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2939881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenanthos | Adenanthos | A. detmoldii
A. barbiger
A. obovatus
A. × pamela
A. drummondii
A. dobagii
A. apiculatus
A. linearis
A. pungens
A. pungens subsp. pungens
A. pungens subsp. effusus
A. gracilipes
A. venosus
A. dobsonii
A. glabrescens
A. glabrescens subsp. glabrescens
A. glabrescens subsp. exasperatus
A. ellipticus
A. cuneatus
A. stictus
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2939881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenanthos | Adenanthos | Thirteen species of Adenanthos have leaves deeply divided into long, soft, slender laciniae, often covered in a fine down of soft hairs, giving them a soft, silky feel, in stark contrast to the sclerophyllous plants that dominate both the geographic range and taxonomic family of Adenanthos. These are collectively known... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2939881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenanthos | Adenanthos | Species occur throughout most of the southwest. In northern areas, where there are fewer species, the genus does not extend into drier inland areas, being absent from northern parts of the Avon Wheatbelt region. To the south, however, they extend well inland, extending even beyond the southwest into the neighbouring de... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2939922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Bell%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201976%29 | Peter Bell (footballer, born 1976) | For information about the former St Kilda player named Peter Bell, see Peter R. Bell.
Peter Francis Bell (born 1 March 1976) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. He played as a rover (or follower). A ... | 2.046875 | 0 |
2939972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Raki%C4%87 | Milan Rakić | Milan Rakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Ракић; 18 September 1876 – 30 June 1938) was a Serbian poet-diplomat and academic.
He focused on dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse, which allowed him to achieve beautiful rhythm and rhyme in his poems. He was quite a perfectionist and therefore only published three collectio... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2939977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panaeolus | Panaeolus | Panaeolus is a genus of small, black-spored, saprotrophic agarics. The word Panaeolus is Greek for "all variegated", alluding to the spotted gills of the mushrooms produced.
Characteristics
These fungi are mostly dung and grassland species, some of which are quite common in Europe and North America. The gills of Pana... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2939978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%20Lake | Springfield Lake | Springfield Lake is a small lake located in Middle Sackville, Halifax Regional Municipality. The shoreline perimeter is 5.6 km, the mean depth is 3 m and the maximum depth is 5 m (Mandaville 2000). Springfield is a headwater lake that is fed solely by underground springs and runoff. Located in the Shubenacadie watershe... | 2.5 | 0 |
2939981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Stevenson | Edward Stevenson | Edward Stevenson (May 1, 1820 – January 27, 1897) was a prominent Latter-day Saint missionary of the 19th century. He also served as a general authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as one of the seven presidents of the Seventy.
Early life
Stevenson was born in Gibraltar to British p... | 1.992188 | 0 |
2939984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Certified%20Engineering%20Technicians%20and%20Technologists%20of%20Prince%20Edward%20Island | Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists of Prince Edward Island | The Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists of Prince Edward Island (ACETTPEI) is Prince Edward Island's independent certifying body for engineering/applied science technicians and technologists.
ACETTPEI confers the designations "C.Tech.", "C.E.T." and "A.Sc.T." which are symbols of achieve... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2940023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagging%20%28fashion%29 | Sagging (fashion) | Sagging is a manner of wearing trousers that sag so that the top of the trousers or jeans is significantly below the waist, sometimes revealing much of the wearer's underpants.
Sagging is predominantly a male fashion. Women's wearing of low-rise jeans to reveal their G-string underwear (the "whale tail") is not genera... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2940124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%20Sound | Mississippi Sound | The Mississippi Sound is a sound along the Gulf Coast of the United States. It runs east-west along the southern coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, from the mouth of the Pearl River at the Mississippi-Louisiana state border to the Dauphin Island Bridge, a distance of about . The sound is separated from the Gulf on it... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2940127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20series%20database | Time series database | A time series database is a software system that is optimized for storing and serving time series through associated pairs of time(s) and value(s). In some fields, time series may be called profiles, curves, traces or trends. Several early time series databases are associated with industrial applications which could ef... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2940172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Caldwell | Larry Caldwell | Roseville Joint Union High School District suit
In October 2005 Caldwell filed suit in California federal court claiming that he was unconstitutionally denied access to various forums to promote his "Quality Science Education" proposals. In Caldwell v. Roseville Joint Union High School District Caldwell alleged free sp... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2940184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksa%20%C5%A0anti%C4%87 | Aleksa Šantić | Šantić and Ćorović intended to establish a journal for Serb children called Hercegovče (), not only for kids from Herzegovina, but for all Serb children in the country.
