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2137708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel%20speed%20sensor | Wheel speed sensor | A wheel speed sensor (WSS) or vehicle speed sensor (VSS) is a type of tachometer. It is a sender device used for reading the speed of a vehicle's wheel rotation. It usually consists of a toothed ring and pickup.
Automotive wheel speed sensor
Purpose
The wheel speed sensor was initially used to replace the mechanica... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2137708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel%20speed%20sensor | Wheel speed sensor | Optical sensor
From one to four channels can be implemented, each channel having a photosensor that scans one of at most two signal tracks on a slotted disk. Experience shows that the possible number of channels achievable by this technique is still not enough. A number of subsystems therefore have to make do with loop... | 2.203125 | 0 |
2137712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection-oriented%20communication | Connection-oriented communication | Datalink and network layer
In a connection-oriented packet-switched data-link or network-layer protocol, all data is sent over the same path during a communication session. Rather than using complete routing information for each packet (source and destination addresses) as in connectionless datagram switching such as c... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2137722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szilard%20%28crater%29 | Szilard (crater) | Szilard is a damaged lunar impact crater that lies to the east-northeast of the crater Richardson. It is named after Leó Szilárd, the scientist who theorised nuclear chain reactions and famously worked on the atomic bomb during World War II. About a half-crater-diameter to the northwest is the large walled plain Harkh... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2137753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Bellatrix%20%28AKA-3%29 | USS Bellatrix (AKA-3) | USS Bellatrix (AK-20/AKA-3) was an in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. Originally ordered as a C2-T cargo ship named Raven for the Maritime Commission, the vessel was transferred to United States Navy control while under construction and launched in August 1941.
Bellatrix was assigned to... | 1.96875 | 0 |
2137756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADPH%20oxidase | NADPH oxidase | Superoxide can be produced in phagosomes which have ingested bacteria and fungi, or it can be produced outside of the cell. In macrophages, superoxide kills bacteria and fungi by mechanisms that are not yet fully understood. Superoxide spontaneously dismutates to form peroxide which is then protonated to produce hydrog... | 2.140625 | 0 |
2137756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADPH%20oxidase | NADPH oxidase | Regulation
Careful regulation of NADPH oxidase activity is crucial to maintain a healthy level of ROS in the body. The enzyme is dormant in resting cells but becomes rapidly activated by several stimuli, including bacterial products and cytokines. Vascular NADPH oxidases are regulated by a variety of hormones and fact... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2137756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADPH%20oxidase | NADPH oxidase | Excessive production of ROS in vascular cells causes many forms of cardiovascular disease including hypertension, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and ischemic stroke. Atherosclerosis is caused by the accumulation of macrophages containing cholesterol (foam cells) in artery walls (in the intima). ROS produced by... | 2.25 | 0 |
2137756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NADPH%20oxidase | NADPH oxidase | Mutations
Mutations in the NADPH oxidase subunit genes cause several Chronic Granulomatous Diseases (CGD), characterized by extreme susceptibility to infection. These include:
X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)
Autosomal recessive cytochrome b-negative CGD
Autosomal recessive cytochrome b-positive CGD type ... | 1.914063 | 0 |
2137772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20suspension | Air suspension | On 22 January 1901 an American, William W. Humphreys, patented an idea - a 'Pneumatic Spring for Vehicles'. The design consisted of a left and right air spring longitudinally channeled nearly the length of the vehicle. The channels were concaved to receive two long pneumatic cushions. Each one was closed at one end and... | 2.40625 | 0 |
2137772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20suspension | Air suspension | In the U.S., General Motors built on its World War II experience with air suspension for trucks and airplanes. It introduced air suspension as standard equipment on the new 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham. An "Air Dome" assembly at each wheel included sensors to compensate for uneven road surfaces and to automatically ... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2137772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20suspension | Air suspension | Companies such as Jaguar and Porsche have introduced systems on some of their models that change the spring rate and damping settings of the suspension, among other changes, for their sport/track modes. The Lincoln Mark VIII had suspension settings which were linked to the memory seat system, meaning that the car would... | 2.375 | 0 |
2137772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20suspension | Air suspension | High-pressured industrial gas bottles (such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide tanks used to store shielding gases for welding) are sometimes used in more radical air suspension setups. Either of these reservoir systems may be fully adjustable, being able to adjust each wheel's air pressure individually. This allows the use... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2137772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20suspension | Air suspension | Often, owners may desire to lower their vehicle to such an extent that they must cut away portions of the frame for more clearance. A reinforcement member commonly referred to as a C-notch is then bolted or welded to the vehicle frame in order to maintain structural integrity. Specifically on pickup trucks, this proces... | 2.015625 | 0 |
