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269894 | Ilocos Sur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilocos%20Sur | Ilocos Sur
as Baptist, Iglesia Ni Cristo, Methodist, Seventh-day Adventist, other Evangelical Christians as well as Muslims.
# Economy.
The people are engaged in farming, producing food crops, mostly rice, corn, vegetable, root crops, and fruits. Non-food crops include tobacco, cotton, and tigergrass. Cottage industr... | 23,500 |
269894 | Ilocos Sur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilocos%20Sur | Ilocos Sur
rapidly growing population, the decreasing fertility of the soil, and the long period between the planting and harvesting season, have forced the people to turn to manufacture and trade. Many Ilocanos go to the Cagayán valley, Central Plains and Mindanao to sell Ilocano woven cloth.
Weaving is the most exte... | 23,501 |
269894 | Ilocos Sur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilocos%20Sur | Ilocos Sur
one agricultural college and 56 private schools, 16 of which are Catholic.
# Culture.
The "Ilocos Sur Museum", founded on August 22, 1970, has a collection of cultural treasures which include art include paintings, centuries-old sculptures, pieces of carved furniture, and relics of Spanish European and Chi... | 23,502 |
269894 | Ilocos Sur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilocos%20Sur | Ilocos Sur
wares, and Spanish and Mexican coins.
The Syquia collections, including then President Elpidio Quirino's memorabilia, vie in quality with the Crisólogo collections. But in the midst of a fire scare in Vigan in the past, the relics in the Syquia Mansion were transferred to Manila for safekeeping.
# UNESCO R... | 23,503 |
269894 | Ilocos Sur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilocos%20Sur | Ilocos Sur
of cultural elements from elsewhere in the Philippines, from China and from Europe, resulting in a culture and townscape that have no parallel anywhere in East and South-East Asia.""
## Santa Maria Church.
In 1993, the Baroque Churches of the Philippines, containing 4 properties, was inscribed in the World... | 23,504 |
269894 | Ilocos Sur | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ilocos%20Sur | Ilocos Sur
hinese and Philippine craftsmen.""
# Notable people from Ilocos Sur.
- Elpidio Quirino — sixth President of the Philippines
- Gabriela Silang — revolutionary leader best known as the first female leader of a Filipino movement for independence from Spain
- José Burgos — priest and one of the martyrs of Go... | 23,505 |
1805011 | Johan Van Hecke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johan%20Van%20Hecke | Johan Van Hecke
Johan Van Hecke
Johan Jozef Marie Clara Van Hecke (born 2 December 1954 in Ghent) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committe... | 23,506 |
1805011 | Johan Van Hecke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johan%20Van%20Hecke | Johan Van Hecke
Degree in medical sociology
# Career.
- 1978-1980: Assistant at the faculty of sociology, Catholic University of Louvain
- 1980-1983: Head of research department and lecturer at the HIPB (Higher Institute for the Paramedical Professions), Ghent
- 1983-1986: National Chairman of the Youth CVP
- 1993... | 23,507 |
1805011 | Johan Van Hecke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johan%20Van%20Hecke | Johan Van Hecke
faculty of sociology, Catholic University of Louvain
- 1980-1983: Head of research department and lecturer at the HIPB (Higher Institute for the Paramedical Professions), Ghent
- 1983-1986: National Chairman of the Youth CVP
- 1993-1996: General Chairman of the CVP
- 1997-1999: Director of EPP train... | 23,508 |
1805003 | Peter Grünberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Grünberg | Peter Grünberg
Peter Grünberg
Peter Andreas Grünberg (18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.
# Life and career.
Grünberg was born in Pilsen, ... | 23,509 |
1805003 | Peter Grünberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Grünberg | Peter Grünberg
for Škoda, died on 27 November 1945 in Czech imprisonment and is buried in a mass grave in Pilsen which is also inscribed with "Grünberg Theodor † 27. November 1945". His mother Anna (who died in 2002 aged 100) had to work in agriculture and stayed with her parents in the Petermann house in Untersekersch... | 23,510 |
1805003 | Peter Grünberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Grünberg | Peter Grünberg
University of Technology, where he received his diploma in physics in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1969. While there, he met and married his wife, Helma Prauser, who became a schoolteacher. From 1969 to 1972, he did postdoctoral work at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He later joined the Institute for So... | 23,511 |
1805003 | Peter Grünberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Grünberg | Peter Grünberg
and independently discovered by Albert Fert from the Université de Paris Sud. It has been used extensively in read heads of modern hard drives. Another application of the GMR effect is non-volatile, magnetic random access memory.
