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4656042 | San Jose Spiders | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San%20Jose%20Spiders | San Jose Spiders
San Jose Spiders
The San Jose Spiders were a women's professional basketball team in the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL). Based in San Jose, California, they played from 2005 to 2006. Notable players included Brittany Jackson, Julie McBride, Lindsey Yamasaki, and Natalie Nakase.
# Team Reco... | 35,500 |
4656047 | Wappapello, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wappapello,%20Missouri | Wappapello, Missouri
Wappapello, Missouri
Wappapello is an unincorporated community in southeastern Wayne County, Missouri, United States. It is located about thirteen miles northeast of Poplar Bluff next to Lake Wappapello.
Wappapello is also home to at least two known white supremacist groups, the Confederate White... | 35,501 |
4656047 | Wappapello, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wappapello,%20Missouri | Wappapello, Missouri
n Wayne County, Missouri, United States. It is located about thirteen miles northeast of Poplar Bluff next to Lake Wappapello.
Wappapello is also home to at least two known white supremacist groups, the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Watchmen Bible Study Group .
Wappapello... | 35,502 |
4656099 | Azari language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Azari%20language | Azari language
Azari language
Azari language may refer to:
- Azerbaijani language, a modern language spoken in Azerbaijan and Northwest Iran, from Turkic language family
- Old Azeri language, an old language from Iranian language family | 35,503 |
4656067 | Jersey Community Hospital | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jersey%20Community%20Hospital | Jersey Community Hospital
Jersey Community Hospital
Jersey Community Hospital (occasionally known as JCH) is a full-service hospital located in Jerseyville, Illinois. The hospital was founded in 1954 and is owned by the citizens of Jersey County. The hospital moved from its original location to a larger campus in 1977... | 35,504 |
4656067 | Jersey Community Hospital | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jersey%20Community%20Hospital | Jersey Community Hospital
rticipates with various hospital alliances and associations, it remains an independent facility.
The immediate hospital campus has expanded in recent years, with the additions of the JCH Wellness Center fitness facility and the JCH Women's Center and Sleep Center. The emergency department has... | 35,505 |
4656066 | Abu-Ali Urbuti | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abu-Ali%20Urbuti | Abu-Ali Urbuti
Abu-Ali Urbuti
Abu-Ali Urbuti (born November 3, 1918) is an Egyptian Muslim sheikh who is best known for his fiery anti-American rhetoric and his unabashed support of Khalid Islambouli, the man convicted of assassinating Egyptian president Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat in 1981. Originally a pacifist and known ... | 35,506 |
4656066 | Abu-Ali Urbuti | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abu-Ali%20Urbuti | Abu-Ali Urbuti
held for nearly eight months in solitary confinement. Upon his release, Urbuti, now blind in his left eye and suffering from frequent and violent Grand Mal seizures, accused his jailors of repeated acts of violent torture. In his official statement to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement... | 35,507 |
4656066 | Abu-Ali Urbuti | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abu-Ali%20Urbuti | Abu-Ali Urbuti
the Islamic writers Ibn Taymiyah and Sayyid Qutb. After graduating in Qur'anic studies from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Urbuti became one of the most prominent and outspoken Muslim clerics to denounce Egypt’s apostasy. He was respected by both the Islamic and the secular communities for his resolve to ... | 35,508 |
4656128 | List of crossings of the Tennessee River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20crossings%20of%20the%20Tennessee%20River | List of crossings of the Tennessee River
List of crossings of the Tennessee River
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Tennessee River from the Ohio River upstream to its source(s).
# See also.
- List of crossings of the Ohio River | 35,509 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
Ethereal wave
Ethereal wave, also called ethereal goth or simply ethereal, is a subgenre of dark wave music and is variously described as "gothic", "romantic", and "otherworldly". Developed in the early 1980s in the UK as an outgrowth of gothic rock, ethereal wave was mainly represented by 4AD bands such... | 35,510 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
the music of the Cocteau Twins, was one of the key inspirations for the British dreampop/shoegazing scene of the late 1980s.
