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1803999 | Dagger-axe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dagger-axe | Dagger-axe
was used in the open where there was enough room to swing its long shaft. Its appearance on the Chinese battlefield predated the use of chariots and the later dominance of tightly packed infantry formations. During the Zhou dynasty, the ji or Chinese halberd gradually became more common on the battlefield. T... | 21,500 |
1803999 | Dagger-axe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dagger-axe | Dagger-axe
as a standard infantry weapon. The ji itself was later replaced by the spear as the primary polearm of the Chinese military. By the Warring States period, large masses of infantry fighting in close ranks using the spear or ji had displaced the small groups of aristocrats on foot or mounted in chariots who ha... | 21,501 |
1803999 | Dagger-axe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dagger-axe | Dagger-axe
tomb, where they presumably are intended to keep the spirit-guard armed. Normally only the head of a dagger-axe is found, with the shaft absent due to either decomposition or mechanical removal. Although the jade examples do not appear to have been intended for use in actual combat, their morphology closely ... | 21,502 |
1803999 | Dagger-axe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dagger-axe | Dagger-axe
they presumably are intended to keep the spirit-guard armed. Normally only the head of a dagger-axe is found, with the shaft absent due to either decomposition or mechanical removal. Although the jade examples do not appear to have been intended for use in actual combat, their morphology closely imitates tha... | 21,503 |
1804029 | Proposal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal | Proposal
Proposal
Proposal(s) or The Proposal may refer to:
- Proposal (business)
- Research proposal
- Proposal (marriage)
- Proposition, a proposal in logic and philosophy
# Arts, entertainment, and media.
- "The Proposal" (album)
## Films.
- "The Proposal" (1957 film), an Australian television play based on... | 21,504 |
1804029 | Proposal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal | Proposal
Neil Simon
- "The Proposal" (novel), 1999 and 35th book in the "Animorphs" series by K.A. Applegate
- "The Proposal", alternative title of Chekhov's 1890 play "A Marriage Proposal"
## Television.
- "The Proposal" (TV series), a 2018 reality dating series
- "The Proposal", the title of three "Dynasty" epis... | 21,505 |
1804006 | Imaging for Windows | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imaging%20for%20Windows | Imaging for Windows
Imaging for Windows
Imaging for Windows from "Global 360" is document imaging software. Earlier versions of Imaging for Windows were included in Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000. Global360 Imaging for Windows is the upgrade to this Imaging software, which was discontinued as of Windows XP. Its image viewin... | 21,506 |
1804006 | Imaging for Windows | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imaging%20for%20Windows | Imaging for Windows
/2000), then becoming "eiStream Inc.", later to be renamed to Global 360. Currently Imaging for Windows 4.0 is available through OpenText. Professional Edition was sold as stand alone product with support for advanced features like OCR.
Imaging for Windows supports creating, annotating, viewing, an... | 21,507 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
The Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo or Scalabrinian Missionaries (abbr.: C.S.) are a Roman Catholic religious institute of brothers and priests founded by Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza in Italy, in 1887. Its mission is to... | 21,508 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
in a papal brief dated 25 November 1887 and its Constitution definitively approved by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda on 3 October 1908.
The expediency of providing for the spiritual — and also, in some degree, for the temporal — needs of Italian emigrants to the ... | 21,509 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
of priests which was to be the nucleus of a new congregation.
This congregation, which was henceforth to be known as the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, was to be governed by a Superior General, dependent upon the Congregation of Propaganda. Its primary aim was to maintain Ca... | 21,510 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
in North and South America; and to train youths for the priesthood. The members of the congregation promise obedience to their superiors in the congregation and the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Seven priests and three lay brothers of Scalabrini's institute left Italy on 12 July 1888, ... | 21,511 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
of humility." A welcome had already been assured these first missionaries of the congregation by a commendatory letter (1 June 1888) of Leo XIII addressed to the American bishops.
Immediately after their arrival in New York City, the new missionaries were enabled to secure a favora... | 21,512 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. The Society of St. Raphael, an emigrant aid society, was organized at Ellis Island. The good work thereafter spread rapidly through the continent.
