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Language change-Sociolinguistics-The sociolinguist Jennifer Coates, following William Labov, describes linguistic change as occurring in the context of linguistic heterogeneity. She explains that "[l]inguistic change can be said to have taken place when a new linguistic form, used by some sub-group within a speech comm... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Language change-Sociolinguistics-Even in the relatively short time that broadcast media have recorded their work, one can observe the difference between the pronunciation of the newsreaders of the 1940s and the 1950s and the pronunciation of today. The greater acceptance and fashionability of regional accents in media ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Language change-Sociolinguistics-Can and Patton (2010) provide a quantitative analysis of twentieth-century Turkish literature using forty novels of forty authors. Using weighted least squares regression and a sliding window approach, they show that, as time passes, words, in terms of both tokens (in text) and types (i... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Language change-Sociolinguistics-Can and Patton (2010), based on their observations of the change of a specific word use (more specifically in newer works the preference of ama over fakat, both borrowed from Arabic and meaning "but", and their inverse usage correlation is statistically significant), also speculate that... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Language change-Sociolinguistics-Kadochnikov (2016) analyzes the political and economic logic behind the development of the Russian language. Ever since the emergence of the unified Russian state in the 15th and 16th centuries the government played a key role in standardizing the Russian language and developing its pre... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Language change-Quantification-Altintas, Can, and Patton (2007) introduce a systematic approach to language change quantification by studying unconsciously used language features in time-separated parallel translations. For this purpose, they use objective style markers such as vocabulary richness and lengths of words,... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Language change-Language shift and social status-Languages perceived to be "higher status" stabilise or spread at the expense of other languages perceived by their own speakers to be "lower-status". | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Language change-Language shift and social status-Historical examples are the early Welsh and Lutheran Bible translations, leading to the liturgical languages Welsh and High German thriving today, unlike other Celtic or German variants.For prehistory, Forster and Renfrew (2011) argue that in some cases there is a correl... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Boussinesq approximation-Boussinesq approximation-Boussinesq approximation may refer to several modelling concepts – as introduced by Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842–1929), a French mathematician and physicist known for advances in fluid dynamics: Boussinesq approximation (buoyancy) for buoyancy-driven flows for smal... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Racine stages-Racine stages are a categorization of epileptic seizures proposed by Ronald J. Racine in 1972. Prior to Racine's research in epilepsy, a quantifiable means to describe seizure intensities and their causes was not readily available. Racine's work allowed for epilepsy to be understood on a lev... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Introduction-In the brain, electrical signals are spread by the firing of neurons which lead to a desired outcome in the body. This can be caused by a release of a neurotransmitter or the voluntary contractions of a muscle. An action potential must be met in order for the electrical signal to be created. ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Introduction-While an EEG is able to determine the presence of a seizure and the intensity of the action potentials, the overall result on the body is hard to determine. In 1972, Ronald J. Racine developed a method to split the severity of seizures into stages: mouth and facial movement, head nodding, for... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Development-A seizure is described as large amounts of synchronized action potentials which cause the body to perform uncontrollable muscle contractions resulting in involuntary movement and an incapacity to control ones actions. This synchronized action potential must surpass a certain threshold, which i... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Development-Rat model Prior to Racine's research into epilepsy, a model for the severity of a seizure was not known. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Development-In 1972, Ronald J. Racine sought to develop a model that quantified the severity of a seizure. Using animal testing (rat model), Racine was able to stimulate specific parts of the brain using slight electrical impulses. He used methods of deep brain stimulation in order to ensure the targeted ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Classical stages-As the intensity of the seizure increases, the severity efferent actions increase. Each stage is a result of the action potentials causing the muscle to contract and relax resulting in an involuntary, observable action.
Racine stages Mouth and facial movement Sometimes hard to determine, ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Classical stages-Rearing and falling with forelimb clonus (generalized motor convulsions) During this final stage, the patient is at the highest risk for injury. Risk of injury due to falling, or situational circumstances may threaten the life of the patient and those around them.As the level of stimulus ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Clinical uses-Since its development, the use of the Racine stages has helped further the research into treating epileptic patients. Currently, Racine stages are being used in rat models. The Racine models are still used in laboratory settings to demonstrate the severity of seizures. While this model serve... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Clinical uses-Pinel and Rovne additional stages Multiple stage five seizures Mostly two level five seizures with additional seizures possible.
