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can also be determined with a pycnometer. The powder is added to the pycnometer, which is then weighed, giving the weight of the powder sample. The pycnometer is then filled with a liquid of known density, in which the powder is completely insoluble. The weight of the displaced liquid can then be determined, and hence ... | the buoyancy of a substance in a fluid or gas, or determine the density of an unknown substance from the known density of another. Relative density is often used by geologists and mineralogists to help determine the mineral content of a rock or other sample. Gemologists use it as an aid in the identification of gemston... |
Several vortices occur near this passage. d'Urville investigated the passage for several days in 1827, and damaged his ship passing through it. Flora and Fauna There is roughly 6,000ha of public conservation land on D'urville Island, this is mainly through the centre of the island. The conservation land consists of reg... | day, the island is within the rohe of Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kuia. Geography The island has a convoluted coastline, as is frequently found with islands formed from peaks between sea-drowned valleys. It extends for some northeast/southwest, and is a little over wide at its widest point. The eastern coast of the island is... |
particular. Helena and Domin reminisce about the day they met and summarize the last ten years of world history, which has been shaped by the new worldwide robot-based economy. Helena meets Dr. Gall's new experiment, Radius. Dr. Gall describes his experimental robotess, also named Helena. Both are more advanced, fully-... | themselves are assembled like automobiles. Čapek's robots are living biological beings, but they are still assembled, as opposed to grown or born. One critic has described Čapek's robots as epitomizing "the traumatic transformation of modern society by the First World War and the Fordist assembly line." Origin of the w... |
residents from having power over Disney by providing for separate administration of the areas. Celebration lies on unincorporated land within Osceola County, with a thin strip of still-incorporated land separating it from the rest of the county. This strip of land contains canals and other land used by the District. Th... | remaining in complete control of the District. In January 1990, RCID was granted a $57-million allocation of tax-free state bonds over an agency with plans for a low-income housing development and all additional government applicants in a 6 county region as state distributes the bond proceeds on a first-come order. Dis... |
land contracts with some landowners, including large tracts of land for as little as $100 an acre. With the understanding that the recording of the first deeds would trigger intense public scrutiny, Disney delayed the filing of paperwork until a large portion of the land was under contract. Early rumors and speculation... | musical holes, water fountains and characters. Fantasia Fairways is a traditional golf course on miniature scale having water hazards and sand traps. The two courses at Winter Summerland are Summer and Winter, both themed around Santa. Summer is the more challenging of the two 18-hole courses. Former attractions Discov... |
One of the most popular proposed resolutions is to accept the conclusion that the observation of a green apple provides evidence that all ravens are black but to argue that the amount of confirmation provided is very small, due to the large discrepancy between the number of ravens and the number of non-black objects. A... | or with regard to all possible configurations of background information. Good had shown that, for some configurations of background knowledge, Nicod's criterion is false (provided that we are willing to equate "inductively support" with "increase the probability of" – see below). The possibility remained that, with res... |
a canyon for about , past Dunsmuir and Castella, before emptying into Shasta Lake near Lakehead in Shasta County. The McCloud River rises on the east slope of Mount Shasta and flows south for through the southern Cascade Range, roughly parallel to the Upper Sacramento, eventually to reach the McCloud Arm of Shasta Lake... | Montezuma Hills, forming the border of Solano and Sacramento Counties. This part of the river is dredged for navigation by large oceangoing vessels and averages three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) across. North of Antioch and Pittsburg, the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers join at the head of Suisun Bay, marking the off... |
a retention pond adjacent to World Drive which required the addition of more safety structures. Disney attempted numerous efforts to encourage economic and ethnic diversity among residents in the early days of development. The company placed advertisements in newspapers and magazines that catered to African-American an... | Statistical Area. After founding Celebration, Disney followed its plans to divest most of its control of the town. Several Disney business units continue to occupy the town's office buildings. Walt Disney World operates two utility companies, Smart City Telecom and Reedy Creek Energy Services, that provide services to ... |
of Motion. The Horizons pavilion opened the following year, and The Living Seas and Wonders of Life pavilions were added in 1986 and 1989, respectively, bringing the lineup to nine. CommuniCore, World of Motion, Horizons, Wonders of Life, Universe of Energy, and Innoventions closed in 1994, 1996, 1999, 2007, 2017, and ... | technology and science, with each pavilion featuring self-contained attractions and distinct architecture in its design. They were originally grouped as one area called Future World, which debuted with six pavilions: Spaceship Earth, CommuniCore, Imagination!, The Land, Universe of Energy, and World of Motion. The Hori... |
1988 and had increased revenues by 20 percent every year. In 1989, Disney signed an agreement-in-principle to acquire Jim Henson Productions from its founder, Muppet creator Jim Henson. The deal included Henson's programming library and Muppet characters (excluding the Muppets created for Sesame Street), as well as Jim... | (both 1943) were meant to increase public support for the war effort. Even the studio's characters joined the effort, as Donald Duck appeared in a number of comical propaganda shorts, including the Academy Award-winning Der Fuehrer's Face (1943). With limited staff and little operating capital during and after the war,... |
an aircraft with a hand-held carbine. He visited the Morane-Saulnier works in November or December 1914 to discuss the problem. Raymond Saulnier had begun work on a synchronizer before World War I and had taken out a patent for a workable mechanism by 14 April 1914, however circumstances beyond his control resulted in ... | tennis tournament takes the name of Roland Garros from the stadium in which it is held. Biography Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion, and studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly and HEC Paris. At the age of 12, he contracted pneumonia, and was sent to Cannes to recuperate. He took up cyc... |
Cannizzaro (1826–1910) expanded on Berzelius' works, resolving many of the problems of unknown stoichiometry of compounds, and the use of atomic masses attracted a large consensus by the time of the Karlsruhe Congress (1860). The convention had reverted to defining the atomic mass of hydrogen as 1, although at the leve... | advanced economies; The mole is not a true metric (i.e. measuring) unit, rather it is a parametric unit, and amount of substance is a parametric base quantity; the SI defines numbers of entities as quantities of dimension one, and thus ignores the ontological distinction between entities and units of continuous quantit... |
