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that this was a violation of the Treaty of Lunéville. Although continental powers were unprepared to act, the British decided to send an agent to help the Swiss obtain supplies, and also ordered their military not to return Cape Colony to Holland as they had committed to do in the Treaty of Amiens. Swiss resistance col... | success, retaking Madrid, defeating the Spanish and forcing a withdrawal of the heavily out-numbered British army from the Iberian Peninsula (Battle of Corunna, 16 January 1809). But when he left, the guerrilla war against his forces in the countryside continued to tie down great numbers of troops. The outbreak of the ... |
a population density of 46.96 inhabitants per square kilometer. The province contained 26 comuni (plural; singular: comune), see list of communes of the former Province of Olbia-Tempio. The largest comuni in the province were Olbia (population of 45,366 as of 2001), Tempio Pausania (13,992 as of 2001), Arzachena (12,08... | suggestion of reforming or abolishing certain provinces in Sardinia was approved by the Regional Council of Sardinia on 24 May 2012. Due to this, the former province of Olbia-Tempio was ordered to form a new administrative body or be abolished on 1 March 2013, but this expiry date for constitutional changes was extende... |
of community, and to discourage driving. Colin Buchanan and Stephen Plowden helped to lead the debate in the United Kingdom. The Local Government Commission which presents the annual New Partners for Smart Growth conference adopted the original Ahwahnee Principles in 1991 which articulates many of the major principles ... | "smart specialization" which originated from smart growth principles: Navarre, Spain (Improving education and developing projects for medical tourism and green vehicles) Flanders, Belgium (Spending funds on transportation, healthcare services, and technological innovation) Lower Austria ( Cooperating with neighboring r... |
century, it was the most populous city in the Giudicato of Torres, and its last capital. After the assassination of Michele Zanche, the latter's last ruler in 1275, Sassari became subject to the Republic of Pisa with a semi-independent status. In 1284 the Pisans were defeated by the Genoese fleet at the Battle of Melor... | in 1915, it still consists mainly of Sardinian soldiers. At the end of the 19th century new urban developments grew on Cappuccini Hill and to the south of the city, architecturally dominated by Eclecticism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, which created a movement towards the hybrid experimentation of new local archite... |
baked flat bread (made of durum wheat flour, salt, yeast, and water), then separating it into two sheets which are baked again. The recipe is very ancient and was conceived for shepherds, who used to stay far from home for months at a time: pane carasau can last up to one year if it is kept dry. The bread can be eaten ... | be read through it. The bread is thin and crisp, usually in the form of a dish half a meter wide. It is made by taking baked flat bread (made of durum wheat flour, salt, yeast, and water), then separating it into two sheets which are baked again. The recipe is very ancient and was conceived for shepherds, who used to s... |
The turret of the submarine Casabianca is displayed at the corner of the Place Saint-Nicolas on the sea side. A commemorative stone of the first meeting was affixed to 35 boulevard Paoli (above the door). After the war, Bastia gradually emerged as a key economic centre of Corsica. The Bastia agglomeration is the most e... | the city, because of the congestion of the city center. Geology and relief The commune is located in the Alpine Eastern Corsica region which is formed from "a succession of Autochthons (fixed terrain), para-Autochtons (weakly displaced terrain) and especially Allochthons (highly displaced terrain). The first two coinci... |
– Yosemite Valley 1872 – Yellowstone National Park 1892 – Sierra Club 1916 – National Park Service Organic Act 1916 – National Audubon Society 1949 – UN Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources 1961 – World Wildlife Foundation 1964 – Land and Water Conservation Act 1964 – National Wilderne... | 1954, a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll exposed the 23-man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 to radioactive fallout. The incident is known as Castle Bravo, the largest thermonuclear device ever detonated by the United States and the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests. ... |
the union of two disjoint events by the measure should be the sum of the probabilities of the events, e.g. the value assigned to "1 or 2" in a throw of a die should be the sum of the values assigned to "1" and "2". Probability measures have applications in diverse fields, from physics to finance and biology. Definition... | is a unique probability measure that must be used to price assets in a market, then the market is called a complete market. Not all measures that intuitively represent chance or likelihood are probability measures. For instance, although the fundamental concept of a system in statistical mechanics is a measure space, s... |
broken tones, broad brushstrokes, sketchiness, and impasto. Linear art The opposite of painterly is linear, plastic or formal linear design. Linear could describe the painting of artists such as Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Ingres, whose works depend on creating the illusion of a degree of three-dimensionality by mean... | depend on creating the illusion of a degree of three-dimensionality by means of "modeling the form" through skillful drawing, shading, and an academic (rather than impulsive) use of color. Contour and pattern are more the province of linear artists, while dynamism is the most common painterly trait. Other usage Althoug... |
and the nature of interrelationships in the economy. The model Quesnay created consisted of three economic agents: the "proprietary" class consisted only of landowners; the "productive" class consisted of agricultural laborers; the "sterile" class was made up of artisans and merchants. The flow of production and cash b... | For instance, if the government bought corn abroad, some people would speculate that there was likely to be a shortage and would buy more corn, leading to higher prices and more of a shortage. This was an early example of advocacy of free trade. In anonymously published tracts, Vauban proposed a system known as La dîme... |
chief advisor on the matter, Gifford Pinchot and was deeply committed to conserving natural resources. He encouraged the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 to promote federal construction of dams to irrigate small farms and placed 230 million acres (360,000 mi2 or 930,000 km2) under federal protection. Roosevelt set asid... | and environmental projects. They have invested over $1 billion in more than 12,000 conservation initiatives since 1995. WWF is a foundation with 55% of funding from individuals and bequests, 19% from government sources (such as the World Bank, DFID, USAID) and 8% from corporations in 2014. WWF aims to "stop the degrada... |
assistance. These played a major role in securing workers' loyalty and building those parties into increasingly powerful institutions (especially in Europe) throughout the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. Through these cooperatives, "workers bought Socialist bread and Socialist shoes, drank Socialist beer, arranged ... | the Forbidden City. That depot was, at the time, the largest logistical base in the world. The Incan Empire also maintained a system of society-wide autarky based on community levies of specific goods and "supply on command." 19th and early 20th centuries In some areas of the antebellum South, the enslaved and free bla... |
