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400 | Electrification These were invented by Joseph Swan in 1878 in Britain and by Thomas Edison in 1879 in the US. Edison’s lamp was more successful than Swan’s because Edison used a thinner filament, giving it higher resistance and thus conducting much less current. Edison began commercial production of carbon filament bul... |
401 | Variation of the field When the field is patterned with an even number of horizontal (fesswise) stripes, this is described as "barry" e.g. of six or eight, usually of a colour and metal specified, e.g. "barry of six argent and gules" (this implies that the chiefmost piece is argent). With ten or more pieces, the field ... |
402 | Aftermath of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état On 31 August, Justice Gerard Winter decided to adjourn until 30 September the hearing of the lawsuit of former FLP parliamentarians Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi and Gaffar Ahmed, after defence lawyer Akuila Naco asked for more time to prepare his case. On 15 September, Justice Winter set ... |
403 | State Intellectual Property Office (Croatia) The State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia (SIPO Croatia; ) is a government agency responsible for registration of patents, trademarks and design in Croatia. It was established in 1991, originally under the name "Republic Industrial Property Office" an... |
404 | Joint Force Air Component Headquarters The (JFACHQ) is the United Kingdom's deployable air command and control unit. The JFACHQ is run by the Royal Air Force with representation from the other services. The JFACHQ has members from the operations and operations support branches of the RAF to both plan and execute the ai... |
405 | Water of crystallization Historically, the structures of many hydrates were unknown, and the dot in the formula of a hydrate was employed to specify the composition without indicating how the water is bound. Examples: For many salts, the exact bonding of the water is unimportant because the water molecules are labilize... |
406 | Revelation 12 sign prophecy " Some people suggest this will be fulfilled because the planet Jupiter will be traversing the constellation after having undergone apparent retrograde motion after entering what they perceive to be Virgo's "womb" around November 20, 2016. Jupiter exits the lower part of the "womb" 42 weeks ... |
407 | Zdenko Strižić After fleeing Yugoslavia, Strižić joined the faculty of the University of Melbourne (1956–1961), writing a thesis, collaborating on many publications, and returned to designing. His project for the Australian House of Representatives (1956-1962) was awarded the first prize in a major competition. In the ... |
408 | Uruk There are three major tells within the site, the Eanna district: Bit Resh (Kullaba), and Irigal. The location of was first scouted by William Loftus in 1849. He excavated there in 1850 and 1854. By Loftus' own account, he admits that the first excavations were superficial at best, as his financiers forced him to d... |
409 | Technological singularity This more capable machine could then go on to design a machine of yet greater capability. These iterations of recursive self-improvement could accelerate, potentially allowing enormous qualitative change before any upper limits imposed by the laws of physics or theoretical computation set in. ... |
410 | Or Give Me Death MyJohn is Patsy's boyfriend and husband later on in the novel. He is well-liked by everyone, especially Anne. Unlike Patsy, he is kind and gentle but still able to keep things under control. He is one of the only people Patsy listens aside from her father. MyJohn has a great influence in the Henry fami... |
411 | Peter Elias (November 23, 1923 – December 7, 2001) was a pioneer in the field of information theory. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1953 to 1991. In 1955, Elias introduced convolutional codes as an alternative to block codes. He also establis... |
412 | Swedish Institute in Rome The (, ) is a research institution that serves as the base for archaeological excavations and other scientific research in Italy. It also pursues academic instruction in archaeology and art sciences as well as arranging conferences with themes of interest to the institute. The Institute has at... |
413 | Smallest-circle problem The solution of the subproblem is either solution of unconstrained problem or it is used to determine the half-plane where the unconstrained solution center is located. The n/16 points to be discarded are found the following way: Points are arranged to pairs what defines n/2 lines as their bisec... |
414 | African-American history Petersburg, an industrial city, by 1860 had 3,224 free blacks (36% of blacks, and about 26% of all free persons), the largest population in the South. In Virginia, free blacks also created communities in Richmond, Virginia and other towns, where they could work as artisans and create businesses... |
415 | Climate restoration One key recommendation of the Rand Corporation study is that an ambitious climate restoration goal may seek to achieve preindustrial concentration by 2075, or by the end of the century. It concludes that "The best we can do is pursue climate restoration with a passion while embedding it in a process... |
