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500 | Goncourt Journal In more recent years Jacques Noiray called it "a modern "Comédie humaine" of the republic of letters", while according to another literary scholar, David Baguley, the Journal is "an immense machine for transforming lived experience into documentary form", to be used as raw material by the Goncourts whe... |
501 | Transgender people and military service This argument requires that transgender personnel be treated by the same level of medical care as all other personnel, in accordance with established medical practice. Experts argue that there is no empirical evidence that supports the argument that transgender people are unfit f... |
502 | Sensorium One revealing contrast is the thought of a former Russian on the matter: As David Howes explains: These sorts of insights were the impetus for the development of the burgeoning field of sensory anthropology, which seeks to understand other cultures from within their own unique sensoria. Anthropologists such a... |
503 | Age of Enlightenment Roy Porter argues that the reasons for this neglect were the assumptions that the movement was primarily French-inspired, that it was largely a-religious or anti-clerical, and that it stood in outspoken defiance to the established order. Porter admits that, after the 1720s, England could claim thin... |
504 | Tehran International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, 2010 The report said there was no specific evidence that Iran was seeking the ability to attack Europe and that "it is indeed difficult to imagine the circumstances in which Iran would do so." It added that if Iran did pursue this capability, it woul... |
505 | Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery The (CANTAB), originally developed at the University of Cambridge in the 1980s but now provided in a commercial capacity by Cambridge Cognition, is a computer-based cognitive assessment system consisting of a battery of neuropsychological tests, administered to subjec... |
506 | Ram Sharan Sharma He passed matriculation in 1937 and joined Patna College, where he studied for six years from intermediate to postgraduate classes. He did his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London under Professor A. L. Basham. His PhD thesis on the history of Sudras in Ancient Indi... |
507 | Equivalence principle " Tests of the weak equivalence principle are those that verify the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertial mass. An obvious test is dropping different objects, ideally in a vacuum environment, e.g., inside the Fallturm Bremen drop tower. See: Experiments are still being performed at the Un... |
508 | Freedom of religion in Belarus The New Life Church faced closure because authorities refused to register it at the cow barn it owned and wished to use for worship; its unregistered status made all its activities illegal. To protest a July 24, 2006, order by the Minsk City Economic Court to sell the church building to t... |
509 | History of Islam By some 200 (from 1193–1209) years later, the area up to the Ganges river had fallen. In sub-Saharan West Africa, Islam was established just after the year 1000. Muslim rulers were in Kanem starting from sometime between 1081 and 1097, with reports of a Muslim prince at the head of Gao as early as 1009... |
510 | Lucarne Each hoist accesses all of the floors beneath it, through their prominent doors. These doors often provide a modern indication of an old warehouse building's original purpose. These doors sometimes have an iron fold-down flap outside them, as a short loading step, giving clearance for the hoist away from the wa... |
511 | Radcliffe Camera Francis Atterbury, Dean of Christ Church, writing in December 1712 describes plans for a 90 ft room on the site of neighbouring Exeter College, and that the lower storey would be a library for Exeter College and the upper story Radcliffe's Library. Radcliffe also dedicated £100 a year to furnishing his... |
512 | Nick Bostrom ( ; ; born 10 March 1973) is a Swedish philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. In 2011, he founded the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, and ... |
513 | Value of life The first problem is known as the isolation of issues, where participants may give different values when asked to value something alone versus when they are asked to value multiple things. The order of how these issues are presented to people matters as well. Another potential issue is the “embedding effe... |
514 | Photoluminescence spectroscopy is a widely used technique for characterisation of the optical and electronic properties of semiconductors and molecules. In chemistry, it is more often referred to as fluorescence spectroscopy, but the instrumentation is the same. The relaxation processes can be studied using Time-resolv... |
515 | Closure (sociology) Social closure refers to the phenomenon by which groups maintain their resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. Closure is ubiquitous, being found in groups all over the world at all sizes and classes. Some examples of social closure include, “Access to private... |
516 | Le Dernier Homme By the time the book was published, de Grainville was dead, a suicide in February of that year. The first publication failed to attract any critical notice or sales, but was championed by Herbert Croft, who published a second edition in two volumes, in 1811. This second edition did garner the attention... |
