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1,100 | Digital infinity But his often forgotten conclusion however was in line with previous observations that a "thinking" machine would be absurd, since we have no formal idea what "thinking" is — and indeed we still don't. Chomsky frequently pointed this. Chomsky agreed that while a mind can be said to "compute"—as we have... |
1,101 | Michel Foucault On 29 June, Foucault's "la levée du corps" ceremony was held, in which the coffin was carried from the hospital morgue. Hundreds attended, including activists and academic friends, while Gilles Deleuze gave a speech using excerpts from "The History of Sexuality". His body was then buried at Vendeuvre-du... |
1,102 | Educational technology Augmented reality (AR) provides students and teachers the opportunity to create layers of digital information, including both virtual world and real world elements, to interact with in real time. AR technology plays an important role in the future of the classroom where human / AI co-orchestratio... |
1,103 | Esperanto David Gaines used poems as well as an excerpt from a speech by Dr. Zamenhof for his "Symphony No. One (Esperanto)" for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1994–98). He wrote original text for his ("I Can Cry No Longer") for unaccompanied SATB choir (1994). There are also shared traditions, such as Zamenhof Day, and ... |
1,104 | Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act We deplore the present antiquated methods of handling our mentally ill." It also urged the National Council of Churches to mobilize support for the bill. An overwhelming majority of senators of both parties were also supportive. The bill's original author, Alaska Delegate Bob Bartlett,... |
1,105 | Sonia Osorio de Saint-Malo (25 March 1928 – 28 March 2011) was a Colombian ballet dancer and choreographer. During her long career she became an important folklorist and promoter of the arts and culture having worked closely with and for the Carnival of Barranquilla and having founded in 1960 the Colombia Ballet, a nat... |
1,106 | Socrates Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle are the main sources for the historical Socrates; however, Xenophon and Plato were students of Socrates, and they may idealize him; however, they wrote the only extended descriptions of that have come down to us in their complete form. Aristotle refers frequently, but in passing,... |
1,107 | Ombudsman The institution of the Human Rights of the Republic of Slovenia was introduced into the Slovenian constitutional order through the new Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia, which was adopted in December 1991. The Human Rights is defined in Article 159 of the Constitution, which provides that in order to p... |
1,108 | Jabir ibn Hayyan There is a difference of opinion as to whether he was an Arab from Kufa who lived in Khurasan, or a Persian from Khorasan who later went to Kufa or whether he was, as some have suggested, of Syrian Sabian origin and later lived in Persia and Iraq. In some sources, he is reported to have been the son of... |
1,109 | Roof pitch In building construction, roof pitch is the steepness of a roof quantified as a ratio or as number of angular degrees that "one" 'exposure' surface deviates from horizontal level. A roof surface may be either 'functionally flat' or pitched. The pitch of a roof is its vertical 'rise' over its horizontal 'span... |
1,110 | Inclusive management Given the everyday use of the term, characterizing a process that has not had socioeconomically diverse participation as "inclusive" is confusing and may be misread as being dismissive of diversity. Diversity certainly does have a place in inclusive practices. Within the framework of distinguishing... |
1,111 | Rumford fireplace In the unmodified chimney, smoke rises up the chimney propelled only by buoyancy -- the heated gases from the fireplace being lighter than the surrounding air. This is especially ineffective when the fire is first lit and the temperature and density of the smoke are closer to the ambient air. Thanks t... |
1,112 | Pair distribution function The pair distribution function describes the distribution of distances between pairs of particles contained within a given volume. Mathematically, if "a" and "b" are two particles in a fluid, the pair distribution function of "b" with respect to "a", denoted by formula_1 is the probability of... |
1,113 | Attachment in adults People who have attachments who respond consistently and positively to requests for closeness allow individuals to have secure attachments, and in return they seek more support, in a generally relaxed way, while people whose attachments are inconsistent in reacting positively or regularly reject re... |
1,114 | Reception of Islam in Early Modern Europe In 1625, it was reported that Lundy, an island in the Bristol Channel which had been a pirate lair for much of the previous half century, had been occupied by three Ottoman pirates who were threatening to burn Ilfracombe; Algerine rovers were using the island as a base in 1635,... |
1,115 | Golden age of alpinism The golden age of alpinism was the decade in mountaineering between Alfred Wills's ascent of the Wetterhorn in 1854 and Edward Whymper's ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which many major peaks in the Alps saw their first ascents. With its beginning slightly predating the formation of the ... |
