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300 | Seal culling in South Australia Fishermen's applications for permits to kill the animals were rejected due to the species' low population. As of 2015, the Australian sea lion remains an endangered species. The southern bluefin tuna ranching industry was established in the early 1990s and reported increasing interaction... |
301 | Sub-replacement fertility The countries or areas that have the lowest fertility are in developed parts of East and Southeast Asia: Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea. Only a few countries have had, for the time being, sufficiently sustained sub-replacement fertility (sometimes combined with other population factors l... |
302 | Spindle (disc packaging) In the context of computer supplies, the word spindle or cakebox may refer to a plastic container for packaging optical discs. It typically consists of a round base with a vertical rod (which matches the center holes of the disks) and a cylindrical cover made from polypropylene plastic. Bulk bl... |
303 | Accentuation effect Powerlessness of individuals is observed to accentuate how they represent objects with monetary value physically. This physical representation of the objects related to its monetary value manifests itself through changes in size. This means that objects will be perceived as larger than they are the ... |
304 | Stock-Raising Homestead Act That lands containing water holes or other bodies of water needed or used by the public for watering purposes shall not be designated under this Act but may be reserved under the provisions of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and such lands heretofore or hereafter rese... |
305 | Trinity Centre for Asian Studies Trinity College offers two Government of Ireland International Scholarships for Chinese postgraduate students, offered in any of the university's postgraduate disciplines in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Health Sciences and in... |
306 | E. O. Wilson In the 1990s, he published "The Diversity of Life" (1992), an autobiography: "Naturalist" (1994), and "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge" (1998) about the unity of the natural and social sciences. In 1996, Wilson officially retired from Harvard University, where he continues to hold the positions of Prof... |
307 | Mathematical psychology Scott and Suppes studied relationship between the structure of data and the structure of numerical systems that represent the data. Coombs constructed formal cognitive models of the respondent in a measurement situation rather than statistical data processing algorithms, for example the unfoldin... |
308 | Salman Rushdie In the wake of the "Jyllands-Posten" Muhammad cartoons controversy in March 2006—which many considered an echo of the death threats and "fatwā" that followed publication of "The Satanic Verses" in 1989—Rushdie signed the manifesto "Together Facing the New Totalitarianism", a statement warning of the dang... |
309 | Miscarriage and grief Forty-one percent of parents experience a normal, expected decline in grief in the first two years while 59% were delayed in the resolution of their grief. Grieving can create feelings of loneliness. This grieving has been called a type of psychological trauma. Other serious consequences can devel... |
310 | Dougong The function of "dougong" is to provide increased support for the weight of the horizontal beams that span the vertical columns or pillars by transferring the weight on horizontal beams over a larger area to the vertical columns. This process can be repeated many times, and rise many stories. Adding multiple se... |
311 | The Witcher (video game) Proofreader Martin Pagan noticed this shortened version during his work, and writer Sande Chen confirmed that it was not due to censorship. Fans have theorized that it may have been done for voice acting cost savings, especially since much of the vulgar language has been retained. On 29 Novembe... |
312 | Peptidomimetic In this case, a stapled BH3 helix was identified which specifically activates the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway by antagonizing the sequestration of BH3-only proteins by anti-apoptotic proteins (e.g. Bcl-2, see also intrinsic and extrinsic inducers of the apoptosis). This molecule suppressed growth of ... |
313 | Lunisolar calendar The Gregorian calendar has a lunisolar calendar, which is used to determine the date of Easter. The rules are in the Computus. The following is a list of lunisolar calendars: |
314 | Public opinion Published before the Vietnam War, Gabriel Almond and Walter Lippmann argued that public opinion about foreign policy was unstructured, incoherent, and highly volatile, and that public opinion shouldn't influence foreign policy. More recent studies have rebuked the Almond-Lippmann Consensus, showing how p... |
315 | Eric Millikin Dingell displayed it on the House floor urging passage of government loans to automakers and reiterated the central theme of the piece, saying "now is the time for us to 'Invest in America'." Millikin's October 2011 "Wizard of Oz"-themed "Detroit Free Press" front-page "Lions, Tigers and Bears: Oh my!" il... |
316 | Informed consent Nonetheless, research involving deception prevents subjects from exercising their basic right of autonomous informed decision-making and conflicts with the ethical principle of respect for persons. The Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct set by the American Psychological Association... |