(Chilean saltpeter) are also found in the Atacama desert in Chile and was one of the original (1830) nitrogen-rich fertilizers used. It is still mined for fertilizer. Nitrates are also produced from ammonia by the Ostwald process. Phosphate fertilizers Phosphate fertilizers are obtained by extraction from phosphate roc... | with occasional addition of supplements like rock dust for micronutrients. Farmers apply these fertilizers in a variety of ways: through dry or pelletized or liquid application processes, using large agricultural equipment or hand-tool methods. Historically fertilization came from natural or organic sources: compost, a... |
the incubation. However, other breeds, such as the Cochin, Cornish and Silkie, do regularly go broody, and make excellent mothers, not only for chicken eggs but also for those of other species — even those with much smaller or larger eggs and different incubation periods, such as quail, pheasants, ducks, turkeys, or ge... | ago in Southeast Asia and spread to China and India 2000–3000 years later. Archaeological evidence supports domestic chickens in Southeast Asia well before 6000 BC, China by 6000 BC and India by 2000 BC. A landmark 2020 Nature study that fully sequenced 863 chickens across the world suggests that all domestic chickens ... |
and only a few urban centres. Nationalism was the dominant force but most of the countries had ethnic or religious minorities who felt threatened by majority elements. Nearly all became democratic in the 1920s, but all of them (except Czechoslovakia and Finland) gave up democracy during the depression years of the 1930... | countries with dominant Roman Catholic and Protestant churches (including Central European countries such as Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Baltic states). A large part of Eastern Europe is formed by countries with dominant Orthodox churches, like Armenia, Bel... |
as a Kentucky Colonel in 1950 by Governor Lawrence Wetherby, Sanders began to dress the part, growing a goatee, wearing a black frock coat (later switched to a white suit) and a string tie and referring to himself as "the Colonel". His associates went along with the title change, "jokingly at first and then in earnest"... | station on US Route 25 just outside North Corbin, Kentucky, a small town on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains. It was here that he first served to travelers the recipes that he had learned as a child: fried chicken and other dishes such as steaks and country ham. After four years of serving from his own dining room... |
including Kristiansund, are responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. The municipality is governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in tur... | of Christianssund and its immediate surrounding area. During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1964, Kristiansund Municipality was merged with the tiny Grip Municipality (population: 104) to the northwest and the Dale area of Bremsnes Municip... |
(world's first newspaper printed by Johann Carolus), 1792 (La Marseillaise), and 1889 (pancreatic origin of diabetes discovered by Minkowski and Von Mering). Strasbourg has been the seat of European Institutions since 1949: first of the International Commission on Civil Status and of the Council of Europe, later of the... | of Strasbourg's political science & international studies center The EMS (EM Strasbourg Business School), the University of Strasbourg's business school The INSA (Institut national des sciences appliquées), the University of Strasbourg's engineering school The ENA (École nationale d'administration). ENA trains most of ... |
rural St. Andrew such as Gordon Town, Mavis Bank, Lawrence Tavern, Mt. Airy and Bull Bay would not be described as being in Kingston city. Two districts make up the central area of Kingston: the historic Downtown, and New Kingston. Both are served by Norman Manley International Airport and also by the smaller and prima... | recreational and social club for the upper class in society, located on Knutsford Boulevard, owned over of land including the former Liguanea Park now the site of Emancipation Park. The club gave the land measuring seven acres as a gift to the Jamaican Government. Several government members argued that the land should ... |
one of Italy's prominent classical music gatherings. Opera performances are held at the Teatro Alighieri while concerts take place at the Palazzo Mauro de André as well as in the ancient Basilica of San Vitale and Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe. Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti, a longtime... | one is the Cappella Arcivescovile. Theodoric allowed Roman citizens within his kingdom to be subject to Roman law and the Roman judicial system. The Goths, meanwhile, lived under their own laws and customs. In 519, when a mob had burned down the synagogues of Ravenna, Theodoric ordered the town to rebuild them at its o... |
auf Dresden vom Rathausturm (View of Dresden from the Rathus Tower). It has become one of the best known photographs of a ruined post-war Germany following its appearance in 1949 in his book Dresden, eine Kamera klagt an ("Dresden, a photographic accusation", ). When a skeleton previously used as a model for drawing ar... | Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendor, and was once by personal union the family seat of Polish monarchs. The city was known as the Jewel Box, because of its baroque and rococo city centre. The controversial American and British bombing of Dresden in World War II towa... |
+ H2 Reaction with acidic oxides Alkaline earth metals reduce the nonmetal from its oxide. 2Mg + SiO2 → 2MgO + Si 2Mg + CO2 → 2MgO + C (in solid carbon dioxide) Reaction with acids Mg + 2HCl → MgCl2 + H2 Be + 2HCl → BeCl2 + H2 Reaction with bases Be exhibits amphoteric properties. It dissolves in concentrated sodium hy... | Compounds and reactions The alkaline earth metals all react with the halogens to form ionic halides, such as calcium chloride (), as well as reacting with oxygen to form oxides such as strontium oxide (). Calcium, strontium, and barium react with water to produce hydrogen gas and their respective hydroxides (magnesium ... |
mid-1930s. According to Barry Eichengreen, there were three primary reasons for the collapse of the gold standard: Tradeoffs between currency stability and other domestic economic objectives: Governments in the 1920s and 1930s faced conflictual pressures between maintaining currency stability and reducing unemployment.... | the collapse of the gold standard: Tradeoffs between currency stability and other domestic economic objectives: Governments in the 1920s and 1930s faced conflictual pressures between maintaining currency stability and reducing unemployment. Suffrage, trade unions, and labor parties pressured governments to focus on red... |
name had been the one most often put forward in the public debate. Asteroid Lindgren Asteroid 3204 Lindgren, discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, was named after her. The name of the Swedish microsatellite Astrid 1, launched on 24 January 1995, was originally selected only as a common Swedish femal... | Mio, My Son, Ronia the Robber's Daughter, and The Brothers Lionheart. Lindgren worked on the Children's Literature Editorial Board at the Rabén & Sjögren publishing house in Stockholm and wrote more than 30 books for children. In January 2017, she was calculated to be the world's 18th most translated author, and the fo... |
