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13167800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Plains%20Water | Central Plains Water | Central Plains Water, or, more fully, the Central Plains Water Enhancement Scheme, is a large-scale proposal for water diversion, damming, reticulation and irrigation for the Central Plains of Canterbury, New Zealand. Construction started on the scheme in 2014.
The original proposal involved diversion of water, the co... | 2.578125 | 0 |
13167800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Plains%20Water | Central Plains Water | Scope
Canterbury Regional Council has summarised the scope of the Central Plains Water enhancement scheme as follows;
'The applicants propose to irrigate 60,000 hectares of land between the Rakaia and Waimakariri Rivers from the Malvern foothills to State Highway One. Water will be abstracted at a rate of up to 40 m3/s... | 2.265625 | 0 |
13167800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Plains%20Water | Central Plains Water | By February 2001, the steering committee had identified 27 tasks that would be necessary to complete the feasibility study. The list of tasks is comprehensive; it included the assessment of economic effects, benefits, environmental effects, social effects, cultural effects, risks, planning, land accessibility, and envi... | 2.03125 | 0 |
13167800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Plains%20Water | Central Plains Water | Local government elections October 2007
The Central Plains Water enhancement scheme was the second most important issue in the 2007 Christchurch local government elections, according to a poll of 320 people commissioned by the Christchurch newspaper The Press.
Bob Parker, who became the new Mayor of Christchurch, favo... | 2.171875 | 0 |
13167800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Plains%20Water | Central Plains Water | Canterbury mudfish habitat
The Canterbury mudfish is a native freshwater fish of the galaxiid family that is found only in Canterbury. It is an acutely threatened species that is classified as 'Nationally Endangered'.
In October 2002, staff of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), were engag... | 2.65625 | 0 |
13167800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Plains%20Water | Central Plains Water | In July 2006, and in January and February 2007, University of Canterbury researchers surveyed the Waianiwaniwa Valley for mudfish. The fish identified ranged from young recruits to mature adult fish, indicating a healthy population. Canterbury mudfish occur in at least 24 kilometres of the Waianiwaniwa River. Also, sit... | 2.859375 | 0 |
13167850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staebler%E2%80%93Wronski%20effect | Staebler–Wronski effect | The Staebler–Wronski Effect (SWE) refers to light-induced metastable changes in the properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon.
The defect density of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) increases with light exposure, causing an increase in the recombination current and reducing the efficiency of the conversion o... | 2.546875 | 0 |
13167897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Alpert | Jane Alpert | In 1956, her father took a job as vice president of the Linz Glass Company in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. "It was there that Jane Alpert first became aware of the fact that she was an outsider, not only because she was Jewish, but also because she was from the city and unaccustomed to country ways." When she was twelve, t... | 2.46875 | 0 |
13167897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Alpert | Jane Alpert | Chase Manhattan
New York Federal Building
Standard Oil
General Motors
Marine Midland Bank
Foley Square
New York City Police Headquarters
United States Capitol
United States State Department building
Armed Forces Induction Center
New York Corporate Office
Alpert planted a bomb on the floor of the New York Fed... | 2.0625 | 0 |
13167903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20E.M.%20Lands | William E.M. Lands | William E.M. Lands (born July 22, 1930) is an American nutritional biochemist who is among the world's foremost authorities on essential fatty acids.
