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in humanoid robots. These actuators are smaller in size, and a single electric actuator may not produce enough power for a human-sized joint. Therefore, it is common to use multiple electric actuators for a single joint in a humanoid robot. An example of a humanoid robot using electric actuators is HRP-2. Hydraulic Hyd... | basin with water after being drained. Italy In the 1400s, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized a complex mechanical robot clad in a suit of armor, capable of sitting, standing, and independently moving its arms. The entire robot was operated by a system of pulleys and cables. Japan From the 17th to 19th centuries, the Japa... |
Medveđa and six in Preševo. These attacks resulted in 14 people killed (of which six were civilians and eight were policemen), 37 people wounded (two UN observers, three civilians and 34 policemen) and five civilians kidnapped. In their attacks, UÇPMB used mostly assault rifles, machine guns, mortars and sniper rifles,... | These attacks resulted in 14 people killed (of which six were civilians and eight were policemen), 37 people wounded (two UN observers, three civilians and 34 policemen) and five civilians kidnapped. In their attacks, UÇPMB used mostly assault rifles, machine guns, mortars and sniper rifles, but occasionally also RPGs,... |
William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who receiv... | section of the periodic table. Early years Ramsay was born at 2 Clifton Street in Glasgow on 2 October 1852, the son of civil engineer and surveyor, William C. Ramsay, and his wife, Catherine Robertson. The family lived at 2 Clifton Street in the city centre, a three-storey and basement Georgian townhouse. The family m... |
vicinity of Surrey. Together their lands were assessed at a total of 7,000 hides, equal to the assessment for Sussex or Essex. Surrey may have formed part of a larger Middle Saxon kingdom or confederacy, also including areas north of the Thames. The name Surrey is derived from (or ), meaning "southern region", and this... | century later the city's growth had reached as far as Putney and Streatham. This expansion was reflected in the creation of the County of London in 1889, detaching the areas subsumed by the city from Surrey. The expansion of London continued in the 20th century, engulfing Croydon, Kingston and many smaller settlements.... |
trading instruments in commodity markets. Futures are traded on regulated commodities exchanges. Over-the-counter (OTC) contracts are "privately negotiated bilateral contracts entered into between the contracting parties directly". Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) began to feature commodities in 2003. Gold ETFs are based o... | Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia could sink into recession. He argued that "We live in a dynamic, fast-developing world. It is so global and so complex that we sometimes cannot keep up with the changes". Analysts have claimed that Russia's economy is overly dependent on commodities. Contracts in the co... |
group in the 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia Macedonian National Liberation Army, a partisan detachment during the People's Liberation War of Macedonia in World War II National Liberation Army (Peru) Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka National Liberation Army (Yugoslavia), Yugoslav World War II re... | National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, refers to its fighters as the National Liberation Army National Liberation Army (Bolivia) (Ñancahuazú Guerrilla), a Marxist–Leninist movement during the 1960s and 1970s National Liberation Army (Colombia) (ELN - ), an active movement associated with the Colombian Civil Wa... |
Lord) Book V Chapters 5 and 9. 1450 to 1600: Depiction, lenses, drawing aid, mirrors Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), familiar with the work of Alhazen in Latin translation, and after an extensive study of optics and human vision, wrote the oldest known clear description of the camera obscura in mirror w... | spots of light or crescent-shaped spots during an eclipse in his treatise Photismi de lumine et umbra (1521–1554). However this wasn't published before 1611, after Johannes Kepler had published similar findings of his own. Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta described the camera obscura, which he called "obscurum... |
low carbon economy and political Greens. Throughout the Middle East, Green money refers to money from Islamic businesses, Islamic banks, and the religious sector. The European Union | (and may still now) have green money for agricultural accounting. The term should not be confused with the nickname "greenback" for the U.S. Dollar, which |
commanders insisted that "We do not want to endanger the stability and the territorial integrity of Macedonia, but we will fight a guerrilla war until we have won our basic rights, until we are accepted as an equal people inside Macedonia." The Macedonian government claimed the NLA were an extremist terrorist organizat... | mass graves near Neproshteno. The case was referred by the Macedonian government to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for investigation. Another incident is the Vejce ambush, where Albanian guerrillas ambushed and killed eight Macedonian special forces from the Lions unit, a patrol of 16 spe... |
lime or quicklime Surname Harold Lime (1928–2008), American pornographic film director Rickey Lime (born 1980), American musician Yvonne Lime (born 1935), American former actress; philanthropist Places Lime, Oregon, United States Limé, a French commune in the Aisne departments Lime Lake Township, Minnesota, United Stat... | or linden Wild lime or Zanthoxylum fagara, a green fruit native to the Americas Chemistry Agricultural lime, a soil additive containing calcium carbonate and other ingredients Birdlime, a sticky substance spread on branches to trap small birds Calcium hydroxide, a.k.a. slaked lime, slack lime, limewater, pickling lime ... |
A, the premier ice hockey league in Switzerland National Leather Association International, a BDSM organization based in the United States National Liberation Army (disambiguation) National Library of Australia Nebraska Library Association Network Level Authentication, in computing, a user authorizing technology Nevada | hockey league in Switzerland National Leather Association International, a BDSM organization based in the United States National Liberation Army (disambiguation) National Library of Australia Nebraska Library Association Network Level Authentication, in computing, a user authorizing technology Nevada Library Associatio... |
ant; , the ant; , a head; , the head; , a bed; , the bed; , an apple; , the apple; , a month; , the month; , a carrot; , the carrot; , a time; , the time A different way, limited to the definite article, is used by Latvian and Lithuanian. The noun does not change but the adjective can be defined or undefined. In Latvia... | | Persian | in, ān | | yek, ye |- | Portuguese | o, a os, as | | um, uma uns, umas |- | Quenya | i, in, n | | |- | Romanian | -(u)l, -le, -(u)a-(u)lui, -i, -lor (all suffixes) | | un, ounui, uneiniște, unor |- | Scots | the | | a |- | Scottish Gaelic | an, am, a, na, nam, nan | | |- | Sindarin | i, in, -in, -n, en | | ... |
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. Legacy After his death, the agency continued to operate and soon became a major force against the labor movement developing in the US and Canada. This effort changed the image of the Pinkertons for years. They were involved in numerous activities against labor during the late 19th an... | involved in numerous activities against labor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including: The Homestead Strike (1892), the direct impetus for the federal Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893, prohibiting the federal government from hiring its detectives The Pullman Strike (1894) The Wild Bunch Gang (1896) The Ludlo... |
