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1,000 | Conjugated estrogens Major brand names of CEEs in combination with medroxyprogesterone acetate include Prempro and Premphase in the United States, Premplus in Canada, Premique in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Premia in Australia and New Zealand, and Premelle in South Africa. Prempak-C is a combination of CEEs and nor... |
1,001 | The Bible and humor "Balaam the 'seer' who doesn't 'see' or 'know' what's going on, and his donkey who both sees and knows," is an example of this type of wit and humor in the Bible. Macy, Walker, M. D. Shutter, and other scholars contend that Book of Genesis has several stories that offer humor through absurdity, tric... |
1,002 | Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist. She was the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent. Her novel "Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not... |
1,003 | Mephistopheles Many authors have used it, from Christopher Marlowe to Goethe. In the 1616 edition of Marlowe's "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus", "Mephostophiles" became "Mephistophilis". in later treatments of the Faust material frequently figures as a title character: in Meyer Lutz' "Mephistopheles, or Faust a... |
1,004 | Lothian birth-cohort studies The are two ongoing cohort studies which primarily involve research into how childhood intelligence relates to intelligence and health in old age. The Lothian Birth Cohort studies of 1921 and 1936 have, respectively, followed up Lothian-based participants in the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1... |
1,005 | Maturity (psychological) Similar to those restrictions placed on children, persons with mental disabilities also have freedoms restricted and have their rights assigned to parental guardians. One reason cited for why children and the mentally disabled are not permitted to vote in elections is that they are too intellec... |
1,006 | Choi Yang-do The major research activity is the discovery of a novel enzyme and its genes encoding jasmonic acid carboxyl methyltransferase, which is involved in stress response and signal transduction in plant. Other achievements are the development of drought tolerant transgenic rice and transferred technology to Mah... |
1,007 | Colored fire is a common pyrotechnic effect used in stage productions, fireworks and by fire performers the world over. Generally, the color of a flame may be red, orange, blue, yellow, or white, and is dominated by blackbody radiation from soot and steam. When additional chemicals are added to the fuel burning, their ... |
1,008 | Automaton Al-Jazari described complex programmable humanoid automata amongst other machines he designed and constructed in the "Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices" in 1206. His automaton was a boat with four automatic musicians that floated on a lake to entertain guests at royal drinking parties. His mec... |
1,009 | Navigation Structures at Harbor Beach Harbor There is a gap of about 300 feet to the next section of breakwater, which runs approximately 300 feet eastward, 3960 feet southeast, and another 300 feet east. There is a gap of 600 feet for the entrance, followed by the final section of breakwater which runs 1900 feet south... |
1,010 | Hydroelectricity At times of low electrical demand, the excess generation capacity is used to pump water into the higher reservoir. When the demand becomes greater, water is released back into the lower reservoir through a turbine. Pumped-storage schemes currently provide the most commercially important means of large-... |
1,011 | Religious Studies Center The RSC also assumed and expanded upon the activities of the Institute of Mormon Studies, which was founded to study Mormon history and doctrine under Daniel H. Ludlow in 1961 and Madsen in 1966. Likewise, the RSC absorbed the Book of Mormon Institute, a center for research on the Book of Mormo... |
1,012 | Material selection Deriving a performance index requires that all free variables are removed, leaving only design variables and material variables. In this case that means that formula_12 must be removed. The axial stress equation can be rearranged to give formula_18. Substituting this into the weight equation gives fo... |
1,013 | Isotopes of hassium Identical results were measured in a repeat run in 1984. In a subsequent experiment in 1983, they applied the method of chemical identification of a descendant to provide support to the synthesis of hassium. They were able to detect alpha decays from fermium isotopes, assigned as descendants of the ... |
1,014 | IDT Spectrum IDT Spectrum, a subsidiary of IDT Corporation, holds and leases fixed wireless spectrum. IDT Spectrum, Inc. and IDT Spectrum, LLC, are subsidiaries of IDT Corporation (), an international holding company, with interests primarily in the telecommunications and energy industries. In December 2001, IDT Corpor... |
1,015 | Optimal projection equations The oblique projection formula_11 is determined from two additional matrix differential equations which involve rank conditions. Together with the previous two matrix differential equations these are the OPE. To state the additional two matrix differential equations it is convenient to intr... |
