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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling%20Salesmen | "Traveling Salesmen" is the thirteenth episode of the third season of the American version of The Office and the show's 41st overall. The episode was written by Michael Schur, Lee Eisenberg, and Gene Stupnitsky, and it was directed by series creator and executive producer Greg Daniels. It first aired on January 11, 2007 in the United States on NBC.
The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. In this episode, the sales team goes out on sales calls, with Michael Scott (Steve Carell) and Andy Bernard (Ed Helms), Stanley Hudson (Leslie David Baker) and Ryan Howard (B. J. Novak), Phyllis Lapin (Phyllis Smith) and Karen Filippelli (Rashida Jones), and Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) and Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) pairing up. Andy tries to show Dwight in a bad light to Michael, Karen learns of Jim's previous crush on Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer), and Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey) forgets to hand in some important documents to New York, so her secret boyfriend Dwight does it for her.
Krasinski believed "Traveling Salesmen" was the first episode to give a real glimpse into Dwight and Angela's relationship, and much of the plot centered on the two. It aired to an estimated 10.2 million viewers according to Nielsen Media Research. It was positively received by television critics. Along with "The Return", NBC later re-broadcast "Traveling Salesmen" as a combined hour-long episode as part of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurry%20ice | Slurry ice is a phase changing refrigerant made up of millions of ice "micro-crystals" (typically 0.1 to 1 mm in diameter) formed and suspended within a solution of water and a freezing point depressant. Some compounds used in the field are salt, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, alcohols like isobutyl and ethanol, and sugars like sucrose and glucose. Slurry ice has greater heat absorption compared to single phase refrigerants like brine, because the melting enthalpy (latent heat) of the ice is also used.
Characteristics
The small ice particle size results in greater heat transfer area than other types of ice for a given weight. It can be packed inside a container as dense as 700 kg/m3, the highest ice-packing factor among all usable industrial ice.
The spherical crystals have good flow properties, making them easy to distribute through conventional pumps and piping and over product in direct contact chilling applications, allowing them to flow into crevices and provide greater surface contact and faster cooling than other traditional forms of ice (flake, block, shell, etc.).
Its flow properties, high cooling capacity and flexibility in application make a slurry ice system a substitute for conventional ice generators and refrigeration systems, and offers improvements in energy efficiency: 70%, compared to around 45% in standard systems, lower freon consumption per ton of ice and lower operating costs.
Application fields
Slurry ice is commonly used in a wide range of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFD-FASTRAN | CFD-FASTRAN is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package developed by ESI Group for aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic applications.
CFD-FASTRAN was used by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa to simulate the release of a missile from the outboard pylon of the BAE Hawk Mk120 at transonic speeds where shockwaves dominate the flowfield. The CFD software was used to calculate the carriage loads, structural dynamic responses from the ejection forces and model the loads on the missile in free-flight.
The CFD software was used to predict supercooled droplet impingement on helicopter blades by the Institute for Aerospace Research. This is a first step towards simulating ice formation on rotating helicopter blades.
CFD-FASTRAN was used to study the aerodynamic performance of a hypersonic vehicle powered by scramjet engines. Flow conditions were simulated at various angles of attack at Mach 5.85.
Two-dimensional numerical flow simulations were performed with CFD-FASTRAN to compare the effects of a combined jet flap and Coanda jet on a supercritical airfoil. The results showed that the combined jet flap provided the best performance.
CFD-FASTRAN was used to simulate flow past helicopter rotors in hover and forward flight conditions. The predictions matched the experimental data.
References
Computational fluid dynamics
Engineering software companies
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTI%2C%20Inc. | TTI, Inc., is a distributor of electronic components that include capacitors, resistors, connectors, switches, relays, circuit protection, electromagnetics, discrete semiconductors, sensors, RF modules, and antennas.
The company was founded by Paul Andrews in 1971. A former buyer for General Dynamics, the global aerospace and defense company, Andrews developed an approach to electronic component distribution with emphasis on available-to-sell inventory, supply chain programs, and the industry’s first, formal Total Quality Management program.
Andrews served as Chief Executive Officer until his passing in February 2021. Subsequently, 40-year employee and Chief Operating Officer Mike Morton was promoted to the position of CEO.
Originally named Tex-Tronics, Inc., Andrews changed the name to TTI, Inc., in 1973 to avoid a legal dispute involving another company with a similar name.
Founded to serve aerospace and defense equipment manufacturers, the company’s customers now include manufacturers in the transportation, industrial, medical, and communications sectors.
TTI, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, also known as the TTI Family of Specialists (TTI FOS), Mouser Electronics, Sager Electronics, and Exponential Technology Group employ over 8,000 people at more than 136 locations throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
TTI's global headquarters is located Fort Worth, Texas, the TTI Family of Specialists maintain over 3.5 million square feet of dedicated warehou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutching%20construction | In topology, a branch of mathematics, the clutching construction is a way of constructing fiber bundles, particularly vector bundles on spheres.
Definition
Consider the sphere as the union of the upper and lower hemispheres and along their intersection, the equator, an .
Given trivialized fiber bundles with fiber and structure group over the two hemispheres, then given a map (called the clutching map), glue the two trivial bundles together via f.
Formally, it is the coequalizer of the inclusions via and : glue the two bundles together on the boundary, with a twist.
Thus we have a map : clutching information on the equator yields a fiber bundle on the total space.
In the case of vector bundles, this yields , and indeed this map is an isomorphism (under connect sum of spheres on the right).
Generalization
The above can be generalized by replacing and with any closed triad , that is, a space X, together with two closed subsets A and B whose union is X. Then a clutching map on gives a vector bundle on X.
Classifying map construction
Let be a fibre bundle with fibre . Let be a collection of pairs such that is a local trivialization of over . Moreover, we demand that the union of all the sets is (i.e. the collection is an atlas of trivializations ).
Consider the space modulo the equivalence relation is equivalent to if and only if and . By design, the local trivializations give a fibrewise equivalence between this quotient space and the fibre bundle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic%20epitype | A somatic epitype is a non-heritable epigenetic alteration in a gene. It is similar to conventional epigenetics in that it does not involve changes in the DNA primary sequence. Physically, the somatic epitype corresponds to changes in DNA methylation, oxidative damage (replacement of GTP with oxo-8-dGTP), or changes in DNA-chromatin structure that are not reversed by normal cellular or nuclear repair mechanisms. Somatic epitypes alter gene expression levels without altering the amino acid sequence of the expressed protein. Current research suggests that somatic epitypes can be altered both before and after birth, and this alteration can be in response to exposure to heavy metals (such as lead), differences in maternal care, or nutritional or behavioral stress. There is no indication that somatic epitypes are heritable in a conventional epigenetic fashion. Some research suggests that methylation levels (and gene expression) can be reversed for some somatic epitypes by alterations in environmental factors such as diet.
See also
Epigenetics
Sources
DNA
Epigenetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrocystin | Fibrocystin is a large, receptor-like protein that is thought to be involved in the tubulogenesis and/or maintenance of duct-lumen architecture of epithelium.
FPC associates with the primary cilia of epithelial cells and co-localizes with the Pkd2 gene product polycystin-2 (PC2), suggesting that these two proteins may function in a common molecular pathway.
Pathology
Mutations of its encoding gene (chromosomal locus 6p12.2) can cause autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease. PKHD1 gene codes for fibrocystin. Fibrocystin is found in the epithelial cell of both the renal tubule and the bile ducts. A mutation in PKHD1 (can be autosomal recessive pattern or spontaneous mutations) leading to a deficiency in fibrocystin causes characteristic polycystic dilation of both structures.
References
External links
GeneReviews/NIH/NCBI/UW entry on Polycystic Kidney Disease, Autosomal Recessive
Single-pass transmembrane proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Brudno | Alexander L'vovich Brudno () (10 January 1918 – 1 December 2009) was a Russian computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. From 1991 until his death he lived in Israel.
Biography
Brudno developed the "mathematics/machine interface" for the M-2 computer constructed in 1952 at the Krzhizhanovskii laboratory of the Institute of Energy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. He was a great friend of Alexander Kronrod.
Brudno's work on alpha-beta pruning was published in 1963 in Russian and English.
The algorithm was used in computer chess program written by Vladimir Arlazarov and others at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEF or ITEP). According to Monty Newborn and the Computer History Museum, the algorithm was used later in Kaissa the world computer chess champion in 1974.
In 1980, Brudno became a founder and scientific director of the first Russian school for young programmers УПЦ ВТ. He was the scientific director of the first Russian programming Olympiads for the students, and published a book of problems from these competitions.
Brudno – Kronrod seminar
In 1959 Brudno and Alexander Kronrod organized seminar devoted to the presentation of different works in areas of system programming, programming of games (including chess), and artificial intelligence. Many well known results were presented and discussed at this seminar, including: Gauss–Kronrod quadrature formula, AVL trees, computer ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovomucoid | Ovomucoid is a protein found in egg whites. It is a trypsin inhibitor with three protein domains of the Kazal domain family. The homologs from chickens (Gallus gallus) and especially turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) are best characterized. It is not related to the similarly named ovomucin, another egg white protein.
Chicken ovomucoid, also known as Gal d 1, is a known allergen. It is the protein most often causing egg allergy. At least four IgE epitopes have been identified. Three other egg white proteins are also identified as allergenic: ovalbumin (Gal d 2), ovotransferrin (Gal d 3) and lysozyme (Gal d 4).
References
Protease inhibitors
Avian proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htra | Term Htra may refer to:
High time-resolution astrophysics, a section of astronomy/astrophysics
Peptidase Do, an enzyme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL14 | Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 14 (CCL14) is a small cytokine belonging to the CC chemokine family. It is also commonly known as HCC-1. It is produced as a protein precursor that is processed to generate a mature active protein containing 74 amino acids that and is 46% identical in amino acid composition to CCL3 and CCL4. This chemokine is expressed in various tissues including spleen, bone marrow, liver, muscle, and gut. CCL14 activates monocytes, but does not induce their chemotaxis. Human CCL14 is located on chromosome 17 within a cluster of other chemokines belonging to the CC family.
References
Cytokines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costamere | The costamere is a structural-functional component of striated muscle cells which connects the sarcomere of the muscle to the cell membrane (i.e. the sarcolemma).
Costameres are sub-sarcolemmal protein assemblies circumferentially aligned in register with the Z-disk of peripheral myofibrils. They physically couple force-generating sarcomeres with the sarcolemma in striated muscle cells and are thus considered one of several "Achilles' heels" of skeletal muscle, a critical component of striated muscle morphology which, when compromised, is thought to directly contribute to the development of several distinct myopathies.
The dystrophin-associated protein complex, also referred to as the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex (DGC or DAGC), contains various integral and peripheral membrane proteins such as dystroglycans and sarcoglycans, which are thought to be responsible for linking the internal cytoskeletal system of individual myofibers to structural proteins within the extracellular matrix (such as collagen and laminin). Therefore, it is one of the features of the sarcolemma which helps to couple the sarcomere to the extracellular connective tissue as some experiments have shown. Desmin protein may also bind to the DAG complex, and regions of it are known to be involved in signaling.
Structure
Costameres are highly complex networks of proteins and glycoproteins, and can be considered as consisting of two major protein complexes: the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubo | A bubo (Greek βουβών, boubṓn, 'groin') is adenitis or inflammation of the lymph nodes and is an example of reactive lymphadenopathy.
Classification
Buboes are a symptom of bubonic plague and occur as painful swellings in the thighs, neck, groin or armpits. They are caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria spreading from flea bites through the bloodstream to the lymph nodes, where the bacteria replicate, causing the nodes to swell. Plague buboes may turn black and necrotic, rotting away the surrounding tissue, or they may rupture, discharging large amounts of pus. Infection can spread from buboes around the body, resulting in other forms of the disease such as pneumonic plague.
Management
Plague patients whose buboes swell to such a size that they burst tend to survive the disease. Before the discovery of antibiotics, doctors often drained buboes with leeches or hot rods to save patients.
Buboes are also symptoms of other diseases, such as chancroid and lymphogranuloma venereum. In these conditions, a two-week course of antibiotics is the recommended treatment, and incision and drainage or excision of the swollen lymph nodes is best avoided. However, aspiration may sometimes be performed to prevent buboes from rupturing. Although incision and drainage yields better results in such cases—since usually no further intervention is necessary, whereas repeat aspirations may be required—incision and drainage wounds may heal more slowly, increasing the risk of secondary infection.