University after receiving his MA in 1824. He later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and then briefly taught chemistry at the Glasgow University Portland Street Medical School. In 1828 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer was Edward Turner. He won the Society'... | settings, as well as in modern health care. Graham's study of colloids resulted in his ability to separate colloids and crystalloids using a so-called "dialyzer", using technology that is a rudimentary forerunner of technology in modern kidney dialysis machines. These studies were foundational in the field known as col... |
the law of volumes, was found in 1787 by Jacques Charles. It states that, for a given mass of an ideal gas at constant pressure, the volume is directly proportional to its absolute temperature, assuming in a closed system. The statement of Charles's law is as follows: the volume (V) of a given mass of a gas, at constan... | ideal gas, the pressure exerted on the sides of its container is directly proportional to its absolute temperature. As a mathematical equation, Gay-Lussac's law is written as either: , or , or , where P is the pressure, T is the absolute temperature, and k is another proportionality constant. Avogadro's law Avogadro's ... |
to find optimal Golomb rulers (OGRs) of order-28. Completion had not been announced as of November 2021. Currently, the complexity of finding OGRs of arbitrary order n (where n is given in unary) is unknown. In the past there was some speculation that it is an NP-hard problem. Problems related to the construction of Go... | of Golomb rulers are provably shown to be NP-hard, where it is also noted that no known NP-complete problem has similar flavor to finding Golomb rulers. Definitions Golomb rulers as sets A set of integers where is a Golomb ruler if and only if The order of such a Golomb ruler is and its length is . The canonical form h... |
ice, and, when the continuous-process freezer was perfected in 1926, commercial mass production of ice cream and the birth of the modern ice cream industry was underway. In modern times, a common method for producing ice cream at home is to use an ice cream maker, an electrical device that churns the ice cream mixture ... | sundae originated in the late 19th century. Several men claimed to have created the first sundae, but there is no conclusive evidence to support any of their stories. Some sources say that the sundae was invented to circumvent blue laws, which forbade serving sodas on Sunday. Towns claiming to be the birthplace of the ... |
uneconomical to store, and must therefore be consumed as soon as it is produced. Commoditization Commoditization occurs as a goods or services market loses differentiation across its supply base, often by the diffusion of the intellectual capital necessary to acquire or produce it efficiently. As such, goods that forme... | it is usually uneconomical to store, and must therefore be consumed as soon as it is produced. Commoditization Commoditization occurs as a goods or services market loses differentiation across its supply base, often by the diffusion of the intellectual capital necessary to acquire or produce it efficiently. As such, go... |
in sports Score Point guard, in basketball Points (association football) Points decision, in boxing and some other fighting sports The point (ice hockey), the location of an ice hockey player Technology and transport Point, a data element in a SCADA system representing a single input or output Points, a contact breaker... | reduce interest rates in a mortgage loan Basis point, 1/100 of one percent, denoted bp, bps, and ‱ Percentage points, used to measure a change in percentage absolutely Pivot point (technical analysis), a price level of significance in analysis of a financial market that is used as a predictive indicator of market movem... |
own sorrows and his own sense of dignity, made no allowance for the troubles of his master. Rooms below his rank, he thought, had been assigned him; the Duke was engaged. Without exercising common patience, or giving his old friends the benefit of a doubt, he broke into terms of open abuse, behaved like a lunatic, and ... | of things was due to an overwhelming passion for Leonora. The duke, contrary to his image as a tyrant, showed considerable forbearance. Though a rigid and unsympathetic man, as egotistical as any princeling of his era, to Tasso he was never cruel; unintelligent perhaps, but far from being that monster of ferocity as wh... |
some tests of laboratory animals subjected to very high doses of PCBs have shown effects on the animals' immune system, and some studies of human populations have reported an association between environmental levels of PCBs and immune response. Lawsuits related to health effects In the early 1990s, Monsanto faced sever... | just 10 major rivers. An organism can accumulate PCBs by consuming other organisms that have previously ingested PCBs from terrestrial, freshwater, or marine environments. The concentration of PCBs within an organism will increase over their lifetime; this process is called bioaccumulation. PCB concentrations within an... |
Board, national regulatory board for cricket in Pakistan Partido Comunista Bolchevique, the Bolshevik Communist Party in Mexico in the 1960s Partido Comunista Brasileiro, the Brazilian Communist Party Partido Comunista de Bolivia, the Communist Party of Bolivia PCB Piezotronics, a manufacturer of piezoelectric sensors ... | may refer to: Science and technology Polychlorinated biphenyl, an organic chlorine compound, now recognized as an environmental toxin and classified as a persistent organic pollutant Printed circuit board, a board used in electronics Plenum chamber burning, in some jet engines Computing PCB (software), software to desi... |
six carbon atoms bonded together in a hexagonal planar ring, five of which are bonded to individual hydrogen atoms, with the remaining carbon bonded to a substituent. Phenyl groups are commonplace in organic chemistry. Although often depicted with alternating double and single bonds, phenyl groups are chemically aromat... | are chemically aromatic and have equal bond lengths between carbon atoms in the ring. Nomenclature Usually, a "phenyl group" is synonymous to C6H5− and is represented by the symbol Ph or, archaically, Φ. Benzene is sometimes denoted as PhH. Phenyl groups are generally attached to other atoms or groups. For example, tri... |
poems have survived, though many others have been attributed to him over the centuries. His main themes were love and nature. The influence of wider European ideas of courtly love, as exemplified in the troubadour poetry of Provençal, is seen as a significant influence on Dafydd's poetry. He was an innovative poet who ... | greatest innovation was to make himself the main focus of his poetry. By its very nature, most of the work of the traditional Welsh court poets kept their own personalities far from their poetry, the primary purpose of which was to sing the praises of their patrons. Dafydd's work, in contrast, is full of his own feelin... |
and I saw him fall on his knees and grab two fistfuls of dirt... He was dying, of course... There were stretcher bearers coming up behind us, you see. There was nothing – well, you'd be breaking the rules if you went to help someone who was injured when you were in an attack." Soon after being wounded, Hedd Wyn was car... | Irish war poet, Francis Ledwidge, who was "blown to bits" while drinking tea in a shell hole. Legacy National Eisteddfod On 6 September 1917, the ceremony of Chairing of the Bard took place at the National Eisteddfod in Birkenhead Park, England; in attendance was the Welsh-speaking British Prime Minister, David Lloyd G... |