1,016 | Open Episcopal Church Blake wrote the Founding Principles of the Society for Independent Christian Ministry (SICM), which was inaugurated by a group of Christians reciting the Lord’s Prayer in the Sanctum of the Holy Circle Trust near Ryarsh in Kent at sunrise on 1 January 2000. In February 2001, Blake conducted the fi... |
1,017 | Health belief model , increasing perceived benefits and decreasing perceived barriers) by providing information about the efficacy of various behaviors to reduce risk of disease, identifying common perceived barriers, providing incentives to engage in health-promoting behaviors, and engaging social support or other res... |
1,018 | Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a novel by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton in late November or early December 1906; it is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring the widely known literary character he created, Peter Pan. Most of the text originally appear... |
1,019 | Midwifery Midwives who work in hospital settings also have been influenced by this view, although by and large they are trained to view birth as a normal and healthy process. While midwives play a much larger role in the care of pregnant mothers in Europe than in America, the medicalized model of birth still has influe... |
1,020 | Genius (literature) The writer was special and set aside from others by "genius," which might be a psychic wound or a particular formation of the ego but which was nonetheless unique to that particular person and was the critical feature that made that person an artist. Irving Babbitt's writings discuss the genius in t... |
1,021 | A Young Girl Reading The pillows violet tint, the darker-toned walls and armrest, and the female subject's rosy-toned skin and bright-yellow dress help create the illusion of warmth and joy, and a sense of sensuality. Fragonard's decision to place the brightest color in the center was a smart one because it helps pull ... |
1,022 | Pusztai affair The editors of "The Lancet" published an editorial in May 1999 in which they denounced all parties involved, criticizing Pusztai for "unwisely" announcing his results on television and stating that scientists should publish "results in the scientific press, not through the popular media"; the editorial a... |
1,023 | Communicative planning Judith Innes is credited with coining the term "communicative planning" in her article "Planning Theory’s Emerging Paradigm: Communicative Action and Interactive Practice." Innes' tries to bridge the gap between planning theories and planning in practice, and offers consensus-building as a tool f... |
1,024 | Pathogen reduction using riboflavin and UV light In this way the process prevents viruses, bacteria, parasites and white blood cells, from replicating and causing disease. This method using riboflavin and UV light renders pathogens harmless by using a non-mutagenic, non-toxic method. Riboflavin and its photoproducts ar... |
1,025 | Lancashire hearth Surplus slag was removed with a shovel between finings, but some was left to help the process. Pig stacked on the bridge at the back of the hearth was then pulled forward with a hook and charcoal added. The blast was then turned on and fining began. When the pigs began to melt, rabelling began (as in ... |
1,026 | NotAllMen A "Time" magazine article on the subject states that "Not all men" was previously stated as an object of frustration, but in early 2014 it became usually used as an object of mockery. Intended to counter generalizations about men's behavior, some critics claim the phrase deflects conversations from uncomforta... |
1,027 | The Society for the Preservation of Historic Buildings of the United Kingdom was founded initially as a pressure group to counter the demolition of historic buildings and it resolved later to acquire historically significant properties in order to maintain and protect them itself. In a 2007 merger, the goodwill of the ... |
1,028 | Divorce In an American Psychological Association study of parents' relocation after a divorce, researchers found that a move has a long-term effect on children. In the first study conducted amongst 2,000 college students on the effects of parental relocation relating to their children's well-being after divorce, resear... |
1,029 | Ceruloplasmin (or caeruloplasmin) is a ferroxidase enzyme that in humans is encoded by the "CP" gene. is the major copper-carrying protein in the blood, and in addition plays a role in iron metabolism. It was first described in 1948. Another protein, hephaestin, is noted for its homology to ceruloplasmin, and also part... |
1,030 | IEEE Smart Grid Often called upon as smart grid experts by the media, members appear frequently in magazines and newsletters such as "Electric Energy Online", "Electric Light & Power" magazine, and "FierceSmartGrid", as well as on broadcast programs like NPR's "Science Friday" and "blogtalkradio". "greentechgrid" unvei... |
1,031 | Horrible Histories (2009 TV series) The show also created several popular recurring characters and concepts, notably "Stupid Deaths", in which a skeletal, platinum-blond Grim Reaper amuses himself while processing souls for admittance to the afterlife by forcing candidates from throughout history to relate the embarras... |
1,032 | Lancaster Environment Centre The purpose of the business incubation centre within LEC is to allow environmental business to rent office space within the centre, enabling faster business growth through finding easier access to LEC research, knowledge, laboratories, clean rooms, workshops and specialist instruments. LEC ... |