# Formation in the Philippines.
The Scalabrini Formation Center
The formation of the f... | 21,513 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
sounded. Fr. Anthony Paganoni, being the local superior took the challenge. As was the case, and with the Father General’s knowledge about the matter, the visit of the Provincial Treasurer on July 1984 had posed the hope that a new building be opened where seminarians would formally... | 21,514 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
of Foramtion, Fr. Sabbadin, drew on Scalabrinian Models from other countries but they were very conscious they have been conceived in Western context. They also drew on the experience of other orders already working in the Philippines but over the next almost twenty years there woul... | 21,515 |
1804000 | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Missionaries%20of%20St.%20Charles%20Borromeo | Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo
xt almost twenty years there would be experimentation. Formation was perceived as a journey in faith by the student to experience God and His Providence in the world, especially in the world of migration” (Desmond Cahill, pg. 369). “In 1986, the first group of Filipinos was sent to ... | 21,516 |
1804030 | Liquefactive necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liquefactive%20necrosis | Liquefactive necrosis
Liquefactive necrosis
Liquefactive necrosis (or colliquative necrosis) is a type of necrosis which results in a transformation of the tissue into a liquid viscous mass. Often it is associated with focal bacterial or fungal infections, and can also manifest as one of the symptoms of an internal ch... | 21,517 |
1804030 | Liquefactive necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liquefactive%20necrosis | Liquefactive necrosis
found in the central nervous system.
# In the brain.
Due to excitotoxicity, hypoxic death of cells within the central nervous system can result in liquefactive necrosis. This is a process in which lysosomes turn tissues into pus as a result of lysosomal release of digestive enzymes. Loss of tiss... | 21,518 |
1804030 | Liquefactive necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liquefactive%20necrosis | Liquefactive necrosis
ris and macrophages filled with phagocytosed material. The cyst wall is formed by proliferating capillaries, inflammatory cells, and gliosis (proliferating glial cells) in the case of brain and proliferating fibroblasts in the case of abscess cavities.
Brain cells have a large amount of digestive... | 21,519 |
1804018 | Sucker Punch Productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sucker%20Punch%20Productions | Sucker Punch Productions
Sucker Punch Productions
Sucker Punch Productions is an American first-party video game developer founded in 1997 and based in Bellevue, Washington. It was an independent company until August 2011, and has worked solely with Sony Interactive Entertainment since 2000. Sony acquired Sucker Punch... | 21,520 |
1804018 | Sucker Punch Productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sucker%20Punch%20Productions | Sucker Punch Productions
proposed by the company that they would not have been able to use at Microsoft due to that company's policies.
Co-founder Chris Zimmerman showed the list to his wife for her opinion, and she responded that she did not care "as long as it isn't 'Sucker Punch'." Considering the opinion of a midd... | 21,521 |
1804018 | Sucker Punch Productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sucker%20Punch%20Productions | Sucker Punch Productions
Life Engine).
The company's most recent series, "Infamous" for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, heralded a move from level-based games portraying cel-shaded, anthropomorphic animals to a fully streaming open world game depicting more realistic-looking humans and protagonists with acrobatic abi... | 21,522 |
1804018 | Sucker Punch Productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sucker%20Punch%20Productions | Sucker Punch Productions
series. In addition, Sucker Punch has handed over their "Sly Cooper" series to Sanzaru Games and they have produced "". This game was released in February 2013 in North America and March 2013 in Europe and Australia.
Sanzaru Games also released "The Sly Collection", a remastered port of PlaySt... | 21,523 |
1804018 | Sucker Punch Productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sucker%20Punch%20Productions | Sucker Punch Productions
o "Infamous" was officially announced when the cover of Game Informer's July 2010 issue was a picture of "Infamous 2", along with the magazine containing a ten-page preview of the game.
