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near McMurdo Station, Antarctica Castle Rock (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica Castle Rock, Western Australia, in the Porongurup Range, Australia Castle Rock (volcano), a volcanic plug in British Columbia, Canada Castle Rock (Waikato), a volcanic plug on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand Te Tihi-o-Kahukura / Cas... | Other locations Castle Rock (Garrison, New York), a historic house in the Hudson Highlands Castlerock railway station, a railway station in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland Fiction Castle Rock (Stephen King), the fictional Maine town in many Stephen King works Castle Rock (TV series), the American television series... |
significant quantity rapidly, and chronic toxicity arising from environmental and occupational exposure over long periods. Much public suspicion of herbicides revolves around a confusion between valid statements of acute toxicity as opposed to equally valid statements of lack of chronic toxicity at the recommended leve... | or physiological differences between plant species. Surfactants alter the physical properties of the spray solution and the overall phytotoxicity of the herbicide, increasing translocation. 2,4-D, mecoprop, and dicamba control many broadleaf weeds but remain ineffective against turfgrasses. Non-selective herbicides are... |
traits throughout various, seemingly unrelated cases in classic storytelling, media, etc. This usage of the term draws from both comparative anthropology and from Jungian archetypal theory. Archetypes are also very close analogies to instincts, in that, long before any consciousness develops, it is the impersonal and i... | The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, argues that the following basic archetypes underlie all stories: Overcoming the Monster Rags to Riches The Quest Voyage and Return Comedy Tragedy Rebirth These themes coincide with the characters of Jung's archetypes. Literary criticism Archetypal literary criticism argues th... |
Charity, View on the Château de Versailles and the Orangerie Gustave Courbet – 48 paintings including The Artist's Studio, A Burial at Ornans, Young Man Sitting, L'Origine du monde, Le ruisseau noir, Still-Life with Fruit, The Wave, The Wounded Man Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – 32 paintings (the main collection of his ... | The Balcony, Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets, The Luncheon on the Grass, The Fifer, The Reading Henri Matisse - Luxe, Calme et Volupté Jean-François Millet – 27 paintings including The Angelus, Spring, The Gleaners Piet Mondrian – 2 paintings Claude Monet – 86 paintings (another main collection of his painting... |
gardens are open daily to the public. It is a member of the Treasure Houses of England consortium. Museum The village is also home to the British National Motor Museum. The museum was opened in 1952 as the Montagu Motor Museum and became a charitable trust in 1972. It contains an important collection of historic motor ... | and Lady Montagu, parts of the house and gardens are open daily to the public. It is a member of the Treasure Houses of England consortium. Museum The village is also home to the British National Motor Museum. The museum was opened in 1952 as the Montagu Motor Museum and became a charitable trust in 1972. It contains a... |
she hides it. Sergius also finds Raina's romantic ideals tiresome, and flirts with Raina's insolent servant girl Louka (a soubrette role), who is engaged to Nicola, the Petkoffs' manservant. Bluntschli unexpectedly returns so that he can give back the old coat, but also so that he can see Raina. Raina and Catherine are... | says that Arms and the Man wears well—he was writing 50 years later—because its moral—that war is not a wonderful, romantic adventure—still needs to be told. His other plays of the period, equally well written, are about issues no longer controversial. For example, the theme of Mrs. Warren's Profession, which so shocke... |
Dewar, Michael. "Laying It On with a Trowel: The Proem to Lucan and Related Texts." Classical Quarterly 44 (1994), 199–211. Fantham, Elaine. "Caesar and the Mutiny: Lucan's Reshaping of the Historical Tradition in De Bello Civili 5.237–373." Classical Philology 80 (1985), 119–31. Fantham, Elaine (1992) De bello civili.... | recited the very lines. These were his last words." His father was involved in the proscription but his mother escaped. Statius's poem about Lucan was addressed to his widow, Polla Argentaria, upon the occasion of his birthday during the reign of Domitian (Silvae, ii.7, the Genethliacon Lucani). Works According to Vacc... |
theory, a context-free grammar is in Greibach normal form (GNF) if the right-hand sides of all production rules start with a terminal symbol, optionally followed by some variables. A non-strict form allows one exception to this format restriction for allowing the empty word (epsilon, ε) to be a member of the described ... | can generate the empty word. For one such construction the size of the constructed grammar is O(4) in the general case and O(3) if no derivation of the original grammar consists of a single nonterminal symbol, where is the size of the original grammar. This conversion can be used to prove that every context-free langua... |
part. If so, it records as matching the whole substring. Once this process is completed, the input string is generated by the grammar if the substring containing the entire input string is matched by the start symbol. Example This is an example grammar: Now the sentence she eats a fish with a fork is analyzed using the... | CYK algorithm. In the following table, in , is the number of the row (starting at the bottom at 1), and is the number of the column (starting at the left at 1). For readability, the CYK table for P is represented here as a 2-dimensional matrix M containing a set of non-terminal symbols, such that is in if, and only if,... |
by exposing her legs and underwear, and Bloom, in turn, masturbates. Bloom's masturbatory climax is echoed by the fireworks at the nearby bazaar. As Gerty leaves, Bloom realises that she has a lame leg, and believes this is the reason she has been ‘left on the shelf’. After several mental digressions he decides to visi... | incantation, the episode starts with latinate prose, Anglo-Saxon alliteration, and moves on through parodies of, among others, Malory, the King James Bible, Bunyan, Pepys, Defoe, Sterne, Walpole, Gibbon, Dickens, and Carlyle, before concluding in a Joycean version of contemporary slang. The development of the English l... |
Euclidean have been studied. In some applications in statistics and optimization, the square of the Euclidean distance is used instead of the distance itself. Distance formulas One dimension The distance between any two points on the real line is the absolute value of the numerical difference of their coordinates. Thus... | does not form a metric space, as it does not satisfy the triangle inequality. However it is a smooth, strictly convex function of the two points, unlike the distance, which is non-smooth (near pairs of equal points) and convex but not strictly convex. The squared distance is thus preferred in optimization theory, since... |
on the electric field at previous times (i.e. effectively for ), a consequence of causality, imposes Kramers–Kronig constraints on the susceptibility . Complex permittivity As opposed to the response of a vacuum, the response of normal materials to external fields generally depends on the frequency of the field. This f... | limit (meaning optical frequencies), the complex permittivity is commonly referred to as (or sometimes ). At the plasma frequency and below, dielectrics behave as ideal metals, with electron gas behavior. The static permittivity is a good approximation for alternating fields of low frequencies, and as the frequency inc... |
