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War of ideas " During the Cold War, the United States and other Western powers developed a robust infrastructure for waging a "war of ideas" against the communist ideology being promulgated by the Soviet Union and its allies. During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, the so-called golden age of U.S. propaganda,...
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Music Encoding Initiative Verovio is a portable, lightweight library for rendering (MEI) files by transformation into Scalable Vector Graphics format, released under the LGPLv3 license.
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War of the currents As arc lighting systems spread so did stories of how the high voltages involved were killing people, usually unwary linemen, a strange new phenomenon that seemed to instantaneously strike a victim dead. One such story in 1881 of drunken dock worker dying after he grabbed a large electric dynamo led ...
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Mechanical biological treatment In the case of biodrying, the waste material undergoes a period of rapid heating through the action of aerobic microbes. During this partial composting stage the heat generated by the microbes result in rapid drying of the waste. These systems are often configured to produce a refuse-der...
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African humid period Potentially, the increased availability of water during the AHP may have facilitated the onset of phreatomagmatic eruptions such as maar formation in the Bayuda volcanic field, although the chronology of volcanic eruptions there is not well known enough to substantiate a link to the AHP. The large ...
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Cat café A cat café is a theme café whose attraction is cats that can be watched and played with. Patrons pay a cover fee, generally hourly, and thus cat cafés can be seen as a form of supervised indoor pet rental. "Cat café" has been officially recognized in the online edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English since...
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Lac operon In particular, it is determined whether LacZ and LacY are made even in the absence of IPTG (due to the "lactose repressor" produced by the mutant gene being non-functional). This experiment, in which genes or gene clusters are tested pairwise, is called a "complementation test". This test is illustrated in t...
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Little people (mythology) Little people have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Flores Island, Indonesia, and Native Americans. The Native peoples of North America told legends of a race of "little people" who lived...
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Virtual world language learning Tasks can be highly transactional, where the student is carrying out everyday tasks such as visiting the doctor at the Chinese Island of Monash University in Second Life. Incidental knowledge about the medical system in China and cultural information can also be gained at the same time. ...
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Ayutthaya Kingdom In Thailand Buddha relics were often housed in a vault in these structures, reflecting the belief that the Lord Buddha is a most significant being in having attained enlightenment and having shows the path to enlightenment to others. Three clothing styles were evident in the Ayutthaya period. Each sty...
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Day-year principle If "the hour" is taken to be 1/24th of a day, then, by the day-year principle, it would equate to 1/24 of a year i.e. 15 days. Since the battle of Constantinople lasted for several weeks, it is not possible to pin down the exact starting day of this 391-1/24-year prophecy, but if the formula is follo...
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Catherine Howard The contemporary Hans Holbein the Younger portrait of a woman in black (Toledo Museum of Art), was identified by Sir Lionel Cust in 1909 as Two copies of Holbein's original are extant: one at Hever Castle and another owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London. The portrait has long been associate...
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Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics) However, we cannot say that bats and monkeys are more closely related to one another than they are to whales, though the two have external testicles absent in whales, because we believe that the males in the last common ancestral species of the three had external testicles. However, th...
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Attachment theory and psychology of religion Studies on attachment and religion have been ambiguous with no clear findings. According to Hall, Fukujima and Delaney after an independent review of literature: "On the surface, it appears that the empirical literature to date presents a rather inconsistent picture." The sa...
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Kentucky Dam Kentucky Lake stretches southward for across Kentucky and most of the length of Tennessee to the base of Pickwick Landing Dam, near the Tennessee-Alabama line. It is within parts of Livingston, Marshall, Lyon, Calloway, and Trigg counties in Kentucky and parts of Humphreys, Benton, Decatur, Stewart, Carrol...
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University of Florida Center for African Studies For maps of Africa, see also the African Map Collection which offers maps dating from the 16th through the 21st centuries, including examples of work from the most important cartographers and representing some of the most important maps from the Age of Exploration to the...
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Ballad Ballads usually are heavily influenced by the regions in which they originate and use the common dialect of the people. Scotland's ballads in particular, both in theme and language, are strongly characterised by their distinctive tradition, even exhibiting some pre-Christian influences in the inclusion of supern...