Sucker Punch teamed up with Capcom to include their "Infamous" protagonist, Cole MacGrath, as a special gues... | 21,524 |
1804031 | Caseous necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caseous%20necrosis | Caseous necrosis
Caseous necrosis
Caseous necrosis is a form of cell death in which the tissue maintains a cheese-like appearance. The dead tissue appears as a soft and white proteinaceous dead cell mass.
# Causes.
Frequently, caseous necrosis is encountered in the foci of tuberculosis infections. It can also be cau... | 21,525 |
1804031 | Caseous necrosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caseous%20necrosis | Caseous necrosis
atory process.
When the hilar lymph node for instance is infected with tuberculosis and leads to caseous necrosis, its gross appearance can be a cheesy tan to white, which is why this type of necrosis is often depicted as a combination of both coagulative and liquefactive necrosis.
However, in the lu... | 21,526 |
1804034 | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greedy%20randomized%20adaptive%20search%20procedure | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
The greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (also known as GRASP) is a metaheuristic algorithm commonly applied to combinatorial optimization problems. GRASP typically consists of iterations made up from successive construction... | 21,527 |
1804034 | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greedy%20randomized%20adaptive%20search%20procedure | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
in a "restricted candidate list" (also known as RCL), and chosen at random when building up the solution. This kind of greedy randomized construction method is also known as a semi-greedy heuristic, first described in Hart and Shogan (1987).
GRASP was first introduced in Feo... | 21,528 |
1804034 | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greedy%20randomized%20adaptive%20search%20procedure | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
for a computationally difficult set covering problem. "Operations Research Letters", 8:67–71, 1989.
- T. A. Feo and M. G. C. Resende (1995) Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures. "Journal of Global Optimization", 6:109–133, 1995.
- L. Pitsoulis and M. G. C. Resende (... | 21,529 |
1804034 | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greedy%20randomized%20adaptive%20search%20procedure | Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
n P. M. Pardalos and M. G. C. Resende, editors, "Handbook of Applied Optimization", pp. 168–181, Oxford University Press.
- M. G. C. Resende and C. C. Ribeiro (2003) Greedy randomized adaptive search procedures. In F. Glover and G. Kochenberger, editors, "Handbook of Metaheu... | 21,530 |
1804035 | Bruch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruch | Bruch
Bruch
Bruch may refer to the following
- Bruch, Lot-et-Garonne, a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne "département", France
- Bruch, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- the old German names of Lom (Strakonice District) and Lom u Mostu in the Czec... | 21,531 |
1804035 | Bruch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruch | Bruch
ate, Germany
- the old German names of Lom (Strakonice District) and Lom u Mostu in the Czech Republic
- Bruch's membrane, the innermost layer of the choroid in the eye
- 5004 Bruch, an asteroid
# People with the surname.
- Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789–1857), German ornithologist
- Carlos Bruch born Franz Kar... | 21,532 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
Pearson distribution
The Pearson distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions. It was first published by Karl Pearson in 1895 and subsequently extended by him in 1901 and 1916 in a series of articles on biostatistics.
# History.
The Pearson system was originally devised in an... | 21,533 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
arbitrarily well. However, it was not known how to construct probability distributions in which the skewness (standardized third cumulant) and kurtosis (standardized fourth cumulant) could be adjusted equally freely. This need became apparent when trying to fit known theoretical models to observed ... | 21,534 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
or on the whole real line; and whether they were potentially skewed or necessarily symmetric. A second paper (Pearson 1901) fixed two omissions: it redefined the type V distribution (originally just the normal distribution, but now the inverse-gamma distribution) and introduced the type VI distribu... | 21,535 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
types are characterized by two quantities, commonly referred to as β and β. The first is the square of the skewness: formula_1 where γ is the skewness, or third standardized moment. The second is the traditional kurtosis, or fourth standardized moment: β = γ + 3. (Modern treatments define kurtosis ... | 21,536 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
now known as the beta distribution had been used by Thomas Bayes as a posterior distribution of the parameter of a Bernoulli distribution in his 1763 work on inverse probability. The Beta distribution gained prominence due to its membership in Pearson's system and was known until the 1940s as the P... | 21,537 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
to be any valid solution to the differential equation (cf. Pearson 1895, p. 381)
with:
According to Ord, Pearson devised the underlying form of Equation (1) on the basis of, firstly, the formula for the derivative of the logarithm of the density function of the normal distribution (which gives a ... | 21,538 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
with a first order linear differential equation with variable coefficients, its solution is straightforward:
The integral in this solution simplifies considerably when certain special cases of the integrand are considered. Pearson (1895, p. 367) distinguished two main cases, determined by the sign... | 21,539 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
quadratic function (2) is transformed into
The absence of real roots is obvious from this formulation, because α is necessarily positive.