Re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient%20of%20inbreeding | The coefficient of inbreeding of an individual is the probability that two alleles at any locus in an individual are identical by descent from the common ancestor(s) of the two parents.
Calculation
An individual is said to be inbred if there is a loop in its pedigree chart. A loop is defined as a path that runs from an individual up to the common ancestor through one parent and back down to the other parent, without going through any individual twice. The number of loops is always the number of common ancestors the parents have. If an individual is inbred, the coefficient of inbreeding is calculated by summing all the probabilities that an individual receives the same allele from its father's side and mother's side. As every individual has a 50% chance of passing on an allele to the next generation, the formula depends on 0.5 raised to the power of however many generations separate the individual from the common ancestor of its parents, on both the father's side and mother's side. This number of generations can be calculated by counting how many individuals lie in the loop defined earlier. Thus, the coefficient of inbreeding (f) of an individual X can be calculated with the following formula:
where is the number of individuals in the aforementioned loop,and is the coefficient of inbreeding of the common ancestor of X's parents.
To give an example, consider the following pedigree.
In this pedigree chart, G is the progeny of C and F, and C is the biological uncle of F. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL60 | The HL-60 cell line is a human leukemia cell line that has been used for laboratory research on blood cell formation and physiology. HL-60 proliferates continuously in suspension culture in nutrient and antibiotic chemicals. The doubling time is about 36–48 hours. The cell line was derived from a 36-year-old woman who was originally reported to have acute promyelocytic leukemia at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. HL-60 cells predominantly show neutrophilic promyelocytic morphology. Subsequent evaluation, including the karyotype that showed absence of the defining t(15;17) translocation, concluded that HL-60 cells are from a case of AML FAB-M2 (now referred to as AML with maturation (WHO)).
Proliferation of HL-60 cells occurs through the transferrin and insulin receptors, which are expressed on cell surface. The requirement for insulin and transferrin is absolute, as HL-60 proliferation immediately ceases if either of these compounds is removed from the serum-free culture media. With this line, differentiation to mature granulocytes can be induced by compounds such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), or retinoic acid. Other compounds like 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and GM-CSF can induce HL-60 to differentiate to monocytic, macrophage-like and eosinophil phenotypes, respectively.
The HL-60 cultured cell line provides a continuous source of human cells for studying the molecular events of myeloid differentiation and the effects of physiolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20of%20default | Probability of default (PD) is a financial term describing the likelihood of a default over a particular time horizon. It provides an estimate of the likelihood that a borrower will be unable to meet its debt obligations.
PD is used in a variety of credit analyses and risk management frameworks. Under Basel II, it is a key parameter used in the calculation of economic capital or regulatory capital for a banking institution.
PD is closely linked to the expected loss, which is defined as the product of the PD, the loss given default (LGD) and the exposure at default (EAD).
Overview
The probability of default is an estimate of the likelihood that the default event will occur. It applies to a particular assessment horizon, usually one year.
Credit scores, such as FICO for consumers or bond ratings from S&P, Fitch or Moodys for corporations or governments, typically imply a certain probability of default.
For group of obligors sharing similar credit risk characteristics such as a RMBS or pool of loans, a PD may be derived for a group of assets that is representative of the typical (average) obligor of the group. In comparison, a PD for a bond or commercial loan, are typically determined for a single entity.
Under Basel II, a default event on a debt obligation is said to have occurred if
it is unlikely that the obligor will be able to repay its debt to the bank without giving up any pledged collateral
the obligor is more than 90 days past due on a material credit obligat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOLD%20%28parser%29 | GOLD is a free parsing system that is designed to support multiple programming languages.
Design
The system uses a DFA for lexical analysis and the LALR algorithm for parsing. Both of these algorithms are state machines that use tables to determine actions. GOLD is designed around the principle of logically separating the process of generating the LALR and DFA parse tables from the actual implementation of the parsing algorithms themselves. This allows parsers to be implemented in different programming languages while maintaining the same grammars and development process.
The GOLD system consists of three logical components, the "Builder", the "Engine", and a "Compiled Grammar Table" file definition which functions as an intermediary between the Builder and the Engine.
Builder
The Builder is the primary component and main application of the system. The Builder is used to analyze the syntax of a language (specified as a grammar) and construct LALR and DFA tables. During this process, any ambiguities in the grammar will be reported. This is essentially the same task that is performed by compiler-compilers such as YACC and ANTLR.
Once the LALR and DFA parse tables are successfully constructed, the Builder can save this data into a Compiled Grammar Table file. This allows the information to be reopened later by the Builder or used in one of the Engines. Currently, the Builder component is only available for Windows 32-bit operating systems.
Some of the features of the Bui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition-driven%20scheduling | Transposition driven scheduling (TDS) is a load balancing algorithm for parallel computing. It was developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands as an algorithm to solve puzzles. The algorithm provides near-linear speedup with some problems and scales extremely well. It was published about by John Romein, Aske Plaat, Henri Bal and Jonathan Schaeffer.
Transposition based puzzle solving
In a puzzle, all possible plays can be represented in a tree with board positions corresponding to the nodes, moves corresponding to the edges, the initial position as the root of the tree and the solutions as leaves. Cycles in a path, i.e. moves that yield a position that is already encountered higher up in the tree, are left out of the tree because they can never lead to an optimal solution.
In most puzzles, different ordering of actions can lead to the same position of the puzzle. In puzzles where previous actions do not influence the solution, you need to only evaluate this position once to get a solution for both paths. To avoid evaluating the same position more than once (and thus wasting computation cycles), programs written to solve these kinds of puzzles use transposition tables. A transposition is a puzzle state that can be reached by different paths but has the same solution. Every time such a program starts evaluating a position, it first looks up in a table if the position has already been evaluated. If it has, the solution is taken from the table instead of c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%20algorithm | The Warnock algorithm is a hidden surface algorithm invented by John Warnock that is typically used in the field of computer graphics.
It solves the problem of rendering a complicated image by recursive subdivision of a scene until areas are obtained that are trivial to compute. In other words, if the scene is simple enough to compute efficiently then it is rendered; otherwise it is divided into smaller parts which are likewise tested for simplicity.
This is a divide and conquer algorithm with run-time of , where n is the number of polygons and p is the number of pixels in the viewport.
The inputs are a list of polygons and a viewport. The best case is that if the list of polygons is simple, then draw the polygons in the viewport. Simple is defined as one polygon (then the polygon or its part is drawn in appropriate part of a viewport) or a viewport that is one pixel in size (then that pixel gets a color of the polygon closest to the observer). The continuous step is to split the viewport into 4 equally sized quadrants and to recursively call the algorithm for each quadrant, with a polygon list modified such that it only contains polygons that are visible in that quadrant.
Warnock expressed his algorithm in words and pictures, rather than software code, as the core of his PhD thesis, which also described protocols for shading oblique surfaces and other features that are now the core of 3-dimensional computer graphics. The entire thesis was only 26 pages from Introduction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%C3%ADlson | Geílson de Carvalho Soares (born April 10, 1984 in Cuiabá), sometimes referred to as simply Geílson, is a striker.
Club statistics
Honours
Rio Grande do Sul State League: 2004
São Paulo State League: 2006
References
External links
furacao
sambafoot
CBF
1984 births
Living people
Footballers from Cuiabá
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Santos FC players
Club Athletico Paranaense players
Mirassol Futebol Clube players
Albirex Niigata players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
J2 League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Japan
Sport Club Internacional players
Guarani FC players
Clube Atlético Votuporanguense players
Men's association football forwards
CE Operário Várzea-Grandense players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal%20solver | A frontal solver is an approach to solving sparse linear systems which is used extensively in finite element analysis. Algorithms of this kind are variants of Gauss elimination that automatically avoids a large number of operations involving zero terms due to the fact that the matrix is only sparse. The development of frontal solvers is usually considered as dating back to work by Bruce Irons.
A frontal solver builds a LU or Cholesky decomposition of a sparse matrix.
Frontal solvers start with one or a few diagonal entries of the matrix, then consider all of those diagonal entries that are coupled to the first set via off-diagonal entries, and so on. In the finite element context, these consecutive sets form "fronts" that march through the domain (and consequently through the matrix, if one were to permute rows and columns of the matrix in such a way that the diagonal entries are ordered by the wave they are part of). Processing the front involves dense matrix operations, which use the CPU efficiently.
Given that the elements of the matrix are only needed as the front marches through the matrix, it is possible (but not necessary) to provide matrix elements only as needed. For example, for matrices arising from the finite element method, one can structure the "assembly" of element matrices by assembling the matrix and eliminating equations only on a subset of elements at a time. This subset is called the front and it is essentially the transition region between the part of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer%27s%20GCD%20algorithm | Lehmer's GCD algorithm, named after Derrick Henry Lehmer, is a fast GCD algorithm, an improvement on the simpler but slower Euclidean algorithm. It is mainly used for big integers that have a representation as a string of digits relative to some chosen numeral system base, say β = 1000 or β = 232.
Algorithm
Lehmer noted that most of the quotients from each step of the division part of the standard algorithm are small. (For example, Knuth observed that the quotients 1, 2, and 3 comprise 67.7% of all quotients.) Those small quotients can be identified from only a few leading digits. Thus the algorithm starts by splitting off those leading digits and computing the sequence of quotients as long as it is correct.
Say we want to obtain the GCD of the two integers a and b. Let a ≥ b.
If b contains only one digit (in the chosen base, say β = 1000 or β = 232), use some other method, such as the Euclidean algorithm, to obtain the result.
If a and b differ in the length of digits, perform a division so that a and b are equal in length, with length equal to m.
Outer loop: Iterate until one of a or b is zero:
Decrease m by one. Let x be the leading (most significant) digit in a, x = a div β m and y the leading digit in b, y = b div β m.
Initialize a 2 by 3 matrix
to an extended identity matrix
and perform the euclidean algorithm simultaneously on the pairs (x + A, y + C) and (x + B, y + D), until the quotients differ. That is, iterate as an inner loop:
Compute the quotients w1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20Shorty%20%28film%29 | Get Shorty is a 1995 American gangster comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Scott Frank, based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. The film stars John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, Dennis Farina, and Danny DeVito. It follows Chili Palmer (Travolta), a Miami mobster and loan shark who inadvertently gets involved in Hollywood feature film production.
The sequel Be Cool was also based on an Elmore Leonard novel, released in 2005. In 2017, Get Shorty inspired a television series of the same name.
Plot
Ernesto "Chili" Palmer is a Miami-based loan shark and movie buff. When his leather jacket is taken by rival mobster Ray "Bones" Barboni, Chili retrieves it and breaks Bones' nose. Bones ambushes him at his office, but Chili shoots first, grazing Bones' forehead. Bones' boss refuses to retaliate, reminding him that Chili is under the protection of Brooklyn mob boss Momo.
After Momo dies of a heart attack, Bones takes over his operation and demands that Chili collect an outstanding debt from Leo Devoe, a dry cleaner who died in a plane crash. Chili learns from Leo's wife Faye that her husband is alive, having left the plane before takeoff; she received a settlement of $300,000, but Leo ran away with the cash. Chili tracks Leo to a Las Vegas casino and accepts an additional job to collect a large gambling debt from B movie director Harry Zimm.
Surprising Harry in Los Angeles at the home of scream queen Karen Flores, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Mask | Crystal Mask is a fantasy novel by English writer Katherine Roberts. It is the second novel in The Echorium Sequence, and it is the sequel to Song Quest. The novel was first published in 2001 by the Chicken House.
is set in the world of the Isle of Echoes where the Singers live in The Echorium. The Singers have many special abilities, the most important of which is knowledge of the Songs of Power: Challa for sleep, Kashe for laughter, Shi for sadness, Aushan for fear and Yehn for death. All Singer children, called novices, learn these Songs, but if their voices do not last into adulthood they receive a mild form of Yehn which makes them forget the Songs. The Singers can also to hear over great distances, an ability enhanced by the bluestone which the Isle is made up of, and hear truth. The Singers help to keep peace on the mainland, and produce treaties to protect Half Creatures – the half-human beings with knowledge of the Songs, which include merlee (fish people), naga (water snake people) and quetzal (bird people).