1920s, announcements seeking all-girl bands for vaudeville performances appeared in industry publications like Billboard, Variety and in newspapers. Bands like The Ingenues and The Dixie Sweethearts were well-publicized, while other groups were simply described as "all-girl Revue". According to Feminist Theory, similar... | as this: "Don't say 'slob' or 'son of a gun' or 'hully gee' on the stage unless you want to be canceled peremptorily... if you are guilty of uttering anything sacrilegious or even suggestive you will be immediately closed and will never again be allowed in a theatre where Mr. Keith is in authority." Along these same li... |
Liverpool Regiment in September 1914, and in April 1915 applied for a commission with the South Wales Borderers and was promoted to full lieutenant in February 1916. He served in France and was wounded in the Battle of Cambrai. During the war, Lewis read the series of novels The Cult of the Self (French: Le Culte du mo... | Wales spoke Welsh as a primary language. This was a decrease from the 1891 census with 54.4% speaking Welsh out of a population of 1.5 million. With these pre-requisites, Lewis condemned "'Welsh nationalism' as it had hitherto existed, a nationalism characterized by inter-party conferences, an obsession with Westminste... |
instance, the Astronomical Almanac for 2010 lists the apparent geocentric position of the Moon on January 1 at 00:00:00.00 Terrestrial Time, in equatorial coordinates, as right ascension 6h 57m 48.86s, declination +23° 30' 05.5". Implied in this position is that it is as projected onto the celestial sphere; any observe... | System from each other, will seem to intersect the sphere at a single point, analogous to the vanishing point of graphical perspective. All parallel planes will seem to intersect the sphere in a coincident great circle (a "vanishing circle"). Conversely, observers looking toward the same point on an infinite-radius cel... |
uses: Causation (law), a key component to establish liability in both criminal and civil law Causation in English law defines the requirement for liability in negligence Causation (sociology), the belief that events or actions can directly produce change in another variable in | in English law defines the requirement for liability in negligence Causation (sociology), the belief that events or actions can directly produce change in another variable in a |
Mexico Quarterly Review in 1959. His first published science fiction story was "Day of the Glacier", in The Original Science Fiction Stories in 1960, and his first published novel was Past Master in 1968. Until 1971, Lafferty worked as an electrical engineer. After that, he spent his time writing until around 1980, whe... | electrical engineer. After that, he spent his time writing until around 1980, when his output declined due to a stroke. He stopped writing regularly in 1984. In 1994, he suffered an even more severe stroke. He died 18 March 2002, aged 87 in a nursing home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. His collected papers, artifacts, and ... |
form a subgroup isomorphic to . The full group is a semidirect product of those two subgroups in the sense given earlier. Conversely, suppose that we are given a group with a normal subgroup and a subgroup , such that every element of may be written uniquely in the form where lies in and lies in . Let be the homomorphi... | be isomorphic to . Q8 The group of the eight quaternions where and , is another example of a group which has non-trivial subgroups yet is still not split. For example, the subgroup generated by is isomorphic to and is normal. It also has a subgroup of order generated by . This would mean would have to be a split extens... |
two counties in the United States of America: Worcester County, Massachusetts | Worcester County is the name of |
attractors Fractal flame L-system fractals Fractals created by the iteration of complex polynomials: perhaps the most famous fractals. Newton fractals, including Nova fractals Quaternionic and (recently) hypernionic fractals Fractal terrains generated by random fractal processes Mandelbulbs are a kind of three dimensio... | research labs in the mid-1980s. Scientific forms of art, including fractal art, have developed separately from mainstream culture. Starting with 2-dimensional details of fractals, such as the Mandelbrot Set, fractals have found artistic application in fields as varied as texture generation, plant growth simulation, and... |
concerns the period | period 459 BC – 450 |
relied on the Church Turing Thesis for computability. This definition is often called Mises–Church randomness. Modern approaches During the 20th century various technical approaches to defining random sequences were developed and now three distinct paradigms can be identified. In the mid 1960s, A. N. Kolmogorov and D. ... | of random variables and many statistical discussions begin with the words "let X1,...,Xn be independent random variables...". Yet as D. H. Lehmer stated in 1951: "A random sequence is a vague notion... in which each term is unpredictable to the uninitiated and whose digits pass a certain number of tests traditional wit... |
world but to drive it crazy. The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1952) tells the story of an aging astronaut who is trying to get his beloved space program back on track after Congress has cut off the funds for it. Brown's flash fiction short story "The Hobbyist" (1961) is about a man named Sangstrom, who is in a desperat... | experiments multiple first-person viewpoints, among them a gentle, deeply religious serial killer, and examines racial tensions between Anglos and Latinos in the US state of Arizona. Here Comes a Candle is told in straight narrative sections alternating with a radio script, a screenplay, a sportscast, a teleplay, a sta... |
a metric space A subset S of a metric space (M, d) is bounded if there exists r > 0 such that for all s and t in S, we have d(s, t) < r. (M, d) is a bounded metric space (or d is a bounded metric) if M is bounded as a subset of itself. Total boundedness implies boundedness. For subsets of Rn the two are equivalent. A m... | boundedness does not correspond to a notion of "size". A subset S of a partially ordered set P is called bounded above if there is an element k in P such that k ≥ s for all s in S. The element k is called an upper bound of S. The concepts of bounded below and lower bound are defined similarly. (See also upper and lower... |
many discontinuities in its domain. The discontinuities, however, do not necessarily consist of isolated points and may even be dense in an interval (a, b). For example, for any summable sequence of positive numbers and any enumeration of the rational numbers, the monotonically increasing function is continuous exactly... | the (much weaker) negative qualifications "not decreasing" and "not increasing". For example, the function of figure 3 first falls, then rises, then falls again. It is therefore not decreasing and not increasing, but it is neither non-decreasing nor non-increasing. A function is said to be absolutely monotonic over an ... |
Jonson and Nashe were issued by Queen Elizabeth I's so-called interrogator, Richard Topcliffe. Jonson was jailed in Marshalsea Prison and charged with "Leude and mutynous behaviour", while Nashe managed to escape to Great Yarmouth. Two of the actors, Gabriel Spenser and Robert Shaw, were also imprisoned. A year later, ... | enjoyed was that of the Scottish poet, William Drummond of Hawthornden, sited on the River Esk. Drummond undertook to record as much of Jonson's conversation as he could in his diary, and thus recorded aspects of Jonson's personality that would otherwise have been less clearly seen. Jonson delivers his opinions, in Dru... |