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Tail risk Tail risk, sometimes called "fat tail risk," is the financial risk of an asset or portfolio of assets moving more than 3 standard deviations from its current price, above the risk of a normal distribution. Prudent asset managers are typically cautious with tail risk involving losses which could damage or ruin...
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RDX The was purified and processed for its intended use; recovery and reuse of some methanol and nitric acid also was carried out. The hexamine-nitration and purification plants were duplicated (i.e. twin-unit) to provide some insurance against loss of production due to fire, explosion, or air attack. The United Kingdo...
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Oxford Forum Celia Green, 'Hindrances to the progress of research' Celia Green, 'Freedom and the exceptional child' Charles McCreery, 'Perception and Hallucination: The Case for Continuity' Charles McCreery, 'Dreams and Psychosis: a New Look at an Old Hypothesis' Charles McCreery, 'The Chi-square test' Charles McCreery...
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Vodafone Group plc is a multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office is located in Newbury, Berkshire, England and its global headquarters is based in London, England. It predominantly operates services in the regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Among mobile operator groups globally, ranked...
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Tetramer assay They bind to class II MHC molecules, which are only expressed in professional antigen-presenting cells like dendritic cells or macrophages. Class II MHC molecules present extracellular antigens, allowing helper T-cells to detect bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Class II MHC tetramer use is becoming more c...
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Galor–Zeira model In contrast to the classical paradigm, which underlined the positive implications of inequality for capital formation and economic growth, Galor and Zeira’s hypothesis suggests that inequality has an adverse effect on human capital formation and economic development, in all but the very poor economies...
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Historical characters in the Southern Victory Series They did, and Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary, which had declared war on Serbia. The Great War followed. In 1917, Nicholas found himself facing a Red revolution, followed by a protracted civil war, which resulted in Russia backing out of the Great War. Ultimat...
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Liberty Bell Some wanted to repair it so it could sound at the Centennial Exposition being held in Philadelphia, but the idea was not adopted; the bell's custodians concluded that it was unlikely that the metal could be made into a bell that would have a pleasant sound, and that the crack had become part of the bell's ...
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Roll-to-roll processing A crucial issue for a roll-to-roll thin-film cell production system is the deposition rate of the microcrystalline layer, and this can be tackled using four approaches:
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Maximus of Moesia Maximus was a lieutenant or governor under Valens in Moesia, immediately prior to the Gothic Wars.
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Vishnu Sahasranama In this cosmic aspect, Vishnu is also called "Mahavishnu" (Great Vishnu). By an Advaitan interpretation, this notation is not surprising as followers of Advaita philosophy, in particular, Smartas believe that Vishnu and Shiva are the same and are hence different aspects of the one Supreme Being. "Oh ...
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Islamic banking and finance the sale of goods on a deferred payment basis. In Islamic finance, the "bai' muajjal" product also involves the price markup of a "murabahah" contract, and a "murabahah" product involves a "bai-muajjal" deferred payment. Thus the terms and are often used interchangeably, (according to Hans V...
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Sodom and Gomorrah Kugel, Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University suggests the story encompasses the sexual and non-sexual: the Sodomites were guilty of stinginess, inhospitality and sexual license, homo- and heterosexual in contrast to the generosity of Abraham, and Lot whose behavior in protecting ...
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Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who participated in or observed past events and whose memories and percepti...
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Religion and mythology At a "Consultation on the Relationship Between the Wesleyan Tradition and the Natural Sciences" in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 19, 1991, Dennis Bratcher presented a discussion of the adaptation of Near Eastern mythical thought by the Israelites. Bratcher argued that the Old Testament absorb...
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Norby The eighth book, "and Yobo's Great Adventure", finds and Jeff stranded in ancient Africa with Admiral Yobo. The ninth book, "and the Oldest Dragon", takes place almost entirely on the planet Jamya, which is being menaced by an attack from an intelligent cloud. The dragon in the title refers to the Dowager Dragon,...
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Flood Control Act of 1937 The (FCA 1937) was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 28, 1937, as Public Law 406. The act was a response to major flooding throughout the United States in the 1930s, culminating with the "Super Flood" of January 1937, the greatest...