# Origin of the term.
In the mid-1980s, several Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil records have been described as "ethereal", "etherealism", and "ethereal romanticism". In September 1... | 35,511 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
"ethereal wave" in the same vein as new wave, dark wave, and cold wave.
Historically, the term was mostly applied to the roster of 4AD label − not only referring to music, but also regarding aesthetics of the graphical visualization.
The "ethereal" designation has been taken over by authors such as Mick... | 35,512 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
description of Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Tinderbox" album, which heavily relies on the use of guitar pedals and studio effects in songs such as "92 Degrees" and "Land's End".
# Style characteristics.
The defining characteristic of the style is the use of effects-laden guitar soundscapes, primarily bas... | 35,513 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
use of drum machines, typical of many 4AD productions and initially established by Cocteau Twins' "Garlands" album and the first full-length work of Dead Can Dance. Acoustic guitars, often combined with electric guitars and bass guitars, are sometimes used to create a more folk-oriented feel (e.g. Love Sp... | 35,514 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
explored new musical paths, interchangeably described as post-punk and new wave. Technical improvement and the rise of affordable equipment such as drum machines and multi-effects units helped define the sound of a new era. Seminal music artists such as The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Chameleons,... | 35,515 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
(e.g. This Ascension). Hits like "Melt", released in 1982, rely on a ¾ time signature and an extensive use of digital delay, reverberation and modulation effects, accompanied by dark, unsettling lyrics, and have been described as languorous, seductive, and erotic.
During this time, ethereal was not solid... | 35,516 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
the Cocteau Twins' concert this past fall." Soon, the ethereal style that has been dismissed at times as ""swirly-girlie music"" became closely associated with a certain type of audience, occasionally referred to as "Ether(eal) goths" or "Romantigoths".
Other bands from the 1980s who spawned a similar so... | 35,517 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
A Primary Industry's "Ultramarine", and Cocteau Twins' last ethereal E.P. "Love's Easy Tears". In 1987, U.S. band Area debuted with "Radio Caroline" while Vazz from Scotland, a former new wave/synthwave band, brought out "Feverpitch" that follows the footsteps of the Cocteau Twins. In the same year, Robin... | 35,518 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
of popularity throughout the 1990s, especially in the first half of the decade. During this time, ethereal wave and rock genres such as shoegazing (aka dream pop) interacted with each other, with many artists being influenced by 4AD bands, such as the aforementioned Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil as w... | 35,519 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
referred to as ""ethereal pop"") include Hugo Largo, Rose Chronicles, Miranda Sex Garden, Cranes, Chimera, An April March, Hex, Common Language, The Glee Club, Lovesliescrushing, and Rosewater Elizabeth. Members of British shoegazing group Slowdive have cited being heavily influenced by artists such as Th... | 35,520 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
Records (This Ascension, Trance to the Sun, and Autumn), Bedazzled (Strange Boutique, Siddal, Mistle Thrush, and An April March), and Ivy Records (Faith & Disease, Ninth Circle). Most of these record labels and artists have ceased their activities over the years or changed their musical direction, incorpo... | 35,521 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
Tearwave, Ashrae Fax, Melodyguild, Mercury's Antennae, Faded Sympathy, Saigon Blue Rain, Scarlet Mother, and Broaddaylight − in co-operation with Robin Guthrie.
# Distinction.
Although ethereal wave and shoegazing (also referred to as dream pop) share some similarities (e.g. the use of guitar effects su... | 35,522 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
shoegazing, ethereal wave usually features a traditional early 1980s post-punk and gothic rock signature, devoid of any influences of the simultaneously existing noise pop movement. Most ethereal wave groups, such as Cocteau Twins, early Dead Can Dance, Area, Love Spirals Downwards, Lycia, Autumn, and Spe... | 35,523 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
Secret Shine, The Telescopes).