We now express the solution to the differential equation (1) as a function of "y":
Pearson (1895, p. 362) called this the "trigonometrical case", because the ... | 21,540 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
than "x". We therefore reintroduce a fourth parameter, namely the location parameter "λ". We have thus derived the density of the Pearson type IV distribution:
The normalizing constant involves the complex Gamma function (Γ) and the Beta function (B).
Notice that the location parameter "λ" here i... | 21,541 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
density is
where B is the Beta function.
An alternative parameterization (and slight specialization) of the type VII distribution is obtained by letting
which requires "m" 3/2. This entails a minor loss of generality but ensures that the variance of the distribution exists and is equal to σ. No... | 21,542 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
the distribution exist. More specifically, the Pearson type VII distribution parameterized in terms of (λ, σ, γ) has a mean of "λ", standard deviation of "σ", skewness of zero, and excess kurtosis of γ.
#### Student's "t"-distribution.
The Pearson type VII distribution is equivalent to the non-st... | 21,543 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
and also the standard Cauchy distribution. In particular, the standard Student's "t"-distribution arises as a subcase, when "μ" = 0 and "σ" = 1, equivalent to the following substitutions:
The density of this restricted one-parameter family is a standard Student's "t":
## Case 2, non-negative disc... | 21,544 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
not the arctan function as in the previous case.
Using the substitution
we obtain the following solution to the differential equation (1):
Since this density is only known up to a hidden constant of proportionality, that constant can be changed and the density written as follows:
### The Pearso... | 21,545 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
constants and parameters, this simplifies to:
Thus formula_41 follows a formula_42 with formula_43. It turns out that "m", "m" −1 is necessary and sufficient for "p" to be a proper probability density function.
### The Pearson type II distribution.
The Pearson type II distribution is a special ... | 21,546 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
that, the distribution mimics a standard Student's t-distribution. For the table of values, certain values are used as the constants in the previous equation:
The moments of "x" used are
### The Pearson type III distribution.
Defining
formula_50 is formula_51. The Pearson type III distribution ... | 21,547 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
to other distributions.
The Pearson family subsumes the following distributions, among others:
- Beta distribution (type I)
- Beta prime distribution (type VI)
- Cauchy distribution (type IV)
- Chi-squared distribution (type III)
- Continuous uniform distribution (limit of type I)
- Exponent... | 21,548 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
to be parametrised in a way that has intuitive meaning for market traders. A number of models are in current use that capture the stochastic nature of the volatility of rates, stocks etc. and this family of distributions may prove to be one of the more important.
In the United States, the Log-Pear... | 21,549 |
1804023 | Pearson distribution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pearson%20distribution | Pearson distribution
tochastic nature of the volatility of rates, stocks etc. and this family of distributions may prove to be one of the more important.
In the United States, the Log-Pearson III is the default distribution for flood frequency analysis.
# Sources.
## Secondary sources.
- Milton Abramowitz and Irene... | 21,550 |
1804052 | Wu Siu Hong | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wu%20Siu%20Hong | Wu Siu Hong
Wu Siu Hong
Wu Siu Hong (; born October 22, 1984) is a ten-pin bowling player from Hong Kong who won the 2015 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup.