Šantić was one of the notable members of the Bosnian Serb cultural society Prosvjeta. The hymn of the society was authored by Šantić.
Šantić presided... | 2.5 | 0 |
2940184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksa%20%C5%A0anti%C4%87 | Aleksa Šantić | The product of his patriotic inspiration during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 is the book Na starim ognjištima (; 1913). Šantić belonged to poets who wrote whole collections of songs glorifying victories of Army of Kingdom of Serbia during the Balkan Wars, including On the coast of Drač () which glorifies liberation of ... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2940184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksa%20%C5%A0anti%C4%87 | Aleksa Šantić | The first poems Šantić published were inspired by older Serbian poets like Njegoš, Zmaj, Vojislav Ilić and Jakšić. The first collection of Šantićs songs was published in Mostar in 1891. He awarded all income from its sales to erecting the monument of Sima Milutinović Sarajlija. In 1901 Bogdan Popović wrote negative cri... | 2.25 | 0 |
2940194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namtaeryeong%20station | Namtaeryeong station | Namtaeryeong Station is a station on Seoul Subway Line 4 in Seoul, Korea. It is operated by Seoul Metro. It is an island platform with two lines on one side, and a screen door is installed. There are 4 exits.
Name
Its name means "great southern pass," referring to a passageway linking Seoul and Gwacheon, between Mt. ... | 2.25 | 0 |
2940198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenanthos%20cygnorum | Adenanthos cygnorum | Adenanthos cygnorum, commonly known as common woollybush or just woollybush, is a tall shrub in the family Proteaceae. It is endemic to Western Australia, commonly occurring in the south west of the State from north of Geraldton south to Kojonup. It is very common on road verges and in disturbed areas of Perth.
Desc... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2940252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli%20International%20Airport | Tripoli International Airport | Tripoli International Airport () is a closed international airport built to serve Tripoli, the capital city of Libya. The airport is located in the area of Qasr bin Ghashir, from central Tripoli. It used to be the hub for Libyan Airlines, Afriqiyah Airways, and Buraq Air.
The airport has been closed intermittently s... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2940252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli%20International%20Airport | Tripoli International Airport | During World War II the airport was destroyed, but the airfield was later used by the British Royal Air Force and named RAF Castel Benito, changing to RAF Idris in 1952. In the 1950s and 1960s the airport was known as Tripoli Idris International Airport. It was renovated for national and international air travel in Sep... | 2.25 | 0 |
2940252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli%20International%20Airport | Tripoli International Airport | In April 2019, the airport was captured by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar and was held for over a year, despite the control of the airport passing back to the GNA briefly in May 2019. Due to its location at the southern border of the Tripoli Metropolitan Area, it served as ... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2940252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli%20International%20Airport | Tripoli International Airport | Expansion plans
In September 2007, the Libyan government announced a project to upgrade and expand the airport. The eventual total cost of the project, contracted to a joint venture between Brazil's Odebrecht, TAV Construction of Turkey, Consolidated Contractors Company of Greece and Vinci Construction of France, was ... | 2.125 | 0 |
2940275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Mobile%205.0 | Windows Mobile 5.0 | Windows Mobile 5.0 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft. It was originally codenamed "Magneto". It was released at Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Developers Conference 2005 in Las Vegas, May 9–12, 2005. It was based on Windows XP. Microsoft offered mainstream support for Windows Mobile 5 through October... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2940286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther%20Perkins | Luther Perkins | Luther Monroe Perkins, Jr. (January 8, 1928 – August 5, 1968) was an American country music guitarist and a member of the Tennessee Three, the backup band for singer Johnny Cash. Perkins was an iconic figure in what would become known as rockabilly music. His creatively simple, sparsely embellished, rhythmic use of Fen... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2940297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan%20edit | Fan edit | The first fan edit to popularize the field was The Phantom Edit, created in 2000 by professional editor Mike J. Nichols under the pseudonym of the "Phantom Editor". Nichols removed elements from George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace that he felt detracted from the film, and made minor changes in dialo... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2940310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Purrumbete | Lake Purrumbete | Lake Purrumbete is a volcanic lake located in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Lake Purrumbete is approximately east of the town of Camperdown. The lake is in a shallow maar. The water is crystal clear most times of the year as the lake relies totally on its own catchment.