1,116 | Social democracy Although as in the rest of Europe the laws of capitalism still operated fully and private enterprise dominated the economy, some political commentators claimed that during the post-war period, when social democratic parties were in power, countries such as Britain and France were democratic socialist s... |
1,117 | List of A Series of Unfortunate Events characters The Bombinating Beast is a question mark-shaped sea monster that is said to be the same as the Great Unknown. It swims in the oceans that are near the City and is described by Captain Widdershins to be worse than Count Olaf. In "The Grim Grotto", the Great Unknown is sa... |
1,118 | Wang Jin (archaeologist) She also served as Vice Director of Hubei Provincial Museum and President of the Hubei Archaeological Association. She retired in 1990. On 6 February 2020, Wang died of thoracic spinal tuberculosis in Wuhan, aged 93. Wang's main research focus was prehistoric sites of the Jianghan Plain. Her pi... |
1,119 | Test market Another advantage is the ability to test many different products in one Virtual Test Market as the computer simulation can always be reset to the original situation before the introduction of a new product. |
1,120 | Cary Cooper Sir Cary Lynn Cooper, (born 28 April 1940), is an American-born British psychologist and 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Before moving to Manchester he was Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University. Cooper ... |
1,121 | Original sin Original sin, also called ancestral sin, is a Christian belief in a state of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man, stemming from Adam and Eve's rebellion in Eden, namely the sin of disobedience in consuming the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Theologians ... |
1,122 | List of states of South Sudan by Human Development Index This is a list of states of South Sudan by Human Development Index as of 2018. |
1,123 | Kalakeyavadham (The Slaying of Kalakeya) is a Kathakali play (Aattakatha) written by Kottayam Thampuran (also known as Kottayathu Thampuran) in Malayalam.Based on the Mahabharatha, the play describes the events surrounding the Pandava prince Arjuna's visit to his father Indra's abode, paradise. The role of Arjuna is co... |
1,124 | International Sporting Code The ISC further regulates what kind of officials exist, penalties when a breach of rules appears and how to protest and appeal. On October 15, 2013 FIA has published the new International Sporting Code, application from 1 January 2014. The new Code was aiming to achieve two key goals: (i) to... |
1,125 | Buddhist influences on print technology Practical printing can be dated to the 11th century, during the Heian era when Chinese texts from the Song dynasty became popular in Japan in the form of commentaries on sutras and doctrines. Nara became the center of non-devotional printing in Heian Japan and the oldest existing... |
1,126 | 1930 in philosophy 1930 in philosophy |
1,127 | Water detector Using SNMP protocols leak detection systems can inform IT staff in charge of monitoring data center and server rooms. The computer room therefore became the early application for systems which would alert the operator to a leaking pipe in sufficient time for remedial action to be taken to prevent a disas... |
1,128 | Linnaeus's flower clock The flowering times recorded by Linnaeus are also subject to differences in daylight due to latitude: his measurements are based on flowering times in Uppsala, where he taught and had received his university education. The plants suggested for use by Linnaeus are given in the table below, ordere... |
1,129 | List of semiconductor materials Materials transparent to the generated wavelength of light are advantageous, as this allows more efficient extraction of photons from the bulk of the material. That is, in such transparent materials, light production is not limited to just the surface. Index of refraction is also composi... |
1,130 | Turner syndrome Withdrawal bleeding can be induced monthly, like menstruation, or less often, usually every three months, if the patient desires. Estrogen therapy does not make a woman with nonfunctional ovaries fertile, but it plays an important role in assisted reproduction; the health of the uterus must be maintaine... |
1,131 | Ideology of the English Defence League A topic of particular anger was the role of men from Muslim backgrounds in grooming gangs largely targeting underage white girls. For instance, in highlighting that men from Islamic backgrounds were disproportionately represented in the Rochdale and West Midlands child sex groomin... |
1,132 | Waiting for Godot Beckett watched the programme with a few close friends in Peter Woodthorpe's Chelsea flat. He was unhappy with what he saw. "My play", he said, "wasn't written for this box. My play was written for small men locked in a big space. Here you're all too big for the place." One analysis argued that Becket... |
1,133 | Left- and right-hand traffic Other Central and South American countries that later switched from LHT to RHT include Argentina, Chile, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Suriname, along with neighbouring Guyana, are the only two remaining LHT countries in South America. The majority of vehicles in the following countries ar... |