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WXXM (data model) The WXXM Conceptual Model is a conceptual model of the meteorological domain. It describes the features and their properties (attributes and associations) within the domain. Therefore, it can be used as the logical basis for weather databases. The model is designed using the Unified Modelling Language...
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Storytelling This is because everyone in the community can add their own touch and perspective to the narrative collaboratively – both individual and culturally shared perspectives have a place in the co-creation of the story. Oral storytelling in indigenous communities differs from other forms of stories because they ...
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Imperialism The internationalist tendencies of the early revolution would be abandoned until they returned in the framework of a client state in competition with the Americans during the Cold War. In the post-Stalin period in the late 1950s, the new political leader Nikita Khrushchev put pressure on the Soviet-American...
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Genetically modified food 6μg/g of the carotenoids, with further development increasing this 23 times. In 2018 it gained its first approvals for use as food. As of December 2017, genetically modified wheat has been evaluated in field trials, but has not been released commercially. Starch or amylum is a polysaccharide p...
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Buddhist studies Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism. The term Buddhology was coined in the early 20th-century by Estlin Carpenter – a Unitarian minister, to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Buddha, and doctrines of a Buddha", but the terms Buddhology and are ge...
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Data definition language The typical usage is simply: For example, the command to drop a table named employees is: DROP TABLE employees; The "DROP" statement is distinct from the "DELETE" and "TRUNCATE" statements, in that "DELETE" and "TRUNCATE" do not remove the table itself. For example, a "DELETE" statement might d...
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Ian Hughes (epredator) Ian Hughes, also known as epredator, (born 30 or 31 August 1967 in Norfolk, England) is a British metaverse evangelist and Television Personality. In 2006, he set leading set of like-minded individuals and subsequently many thousands of colleagues at IBM into virtual worlds like Second Life, and ...
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Grandmaster's Palace (Valletta) The palace is built around two courtyards, which are now known as Neptune's Courtyard and Prince Alfred's Courtyard. In 1712 Romano Carapecchia designed the "Perellos fountain", originally dominating the courtyard under the loggias, but since the British period became hidden from the mai...
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Odyssey "A True Story", written by Lucian of Samosata in the 2nd century AD, is a satire on the "Odyssey" and on ancient travel tales, describing a journey sailing westward, beyond the Pillars of Hercules and to the Moon, the first known text that could be called science fiction. James Joyce's modernist novel "Ulysses"...
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Hurro-Urartian languages The "Old Hurrian" variety is known from some early royal inscriptions and from religious and literary texts, especially from Hittite centres. Urartian is attested from the late 9th century BC to the late 7th century BC as the official written language of the state of Urartu and was probably spo...
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Malinchism In Mexican popular culture, this theme plays out with Malinche often portrayed as both the deceiver and the deceived. In theatrical productions, she is sometimes portrayed as a victim of conquest, and sometimes the manufacturer of her own destiny. She is represented in art as a figure showing women's inborn ...
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The Tribe of Witches The second chapter, entitled "The Deity and the Landscape", looks at the various shrines and temples from both the Pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age that have been archaeologically identified within the "Dobunni" region. Using etymological evidence, he puts forward propositions for the existence of prev...
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Rubeus Hagrid In one episode of the second series of "Tracey Ullman's State of the Union", Tracey Ullman parodies Rowling as bossy and very keen on keeping her creations copyrighted, believing a hobo is impersonating Hagrid. Hagrid makes an appearance in the theme park attraction Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ...
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Textbook When students resell their textbooks during campus “buyback” periods, these textbooks are often sold into the national used textbook distribution chain. If a textbook is not going to be used on campus for the next semester of courses then many times the college bookstore will sell that book to a national used ...
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is a 1989 memoir by Le Ly Hayslip about her childhood during the Vietnam War, her escape to the United States, and her return to visit Vietnam 16 years later. The Oliver Stone film "Heaven & Earth" was based on the memoir. The story began during Hayslip's childhood in a small villag...