416 | The Space Bar Steve Meretzky said that Rocket Science Games' European partner company would be "marketing heavily in Europe." Rocket Science demonstrated "The Space Bar" alongside "Obsidian" at the mid-1996 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3); Peter Smith of "Computer Games Strategy Plus" wrote that the two titles "made... |
417 | Hemicellulose Xylan backbone synthesis, unlike that of the other hemicelluloses, is not mediated by any cellulose synthase-like proteins. Instead, xylan synthase is responsible for backbone synthesis, facilitating the addition of xylose. Several genes for xylan synthases have been identified. Several other enzymes are ... |
418 | Maschsee Other sculptures on the eastern side are the ""Menschenpaar"" by Georg Kolbe (1936–37) and two lion sculptures created by Arno Breker (1938). In 1948 Erich Haberland unveiled his piece "The Swimmer", which stands in the public bathing area. Spanish artist Santiago Sierra caused a sensation in 2005 when he reme... |
419 | Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics ma... |
420 | Plautus Plays were performed in public, for the public, with the most prominent members of the society in the forefront. The wooden stages on which Plautus' plays appeared were shallow and long with three openings in respect to the scene-house. The stages were significantly smaller than any Greek structure familiar to ... |
421 | Echo sounding 282009 for the invention of echo sounding "(device for measuring depths of the sea and distances and headings of ships or obstacles by means of reflected sound waves)" on 22 July 1913. One of the first commercial echo sounding units was the Fessenden Fathometer, which used the Fessenden oscillator to gene... |
422 | Sewage treatment For example, constructed wetlands have a lower energy requirement than activated sludge plants, as less energy is required for the aeration step. plants that produce biogas in their sewage sludge treatment process with anaerobic digestion can produce enough energy to meet most of the energy needs of th... |
423 | Cotton Price Stabilization Board The (French: "Caisse de Stabilisation des Prix du Coton", CSPC) was a Chadian governative board created in 1968. Its task was to stabilize prices paid to peasant producers by funding operating losses incurred by Cotontchad, the parastatal giant that bought, ginned and sold all the cotto... |
424 | Project Labor Agreement Modern PLAs particularly developed from those used in construction carried out during World War II, a period when skilled labor was in demand, construction unions controlled 87% of the national market and government spending on construction had increased significantly over a short period of time... |
425 | Crystal skull Since the synthesis of carborundum dates only to the 1890s and its wider availability to the 20th century, the researchers concluded "[t]he suggestion is that it was made in the 1950s or later". None of the skulls in museums come from documented excavations. A parallel example is provided by obsidian mirr... |
426 | Relevant market Sometimes consumers may be unable to react to a price increase, nevertheless, producers may be able to do so by for example, increasing their supply to satisfy the demand of these consumers. If other producers respond to an increase in the relative price of the products supplied by the single supplier b... |
427 | Generalized anxiety disorder Patients with GAD can sometimes present with symptoms such as insomnia or headaches as well as pain and interpersonal problems. Further research suggests that about 20 to 40 percent of individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have comorbid anxiety disorders, with GAD being ... |
428 | Thermal oxidation Thermal oxide incorporates silicon consumed from the substrate and oxygen supplied from the ambient. Thus, it grows both down into the wafer and up out of it. For every unit thickness of silicon consumed, 2.17 unit thicknesses of oxide will appear. If a bare silicon surface is oxidized, 46% of the oxi... |
429 | Integrating ADC As mentioned above, the purpose of the run-up phase is to add an unknown amount of charge to the integrator to be later measured during the run-down phase. Having the ability to add larger quantities of charge allows for more higher-resolution measurements. For example, assume that we are capable of mea... |
430 | Millennium Park A 2001 investigative report by the "Chicago Tribune" described the park then under construction and its budget overruns as an "expensive public-works debacle that can be traced to haphazard planning, design snafus and cronyism". According to Lois Weisberg, commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affa... |
431 | Nuclear winter Historical data on residence times of aerosols, albeit a different mixture of aerosols, in this case stratospheric sulfur aerosols and volcanic ash from megavolcano eruptions, appear to be in the one-to-two-year time scale, however aerosol–atmosphere interactions are still poorly understood. Sooty aeroso... |
432 | Floris and Blancheflour is the name of a popular romantic story that was told in the Middle Ages in many different vernacular languages and versions. It first appears in Europe around 1160 in "aristocratic" French. Roughly between the period 1200 and 1350 it was one of the most popular of all the romantic plots. The fo... |