# Notable artists.
- Aenima ("Silently There")
- All About Eve ("D for Desire", "In the Clouds '86")
- Area (first album "Radio Caroline")
- Autumn (album "The Hating Tree")
- Autumn's Grey Solace ("Eternal Light", "Phobic Sea", "Falling Sky", "Dormant", "Écelic" and m... | 35,524 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
album "Faded Sympathy")
- Faith & Disease ("Jardeau Blue" etc.)
- Funeral Party (album "Serpentime")
- Heavenly Bodies ("Time Stands Still")
- Isiphilon ("Mind Blank")
- Love Spirals Downwards (albums "Idylls" and "Ardor")
- Lovesliescrushing
- Luna in Cælo ("Cuesta", "Llorar", "Puerto : puerta")
... | 35,525 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
of Love" etc.)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees ("Melt" and "92 Degrees")
- Soul Whirling Somewhere
- Speaking Silence (album "Speak in Silence")
- Stare (album "Haunted...")
- Tearwave
- The Violet Hour (album "Galdr")
- This Ascension
- This Mortal Coil (album "It'll End in Tears")
- Trance to the S... | 35,526 |
4655922 | Ethereal wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethereal%20wave | Ethereal wave
Tears")
- Trance to the Sun
- Translucia (album "Ghostpheria")
- Trees Dance (album "Sweet are the Clouds")
- Vazz ("Feverpitch")
- Where I Wake Warm (self-titled EP)
Besides these artists, a number of darkwave-oriented bands have been worldwide loosely associated with the ethereal wave genre, such ... | 35,527 |
4656132 | Monte Bissau | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monte%20Bissau | Monte Bissau
Monte Bissau
Monte Bissau is a mountain in the central part of the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. It is situated 3 km southwest of Belém and 6 km east of the island capital Ribeira Brava. Its elevation is 615 m.
# See also.
- List of mountains in Cape Verde
# Further reading.
- Reitmeier, Pitt a... | 35,528 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
Economizer
Economizers (US and Oxford spelling), or economisers (UK), are mechanical devices intended to reduce energy consumption, or to perform useful function such as preheating a fluid. The term economizer is used for other purposes as well. Boiler, power plant, heating, Refrigeration, ventilating, and ... | 35,529 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
cooled air as it returned to the hot side. This innovation improved the efficiency of Stirling engine enough to make it commercially successful in particular applications, and has since been a component of every air engine that is called a Stirling engine.
# Boilers.
In boilers, economizers are heat exchan... | 35,530 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
the exhaust gases from the boiler to preheat the cold water used to fill it (the "feed water").
The boiler room is a huge energy guzzler. It consists of thermal fluid boilers or steam boiler, with exhaust gases through a common chimney.
An indirect contact or direct contact condensing economizer will recov... | 35,531 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
average over the years, boiler combustion efficiency has risen from 80% to more than 95%. The efficiency of heat produced is directly linked to boiler efficiency. The percentage of excess air and the temperature of the combustion products are two key variables in evaluating this efficiency.
The combustion o... | 35,532 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
the excess air. For example, if the gases are chilled to 38 °C and there is 15% excess air, then the efficiency will be 94%. The condensing economizer can thus recover the sensible and latent heat in the steam condensate contained in the flue gases for the process.
The economizer is made of an aluminium and... | 35,533 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
It consisted of an array of vertical cast iron tubes connected to a tank of water above and below, between which the boiler's exhaust gases passed. This is the reverse arrangement to that usually but not always seen in the fire tubes of a boiler; there the hot gases usually pass through tubes immersed in wat... | 35,534 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
go into the boiler, thus saving fuel. The most successful feature of Green's design of economizer was its mechanical scraping apparatus, which was needed to keep the tubes free of deposits of soot.
Economizers were eventually fitted to virtually all stationary steam engines in the decades following Green's ... | 35,535 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
Hove, where the economiser associated with the boilers for Number 2 Engine is in use, complete with its associated small stationary engine. A third site is Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum, where the Green's economiser is in working order, complete with the drive shafts from the Pollit and Wigzell steam ... | 35,536 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
in a combined cycle power plant. In an HRSG, water passes through an economizer, then a boiler and then a superheater. The economizer also prevents flooding of the boiler with liquid water that is too cold to be boiled given the flow rates and design of the boiler.