used in a computer program to represent an approximation of a real number. Because the real numbers are not countable, computers cannot represent them exactly using a finite amount of information. Most often, a computer will use a rational approximation to a real number. Rational numbers The most general data type for ... | real number. Rational numbers The most general data type for a rational number stores the numerator and denominator as integers. Fixed-point numbers A fixed-point data type uses the same denominator for all numbers. The denominator is usually a power of two. For example, in a fixed-point system that uses the denominato... |
emerged centuries later. He was a vassal to the kings of Great Moravia and was baptised during the christanisation of Great Moravia by St. Cyril and St. Methodius. His son Spytihněv I together with the head of another major Bohemian tribe Witizla used the collapse of Great Moravia and in 895 swore allegiance to the Eas... | based on the right of a people to self-determination. After the capitulation of Austria-Hungary three years later, the Czechoslovak Republic became a reality. The so-called First Republic lasted only for 20 years, cut short by the advent of the World War II. Following the end of World War II, the Communist Party of Cze... |
Kingdom and Denmark (even though Denmark has a fixed exchange rate policy with the euro). In 1999 the currency was born virtually and in 2002 notes and coins began to circulate. It rapidly replaced the former national currencies and the eurozone has since expanded further to some newer EU states. In 2009 the Lisbon Tre... | more cohesive although borders were indicated. As in current issues, all coins featured 12 stars in their design. The year featured on the coins can date back to 1999, when the currency was formally established (only Belgian, Finnish, French, Dutch, and Spanish coins were struck with the 1999 date). These countries tra... |
the figure. Beginning with triangle , an isosceles triangle is constructed with one side taken as and the other equal leg along the extension of side . It then is argued that angle has larger measure than angle , so side is longer than side . But , so the sum of the lengths of sides and is larger than the length of . T... | right triangle that is always similar to the Kepler triangle. Generalization to any polygon The triangle inequality can be extended by mathematical induction to arbitrary polygonal paths, showing that the total length of such a path is no less than the length of the straight line between its endpoints. Consequently, th... |
at the cannon park at Fort Sill. Inception The Crusader was conceived as the Advanced Field Artillery System (AFAS), part of a family of vehicles built around a common chassis in the Armored Systems Modernization program. In October 1992, the Army canceled Armored Systems Modernization due to changing budgetary priorit... | vehicle acquisitions. The following month Shinseki said the vehicles were too heavy: the howitzer and its resupply vehicle would weigh a combined 110 tons, more than could be carried by any of the Air Force's aircraft, including the C-5 Galaxy if flight rules aren't waived. Shinseki spoke with contractor United Defense... |
army F-8 Crusader, a U.S. Navy fighter jet XF8U-3 Crusader III, an experimental fighter intended to replace the F-8 , three British ships Operation Crusader, a British attack in North Africa in the Second World War VMFA-122 Crusaders, United States Marine Corps fixed wing Fighter-Attack Squadron 122 XM2001 Crusader, an... | a DCI Open Class drum corps Periodicals Many newspapers have used The Crusader as a title, including: Crusader, a newspaper of the African Blood Brotherhood Crusader, a publication of College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts Crusader, a newspaper of The Knights Party The New Orleans Crusader, also known as t... |
Timber may refer to: Forestry Timber, a term common in the United Kingdom and Australia for unprocessed wood (the term Lumber is common in the USA and Canada) Timber bridge, a bridge made of wood "Timber!", a lumberjack call to warn others that a cut tree is about to fall Places Timber, Missouri, an unincorporated comm... | (Coldcut song) "Timber", a 1956 comedy single by Marty Brill "Timber", a 1978 single by Tavares "Timber!" (Bee Gees song), a 1965 song by the Bee Gees from The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs "Timber, I'm Falling in Love", written by Kostas and performed by Patty Loveless Other Portland Timbers, a Major Leag... |
used a computer to move around in a virtual reality town. Similar brain imaging studies in navigation have shown the hippocampus to be active. A study was carried out on taxi drivers. London’s black cab drivers need to learn the locations of a large number of places and the fastest routes between them in order to pass ... | the earliest widely held hypothesis was that the hippocampus is involved in olfaction. This idea was cast into doubt by a series of anatomical studies that did not find any direct projections to the hippocampus from the olfactory bulb. However, later work did confirm that the olfactory bulb does project into the ventra... |
patterns. Colobi play a significant role in seed dispersal. Etymology The word "colobus" comes from Greek (kolobós, "docked", "maimed"), so named because the thumb is stump-like. Taxonomy Genus Colobus Black colobus, C. satanas Gabon black colobus, C. s. anthracinus Bioko black colobus, C. s. satanas Angola colobus, C.... | species †Colobus flandrini†Colobus freedmaniBehaviour and ecology Colobus habitats include primary and secondary forests, riverine forests, and wooded grasslands; they are found more in higher-density logged forests than in other primary forests. Their ruminant-like digestive systems have enabled them to occupy niches ... |
occur per year. It is most common in developing countries, where young children get diarrhea on average three times a year. Total deaths from diarrhea are estimated at 1.26 million in 2013—down from 2.58 million in 1990. In 2012, it was the second most common cause of deaths in children younger than five (0.76 million ... | disease prevention in all parts of the world; however, access to soap and water is limited in a number of less developed countries. This lack of access is one of many challenges to proper hygiene in less developed countries." Solutions to this barrier require the implementation of educational programs that encourage sa... |
Spectrum HoloByte imported it to the United States. Implementations Implementations of Sokoban have been written for numerous computer platforms, including almost all home computer and personal computer systems. Different versions also exist for video game consoles, mobile phones, graphic calculators, digital cameras a... | Commodore 64, IBM-PC and Apple II series as Soko-Ban. Sokoban was a hit in Japan, and had sold over 400,000 units in that country by the time Spectrum HoloByte imported it to the United States. Implementations Implementations of Sokoban have been written for numerous computer platforms, including almost all home comput... |
effects are absent. In order to move from the hot emitter to the vacuum, an electron's energy must exceed the emitter Fermi level by an amount determined simply by the thermionic work function of the emitter. If an electric field is applied towards the surface of the emitter, then all of the escaping electrons will be ... | the work function is generally a fixed characteristic of the surface material. Consequently, this means that when a voltage is applied to a material, the electrostatic potential produced in the vacuum will be somewhat lower than the applied voltage, the difference depending on the work function of the material surface.... |
refused to allow him to perform a fall out of a window. He fell from a nine-inch ledge high but rolled on landing to avoid injury. Lucas returned to the set on July 15, staying for the rest of the filming. He rewrote Luke's scenes on Dagobah, removing or trimming them so they could be shot in just over two weeks. Most ... | return because he wanted to improve his Star Wars performance. Hamill spent four months bodybuilding and learning karate, fencing, and kendo to prepare for his stunts. Prowse hesitated to return as Darth Vader because, as he was hidden behind a costume, he believed the role offered little job security; he returned afte... |