something of value, but has little or no value of its own (intrinsic value). Unlike some forms of fiat money (which may have no commodity backing), genuine representative money must have something of intrinsic value supporting the face value. More specifically, the term representative money has been used variously to m... | representative money. Historically, the use of representative money predates the invention of coinage. In the ancient empires of Egypt, Babylon, India and China, the temples and palaces often had commodity warehouses which issued certificates of deposit as evidence of a claim upon a portion of the goods stored in the w... |
1940, his best-known work appeared: Fame Is the Spur, the story of a Labour leader's rise to power. During the war years Spring wrote two other novels, Hard Facts (1944) and Dunkerley's (1946). In 1947 Spring and his wife moved to Falmouth, The White Cottage in Fenwick Road, and in the post-war period he published Ther... | journalist who wrote in English. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was Fame Is the Spur (1940), which was later adapted into a film starring Michael Redgrave and, later still a BBC TV series (1982) starring Tim... |
reported statements from sermons of his that were published in Arabic in 1998. He said: "The western civilisation is a civilisation without morals. In the Netherlands it is permitted for homosexuals to marry each other. The Europeans stand lower than dogs and pigs". Forty-nine individuals and organizations filed offici... | than dogs and pigs". Forty-nine individuals and organizations filed official complaints about his statements on the Nova program, under Dutch anti-discrimination laws. However a drawn-out period of reconciliation followed, involving supporters of el-Moumni, Dutch politicians, homosexuals and religious groups, in which ... |
a theatre, a temple, a forum, and public baths. Although they did not maintain a major military garrison, its position on Watling Street relative to the major Kentish ports of Rutupiae (Richborough), Dubrae (Dover), and Lemanae (Lymne) gave it considerable strategic importance. In the late 3rd century, to defend agains... | by the South Eastern Railway, which connected the town to its larger network in 1846. The London, Chatham & Dover Railway arrived in 1860; the competition and cost-cutting between the lines was resolved by merging them as the South Eastern & Chatham in 1899. In 1848, St Augustine's Abbey was refurbished for use as a mi... |
surrounding areas that became the Republic of Lebanon) came under French control, while Mesopotamia and Palestine were allotted to the British. Most of these states achieved independence during the following three decades without great difficulty, though in some regimes, the colonial legacy continued through the granti... | the Holocaust. The resolution called for the withdrawal of British forces and termination of the Mandate by 1 August 1948, and establishment of the new independent states by 1 October 1948. The leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted parts of the plan, while Arab leaders refused it. In the October 1947 Arab... |
of the Polish kings in the second half of the 17th century. In 1649 he became a private painter to the Polish king John II Casimir Vasa, and then to successor kings Michael Wiśniowiecki and John III Sobieski. Schultz returned to his hometown around 1660, yet from time to time worked on royal commissions in Warsaw, ofte... | in Gdańsk (Danzig), in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Schultz learned the art of painting from his uncle, Daniel Schultz the Elder, another important painter, working in his workshop for about five years. After his uncle's death he travelled to France and the Netherlands to continue his studies... |
Diocese of Sandwich (now of London, Ontario) Sandwich Islands, the former name for the Hawaiian Islands Sandwich, the former Apostolic Prefecture of the Sandwich Islands Elsewhere Sandwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom Sandwich Island, former colonial name of Efate, now part of the Shefa Province, Republic of Vanuatu ... | of London, Ontario) Sandwich Islands, the former name for the Hawaiian Islands Sandwich, the former Apostolic Prefecture of the Sandwich Islands Elsewhere Sandwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom Sandwich Island, former colonial name of Efate, now part of the Shefa Province, Republic of Vanuatu Sandwich Island, part of ... |
Administrative Okrug, Moscow. History Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union. Its operations began on 13 January 1933, by order of P. I. Baranov, People's Commissar of the Heavy Industry and the Head of the Main Department of Aviation Industry. In 2006 the Russian government merged Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut... | the Head of the Main Department of Aviation Industry. In 2006 the Russian government merged Ilyushin with Mikoyan, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, and Yakovlev under a new company named United Aircraft Corporation. In July 2014 it was reported that Ilyushin and Myasishchev would merge to form the United Aircraft Corporation bu... |
1907 the Delegation came up with its own reformed version of Esperanto, Ido. Ido drew a significant number of speakers away from Esperanto in the short term, but in the longer term most of these either returned to Esperanto or moved on to other new auxlangs. Besides Ido, a great number of simplified Esperantos, called ... | Franco for about a decade, in Portugal under Salazar, in Romania under Ceaușescu, and in half a dozen Eastern European countries during the late forties and part of the fifties, Esperanto activities and the formation of Esperanto associations were forbidden. In spite of these factors more people continued to learn Espe... |
he was taken in by his wealthy uncle, Jan Zamoyski, Voivode of Sandomierz, who funded his education. Sometime in mid-1655, Michał found himself at the court of King John II Casimir. Following the Swedish invasion of Poland, Michael, together with the royal court, fled to Głogówek in Upper Silesia. On 18 November 1655, ... | poor and inexperienced prince would not pose a threat to their rights enshrined in the Golden Liberty. The Free election of 1669 took place in May and June of that year. Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania on 19 June and became known as Michael I. Most of the gathered nobi... |
building and youth departments, Dr. Franz Kahle, is from Alliance '90/The Greens. The majority in the 59-seat city parliament is held by a coalition of SPD (22 seats) and Green (13 seats) members. Also represented are the factions of the Christian Democratic Union (14 seats), The Left (4 seats), the Free Democratic Par... | spent on any new architecture or expansion. When Romanticism became the dominant cultural and artistic paradigm in Germany, Marburg became interesting once again, and many of the leaders of the movement lived, taught, or studied in Marburg. They formed a circle of friends that was of great importance, especially in lit... |
language, a language for communication between people who do not share a native language Institute for Adult Learning, | in Germany International auxiliary language, a language for communication between people who do not share a native language Institute for Adult Learning, an autonomous institute based in Singapore. Iâl or Ial or Yale, a commote in Medieval |