1,033 | American Finance Association The (AFA) is an academic organization whose focus is the study and promotion of knowledge of financial economics. It was formed in 1939. Its main publication, the "Journal of Finance", was first published in 1946. The purpose of the association is to: The administration of the association i... |
1,034 | Recovered-memory therapy While practiced by some individual therapists, these techniques were never recognized by the psychiatric or psychological community, and are generally not practiced in mainstream treatment modalities. A 1994 survey of 1000 therapists by Michael D. Yapko found that 19% of the therapists knew of ... |
1,035 | Dolphinarium Captures are reported to be on the rise in the South Pacific and the Caribbean, Cuba has also been an exporter of dolphins in recent years, this being organized by the "Acuario Nacional de Cuba". In recent years, the Solomon Islands have also allowed the collection and export of dolphins for public display... |
1,036 | Per Abraham Roman Abraham Roman also was a Swedish entomologist. He specialised in Ichneumonidae, working on worldwide expedition material in the Stockholm Natural History Museum. His collection is in that institution. Roman made two expeditions to South America. Partial list |
1,037 | Millennials Louis published research (using data from the 2016 "Survey of Consumer Finances") demonstrating that after controlling for race and age cohort families with heads of household with post-secondary education and who born before 1980 there have been wealth and income premiums, while for families with heads of ... |
1,038 | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide Finally, the nicotinic acid moiety in NaAD is amidated to a nicotinamide (Nam) moiety, forming nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. In a further step, some NAD is converted into NADP by NAD kinase, which phosphorylates NAD. In most organisms, this enzyme uses ATP as the source of the pho... |
1,039 | Nuclear power phase-out The term encompasses a transition by Germany to a low carbon, environmentally sound, reliable, and affordable energy supply. On 6 June 2011, following Fukushima, the government removed the use of nuclear power as a bridging technology as part of their policy. In September 2011, German engineerin... |
1,040 | Amir Hossein Zekrgoo (born 1957 in Tehran) is an Iranian artist, art historian and Indologist. He has been professor of Islamic and Oriental Arts at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) from 2001 to 2016. He was awarded Ikuo Hirayama Silk Roads Fellowship by UNESCO. Zekrgoo is an art ... |
1,041 | Confucius According to the "Zuozhuan", returned home to his native Lu when he was 68, after he was invited to do so by Ji Kangzi, the chief minister of Lu. The "Analects" depict him spending his last years teaching 72 or 77 disciples and transmitting the old wisdom via a set of texts called the Five Classics. During hi... |
1,042 | Premierships of William Ewart Gladstone The territorial system of recruiting for regiments was standardised and adjusted to the current population. Cardwell reduced the Army budget yet increased its strength of the army by 25 battalions, 156 field guns, and abundant stores, while the reserves available for foreign serv... |
1,043 | Greenscamming or Greenscam refers to a PR technique that selects environmentally friendly sounding names and designations for organizations or products that are not environmentally friendly. It is related to Greenwashing and Greenspeak. For example, a commonly used greenscamming method is for anti-environmental organiz... |
1,044 | Anat Ninio With a postdoctoral student, Polly Wheeler, Ninio developed a three-layer taxonomy and coding system of verbal-communicative acts in mother-infant interaction, distinguishing speech acts, talk interchanges, and discourse functions. The taxonomy was built on the theoretical writings of Speech Act theorists su... |
1,045 | Plant ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology which studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the effects of environmental factors upon the abundance of plants, and the interactions among and between plants and other organisms. Examples of these are the distribution of temperate deciduous forests in North America... |
1,046 | Pretty Baby.... "Pretty Baby..." is an episode of the British television soap opera "EastEnders", broadcast on BBC One on 31 January 2008. It is the only "EastEnders" episode to feature just one character and the first of its kind in soap. It was written by Tony Jordan, directed by Clive Arnold and produced by Diederic... |
1,047 | Albanian epic poetry The extracts of songs of this collection seems to be based on historical or legendary events. The collection contains heroic and lyric songs, including also laments. The Northern is performed singing to the accompaniment of the lahutë or çifteli. Lahuta is a one-stringed musical instrument with a l... |
1,048 | Herbicide Some plants also produce their own natural herbicides, such as the genus "Juglans" (walnuts), or the tree of heaven; such action of natural herbicides, and other related chemical interactions, is called allelopathy. Due to herbicide resistance - a major concern in agriculture - a number of products combine he... |