(including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld. In Roman mythology, he was considered to be either the son of Maia, one of the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas, and Jupiter, or of Caelus and Dies. In his earliest forms, he appears to ... | Stuttgart, Germany. Visucius was worshiped primarily in the frontier area of the empire in Gaul and Germany. Although he was primarily associated with Mercury, Visucius was also sometimes linked to the Roman god Mars, as a dedicatory inscription to "Mars Visucius" and Visucia, Visicius' female counterpart, was found in... |
In 1966 and 1967, German company Gugelot Design GmbH began showing a proposed design for a sports coupe built with technology developed in partnership with Bayer to several major car builders, including Volkswagen and Porsche. Some sources have suggested that the Gugelot proposal, suitably adapted, was the origin of th... | both Volkswagen and Porsche without appearing too similar to either of the partners' existing products. Later sources have rejected this idea. While acknowledging that Porsche was aware of the Gugelot design, they assert that the 914 design was done in-house at Porsche, and is primarily the work of body engineer Heinri... |
the world's third largest island. It consists of the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, as well as the Federal Territory of Labuan. Labuan is an island in a small archipelago near the coast of Sabah. East Malaysia lies to the east of Peninsular Malaysia (also known as West Malaysia), the part of the country on the ... | prime minister or deputy prime minister coming from East Malaysia yet since its incorporation in 1963. As of 2012, Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan held a total of 57 out 222 seats (25.68%) in the Malaysian parliament. Since 2014, Sarawak have been actively seeking for devolution of powers from the Malaysian federal governmen... |
circumstances. To address these shortcomings, a number of more secure variations of the bowline have been developed for use in safety-critical applications, or by securing the knot with an Overhand knot. History The bowline's name has an earlier meaning, dating to the age of sail. On a square-rigged ship, a bowline (so... | end of the rope as a rabbit. First a loop is made into the standing part (1,2), which will act as the rabbit's hole. Then the "rabbit" comes up the hole (3), goes round the tree (standing part) right to left (4), then back down the hole (5). This can be taught to children with the rhyme: "Up through the rabbit hole, ro... |
India Loop (shopping service), a reusable container program announced in 2019 by TerraCycle Geography Loop, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Loop (Texarkana), a roadway loop around Texarkana, Arkansas, United States Loop, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States Loop, Indiana County, Pennsylvania... | United States Loop, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States Loop, West Virginia, United States Loop 101, see Arizona State Route 101, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area Loop 202, see Arizona State Route 202, a semi-beltway of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area Loop 303, see Arizona State Route 303, a semi-b... |
tube, or pipeline (see Bend radius) Bend knot, a knot used to tie two ropes together; see List of bend knots Bending, the deformation of an object due to an applied load Music Musical techniques Bend (guitar), a guitar technique Bending, for blues harp (harmonica) Albums and songs Bend (8stops7 album), 2006 Bend (The O... | for blues harp (harmonica) Albums and songs Bend (8stops7 album), 2006 Bend (The Origin album), 1992 "Bend" (song), a 2015 song by Chet Faker People Lin Bend (1922–1978), Canadian ice hockey centre Robert Bend (1914–1999), Manitoba politician Places Bend, British Columbia, a railway point in Canada Bend, California Ben... |
colorimeter See also Colorimetry Colorimetry (chemical method) | Colorimetry Colorimetry (chemical method) |
of Eros "Equilibrium" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Star Trek DS9 Episode 4, Season 3 Music Equilibrium (band), a folk metal band from Germany Equilibrium (Crowbar album), 2000 Equilibrium (Erik Mongrain album), 2008 Equilibrium (God Forbid album), 2012 Equilibrium (Whitecross album), 1995 Equilibrium (Matthew Shipp al... | Three Loves, also known as Equilibrium, a 1953 romantic anthology film "Equilibrium" (seaQuest 2032) Equilibrium, short film by Steven Soderbergh, a segment of Eros "Equilibrium" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Star Trek DS9 Episode 4, Season 3 Music Equilibrium (band), a folk metal |
Disney projects. The group would later go on to be supported by HP labs, SAP, and most recently, Y Combinator. Squeak runs on a virtual machine (VM), allowing for a high degree of portability. The Squeak system includes code for generating a new version of the VM on which it runs, along with a VM simulator written in S... | (VM), allowing for a high degree of portability. The Squeak system includes code for generating a new version of the VM on which it runs, along with a VM simulator written in Squeak. Developers Dan Ingalls, an important contributor to the Squeak project, wrote the paper upon which Squeak is built, and constructed the a... |
moles of gaseous reactants is equal to the number of moles of gaseous products, pressure has no effect on equilibrium. Changing total pressure by adding an inert gas at constant volume does not affect the equilibrium concentrations (see Effect of adding an inert gas below). Changing total pressure by changing the volum... | hydrogen gas, reacting to form methanol. CO + 2 H2 ⇌ CH3OH Suppose we were to increase the concentration of CO in the system. Using Le Chatelier's principle, we can predict that the concentration of methanol will increase, decreasing the total change in CO. If we are to add a species to the overall reaction, the reacti... |
of interest in the context of a public-private partnership. Many of the expropriations that have made the project possible have been made at undervalued land rates, and partly paid in company share. Strict urbanisation laws were put in order to oblige people to sell and not renovate themselves. Today, Solidere acts as ... | was excavated and reported on several years ago and now lies buried under the city. Another suggested port or dry dock was claimed to have been discovered around to the west in 2011 by a team of Lebanese archaeologists from the Directorate General of Antiquities of Lebanese University. Controversy arose on 26 June 2012... |
Most organic solvents are flammable or highly flammable, depending on their volatility. Exceptions are some chlorinated solvents like dichloromethane and chloroform. Mixtures of solvent vapors and air can explode. Solvent vapors are heavier than air; they will sink to the bottom and can travel large distances nearly un... | (effective at dissolving the solute) that are "bad" (expensive or hazardous to health or the environment). The following table shows that the intuitions from "non-polar", "polar aprotic" and "polar protic" are put numerically – the "polar" molecules have higher levels of δP and the protic solvents have higher levels of... |
began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066. A week later, he was buried in the churc... | Belgravia and Knightsbridge (shared with neighbouring Kensington). Westminster merged with neighbouring Paddington and Marylebone in 1965 to form a larger modern borough, these neighbouring areas (except for a small area of Paddington in part of Kensington Gardens), lie north of Oxford Street. Open spaces The district'... |
chess), while emergent, cannot be reduced to underlying laws of emergence: Strong and weak emergence Usage of the notion "emergence" may generally be subdivided into two perspectives, that of "weak emergence" and "strong emergence". One paper discussing this division is Weak Emergence, by philosopher Mark Bedau. In ter... | process resources. These capacities would have been determined initially by the folded configurations of the RNA replicators (see “Ribozyme”) that, in turn, would be encoded in their individual nucleotide sequences. Competitive success among different replicators would have depended on the relative values of these adap... |
