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Naked short selling 5% of a company's total outstanding shares failed delivery for five consecutive days. A number of companies have appeared on the list, including Krispy Kreme, Martha Stewart Omnimedia and Delta Air Lines. The Motley Fool, an investment website, observes that "when a stock appears on this list, it is...
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Universal Medicine Another patient was told by a thoracic physician and student of UM that conventional HRT was harmful and "deep-seated grief is a major driving factor in lung disease". Dwyer stated that it was "highly reprehensible" that medical professionals registered on a "promise to practise evidence-based medici...
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Merle Curti His first foray in the field was "The Social Ideals of American Educators," published in 1935. In 1944, Curti won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his masterwork, "The Growth of American Thought." Its chapters show an encyclopedic knowledge of thinkers great and small from the colonial period to the presen...
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African Governance Architecture Source: Four interrelated components make up the structure of AGA: Source: The AGA is structured around a normative framework that is set up by the African Union Shared Values. AGA is based on objectives and principles that have been defined in the various AU Shared Values instruments th...
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The Thorn Birds She sleeps one last time with Luke to ensure that her child's paternity will not be questioned, then tells Luke what she really thinks of him and returns to Drogheda, leaving him to his cane-cutting. Back home, she gives birth to a beautiful boy whom she names Dane. Fee, who has had experience in such m...
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Bacillus submarinus is a species in the genus "Bacillus," meaning it is rod shaped while being capable of producing endospores. "B. submarinus" is Gram + , where there is a thick layer of peptidoglycan in its cell wall. "Bacillus submarinus" is a gram positive, aerobic meaning that it requires oxygen for metabolism. "B...
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Quick clay The final result was that the ionic 'glue' of the clay was weakened, to give a weak, loose soil skeleton, enclosing significant amounts of water (high sensitivity with high moisture content). deposits are rarely located directly at the ground surface, but are typically covered by a normal layer of topsoil. W...
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Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims Discrepancies between the victim's statements to police and other evidence are grounds for the defence lawyer to impeach the credibility of the victim. In investigations involving acquaintance or date rape, the electronic communications between the accused and the victim...
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Citizen science Some projects, such as SETI@home, use the Internet to take advantage of distributed computing. These projects are generally passive. Computation tasks are performed by volunteers' computers and require little involvement beyond initial setup. There is disagreement as to whether these projects should be ...
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Emitter-coupled logic In this connection, when the supply voltage varies, the voltage drops across the collector resistors change slightly (in the case of emitter constant current source, they do not change at all). As the collector resistors are firmly "tied up" to ground, the output voltages "move" slightly (or not a...
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Mechanical filter The elements of a passive linear electrical network consist of inductors, capacitors and resistors which have the properties of inductance, elastance (inverse capacitance) and resistance, respectively. The mechanical counterparts of these properties are, respectively, mass, stiffness and damping. In m...
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2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election According to her, the government resorted to this method after failing to incarcerate or suspend the parliamentary immunity of the deputies, denouncing a considerable increase of political persecution as 5 January was approaching, explaining that security f...
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Earth structure Low-density stabilized earth will be porous and weak. The earth must therefore be compacted either by a machine that makes blocks or within the wall using the "rammed earth" technique. Rammed earth is a technique for building walls using natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime or gravel. A ramm...
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Imandar Daurey Daurey tells him what had happened, causing his neighbor to see a way to easily make money. The next day he does the same thing as Daurey. The Jalpari appears, offering him a silver axe, and he says it is not his axe. She then offers him a gold axe, which he claims is his. The jalpari, seeing his lie, be...
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Prologue and Tale of Beryn The Arabian version of the tale, "The Merchant and the Rogues," has less in common with the Tale of Beryn, and although it may not actually be one of the tale's sources, it does concern a corrupt ruler who tries to trick strangers in his land with riddles. The stranger in the tale, with the h...
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3D user interaction Availability of technology as well as impractical costs held back the development and application of virtual environments until the 1980s. Since then, further research and technological advancements have allowed new doors to be opened to application in various other areas such as education, entertai...