1,049 | Cacography is deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism. The term in the sense of "poor spelling, accentuation, and punctuation" is a semantic antonym to orthography, and in the sense of "poor handwriting" it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός ... |
1,050 | An Untamed State Prince-Bythewood and Mbatha-Raw previously collaborated on "Beyond the Lights". |
1,051 | There is No Natural Religion The acid was then poured off, the wax was removed, and the raised part of the plate covered with ink before finally being pressed onto the paper in the printing press. This method allowed expressive effects which were impossible to achieve via intaglio. The major disadvantage was that text ... |
1,052 | Félix Candela Luckily for Candela, ₱20,300,000 (pesos) of this funding was to go towards public works. Candela also benefited from the budget implemented by Ruiz Cortines in the area of education. Candela became a professor in Mexico, which is what he did for the remainder of his career. Felix moved to the United State... |
1,053 | Protein engineering This circular construct is then linearized using restriction enzymes for which the restriction sites are present in the linker region. This results in a library of chimeric genes in which contribution of genes to 5' and 3' end will be reversed as compared to the starting construct. This method resul... |
1,054 | Labour voucher A difference is that in parecon credits are generally awarded based on both the time spent working and the amount of effort and sacrifice spent during labour, rather than simple contribution. Some later advocates of participism and parecon have also proposed awarding more based on job difficulty or dange... |
1,055 | Optogenetics At the same time, optogenetics was highlighted in the article on "Breakthroughs of the Decade" in the academic research journal "Science". By Early 1990s LC katz and Calloway had shown that light could uncage glutamate. An earlier use of light to activate neurons was carried out by Richard Fork, who demons... |
1,056 | Flux melting In igneous petrology and volcanology, flux melting occurs when water and other volatile components are introduced to hot solid rock, depressing the solidus enough. In engineering and metallurgy, flux is a substance, such as salt, that produces a low melting point mixture with a metal oxide. In the same way... |
1,057 | Democratic socialism According to the "Encyclopedia Britannica", "the attempt by Salvador Allende to unite Marxists and other reformers in a socialist reconstruction of Chile is most representative of the direction that Latin American socialists have taken since the late 20th century. [...] Several socialist (or social... |
1,058 | Evenki language The exact internal structure of the Tungusic family is a matter of some debate. Some scholars propose two sub-families: one for Manchu, and another for all the other Tungusic languages, including Evenki. SIL International's Ethnologue divides Tungusic into two sub-families, Northern and Southern, with E... |
1,059 | Paseo de la Reforma At the time, people with horses or horses and carriages, promenaded along the Paseo de Bucareli (today Avenida Bucareli between Avenidas Juárez and Chapultepec. After the downfall of the Second Mexican Empire and the restoration of the republic in 1867, the Paseo de la Emperatriz was renamed Calzada... |
1,060 | Age of acquisition (AOA or AoA), is a psycholinguistic variable referring to the age at which a word is typically learned. For example, the word 'penguin' is typically learned at a younger age than the word 'albatros'. Studies in psycholinguistics suggest that age of acquisition has an effect on the speed of reading wo... |
1,061 | Beer Hall Putsch Karl Alexander von Mueller, a professor of modern history and political science at the University of Munich and a supporter of Kahr, was an eyewitness. He reported: I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds ... Hitler had turned ... |
1,062 | Gallaudet University In 2016, RSIA began hosting the Gallaudet Research Expo, to give students, faculty, and staff "the opportunity to share ideas and showcase scholarly pursuits and achievements." Presentations represent "education, linguistics, STM, neuroscience, interpretation and translation, computer science, audi... |
1,063 | Thanks for the Book Award The Thanks for the Book Award, ("Kiitos kirjasta -mitali" in Finnish and "Tack för boken-medaljen" in Swedish), is a Finnish literary prize that has been presented since 1966 by the Organization of the Booksellers’ Association of Finland (Kirjakauppaliitto r.y.), Libro ry and the Finnish Libra... |
1,064 | T. S. Eliot He first visited Marburg, Germany, where he planned to take a summer programme, but when the First World War broke out he went to Oxford instead. At the time so many American students attended Merton that the Junior Common Room proposed a motion "that this society abhors the Americanization of Oxford". It w... |
1,065 | Educational capital " The primary entity that is produced, acquired, and consumed is the public community charter school (a nonprofit corporation) that consists of a building and a collection of educational practices and programs. Gifting the children entails a "complex set of morally driven (and ritualized) informal, ... |
1,066 | Algorithm characterizations The proofs that every "recursive function" we can "calculate by hand" we can "compute by machine" and vice versa—note the usage of the words "calculate" versus "compute"—is remarkable. But this equivalence together with the "thesis" (unproven assertion) that this includes "every" calculation... |