Biography
Lands graduated from University of Michigan in 1951 and served on the faculty there from 1955 to 1980. He then moved to University of Illinois Chicago (1980–... | 2.3125 | 0 |
13167903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20E.M.%20Lands | William E.M. Lands | Upon receipt of a Pfizer Biomedical Research Award in 1985, Lands developed an empirical mathematical relationship showing how metabolism of dietary omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids leads to predictable proportions of their elongated highly unsaturated derivatives (HUFA) accumulated in tissue lipids. After ret... | 1.984375 | 0 |
13167992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqbil%20bin%20Hadi%20al-Wadi%27i | Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i | Muqbil bin Hadi bin Muqbil bin Qa’idah al-Hamdani al-Wadi’i al-Khallali (1933 – 21 July 2001) () was an Islamic scholar in Yemen. He was the founder of a Madrasa in Dammaj which was known as a centre for Salafi ideology and its multi-national student population. Muqbil was noted for his fierce criticisms of the Egyptia... | 1.992188 | 0 |
13167992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqbil%20bin%20Hadi%20al-Wadi%27i | Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i | Wadi'i went on, soon after his return to his native region, to found and establish an institute that he named Dar al-Hadith al-Khayriyya in Dammaj. It would become one of the most important and influential educational institutions for Salafism in the world, teaching tens of thousands of students ranging from the Arab w... | 2.15625 | 0 |
13167992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqbil%20bin%20Hadi%20al-Wadi%27i | Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i | His Fiqh
In terms of Islamic jurisprudence, al-Wādi'i did not follow any established school of thought in Islam and opposed the practice of Taqlid, or subordination to higher legal authority. His views on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence were almost identical with those of the Zahiri school; he rejected the usag... | 2.03125 | 0 |
13168063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynodiastylidae | Gynodiastylidae | Gynodiastylidae is one of the eight most commonly recognised families of crustaceans of the order Cumacea. They are especially prevalent in the southern hemisphere, with some types described from Japan, Thailand and the Persian Gulf. Most are found at less than depth.
Anatomy
Gynodiastylidae have a small free telson,... | 2.75 | 0 |
13168160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%20of%20the%20Cross | Company of the Cross | In an October 21, 1996 Alberta Report article, Byfield wrote that the most traditional of all St. John's schools' rules, was discipline. In his articles, Byfield described his belief in the use of discipline to strengthen the character of his students by pushing them to their psychological breaking points. Byfield des... | 2.015625 | 0 |
13168160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%20of%20the%20Cross | Company of the Cross | The next year, in 1978, at Saint John's School of Ontario—also operated by the Company of the Cross—twelve boys and one teacher from its Saint John's School of Ontario died while canoeing on Lake Temiskaming. While the coroner's inquest ruled it was an accident and no charges were laid, the coroner's report said, "We f... | 2.109375 | 0 |
13168252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater%20Club | Crater Club | The Crater Club is a seasonal residential enclave on the shore of Lake Champlain approximately one mile south of Essex, New York within the Adirondack Park region. The club was originally developed as a summer retreat by the naturalist and outdoor writer John Bird Burnham in the early 1900s. Currently the Crater Club c... | 2.09375 | 0 |
13168320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20SETI | Active SETI | Active SETI (Active Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is the attempt to send messages to intelligent extraterrestrial life. Active SETI messages are predominantly sent in the form of radio signals. Physical messages like that of the Pioneer plaque may also be considered an active SETI message. Active SETI is a... | 2.484375 | 0 |
13168320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20SETI | Active SETI | On 13 February 2015, scientists including Douglas Vakoch, David Grinspoon, Seth Shostak, and David Brin at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science discussed Active SETI, and whether transmitting a message to possible intelligent extraterrestrials in the Cosmos was a good idea. That ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
13168320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20SETI | Active SETI | Radio message construction
The lack of an established communications protocol is a challenge for METI. While trying to synthesize and project an Interstellar Radio Message (IRM), the receiving extraterrestrials (ETs) will first encounter a physical phenomenon and, only after that, perceive the information. Initially, a... | 1.9375 | 0 |
13168320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20SETI | Active SETI | However, some scientists consider these fears about the dangers of METI as panic and irrational superstition; Russian and Soviet radio engineer and astronomer Alexander L. Zaitsev has argued against these concerns. Zaitsev argues that we should consider the risks of not attempting to contact extraterrestrial civilizati... | 2.03125 | 0 |
13168320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20SETI | Active SETI | In 2012, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Michael Busch, Sanjoy Som, and Seth Baum argued that while the benefits of radio communication on Earth likely outweigh the potential harms of detection by extraterrestrial watchers, the uncertainty regarding the outcome of contact with extraterrestrial beings creates difficulty in assessing ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
13168405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastwood%20Academy | Eastwood Academy | Advanced Placement courses include: Statistics, Calculus AB/BC, Biology, Chemistry, Physics 1, Environmental Science, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Spanish Language and Culture, Spanish Literature and Culture, Human Geography, World History, U.S. History, European History, Art Hi... | 2.34375 | 0 |
13168417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maijishan%20Grottoes | Maijishan Grottoes | The Maijishan Grottoes (), formerly romanized as Maichishan, are a series of 194 rock-cut caves cut in the side of the hill of Maijishan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, northwest China.