facilitation and a system's capacity to persist under increasingly harsh circumstances as well as the potential for large-scale systemic regime shifts. Dynamic network of multiplicity As well as coupling rules, the dynamic network of a complex system is important. Small-world or scale-free networks which have many loca... | of their respective systems of interest. While no generally accepted exact definition of complexity exists yet, there are many archetypal examples of complexity. Systems can be complex if, for instance, they have chaotic behavior (behavior that exhibits extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, among other properties)... |
by the Sierra Nevada Corporation, which consists of a ground-based micro-millimeter wavelength radar and a transponder carried on the aircraft. Once on the ground, a tailhook mounted on the aircraft catches an arresting wire connected to two disk brake drums which can stop the aircraft in less than . The aircraft is pa... | a tailhook mounted on the aircraft catches an arresting wire connected to two disk brake drums which can stop the aircraft in less than . The aircraft is part of a larger system which currently uses the M1152-series of Humvees for ground transport of all ground and air equipment. A Shadow 200 system consists of four ai... |
precluding diagnosis. Recreational use Recreational inhalation of nitrous oxide, with the purpose of causing euphoria and/or slight hallucinations, began as a phenomenon for the British upper class in 1799, known as "laughing gas parties". Starting in the nineteenth century, widespread availability of the gas for medic... | (often referred to as just "nitrous") allows the engine to burn more fuel by providing more oxygen during combustion. The increase in oxygen allows for an increase in the injection of fuel, allowing the engine to produce more engine power. The gas is not flammable at a low pressure/temperature, but it delivers more oxy... |
1999. The "R" is the Department of Defense designation for reconnaissance; "Q" means unmanned aircraft system. The "6" refers to its being the sixth of a series of purpose-built unmanned aircraft systems. Specifications See also References External links RQ-6 listing in Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and | designation for reconnaissance; "Q" means unmanned aircraft system. The "6" refers to its being the sixth of a series of purpose-built unmanned aircraft systems. Specifications See also References External links RQ-6 listing in Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles Single-engined pusher aircraft Unmanned aeri... |
a classical language of India. In July 2011, a center for the study of classical Kannada was established as part of the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore to facilitate research related to the language. Development Kannada is a Southern Dravidian language and according to scholar Sanford B. Steever, its hi... | (Kannada-speaking Kadambas of 4th century AD Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) form of common Kannada-Telugu script from Andhra Pradesh. The earliest copper plates inscribed in Old Kannada script and language, dated to the early 8th century AD, are associated with Alupa King Aluvarasa II from Belmannu (the Dakshina Kannada... |
2, 2), (1, 3, 3), (2, 1, 2), (2, 2, 3), (2, 3, 1), (3, 1, 3), (3, 2, 1), (3, 3, 2) }, where for example the triple (2, 3, 1) means that in row 2 and column 3 there is the symbol 1. Orthogonal arrays are usually written in array form where the triples are the rows, such as: The definition of a Latin square can be writte... | any n-by-n array of n symbols, as long as each symbol appears exactly n times. Some weaker versions of these conjectures have been proved: Every n-by-n Latin square has a partial transversal of size 2n/3. Every n-by-n Latin square has a partial transversal of size n − sqrt(n). Every n-by-n Latin square has a partial tr... |
Overhand may refer to: Overhand (boxing), a | (boxing), a looping punch Overhand knot Overhand |
November 14, 1971, planetary scientists were surprised to find the atmosphere was thick with "a planet-wide robe of dust, the largest storm ever observed." The surface was totally obscured. Mariner 9's computer was thus reprogrammed from Earth to delay imaging of the surface for a couple of months until the dust settle... | separate instrument; experiment observed the attenuation of the communication signal as the orbiting satellite passed out of view) Infrared Radiometer (IRR) Visual Imaging System – in a lower orbit, half that of Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 flyby missions, and with a vastly improved imaging system, Mariner 9 achieved a reso... |
this is not possible, or the family wishes, the funeral home can perform a "closed casket" service. The funeral home often sets aside one or more large areas for people to gather at a visitation. This area may contain a space to display the body in a casket to visitors who may pay their respects. Funeral and memorial s... | families. These services may include a prepared wake and funeral, and the provision of a chapel for the funeral. Services Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care... |
a representation of it being used first as a heraldic badge by the Earls of Stafford, and later as a general symbol of Staffordshire. In nature As a defensive measure, hagfishes, which resemble eels, produce large volumes of thick slime when disturbed. A hagfish can dislodge large quantities of slime on its skin, which... | by the Earls of Stafford, and later as a general symbol of Staffordshire. In nature As a defensive measure, hagfishes, which resemble eels, produce large volumes of thick slime when disturbed. A hagfish can dislodge large quantities of slime on its skin, which it uses to evade predation, by tying its own body into an o... |
knot for attaching two ropes together. Etymology Called the "granny's knot" with references going back to at least 1849, the knot was so-called because it is "the natural knot tied by women or landsmen". Tying When attempting to tie a reef knot (square knot), it is easy to produce a granny knot accidentally. This is da... | rope or line around an object. It is considered inferior to the reef knot (square knot), which it superficially resembles. Neither of these knots should be used as a bend knot for attaching two ropes together. Etymology Called the "granny's knot" with references going back to at least 1849, the knot was so-called becau... |
graves were properly marked and the grounds could accommodate all plots sold. SCI also settled a separate class-action lawsuit on behalf of 350 families for $100 million. Virginia On April 26, 2007, 'The Washington Post reported that an SCI cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, had improperly buried the remains of the stil... | corporate governance standards, and established a new training and development system. For its shareholders, SCI returned value through more than $335 million in share repurchases, and it resumed payment of a regular quarterly dividend in early 2005, the first since 1999. Recent acquisitions In 2006, SCI merged with Al... |
. In this state the molecules flow as in a liquid, but they all point in the same direction (within each domain) and cannot rotate freely. Like a crystalline solid, but unlike a liquid, liquid crystals react to polarized light. Other types of liquid crystals are described in the main article on these states. Several ty... | the two networks of magnetic moments are opposite but unequal, so that cancellation is incomplete and there is a non-zero net magnetization. An example is magnetite (FeO), which contains Fe and Fe ions with different magnetic moments. A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a disordered state in a system of interacting quantum ... |