1,067 | In vitro fertilisation This Deep Learning software substitutes manual classifications with a ranking system based on an individual embryo's predicted genetic status in a non-invasive fashion . Studies on this area are still pending and current feasibility studies support its potential. The number to be transferred depe... |
1,068 | Continental Classics is a series of books. "Taras Bulba: A Tale of the Cossacks" by Nicolai V. Gogol translated by Isabel F. Hapgood "Sebastopol" by Leo Tolstoy "The Crushed Flower and Other Stories", by Leonid Andreev translated by Herman Bernstein. "The Career of a Nihilist" by S. Stepniak [pseud.] Parisian points of... |
1,069 | Captain Britain Dying, broken and bloody, he is healed by Roma, who fixes the arcane circuitry in his costume to match his body's frequencies. She also removes the "blunder factor" she had secretly cast over him (a curse she had cast ensuring that he would need the help of the entire team until he saw the innate value ... |
1,070 | Logan and Hemingway was a firm of British civil engineering contractors. The firm was an awarded a number of contracts by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and its successor the Great Central Railway, including expansion of the company's No.1 Fish Dock at the Port of Grimsby in the 1870s. parts of the ... |
1,071 | Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh It is also a legally binding agreement between brands and trade unions and some of the key features include brand commitment to ensure safety remediation is completed and financially feasible, independent safety inspections and remediation program. There will also be dis... |
1,072 | Pipe wrench They are usually made of cast steel. Today, aluminium might be used to construct the body of the wrench, although the teeth and jaw remain steel. Teeth and jaw kits (which also contain adjustment rings and springs) can be bought to repair broken wrenches, because that can be cheaper than buying a new one. R... |
1,073 | Child mortality Over 30% of the world's population does not have access to basic sanitation, and 844 million people use unsafe sources of drinking water. Agencies promoting and implementing child survival activities worldwide include UNICEF and non-governmental organizations; major child survival donors worldwide inclu... |
1,074 | Fall protection Fall elimination is often the preferred way of providing fall protection. This entails finding ways of completing tasks without working at heights. Fall arrest is the form of fall protection that stops a person who has fallen. Administrative controls are used along with other measures, but they do not p... |
1,075 | Rho factor The initial binding site for Rho is an extended (~70 nucleotides, sometimes 80–100 nucleotides) single-stranded region, rich in cytosine and poor in guanine, called the rho utilisation site (rut), in the RNA being synthesised, upstream of the actual terminator sequence. Several rho binding sequences have bee... |
1,076 | Marco Fraaije Marco Wilhelmus Fraaije (born 7 December 1968) is a Dutch scientist whose research concerns enzymology of redox enzymes, enzyme discovery & engineering and biocatalysis at the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB) at the University of Groningen. graduated in 1993 with a Master ... |
1,077 | Wrongful dismissal in the United Kingdom Due to the disproportionate cost of employment litigations, it is usually sensible for an employer to err on the side of generosity, trying to ensure the parting of ways is amicable rather than showing off how many loopholes can be found. Pensions cannot be deducted. It is possi... |
1,078 | General Drafting The company's cartography was generally regarded as "an outstandingly attractive road map design, unexcelled in the U.S." When oil companies stopped providing free maps, tried to expand into retail map production, and continued to make maps for Exxon to sell; but its fortunes declined, and in 1992 it w... |
1,079 | End time Muslims believe there are three periods before the Day of Judgment, also known as "ashratu's-sa'ah" or "alamatu qiyami's-sa'ah," with some debate as to whether the periods could overlap. According to Harun Yahya, the first period is said to have begun with the death of Muhammad. The second began with the passi... |
1,080 | Tofla virus The is a strain of "Hazara orthonairovirus" in the genus "Orthonairovirus" belonging to the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever serogroup. It was isolated from "Ixodid" in Japan in 2016. |
1,081 | Scanning joule expansion microscopy In practice, however, the spatial resolution is limited to the size of the liquid film bridge between the tip and the sample, which is typically about 20 nm. The microfabricated thermocouples used for Scanning Thermal Microscopy are rather expensive and more importantly very fragile.... |
1,082 | Bring your own device Organizations adopting a BYOD policy must also consider how they will ensure that the devices which connect to the organisation's network infrastructure to access sensitive information will be protected from malware. Traditionally if the device was owned by the organisation, the organisation can d... |
1,083 | LexisNexis Pursuant to instructions from Chinese authorities, in 2017 withdrew Nexis and Academic from China. |