433 | Systematic review A scoping review is an attempt to search for concepts, mapping the language which surrounds those and adjusting the search method iteratively. A scoping review may often be a preliminary stage before a systematic review, which 'scopes' out an area of inquiry and maps the language and key concepts. As ... |
434 | Mundane science fiction Maddalena says that SF connoisseurs disagreed with MSF’s call to avoid “unlikely” technologies or futures, as these speculative futures are sci-fi writers’ “rebellious bread and butter”. Roger Luckhurst, a professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at London’s Birkbeck College, says the MSF... |
435 | Women in the World organizes live journalism events. is an annual summit launched in 2010 by Tina Brown, the British-born former editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk, Newsweek and The Daily Beast and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales. First held at New York’... |
436 | Iterative impedance The iterative impedance of this network, "Z", in terms of its output load (also "Z") is given by, and solving for "Z", Another example is an L-circuit with the components reversed, that is, with the shunt admittance coming first. The analysis of this circuit can be found immediately through duality ... |
437 | Shared leadership Social network analysis (SNA) addresses some of the flaws of collective leader behavior ratings by assessing the patterns of connections that emerge in a team and providing a method for modeling both vertical and shared leadership within a team. SNA examines the relationships that form between individ... |
438 | Operation Cathedral One reason for the high profile of the operation was the unusually high number of images possessed, produced, and distributed by "Wonderland" members (more than 750,000 images and 1,800 videos). One requirement for entry to the club, apart from a recommendation from an existing member, was the expec... |
439 | Nationalism Soviet dictator Josef Stalin at Tehran in 1943 rejected the Jagiellon Concept because it involved Polish rule over Ukrainians and Belarusians. He instead endorsed the Piast Concept, which justified a massive shift of Poland's frontiers to the west. After 1945 the Soviet-back puppet communist regime wholehea... |
440 | Quantum pseudo-telepathy If Alice and Bob meet before the game begins and exchange information, this will not impact the game in any way; the best the players can do is still win with probability 8/9. The reason why the game can only be won with probability 8/9 is that a perfectly consistent table does not exist: it wo... |
441 | Conditioned place preference As in Pavlovian conditioning, an initially neutral stimulus, in this case environmental cues, is repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus that naturally produces a response prior to conditioning (the unconditioned response). Over time and pairings the neutral stimulus will come to e... |
442 | Stratigraphy The geologic time scale was developed during the 19th century, based on the evidence of biologic stratigraphy and faunal succession. This timescale remained a relative scale until the development of radiometric dating, which gave it and the stratigraphy it was based on an absolute time framework, leading t... |
443 | Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States Grains like wheat or rice are more valuable per weight than other sources of food, and much easier to transport. As he puts it, "The key to the nexus between grains and states lies, I believe, in the fact that only the cereal grains can serve as a basis for taxat... |
444 | Catherine Pepinster Her work has also been featured in "America Magazine". In April 2017, Pepinster was appointed as the United Kingdom's Development Officer for the Anglican Centre in Rome. Pepinster is a practising Catholic and describes herself as liberal. She is a survivor of breast cancer. |
445 | Canadian Welding Bureau In addition, the CWB is the Authorized National Body for Company Certification (ANBCC) for the IIW providing certification services under ISO 3834. The CWB qualifies welders, welding inspectors, welding supervisors, welding engineers and welding electrodes/consumables. The activity of the CWB co... |
446 | Slovene months Additional names include "brumen" (< Italian "bruma" 'depth of winter'), "sečen" (related to "suh" 'dry' or from "sek-" 'cut'), "ledenec" and "lednik" (< "led" 'ice'), "mali božičnjak" and "malobožičnjak" (< "mali božič" 'Epiphany'), "prozimec" (probably contamination of "prosinec" with "zima" 'winter'),... |
447 | Kinematic synthesis As the cam rotates its contact with the follower face drives its output rotation or sliding movement. The task for a cam and follower mechanism is provided by a displacement diagram, which defines the rotation angle or sliding distance of the follower as a function of the rotation of the cam. Once t... |
448 | Pressure injection cell Pressure Injection Cells, sometimes referred to as "bomb-loading devices" are used in proteomic research to enable controlled dispensing of small-volume liquid samples. Using high pressure, pressure injection cells are used for two applications: densely packing nanobore capillary columns (micro-... |