# External links.
- Bowling World of Wu Siu Hong
- Brief biography of Wu Siu Hong | 21,551 |
1804073 | Margaret of Norway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20of%20Norway | Margaret of Norway
Margaret of Norway
Margaret of Norway may refer to:
- Margaret, Maid of Norway (1283–1290), disputed queen regnant of Scots
- Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412), queen regnant of Norway, regent of Denmark and Sweden, and founder of the Kalmar Union
- Margaret of Denmark (1456-1486), queen consort ... | 21,552 |
1804043 | Arcas (rocket) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arcas%20(rocket) | Arcas (rocket)
Arcas (rocket)
Arcas (originally "All-Purpose Rocket for Collecting Atmospheric Soundings", also designated Big Boy Rocket or "PWN-6") was the designation of an American sounding rocket, developed by the Atlantic Research Corp. (now Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)), Alexandria, Va..
The Arcas soundin... | 21,553 |
1804043 | Arcas (rocket) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arcas%20(rocket) | Arcas (rocket)
The Arcas was 2.30 m long and had a fin span of 0.33 m.
# History.
A 1957 Stanford Research Institute study proposed a small single-stage sounding rocket to measure high-altitude winds to determine the spread of radioactive fallout. The U. S. Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Center a... | 21,554 |
1804043 | Arcas (rocket) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arcas%20(rocket) | Arcas (rocket)
than the nozzle diameter of the engine, the aft end of the rocket ended in a tapered "boat tail", to decrease the subsonic drag.
Arcas was launched from a tubular closed-breech launcher, which provided a faster boost by the piston action of trapping the engine gasses. The rocket was kept centered in the... | 21,555 |
1804043 | Arcas (rocket) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arcas%20(rocket) | Arcas (rocket)
as high as 100 km. There were many time-based weather experiments launched on this rocket due to the ability of the launch tube to be rapidly turned around for another launch. One of those experiments launched one rocket per hour for 24 hours straight in Antarctica.
## Boosted Arcas.
Another variation ... | 21,556 |
1804043 | Arcas (rocket) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arcas%20(rocket) | Arcas (rocket)
cas stage and one booster.
# Arcas use with DMQ-6 telemetry.
When used for radar calibration in the 1960s, the Arcas rocket configuration consisted of a closed breech launcher, a sounding rocket, and two payload configurations, one a parachute recovery system with a DMQ-6 telemetry transmitter compatib... | 21,557 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
Ahmed Agiza () and Muhammad Alzery () (also Elzari, el-Zary, etc.) were two Egyptian asylum-seekers who were deported to Egypt from Sweden on December 18, 2001, apparently following a request from the United States Centra... | 21,558 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
are allegations that both men were tortured, but Sweden has been unable to prove or disprove these allegations, due to refusal by Egyptian authorities to allow proper investigations. Alzery was released without charges after two years in prison, but was not allowed to le... | 21,559 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
had obtained a statement from a high-ranking Egyptian government official stating that the men would be treated humanely and in accordance with the Egyptian constitution. On this basis, the government decided on their immediate deportation. The two men were arrested on t... | 21,560 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
Swedish foreign office to figure out what was going on, but could not find anyone who could tell. Instead, he was told that no decision had been reached. The Foreign office sent certified letters to the lawyers, but these arrived two days after the men were in Egyptian c... | 21,561 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
appears that the government believed they had obtained a letter from the Egyptian authorities with clear promises of respecting the human rights of the men. When the letter was later disclosed, it turned out to promise only that they would be treated in accordance with E... | 21,562 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman. The United Nations Human Rights Committee found the deportation of Alzery a breach of Sweden's obligations under the international treaties that Sweden has entered into. The primary ground was the obvious and well known risk of torture to... | 21,563 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
"Kalla Fakta" that first reported these deportations stated
But much of the information that the Foreign Office and Säpo [Swedish security service police] have are wrong, Agiza is not convicted of the murder of president Sadat, not even a suspect. Säpo thinks that Alzer... | 21,564 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
Agiza has several times publicly denounced Al Zawahiri and his ideology of violence. Agiza is convicted. He was convicted in his absence in 1999, together with 106 others, by a military court in Cairo for membership in Talal al-Fatah, an illegal organisation. The proceed... | 21,565 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
that they would be given fair trials, and that the Swedish embassy personnel would be allowed to visit the men in prison. However, the Swedish decision to rely on such promises has been strongly criticized. In hindsight, it appears that the Swedish mode of action was str... | 21,566 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
during the sittings of the trial, except for the last day. During visits, the men were not allowed to communicate privately with the embassy personnel, nor could an independent medical examination be had.