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Cheating in poker Collusion in online poker is relatively easy and much more difficult to immediately spot if executed well. Cheaters can engage in telephone calls or instant messaging, discussing their cards, since nobody can see them. Sometimes one person may be using two or more computers to play multiple hands at t...
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Christianity and pandeism " Christian reconstructionist Rousas John Rushdoony sharply criticized the Catholic Church in his 1971 "The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy", asserting, “The position of Pope Paul came close to being a pan-Deism, and pan-Deism is the logical development of the...
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Professional services network There is no real limit of what can be accomplished through a network when the network and its membership work in combination with each other. This collaboration is at the heart of the network. Networks do not practice a profession or provide the services that their members provide to their...
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Inca Empire This approval was received as detailed in the following quote: "In July 1529 the Queen of Spain signed a charter allowing Pizarro to conquer the Incas. Pizarro was named governor and captain of all conquests in Peru, or New Castile, as the Spanish now called the land." When the conquistadors returned to Per...
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Culcheth Laboratories was a British metallurgical and nuclear research institute that researched the structural design of nuclear reactors and reactor pressure vessels in Culcheth, Cheshire, then in south Lancashire and now in the borough of Warrington. The Reactor Materials Laboratory was established at Culcheth in 19...
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Ganying The most commonly given (and copied) meanings are "respond; response" and "electromagnetic induction". The history of "ganying" spans over two millennia, going from an ancient cosmological theory to modern scientific terminology. Ancient texts use string resonance or sympathetic vibration between paired Chinese...
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Narcissus in culture The slopes around Montreux, Switzerland and its associated riviera come alive with blooms each May ("May Snow"), and are associated with the Narcissi Festival. However, the narcissi are now considered threatened. Festivals are held in many other countries and regions including Fribourg (Switzerland...
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Auxology Auxology,(from Greek , "auxō", or , "auxanō", "grow"; and , "-logia"), is a meta-term covering the study of all aspects of human physical growth. (Although, it is also fundamental of biology.) is a multi-disciplinary science involving health sciences/medicine (pediatrics, general practice, endocrinology, neuro...
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Knowledge divide While knowledge has become essential for all societies due to the growth of new technologies, the increase of mass media information continues to facilitate the knowledge divide between those with educational differences . According to UNESCO and the World Bank, knowledge gaps between nations may occur...
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FutureGen was a project to demonstrate capture and sequestration of waste carbon dioxide from a coal-fired electrical generating station. The project (renamed 2.0) was retrofitting a shuttered coal-fired power plant in Meredosia, Illinois, with oxy-combustion generators. The waste CO would be piped approximately to be ...
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Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016) The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, said on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the Syrian Arab Army in August 2012, "the army is engaged in a crucial and heroic battle ... on which the destiny of the nation and its people rests ..." After gaining nearly complete control of eastern A...
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Rockex Rockex, or Telekrypton, was an offline one-time tape Vernam cipher machine known to have been used by Britain and Canada from 1943. It was developed by Canadian electrical engineer Benjamin deForest Bayly, working during the war for British Security Coordination. "Rockex" was named after the Rockefeller Center, ...
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Superfluid helium-4 roughly three times the classical diameter of helium atom), suggesting the unusual hydrodynamic properties of He arise at larger scale than in the classical liquid helium. The equation of motion for the superfluid component, in a somewhat simplified form, is given by Newton's law The mass "M" is the...
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Post-industrial society Much like the demographic transition model, this prediction does not entertain the idea of an Eastern or other alternative models of transitional development. When historians and sociologists considered the revolution that followed the agricultural society they did not call it a "post-agricultur...
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Index of logic articles c -- Non-monotonic logic -- Non-rigid designator -- Non sequitur (logic) -- Noneism -- Nonfirstorderizability -- Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic -- Normal form (natural deduction) -- Novum Organum -- Nyaya -- Nyāya Sūtras -- Object language -- Object of the mind -- Object theory -- Occam's...
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American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Published monthly, JOEH provides a written medium for the communication of ideas, methods, processes, and research in the areas of occupational, industrial, and environmental hygiene; exposure assessment; engineering controls; occupational and environmental epid...
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Kunsthalle Bremen The is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded several more times, most notably in 2011. Since 1977, the building has been designated a Kultu...