317 | Friendship contract In the Netherlands, a friendship contract (‘"vriendschapscontract"’) is an agreement which regulates the consequences of a "social relationship" between two or more persons under family law as well as property law. Such a contract has no prescribed form. From an evidential point of view a written or... |
318 | Asbestos and the law The government appealed and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the trial court, stating that it erred in determining that it had jurisdiction to review the validity of the standard in a criminal proceeding. Adamo's attorneys appealed to the Supreme Court. On January 10, 197... |
319 | Young Engineers' Satellite 2 The test program included: The satellite was handed over to ESA at the beginning of May 2007 and was shipped to Samara (Russia) soon after, where YES2 was mated to Foton-M3 for the first time for test purposes. Afterwards YES2 and Foton were separated again and brought to Baikonur (Kazakhst... |
320 | Cat (Red Dwarf) After reawakening from stasis, Lister, the only known human being in existence, tells Holly to set a course for Fuchal, which is actually the archipelago of Fiji, where Lister had originally intended to take Frankenstein three million years earlier as part of his five-year plan. In "Waiting for God" (19... |
321 | Holly Rushmeier At IBM, she worked on the project to create a 3D model of Michelangelo's Florence Pietà, as well as the Eternal Egypt collaboration between IBM and the government of Egypt to build a digital showcase of the country's cultural artifacts. Rushmeier is also noted for her work on global illumination, materi... |
322 | Darrell Kitchener Darrell John Kitchener (born 1943) is a biologist who has been active in mammalian research in Western Australia and Indonesia. He is the author of over one hundred papers, published while employed as the senior research biologist at the Western Australian Museum, and described many new species of mam... |
323 | Muhurta 1 || Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa describes a muhūrta as 1/15th portion of a day: átʰa yaccáturviṃśatimātmáno'kuruta | tásmāc-cátur-viṃśaty-ardʰa-māsaḥ saṃ-vatsaraḥ sá etaiś-cátur-viṃśatyā triṃ-śád-iṣṭakair-ātmábʰir-na vyábʰavat-sa páñca-daśā́hno rūpā́ṇy-apaśyad-ātmánas-tanvò muhūrtā́lokam-pr̥ṇāḥ páñca-daśaiva rā́tres-ta... |
324 | Hadamard–Rybczynski equation In fluid dynamics, the gives the terminal velocity of slowly moving spherical bubble through an ambient fluid. It is named after Jacques Hadamard and Witold Rybczynski: where The can be derived from the Navier–Stokes equations by considering only the buoyancy force and drag force acting on ... |
325 | Dictator game These experimental results contradict the homo economicus model, suggesting that players in the dictator role take fairness and potential adverse consequences into account when making decisions about how much utility to give the recipient. A later study in neuroscience further challenged the homo economic... |
326 | Clyde M. Narramore Throughout her career, Ruth was a professional artist, musician, magazine editor and poet. They were married for 64 years until her death in 2010. The Narramores had two children, Melodie and Kevin. Dr. Clyde Narramore is also the uncle of psychologist Dr. S. Bruce Narramore, an author, former Biola ... |
327 | Hilbert space In 1907, Frigyes Riesz and Ernst Sigismund Fischer independently proved that the space of square Lebesgue-integrable functions is a complete metric space. As a consequence of the interplay between geometry and completeness, the 19th century results of Joseph Fourier, Friedrich Bessel and Marc-Antoine Pars... |
328 | Kansas Women Attorneys Association The (KWAA) is a voluntary, statewide bar organization devoted to advancing women in the legal profession through networking, service, and continued education. The organization was formally founded in 1994, and currently has over 270 members. In 1989, the Topeka Women Attorneys Associa... |
329 | Geoffrey Elton Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (born Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg; 17 August 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge, and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to ... |
330 | Winnipeg Area Transportation Study A $330,000 preliminary engineering study for the Sherbrook-McGregor Overpass was budget for in January 1969, the same month the W.A.T.S. study Volume 3 Recommendations were released. Plans to construct the first segment of the W.A.T.S. freeway, the Sherbrook-McGregor Overpass, were co... |
331 | Criticism of the BBC UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned Israel's attacks on Palestinian civilians, calling them inappropriate and disproportionate", they should have made reference to what [Ban] said about Palestinian rocket attacks as well as to the excessive use of force by Israel. The article was additio... |
332 | Soil liquefaction Casagrande referred to this type of phenomena as 'flow liquefaction' although a state of zero effective stress is not required for this to occur. 'Cyclic liquefaction' is the state of soil when large shear strains have accumulated in response to cyclic loading. A typical reference strain for the appro... |
