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2938704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actimel | Actimel | The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is an independent regulator for advertisements, sales promotion and direct marketing in the UK. According to Spiegel Online one TV spot from Actimel was blocked by the ASA in 2006 and one in 2008. In the first case the ASA upheld a complaint that the advert misleadingly implie... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2938704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actimel | Actimel | The equivalence of yogurts is supported by Berthold Koletzko from the University of Munich, Metabolic Diseases and Nutrition. In case of diarrhoea, Koletzko advises parents to give their children yogurt with living bacteria. It does not necessarily need to be Actimel, but may also be other yogurts. A measurable health... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2938712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20in%20Jainism | God in Jainism | In Jainism, godliness is said to be the inherent quality of every soul. This quality, however, is subdued by the soul's association with karmic matter. All souls who have achieved the natural state of unlimited bliss, unlimited knowledge (kevala jnana), unlimited power and unlimited perception are regarded as God in Ja... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2938712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20in%20Jainism | God in Jainism | Godliness
In Jainism, godliness is said to be the inherent quality of every soul (or every living organism) characterizing infinite bliss, infinite power, Kevala Jnana (pure infinite knowledge), infinite perception, and perfect manifestations of (countably) infinite other attributes. There are two possible views after... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2938712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20in%20Jainism | God in Jainism | Gods can be thus categorized into embodied gods also known as arihantas and non-embodied formless gods who are called Siddhas. Jainism considers the devīs and devas to be souls who dwell in heavens owing to meritorious deeds in their past lives. These souls are in heavens for a fixed lifespan and even they have to unde... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2938712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20in%20Jainism | God in Jainism | A human being who conquers all inner passions and possesses infinite right knowledge (Kevala Jnana) is revered as an arihant in Jainism. They are also called Jinas (conquerors) or Kevalin (omniscient beings). An arihant is a soul who has destroyed all passions, is totally unattached and without any desire and hence is ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2938712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20in%20Jainism | God in Jainism | Jain cosmology offers an elaborate description of heavenly beings (devas), but these beings are neither viewed as creators nor are they immortal; they are subject to suffering and change like all other living beings, and must eventually die. In this way, they are similar to the devas of Buddhism. English-language mater... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2938718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20ironclad%20Fus%C5%8D | Japanese ironclad Fusō | Background
Tensions between Japan and China heightened after the former launched its punitive expedition against Taiwan in May 1874 in retaliation of the murder of a number of shipwrecked sailors by the Paiwan aborigines. China inquired into the possibility of buying ironclad warships from Great Britain and Japan was a... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2938718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20ironclad%20Fus%C5%8D | Japanese ironclad Fusō | Construction and career
Given a classical name for Japan, Fusō was built at the Samuda Brothers shipyard in Cubitt Town, London. Japanese sources universally give the date for Kongōs keel-laying as 24 September 1875—the same as that for the awarding of the contract—but historian Hans Langerer describes this as improbab... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2938718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20ironclad%20Fus%C5%8D | Japanese ironclad Fusō | Fusō was assigned to the Tokai Naval District and the Standing Fleet in 1880. That same year she transported the Naval Lord, Enomoto Takeaki, on a tour of Hokkaido. On 10 August 1881 she departed with Emperor Meiji on a tour of Aomori Prefecture and Otaru, Hokkaido that lasted until 30 September. The ship was transferr... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2938742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Bay%20Christian%20School | Pacific Bay Christian School | Pacific Bay Christian School, formerly Alma Heights Christian Academy, is a private Christian middle and high school in Pacifica, California, United States. It was founded by Pillar of Fire International as a segregation academy. In 2018, the school disassociated with Pillar of Fire and reopened as Pacific Bay Christia... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2938771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan%20Urquhart | Clan Urquhart | Etymology of the name
Urquhart is a name derived from the place name, Airchart. Airchart is first recorded in the early life of Saint Columba, the great Celtic saint. The meaning of the word Urquhart itself has been given various Scottish Gaelic translations including woodside, by a rowan wood, or fort on a knoll.
Cl... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2938771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan%20Urquhart | Clan Urquhart | Castlecraig or Castle Craig, although in ruins, is still the current seat of the chief of Clan Urquhart. It was a 15th–century fortress of the Urquharts of Cromarty of the Black Isle.
Craigston Castle in Aberdeenshire has been a seat of the Urquhart family since it was built in 1604.