Brewers team that lost the 1982 World Series in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals. Molitor batted .355 during the series. In Game 1, he had five hits, a World Series record. During the 1982 season, he hit .302 and led the American League (AL) with 136 runs scored. On May 12, he hit three home runs against the Roya... | bases. Playing career Milwaukee Brewers Molitor began as a shortstop, then moved to second base when Robin Yount returned from a brief injury. He made his MLB debut in 1978, playing in 125 games and hitting .273 with 6 home runs, 45 RBIs and 30 stolen bases. In 1981, he spent time at center field and right field to avo... |
ABOK-11 and their slipped versions. These fit the short description "two crossing turns – ends tucked under". The following 3 knots do not fit the simple "two crossing turns – ends tucked under" definition but are very secure: A slipped constrictor knot where the ends are passed through the opposing slips for security ... | noted above, several other distinct knots have historically been known as miller's, sack, or bag knots; namely ABOK-1241, ABOK-1242, ABOK-1243 (Ground line hitch), ABOK-1674, ABOK-11 and their slipped versions. These fit the short description "two crossing turns – ends tucked under". The following 3 knots do not fit th... |
a symmetrical shape that makes it easy to inspect. In a climbing context it is also useful for traverse lines, some anchors, shortening rope slings, and for isolating damaged sections of rope. History The earliest known presentation of the knot was in A.A. Burger's 1914 work Rope and Its Uses, included in an agricultur... | by 2 carabiners together with gates to opposite sides from each other. It can also be used to isolate a worn section of rope, where the knot is tied such that the worn section is isolated in the loop (which of course does not receive a carabiner nor bear any loads in this case). The loop portion is isolated when the ot... |
its security and makes the knot more difficult to tighten evenly. Make a turn around the object and bring the working end back over the standing part. Make a second turn following the same path as the first Pass the working end over the standing part, then thread it back under the standing part and both riding turns, f... | the ends emerge between the turns as shown. The double constrictor may require more careful dressing to distribute the tension throughout the knot. After working up fairly tight, pull firmly on the ends to finish. Slipped constrictor knot This variation is useful if it is known beforehand that the constrictor will need... |
space. Ila skole was founded in 1770 and is the oldest primary school in Trondheim. Media Adresseavisen is the largest regional newspaper and the oldest active newspaper in Norway, having been established in 1767. The two headquarters of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) are located at Tyholt in Trondheim, a... | roof in the shape of a box. "The box" is decorated by thousands of tiny lights that change in a variety of colours and patterns, and is a landmark in the cityscape – especially on dark winter evenings. Prison Vollan District Jail (Norwegian: Vollan kretsfengsel) was a jail during the nazi occupation of Norway and was u... |
conventions. Australia had primary involvement in and was a key signatory to the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948) The Constitution of Australia (1900) does offer very limited protection of rights: the right to freedom of religion and; the right to freedom from discrimination based on out-of-state residen... | the constitution abolishes untouchability and prohibits begar. These provisions act as a check both on State action and actions of private individuals. Fundamental Rights are not absolute and are subject to reasonable restrictions as necessary for the protection of national interest. In the Kesavananda Bharati vs. stat... |
working on Lucid Common Lisp, and then on Lucid's Energize C++ IDE. Lucid decided to use GNU Emacs as the text editor for their IDE due to its free license, popularity, and extensibility, and Zawinski led that project. As Zawinski and the other programmers made fundamental changes to GNU Emacs to add new functionality,... | these patches into the main tree eventually led to the fork of the project into GNU Emacs and Lucid Emacs (now XEmacs). In 1992 he released the first version of XScreenSaver, a free and open-source collection now containing more than 240 screensavers. Initially released for Unix, it now supports macOS, iOS and Android ... |
in Scandinavia. Their central support system had to deal with a number of queries every day. When Nestle decided to invest in an intranet, they quickly realized the savings. McGovern says the savings from the reduction in query calls was substantially greater than the investment in the intranet. Web publishing allows c... | an intranet is generally restricted to employees of the organization, extranets may also be accessed by customers, suppliers, or other approved parties. Extranets extend a private network onto the Internet with special provisions for authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA protocol). Uses Increasingly, intran... |
lesbian feminist social event centred around women's music. Both the annual "MichFest" and the weekly coffeehouse operated a womyn-born womyn (cisgender women-only) policy. Womyn's land was another usage of the term, associated with separatist feminism. Z. Budapest promoted the use of word wimmin (singular womon) in th... | to a male norm. Recently, the term womxn has been used by intersectional feminists to indicate the same ideas while foregrounding or more explicitly including transgender women and women of color. Historically, "womyn" and other spelling variants were associated with regional dialects (e.g. Scots) and eye dialect (e.g.... |
Clit or Cliț can also refer to: Clit, a tributary of the river Saca (river) in Suceava County, Romania Clit, a village in Hășmaș Commune, Arad County, Romania Cliț, a village in Băbeni Commune, | Clit mouse is a colloquial name for pointing sticks (computer input device). Clit or Cliț can also refer to: Clit, a tributary of the river Saca (river) in Suceava County, Romania Clit, |
(video games), a damaging attack in a role-playing game Nuke (warez), a label to flag problems with a warez release Nuke (computer), a kind of denial-of-service attack Fiction Nuke (Marvel Comics), a villain with the American flag tattooed on his face Nuke (Squadron Supreme), a superhero "Nuke" LaLoosh, a character in ... | flag problems with a warez release Nuke (computer), a kind of denial-of-service attack Fiction Nuke (Marvel Comics), a villain with the American flag tattooed on his face Nuke (Squadron Supreme), a superhero "Nuke" LaLoosh, a character in the film Bull Durham Nuke, a narcotic in the film RoboCop 2 Luke Snyder and Noah ... |
have multiple senses, including both concrete and abstract ones: for example, the noun art, which usually refers to a concept (e.g., Art is an important element of human culture.) but which can refer to a specific artwork in certain contexts (e.g., I put my daughter's art up on the fridge.) Some abstract nouns develope... | category, so it cannot be characterized in terms of its meaning. Thus, actions and states of existence can also be expressed by verbs, qualities by adjectives, and places by adverbs. Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, open part of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, t... |
