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Graphite oxide-Applications-Hydrogen storage Graphene oxide is also being explored for its applications in hydrogen storage. Hydrogen molecules can be stored among the oxygen-based functional groups found throughout the sheet. This hydrogen storage capability can be further manipulated by modulating the interlayer dist... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Graphite oxide-Applications-Precision medicine Graphene oxide has been studied for its promising uses in a wide variety of nanomedical applications including tissue engineering, cancer treatment, medical imaging, and drug delivery. Its physiochemical properties allow for a structure to regulate the behaviour of stem ce... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Graphite oxide-Toxicity-Several typical mechanisms underlying graphene (oxide) nanomaterial's toxicity have been revealed, for instance, physical destruction, oxidative stress, DNA damage, inflammatory response, apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis. In these mechanisms, toll-like receptors (TLR), transforming growth fact... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Flip-flop (politics)-Flip-flop (politics)-A "flip-flop" (used mostly in the United States), U-turn (used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Pakistan, Malaysia, etc.), or backflip (used in Australia and New Zealand) is a derogatory term for a sudden real or apparent change of policy or opinion by a public official, sometim... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Flip-flop (politics)-History-In his "On Language" column in The New York Times, William Safire wrote in 1988 that "flip-flop" has a long history as a synonym for "somersault". (He cited George Lorimer in 1902: "when a fellow's turning flip-flops up among the clouds, he's naturally going to have the farmers gaping at hi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Flip-flop (politics)-Influence on public-The circumstances surrounding the flip-flop and its larger context can be crucial factors in whether or not a politician is hurt or helped more by a change in position. "Long hailed as a conservative champion, Ronald Reagan could shrug off his support of a tax increase in 1982 t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Flip-flop (politics)-Non-political use-Outside politics the use of the term is not as pejorative. A scientist or mathematician can often obtain some experimental results or logical proofs which causes one to change a previously held belief. Lewis Eigen, in his essay on the cultural difference between politics and scien... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Automatic terminal information service-Automatic terminal information service-Automatic terminal information service, or ATIS, is a continuous broadcast of recorded aeronautical information in busier terminal areas. ATIS broadcasts contain essential information, such as current weather information, active runways, avai... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Automatic terminal information service-Automatic terminal information service-The recording is updated in fixed intervals or when there is a significant change in the information, such as a change in the active runway. It is given a letter designation (alpha, bravo, charlie, etc.) from the ICAO spelling alphabet. The l... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Automatic terminal information service-Sample messages-Example at a General Aviation airport in the UK (Gloucestershire Airport) International Airport Example 1 See METAR for a more in-depth explanation of aviation weather messages and terminology.
Example 2 This example was recorded on 11 July 2016 at London Stansted ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-The Tipping Point-The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000. Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point." The book seeks to explain and describe ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-The three rules-Gladwell describes the "three rules of epidemics" (or the three "agents of change") in the tipping points of epidemics. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-The three rules-The Law of the Few "The Law of the Few" is, as Gladwell states: "The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts." According to Gladwell, economists call this the "80/20 Principle, which is the ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-The three rules-The Stickiness Factor The Stickiness Factor refers to the specific content of a message that renders its impact memorable. Popular children's television programs such as Sesame Street and Blue's Clues pioneered the properties of the stickiness factor, thus enhancing effective retention... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-The three rules-The Power of Context Human behavior is sensitive to and strongly influenced by its environment. Gladwell explains: "Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur." For example, "zero tolerance" efforts to combat minor crimes suc... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-Other key concepts-Gladwell also includes two chapters of case studies, situations in which tipping point concepts were used in specific situations. These situations include the athletic shoe company Airwalk, the diffusion model, how rumors are spread, decreasing the spread of syphilis in Baltimore, t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-Reception-Public Gladwell received an estimated US$1–1.5 million advance for The Tipping Point, which sold 1.7 million copies by 2006. In the wake of the book's success, Gladwell was able to earn as much as $40,000 per lecture. Sales increased again in 2006 after the release of Gladwell's next book, B... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-Reception-Scientific Some of Gladwell's analysis as to why the phenomenon of the "tipping point" occurs (particularly in relation to his idea of the "law of the few") and its unpredictable elements is based on the 1967 small-world experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram. Milgram distributed ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-Reception-In 2003, Duncan Watts, a network theory physicist at Columbia University, repeated the Milgram study by using a web site to recruit 61,000 people to send messages to 18 targets worldwide. He successfully reproduced Milgram's results (the average length of the chain was approximately six link... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