Cromarty Castle, which is no longer... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2938800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel%20number | Fresnel number | In optics, in particular scalar diffraction theory, the Fresnel number (), named after the physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is a dimensionless number relating to the pattern a beam of light forms on a surface when projected through an aperture.
Definition
For an electromagnetic wave passing through an aperture and ... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2938828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Scott%20Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso (born 1947 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences and Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida and The University of Ulster (Magee Campus) in Derr... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2938828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Scott%20Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso | Since 1985, Kelso has held the Glenwood and Martha Creech Eminent Scholar Chair in Science at Florida Atlantic University, where he is also Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences, and Biomedical Sciences. Kelso was Program Director of the NIMH’s National Training Program in Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at F... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2938828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Scott%20Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso | Over the last 30 years or so, along with colleagues working in laboratories around the world, he has participated in an interdisciplinary science called coordination dynamics. Coordination dynamics is an empirical and conceptual framework that tries to explain how patterns of coordination form, persist, adapt and chang... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2938828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Scott%20Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso | Kelso's early work used nerve block techniques to cut off sensory input from the limbs in humans. His experiments showed that even without conscious awareness of limb position, humans could move accurately to desired locations in space. Along with work conducted by Polit and Bizzi on monkeys at MIT Kelso's research was... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2938828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Scott%20Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso | HKB model
Kelso and his colleagues later demonstrated that many of the complexities of coordinated motor behavior in complex, multi-degree-of-freedom systems can be derived from relatively simple, but nonlinear mathematical laws. For a review of this work see Kelso et al. (1987) and Schöner and Kelso (1988) In particul... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2938828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Scott%20Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso | Current research
Kelso's current work focuses on whether the same principles and mechanisms of coordination dynamics apply also to human brains working together in social settings. Using large electrode arrays now available in the field of electroencephalography (EEG), he and his co-workers have been imaging the brains... | 2.125 | 0 |
2938828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Scott%20Kelso | J. A. Scott Kelso | Kelso's second full-length book, written with his former postdoc David A. Engstrøm, is The Complementary Nature (MIT Press, 2006). This book attempts to reconcile what it calls "the philosophy of complementary pairs" with the science of coordination dynamics. Pairs of opposites are found everywhere in nature and in sci... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2938854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Godward | Ernest Godward | Ernest Robert Godward (7 April 1869 – 2 December 1936) was an English born inventor and engineer who lived in New Zealand, England, and the United States. He created the spiral hairpin and a type of carburettor called a petrol economizer, which increased engine performance and reduced fuel consumption.
Background
God... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2938854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Godward | Ernest Godward | Major financial success came in 1901 with the invention of the spiral hairpin he had patented in 1899. Godward sold the American rights to the spiral hairpin for £20,000, which was a fortune at that time.
Political career
From 1903 to 1906 Godward served on the North Invercargill Borough Council, painted portraits and... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2938855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60 | Cobalt-60 | The diagram shows a simplified decay scheme of Co and Co. The main β-decay transitions are shown. The probability for population of the middle energy level of 2.1 MeV by β-decay is 0.0022%, with a maximum energy of 665.26 keV. Energy transfers between the three levels generate six different gamma-ray frequencies. In th... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2938855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt-60 | Cobalt-60 | In 1957, Chien-Shiung Wu et al. discovered that β-decay violated parity, implying nature has a handedness. In the Wu experiment, researchers aligned Co nuclei by cooling the source to low temperatures in a magnetic field. Wu's observation was that more β-rays were emitted in the opposite direction to the nuclear spin. ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2938857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyra%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Guyra, New South Wales | History
The Gamilaaray group of Indigenous Australians were the inhabitants of the region surrounding Guyra. It was originally known as Hillgo'el or Illgoel, an Aboriginal word of the Yukambal meaning a "swamp" and was later changed to the name of Marsh's run, "Guyra". The name Guyra is said to originate from the langu... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2938857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyra%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Guyra, New South Wales | Guyra was home to a large regional abattoir that employed up to 350 staff until it closed in 1995. The abattoir building now houses an angora rabbit breeding establishment.
Heritage listings
Guyra has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Main Northern railway: Guyra railway station
Geography and climate
L... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2938857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyra%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Guyra, New South Wales | The main annual celebration is the Lamb and Potato Festival held in January. Other events are the Guyra Show, held in February each year, the Rotary Christmas Carnival in December and in 2009 the first Mountain Bike Challenge was held on 14 March as a fundraiser for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter service.