2137779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prontuario%20dei%20nomi%20locali%20dell%27Alto%20Adige | Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige | Toponymy played a major part in Tolomei's struggle right from the beginning. In the articles he wrote for The Italian Nation he already used Italianized names, although these early attempts lacked the method and purpose of his later activities. In those days he would use the name for South Tyrol, not having yet come u... | 2.359375 | 0 |
2137779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prontuario%20dei%20nomi%20locali%20dell%27Alto%20Adige | Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige | This methodology was however not applied in a uniform, consistent manner, so that often the choice of name were criticised to have been arbitrary — thus increasing the perception of imposition. While the aim of Tolomeis toponymy was that of bringing the Latin history back to the surface, more often than not it has been... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2137779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prontuario%20dei%20nomi%20locali%20dell%27Alto%20Adige | Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige | Apart from the frequent mistakes and inconsistencies of Tolomei's toponymy, according to critics, its main fault is the loss of historical information contained in the historically grown geographical names, an effect which was fully intended by Tolomei. Instead of bringing back Alpine Romanity which spoke a Rhaeto-Roma... | 2.125 | 0 |
2137782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%2080%20Business%20%28Sacramento%2C%20California%29 | Interstate 80 Business (Sacramento, California) | At the interchange southeast of Downtown Sacramento, I-80 Bus turns north onto unsigned SR 51 near its southern end. US 50 continues east, SR 99 heads south, and the unsigned I-305 ends. The elevated freeway carrying I-80 Bus east of downtown is between 29th and 30th streets, and an older section beginning at A Street ... | 2.375 | 0 |
2137782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%2080%20Business%20%28Sacramento%2C%20California%29 | Interstate 80 Business (Sacramento, California) | History
The State Division of Highways (predecessor to Caltrans) constructed Sacramento's freeways system incrementally from the 1940s to the 1970s. The plan for the Elvas Freeway was presented in the Sacramento Area Traffic Survey in 1947–1948, and the freeway was built between 1950 and 1955. The Division of Highways ... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2137782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate%2080%20Business%20%28Sacramento%2C%20California%29 | Interstate 80 Business (Sacramento, California) | Between 1968 and 1975, a bypass was proposed that was to straighten the alignment of I-80 and increase its capacity. The Sacramento City Council voted in September 1979 to delete the I-80 bypass freeway from the Interstate System. In 1980 California submitted to the American Association of State Highway and Transporta... | 2.15625 | 0 |
2137786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Powers | Susan Powers | Susan Powers (born 1954 in Glen Cove, New York) is a self-taught American artist.
Education
Powers attended the University of Vermont, where she studied classical languages and medieval history, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in European Studies.
Career
Powers began painting in 1979, encouraged b... | 2.328125 | 0 |
2137787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymensingh%20District | Mymensingh District | Mymensingh District () is a district in Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh, and is bordered on the north by Meghalaya, a state of India and the Garo Hills, on the south by Gazipur District, on the east by the districts of Netrokona and Kishoreganj, and on the west by the districts of Sherpur, Jamalpur and Tangail. Mymens... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2137787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymensingh%20District | Mymensingh District | The Kangsha River, which arises in the Garo Hills and enters the plain in Sherpur district, flows eastward through the northern part of the district. It forms the border between Phulpur Upazila and Haluaghat and Dhobaura upazilas, as well as part of the border with Netrokona district. The Nitai river, a tributary of th... | 2.765625 | 0 |
2137787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymensingh%20District | Mymensingh District | During the late 15th and early 16th centuries, many families which would later become prominent zamindars arrived in the region and were granted ownership of lands by the Bengal Sultans. In the early 16th century, most of the district was under the control of the Baro-Bhuiyans, specifically Isa Khan. After his submissi... | 2.625 | 0 |
2137792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sika%20Anoa%CA%BBi | Sika Anoaʻi | Pola’ivao Leati Sika Amituana'i Anoa'i (April 5, 1945 – June 25, 2024), better known by the ring name Sika, was a Samoan-American professional wrestler. He is best known as one-half of the tag team the Wild Samoans with his older brother Afa, holding the WWF World Tag Team Championship three times. Sika and Afa were in... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2137795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penafiel | Penafiel | Penafiel ( or ) is a municipality and former bishopric (now a Latin Catholic titular see) in the northern Portuguese district of Porto. Capital of the Tâmega Subregion, the population was 72,265 in 2011, in an area of .