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Asbestos , commonly known as blue asbestos, is the fibrous form of the amphibole riebeckite, found primarily in southern Africa, but also in Australia and Bolivia. One formula given for crocidolite is NaFeFeSiO(OH). Crocidolite is seen under a microscope as a blue fiber. Crocidolite commonly occurs as soft friable fibe...
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Legacy system Programmers have borrowed the term "brownfield" from the construction industry, where previously developed land (often polluted and abandoned) is described as "brownfield". There is an alternate favorable opinion — growing since the end of the Dotcom bubble in 1999 — that legacy systems are simply compute...
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Tone at the top During 2001, Ebbers persuaded WorldCom's board of directors to provide him corporate loans and guarantees in excess of $400 million to cover his margin calls. The board hoped that the loans would avert the need for Ebbers to sell substantial amounts of his WorldCom stock, as his doing so would put furth...
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History of pathology In the broadest sense, nearly all research which links manifestations of disease to identifiable processes in cells, tissues, or organs can be considered experimental pathology.
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Conscientious objector As of 2005, conscientious objectors in several countries may serve as field paramedics in the army (although some do not consider this a genuine alternative, as they feel it merely helps to make war more humane instead of preventing it). Alternatively, they may serve without arms, although this, ...
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Lexical entrainment For many objects the most available labels are basic nouns; for example, the word "dog". Instead of saying "animal" or "husky" for the referent, most subjects will default to "dog". If in a set of objects one is to refer to either a husky, a table, and a poster, people are still most likely to use t...
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Sonnet It was, however, Sir Philip Sidney's sequence "Astrophel and Stella" (1591) that started the English vogue for sonnet sequences. The next two decades saw sonnet sequences by William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, Fulke Greville, William Drummond of Hawthornden, and many others. Thes...
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Ideal (ethics) The term "idealism" and the related labeling, whether self-applied or otherwise, of individuals and/or groups as being "idealistic" or against such viewpoints has a certain complexity to it. In the sense of metaphysical thought, "idealism" is generally described as centering around a particular view of o...
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Bioreactor The following equation is used to represent the net rate of cell mass growth: r = "μx (10)" "where μ" is the specific growth rate or specific growth rate coefficient(s). Here, "μ" is analogous to first order rate constant k but however, "μ" is not a constant. In biochemical engineering, yield is defined as t...
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Augustine of Hippo " Augustine's morality is, however, questioned by some sources, such as the following excerpt: "The middle-aged Augustine, incidentally, wrote his assault on sexual practises (and history) after he was finished with it himself, after years of ‘experimenting’ with prostitutes, dabbling in homosexualit...
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Seeing the Big Picture Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company is a self-help book published in March 2012 by Greenleaf Book Group. Written by the founder of Acumen Learning, Kevin R. Cope, it is a covers the topic of business acumen. He opines that a deep understanding of...
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Edward Teller Along with his traditional advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program, he had helped to develop nuclear reactor safety standards as the chair of the Reactor Safeguard Committee of the AEC in the late 1940s, and in the late 1950s headed an effo...
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Ideology ), and the best economic system (e.g. capitalism, socialism, etc.). Sometimes the same word is used to identify both an ideology and one of its main ideas. For instance, "socialism" may refer to an economic system, or it may refer to an ideology that supports that economic system. Studies of the concept of ide...
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Meme Although Dawkins invented the term "meme", he has not claimed that the idea was entirely novel, and there have been other expressions for similar ideas in the past. In 1904, Richard Semon published "Die Mneme" (which appeared in English in 1924 as "The Mneme"). The term "mneme" was also used in Maurice Maeterlinck...
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Wheeling Suspension Bridge A charter was granted to the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company in 1816 to construct a bridge to extend the National Road (also known as the known as the Cumberland Pike because it began in Cumberland, Maryland) across the Ohio River. Although the U.S. Congress authorized the National Road i...
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Mustard Database Mustard is a database that tracks Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants (ARDs)"." The method by which it tracks ARDs is using their own method adapted from Protein Homology Modelling called Pairwise Comparative Modelling (PCM), which increase specificity protein prediction, especially for distantly rel...
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Scapegoating Studies of anti-black violence (racist violence) in the southern United States between 1882 and 1930 show a correlation between poor economic conditions and outbreaks of violence (e.g., lynchings) against blacks. The correlation between the price of cotton (the principal product of the area at that time) a...