During the novel Song Quest, set twenty years before Crystal Mask, the Singers encountered a powerful enemy in Khizpriest Frazhin, who harnessed the powers of a strange black crystal called the khiz to manipulate people's thoughts and memories. He attempted to destroy the Echorium by kidnapping a novice, Rialle, and was only stopped by the efforts of another novice, Kherron, who had originally been taken in by Frazhin. Although Frazhin was apparently killed b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional%20cell%20carcinoma | Transitional cell carcinoma, also called urothelial carcinoma, is a type of cancer that typically occurs in the urinary system. It is the most common type of bladder cancer and cancer of the ureter, urethra, and urachus. Symptoms of urothelial carcinoma in the bladder include hematuria (blood in the urine). Diagnosis includes urine analysis and imaging of the urinary tract (cystoscopy). Transitional cell carcinomas arise from the transitional epithelium, a tissue lining the inner surface of these hollow organs. When the term "urothelial" is used, it specifically refers to a carcinoma of the urothelium, meaning a transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary system.
It accounts for 95% of bladder cancer cases and bladder cancer is in the top 10 most common malignancy disease in the world and is associated with approximately 200,000 deaths per year in the US. It is the second most common type of kidney cancer, but accounts for only five to 10 percent of all primary renal malignant tumors. Men and older people have a higher rate of urothelial carcinoma's. Other risk factors include smoking and exposure to aromatic amines.
Treatment approaches depend on the stage and spread of the tumour. Tumour removal (resection), chemotherapy and chemoradiation may be indicated. Immunotherapy with immune check point inhibitor medications may also be suggested.
Signs and symptoms
Signs and symptoms of transitional cell carcinomas depend on the location and extent of the cancer. Symptoms of bla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renn | Renn is a both a surname and given name. It may refer to:
Surname
Crystal Renn (born 1986), American model and author
Jürgen Renn (born 1956), German science historian, physicist, and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Ludwig Renn (1889–1979), German author
Mark Renn (1952–2019), British sculptor and muralist
Nancy Lapp (née Renn; born 1930), American archeologist, biblical scholar, and museum curator
Olaf Renn (born 1969), German footballer
Samuel Renn (1786–1845), English pipe organ builder and businessman
W. S. Renn Jr. (born 1928), American football coach
Rev. Joseph John Renn b. 12 Jun 1839, d. 2 Jan 1906, fought during the American Civil War and was captured and imprisoned in Almira New York where he reportedly and thereafter pursued being a pastor. He was much later involved as an educator at a college connected with Duke University in North Carolina. His grandfather, Joseph, fought during the American Revolution and served under Captain William Waters 1st Artillery Regiment
In fiction
Max Renn, a leading role in the 1983 film Videodrome
Singer Renn, a character in The Echorium Sequence trilogy of novels (1999–2003), by Katherine Roberts [see: Characters in The Echorium Sequence]
Renn, a major character from the prehistoric fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.
First and middle name
Amaryllis Collymore (middle name Renn; 1745 or 1750–1828), Afro-Barbadian sugar plantation and slave owner, businesswoman, and manumitted slave
Ren |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20correlation | Horizontal correlation is a methodology for gene sequence analysis. Rather than referring to one specific technique, horizontal correlation instead encompasses a variety of approaches to sequence analysis that are unified by two specific themes:
Sequence analysis is performed by making comparisons horizontally, along the length of a single genetic sequence; this is in contrast to vertical methods that make comparisons across several different genetic sequences.
The comparisons made generally measure information theoretic quantities such as value of the mutual information function between two regions of the sequence.
The core ideas of the horizontal correlation approach were first presented in a year 2000 paper by Grosse, Herzel, Buldyrev, and Stanley (Grosse, et al. 2000). In this first formulation, Grosse and colleagues sought to characterize a large genetic sequence by dividing the sequence into coding and non-coding regions. Whereas traditional approaches to the coding-vs.-non-coding problem generally relied on sophisticated pattern recognition systems that were first trained on small inputs and then run over the entire sequence (Ohler, et al. 1999), the horizontal correlation approach of Grosse and colleagues worked instead by breaking the sequence into many relatively short sequence fragments, each only 500 base pairs in length. They then sought to characterize each of these fragments as either coding or non-coding. This was accomplished by comparing each size 3 wind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20Foiltec | Vector Foiltec is a business using transparent plastic (ETFE) cushions filled with air as an architectural cladding technology. This solution can be better than glass panels in applications such as roofs over aggressive environments where chemicals would attack a metal window frame, or where the transparent panels have to accommodate deformation due to changing thermal conditions.
History
The Company was founded by Stefan Lehnert in 1982 in Bremen in Germany. Its first structure was the roof of a small pavilion at Burgers' Zoo in 1982.
Operations
The Texlon ETFE cladding system developed by the company consists of a number of layers of the UV stable copolymer ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) welded into cushions or foils. The cushions are restrained around their perimeter by aluminium extrusions, which are in turn fastened to a supporting primary structure. The cushions are inflated with air at low pressure to provide insulation and to resist wear caused by wind.
A Texlon ETFE cushion typically consists of two layers, although more layers can be added to enhance the cladding's insulation properties. Each layer can be modified with a variety of treatments to alter its aesthetic quality, its apparent transparency, and the level of solar gain. The material's innate toughness, resistance to tearing, and ability to work harden over a 300-400% elongation range allow Texlon to endure significant deformation of its support structure.
Major projects
Major projects include:
E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pjet%C3%ABr%20Dungu | Pjetër Dungu (1908–1989) was an Albanian piano accompanist and composer-arranger of urban folk music. He is known in the history of the music of Albania as the first compiler of Albanian folk songs.
Dungu was born in Shkodër, where he took music lessons from composer Martin Gjoka. He played oboe and trumpet, while studying piano and harmony.
In the 1930s, Dungu gained a reputation as a piano accompanist for urban lyric song, reaching a height around the end of the decade. In 1940, Dungu published Lyra Shqiptare (Albanian Lyra), the first collection of 50 folk melodies. The compilation was published by Instituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara, in Italy. This volume, with the preface by Prof. Kristaq Antoniu, contains; 19 folk songs from Shkodra, 15 folk songs from Korça, 7 folk songs from Kosovo, 5 folk songs from Berat, 2 folk songs from Elbasan, 1 folk song from Durres and 1 folk song from Vlorë. In 1942, he accompanied tenor Kristaq Antoniu on the piano for eight songs recorded for the Columbia Recording Company in Italy. Dungu also conducted an orchestra for seven of Antoniu's recordings.
Other composer-arrangers in Albanian lyric folk music in this period, include Lola Gjoka and Kristo Kono.
References
1908 births
1989 deaths
Musicians from Shkodër
Albanian musicians
Accompanists
20th-century pianists
20th-century Albanian musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect | Indirect, the opposite of direct, may refer to:
Indirect approach, a battle strategy
Indirect DNA damage, caused by UV-photons
Indirect agonist or indirect-acting agonist, a substance that enhances the release or action of an endogenous neurotransmitter
Indirect speech, a form of speech
Indirect costs, costs that are not directly accountable to a particular function or product
Indirect self-reference, describes an object referring to itself indirectly
Indirect effect, a principle of European Community Law
Indirect finance, where borrowers borrow funds from the financial market through indirect means
Indirection, the ability to reference something in computer programming
Indirect transmission, infections passing from one host to another via a different species.
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2895625%29%202002%20GX32 | , also written as (95625) 2002 GX32, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It has a 3:7 resonance with Neptune. It was discovered on April 8, 2002 by Marc W. Buie, Amy B. Jordan, and James L. Elliot.
It came to perihelion in 1997.
Assuming a generic TNO albedo of 0.09, it is about 153 km in diameter.
Resonance
Simulations by Emel'yanenko and Kiseleva in 2007 show that has a 99% probability of libration in a 3:7 resonance with Neptune.
The Neptune 3:7 mean-motion resonance keeps it more than 11 AU from Neptune over a 14000-year period.
It has been observed 21 times over 4 oppositions and has an orbit quality code of 3.
References
External links
095625
Discoveries by Marc Buie
Discoveries by Amy B. Jordan (astronomer)
Discoveries by James L. Elliot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM%20procedures | GSM procedures are sets of steps performed by the GSM network and devices on it in order for the network to function. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is a set of standards for cell phone networks established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and first used in 1991. Its procedures refers to the steps a GSM network takes to communicate with cell phones and other mobile devices on the network.
IMSI attach refers to the procedure used when a mobile device or mobile station joins a GSM network when it turns on and IMSI detach refers to the procedure used to leave or disconnect from a network when the device is turned off.
IMSI attach
In a GSM network, when a Mobile Station (MS) is switched ON, the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) attach procedure is executed. This procedure is required for the Mobile Switching Center (MSC) and Visitor Location Register (VLR) to register the MS in the network. If the MS has changed Location area (LA) while it was powered off, then the IMSI attach procedure will lead to a Location update.
When the MS is switched on, it searches for a mobile network to connect to. Once the MS identifies its desired network, it sends a message to the network to indicate that it has entered into an idle state. The Visitor Location Register (VLR) checks its database to determine whether there is an existing record of the particular subscriber.
If no record is found, the VLR communicates with the subscriber's Home Loc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hin%20recombinase | Hin recombinase is a 21kD protein composed of 198 amino acids that is found in the bacteria Salmonella. Hin belongs to the serine recombinase family (B2) of DNA invertases in which it relies on the active site serine to initiate DNA cleavage and recombination. The related protein, gamma-delta resolvase shares high similarity to Hin, of which much structural work has been done, including structures bound to DNA and reaction intermediates. Hin functions to invert a 900 base pair (bp) DNA segment within the salmonella genome that contains a promoter for downstream flagellar genes, fljA and fljB. Inversion of the intervening DNA alternates the direction of the promoter and thereby alternates expression of the flagellar genes. This is advantageous to the bacterium as a means of escape from the host immune response.
Hin functions by binding to two 26bp imperfect inverted repeat sequences as a homodimer. These hin binding sites flank the invertible segment which not only encodes the Hin gene itself, but also contains an enhancer element to which the bacterial Fis proteins binds with nanomolar affinity. Four molecules of Fis bind to this site as a homodimers and are required for the recombination reaction to proceed.
The initial reaction requires binding of Hin and Fis to their respective DNA sequences and assemble into a higher-order nucleoprotein complex with branched plectonemic supercoils with the aid of the DNA bending protein HU. At this point, it is believed that the Fis pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rippling | In computer science, more particularly in automated theorem proving, rippling refers to a group of meta-level heuristics, developed primarily in the Mathematical Reasoning Group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and most commonly used to guide inductive proofs in automated theorem proving systems. Rippling may be viewed as a restricted form of rewrite system, where special object level annotations are used to ensure fertilization upon the completion of rewriting, with a measure decreasing requirement ensuring termination for any set of rewrite rules and expression.
History
Raymond Aubin was the first person to use the term "rippling out" whilst working on his 1976 PhD thesis at the University of Edinburgh. He recognised a common pattern of movement during the rewriting stage of inductive proofs. Alan Bundy later turned this concept on its head by defining rippling to be this pattern of movement, rather than a side effect.
Since then, "rippling sideways", "rippling in" and "rippling past" were coined, so the term was generalised to rippling. Rippling continues to be developed at Edinburgh, and elsewhere, as of 2007.
Rippling has been applied to many problems traditionally viewed as being hard in the inductive theorem proving community, including Bledsoe's limit theorems and a proof of the Gordon microprocessor, a miniature computer developed by Michael J. C. Gordon and his team at Cambridge.
Overview
Very often, when attempting to prove a proposi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai%20He | Bai He (, born 19 November 1983) is a former Chinese-born Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Career statistics in Hong Kong
As of 11 May 2013
International career
He is selected by Hong Kong national football team for 2010 East Asian Football Championship semi-final while South China represent Hong Kong in the competition.