This example of rock cut architecture contains over 7,200 Buddhist sculptures and over 1,000 square meters of murals. Construction began... | 2.609375 | 0 |
13168417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maijishan%20Grottoes | Maijishan Grottoes | Design
These Wei caves are fairly simple and most follow the pattern of a seated Buddha flanked by bodhisattvas and other attendants, sometimes by monks or lay worshippers. The most common Buddha is Amitābha, the principal Buddha of the Pure Land sect. Amitābha enables all who call upon him to be reborn into his heaven... | 2.765625 | 0 |
13168417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maijishan%20Grottoes | Maijishan Grottoes | Nearly all of the statuary at Maijishan is made of clay with the addition of some sort of binding agent to help preserve the sculpture. When stone sculptures appear (for example, in caves 117, 127, 133 and 135), they are generally made of sandstone, and many are exquisite. The sandstone is reported not to be indigenous... | 2.546875 | 0 |
13168513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backwater%20Reservoir | Backwater Reservoir | Backwater Reservoir is a reservoir in north west Angus, Scotland. The reservoir's sole purpose is to provide drinking water, and as such, it supplies Angus, Dundee, and parts of Perth and Kinross. Backwater, together with the smaller Lintrathen Reservoir to the south, is capable of supplying some 300,000 people with d... | 2.484375 | 0 |
13168539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Snook | James H. Snook | James Howard Snook (September 17, 1879 – February 28, 1930) was an American athlete, veterinarian, and murderer. He is the only Olympic gold medalist to be executed for murder.
Biography
Snook was a member of the U.S. Olympic Pistol Team, which won a Gold Medal in the Men's 30 metre team military pistol event at the ... | 2.484375 | 0 |
13168629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20flower%20thrips | Western flower thrips | The western flower thrips [Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)] is an invasive pest insect in agriculture. This species of thrips is native to the Southwestern United States but has spread to other continents, including Europe, Australia (where it was identified in May 1993), and South America via transport of infest... | 3.09375 | 0 |
13168675 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deogyang%20District | Deogyang District | Deogyang District () is a gu (ward) in Goyang, South Korea.
City information
The area is 165.49 km2 and the population is 385,387 (2008). It borders Jori-eup and Gwangtan-myeon of Paju to the north, Jangheung-myeon of Yangju and Dobong District and Eunpyeong District of Seoul to the east, Mapo District of Seoul and G... | 1.90625 | 0 |
13168689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauja%20National%20Park | Gauja National Park | Gauja National Park () in Vidzeme is the largest national park in Latvia, with an area of 917.86 km2 running from north-east of Sigulda to south-west of Cēsis along the valley of the Gauja River, from which the park takes its name.
It was established in order to protect slightly disturbed natural areas, promote nature... | 2.421875 | 0 |
13168710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton%20Belt%20819 | Cotton Belt 819 | Background
The Cotton Belt initially purchased ten "Northern" 4-8-4s, Nos. 800–809, from the Baldwin Locomotive Works located at Eddystone, Pennsylvania in August and September of 1930 at a cost of $110,849 apiece. These new Cotton Belt 4-8-4 locomotives were classified as the L1s and intermingled with the Southern Pac... | 2.125 | 0 |
13168710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton%20Belt%20819 | Cotton Belt 819 | Retirement
In order to raise money for the cost of moving and constructing a permanent display structure for the engine, the City of Pine Bluff sold "shares" in the locomotive to the school children in Jefferson County. Children were requested to "buy" Engine 819 by contributing one penny per pound (the engine & tender... | 2.046875 | 0 |
13168710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton%20Belt%20819 | Cotton Belt 819 | Return to the Cotton Belt shops
On December 1, 1983, a force of between 50 and 100 Cotton Belt employees, most of them volunteers, assisted by railfans and rail historical groups, placed Engine 819 back on Cotton Belt rails for the first time in nearly three decades and transported the engine from the park back to the... | 2.125 | 0 |
13168754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifen%20Waterfall | Shifen Waterfall | Shifen Waterfall () is a scenic waterfall located in Pingxi District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, on the upper reaches of the Keelung River. The falls' total height is and in width, making it the broadest waterfall in Taiwan. It is a cascade waterfall in which the water flows in one direction and the rock is sloped in ... | 2.109375 | 0 |
14324603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20grasshopper%20mouse | Northern grasshopper mouse | The northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster) is a North American carnivorous rodent of the family Cricetidae. It ranges over much of the western part of the continent, from southern Saskatchewan and central Washington to Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico.