517 | Leonid Sabsovich Leonid M. Sabsovich (Russian: Леонид Моисеевич Сабсович) was an urban planner and economist, most famous for his 'Urbanist' proposals during the 1929-30's in the Soviet Union (USSR) leading him to be considered the leading figure of Urbanist city planning movement in the Soviet Union. Sabsovich's Urban... |
518 | Stargate (device) The main "address" is invariably dialed first, and the last symbol is the "point of origin", representing the gate being used, which acts as the final "send button" trigger for the completion of the address sequence. As each symbol is dialed, the chevron is said to "engage" or "encode" and usually res... |
519 | Application-specific integrated circuit An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC ) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use. For example, a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficiency bitcoin miner is an ASIC. Appl... |
520 | The Lightning Process The program has also been used with chronic fatigue syndrome. There has been criticism of the cost of the three-day course. There has also been criticism of the claimed benefits (see also below). John Greensmith, of the British advocacy group ME Free For All, stated "We think their claims are extr... |
521 | Tanzi effect For example, the obligation to pay a tax on income takes place when income is earned. The obligation to pay a tax on sales occurs when an item subject to the sales tax is sold. The obligation to pay a tax on imports occurs when goods cross the frontier. All these taxable events establish a claim by the gov... |
522 | Near Eastern archaeology is a regional branch of the wider, global discipline of archaeology. It refers generally to the excavation and study of artifacts and material culture of the Near East from antiquity to the recent past. The description "Near Eastern" for this branch of archaeology is highly Eurocentric and Amer... |
523 | Y Gododdin () is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the Angles of Deira and Bernicia at a place named "Catraeth" in about AD 600. It is traditionally ascribed to the bard ... |
524 | Kalman filter In statistics and control theory, Kalman filtering, also known as linear quadratic estimation (LQE), is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, containing statistical noise and other inaccuracies, and produces estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than th... |
525 | Finnegans Wake While Part I of "Finnegans Wake" deals mostly with the parents HCE and ALP, Part II shifts that focus onto their children, Shem, Shaun and Issy. II.1 opens with a pantomime programme, which outlines, in relatively clear language, the identities and attributes of the book's main characters. The chapter th... |
526 | Business improvement district Some work has been made on creating a 5th BID in Saskatoon for the area of 33rd Street. It is estimated that there are over 400 BIDs in Canada but no count has been made. There are 8 business improvement districts in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Halifax Regional Municipality has pass... |
527 | Moral support If the decision to buy the food prevents progress of a goal, for example maintaining a healthy diet, and the person chooses to make the purchase regardless of this, then the feeling of guilt will taint the overall experience and enjoyment of the purchase. In the case of the third example, when one party i... |
528 | Lectures on History and General Policy Hartley's associationism, an expansion of John Locke's theories in "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1690, postulated that the human mind operated according to natural laws and that the most important law for the formation of the self was "associationism." For Hartley, assoc... |
529 | Sloped armour The cause for the increased protection of a certain point "at a given normal thickness" is the increased line-of-sight ("LOS") thickness of the armour, which is the thickness along the horizontal plane, along a line describing the oncoming projectile's general direction of travel. For a given thickness of... |
530 | Socialist Republic of Romania All these policies combined led Romanians to have the lowest standard of living in Europe, with the possible exception of Albania. Systematization () refers to the program of urban planning carried out under Ceaușescu's regime. After a visit to North Korea in 1971, Ceaușescu was impressed ... |
531 | Nick Baldwin A lightning bolt can carry up to one million volts in electricity. He was with his wife and two children at the time, and has no memory of the incident, and for two days after that. |
532 | Wilson current mirror Therefore, to keep the contribution of the threshold voltage term in equation (9) to a percent or less requires biasing the transistors with the gate-source voltage exceeding the threshold by several tenths of a volt. This has the subsidiary effect of lowering the contribution of the mirror transi... |
533 | Worm (web serial) Several authors have compared the story to Alan Moore's "Watchmen", as well as the character of Spider-Man and his themes of responsibility, although McCrae has stated in interviews that no one author has heavily influenced him. The title "Worm" has multiple potential meanings. It has been connected t... |