England and William II, Prince of Orange, and learned French, German, and Italian, in addition to Latin. Both brothers returned to the Commonwealth in 1648. Upon receiving the news of the death of king Władysław IV Vasa and the hostilities of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, they volunteered for the army. They both fought in ... | "All the common people kissed my hands, my feet, my clothes; others only touched me, saying: 'Ah, let us kiss so valiant a hand!'" The war with the Ottomans was not yet over, and Sobieski continued the campaign with the Battle of Párkány on 7–9 October. After early victories, the Polish found themselves a junior partne... |
the dam's control systems, making it impossible to gradually release water from the near-capacity dam by conventional means. An improvised system, placing large pipes over the spillway to siphon water over it, was soon installed, but the inflow from an unusually wet spring was such that the dam would have overflowed an... | is located near the dam wall. A smaller pond, called the Dartmouth Dam Regulating Pond or Banimboola Pondage, approximately downstream of the main dam, also across the Mitta Mitta River, is located adjacent the Banimboola Hydroelectric Power Station and forms part of the Dartmouth Dam complex of facilities. Location an... |
at the end of the move notation, for example: e8Q (promoting to queen). In standard FIDE notation, no punctuation is used; in Portable Game Notation (PGN), as well as in Chess Life and English Wikipedia, pawn promotion is indicated by the equals sign (e8=Q). Other formulations used in chess literature include parenthes... | represented by "X", "x", or "x". End of game The notation 1–0 at the completion of moves indicates that White won, 0–1 indicates that Black won, and ½–½ indicates a draw. In case of forfeit, scores 0–0, ½–0, and 0–½ are also possible. If player(s) lost by default, results are +/−, −/+, or −/−. Often there is no indicat... |
milk bars than there were during the 1970s and 80s due to changing shopping habits, most people living in suburban areas still have a milk bar within walking distance or a short drive of their home. United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, the National Milk Bar franchise was founded by Robert William Griffiths as an ordin... | or corner stores (although by definition these are different establishments). Milk bars are traditionally a place where people pick up newspapers, and fast-food items like fish and chips and hamburgers, and where people can purchase milkshakes and snacks. They are essentially a smaller scale suburban form of the conven... |
distance downstream from the Itaipu Dam. The junction of the water flows marks the border between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Some points in the cities of Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina, and Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, have access to the Iguazu River, where the borders of all three nations may be s... | National Park (Brazil). The two parks were designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984 and 1986, respectively. The first proposal for a Brazilian national park aimed at providing a pristine environment to "future generations", just as "it had been created by God" and endowed with "all possible preservation, from the... |
15R. Runway 10 is equipped with ILS category IIIB, and runway 28 is equipped with ILS category I. 15R/33L: x : Runway 33L is the main landing runway, unless wind or fog conditions require landings on Runway 10 with its higher ILS rating. Thomas A. Dixon Aircraft Observation Area at Friendship Park overlooks Runway 33L.... | Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore native, who was the first African American to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. This airport also draws large numbers of travelers from the Richmond, Harrisburg and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. BWI covers 3,160 acres (1,279 ha) of land. History Early years Plann... |
him are few and a new one has recently been added to the group, an Annunciation to the Virgin in the collection of the Universitätbibliothek in Erlangen. He also made a number of portrait drawings that foreshadow the work of his famous son, Hans Holbein the Younger. Holbein first appears at Augsburg, partnered with his... | Presentation of Christ. Today they hang in separate panels in the cathedral of Augsburg. Holbein painted richly colored religious works. His later paintings show how he pioneered and led the transformation of German art from the (Late) International Gothic to the Renaissance style. In addition to the altar paintings th... |
a citizen of Basel. The goldsmith Jörg Schweiger, whom Holbein had portrayed before, was his guarantor. However, he disappears from records soon after and is assumed to have died around 1519. Franny Moyle writes, "There is no record of Ambrosius's death, but the abrupt cessation of his work in a year [1519] where so ma... | he registered as a member of the Basel painters' guild, and on 6 June 1518 he was naturalized as a citizen of Basel. The goldsmith Jörg Schweiger, whom Holbein had portrayed before, was his guarantor. However, he disappears from records soon after and is assumed to have died around 1519. Franny Moyle writes, "There is ... |
during the year. These species tend to have large swings in population size. The gestation period of the pika is around one month long, and the newborns are altricial—they require parental care. The social behaviour of the two groups also differs: the rock dwellers aggressively maintain scent-marked territories, while ... | Indonesia or Madagascar, nor on many islands. Although they are not native to Australia, humans have introduced them there and they have successfully colonized many parts of the country and caused disruption to native species. Biology Digestion Like other herbivores, lagomorphs have to deal with a bulky diet in which t... |
males. Economy James Rouse conceived of a city, not a suburban bedroom community, and a large area on the eastern edge was allocated for industrial purposes. The centerpiece of this aspect of the development was a General Electric appliance plant on a site previously operated as a cattle farm. After an injunction attem... | functions as a homeowner association with regard to private property. The first boards were filled entirely with Rouse Company appointees. The first manager of the Columbia Association was John Estabrook Slayton (d. 1967). For Slayton's contributions to the early planning of Columbia, the community center in the Wilde ... |
the other encompassing Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. He spent some time living in a cottage on Highgate Hill in north London, where his time in the area is recorded by a bronze plaque that bears the following inscription:Four feet below this spot is the stone step, formerly the entrance to the cottage in which lived And... | in London, 18th August, 1678, and buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. This memorial is placed here by the London County Council, December, 1898. A floral sundial in the nearby Lauderdale House bears an inscription quoting lines from his poem "The Garden". He died suddenly in 1678, while in attendance at a ... |
in later years. Holbein was prolific during this period in Basel, which coincided with the arrival of Lutheranism in the city. He undertook a number of major projects, such as external murals for The House of the Dance and internal murals for the Council Chamber of the Town Hall. The former are known from preparatory d... | among those "who have no serious objections and wish to go along with other Christians". Holbein evidently retained favour under the new order. The reformist council paid him a retaining fee of 50 florins and commissioned him to resume work on the Council Chamber frescoes. They now chose themes from the Old Testament i... |