faction the player can choose to control in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri A user of the popular forum Gaia Online or the Avatar character used to represent the user The House of Gaian, from the Tir Alainn Trilogy by Anne Bishop See also | Fiction Gaian (demonym), a demonyn commonly associated in science fiction with humans A faction the player can choose to control in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri A user of the popular forum Gaia Online or the Avatar character used to represent the user The |
demand curve (unlike perfect competition) is downward sloping, rather than flat. Additionally, cross-price elasticities of demand are large (but not infinite). Production costs are above what may be achieved by perfectly competitive firms, but society benefits from the product differentiation. Oligopoly In an oligopoly... | the firms' ability to affect the price of a good and thus, raise the market price of the good or service above marginal cost (MC). Moreover, market structure can range from perfect competition to a pure monopoly. Perfect competition is a market situation and competitive outcome that economists use as a benchmark for ec... |
as; biopower, governmentality, and discursive power. Biopower indicates that to secure life, governments are concerned with the improvement of health and quality of life among populations. Foucault in his work explained how through the knowledge of power, people have learned how they should behave. In so doing, Foucaul... | since then in the context of human geography and human ecology, but with no systematic definition. Anthropologist Eric R. Wolf gave it a second life in 1972 in an article entitled "Ownership and Political Ecology", in which he discusses how local rules of ownership and inheritance "mediate between the pressures emanati... |
made up 88.1%. 2014 The United States Census Bureau estimates Frederick County's population at 245,322, marking a 5.1% increase since 2010. The racial makeup was estimated to be the following in 2014: 75% White (67.0% Non-Hispanic White), 9.7% Black, 4.6% Asian, 0.5% Native American, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Isl... | was estimated to be the following in 2014: 75% White (67.0% Non-Hispanic White), 9.7% Black, 4.6% Asian, 0.5% Native American, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 2.8% Two or more races, and 8.7% were Hispanic or Latino, of any race. Law, government, and politics Charter government Effective December 1, 2014, Fre... |
at Britain's 2003 BAFTA Awards Selected film music Nikt nie woła (Nobody's calling, 1960) Milczące ślady (1961) Spotkanie w "Bajce" (Café From The Past, 1962) Tarpany (Wild Horses, 1962) Głos z tamtego świata (Voice from beyond, 1962) Milczenie (Silence, 1963) Pięciu (1964) Three Steps on Earth (Trzy kroki po ziemi, 19... | awards for his artistic activity and achievements, including prizes from the Lili Boulanger Foundation in Boston (1960), the Minister of Culture and Art (1967, 1975), the Association of Polish Composers (1975), the Katowice province (1971, 1976, 1980), and the city of Katowice (1975, 1992). He was also awarded the Firs... |
1801 Morgan (West Virginia), created 1820 Page, created 1831 Clarke, created 1836 Warren, created 1836 Colonial era As commanding officer of the new Colonial Virginia regiment in 1754, Colonel George Washington located his headquarters in Winchester before and during the French and Indian War. He resigned from military... | in 1624. In order to stimulate migration to the colony, the headright system was used. Under this system, those who funded an emigrant's transportation costs (not the actual colonizers) were compensated with land. During the early 17th century, King Charles II granted several acres of colonial Virginia lands to “seven ... |
counties in the United States. Frederick County, Maryland | United States. Frederick County, Maryland Frederick County, Virginia |
are in the Central region. Bowie is best known as a planned Levittown. William Levitt in the 1960s built traditional homes, as well as California contemporaries along U.S. Route 50, the key highway to the eastern shore and the state capital of Annapolis. Bowie has currently grown to be the largest city in Prince George... | county, as specified in the county's charter, is "Prince George's County, Maryland". The county is named after Prince George of Denmark (1653–1708), the consort of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, and the brother of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway. The county's demonym is Prince Georgian, and its motto is Semper Ea... |
is being implemented with MEMS technology. Mechanical A type of mid-19th-century telegraph exchange consisted of a grid of vertical and horizontal brass bars with a hole at each intersection. The operator inserted a brass pin to connect one telegraph line to another. Electromechanical switching in telephony A telephony... | be a sports bar, where numerous programs are displayed simultaneously. Ordinarily, a sports bar would install a separate desk top box for each display for which independent control is desired. The matrix switch enables the operator to route signals at will, so that only enough set top boxes are needed to cover the tota... |
horizontal member of an electricity pylon Other In electronics, crossbar switch, a switch connecting multiple inputs to multiple outputs in a matrix manner In typeface anatomy, crossbar refers to some types of horizontal strokes Crossbar (computer hardware | a door Top tube of a bicycle frame Crossbar, the horizontal member of various sports goals Crossbar, a horizontal member of an electricity pylon Other In electronics, crossbar switch, a switch connecting multiple inputs to multiple outputs in |
for each of a collection of items, or until some condition is met, or indefinitely. In functional programming languages, such as Haskell and Scheme, loops can be expressed by using recursion or fixed point iteration rather than explicit looping constructs. Tail recursion is a special case of recursion which can be easi... | coll; for (String s : coll) {} foreach (string s in myStringCollection) { xxx } someCollection | ForEach-Object { $_ } forall ( index = first:last:step... ) Scala has for-expressions, which generalise collection-controlled loops, and also support other uses, such as asynchronous programming. Haskell has do-expressions ... |
centrepiece of the gardens is a marble statue on a high pedestal, of the mortally wounded Achilles (Greek: Αχιλλεύς Θνήσκων, Achilleús Thnēskōn, Achilles Dying) without hubris and wearing only a simple cloth and an ancient Greek hoplite helmet. This statue was carved by German sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter. The hero is ... | Kerkyra (, ) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered by three municipalities with the islands of Othonoi, Ereikoussa, and Mathraki. ... |
a strengthening of Pareto-efficiency in the context of fair item allocation. An allocation of indivisible items is fractionally Pareto-efficient (fPE or fPO) if it is not Pareto-dominated even by an allocation in which some items are split between agents. This is in contrast to standard Pareto-efficiency, which only co... | is not fPO, since it is dominated by a fractional allocation: agent 3 can give g1 to agent 1 (losing 1-d utility) in return to a fraction of h1 that both agents value at 1-d/2. This trade strictly improves the welfare of both agents. Moreover, in any integral fPO allocation, there exists an agent Ai who receives only (... |
constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. Multiple gay villages have developed, spanning the length of the borough from the Lower East Side, East Village, and Greenwich Village, through Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, uptown ... | commuters adding a net 1.48 million people to the population, along with visitors, tourists, and commuting students. The commuter influx of 1.61 million workers coming into Manhattan was the largest of any county or city in the country, and was more than triple the 480,000 commuters who headed into second-ranked Washin... |
throughout her career with scientific mavericks, outsiders and unaccepted theories generally. In the last decade of her life, while key components of her life's work began to be understood as fundamental to a modern scientific viewpoint – the widespread adoption of Earth System Science and the incorporation of key part... | It was while working there that she obtained her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965. Her thesis was An Unusual Pattern of Thymidine Incorporation in Euglena. In 1966 she moved to Boston University, where she taught biology for twenty-two years. She was initially an Adjunct Assistant Professor, then... |
inhabited, pioneers began settling the Jackson Hole valley to the east of the range in 1884. These earliest homesteaders were mostly single men who endured long winters, short growing seasons and rocky soils that were hard to cultivate. The region was mostly suited for the cultivation of hay and cattle ranching. By 189... | trending canyons provide easier access by foot into the heart of the range as no vehicular roads traverse the range except at Teton Pass, which is south of the park. Carved by a combination of glacier activity as well as by numerous streams, the canyons are at their lowest point along the eastern margin of the range at... |
with MFS have another affected family member. About 75% of cases are inherited. On the other hand, about 15–30% of all cases are due to de novo genetic mutations; such spontaneous mutations occur in about one in 20,000 births. Marfan syndrome is also an example of dominant negative mutation and haploinsufficiency. It i... | are common due to connective tissue defects in the eye. Farsightedness can also result particularly if the lens is highly subluxated. Subluxation (partial dislocation) of the lens can be detected clinically in about 60% of people with Marfan syndrome by the use of a slit-lamp biomicroscope. If the lens subluxation is s... |
investor currently has, and then find a utility function/risk measure such that X* becomes an optimal portfolio. There has been some controversy concerning whether the utility of a commodity can be measured or not. At one time, it was assumed that the consumer was able to say exactly how much utility he got from the co... | are complete, transitive and continuous. Applications Utility is usually applied by economists to such constructs as the indifference curve, which plot the combination of commodities that an individual would accept to maintain a given level of satisfaction. Utility and indifference curves are used by economists to unde... |
Robinson as Sol Roth Stephen Young as Gilbert Mike Henry as Kulozik Lincoln Kilpatrick as The Priest Roy Jenson as Donovan Leonard Stone as Charles Whit Bissell as Santini Celia Lovsky as the Exchange Leader Dick Van Patten as Usher #1 Production The screenplay was based on Harry Harrison's novel Make Room! Make Room! ... | governor, Thorn is instructed to end the investigation by his immediate superiors, but because of his concern for losing his job to higher superiors if he quits the case, and the fact that he is being followed by an unknown stalker, he continues forward. He is soon attacked while working during a riot, by the same assa... |
where he dines happily with the night watchman who showed him kindness. On their way to the carriage, the doorman gives tips to all the service personnel from the hotel, who quickly line up along his way. In the final scene of the film, when both the doorman and the night watchman are in the carriage, a beggar asks the... | made together, claiming that Murnau had no interest in lighting and never looked through the camera, and that "Carl Mayer used to take much more interest than he did in framing." The film's set designers Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig denied this statement and defended Murnau. Murnau described the film's cinematograph... |
or drifting through darkness, sometimes described as a tunnel. (d) becoming aware of a golden light. (e) encountering and perhaps communicating with a "being of light". (f) having a rapid succession of visual images of one's past. (g) experiencing another world of much beauty. Life After Life sold more than 13 million ... | best seller, which made the subject of NDEs popular and opened the way for many other studies. Reception Moody's alleged evidence for an afterlife was heavily criticized as flawed, both logically and empirically. The psychologist James Alcock has noted that "[Moody] appears to ignore a great deal of the scientific lite... |
garlic is a repellant to this strain of bacteria, there is little similarity between them and vampires as developed by John William Polidori and his successors, who come straight out of the gothic fiction tradition. In I Am Legend, the "vampires" share more similarities with zombies, and the novel influenced the zombie... | Neville wakes, he discovers a note from Ruth confessing that she is indeed a vampire sent to spy on him and that he was responsible for the death of her husband, another vampire. The note further suggests that only the undead vampires are pathologically violent but not those who were alive at the time of infection and ... |
(born 1936) is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut, and a researcher within the field of near-death studies. Biography Ring is the co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is the founding editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. ... | Both books deal with near-death experiences and how they change people's lives. Other books by Ring include The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, Ufo Encounters, and Mind at Large (1992), Mindsight: Near-death and out-of-body experiences in the blind (1999) and Lessons from the Light (2000). He is also the coautho... |
Parlour was brought down by Phil Neville inside the 18-yard box. Bergkamp took the penalty shot, but it was saved by goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. In the second half of extra time, Ryan Giggs scored the winner, a goal regarded by many as the greatest in the competition's history. After this miss, Bergkamp did not take a... | "They obviously feel there is another year left in me, so that's great as it shows they're really behind me," he said. Following Arsenal's penalty shootout victory over Manchester United in the 2005 FA Cup Final, he signed a one-year contract extension. The team finished fourth in the league in Bergkamp's final season ... |
development, use and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin," which includes the Saint Lawrence River. The Great Lakes Commission provides policy development, coordination, and advocacy on issues of regional concern, as well as communication and research services. The eight member states are Illin... | Commission, which exists between the federal levels of the United States and Canada. See also Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers Great Lakes Great Lakes Basin Great Lakes Compact Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement International Joint Commission References Exter... |
