions. It can also be detected by gamma cameras for diagnostic imaging, however it is rarely administered for diagnostic purposes only, imaging will normally be done following a therapeutic dose. Use of the 131I as iodide salt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine-131 |
Blacklists can be applied at various points in a security architecture, such as a host, web proxy, DNS servers, email server, firewall, directory servers or application authentication gateways. The type of element blocked is influenced by the access control location. DNS servers may be well-suited to block domain names... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist_(computing) |
Castanheira commandeered their shore boat, which he took with several armed men to the Niña, planning to arrest Columbus. When Columbus defied him, Castanheira said he did not believe or care about Columbus' story, denounced Spaniards, and went back to the island. After another two days, Castanheira released the prison... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus |
In 2011, Stat Quo was cited at Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment website as a signed songwriter to Aftermath Entertainment. On July 23, 2012 Wiz Khalifa released a song titled "Far from Coach" as a promotional single from his second studio album O.N.I.F.C., the track features former Aftermath Entertainment artists Stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stat_Quo |
NASA Socials JAXA-NASA DC Cherry Blossom Event April 12, 2013, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland GPM Media DayFriday, Nov. 15, 2013, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD Social media users were invited to apply for credentials to attend the media day activities and share the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM_Core_Observatory |
Since the PVDC is applied by a coating process, the coating weight is expressed in grams per square meter (gsm). Duplex structures are typically PVC/PVDC films, ranging from 250µPVC/40gsmPVDC to 250µPVC/120gsmPVDC with WVTR from 0,65 to 0,25 g/m2/d and OTR from 1 to 0,1 cc/m2/d. For very deep draw thermoformed cavities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blister_pack |
OpenML, an API for capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media OpenKODE, an API for providing abstracted, portable access to operating system resources such as file systems, networks and math libraries OpenKCam, Advanced Camera Control API OpenMAX, a layered set of three programming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khronos_Group |
The strong duality theorem says that if one of the two problems has an optimal solution, so does the other one and that the bounds given by the weak duality theorem are tight, i.e.:maxx cTx = miny bTyThe strong duality theorem is harder to prove; the proofs usually use the weak duality theorem as a sub-routine. One pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming_duality |
The setup for projection topography (also called "traverse" topography") is essentially identical to section topography, the difference being that both sample and film are now scanned laterally (synchronously) with respect to the narrow incident beam. A projection topograph therefore corresponds to the superposition of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_topography |
The primary mechanism by which TTX is toxic is through the inhibition of sodium channel function, which reduces the functional capacity of neuron communication. This inhibition largely affects a susceptible subset of sodium channels known as TTX-sensitive (TTX-s), which also happens to be largely responsible for the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotoxin |
In the case of lengthening a leg bone, an additional surgery will lengthen the Achilles tendon to accommodate the longer length of the treated bone. The therapeutic advantage of the Ilizarov treatment is that the patient can be physically active whilst awaiting the bone to repair. The Ilizarov apparatus also is used to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilizarov_apparatus |
The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is a four-satellite regional time transfer system and enhancement for GPS covering Japan and the Asia-Oceania regions. QZSS services were available on a trial basis as of January 12, 2018, and were started in November 2018. The first satellite was launched in September 2010. An ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_satellite |
Forms of privilege one might have can actually be decreased by the presence of other factors. For example, the feminization of a gay man may reduce his male privilege in addition to already lacking heterosexual privilege. When acknowledging privilege, multifaceted situations must be understood individually. Privilege i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege |
With the success of the 300 BLK, hand-loaders wondered which other bullet options could be adapted to fill the opportunities between the two existing extremes, using an AR-15 pattern rifle. The AR-15 standard cartridge is a .223 caliber, frequently using bullets in the 55 to 77 gr weight range. The 300 BLK can be found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.277_Wolverine |
This very complex problem involves several constraints related to labour and company rules and also different evaluation criteria and objectives. Being able to solve this problem efficiently can have a great impact on costs and quality of service for public transportation companies. There is a large number of different... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_scheduling_problem |