Apart from the Nobel Prize, Grünberg's work also has been rewarded with sh... | 23,512 |
1805003 | Peter Grünberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Grünberg | Peter Grünberg
the European Patent Office and European Commission in 2006.
# Selected publications.
- Grünberg, Peter, Y. Suzuki, T. Katayama, K. Takanashi, R. Schreiber, K. Tanaka. 1997. "The magneto-optical effect of Cr(001) wedged ultrathin films grown on Fe(001)". "JMMM ". 165, 134.
- P. Grünberg, J.A. Wolf, R.S... | 23,513 |
1805003 | Peter Grünberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Grünberg | Peter Grünberg
ICM in Warsaw, 1994). 1995. "Layered magnetic structures: interlayer exchange coupling and giant magnetoresistance". "JMMM". 140–144, 1.
- P. Grünberg, A. Fuß, Q. Leng, R. Schreiber, J.A. Wolf. 1993. "Interlayer Coupling and its Relation to Growth and Structure". "Proc. of NATO workshop on "Magnetism an... | 23,514 |
1805003 | Peter Grünberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Grünberg | Peter Grünberg
tructure". "Proc. of NATO workshop on "Magnetism and Structure in Systems of Reduced Dimension", ed. by R.F.C. Farrow et al., NATO ASI Series B: Physics Vol. 309, p. 87, Plenum Press, N.Y. 1993".
- A. Fuß, S. Demokritov, P. Grünberg, W. Zinn. 1992. "Short- and long period oscillations in the exchange co... | 23,515 |
1805021 | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20Anthony%20Catholic%20Church%20(Honolulu) | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu)
Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu)
Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Honolulu is a parish in the West Honolulu Vicariate Forane of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
# History.
The Catholic faith was brought to Kalihi about 1840 when Brother Calixtus built an altar ... | 23,516 |
1805021 | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20Anthony%20Catholic%20Church%20(Honolulu) | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu)
of Kalihi Kai until his resignation due to illness in 1927.
Msgr. Stephen Alencastre, SS.CC., Vicar Apostolic, appointed Father Hubert Nijs, SS.CC., as the second pastor of the parish. Father Hubert moved into a rectory cottage next to the church and became the first resident p... | 23,517 |
1805021 | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20Anthony%20Catholic%20Church%20(Honolulu) | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu)
the first and second grades that opened on September 2, 1928. These two sisters made a daily commute from their convent located near Punahou School. Five more Maryknoll nuns joined the school in 1929 and Father Hubert purchased the adjacent property across Kaumualii Street and b... | 23,518 |
1805021 | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20Anthony%20Catholic%20Church%20(Honolulu) | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu)
by the Provincial Superior of the Sacred Hearts Fathers of Father Maurice Coopman, SS.CC., as the pastor of Saint Anthony parish. Father Maurice labored patiently, and erased the parish debt accrued during the building of the school and rectory. Father Maurice was retired in 196... | 23,519 |
1805021 | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20Anthony%20Catholic%20Church%20(Honolulu) | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu)
by John the Baptist, floral stained glass windows, and various other stained-glass windows depicting various events in the history of the parish and the diocese, and walnut pews manufactured by the Trappist monks of Lafayette, Indiana the new church was consecrated on August 25,... | 23,520 |
1805021 | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20Anthony%20Catholic%20Church%20(Honolulu) | Saint Anthony Catholic Church (Honolulu)
-glass windows depicting various events in the history of the parish and the diocese, and walnut pews manufactured by the Trappist monks of Lafayette, Indiana the new church was consecrated on August 25, 1968 by Msgr. John J. Scanlan, Bishop of Honolulu.