449 | Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT) is a theory of cognition originally proposed by Charles Brainerd and Valerie F. Reyna that draws upon dual-trace conceptions to predict and explain cognitive phenomena, particularly in memory and reasoning. The theory has been used in areas such as cognitive psychology, human development, and s... |
450 | Wisdom Buddhist scriptures teach that a wise person is usually endowed with good and maybe bodily conduct, and sometimes good verbal conduct, and good mental conduct.("AN 3:2") A wise person does actions that are unpleasant to do but give good results, and doesn’t do actions that are pleasant to do but give bad results... |
451 | Transistor Having unearthed Lilienfeld's patents that went into obscurity years earlier, lawyers at Bell Labs advised against Shockley's proposal because the idea of a field-effect transistor that used an electric field as a "grid" was not new. Instead, what Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invented in 1947 was the firs... |
452 | Demographics of sexual orientation 6% of women with underage children, and 0.5% of women with adult children. In a YouGov survey of 1,632 adults, 5.5% identified as gay, 2.1% as bisexual, and 88.7% as heterosexual. Asked to place themselves on the Kinsey scale, 72% of all adults, and 46% of adults aged 18–24 years, pic... |
453 | Solid modeling A central problem in all these applications is the ability to effectively represent and manipulate three-dimensional geometry in a fashion that is consistent with the physical behavior of real artifacts. research and development has effectively addressed many of these issues, and continues to be a centra... |
454 | Childhood's End After finishing "Guardian Angel", Clarke enrolled at King's College London and served as the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946 to 1947, and later from 1951 to 1953. He earned a first-class degree in mathematics and physics from King's in 1948, after which he worked as an assistant... |
455 | Cyclopentadienyl magnesium bromide is a chemical compound with the molecular formula . The molecule consists of a magnesium atom bonded to a bromine atom and a cyclopentadienyl group, a ring of five carbons each with one hydrogen atom. The compound is a Grignard reagent, a type of organometallic compound that features ... |
456 | Operation Woodrose was a military operation carried out by the Indira Gandhi-led Indian government in the months after Operation Blue Star to "prevent the outbreak of widespread public protest" in the state of Punjab. The government arrested all prominent members of the largest Sikh political party, the Akali Dal, and ... |
457 | Mathematical chemistry is the area of research engaged in novel applications of mathematics to chemistry; it concerns itself principally with the mathematical modeling of chemical phenomena. has also sometimes been called computer chemistry, but should not be confused with computational chemistry. Major areas of resear... |
458 | Willard Van Orman Quine Quine confined logic to classical bivalent first-order logic, hence to truth and falsity under any (nonempty) universe of discourse. Hence the following were not logic for Quine: Quine wrote three undergraduate texts on formal logic: "Mathematical Logic" is based on Quine's graduate teaching dur... |
459 | USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) The Komsomol and later LMG would try to implement the 10th congress resolution by various attacks, parades, theatrical performances, journals, brochures and films. The Komsomol would hold crude blasphemous 'Komsomol Christmases' and 'Komsomol Easters' headed by hooligans dressed... |
460 | Proposed wildlife crossings in Jackson, Wyoming The Teton County Master Plan takes these biological-conservation and permeability factors into account in its analysis and planning process. The Teton County Wildlife Crossing Master Plan has identified 12 crossing priorities, and has ranked the locations based on eight c... |
461 | DSL modem Most of these differences are of little interest to consumers, except the greater speed of DSL and the ability to use the telephone even when the computer is online. As technology advances, functions that are provided by multiple chips can be integrated onto one chip. Higher levels of integration have benefit... |
462 | Black–Scholes model Despite the lack of a general analytical solution for American put options, it is possible to derive such a formula for the case of a perpetual option - meaning that the option never expires (i.e., formula_88). In this case, the time decay of the option is equal to zero, which leads to the Black–Sch... |
463 | WISDOM (radar) WISDOM (Water Ice and Subsurface Deposit Observation on Mars) is a ground-penetrating radar that is part of the science payload on board the European Space Agency "Rosalind Franklin" rover, tasked to search for biosignatures and biomarkers on Mars. The rover is planned to be launched in August–October 20... |
464 | Directed attention fatigue Hence, there are two types of attention, distinguished in terms of the effort involved in their use and their changes in attentional shift: There are measures that can be taken in order to reduce the impact of DAF. These include reducing the number of distractions present in one's external en... |