These applications often need to be supported by the treating medical team. The treating team can assist adolescents in finding ways to tell their employers about their condition in a positive way. OTs and social workers can also help teenagers understand their rights as an employee with a chronic illness. It is import... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_rheumatoid_arthritis |
Apart from its use in international education and international development, the term "learning crisis" is increasingly used in academic research. For example, Sam Hickey and Naomi Hossain's 2019 edited volume, The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning, uses the learning crisis as on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_crisis |
Hegesias of Cyrene was a Greek philosopher born in Cyrene, Libya, around the year 290 BC. He came from the dual Socratic and hedonistic tradition of the Cyrenaic school, but is clearly distinguished from it by the radical philosophical pessimism attributed to him. All his writings have been lost and we only know of his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_pessimism |
This same proposal was proposed again in 1976 but further studies indicated that the recurrence rate was not better. Further advances in 1961 began when surgeons started to reattach of the anterior vaginal wall to Cooper's ligament.In 1955, surgical mesh began to be used to strengthen pelvic tissue. In 1970, tissue fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_anomalies |
Mills' intransigence to criticism did not place him in a good light following an eventual Royal Commission into the ASG and also meant that modifications that may have resulted in their successful operation were delayed or refused and the locomotives were finally withdrawn to become monuments to human folly of various ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Mills_(engineer) |
Akhlaq (Arabic: أخلاق, , plural of (Arabic: خلق khulq which means disposition), is the practice of virtue, morality and manners in Islamic theology and falsafah (philosophy). Akhlaq is the most commonly used Islamic term for morality.The science of ethics (`Ilm al-Akhlaq) teaches that through practice and conscious eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_ethics |
Gab was founded in 2016 by chief executive officer (CEO) Andrew Torba and chief technology officer (CTO) Ekrem Büyükkaya, who had previously worked together at advertising technology company Automate Ads (formerly Kuhcoon). Torba started working on the site in May 2016 and on August 15, 2016, Gab launched in private be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) |
Evolutionary Biology is a college-level evolutionary biology textbook written by Eli C. Minkoff that is 627 pages long. It was published in 1983 by Addison-Wesley. This is Minkoff's first foray into the world of college-level textbook authorship. The book contains an index and various biographical references. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_Biology_(book) |
Many copies of the gospels and Paul's letters were made by individual Christians over a relatively short period of time very soon after the originals were written. There is evidence in the Synoptic Gospels, in the writings of the early church fathers, from Marcion, and in the Didache that Christian documents were in ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Bible |
Those different levels of mental development, and their relations to parental imagos, correspond to specific id forms of aggression and affection.The concept of super-ego and the Oedipus complex is subject to criticism for its perceived sexism. Women, who are considered to be already castrated, do not identify with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_ego |
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several initiatives to improve collaboration between scientists from a variety of fields have been launched.Studies exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on behavior and mental health are conducted and widely shared across social media such as Twitter.In this context, the P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourced_psychological_science |
These orientations describe how a person has developed in regard to how he responds to conflicts in his or her life; he also considered that people were never pure in any such orientation. These two factors form four types of malignant character, which he calls Receptive, Exploitative, Hoarding and Marketing. He also d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_typologies |
Within two years, He Qi had defeated most of the hostile forces and killed some 6,000 enemies in the battles.After Sun Ce's death in 200, He Qi continued serving under Sun Quan, Sun Ce's younger brother and successor, who became the new warlord ruling over the territories in the Jiangdong region. By 205, He Qi had rees... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Qi |
Journalists have limited time and limited resources that can contribute to external sources getting involved in the news media's gatekeeping process, and some scholars have attempted to reveal certain relationships between information sources and the agenda the news media has made up, probing who builds the media agend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda-setting_theory |
The first laternas were crafted in Constantinople by the Italian Giuseppe Turconi and the Greek Joseph Armaos. Piano parts were mainly used in its assembly and the mechanism included a barrel with nails, which plucked steel pegs which released spring-loaded levers that struck the piano strings and an included bell. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_piano |
HADAS was founded in 1961 by Themistocles Constantinides to investigate the Saxon origins of Hendon and since has grown to over 150 members covering the whole of the London Borough of Barnet, and addressing all archaeological periods. Its two declared objectives are to undertake archaeological and historical research, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendon_and_District_Archaeological_Society |