which may provide superior performance, such as the blood knot. In knitting, the knot is used to join two strands of yarn. In this context, it is commonly known as "the magic knot". See also True lovers' knot List of bend knots List of knots References | tied with cold, wet hands. Though these properties are well suited to fishing, there are other knots which may provide superior performance, such as the blood knot. In knitting, the knot is used to join two strands of yarn. In this context, it is commonly known as "the magic knot". See also True lovers' knot List of be... |
He was made a knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2013. Early life Hauer was born in Breukelen, in the Province of Utrecht, on 23 January 1944, while the Netherlands was under German occupation during World War II. He stated in a 1981 interview, "I was born in the middle of the war, and I think for that reas... | early 1980s to develop a convincing American accent. Unafraid of controversial roles, he portrayed Albert Speer in the 1982 American Broadcasting Company production Inside the Third Reich. The same year, Hauer appeared in arguably his most famous and acclaimed role as the eccentric and violent but sympathetic antihero ... |
English. Instead of the terrarium, it was known as the Wardian case. Ward hired carpenters to build his Wardian cases to export native British plants to Sydney, Australia. After months of travel, the plants arrived well and thriving. Likewise, plants from Australia were sent to London using the same method and Ward rec... | others, to ship plants around the British Empire. Types Terrariums are classified into two types: closed and open. Closed terrariums are sealed shut with a lid, door or cork. Open terrariums have access to fresh air, most commmonly through a hole drilled into the glass container. Closed terraria Tropical plant varietie... |
garden plant Brands and enterprises Stock (publishing house), a French publisher and subsidiary of Hachette Livre, which itself is part of the Lagardère Group Elliot Stock, a London publisher of the works of, among others, William Blades Stock Spirits, a Polish company established in 1884 Stock Transportation, a Canadi... | divided Stock (variable), in economics, business, or accounting, a variable measured at one specific time STOCK Act, the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading Stock in trade or inventory, a supply of goods or materials held in storage by a business or househo... |
resemble, they have also been called hessonite from the Greek meaning inferior. Grossular is found in skarns, contact metamorphosed limestones with vesuvianite, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite. Grossular garnet from Kenya and Tanzania has been called tsavorite. Tsavorite was first described in the 1960s in the Tsa... | chlorite. Uses Gemstones Red garnets were the most commonly used gemstones in the Late Antique Roman world, and the Migration Period art of the "barbarian" peoples who took over the territory of the Western Roman Empire. They were especially used inlaid in gold cells in the cloisonné technique, a style often just calle... |
million years have been proposed as one mechanism responsible for the extensive basalt magmatism of several large igneous provinces. Decompression Decompression melting occurs because of a decrease in pressure. It is the most important mechanism for producing magma from the upper mantle. The solidus temperatures of mos... | active carbonatite volcano. Carbonatites in the geologic record are typically 75% carbonate minerals, with lesser amounts of silica-undersaturated silicate minerals (such as micas and olivine), apatite, magnetite, and pyrochlore. This may not reflect the original composition of the lava, which may have included sodium ... |
system, the anatomical system of an organism used for respiration Breathing, passing air in and out through respiratory organs Aquatic respiration, animals extracting oxygen from water Artificial respiration, the act of simulating respiration, which provides for the overall exchange of gases in the body by pulmonary ve... | respiration Cheyne–Stokes respiration, an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by progressively deeper and sometimes faster breathing, followed by a gradual decrease that results in a temporary stop in breathing called an apnea Respiration, a journal by Karger Publishers Ecology Carbon respiration, a concept use... |
nouns is typically thought weak, and many of the languages only use nouns--or nouns with a limited set of adjective-deriving affixes--to modify other nouns. In languages that have a subtle adjective-noun distinction, one way to tell them apart is that a modifying adjective can come to stand in for an entire elided noun... | only a small closed class of adjectives, and new adjectives are not easily derived. Similarly, native Japanese adjectives (i-adjectives) are considered a closed class (as are native verbs), although nouns (an open class) may be used in the genitive to convey some adjectival meanings, and there is also the separate open... |
be used in more than one of these functions can confuse the issue, and it may seem like splitting hairs to say that a single adverb is really two or more words that serve different functions. However, this distinction can be useful, especially when considering adverbs like naturally that have different meanings in thei... | (from Latin mens, mentis: mind, intelligence, or suffix -mentum, result or way of action). Other adverbs are single forms which are invariable. In Romanian, almost all adverbs are simply the masculine singular form of the corresponding adjective, one notable exception being bine ("well") / bun ("good"). However, there ... |
toxic. Uranyl fluoride is corrosive and harmful upon inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption. Ingestion or inhalation may be fatal. Effects of exposure may be delayed. There have been several accidents involving uranium hexafluoride in the United States, including one in which 32 workers were exposed to a cloud of an... | or water that could have adverse effects on the kidney". In 2003, the Royal Society issued another urgent call to investigate the actual health and environmental impact of depleted uranium. The same year, a cohort study of Gulf War veterans found no elevated risks of cancer generally, nor of any specific cancers in par... |
(9.9 lb) shaped charge was used on the Hayabusa2 mission on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. The spacecraft dropped the explosive device onto the asteroid and detonated it with the spacecraft behind cover. The detonation dug a crater about 10 meters wide, to provide access to a pristine sample of the asteroid. Function A typical... | comparison, two-color radiometry measurements from the late 1970s indicate lower temperatures for various shaped charge liner material, cone construction and type of explosive filler. A Comp-B loaded shaped charge with a copper liner and pointed cone apex had a jet tip temperature ranging from 668 K to 863 K over a fiv... |
US Javelin, the Swedish Bill and the Indian Nag, HELINA / Dhruvastra and MPATGM are designed to strike vehicles from above, where their armor is usually much weaker. Fourth generation ATGMs Fourth generation fire-and-forget anti tank guided missiles have larger range and rely on a combination of seeker for guidance. Ex... | using composite and reactive armors have proven to be resistant to smaller ATGMs. History World War II Germany developed a design for a wire-guided anti tank missile derived from the Ruhrstahl X-4 air to air missile concept in the closing years of World War II. Known as the X-7, it was probably never used in combat and... |