Description
The northern grasshopper mouse is found in... | 2.8125 | 0 |
14324603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20grasshopper%20mouse | Northern grasshopper mouse | This grasshopper mouse can be found in prairies with low grass, dry areas, and also pasture lands of the central and southwestern parts of the United States. O. leucogaster has been known to associate positively with black-tailed prairie dogs, possibly due to their preference for disturbed areas, suitable habitat in th... | 3.25 | 0 |
14324638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios%20Papandreou%20%28historian%29 | Georgios Papandreou (historian) | Georgios Papandreou (Greek: Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου; 1859–1940) was a Greek historian, linguist and an author.
Bibliography
Georgios Papandreou (born circa 1859) was a Greek educator and historian, born in Kalavryta. He was a literary figure based on Ilia, as he had been the first person to write about Ilia's history. In... | 2.15625 | 0 |
14324698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Augustus%20Rutowsky | Frederick Augustus Rutowsky | Frederick Augustus, Count Rutowsky (also written Rutowski) (Warsaw/Dresden [?], 19 June 1702 – Pillnitz, 16 March 1764), was a Saxon field marshal who commanded Saxon forces in the Siege of Pirna during the Seven Years' War.
Life
Early years
He was an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland, Grand Duke ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14324698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Augustus%20Rutowsky | Frederick Augustus Rutowsky | Military career
After a journey to Munich and Venice, Rutowski arrived in February 1725 at the court of the King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus II in Turin, where he took command of the Piedmont regiment and was garrisoned in Alessandria. It is possible his enjoyment of this city prompted him to write h... | 2.84375 | 0 |
14324749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama%20%28steam%20schooner%29 | Wapama (steam schooner) | Wapama, also known as Tongass, was a vessel last located in Richmond, California. She was the last surviving example of some 225 wooden steam schooners that served the lumber trade and other coastal services along the Pacific Coast of the United States. She was managed by the National Park Service at San Francisco M... | 1.992188 | 0 |
14324749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama%20%28steam%20schooner%29 | Wapama (steam schooner) | Service
Early on, the ownership of the Wapama was operated by the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company, but changed for legal or corporate reasons. In 1915, it was sold to the Wapama Steamship Company for $10 and evidence indicates that additional investors owned a stake in the ship. In November 1922, the ship was tran... | 1.96875 | 0 |
14324749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama%20%28steam%20schooner%29 | Wapama (steam schooner) | Now under the ownership of the Alaska Transportation Company the ship was renamed the Tongass on February 4, 1938. The ship was refitted for cargo service by the Lake Union Dry Dock and Construction Company and completed in May 1938, the alterations raised the ship to 999 gross tons and 524 net tons. Only the record of... | 2.046875 | 0 |
14324749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama%20%28steam%20schooner%29 | Wapama (steam schooner) | The San Francisco Maritime State Historical Park opened to the public on October 2, 1963, and the ship opened to the public as a museum ship on October 10, 1963. Within years of its opening, serious deterioration threatened the ship and became critical in August 1969 when a leak raised the rate at which it took on wate... | 2.375 | 0 |
14324749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama%20%28steam%20schooner%29 | Wapama (steam schooner) | The Wapamas continued dry rot and deterioration worsened until a new survey was done in 1982. Maynard Bray, the shipyard supervisor from Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, inspected the ship and recommended covering it as quickly as possible and building a "reasonably good-looking, fairly permanent shed with its sidewalls... | 2.0625 | 0 |
14324749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapama%20%28steam%20schooner%29 | Wapama (steam schooner) | Not all listed historic wooden ships considered in need of major restoration in recent years have ended up being broken up. The lumber schooner C.A. Thayer (1895), also a NPS charge, was restored, although 80% of her wood was replaced through a restoration that lasted from 2004 to 2007. Mystic Seaport began a major re... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14324833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingdao%20Port | Qingdao Port | The Port of Qingdao is a seaport on the Yellow Sea in the vicinity of Qingdao (Tsingtao), Shandong Province, People's Republic of China. It is one of the ten busiest ports in the world (7th in 2019, considering total cargo volume).