History
The region was occupied since pre-history, as evidenced by the proliferation of megalithi... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2137795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penafiel | Penafiel | In the 9th century, activity became concentrated in the Civitas Anegia on the headwaters of the Tâmega and Douro, that dominated the lands along margins of those rivers. This civitas was the precursor of Penafiel de Canas, an area that assumed an import role, but occupied a smaller area and embryonic place that concent... | 2.75 | 0 |
2137795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penafiel | Penafiel | At its founding, it was dominated by two castles: one along the northern bank of the Sousa river, called the Castle of Aguiar de Sousa and the second along the southern margin, called Pena. The town was attacked several times by Moors, but, owing to its resistance was referred to in Latin as Pennafidelis, shortened to ... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2137817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed%20leiothrix | Red-billed leiothrix | The red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) is a member of the family Leiothrichidae, native to southern China and the Himalayas. Adults have bright red bills and a dull yellow ring around their eyes. Their backs are dull olive green, and they have a bright yellow-orange throat with a yellow chin; females are somewhat d... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2137817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed%20leiothrix | Red-billed leiothrix | Description
The leiothrix is about six inches in length, generally olive green, and has a yellow throat with orange shading on the breast. It also has a dull yellowish ring around the eye that extends to the beak. The edges of the wing feathers are brightly coloured with yellow, orange, red and black and the forked ta... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2137817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed%20leiothrix | Red-billed leiothrix | The species was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands in 1918 and spread to all the forested islands except Lanai. Its population on Oahu crashed in the 1960s and it disappeared from Kauai, but is now common and increasing on Oahu. The leiothrix was released in Western Australia but it failed to become established. This ... | 2.984375 | 0 |
2137817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed%20leiothrix | Red-billed leiothrix | Breeding
The leiothrix can usually be found in a group of about ten to thirty birds during the non-breeding season; however, during the breeding season the birds break off into pairs and become territorial. These birds have a song which consists of short powerful notes that are repeated continuously throughout the year... | 2.796875 | 0 |
2137850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenebrionoidea | Tenebrionoidea | The Tenebrionoidea are a very large and diverse superfamily of beetles.
It generally corresponds to the Heteromera of earlier authors.
Taxonomy
Tenebrionoidea contains the following families:
Aderidae Winkler 1927 (ant-like leaf beetles)
Anthicidae Latreille 1819 (ant-like flower beetles)
†Apotomouridae Bao et al. ... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2137850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenebrionoidea | Tenebrionoidea | Larval Tenebrionoidea can be distinguished by various features of the head: a posteriorly diverging gula with well developed gular ridges, posterior tentorial arms being shifted anteriorly, asymmetric mandibles, the M. craniocardinalis vestigial or absent, and the M. tentoriopharyngalis posterior subdivided into severa... | 2.921875 | 0 |
2137877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aer%20Lingus%20Flight%20712 | Aer Lingus Flight 712 | Aircraft
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 803 which flew under tail-number EI-AOM and had been in service since 1957 with a total of 18,806 lifetime flight hours. Aer Lingus operated approximately 20 Viscount aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s, of which two others were involved in serious incidents. The year before the... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2137897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba%20Carriera | Rosalba Carriera | Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was an Italian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium in eighteenth-century Europe. She is remembered as one of the most successful women ar... | 2.78125 | 0 |
2137897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba%20Carriera | Rosalba Carriera | In 1730, Carriera made a long journey to the royal court in Vienna, Austria. While there, the Emperor Charles VI became her benefactor and fully committed to supporting her work, amassing a large collection of more than 150 of her pastels. In return, Carriera gave the Empress formal artistic training. The works Carrie... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2137897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba%20Carriera | Rosalba Carriera | Influence