Newton–Cotes quadrature is based on approximating f by a polynomial interpolant at equally-spaced points in , and like Clenshaw–Curtis also integrates polynomials of degree up to n exactly when given n samples. However, it suffers from Runge's phenomenon as n increases; Newton–Cotes does not converge for some continuou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss–Legendre_quadrature |
Marine plastic pollution (or plastic pollution in the ocean) is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_plastic_pollution |
A small fin rose vertically at the tip of the car's nose. Veteran drag racer Arfons was to drive the car for the record attempt, but a month before the scheduled run, during initial testing on a dragstrip with Arfons outside the car observing, the two braking parachutes ripped loose and the car "knifed through a chain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfoot_Express |
The Tefzel nozzle with a long tapered front fluid chamber absorbed unwanted harmonics and allowed only the hydraulic fluid surge from the individual piezo drive pulse to eject a drop. One drive pulse equaled one drop at all frequencies up to the fluid resonance for the tube length. The square wave pulse leading edge tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkjet_technology |
The multiplication, unit, and inverse maps of the group scheme are given by the comultiplication, counit, and antipode structures in the Hopf algebra. The unit and multiplication structures in the Hopf algebra are intrinsic to the underlying scheme. For an arbitrary group scheme G, the ring of global sections also has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative_group_scheme |
Relationships are also important for their ability to help individuals develop a sense of self. The relational self is the part of an individual's self-concept that consists of the feelings and beliefs that one has regarding oneself that develops based on interactions with others. In other words, one's emotions and beh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationships |
As a teacher, he devoted himself with equal zeal and clarity to both elementary teaching and teaching for licentiate or doctoral degrees. Although Holmgren exhibited a strong temper during mathematical seminars, several of his students carried on his work and won fame throughout the mathematical world. Holmgren also ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Albert_Holmgren |
The role of genetic drift is equivocal; though strongly supported initially by Dobzhansky, it was downgraded later as results from ecological genetics were obtained. The primacy of population thinking: the genetic diversity carried in natural populations is a key factor in evolution. The strength of natural selection i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_inheritance |
The Soviet researchers, led by Andrei Sakharov, developed and tested their first Teller–Ulam device in 1955. The publication of the Bravo fallout analysis was a militarily sensitive issue, with Joseph Rotblat possibly deducing the staging nature of the Castle Bravo device by studying the ratio and presence of tell-tale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo |
Baumann, a microbiologist by training, was so pleased with Pillsbury's experience in the space program that he advocated for his company to adopt what would become HACCP at Pillsbury.Soon, Pillsbury was confronted with a food safety issue of its own when glass contamination was found in farina, a cereal commonly used i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_Analysis_and_Critical_Control_Points |
Coastal fish (such as the smooth toadfish) and seabirds (such as the Atlantic puffin) are often monitored for heavy metal bioaccumulation. Methylmercury gets into freshwater systems through industrial emissions and rain. As its concentration increases up the food web, it can reach dangerous levels for both fish and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_accumulation |
A further impetus to reviving interest in paperweights was the publication of Evangiline Bergstrom's book, Old Glass Paperweights, the first of a new genre. A number of small studios appeared in the middle 20th century, particularly in the US. These may have several to some dozens of workers with various levels of skil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_art |
The treatment regimen of quinine is complex and is determined largely by the parasite's level of resistance and the reason for drug therapy (i.e. acute treatment or prophylaxis). The World Health Organization recommendation for quinine is 20 mg/kg first times and 10 mg/kg every eight hours for five days where parasites... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimalarial_drug |
A better measure of the inadequacy of the current mélange of IT antiquities is that the SEC/CFTC report on the May 6 crash was released on September 30, 2010. Taking nearly five months to analyze the wildest ever five minutes of market data is unacceptable. CFTC Chair Gensler specifically blamed the delay on the “enorm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash |
In 1979, Fowler, David Baldwin and Grant Logan suggested a new layout for these injectors that appeared to be able to produce a "thermal barrier" that should greatly reduce the leakage. The idea was to inject new fuel ions into the ends of the mirror cells so the effective temperature on the ends was higher than in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Mirror_Experiment |
Routing protocols, according to the OSI routing framework, are layer management protocols for the network layer, regardless of their transport mechanism: IS-IS runs on the data link layer (Layer 2) Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is encapsulated in IP, but runs only on the IPv4 subnet, while the IPv6 version runs on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_protocol |