534 | Paradiso (Dante) The twenty-four bright lights revolve around Dante and Beatrice, singing of the Trinity, and Aquinas explains the surprising presence of King Solomon, who is placed here for kingly, rather than philosophical or mathematical wisdom (Cantos XIII and XIV): <poem> My words did not prevent your seeing clear... |
535 | Empathy-altruism Students who were listening to this particular interview were given a letter asking the student to share lecture notes and meet with her. The experimenters changed the level of empathy by telling one group to try to focus on how she was feeling (high empathy level) and the other group not to be concern... |
536 | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures The Mitre CVE database can be searched at the CVE List Search, and the NVD CVE database can be searched at Search CVE and CCE Vulnerability Database. CVE identifiers are intended for use with respect to identifying vulnerabilities: (CVE) is a dictionary of common names (i.e., CVE Id... |
537 | International child abduction in the United States If the mother is an Arab Muslim, judges will usually not grant her custody of children unless she is residing in Saudi Arabia, or the father is not a Muslim. All Saudi citizens are considered to be Muslim. Since Saudi women are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, cus... |
538 | MEED is used as a source of Middle East information by the US and British governments – Energy Information Administration, United States Congress and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The dedication made by Abdullah II of Jordan in 2007 demonstrates MEED's positive contribution to the Middle East for over 50... |
539 | Perkwunos "perkūnija", ("thunderstorm"). The name of Perkunos' weapon "*meld-n-" is attested by a group of cognates denoting "hammer" or "lightning" in the following traditions: Some scholars argue that the functions of the Luwian and Hittite weather gods Tarḫunz and Tarḫunna ultimately stem from those of Perkunos. Ana... |
540 | Mowag 4x4 armored reconnaissance vehicle (armored dummy) The Mowag 4x4 armored dummy is a target practice vehicle used by the armed forces of Switzerland. Originally designed as an armored reconnaissance vehicle, the armored dummy tank is based on a Mowag T1 4x4 chassis. It was used as a moving target for the armor "Wu... |
541 | Social media analytics If the data is believed to be sufficient for analysis, we need to build a data model. Developing a data model is a process or method that we use to organize data elements and standardize how the individual data elements relate to each other. This step is important because we want to run a compute... |
542 | Dicofol In the UK, the maximum number of treatments permitted is two per year for apples and hops, and two per crop for strawberries, protected crops and tomatoes. In 1980, an accident at the US Tower Chemical Company led to a release of dicofol into Lake Apopka in Florida. Ten years later Dr Guillette of Florida Unive... |
543 | 2000s energy crisis Petroleum prices fell below $35 in February 2009, but by May 2009 had risen back to mid-November 2008 levels around $55. The global economic downturn left oil-storage facilities with more oil than in any year since 1990, when Iraq's invasion of Kuwait upset the market. In early 2011, crude oil rebou... |
544 | Focus group Douglas Rushkoff argues that focus groups are often useless, and frequently cause more trouble than they are intended to solve, with focus groups often aiming to please rather than offering their own opinions or evaluations, and with data often cherry picked to support a foregone conclusion. Rushkoff cites ... |
545 | Richard Hofstadter It was a commercially successful (200,000 copies) critique of late nineteenth-century American capitalism and its ruthless "dog-eat-dog" economic competition and Social Darwinian self-justification. Conservative critics, such as Irwin G. Wylie and Robert C. Bannister, disagreed with his interpretatio... |
546 | Bibliography of the 1837–38 insurrections in Lower Canada The following is an incomplete bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada in the English and French languages, by publication date and document type. |
547 | Collateral assurance Of non-legal obligations, collateral assurance is a bond made over and beyond the deed itself, for the performance of an agreement, or covenant, made between two individuals; so called, for being external, and without the nature and essence of a covenant. A collateral assurance is separate but subs... |
548 | Archipelagic state An archipelagic state is a designation used for island countries that consist of an archipelago. The designation is legally defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. In various conferences, The Bahamas, Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines are the five original ... |
549 | Language game An alternate method of classifying language games is by their function. For example, Ubbi Dubbi, Bicycle, and all work by inserting a code syllable before the vowel in each syllable. Therefore, these could be classified in the Gibberish family. Also, Double Talk, Língua do Pê, Jeringonza, and B-Sprache al... |