As of 19 November 2013
Honours
Club
South China
Hong Kong First Division: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
Hong Kong FA Cup: 2010–11
Hong Kong League Cup: 2010–11
Eastern
Hong Kong Premier League: 2015–16
Hong Kong Senior Shield: 2015–16
External links
Bai He at HKFA
1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Baoding
Chinese men's footballers
Hong Kong men's footballers
Footballers from Hebei
Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. players
South China AA players
Hong Kong Pegasus FC players
Cangzhou Mighty Lions F.C. players
Eastern Sports Club footballers
R&F (Hong Kong) players
Chinese Super League players
China League One players
Hong Kong Premier League players
Hong Kong men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Hong Kong expatriate men's footballers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20mitochondrial%20DNA%20segment | NUMT, pronounced "new might", is an acronym for "nuclear mitochondrial DNA" segment or genetic locus coined by evolutionary geneticist, Jose V. Lopez, which describes a transposition of any type of cytoplasmic mitochondrial DNA into the nuclear genome of eukaryotic organisms.
More and more NUMT sequences, with different size and length, in the diverse number of Eukaryotes, have been detected as more whole genome sequencing of different organisms accumulates. In fact, NUMTs have often been unintentionally discovered by researchers who were looking for mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). NUMTs have been reported in all studied eukaryotes, and nearly all mitochondrial genome regions can be integrated into the nuclear genome. However, NUMTs differ in number and size across different species. Such differences may be accounted for by interspecific variation in such factors as germline stability and mitochondria number.
After the release of the mtDNA to the cytoplasm, due to the mitochondrial alteration and morphological changes, mtDNA is transferred into the nucleus by one of the various predicted methods and are eventually inserted by double-stranded break repair processes into the nuclear DNA (nDNA). Not only has any correlation been found between the fraction of noncoding DNA and NUMT abundance in the genome but NUMTs are also proven to have non-random distribution and a higher likelihood of being inserted in the certain location of genome compare to others. Depending on the location of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fette%20Fraktur | Fette Fraktur is a blackletter typeface of the sub-classification Fraktur designed by the German punchcutter Johann Christian Bauer (1802–1867) in 1850. The C.E. Weber Foundry published a version in 1875, and the D Stempel AG foundry published the version shown at right in 1908.
Fette Fraktur (German for bold Fraktur) is based on the Fraktur type of blackletter faces. This heavy nineteenth century version was developed more for advertising than text, similar to the extremely heavy fat faceadvertising versions of Didone classification faces.
History
For a span of nearly a hundred years, the original Fraktur script was used as a standard text face in German-speaking Europe and parts of Scandinavia. During the period of the Third Reich Fraktur and blackletter faces were initially approved of in contrast to sans-serif faces (associated with the Bauhaus and cultural Bolshevism). Approved use of blackletter Fraktur faces by the Nazi regime continued until January 3, 1941, when Martin Bormann, director of the Party Chancellery issued a directive discontinuing the use of blackletter faces because of an alleged discovery of Jewish contributions in the development of these faces. Another reason may have been their limited legibility outside of Germany. While the Nazis forbade its use for practical and ideological reasons, at the conclusion of World War II, the Allied forces also prohibited it for a time because occupation troops could not read these faces. Eventually the ban on black |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%E2%80%93Kolmogorov%20inequality | In mathematics, the Landau–Kolmogorov inequality, named after Edmund Landau and Andrey Kolmogorov, is the following family of interpolation inequalities between different derivatives of a function f defined on a subset T of the real numbers:
On the real line
For k = 1, n = 2 and T = [c,∞) or T = R, the inequality was first proved by Edmund Landau with the sharp constants C(2, 1, [c,∞)) = 2 and C(2, 1, R) = √2. Following contributions by Jacques Hadamard and Georgiy Shilov, Andrey Kolmogorov found the sharp constants and arbitrary n, k:
where an are the Favard constants.
On the half-line
Following work by Matorin and others, the extremising functions were found by Isaac Jacob Schoenberg, explicit forms for the sharp constants are however still unknown.
Generalisations
There are many generalisations, which are of the form
Here all three norms can be different from each other (from L1 to L∞, with p=q=r=∞ in the classical case) and T may be the real axis, semiaxis or a closed segment.
The Kallman–Rota inequality generalizes the Landau–Kolmogorov inequalities from the derivative operator to more general contractions on Banach spaces.
Notes
Inequalities
→ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-teleportation%20theorem | In quantum information theory, the no-teleportation theorem states that an arbitrary quantum state cannot be converted into a sequence of classical bits (or even an infinite number of such bits); nor can such bits be used to reconstruct the original state, thus "teleporting" it by merely moving classical bits around. Put another way, it states that the unit of quantum information, the qubit, cannot be exactly, precisely converted into classical information bits. This should not be confused with quantum teleportation, which does allow a quantum state to be destroyed in one location, and an exact replica to be created at a different location.
In crude terms, the no-teleportation theorem stems from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the EPR paradox: although a qubit can be imagined to be a specific direction on the Bloch sphere, that direction cannot be measured precisely, for the general case ; if it could, the results of that measurement would be describable with words, i.e. classical information.
The no-teleportation theorem is implied by the no-cloning theorem: if it were possible to convert a qubit into classical bits, then a qubit would be easy to copy (since classical bits are trivially copyable).
Formulation
The term quantum information refers to information stored in the state of a quantum system. Two quantum states ρ1 and ρ2 are identical if the measurement results of any physical observable have the same expectation value for ρ1 and ρ2. Thus measurement ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20hexafluorophosphate | Lithium hexafluorophosphate is an inorganic compound with the formula LiPF6. It is a white crystalline powder.
Production
LiPF6 is manufactured by reacting phosphorus pentachloride with hydrogen fluoride and lithium fluoride
PCl5 + LiF + 5 HF → LiPF6 + 5 HCl
Suppliers include Targray and Morita Chemical Industries Co., Ltd
Chemistry
The salt is relatively stable thermally, but loses 50% weight at 200 °C (392 °F). It hydrolyzes near 70 °C (158 °F) according to the following equation forming highly toxic HF gas:
LiPF6 + 4 H2O → LiF + 5 HF + H3PO4
Owing to the Lewis acidity of the Li+ ions, LiPF6 also catalyses the tetrahydropyranylation of tertiary alcohols.
In lithium-ion batteries, LiPF6 reacts with Li2CO3, which may be catalysed by small amounts of HF:
LiPF6 + Li2CO3 → POF3 + CO2 + 3 LiF
Application
The main use of LiPF6 is in commercial secondary batteries, an application that exploits its high solubility in polar aprotic solvents. Specifically, solutions of lithium hexafluorophosphate in carbonate blends of ethylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate, diethyl carbonate and/or ethyl methyl carbonate, with a small amount of one or many additives such as fluoroethylene carbonate and vinylene carbonate, serve as state-of-the-art electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. This application takes advantage of the inertness of the hexafluorophosphate anion toward strong reducing agents, such as lithium metal, as well as of the ability of [PF6-] to passivate the positive aluminiu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20rule%20for%20Kolmogorov%20complexity | The chain rule for Kolmogorov complexity is an analogue of the chain rule for information entropy, which states:
That is, the combined randomness of two sequences X and Y is the sum of the randomness of X plus whatever randomness is left in Y once we know X.
This follows immediately from the definitions of conditional and joint entropy, and the fact from probability theory that the joint probability is the product of the marginal and conditional probability:
The equivalent statement for Kolmogorov complexity does not hold exactly; it is true only up to a logarithmic term:
(An exact version, KP(x, y) = KP(x) + KP(y|x*) + O(1),
holds for the prefix complexity KP, where x* is a shortest program for x.)
It states that the shortest program printing X and Y is obtained by concatenating a shortest program printing X with a program printing Y given X, plus at most a logarithmic factor. The results implies that algorithmic mutual information, an analogue of mutual information for Kolmogorov complexity is symmetric: I(x:y) = I(y:x) + O(log K(x,y)) for all x,y.
Proof
The ≤ direction is obvious: we can write a program to produce x and y by concatenating a program to produce x, a program to produce y given
access to x, and (whence the log term) the length of one of the programs, so
that we know where to separate the two programs for x and y|x (log(K(x, y)) upper-bounds this length).
For the ≥ direction, it suffices to show that for all k,l such that k+l = K(x,y) we have that eith |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20SGH-T319 | The Samsung SGH-T319 is a cell phone for T-Mobile service introduced in Q1 2006, and was designed for both the regular T-Mobile service and the To-Go! Prepaid Services. Designed to mimic the design of the older model, the Samsung SGH-t309, the only difference is that it is light blue.
Features for the phone include T-Zones, wireless internet, speakerphone and a camera. Memory space is about 3 MB, which can hold about 30 640 X 480 VGA photos. Instant messaging services include AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, and Yahoo messenger. When released, the starting price was about US$139.
References
CNET - Samsung SGH-T319
T319
Mobile phones introduced in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitaenite | Antitaenite is a meteoritic metal alloy mineral composed of iron (Fe) and 20–40% nickel (Ni), (and traces of other elements) that has a face centered cubic crystal structure.
There are three known Fe-Ni meteoritic minerals: kamacite, taenite, and tetrataenite.
The existence of antitaenite as a new mineral species, occurring in both iron meteorites and in chondrites, was first proposed in 1995 but the IMA has not approved paramagnetic antitaenite; instead the organization regards it as a variety of taenite. Gamma (fcc) Fe-Ni alloys with low-Ni (about 25% Ni) are probably inhomogeneous on a nanometer scale.
Antitaenite and taenite have the same crystal structure (face centered cubic) and can have the same chemical composition (same proportions of Fe and Ni) but they differ in their electronic structures: taenite has a high magnetic moment whereas antitaenite has a low magnetic moment. This difference in electronic structure was first established in 1999 and arises from a high-magnetic-moment to low-magnetic-moment transition occurring in the Fe-Ni bi-metallic alloy series. The same electronic structure transition is believed to be a causal factor in Invar behaviour.
See also
Glossary of meteoritics
References
External links
Mindat with location data
Webmineral data
Iron minerals
Nickel minerals
Meteorite minerals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic%20gene | A hypostatic gene is one whose phenotype is altered by the expression of an allele at a separate locus, in an epistasis event.
Example: In labrador retrievers, the chocolate coat colour is a result of homozygosity for a gene that is epistatic to the "black vs. brown" gene. The alleles determining whether the dog is black or brown, are that of the hypostatic gene in this event.
See also
Epistasis
Bombay phenotype
References
Further reading
Classical genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-histone%20protein | In chromatin, those proteins which remain after the histones have been removed, are classified as non-histone proteins. The non-histone proteins, are a large group of heterogeneous proteins that play a role in organization and compaction of the chromosome into higher order structures. They play vital roles in regulating processes like nucleosome remodeling, DNA replication, RNA synthesis and processing, nuclear transport, steroid hormone action and interphase/mitosis transition.
Scaffold proteins, DNA polymerase, Heterochromatin Protein 1 and Polycomb are common non-histone proteins. This classification group also includes numerous other structural, regulatory, and motor proteins. Non-histone protein are acidic.
The methylation of non-histone proteins regulates responses to DNA damage including the modulation of DNA repair pathways in proliferating and post-mitotic neuronal cells. Such modulation likely has implications for neuronal function.
See also
Chromatin
Cohesin
Condensin
References
Sources
Epigenetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrofluidic%20seal | Ferrofluidic seals, or magnetic liquid rotary seals, are used in rotating equipment to enable rotary motion while maintaining a hermetic seal by means of a physical barrier in the form of a ferrofluid. The ferrofluid is suspended in place by use of a permanent magnet. Since their development in the 1970s, the seals have seen use in specialised applications such as computer disc drives, vacuum and nuclear systems.
Origins
Ferrofluidic seals rely on the general principle of ferrofluids - fluids that display magnetic attraction. Following research on ferrofluids during the 1960s, the ferrofluidic seal was first patented in 1971 by R.E.Rosensweig (USP 3,620,584), who subsequently founded Ferrofluidics Corporation with R. Moskowitz.