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Three-age system He intends to use archaeology and geology to "draw aside the veil" covering the situations of the peoples mentioned in proto-historic documents, such as Caesar's "Commentaries" and the "Agricola" of Tacitus. Adopting Lyell's scheme of the Tertiary, he divides Pleistocene into Early, Mid- and Late. Only...
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House The "square metres" figure of a house in Europe reports the area of the walls enclosing the home, and thus includes any attached garage and non-living spaces. The number of floors or levels making up the house can affect the square footage of a home. Humans often build houses for domestic or wild animals, often r...
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Time clock Software based time and attendance systems are similar to paper-based systems, but they rely on computers and check-in terminals. They are backed up with software that can be integrated with the human resources department and in some cases payroll software. These types of systems are becoming more popular bu...
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Crossover effects In both the a- and b-sentences, the order of the wh-expression and the coindexed pronoun is the same, the wh-expression preceding the pronoun. But only the reading indicated with the a-sentences is (fully) possible. The relevant difference is that in the b-sentences, the wh-expression appears to have ...
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Ibn Khaldun While lived after St Thomas Aquinas, Schumpeter makes only passing references to Khaldun, and excludes Khaldun's predecessors. However, modern historians have recognized the contributions of and many of his predecessors. Modern historians have also been complimentary in their analysis of Ibn Khaldun's works...
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Otium Idleness ("desidia") had derogatory implications and unqualified "otium" was a problem for Cicero's elite group of followers. Its break away from civic affairs contrasted with "negotia publica", participation in civic affairs of the republican aristocracy. To distinguish between plain "idleness" and aristocratic ...
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Globalization Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily a...
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Emergency exit Older building code in Canada required red exit signs, but no new installation is allowed. Fire fighters have cited overzealous guards who told people during a fire that they are not allowed to use emergency exits. The practice is actually quite common in the absence of fires, as well. Some skyscrapers h...
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Juvenile (organism) A juvenile is an individual organism that has not yet reached its adult form, sexual maturity or size. Juveniles can look very different from the adult form, particularly in colour. In many organisms the juvenile has a different name from the adult (see also List of animal names). Some organisms rea...
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Concept-driven strategy That is, it was going to use the concept of 'customer creation' to coordinate and organise the cognition or mindset of those that worked for the organisation. This was why the corporation existed. Having one concept is now thought to be insufficient. George Armitage Miller's modified The Magical...
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F. Gordon A. Stone Annual Stone Symposiums are also held at Baylor University in his honor.
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Ioliomics is a research discipline dealing with the studies of ions in liquids (or liquid phases) and stipulated with fundamental differences of ionic interactions. The name is a combination of IOns, LIquids and -OMICS. covers a broad research area concerning structure, properties and applications of ions involved in v...
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Deconvolution In physical measurements, the situation is usually closer to In this case "ε" is noise that has entered our recorded signal. If we assume that a noisy signal or image is noiseless when we try to make a statistical estimate of "g", our estimate will be incorrect. In turn, our estimate of "ƒ" will also be i...
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Whole genome sequencing In research, whole-genome sequencing can be used in a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) - a project aiming to determine the genetic variant or variants associated with a disease or some other phenotype. In 2009, Illumina released its first whole genome sequencers that were approved for clinic...
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Shevi'it (tractate) Gathering and processing produce that grows of its own accord during the year is regulated but can be eaten by the owner of the land, servants, and guests, as well as the poor – the fields must be made accessible for anyone to take the produce, and once the produce is acquired, it is governed by spe...
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Concreteness training (CNT) is the repeated practice of cognitive skills to create habitual behaviors in order to help reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms for those suffering from the disorder of depression. People suffering from depression have a tendency towards unhelpful abstract thinking and negative thoughts, s...
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Mold health issues Despite lower respiratory effects among all children, there was a significant difference in health outcomes between children with pre-existing conditions and children without. Children with pre-existing conditions were at greater risk that can likely be attributed to the greater disruption of care in...