550 | Multimedia telephony The 3GPP/NGN IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) multimedia telephony service (MMTel) is a global standard based on the IMS, offering converged, fixed and mobile real-time multimedia communication using the media capabilities such as voice, real-time video, text, file transfer and sharing of pictures, au... |
551 | Naïve physics or folk physics is the untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena. In the field of artificial intelligence the study of naïve physics is a part of the effort to formalize the common knowledge of human beings. Many ideas of folk physics are simplifications, misunderstandings, or misperceptions ... |
552 | Economizer While both are heat exchange devices, in a "boiler" the burning gases heat the water to produce steam to drive an engine, whether piston or turbine, whereas in an "economizer", some of the heat energy that would otherwise all be lost to the atmosphere is instead used to heat the water and/or air that will go... |
553 | Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others. It is a culturally defined phenomenon, and therefore what is considered polite in one culture can sometimes be quite rude or simply eccentric in another cultural context. While the goal of politeness is to refrain from beha... |
554 | Low-impact development (U.S. and Canada) It is an attempt for people in different disciplines to synergistically think about how to mitigate UHI effects, which is conducive to the generation of holistic policies, guidelines and regulations. Furthermore, the inclusion of UHI mitigation can be a driver to public particip... |
555 | Lviv On the other hand, Orthodox and Hasidic Jews tried to retain the old traditions. Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans in effect completely destroyed the centuries-old Jewish tradition of Lviv. Most synagogues were destroyed and the Jewish population forced first into a ghetto before being forcibly transported to con... |
556 | Clinical decision support system Three areas that can be addressed with the implementation of CDSS and Electronic Health Records (EHRs), are: CDSSs will be most beneficial in the future when healthcare facilities are "100% electronic" in terms of real-time patient information, thus simplifying the number of modificatio... |
557 | Abstraction Alfred Sohn-Rethel, asked "Can there be abstraction other than by thought?" He used the example of commodity abstraction to show that abstraction occurs in practice as people create systems of abstract exchange that extend beyond the immediate physicality of the object and yet have real and immediate conseq... |
558 | Île aux Basques is a Canadian island located in the lower estuary of the St. Lawrence River, about north of Trois-Pistoles, in Les Basques Regional County Municipality of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. The island is part of the municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. It is, since its acquisition by Société Prov... |
559 | Metal L-edge These simulations are then further compared to density functional theory (DFT) calculations to arrive at a final interpretation of the data and an accurate description of the electronic structure of the complex (Figure 4). In the case of iron L-edge, the excited state mixing of the metal "e" orbitals into ... |
560 | Atheism A 2010 survey published in "Encyclopædia Britannica" found that the non-religious made up about 9.6% of the world's population, and atheists about 2.0%, with a very large majority based in Asia. This figure did not include those who follow atheistic religions, such as some Buddhists. The average annual change f... |
561 | History of geography In the early 11th century, Avicenna hypothesized on the geological causes of mountains in "The Book of Healing" (1027). In mathematical geography, Persian Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, around 1025, was the first to describe a polar equi-azimuthal equidistant projection of the celestial sphere. He was also ... |
562 | Charles Phelps Smyth He published two books and over 300 research articles. He was an associate editor of the "Journal of Chemical Physics" during 1933–36 and 1952–54. The New York Section of the American Chemical Society awarded Smyth the William H. Nichols Medal in 1954. He was elected to the American Philosophical S... |
563 | Alice Ives Breed She was the first president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the YMCA at Lynn, an early vice-president of the Lynn Woman's Club, and the first officer to preside over the North Shore Club. She was a member of the Massachusetts State committee for correspondence of the General Federation of Women's Literary ... |
564 | Gamergate controversy The stemmed from a harassment campaign conducted primarily through the use of the hashtag #GamerGate. The controversy centered on issues of sexism and progressivism in video game culture. "Gamergate" is used as a blanket term for the controversy as well as for the harassment campaign and actions o... |
565 | Criticism of The Walt Disney Company For example, during a story meeting on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" he referred to the scene when the dwarfs pile on top of each other as an (expletive) "pile" and whilst casting "Song of the South" he used the term pickaninny. The supposed insensitivity Disney and some of his ... |