extinct in the Late Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago, but were discovered living off the coast of South Africa in 1938. The coelacanth was long considered a "living fossil" because scientists thought it was the sole remaining member of a taxon otherwise known only from fossils, with no close relations alive, and... | organisms to undergo morphological divergence, an example of phenotypic stasis, they are undergoing measurable genetic divergence. They have few predators and live deep in the ocean where conditions are very stable, but activity within their genome continues due in part to transposable elements. Despite prior studies (... |
over 900 colleges and universities with approximately $113 million in grants and scholarships. About 60% of these students are the first in their families to attend college, and 62% have annual family incomes of less than $25,000. UNCF also administers over 450 named scholarships. UNCF's president and chief executive o... | alumni include: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader in the civil rights movement; Alexis Herman, former U.S. Secretary of Labor; movie director Spike Lee; actor Samuel L. Jackson; General Chappie James, the U.S. Air Force’s first black four-star general; and Dr. David Satcher, a former U... |
of human history, societies have been based on personal relations: individuals in groups know each other and exchange favours. Today in most lower-income societies hierarchies of groups distribute wealth based on personal relationships among group leaders, a process often linked with clientelism and corruption. Michael... | and violence, and can be celebrated by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone. The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the day as a day of preventing violence and a cease-fire. The cele... |
high ratios are not uncommon for animals weighing less than . Among orders of mammals, treeshrews are closely related to primates, and have been used as an alternative to primates in experimental studies of myopia, psychosocial stress, and hepatitis. Name The name Tupaia is derived from tupai, the Indonesian word for s... | species. Reproduction Female treeshrews have a gestation period of 45–50 days and give birth to up to three young in nests lined with dry leaves inside tree hollows. The young are born blind and hairless, but are able to leave the nest after about a month. During this period, the mother provides relatively little mater... |
are scarce but so abundant in nature that there is enough for everyone to have as much as they want. Examples in textbooks included seawater and air. Intellectual property laws such as copyrights and patents have the effect of converting some intangible goods to scarce goods. Even though these works are free goods by d... | but so abundant in nature that there is enough for everyone to have as much as they want. Examples in textbooks included seawater and air. Intellectual property laws such as copyrights and patents have the effect of converting some intangible goods to scarce goods. Even though these works are free goods by definition a... |
person ... who, for a morsel of meat sold his birthright" and later stated that "he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully, with tears". Greed Greed (), also known as avarice, cupidity, or covetousness, is a sin of desire like lust and gluttony. However, greed (as seen by the Church) is applied to... | human's undoing. In his Purgatorio, Dante portrayed the penance for acedia as running continuously at top speed. He describes acedia as the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's soul". To him, it was the "middle sin", the only one characterised by an absence or insufficiency of love. W... |
and the confounding of the place of Tollan with the myth of the struggle between Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. Désiré Charnay, the first archaeologist to work at Tula, Hidalgo, defended the historicist views based on his impression of the Toltec capital, and was the first to note similarities in architectural styles b... | futile and hinders access to actual knowledge of the culture of Tula de Allende. Other controversies relating to the Toltecs include the question of how best to understand the reasons behind the perceived similarities in architecture and iconography between the archaeological site of Tula and the Maya site of Chichén I... |
are rather slow compared to traditional constructions, and impractical for many applications) generic PRNGs: while it has been shown that a (cryptographically) secure PRNG can be constructed generically from any one-way function, this generic construction is extremely slow in practice, so is mainly of theoretical inter... | in counter or output feedback mode PRNGs that have been designed specifically to be cryptographically secure, such as Microsoft's Cryptographic Application Programming Interface function CryptGenRandom, the Yarrow algorithm (incorporated in Mac OS X and FreeBSD), and Fortuna combination PRNGs which attempt to combine s... |
that it is awkward to convert the value 1 ≤ x < m to uniform random bits. If a prime just less than a power of 2 is used, sometimes the missing values are simply ignored. m a power of 2, c = 0 Choosing m to be a power of 2, most often m = 232 or m = 264, produces a particularly efficient LCG, because this allows the mo... | led to ineffective implementations of LCGs. A particularly illustrative example of this is RANDU, which was widely used in the early 1970s and led to many results which are currently being questioned because of the use of this poor LCG. There are three common families of parameter choice: m prime, c = 0 This is the ori... |
costs, sunk costs can be either fixed costs or variable costs. When a company abandons a certain component or stops processing a certain product, the sunk cost usually includes fixed costs such as rent for equipment and wages, but it also includes variable costs due to changes in time or materials. Usually, fixed costs... | sunk costs then understand that the "consequences of choices cannot influence choice itself". From the traceability source of costs, sunk costs can be direct costs or indirect costs. If the sunk cost can be summarized as a single component, it is a direct cost; if it is caused by several products or departments, it is ... |
he had built a detached family home in 1995. On appeal, his proposals won the 1999 competition for the restoration of the Teatro La Fenice, Venice and it reopened in 2004. In 1999, the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Bologna, based in Cesena, was named after him. Work His earliest works of the 1960s were m... | on Kochstraße at its junction with Wilhelmstraße in Berlin, Germany 1982 Head Office of Fontivegge in Perugia 1982 House Pocono Pines, Mount Pocono in Pennsylvania, USA 1982 Isle of Elba cabins for Bruno Longoni 1983 Design for the town hall of Borgoricco 1984-1987 Casa Aurora, home of GFT Financial Textile Group, Turi... |
tea towers," with a new generation of architects such as Wiel Arets, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, and UN Studio. These sets had a limited production of 99 copies. Another remarkable design in the 2000s is the Blow Up series by Fratelli Campana. The brothers played with form and shape to create b... | and Carlo Mazzeri. This was designed in a series with an Ice bucket and Ice tongs as part of the Program 4 for the 11 Triennale in Milan. This was the first time that the Alessi products got shown with manufactured goods. The 1950s were a difficult time as it was only a few years after World War II and many people coul... |