Recreational activities
Lake Pur... | 2.5 | 0 |
2940315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing%20medical%20education | Continuing medical education | Historical context
Continuing medical education is not a new concept. From essentially the beginning of institutionalized medical instruction (medical instruction affiliated with medical colleges and teaching hospitals), health practitioners continued their learning by meeting with their peers. Grand rounds, case discu... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2940315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing%20medical%20education | Continuing medical education | Requirements
In the United States, many state licensing boards and specialty certification boards require CME for medical professionals to maintain their licenses/certifications. Within the United States, requirements for CME activities for physicians are regulated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) a... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2940326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalton%20raid | Royalton raid | The Royalton raid was a British-led Indian raid in 1780 against various towns along the White River Valley in the Vermont Republic, and was part of the American Revolutionary War. It was the last major Indian raid in New England.
Raids
In the early morning hours of October 16, 1780, Lieutenant Richard Houghton of 53rd... | 2 | 0 |
2940340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Monterrey | University of Monterrey | The University of Monterrey (, acronym "UDEM") is a private, Catholic, secondary, and higher education institution in city-municipality San Pedro Garza García, Greater Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
History
UDEM was founded by the Daughters of the Immaculate Mary of Guadalupe, the nuns of the Sacred Heart, the Marist... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2940345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uro%C5%A1%20Kne%C5%BEevi%C4%87 | Uroš Knežević | Uroš Knežević (; 2 January 1811 – 21 October 1876) was a Serbian painter. Knežević is best-known as portraitist, having produced more than 200 portraits, mostly of notable people of his time.
Life
He was born in Sremski Karlovci to father Teodor and mother Julijana. Even though he spent most of his life in Serbia, the... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2940352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak%2C%20Memory | Speak, Memory | Speak, Memory is a memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov's revised and extended edition appeared in 1966.
Scope
The book is dedicated to his wife, Véra, and covers his life from 1903 until his emigration to A... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2940352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak%2C%20Memory | Speak, Memory | "Perfect Past" (Chapter One), 1950, contains early childhood memories including the Russo-Japanese war.
"Portrait of My Mother" (Chapter Two), 1949, also discusses his synesthesia.
"Portrait of My Uncle" (Chapter Three), 1948, gives an account of his ancestors as well as his uncle "Ruka". Nabokov describes that in 19... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2940373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Pali%C4%87 | Lake Palić | Lake Palić (; ) is a lake from Subotica, near the town of Palić, in Serbia. It covers an area of . The average depth of the lake is . With the surrounding area it forms the protected Nature Park Palić, which covers .
Geology
Despite popular belief, Lake Palić is not a remnant of the vast Pannonian Sea which covered ... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2940373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Pali%C4%87 | Lake Palić | In the spring of 2019, it was decided to fish out the Prussian carp, omnivorous and voracious fish, which became abundant in the lake. In several months, over 20 tons of Prussian carp were fished. After the project was done, results showed the first improvement in the quality of the lake water since 1998. Though still ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2940373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Pali%C4%87 | Lake Palić | Further expropriation needed for the buffer zone was conducted in 2019–2020. The entire surrounding area was already expropriated in 1974, when the lake was emptied. However, the erosion since then eroded the banks, so the privately owned parcels which were further from the lake, are now on its banks. The buffer zone c... | 2.71875 | 0 |
2940373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Pali%C4%87 | Lake Palić | In October 2022, the Serbian-German Prussian carp fishing project "Ekolakus" was officially ended. Over 250 tons were fished out of the lake, though a small population still remained, and it will be fished out intermittently. The fish was used as food for animals in the Palić Zoo. By this time, populations of common ca... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2940374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Parti%20pris%20des%20choses | Le Parti pris des choses | Le Parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by the French poet and essayist Francis Ponge. It was first published in 1942. The title has been translated into English as Taking the Side of Things and as The Nature of Things.