Qingdao Port consists of four areas, which are often themselves referred to as ports d... | 1.90625 | 0 |
14324882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Rural%20Communications%20Service | Alaska Rural Communications Service | The Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS) is a statewide network of low-powered television stations, serving 235 communities throughout the Alaskan Bush areas. Developed in the late 1970s, the network is based in Anchorage, Alaska, and is operated by Alaska Public Media. Programming is beamed via satellite to the ... | 2.21875 | 0 |
14324886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20wine | Catalan wine | Catalan wines are those that are produced in the wine regions of Catalonia. Occasionally, the appellation is applied to some French wine made in the Catalan region of Roussillon and neighboring areas, also known as Northern Catalonia or the Pays catalans. The city of Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and despite no... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14324886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20wine | Catalan wine | In the 14th century, the Franciscan writer Francesc Eiximenis described Catalan wines as strong, dense, highly alcoholic wines which, although high quality, sometimes needed to be diluted with water. A turning point for the Catalan wine industry occurred in the 19th century with the outbreak of the phylloxera epidemic ... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14324886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20wine | Catalan wine | Climate and geography
The Catalan wine region is located along the Mediterranean coast in northeastern Spain and is strongly influenced by its Mediterranean climate. Along the coast temperatures are warm with moderate rainfall but conditions become progressively more arid further inland. The majority of Catalan denomin... | 2.921875 | 0 |
14324886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20wine | Catalan wine | The Alella DOP is located near the city of Barcelona and was awarded DOP status in 1956. The area is known mainly for its white wine production which can range from oak aged sweet wine to cool fermented dry wines. The principal grape of the area is the Pansa blanca, a local name for the Xarel·lo grape. There are some p... | 2.3125 | 0 |
14324886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20wine | Catalan wine | The wind alone was not enough to prevent the outbreak of the phylloxera epidemic in the mid 19th century, which nearly destroyed the entire Empordà wine industry despite many individuals watching and analyzing the progress of the disease as it made its way south from France. Many vineyards were only replanted as recent... | 2.578125 | 0 |
14324886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20wine | Catalan wine | The Penedès DOP is the largest and most productive wine region of Catalonia and is considered the birthplace of Cava. The region has a long winemaking history and its proximity to Barcelona has had a strong export market. In the 19th century it was one of the first Spanish wine regions to implement a large-scale commer... | 2.3125 | 0 |
14324953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacostia%20Railroad%20Bridge | Anacostia Railroad Bridge | The Anacostia Railroad Bridge is a vertical lift railroad bridge crossing the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., United States. The bridge is owned by CSX Transportation.
History
The Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad, built the first railroad bridge on this site, which opened... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14325000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMH-366 | HMH-366 | At the request of Commandant of the Marine Corps David H. Berger, the Marine Corps would begin the divestment of three HMH squadrons as a part of Force Design 2030 (FD2030), a restructuring program which seeks to reshape the Marine Corps into a fighting force designed to tackle future threats. An update to the plan in ... | 1.953125 | 0 |
14325023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenopsis%20molesta | Solenopsis molesta | Solenopsis molesta is the best known species of Solenopsis thief ants. They get their names from their habit of nesting close to other ant nests, from which they steal food. They are also called grease ants because they are attracted to grease. Nuptial flight in this species occur from late July through early fall.
Ap... | 2.734375 | 0 |
14325023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenopsis%20molesta | Solenopsis molesta | Diet
They eat grease whenever they find it, which is why they are sometimes called grease ants. They also eat meat, cheese and other dairy products, and seeds. They also eat larvae and pupae of other ant species and other insects such as codling moths. Thief ants do not appear to be attracted to sweets, unlike most oth... | 2.265625 | 0 |
14325067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20County%20Court%20venues%20in%20England%20and%20Wales | List of County Court venues in England and Wales | The County Court of England and Wales dates back to the County Courts Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 95), which received royal assent on 28 August 1846 and was brought into force on 15 March 1847.