Benefits and limitations
Magnetic liquid rotary seals operate with little maintenance and minimal leakage in a range of applications. Ferrofluid-based seals used in industrial and scientific applications are most often packaged in mechanical seal assemblies called rotary feedthroughs, which also contain a central shaft, ball bearings and an outer housing. The ball bearings provide two functions: maintaining the shaft's centering within the seal gap and supporting external loads. The bearings are the only mechanical wear-items, as the dynamic seal is formed with a series of rings of ultra-low vapor pressure, oil-based liquid held magnetically between the rotor and stator. As the ferrofluid retains its liquid properties even when magnetized, drag torq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20body | In lysosomal digestion, residual bodies are vesicles containing indigestible materials. Residual bodies are either secreted by the cell via exocytosis (this generally only occurs in macrophages), or they become lipofuscin granules that remain in the cytosol indefinitely. Longer-living cells like neurons and muscle cells usually have a higher concentration of lipofuscin than other more rapidly proliferating cells.
See also
Autophagy
Phagocytosis
References
Sources
Cellular processes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Echorium%20Sequence | The Echorium Sequence is a young adult fantasy trilogy by Katherine Roberts. The trilogy comprises Song Quest (1999), Crystal Mask (2001), and Dark Quetzal (2003), and follows the tales of The Echorium; the singers are located on the Isle of Echoes. In the first book, Song Quest, the major characters are singer Rialle, and Kherron followed by Renn and Shaiala in Crystal Mask. In Dark Quetzal, the major characters are Kyarra and Caell. The trilogy follows each generation carrying on from the previous generation in each book, starting with Rialle and Kherron. The series features creatures such as nāgas, centaurs, and half-creatures.
Awards
Song Quest - Winner of the Branford Boase Award for 2000
Plot summary
Song Quest
In Song Quest, Rialle, a novice Singer, is asked to travel to the mainland in order to stop the hunting of merlee and other Half Creatures, and her friend Frenn leaves orderly training to join her. As she leaves, another novice Kherron runs away from the Isle with the help of the merlee hunters. They discover Frazhin controlling the Karchlord with poisoned merlee eggs, and keeping the other inhabitants under control using khiz ures to stop him.
Crystal Mask
Set 20 years after Song Quest, Crystal Mask introduces Rialle's son Renn as a novice at the Echorium, who must travel overseas when the arrival of Shaiala, a wild girl who claims to have been raised by centaurs, casts doubt on the long-held belief that Frazhin is dead. Between them, they discover that Fra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGT2B7 | UGT2B7 (UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase-2B7) is a phase II metabolism isoenzyme found to be active in the liver, kidneys, epithelial cells of the lower gastrointestinal tract and also has been reported in the brain. In humans, UDP-Glucuronosyltransferase-2B7 is encoded by the UGT2B7 gene.
Function
The UGTs serve a major role in the conjugation and subsequent elimination of potentially toxic xenobiotics and endogenous compounds. UGT2B7 has unique specificity for 3,4-catechol estrogens and estriol, suggesting that it may play an important role in regulating the level and activity of these potent estrogen metabolites.
This enzyme is located on the endoplasmic reticulum and nuclear membranes of cells. Its function is to catalyse the conjugation of a wide variety of lipophilic aglycon substrates with glucuronic acid, using uridine diphosphate glucuronic acid.
Together with UGT2B4, UGT2B7 is capable of glucosidation of hyodesoxycholic acid in the liver, but, unlike the 2B4 isoform, 2B7 is also able to glucuronidate various steroid hormones (androsterone, epitestosterone) and fatty acids. It is also able to conjugate major classes of drugs such as analgesics (morphine), carboxylic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (ketoprofen), and anticarcinogens (all-trans retinoic acid). UGT2B7 is the major enzyme isoform responsible for the metabolism of morphine, codeine, norcodeine and other opiates to their corresponding 3- and 6- glucuronides. For example, morphine metabolism produces m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBYR%20%28AM%29 | KBYR (700 kHz) is an American commercial AM radio station programming talk in Anchorage, Alaska. 700 AM is a North American clear-channel frequency. WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio is also a Class A station on this frequency.
History
Longtime Alaskan broadcaster Dick Lobdell identified KBYR as the source of the famous Alaskan blooper presented on Kermit Schaefer's blooper albums of an announcer declaring that he would be "taking a leak out the window" to determine how cold it was.
KBYR was originally on 1240 kHz. It moved to 1270 in 1956 then to 700 in 1971.
Translators
In addition to the main station, KBYR is relayed by an additional 2 translators to widen its broadcast area.
References
External links
FCC History Cards for KBYR
KBYR history introduced by Rod Williams
1948 establishments in Alaska
Radio stations established in 1948
BYR
Talk radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Romanian | BBC Romanian was the Romanian branch of the BBC World Service (Radio) for Romania and Moldova. Since 2004, it broadcast on its own frequency (only in Bucharest - 88 FM, Chişinău - 97,2 FM, Timișoara - 93,9 FM and Constanţa - 96,9 FM); until then its signal was re-broadcast by local radio stations, partners of BBC Romanian.
On 25 June 2008, the BBC announced that it would close its Romanian language service after 69 years of broadcasting, effective 1 August 2008.
See also
BBC Radio
BBC World Service
References
External links
BBC Romanian in Moldova
BBC Romanian in Romania
Romanian
Romanian-language radio stations
Romania–United Kingdom relations
2008 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Moldova–United Kingdom relations
Radio stations established in 1939
1939 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tells%20Peak | Tells Peak is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada at the very north end of the Crystal Range (California), to the west of Lake Tahoe. It is located in the Desolation Wilderness in El Dorado County, California.
The origin of the name is not certain. It is probably named for a Swiss homesteader named Tell who lived a few miles to the west. At least one historian believes it was named for Ciperano Pedrini, a storekeeper in Garden Valley, who was known as Bill Tell.
References
External links
Mountains of El Dorado County, California
Lake Tahoe
Mountains of the Desolation Wilderness
Mountains of Northern California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIAK-FM | KIAK-FM (102.5 MHz) is a commercial country radio station in Fairbanks, Alaska.
The frequency originally belonged to KQRZ until KIAK (now KFBX) decided to move their country music format to FM in 1990.
Former logo
References
External links
Country radio stations in the United States
IAK-FM
Radio stations established in 1983
1984 establishments in Alaska
IHeartMedia radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20Lake%20%28Vermont%29 | Crystal Lake is located near the village of Barton in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. It is a glacial lake and deep in places. Route 5 runs along the lake's western shore. Crystal Lake is in the northeastern section of the state of Vermont. The lake is owned by the state and managed by the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Exotic species infestations are a concern, with an existing Eurasian water milfoil population, which is being addressed.
The lake is a coldwater fishery. Lake trout are native and the current population is wild. There are rainbow trout (wild and stocked), yellow perch, smallmouth bass, rock bass, pumpkinseed, chain pickerel, longnose suckers, white suckers, and various minnow species.
History
Rogers' Rangers were forced to retreat through the area following their attack on Saint-Francis, Quebec in 1759. The fleeing rangers split up before reaching Barton. One group followed the Barton River south to the falls at the outlet of Crystal Lake, where they were able to catch fish. From there, they continued south over the summit into the Passumpsic River Valley.
In the 19th century, the lake was sometimes called "Belle Pond."
Construction on a dam to enhance and control the lake was completed in 1860. It consists of concrete, stone, and masonry. The core is concrete. The foundation is rock, and soil. The height is by long. Maximum discharge is per second. The capacity is . Normal storage is . It drains an area of .
Circa 1900, a granit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Owens | Richard Saturnino Owens (born November 18, 1962) is an American fashion designer from Porterville, California. In addition to his main line, Owens has a furniture line and a number of diffusion lines.
Early life and education
Richard Saturnino Owens was raised in Porterville, California. His parents are John (d. 2015) and Concepción "Connie" Owens. His mother is Mexican. Owens was raised in a conservative, Catholic household. After graduating high school, he moved to Los Angeles, California to study art at Otis College of Art and Design for two years before taking pattern-making and draping courses at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. This led to work in the garment industry, designing copies of designer clothing. Owens then met Michèle Lamy, who at this time was well-known in the Los Angeles social scene and owned the "Lamy" sportswear brand.
Career
Owens launched his fashion line in 1994, operating out of a store in Hollywood Boulevard. One of the first boutiques to carry his clothes was Charles Gallay, who was known for carrying avant-garde designers. He gained notability after Kate Moss was photographed by Corrine Day for Vogue Paris in one of his signature leather jackets. This attention lead to Vogue America sponsoring his first runway, which he titled "Sparrows FW02".
He moved to Paris in 2003 with his partner Michèle Lamy, a decision that was partially motivated by being mugged in Los Angeles. He set up his home and atelier inside a historic five-story building |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stauffer%20syndrome | Stauffer syndrome is a constellation of signs and symptoms of liver dysfunction that arises due to presence of renal cell carcinoma, and, more rarely, in connection with other malignant neoplasms, though the specific pathogenesis is currently unknown. It is named for Dr. Maurice Stauffer, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The hepatic abnormalities are not due to tumor infiltration of the liver or intrinsic liver disease; they instead reflect the presence of a paraneoplastic syndrome.
Stauffer syndrome causes abnormal liver function tests, especially those that reflect the presence of cholestasis, i.e. abnormal bile flow. Hepatosplenomegaly may also be observed. The symptoms and signs resolve if the renal cell carcinoma (or another associated tumor) is successfully ablated. It is due to release of IL-6 from cancerous cell.
Eponym
Maurice H. Stauffer, M.D., a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, first characterized this syndrome in 1961, with the original name of "nephrogenic hepatomegaly."
References
External links
Syndromes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20compression%20symmetry | Symmetry and asymmetry, in the context of data compression, refer to the time relation between compression and decompression for a given compression algorithm.
If an algorithm takes the same time to compress a data archive as it does to decompress it, it is considered symmetrical. Note that compression and decompression, even for a symmetric algorithm, may not be perfectly symmetric in practice, depending on the devices the data is being copied to and from, and other factors such as latency and the fragmentation on the device.
In turn, if the compression and decompression times of an algorithm are vastly different, it is considered asymmetrical.
Examples
Symmetric algorithms are typically used for media streaming protocols, as either the server taking too long to compress the data, or the client taking too long to decompress, would lead to delays in the viewing of the data.
Asymmetrical algorithms wherein the compression is faster than the decompression can be useful for backing up or archiving data, as in these cases data is typically much more often stored than retrieved.
References
Further reading
Data compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20specific%20microcurrent | Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) or frequency Specific Microcurrent Therapy (FSMT) is the practice of introducing a mild electrical current into an area of damaged soft tissue. Practitioners claim that the introduced current enhances the healing process underway in that same tissue. Critics, such as David Gorski, call proponent's claims of the technique altering body tissue's vibrational amplitude pseudoscience.
About
Frequencies are simultaneously applied used on two channels so they intersect or cross in the area to be treated. Clinical experience shows that both frequencies need to accurately reflect the condition causing the problem (like inflammation or scarring) and the tissue being affected (like the nerve or spinal cord) in order for the treatment to be successful.
Usage
A 2012 systematic review of physical therapies for Achilles tendinopathy found limited evidence from a single randomized clinical trial suggests FSM as an effective therapy.
Criticism
Skeptics note that FSM is another form of vibration medicine and that there is no good evidence that when a tissue is injured it takes on a “different vibrational characteristic”. In addition to the implausibility of the underlying mechanism, critics further argue that the treatment lacks a body or research neither establishing the phenomenon nor the clinical claims.
A 1994 review of electronic devices as potential cancer treatments by the American Cancer Society found the methods to questionable, ineffect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forisome | Forisomes are proteins occurring in the sieve tubes of Fabaceae. Their molecules are about 1–3 µm wide and 10–30 µm long. They expand and contract anisotropically in response to changes of electric field, pH, or concentration of Ca2+ ions. Unlike most other moving proteins, the change is not dependent on ATP.
Forisomes function as valves in sieve tubes of the phloem system, by reversibly changing shape between low-volume ordered crystalloid spindles and high-volume disordered spherical conformations. The change from ordered to disordered conformation involves tripling of the protein's volume, loss of birefringence present in the crystalline phase, 120% radial expansion and 30% longitudinal shrinkage. In Vicia it was shown that forisomes are associated to the endoplasmic reticulum at sieve plates. There are evidences that the forisomes's behavior could depend on Ca2+ changes provoked by Ca2+-permeable ion channels, located on the endoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane of sieve elements. responsible for shape changes.
Forisomes have possible applications as biomimetic smart materials (e.g. valves in microdevices) or smart composite materials.