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Edward Mueller Edward A. Mueller is the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Qwest Communications. Mueller attended the University of Missouri - Rolla for a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering and Washington University in St. Louis for a Master of Business Administration. In 2000, he became President and C...
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Gilded Age For instance, Andrew Carnegie donated over 90% of his wealth and said that philanthropy was their duty—the "Gospel of Wealth". Private money endowed thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, and charities. John D. Rockefeller donated over $500 million to v...
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Crimson Dynamo His unfamiliarity with the Iron Man armor resulted in Shatalov firing pulse bolts that destroyed Quincy's arms, although the mutant survived. After Stark and Shatalov struggled to maintain each other's identities, Shatalov was able to get the hospitalized Quincy to recreate the transmission that switched...
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Screwball comedy Although many film scholars agree that its classic period had effectively ended by 1942, elements of the genre have persisted or have been paid homage to in contemporary films. Still more, other film scholars argue that the screwball comedy lives on. During the Great Depression, there was a general dem...
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Typical set In information theory, the typical set is a set of sequences whose probability is close to two raised to the negative power of the entropy of their source distribution. That this set has total probability close to one is a consequence of the asymptotic equipartition property (AEP) which is a kind of law of ...
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The Clock (2010 film) The Clock is an art installation by video artist Christian Marclay. It is a looped 24-hour video supercut (montage of scenes from film and television) that feature clocks or timepieces. The artwork itself functions as a clock: its presentation is synchronized with the real time, resulting in the t...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Julius Robert Oppenheimer (; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the...
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Buckling is also a failure mode in pavement materials, primarily with concrete, since asphalt is more flexible. Radiant heat from the sun is absorbed in the road surface, causing it to expand, forcing adjacent pieces to push against each other. If the stress is great enough, the pavement can lift up and crack without w...
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Automaton In 1662, Takeda Omi completed his first "butai karakuri" and then built several of these large puppets for theatrical exhibitions. Karakuri puppets went through a golden age during the Edo period (1603–1867). A new attitude towards automata is to be found in René Descartes when he suggested that the bodies of...
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Positive pressure enclosure The technician must have attended training on Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) and able to calculate air exchange flow rate to ensure fumes generated from welding activity in the enclosure is maintained to acceptable limit. Almost all developed countries are members of the International Elect...
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Programmable Array Logic Popular device programmers included Data I/O Corporation's Model 60A Logic Programmer and Model 2900. One of the very first PAL Programmers was the Structured Design SD20/24. They had the PALASM software built-in and only required a CRT terminal to enter the equations and view the fuse plots. A...
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1955 in archaeology The year involved some significant events.
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Religion and geography is the study of the impact of geography, i.e. place and space, on religious belief. Another aspect of the relationship between religion and geography is "religious geography", in which geographical ideas are influenced by religion, such as early map-making, and the "biblical geography" that devel...
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Primogeniture A variation of Salic primogeniture allowed the sons of women to inherit, but not women themselves, an example being the Francoist succession to the throne of Spain that was applied in 1947–1978. Many descend by salic, male primogeniture so have a greater average rate of extinction. Many others if the titl...
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Indian art The Gupta period is generally regarded as a classic peak of north for all the major religious groups. Although painting was evidently widespread, and survives in the Ajanta Caves, the surviving works are almost all religious sculpture. The period saw the emergence of the iconic carved stone deity in Hindu ar...
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Proto-Cubism " Robert Herbert writes, of the changes occurring in the early 20th century: "By about 1904, the resolution of the dilemma was made in favor of the abstract side of the equation. "Harmony means sacrifice", Cross said, and much of early Neo-Impressionism was jettisoned. Although they paid lip service to the...
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X-ray crystallography has led to a better understanding of chemical bonds and non-covalent interactions. The initial studies revealed the typical radii of atoms, and confirmed many theoretical models of chemical bonding, such as the tetrahedral bonding of carbon in the diamond structure, the octahedral bonding of metal...
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Otomi grammar Historically, as in other Oto-Manguean languages, the basic word order is verb–subject–object (VSO), but some dialects tend towards subject–verb–object (SVO) word order, probably under influence from Spanish. Possessive constructions use the order "possessed-possessor" but modificational constructions use...