1,134 | Sabbath (Doctor Who) Sabbath is the name of a recurring villain from the Eighth Doctor Adventures — spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The character was created by Lawrence Miles and first appeared in "The Adventuress of Henrietta Street". Originally, Miles had intended Sab... |
1,135 | Critical period For example, Zhou and Merzenich (2008) studied the effects of noise on development in the primary auditory cortex in rats. In their study, rats were exposed to pulsed noise during the critical period and the effect on cortical processing was measured. Rats that were exposed to pulsed noise during the cr... |
1,136 | Fused quartz Fused silica can be made from almost any silicon-rich chemical precursor, usually using a continuous process which involves flame oxidation of volatile silicon compounds to silicon dioxide, and thermal fusion of the resulting dust (although alternative processes are used). This results in a transparent gla... |
1,137 | Myers Park, Auckland Guangzhou [Canton] is known as the Five Goats City. Most Chinese immigrants to New Zealand before 1949 came from the area around Guangzhou. The Guangzhou group recalls the Interwar period when the adjacent Greys Avenue was the home to many Chinese people, although it does not specifically commemora... |
1,138 | Mock trial This first competition consisted of teams from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. The competition since has grown and now is considered to be an All-State tournament. Each year, various participating states around the country take turns hosting the tournament. The 2011 Championship was held ... |
1,139 | Phosphoinositide phospholipase C All family members are capable of catalyzing the hydrolysis of PIP, a phosphatidylinositol at the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane into the two second messengers, inositol trisphosphate (IP) and diacylglycerol (DAG). The chemical reaction may be expressed as: Thus, the two substrate... |
1,140 | Association for Law, Property and Society The is a scholarly organization for researching engaging in the study of property law and social issues. The association hosts an annual conference, the first of which occurred at Georgetown Law in 2010, and is also the publisher of the journal "Law, Property and Society". The ... |
1,141 | Generation Z In Europe, immigration from the Middle East and Africa is an engine of religious growth. Children of immigrants tend to be about as religious as their parents and consider their religion to be a marker of their ethnic identity, thereby insulating themselves from the secularizing forces of the host society.... |
1,142 | Finial The United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard employ a variety of different finials depending on the flag in question, the Marines and Coast Guard deferring to the Navy's protocols. Bed posts and public garden (park) railings often end in finials. Wooden posts tend to have turned wood finials. While... |
1,143 | Keith Hart (anthropologist) " In 1998, Matthew Engelke and Mark Harris took over the press, expanding its operations in the world market and adding a few titles to its list. In 2001, Prickly Paradigm established itself as a new incarnation of Prickly Pear, edited by Matthew Engelke, with Marshall Sahlins as publisher. ... |
1,144 | Plato's Problem Simply put, and as implied by the name, UG refers to those grammatical properties thought to be shared by all (to be universal to all) derivations of human language (anything from Amharic to Zhuang). Per this conceptualization, UG is innate to all humans – people come "pre-wired" with this universal gra... |
1,145 | Biosafety Even people outside of the health sector needs to be involved as in the case of the Ebola outbreak the impact that it had on businesses and travel required that private sectors, international banks together pledged more than $2 billion to combat the epidemic. The bureau of international Security and nonprolif... |
1,146 | Metabolic rift Rather, there was a need for planning and measures to address the division of labor and population between town and country and for the restoration and improvement of the soil. Despite Marx's assertion that a concept of ecological sustainability was "of very limited practical relevance to capitalist soci... |
1,147 | Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment The Educational Testing Service, for example, has long used the very large samples available when students take the SAT or GRE to develop new items by randomly giving small subsets of items to much smaller (but still quite large) subsamples of students. The SAPA methodology all... |
1,148 | Thomas precession can also be derived using the Fermi-Walker transport equation. One assumes uniform circular motion in flat Minkowski spacetime. The spin 4-vector is orthogonal to the velocity 4-vector. Fermi-Walker transport preserves this relation. One finds that the dot product of the acceleration 4-vector with the... |
1,149 | Trade barrier Tariffs have been declining in the last twenty years as the influence of the World Trade Organization has grown, but states have increased their use of non-tariff barriers. According to Chad Bown and Meredith Crowley, world trade is "probably" vastly more liberal in current times than was the case histori... |