Jumping Running Jumping and running Two different seizures with a partial seizure in-between Two seizures which are higher than the Racine stages Separated by a lo... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Clinical uses-Research into the cure for epilepsy is ongoing. Different levels of tolerance to outside stimulus exist for each patient. Some patients experience seizures with audio or visual stimulation. However, some patients are more sensitive to environmental factors than others. In most cases treatmen... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Racine stages-Clinical uses-Additional adaptations The classic five Racine stages have been adapted many times since their designation in 1972. Depending on the changes in stimuli intensity and duration, researches add or take away levels according to the reactions of the rat models. While adaptations do exist to the R... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Reglet (typesetting)-Reglet (typesetting)-A reglet is a piece of wooden spacing material used in typesetting, usually to provide spacing between paragraphs, though it is sometimes used to fill in small spaces not taken up by type in the chase. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Camp shirt-Camp shirt-A camp shirt, variously known as a cabin shirt, Cuban collar shirt, cabana shirt, and lounge shirt, is a loose, straight-cut, woven, short-sleeved button-front shirt or blouse with a simple placket front opening and a "camp collar" - a one-piece collar (no band collar) that can be worn open and sp... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Zeit Wissen-Zeit Wissen-Zeit Wissen is a bi-monthly popular science magazine published in Germany. The magazine is spun off from the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit. The German phrase "Zeit Wissen" literally translates to "Time-Knowledge," and refers to the up-to-the-minute nature of the magazine's subject matter and ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Zeit Wissen-History-Zeit Wissen was launched in 2004. The magazine is published by Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius. The first editor-in-chief of the magazine was Christoph Drösser. The editor-in-chief of the magazine is Andreas Lebert who was appointed to the post in August 2013, replacing Jan Schweitzer.The magazine frequent... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Trigger finger-Trigger finger, also known as stenosing tenosynovitis, is a disorder characterized by catching or locking of the involved finger in full or near full flexion, typically with force. There may be tenderness in the palm of the hand near the last skin crease (distal palmar crease). The name "t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Signs and symptoms-Symptoms include catching or locking of the involved finger when it is forcefully flexed. There may be tenderness in the palm of the hand near the last skin crease (distal palmar crease). Often a nodule can be felt in this area. There is some evidence that idiopathic trigger finger beh... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Causes-It is important to distinguish association and causation. The vast majority of trigger digits are idiopathic, meaning there is no known cause. However, recent publications indicate that diabetes and high blood sugar levels increases the risk of developing trigger finger.Some speculate that repetit... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Diagnosis-Diagnosis is made on interview and physical examination. More than one finger may be affected at a time. It is most common in the thumb and ring finger. The triggering more often occurs while gripping an object firmly or during sleep when the palm of the subject’s hand remains closed for an ext... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Treatment-Depending on the number of affected digits and the clinical severity of the condition, Corticosteroid injections can cure trigger digits.Treatment consists of injection of a corticosteroid such as methylprednisolone often combined with a local anesthetic (lidocaine) at the A1 pulley in the palm... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Treatment-Injection of the tendon sheath with a corticosteroid is effective over weeks to months in more than half of people. Steroid injection is not effective in people with Type 1 diabetes. If triggering persists 2 months after injection, a second injection can be considered. Most specialists recommen... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Treatment-Surgery Trigger digits can be released percutaneously using a needle. This is not used for the thumb where the digital reves are at greater risk. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Trigger finger-Treatment-Postoperative outcome In some trigger finger patients, tenderness is found in the dorsal proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint. Dorsal PIP joint tenderness is more common in trigger fingers than previously thought. It is also associated with higher and prolonged levels of postoperative pain afte... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rupture (social networking)-Rupture (social networking)-Rupture was a social networking site for gamers. Users were able to create profiles and interact with one another with the standard array of social networking tools. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rupture (social networking)-History-Rupture was founded by Shawn Fanning and Jon Baudanza in June 2006. He did so because he wished to foster communication between players, find out what they're playing, and provide a showcase where they could display their accomplishments.In June 2008 Electronic Arts, Inc. purchased T... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's laws are mathematical formulae for calculating the relative strengths of military forces. The Lanchester equations are differential equations describing the time dependence of two armies' strengths A and B as a function of time, with the function depending only on A and ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's laws-As of 2017 modified variations of the Lanchester equations continue to form the basis of analysis in many of the US Army’s combat simulations, and in 2016 a RAND Corporation report examined by these laws the probable outcome in the event of a Russian invasion into the Baltic nations ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's linear law-For ancient combat, between phalanxes of soldiers with spears for example, one soldier could only ever fight exactly one other soldier at a time. If each soldier kills, and is killed by, exactly one other, then the number of soldiers remaining at the end of the battle is simply... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's linear law-The linear law also applies to unaimed fire into an enemy-occupied area. The rate of attrition depends on the density of the available targets in the target area as well as the number of weapons shooting. If two forces, occupying the same land area and using the same weapons, s... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-Lanchester's square law is also known as the N-square law. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-Description With firearms engaging each other directly with aimed shooting from a distance, they can attack multiple targets and can receive fire from multiple directions. The rate of attrition now depends only on the number of weapons shooting. Lanchester determined that the p... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-More precisely, the law specifies the casualties a shooting force will inflict over a period of time, relative to those inflicted by the opposing force. In its basic form, the law is only useful to predict outcomes and casualties by attrition. It does not apply to whole armies,... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-Note that Lanchester's square law does not apply to technological force, only numerical force; so it requires an N-squared-fold increase in quality to compensate for an N-fold decrease in quantity.
Example equations Suppose that two armies, Red and Blue, are engaging each other... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-dAdt=−βB dBdt=−αA The solution to these equations shows that: If α=β, i.e. the two sides have equal firepower, the side with more soldiers at the beginning of the battle will win; If A=B, i.e. the two sides have equal numbers of soldiers, the side with greater firepower will wi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-Relation to the salvo combat model Lanchester's equations are related to the more recent salvo combat model equations, with two main differences. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-First, Lanchester's original equations form a continuous time model, whereas the basic salvo equations form a discrete time model. In a gun battle, bullets or shells are typically fired in large quantities. Each round has a relatively low chance of hitting its target, and does ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-By comparison, cruise missiles typically are fired in relatively small quantities. Each one has a high probability of hitting its target, and carries a relatively powerful warhead. Therefore, it makes more sense to model them as a discrete pulse (or salvo) of firepower in a dis... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's square law-Second, Lanchester's equations include only offensive firepower, whereas the salvo equations also include defensive firepower. Given their small size and large number, it is not practical to intercept bullets and shells in a gun battle. By comparison, cruise missiles can be int... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's law in use-Lanchester's laws have been used to model historical battles for research purposes. Examples include Pickett's Charge of Confederate infantry against Union infantry during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the 1940 Battle of Britain between the British and German air forces, and t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's law in use-Helmbold Parameters The Helmbold Parameters provide quick, concise, exact numerical indices, soundly based on historical data, for comparing battles with respect to their bitterness and the degree to which side had the advantage. While their definition is modeled after a soluti... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's law in use-The solution of Lanchester's Square Law used here can be written as:where t is the time since the battle began, a(t) and d(t) are the surviving fractions of the attacker's and defender's forces at time t , λ is the Helmbold intensity parameter, μ is the Helmbold defender'... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's law in use-If the initial and final strengths of the two sides are known it is possible to solve for the parameters a(T) , d(T) , μ , and ε . If the battle duration T is also known, then it is possible to solve for λ .If, as is normally the case, ε is small enough that the hyperbol... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Lanchester's law in use-We note here that for statistical work it is better to use the natural logarithms of the Helmbold Parameters. We will call them, in an obvious notation, log μ , log ε , and log λ | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Major findings-See Helmbold (2021): The Helmbold parameters log ε and log μ are statistically independent, i.e., they measure distinct features of a battle. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Major findings-The probability that the defender wins, P(Dwins), is related to the defender's advantage parameter via the logistic function, P(Dwins) = 1 / (1 + exp(-z)), with z = -0.1794 + 5.8694 * logmu. This logistic function is almost exactly skew-symmetric about logmu = 0, rising from P(Dwins) = ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Major findings-While the defender's advantage varies widely from one battle to the next, on average it has been practically constant since 1600CE.