A common application of economizers in ste... | 35,537 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
corrosion damage if care is not taken in their design and material selection.
# HVAC.
A building's HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) system can make use of an air-side economizer to save energy in buildings by using cool outside air as a means of cooling the indoor space. When the temperatu... | 35,538 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
economizer control scheme is called "free cooling".
Air-side economizers can reduce HVAC energy costs in cold and temperate climates while also potentially improving indoor air quality, but are most often not appropriate in hot and humid climates. With the appropriate controls, economizers can be used in cl... | 35,539 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
can use water cooled by a wet cooling tower or a dry cooler (also called a fluid cooler) to cool buildings without operating a chiller. They are historically known as the "strainer cycle", but the water-side economizer is not a true thermodynamic cycle. Also, instead of passing the cooling tower water throug... | 35,540 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
is a "walk-in cooler economizer" or "outside air refrigeration system". In such a system outside air that is cooler than the air inside a refrigerated space is brought into that space and the same amount of warmer inside air is ducted outside. The resulting cooling supplements or replaces the operation of a ... | 35,541 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
will need to also operate, or the temperature inside the space will rise.
## Vapor-Compression Refrigeration.
Another use of the term occurs in industrial refrigeration, specifically vapor-compression refrigeration. Normally, the economizer concept is applied when a particular design or feature on the refr... | 35,542 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
thin metal fins used to remove heat from inside the freezer), fans to blow air over the coil and around the box, an air-cooled condensing unit sited outdoors, and valves and piping. The condensing unit would include a compressor and a coil and fans to exchange heat with the ambient air.
An economizer displa... | 35,543 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
such as freezers move less fluid in same volumes. That means the compressor's pumping is less efficient on low temperature systems. This phenomenon is notorious when taking in account that the evaporation temperature for a walk-in freezer at may be around .
Systems with economizers aim to produce part of th... | 35,544 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
or allows the system to produce the same amount of refrigeration using less power.
The economizer concept is linked to subcooling as the condensed liquid line temperature is usually higher than that on the evaporator, making it a good place to apply the notion of increasing efficiencies. Recalling the walk-... | 35,545 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
of this kind of systems demands certain expertise on the matter, and the manufacture of some of the gear, particular finesse and durability. Pressure drop, electric valve controlling and oil drag, must all be attended with special caution.
### Two staged systems and boosters.
A system is said to be in a tw... | 35,546 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
by expansion, pressure and solenoid valves.
### Economizer gas compressors.
The need to use two compressors when considering a booster set-up tends to increase the cost of a refrigeration system. Besides the gear's price, two staged systems need special attention over synchronization, pressure control and ... | 35,547 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
install two compressors and still benefit from the booster concept.