333 | Pay it forward " Woody Hayes (1913 – 1987), winner of five national titles as football coach at The Ohio State University, misquoted Emerson as having said "You can pay back only seldom. You can always pay forward, and you must pay line for line, deed for deed, and cent for cent." He also shortened the (mis)quotation i... |
334 | Mr and Mrs Dove is a 1921 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in "The Sphere" on 28 November 1921, and later reprinted in "The Garden Party and Other Stories". Reginald is returning to Rhodesia the next day; it is his last day in England. Again he thinks of Anne; then he goes to Colonel Proctor's... |
335 | SME One Asia Awards is an event that is organised by The APF Group in Singapore. Currently in its fourth Year, it has a total of 350 nominations and 191 winners, and has at least 1000 attendees for the awards dinner which is held at Marina Bay Sands every year. The was established in 2011 by the APF Group Pte Ltd to re... |
336 | ΜFluids@Home μFluids@Home is a computer simulation of two-phase flow behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems at Purdue University, using the Surface Evolver program. The project's purpose is to develop better methods for the management of liquid rocket propellants in microgravity, and to investigate two-pha... |
337 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz He hoped that this abstracting project would eventually include everything printed from his day back to Gutenberg. Neither proposal met with success at the time, but something like them became standard practice among English language publishers during the 20th century, under the aegis of the L... |
338 | Community land trust Vinoba walked from village to village in rural India in the 1950s and 1960s, gathering people together and asking those with more land than they needed to give a portion of it to their poorer sisters and brothers. The initiative was known as the Bhoodan or Land gift movement, and many of India's le... |
339 | Menagerie Another aristocratic menagerie was founded in 1774 by Charles III of Spain on grounds which were part of the gardens of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. During two centuries, it was a predecessor institution of the modern facilities of the Madrid Zoo Aquarium, moved in 1972 to the Casa de Campo. In the ninet... |
340 | Open sustainability innovation With open innovations and sustainable mindsets only recently becoming more popular within big companies, open sustainability innovations are not yet that often observed. Open Sustainability Innovation can be seen applied by companies in their Sustainability Marketing campaigns. In contrar... |
341 | Developmental disorder The symptoms of ASD can be broadly categorised as the following: These are predominantly seen by unresponsiveness in conversations, lesser emotional sharing, inability to initiate conversations, inability to interpret body language, avoidance of eye-contact and difficulty maintaining relationship... |
342 | Behold the Man (novel) Behold the Man (1969) is a science fiction novel by British writer Michael Moorcock. It originally appeared as a novella in a 1966 issue of "New Worlds"; later, Moorcock produced an expanded version which was first published in 1969 by Allison & Busby. The title derives from the Gospel of John, C... |
343 | Anthropocene The ( ) is a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems, including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change. , neither the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) nor the International Union of Geological Sciences (IU... |
344 | Particle physics in cosmology Particle physics is the study of the interactions of elementary particles at high energies, whilst physical cosmology studies the universe as a single physical entity. The interface between these two fields is sometimes referred to as particle cosmology. Particle physics must be taken into... |
345 | Fragrance extraction The process can last anywhere from hours to months. Fragrant compounds for woody and fibrous plant materials are often obtained in this matter as are all aromatics from animal sources. The technique can also be used to extract odorants that are too volatile for "distillation" or easily denatured by... |
346 | Canonical hours "The New Century Psalter", published in 1999 by The Pilgrim Press, includes an inclusive-language revision of the psalms adapted from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible with refrains and complete orders for Morning and Evening Prayer. Simple family prayers for morning, evening and the close o... |
347 | Death Eater In this book, Bellatrix inadvertently reveals she is the guardian of Helga Hufflepuff's cup, when the captured Harry, Ron, and Hermione are brought to Malfoy Manor. Bellatrix then tortures Hermione with the Cruciatus Curse, believing them to have sneaked into her vault at Gringotts due to their possession o... |
348 | Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees Although the idea of consent was already established through Walter Reed's "Consent Form," Nuremberg Doctors' Trials, and "Schloendroff v. Society of New York Hospital" (1914), it had yet to be fully incorporated into practice and the limits of disclosure had ye... |
349 | Ergenekon Ziya Gökalp's poem put the epic in the context of Turkic history (), published as "Türk An'anesi: Ergenekon" in "Türk Duygusu" magazine from May 8 to June 5, 1913, "Altın Armağan" in September 1913, and under the title of "Ergenekon" in "Kızılelma," 1914. Ömer Seyfettin's poem on the topic was published in "H... |