References
External links
Forisome: A smart plant protein inside a phloem system
Forisome based biomimetic smart materials
Forisome Protein, a Key to Biomimetic Materials
Motor proteins
Smart materials
Plant proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossband%20operation | Crossband (cross-band, cross band) operation is a method of telecommunication in which a radio station receives signals on one frequency and simultaneously transmits on another for the purpose of full duplex communication or signal relay.
To avoid interference within the equipment at the station, the two frequencies used need to be separated, and ideally on different 'bands'. An unattended station working in this way is a radio repeater. It re-transmits the same information that it receives. This principle is used by telecommunications satellites and terrestrial mobile radio systems.
Uses
Crossband operation is sometimes used by amateur radio operators. Rather than taking it in turns to transmit on the same frequency, both operators can transmit at the same time but on different bands, each one listening to the frequency that the other is using to transmit. A variation on this procedure includes establishing contact on one frequency and then changing to a pair of other frequencies to exchange messages.
Crossband operation is also used in communication between ships (inter-ship) with a HF installation. Frequencies that may be used can be found in the 'Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services'. Usually inter-ship communication is simplex only (VHF or MF), HF gives the possibility to work duplex but usually the transmitter and receiver are so close to each other that this may cause problems. The solution is to work on frequencies that are f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20wrap | In cryptography, key wrap constructions are a class of symmetric encryption algorithms designed to encapsulate (encrypt) cryptographic key material. The Key Wrap algorithms are intended for applications such as protecting keys while in untrusted storage or transmitting keys over untrusted communications networks. The constructions are typically built from standard primitives such as block ciphers and cryptographic hash functions.
Key Wrap may be considered as a form of key encapsulation algorithm, although it should not be confused with the more commonly known asymmetric (public-key) key encapsulation algorithms (e.g., PSEC-KEM). Key Wrap algorithms can be used in a similar application: to securely transport a session key by encrypting it under a long-term encryption key.
Background
In the late 1990s, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) posed the "Key Wrap" problem: to develop secure and efficient cipher-based key encryption algorithms. The resulting algorithms would be formally evaluated by NIST, and eventually approved for use in NIST-certified cryptographic modules. NIST did not precisely define the security goals of the resulting algorithm, and left further refinement to the algorithm developers. Based on the resulting algorithms, the design requirements appear to be (1) confidentiality, (2) integrity protection (authentication), (3) efficiency, (4) use of standard (approved) underlying primitives such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%20universal%20constructor | John von Neumann's universal constructor is a self-replicating machine in a cellular automaton (CA) environment. It was designed in the 1940s, without the use of a computer. The fundamental details of the machine were published in von Neumann's book Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, completed in 1966 by Arthur W. Burks after von Neumann's death. While typically not as well known as von Neumann's other work, it is regarded as foundational for automata theory, complex systems, and artificial life. Indeed, Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner considered Von Neumann's work on self-reproducing automata (together with Turing's work on computing machines) central to biological theory as well, allowing us to "discipline our thoughts about machines, both natural and artificial."
Von Neumann's goal, as specified in his lectures at the University of Illinois in 1949, was to design a machine whose complexity could grow automatically akin to biological organisms under natural selection. He asked what is the threshold of complexity that must be crossed for machines to be able to evolve. His answer was to specify an abstract machine which, when run, would replicate itself. In his design, the self-replicating machine consists of three parts: a "description" of ('blueprint' or program for) itself, a universal constructor mechanism that can read any description and construct the machine (sans description) encoded in that description, and a universal copy machine that can make copies of any descri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20encapsulation%20mechanism | In cryptographic protocols, a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) or key encapsulation method is used to secure symmetric key material for transmission using asymmetric (public-key) algorithms. It is commonly used in hybrid cryptosystems. In practice, public key systems are clumsy to use in transmitting long messages. Instead they are often used to exchange symmetric keys, which are relatively short. The symmetric key is then used to encrypt the longer message.
The traditional approach to sending a symmetric key with public key systems is to first generate a random symmetric key and then encrypt it using the chosen public key algorithm. The recipient then decrypts the public key message to recover the symmetric key. As the symmetric key is generally short, padding is required for full security and proofs of security for padding schemes are often less than complete. KEMs simplify the process by generating a random element in the finite group underlying the public key system and deriving the symmetric key by hashing that element, eliminating the need for padding.
Example using RSA encryption
Using the same notation employed in the RSA system article, say Alice has transmitted her public key to Bob, while keeping her private key secret, as usual. Bob then wishes to send symmetric key M to Alice. M might be a 128 or 256-bit AES key, for example. Note that the public key is typically 2048-bits or even longer, thus much larger than typical symmetric keys. If is small enough tha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Pareto%20distribution | In statistics, the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) is a family of continuous probability distributions. It is often used to model the tails of another distribution. It is specified by three parameters: location , scale , and shape . Sometimes it is specified by only scale and shape and sometimes only by its shape parameter. Some references give the shape parameter as .
Definition
The standard cumulative distribution function (cdf) of the GPD is defined by
where the support is for and for . The corresponding probability density function (pdf) is
Characterization
The related location-scale family of distributions is obtained by replacing the argument z by and adjusting the support accordingly.
The cumulative distribution function of (, , and ) is
where the support of is when , and when .
The probability density function (pdf) of is
,
again, for when , and when .
The pdf is a solution of the following differential equation:
Special cases
If the shape and location are both zero, the GPD is equivalent to the exponential distribution.
With shape , the GPD is equivalent to the continuous uniform distribution .
With shape and location , the GPD is equivalent to the Pareto distribution with scale and shape .
If , , , then . (exGPD stands for the exponentiated generalized Pareto distribution.)
GPD is similar to the Burr distribution.
Generating generalized Pareto random variables
Generating GPD random variables
If U is uniformly distribut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20therapeutic%20monoclonal%20antibodies | Therapeutic, diagnostic and preventive monoclonal antibodies are clones of a single parent cell. When used as drugs, the International Nonproprietary Names (INNs) end in -mab. The remaining syllables of the INNs, as well as the column Source, are explained in Nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies.
The abbreviations in the column Type are as follows:
mab: whole monoclonal antibody
Fab: fragment, antigen-binding (one arm)
F(ab')2: fragment, antigen-binding, including hinge region (both arms)
Fab': fragment, antigen-binding, including hinge region (one arm)
Variable fragments:
scFv: single-chain variable fragment
di-scFv: dimeric single-chain variable fragment
sdAb: single-domain antibody
BsAb: bispecific monoclonal antibody:
3funct: trifunctional antibody
BiTE: bi-specific T-cell engager
This list of over 500 monoclonal antibodies includes approved and investigational drugs as well as drugs that have been withdrawn from market; consequently, the column Use does not necessarily indicate clinical usage. See the list of FDA-approved therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in the monoclonal antibody therapy page.
References
Monoclonal Antibodies
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Monoclonal Antibodies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatter%20%28band%29 | Scatter are an improvisational collective, based in Glasgow.
The membership of the group is fluid. Members have included Nick McCarthy, Oliver Neilson and Hanna Tuulikki. The Blank Tapes label released their album The Mountain Announces.
Discography
Surprising Sing Stupendous Love (2004/Cenotaph)
The Mountain Announces (2006/Blank Tapes)
References
Scottish folk music groups
British jazz ensembles
Musical collectives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Devil%20Makes%20Three%20%28film%29 | The Devil Makes Three is a 1952 American thriller film set in post-World War II Germany, starring Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli and Richard Egan.
Plot
Former Eighth Air Force bomber crewman Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany in 1947 to visit the family who rescued and hid him from the Nazis after his plane was shot down over Munich in World War II.
He learns that most of the family was killed by an American air raid. The only survivor is the daughter, Wilhelmina Lehrt, who is working as a hostess in a nightclub and hates Americans. Eliot nonetheless manages to romance "Willie" and in his time at the nightclub, he develops a friendship with Heisemann, a comic.
Heisemann, it turns out, has secret ties to an underground Nazi revivalist movement. When Eliot discovers this, he tells his superiors, who order him to continue his relationship with Willie to learn more about Heisemann's operation.
The climax of the picture takes place in Berchtesgaden, and the scenes of Heisemann being chased through the rubble were filmed inside the ruins of Hitler's house just before its final demolition by the German government. Heisemann in the scene's final frame stands facing his captors in the notorious huge picture window of the house.
Cast
Gene Kelly as Captain Jeff Eliot
Pier Angeli as Wilhelmina "Willie" Lehrt
Richard Rober as Colonel James Terry
Richard Egan as Captain Parker
Claus Clausen as Heisemann
Margot Hielscher: Bar Singer
Ruth Megary: Waitress
Reception
According to MGM r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachis%20ipaensis | Arachis ipaensis is a herb in the Faboideae subfamily. This plant is cited as gene sources for research in plant biology of peanut (Arachis hypogaea). Its genome has been sequenced.
References
ipaensis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachis%20archeri | Arachis archeri (Portuguese common name: amendoim do campo limpo) is a herb native to Mato Grosso vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited as gene sources for research in plant biology of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
External links
archeri
Flora of Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachis%20batizocoi | Arachis batizocoi is a herb native to Bolivia and Paraguay. This plant is cited as gene sources for research in plant biology of peanut (Arachis hypogaea). Arachis batizocoi maintains a divergent genome as well as high fertility that facilitates the upbringing of new and beneficial alleles within peanut crops. Such high crossability has increased the frequency of several advantageous alleles that have improved plant life and agricultural output. Among these are boosted resistance against groundnut yield-limiting diseases such as late leaf spot (LLS) and groundnut rosette disease (GRD), larger seeds, and a higher overall yield.
References
External links
International Legume Database & Information Service: Arachis batizocoi
Quantitative Trait Analysis Shows the Potential for Alleles from the Wild Species Arachis batizocoi and A. duranensis to Improve Groundnut Disease Resistance and Yield in East Africa
Arachis batizocoi: a study of its relationship to cultivated peanut (A. hypogaea) and its potential for introgression of wild genes into the peanut crop using induced allotetraploids
batizocoi
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Paraguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing%20loop | A routing loop is a common problem with various types of networks, particularly computer networks. They are formed when an error occurs in the operation of the routing algorithm, and as a result, in a group of nodes, the path to a particular destination forms a loop.
In the simplest version, a routing loop of size two, node A thinks that the path to some destination (call it C) is through its neighbouring node, node B. At the same time, node B thinks that the path to C starts at node A.
Thus, whenever traffic for C arrives at either A or B, it will loop endlessly between A and B, unless some mechanism exists to prevent that behaviour.
How a routing loop can form
For example, in this illustration, node A is transmitting data to node C via node B. If the link between nodes B and C goes down and B has not yet informed node A about the breakage, node A transmits the data to node B assuming that the link A-B-C is operational and of lowest cost. Node B knows of the broken link and tries to reach node C via node A, thus sending the original data back to node A. Furthermore, node A receives the data that it originated back from node B and consults its routing table. Node A's routing table will say that it can reach node C via node B (because it still has not been informed of the break) thus sending its data back to node B creating an infinite loop. This routing loop problem is also called a two-node loop.
How a routing loop can persist
Consider now what happens if both the link |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCahill | McCahill is a surname of Irish origin. The name refers to:
Persons
Crystal McCahill (born 1983), Playboy Playmate of the month May 2009
Jim McCahill (born 1939), English football chairman
Mark P. McCahill (born 1956), American developer of internet technology
Romy McCahill (born 1993), Scottish model and beauty pageant titleholder
Tom McCahill (1907–1975), American automotive journalist
See also
Cahill (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutta%E2%80%93Joukowski%20theorem | The Kutta–Joukowski theorem is a fundamental theorem in aerodynamics used for the calculation of lift of an airfoil (and any two-dimensional body including circular cylinders) translating in a uniform fluid at a constant speed large enough so that the flow seen in the body-fixed frame is steady and unseparated. The theorem relates the lift generated by an airfoil to the speed of the airfoil through the fluid, the density of the fluid and the circulation around the airfoil. The circulation is defined as the line integral around a closed loop enclosing the airfoil of the component of the velocity of the fluid tangent to the loop. It is named after Martin Kutta and Nikolai Zhukovsky (or Joukowski) who first developed its key ideas in the early 20th century. Kutta–Joukowski theorem is an inviscid theory, but it is a good approximation for real viscous flow in typical aerodynamic applications.