Trout fishing... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2938870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Mantuan%20Succession | War of the Mantuan Succession | Background
Since 1308, the Duchy of Mantua had been ruled by the House of Gonzaga, who also acquired the Duchy of Montferrat in 1574 by marriage. Both territories were part of the Holy Roman Empire and were also of strategic importance to the area known as Lombardy, dominated by the Spanish-governed Duchy of Milan. Con... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2938870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Mantuan%20Succession | War of the Mantuan Succession | Legalities were less important than the perceived threat to Spanish interests if the Duchies fell under French influence and Córdoba, governor of Spanish Lombardy, began discussions with Madrid on potential military action to prevent this. Alternatives included Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, whose claim extended pr... | 2.375 | 0 |
2938870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Mantuan%20Succession | War of the Mantuan Succession | Hoping to overwhelm Casale and prevent interference by Charles Emmanuel, Spinola sought to expand his existing force of 16,000 with another 12,000 mercenaries and 6,000 reinforcements from Naples. He also invoked treaties with Tuscany and Parma to supply 4,000 and 2,000 men respectively but despite its size, his army c... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2938870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Mantuan%20Succession | War of the Mantuan Succession | Both sides were badly affected by an outbreak of bubonic plague, allegedly brought from Germany by French and Imperial soldiers. The "worst mortality crisis to affect Italy during the early modern period", approximately 35% of the population of Northern Italy died between 1629 and 1631. The increasing brutality of the ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2938870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Mantuan%20Succession | War of the Mantuan Succession | In June 1630, Richelieu dispatched his close aide Father Joseph and Nicolas Brûlart to open peace talks with Ferdinand at Regensburg, where he was attending a meeting of the Imperial Diet. At the same time, Gustavus Adolphus landed in Pomerania with 18,000 troops, beginning the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years'... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2938874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Fort%20Wayne%20%281809%29 | Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) | The Treaty of Fort Wayne, sometimes called the Ten O'clock Line Treaty or the Twelve Mile Line Treaty, is an 1809 treaty that obtained 29,719,530 acres of Native American land for the settlers of Illinois and Indiana. The negotiations primarily involved the Delaware tribe but included other tribes as well. However, the... | 2.75 | 0 |
2938874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty%20of%20Fort%20Wayne%20%281809%29 | Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) | Only the Miami opposed the treaty. They presented a copy of the Treaty of Greenville to highlight the section that guaranteed their possession of the lands around the Wabash River. They then explained the history of the region and how they had invited the Wea and other tribes to settle in their territory as friends. Th... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2938903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad%20Universitaria%2C%20Mexico%20City | Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City | The Mexico '68 Olympic Stadium was built in 1952 and was used to host the 1955 Pan-American Games and the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. It is located on the Campus Central portion of the city, and its stands were built with excavated lava rock. These stands contain reliefs designed by Diego Rivera. It was... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2938903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad%20Universitaria%2C%20Mexico%20City | Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City | There are three main points of entry to Ciudad Universitaria, two from the metro (Metro Universidad and Metro Copilco stations), and Avenida Insurgentes, running north to south, splitting Ciudad Universitaria in half, where two Metrobús stations provide access to the campus: Ciudad Universitaria and Centro Cultural Uni... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2938910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Widmar | Al Widmar | Albert Joseph Widmar (March 20, 1925 – October 15, 2005) was an American pitcher, pitching coach, scout and front-office executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). In addition to forging a 59-year career in professional baseball, he also played professional basketball for three seasons.