350 | Age of Enlightenment Most societies were granted permission to oversee their own publications, control the election of new members and the administration of the society. After 1700, a tremendous number of official academies and societies were founded in Europe and by 1789 there were over seventy official scientific soc... |
351 | Carl Raschke "Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body" (1996) explores these interconnections by seeking to “reconcile erotic and tragic discourses through the thought of the Word made flesh.” An earlier work, entitled "Theological Thinking: An In-Quiry" (1988), investigates the interconnections betwe... |
352 | Dental public health Gum diseases gingivitis and periodontitis are caused by certain types of bacteria that accumulate in remaining dental plaque. The extent of gum disease depends a lot on host susceptibility. Daily brushing must include brushing of both the teeth and gums. Effective brushing itself, will prevent prog... |
353 | Foxtel Foxtel's third-generation model, iQ3, was first referenced by CEO Richard Freudenstein in March 2012, and was released to customers on 23 March 2015. The iQ3 contains increased internet connectivity with the inclusion of Wi-Fi and the ability to re-watch certain broadcast programmes to the start using on-demand ... |
354 | Simtek The company employed 35 people, the least number of any team competing in Formula One during 1994, and only 10% of the number employed by Scuderia Ferrari. These deficits showed at the first race of the 1994 season. Brabham qualified in 26th and last place while Ratzenberger failed to qualify. Brabham finished t... |
355 | History of the Shakespeare authorship question This is taken to imply that he published under a pseudonym. In the following year Marston used Bacon's Latin motto in a poem and seems to quote from "Venus and Adonis", which he attributes to Labeo. Theobald argued that this confirmed that Hall's Labeo was known to be Baco... |
356 | Objectivism Blair defended Rand's ethical conclusions, while maintaining that his arguments might not have been approved by Rand. Rand's defense of individual liberty integrates elements from her entire philosophy. Since reason is the means of human knowledge, it is therefore each person's most fundamental means of sur... |
357 | Regular expression A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp; also referred to as rational expression) is a sequence of characters that define a "search pattern". Usually such patterns are used by string searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings, or for input validation. It is... |
358 | Epitranscriptomic sequencing In particular, the Nanopore technology proved to be effective in detecting the presence of two nucleotide analogs in RNA: N-methyladenosine (m6A) and 5-methylcytosine (5-mC). Using Hidden Markov Models (HMM) or recurrent neural networks (RNN) trained with known sequences, it was possible to... |
359 | Solar-powered desalination unit The basic principles of solar water distillation are simple, yet effective, as distillation replicates the way nature makes rain. The sun's energy heats water to the point of evaporation. As the water evaporates, water vapor rises, condensing on the glass surface for collection. This pro... |
360 | Computational sociology In 1999, Nigel Gilbert published the first textbook on Social Simulation: "Simulation for the social scientist" and established its most relevant journal: the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. Independent from developments in computational models of social systems, social ne... |
361 | Cell CANARY Finally, after determining the presence and identity of the pathogen, all infected people can be effectively treated. There still need improvements on specific aspects of this complicated process. Some of the challenges include "building circuits that can interact with the cells and transmit alerts about th... |
362 | Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the Western media's undue focus on upper-middle-class wh... |
363 | Hemoglobin GTP reduces hemoglobin oxygen affinity much more than ATP, which is thought to be due to an extra hydrogen bond formed that further stabilizes the tense state. Under hypoxic conditions, the concentration of both ATP and GTP is reduced in fish red blood cells to increase oxygen affinity. A variant hemoglobin,... |
364 | Lex Luthor Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor () is a fictional supervillain appearing in publications by the publisher DC Comics. The character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. originally appeared in "Action Comics" No. 23 (cover dated: April 1940). He has since endured as an archenemy of Superman. Originally i... |
365 | G factor (psychometrics) , among siblings), suggesting that it results from cross-assortative mating for height and intelligence, or from another factor that correlates with both (e.g. nutrition). Myopia is known to be associated with intelligence, with a correlation of around .2 to .25, and this association has been f... |
366 | DIKW pyramid "Information is inferred from data", in the process of answering interrogative questions ("e.g.", "who", "what", "where", "how many", "when"), thereby making the data useful for "decisions and/or action". "Classically," states a recent text, "information is defined as data that are endowed with meaning and... |