Most of the other battle parameters (specifically the initial force strengths, initial force ratios, casualty numbers, casualty exchange ratios, battle dur... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Lanchester's laws-Major findings-Bitterness ( log ε ), casualty fractions ( FA and FD in the above notation), and intensity ( log λ ) also changed slowly before 1939CE. But since then they have followed a startlingly steeper declining curve.Some observers have noticed a similar post-WWII decline in casualties at the... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Xploderz-Xploderz-Xploderz is a line of toy weapons made by The Maya Group to compete with Hasbro's Nerf Super Soaker line and marketed as a safer alternative to paintball. The concept is based on Orbeez, a girls' toy line also by The Maya Group that uses water-absorbent gel pellets, and hence is sometimes referred to ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Xploderz-Xploderz-When playing, a piston rod is manually pulled back against spring tension in a fashion similar to drawing a slingshot, allowing pellets to be drop-loaded from a top mounted magazine. When the rod is released, the spring elasticity drives piston to pressurize the air pump behind the pellets, which in t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Ammonium pertechnetate-Ammonium pertechnetate-Ammonium pertechnetate is a chemical compound with the formula NH4TcO4. It is the ammonium salt of pertechnetic acid. The most common form uses 99Tc. The compound is readily soluble in aqueous solutions forming ammonium and pertechnetate ions. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Ammonium pertechnetate-Synthesis-It can be synthesized by the reaction of pertechnetic acid and ammonium nitrate: HTcO4 + NH4NO3 → NH4TcO4 + HNO3It thermally decomposes under inert atmosphere at 700 °C to technetium dioxide: NH4TcO4 → TcO2 + 2 H2O + 1/2 N2 | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems-Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems-Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (MEMOCS) is a half-yearly peer-reviewed scientific journal founded by the International Research Center for the Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS) from Università deg... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems-Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems-MEMOCS is indexed in Scopus, MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH.
It is open access, free of author charges (being supported by grants from academic institutions), and available in both printed and electronic forms. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems-Contents-MEMOCS publishes articles from diverse scientific fields with a specific emphasis on mechanics. Its contents rely on the application or development of rigorous mathematical methods.
The journal also publishes original research in related areas of mathematics of well... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-ArcView 3.x-ArcView GIS was a geographic information system software product produced by ESRI. It was replaced by new product line, ArcGIS, in 2000. Regardless of it being discontinued and replaced, some users still find the software useful and hold the opinion it is a superior product for some tasks. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-History-ArcView started as a graphical program for spatial data and maps made using ESRI's other software products. In subsequent versions, more functionality was added to ArcView and it became a true GIS program capable of complex analysis and data management. The simple GUI was preferred by many over the ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-History-ArcView 1.0 ArcView 1.0 was released in 1991 to provide access to GIS for non-traditional users of the technology. ESRI's flagship professional GIS at the time, Arc/INFO, was based on a command line interface and was not accessible to users that only needed view and query capability. The release did... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-History-ArcView 2.x ArcView 1 was very popular, and ESRI promised a more functional 2.x version of the product. This product was developed using a multi-platform windowing environment called Neuron Data, which allowed the product to be supported on the increasingly popular Windows 95 and Windows 2000, UNIX,... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-History-ArcView GIS 3.x ArcView 3.x included even more full-featured GIS functionality, including a geoprocessing wizard and full support of extensions for raster and 3d processing. It was eventually renamed "ArcView GIS" by ESRI.