of a delegation, led by the mayor of the city, Johann Brandes in negotiations. Despite being subjected to severe pressure and incarceration for a year at Kraków, the delegation refused to submit to the king's terms, thereby upholding independence, Giese and Councilor Georg Kleefeld were eventually released in 1570 agai... | to the terms of the declared Union of Lublin, which the city had not agreed to. Negotiations between the city and the king took place in 1568/69, initially at Piotrków Trybunalski. Giese was a member of a delegation, led by the mayor of the city, Johann Brandes in negotiations. Despite being subjected to severe pressur... |
points vary because different planets' axes are oriented differently (the apparent positions of the stars also change slightly because of parallax effects). Finding the north celestial pole The north celestial pole currently is within one degree of the bright star Polaris (named from the Latin stella polaris, meaning "... | Octant. Sigma Octantis is identified as the south pole star, more than one degree away from the pole, but with a magnitude of 5.5 it is barely visible on a clear night. Method one: The Southern Cross The south celestial pole can be located from the Southern Cross (Crux) and its two "pointer" stars α Centauri and β Cent... |
and does not require the article "an". Combining the two, e.g. "seven-eighths of a slice of apple", makes it clear the fraction must be a noun referring to a part of another countable noun. In many languages, including the East Asian languages referred to above, the analogous constructions do not include any equivalent... | English correspond to units of measurement or containers, and are themselves count nouns rather than grammatical particles: one quart of water three cups of coffee four kernels of corn, three ears of corn, two bushels of corn Though similar in construction, fractions are not measure words. For example, in "seven-eighth... |
cells is not direct. Since there are about 150 million receptors and only 1 million optic nerve fibres, there must be convergence and thus mixing of signals. Moreover, the horizontal action of the horizontal and amacrine cells can allow one area of the retina to control another (e.g. one stimulus inhibiting another). T... | of ion channels embedded in the synapses between the bipolar and ganglion cells. The centre–surround structures are mathematically equivalent to the edge detection algorithms used by computer programmers to extract or enhance the edges in a digital photograph. Thus, the retina performs operations on the image-represent... |
starvation. Athletes exercising in extreme conditions (for three or more hours continuously, e.g. a marathon or triathlon) who do not consume electrolytes risk dehydration (or hyponatremia). A home-made electrolyte drink can be made by using water, sugar and salt in precise proportions. It is important to include gluco... | milk, nuts, and many fruits and vegetables (whole or in juice form) (e.g., potatoes, avocados). Electrochemistry When electrodes are placed in an electrolyte and a voltage is applied, the electrolyte will conduct electricity. Lone electrons normally cannot pass through the electrolyte; instead, a chemical reaction occu... |
many animals. The European pied flycatcher is one species that preys upon caterpillars. The flycatcher typically finds caterpillars among oak foliage. Paper wasps, including those in the genus Polistes and Polybia catch caterpillars to feed their young and themselves. Behavior Caterpillars have been called "eating mach... | Many caterpillars are cryptically colored and resemble the plants on which they feed. An example of caterpillars that use camouflage for defense is the species Nemoria arizonaria. If the caterpillars hatch in the spring and feed on oak catkins they appear green. If they hatch in the summer they appear dark colored, lik... |
located on the palps and on the feet. The mouthparts are adapted to sucking and the mandibles are usually reduced in size or absent. The first maxillae are elongated into a tubular proboscis which is curled up at rest and expanded when needed to feed. The first and second maxillae bear palps which function as sensory o... | inflating its wings with hemolymph and letting them dry, during which time it is extremely vulnerable to predators. Pattern formation The colorful patterns on many butterfly wings tell potential predators that they are toxic. Hence, the genetic basis of wing pattern formation can illuminate both the evolution of butter... |
the taper is on the leading edge (front), and sometimes in the trailing edge (tail). Ellipticals are usually used only by sport parachutists. They often have smaller, more numerous fabric cells and are shallower in profile. Their canopies can be anywhere from slightly elliptical to highly elliptical, indicating the amo... | by airborne assaults on a larger scale, such as the Battle of Crete and Operation Market Garden, the latter being the largest airborne military operation ever. Aircraft crew were routinely equipped with parachutes for emergencies as well. In 1937, drag chutes were used in aviation for the first time, by Soviet airplane... |
epidemiological review found associations between autism and exposure to certain pesticides, but noted that the available evidence was insufficient to conclude that the relationship was causal. Occupational exposure among agricultural workers The World Health Organization and the UN Environment Programme estimate that ... | by about 10%. Another study, conducted in 1999, found that a ban on pesticides in the United States may result in a rise of food prices, loss of jobs, and an increase in world hunger. There are two levels of benefits for pesticide use, primary and secondary. Primary benefits are direct gains from the use of pesticides ... |
"Agreement for Cultural Cooperation between Japan and Germany", which restored the "reluctant alliance" between them. Later signatories In a ceremonial speech following the signing of the pact on 27 September, Ribbentrop may have suggested that the signatories were open to accepting new signatories in the future. The D... | participate in the economic and political reorganisation. The official (DNB), however, as well as most of the press, reported a slightly different version in which the words "having good will towards the pact" (der diesem Pakt wohlwollend gegenübertreten will) instead of "accede to" were used. It is likely that other n... |
to simply attacking them. The final section of An Essay on Criticism discusses the moral qualities and virtues inherent in an ideal critic, who Pope claims is also the ideal man. The Rape of the Lock Pope's most famous poem is The Rape of the Lock, first published in 1712, with a revised version in 1714. A mock-epic, i... | and is what he centres the Universe around as an ordered structure. The limited intelligence of man can only take in tiny portions of this order and experience only partial truths, hence man must rely on hope, which then leads to faith. Man must be aware of his existence in the Universe and what he brings to it in term... |
in a saloon. However, before Berlin was fourteen his meager income was still adding less than his sisters' to the family's budget, which made him feel worthless. He then decided to leave home and join the city's ragged army of other young immigrants. He lived in the Bowery, taking up residence in one of the lodging hou... | new songs every week, including songs aimed at the various immigrant cultures arriving from Europe. On one occasion, Berlin, whose face was still not known, was on a train trip and decided to entertain the fellow passengers with some music. They asked him how he knew so many hit songs, and Berlin modestly replied, "I w... |