367 | European Union IBM competition cases TurboHercules also withdrew its complaint. On September 20, 2011, the European Commission closed its investigation without action into alleged operating system and hardware tying. Separately, IBM agreed to provide mainframe spare parts and certain technical information for five year... |
368 | Jeremy Bentham On his return to England from Russia, Bentham had commissioned drawings from an architect, Willey Reveley. In 1791, he published the material he had written as a book, although he continued to refine his proposals for many years to come. He had by now decided that he wanted to see the prison built: when ... |
369 | Crop circle Many others have demonstrated how complex crop circles can be created. "Scientific American" published an article by Matt Ridley, who started making crop circles in northern England in 1991. He wrote about how easy it is to develop techniques using simple tools that can easily fool later observers. He repor... |
370 | Ease of doing business index These efforts are motivated to a great scope by the fact that the World Bank Group publishes the data, and hence coverage by the media and the private sector every year. Also, "Doing Business" highlights every year the successful reforms carried out by each country. Since The Regulation of ... |
371 | RollerCoaster Tycoon is a series of simulation video games about building and managing an amusement park. Each game in the series challenges players with open-ended amusement park management and development, and allowing players to construct and customize their own unique roller coasters and other thrill rides. The fir... |
372 | Clavibacter michiganensis "michiganensis" enter the plant by wounds, including root wounds, and if the bacterium gets to the xylem then a systemic infection is likely that may plug the xylem vessels. The wilting may only show on one side of the leaf and may recover during cooler periods. The entire system of xylem with... |
373 | 20% Project Over the last twenty years, this project enabled the creation of key Google services such as Gmail. As recognition of the clear benefits of retaining such a scheme grew, schools have replicated this system for their students in the classroom environment. The production of such creatively stimulated, ungrade... |
374 | Sack of Chernigov was part of the Mongol invasion of Rus.' Mongol invasion of Rus can be divided into two phases. In winter of 1237-38 they conquered Northern Russia (principalities of Ryazan and Vladimir-Suzdal) with the exception of Novgorod, but in spring of 1238 retreated back to Wild Fields. The second campaign, a... |
375 | Diseases of poverty The World Health Organization proposes closing the gaps by acting on social determinants. Their first recommendation is to improve daily living conditions. This area involves improving the lives of women and girls so that their children are born in healthy environments and placing an emphasis on ear... |
376 | Neural adaptation By day four, the images seen through the instrument were still upside down. However, on day five, images appeared upright until he concentrated on them; then they became inverted again. By having to concentrate on his vision to turn it upside down again, especially when he knew images were hitting his... |
377 | Holy Land Institute for the Deaf The (مؤسسة الأراضي المقدسة للصم) is a non-profit foundation located in Salt, Jordan, north of Amman, that provides educational and rehabilitation services for people with hearing impairment. The facility serves approximately 150 male and female students, mostly Jordanian, from the ages ... |
378 | Closed system drug transfer device A closed system drug transfer device or "CSTD" is a drug transfer device that mechanically prohibits the transfer of environmental contaminants into a system and the escape of hazardous drug or vapor concentrations outside the system. Open versus closed systems are commonly applied in... |
379 | Philo frequently engages in Pythagorean-inspired numerology, explaining at length the importance of religious numbers such as six, seven, and ten. Commentators can infer from his mission to Caligula that was involved in politics. However, the nature of his political beliefs, and especially his viewpoint on the Roman Em... |
380 | Breakwater (structure) This may then lead to further engineering protection being needed down-drift of the breakwater development. Salient formations as a result of breakwaters are a function of the distance the breakwaters are built from the coast, the direction at which the wave hits the breakwater, and the angle at ... |
381 | Social development theory Many countries have introduced scores of new reforms and procedures—such as the release of business directories, franchising, lease purchase, service, credit rating, collection agencies, industrial estates, free trade zones, and credit cards. Additionally, a diverse range of Internet services ... |
382 | Dana Lepofsky Dana Sue Lepofsky (born 1958) is a Canadian archaeologist and ethnobiologist. She is a professor at Simon Fraser University, a former president of the Society of Ethnobiology, and received the Smith-Wintemberg Award in 2018. Her research focuses on the historical ecology of the indigenous peoples of the P... |
383 | Kullback–Leibler divergence An alternative is given via the formula_338 divergence, which can be interpreted as the expected information gain about formula_101 from discovering which probability distribution formula_101 is drawn from, formula_1 or formula_2, if they currently have probabilities formula_338 and formula_... |