four-year partnership, they wrote five comedies – Dulcy (1921), To the Ladies (1922), Merton of the Movies (1922), The Deep Tangled Wildwood (1923) and Beggar on Horseback (1924) – and also co-directed and contributed sketches to the 1922 revue The '49ers, collaborated on the book to the musical comedy Helen of Troy, N... | comedy, Be Yourself (1924). Connelly received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Green Pastures in 1930. The play, a re-telling of episodes from the Old Testament, was a landmark in American drama; boasting the first all-black Broadway cast. He contributed verse and articles to Life, Everybody's, and other magazines.... |
Collegiate Institute, transferring to Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was a friend of Carl Sandburg, joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and graduated in 1895. Knox has since named its 599-seat Harbach Theatre in his honor. He then taught English and public speaking at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash... | genre. In the same year, he met composer Karl Hoschna. They wrote a comic opera together, The Daughter of the Desert, but no producer was interested in producing the work. Harbach and Hoschna continued to collaborate, writing songs to be interpolated into other Broadway shows. They received their first chance to have a... |
that is characteristic of sheep's milk. The designation is protected under Spain's denominación de origen regulatory classification system, and the cheese has been granted Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status by the European Union. PDO requirements A must satisfy these requirements: It must be produced within d... | but not too strong, creamy with a slight piquancy, and leaves an aftertaste that is characteristic of sheep's milk. The designation is protected under Spain's denominación de origen regulatory classification system, and the cheese has been granted Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status by the European Union. PDO ... |
his brother to private schools. (His brother, Teddy Hart, also went into theatre and became a musical comedy star. Teddy Hart's wife, Dorothy Hart, wrote a biography of Lorenz Hart.) Hart received his early education from Columbia Grammar School and entered Columbia College in 1913, before switching to Columbia Univers... | Teddy Hart, also went into theatre and became a musical comedy star. Teddy Hart's wife, Dorothy Hart, wrote a biography of Lorenz Hart.) Hart received his early education from Columbia Grammar School and entered Columbia College in 1913, before switching to Columbia University School of Journalism, where he attended fo... |
screenplay, as well as three other versions. Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas' successful children's album Free to Be... You and Me. Early life Rodgers was born in New York City. She was a daughter of composer Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dor... | None of her other shows had the same level of success, but she also wrote music for musicals and revues, the first on Broadway being Davy Jones' Locker with Bil Baird's marionettes, which had a two-week run at the Morosco Theatre from March 28 to April 11, 1959. (She also wrote the lyrics.) Others included From A to Z ... |
state-of-mind that they embody and capsulise; thus "Urban legends" are a feature of rumour. When Willian Jansen suggested that legends that disappear quickly were "short-term legends" and the persistent ones be termed "long-term legends", the distinction between legend and rumour was effectively obliterated, Tangherlin... | content-based series of categories on the line of the Aarne–Thompson folktale index, provoked a search for a broader new synthesis. In an early attempt at defining some basic questions operative in examining folk tales, in 1925 characterised the folk legend as "a popular narrative with an objectively untrue imaginary c... |
was the youngest piano soloist ever to appear with the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1924, his father received an offer to appear in New York City, and Loewe traveled there with him, determined to write for Broadway. This proved to be difficult, and he took other odd jobs, including cattle punching, gold mining and prize fig... | he starred as Count Danilo in the 1906 Berlin production of The Merry Widow. Loewe grew up in Berlin and attended a Prussian cadet school from the age of five until he was thirteen. At an early age Loewe learned to play piano by ear and helped his father rehearse, and he began composing songs at age seven. He eventuall... |
critic Alexander Woollcott. Other characters in the play are based on Noël Coward, Harpo Marx and Gertrude Lawrence. Throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including Face the Music (1932); As Thousands Cheer (1933), with songs by Irving Berlin; Jubilee (musical) ... | Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative Developed as an offshoot of the very successful New Play Initiative, of Burbank's Grove Theater Center the Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative (Hart NPI) expands the program to one of the few programs of its kind where a playwright will be guaranteed a production of h... |
about Washington politics and political figures such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The plot centers on Peggy Jones (Joy Hodges) and her boyfriend Phil (Austin Marshall), who needs a raise in order for them to get married. The President steps in and solves their dilemma. Production I'd Rather Be Right premiered on... | get married. The President steps in and solves their dilemma. Production I'd Rather Be Right premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on November 2, 1937, produced by Sam H. Harris, and transferred to the Music Box Theatre, and ran for 290 performances. It starred George M. Cohan as Franklin D. Roosevelt. In such pie... |
transcribed, as the euchromatin is divided into transcriptionally active and inactive domains, euchromatin is still generally associated with active gene transcription. There is therefore a direct link to how actively productive a cell is and the amount of euchromatin that can be found in its nucleus. It is thought tha... | genome size. Structure Euchromatin is composed of repeating subunits known as nucleosomes, reminiscent of an unfolded set of beads on a string, that are approximately 11 nm in diameter. At the core of these nucleosomes are a set of four histone protein pairs: H3, H4, H2A, and H2B. Each core histone protein possesses a ... |
are very densely packed with fibers that display a condition comparable to that of the chromosome at mitosis. Heterochromatin is generally clonally inherited; when a cell divides, the two daughter cells typically contain heterochromatin within the same regions of DNA, resulting in epigenetic inheritance. Variations cau... | consistent between the cell types within a species, and thus a sequence in one cell that is packaged in facultative heterochromatin (and the genes within are poorly expressed) may be packaged in euchromatin in another cell (and the genes within are no longer silenced). However, the formation of facultative heterochroma... |
and exhibited for educational purposes, usually taking the form of spurious proofs of obvious contradictions. Overview Fallacies are defects that weaken arguments. Fallacious arguments are very common and can be persuasive in common use. They may be even "unsubstantiated assertions that are often delivered with a convi... | though they are proven facts". Informal fallacies in particular are found frequently in mass media such as television and newspapers. It is important to understand what fallacies are so that one can recognize them in either one's own or others' writing. Avoiding fallacies will strengthen one's ability to produce strong... |