Background
Life and career
Francis Ponge was born in 18... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2940374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Parti%20pris%20des%20choses | Le Parti pris des choses | Ponge's works often describe mundane objects – for example "The Pebble" or "The Oyster" – extensively, but in such a way that his works are categorized as prose poetry. Robert W. Greene, a literary critic, noted about the intentions of his works, "He seeks a balance of equivalences, an equation between the order of th... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2940374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Parti%20pris%20des%20choses | Le Parti pris des choses | Much of Ponge's poetic style reflects his idea of the "objeu" (a portmanteau word combining objet (object/thing) and jeu (game)), or the "objective play of the mind". The objeu is the act of pointedly choosing language or subject matter for its double meanings, hidden connections, and sensory effects on the reader. Ind... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2940374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Parti%20pris%20des%20choses | Le Parti pris des choses | Of the poems of Ponge's self-proclaimed "poetic encyclopedia", "Snails", "The Pebble", and "The Mollusk" are often subject to scrutiny. Each displays a characteristic Pongian theme or themes.
The Pebble
"The Pebble", or "Le Galet", is easily the longest poem in the collection, being exceptionally long for the genre o... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2940400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas%20Bergier | Nicolas Bergier | Nicolas Bergier (), (1 March 1567 – 18 August 1623) was a lawyer at the Presidential Seat of Rheims, lived in 17th-century Rheims and became interested in Roman roads there. Mentioning by chance his interest in the funding of Roman roads to Conde du Lis, advisor to Louis XIII, he found himself suddenly commanded by the... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2940423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokon%20%28motorcycle%20manufacturer%29 | Rokon (motorcycle manufacturer) | Rokon is an American Rochester, New Hampshire-based motorcycle manufacturer that builds two-wheel-drive off-road motorcycles which are marketed either under the company's name, or as the "Trail Breaker". Robert Korpi was also owner of Rokon International from about 1976 to 1990
History
Rokon was founded in Vermont by ... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2940457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mode%20optical%20fiber | Multi-mode optical fiber | Multi-mode optical fiber is a type of optical fiber mostly used for communication over short distances, such as within a building or on a campus. Multi-mode links can be used for data rates up to 800 Gbit/s. Multi-mode fiber has a fairly large core diameter that enables multiple light modes to be propagated and limits ... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2940457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mode%20optical%20fiber | Multi-mode optical fiber | For many years 62.5/125 μm (OM1) and conventional 50/125 μm multi-mode fiber (OM2) were widely deployed in premises applications. These fibers easily support applications ranging from Ethernet (10 Mbit/s) to gigabit Ethernet (1 Gbit/s) and, because of their relatively large core size, were ideal for use with LED transm... | 2.125 | 0 |
2940463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Konjovi%C4%87 | Milan Konjović | Milan Konjović (28 January 1898 – 20 October 1993) (Милан Коњовић) was a Serbian painter whose works can be divided into six periods of artistic style. He studied in many countries abroad and lived in Paris from 1924 to 1932. His long life's work earned him many recognitions as well as a place in the Serbian Academy of... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2940463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%20Konjovi%C4%87 | Milan Konjović | Konjović's "red phase" lasted from 1934 till 1940. In 1941 Konjović was in Osnabrück in a concentration camp as a prisoner of war. After his release, Konjović began painting pastels most notably in the years 1943, 1944, and 1949. He then began producing oil works painted in so-called 'subdued colors' from 1945 to 1952,... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2940474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20H.%20Smith | Jacob H. Smith | General Jacob Hurd Smith (January 29, 1840 – March 1, 1918) was a U.S. Army officer notorious for ordering indiscriminate retaliation on the island of Samar in response to what is called the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine–American War.