There are two types of economizer setups for these compressors, flash and subcooling. The latter works under the same principle as the two staged booster displays with subcooling. The flash economizer is different because it doesn't use a h... | 35,548 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
effect by using compressors, meters, valves and heat exchangers within the refrigeration cycle. Depending on the system, in some refrigeration cycles it may be convenient to produce the economizer using an independent refrigeration mechanism. Such is the case of subcooling the liquid line by any other means ... | 35,549 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
optimizer able to stabilize the temperature of the liquid line and allowing either an increase in the refrigeration capacity of the system, or a reduction of the power consumption. Such systems have the advantage of not interfering with the original design of the refrigeration system being an interesting alt... | 35,550 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
and liquid reaches the valve. It also allows maximum heat exchanger use as minimizes the portion of the heat exchangers used to change the temperature of the fluid, and maximizes the volume in which the refrigerant changes its phase (phenomena involving much more heat flow, the base principle of vapor-compre... | 35,551 |
4655742 | Economizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economizer | Economizer
e liquid that is headed into the beginning of the evaporator coil via an expansion device. The gas is used to chill a chamber that normally has a series of pipes for the liquid running through it. The superheated gas then proceeds on to the compressor. The subcooling term refers to cooling the liquid below i... | 35,552 |
4656195 | Baal-hazor | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baal-hazor | Baal-hazor
Baal-hazor
Baal-hazor, Baal's village, is the place on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated according to 2 Samuel 13:23. It is probably identical with Hazor mentioned in Nehemiah 11:33, now Tell Asur, 8 km north-east of Bethel. It is a... | 35,553 |
4656219 | 48 Hour Film Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=48%20Hour%20Film%20Festival | 48 Hour Film Festival
48 Hour Film Festival
The 48 Hour Film Festival can refer to any of these film competitions:
- the 48 Hour Film Project
- the New Zealand-based 48HOURS
- Extremefilmmaker's 48 Hour Film Festival | 35,554 |
4656179 | Keith Strickland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keith%20Strickland | Keith Strickland
Keith Strickland
Keith Julian Strickland (born October 26, 1953) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer, and one of the founding members of The B-52s. He was born in Athens, Georgia.
Originally the band's drummer, Strickland switched to guitar after the death of guitarist R... | 35,555 |
4656179 | Keith Strickland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keith%20Strickland | Keith Strickland
I compose. I think of my instrumentals as soundscapes - the chord progressions, rhythms, harmonics and musical direction are used to evoke various sonic atmospheres or moods."
Strickland came out as gay in 1992.
On December 13, 2012, Strickland retired from touring for the B52s. Fred Schneider said o... | 35,556 |
4656179 | Keith Strickland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keith%20Strickland | Keith Strickland
instrumentals as soundscapes - the chord progressions, rhythms, harmonics and musical direction are used to evoke various sonic atmospheres or moods."
Strickland came out as gay in 1992.
On December 13, 2012, Strickland retired from touring for the B52s. Fred Schneider said of Strickland's announceme... | 35,557 |
4656137 | Diffuser (thermodynamics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diffuser%20(thermodynamics) | Diffuser (thermodynamics)
Diffuser (thermodynamics)
A diffuser is "a device for reducing the velocity and increasing the static pressure of a fluid passing through a system”. Diffusers are used to slow the fluid's velocity while increasing its static pressure. The fluid's static pressure rise as it passes though a duc... | 35,558 |
4656137 | Diffuser (thermodynamics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diffuser%20(thermodynamics) | Diffuser (thermodynamics)
flowing at higher velocities with mach numbers in excess of 0.3 usually require compressible flow relations.
A typical, subsonic diffuser is a duct that increases in size in the direction of flow. As the duct increases in size, fluid velocity decreases, and static pressure rises. Both mass fl... | 35,559 |
4656137 | Diffuser (thermodynamics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diffuser%20(thermodynamics) | Diffuser (thermodynamics)
Shock waves may also play an important role in a supersonic diffuser.
# HVAC.
Diffusers are very common in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems. Diffusers are used on both all-air and air-water HVAC systems, as part of room air distribution subsystems, and serve several purpose... | 35,560 |
4656137 | Diffuser (thermodynamics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diffuser%20(thermodynamics) | Diffuser (thermodynamics)
the minimum amount of noise
When possible, dampers, extractors, and other flow control devices should not be placed near diffusers' inlets (necks), either not being used at all or being placed far upstream. They have been shown to dramatically increase noise production. For as-cataloged diffu... | 35,561 |
4656137 | Diffuser (thermodynamics) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diffuser%20(thermodynamics) | Diffuser (thermodynamics)
ed flex duct, just before a diffuser often leads to poor air distribution and increased noise.
Diffusers can be as a shape of round, rectangular, or can be as linear slot diffusers(LSDs, e.g.: Linear slot diffusers takes the form of one or several long, narrow slots, mostly semi-concealed in ... | 35,562 |
4656167 | Nicolaus Michael Oppel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicolaus%20Michael%20Oppel | Nicolaus Michael Oppel
Nicolaus Michael Oppel
Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782 in Schönficht – February 16, 1820 in Munich) was a German naturalist.