The fates of these men has since been used in courts to prevent o... | 21,567 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
in its series "Kalla fakta" (Cold Facts) in May 2004 reported on the deportation under the heading "The broken promise", by the journalists, Sven Bergman, Fredrik Laurin, and Joachim Dyfvermark.
After the publication, the Swedish government was dismissive in its respons... | 21,568 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
the failure to inform the lawyers or allow time to have the decisions examined by international human rights bodies questioned.
The Committee against Torture under the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights found on May 24, 2004, that the Gover... | 21,569 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
reasons against his deportation and have the case reviewed by a competent authority".
# Civil suit.
On August 1, 2007, Agiza joined a civil suit filed under the United States' Alien Tort Statute, with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Agiza was joi... | 21,570 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
3 million SEK ($380,000) in damages in a settlement with the Swedish ministry of justice.
In November 2009, the Swedish government on appeal denied the renewed applications for residence in Sweden that had been submitted following the formal overturning of the repatriat... | 21,571 |
1804036 | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Repatriation%20of%20Ahmed%20Agiza%20and%20Muhammad%20al-Zery | Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery
on if the two men were not transferred. Reporter Eva Franchell, friend of the deceased foreign minister Anna Lindh, witness to her murder, and at an earlier stage her press secretary, published a book about Lindh where she described the difficulties surrounding the repat... | 21,572 |
1804053 | Unified Theories of Cognition | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unified%20Theories%20of%20Cognition | Unified Theories of Cognition
Unified Theories of Cognition
Unified Theories of Cognition is a 1990 book by Allen Newell. Newell argues for the need of a set of general assumptions for cognitive models that account for all of cognition: a unified theory of cognition, or cognitive architecture.
# Contents.
Newell arg... | 21,573 |
1804053 | Unified Theories of Cognition | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unified%20Theories%20of%20Cognition | Unified Theories of Cognition
of cognition, Newell puts forward a list of constraints to any unified theory, in that a theory should explain how a mind does the following:
- 1. Behave flexibly as a function of the environment
- 2. Exhibit adaptive (rational, goal-oriented) behavior
- 3. Operate in real time
- 4. Op... | 21,574 |
1804053 | Unified Theories of Cognition | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unified%20Theories%20of%20Cognition | Unified Theories of Cognition
community
- 10. Be self-aware and have a sense of self
- 11. Be realizable as a neural system
- 12. Be construable by an embryological growth process
- 13. Arise through evolution
Newell's secondary task is to put forward the cognitive architecture Soar as an implementation of a UTC t... | 21,575 |
1804053 | Unified Theories of Cognition | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unified%20Theories%20of%20Cognition | Unified Theories of Cognition
s an implementation of a UTC that meets the constraints above. Other efforts at unified theories of cognition cited in the book include ACT-R and the human processor model.
# Further reading.
- Newell, A. (1994)."Unified Theories of Cognition", Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, ... | 21,576 |
1804094 | Doubletake | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doubletake | Doubletake
Doubletake
Doubletake is a BBC comedy programme, created by Alison Jackson. It made extensive use of celebrity look-alikes playing their doubles in apparently embarrassing situations, seen through CCTV cameras and amateur video, using distance shots and shaky camera-work to disguise the true identity of tho... | 21,577 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
Arri
The Arri Group is a global supplier of motion picture film equipment. Based in Munich, the company was founded in 1917. It produces professional motion picture cameras, lenses, lighting and postproduction equipment. Hermann Simon mentioned this company in his book "Hidden Champions of the 21st Century" as an... | 21,578 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
from the initial two letters of the founders' surnames, "Ar"nold and "Ri"chter.