Smith's plan involved stopping the flow of food and causing extensive des... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2940474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20H.%20Smith | Jacob H. Smith | While working in Louisville, he met and later married his first wife Emma L. Haverty on November 10, 1864; they quietly divorced October 1, 1880. After the war, he became a Veteran Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Wartime misconduct
In 1869, Smith's father-in-law Daniel Haverty... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2940474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20H.%20Smith | Jacob H. Smith | Smith was court martialed in 1885 in San Antonio for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman", for deeds in the "Mint Saloon" in Brackett, Texas. The opposing party claimed Smith had been playing a game of draw poker with M. S. Moore and C. H. Holzy a.k.a. Jiggerty, lost $135 to Moore, and refused to pay the deb... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2940474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20H.%20Smith | Jacob H. Smith | On September 28, 1901, fifty-one American soldiers of Company C of the 9th U.S. Infantry Regiment who had been stationed in the town of Balangiga, the third largest town on the southern coast of Samar Island, were killed in a surprise guerrilla attack. They had been deployed to Balangiga to close its port and prevent s... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2940474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20H.%20Smith | Jacob H. Smith | Waller did not mention Smith's order in his defense, instead relying on provisions of U.S. Armies General Order Number 100, also known as the Lieber Code, dictating how U.S. soldiers were expected to conduct themselves during wartime. That code is considered a precursor to the Geneva Conventions but, in contrast to lat... | 2.125 | 0 |
2940474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20H.%20Smith | Jacob H. Smith | To ease the subsequent public outcry in America, Secretary of War Elihu Root recommended that Smith be retired. President Roosevelt accepted this recommendation, and ordered Smith's retirement from the Army, with no additional punishment.
Later life
Smith retired to Portsmouth, Ohio, doing some world traveling. He vol... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2940483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%20Rockefeller%20Growald | Eileen Rockefeller Growald | Eileen Rockefeller (born February 26, 1952) is an American philanthropist. She is the youngest daughter of David Rockefeller and Margaret "Peggy" McGrath. Eileen is a member of the fourth generation of the Rockefeller family widely known as "the Cousins". Her elder siblings are Abby, Richard, Neva, Peggy, and David Jr.... | 2.125 | 0 |
2940493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremblay%20v%20Daigle | Tremblay v Daigle | Tremblay v Daigle [1989] 2 S.C.R. 530, was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in which it was found that a fetus has no legal status in Canada as a person, either in Canadian common law or in Quebec civil law. This, in turn, meant that men, while stating they are protecting fetal rights, cannot acquire injuncti... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2940493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremblay%20v%20Daigle | Tremblay v Daigle | Regarding the Civil Code, the Court considered the argument that since the Code deals with fetuses as "juridical" persons, fetuses must legally be human beings. Human beings, under the Code, have rights. Once again, the Court expressed skepticism as to the nature of the term "human being", noting the linguistic nature... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2940511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena%20Pavlovi%C4%87-Barili | Milena Pavlović-Barili | Milena Pavlović-Barili (alt. Barilli; ; 5 November 1909 – 6 March 1945) was a Serbian painter and poet. She is the most notable female artist of Serbian modernism.
Biography
Her Italian father, Bruno Barilli, was an influential composer, elder son of Cecrope Barilli, director of the Parmesan Academy of Fine Arts and ... | 2.078125 | 0 |
2940511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena%20Pavlovi%C4%87-Barili | Milena Pavlović-Barili | Milena studied at the Royal School of Arts in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1922–1926) and in Munich (1926–1928). In the early 1930s, she left Serbia and returned only for brief visits until the outbreak of World War II. During her stays in Spain, Rome, Paris and London, where she socialised with Jean Cocteau and An... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2940544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing%20cooperative | Purchasing cooperative | A purchasing cooperative is a type of cooperative arrangement, often among businesses, to agree to aggregate demand to get lower prices from selected suppliers. Retailers' cooperatives are a form of purchasing cooperative. Cooperatives are often used by government agencies to reduce costs of procurement. Purchasing Coo... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2940544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing%20cooperative | Purchasing cooperative | Cost Savings: The most significant advantage of joining a purchasing cooperative is the potential for cost savings. By leveraging the collective buying power of its members, the cooperative can negotiate better pricing, terms, and conditions with suppliers. These savings can be substantial, allowing members to reduce t... | 1.921875 | 0 |
2940544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing%20cooperative | Purchasing cooperative | Cost savings is another significant benefit of using purchasing cooperatives. These cooperatives leverage the collective buying power of their members to negotiate favorable pricing and terms with suppliers. Businesses that obtain contracts through a cooperative can take advantage of these pre-negotiated rates, resulti... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2940544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing%20cooperative | Purchasing cooperative | Membership Fees: Purchasing cooperatives may require vendors to become members and pay an annual membership fee. This fee grants vendors access to the cooperative's network of members and the opportunity to bid on contracts or supply goods and services to the cooperative's members. Membership fees often vary based on t... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2940552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraz | Miraz | Miraz is a fictional character from C. S. Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. He is the main antagonist in the book Prince Caspian, and is the uncle of the book's protagonist.