566 | ISO 10303 The ARM objects, their attributes and relations are mapped to the AIM so that it is possible to implement an AP. As APs got more and more complex formal methods were needed to document the ARM and so EXPRESS which was originally only developed for the AIM was also used for the ARM. Over time these ARM models ... |
567 | Dry Creek explosives depot Eleven of the historic buildings at Dry Creek, which were built from 1903 to 1907, are still in place and were listed on the South Australian Heritage Register on 15 December 1994 as No. 14521. Their condition was generally sound as of the year 2000, but the reinforcement bars of hollow concr... |
568 | Procedural rhetoric Expanding from the fundamental concepts of Procedural Rhetoric, where the core concepts deal with rhetoric as means of learning through rules and processes, there are extensions of other theories that contribute to the functionality of Procedural Rhetoric. In her article "Game-based Pedagogy in the ... |
569 | Oakley protocol The Oakley Key Determination Protocol is a key-agreement protocol that allows authenticated parties to exchange keying material across an insecure connection using the Diffie–Hellman key exchange algorithm. The protocol was proposed by Hilarie K. Orman in 1998, and formed the basis for the more widely u... |
570 | Actinide For example, under irradiation with reactor neutrons, uranium-238 partially converts to plutonium-239: |
571 | The Ghost of Skinny Jack (original title: Skinn Skerping – Hemskast av alla spöken i Småland) is a children's book written by Astrid Lindgren. A girl and her older brother are at their grandmother house, who always tells them ghost stories. They love to hear the story of Skinny Jack. Skinny Jack was a servant who loved... |
572 | Coccygeal glomus The coccygeal glomus (coccygeal gland or body; Luschka’s gland) is a vestigial structure placed in front of, or immediately below, the tip of the coccyx. It is about 2.5 mm. in diameter and is irregularly oval in shape; several smaller nodules are found around or near the main mass. It consists of irre... |
573 | Analysis of Western European colonialism and colonization Although he uses only two specific examples, Mamdani maintains that these countries are simply paradigms representing the broad institutional legacy colonialism left on the world. He argues that modern states have only accomplished "deracialization" and not demo... |
574 | Competitive Alternatives The 1997 edition compared costs of 8 business operations in 42 cities in 7 countries: Canada, France Germany, Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. The 1996 edition compared costs of 7 business operations in 23 cities in Canada and the United States. |
575 | Rolling cone motion For example, a cone having an apex angle of 120 degrees, while being rolled on a flat surface, will perform exactly two full rotations around its axis of symmetry before returning to its original position. One of the most practical applications of rolling cones is the use of tapered roller bearings ... |
576 | International Conference on Web Services The or ICWS denotes an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners focused on Web services. Since 2018 there are two ICWS events, one is sponsored by Services Society and Springer, and the other is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE ICWS). The IEEE I... |
577 | Afterlife This afterlife realm is a transient place where souls can choose to travel to other realms or other solar systems, it is the souls liberation into eternity, and is the realm that opens the doorway from our solar system into the cosmos. Mainstream Spiritualists postulate a series of seven realms that are not u... |
578 | History of Lorentz transformations In a thesis guided by Lie, Hermann Werner (1889) discussed this projective group by using the equation of a unit hypersphere as the surface of second degree (which was already given before by Killing (1887)), and also gave the corresponding infinitesimal projective transformations (Li... |
579 | Metallic hydrogen is a phase of hydrogen in which it behaves like an electrical conductor. This phase was predicted in 1935 on theoretical grounds by Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington. At high pressure and temperatures, metallic hydrogen can exist as a liquid rather than a solid, and researchers think it might ... |
580 | Ernst Guillemin As such, he spent about half of his time consulting with groups in the MIT Radiation Laboratory. He took over administrative responsibility of the Communications Option in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering, in 1941. During his career, Guillemin influenced many undergraduate and graduate stude... |
581 | Air ioniser Ionisers are distinct from ozone generators, although both devices operate in a similar way. Ionisers use electrostatically charged plates to produce positively or negatively charged gas ions (for instance N or O) that particulate matter sticks to in an effect similar to static electricity. Even the best io... |
582 | Resistbot When began, letters were faxed to officials' offices. However, as the program received more heavy usage, and officials started to unplug their fax machines, it switched to electronic delivery as a primary channel, with faxes, postal letters, and hand deliveries as secondary methods. The first states that had ... |