the British in the 19th century to believe that such a beautiful building should be credited to a European architect. Local informants were reported to have started British curiosity regarding the origins of the Taj by also supplying them with fictitious lists of workmen and materials from all over Asia. Not much is cu... | origin. Recent research suggests the architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri was the most likely candidate as the chief architect of the Taj Mahal, an assertion based on a claim made in writings by Lahauri's son Lutfullah Muhandis. See also Taj Mahal- Built (1632-1653) Mughal architecture Shah Jahan (1628-1707) Ustad Isa Shiraz... |
word size (in number of bits) n: degree of recurrence m: middle word, an offset used in the recurrence relation defining the series , r: separation point of one word, or the number of bits of the lower bitmask, a: coefficients of the rational normal form twist matrix b, c: TGFSR(R) tempering bitmasks s, t: TGFSR(R) tem... | the k v-bit vectors . Then each of the possible combinations of bits occurs the same number of times in a period, except for the all-zero combination that occurs once less often. Algorithmic detail For a w-bit word length, the Mersenne Twister generates integers in the range . The Mersenne Twister algorithm is based on... |
or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them. Young Turks The Commit... | demonstrate the principles of "survival of the fittest" as depicted in Alles Leben ist Kampf (English translation: All Life is Struggle). Hitler often refused to intervene in the promotion of officers and staff members, preferring instead to have them fight amongst themselves to force the "stronger" person to prevail—"... |
and in general assisted around one million refugees worldwide. 1933 (rise of Nazism) to 1944 The rise of Nazism led to such a very large increase in the number of refugees from Germany that in 1933 the League created a high commission for refugees coming from Germany. Besides other measures by the Nazis which created f... | the general construct of settlement, refugee integration has a greater focus on social, cultural and structural dimensions. This process includes the acquisition of legal rights, mastering the language and culture, reaching safety and stability, developing social connections and establishing the means and markers of in... |
Ozieri () is a town and comune of approximatively 11,000 inhabitants in the province of Sassari, northern Sardinia (Italy), in the Logudoro historical region. Its cathedral of the Immacolata is the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ozieri. Ozieri is the centre of the earliest known archaeological culture o... | culture, a prehistoric civilization whose first findings were excavated in the local caves of San Michele starting from 1914. Pont'ezzu, a Roman bridge, dating to the 2nd century AD and restored in the 3rd–4th century AD. It has six arcades for a total length of Civic Archaeological Museum "Alle Clarisse", one of the m... |
the Dutch East India Company) settled West Timor in 1640, forcing the Portuguese out to East Timor. The subsequent collapse of the company meant that in 1799, the area returned to official Dutch rule. Finally, in 1914, the border between East and West Timor was finalized by a treaty between Portugal and the Netherlands... | formerly split into the City of Kupang (a kabupaten or regency-level administrative area) and four regencies (kabupaten); from west to east these are: City of Kupang, Kupang, Timor Tengah Selatan (South Central Timor), Timor Tengah Utara (North Central Timor) and Belu. However, a fifth regency – Malaka – was in 2012 fo... |
necropolis has been find two skulls with the presence of some sort of surgical procedure probably practiced to heal issues like migraines and tumors. Another theory is that this surgical procedure has been practiced for religious and/or magical purposes. Many nuraghes belong to this ages, and nowadays only 7 of these s... | Roman settlements) Iulia (name of the Julia gens) Turris (litt. "tower", referred probably to a nuraghe built not so far from the town or to the Monte d'Accoddi) and Libisonis (referred to Libya, probably because in the same are there was a Phoenician trading outpost. "Libya" is the ancient name of the entire northern ... |
at this time the town shared, given its commercial and multi-ethnic nature, a language similar to the nascent Sassarese. The village was conquered by force by the Crown of Aragon, at the behest of King Pere IV of Aragon (r. 1336–1387), who later actively promoted colonisation of the town and the surrounding area, sendi... | dialects these families spoke in Alghero were all very similar and derived from the same linguistic family. Over time, it settled on its current form of Catalan, despite the subsequent decline of the Crown of Aragon. The Aragonese were followed by the Spanish Habsburgs, who ruled until 1702 and continued expanding the ... |
United States, or that Libya as a whole become an Italian trusteeship. Mandatory Palestine: The United States government under Harry Truman proposed a UN trusteeship status for the Mandatory Palestine in 1948. Ryukyu Islands and Bonin Islands: the Treaty of San Francisco included provisions which provided the United St... | in Korea. Vietnam: Roosevelt also proposed that French Indochina be placed under an international trusteeship as an alternative to French colonial rule and immediate independence. Italian Libya: Between 1945 and 1947 the Soviet Union made various proposals that Tripolitania be placed under Soviet trusteeship for ten ye... |
from their soldiers and Timorese militia raised in West Timor was severe. By the end of the War, an estimated 40–60,000 Timorese had died, the economy was in ruins, and famine widespread. Following World War II, the Portuguese promptly returned to reclaim their colony, while West Timor became part of Indonesia, which s... | largely drawn from the aristocracy, Dili residents, or larger towns, had obtained Portuguese citizenship. By the end of the colonial administration in 1974, 30 percent of Timorese were practising Catholics while the majority continued to worship spirits of the land and sky. Establishment of the colonial state In 1702, ... |
since 1753. Until 1971, the postmaster general was the head of the Post Office Department (or simply "Post Office" until the 1820s). During that era, the postmaster general was appointed by the president of the United States, with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. From 1829 to 1971, the postmaster gen... | a member of the president's Cabinet. After the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in 1883 and prior to the passage of the Hatch Act of 1939, the postmaster general was in charge of the governing party's patronage and was a powerful position which held much influence within the party, as exemplified by Ja... |
name to one of the southern Corsican dialects a variety of which is the Gallurese spoken in North Sardinia. Population Sights Genoese towers in the commune of Sartène: Torra di Roccapina Torra di Senetosa Torra di Tizzà There are numerous archaeological sites in the commune or Sartène: A Figa Apazzu Cardiccia Casteddu ... | its name to one of the southern Corsican dialects a variety of which is the Gallurese spoken in North Sardinia. Population Sights Genoese towers in the commune of Sartène: Torra di Roccapina Torra di Senetosa Torra di Tizzà There are numerous archaeological sites in the commune or Sartène: A Figa Apazzu Cardiccia Caste... |