The great disparity between the number of patients needing transplants and the number of procedures being performed spurred research into the transplantation of non-human hearts into humans after 1993. Xenografts from other species and artificial hearts are two less successful alternatives to allografts.The ability of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_transplant |
Anhydrous iron(II) oxalate is as yet (2020) unknown among minerals. However, the dihydrate is known, as humboldtine. A related, though much more complex mineral is stepanovite, Na·3H2O - an example of trioxalatoferrate(III). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron(II)_oxalate |
During project execution a real-life project will never execute exactly as it was planned due to uncertainty. This can be due to ambiguity resulting from subjective estimates that are prone to human errors or can be the result of variability arising from unexpected events or risks. The main reason that PERT may provide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERT_chart |
It is latent in every atom in the Universe, and is the Universe itself." The third item reiterates the second fundamental proposition (see above), impressing once again that "The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. ", while also touching upon the complex Sanskrit ideas of Parabrah... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Doctrine |
In 1992, Globex became the first electronic trading platform to reach the market. E-Trade, a company that started as an online brokerage service, soon also launched its own platform aimed at the consumer. These platforms rapidly gained popularity with E-Trade's growth rate at 9% per month in 1999. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_trading |
Diagnosis of trabecular edema is primarily done via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The presence of edema within the bone marrow yields a visible signal on the MRI, due to displacement of the normally fatty tissue within the marrow by interstitial fluid with higher water content; this change in composition is then re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabecular_oedema |
A yard line refers to the distance of some point on the 100-yard field of play – usually the line of scrimmage or the spot where a play ends – from the nearest goal line. When moving away from one goal line, the yard line numbers increase from 1 to 50 (midfield), then decrease back to 1 approaching the opposite goal li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_lines |
Slurry Shield machines can be used in soft ground with high water pressure or where ground conditions are granular (sands and gravels) do not allow a plug to form in the screw. The cutter head is filled with pressurised slurry typically made of bentonite clay that applies hydrostatic pressure to the face. The slurry mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machines |
As Jacqui True says, "ainstreaming was established as a global strategy for achieving gender equality, and in turn for achieving sustainable economic development in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action ratified by all United Nations member states. It is now incumbent upon nation-states and international organizations t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_mainstreaming |
Some performers such as The Jerky Boys, Tom Mabe and Roy D. Mercer, made a name for themselves producing albums of their recorded prank calls. Sal "the Stockbroker" Governale and Richard Christy, writers on The Howard Stern Show, have made various prank calls to public access shows, talk radio, radio stations, and norm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prank_call |
Considerable effort has been devoted to understanding the physical relationships governing wound healing and subsequent scarring, with mathematical models and simulations developed to elucidate these relationships. The growth of tissue around the wound site is a result of the migration of cells and collagen deposition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_repair |
The development of artificial uteri and ectogenesis raises bioethical and legal considerations, and also has important implications for reproductive rights and the abortion debate. Artificial uteri may expand the range of fetal viability, raising questions about the role that fetal viability plays within abortion law. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_placenta |
Human alveolar echinococcosis is characterized by a lengthy incubation period of 5 to 15 years in immunocompetent individuals. The progression of disease is potentiated in immunocompromised patients. Following the ingestion of the eggs of E. multilocularis, the metacestode (larval) stage of the parasite typically embed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinococcus_multilocularis |
At the beginning of the 21st century contemporary painting, contemporary sculpture and contemporary art in general continues in several contiguous modes, characterized by the idea of pluralism. The "crisis" in painting, sculpture and current art and current art criticism today is brought about by pluralism. There is no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_modernism |
Keratin 5 (and K14) are expressed primarily in basal keratinocytes in the epidermis, specifically in the stratified epithelium lining the skin and digestive tract. Keratin intermediate filaments make up the cytoskeletal scaffold within epithelial cells, which contributes to the cell architecture and provides the cells ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokeratin_5 |