drupaceous fruits, and inferior to half-inferior gynoecia topped with disc-shaped nectaries. Taxonomy In the classification system of Dahlgren the Cornales were in the superorder Corniflorae (also called Cornanae). Under the APG IV system, the Cornales order includes these families: Cornaceae (the dogwood family) Curti... | clade. The Cornales are highly geographically disjunct and morphologically diverse, which has led to considerable confusion regarding the proper circumscription of the groups within the order and the relationships between them. Under the Cronquist system, the order comprised the families Cornaceae, Nyssaceae, Garryacea... |
tension between these two motivations was especially great during the 1950s when category theory was initially developed. Enter Alexander Grothendieck, who used category theory to take compass bearings in other work—in functional analysis, homological algebra and finally algebraic geometry. It is probably wrong to say ... | maps is indeed the identity on FY. The second counit–unit equation says that for each group X the composition should be the identity. The intermediate set GFGX is just the underlying set of FGX. The arrow is the "inclusion of generators" set map from the set GX to the set GFGX. The arrow is the set map from GFGX to GX ... |
, there exists a Sylow -subgroup of of order , the highest power of that divides the order of . Moreover, every subgroup of order is a Sylow -subgroup of , and the Sylow -subgroups of a group (for a given prime ) are conjugate to each other. Furthermore, the number of Sylow -subgroups of a group for a given prime is co... | groups are not simple A more complex example involves the order of the smallest simple group that is not cyclic. Burnside's pa qb theorem states that if the order of a group is the product of one or two prime powers, then it is solvable, and so the group is not simple, or is of prime order and is cyclic. This rules out... |
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. History Some of the earlier studies in biophysics were conducted in the 1840s by a group known as the Berlin school of physiologists. Among its members were pioneers such as Hermann von Helmholtz, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Carl F. W. Ludwig, and Johannes Peter Müller. Biophysics might ... | or AFM, can also be used to monitor biological events where forces and distances are at the nanoscale. Molecular biophysicists often consider complex biological events as systems of interacting entities which can be understood e.g. through statistical mechanics, thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. By drawing knowledg... |
in traditional pre-reservation Comanche society: Patrilineal and patrilocal nuclear family Extended family group (nʉmʉnahkahni – "the people who live together in a household", no size limits, but kinship recognition was limited to relatives two generations above or three below) Residential local group or 'band', compri... | quietly stalk game. They became more self-reliant, yet, by playing together as a group, also formed the bonds and cooperative spirit that they would need when they hunted and raided. Boys were highly respected because they would become warriors and might die young in battle. As he approached manhood, a boy went on his ... |
U.S. state of Wisconsin named after the Sauk people Sauk Lake, a small, freshwater lake located in Cook County, Illinois, United States Sauk Trail, an Indian trail across Illinois, Indiana and Michigan in the United States Sauk Village, Illinois, a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States Sauk Centre (disambigua... | Sauk-Suiattle, group of Native Americans in western Washington state in the United States Sauk County, Wisconsin, county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin named after the Sauk people Sauk Lake, a small, freshwater lake located in Cook County, Illinois, United States Sauk Trail, an Indian trail across Illinois, Indiana and... |
then it splits into two: one link going to Mont-Gaillard, the other to Caucriauville. Finally, since 2001 Le Havre agglomeration has operated the LER, a TER line connecting the Le Havre station to Rolleville passing through five other SNCF railway stations of the urban area. From 2005, development work for Segregated c... | created from part of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Rouen to the west of a line joining Norville to Sassetot-le-Mauconduit. Monseigneur Michel Saudreau, its first bishop, was ordained on 22 September 1974. The church of Notre Dame was promoted to Cathedral Notre Dame du Havre. Today, the commune of Le Havre is divi... |
been owned by the city of Paris since 1864. A number of closely associated small ditches or depressions provide the source waters, with an artificial grotto laid out to highlight and contain a deemed main source. The grotto includes a statue of a nymph, a dog, and a dragon. On the same site are the buried remains of a ... | there on, the river is navigable only by small craft to Marcilly-sur-Seine (, 4 locks). At Marcilly-sur-Seine the 19th century Canal de la Haute-Seine used to allow vessels to continue all the way to Troyes. This canal has been abandoned since 1957. The average depth of the Seine today at Paris is about . Until locks w... |
advertising". Auctions People who drive prices in favor of the auctioneer with fake bids in an auction are called shills or potted plants and seek to provoke a bidding war among other participants. Often they are told by the seller precisely how high to bid, as the seller does not lose money if the item does not sell, ... | as 1911. American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890), who often wrote under the guise of his fictional character Mrs. Ruth Partington, the American version of Mrs. Malaprop, is a possible source. Internet In online discussion media, shills make posts expressing opinions that further interests of an organ... |
geometry and differential equations. Life and career Marius Sophus Lie was born on 17 December 1842 in the small town of Nordfjordeid. He was the youngest of six children born to a Lutheran pastor named Johann Herman Lie, and his wife who came from a well-known Trondheim family. He had his primary education in the sout... | of 1872, Sophus Lie proposed to Anna Birch, then eighteen years old, and they were married in 1874. The couple had three children: Marie (b. 1877), Dagny (b. 1880) and Herman (b. 1884). In 1884, Friedrich Engel arrived at Christiania to help him, with the support of Klein and Adolph Mayer (who were both professors at L... |
() and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions were held at the foot of Mont Blanc in Chamonix, and Haute-Savoie, France between 25 January and 5 February 1924. The ... | retrospect. The final individual medal of Chamonix 1924 was presented in 1974. The ski jumping event was unusual in that the bronze medalist was not determined for fifty years. Norway's Thorleif Haug was awarded third place at the event's conclusion, but a clerical error in calculating Haug's score was discovered in 19... |
government retained the right to ban candidates deemed to be linked to the communists or other 'rebel' groups, and campaign material was screened. The police were also used to intimidate opposition candidates, and military personnel were driven around to cast multiple ballots for regime members. However, Diệm's regime ... | Đình Nhu and the Cần Lao Party supplied Diệm's electoral base in organizing and supervising the elections, especially the propaganda campaign for destroying Bảo Đại's reputation. Supporters of Bảo Đại were not allowed to campaign, and were physically attacked by Nhu's workers. Official results showed 98.2 per cent of v... |
closely resembles the similarly parasitic, but unrelated genus, Cassytha. From mid-summer to early autumn, the vines can produce small fruit that take the same color as the vine, and are approximately the size of a common pea. It has very low levels of chlorophyll; some species such as Cuscuta reflexa can photosynthesi... | Dodder is parasitic on a very wide variety of plants, including a number of agricultural and horticultural crop species, such as alfalfa, lespedeza, flax, clover, potatoes, chrysanthemum, dahlia, helenium, trumpet vine, ivy and petunias. It is an ectoparasite and is categorized as holoparasitic plant, or a plant that i... |