(9) Status Living former secretaries of housing and urban development As of , there are ten living former secretaries of housing and urban development (with all secretaries that have served since 1993 still living), the oldest being Maurice E. Landrieu (served 1979–1981, born 1930). The most recent secretary of housing... | is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule, thus earning a salary of US$221,400, as of January 2021. , Marcia Fudge is the secretary of housing and urban development. List of secretaries of housing and urban development Parties (9) (9) Status Living former secretaries of housing and urban development As of , there... |
Mineta, who had previously been the secretary of commerce, is the longest-serving secretary, holding the post for over five and a half years, and Andrew Card is the shortest-serving secretary, serving only eleven months. Neil Goldschmidt was the youngest secretary, taking office at age 39, while Norman Mineta was the o... | Traffic Safety Administration. As of January 2021, the secretary receives an annual salary of $221,400. Pete Buttigieg has served as the secretary of transportation since February 3, 2021. He was confirmed by the United States Senate by a vote of 86–13 on February 2, 2021. Buttigieg is the first openly LGBTQ person to ... |
and more efficient energy sources as well as energy education. After the end of the Cold War, the department's attention also turned toward radioactive waste disposal and maintenance of environmental quality. Former secretary of defense James Schlesinger was the first secretary of energy, who was a Republican nominated... | developing technology for better and more efficient energy sources as well as energy education. After the end of the Cold War, the department's attention also turned toward radioactive waste disposal and maintenance of environmental quality. Former secretary of defense James Schlesinger was the first secretary of energ... |
is to ensure that importing countries have both the opportunity and the capacity to assess risks that may be associated with the LMO before agreeing to its import. The Party of import must indicate the reasons on which its decisions are based (unless consent is unconditional). A Party of import may, at any time, in lig... | as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (also the COP-MOP). The main function of this body is to review the implementation of the Protocol and make decisions necessary to promote its effective operation. Decisions under the Protocol can only be taken by Parties to the Protocol. Parties to the Convention that are ... |
the President nominates and the United States Senate confirms a new Secretary. Denis McDonough is currently serving as the 11th secretary of veterans affairs since February 9, 2021 under President Joe Biden. List of secretaries of veterans affairs Parties (2) (3) (6) Status Anthony Principi served as Acting Secretary i... | secretary of veterans affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits, health care, and national veterans' memorials and cemeteries. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at sixteenth in the line of succession to the preside... |
and later, colonies - were formed along the coast and into the Zambezi basin from 1498 when Vasco da Gama first reached the Mozambican coast. Lourenço Marques explored the area that is now Maputo Bay in 1544. The Portuguese increased efforts for occupying the interior of the colony after the Scramble for Africa, and se... | up of three or four individual posts, 166 in all with an average of 40,000 Africans in each. Each district, except Lourenço Marques which was run by the Governor-General, was overseen by a governor. Most Africans only had contact with the Portuguese through the post administrator, who was required to visit each village... |
be recorded directly onto tape for the first time. Cameron had originally planned to shoot on location in the Bahamas where the story was set but quickly realized that he needed to have a completely controlled environment because of the stunts and special visual effects involved. He considered shooting the film in Malt... | investigation of the Montana, a power cut in the team's submersibles leads to Lindsey seeing a strange light circling the sub, which she later calls a "non-terrestrial intelligence" or "NTI". Lt. Hiram Coffey, the SEAL team leader, is ordered to accelerate their mission and takes one of the mini-subs without Deep Cores... |
or not, is equated to one and only one cut of rationals. Dedekind cuts can be generalized from the rational numbers to any totally ordered set by defining a Dedekind cut as a partition of a totally ordered set into two non-empty parts A and B, such that A is closed downwards (meaning that for all a in A, x ≤ a implies ... | for , if the rational numbers are partitioned into A and B this way, the partition itself represents an irrational number. Ordering of cuts Regard one Dedekind cut (A, B) as less than another Dedekind cut (C, D) (of the same superset) if A is a proper subset of C. Equivalently, if D is a proper subset of B, the cut (A,... |
quantities vary by species. Mice for example, require approximately 10 times less DNA than primates. Saline injections require more DNA because the DNA is delivered to the extracellular spaces of the target tissue (normally muscle), where it has to overcome physical barriers (such as the basal lamina and large amounts ... | T-cell help is not understood. It was thought that the relatively large amounts of DNA used in IM injection were responsible for the induction of TH1 responses. However, evidence shows no dose-related differences in TH type. The type of T-cell help raised is determined by the differentiated state of antigen presenting ... |
the Austrians and General Moltke, the Danish army was destroyed or forced to make a disorderly retreat. And the Prussian-Danish border was moved from the Elbe up in Jutland to the creek . After the First World War, two referendums decided a new border. The northern part reverted to Denmark as (North Slesvig). But the m... | The geographical area today covers the large area between the Eider river in the south and the Flensburg Fjord in the north, where it borders Denmark. Northern Schleswig, congruent with the former South Jutland County, forms the southernmost part of Denmark. The area belonged to the Crown of Denmark until Prussia and A... |
bats, common pipistrelle bats, soprano pipistrelle bats, brown long-eared bats, whiskered bats, Daubenton's bats, Natterer's bats, American mink, pygmy shrews, rabbits, pine martens, stoats, badgers, red squirrels, grey squirrels, wood mice, house mice, brown rats, otters, red foxes, hedgehogs and feral goats. Marine m... | divided into a number of traditional districts. There are two Gaeltacht districts in the west: The Rosses (), centred on the town of Dungloe (), and Gweedore (). Another Gaeltacht district is located in the north-west: Cloughaneely (), centred on the town of Falcarragh (). The most northerly part of the island of Irela... |
what had been the village of Astoria and some unincorporated areas within the town of Newtown. Around 1874, the seat of county government was moved to Long Island City from Mineola. On March 1, 1860, the eastern border between Queens County (later Nassau County) and Suffolk County was redefined with no discernible chan... | Queens residents. Even though many residents opposed unannounced quartering, they supported the British crown. The quartering of soldiers in private homes, except in times of war, was banned by the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution. Nathan Hale was captured by the British on the shore of Flushing Bay an... |