Miraz killed his brother, Caspian IX, allowing his nephew to live as heir until, as the book opens, his wife bears him a legitimat... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2940630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%20Huimin | Yang Huimin | Yang Huimin (; March 6, 1915 – March 9, 1992) was a Girl Guide during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai who supplied a flag and brought supplies to besieged defenders of the Sihang Warehouse. Her actions proved inspiring to the defenders, who flew the flag the next daybreak in front of thousands of watching eyes across the b... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2940678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhousia%20citriodora | Backhousia citriodora | Antimicrobial
Lemon myrtle essential oil possesses antimicrobial properties; however, the undiluted essential oil is toxic to human cells in vitro. When diluted to approximately 1%, absorption through the skin and subsequent damage is thought to be minimal. Lemon myrtle oil has a high Rideal–Walker coefficient, a measu... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2940689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen%20debranching%20enzyme | Glycogen debranching enzyme | The glycogen debranching enzyme, in humans, is the protein encoded by the gene AGL. This enzyme is essential for the breakdown of glycogen, which serves as a store of glucose in the body. It has separate glucosyltransferase and glucosidase activities.
Together with phosphorylases, the enzyme mobilize glucose reserves ... | 2.5625 | 0 |
2940689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen%20debranching%20enzyme | Glycogen debranching enzyme | Together with phosphorylase, glycogen debranching enzymes function in glycogen breakdown and glucose mobilization. When phosphorylase has digested a glycogen branch down to four glucose residues, it will not remove further residues. Glycogen debranching enzymes assist phosphorylase, the primary enzyme involved in glyco... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2940689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen%20debranching%20enzyme | Glycogen debranching enzyme | Two enzymes
In E. coli and other bacteria, glucosyltransferase and glucosidase functions are performed by two distinct proteins. In E. coli, Glucose transfer is performed by 4-alpha-glucanotransferase, a 78.5 kDa protein coded for by the gene malQ. A second protein, referred to as debranching enzyme, performs α-1,6-g... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2940689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen%20debranching%20enzyme | Glycogen debranching enzyme | One enzyme with two catalytic sites
In mammals and yeast, a single enzyme performs both debranching functions. The human glycogen debranching enzyme (gene: AGL) is a monomer with a molecular weight of 175 kDa. It has been shown that the two catalytic actions of AGL can function independently of each other, demonstrati... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2940695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonic%20Studies | Symphonic Studies | The Symphonic Studies (), Op. 13, is a set of études for solo piano by Robert Schumann. It began in 1834 as a theme and sixteen variations on a theme by Baron von Fricken, plus a further variation on an entirely different theme by Heinrich Marschner.
Composition
The first edition in 1837 carried an annotation that th... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2940695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonic%20Studies | Symphonic Studies | Character
Leaving aside the allusions to Florestan and Eusebius, all of Schumann's proposed titles show some of the essential character of Op. 13's conception. This was of 'studies' in the sense that the term had assumed in Frédéric Chopin's Op. 10, that is to say, concert pieces in which the investigation of possibili... | 2.484375 | 0 |
2940714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS%20Bendigo%20%28J187%29 | HMAS Bendigo (J187) | By April 1942, with convoy escorts desperately needed, five of the Australian-built corvettes including Bendigo were assigned to the ANZAC Area covering the eastern approaches to Australia, a zone that was shortly later reorganized into the new Southwest Pacific Area. Operations during this period included convoy duty ... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2940730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20assignment | Random assignment | Random assignment or random placement is an experimental technique for assigning human participants or animal subjects to different groups in an experiment (e.g., a treatment group versus a control group) using randomization, such as by a chance procedure (e.g., flipping a coin) or a random number generator. This ensur... | 3.03125 | 0 |
2940730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20assignment | Random assignment | Benefits of random assignment
Imagine an experiment in which the participants are not randomly assigned; perhaps the first 10 people to arrive are assigned to the Experimental group, and the last 10 people to arrive are assigned to the Control group. At the end of the experiment, the experimenter finds differences betw... | 2.859375 | 0 |
2940730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20assignment | Random assignment | To express this same idea statistically - If a randomly assigned group is compared to the mean it may be discovered that they differ, even though they were assigned from the same group. If a test of statistical significance is applied to randomly assigned groups to test the difference between sample means against the n... | 2.890625 | 0 |
2940733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Savings%20Bond | Canada Savings Bond | The Canada Savings Bond () was an investment instrument offered by the Government of Canada from 1945 to 2017, sold between early October and December 1 of every year. It was issued by the Bank of Canada and was intended to offer a competitive interest rate, and had a guaranteed minimum interest rate.