held his breath, whereupon he felt an icy cold penetrating his rear. He ran ashore in fright and was amazed to sense water pouring from his anus. While serving in the army, he told his fellow soldiers about his special ability, and repeated it for their amusement, sucking up water from a pan into his rectum and then pr... | to David Lee's 2007 reworked revival of the 1953 Broadway play Can-Can, which had originally been written by Abe Burroughs and Cole Porter. The updated play, staged at the Pasadena Playhouse, featured musical theatre actor Robert Yacko as the fartiste, with sound effects provided by the band's trombone and piccolo play... |
Rigsby in the ITV series Rising Damp from 1974 to 1978, and Reginald Perrin in the BBC's The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979. Early life and stage work Rossiter was born on 21 October 1926 in Wavertree, Liverpool, the second son of John and Elizabeth (née Howell) Rossiter. The family lived over the b... | in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted by David Nobbs from his own comic novels and broadcast on the BBC. Rossiter was given a surprise tribute on This Is Your Life in 1975. He appeared in I Tell You It’s Burt Reynolds, an episode of the 1977 Yorkshire Television series The Galton & Simpson Playhouse, as well... |
a mixed substitution alphabet is simple, a serious disadvantage is that the last letters of the alphabet (which are mostly low frequency) tend to stay at the end. A stronger way of constructing a mixed alphabet is to generate the substitution alphabet completely randomly. Although the number of possible substitution al... | the character, thus making frequency analysis much more difficult. The book cipher and straddling checkerboard are types of homophonic cipher. Francesco I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, used the earliest known example of a homophonic substitution cipher in 1401 for correspondence with one Simone de Crema. Polyalphabetic subs... |
generally took only a few days. However, the French success became widely known and, after a publication in Le Matin, the Germans changed to a new system on 18 November 1914. During World War II, the double transposition cipher was used by Dutch Resistance groups, the French Maquis and the British Special Operations Ex... | chosen to make the ciphertext humorous. Columnar transposition In a columnar transposition, the message is written out in rows of a fixed length, and then read out again column by column, and the columns are chosen in some scrambled order. Both the width of the rows and the permutation of the columns are usually define... |
the Global Positioning System, and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation. The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by a national cartographical organiza... | The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator, the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The "longitude" (abbreviation: Long., λ, or lambda) of a point on Earth's surface is ... |
in the English language are abjurer and nowhere, and Chechen and purpura. Other examples of words like these are shown in the table. The pair gnat and tang is an example of words that are both ROT13 reciprocals and reversals. The 1989 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) included an entry by Brian Westley. W... | that, since applying ROT13 to an already ROT13-encrypted text restores the original plaintext, ROT26 is equivalent to no encryption at all), including a spoof academic paper entitled "On the 2ROT13 Encryption Algorithm". By extension, triple-ROT13 (used in joking analogy with 3DES) is equivalent to regular ROT13. In De... |
to the system. Balancing these concerns and demonstrating that they are addressed is part of designing the system. This implies that architecture involves dealing with a broad variety of concerns and stakeholders, and has a multidisciplinary nature. Separation of concerns: the established way for architects to reduce c... | proposed system will operate and determining the requirements for the system. The input or requirements to the analysis activity can come from any number of stakeholders and include items such as: what the system will do when operational (the functional requirements) how well the system will perform runtime non-functio... |
and processing conditions allow polyurethanes to have the very wide range of properties that make them such widely used polymers. Raw materials The main ingredients to make a polyurethane are di- and tri-isocyanates and polyols. Other materials are added to aid processing the polymer or to modify the properties of the ... | the edges of the bubbles are stiff enough to retain their shape, in extreme cases reticulated foams can be formed. Open-cell foams feel soft and allow air to flow through, so they are comfortable when used in seat cushions or mattresses. Closed-cell foams are used as rigid thermal insulation. High-density microcellular... |
CDPs (if any), all listed on a single bullet Communities not in a village or CDP (if any), all listed on a single bullet (The list of towns, villages, and CDPs is complete. The listing of additional communities should not be considered complete.) Bedford, containing no villages: (contains the CDPs of Bedford, Bedford H... | consisted of the area around and between the Delaware and Hudson Rivers. Several different tribes occupied the area, including The Manhattans, and the Weckquaesgeek and Siwanoy bands of the Wappinger in the south, and Tankiteke, Sintsink and Kitchawank Wappinger in the north. The first European explorers to visit the W... |
Nassau is home to some famous and historic golf courses. Rockaway Hunting Club, founded in 1878, is the oldest country club in the country. The U.S. Open has been held in Nassau five times, once each at Garden City Golf Club, Inwood Country Club, and Fresh Meadow Country Club, and twice at Bethpage Black Course, the fi... | post office districts use the same names as a city, hamlet, or village within them, but each sets the boundaries independently. The number of districts and communities do not coincide, therefore the boundaries cannot be the same, and residences often have postal addresses that differ from the name of the hamlet and/or ... |
Corbusier to Niemeyer: Savoye House – Tremaine House 1949. According to the museum, "The theme of this show is based on Henry Russell-Hitchcock's book on the Miller (Company) Collection of abstract art, Painting toward architecture...". In 2010, Berry Bergdoll, a curator at MoMA asserted the importance of the exhibitio... | In 1950 he was asked to design São Paulo's Ibirapuera Park for the city's 400th anniversary celebration. The plan, which consisted of several porticoed pavilions related via a gigantic free form marquee, had to be simplified due to cost. The resulting buildings were less interesting individually, which meant that the e... |
an American evangelical Christian magazine Businesses and organizations CT Corp, an Indonesian conglomerate CT Corporation, an umbrella brand for two businesses: CT Corporation and CT Liena C|T Group, formerly Crosby Textor Group, social research and political polling company Canadian Tire, a Canadian company engaged i... | a coagulation test Cardiothoracic surgery, the field of medicine specializing in chest surgery Chemotype (ct.), a chemically distinct entity in a plant or microorganism Cognitive therapy, a type of psychotherapy Connective tissue, a type of biological tissue Chelation therapy Chemotherapy Cholera toxin, a toxic protein... |