Widmar appeared in 114 games ove... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2938910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Widmar | Al Widmar | In , they joined the ranks of the NL's pennant contenders; the team broke from the gate quickly, took over first place, and maintained their lead by a comfortable margin. By September 20, they had won 90 out of 150 games, and sported a 6-game lead over second-place Cincinnati and St. Louis with a dozen games left to pl... | 2 | 0 |
2938915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20group%20%28ecology%29 | Functional group (ecology) | Categories
There are generally two types of functional groups that range between flora and specific animal populations. Groups that relate to vegetation science, or flora, are known as plant functional types. Also referred to as PFT for short, these often share identical photosynthetic processes and require comparable ... | 3.21875 | 0 |
2938915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20group%20%28ecology%29 | Functional group (ecology) | Redundancy
Functional redundancy refers to the phenomenon that species in the same ecosystem fill similar roles, which results in a sort of "insurance" in the ecosystem. Redundant species can easily do the job of a similar species from the same functional niche. This is possible because similar species have adapted to... | 3.15625 | 0 |
2938915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20group%20%28ecology%29 | Functional group (ecology) | It has been shown that intense land use affects both the species diversity and functional overlap, leaving the ecosystem and organisms in it vulnerable. Specifically, bee species, which we rely on for pollination services, have both lower functional diversity and species diversity in managed landscapes when compared to... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2938915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20group%20%28ecology%29 | Functional group (ecology) | Challenge
Understanding functional diversity and redundancy, and the roles each play in conservation efforts, is often hard to accomplish because the tools with which we measure diversity and redundancy cannot be used interchangeably. Due to this, recent empirical work most often analyzes the effects of either functio... | 2.9375 | 0 |
2938926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair%20Road | Blair Road | Blair Road (Ottawa Road #27) is a road in the eastern part of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It begins just south of the Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway, but does not connect to the parkway, except for a small bike-path connection to the Ottawa River Pathway - one of the city's main bike trails that runs along the Ottawa ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2938935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilic%20pneumonia | Eosinophilic pneumonia | Eosinophilic pneumonia is a disease in which an eosinophil, a type of white blood cell, accumulates in the lungs. These cells cause disruption of the normal air spaces (alveoli) where oxygen is extracted from the atmosphere. Several different kinds of eosinophilic pneumonia exist and can occur in any age group. The mos... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2938935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilic%20pneumonia | Eosinophilic pneumonia | Eosinophilic pneumonia due to medications or environmental exposures is similar and occurs after an exposure to a known offending agent. Eosinophilic pneumonia due to parasitic infections has a similar prodrome in addition to a host of different symptoms related to the variety of underlying parasites. Eosinophilic pneu... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2938935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilic%20pneumonia | Eosinophilic pneumonia | Parasitic infections
Parasites cause eosinophilic pneumonia in three different ways. Parasites can either invade the lungs, live in the lungs as part of their life cycle, or be spread to the lungs by the bloodstream. Eosinophils then migrate to the lungs in order to fight the parasites, and cause eosinophilic pneumoni... | 3.046875 | 0 |
2938935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilic%20pneumonia | Eosinophilic pneumonia | Diagnosis
Eosinophilic pneumonia is diagnosed in one of three circumstances: when a complete blood count reveals increased eosinophils and a chest X-ray or computed tomography identifies abnormalities in the lungs, when a biopsy identifies increased eosinophils in lung tissue, or when increased eosinophils are found i... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2938935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilic%20pneumonia | Eosinophilic pneumonia | Prognosis
Eosinophilic pneumonia due to cancer or parasitic infection carries a prognosis related to the underlying illness. Acute and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, however, have very little associated mortality as long as intensive care is available and treatment with corticosteroids is given. Chronic eosinophilic ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2938955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma-dialectics | Pragma-dialectics | Pragma-dialectics, or pragma-dialectical theory, developed by Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob Grootendorst at the University of Amsterdam, is an argumentation theory that is used to analyze and evaluate argumentation in actual practice. Unlike strictly logical approaches (which focus on the study of argument as product), ... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2938955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma-dialectics | Pragma-dialectics | The ideal model of a critical discussion
Based on the meta-theoretical principles described above, the pragma-dialectical theory regards argumentation as ideally being part of a critical discussion. The ideal model of a critical discussion treats argumentative discourse as a discussion in which argumentation is direct... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2938955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma-dialectics | Pragma-dialectics | Freedom rule Parties must not prevent each other from advancing standpoints or from casting doubt on standpoints.
Burden of proof rule A party that advances a standpoint is obliged to defend it if asked by the other party to do so.
Standpoint rule A party's attack on a standpoint must relate to the standpoint that ha... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2938955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma-dialectics | Pragma-dialectics | The pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation has incorporated insights from rhetoric into the analysis of argumentative discussion. Parties involved in a difference of opinion "maneuver strategically" to simultaneously realize their dialectical and their rhetorical aims. In other words, the parties in an argumentativ... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2938955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma-dialectics | Pragma-dialectics | Starting from the analytical overview, the evaluation of the quality of the argumentative discourse can be performed. In evaluating the arguments that are put forward in the argumentative discourse, the analyst should (1) check whether the discourse is free from logical and pragmatic inconsistencies, (2) determine whet... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2938956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubsko | Lubsko | Lubsko (, Lower Sorbian: Žemŕ), formerly Zemsz, is a town in Żary County in the Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland. It is the administrative seat of the Gmina Lubsko and has a population of 13,921 (2019).