He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, catalo... | 35,563 |
4656167 | Nicolaus Michael Oppel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicolaus%20Michael%20Oppel | Nicolaus Michael Oppel
e naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptiles. In 1811 he published a book entitled "Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben", or "The Orders, Families, and Types of Reptiles..." in which he established the ord... | 35,564 |
4656154 | The Black Bass (1988 video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Black%20Bass%20(1988%20video%20game) | The Black Bass (1988 video game)
The Black Bass (1988 video game)
The Black Bass, known in Japan as , is a NES fishing video game, developed by HOT・B and released in June 1989. It is the sequel to the Japan-exclusive "The Black Bass" on MSX and Family Computer. It is the second entry in the "Black Bass" series and the... | 35,565 |
4656154 | The Black Bass (1988 video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Black%20Bass%20(1988%20video%20game) | The Black Bass (1988 video game)
takes place from sunrise to sunset, and at the conclusion of the day, the player will only advance to the next tournament if they have caught a large number of bass with a high average weight. Pike, rainbow trout, and brown trout may also be caught, but will not affect the player's stan... | 35,566 |
4656154 | The Black Bass (1988 video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Black%20Bass%20(1988%20video%20game) | The Black Bass (1988 video game)
can select from a variety of lure types and colors, with each being more or less effective depending on weather conditions and time of day. Fishing at different parts of the lake during different times of the day will also impact how likely one is to encounter a bass.
Progress in the g... | 35,567 |
4656154 | The Black Bass (1988 video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Black%20Bass%20(1988%20video%20game) | The Black Bass (1988 video game)
es and colors, with each being more or less effective depending on weather conditions and time of day. Fishing at different parts of the lake during different times of the day will also impact how likely one is to encounter a bass.
Progress in the game is saved via passwords awarded at... | 35,568 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
NESFA Press
NESFA Press is the publishing arm of the New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. The NESFA Press primarily produces three types of books:
- Books honoring the guest(s) of honor at their annual convention, Boskone, and at some Worldcons and other conventions.
- Books in the NESFA's Choic... | 35,569 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
"A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison" by Nat Segaloff
### 2016.
- "The Grimm Future" edited by Erin Underwood
- "Call Me Joe " by Poul Anderson
### 2015.
- "The Ides of Octember: A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny" by Christopher S. Kovacs
### 2014.
- "A Bicycle Built for Brew" ... | 35,570 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
2010.
- "Deep Navigation" by Alastair Reynolds
- "The Vor Game", by Lois McMaster Bujold
- "Magic and Robots", by Lester del Rey
- "The Saturn Game", by Poul Anderson
- "The Ides of Octember: A Pictorial Bibliography of Roger Zelazny", by Christopher S. Kovacs
## 2000s.
### 2009.
- "Nine Black Doves... | 35,571 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
by Roger Zelazny
- "Power and Light", by Roger Zelazny
- "Call Me Joe", by Poul Anderson
### 2008.
- "Brothers in Arms", by Lois McMaster Bujold
- "Spaced Out (omnibus)", by Judith Merril & C.M. Kornbluth
- "The One Right Thing", by Bruce Coville
- "Works of Art", by James Blish
- "From Other Shores... | 35,572 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
Stories", by Judith Merril
### 2004.
- "All Our Yesterdays", by Harry Warner, Jr.