In 1924, Arnold and Richter developed their first film camera, the small and portable Kinarri 35. In 1937, Arri introduced the world's first reflex mirror shutter in the Arriflex 35 camera, an invention of longtime engineer Erich Käst... | 21,579 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
in the Arri Alexa Studio digital camera. The first Hollywood film to employ an Arriflex was the 1947 Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall film "Dark Passage" in 1947. Over the years, more than 17,000 Arriflex 35s were built. The design was recognized with two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards in 1966 and 1982.
... | 21,580 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
luminaires with the Arrisonne 2000 W. The Arriflex 16SR, launched in 1975, featured a redesigned viewfinder with a through-the-lens light meter. The Arriflex 765, a 65mm camera, was released in 1989, partly in response to the growing industry demand for 70mm release prints.
## 1990–2009.
The Arriflex 535 camera ... | 21,581 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
for beta testing in 1998.
In 2000, Arri purchased the company Moviecam and developed Arricam, a 35mm camera platform. In 2003, Arri developed its first digital camera, the Arriflex D-20, which later evolved into the D-21. The camera used a 35mm CMOS sensor (instead of CCD) and allowed cinematographers to utilize ... | 21,582 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
with a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 2009.
Arri released the Master Prime lenses in 2005, designed for a super-fast aperture of T1.3 without breathing and distortion. In 2007, the Master Prime 14mm and 150mm lenses were released.
The Arrilaser 2 was released in 2009, with new client-server architec... | 21,583 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
Alexa M, which was designed to get the camera closer to the action, The Alexa Plus 4:3, like the Alexa Studio, allowed the full area of the sensor to be used with anamorphic lenses.
The 16mm Arriflex 416 camera and Ultra Prime 16 lenses were used in the filming of the 2010 film, "Black Swan".
Arri announced a st... | 21,584 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
utilizes its camera technology for medical purposes. Apart from a medical imaging documentation service, it has developed a fully digital 3D surgical microscope called the Arriscope.
The Arri Alexa 65, released in 2014, was used in the filming of "The Revenant" as well as "" and "". The Arri Amira camera was also... | 21,585 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
color tunable LED option.
In April 2016, Arri acquired the Artemis camera stabilizer systems developed by Curt O. Schaller from Sachtler / Vitec Videocom. As a result, Arri became the exclusive seller of Artemis Trinity stabilizers. At NAB 2016, Arri unveiled its version of the Trinity system.
# Products.
- Cam... | 21,586 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
35 BL4S (1986)
- Arriflex 765 (1989)
- Arriflex 535 (1990)
- Arriflex 535 B (1992)
- Arriflex 16SR 3 (1992)
- Arriflex 435 (1994)
- Arriflex 435 ES (1995)
- Arricam Studio and Lite (2000)
- Arriflex 235 (2003)
- Arriflex D-20/21 (2003/2008)
- Arriflex 416 (2006)
- Arri Alexa (2010)
- Arri Amira (2013)
... | 21,587 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
Arri L7 LED Fresnel (2011)
- Arri SkyPanel (2015)
- Camera stabilizers
- artemis Maxima Stabilizer
- artemis Trinity
- Film recorder
Arrilaser film recorder is used for film-out.
- Film scanner
Arriscan
# Controversy.
In 2011, it was alleged that Michael Bravin, an executive of the US-based subsidiary Ar... | 21,588 |
1804100 | Arri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arri | Arri
rsy.
In 2011, it was alleged that Michael Bravin, an executive of the US-based subsidiary Arri Inc., had unlawfully accessed a rival company email account. A suit was brought before a US court and in September 2011, Bravin entered a guilty plea. Arri Inc. denied knowledge or gains from Bravin's actions, and a sep... | 21,589 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
List of places in Gloucestershire
This is a list of cities, towns and villages in the county of Gloucestershire, England. For places in the district of South Gloucestershire, see that article. For places in Bristol formerly in Gloucestershire, see Subdivisions of Bristol.