The Tipping Point-Reception-Watts pointed out that if it were as simple as finding the individuals that can disseminate information prior to a marketing campaign, advertising agencies would presumably have a far higher success rate than they do. He also stated that Gladwell's theory does not square with much of his res... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) is a superantigen with a size of 22 kDa produced by 5 to 25% of Staphylococcus aureus isolates. It causes toxic shock syndrome (TSS) by stimulating the release of large amounts of interleukin-1, interleukin-2 and tumour necrosis... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Characteristics-Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1), a prototype superantigen secreted by a Staphylococcus aureus bacterium strain in susceptible hosts, acts on the vascular system by causing inflammation, fever, and shock. The bacterium strain that produces the TSST-1 can be found in any a... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Structure-In the nucleotide sequence of TSST-1, there is a 708 base-pair open-reading frame and a Shine-Dalgarno sequence which is seven base pairs downstream from the start site. In the entire nucleotide sequence, only 40 amino acids make up the signal peptide. A single signal peptide consis... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Production-TSST-1 is a protein encoded by the tst gene, which is part of the mobile genetic element staphylococcal pathogenicity island 1. The toxin is produced in the greatest volumes during the post-exponential phase of growth, which is similar among pyrogenic toxin superantigens, also know... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Production-TSST-1 is also different from other PTSAgs in its ability to cross mucous membranes, which is why it is an important factor in menstrual TSS. When the protein is translated, it is in a pro-protein form, and can only leave the cell once the signal sequence has been cleaved off. The... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Production-Mutations Based on studies of various mutations of the protein it appears that the superantigenic and lethal portions of the protein are separate. One variant in particular, TSST-ovine or TSST-O, was important in determining the regions of biological importance in TSST-1. TSST-O do... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Isolation-Samples of TSST-1 can be purified from bacterial cultures to use in in vitro testing environments, however this is not ideal due to the large number of factors that contribute to pathenogenesis in an in vivo environment. Additionally, culturing bacteria in vitro provides an environm... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Mechanism-A superantigen such as TSST-1 stimulates human T cells that express VB 2, which may represent 5-30% of all host T cells. PTSAgs induce the VB-specific expansion of both CD4 and CD8- subsets of T-lymphocytes. TSST-1 forms homodimers in most of its known crystal forms. The SAGs show r... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Mechanism-Binding site TSST-1 binds primarily to the alpha-chain of class II MHC exclusively through a low-affinity (or generic) binding site on the SAG N-terminal domain. This is opposed to other super antigens (SAGs) such as DEA and SEE, that bind to class II MHC through the low-affinity si... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-Mechanism-Mutational analysis Initial studies of mutants revealed that residues on the back side of the central alpha helix were required for super antigenic activity. Changing the histidine at position 135 to alanine caused TSST-1 to be neither lethal or superantigenic. Changes in residues t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Hot sauce-Hot sauce is a type of condiment, seasoning, or salsa made from chili peppers and other ingredients. Many commercial varieties of mass-produced hot sauce exist. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-History-Humans have used chili peppers and other hot spices for thousands of years. Inhabitants of Mexico, Central America and South America had chili peppers more than 6,000 years ago. Within decades of contact with Spain and Portugal in the 16th century, the New World plant was carried across Europe and int... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Ingredients-Many recipes for hot sauces exist, but the only common ingredient is some variety of chili pepper. Many hot sauces are made by using chili peppers as the base and can be as simple as adding salt and vinegar. Other sauces use some type of fruits or vegetables as the base and add the chili peppers t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Americas Belize Belizean hot sauces are usually extremely hot and use habaneros, carrots, and onions as primary ingredients. Marie Sharp's is a popular brand of hot sauce produced in the Stann Creek Valley.