History
In the early Middle Ages there was a West Slavic or Lechitic stronghold here, followed by a market set... | 1.984375 | 0 |
2938970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20City | Merchant City | The Merchant City, a new name introduced through urban renewal by the Scottish Development Agency and the city council in the 1980s is one part of the metropolitan central area of Glasgow. It commences at George Square and goes eastwards reaching Glasgow Cross, in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. The eastern fringe o... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2938970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant%20City | Merchant City | Another important element of the area's transformation is high-end shopping, anchored by the Italian Centre designed by Page\Park Architects who are fond of including art in their architecture. Here the art is integral to the façades, but also features in the courtyard including a sculpture, 'Thinking of Bella' (1994) ... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2938972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarnock | Glengarnock | Glengarnock (Gaelic: Gleann Gairneig) is a small village in North Ayrshire that lies near the west coast of Scotland. It forms part of the Garnock Valley area and is about from Glasgow, the nearest city. The Barony of Glengarnock is one of three baronies which together form the parish of Kilbirnie in the district of C... | 2.25 | 0 |
2938972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarnock | Glengarnock | Industry
The main employment in the village came, historically, from the steelworks which existed on the shores of nearby Kilbirnie Loch. This, however, has been closed and the site is now home to various small businesses. During the course of its life, the Iron Works there were owned by Merry and Cunninghame, Colvill... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2939003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloxe-Corton | Aloxe-Corton | Aloxe-Corton () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
Geography
The commune lies about 4 km north by north-east of Beaune and 40 km south-west of Dijon at the northern end of the Côte de Beaune. There, the village of Aloxe is dominated by the Corton hill, n... | 2.03125 | 0 |
2939006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Zschau | Ed Zschau | Edwin Van Wyck Zschau (; born January 6, 1940) is an American educator who represented California's 12th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987. In 1986 he ran as the Republican candidate for a seat in the United States Senate. He prevailed in a crowded Republican primary that included... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2939009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunstone%20Town | Braunstone Town | Braunstone is a town and civil parish in the district of Blaby in Leicestershire, England. At the 2011 census the population of the town was 16,850.
Braunstone is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, giving a population of "two sokemen and four villeins". The village remained a small settlement (population 238 in 1... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2939009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunstone%20Town | Braunstone Town | In 1935 the part of Braunstone on the city side of Braunstone Lane became the North Braunstone Ward of the City of Leicester, and the parish of Braunstone in compensation had part of Lubbesthorpe added to its boundary. It mostly consists of council housing built between 1925 and 1940.
During World War Two Braunstone P... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2939009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunstone%20Town | Braunstone Town | Braunstone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the centre of Braunstone Park. It was built in 1776 for the Winstanley family, lords of the manor and the main land owners in the village of Braunstone. In many ways the Hall resembles town houses like 17 Friar Lane. It is built in similar materials and has similar Class... | 1.953125 | 0 |
2939009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunstone%20Town | Braunstone Town | Around the Hall, the Winstanleys had a Park laid out with a lake and gardens. As a wealthy family they had horses and carriages which were kept in the stable block next to the house. These buildings did not share the refinement of the house and were more like farm buildings, but they were still carefully designed, with... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2939018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20encephalitis%20orthobunyavirus | California encephalitis orthobunyavirus | California encephalitis orthobunyavirus type strain California encephalitis virus was discovered in Kern County, California, and causes encephalitis in humans. Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain that can cause minor symptoms, such as headaches, to more severe symptoms such as seizures. Mosquitoes serve... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2939018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20encephalitis%20orthobunyavirus | California encephalitis orthobunyavirus | Pathophysiology
Initial infection by the virus and primary spread of the virus causes the onset of non-specific symptoms such as headache and fever. Secondary spread and the multiplication of the virus in the CNS (central nervous system) causes symptoms such as stiff neck, lethargy and seizures. It then can result in ... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2939024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20DeMaestri | Joe DeMaestri | Joseph Paul DeMaestri (December 9, 1928 – August 26, 2016), nicknamed "Froggy", was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox (1951), St. Louis Browns (1952), Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics (1953–59) and New York Yankees (1960–61). Born in San Francisco, he batted and thr... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2939050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxey-Duresses | Auxey-Duresses | Auxey-Duresses () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
Geography
Auxey-Duresses is a wine-growing commune some 10 km south-west of Beaune and 11 km north of Chagny. Access to the commune is by the D973 road from Pommard in the north-east which passes through... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2939069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittenton%20Pond%20Dam | Whittenton Pond Dam | Whittenton Pond Dam or Whittenton Street Dam was a private earthen dam across the Mill River in Taunton, Massachusetts.