Carriera's influence would spread widely among many. In 1720 she provided King Louis XV with a portrait that completed the transition from the previously accepted style of the court. It was a shift between what looked powerful and a decorative style with international appeal. She revolutionized the world of ... | 2.921875 | 0 |
2137897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalba%20Carriera | Rosalba Carriera | Carriera had many patrons who were interested in her work. Her earliest known pastel portrait depicts the collector Anton Maria Zanetti (1700) who procured many works by the artist and promoted her to other collectors when he travelled throughout Europe. Joseph Smith was another one of her admirers and he too collected... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2137905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wickham%20%28attorney%29 | John Wickham (attorney) | John Wickham (June 6, 1763 – January 22, 1839) was an American Loyalist, attorney and slaveholder. One of very few Loyalists to achieve any sort of national prominence in the United States after the American Revolution, Wickham may be best remembered for his role defending former Vice President Aaron Burr who was accus... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2137905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wickham%20%28attorney%29 | John Wickham (attorney) | Wickham's uncle Parker Wickham was kidnapped by Connecticut patriots in 1777 and warned against further loyalist activities. Following Britain's withdrawal from New York in 1779, Parker Wickham was banished from New York State under an act of attainder. Despite vigorously declaring his innocence, Parker Wickham never r... | 2.59375 | 0 |
2137905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wickham%20%28attorney%29 | John Wickham (attorney) | Death and legacy
Wickham died in 1839 and was buried in Richmond's Shockoe Hill Cemetery. Many of his children intermarried with the First Families of Virginia and many descendants became lawyers and politically active. His grandson Williams Carter Wickham owned a plantation in Hanover County through one such marriage... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2137932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dushyanta | Dushyanta | The Mahabharata narrates that King Dushyanta was once hunting in the forests, when he struck a fawn with his arrow. The fawn fled to the ashram of Sage Kanva, and the king followed it. Upon reaching the ashram, the king saw Shakuntala watering the plants, accompanied by her friends, named Anasuya and Priyamvada. Dushya... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2137943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20O%27Donnell | Cathy O'Donnell | Cathy O'Donnell (born Ann Steely, July 6, 1923 – April 11, 1970) was an American actress who appeared in The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur, and films noir such as Detective Story and They Live by Night.
Early life
O'Donnell was born Ann Steely in Siluria, Alabama. Her father, Grady Steely, was a schoolteacher and o... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2137951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hillier | James Hillier | James Hillier, (August 22, 1915 – January 15, 2007) was a Canadian-American scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938.
Biography
Born in Brantford, Ontario, the son of James and Ethel (Cooke) Hillier, he receive... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2137952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiduguri | Maiduguri | Maiduguri ( ) is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria, on the continent of Africa. The city sits along the seasonal Ngadda River which disappears into the Firki swamps in the areas around Lake Chad. Maiduguri was founded in 1907 as a military outpost by the British Empire during the ... | 2.8125 | 0 |
2137952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiduguri | Maiduguri | Islamist violence
Since the mid-1960s, Maiduguri has witnessed outbreaks of large inter-religious riots with members of religious sects leading intercommunal violence in 1982 and 2001.On 18 February 2006, riots related to the Muhammad cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten left at least 15 people de... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2137952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiduguri | Maiduguri | Tree planting was a priority of the city's colonial administration, and large trees along major roads give protection from intense sun.
Normal temperature in Maiduguri
The hot season goes on for 2.4 months, from March 13 to May 26, with a typical everyday high temperature above . The most blazing month of the year in... | 2.6875 | 0 |
2137952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiduguri | Maiduguri | Maiduguri is the principal trading hub for north-eastern Nigeria. Its economy is largely based on services and trade with a small share of manufacturing.
Maiduguri is home to three markets which include a modern "Monday market". that has a spectacular image view.