Bermuda Bermudian sherry peppers sauce is made from a base of Spanish sherry wine and hot pepper... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Caribbean Hot pepper sauces, as they are most commonly known there, feature heavily in Caribbean cuisine. They are prepared from chilli peppers and vinegar, with fruits and vegetables added for extra flavor. The most common peppers used are habanero and Scotch bonnet, the latter being the most common i... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Trinidad Trinidad Scorpion is considered one of the hottest and most frutal families of strains, and is primarily cultivated and hybridized in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
Barbados Bajan pepper sauce, a mustard and Scotch bonnet pepper based hot sauce. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Haiti Sauce Ti-malice, typically made with habanero, shallots, lime juice, garlic and sometimes tomatoes Puerto Rico Sofrito - small piquins ("bird peppers") with annatto seeds, coriander leaves, onions, garlic, and tomatoes. Pique () sauce is a Puerto Rican hot sauce made by steeping hot peppers in vi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Jamaica Scotch bonnets are the most popular peppers used in Jamaica. Pickapeppa sauce is a Jamaican sauce. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Chile The most popular sauce is the Diaguitas brand, made of pure red (very hot) or yellow (hot) Chilean peppers mixed only with water and salt. Other hot sauces are made from puta madre, cacho de cabra, rocoto, oro and cristal peppers, mixed with various ingredients. Mild hot sauces include some "crea... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Mexico Mexican cuisine more often includes chopped chili peppers, but when hot sauces are used, they are typically focused more on flavor than on intense heat. Chipotle peppers are a very popular ingredient of Mexican hot sauce. Vinegar is used sparingly or not at all in Mexican sauces, but some partic... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-These are some of the notable companies producing Mexican style hot sauce. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Búfalo: A popular Mexican sauce Cholula Hot Sauce: Known for its iconic round wooden cap Valentina: A traditional Mexican sauce Panama Traditional Panamanian hot sauce is usually made with "Aji Chombo", Scotch Bonnet peppers. Picante Chombo D'Elidas is a popular brand in Panama, with three major sauces... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-United States In the United States, commercially produced chili sauces are assigned various grades per their quality. These grades include U.S. Grade A (also known as U.S. Fancy), U.S. Grade C (also known as U.S. Standard) and Substandard. Criteria in food grading for chili sauces in the U.S. includes ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-The varieties of peppers that are used often are cayenne, chipotle, habanero and jalapeño. Some hot sauces, notably Tabasco sauce, are aged in wooden casks similar to the preparation of wine and fermented vinegar. Other ingredients, including fruits and vegetables such as raspberries, mangoes, carrots,... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Louisiana-style Louisiana-style hot sauce contains red chili peppers (tabasco and/or cayenne are the most popular), vinegar and salt. Occasionally xanthan gum or other thickeners are used.
Louisiana Hot Sauce (450 SHU) Introduced in 1928, A cayenne pepper based hot sauce produced by Southeastern Mills,... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-New Mexico New Mexico chile sauces differ from others in that they contain no vinegar. Almost every traditional New Mexican dish is served with red or green chile sauce, the towns of Hatch, Chimayo, the Albuquerque area, and others in New Mexico are well known for their peppers. The sauce is often adde... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Green chile: This sauce is prepared from any fire roasted green chile peppers are common varieties. The skins are removed and peppers diced. Onions are fried in lard or butter, and a roux is prepared. Broth and chile peppers are added to the roux and thickened. Its consistency is similar to gravy, and ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-Red chile: A roux is made from lard and flour. The dried ground pods of native red chiles are added. Water is added and the sauce is thickened.
Others Australia The availability of a wide variety of hot sauces is a relatively recent event in most of southern Australia (with little more than the flagshi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Styles-United Kingdom Two of the hottest chilies in the world, the Naga Viper and Infinity chili were developed in the United Kingdom and are available as sauces which have been claimed to be the hottest natural chili sauces (without added pepper extract) available in the world. The Naga Viper and Infinity we... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-The heat, or burning sensation, experienced when consuming hot sauce is caused by capsaicin and related capsaicinoids. The burning sensation is caused by the capsaicin activation of the TRPV1 heat and ligand-gated ion channel in peripheral neurons. The mechanism of action is then a chemical interaction w... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-Foods containing capsaicin, like hot sauces, can have different effects on each individual. Those with stomach issues can experience worse symptoms than just the “burning” sensation. People with Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can have gas, diarrhea, or stomach pains after ingesting hot sauces.The seeming... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-Rating A general way to estimate the heat of a sauce is to look at the ingredients list. Sauces tend to vary in heat based on the kind of peppers used, and the further down the list, the less the amount of pepper.