During the 14th century, the population on Schwansen began to speak Low German alongside Danish, but otherwise the ethno-linguistic borders remained remarkably stable until around 1800, with the exception of the population in the towns that became increasingly German from the 14th century onwards. During the early Viki... | duke (= the king of Denmark) to respect the status of the duchy. The troops occupying Holstein were mainly from Hanover and Saxony, with Austrian and Prussian troops waiting as a reserve. Austria and Prussia, against the will of the Confederation, in February 1864 let their troops cross the border between Holstein and ... |
one type of data to be more useful than systems which collect only one type of information (such as single-purpose laboratory or 911 call-center based systems), and be less prone to false alarms, and this appears to be the case. In Europe, disease surveillance is beginning to be organized on the continent-wide scale ne... | the release point) will become ill with classical symptoms and signs (including a virtually unique chest X-ray finding, often recognized by public health officials if they receive timely reports). By making these data available to local public health officials in real time, most models of anthrax epidemics indicate tha... |
Toku-Naishi (督典侍), Fujiwara Norimitsu’s Daughter Fourth son: Prince Hikonari (彦成王; 1219-1286) Sixth son: Imperial Prince Yoshimune (善統親王; 1233-1317) Consort: Fujiwara Noriko (藤原位子), Bomon Nobukiyo’s daughter First Daughter: Imperial Princess Jōko (穠子内親王; 1216-1279）later Eianmon’in（永安門院) Consort: Fujiwara Kiyotaka’s Dau... | son: Prince Iwakura no Miya Tadanari (岩倉宮忠成王; 1222-1279) Consort: Saishō-no-Tsubone (宰相局), Priest’s daughter Son: Kangan Giin Mother unknown: Daughter: Princess Yoshiko (慶子女王; 1225-1286） Daughter: Princess Tadako (忠子女王; 1232-1249） Son: Prince Chitose (千歳宮; 1237-1254） Events of Juntoku's life Morinari-shinnō became Crow... |
a local maximum for any x and y values.) The negative slope of the indifference curve reflects the assumption of the monotonicity of consumer's preferences, which generates monotonically increasing utility functions, and the assumption of non-satiation (marginal utility for all goods is always positive); an upward slop... | be disease, pollution etc. because we always desire less of such things. Indifference curves exhibit diminishing marginal rates of substitution The marginal rate of substitution tells how much 'y' a person is willing to sacrifice to get one more unit of 'x'. This assumption assures that indifference curves are smooth a... |
Chukyo can refer to: Emperor Chūkyō (1218-1234), 85th emperor of Japan the city of Nagoya | things are named after the city: Chūkyō Industrial Area |
Kinfusa’s daughter Empress (Chūgū): Konoe (Fujiwara) Nagako (近衛（藤原）長子) Later Takatsukasa’in (鷹司院), Konoe Iezane’s daughter. Empress (Chūgū): Kujō (Fujiwara) Sonshi (九条（藤原）竴子) Later Sōhekimon’in (藻璧門院), Kujo Michiie’s daughter First son: Imperial Prince Mitsuhito (秀仁親王) later Emperor Shijō Fourth daughter: Imperial Prin... | Emperor Chūkyō to abdicate. After the Genpei War, he, as the grandson of the late Emperor Takakura, who was also a nephew of the then-exiled Retired Emperor Go-Toba, and Chūkyō's first cousin, was enthroned as Go-Horikawa. He ruled from July 29, 1221 CE to October 26 (?), 1232 CE. 1221 CE (Jōkyū 3, 9th day of the 7th m... |
surname —a Japanese kuge family descended from the Places Shijō Street, one of east–west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō, present-day Kyoto Train stations Shijō Station, a train station on the | refer to: Art Shijō school, a Japanese school of painting Names Emperor Shijō, the 87th Emperor of Japan, a Japanese surname —a Japanese kuge family descended from the Places Shijō Street, |
Tosa Province (on Shikoku), he was raised by his mother's side of the family. Because of the sudden death of Emperor Shijō at the age of 10, the question of succession arose. Because the expectations of the court nobility and the Bakufu conflicted, the issue was bitterly contested. Kujō Michiie and the court nobility s... | Empress: Saionji (Fujiwara) no Yoshi-ko (西園寺（藤原）姞子) Later Ōmiya-in (大宮院), Saionji Saneuji’s daughter Fourth son: Imperial Prince Hisahito (久仁親王) later Emperor Go-Fukakusa First daughter: Imperial Princess Osako (綜子内親王; 1247-1269）later Gekkamon-in (月華門院) Seventh son: Imperial Prince Tsunehito (恒仁親王) later Emperor Kameya... |
Third son: Imperial Prince Mitsuhito（満仁親王) later Imperial Prince Priest Shonnin (性仁法親王; 1267–1304） Court Lady: Saionji (Fujiwara) Aiko (西園寺（藤原）相子), Saionji Kinsuke's daughter Fifth daughter: Imperial Princess Hanako/Eiko/Akiko (瑛子内親王; 1288–1352）later Yōtokumon'in (陽徳門院) Court Lady: Saionji (Fujiwara) Moriko (西園寺（藤原）成子)... | Sixth Daughter: Imperial Princess Eiko (永子内親王) later Shozenmon’in (章善門院; d. 1338） Court Lady: Miyoshi Tadako (三善忠子; d. 1299), Miyoshi Yasuhira's daughter Sixth Son: Imperial Prince Priest Shinsho (深性法親王; 1275–1299） Court Lady: Bettō-Naishi (別当典侍), Takakura Shigemichi's daughter Eighth Son: Imperial Prince Priest Kojo (... |
and from there proceeded more carefully down the African coast, often naming notable geographic features after saints that were honored on the Catholic Church’s calendar. When they weighed anchor at what today is Porto Alexandre, Angola, Dias left the supply ship behind so that it could re-provision them later, on thei... | had died in skirmishes with the natives. The vessel had become rotten with worms, so they unloaded the supplies they needed from it, and burnt it on the beach. Few details are known about the remainder of the voyage. The ships made stops at Príncipe, the Rio do Resgate (in present-day Liberia), and the Portuguese tradi... |
Emperor Kameyama (1249–1305), emperor of Japan 1259–1274 Kameyama, Mie, a city in Mie prefecture, Japan | may refer to: Emperor Kameyama (1249–1305), emperor of Japan 1259–1274 Kameyama, Mie, a |
(崇明門院), married Imperial Prince Kuniyoshi Consort: Itsutsuji Munechika's daughter Third daughter: Imperial Princess Tōshi/Chūshi (愉子内親王) Consort: Kazan'in Nagamasa’s daughter Princess Consort: Shinsanmi-no-tsubone (新三位局) Prince (b. 1307) Events of Go-Uda's life Yohito-shinnō became crown prince in 1268. According to th... | some older sources, may be identified as "Emperor Uda, the second" or as "Emperor Uda II." Genealogy Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name (imina) was Yohito (世仁). He was the second son of Emperor Kameyama. They were from the Daikaku-ji line. Consort: Imperial Princess Reishi (姈子内親王; 1270–... |
raided 80 houses of prostitution in the New York City area and arrested hundreds of prostitutes and "madams". Carter had developed trust with many of these women, and through her coaching, many of the arrested prostitutes – some of whom told of being beaten and abused by Mafia thugs – were willing to testify to avoid p... | endorsed for re-election incumbent lieutenant governor Charles Poletti, who lost narrowly to Dewey's running mate Thomas W. Wallace. In 1946, Dewey was re-elected by the greatest margin in state history to that point, almost 700,000 votes. In 1950, he was elected to a third term by 572,000 votes. Policies Usually regar... |
Henry renewed the war on a larger scale in 1417. After taking Caen, he quickly conquered Lower Normandy and Rouen was cut off from Paris and besieged. This siege has cast an even darker shadow on the reputation of the king, along with his order to slay the French prisoners at Agincourt. Rouen, starving and unable to su... | bogged down in the muddy battlefield, soaked from the previous night of heavy rain, and that this hindered the French advance, allowing them to be sitting targets for the flanking English and Welsh archers. Most were simply hacked to death while completely stuck in the deep mud. Nevertheless, the victory is seen as Hen... |