1,150 | Carbon dioxide cleaning (CO cleaning) comprises a family of methods for parts cleaning and sterilization, using carbon dioxide in its various phases. It is often preferred for use on delicate surfaces. CO cleaning has found application in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical, and other industries. Carbon dio... |
1,151 | Aging in place The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines aging in place as "the ability to live in one's own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level". Research in environmental gerontology indicates the importance of the physical and socia... |
1,152 | Properties of water 8% decrease in volume. The temperature and pressure at which ordinary solid, liquid, and gaseous water coexist in equilibrium is a triple point of water. Since 1954, this point had been used to define the base unit of temperature, the kelvin but, starting in 2019, the kelvin is now defined using the... |
1,153 | Quality of life This may be a debilitating weakness that is not life-threatening; life-threatening illness that is not terminal; terminal illness; the predictable, natural decline in the health of an elder; an unforeseen mental/physical decline of a loved one; or chronic, end-stage disease processes. Researchers at the... |
1,154 | Hydrogen storage There are two methods: the first is to use the electricity for water splitting and inject the resulting hydrogen into the natural gas grid; the second, less efficient method is used to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen to methane, (see natural gas) using electrolysis and the Sabatier reaction. A thir... |
1,155 | Disc brake All should be coated with an extremely high temperature, high solids lubricant to help reduce squeal. This allows the metal to metal parts to move independently of each other and thereby eliminate the buildup of energy that can create a frequency that is heard as brake squeal, groan, or growl. It is inherent... |
1,156 | Fair use is a doctrine in the law of the United States that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. is one of the limitations to copyright intended to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in the wider distribution a... |
1,157 | Mass media A typical blog combines text, images and other graphics, and links to other blogs, web pages, and related media. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog... |
1,158 | Aldehyde In the product, the carbonyl carbon becomes sp-hybridized, being bonded to the nucleophile, and the oxygen center becomes protonated: In many cases, a water molecule is removed after the addition takes place; in this case, the reaction is classed as an addition–elimination or addition–condensation reaction. Th... |
1,159 | Bad Feminist " "The" "Huffington Post" was more effusive in its praise, writing, "Gay's essays expertly weld her personal experiences with broader gender trends occurring politically and in popular culture," and gave it an 8/10 rating. The "Boston Review" wrote that ""Bad Feminist" surveys culture and politics from the... |
1,160 | Polyculturalism The capacity to satisfactorily facilitate cultural autonomy in poly-ethnic societies without reinforcing divisions and thereby weaken the state had exorcised socialist intellectuals from as far back as Otto Bauer in his 1907 book “The Nationalities Question and Social Democracy”. Edvard Kardelj, the con... |
1,161 | John W. Powell After returning to the United States from China, the Powells bought an old house on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, undertook extensive repairs and renovations, and then sold it for a profit. They next settled into a pattern of buying, rehabilitating, and reselling fourteen houses and several apartment bu... |
1,162 | Iron The slag can be used as a material in road construction or to improve mineral-poor soils for agriculture. In general, the pig iron produced by the blast furnace process contains up to 4–5% carbon, with small amounts of other impurities like sulfur, magnesium, phosphorus, and manganese. The high level of carbon mak... |
1,163 | Stickam The event was organized by several CBS radio stations in Southern California, including KRTH-FM (K-Earth 101), KTWV-FM (94.7 The WAVE), KLSX-FM (91.7), KFWB-AM (News 980) and KNX-AM (News 1070). featured the event on Stickam.com and provided players that were embedded on many additional sites, including Militar... |
1,164 | An Unquiet Mind An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness is a memoir written by American clinical psychologist and bipolar disorder researcher Kay Redfield Jamison and published in 1995. The book details Jamison's experience with bipolar disorder and how it affected her in various areas of her life from childhood... |
1,165 | John Turner His citation reads: He became Canada's seventeenth Prime Minister, crowning a distinguished parliamentary career during which he held several key Cabinet portfolios. Parallel to his political life, he has been a respected member of the law profession and supporter of many charitable organizations, in partic... |
1,166 | Cage aerial A cage antenna (British cage aerial) is a radio antenna that consists of the top portion of a tower or mast and of several parallel wires, which are radially arranged around the lower part of the mast. One advantage of the cage aerial is that the supporting tower can be grounded, allowing it to be used for ... |