Cayenne - Sauces made with cayenne, including most of the Louisiana-style sauces, are usual... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-Naga Bhut Jolokia - The pepper is also known as Bhut Jolokia, ghost pepper, ghost chili pepper, red naga chilli, and ghost chilli. In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) was the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce; however, in 2011 it ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-Piri piri - The Peri Peri pepper has been naturalized into South Africa and is also known as the African Bird's Eye pepper, Piri-Piri pepper or Pili-Pili pepper, depending on what area of the country you're in. The pepper ranges from one half to one inch in length and tapers at a blunt point. The small p... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-Scotch Bonnet - Similar in heat to the Habanero are these peppers popular in the Caribbean. Often found in Jamaican hot sauces.
Tabasco peppers - Sauces made with tabasco peppers are generally hotter than cayenne pepper sauces. Along with Tabasco, a number of sauces are made using tabasco peppers.
Trinid... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-Capsaicin extract - The hottest sauces are made from capsaicin extract. These range from extremely hot pepper sauce blends to pure capsaicin extracts. These sauces are extremely hot and should be considered with caution by those not used to fiery foods. Many are too hot to consume more than a drop or two... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Heat-Other ingredients - heat is also affected by other ingredients. Mustard oil and wasabi can be added to increase the sensation of heat but generally, more ingredients in a sauce dilute the effect of the chilis, resulting in a milder flavor. Many sauces contain tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic or other ve... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Hot sauce-Remedies-Capsaicinoids are the chemicals responsible for the "hot" taste of chili peppers. They are fat soluble and therefore water will be of no assistance when countering the burn. The most effective way to relieve the burning sensation is with dairy products, such as milk and yogurt. A protein called casei... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-Rhythmic mode-In medieval music, the rhythmic modes were set patterns of long and short durations (or rhythms). The value of each note is not determined by the form of the written note (as is the case with more recent European musical notation), but rather by its position within a group of notes written a... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-History-Though the use of the rhythmic modes is the most characteristic feature of the music of the late Notre Dame school, especially the compositions of Pérotin, they are also predominant in much of the rest of the music of the ars antiqua until about the middle of the 13th century. Composition types wh... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-History-Riemann is another modern exception, who also gives the values twice as long, in 34 time, but in addition holds that the third and fourth modes were really intended to represent the modern , with duple rhythms ( and , respectively). | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-Notation-Devised in the last half of the 12th century, the notation of rhythmic modes used stereotyped combinations of ligatures (joined noteheads) to indicate the patterns of long notes (longs) and short notes (breves), enabling a performer to recognize which of the six rhythmic modes was intended for a ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-Notation-Linked notes in groups of: 3, 2, 2, 2, etc. indicate the first mode, 2, 2, 2, 2, … 3 the second mode, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, etc. the third mode, 3, 3, 3, … 1 the fourth mode, 3, 3, 3, 3, etc. the fifth mode, and 4, 3, 3, 3, etc. the sixth modeThe reading and performance of the music notated using the rh... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-Notation-All the modes adhere to a ternary principle of metre, meaning that each mode would have a number of beat subdivisions divisible by the number 3. Some medieval writers explained this as veneration for the perfection of the Holy Trinity, but it appears that this was an explanation made after the ev... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-Notation-The climacus is a rapid descending scale figure, written as a single note or a ligature followed by a series of two or more descending lozenges. Anonymous IV called these currentes (Latin "running"), probably in reference to the similar figures found in pre-modal Aquitanian and Parisian polyphony... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Rhythmic mode-Notation-Because a ligature cannot be used for more than one syllable of text, the notational patterns can only occur in melismatic passages. Where syllables change frequently or where pitches are to be repeated, ligatures must be broken up into smaller ligatures or even single notes in so-called "syllabi... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Icosagon-In geometry, an icosagon or 20-gon is a twenty-sided polygon. The sum of any icosagon's interior angles is 3240 degrees. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Regular icosagon-The regular icosagon has Schläfli symbol {20}, and can also be constructed as a truncated decagon, t{10}, or a twice-truncated pentagon, tt{5}.