- "", by William Tenn
- "Falling Free", by Lois McMaster Bujold
- "", by Peter Weston
- "Fancestral Voices", by Jack Speer
- "Once More* With Footnotes", by Terry Pratchett
- ""Doc"—First Galactic Roamer: A complete Bi... | 35,573 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
Musicals of Mark Keller and Sue Anderson", by Mark Keller & Sue Anderson
- "A Star Above It and Other Stories", by Chad Oliver
- "Far From This Earth and Other Stories", by Chad Oliver
- "", by A. E. van Vogt
- "Tomorrow Happens", by David Brin
- "A New Dawn, the Don A. Stuart Stories of John W. Campbe... | 35,574 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg
- "Entities", by Eric Frank Russell
- "", by Gardner R. Dozois
- "", by William Tenn
- "", by Fredric Brown
- "", by William Tenn
- "Quartet", by George R. R. Martin
### 2000.
- "", by Hal Clement
- "Major Ingredients", by Eric Frank Russell
- "Concordance to Cordw... | 35,575 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
Richard Hauptmann
- "An Ornament to His Profession", by Charles L. Harness
- "Frankensteins and Foreign Devils", by Walter Jon Williams
### 1997.
- "The Armor of Light", by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett
- "Entertainment", by Algis Budrys
- "From the End of The Twentieth Century", by John M. Ford
- ... | 35,576 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
"Norstrilia", by Cordwainer Smith
### 1994.
- "", by Barry N. Malzberg
- "Making Book", by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
- "Double Feature", by Will Shetterly & Emma Bull
### 1993.
- "The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith", by Cordwainer Smith
- "Vietnam and Other Ali... | 35,577 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
Masters' Choice", edited by Andre Norton & Ingrid Zierhut
- "An Epitaph in Rust", by Tim Powers
### 1988.
- "Up There and Other Strange Directions", by Donald A. Wollheim
- "Early Harvest", by Greg Bear
### 1987.
- "The NESFA Hymnal, Volume 2"
- "If I Ran the Zoo Con... (2nd edition)", by Leslie J. T... | 35,578 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
Gordon R. Dickson
- "Plan[e]t Engineering", by Gene Wolfe
### 1983.
- "A New Settlement of Old Scores", by John Brunner
- "Compounded Interests", by Mack Reynolds
### 1982.
- "Up to the Sky in Ships", by A. Bertram Chandler & "In and Out of Quandry", by Lee Hoffman
- "The Men from Ariel", by Donald A... | 35,579 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
by Robert A.W. Lowndes
### 1972.
- "Scribblings", by L. Sprague de Camp
### 1971.
- "Index to the Science Fiction Magazines 1966-1970", by Anthony Lewis
# Authors published by NESFA Press.
- Poul Anderson
- Isaac Asimov
- Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett
- Stephen Baxter
- Greg Bear
- John Bellair... | 35,580 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
David Gerrold
- Joe Haldeman
- Charles L. Harness
- Zenna Henderson
- Lee Hoffman & A. Bertram Chandler
- Tom Holt
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Damon Knight
- C. M. Kornbluth
- Dave Langford
- Tanith Lee
- Murray Leinster
- Fred Lerner
- Robert A. W. Lowndes
- Stephen C. Lucchetti
- Ken MacLeod
- B... | 35,581 |
4656246 | NESFA Press | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NESFA%20Press | NESFA Press
rray Leinster
- Fred Lerner
- Robert A. W. Lowndes
- Stephen C. Lucchetti
- Ken MacLeod
- Barry N. Malzberg
- George R. R. Martin
- Anne McCaffrey
- Judith Merril
- John Myers Myers
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
- Andre Norton & Ingrid T. Zierhut
- Chad Oliver
- Tim Powers
- Terry Pratchett
- Fletc... | 35,582 |
4656224 | Conflict (video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conflict%20(video%20game) | Conflict (video game)
Conflict (video game)
Conflict is a hex-based NES war game where the player is a commander who must lead his forces to victory. The player can earn fame points by occupying cities and airports and destroying units of the opponent's army; fame points are lost by losing units of one's army in battl... | 35,583 |
4656224 | Conflict (video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conflict%20(video%20game) | Conflict (video game)
each turn, the player can, if he still has a factory that has not been destroyed, produce one military unit. The more fame points the player has, the more powerful units he can produce (e.g. tanks instead of infantry). The computer always starts with more fame points than the human; since this sta... | 35,584 |
4656224 | Conflict (video game) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conflict%20(video%20game) | Conflict (video game)
sed, the goal of depleting the computer's fame points, usually by destroying powerful red Army units, tends to be a high priority at the beginning of the game.