also known as the Europe Asia Pipeline Company Eurasian Patent Convention Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycle European | school in Spain Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company, also known as the Europe Asia Pipeline |
Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), a post–Cold War NATO institution, is a multilateral forum created to improve relations between NATO and non-NATO countries in Europe and those parts of Asia on the European periphery. States meet to cooperate and go to the range of political and security issues. It was formed o... | Cold War: The USSR at the North Atlantic Cooperation Council On 20 December 1991, the first meeting of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, hosted a meeting between NATO, Eastern European nations and the USSR. Near the end of the meeting, the Soviet Ambassador received a message that concurrently to the meeting, the... |
performance from Bonetti helped secure a 0–0 draw, and thus the trophy for his team. For most of that season Chelsea were on course to add both the league title and the FA Cup, but ultimately missed out. They were beaten by Liverpool in the FA Cup; meanwhile, their title challenge ended with a few matches left, followi... | few weeks later helped the Chelsea youth team win the FA Youth Cup. From the 1960–61 season onward he was Chelsea's first-choice goalkeeper, a position he held more-or-less constantly for the next nineteen years. Chelsea were relegated in Bonetti's second full season, which saw the appointment of Tommy Docherty as mana... |
land. Comparison of equity traditions in common law countries Australia Equity remains a cornerstone of Australian private law. A string of cases in the 1980s saw the High Court of Australia re-affirm the continuing vitality of traditional equitable doctrines. The High Court has recently affirmed the importance of Equi... | King's Council (the curia regis). Pursuant to such authorization, litigants could purchase certain enumerated writs de cursu (as a matter of course) which later became known as writs ex debito justitiae (as a matter of right). Each of these writs was associated with particular circumstances and led to a particular kind... |
irregularity of the pollen receptacle, caused by swellings, hairs, grooves or ridges often ensure a more efficient pollen deposition. After elongation of the style, animals transport the pollen to flowers in the female or receptive stage with exposed stigmatic surfaces. A pollen catapult mechanism is present in the gen... | in nearly every region of the world, except for extreme environments such as the polar regions and deserts. The distribution pattern of the family is very similar to the global distribution of plant diversity overall. However, the largest diversity is distinctly concentrated in the humid tropics and subtropics. An exce... |
refer to: Uncaria gambir, a species of tropical shrub An astringent extract made from Uncaria gambir People James Gambier (1723–1789), a British vice-admiral James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (1756–1833), a British admiral also known as | vice-admiral James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (1756–1833), a British admiral also known as Lord Gambier Maurice Gambier d'Hurigny (1912 - 2000), French sculptor Places Gambier Islands, French Polynesia Gambier, a commune of French Polynesia in the archipelago of the |
American U. tomentosa is called Uña de Gato. Uncaria sinensis is common in China. Uncaria was named in 1789 by Johann von Schreber in his Genera Plantarum edition 8[a] (not to be confused with books of the same title by Linnaeus, Jussieu, and others). The genus name is derived from the Latin word uncus, meaning "a hook... | American U. tomentosa is called Uña de Gato. Uncaria sinensis is common in China. Uncaria was named in 1789 by Johann von Schreber in his Genera Plantarum edition 8[a] (not to be confused with books of the same title by Linnaeus, Jussieu, and others). The genus name is derived from the Latin word uncus, meaning "a hook... |
in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the squares are then reassembled without regard for the original image, either automatically "or at random." The word can also mean the collage made using this method, a "rearrangement... suffic[ing] to create an entirely new work." The technique was invented by the R... | reassembled without regard for the original image, either automatically "or at random." The word can also mean the collage made using this method, a "rearrangement... suffic[ing] to create an entirely new work." The technique was invented by the Romanian surrealist Gherasim Luca. It has |
title of the film is a reference to depictions of skies in certain paintings by Claude Monet. In addition to Monet's impressionistic artwork, the film's tone was derived from the acoustic ballad "By Way of Sorrow" by Julie Miller and a line from an early interview of Elvis Presley in which he said, "I feel lonely, even... | interview of Elvis Presley in which he said, "I feel lonely, even in a crowded room." Filming Principal photography for Vanilla Sky began in late 2000 and lasted six weeks. On November 12, 2000, shooting for the scene of the deserted Times Square in New York took place in the early hours of the day. A large section of ... |
rule of law that even draconian laws must be followed and enforced; if one disagrees with the result, one must seek to change the law. Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit "Proof lies on the one who asserts." The concept that one is innocent until proven guilty. Ex factis jus oritur "The law arises from the facts." A princip... | need of proposing a (usually extensive) interpretation. Inadimplenti non est adimplendum "One has no need to respect his obligation if the counter-party has not respected his own." This is used in civil law to briefly indicate a principle (adopted in some systems) referred to as the synallagmatic contract. Inter arma e... |
Horse breeds In some cultures and for some competition-sanctioning organizations, a horse that normally matures less than about when fully grown may be classified as a "pony". Unless the principal breed registry or breed standard describes the breed as a pony, it is listed in this section, even if some or all represent... | are few other physical requirements, nor is the stud book limited in any fashion. As a general rule, the color also does not always breed on (in some cases due to genetic impossibility), and offspring without the stated color are usually not eligible for recording with the color breed registry. There are breeds that ha... |
to, the surface of an explosive. Unlike the blast from a rounded explosive charge, which expands in all directions, the blast produced by an explosive sheet expands primarily perpendicular to its plane, in both directions. However, if one side is backed by a heavy or fixed mass, most of the blast (i.e. most of the rapi... | if one side is backed by a heavy or fixed mass, most of the blast (i.e. most of the rapidly expanding gas and its kinetic energy) will be reflected in the direction away from the mass. Uses The Misznay–Schardin effect was studied and experimented with by explosive experts József Misznay, a Hungarian, and Hubert Schardi... |
two years prior to becoming adult. : A person born in Namibia to a Namibian citizen parent or a foreign parent who is ordinarily resident in Namibia, is a Namibian citizen at birth (see Namibian nationality law). : Since 6 October 1995, a person born in South Africa to South African citizens or permanent residents is a... | born to Mainland China mothers had grown to twenty-five times the number five years prior. Furthermore, persons of Chinese ethnicity (wholly or partly) with PRC nationality born in Hong Kong are PRC nationals with Hong Kong permanent residence Non-PRC citizens born to non-PRC citizen Hong Kong permanent resident parent... |