583 | Vinaya This collection of rules is recited by the gathered Sangha at the new and full moon. Rules are listed in descending order, from the most serious (four rules that entail expulsion), followed by five further categories of more minor offenses. Most traditions include an explicit listing of rules intended for recita... |
584 | Air raid shelter The types of shelters are: All shelters must have: Since 1998, Singapore has required all new houses and flats to have a shelter built to certain specifications. The Singapore Civil Defence Force rationalizes building such shelters in high-rise buildings by noting that weapon effects tend to be localiz... |
585 | G.L. Stocker Blacksmith Shop The G. L. Stocker Blacksmith Shop, in Gettysburg, South Dakota, was built in 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is located on Main St., two blocks south of U.S. Route 212. It has false front architecture. It has a main section and a addition to the r... |
586 | Vladimir Spirin His main area of research had been methodological problems of studying classic Chinese texts. He developed an original structural approach to the texts, and discovered various types of textological structures in the classic Chinese culture. His method of graphic description of textual structures, provid... |
587 | Vedanta The history of is divided into two periods: one prior to the composition of the "Brahma Sutras" and the other encompassing the schools that developed after the "Brahma Sutras" were written. Little is known of schools of existing before the composition of the "Brahma Sutras" (400–450 CE). It is clear that Badara... |
588 | Blue law Though typically unsuccessful (most state supreme courts upheld the constitutionality of Sunday laws), these constitutional challenges helped set a pattern by which subsequent moral minorities would seek to protect religious freedom and minority rights. The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landma... |
589 | Ramcharitmanas He tells the monkeys that he is sure that Sita is captive in Ashok Vatika in Lanka. The island is 400 miles away and requires someone who is able to jump the distance. Jambavan deduces that Hanuman is the only one capable of the task. The Pleasant Episode Hanuman takes Jambavan's suggestion and immediate... |
590 | Rossica Young Translators Prize The is an annual award given to an exceptional translation of a passage of contemporary Russian literature from Russian into English. It was inaugurated in 2009 by Academia Rossica. The distinction comes with a cash prize. The prize is awarded in London during the London Book Fair. Anyon... |
591 | Magnificence (history of ideas) In this controversy Piranesi supported the superiority of the architects and designers of the Roman Empire and demonstrated the indigenous roots of Roman culture, arguing that the Romans had been influenced more by the Etruscans than the Greeks. In his polemical treatise "Della Magnifice... |
592 | WNBC On its first day on the air, WNBT broadcast the world's first official television advertisement before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. The announcement for Bulova watches, for which the company paid anywhere from $4.00 to $9.00 (reports vary), displayed a WNBT test pattern m... |
593 | Closed system (control theory) Without this definite sense of signal circulation one is looking at a mere mesh in a network, and it makes no sense to speak of a feedback loop. A feedback loop can contain further feedback loops within itself, or it can provide a pathway inside another feedback loop, provided its 'input'... |
594 | McWhirtle A is a light verse form similar to a double dactyl, invented in 1989 by American poet Bruce Newling. McWhirtles share essentially the same form as double dactyls, but without the strict requirements, making them easier to write. Specifically: The looser form allows poets additional freedom to include addition... |
595 | Bankruptcy Law in the Republic of Ireland The proposed bill would, among other things, reduce the period of bankruptcy to 3 years and introduce three different non-judicial mechanisms to deal with debt. The full bill was expected to be published by the end of April 2012. On 29 June 2012 the Irish Government published t... |
596 | History of democracy Key characteristics of the "gana" seem to include a monarch, usually known by the name raja, and a deliberative assembly. The assembly met regularly. It discussed all major state decisions. At least in some states, attendance was open to all free men. This body also had full financial, administrati... |
597 | Rastafari Rastafari, also known as Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners,... |
598 | Hypothetical types of biochemistry The possible role of liquid ammonia as an alternative solvent for life is an idea that goes back at least to 1954, when J. B. S. Haldane raised the topic at a symposium about life's origin. Numerous chemical reactions are possible in an ammonia solution, and liquid ammonia has chemica... |
599 | Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park is a historical site preserving an 1895 alternating current (AC) hydroelectric power station—one of the first in the United States. Before the Folsom powerhouse was built nearly all electric power houses were using direct current (DC) generators powered by steam engines located wit... |
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