# A.
- Abb... | 21,590 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
Subedge, Avening, Awre, Aylburton, Aylworth
# B.
- Badgeworth, Bagendon, Bagpath, Baker's Hill, Ball's Green, Bamfurlong, Barnsley, Barrington, Barrow, Barrow Wake, Barton, Barton End, Batsford, Battledown, Battlescombe, Baunton, Beachley, Bencombe, Bengrove, Berkeley, Berkeley Vale,... | 21,591 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
Broad Campden, Broadwell, Cotswold, Broadwell, Forest of Dean, Brockhampton, Brockweir, Brockworth, Bromsberrow, Bromsberrow Heath, Brookthorpe, Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon, Buckland, Bussage
# C.
- Cainscross, Calcot, Calcott's Green, Cam, Cambridge, Cashes Green, Chaceley, Chalford, C... | 21,592 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
Deerhurst, Didbrook, Dixton, Donnington, Down Ampney, Draycott, Driffield, Drybrook, Dumbleton, Duntisbourne Abbots, Dursley, Dymock
# E.
- Earthcott, East Dean, Eastington, Cotswold, Eastington, Stroud, Eastcombe, Edgeworth, Elmstone Hardwicke, Ellwood, Elmbridge, English Bicknor, E... | 21,593 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
Hartpury, Hasfield, Hatherop, Hawkesbury Upton, Hawling, Hazleton, Hempsted, Henbury, Hidcote Boyce, Highnam, Hillesley, Hinchwick, Hinton, Horsley, Hucclecote, Huntley
# I.
- Icomb, Innsworth
# J.
- Joys Green
# K.
- Kemble, Kempley, Kempsford, Kent's Green, Kilcot, Kineton, Kin... | 21,594 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
Lower Dowdeswell, Lower Lemington, Lower Oddington, Lower Swell, Lower Wick, Luxley, Lydbrook, Lydney, Lypiatt
# M.
- Maisemore, Meysey Hampton, Mickleton, Milkwall, Minchinhampton, Miserden, Mitcheldean, Moreton-in-Marsh, Moreton Valence, Minsterworth
# N.
- Nailsworth, Naunton, N... | 21,595 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
near Lydney
# Q.
- Quedgeley, Quenington
# R.
- Randwick, The Reddings, Redmarley D'Abitot, Rodborough, Ruardean, Ruardean Woodside
# S.
- Saintbury, Salperton, Sandhurst, Sapperton, Saul, Sedbury, Seven Springs, Sevenhampton, Sharpness, Sheepscombe, Sherborne, Shipton Moyne, Shi... | 21,596 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
Sunhill, Swindon Village, Syde
# T.
- Taynton, Teddington, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Tidenham, Thrupp, Toddington, Tredington, Temple Guiting, Tibberton, Througham Slad, Tresham, Tuffley, Twyning
# U.
- Uckington, Uley, Ullenwood, Up Hatherley, Upleadon, Upper Dowdeswell, Upper Slaughte... | 21,597 |
1804104 | List of places in Gloucestershire | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20places%20in%20Gloucestershire | List of places in Gloucestershire
, Syde
# T.
- Taynton, Teddington, Tetbury, Tewkesbury, Tidenham, Thrupp, Toddington, Tredington, Temple Guiting, Tibberton, Througham Slad, Tresham, Tuffley, Twyning
# U.
- Uckington, Uley, Ullenwood, Up Hatherley, Upleadon, Upper Dowdeswell, Upper Slaughter, Upper Coberley, Upper... | 21,598 |
1804101 | Marvel Feature | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marvel%20Feature | Marvel Feature
Marvel Feature
Marvel Feature was a comic book showcase series published by Marvel Comics in the 1970s. It was a tryout book, intended to test the popularity of characters and concepts being considered for their own series. The first volume led to the launch of "The Defenders" and "Marvel Two-in-One", w... | 21,599 |
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