1,167 | Book of Job Job's responses represent one of the most radical restatements of Israelite theology in the Hebrew Bible. He moves away from the pious attitude as shown in the prologue and began to berate God for the disproportionate wrath against him. He sees God as, among others, intrusive and suffocating (7:17–19); unfo... |
1,168 | Lenovo said that the company was acquired in order to gain access to new technology and that Stoneware is not expected to significantly affect earnings. More specifically, Stoneware was acquired to further Lenovo's efforts to improve and expand its cloud-computing services. For the two years prior to its acquisition, S... |
1,169 | McCook Public-Carnegie Library The is a historic building in McCook, Nebraska. It was built as a Carnegie library in 1905, and designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style by architect Willis Marean. It housed the McCook public library until 1969. Since then, it has housed the Museum of the High Plains. The building ... |
1,170 | Baja SAE The dynamic events include hill climbs, sled pulls, maneuverability events, rock crawls, and suspension & traction events. Previously the cars had to be able to float and propel itself on water under its own power. This was changed from the 2012 competitions onward due to safety concerns. Static events, such a... |
1,171 | Oil shale industry The oil shale industry is an industry of mining and processing of oil shale—a fine-grained sedimentary rock, containing significant amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds), from which liquid hydrocarbons can be manufactured. The industry has developed in Brazil, China, Esto... |
1,172 | Impact of nanotechnology The approaches to nanomedicine range from the medical use of nanomaterials, to nanoelectronic biosensors, and even possible future applications of molecular nanotechnology. Nanomedicine seeks to deliver a valuable set of research tools and clinically helpful devices in the near future. The Nati... |
1,173 | Philoi Further, there was great pride associated with not only helping "philoi" but also in harming one's "echthroi," and the importance of fulfilling these two duties to upload an overarching, strict friend-enemy dichotomy is manifested in a variety of other aspects in Greek life, including literature, theatre and in ... |
1,174 | Intermediate appellate court An intermediate appellate court is an appeals court that is not the court of last resort in its jurisdiction. "For further information", "see": |
1,175 | Sibling For example, large families are generally lower in socioeconomic status than small families, so third-born children are more likely than first-born children to come from poorer families. Spacing of children, parenting style, and gender are additional variables to consider. The arrival of a new baby is especiall... |
1,176 | Cut-through switching CRC errors are detected in a cut-through switch and indicated by marking the corrupted frame EOF field as "invalid". The destination devices (host or storage) sees the invalid EOF and discards the frame prior to sending it to the application or LUN. Discarding corrupted frames by the destination d... |
1,177 | Forensic economics While courts may dictate what economic issues are to be addressed, the economic science that is applied must be that which is taught and practiced in the world at large. “Forensic Economics: An Overview” provides additional detail concerning the work of forensic economists. The article appeared as pa... |
1,178 | Platonic realism is the philosophical position that universals or abstract objects exist objectively and outside of human minds. It is named after the Greek philosopher Plato who applied realism to such universals, which he considered ideal forms. This stance is ambiguously also called Platonic idealism but should not ... |
1,179 | Manchu language to act-IMPF "(Someone) acts according to old regulations" 3. genitive ("i" or "ni") – one of the principal syntactic cases; used to indicate possession or means by which something is accomplished. Its primary function is to indicate the possessive one. e.g. possessor of an object "boo i ejen" house GEN ... |
1,180 | Individualized cancer immunotherapy A patient’s cancer is intra- as well as interlesionally heterogeneous and changes its composition over time. Each patient has an individual mutational signature (mutanome), and only a very small portion of the mutations are shared between patients. A concept is therefore that an immu... |
1,181 | Welbeck Academy Newcastle was called "our English Maecenas" by Gerard Langbaine the Younger; he was a patron after the Restoration to both John Dryden and Thomas Shadwell. Other writers he supported included William Davenant, William Sampson, James Shirley and John Suckling. He bought sculptures by Francesco Fanelli fo... |
1,182 | Geosophy is a concept introduced to geography by J.K. Wright in 1947. The word is a compound of ‘geo’ (Greek for earth) and ‘sophia’ (Greek for wisdom). Wright defined it thus: This has been summarised as: Belief systems as they relate to human interaction with the Earth's environments. is sometimes used as a synonym f... |