jus sanguinis is a right of a child to his / her father's nationality. Today, the vast majority of countries extend this right on an equal basis to the mother. Some apply this right irrespective of the place of birth, while others may limit to those born in the state. Some countries provide that a child acquires the na... | French nationality law narrowly applies jus sanguinis, but it is still the most common means of passing on citizenship in many continental European nations. Complications due to imposed boundaries Some modern European states which arose out of the dissolved Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman empires have huge numbers of ethni... |
Queensland, Australia Structures Architecture Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in Phoenix, Arizona Baltimore Coliseum, Baltimore, Maryland (demolished) Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, Arkansas Bojangles' Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina Bronx Coliseum, The Bronx, New York City (defunct) Carolina Coliseum, Columbia,... | Coliseum, Hong Kong Indiana Farmers Coliseum, formerly Pepsi Coliseum, Indianapolis Kansas Coliseum, Wichita, Kansas (defunct) Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Knoxville, Tennessee Jacksonville Coliseum, an arena in Jacksonville, Florida from 1960 to 2003 José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, San Juan, Puerto Rico London Coliseum, Lo... |
Kinship: A Cultural Account which became a classic in the field, and he had sent Parsons a copy of the copyedited manuscript before its publication. Parsons was highly appreciative of Schneider's work, which became in many ways a crucial turning point in his own attempt to understand the fundamental elements of the Ame... | the field of the analysis of expressive symbolism." Another scholar whom Parsons met at the Center of Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto was Alfred L. Kroeber, the "dean of American anthropologists". Kroeber, who had received his PhD at Columbia and who had worked with the Arapaho Indians, was abo... |
circular window above a group of lancet windows. The new walls gave a stronger sense of verticality and brought in more light. A similar arrangement was adapted in England, at Salisbury Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, and Ely Cathedral. An important characteristic of Gothic church architecture is its height, both absolut... | ring of chapels, by virtue of which the whole church would shine with the wonderful and uninterrupted light of most luminous windows, pervading the interior beauty." Religious teachings in the Middle Ages, particularly the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a 6th-century mystic whose book, De Coelesti Hierarc... |
However, some of them, including the Latin alphabet, retained certain Greek letters that the Etruscans themselves dropped at a rather early stage. The Old Italic alphabets were used for various different languages, which included some Indo-European ones (predominantly from the Italic branch, but also in Gaulish and pro... | the Etruscan alphabet, which was the immediate ancestor of the Latin alphabet currently used by English and many other languages of the world. The runic alphabets used in northern Europe are believed to have been separately derived from one of these alphabets by the 2nd century AD. Origins The Old Italic alphabets clea... |
canes, or for trailing or prostrate species, such as most dewberries, or various low-growing boreal, arctic, or alpine species. The generic name means blackberry in Latin and was derived from the word ruber, meaning "red". The scientific study of brambles is known as "batology". Species Better-known species of Rubus in... | – garden dewberry Rubus allegheniensis – Allegheny blackberry Rubus arcticus – Arctic raspberry Rubus argutus Rubus armeniacus – Himalayan blackberry Rubus caesius – European dewberry Rubus canadensis – Canadian blackberry Rubus chamaemorus – cloudberry Rubus cockburnianus Rubus coreanus – bokbunja Rubus crataegifolius... |
Anatolia and East Anatolia in particular and also some parts of Southeast Anatolia, as well as much of Armenia and Iran are largely dominated by cold steppe. The Pannonian Plain is another steppe region in Central Europe, primarily Hungary. Another large steppe area (prairie) is located in the central United States, we... | of the horse, the wheel, and the Indo-European languages. The Indo-European expansion and diverse invasions of horse archer civilizations of the steppe eventually led to the rise of Mycenaean Greece by amalgamation of Indo-Europeans with the autochthonous pre-Greek population and also its destruction during the Dorian ... |
that 83 Picas are equal to 35 centimeters. The choice of the metric unit for the prototype was because at the time the Imperial and US inches differed in size slightly, and neither country could legally specify a unit of the other. The Johnson Pica was named after Lawrence Johnson who had succeeded Binny & Ronaldson in... | get 1 point. However, the American Point System standardized finally in 1886 is different from Hawks' original idea in that 1 pica is not precisely equal to 1⁄6 inch (neither the Imperial inch nor the US inch), as the United States Type Founders' Association defined the standard pica to be the Johnson Pica, which had b... |
down and the mountain's slopes were grazed by horses, sheep, goats and cattle, resulted in much of the forest being destroyed by the 15th century. Forestry in the area was taken over by the Bavarian government in 1803 but the former forest cover did not regenerate due in part to the continued use of forest lands as pas... | permits year-round access to the cable car. Summit The grassy summit of the Wank is topped by a cross, set up in July 1904 by the Werdenfelser Heimat Partenkirchen society. Nearby is an observatory and the Wank-Haus, also known as the Alois Huber Haus, a mountain hut that provides food and accommodation to visitors. Th... |
Master Atlas Addendum (1990) Nomads of the Nine Nations (1990) Norek: Intrigue in a City-State of Jaiman (1990) Sky Giants of the Brass Stair (1990) Genre Supplements Robin Hood: A Giant Outlaw Campaign (1987) Mythic Greece: The Age of Heroes (1988) Vikings (1989) Pirates (1990) Mythic Egypt (1990) Dark Space (1990) Ou... | Stair (1990) Genre Supplements Robin Hood: A Giant Outlaw Campaign (1987) Mythic Greece: The Age of Heroes (1988) Vikings (1989) Pirates (1990) Mythic Egypt (1990) Dark Space (1990) Outlaw (1991) Time Riders (1992) Oriental Companion (1992) At Rapier's Point (1993) Arabian Nights (1994) Rolemaster Standard System Arms ... |
Search Theory, see Roger Farmer's work on the IS-LM-NAC model, part of his broader research agenda which studies how beliefs independently influence macroeconomic outcomes. Formation The point where the IS and LM schedules intersect represents a short-run equilibrium in the real and monetary sectors (though not necessa... | ("fiscal policy") has an effect similar to that of a lower saving rate or increased private fixed investment, increasing the amount of demand for goods at each individual interest rate. An increased deficit by the national government shifts the IS curve to the right. This raises the equilibrium interest rate (from i1 t... |
are obconic shapes as in toyon, whereas some are saucer-shaped as in Mitella caulescens. Its presence is diagnostic of many families, including the Rosaceae, Grossulariaceae, and Fabaceae. In some cases, it can be so deep, with such a narrow top, that the flower can appear to have an inferior ovary - the ovary is below... | a term that is also used for corolla tube and calyx tube. It often contains the nectaries of the plant. It is present in most flowering species, although varies in structural dimensions and appearance. This differentiation between the hypanthium in particular species is useful for identification. Some geometric forms a... |