One interior angle in a regular icosagon is 162°, meaning that one exterior angle would be 18°.
The area of a regular icosagon with edge length t is 3... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Uses-The Big Wheel on the popular US game show The Price Is Right has an icosagonal cross-section.
The Globe, the outdoor theater used by William Shakespeare's acting company, was discovered to have been built on an icosagonal foundation when a partial excavation was done in 1989.As a golygonal path, the swast... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-The golden ratio in an icosagon-In the construction with given side length the circular arc around C with radius CD, shares the segment E20F in ratio of the golden ratio.
20 20 20 1.618 | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Symmetry-The regular icosagon has Dih20 symmetry, order 40. There are 5 subgroup dihedral symmetries: (Dih10, Dih5), and (Dih4, Dih2, and Dih1), and 6 cyclic group symmetries: (Z20, Z10, Z5), and (Z4, Z2, Z1). | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Symmetry-These 10 symmetries can be seen in 16 distinct symmetries on the icosagon, a larger number because the lines of reflections can either pass through vertices or edges. John Conway labels these by a letter and group order. Full symmetry of the regular form is r40 and no symmetry is labeled a1. The dihed... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Symmetry-Each subgroup symmetry allows one or more degrees of freedom for irregular forms. Only the g20 subgroup has no degrees of freedom but can seen as directed edges.
The highest symmetry irregular icosagons are d20, an isogonal icosagon constructed by ten mirrors which can alternate long and short edges, ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Dissection-Coxeter states that every zonogon (a 2m-gon whose opposite sides are parallel and of equal length) can be dissected into m(m-1)/2 parallelograms. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Dissection-In particular this is true for regular polygons with evenly many sides, in which case the parallelograms are all rhombi. For the icosagon, m=10, and it can be divided into 45: 5 squares and 4 sets of 10 rhombs. This decomposition is based on a Petrie polygon projection of a 10-cube, with 45 of 11520... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Related polygons-An icosagram is a 20-sided star polygon, represented by symbol {20/n}. There are three regular forms given by Schläfli symbols: {20/3}, {20/7}, and {20/9}. There are also five regular star figures (compounds) using the same vertex arrangement: 2{10}, 4{5}, 5{4}, 2{10/3}, 4{5/2}, and 10{2}.
Dee... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Icosagon-Petrie polygons-The regular icosagon is the Petrie polygon for a number of higher-dimensional polytopes, shown in orthogonal projections in Coxeter planes: It is also the Petrie polygon for the icosahedral 120-cell, small stellated 120-cell, great icosahedral 120-cell, and great grand 120-cell. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Design studio-Design studio-A design studio or drawing office is a workplace for designers and artisans engaged in conceiving, designing and developing new products or objects. Facilities in a design studio include clothes, furniture art equipment best suited for design work and extending to work benches, small machine... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Design studio-Size-The size and conveniences also depends upon the type of the studio. Freelance designers engaged in product design often have a small set-up of their own, the smallest being within private residences. The ambiance of a design studio is often noted for its informality. The number of designers working i... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Design studio-Ownership-The smallest studios are operated by individuals, while the medium to bigger ones may be owned and operated by manufacturers involved in consumer goods or by design firms engaged in design services catering to different firms and industries. Such independent design studios may also function as d... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Design studio-Types-Automotive design studios Automotive design studios are usually large, where space is required for multiple cars under development, in addition to clay modeling surface tables, large scanners and clay milling machines. Such studios also have a presentation area to accommodate at least 20 to 30 peopl... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Design studio-Types-OKB OKB is a transliteration of the Russian initials of "опытное конструкторское бюро" – opytnoye konstruktorskoye byuro, meaning 'experimental design bureau'. During the Soviet era, OKBs were closed institutions working on design and prototyping of advanced technology, usually for military applicat... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Kapla-Kapla-Kapla is a construction set for children and adults. The sets consist only of identical wood planks measuring 11.7 cm x 2.34 cm x 0.78 cm. This 15:3:1 ratio of length:width:thickness is different than the dimensions used for traditionally proportioned building blocks (such as unit blocks), and are used for ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Kapla-Name origin-"KAPLA" is an abbreviated form of the Dutch phrase "kabouter plankjes," which means "Gnome Planks." | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Kapla-History-KAPLA was invented in 1987 by Dutchman Tom van der Bruggen. A student of art history, Van der Bruggen had hopes of building a castle from an early age. Inspired by an old abandoned farm on the river Tarn in the South of France, Van der Bruggen converted the farm into his dream castle, complete with carria... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Kapla-Assembly-KAPLA requires no glue, screws or clips to fix the planks. Each plank is placed one on top of the other, and held in place by weight and balance alone. There are 3 possible ways to use Kapla planks: Flat On the side Standing up (vertically)Also, similar KAPLA constructions can create different assemblag... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Kapla-Varieties-KAPLA bricks are made of pine wood and are available in many different colors. They are sold in sets ranging in size from 40 to 1000 pieces. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Kapla-Construction and art-KAPLA has created four educational art books, intended to inspire children who use their products. They are meant to encourage the use of geometry, physics and technology, while exposing children to the world of art, forms and volumes. The books are also created with the intention to help c... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Poisons Act 1972-Poisons Act 1972-The Poisons Act 1972 (c 66) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom making provisions for the sale of non-medicinal poisons, and the involvement of Local Authorities and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in their regulation.
The Act refers to the Pharmacy and ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Poisons Act 1972-Section 7-The Poison Rules 1982 (SI 1982/218) were made under this section. | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electrical resistance survey-Electrical resistance survey-Electrical resistance surveys (also called earth resistance or resistivity survey) are one of a number of methods used in archaeological geophysics, as well as in engineering geological investigations. In this type of survey electrical resistance meters are used... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electrical resistance survey-Overview-Electrical resistance meters can be thought of as similar to the Ohmmeters used to test electrical circuits. Archaeological features can be mapped when they are of higher or lower resistivity than their surroundings. A stone foundation might impede the flow of electricity, while th... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electrical resistance survey-Instrumentation-In most systems, metal probes (electrodes) are inserted into the ground to obtain a reading of the local electrical resistance. A variety of probe configurations are used, most having four probes, often mounted on a rigid frame. In these systems, two of the probes, called cu... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electrical resistance survey-Instrumentation-A disadvantage of the systems described above is a relatively slow rate of survey. One solution to this has been wheeled arrays. These use spiked wheels or metal disks as electrodes, and may use a square array (a variation of the Wenner array) to avoid the encumbrance of a t... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
Electrical resistance survey-Data collection-Survey usually involves walking with the instrument along closely spaced parallel traverses, taking readings at regular intervals. In most cases, the area to be surveyed is staked into a series of square or rectangular survey "grids" (terminology can vary). With the corners ... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
A2 Key-A2 Key-A2 Key, previously known as Cambridge English: Key and the Key English Test (KET), is an English language examination provided by Cambridge Assessment English (previously known as Cambridge English Language Assessment and University of Cambridge ESOL examinations).
A2 Key is targeted for novice students o... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
A2 Key-History-A2 Key (previously known as the Key English Test (KET) and Cambridge English: Key) was developed through trials conducted between 1991 and 1994.It was created to offer students a basic qualification in English and provide the first step for those wishing to progress towards higher level qualifications, s... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
A2 Key-Comparison of two versions of A2 Key-A2 Key is designed for adult learners. It is one of the exams that make up Cambridge English Qualifications for general and higher education.
A2 Key for Schools is designed for school-aged learners. It is one of the exams that make up Cambridge English Qualifications for Scho... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
A2 Key-Format-Both versions of the exam (A2 Key and A2 Key for Schools) are made up of three papers, which cover all four language skills (Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking).The Speaking paper is taken face-to-face and candidates have the choice of taking the Reading and Writing paper and Listening paper on a co... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
A2 Key-Format-Parts 1 to 5 focus on reading skills, including underlying knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. The exam includes tasks such as supplying missing words, matching statements with given texts, selecting the right word for each gap in a given text, and completing multiple-choice questions about a given text.... | milkshake721/2.1M-wiki-STEM |
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