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Stenotype Institute The was an ACICS accredited private stenography school with two campuses, one in Jacksonville, Florida, and one in Orlando, Florida. It was one of only 64 schools in North America certified by the NCRA. Both campuses offered day and evening classes and started new classes every two months. They taug...
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Motivation Employee recognition is not only about gifts and points. It's about changing the corporate culture in order to meet goals and initiatives and most importantly to connect employees to the company's core values and beliefs. Strategic employee recognition is seen as the most important program not only to improv...
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Julian Goldsmith Julian Royce Goldsmith (1918–1999) was a mineralogist and geochemist at the University of Chicago (Moore, 1971). Goldsmith, along with colleague Fritz Laves, first defined the crystallographic polymorphism of alkali feldspar (Newton, 1989). Goldsmith also experimented on the temperature dependence of t...
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Deep biosphere Eukarya are also found, including some multicellular life (nematodes, fungi, flatworms, rotifers, annelids and arthropods). Viruses are also present and infect the microbes. The deep biosphere is an ecosystem of organisms and their living space in the deep subsurface. For the seafloor, an operational def...
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East India Company The blazon of the arms is as follows: "Azure, three ships with three masts, rigged and under full sail, the sails, pennants and ensigns Argent, each charged with a cross Gules; on a chief of the second a pale quarterly Azure and Gules, on the 1st and 4th a fleur-de-lis or, on the 2nd and 3rd a leopar...
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Christina von Stommeln Her relics survived the destruction of the Provost's Church during the Allies' air raid on Jülich on November 16, 1944. Pope Pius X beatified her on 8 November 1908 and her liturgical feast was affixed to the date of her death.
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Rechargeable battery Battery packs intended for rapid charging may include a temperature sensor that the charger uses to protect the pack; the sensor will have one or more additional electrical contacts. Different battery chemistries require different charging schemes. For example, some battery types can be safely rech...
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Cloud Atlas (novel) Before Luisa can report her findings on the nuclear power plant or the murders, a Seaboard-hired assassin who has been following her forces her car — along with Sixsmith's incriminating report — off a bridge. The fourth story is comic in tone, contrasting with the previous story, and is set in Brita...
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Stove Increases in efficiency mean that a stove's users can spend less time gathering wood or other fuels, suffer less emphysema and other lung diseases prevalent in smoke-filled homes, while reducing deforestation and air pollution. Corn and pellet stoves and furnaces are a type of biofuel stove. The shelled dry kerne...
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James A. Michener Constructed from the remains of an old state prison, the museum is a non-profit organization with both permanent and rotating collections. Two prominent permanent fixtures are the display room and the Nakashima Reading Room, constructed in honor of his third wife's Japanese heritage. The museum is kno...
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Shia–Sunni relations In 1305, the Sunni Mamelukes carried out a grand campaign to erase the Shiite dominance in the coastal mountains of Lebanon. This campaign forced most the Shiites to disperse, with some fleeing south to Jabal Amel and some to the Bekaa, while a very small portion of them took on the practice of Taq...
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Active Design Developing communities are not always accepting of new forms of architecture and living. Integration of active design may come in conflict with making sure historical culture survives. Vernacular architecture may be abandoned due to it being considered insufficient or uncomfortable. The future of active d...
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Logrolling A minimum winning coalition is the smallest number of votes required to win the passage of a piece of legislation. Minimum winning coalitions demonstrate the importance of logrolling within a democracy, because the minimal winning coalition may be overthrown with the sway of a single vote. As previously ment...
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Arbitration An arbitral decision is foreign where the award was made in a state other than the state of recognition or where foreign procedural law was used. In most cases, these disputes are settled with no public record of their existence as the loser complies voluntarily, although in 2014 UNCITRAL promulgated a rule...
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Volunteer's dilemma The volunteer's dilemma game models a situation in which each player can either make a small sacrifice that benefits everybody, or instead wait in hope of benefiting from someone else's sacrifice. One example is a scenario in which the electricity supply has failed for an entire neighborhood. All in...