Built in 1832, the original dam was a half-mile upstream from downtown Taunton. It was 12 feet high and constructed of timber. It was built of wood in 1832, and flooded Taunton when it failed in 1968... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2939087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Autobiography%20of%20a%20Super-Tramp | The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp | The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century.
Publication hist... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2939087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Autobiography%20of%20a%20Super-Tramp | The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp | Background and synopsis
Following a delinquent childhood and youth, Davies renounced his home and his apprenticeship with a frame maker. At the age of twenty-two, having borrowed money from the executor of his grandmother’s estate, he sailed to America. This was the first of more than a dozen Atlantic crossings, often ... | 2.25 | 0 |
2939099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Houston%20%28singer%29 | David Houston (singer) | Charles David Houston (December 9, 1935 – November 30, 1993) was an American country music singer. His peak in popularity came between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s.
His biggest success came in 1966, when his recording of "Almost Persuaded", topped the Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart for nine weeks, and garn... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2939126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D6%20System | D6 System | The D6 System is a role-playing game system published by West End Games (WEG) and licensees. While the system is primarily intended for pen-and-paper role-playing games, variations of the system have also been used in live action role-playing games and miniature battle games. The system is named after the six-sided die... | 2.875 | 0 |
2939126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D6%20System | D6 System | Actions and resolution
Character actions are resolved by making dice rolls against a difficulty number. There are two types of difficulties, standard and opposed. To perform a standard difficulty action, the gamemaster calls for the player to roll the dice for a certain attribute or skill. The value of each die is tot... | 2.84375 | 0 |
2939126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D6%20System | D6 System | Improving rolls
In order to increase their characters' effectiveness, players may spend character points and fate points. The exact number of character points that may be spent is limited by the quantity possessed by the character, and the situation that they are used in, with two being the typical limit. Each characte... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2939126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D6%20System | D6 System | West End Games' early cinematic RPGs
A precursor to the D6 System first appeared in Ghostbusters: A Frightfully Cheerful Roleplaying Game, designed by Chaosium alumni Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis and Greg Stafford, which was published by WEG in 1986. The following year, Greg Costikyan, Curtis Smith and Bill Slavicsek re... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2939150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Medwin | Albert Medwin | Albert H. Medwin (October 27, 1925 – October 26, 2020) was an American electrical engineer. He held several US patents, including ones in the field of electronic encoders. Medwin was involved in the early development of integrated circuits while working at RCA in Somerville, New Jersey. In the 1960s he led the engineer... | 1.945313 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of organizations, which vary in size, aims, and beliefs. For-profit entreprene... | 2.953125 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship in modern society offers an altruistic form of entrepreneurship that focuses on the benefits that society may reap. Entrepreneurship becomes a social endeavor when it transforms social capital in a way that affects society positively. If a person's behaviour or motives are altruistic, they show ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Characteristics
Bill Drayton founded Ashoka in 1980, an organization which supports local social entrepreneurs. Drayton tells his employees to look for four qualities: creativity, entrepreneurial quality, social impact of the idea, and ethical fiber. Creativity has two parts: goal-setting and problem-solving. Social e... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Social impact measures whether the idea itself will be able to cause change after the original founder is gone. If an idea has intrinsic worth, once implemented it will cause change even without the charismatic leadership of the first entrepreneur. One reason that these entrepreneurs are unreasonable is that they are u... | 2.546875 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Another reason social entrepreneurs are often unsuccessful is because they typically offer help for those least able to pay for it. Capitalism is founded upon the exchange of capital (most obviously, money) for goods and services. However, social entrepreneurs must find new business models that do not rely on standard ... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | The terms social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurship were used first in the literature in 1953 by H. Bowen in his book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman. The terms came into widespread use in the 1980s and 1990s, promoted by Bill Drayton, Charles Leadbeater, and others. From the 1950s to the 1990s, the po... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Ecosystem of social entrepreneurship