and Chelsea. Education In education, 82% of adults and 69% of 19-year-olds having Level 3 qualifications. Governance Local government The city is divided into 20 wards, each electing three councillors. Westminster City Council is currently composed of 41 Conservative Party members and 19 Labour Party members. A lord ma... | of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. The present-day City of Westminster as an administrative entity with its present boundaries dates from 1965, when the City of Westminster was created from the former area of three metropolitan boroughs: St Marylebone, Paddington, and the smaller Metropolitan Borough of Westmi... |
About 230 Roman amphitheatres have been found across the area of the Roman Empire. Their typical shape, functions and name distinguish them from Roman theatres, which are more or less semicircular in shape; from the circuses (similar to hippodromes) whose much longer circuits were designed mainly for horse or chariot r... | the first century BCE, but most were built under Imperial rule, from the Augustan period (27 BCE–14 CE) onwards. Imperial amphitheatres were built throughout the Roman empire; the largest could accommodate 40,000–60,000 spectators. The most elaborate featured multi-storeyed, arcaded façades and were elaborately decorat... |
century, which was controlled by the city's officers—it was later removed in order to improve traffic to the Bridge, under a separate Trust by Act of Parliament of 1756 as the Borough Market on the present site. The area was renowned for its inns, especially The Tabard, from which Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims set off on... | in the 1086 Domesday Book as Sudweca. The name means "southern defensive work" and is formed from the Old English sūþ (south) and weorc (work). The southern location is in reference to the City of London to the north, Southwark being at the southern end of London Bridge. In Old English, Surrey means "southern district ... |
called a daughter of if is the parent of and is female", which is a commonly accepted definition. Concerning the above requirements, "Necessity" was satisfied because the predicate doesn't appear in the background knowledge, which hence cannot imply any property containing this predicate, such as the positive examples ... | examples . "Weak consistency" forbids generation of any hypothesis that contradicts the background knowledge . "Strong consistency" also forbids generation of any hypothesis that is inconsistent with the negative examples , given the background knowledge ; it implies "Weak consistency"; if no negative examples are give... |
series on the Big Apple Circus The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth Music Musicians Circus (American band) Circus (French band) Circus (rapper) (21st century), American rapper Circus, a band formed by Mel Collins Albums Circus (Argent album), 1975 Circus (Britney Spears album), 2008 The Circus Starri... | Circus (magazine), a rock music magazine published from 1966 to 2006 Circus (novel), a 1975 novel by Alistair MacLean Film The Circus (1928 film), directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin The Circus (1943 film), a Mexican comedy starring Cantinflas Circus (1936 film), Soviet melodramatic comedy Circus (2000 film), crim... |
system. The symmetry which is equivalent to conservation of energy is the time invariance of physical laws. Therefore, if the laws of physics do not change with time, then the conservation of energy follows. For energy conservation to be violated to allow perpetual motion would require that the foundations of physics w... | would inevitably fail. In the mid-19th-century Henry Dircks investigated the history of perpetual motion experiments, writing a vitriolic attack on those who continued to attempt what he believed to be impossible: Techniques Some common ideas recur repeatedly in perpetual motion machine designs. Many ideas that continu... |
years after the commission was founded. His depictions of terrorism in books such as The Holcroft Covenant and The Matarese Circle reflected the theory that terrorists, rather than being merely isolated bands of ideologically motivated extremists, are actually pawns of governments or private organizations who are using... | and motivations are evil and who are capable of using political and economic mechanisms in frightening ways. The world in his writings is one where global corporations, shadowy military forces and government organizations all conspired to preserve (if it was evil) or undermine (if it was law-abiding) the status quo. Lu... |
(424 genera) Family Gelsemiaceae (2 genera) Family Gentianaceae (87 genera) Family Loganiaceae (13 genera) Family Rubiaceae (611 genera) Phylogeny The following phylogenetic tree is based on molecular phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences. Etymology It takes its name from the family Gentianaceae, which in turn is based... | Loganiaceae (13 genera) Family Rubiaceae (611 genera) Phylogeny The following phylogenetic tree is based on molecular phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences. Etymology It takes its name from the family Gentianaceae, which in turn is based on the name of the type genus, Gentiana. The genus name is a tribute to Gentius, a... |
Maloideae are more-or-less equivalent to subtribe Malinae or to tribe Maleae. The group includes a number of plants bearing commercially important fruits, such as apples and pears, while others are cultivated as ornamentals. In its traditional circumscription this subfamily consisted exclusively of shrubs and small tre... | of shrubs and small trees characterised by a pome, a type of accessory fruit that does not occur in other Rosaceae, and by a basal haploid chromosome count of 17 (instead of 7, 8, or 9 as in the other Rosaceae), involving approximately 28 genera with approximately 1100 species worldwide, with most species occurring in ... |
Prunus–Maddenia–Pygeum, and that the traditional subfamilies Maloideae and Spiraeoideae must be included in Amygdaloideae if a paraphyletic group is to be avoided. With this classification, the genus Prunus is considered to include Armeniaca, Cerasus, Amygdalus, Padus, Laurocerasus, Pygeum, and Maddenia. Robert Frost a... | 1832 by George Arnott Walker-Arnott, has priority and is therefore the correct name. The taxonomy of this group of plants within the Rosaceae has recently been unclear. In 2001 it was reported that Amygdaloideae sensu stricto consists of two distinct genetic groups or "clades", Prunus–Maddenia and Exochorda–Oemleria–Pr... |
Potentilla) Fallugia Filipendula Fragaria – strawberries Geum – avenses Hagenia – African redwood Horkelia – horkelias (sometimes in Potentilla) Horkeliella – false horkelias (sometimes in Potentilla) Ivesia – mousetails (sometimes in Potentilla) Leucosidea – oldwood Marcetella Margyricarpus – pearlfruit Polylepis Pota... | including many shrubs, perennial herbs, and fruit plants such as strawberries and brambles. Only a few are annual herbs. The circumscription of the Rosoideae is still not wholly certain; recent genetic research has resulted in several changes at the genus level and the removal from Rosoideae of some genera (notably Cer... |
a tough, cynical and disrespectful MI6 intelligence officer. Personal life Deighton married the illustrator Shirley Thompson in 1960; the couple divorced in 1976, having not lived together for over five years. He left Britain in 1969, and has lived abroad since, including in Ireland, Austria, France, the United States ... | written using a word processor. Deighton's next non-fictional work, Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain, was published in 1977. This was followed in 1978 by another novel, SS-GB, the idea for which came from Ray Hawkey, Deighton's friend from art school and the designer of the covers of several of his book... |
coefficients Reciprocal rule, a technique in calculus for calculating derivatives of reciprocal functions Reciprocal spiral, a plane curve Reciprocal averaging, a statistical technique for aggregating categorical data In science and technology Reciprocal aircraft heading, 180 degrees (the opposite direction) from a sta... | the dual space of covectors, in crystallography Reciprocal length, a measurement used in science Reciprocating engine or piston engine Reciprocating oscillation in physical wave theory Life sciences and medicine Hybrid (biology), in genetics, the result of a reciprocal pair of crossings, forming reciprocal hybrids Reci... |