# Today.
The parish ca... | 23,521 |
269939 | Seven Oaks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20Oaks | Seven Oaks
Seven Oaks
Seven Oaks or Sevenoaks may refer to:
Canada
- Seven Oaks (electoral district), in Winnipeg, 1956–89
- Seven Oaks School Division
- Seven Oaks House Museum
- Battle of Seven Oaks (1816)
- Morningside, Toronto, alternate name for the neighbourhood
United States
- Seven Oaks Dam, California... | 23,522 |
269939 | Seven Oaks | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20Oaks | Seven Oaks
listed on the NRHP in Georgia
- Seven Oaks (Sac City, Iowa), listed on the NRHP
- Seven Oaks, Maryland
- Seven Oaks Estate, Palisades, New York, listed on the NRHP
- Seven Oaks (Asheville, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP
- Seven Oaks, Bluffton, South Carolina
- Seven Oaks, South Carolina
- Seven O... | 23,523 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
Questionnaire construction
Questionnaire construction refers to the design of a questionnaire to gather statistically useful information about a given topic. When properly constructed and responsibly administered, questionnaires can provide valuable data about any given subject.
# Questionn... | 23,524 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
scaling, or a bad questionnaire format can make the survey results valueless, as they may not accurately reflect the views and opinions of the participants.
Different methods can be useful for checking a questionnaire and making sure it is accurately capturing the intended information. Initi... | 23,525 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
interpretation of the questions and use of the questionnaire, a researcher can
- carrying out a small pretest of the questionnaire, using a small subset of target respondents. Results can inform a researcher of errors such as missing questions, or logical and procedural errors.
- estimating... | 23,526 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
answers with a "yes" or a "no".
- Multiple choice – The respondent has several option from which to choose.
- Scaled questions – Responses are graded on a continuum (e.g.: rate the appearance of the product on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the most preferred appearance). Examples of t... | 23,527 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
time.
- Open-ended questions – No options or predefined categories are suggested. The respondent supplies their own answer without being constrained by a fixed set of possible responses. Examples include:
- Completely unstructured – For example, "What is your opinion on questionnaires?"
- ... | 23,528 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
test – Respondents explain a picture or create a story about what they think is happening in the picture.
- Contingency question – A question that is answered only if the respondent gives a particular response to a previous question. This avoids asking questions of people that do not apply t... | 23,529 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
accompanying set of equidistant response-points (usually 5-7).
- Each response point has an accompanying verbal anchor (e.g., “strongly agree”) ascending from left to right.
- Verbal anchors should be balanced to reflect equal intervals between response-points.
- Collectively, a set of res... | 23,530 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
in a reliable and valid way, they are collectively referred to as a multi-item scale, or a psychometric scale.
- The following types of reliability and validity should be established for a multi-item scale: internal reliability, test-retest reliability (if the variable is expected to be stab... | 23,531 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
results of the research will be used. If the results won't influence the decision-making process, budgets won't allow implementing the findings, or the cost of research outweighs its usefulness, then there is little purpose in conducting the research.
The research objective(s) and frame-of-r... | 23,532 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
of the larger population.
The level of measurement – known as the scale, index, or typology – will determine what can be concluded from the data. A yes/no question will only reveal how many of the sample group answered yes or no, lacking the resolution to determine an average response. The n... | 23,533 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
be avoided, as they are an expense to the researcher and an unwelcome imposition on the respondents. All questions should contribute to the objective(s) of the research.
Topics should fit the respondents' frame of reference, as their background may affect their interpretation of the question... | 23,534 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
questionnaire results. Double negatives should be reworded as positives.
If a survey question actually contains more than one issue, the researcher will not know which one the respondent is answering. Care should be taken to ask one question at a time.
Questions and prepared responses (for ... | 23,535 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
responses should be collectively exhaustive; one solution is to use a final write-in category for "other ________". The possible responses should also be mutually exclusive, without overlap. Respondents should not find themselves in more than one category, for example in both the "married" ca... | 23,536 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
the research questions.
Presentation of the questions on the page (or computer screen) and use of white space, colors, pictures, charts, or other graphics may affect respondent's interest – or distract from the questions. Numbering of questions may be helpful.
Questionnaires can be administ... | 23,537 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
modes they will be using. For example, a questionnaire designed to be filled-out on paper may not operate in the same way when administered by telephone. These mode effects may be substantial enough that they threaten the validity of the research.
Using multiple modes can improve access to t... | 23,538 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
and subcultures can interpret certain words and phrases differently from one another.
There are two different types of questions that survey researchers use when writing a questionnaire: free-response questions and closed questions. Free-response questions are open-ended, whereas closed ques... | 23,539 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
and direct, and preferably under twenty words. Each question should be edited for readability and should avoid leading or loaded questions. If multiple questions are being used to measure one construct, some of the questions should be worded in the opposite direction to evade response bias.