The ecosystem framework can be very useful for social entrepreneurs in formulating their strategy. The need for understanding the ecosystem of social enterprises has been increasingly supported as researchers emphasize on the importance of contextual factors supporting and constrai... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Groups focused on social entrepreneurship may be divided into several categories: community-based enterprises, socially responsible enterprises, social services industry professionals, and socio-economic enterprises. Community-based enterprises are based on the social ventures aimed at and involving an entire community... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | There are also a broader range of hybrid profit models, where a conventional business invests some portion of its profits on socially, culturally or environmentally beneficial activities. The term "Philanthropreneurship" has been applied to this type of activity. Corporate employees can also engage in social entreprene... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Role of technology
The Internet, social networking websites and social media have been pivotal resources for the success and collaboration of many social entrepreneurs. In the 2000s, the Internet has become especially useful in disseminating information to a wide range of like-minded supporters in short amounts of time... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2939161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20entrepreneurship | Social entrepreneurship | Controversy
Many initiatives carried out with social entrepreneurs while innovative, have had problems becoming sustainable and effective initiatives that ultimately were able to branch out and reach the larger society as a whole (versus a small community or a group of people). Compromises in social initiatives were d... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | Bile bears, sometimes called battery bears, are bears kept in captivity to harvest their bile, a digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, which is used by some traditional Asian medicine practitioners. It is estimated that 12,000 bears are farmed for bile in China, South Korea, Laos, Vietnam... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | History
Bear bile and gallbladders, which store bile, are ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Its first recorded use is found in (Newly Revised Materia Medica, Tang dynasty, 659 CE). The pharmacologically active ingredient contained in bear bile and gallbladders is ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA); bears are... | 2.890625 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | Methods of bile extraction
Several methods can be used to extract the bile. These all require surgery and include:
Repeated percutaneous biliary drainage uses an ultrasound imager to locate the gallbladder, which is then punctured and the bile extracted.
Permanent implantation uses a tube entered into the gallbladder... | 2.25 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | Bile extraction begins at three years-of-age and continues for a minimum of five to ten years. Some bears may be kept in cages for bile extraction for 20 years or more. A bear can produce 2.2 kg of bile over a 5-year production life.
When the bears outlive their productive bile-producing years (around 10 years old), t... | 2.75 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | Physiological indicators
Elevated corticosteroid concentrations are a widely acknowledged indicator of physiological stress. Corticosteroid concentrations in the hair of Asiatic black bears relocated from a bile farm to a bear rescue centre fell between 12 and 88% over 163 days.
Other physiological indicators of stress... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | Some supporters of bile bear farms argue, "Wildlife farming offers, at first glance, an intuitively satisfying solution: a legal trade can in principle be created by farming animals to assuage demand for wild animals which thus need not be harvested."
Nonetheless, bears continue to be hunted in the wild to supply the ... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | Farmed population
The World Society for the Protection of Animals has been reported in 2011 as saying that more than 12,000 bears are currently estimated to be housed in both illegal and legal bear farms across Asia.
China
World Animal Protection conducted a study in 1999 and 2000, and estimated that 247 bear bile far... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | South Korea
According to the South Korean Environment Ministry, 1,374 bears were raised at 74 farms across South Korea as of 2009. In South Korea, it is legal to keep bears for bile and bears older than 10 years old can be harvested for their paws and organs. In 2022, the number of bears on South Korean farms had decli... | 2.96875 | 0 |
2939171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile%20bear | Bile bear | The monetary value of the bile comes from the traditional prescription of bear bile by doctors practicing traditional medicine. Bear bile contains ursodeoxycholic acid. It is purchased and consumed to treat hemorrhoids, sore throats, sores, bruising, muscle ailments, sprains, epilepsy, reduce fever, improve eyesight, b... | 2.375 | 0 |
2939190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosso%20Fiorentino | Rosso Fiorentino | Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Florentine Redhead" in Italian) or Il Rosso ("The Redhead"), was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco and belonged to the Florentine school.
Biography
Born in Florence with the red hair that gave him... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2939198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset%20Collection | Somerset Collection | Somerset Collection is a shopping mall of more than 180 retailers located in Troy, Michigan, part of Metro Detroit. Somerset Collection is developed, managed, and co-owned by The Forbes Company, and is among the most profitable malls in the United States not owned by a real estate investment trust. (Of the 100 most... | 1.921875 | 0 |
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