History
Canada ... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2940743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20Man%20Soccer | Mega Man Soccer | is a soccer video game for the Super NES. The game is based on the original Mega Man series of action-platform games. Mega Man Soccer was released in Japan on February 17, 1994, and in North America in March of that same year.
Mega Man Soccer is a traditional soccer game with exhibition matches, tournaments, and leagu... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2940743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20Man%20Soccer | Mega Man Soccer | Mega Man Soccer has four statistics in which characters differ from one another in ability: running, kicking, tackling, and defense. These statistics are displayed on screen when the player is given the chance to set a formation at the beginning of a match, or make substitutions at halftime. Controls in Mega Man Soccer... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2940747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington%20Welfare%20Rights%20Union | Kensington Welfare Rights Union | The Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KRWU) is a progressive social justice, political action, and advocacy group of, by, and for the poor and homeless operating out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The group was founded by six women, Alexis Baptist, Sandy Brennan, Diane Coyett, Cheri Honkala, Louis Mayberry, and Debra Wi... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2940761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barboursville%2C%20Virginia | Barboursville, Virginia | Government officials, bankers, and land owners made a huge push to plant tobacco at the location of the Barboursville Vineyards. Despite their advice Gianni Zonin, who had been an heir to his family’s wine business in the Veneto, became the owner to the Barbour Plantation in 1976. He dreamed of creating a vineyard on t... | 1.9375 | 0 |
2940761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barboursville%2C%20Virginia | Barboursville, Virginia | Four County Players prides itself in producing quality productions that involve volunteers from the community and keep generations of audiences returning for years.
Mining in Barboursville
Residents of the Barboursville community (including an historic free town made up of descendants of former enslaved people of sur... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2940764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merioola%20Group | Merioola Group | Merioola and the Sydney Charm School
Although there was no common style or 'movement' at Merioola, it could be said that its artists were more interested in art as a light-hearted and poetic expression of the spirit and less interested in art as a progressive force. Many of the group had spent long years in the armed ... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2940782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notonectidae | Notonectidae | Notonectidae is a cosmopolitan family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly called backswimmers because they swim "upside down" (inverted). They are all predators and typically range from in length. They are similar in appearance to Corixidae (water boatmen), but can be separated by differences in their ... | 2.671875 | 0 |
2940800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Saints%27%20Church%2C%20Howick | All Saints' Church, Howick | All Saints’ Church is a historic Tudor revival Anglican church located in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand. Constructed in 1847 to a designed from Frederick Thatcher and located on a site picked by Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, it is one of the oldest churches in Auckland and is registered as a category 1 historic buildi... | 2.109375 | 0 |
2940807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Teenie%20Weenies | The Teenie Weenies | The Teenie Weenies is a comic strip created and illustrated by William Donahey (19 October 1883 – 2 February 1970). It first appeared in 1914 in the Chicago Tribune and ran for over 50 years. It consisted of normal-size objects intermingled with tiny protagonists. The comic strip characters were two inches tall and liv... | 2.25 | 0 |
2940815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillage%20Training%20Center | Ecovillage Training Center | The Ecovillage Training Center is a "total immersion school" for sustainability. It is located at The Farm, an intentional community/ecovillage in Summertown, Tennessee, USA. The curricula of the center are "holistic and comprehensivist" and foster hands-on learning.