Kutta–Joukowski theorem relates lift to circulation much like the Magnus effect relates side force (called Magnus force) to rotation. However, the circulation here is not induced by rotation of the airfoil. The fluid flow in the presence of the airfoil can be considered to be the superposition of a translational flow and a rotating flow. This rotating flow is induced by the effects of camber, angle of attack and the sharp trailing edge of the airfoil. It should not be confused with a vortex like a tornado encircling the airfoil. At a large distance from the airfoil, the rotating flow m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKNI-FM | KKNI-FM is a commercial classic hits music radio station in Sterling, Alaska, broadcasting on 105.3 FM. Previous call signs were KPFN and KSWD-FM with a frequency of 105.9, but in 2007, the station relocated to 105.3 and the KSWD-FM call sign was assigned to a Los Angeles, California station.
KKNI-FM is owned by Matt Wilson, through licensee KSRM Radio Group, Inc.
References
External links
KNI-FM
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Alaska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Philippine%20provinces%20by%20population | This is a list of the Philippines' provinces sorted by population, based on the population census of August 1, 2015 conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority.
Population of provinces in this list includes population of highly urbanized cities, which are administratively independent of the province.
Population counts for the regions do not add up to the national total.
2020 Census
2015 Census
2000 Census
Showing provinces existing at the time of census. Figures do not add up to total as population in disputed areas are added up to the next higher subdivision.
1995 Census
Showing provinces existing at the time of census.
1975 Census
Showing provinces existing at the time of census.
1903 Census
Showing provinces existing at the time of census.
See also
Demographics of the Philippines
Provinces of the Philippines
List of Philippine provinces by Human Development Index
References
Sources
Census 2000 Final Count
Population
Philippines, population |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement%20component%201q | The complement component 1q (or simply C1q) is a protein complex involved in the complement system, which is part of the innate immune system. C1q together with C1r and C1s form the C1 complex.
Antibodies of the adaptive immune system can bind antigen, forming an antigen-antibody complex. When C1q binds antigen-antibody complexes, the C1 complex becomes activated. Activation of the C1 complex initiates the classical complement pathway of the complement system. The antibodies IgM and all IgG subclasses except IgG4 are able to initiate the complement system.
Structure
C1q is a 460 kDa protein formed from 18 peptide chains in 3 subunits of 6. Each 6 peptide subunit consists of a Y-shaped pair of triple peptide helices joined at the stem and ending in a globular non-helical head.
The 80-amino acid helical component of each triple peptide contain many Gly-X-Y sequences, where X and Y are proline, isoleucine, or hydroxylysine; they, therefore, strongly resemble collagen fibrils.
C1q chains A, B and C
C1q is composed of 18 polypeptide chains: six A-chains, six B-chains, and six C-chains. Each chain contains a collagen-like region located near the N terminus and a C-terminal globular region. The A-, B-, and C-chains are arranged in the order A-C-B on chromosome 1.
Domain
The C1q domain is a conserved protein domain. C1q is a subunit of the C1 enzyme complex that activates the serum complement system. C1q comprises 6 A, 6 B and 6 C chains. These share the same topology, each pos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Cox%20Stadium | Hurley W. Rudd Field at Gene Cox Stadium is a municipal American football venue for local teams in Tallahassee, FL. It seats approximately 5,500 fans, but can accommodate up to 1,000 additional people. It currently serves all nine public middle schools and five public high schools in Leon County. It is adjacent to the North Florida Fairgrounds.
History
The stadium was built in 1969 when the addition of a third high school called for the construction of a shared central sports facility. A location bordering the North Florida Fairgrounds, on the south side of town, was selected.
Originally called Capital Stadium, its name was changed in 1998 to honor local high school coaching legend Gene Cox shortly after his retirement. The natural grass field was named in honor of four-term Florida state legislator and former Tallahassee, FL mayor Hurley W. Rudd Sr.
Football Use
Today, Hurley W. Rudd Field at Gene Cox Stadium is home to all Leon County middle school football games and most home games for the local public high schools, including: Chiles High School, Godby High School, Leon High School, Lincoln High School, and Rickards High School. Due to the large demand for use of the stadium, all home game scheduling is channeled through Leon County Schools and often results in high school football games being played on Thursdays and Fridays. While it is not uncommon for games to also be played at Chiles High School and Leon High School, all intercity matchups take place at Gene Cox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poikilitic%20texture | Poikilitic texture refers to igneous rocks where large later-formed less perfect crystals ('oikocrysts') surround smaller early-formed idiomorphic crystals ('chadacrysts') of other minerals. A poikilitic texture is most easily observed in petrographic thin sections.
In some rocks there seems to be little tendency for the minerals to envelop one another. This is true of many gabbros, aplites and granites. The grains then lie side by side, with the faces of the latter moulded on or adapted to the more perfect crystalline outlines of the earlier.
Ophitic
A variety of poikilitic texture, known as ophitic texture, is where laths of plagioclase are enclosed in pyroxene, olivine or other minerals. It is very characteristic of many diabases, in which large crystals of augite enclose smaller laths of plagioclase feldspar. Biotite and hornblende frequently enclose feldspar ophitically; less commonly iron oxides and sphene do so. In peridotites the "lustre-mottled" structure arises from pyroxene or hornblende enveloping olivine in the same manner. In these cases no crystallographic relation exists between the two minerals (enclosing and enclosed).
See also
List of rock textures
Poikiloblast
References
Igneous petrology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachis%20cardenasii | Arachis cardenasii is a herb in the Fabaceae family. This plant is cited as gene sources for research in plant biology of peanut (Arachis hypogaea); for example, Cercospora leaf spot resistance.
References
cardenasii |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachis%20correntina | Arachis correntina (syn. Arachis villosa Benth. var. correntina Burkart) is a herb native to Argentina and Paraguay. This plant is cited as gene sources for research in plant biology of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
External links
International Legume Database & Information Service: Arachis correntina
correntina
Flora of Argentina
Flora of Paraguay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryszta%C5%82y%20Czasu | Kryształy Czasu (Crystals of Time) was one of the first Polish role-playing games.
It was released in 1993 by Artur Szyndler in the Magia i Miecz magazine. By this point the game already had a loyal fan base which had developed during the late Communist era, despite the game's association with western ideas in the eyes of Poland's Communist government. In 1998 a print edition was released by Wydawnictwo MAG. The setting was a fantasy world, dominated by the orcs - who, unlike in most fantasy settings, were the most advanced and civilized race. The game mechanic was based on d100. Players of the 1993 version provided test data for the use of more varied character types in the 1998 version, including a better understanding of the unique aspects of female characters.
References
External links
www.kryształyczasu.pl – unofficial system web page (in Polish).
Reviews
Adam Waskiewicz, Kryształy czasu. Nestor polskiego rpg, 8 January 2010, polter.pl
Polish role-playing games
Fantasy role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalicum | Crystalicum is a Polish role-playing game released in 2006. It is set in a fantasy universe (with magic and such) but involving outer space environment (thus similar to the Spelljammer game). Much of the art is manga-style.
There is also a collectible card game of the same name set in this universe, released in 2005.
The card game consists of a Crystalicum: Crystal Edition basic set ("Crystalicum: Edycja Kryształowa") and two expansions - Under Set Sails ("Pod Pełnymi Żaglami") and Stronger than the Sword ("Silniejsze od Miecza"). The preparation of a second edition set - Crystalicum: War of Shadows ("Crystalicum: Wojna Cieni") has been announced on the game's forum by one of the people affiliated with the project.
The role-playing game features The Known Universe ("Znany Wszechświat") - a guide to the game's setting in the form of the memoirs of Marco di Mirandeo and a player's handbook ("Crystalicum: Kryształowa Gra Fabularna"). For some time it looked as if the RPG part of the project would come to a halt, with the news/rumour of one of the authors leaving and taking the copyrights for unreleased material with him, but the publication of the game master's guide has been announced recently for 2008.
The Setting
The Worlds
The game features numerous planets for the GM to use as a setting for his party's adventures, and since quite a number of maps depicting formerly charted space have been lost, new ones can be added as one wills it.
In-game they are called worlds, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%27s%20safety-first%20criterion | Roy's safety-first criterion is a risk management technique, devised by A. D. Roy, that allows an investor to select one portfolio rather than another based on the criterion that the probability of the portfolio's return falling below a minimum desired threshold is minimized.
For example, suppose there are two available investment strategies—portfolio A and portfolio B, and suppose the investor's threshold return level (the minimum return that the investor is willing to tolerate) is −1%. Then, the investor would choose the portfolio that would provide the maximum probability of the portfolio return being at least as high as −1%.
Thus, the problem of an investor using Roy's safety criterion can be summarized symbolically as:
where is the probability of (the actual return of asset i) being less than (the minimum acceptable return).
Normally distributed return and SFRatio
If the portfolios under consideration have normally distributed returns, Roy's safety-first criterion can be reduced to the maximization of the safety-first ratio, defined by:
where is the expected return (the mean return) of the portfolio, is the standard deviation of the portfolio's return and is the minimum acceptable return.
Example
If Portfolio A has an expected return of 10% and standard deviation of 15%, while portfolio B has a mean return of 8% and a standard deviation of 5%, and the investor is willing to invest in a portfolio that maximizes the probability of a return no lower than 0%: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20Al-Ghanim | Ibrahim Al-Ghanim (born June 27, 1983) is a retired Qatari footballer. He played as a defender.
Al-Ghanim was also a member of the Qatar national football team.
Club career statistics
Statistics accurate as of 21 August 2011
1Includes Emir of Qatar Cup.
2Includes Sheikh Jassem Cup.
3Includes AFC Champions League.
International goals
References
External links
FIFA.com profile
Goalzz.com profile
1983 births
Living people
Qatari men's footballers
Qatar men's international footballers
Al-Arabi SC (Qatar) players
2007 AFC Asian Cup players
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
Qatar Stars League players
Al-Gharafa SC players
Asian Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Qatar
Men's association football defenders
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilar%20crest | The basilar crest lies within the cochlear duct in the inner ear. It gives attachment to the outer edge of the basilar membrane and is a spiral ligament that projects inward below as a triangular prominence.
References
Auditory system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulcus%20spiralis%20internus | On the upper plate of that part of the lamina which is outside the vestibular membrane, the periosteum is thickened to form the spiral limbus, this ends externally in a concavity, the sulcus spiralis internus, which represents, on section, the form of the letter C.
References
External links
Histology at uc.edu
Ear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulcus%20spiralis%20externus | The basilar crest gives attachment to the outer edge of the basilar membrane; immediately above the crest is a concavity, the sulcus spiralis externus.
References
Ear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normality%20test | In statistics, normality tests are used to determine if a data set is well-modeled by a normal distribution and to compute how likely it is for a random variable underlying the data set to be normally distributed.
More precisely, the tests are a form of model selection, and can be interpreted several ways, depending on one's interpretations of probability:
In descriptive statistics terms, one measures a goodness of fit of a normal model to the data – if the fit is poor then the data are not well modeled in that respect by a normal distribution, without making a judgment on any underlying variable.
In frequentist statistics statistical hypothesis testing, data are tested against the null hypothesis that it is normally distributed.
In Bayesian statistics, one does not "test normality" per se, but rather computes the likelihood that the data come from a normal distribution with given parameters μ,σ (for all μ,σ), and compares that with the likelihood that the data come from other distributions under consideration, most simply using a Bayes factor (giving the relative likelihood of seeing the data given different models), or more finely taking a prior distribution on possible models and parameters and computing a posterior distribution given the computed likelihoods.
A normality test is used to determine whether sample data has been drawn from a normally distributed population (within some tolerance). A number of statistical tests, such as the Student's t-test and the one-wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesaad%20Al-Hamad | Mesaad Ali Al-Hamad (born February 11, 1986) is a Qatari footballer who plays as a right defender . He is a member of the Qatar national football team. He was born in Qatar.
Club career statistics
Statistics accurate as of 21 August 2011
1Includes Emir of Qatar Cup.
2Includes Sheikh Jassem Cup.
3Includes AFC Champions League.