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Intersex human rights PGD is considered in a similar fashion to prenatal diagnosis. When used to screen for a specific genetic condition, the method makes it highly likely that the baby will be free of the condition under consideration. PGD thus is an adjunct to assisted reproductive technology, and requires in vitro f...
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Rule of marteloio Despite the difference in terminology, notably the use of latitude degrees, the rule of marteloio and the Regiment of the Leagues are very similar – they are both about solving triangles on a plane chart. The advantage of the regiment over the marteloio is the introduction of latitude parallels in the...
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Self-fulfilling prophecy In some, he accidentally spears his grandfather at a competition—an act that could have happened regardless of Acrisius' response to the prophecy. In other variants, his presence at the games is explained by his hearing of the prophecy, so that his attempt to evade it does cause the prophecy to...
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Normative ethics is the study of ethical action. It is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act, morally speaking. is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics st...
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Holding company In the United States, a personal holding company is defined in section 542 of the Internal Revenue Code. A corporation is a personal holding company if both of the following requirements are met: In the United Kingdom, the term "Holding Company" is defined by the Companies Act 2006 at section 1159. It d...
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The Saga of Recluce The new arrivals were not magical before arriving. The influx of magic from the other universe occurred twice. The ancestors of the people who wield white chaos were stranded first. The ancestors of those who wield black order were marooned 600 years later. Offspring can usually inherit magical abil...
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Maya Research Program The only similar structure in the region which may date from this period is Structure V at Kohunlich (Andrews 1987), but even this is uncertain. The existence of these structures indicates that the origin of columned buildings may be a southern lowlands innovation which was incorporated into later...
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Jeffrey Sachs Prabhjot Singh, it is reported that Sachs helped Singh get the job and also that Singh wrote " large parts of Sachs’ books." It is also reported that Sachs's fellowship at the Institute was thought to be "payback" for his helping Singh get the position at the Institute. Sachs's policy and academic works s...
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Autopoiesis The term autopoiesis () refers to a system capable of reproducing and maintaining itself. The original definition can be found in "and Cognition: the Realization of the Living" (1st edition 1973, 2nd 1980): The term was introduced in 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to defin...
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Interdisciplinarity Any broadminded humanist project involves interdisciplinarity, and history shows a crowd of cases, as seventeenth-century Leibniz's task to create a system of universal justice, which required linguistics, economics, management, ethics, law philosophy, politics, and even sinology. Interdisciplinary ...
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Consociationalism Some academics have also argued that the European Union resembles a consociational democracy. Additionally, a number of peace agreements are consociational, including: Post-Taliban Afghanistan's political system has also been described as consociational, although it lacks ethnic quotas. In addition to...
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Aetites magico-medical text "Cyranides" also claims that the aetite worn as an amulet can prevent miscarriage caused by female demons such as Gello. Jewish women used birthing stones, and the Talmud refers to the "preserving stone," worn as an amulet even during Shabbat to prevent miscarriage. Although medieval sources...
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SRM Engine Suite An advanced Application programming interface enables for the model to be coupled with a user-defined codes such as 3D-CFD or control software.
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Child Identity Importantly, the social codes that children and adolescents learn are specific not only to nation-states and regions of the globe, but also to historical periods and social groups within larger societies. The socio-historical context is a critical dimension of the socialization of children and adolescent...
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Plantations of Ireland Consequently, following the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, these four counties – and two others in which they formed a sizeable minority of nearly half the population – remained in the United Kingdom to form Northern Ireland. This new state contained a sizeable Catholic minority, many of whom identi...
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Commercial insolvency in Canada In Quebec, this is done by way of hypothecs against immoveable property. For personal property (moveable property in Quebec), secured creditors create their security interests through registration under the "Personal Property Security Act" ("PPSA") in force in their province, or under th...
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Lego Mindstorms 0 was released in September 1998. Before Mindstorms, Lego had previously done some experimentation with robotic sets. One of the main foundations of these sets was the Lego Technic system and its 4.5 V and later 9 V system for electrical peripherals that had been evolving through the 1980s. One of the f...
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Legislative violence " During the final day of the 2007 regular session of the Alabama State Senate Republican Sen. Charles Bishop of Jasper punched Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron of Fyffe in the head after the latter allegedly called the former a "son of a bitch". The two were then pulled apart by bystanders in the roo...