In Cambodia, road signs are prescribed by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, of Cambodia. Cambodian road signage practice closely follows those used in Europe, with the exception of warning signs which follow the American MUTCD, matching the designs used in neighbouring Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Road s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_signs_by_country |
Food and Drug Administration approved Voretigene neparvovec (Luxturna), a gene therapy medication used for the treatment of retinal dystrophy.Gene therapy treatment is done in the outpatient setting. Patients come to the hospital for the treatment, then return home. Patients do not need to be strictly monitored or stay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_blindness |
Google Sync was a bidirectional service. Changes made on one device would be backed up to the user's Google Account. All other Google data on devices sharing that same Google account would be automatically synchronized as well. In case the user's Mobile Device is lost, the data is still securely stored.Google Sync prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sync |
The black-tailed trogon is 28 to 30 cm (11 to 12 in) long and weighs 52 to 122 g (1.8 to 4.3 oz). The male of the nominate subspecies has a yellow bill and a blackish face and throat with an orange-red ring around the eye. The crown, nape, upperparts, and breast are green. A white band separates the breast from the red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_trogon |
Moral positioning occurs when one behaves in accordance with the rights, duties, and obligations of their role. These positions may be in the form of professor-student, parent-child, or grocery clerk-customer; a particular role results in an individual acting and responding in a certain way. Personal positioning happen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positioning_theory |
Heart transplantation is performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. The most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor (allograft) and implant it into the patient. The patient's own heart may either be removed (orthotopic procedure) or, l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transplantable_organs_and_tissues |
This can also have other ramifications, such as allowing more useful composite performance to be achieved in a body having porosity, which might be desired for other factors, such as limiting thermal conductivity. There are also some opportunities to utilize melt processing for fabrication of ceramic, particulate, whis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyte |
His method was to first burn off, as far as possible, all the impurities and carbon, then reintroduce carbon and manganese by adding an exact amount of spiegeleisen, an alloy of iron and manganese with trace amounts of carbon and silicon. This had the effect of improving the quality of the finished product, increasing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_Process |
If two angles of a triangle have measures equal to the measures of two angles of another triangle, then the triangles are similar. Corresponding sides of similar polygons are in proportion, and corresponding angles of similar polygons have the same measure. Two congruent shapes are similar, with a scale factor of 1. Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_similarity |
Charles W. Morris (1901–1979): Unlike his mentor George Herbert Mead, Morris was a behaviorist and sympathetic to the Vienna Circle positivism of his colleague, Rudolf Carnap. Morris was accused by John Dewey of misreading Peirce.In his 1938 Foundations of the Theory of Signs, he defined semiotics as grouped into three... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics |
German thunder is of true Germanic character; it is not very nimble, but rumbles along ponderously. Yet, it will come and when you hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in the world's history, then you know that the German thunderbolt has fallen at last. At that uproar the eagles of the air will drop dead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine |
The so-called "Peninsular river component" of India's National Water Development Plan envisages to divert the Mahanadi River surplus to the Godavari and the surplus therefrom to the Krishna, Pennar and Cauvery, with "terminal dams" on the Mahanadi and the Godavari to enable irrigation. The Peninsular component also env... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbasin_diversion |
Certain rice-noodles are made directly from steaming the raw rice slurry and are only consumed fresh. Unlike many Western noodles and pastas, Chinese noodles made from wheat flour are usually made from salted dough, and therefore do not require the addition of salt to the liquid in which they are boiled. Chinese noodle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_noodles |
The Qualcomm processor is connected to two radiation-resistant flight-control microcontroller units (MCUs) to perform necessary control functions under Mars's conditions.The telecommunication system consists of two identical radios with monopole antennae for data exchange between the helicopter and rover. The radio lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Helicopter_Ingenuity |
To accelerate the charging time and provide continuous charging, an intelligent charger attempts to detect the state of charge and condition of the battery and applies a 3-stage charging scheme. The following description assumes a sealed lead acid traction battery at 25 °C. The first stage is referred to as "bulk absor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_charger |