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Evaporative cooler Passive evaporative cooling techniques in buildings have been a feature of desert architecture for centuries, but Western acceptance, study, innovation, and commercial application is all relatively recent. In 1974, William H. Goettl noticed how evaporative cooling technology works in arid climates, s...
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Index of law articles " – "et cetera" – "et seq" – Eternity clause Ethical calculus – Ethical code – Ethics – Ethics in religion – Ethnic cleansing – EU Directive 2010/63/EU – European Convention on Human Rights – European Court of Human Rights – European Court of Justice – European Patent Convention – European Patent ...
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Coast Guard City A is a United States municipality designated as such by the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard on application of the local civilian government. It is an honorary designation intended to recognize communities of special importance to the U.S. Coast Guard. Designation as a is made by the Command...
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Criticism of Confucius Institutes It was titled "The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" (which is the Chinese official name "Kangmeiyuanchao zhanzheng" 抗美援朝战争 for "Korean War) and summarized the Korean War with negative historical revisionism. Specifically, the film "declares that the Chinese were provoked into...
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Cold-Food Powder Obringer (1995:216–217) classifies 52 symptoms described by Huangfu Mi. Obringer (1995:217) notes that acute or chronic arsenic poisoning can cause many of these symptoms: "abdominal pains, diarrhea, nasal and ocular congestion, cutaneous disorders, extremities pains, vision troubles (in relation, we k...
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Contact (1997 American film) At the end of the film, Arroway is put into a position that she had traditionally viewed with skepticism and contempt: that of believing something with complete certainty, despite being unable to prove it in the face of not only widespread incredulity and skepticism (which she admits that a...
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Mécanique analytique (1788–89) is a two volume French treatise on analytical mechanics, written by Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and published 101 years following Isaac Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica". It consolidated into one unified and harmonious system, the scattered developments of contributors suc...
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Cyanide fishing is a method of collecting live fish mainly for use in aquariums, which involves spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into the desired fish's habitat in order to stun the fish. The practice hurts not only the target population, but also many other marine organisms, including coral and coral reefs. is practi...
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Shame Table Two: Table two shows that the shame-prone participants are more prone to anger than non-shame-prone participants but are also be more likely to have unconstructive actions with their anger. This goes for all ages which would be eights years old all the way to adulthood. It was clear that shame-prone individ...
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Productivity model PPPR is the abbreviation for the following function: "Profitability = f (Productivity, Price Recovery)" In this model, the variables of profitability are productivity and price recovery. Only the productivity is a variable of the production function. The model lacks the variable of volume, and for th...
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H. G. Wells "The Island of Doctor Moreau" sees a shipwrecked man left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The earliest depiction of uplift, the novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral respons...
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History of the Jews in Poland There are two rabbis serving the Polish Jewish community, several Jewish schools and associated summer camps as well as several periodical and book series sponsored by the above foundations. Jewish studies programs are offered at major universities, such as Warsaw University and the Jagiel...
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Lèse-majesté " He later added, "But the King "can" do wrong", in reference to those he was appealing to not to overlook his human nature. Under the NCPO junta which overthrew the democratic regime in May 2014, charges of lèse-majesté have increased significantly, especially against the opponents of the junta. is now se...
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Isaac Newton's occult studies In a separate manuscript, Isaac Newton paraphrases Revelation 21 and 22 and relates the post 2060 events by writing: For Newton's view of 2016 according to his contemporaries, see Religious views of Isaac Newton Isaac Newton wrote extensively upon the historical topic of chronology. In 172...
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Diode-connected transistor A diode-connected transistor is a method of creating a two-terminal rectifying device (a diode) out of a three-terminal transistor. A characteristic of diode-connected transistors is that they are always in the saturation region for metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs)...
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Westford Knight "Westford Knight" is the name given to a pattern, variously interpreted as a carving or a natural feature, or a combination of both, located on a glacial boulder (also known as the Sinclair Rock) in Westford, Massachusetts in the United States. It is notable for being the subject of popular or pseudohis...
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Roosevelt Arch The is a rusticated triumphal arch at the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Montana, United States. Constructed under the supervision of the US Army at Fort Yellowstone, its cornerstone was laid down by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. The top of the arch is inscribed with a q...