... | 23,540 |
269927 | Questionnaire construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Questionnaire%20construction | Questionnaire construction
ld ensure that the answer to a question is not influenced by previous questions.
According to the three-stage theory (also called the sandwich theory), questions should be asked in three stages:
- 1. screening and rapport questions
- 2. product-specific questions
- 3. demographic question... | 23,541 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
Possessive determiner
Possessive determiners constitute a sub-class of determiners which modify a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. They are also known as possessive adjectives, although the latter term is sometimes used with a wider meaning.
E... | 23,542 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
as "John's", "the girl's", "somebody's", "the king of Spain's", when used to modify a following noun.
In many languages, possessive determiners are subject to agreement with the noun they modify, as in the French "mon", "ma", "mes", respectively the masculine singular, feminine singular and plura... | 23,543 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
to relatives other than parents or spouse, there is no implication of uniqueness – "my brother" can mean equally well "one of my brothers" as "the one brother I have".) It is not correct to precede possessives with an article (*"the my car") or (in today's English) other definite determiner such a... | 23,544 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
classify the words "my", "your", etc. as possessive adjectives, others, due to the differences noted above, do not consider them adjectives – at least, not in English – and prefer possessive determiners. In some other languages the equivalent parts of speech behave more like true adjectives, howev... | 23,545 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
mine", for example, where "mine" substitutes for a complete noun phrase such as "my book"). For this reason, other authors restrict the term "possessive pronoun" to the group of words "mine", "yours" etc. that substitute directly for a noun or noun phrase.
Some authors who classify both sets of w... | 23,546 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
are "my", "your", "his", "her", "its", "our", "their" and "whose" (as in "Whose coat is this?" and "the man whose car was stolen"). As noted above, they indicate definiteness, like the definite article "the". Archaic forms include "thy" and "mine/thine" (for "my/thy" before a vowel). For details, ... | 23,547 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
"the soldiers'," "those men's", "the king of England's", "one's", "somebody's".
For more details of the formation and use of possessives in English, see English possessive. For more details about the use of determiners generally, see English determiners.
# Other languages.
Though in English the... | 23,548 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
of the possessive determiners agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner. French, for example, in the singular, uses "son" for masculine nouns and also for feminine noun phrases starting with a vowel, "sa" elsewhere; compare "Il a perdu son chapeau" ("He lost his hat") with "Elle a perdu s... | 23,549 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
but do change for plurality of the possessee, e.g. "Mi esposa tiene mis gafas" ("My wife has my glasses"). Spanish possessive "pronouns" do agree with gender and plurality of the possessee, e.g. "Esas niñas son nuestras. Ese bolígrafo es nuestro." ("Those girls are ours. That pen is ours.").
In I... | 23,550 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
depending on the owner. English has the (uninflected) words "his" and "her"; Dutch uses the (uninflected) "zijn" and "haar". Other Germanic languages, such as German and several Dutch dialects including Limburgish and Brabantian, additionally use different forms depending on the grammatical gender... | 23,551 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
gender and number of the thing(s) owned.
Some languages have no distinctive possessive determiners, and express possession by declining personal pronouns in the genitive or possessive case, or by using possessive suffixes or particles. In Japanese, for example, "boku no" (a word for "I" coupled w... | 23,552 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
can mean either "our" or "ours".
On the other hand, some Micronesian languages such as Pohnpeian have a large number of possessive classifiers that reflect both the possessor and the possessum: "nah pwihk" means "his (live) pig;" "ah pwihk" means "his (butchered) pig;" and "kene pwihk" means "por... | 23,553 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
"his train" (as in "If Bob doesn't get to the station in ten minutes he's going to miss "his train"")
- "my CD" (as in "The kids are enjoying "my CD"")
# Forms.
Possessive determiners commonly have similar forms to personal pronouns. In addition, they have corresponding possessive pronouns, whi... | 23,554 |
1804971 | Possessive determiner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Possessive%20determiner | Possessive determiner
ouns.
- * These forms are grammatically 3rd person plural, but refer to a naturally 2nd person.
# References.
- Biber, Douglas, "et al." (1999) "Longman Grammar of Spoken English." Harlow, Essex: Longman. .