Mongolian as a term for race was first introduced in 1785 by Christoph Meiners, a scholar at the then modern Göttingen University. Meiners divided humanity into two races he labeled "Tartar-Caucasians" and "Mongolians", believing the former to be beautiful, the latter to be "weak in body and spirit, bad, and lacking in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoloid_race |
Different food preservation methods have different impacts on the quality of the food and food systems. Some traditional methods of preserving food have been shown to have a lower energy input and carbon footprint compared to modern methods. Some methods of food preservation are known to create carcinogens. In 2015, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_preservatives |
PCNA type: Pollination constant non astringent, which is a relatively recent mutation in kaki fruit (a few centuries). In this type of kaki the tannin is always insoluble even when the fruit is still hard. This fruit will always taste sweet without any bitterness in the hard or soft stage. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_persimmon |
Gata4 depletion can result in reduced transcript levels of hspb7 and hspb12 and this could result in cardiac myopathies in zebrafish embryos as observed by Gabriel et al.hspb7 also acts in the downregulation of Kupffer vesicles which is responsible for regulation of left-right asymmetry of heart in zebrafish. Along wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_shock_proteins |
Statisticians may not be able to keep track of fixed equipment or durables when they are resold by a business to another business after use, locally or overseas. So, the same asset can be counted twice or more. In principle, expenditure on used assets is excluded from capital formation, but in practice it is often incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_counting_(accounting) |
Cyanobacteria in the rivers die as they reach saltwater but their nitrogen fixation feeds the red tide on the coast. Areas at the mouth of the estuaries such as Cape Coral and Port St. Lucie therefore experience the compounded effects of both types of harmful algal bloom. Cleanup crews hired by authorities in Lee Count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmful_algal_blooms |
Similar to the centre-of-gravity method, the location was calculated from 24,500 points at the high-water mark of Australia's coastline. The computed result of the 1988 project was 25 degrees 36 minutes 36.4 seconds south latitude, 134 degrees 21 minutes 17.3 seconds east longitude (25°36′36.4″S 134°21′17.3″E); positio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_Australia |
In the USCS, gravels (given the symbol G) and sands (given the symbol S) are classified according to their grain size distribution. For the USCS, gravels may be given the classification symbol GW (well-graded gravel), GP (poorly graded gravel), GM (gravel with a large amount of silt), or GC (gravel with a large amount ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_Mechanics |
Like the operator's telescope, the TV system has two views, one about 11 degrees wide for the initial "capture", and another at 0.55 degrees for midcourse tracking. The location of the missile relative to the line-of-sight is measured using a system identical to the "chopper" system used in early infrared homing missil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapier_Missile |
= ( z + 3 z 2 + z 3 ) e z {\displaystyle \sum _{k=0}^{\infty }k^{3}{\frac {z^{k}}{k! }}=(z+3z^{2}+z^{3})e^{z}} ∑ k = 0 ∞ k 4 z k k ! = ( z + 7 z 2 + 6 z 3 + z 4 ) e z {\displaystyle \sum _{k=0}^{\infty }k^{4}{\frac {z^{k}}{k! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_series |
For each element with atomic number Z small enough to occupy only the first three nuclear shells, that is up to that of calcium (Z = 20), there exists a stable isotope with N/Z ratio of one, with the exception of beryllium (N/Z = 1.25) and every element with odd atomic number between 9 and 19 inclusive (N = Z + 1). Hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron–proton_ratio |
GNU GRUB version 2.00 was officially released on June 26, 2012.Three of the most widely used Linux distributions use GRUB 2 as their mainstream boot loader. Ubuntu adopted it as the default boot loader in its 9.10 version of October 2009. Fedora followed suit with Fedora 16 released in November 2011. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Bootloader |
TOC needs more case studies that prove a connection between implementation and improved financial performance. Nave (2002) argues that TOC does not take employees into account and fails to empower them in the production process. He also states that TOC fails to address unsuccessful policies as constraints. In contrast,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Constraints |
Nearly all shooters in centerfire competition handload their ammunition in order to tune it perfectly to their rifle. In contrast, handloading ammunition is strictly prohibited by the rules for rimfire benchrest competitions. The post-Civil War era "double rest" rifles were one early form of "benchrest" rifles. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchrest_shooting |
From the mid-fifth century BCE, spring carnival in Rome closed with a horse race. Fifteen to twenty riderless horses, originally imported from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, were set loose to run the length of the Via del Corso, a long, straight city street. The race lasted about two-and-a-half minutes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_racing |
The cloud sponge takes the form of a large cup with an irregularly folded wall about 5 millimetres (0.20 in) thick. This is pierced by many pores about 1 millimetre (0.039 in) wide and covered by a thin dermal membrane. The skeletal elements form a lattice-like structure made up of fused spicules of silica. These mesh ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_sponge |
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