References
External links
Player Tactical Profile at football-lineups.com
Player profile - doha-2006.com
1986 births
Living people
Qatari men's footballers
Qatar men's international footballers
Al Sadd SC players
Al Ahli SC (Doha) players
Umm Salal SC players
Al-Wakrah SC players
Al Shahaniya SC players
Muaither SC players
Yemeni emigrants to Qatar
2007 AFC Asian Cup players
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
Qatar Stars League players
Qatari Second Division players
Naturalised citizens of Qatar
Asian Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Qatar
Men's association football defenders
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Rabia%20Al-Noobi | Mohammed Rabia Jamaan Al-Noobi (, born 10 May 1981), commonly known as Mohammed Rabia, is an Omani footballer who plays for Dhofar S.C.S.C.
Club career statistics
International career
Mohammed was part of the first team squad of the Oman national football team from 2001 to 2010. He was selected for the national team for the first time in 2001. He has made appearances in the 2003 Gulf Cup of Nations, the 2004 Gulf Cup of Nations, the 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification, the 2004 AFC Asian Cup, the 2007 Gulf Cup of Nations, the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification, the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, the 2010 Gulf Cup of Nations and the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification.
FIFA World Cup Qualification
Mohammed has made seven appearances in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification, five in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification and five in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.
References
External links
1981 births
Living people
Omani men's footballers
Oman men's international footballers
Omani expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
2004 AFC Asian Cup players
2007 AFC Asian Cup players
Dhofar Club players
Kazma SC players
Al Wehda FC players
Al Sadd SC players
Al Ahli SC (Doha) players
Saudi Pro League players
Qatar Stars League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Kuwait
Omani expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait
Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
Omani expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar
Omani expatriate sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed%20Al-Hinai | Mohammed Mubarak Suwaid Al-Hinai (; born 19 July 1984), is an Omani footballer who plays for Fanja SC.
Club career statistics
International career
Mohammed was selected for the national team for the first time in 1999. He has made appearances in the 2003 Gulf Cup of Nations, the 2004 Gulf Cup of Nations, the 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification, the 2004 AFC Asian Cup, the 2007 Gulf Cup of Nations and the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification and the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.
He also played at the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Trinidad and Tobago and scored two goals, one in a 1-2 loss against Spain and another in a 1-1 draw against Burkina Faso
FIFA World Cup Qualification
Mohammed has made three appearances in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification and six in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.
In the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification, he scored a brace in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round|second round]] in a 5-1 win over India.
In the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, he scored one goal in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC first round|first round]] in a 2-0 win over Nepal.
National team career statistics
Goals for Senior National Team
Honours
Club
With Fanja
Oman Professional League (1): 2011–12; Runner-Up 2012–13, 2013-14
Sultan Qaboos Cup (1): 2013-14
Oman Professional League Cup (1): 2014-15
Oman Super Cup (1): 2012; Runner-Up 2013, 2014
References
External links
Mohamed Al Hinai at Goal.com
1984 births
Living people
Spo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leray%E2%80%93Hirsch%20theorem | In mathematics, the Leray–Hirsch theorem is a basic result on the algebraic topology of fiber bundles. It is named after Jean Leray and Guy Hirsch, who independently proved it in the late 1940s. It can be thought of as a mild generalization of the Künneth formula, which computes the cohomology of a product space as a tensor product of the cohomologies of the direct factors. It is a very special case of the Leray spectral sequence.
Statement
Setup
Let
be a fibre bundle with fibre . Assume that for each degree , the singular cohomology rational vector space
is finite-dimensional, and that the inclusion
induces a surjection in rational cohomology
.
Consider a section of this surjection
,
by definition, this map satisfies
.
The Leray–Hirsch isomorphism
The Leray–Hirsch theorem states that the linear map
is an isomorphism of -modules.
Statement in coordinates
In other words, if for every , there exist classes
that restrict, on each fiber , to a basis of the cohomology in degree , the map given below is then an isomorphism of modules.
where is a basis for and thus, induces a basis for
Notes
Fiber bundles
Theorems in algebraic topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%28I%29%20acetylide | Copper(I) acetylide, or cuprous acetylide, is a chemical compound with the formula Cu2C2. Although never characterized by X-ray crystallography, the material has been claimed at least since 1856. One form is claimed to be a monohydrate with formula . is a reddish-brown explosive powder.
Synthesis
Materials purported to be copper acetylide can be prepared by treating acetylene with a solution of copper(I) chloride and ammonia:
C2H2 (g) + 2 CuCl (s) → Cu2C2 (s) + 2 HCl (g)
This reaction produces a reddish solid precipitate.
Properties
When dry, copper acetylide is a heat and shock sensitive primary explosive, more sensitive than silver acetylide.
In acetylene manufacturing plants, copper acetylide is thought to form inside pipes made of copper or an alloy with high copper content, which may result in violent explosion. This led to abandonment of copper as a construction material in such facilities. Copper catalysts used in the chemical industry can also possess a degree of risk under certain conditions.
Reactions
Copper acetylide is the substrate of Glaser coupling for the formation of polyynes. In a typical reaction, a suspension of . in an amoniacal solution is treated with air. The copper is oxidized to and forms a blue soluble complex with the ammonia, leaving behind a black solid residue. The latter has been claimed to consist of carbyne, an elusive allotrope of carbon:<ref name=cataldo2>Franco Cataldo (1999), ' 'A study on the structure and electrical properti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTGF | CTGF, also known as CCN2 or connective tissue growth factor, is a matricellular protein of the CCN family of extracellular matrix-associated heparin-binding proteins (see also CCN intercellular signaling protein). CTGF has important roles in many biological processes, including cell adhesion, migration, proliferation, angiogenesis, skeletal development, and tissue wound repair, and is critically involved in fibrotic disease and several forms of cancers.
Structure and binding partners
Members of the CCN protein family, including CTGF, are structurally characterized by having four conserved, cysteine-rich domains. These domains are, from N- to C-termini, the insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP) domain, the von Willebrand type C repeats (vWC) domain, the thrombospondin type 1 repeat (TSR) domain, and a C-terminal domain (CT) with a cysteine knot motif. CTGF exerts its functions by binding to various cell surface receptors in a context-dependent manner, including integrin receptors, cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs), LRPs, and TrkA. In addition, CTGF also binds growth factors and extracellular matrix proteins. The N-terminal half of CTGF interacts with aggrecan, the TSR domain interacts with VEGF, and the CT domain interacts with members of the TGF-β superfamily, fibronectin, perlecan, fibulin-1, slit, and mucins.
Role in development
Knockout mice with the Ctgf gene disrupted die at birth due to respiratory stress as a result of severe chondr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot%20plot%20%28statistics%29 | A dot chart or dot plot is a statistical chart consisting of data points plotted on a fairly simple scale, typically using filled in circles. There are two common, yet very different, versions of the dot chart. The first has been used in hand-drawn (pre-computer era) graphs to depict distributions going back to 1884. The other version is described by William S. Cleveland as an alternative to the bar chart, in which dots are used to depict the quantitative values (e.g. counts) associated with categorical variables.
Of a distribution
The dot plot as a representation of a distribution consists of group of data points plotted on a simple scale. Dot plots are used for continuous, quantitative, univariate data. Data points may be labelled if there are few of them.
Dot plots are one of the simplest statistical plots, and are suitable for small to moderate sized data sets. They are useful for highlighting clusters and gaps, as well as outliers. Their other advantage is the conservation of numerical information. When dealing with larger data sets (around 20–30 or more data points) the related stemplot, box plot or histogram may be more efficient, as dot plots may become too cluttered after this point. Dot plots may be distinguished from histograms in that dots are not spaced uniformly along the horizontal axis.
Although the plot appears to be simple, its computation and the statistical theory underlying it are not simple. The algorithm for computing a dot plot is closely related t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan%20Zaher%20Al-Maghni | Hassan Zaher Al-Maghni (; born 7 January 1985), commonly known as Hassan Zaher, is an Omani footballer who plays for Al-Nasr S.C.S.C.
Club career statistics
International career
Hassan was selected for the national team for the first time in 2006. He has made appearances in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification.
References
External links
Hassan Zaher Al Maghni at Goal.com
1985 births
Living people
Omani men's footballers
Oman men's international footballers
Omani expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Al-Nasr SC (Salalah) players
Salalah SC players
Expatriate men's footballers in Bahrain
Omani expatriate sportspeople in Bahrain
Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Oman
Sportspeople from Muscat, Oman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala%20Biodiversity | According to Parkswatch and the IUCN, Guatemala is considered the fifth biodiversity hotspot in the world. The country has 14 ecoregions ranging from mangrove forest (4 species), in both ocean littorals, dry forests and scrublands in the eastern highlands, subtropical and tropical rain forests, wetlands, cloud forests in the Verapaz region, mixed forests and pine forests in the highlands.
Over one third of Guatemala (36.3% or about 39,380 km²) is forested (2005). About half of the forests (49.7% or roughly 19,570 km²) is classified as primary forest which is considered the most biodiverse forest type. Tree species include 17 conifers (pines, cypress, including the endemic Abies guatemalensis), the most in any tropical region of the world.
Guatemala has 7 wetlands of international importance that were included in the Ramsar List.
Guatemala has some 1246 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles according to figures from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Of these, 6.7% are endemic, meaning they exist in no other country, and 8.1% are threatened species. It is also home to at least 8681 species of vascular plants, of which 13.5% are endemic. 5.4% of the country is protected under IUCN categories I-V.
With a total of 123 protected areas and more than 29% of the territory declared a protected area, Guatemala has the largest percentage of protected areas in Central America. Tikal National Park, which was created in 1955, was the first mixed UNESCO World |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPCA | HPCA may refer to:
High Performance Computing Act of 1991, a U.S. act of Congress
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association, a sports body in India
HPCA (gene), which encodes the protein hippocalcin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRYT | WRYT is a radio station broadcasting out of Edwardsville, Illinois with a Catholic format. It broadcasts on AM frequency 1080 kHz and is part of the Covenant Network.
Because WRYT shares the same frequency as "clear channel" station KRLD in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, the station broadcast during the daytime hours only until April 9, 2014.
WRYT's studios are located on Hampton Avenue in St. Louis, while its transmitter is located near Edwardsville.
History
WRYT went on the air November 9, 1987, but while the station promoted itself as WRYT in local media, its callsign was legally WHRC (standing for original owners Horizon Radio Corporation) until February 4, 1988, when it exchanged call letters with TV channel 46 in Norwell, Massachusetts, which founder Bob Howe also owned. As a commercial station, WRYT broadcast adult standards music and news programming aimed at listeners in Edwardsville and Madison County, Illinois.
The station was sold in 1992 to the Hometown Broadcasting Company, owned by Tom Lauher, of Creve Coeur, Missouri. Five years later, he sold the station to Covenant founder Tony Holman, whom he found "more serious and interested and less on a fishing expedition". Covenant Network began operating WRYT, its first station on May 1, 1997.
References
External links
The Covenant Network
WRYT / KHOJ Programming Schedule
Catholic radio stations
RYT
Radio stations established in 1987
1987 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZyMOS | ZyMOS Corporation (its name a partial acronym for Zirconium Metal Oxide Semiconductors), later Appian Technology, Inc., was a semiconductor manufacturing company located in Sunnyvale, California. It initially designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom integrated circuits. After the introduction of the IBM PC in the early 1980s, there was strong customer demand for ICs to support the production of IBM PC-AT clones.
In 1987, Appian responded to this demand by developing the POACH (PC-On-A-Chip) peripheral series, one of the first chipsets of its kind, enabling manufacturers of PC AT clones to simplify PC motherboard designs and reduce cost and time to market. Intel soon licensed this chipset to support Intel 80286 sales.
Intel second-sourced to Zymos Corp. of these 82230/82231 High Integration AT-Compatible Chip Set.
Appian later introduced a complementary line of VGA integrated circuits to support manufacturers of VGA boards. Appian later introduced its own line of VGA boards.
ZyMOS was founded in 1978 and changed its name to Appian Technology Inc. on November 1, 1990, just after an acquisition of Renaissance GRX, which was based in Redmond, Washington. This merger helped to add to Appian's line of advanced VGA boards and software.
See also
Chips and Technologies
NEAT chipset
List of Intel chipsets
References
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1990_August_10/ai_9500113
http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.c |
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