465 | Maxwell's demon William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) was the first to use the word "demon" for Maxwell's concept, in the journal "Nature" in 1874, and implied that he intended the mediating, rather than malevolent, connotation of the word. The second law of thermodynamics ensures (through statistical probability) that two bod... |
466 | Cerebellar model articulation controller In the adjacent image, there are two inputs to the CMAC, represented as a 2D space. Two quantising functions have been used to divide this space with two overlapping grids (one shown in heavier lines). A single input is shown near the middle, and this has activated two memory ce... |
467 | Mycroft (software) Mycroft is a Free software voice assistant for GNU-based operating systems which have Linux kernel. It uses a natural language user interface. Its code was formerly copyleft, but is now under a lax license. Inspiration for Mycroft came when Ryan Sipes and Joshua Montgomery were visiting the Kansas Ci... |
468 | Syriac studies is the study of the Syriac language and Syriac Christianity. A specialist in is known as a Syriacist. Specifically, British, French, and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Syriac/Aramaic language and literature were commonly known by this designation, at a ti... |
469 | Morton number In fluid dynamics, the (Mo) is a dimensionless number used together with the Eötvös number or Bond number to characterize the shape of bubbles or drops moving in a surrounding fluid or continuous phase, "c". It is named after Rose Morton, who described it with W. L. Haberman in 1953. The is defined as whe... |
470 | Floor Floors using small ( and smaller) ceramic tiles generally use only an additional layer of plywood (if that) and substitute adhesive and substrate materials making do with both a flexible joints and semi-flexible mounting compounds and so are designed to withstand the greater flexing which large tiles cannot toler... |
471 | Developmental psychology The majority of a newborn infant's time is spent in sleep. At first, this sleep is evenly spread throughout the day and night, but after a couple of months, infants generally become diurnal. Infants can be seen to have six states, grouped into pairs: Infant perception is what a newborn can see,... |
472 | Benchmark (surveying) The term benchmark, or bench mark, originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the futur... |
473 | Finance charge In United States law, a finance charge is any fee representing the cost of credit, or the cost of borrowing. It is interest accrued on, and fees charged for, some forms of credit. It includes not only interest but other charges as well, such as financial transaction fees. Details regarding the federal de... |
474 | Hercules (Seneca) Lycus, having slain Creon and his sons, has established himself on the throne and governs the kingdom. He seeks to marry Megara, using every stratagem, and threatens violence in case she refuses. Hercules asks for the pardon of Phoebus and the rest of the Gods, that although having been commanded, he ... |
475 | International Marketing Review The is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Emerald Group Publishing. It was established in 1983. The editors-in-chief are Jeryl Whitelock (University of Bradford) and John Cadogan (University of Loughborough). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2009 i... |
476 | Gender mainstreaming More specifically, the INIM aims to institute in all sectors a system of gender-focus indicators and to achieve equal opportunity in all State body programming. In 1994, the INIM with 62 women's groups held discussions to mobilize their initiatives and form a bill of action. The discussions formed ... |
477 | Landauer's principle Owing to the fast dynamics and low "inertia" of the single spins used in the experiment, the researchers also showed how an erasure operation can be carried out at the lowest possible thermodynamic cost — that imposed by the Landauer principle — and at a high speed. can be understood to be a simple... |
478 | State collapse Christopher Booker describes a fantasy cycle of Wishful thinking in politics in which a 'dream stage' of optimism and expansion is followed by 'frustration' and 'nightmare' stages and a final 'explosion into reality'. Examples of state collapse through civil war include: the War of the Roses in 15th-cent... |
479 | Pharnavaz I of Iberia Pharnavaz I (; ) was a king of Kartli, an ancient Georgian kingdom known as Iberia in classical antiquity. "The Georgian Chronicles" credits him with being the first monarch founding the kingship of Kartli and the Pharnavazid dynasty, while other independent chronicles, such as the "The Conversion... |
480 | Prestressed concrete This provides many benefits to building structures: Some notable building structures constructed from prestressed concrete include: Sydney Opera House and World Tower, Sydney; St George Wharf Tower, London; CN Tower, Toronto; Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong; Oce... |
481 | Dark (broadcasting) A service can go dark for any number of reasons, including financial resources being drained to continue effective operation of the service as being of benefit to its community of license; abandonment for a different channel or to go cable-only; complicated technical adjustments involving radio ante... |