The city has an appealing layout, with wide, well-main... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2138007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangpur%2C%20Bangladesh | Rangpur, Bangladesh | Rangpur (; ;
), is a metropolitan city and a major city in northern Bangladesh. This city serves as the administrative center of the Rangpur Division. It is strategically located on the banks of the Ghaghot River and near the Teesta River. It is the second largest City Corporation in Bangladesh. The city has developed... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2138007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangpur%2C%20Bangladesh | Rangpur, Bangladesh | Etymology
It is said that the present name Rangpur came from the former 'Rongpur'. History has it, that English colonial rulers in this region started cultivating Indigo. Due to the fertile soil in this region, Indigo cultivation was very much profitable. The locals knew that Indigo by the name of "Rongo". So thus, th... | 3.0625 | 0 |
2138007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangpur%2C%20Bangladesh | Rangpur, Bangladesh | Pakistani Period and Liberation War
Rangpur was a District of East Pakistan Province during the Pakistani Period. People of Rangpur actively take part in different movements like Bengali language movement, Six point movement and 1969 Mass uprising. The first martyr from Rangpur in the liberation war was Sangku Samajhd... | 2.625 | 0 |
2138007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangpur%2C%20Bangladesh | Rangpur, Bangladesh | Climate
Rangpur has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), also in Trewartha climate classification (subtropical summer wet Cw). The 4 seasons of Rangpur generally characterize as a Summer or pre-monsoon season with high Temperature and frequent intense thunderstorms named Nor'westers (March–May), an intense and ve... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2138013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav%20Drobn%C3%BD | Jaroslav Drobný | Jaroslav Drobný (; 12 October 1921 – 13 September 2001) was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1951, he became the first and, to date, only Egyptian t... | 2.21875 | 0 |
2138013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav%20Drobn%C3%BD | Jaroslav Drobný | Becoming stateless, Drobný attempted to gain Swiss, US and Australian papers until finally Egypt offered him citizenship. He represented Egypt at Wimbledon from 1950 through 1959, including his title winning run in 1954. He is the only Egyptian citizen ever to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament. At the time of his Wimb... | 2.25 | 0 |
2138018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan%20Abdulgani | Ruslan Abdulgani | Ruslan Abdulgani (his first name is also spelled Roeslan; 24 November 1914 – 29 June 2005) was an Indonesian government official and diplomat known for his role as a leader during the Indonesian National Revolution in the late 1940s, and as a key minister and United Nations ambassador in the Sukarno government during t... | 2.46875 | 0 |
2138074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20C.%20Flippen | Jay C. Flippen | John Constantine Flippen Jr. (J.C. or Jay C.) (March 6, 1899 – February 3, 1971) was an American character actor who often played crusty sergeants, police officers or weary criminals in many 1940s and 1950s pictures, particularly in film noir. Before his motion-picture career he was a leading vaudeville comedian and ma... | 2.3125 | 0 |
2138077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Hinton | Sam Hinton | Biography
Sam Hinton was born March 31, 1917, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was raised largely in Crockett, Texas, and studied zoology for two years at Texas A&M, helping to finance his education via singing appearances. Leaving college, he moved to Washington, D.C., to stay with his parents, where he worked as a window decor... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2138095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elateroidea | Elateroidea | The Elateroidea are a large superfamily of beetles. It contains the familiar click beetles, fireflies, and soldier beetles and their relatives. It consists of about 25,000 species.
Description
Elateroidea is a morphologically diverse group, including hard-bodied beetles with 5 abdominal ventrites, soft-bodied beetles... | 2.828125 | 0 |
2138095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elateroidea | Elateroidea | Families
The validity and relationships of some families, such as Podabrocephalidae are not fully resolved. The family Rhinorhipidae has recently been removed to its own superfamily, with evidence that it is a basal taxon within Elateriformia dating to an Upper Triassic/Lower Jurassic split from other extant beetle li... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2138110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton%20railway%20station | Alton railway station | Alton railway station serves the market town of Alton, in the English county of Hampshire. The station is the terminus for two railway lines: the Alton Line, which runs to Brookwood and on to London Waterloo, and the Mid Hants Watercress Railway which runs to Alresford. The latter once ran through to Winchester, but wa... | 1.976563 | 0 |
2138126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Western%20Development | China Western Development | China Western Development () is an economic policy applied in Western China as part of the effort to reduce imbalances in development between China's coastal regions and its interior.