In 1997, ESRI released its final version supporting Mac OS 9 (3.0a). It is st... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-History-You can also install it normally using the InstallShield 3 Setup Engine (Is3Engine.zip). The Setup Launcher for ArcView is a 16-bit application and not supported by 64 bit systems. However the InstallShield Engine is 32-bit and will run on a 64 bit system. Using the Is3Engine(File Name: setup32.exe)... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-Reasons Some Users Prefer ArcView 3.x-Many GIS professionals and users still use ArcView 3 even though it has been discontinued and replaced by a new product line. Some users with access to ArcGIS 9.x or 10.x may still install and use ArcView 3.x. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
ArcView 3.x-Reasons Some Users Prefer ArcView 3.x-ArcView 3.x offers various advantages over ArcGIS including faster start up, faster functions such as dissolve, spatial joins and summary functions executed on the tabular data. Some users also strongly prefer having the ability to promote selected records in the tables... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
MPrest Systems-MPrest Systems-mPrest Systems is a private Israeli company, producing C4I applications. It serves commercial companies as well as military and law enforcement agencies.It is the developer of the Battle Management Control (BMC) system in Israel's Iron Dome system, a mobile air defense system designed to i... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Investment style-Investment style-Investment style, is a term in investment management (and more generally, in finance), referring to a characteristic investment philosophy employed by an investor. The classification extends across asset classes - equities, bonds or financial derivatives - and within each may further ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Investment style-Investment style-Active vs. Passive: Active investors believe in their ability to outperform the overall market by picking stocks they believe may perform well. Passive investors, on the other hand, feel that simply investing in a market index fund may produce potentially higher long-term results (poin... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Fibrosing cardiomyopathy is a disease commonly caused by a heart failure in great apes, most specially the males. When fibrosing cardiomyopathy attacks a healthy heart, it comes with a bacterium or a virus that makes the muscles of the heart turn into fibrous bands whic... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Contrast Analysis-Studies show that the causes of heart disease differ greatly between humans and chimpanzees. In this study, the scientists provided some new data and summarized existing reports on the subject. They also allow other primitives to have limited data, suggesting that they are mor... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Food used to alleviate illness-Scientists have begun to study how billions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes living in the stomach and intestines of humans affect our health for the last few decades. What we eat determines which of these microorganisms thrive, and the composition of the int... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Category and symptoms-There are different types of cardiomyopathy which include a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which makes the heart muscles to enlarge and thicken; dilated cardiomyopathy happens when the ventricles enlarge and weaken; restrictive cardiomyopathy makes the ventricles to stiffen; ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Prevention-After so many attempts on how to prevent the fibrosing from attacking gorillas, the zookeepers came with the ideas of how they could reduce the mortality rate of the gorillas i.e. the introduction of a National Gorilla Cardiac Database which will be used in tracking cases of the dise... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Prevention-Heart failure is considered to be common in both human and the gorillas which could be determined as a heart failure or a cardiac arrest to some point. When analysis is taken into an accord, a human heart attack would be considered to have occurred due to coronary artery atherosclero... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Fibrosing cardiomyopathy-Overview-Fibrosing cardiomyopathy is a type of a heart disease that affects the family of gorillas from West Africa that are in captive by humans due to the area that they live in and also the type of food they eat. Grains of paradise are a type of plants that grow in swampy areas and it has be... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Whole brain radiotherapy-Whole brain radiotherapy-Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) is a palliative option for patients with brain metastases that alleviates symptoms, decreases the use of corticosteroids needed to control tumor-associated edema, and potentially improves overall survival. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Whole brain radiotherapy-Usage-Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) has been reported to increase the risk of cognitive decline.WBRT is sometimes used along with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or surgery, and while these can improve survival for some patients with single brain metastasis, a 2021 systematic review of the li... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Feed horn-Feed horn-A feed horn (or feedhorn) is a small horn antenna used to couple a waveguide to e.g. a parabolic dish antenna or offset dish antenna for reception or transmission of microwave. A typical application is the use for satellite television reception with a satellite dish. In that case the feed horn can e... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Feed horn-Principle of operation-The feed horn minimizes the mismatch loss between the antenna and the waveguide. If a simple open-ended waveguide would be used, without the horn, the sudden end of the conductive walls causes an abrupt impedance change at the aperture, between the wave impedance in the waveguide and th... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Feed horn-Principle of operation-When used with a offset, parabolic or lens antenna, the phase center of the horn is placed at the focal point of the reflector. The characteristic of the feed horn is usually selected with the 3 dB points of the horn's radiation pattern falling on the edge of the reflector (the beamwidt... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Feed horn-Applications-For satellite TV reception the feedhorn is mounted at the feed arm of the satellite dish. The feedhorn then connects via a short waveguide to the "low-noise block downconverter" (LNB), a small housing containing a part of the reception electronics (also called the "RF front end"). This LNB conver... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Feed horn-Applications-For satellite uplink (e.g. for transmission of "Direct-To-Home" DTH TV programs, satellite news gathering SNG, satellite internet access or VSAT applications) a block upconverter (BUC) connects via a waveguide to the feedhorn, in order to transmit via the satellite dish to the communications sate... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-Swiss-suited playing cards-Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards referred to as Swiss-suited playing cards or Swiss-suited cards. They are mostly used for Jass, the "national card game" of Switzerland. The deck is related to the various German playing... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-Cards-The suits are as follows: The most common deck has 36 cards, nine of each suit. The card values are, in ascending order, six, seven, eight, nine, Banner (ten), Under, Ober, König, As.For the purposes of Jass, the numbered cards (six to nine) have no point value, the banner has a value ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-Cards-Face cards The Under corresponds to the Jack or Knave. The Under of trumps becoming the highest card in the game can be traced to the 15th-century game Karnöffel.
The face cards in the 1920s Müller design show twelve individual characters, which have remained unchanged since. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-Cards-The sequence Under, Ober, König depicts social stratification, the Under characters are working class, depicted as a fool or jester (Schellen), a messenger or scribe (Schilten), a peasant (Rosen) and a soldier or page/servant, while the Ober characters are shown as clerks or overseers/o... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-History of production-The earliest references for playing cards in Switzerland date back to the late 1370s when they were sweeping through Western Europe. In 1377, the Dominican friar John of Rheinfelden wrote the earliest description of playing cards in Europe. He described the most common d... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-History of production-From the 1930s onward, the number of manufacturers increased. There was Walter Scharff Co. ("WASCO", Ennetbaden), 1930; "Bernina, Dauer-Jasskarten" (Otto Hauser-Steiger, 1939-1946), and others. The Swiss discounter Migros began selling playing cards in the 1940s. Their c... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-History of production-There have repeatedly been novelty designs of the traditional deck, but all of these were short-lived, and intended as humorous or designed for a special purpose. There have been "feminist" designs which show all the face cards as women (Frauezogg, designs by Elsi Jegen ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Swiss-suited playing cards-"William Tell" set-There is also a "Swiss themed" deck of cards, in which each of the eight Ober and Under cards represents a character from Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell (William Tell himself is Eichel-Ober). This deck was designed in Hungary in 1835 as a means to express resentment agai... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy-Pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy-Pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy, also referred to as mucolipidosis III (ML III), is a lysosomal storage disease closely related to I-cell disease (ML II). This disorder is called Pseudo-Hurler because it resembles a mild form of Hurler syndrome, one of the mucopolysac... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy-Signs and symptoms-Symptoms of ML III are often not noticed until the child is 3–5 years of age. Patients with ML III are generally of normal intelligence (trait) or have only mild mental retardation.(Intelligence is challenged) instead of using the mental retardation classification. These p... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Pseudo-Hurler polydystrophy-Pathophysiology-As in Mucolipidosis II, Mucolipidosis III results from genetic defects in GlcNAc phosphotransferase (N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphotransferase). However, ML III produces less severe symptoms and progresses more slowly, probably because the defect in GlcNAc phosphotranspherase ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
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