Asanovac, a village in Serbia Sporting events Hassan II Trophy, a football tournament in Morocco Hassan II Golf Trophy, a golf tournament in Morocco Grand Prix Hassan II, a tennis tournament in Morocco Other uses Hassans, the largest law firm in Gibraltar Hasan (hadith), the categorization of a hadith's authenticity as... | settlement in Primorsky Krai, Russia Lake Hasan or Lake Khasan, a lake in Primorsky Krai, Russia Mount Hasan, volcano in Turkey Hassan district, a place in India Europe Hasan, Albania, a village in Durrës County, Albania Hašani, a village in Bosnia Hasanovići, a village in Bosnia Asanovac, a village in Serbia Sporting ... |
Belur may refer to: Places Belur, Karnataka, a town in Karnataka, India Belur temple (Chennakeshava temple), Belur Belur, Tamil Nadu, a town in Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India Belur, | town in Karnataka, India Belur temple (Chennakeshava temple), Belur Belur, Tamil Nadu, a town |
is often accompanied by his consort Parvati or shown with Nandi the bull. He may be represented as Bhairava, another of Shiva's many manifestations. A male figure depicted holding certain objects such as a conch (symbol of eternal, heavenly space) and a wheel (eternal time and destructive power) is Vishnu. If a female ... | wheel, a lotus and a Kaumodaki (mace). These can be held in any of the icon's hands, making possible twenty-four different forms of Vishnu, each with a unique name. Apart from these, Vishnu is depicted in any of his ten avataras, which include Vishnu sitting on Anantha (the celestial snake and keeper of life energy als... |
in 1311 and 1327. By 1336, the Sultan had conquered the Pandyas of Madurai, the Kakatiyas of Warangal and the tiny kingdom of Kampili. The Hoysalas were the only remaining Hindu empire who resisted the invading armies. Veera Ballala III stationed himself at Tiruvannamalai and offered stiff resistance to invasions from ... | subordinates of the Western Chalukya Empire and gradually established their own empire in Karnataka with such strong Hoysala kings as Vishnuvardhana, Veera Ballala II and later Veera Ballala III. During this time, the Deccan Plateau saw a four-way struggle for hegemony – Pandyan, Kakatiya and Seuna being the other king... |
Hoysala kings, with support from their governors, merchants, and artisans. They greatly excavated and expanded the Dorasamudra reservoir. Major and spectacularly carved Hindu and Jain temples were already complete by the 12th-century. Around the city were fort walls, generally tracing a rounded square-like area with an... | temples in northeastern section have survived – Gudlesvara, Virabhadra, Kumbalesvara and Ranganatha. The western part of the fortified section and beyond the fort were the historic farms that fed the population of the Dorasamudra capital. Roads connected the Hoysala capital to other major towns and pilgrimage sites suc... |
summoned to the court of Himasitala at Kanchi where having confuted the Buddhists in public disputation, he was instrumental in gaining their expulsion from the South of India to Ceylon. Inscriptions More than 800 inscriptions have been found at Shravanabelagola, dating to various times from 600 AD to 1830 AD. A large ... | middle of the town. The Sanskrit equivalents Śvetasarovara, Dhavalasarovara and Dhavalasarasa used in the inscriptions that support this meaning. There are more than 560 inscriptions in Shravabelagola. Some inscriptions mention the name of the place as Beḷgoḷa, which has given rise to another derivation from the plant ... |
13 August 1898 in an eccentric orbit between Mars and Earth, and later named after Eros, a god from Greek mythology; the son of Aphrodite, who is identified with the planet Venus. History Discovery Eros was discovered on 13 August 1898 by C.G. Witt at Berlin Urania Observatory and A. Charlois at Nice Observatory. Witt ... | the Astronomical Unit (roughly the Earth-Sun distance) obtained by this program was considered definitive until 1968, when radar and dynamical parallax methods started producing more precise measurements. Eros was the first asteroid detected by the Arecibo Observatory's radar system. Eros was one of the first asteroids... |
wings in the case of modern vehicles. The logo consists of a green cloverleaf with four leaves, contained with a white triangle. There is "two Quadrifolio" - Quadrifolio Verde - Quadrifolio Oro History of the emblem The quadrifoglio has been used on Alfa Romeo cars since the death of Ugo Sivocci in 1923. As a friend of... | based on the 8C Competizione. 1960s and 1970s – Descendants of the Tipo 33 The Tipo 33 racing car, with its high-revving 2000 cc V8 engine became the basis for a number of different concept cars during the 1960s and 1970s, two of which ultimately resulted in production vehicles. Most made their appearances at the Auto ... |
through FormGen. Due to differing timelines between FormGen and Apogee, despite being numbered as the sixth episode it was developed in between the fourth and fifth; it also features a modified engine from Goodbye, Galaxy. Commander Keen was released on May 30, 2001 for the Game Boy Color. Developed by David A. Palmer ... | their work computers over the weekend, taking them in their cars to a house shared by Carmack, Wilbur, and Roathe, and made a copy of the first level of the game over the next 72 hours. They credited the game to Ideas from the Deep, a name Romero had previously used for some Softdisk projects. The response from Nintend... |
lightning than other storms and some tornadic cells never produce lightning at all. More often than not, overall cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning activity decreases as a tornado touches the surface and returns to the baseline level when the tornado dissipates. In many cases, intense tornadoes and thunderstorms exhibit an... | and waterspout. Waterspouts are characterized by a spiraling funnel-shaped wind current, connecting to a large cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud. They are generally classified as non-supercellular tornadoes that develop over bodies of water, but there is disagreement over whether to classify them as true tornadoes. These s... |
annual intake of research students is approximately 250 with several candidates sponsored from educational institutions and industries. The research students constitute the largest group (50%) on the campus. The Integrated PhD program is designed to offer opportunities to 3-year BSc graduates for pursuing advanced rese... | the thesis work. The annual intake of research students is approximately 250 with several candidates sponsored from educational institutions and industries. The research students constitute the largest group (50%) on the campus. The Integrated PhD program is designed to offer opportunities to 3-year BSc graduates for p... |
manufactured one third of India's bulk drugs and 16% of biotechnology products, contributing to its reputation as "India's pharmaceutical capital" and the "Genome Valley of India". Bharat Biotech has produced world class Covaxin saving millions of lives from COVID-19. Hyderabad is a global centre of information technol... | Telangana chief minister's office, have particularly low air quality index ratings, suffering from high levels of PM2.5's. Ground water around Hyderabad, which has a hardness of up to 1000 ppm, around three times higher than is desirable, is the main source of drinking water but the increasing population and consequent... |
the Lehman Foundation, the museum has called it "one of the most extraordinary private art collections ever assembled in the United States". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial was celebrated with exhibitions, symposia, concerts, lectures, the reopening of refurbished galleries, special tours, social events, and ... | more than 25,000 in total, is centered on five major collections plus additional acquisitions by the museum. Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer himself, donated the first major collection of photographs to the museum, which included a comprehensive survey of Photo-Secessionist works, a rich set of master prints by Edward... |