The policy covers six provinces (Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan), five autonomous regions (Guangxi, Inner Mongoli... | 2.515625 | 0 |
2138126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Western%20Development | China Western Development | China's attempts to develop its western regions have had varied effects on the West's economic development. While massive investment has been accompanied by a boost in GDP across all western regions, the broader policy has failed to achieve its goal of eliminating the economic gap between China's East and West.
Initia... | 2.453125 | 0 |
2138126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Western%20Development | China Western Development | Since the introduction of economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, the western region has been in a disadvantageous economic position because it promises a less lucrative return to the investors than its eastern competitors. Therefore, one of the major objectives of the Open Up the West initiative was to bring in... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2138126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Western%20Development | China Western Development | Tim Oakes, associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, argues that the decline of foreign investment in certain western regions is a consequence of Beijing's attempt to recentralize the province's economy through mega-projects such as Guizhou's west–east electricity transfer project. The... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2138147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20International%20Phonetic%20Alphabet | History of the International Phonetic Alphabet | By the 1980s, phonetic theories had developed so much since the inception of the alphabet that the framework of it had become outdated. To resolve this, at the initiative of IPA President Peter Ladefoged, approximately 120 members of the IPA gathered at a convention held in Kiel, West Germany, in August 1989, to discus... | 2.1875 | 0 |
2138147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20International%20Phonetic%20Alphabet | History of the International Phonetic Alphabet | New principles
The six principles set out in 1888 were replaced by a much longer text consisting of seven paragraphs. The first two paragraphs established the alphabet's purpose, namely to be "a set of symbols for representing all the possible sounds of the world's languages" and "representing fine distinctions of soun... | 2.625 | 0 |
2138153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter%20Raphael | Günter Raphael | Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of Fascis... | 2.390625 | 0 |
2138187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute%20coronary%20syndrome | Acute coronary syndrome | Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a syndrome due to decreased blood flow in the coronary arteries such that part of the heart muscle is unable to function properly or dies. The most common symptom is centrally located pressure-like chest pain, often radiating to the left shoulder or angle of the jaw, and associated with... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2138187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute%20coronary%20syndrome | Acute coronary syndrome | Signs and symptoms
Symptoms of the acute coronary syndromes are similar. The cardinal symptom of critically decreased blood flow to the heart is chest pain, experienced as tightness, pressure, or burning. Localization is most commonly around or over the chest and may radiate or be located to the arm, shoulder, neck, ba... | 2.34375 | 0 |
2138187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute%20coronary%20syndrome | Acute coronary syndrome | Pathophysiology
In those who have ACS, atheroma rupture is most commonly found 60% when compared to atheroma erosion (30%), thus causes the formation of thrombus which block the coronary arteries. Plaque rupture is responsible for 60% in ST elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) while plaque erosion is responsible for ... | 2.125 | 0 |
2138187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute%20coronary%20syndrome | Acute coronary syndrome | Prediction scores
A combination of cardiac biomarkers and risk scores, such as HEART score and TIMI score, can help assess the possibility of myocardial infarction in the emergency setting.