Albert Bates, a long-time resident of The Farm, fou... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2940816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Columbia%20Utilities%20Commission | British Columbia Utilities Commission | The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) is an independent agency of the Government of British Columbia responsible for regulating rates and standards of service quality. The Commission's primary responsibility is the regulation of British Columbia's natural gas and electricity utilities. They also regulate int... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2940833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Katzbach | Battle of the Katzbach | The Battle of the Katzbach on 26 August 1813, was a major battle of the Napoleonic Wars between the forces of the First French Empire under Marshal MacDonald and a Russo-Prussian army of the Sixth Coalition under Prussian Marshal Graf (Count) von Blücher. It occurred during a heavy thunderstorm at the Katzbach river be... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2940833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Katzbach | Battle of the Katzbach | The two armies stumbled upon one another at 9 am after MacDonald crossed the swollen Katzbach river. A sudden flood cut away many of the bridges and destroyed the fords. In the midst of the confusion and heavy rain, MacDonald seemed to recover first. Although his orders were to defend the flank of Napoleon's main force... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2940834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukkwan%20Victory%20Monument | Pukkwan Victory Monument | The Pukkwan Victory Monument (Pukkwan Taech'ŏppi, full name Yumyŏng Chosŏnguk Hamgyŏngdo Imjin Ŭibyŏng Taech'ŏppi, the "Ming-Joseon Hamgyongdo Imjin righteous army victory monument") is a stone stele written in Korean Hanmun commemorating a series of Korean military victories between 1592 and 1594 against the invading ... | 2.75 | 0 |
2940834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukkwan%20Victory%20Monument | Pukkwan Victory Monument | Removal to Japan
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, much of the Korean peninsula was under the occupation of the Imperial Japanese Army. The monument, located at Immyong Station, came to the attention of Major General Ikeda who was stationed in the area. Apparently displeased by it, he allowed Lieutenant General M... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2940837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decasyllable | Decasyllable | Decasyllable (Italian: decasillabo, French: décasyllabe, Serbian: десетерац, deseterac) is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. In languages with a stress accent (accentual verse), it is the equivalent of pentameter with iambs or trochees (particularly iambic pentameter).
Me... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2940855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20Bragg%20grating | Fiber Bragg grating | Archambault et al. showed that it was possible to inscribe gratings of ~100% (>99.8%) reflectance with a single UV pulse in fibers on the draw tower. The resulting gratings were shown to be stable at temperatures as high as 800 °C (up to 1,000 °C in some cases, and higher with femtosecond laser inscription). The gratin... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2940855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20Bragg%20grating | Fiber Bragg grating | Tilted fiber Bragg gratings
In standard FBGs, the grading or variation of the refractive index is along the length of the fiber (the optical axis), and is typically uniform across the width of the fiber. In a tilted FBG (TFBG), the variation of the refractive index is at an angle to the optical axis. The angle of tilt ... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2940855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20Bragg%20grating | Fiber Bragg grating | Interference
This was the first method used widely for the fabrication of fiber Bragg gratings and uses two-beam interference. Here the UV laser is split into two beams which interfere with each other creating a periodic intensity distribution along the interference pattern. The refractive index of the photosensitive f... | 2.125 | 0 |
2940855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20Bragg%20grating | Fiber Bragg grating | Fiber Bragg gratings can then be used as direct sensing elements for strain and temperature. They can also be used as transduction elements, converting the output of another sensor, which generates a strain or temperature change from the measurand, for example fiber Bragg grating gas sensors use an absorbent coating, w... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2940858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvenation | Rejuvenation | Rejuvenation is a medical discipline focused on the practical reversal of the aging process.
Rejuvenation is distinct from life extension. Life extension strategies often study the causes of aging and try to oppose those causes in order to slow aging. Rejuvenation is the reversal of aging and thus requires a different... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2940858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvenation | Rejuvenation | There have been many experiments which have been shown to increase the maximum life span of laboratory animals, thereby achieving life extension. A few experimental methods such as replacing hormones to youthful levels have had considerable success in partially rejuvenating laboratory animals and humans. A 2011 experim... | 2.703125 | 0 |
2940858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvenation | Rejuvenation | Most attempts at genetic repair have traditionally involved the use of a retrovirus to insert a new gene into a random position on a chromosome. But by attaching zinc fingers (which determine where transcription factors bind) to endonucleases (which break DNA strands), homologous recombination can be induced to correct... | 2.625 | 0 |
2940858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvenation | Rejuvenation | The biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey has initiated a project, strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS), to study how to reverse the damage caused by aging. He has proposed seven strategies for what he calls the seven deadly sins of aging:
Cell loss can be repaired (reversed) just by suitable exerc... | 2.359375 | 0 |
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