The hexagons can be plains, woods, mountains, barren terrain, shoals, seas, bridges, airports, towns, or factories. The terrain in each h... | 35,585 |
4656249 | List of oldest professional athletes by sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20oldest%20professional%20athletes%20by%20sport | List of oldest professional athletes by sport
List of oldest professional athletes by sport
The following is a list of sport's oldest professional athletes. Active athletes are in italics. | 35,586 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
Surprise (emotion)
Surprise () is a brief mental and physiological state, a startle response experienced by animals and humans as the result of an unexpected event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral/moderate, pleasant, unpleasant, positive, or negative. Surprise can occur in ... | 35,587 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
the outcome. Surprise represents the difference between expectations and reality, the gap between our assumptions and expectations about worldly events and the way that those events actually turn out. This gap can be deemed an important foundation on which new findings are based since surprises can m... | 35,588 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
to the nature of the interaction or environmental variables.
- Interactant variables involve traits of the persons involved in the communication and in this instance the communication leading to surprise, including: race, sex, socio-economic status, age, and appearance.
- Environmental variables th... | 35,589 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
does not always have to have a negative valence. EVT proposes that expectancy's will influence the outcome of the communication as a confirmation, behaviors within the expected range, or violation, behaviors outside the expected range. EVT also postulates that positive interactions will increase the ... | 35,590 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
may reduce credibility, power, attraction, and persuasiveness.
# Non-verbal responses.
Surprise is expressed in the face by the following features:
- Eyebrows that are raised so they become curved and high.
- Horizontal wrinkles across the forehead.
- Open eyelids: the upper lid is raised and th... | 35,591 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
of the surprise is associated with how much the jaw drops, but the mouth may not open at all in some cases. The raising of the eyebrows, at least momentarily, is the most distinctive and predictable sign of surprise.
Despite the facial feedback hypothesis (that facial display is necessary in the exp... | 35,592 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
research shows that rasing of the eyebrows does provide facial feedback to disbelief but not to the startle.
Pupil dilation and constriction can determine the valence of surprise from the action to the reaction of the individual. Positive valence to surprise is shown through a dilation or expansion ... | 35,593 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
speaking style, and even the level of eye contact made by an individual trying to cause a surprise. These non-verbal cues help to define whether the perceived surprise will have a positive or negative valence and to what degree the surprise will be induced by the individual.
# Verbal responses.
Lin... | 35,594 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
the individual. Expectations of verbal language that may lead to surprise may include but are not limited to, expletives, shouts, screams, and gasps.
The aforementioned expectations of verbal language are more closely associated to negative expectancies of surprise, but positive surprise can occur f... | 35,595 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
persuaded by said speaker can also elicit a positive surprise, as an individual may have perceived the speaker as having too low of a credibility to elicit change and the change of beliefs or emotion then causes surprise.
# Physiological responses.
The physiological response of surprise falls under... | 35,596 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
information (in this case a loud noise) reaching the pons within 3 to 8 ms and the full startle reflex occurring in less than two tenths of a second.
If the startle response is strongly elicited through surprise then it will bring on the fight-or-flight response, which is a perceived harmful event, ... | 35,597 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
the coping mechanism predicts the response beyond surprise, such as confusion or interest.
# Familiarity.
As individuals become more accustomed to particular types of surprise, over time the level of surprise will decrease in intensity. This does not necessarily mean that an individual, for instanc... | 35,598 |
4656210 | Surprise (emotion) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surprise%20(emotion) | Surprise (emotion)
est.
# Familiarity.
As individuals become more accustomed to particular types of surprise, over time the level of surprise will decrease in intensity. This does not necessarily mean that an individual, for instance, will not be surprised during the jump scene of a scary movie, it implies that the i... | 35,599 |
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