1,084 | Phalgu Tirth is an Indian pilgrimage site, where pilgrimages are undertaken by the Hindus during the Shraadhs. It is located in Pharal village in the Pundri sub-tehsil of Kaithal district in Haryana state. Pharal village is located between Pundri and Dhand in Kaithal district away from district headquarter Kaithal and ... |
1,085 | Partial element equivalent circuit Then, the coefficients of potentials are computed as and a resistive term between the nodes, defined as The rigorous full-wave version of the PEEC method is called (Lp,P,R,t) PEEC, where Lp is partial inductance, P is the Maxwell potential coefficient (inverse of capacitance), R is re... |
1,086 | Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act They say that their proposal, but not its rivals, ensures that intellectual property cases will be resolved by intellectual property experts, and will target the actual criminals running foreign rogue websites. They criticize SOPA, but not PROTECT IP, for failing t... |
1,087 | Zeugma and syllepsis In rhetoric, zeugma (; from the Ancient Greek , , "a yoking together") and syllepsis (; from the Ancient Greek , , "a taking together") are figures of speech in which one single phrase or word joins different parts of a sentence. In current usage, there are multiple and sometimes conflicting defini... |
1,088 | Regulatory capture These empirical observations have led to the emergence and development of regulatory capture theory. Contrary to regulatory public interest theory, regulation capture theory holds that the provision of regulation is adapting to the industry's need for regulation, that is, the legislator is controlled... |
1,089 | Polychlorinated biphenyl The public, legal, and scientific concerns about PCBs arose from research indicating they are likely carcinogens having the potential to adversely impact the environment and, therefore, undesirable as commercial products. Despite active research spanning five decades, extensive regulatory actio... |
1,090 | Cyborg While not yet cyborgs in the strict definition of Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline, technological developments like implantable silicon silk electronics, augmented reality and QR codes are bridging the disconnect between technology and the body. Hypothetical technologies such as digital tattoo interfaces would bl... |
1,091 | Female promiscuity However, it is unclear whether higher levels of testosterone cause increased sex drive and in turn multiple partners or whether sexual activity with multiple partners causes the increase in testosterone. Sociosexuality in women is positively correlated with two measures of prenatal exposure to androg... |
1,092 | IVMS An "(In Vehicle Monitoring System)" combines the installation of an electronic device in a vehicle, or fleet of vehicles, with purpose-designed computer software at least at one operational base to enable the owner or a third party to track the vehicle's location, collecting data in the process from the field and ... |
1,093 | Functional divergence is the process by which genes, after gene duplication, shift in function from an ancestral function. can result in either subfunctionalization, where a paralog specializes one of several ancestral functions, or neofunctionalization, where a totally new functional capability evolves. It is thought ... |
1,094 | Wildfire suppression The "Keetch-Byram Drought Index" relates fuels to how quickly they could ignite and to what percentage they should burn. The "Lightning Activity Level" (LAL) ranks lightning potential into six classes. Fuel models are specific fuel designations determined by energy burning potential. Placed into 13... |
1,095 | Records continuum model This term was born from an identified and urgent need to address the complexities of computer technologies on records creation and management over time and space. Post-custodiality is discussed by Frank Upward and Sue McKemmish in 1994 as part of an exploration of changes in archival discourse c... |
1,096 | Bioinformatics They may also provide "de facto" standards and shared object models for assisting with the challenge of bioinformation integration. The range of open-source software packages includes titles such as Bioconductor, BioPerl, Biopython, BioJava, BioJS, BioRuby, Bioclipse, EMBOSS, .NET Bio, Orange with its bi... |
1,097 | Subaltern (postcolonialism) Therefore, mainstream development discourse concentrates upon the application of universal social and political, economic and cultural policies that would nationally establish such modernization. In "Making Development Geography" (2007), Victoria Lawson presents a critique of mainstream deve... |
1,098 | Dishwasher This distinction labels the machines as either "high-temp" or "low-temp". Some commercial dishwashers work similarly to a commercial car wash, with a pulley system that pulls the rack through a small chamber (known widely as a "rack conveyor" systems). Single-rack washers require an operator to push the rack... |
1,099 | Metaphor identification procedure (MIP) is a method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse. It can be used to recognize metaphors in spoken and written language. Mainly intended for scholars, it can be helpful in empirical research. The procedure aims to determine the relationship of a particular lexica... |
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