Prevention
Acute coronary syndrome often reflects a degree of damage to the coronaries by atherosclerosis. Primary prevention of ... | 2.265625 | 0 |
2138196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Adri%C3%A0%20de%20Bes%C3%B2s | Sant Adrià de Besòs | Sant Adrià de Besòs () is a city and a municipality within the comarca of Barcelonès in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. It is situated on the Mediterranean coast, at the mouth of river Besòs, extending to both sides of the estuary although the original settlement with the parish church lies on the left bank of the rive... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2138196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Adri%C3%A0%20de%20Bes%C3%B2s | Sant Adrià de Besòs | Transport
Given its proximity to the city of Barcelona, Sant Adrià de Besòs is well served by road, rail and many other forms of public transport, becoming an important part of the transportation network in Barcelona metropolitan area. The city has always been an economically unprivileged town and a really dense area, ... | 2.09375 | 0 |
2138196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%20Adri%C3%A0%20de%20Bes%C3%B2s | Sant Adrià de Besòs | Public transportation network is mainly composed of several urban and interurban bus routes that provide a good internal connection within the municipality as well as the connection of the city to other nearby cities within the comarca. Currently, 16 bus routes run through the municipality, 5 of them are local bus rout... | 2.234375 | 0 |
2138217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-density%20polyethylene | Low-density polyethylene | Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is a thermoplastic made from the monomer ethylene. It was the first grade of polyethylene, produced in 1933 by John C. Swallow and M.W Perrin who were working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) using a high pressure process via free radical polymerization. Its manufacture employs the... | 2.609375 | 0 |
2138217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-density%20polyethylene | Low-density polyethylene | When exposed to consistent sunlight, the plastic produces significant amounts of two greenhouse gases: methane and ethylene. Because of its lower density (high branching), it breaks down more easily than other plastics; as this happens, the surface area increases. Production of these trace gases from virgin plastics in... | 2.578125 | 0 |
2138223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronomy | Aeronomy | Terrestrial aeronomers study atmospheric tides and upper-atmospheric lightning discharges such as red sprites, sprite halos, blue jets, and ELVES. They also investigate the causes of dissociation and ionization processes in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Terrestrial aeronomers use ground-based telescopes, balloons, sat... | 3.078125 | 0 |
2138223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronomy | Aeronomy | Planetary aeronomy
Planetary aeronomy studies the regions of the atmospheres of other planets that correspond to the Earth's mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere, and ionosphere. In some cases, a planet's entire atmosphere may consist only of what on Earth constitutes the upper atmosphere, or only a portion of it. Plane... | 3.03125 | 0 |
2138228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Carr | Austin Carr | Austin George Carr (born March 10, 1948) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, and Washington Bullets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is known by Cleveland basketball fans as "Mr. Cavalier". He was part of the Notre Dame team whic... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2138228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Carr | Austin Carr | The 6-foot 4-inch (1.93 m), 200 lb (91 kg) shooting guard first came to prominence as a highly recruited player for the University of Notre Dame, arriving after having scored more than 2,000 points during his high school career. Carr lived up to his lofty billing by ending his three-year career at Notre Dame with 2,560... | 1.929688 | 0 |
2138228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%20Carr | Austin Carr | NBA draft
Carr moved onto the professional ranks as the first overall selection of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1971 NBA draft. Carr was also selected in the 1971 ABA Draft by the Virginia Squires, but signed with the Cavaliers on April 5, 1971.
Rookie season and early NBA career
Carr's first season in the NBA was m... | 2 | 0 |
2138238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Shakespeare%20Theater | Chicago Shakespeare Theater | Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth education and fam... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2138238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Shakespeare%20Theater | Chicago Shakespeare Theater | History
Chicago Shakespeare Theater was founded as the Chicago Shakespeare Workshop by former Artistic Director Barbara Gaines in 1986, a name which was changed a year later to the Chicago Shakespeare Repertory and finally in 1999 to Chicago Shakespeare Theater. It performed its first twelve seasons in residency at th... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2138269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca%20virosa | Lactuca virosa | Lactuca virosa is a plant in the Lactuca (lettuce) genus, often ingested for its mild analgesic and sedative effects. It is related to common lettuce (L. sativa), and is often called wild lettuce, bitter lettuce, laitue vireuse, opium lettuce, poisonous lettuce, tall lettuce, great lettuce or rakutu-karyumu-so.
Descri... | 2.734375 | 0 |
2138296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth%20United%20F.C. | Plymouth United F.C. | Plymouth United Football Club was an association football and rugby club from Plymouth, Devon, England, formed by 1877 at the latest. It was reported that they were beaten 6–0 at home by the Torquay & South Devon Football Club, likely in a rugby match, on 22 December that year, and that the Torquay team were surprised ... | 1.960938 | 0 |
2138327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssean%20Wicca | Odyssean Wicca | The tradition grew out of the James' creation of the Wiccan Church of Canada, with which the tradition is still very closely associated. While the James’s and their coven members claimed to have had backgrounds in Gardnerian Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, and Continental Wicca, these claims were never substantiated—the gene... | 2.4375 | 0 |
2138327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssean%20Wicca | Odyssean Wicca | The Odyssean tradition and the Wiccan Church of Canada reached their apex in 1992—at that time there were four temples (Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, and Kitchener-Waterloo) and three proto-temples in Brampton, Oshawa, and Montreal. Currently, the Wiccan Church of Canada has only two temples; the mother temple in Toronto,... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2138327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssean%20Wicca | Odyssean Wicca | Practices
Beyond the emphasis on public ministry, the Odyssean tradition is characterized by the following: it is an Eclectic tradition in its origins that has a strong British Traditional Wicca style to its forms of organization and initiation; although it emulates British Traditional the tradition's approach to ritua... | 2.296875 | 0 |
2138332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Alderete | Juan Alderete | Juan Alderete de la Peña (born September 5, 1963) is an American musician. He is best known as the longtime bassist of Racer X and for his tenures in the Mars Volta and Marilyn Manson.