- Jespersen, Otto. (1949) "A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles." Part 2 (... | 23,555 |
1804987 | Tommy Tedesco | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommy%20Tedesco | Tommy Tedesco
Tommy Tedesco
Thomas J. Tedesco (July 3, 1930 – November 10, 1997) was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He was part of the loose collective of the area's leading session musicians later popularly known as The Wrecking Crew, who played on thousands of studio recordin... | 23,556 |
1804987 | Tommy Tedesco | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommy%20Tedesco | Tommy Tedesco
Mirth-Makers, in the talk-show spoof "Fernwood 2 Night".
# Career.
Born in Niagara Falls, New York, Tedesco moved to the West Coast where he became one of the most-sought-after studio musicians between the 1960s and 1980s. Although he was primarily a guitar player, he also played mandolin, ukulele, sita... | 23,557 |
1804987 | Tommy Tedesco | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommy%20Tedesco | Tommy Tedesco
Jan and Dean, the 5th Dimension, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, Ricky Nelson, Cher, and Nancy and Frank Sinatra as well as on Richard Harris's classic "MacArthur Park". His playing can be found on Jack Nitzsche's "The Lonely Surfer", on Wayne Newton's version of "Danke Schoen", B.... | 23,558 |
1804987 | Tommy Tedesco | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommy%20Tedesco | Tommy Tedesco
each job posed and how he solved them, what instruments he used, and how much money he made on the job.
Tedesco also performed on film soundtracks such as "The French Connection", "The Godfather", "Jaws", "The Deer Hunter", "Field of Dreams", "Gloria" plus several Elvis Presley films. He was also the gui... | 23,559 |
1804987 | Tommy Tedesco | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommy%20Tedesco | Tommy Tedesco
when he suffered a stroke that resulted in partial paralysis. The following year he published his autobiography, "Confessions of a Guitar Player".
Tedesco died of lung cancer in 1997, at the age of 67, in Northridge, California. His son, Denny Tedesco, directed the 2008 documentary film "The Wrecking Cre... | 23,560 |
1804987 | Tommy Tedesco | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommy%20Tedesco | Tommy Tedesco
As leader.
- "The Electric Twelve-String Guitar" (Imperial Records, 1964)
- "The Guitars of Tommy Tedesco" (Imperial Records, 1965)
- "Calypso Soul" (Imperial Records, 1966)
- "When Do We Start" (Discovery, 1978)
- "Autumn" (Trend, 1978)
- "My Desiree" (Discovery, 1981)
- "Carnival Time" (Trend/Dis... | 23,561 |
1804987 | Tommy Tedesco | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tommy%20Tedesco | Tommy Tedesco
ody for Guitar & Orchestra" (Capri 1992)
## As sideman.
With Chet Baker
- "Blood, Chet and Tears" (Verve, 1970)
With Don Ellis
- "Haiku" (MPS, 1974)
With Quincy Jones
- "The Hot Rock OST" (Prophesy, 1972)
With Jack Nitzsche
- "Heart Beat" (Soundtrack) (Capitol, 1980)
With Lalo Schifrin
- "The C... | 23,562 |
269931 | Renin–angiotensin system | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Renin–angiotensin%20system | Renin–angiotensin system
Renin–angiotensin system
The renin–angiotensin system (RAS), or renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS), is a hormone system that regulates blood pressure and fluid and electrolyte balance, as well as systemic vascular resistance.
When renal blood flow is reduced, juxtaglomerular cells in... | 23,563 |
269931 | Renin–angiotensin system | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Renin–angiotensin%20system | Renin–angiotensin system
of the lungs. Angiotensin II is a potent vasoconstrictive peptide that causes blood vessels to narrow, resulting in increased blood pressure. Angiotensin II also stimulates the secretion of the hormone aldosterone from the adrenal cortex. Aldosterone causes the renal tubules to increase the rea... | 23,564 |
269931 | Renin–angiotensin system | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Renin–angiotensin%20system | Renin–angiotensin system
are one of the primary ways to control high blood pressure, heart failure, kidney failure, and harmful effects of diabetes.
# Activation.
"Further information: Autoregulation
The system can be activated when there is a loss of blood volume or a drop in blood pressure (such as in hemorrhage o... | 23,565 |
269931 | Renin–angiotensin system | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Renin–angiotensin%20system | Renin–angiotensin system
then the juxtaglomerular cells (granular cells, modified pericytes in the glomerular capillary) release the enzyme renin.
- 2. Renin cleaves a decapeptide from angiotensinogen, a globular protein. The decapeptide is known as angiotensin I.