a known plaintext pair , such that , one can recover the key pair in steps, instead of the steps one would expect from an ideally secure algorithm with bits of key. Therefore, Triple DES uses a "key bundle" that comprises three DES keys, , and , each of 56 bits (excluding parity bits). The encryption algorithm is: That... | byte, the least significant bit is an odd-parity generated bit, it is discarded when forming the effective 56-bit keys): 01.01.01.01.01.01.01.01, FE.FE.FE.FE.FE.FE.FE.FE, E0.FE.FE.E0.F1.FE.FE.F1, 1F.01.01.1F.0E.01.01.0E, 01.01.FE.FE.01.01.FE.FE, FE.FE.01.01.FE.FE.01.01, E0.FE.01.1F.F1.FE.01.0E, 1F.01.FE.E0.0E.01.FE.F1,... |
a return to the status quo, but Philip II of Macedon keeps the right to punish the Phocians for starting the Sacred War. The Athenian politicians, Demosthenes and Timarchus, prepare to prosecute Aeschines for treason after he has sought to reconcile the Athenians to Macedonia's expansion into Greece. Eubulus loses his ... | early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Greece The Peace of Philocrates is signed between Macedonia and Athens. The document agrees to a return to the status quo, but Philip II of Macedon keeps the right to punish the Phocians for ... |
One French Grand Prix on many occasions, the first of which was the 1971 French Grand Prix. The circuit was also extensively used for testing, especially in Formula One. In 1986, Brabham Formula One driver Elio de Angelis was killed in a testing accident at the fast first turn after the rear wing of his Brabham BT55 ha... | length to just over , and the fast sweeping Verrerie curves where de Angelis had crashed were bypassed. Effectively, after the start, instead of heading into the left hand Verrerie sweeper, cars now braked hard and turned sharp right into a short run that connected the pit straight to the Mistral. This changed the circ... |
direction to an observer situated on the Earth's surface). Coordinate systems in astronomy can specify an object's position in three-dimensional space or plot merely its direction on a celestial sphere, if the object's distance is unknown or trivial. Spherical coordinates, projected on the celestial sphere, are analogo... | by the second gives the convenient tangent equation seen on the left. The rotation matrix equivalent is given beneath each case. This division is ambiguous because tan has a period of 180° () whereas cos and sin have periods of 360° (2). Equatorial ↔ horizontal Note that azimuth () is measured from the south point, tur... |
the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII of Egypt Eudoxus (lunar crater) Eudoxus (Martian crater) See also | navigator who explored the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII of Egypt Eudoxus (lunar crater) Eudoxus (Martian crater) See also 11709 Eudoxos, asteroid Eudoxia (name) |
objects. Setting circles in conjunction with a star chart or ephemeris allow the telescope to be easily pointed at known objects on the celestial sphere. Declination The declination symbol , (lower case "delta", abbreviated DEC) measures the angular distance of an object perpendicular to the celestial equator, positive... | is a celestial coordinate system widely used to specify the positions of celestial objects. It may be implemented in spherical or rectangular coordinates, both defined by an origin at the centre of Earth, a fundamental plane consisting of the projection of Earth's equator onto the celestial sphere (forming the celestia... |
pool of mercury. The pole of the upper hemisphere is called the zenith. The pole of the lower hemisphere is called the nadir. The following are two independent horizontal angular coordinates: Altitude (alt.), sometimes referred to as elevation (el.), is the angle between the object and the observer's local horizon. For... | are visible, and the lower hemisphere, where objects are below the horizon and cannot be seen, since the Earth obstructs views of them. The great circle separating the hemispheres is called the celestial horizon, which is defined as the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane is normal to the local gravity vec... |
(symbols: heliocentric , geocentric ) measures the angular distance of an object along the ecliptic from the primary direction. Like right ascension in the equatorial coordinate system, the primary direction (0° ecliptic longitude) points from the Earth towards the Sun at the vernal equinox of the Northern Hemisphere. ... | standard direction, allowing positions established at various dates to be compared directly. Mean equinox of date is the intersection of the ecliptic of "date" (that is, the ecliptic in its position at "date") with the mean equator (that is, the equator rotated by precession to its position at "date", but free from the... |
squares of their radii, volumes of spheres are to one another as the cubes of their radii, the volume of a pyramid is one-third the volume of a prism with the same base and altitude, and the volume of a cone is one-third that of the corresponding cylinder. Eudoxus introduced the idea of non-quantified mathematical magn... | We are fairly well informed about the contents of Phaenomena, for Eudoxus's prose text was the basis for a poem of the same name by Aratus. Hipparchus quoted from the text of Eudoxus in his commentary on Aratus. Eudoxan planetary models A general idea of the content of On Speeds can be gleaned from Aristotle's Metaphys... |
when Lund Observatory assembled a set of conversion tables that defined a standard galactic coordinate system based on a galactic north pole at RA , dec +28° (in the B1900.0 epoch convention) and a 0° longitude at the point where the galactic plane and equatorial plane intersected. In 1958, the International Astronomic... | precessed to other epochs; see the table. The IAU recommended that during the transition period from the old, pre-1958 system to the new, the old longitude and latitude should be designated and while the new should be designated and . This convention is occasionally seen. Radio source Sagittarius A*, which is the best ... |
plaque levels, associated in some instances with bone loss but without tooth detachment. Skin Hypertrichosis, Stevens–Johnson syndrome, purple glove syndrome, rash, exfoliative dermatitis, itching, excessive hairiness, and coarsening of facial features can be seen in those taking phenytoin. Phenytoin therapy has been l... | syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). These conditions are significantly more common in patients with a particular HLA-B allele, HLA-B*1502. This allele occurs almost exclusively in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including South Asian Indians. Phenytoin is primarily metabolized to its... |
practical uses, it has not yet been proven whether smooth solutions always exist in three dimensions—i.e. they are infinitely differentiable (or even just bounded) at all points in the domain. This is called the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem. The Clay Mathematics Institute has called this one of the se... | also be written as where the vector is known as the Lamb vector. For the special case of an incompressible flow, the pressure constrains the flow so that the volume of fluid elements is constant: isochoric flow resulting in a solenoidal velocity field with . Incompressible flow The incompressible momentum Navier–Stokes... |
it appears that Hindus were in possession of the formulae for the sum of the arithmetic and geometric series as early as the 4th century B.C. Ācārya Bhadrabāhu uses the sum of a geometric series in his Kalpasūtra in 433 B.C. In Indian mathematics, particular instances of arithmetic series have been found to implicitly ... | on , i.e., a function such that for any , the following holds: if and only if (identity of indiscernibles), (symmetry), and (triangle inequality). By taking the third property and letting , it can be shown that (non-negative). Sequences and limits A sequence is an ordered list. Like a set, it contains members (also cal... |
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