England and Wales (with the exception of the City of London, which was outside the scope of the Act) were divided into 60 circu... | 2.703125 | 0 |
14325067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20County%20Court%20venues%20in%20England%20and%20Wales | List of County Court venues in England and Wales | The system of 60 circuits was abolished in 1970. Over time, whilst new courts have been opened in various locations, there has been an overall reduction in the number of locations where a county court is held. In June 2010, the Ministry of Justice announced plans to close 54 county courts and 103 magistrates' courts, ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14325073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Gibbs | Dan Gibbs | Dan Gibbs (born c. 1976) is a politician in the U.S. state of Colorado. He currently serves as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
Gibbs worked as an outdoor guide and as a staffer for U.S. Representative Mark Udall before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a ... | 1.96875 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia (otherwise known as depression-related cognitive dysfunction or depressive cognitive disorder) is a condition that leads to cognitive and functional impairment imitating dementia that is secondary to psychiatric disorders, especially depression. Pseudodementia can develop in a wide range of neuropsychiat... | 2.453125 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia typically involves three cognitive components: memory issues, deficits in executive functioning, and deficits in speech and language. Specific cognitive symptoms might include trouble recalling words or remembering things in general, decreased attentional control and concentration, difficulty completing ... | 2.5 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | History
Carl Wernicke is often believed to have been the source of the term pseudodementia (in his native German, pseudodemenz). Despite this belief being held by many of his students, Wernicke never actually used the word in any of his written works. It is possible that this misconception comes from Wernicke's discus... | 2.453125 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Presentation
The history of disturbance in pseudodementia is often short and abrupt onset, while dementia is more often insidious. In addition, there is often minor, or an absence of, any abnormal brain patterns seen via imaging which indicate an organic component to the cognitive decline, such as what one would see i... | 2.75 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Causes
Pseudodementia refers to "behavioral changes that resemble those of the progressive degenerative dementias, but which are attributable to so-called functional causes". The main cause of pseudodementia is depression. Any age group can develop pseudodementia. In depression, processing centers in the brain respons... | 2.8125 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Since pseudodementia does not cause deterioration of the brain, brain scans can be used to visualize potential deterioration associated with dementia. Investigations such as PET and SPECT imaging of the brain show reduced blood flow in areas of the brain in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common type of ... | 2.625 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Cognitive symptoms such as memory loss, slowed movement, or reduced/ slowed speech, are sometimes initially misdiagnosed as dementia, however, further investigation determined that these patients were suffering from a major depressive episode. This is an important distinction as the former is untreatable, whereas the ... | 2.65625 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Pharmacological
If effective medical treatment for depression is given, this can aid in the distinction between pseudodementia and dementia. Antidepressants have been found to assist in the elimination of cognitive dysfunction associated with depression, whereas cognitive dysfunction associated with true dementia cont... | 2.03125 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | SSRI or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors belong to the class of antidepressants. Some examples of SSRIs are fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), sertraline (Zoloft), citalopram (Celexa), and escitalopram (Lexapro). SSRIs function by inhibiting serotonin reabsorption into neurons, allowing more serotonin to b... | 2.390625 | 0 |
14325087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodementia | Pseudodementia | Non-pharmacological
When pharmacological treatments are ineffective, or in addition to pharmacological treatments, there are a number of non-pharmacological therapies that can be used in the treatment of depression. For some patients, cognitive behavior therapy (This is an effective form of therapy for a wide range of... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14325152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least-cost%20planning%20methodology | Least-cost planning methodology | Least-cost planning methodology (LCPM), also referred to as least-cost planning (LCP) is a relatively new technique used by economists for making rational decisions about investments in transport and other urban infrastructure projects.