- 3. Angiotensin I is then converted to an octapeptid... | 23,566 |
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mesangial cells, causing these cells to contract along with the blood vessels surrounding them and causing the release of aldosterone from the zona glomerulosa in the adrenal cortex. Angiotensin II acts as an endocrine, autocrine/paracrine, and intracrine hormone.
# Cardiovascular effects.
"F... | 23,567 |
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on efferent arterioles than afferent. As with most other capillary beds in the body, the constriction of afferent arterioles increases the arteriolar resistance, raising systemic arterial blood pressure and decreasing the blood flow. However, the kidneys must continue to filter enough blood des... | 23,568 |
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there is less plasma fluid in the downstream peritubular capillaries. This in turn leads to a decreased hydrostatic pressure and increased oncotic pressure (due to unfiltered plasma proteins) in the peritubular capillaries. The effect of decreased hydrostatic pressure and increased oncotic pres... | 23,569 |
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medulla will increase passive reabsorption of sodium along the thick ascending limb of the Loop of Henle.
- Angiotensin II stimulates / exchangers located on the apical membranes (faces the tubular lumen) of cells in the proximal tubule and thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle in addition... | 23,570 |
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causing them to reabsorb more sodium and water from the urine. This increases blood volume and, therefore, increases blood pressure. In exchange for the reabsorbing of sodium to blood, potassium is secreted into the tubules, becomes part of urine and is excreted.
- Angiotensin II causes the re... | 23,571 |
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the sensation of thirst.
These effects directly act together to increase blood pressure and are opposed by atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP).
# Local renin–angiotensin systems.
Locally expressed renin–angiotensin systems have been found in a number of tissues, including the kidneys, adrenal g... | 23,572 |
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tissues and more than half of circulating prorenin is of extrarenal origin, but its physiological role besides serving as precursor to renin is still unclear. Outside the liver, angiotensinogen is picked up from the circulation or expressed locally in some tissues; with renin they form angioten... | 23,573 |
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of the circulatory RAS, it may be involved in local blood pressure regulation. In addition, both the central and peripheral nervous systems can use angiotensin for sympathetic neurotransmission. Other places of expression include the reproductive system, the skin and digestive organs. Medicatio... | 23,574 |
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pulmonary blood flow, preventing ACE (found predominantly in the pulmonary circulation) from having its maximum effect.
# Clinical significance.
- ACE inhibitors–inhibitors of angiotensin-converting enzyme are often used to reduce the formation of the more potent angiotensin II. Captopril is ... | 23,575 |
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t angiotensin II. Captopril is an example of an ACE inhibitor. ACE cleaves a number of other peptides, and in this capacity is an important regulator of the kinin–kallikrein system, as such blocking ACE can lead to side effects.
- Angiotensin II receptor antagonists, also known as angiotensin ... | 23,576 |
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Scottish Episcopal Church
The seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church (; ) make up the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion in Scotland. The church has, since the 18th century, held an identity distinct from that of the Presbyterian-aligned Church of Scotland.
A continua... | 23,577 |
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Instruments of Communion, but without jurisdiction in Scotland "per se". This close but ambivalent relationship – consisting of a partial recognition of the authority of the Church of England, yet concurrent claim of independence – results from the unique history of the Scottish Episcopal Chur... | 23,578 |
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or members of another denomination of the Anglican Communion. The all-age membership of the church in 2017 was 30,909 of whom 22,073 were communicant members. Weekly attendance was 12,149.
The current Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church is Mark Strange, elected since 27 June 2017.
# Offi... | 23,579 |
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saints. The Church of Scotland claims the same continuity.
The church is sometimes pejoratively referred to in Scotland as the "English Kirk", but this can cause offence.
This is probably in part due to the fact that it is, nonetheless, a union of the non-juring Episcopalians with the "quali... | 23,580 |
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being still in sight of his native land he moved further north along the west coast of Scotland. He was granted land on the island of Iona off the Isle of Mull which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts. However, there is a sense in which he did not leave his native peopl... | 23,581 |
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in Inverness, winning the king's respect and Columba subsequently played a major role in the politics of that country. He was also very energetic in his evangelical work; in addition to founding several churches in the Hebrides, he worked to turn his monastery at Iona into a school for mission... | 23,582 |
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See as did successive monarchs such as Margaret's son, David, who invited several religious orders to establish monasteries.