1,183 | Mircea Eliade " Although his scholarly work was never subordinated to his early political beliefs, the school of thought he was associated with in interwar Romania, namely "Trăirism", as well as the works of Julius Evola he continued to draw inspiration from, have thematic links to fascism. Writer and academic Marcel T... |
1,184 | LCP family The or TagU family of proteins is a conserved family of phosphotransferases that are involved in the attachment of teichoic acid (TA) molecules to gram-positive cell wall or cell membrane. It was initially thought as the LytR (lytic repressor) component of a LytABC operon encoding autolysins, but the mechani... |
1,185 | Copyfraud A copyfraud is a false copyright claim by an individual or institution with respect to content that is in the public domain. Such claims are wrongful, at least under U.S. and Australian copyright law, because material that is not copyrighted is free for all to use, modify and reproduce. also includes overreac... |
1,186 | Major depressive episode Major depressive episodes are notable for a significant, often unrealistic, drop in self-esteem. The guilt and worthlessness experienced in a major depressive episode can range from subtle feelings of guilt to frank delusions or to shame and humiliation. Additionally, self-loathing is common in... |
1,187 | Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters (PJCC) was the third of the three pillars of the European Union (EU). It was named Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) before 1999. The pillar existed between 1993 and 2009, when it was absorbed into a consolidated European Union structure and became the area of freedom, ... |
1,188 | Molecular nanotechnology " Drexler's colleague Ralph Merkle has noted that, contrary to widespread legend, Drexler never claimed that assembler systems could build absolutely any molecular structure. The endnotes in Drexler's book explain the qualification "almost": "For example, a delicate structure might be designed ... |
1,189 | 2017–2018 Spanish constitutional crisis This was met with disappointment from thousands of pro-independence supporters who had gathered nearby to watch the session on giant screens, as well as criticism from the CUP, who voiced their discontent at Puigdemont's decision not to proclaim a Catalan republic right away and ... |
1,190 | History of modern literature Between 1849 and 1861, Charles Dickens' prolific creative outpouring gave us "David Copperfield" (1849–1850), "Bleak House" (1852–1853), "Hard Times" (1854), "Little Dorrit" (1855–1857), "A Tale of Two Cities" (11 July 1859) and "Great Expectations" (1860–1861). In 1850, Alfred Lord Tennyso... |
1,191 | Kidult The portmanteau coinages kidult, rejuvenile, adultescent refer to adults with interests traditionally seen as suitable for children. A kidult is also a person who is a kid at heart. It can also have other meanings, such as a parent who enjoys being a parent due to spending quality time with their children, but i... |
1,192 | Mineral-insulated copper-clad cable The reaction causes the copper to be eaten away, making a hole in the sheath of the cable and letting in water, causing a short-circuit between live, neutral and earth. The appearance of green verdigris on the bare copper sheath may be a sign this has occurred. Circuit integrity for ... |
1,193 | Rama Revealed As the human colony continues to degenerate with respect to living conditions and human rights, the members of Nicole's family escape to the region nicknamed "New York", where they used to live in "Rama II," and are eventually reunited with Richard. Before long, the human colony police come after Nicole's... |
1,194 | Mechanical advantage device A simple machine that exhibits mechanical advantage is called a mechanical advantage device - e.g.: Consider lifting a weight with rope and pulleys. A rope looped through a pulley attached to a fixed spot, e.g. a barn roof rafter, and attached to the weight is called a "single pulley". It ha... |
1,195 | UNIVAC BP The Univac Buffer Processor (BP) was used in several real-time computer system installations in the 1960s as a network concentrator and front end system to the UNIVAC 418 and UNIVAC 490/494 real-time systems. A notable set of installations was at British European Airways in London (the BEACON Online Reservati... |
1,196 | Gatekeeper state The concept of a gatekeeper state was introduced by the Historian of Africa Frederick Cooper in his book "Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present". It is used to describe African nations whose main function is balancing the instability of internal political control against the influence of external ... |
1,197 | Baler The automatic-baler for small square bales took on most of its present form in 1938 with the first such baler sold as Arthur S. Young's Automaton Baler. It was manufactured in small numbers until acquired by "New Holland Ag." In Europe, in as early as 1939, both Claas of Germany and Rousseau SA of France had auto... |
1,198 | Refugee The Constitution of the International Organization, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 December 1946, specified the agency's field of operations. Controversially, this defined "persons of German ethnic origin" who had been expelled, or were to be expelled from their countries of birth into the... |
1,199 | 2006 in Belgium This article lists some of the events that took place in Belgium in 2006. |
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