It is based on cost–benefit analysis. However, it is more comprehensive in that it... | 2.734375 | 0 |
14325168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20Power%20Station | Grain Power Station | The station was originally designed to have a total capacity of from five sets of boiler/turbine combinations. The two remaining oil-fired generating units were mothballed by Powergen in 2002 and 2003, but almost immediately the company began to consider reopening the plant as electricity prices increased rapidly. It ... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14325168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20Power%20Station | Grain Power Station | Hot gases from the gas turbine pass to the heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) where they are used to generate steam from a natural circulating water system. The steam is used to drive a three-casing STF30C triple-pressure reheat steam turbine on the same shaft as the gas turbine, which is also coupled to a TOPGAS hyd... | 2.421875 | 0 |
14325287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebugging | Bluebugging | Bluebugging is a form of Bluetooth attack often caused by a lack of awareness. It was developed after the onset of bluejacking and bluesnarfing. Similar to bluesnarfing, bluebugging accesses and uses all phone features but is limited by the transmitting power of class 2 Bluetooth radios, normally capping its range at 1... | 2.671875 | 0 |
14325320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedenborgian%20Church%20%28San%20Francisco%2C%20California%29 | Swedenborgian Church (San Francisco, California) | The Swedenborgian Church is a historic church complex at 2107 Lyon Street in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Built in 1895 for a Swedenborgian congregation, it is considered one of California's earliest pure Arts and Crafts buildings, with design contributions by A. C. Schweinfurth, A. ... | 2.34375 | 0 |
14325358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20Bauhaus%20to%20Our%20House | From Bauhaus to Our House | From Bauhaus to Our House is a 1981 narrative of Modern architecture, written by Tom Wolfe.
Background
In 1975 Wolfe made his first foray into art criticism with The Painted Word, in which he argued that art theory had become too pervasive because the art world was controlled by a small elitist network of wealthy col... | 1.96875 | 0 |
14325358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20Bauhaus%20to%20Our%20House | From Bauhaus to Our House | Wolfe criticizes the tendencies of modern architecture to avoid any external ornamentation. Wolfe praised architects like Louis Sullivan who, from the late 19th century to his death in 1924, built a number of ornate buildings. Wolfe turned his criticism on the International Style and Modern Architecture exemplified b... | 2.40625 | 0 |
14325363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awbare | Awbare | Awbare (, Amharic: አውበሬ), officially known as Teferi Ber and called after its patron Saint Awbare, is a town in eastern Ethiopia located in the Fafan Zone of the Somali Region, near the border with Somaliland on the main trade route between Jijiga and the sea. It is the administrative centre of the Awbare district.
It... | 2.296875 | 0 |
14325363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awbare | Awbare | Awbare was the seat of one branch of the Reer Ughaz family (Reer Ugaas) and the Gadabuursi Ughazate. Many of the traditional leaders and kings of the Gadabuursi Ughazate were from this town, such as Ughaz Roble II Ughaz Nur II (buried in the town), Ughaz Abdi II Ughaz Roble II (who was crowned in the town during the I... | 2.578125 | 0 |
14325393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRIN2B | GRIN2B | Glutamate [NMDA] receptor subunit epsilon-2, also known as N-methyl D-aspartate receptor subtype 2B (NMDAR2B or NR2B), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GRIN2B gene.
NMDA receptors
N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are a class of ionotropic glutamate receptors. The NMDA receptor channel has been shown... | 2.59375 | 0 |
14325503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaypudyr%20Bay | Khaypudyr Bay | Khaypudyr Bay or Khaypudyrskaya Bay () is a gulf in Russia, located in the Pechora Sea (Southeastern Barents Sea) between the coastline of the Yugorsky Peninsula and the lowlands and marshy areas in the mainland south of Dolgiy Island. Its latitude is 68° 30' N and the longitude 59° 30' E.
The Khaypudyr Bay has a smal... | 2.359375 | 0 |
14325540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclooxygenase-1 | Cyclooxygenase-1 | Cyclooxygenase 1 (COX-1), also known as prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 1 (HUGO PTGS1), is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PTGS1 gene. In humans it is one of three cyclooxygenases.
History
Cyclooxygenase (COX) is the central enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway to prostaglandins from arachidonic acid. Th... | 2.515625 | 0 |
14325557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgachefe | Irgachefe | Irgachefe (ይርጋጨፌ Yïrgach’äffe, also transliterated as Yirgachefe) is a town in central southern Ethiopia in Yirgachefe District. Located in the Gedeo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, this town has an elevation between above sea level. It is the administrative center of Yirgachefe woreda... | 2.421875 | 0 |
14325661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater%20Lake%20Superintendent%27s%20Residence | Crater Lake Superintendent's Residence | Crater Lake Superintendent's Residence, is "an impressive structure of massive boulders and heavy-handed woodwork" at Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987 as an important example of 1930s National Park Service Rustic architecture.