## Reformation.
The Scottish Reformation was formalised in 1560, when the Church of Scotland broke with the Church of Rome during a process of Protestant reform led, a... | 23,583 |
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of the assets of the old church should pass to the new. The 1560 Reformation Settlement was not ratified by the crown for some years, and the question of church government also remained largely unresolved. In 1572 the acts of 1560 were finally approved by the young James VI, but under pressure... | 23,584 |
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as a distinct church in 1582, when the Church of Scotland rejected episcopal government (by bishops) and adopted a presbyterian government by elders as well as reformed theology. Scottish monarchs made repeated efforts to introduce bishops and two ecclesiastical traditions competed.
## Episco... | 23,585 |
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by an Episcopalian faction. After ascending to the English throne in 1603 James stopped the General Assembly from meeting, increased the number of Scottish bishops and in 1618 held a General Assembly in Perth; this gathering adopted "Five Articles" of Episcopalian practices. Many Scottish chur... | 23,586 |
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of Ross, John Maxwell, and edited for printing by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud; it was a combination of Knox's "Book of Common Order", which was in use before 1637, and English liturgy in hopes of further unifying the (Anglican) Church of England and the (Presbyterian) Church of ... | 23,587 |
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of 1641 and the already increasingly uncooperative English Parliament into likewise declaring war on the king in the English Civil War. As a result of the weakness of the king, Presbyterian Covenanters were able to become the de facto government in Scotland until disagreement between the Scott... | 23,588 |
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and bishops and renounce the Covenants, or be prevented from preaching in church. Up to a third, at least 270, of the ministry refused, mostly in the south-west of Scotland, and numerous ministers also took to preaching in the open fields in conventicles across the south of Scotland, often att... | 23,589 |
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polity was finally re-established in the Church of Scotland. However, the Comprehension Act of 1690 allowed Episcopalian incumbents, upon taking the Oath of Allegiance, to retain their benefices, though excluding them from any share in the government of the Church of Scotland without a further... | 23,590 |
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(see Jacobitism). A few prelates, known as college bishops, were consecrated without sees, to preserve the succession rather than to exercise a defined authority. At length the hopelessness of the Stuart cause and the growth of congregations outside the establishment forced the bishops to diss... | 23,591 |
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be adopted by the American Church were mainly determined by its influence.
Among the clergy of post-Revolution days the most eminent are Bishop John Sage, a well-known patristic scholar; Bishop Rattray, liturgiologist; John Skinner, of Longside, author of "Tullochgorum"; Bishop Gleig, editor ... | 23,592 |
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an escalation of hostilities.
## From the Union of England and Scotland in 1707.
In 1707 Scotland and England were merged into a single Kingdom of Great Britain. The Scottish Episcopalians Act of 1711 protected the Episcopal Church, which marked its virtual incorporation as a distinct societ... | 23,593 |
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themselves under the act of 1711. This act was further modified in 1746 and 1748 to exclude clergy ordained in Scotland.
These causes reduced the Episcopalians who, by 1689, had been a large section of the population to a minority, save in a few corners of the west and north-east of Scotland.... | 23,594 |
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Samuel Seabury at Aberdeen in 1784. He became the first bishop of the American Episcopal Church after being refused consecration by Church of England clergy. In this way, it can be said that the Episcopal Church in the United States owes as much of its origins to the Scottish Episcopal Church ... | 23,595 |
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working clergy. Membership did not grow in the following decades as it was believed it would.
In 1989 there were approximately 200 stipendiary and 80 non-stipendiary clergy. Membership was 65,000, with 31,000 communicants.
In 1995, the Scottish Episcopal Church began working through a proces... | 23,596 |
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new populations which have previously not been contacted by the church. As "Mission 21" has developed, changing patterns of ministry have become part of its remit.
## 21st century.
In terms of official membership, Episcopalians constitute well under 1 per cent of the population of Scotland, ... | 23,597 |
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and 2012. The church's 2016 annual report noted a "continuing decline in overall numbers", and in almost identical language it was reported in 2018 that the church faced "continuing decline in members and attendance".
In recent decades, the Scottish Episcopal Church has taken a left-of-centre... | 23,598 |
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to leave the church, although they have been obliged to leave their buildings and funds behind them. In November 2017 a high-profile female supporter of same-sex marriage, Anne Dyer was appointed bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney by the other bishops, rather than elected as usual. This drew protes... | 23,599 |
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