482 | Heroes (American TV series) com, it offers behind the scenes information, polls, trivia, and quizzes, as well as recent posts by Hana Gitelman. The features air once a week, and are designed to be viewed concurrently with that week's episode. Complete episodes of "Heroes" are available online, to US residents only, alo... |
483 | List of years in poetry This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order). These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry. |
484 | Print culture Thomas Jefferson was noted as saying, “The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a m... |
485 | Open sustainability innovation These quality management systems, however have a very big challenge moving into a more sustainable minded consumption world, because they have based their innovations on gradual continuous improvement, and they align their development with the status quo of the industry. This may prove to... |
486 | Einstellung effect Luchins and Luchins looked at the relationship between the intelligence quotient (IQ) and the Einstellung effects for the children in their original experiment. They found that there was a statistically insignificant negative relationship between the Einstellung Effect and Intelligence. In general, l... |
487 | Thomas S. Hinde Hinde wrote and published religious articles in many leading publications. Francis Asbury, one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, considered Hinde important to the church. He frequently met with him and mentioned him in his journals. Historian Lyman Draper s... |
488 | Infrastructure policy of Donald Trump The solar industry is currently one of the fastest growing in the United States, employing more than 250,000 people as of 2018. On one hand, these tariffs forced the cancellation or scaling down of many projects and restrict the ability of companies to recruit more workers. On the ... |
489 | Disk loading If the homogeneous slipstream far downstream of the disk has velocity formula_6, by conservation of momentum the total thrust formula_7 developed over the disk is equal to the rate of change of momentum, which assuming zero starting velocity is: By conservation of energy, the work done by the rotor must eq... |
490 | Science fiction Wells's "The Time Machine" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", warn about possible negative consequences. In 2001 the National Science Foundation conducted a survey on "Public Attitudes and Public Understanding: Science Fiction and Pseudoscience." It found that people who read or prefer science ficti... |
491 | Branch migration It is during this state that resolution will be optimal, allowing RuvC to bind to the junction. |
492 | Mobile phone features For a GSM phone, dual-band usually means 850 / 1900 MHz in the United States and Canada, 900 / 1800 MHz in Europe and most other countries. Tri-band means 850 / 1800 / 1900 MHz or 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz. Quad-band means 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz, also called a world phone, since it can work on an... |
493 | Margaret the Virgin One of these involved being swallowed by Satan in the shape of a dragon, from which she escaped alive when the cross she carried irritated the dragon's innards. The "Golden Legend" describes this last incident as "apocryphal and not to be taken seriously" (trans. Ryan, 1.369). As Saint Marina, she i... |
494 | Legal Act of the European Union Legal Acts of the European Union are laws which are adopted by the Institutions of the European Union in order to exercise the powers given to them by the EU Treaties. They come in five forms: regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions. Regulations and directives ca... |
495 | Patera In the material culture of classical antiquity, a phiale ( ) or patera () is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl. It often has a bulbous indentation ("omphalos", "bellybutton") in the center underside to facilitate holding it, in which case it is sometimes called a mesomphalic phiale. It typically has no ha... |
496 | Apophatic theology According to Carabine, there are two major points in the development of apophatic theology, namely the fusion of the Jewish tradition with Platonic philosophy in the writings of Philo, and the works of Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, who infused Christian thought with Neo-Platonic ideas. The Early C... |
497 | Epidemiology of typhoid fever The board promoted sanitary measures including latrine policy, disinfection, camp relocation, and water sterilization, but by far the most successful antityphoid method was vaccination, which became compulsory in June 1911 for all federal troops. In 1902, guests at mayoral banquets in Sout... |
498 | Subordination (finance) Subordination in banking and finance refers to the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets. Subordination is the process by which a creditor is placed in a lower priority for the collection of its debt from its debtor's assets than the priority the creditor prev... |
499 | Safety of journalists As of May 2017, the helpline handled a total of 563 cases since its launch six months earlier, with 63 per cent of calls received from women and 37 per cent from men. Research undertaken by Pew Research Center indicated that 73 per cent of adult internet users in the United States had seen someone... |
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