and 107th Street. The park's only formal garden, the Conservatory Garden, is two blocks south. The North Meadow Recreation Center, tennis courts, and the East Meadow, sit between the Loch to the north and the reservoir to the south. The North Woods takes up the rest of the northern third of the park. The areas in the n... | was the park's chief landscape architect, whose primary responsibility was the importation and placement of plants within the park. A "corps" of construction engineers and foremen, managed by superintending engineer William H. Grant, were tasked with the measuring and constructing architectural features such as paths, ... |
at 9.93 km/s, returning imaging and other instrument data. The flyby produced over 500 images, covering 60% of Mathilde's surface, as well as gravitational data allowing calculations of Mathilde's dimensions and mass. The journey to Eros On July 3, 1997, NEAR executed the first major deep space maneuver, a two-part bur... | 23, 1998, at 18:41:23 UT at a speed of 965 m/s and a distance of 3827 km from the center of mass of Eros. Images of Eros were taken by the camera, data were collected by the near IR spectrograph, and radio tracking was performed during the flyby. A rendezvous maneuver was performed on January 3, 1999, involving a thrus... |
a CD-ROM with updated desktop software. Reception The PalmPilot became a large success and helped Palm further establish itself as the leader in the growing PDA/handheld PC market. PalmPilot had reportedly sold over 1 million units by 1998. It was succeeded by Palm III in 1998. See also Apple Newton Tandy Zoomer iPAQ J... | available, which allowed users of the earlier Pilot 1000/5000 devices to upgrade the OS, ROM, and RAM to match the PalmPilot Professional. Initially suggested retail prices upon launch were $399 for the PalmPilot Professional (1MB), $299 for the PalmPilot Personal (512KB), and $199 for the Upgrade Kit. Upgrade kits wer... |
called Graffiti 2; the new input system was prompted by Xerox' lawsuit win against Palm. Graffiti 2 is based on Jot from CIC. The last bugfix release is version 5.2.8. Palm OS 5.3 Simplified Chinese Edition released in September 2003, added full Simplified Chinese support, further support for QVGA resolutions, and a st... | the Palm moniker and, , is the current version developed by ACCESS. This version is dedicated for use inside the Garnet VM virtual machine. Garnet VM was announced and released by ACCESS in November 2007 as a core part of the Access Linux Platform and as an emulator allowing Nokia Internet Tablets to run applications w... |
hotel and casino in Las Vegas, U.S. The Palm (restaurant), New York City, U.S. Palm Cabaret and Bar, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico Places United States Midway, Lafayette County, Arkansas, also known as Palm Palm, Pennsylvania Palms, Los Angeles Palms station Palms, Minden Township, Michigan Elsewhere Palms, Walkerst... | of the front of the hand Palm trees, of family Arecaceae List of Arecaceae genera Several other plants known as "palm" Palm or Palms may also refer to: Music Palm (band), an American rock band Palms (band), an American rock band featuring members of Deftones and Isis Palms (Palms album), their 2013 album Palms (Thrice ... |
Queen Tiye of Egypt, who was married to Amenhotep III, was placed in the Room of the Idols alongside at least one statue of either LHIIIA:2 or B:1 type. Amenhotep III's relations with m-w-k-i-n-u, *Mukana, have corroboration from the inscription at Kom al-Hetan - but Amenhotep's reign is thought to align with late LHII... | tomb had been looted of its contents and its nature as funerary monument had been forgotten. The structure bore the traditional name of "Treasury". The pottery phases on which the relative dating scheme is based (EH, MH, LH, etc.) do not allow very precise dating, even augmented by the few existing C-14 dates due to th... |
of New England. The Navy Yard was first used for laying up inactive ships. The Congressional appropriations were small and the Navy had little need for the yard, which was closed from 1898 to 1900 and its personnel reassigned. By 1912, oil replaced coal in warships and again the Yard was scheduled for closure and the l... | part of World War I. Congress approved over a million dollars for Base real estate and facilities expansion. By the end of the war, 81 buildings had been built to support 1,400 men and 20 submarines, although the land expansion was slowed through much of the 1920s. However, the Great Depression of the 1930s saw an expa... |
a serpent. Peleus held fast. Subdued, she then consented to marry him. Thetis is the mother of Achilles by Peleus, who became king of the Myrmidons. According to classical mythology, the wedding of Thetis and Peleus was celebrated on Mount Pelion, outside the cave of Chiron, and attended by the deities: there they cele... | lameness or evicted by Zeus for taking Hera's side, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis caught him and cared for him on the volcanic isle of Lemnos, while he labored for them as a smith, "working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur" (I... |
model of causality from the electoral system to a party system. A proportional representation (PR) system creates electoral conditions that foster the development of many parties, whereas a plurality system marginalizes smaller political parties, generally resulting in a two-party system. Most countries with plurality ... | two-party system, the United Kingdom, Canada and India have consistently had multiparty parliaments. However, only the two dominant parties of their times have formed governments in the United Kingdom and Canada. Eric Dickson and Kenneth Scheve argue that there is a counter force to Duverger's law, that on the national... |
of voters swiftly changed their allegiance. Concerning political coalition for the benefit of minorities, Riker argued that the larger the coalition, the shorter-lived it is. In his book The Theory of Political Coalitions (1962), Riker argued that in situations where there is conflict over finite resources, actors will... | other contributions, Riker is known for work on the theory and history of federalism and on what he called "heresthetic"—the art of changing political outcomes without changing peoples' underlying preferences by manipulating the decision-making process, for example by changing the order in which decisions are made. In ... |
was the last commercial 235U gaseous diffusion plant in the world. Thermal diffusion Thermal diffusion uses the transfer of heat across a thin liquid or gas to accomplish isotope separation. The process exploits the fact that the lighter 235U gas molecules will diffuse toward a hot surface, and the heavier 238U gas mol... | types of reactors". Naturally-occurring uranium is made of a mixture of 235U and 238U. The 235U is fissile, meaning it is easily split with neutrons while the remainder is 238U, but in nature, more than 99% of the extracted ore is 238U. Most nuclear reactors require enriched uranium, which is uranium with higher concen... |
that include humor, irony, teasing, and sarcasm. Although individuals with AS usually understand the cognitive basis of humor, they seem to lack understanding of the intent of humor to share the enjoyment with others. Despite strong evidence of impaired humor appreciation, anecdotal reports of humor in individuals with... | other agents. Diagnosis Standard diagnostic criteria require impairment in social interaction and repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, activities, and interests, without significant delay in language or cognitive development. Unlike the international standard, the DSM-IV-TR criteria also required significan... |
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