384 | Hardware-in-the-loop simulation In offshore and marine engineering, control systems and mechanical structures are generally designed in parallel. Testing the control systems is only possible after integration. As a result, many errors are found that have to be solved during the commissioning, with the risks of personal... |
385 | Monsieur Vénus It is believed by some that "Monsieur Vénus" was the impetus for Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly's infamous remark about Rachilde: "A pornographer, yes, she is, but such a distinguished once!" It also provided the context in which Paul Verlaine said to Rachilde, "Ah! My dear child, if you've invented an extra v... |
386 | Resilience (engineering and construction) Current research studies have developed various ways to quantify resilience from multiple aspects, such as functionality- and socioeconomic- related aspects. The first influential quantitative resilience metric based on the functionality recovery curve was proposed by Bruneau e... |
387 | Computer experiment A computer experiment or simulation experiment is an experiment used to study a computer simulation, also referred to as an in silico system. This area includes computational physics, computational chemistry, computational biology and other similar disciplines. Computer simulations are constructed t... |
388 | Cytosolic ciliogenesis Cytosolic ciliogenesis, otherwise cytoplasmic ciliogenesis, is a type of ciliogenesis where the cilium axoneme is formed in the cytoplasm or becomes exposed to the cytoplasm. is divided into three types: Primary cytosolic cilia are formed by exposing the axoneme of compartmentalized cilium (forme... |
389 | Castle doctrine Use of force in self-defense which causes damage or injuries to other, non-criminally-acting parties, may not be shielded from criminal or civil prosecution, however. In US jurisdictions where the castle doctrine applies, there is no duty to retreat before deadly force is used against an intruder by a p... |
390 | Measurement Science and Technology (MST) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by IOP Publishing and covering the areas of measurement, instrumentation, and sensor technology in the sciences. The editor-in-chief is Kenneth T. Christensen (University of Notre Dame). The journal was established in 1923 ... |
391 | 2012 phenomenon In 1957, Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson wrote that "the completion of a Great Period of 13 bʼakʼtuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya." In 1966, Michael D. Coe wrote in "The Maya" that "there is a suggestion ... that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples... |
392 | Hyborian Age In his fantasy setting of the Hyborian Age, Howard created imaginary kingdoms to which he gave names inspired by or adapted from a variety of mythological and historical sources. Khitai is his version of China, lying far to the east, Corinthia is his name for a Hellenistic civilization, a name derived from... |
393 | Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan The Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan, commonly known as the "Johnston Plan", was a plan for the unified water resource development of the Jordan Valley. It was negotiated and developed by US ambassador Eric Johnston between 1953 and 1955, and based on an earlier plan commissioned by Uni... |
394 | Barbarian " Some Warring States period texts record a belief that the respective natures of the Chinese and the barbarian were incompatible. Mencius, for instance, once stated: "I have heard of the Chinese converting barbarians to their ways, but not of their being converted to barbarian ways." Dikötter says, "The natu... |
395 | Rule of law According to the functional view, a society in which government officers have a great deal of discretion has a low degree of "rule of law", whereas a society in which government officers have little discretion has a high degree of "rule of law". Upholding the rule of law can sometimes require the punishment... |
396 | Eva Perón While the monument was being constructed, Evita's embalmed body was displayed in her former office at the CGT building for almost two years. Before the monument to Evita was completed, Juan Perón was overthrown in a military coup, the Revolución Libertadora, in 1955. Perón hastily fled the country and was una... |
397 | Psychological trauma The clinician may also inquire about possible relational disturbance, such as alertness to interpersonal danger, abandonment issues, and the need for self-protection via interpersonal control. Through discussion of interpersonal relationships, the clinician is better able to assess the individual's... |
398 | Water wheel They were reverse overshot water-wheels designed for dewatering deep underground mines. Several such devices are described by Vitruvius, including the reverse overshot water-wheel and the Archimedean screw. Many were found during modern mining at the copper mines at Rio Tinto in Spain, one system involving ... |
399 | Transit-oriented development Most notable are the development of the Yonge and Eglinton area in the 1960s and 1970s; and the present development of the 2 km of the Yonge Street corridor north of Sheppard Avenue, which began in the late 1980s. In the period since 1997 alone the latter stretch has seen the appearance of ... |
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