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Taxonomic rank 1 the secondary ranks of taxa are tribe, section, series, variety and form. There is an indeterminate number of ranks. The ICN explicitly mentions: primary ranks kingdom ("regnum") division or phylum ("divisio", "phylum") class ("classis") order ("ordo") family ("familia") genus ("genus") species ("speci...
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Ronald Buxton (British politician) Shortly after the 1964 election, Sorensen was persuaded to accept a life peerage to make way in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker, who had lost his seat in Smethwick. However, the plan failed and on 25 January Buxton won the 1965 Leyton by-election by a narro...
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Grammatischer Wechsel In Old English, too, the levelling had already begun to the extent that in some verbs the preterite singular had taken the consonant of the preterite plural. The only surviving example in Modern English is "was:were", but a trace can also be seen in the adjective "forlorn", which reflects the old ...
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B movies (Hollywood Golden Age) Lewton produced such moody, mysterious films as "Cat People" (1942), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), and "The Body Snatcher" (1945), directed by Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and others who would become renowned only later in their careers or entirely in retrospect. The movie now widel...
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1903 in Bolivia Events in the year 1903 in Bolivia.
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Royal Palace of La Almudaina La Almudaina was the seat of the prosperous Majorcan kingdom of 14th century, during the reigns of the aforementioned monarch and his successors Sancho of Majorca and James III of Majorca, until passing to the Crown of Aragon with Peter IV in 1349. During the first half of 16th century the ...
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List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies The following list includes societies that have been identified as matrilineal or matrilocal in ethnographic literature. "Matrilineal" means property is passed down through the maternal line on the death of the mother, not that of the father. The Akans of Ghana, West Africa, ...
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Dirk Coster From 1916 to 1920 Coster was assistant of Lodewijk Siertsema and Wander de Haas at the Delft University of Technology, where in 1919 he obtained an Engineer's degree in electrical engineering. In 1920 and 1921 he did research at Lund University under Manne Siegbahn, on X-ray spectroscopy of different elemen...
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Bioelectrospray Electrospray Electrospray ionization Bio-electrospraying is a new technology that enables the deposition of living cells on various targets with a resolution that depends on cell size and not on the jetting phenomenon. It is envisioned that "unhealthy cells would draw a different charge at the needle fr...
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Project 25 From 2000 to 2009, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and TIA were working collaboratively on the Public Safety Partnership Project or Project MESA (Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications), which sought to define a unified set of requirements for a next-generation aeronautical...
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NESI Initial authority for is per the Memorandum of Agreement between Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), Navy PEO C4I & Space and the United States Air Force Electronic Systems Center, dated 22 December 2003, Subject: Cooperation Agreement for Net-Centric Solutions for Interoperability (NESI). This guida...
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Monodominance is an ecological condition in which more than 60% of the tree canopy comprises a single species of tree. Although monodominance is studied across different regions, most research focuses on the many prominent species in tropical forests. Connel and Lowman, originally called it single-dominance. Convention...
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Missionary This is mentioned in the Sunni Hadith . Jewish "Activity" (a phrase not used within Judaism) is often misunderstood by many. Judaism has never been a faith that seeks converts, because Judaism doesn't believe 'one must be Jewish to inherit everlasting life'. Jewish theology of the afterlife, reincarnation, K...
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Cation-exchange capacity (CEC) is a measure of how many cations can be retained on soil particle surfaces. Negative charges on the surfaces of soil particles bind positively-charged atoms or molecules (cations), but allow these to exchange with other positively charged particles in the surrounding soil water. This is o...
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Trench warfare The main British mortar was the Stokes, a precursor of the modern mortar. It was a light mortar, simple in operation, and capable of a rapid rate of fire by virtue of the propellant cartridge being attached to the base shell. To fire the Stokes mortar, the round was simply dropped into the tube, where th...
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Jewish existentialism The two co-wrote a variety of works, including a translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew. Rosenzweig's best-known individual work is the epic "The Star of Redemption", a book of modern theology critical of modern philosophical idealism (embodied in Hegel's systematization of human...