Aruncus and Sorbaria have pinnately compound leaves. Carpels are usually 2-5. Most genera traditionally placed in the Spiraeoideae produce flowers with distinct follicles that, upon seed-set, mature to form fruits that are aggregates of follicles. A traditional classification places the following genera in the subfamil... | whose fruits are pomes), and the Amygdaloideae (including almonds and plums, whose fruits are drupes). Such an expanded subfamily is to be called Amygdaloideae under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. The traditional Spiraeoideae are shrubs. Most have simple leaves, but the genera Arun... |
its sequels. Evidence for this narrator being different from the earlier novels comes from Deighton himself, who is quoted as saying that the narrator of Spy Story is not the same character as the narrator of The IPCRESS File; in fact, for most of Spy Story, the narrator is named and addressed as "Patrick Armstrong" - ... | born in 1922 or 1923 (making him in his 40s), and thus implying that this protagonist is different from that of the earlier novels. Encouraging the unitary concept – that the later novels feature 'Harry Palmer' – is the 1974 dust jacket to the Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich American edition of Spy Story, in which the cov... |
are listed together, for convenience, in the Europe section of this article, similarly all systems in Egypt are listed in the Africa section. Europe All systems in Kazakhstan and Turkey, including those in Europe, are listed together, for convenience, in the Asia section of this article. See also List of town tramway s... | more limited service, see Streetcars in North America. North America, specifically more so the United States, once had extensive tram networks in almost all cities, but nearly all were removed for bus operations between the 1940s and the 1960s. These systems are listed at List of streetcar systems in the United States.... |
peanut meal, molasses, rice bran, wheat bran, and yeasts. Supplements Dietary supplements of pantothenic acid commonly use pantothenol (or panthenol), a shelf-stable analog, which is converted to pantothenic acid once consumed. Calcium pantothenate – a salt – may be used in manufacturing because it is more resistant th... | as carbohydrates, amino acids and lipids, for fuel. CoA is important in energy metabolism for pyruvate to enter the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) as acetyl-CoA, and for α-ketoglutarate to be transformed to succinyl-CoA in the cycle. CoA is also required for acylation and acetylation, which, for example, are invo... |
found in the North American diet, but alpha-tocopherol (α-tocopherol) is the most biologically active. Palm oil is a source of tocotrienols. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Services, maintains a food composition database. The last major revision was Release 28, September 2015. In additi... | identified RCTs of vitamin E and placebo followed for 7–10 years. There was a non-significant 11% decrease in relative risk. The SELECT trial (men over 55 years, placebo or 400 IU/day) also reported on colorectal cancer. There was a non-significant 3% increase in adenoma occurrence compared to placebo. The Women's Heal... |
this racemic mixture is not now considered equivalent to 1 IU of natural (RRR) α-tocopherol, and the Institute of Medicine and the USDA now convert IU's of the racemic mixture to milligrams of equivalent RRR using 1 IU racemic mixture = 0.45 "milligrams α-tocopherol". Tocotrienols Tocotrienols, although less commonly k... | Each form has a different biological activity. In general, the unnatural l-isomers of tocotrienols lack almost all vitamin activity, and half of the possible 8 isomers of the tocopherols (those with 2S chirality at the ring-tail junction) also lack vitamin activity. Of the stereoisomers that retain activity, increasing... |
the biosynthesis of glucose. Lipid metabolism PLP is an essential component of enzymes that facilitate the biosynthesis of sphingolipids. Particularly, the synthesis of ceramide requires PLP. In this reaction, serine is decarboxylated and combined with palmitoyl-CoA to form sphinganine, which is combined with a fatty a... | diet does not put consumers at risk for deficiency. Dietary deficiency is rare. Classic clinical symptoms include rash and inflammation around the mouth and eyes, plus neurological effects that include drowsiness and peripheral neuropathy affecting sensory and motor nerves in the hands and feet. In addition to dietary ... |
function in innate immunity, T cells for adaptive cellular immunity and B cells for antibody-driven adaptive humoral immunity. Monocytes differentiate into macrophages and dendritic cells. Both types of white blood cells are created in bone marrow, then move into the blood stream. RA triggering of receptors in bone mar... | form of retinoic acid is essential to normal epithelial cell functions. Severe vitamin A deficiency, common in infants and young children in southeast Asia causes xerophthalmia characterized by dryness of the conjunctival epithelium and cornea. Untreated, xerophthalmia progresses to corneal ulceration and blindness. Vi... |
increasing vitamin A in the body, such as food modification, fortification, and supplementation, all of which are used to combat vitamin A deficiency. Toxicity is classified into two categories: acute and chronic. The former occurs a few hours or days after ingestion of a large amount of vitamin A. Chronic toxicity tak... | in populations in which vitamin A deficiency is common and maternal mortality is high, dosing expectant mothers can greatly reduce maternal mortality. Similarly, dosing newborn infants with 50,000 IU (15 mg) of vitamin A within two days of birth can significantly reduce neonatal mortality. Biological roles Retinol or o... |
clients would pay between $2,000 and $9,000 per month to have her available 24 hours a day to consult. Typical clients In 1982, Danny Jorgensen, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida offered a spiritual explanation for the popularity of fortune telling. He said that people visit psychics o... | future, both out of sheer curiosity as well as out of desire to better prepare for it." Popular media outlets like The New York Times have explained to their American readers that although 5000 years ago, soothsayers were prized advisers to the Assyrians, they lost respect and reverence during the rise of Reason in the... |
rate of NTDs. Long-term supplementation with relatively large amounts of folic acid is associated with a small reduction in the risk of stroke and an increased risk of prostate cancer. There are concerns that large amounts of supplemental folic acid can hide vitamin B12 deficiency. Not consuming enough folate can lead ... | Folate is important for cells and tissues that divide rapidly. Cancer cells divide rapidly, and drugs that interfere with folate metabolism are used to treat cancer. The antifolate drug methotrexate is often used to treat cancer because it inhibits the production of the active tetrahydrofolate (THF) from the inactive d... |
or more in annual food sales, and by 1 January 2021 for manufacturers with lower volume food sales. A table of the old and new adult daily values is provided at Reference Daily Intake. Sources Biotin is stable at room temperature and is not destroyed by cooking. The dietary biotin intake in Western populations has been... | by an unusual [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin. Cofactor biochemistry The enzyme holocarboxylase synthetase covalently attaches biotin to five human carboxylase enzymes: Acetyl-CoA carboxylase alpha (ACC1) Acetyl-CoA carboxylase beta (ACC2) Pyruvate carboxylase (PC) Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase (MCC) Propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PC... |
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