legs and actively search out new hosts. Their legs are partly vestigial in that they lack a trochanter, the leg segment that forms the articulation between the basal coxa and the femur). Strepsiptera of various species have been documented to attack hosts in many orders, including members of the orders Zygentoma, Ortho... | with the outside world. The larvae are very active, because they only have a limited amount of time to find a host before they exhaust their food reserves. These first-instar larvae have stemmata (simple, single-lens eyes). When the larvae latch onto a host, they enter it by secreting enzymes that soften the cuticle, u... |
screws to set and hold bones may be used. Sections of bone may be replaced with prosthetic rods or other parts. Sometimes a plate is inserted to replace a damaged area of skull. Artificial hip replacement has become more common. Heart pacemakers or valves may be inserted. Many other types of prostheses are used. creati... | unintentional weight loss, muscle weakness, exhaustion, low physical activity, and slowed walking speed. A healthy person scores 0; a very frail person scores 5. Compared to non-frail elderly people, people with intermediate frailty scores (2 or 3) are twice as likely to have post-surgical complications, spend 50% more... |
the field. The alternative encoding function for the Reed–Solomon code is then again just the sequence of values: Since the first entries of each codeword coincide with , this encoding procedure is indeed systematic. Since Lagrange interpolation is a linear transformation, is a linear mapping. In fact, we have , where ... | technologies such as DSL and WiMAX, broadcast systems such as satellite communications, DVB and ATSC, and storage systems such as RAID 6. Reed–Solomon codes operate on a block of data treated as a set of finite-field elements called symbols. Reed–Solomon codes are able to detect and correct multiple symbol errors. By a... |
of Chania, where Zorba is to buy cable and other supplies for the implementation of his grand plan. Zorba says goodbye to Basil and Madame Hortense, who is by now madly in love with him. In Chania, Zorba entertains himself at a cabaret and has a brief romance with a much younger dancer. In a letter to Basil, he details... | "the foreigner" is dying, and since she has no heirs, the State will take her possessions and money. The poor villagers crowd around her hotel, impatiently waiting for her demise so they can steal her belongings. As two old ladies enter her room and gaze expectantly at her, other women try to enter, but Zorba manages t... |
if their genetic makeup were the same. The low genetic diversity is thought to have been created by two population bottlenecks from ~100000 years and ~12000 years ago, respectively. The resultant level of genetic variation is around 0.1–4% of average living species, lower than that of Tasmanian devils, Virunga gorillas... | unrelated males may face some aversion in their initial days in the group. All males in the coalition typically have equal access to kills when the group hunts together, and possibly also to females who may enter their territory. A coalition generally has a greater chance of encountering and acquiring females for matin... |
have Zelle arrested by the French. General Walter Nicolai, the chief IC (intelligence officer) of the German Army, had grown very annoyed that Mata Hari had provided him with no intelligence worthy of the name, instead selling the Germans mere Paris gossip about the sex lives of French politicians and generals, and dec... | during a dogfight with the Germans, losing his sight in his left eye, which led Zelle to ask for permission to visit her wounded lover at the hospital where he was staying near the front. As a citizen of a neutral country, Zelle would not normally be allowed near the front. Zelle was met by agents from the Deuxième Bur... |
who is willing to overprescribe drugs. By late 1973, the band's driving R&B had made them one of the most popular bands on the growing London pub rock circuit, and they recorded their debut album, Down by the Jetty, for United Artists in 1974. Like many pub rock acts, Dr. Feelgood were known primarily for their high en... | Martin. They took their name from a 1962 record by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman (also known as "Piano Red") called "Dr. Feel-Good", which Perryman recorded under the name of Dr. Feelgood & The Interns. The song was covered by several British beat groups in the 1960s, including Johnny Kidd & The... |
If addition is used, it is required that at least one of the first k values chosen to initialise the generator be odd; if multiplication is used, instead, it is required that all the first k values be odd. It has been suggested that good ratios between and are approximately the golden ratio. Problems with LFGs In a pap... | the polynomial: y = xk + xj + 1 must be primitive over the integers mod 2. Values of j and k satisfying this constraint have been published in the literature. Another list of possible values for j and k is on page 29 of volume 2 of The Art of Computer Programming: (24, 55), (38, 89), (37, 100), (30, 127), (83, 258), (1... |
substance's action on the dopamine system. This is also due to alcohol's effect on the opioid systems, or endorphins, that have opiate-like effects, such as modulating pain, mood, feeding, reinforcement, and response to stress. Antidepressants Antidepressants reduce symptoms of mood disorders primarily through the regu... | transmitters at their receptors. MAOIs have been somewhat disfavored because of their reputation for more serious side effects. Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) work through binding to the presynaptic transporter proteins and blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine or 5-HT into the presynaptic terminal, prolonging the ... |
Vali Asr Square on 17 June. Huffington Post reported that day that 32 people had died protesting so far. On 14 February 2011, the largest Green demonstrations in Iran in more than a year broke out. In response pro-government MPs called for the death of opposition leaders Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi. Governm... | level of death penalty and problems with LGBT rights. According to the Human Rights Watch, "basic human rights protection in Iran has deteriorated to new lows" under Ahmadinejad's first presidency as, for example, the number of executions increased by three times. The Iranian president has no power to control the judic... |
the Liam O'Flaherty novel The Informer (1935 film), an American drama by John Ford, also based on the Liam O'Flaherty novel The Informers (1963 film), a British crime film by Ken Annakin, released in the U.S. as Underworld Informers The Informer (TV series), a British series broadcast in 1966 and 1967 featuring Ian Hen... | (1929 film), a British dramatic part-talkie directed by Arthur Robison, based on the Liam O'Flaherty novel The Informer (1935 film), an American drama by John Ford, also based on the Liam O'Flaherty novel The Informers (1963 film), a British crime film by Ken Annakin, released in the U.S. as Underworld Informers The In... |
Reporting Council IIRC, a reporting mark for Indiana Interstate Railway International Interdisciplinary Research Center, | I Recall Correctly" International Integrated Reporting Council IIRC, a |
1347) Peter III Aaron (died 1467) Pedro III of Kongo (ruler in 1669) Peter III of Russia (1728–1762) Peter III of Portugal (1717–1786) Religion Pope Peter III of Alexandria (477–489) Peter III of Raqqa, Syriac | of Russia (1728–1762) Peter III of Portugal (1717–1786) Religion Pope Peter III of Alexandria (477–489) Peter III of Raqqa, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch in 581–591 Peter III (bishop of Lugo) (r. from 1113 until 1133) |
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