Biography
Alderete was born in Los Angeles, California the fourth of five children.
Son of the late civil rights activist Angel Manu... | 2.28125 | 0 |
2138340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Harrad%20Experiment | The Harrad Experiment | The Harrad Experiment is a 1973 coming-of-age film about a fictional school, named Harrad College, where the students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this film deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution,... | 2.0625 | 0 |
2138362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Provincial%20Bank | National Provincial Bank | The Union Bank of London was formed in 1839 and it remained a purely metropolitan bank for the rest of the century; it was of no great size during that period, opening around a dozen branches in central London and acquiring the occasional small local bank. Although it refused to open branches in the provinces, it did d... | 2.53125 | 0 |
2138371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster%20Bank | Westminster Bank | In 1913, the bank formed a subsidiary, London County and Westminster Bank (Paris), which opened branches during and after World War I in Bordeaux (1917), Lyon (1918), Marseilles (1918) and Nantes (1919). The bank itself also directly established offices in Madrid (1917), Barcelona (1917), Antwerp (1919), Brussels (1919... | 2.65625 | 0 |
2138419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20serial%20visual%20presentation | Rapid serial visual presentation | Rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) is a scientific method for studying the timing of vision. In RSVP, a sequence of stimuli are shown to an observer at one location in their visual field. The observer is instructed to report one of these stimuli - the target - which has a feature that differentiates it from the re... | 3.015625 | 0 |
2138439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels%20Viggo%20Bentzon | Niels Viggo Bentzon | Works
Niels Viggo Bentzon's compositions extend to 664 opus numbers, including 24 symphonies, operas, ballets, concertos for almost all instruments (of which 7 for the piano), and 16 string quartets. Arguably the most significant part of his œuvre is for the piano to which a third of his output is dedicated, and consi... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2138442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begum%20Hazrat%20Mahal | Begum Hazrat Mahal | Begum Hazrat Mahal (c. 18207 April 1879), also known as the Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah, and the regent of Awadh in 1857–1858. She is known for the leading role she had in the rebellion against the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
After her husban... | 2.421875 | 0 |
2138454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20low-density%20polyethylene | Linear low-density polyethylene | Linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) is a substantially linear polymer (polyethylene), with significant numbers of short branches, commonly made by copolymerization of ethylene with longer-chain olefins. Linear low-density polyethylene differs structurally from conventional low-density polyethylene (LDPE) because of... | 2.171875 | 0 |
2138486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20Scenarios%20and%20Recreations | Medieval Scenarios and Recreations | Medieval Scenarios and Recreations, Inc. (MSR) is an educational non-profit living history organization dedicated to the education, understanding, and appreciation of the Middle Ages. The structure for this activity revolves around the Kingdom of Acre (pronounced AC-R).
Activities
MSR places special emphasis on the fa... | 2.640625 | 0 |
2138489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20TV-Game | Color TV-Game | The is the first video game system ever made by Nintendo. The system was released as a series of five dedicated home video game consoles between 1977 and 1983 in Japan only. Nintendo sold three million units of the first four models: one million units of each of the first two models, Color TV-Game 6 and 15; and half ... | 2.90625 | 0 |
2138489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20TV-Game | Color TV-Game | The Color TV-Game consoles were produced jointly by Nintendo Research & Development 2 (R&D2) and Mitsubishi Electronics. Nintendo had no prior experience in manufacturing electronics, and had previously contracted Mitsubishi for production of EVR Race, so this continued. For the first two consoles, Color TV-Game 6 and ... | 2.25 | 0 |
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