Location, layout and amen... | 2.1875 | 0 |
14325666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan%C8%9Ba%20metropolitan%20area | Constanța metropolitan area | The Constanța metropolitan area, is a metropolitan area, established in 2007, that includes the municipality of Constanța, the towns of Năvodari, Ovidiu, Eforie, Murfatlar, Techirghiol and 8 communes: Mihail Kogălniceanu, Cumpăna, Valu lui Traian, Lumina, Tuzla, Agigea, Corbu and Poarta Albă. According to the 2021 cens... | 2.15625 | 0 |
14325673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaton%27s%20Crossroads | Heaton's Crossroads | Heaton's Crossroads, also known as the Purcellville Wagon Raid, was an American Civil War skirmish that took place between Federal cavalry under Brig. Gen. Alfred N. Duffié and Confederate infantry under Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge on July 16, 1864, near present-day Purcellville, Virginia in Loudoun County as part o... | 2.15625 | 0 |
14325744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane%20%28novel%29 | Cane (novel) | Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. As a res... | 2.34375 | 0 |
14325744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane%20%28novel%29 | Cane (novel) | However, before the book was published, Toomer's initial euphoria began to fade. He wrote, "The book is done but when I look for the beauty I thought I'd caught, they thin out and elude me." He thought that the Georgia sketches lacked complexity and said they were "too damn simple for me." In a letter to Sherwood Ander... | 2.234375 | 0 |
14325744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane%20%28novel%29 | Cane (novel) | Cane was largely ignored during the Harlem Renaissance by the average white and African American reader. Langston Hughes addressed this in his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by saying, "'O, be respectable, write about nice people, show how good we are,' say the Negroes. 'Be stereotyped, don't go too f... | 2.203125 | 0 |
14325744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane%20%28novel%29 | Cane (novel) | Articles on Cane in the collection Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance
(Ed. Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press; 2001.)
Fabre, Geneviève, "Tight-Lipped 'Oracle': Around and Beyond Cane", pp. 1–17.
Sollors, Werner, "Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America"... | 2.078125 | 0 |
14325766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20University%20Satellite | Cornell University Satellite | The Cornell University Satellite (CUSat) is a nanosatellite developed by Cornell University that launched on 29 September 2013. It used a new algorithm called Carrier-phase Differential GPS (CDGPS) to calibrate global positioning systems to an accuracy of 3 millimeters. This technology can allow multiple spacecraft to ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
14325766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%20University%20Satellite | Cornell University Satellite | Mission Ops: The Mission Ops team defined the detailed, on orbit operations plan for both CUSat satellites. Operating procedures were defined to match with hardware and mission specifications and help ensure successful execution of the mission.
Power: The power team was responsible for harnessing solar energy, storing ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14325817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi/HAL%20FGFA | Sukhoi/HAL FGFA | The Sukhoi/HAL Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) was a fifth-generation fighter concept, based on the Russian Sukhoi Su-57, that was being developed by the joint forces of Sukhoi and HAL for the Indian Air Force. While the programme was earlier called FGFA, the combined project then referred as Prospective Multi... | 2.046875 | 0 |
14325817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi/HAL%20FGFA | Sukhoi/HAL FGFA | By August 2014, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) had completed the front end engineering design for the FGFA for which a contract had been signed with India's HAL in 2010.
Differences for FGFA
When complete, the FGFA would've been predominantly armed with weapons of Indian origin such as the Astra, a beyond-visua... | 2.171875 | 0 |
14325907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masakazu%20Yoshizawa | Masakazu Yoshizawa | was a Japanese American flutist and musician, known for his mastery of the bamboo flute, specifically the shakuhachi. Yoshizawa also mastered several other traditional Japanese flutes, in addition to other Japanese and Western musical instruments. He was also considered a scholar of ancient and modern Japanese traditio... | 2.4375 | 0 |
14325911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCAR1 | BCAR1 | Breast cancer anti-estrogen resistance protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BCAR1 gene.
Gene
BCAR1 is localized on chromosome 16 on region q, on the negative strand and it consists of seven exons. Eight different gene isoforms have been identified that share the same sequence starting from the sec... | 2.140625 | 0 |
14325939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Gikandi | Simon Gikandi | Simon E. Gikandi (born 30 September 1960) is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has al... | 2.25 | 0 |
14325939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Gikandi | Simon Gikandi | Career
He is the author of many articles and books, including Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (Cornell University Press, 1992), and Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Publ... | 2.125 | 0 |
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