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Nuclear
Nuclear may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21971 |
NSAP address
A Network Service Access Point address (NSAP address), defined in ISO/IEC 8348, is an identifying label for a Service Access Point (SAP) used in OSI networking.
These are roughly comparable to IP addresses used in the Internet Protocol; they can specify a piece of equipment connected to an Asynchronous T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21974 |
American submarine NR-1
Deep Submergence Vessel "NR-1" was a unique United States Navy (USN) nuclear-powered ocean engineering and research submarine, built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics at Groton, Connecticut. "NR-1" was launched on 25 January 1969, completed initial sea trials 19 August 1969, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21976 |
Neo Geo Pocket
The Neo Geo Pocket is a monochrome handheld game console released by SNK. It was the company's first handheld system and is part of the Neo Geo family. It debuted in Japan in late 1998 but never saw an American release, being exclusive to Japan, Asia and Europe.
The Neo Geo Pocket is considered to be a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21977 |
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician. A member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992.
Kinnoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21978 |
Netscape
Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an independent American computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California and then Dulles, Virginia. Its Netscape web browser was once dominant but lost to Internet Explorer and other competitors in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21979 |
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador () is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it is composed of the insular region of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador to the northwest, with a combined area of . In 2018, the province's population was estimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21980 |
New Oxford American Dictionary
The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press.
"NOAD" is based upon the "New Oxford Dictionary of English" ("NODE"), published in the United Kingdom in 1998, although with substanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21981 |
New Latin
New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin)
was a revival in the use of Latin in original, scholarly, and scientific works between 1375 and 1900. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy and international scientific vocabulary, draws extensively from New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21983 |
Naive Set Theory (book)
Naive Set Theory is a mathematics textbook by Paul Halmos providing an undergraduate introduction to set theory. Originally published by "Van Nostrand" in 1960, it was reprinted in the Springer-Verlag Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics series in 1974.
While the title states that it is naive, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21986 |
Nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation is a process by which molecular nitrogen in the air is converted into ammonia () or related nitrogenous compounds in soil. Atmospheric nitrogen is molecular dinitrogen, a relatively nonreactive molecule that is metabolically useless to all but a few microorganisms. Biological nitrog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21989 |
Navigation research
Whereas originally the term Navigation applies to the process of directing a ship to a destination, Navigation research deals with fundamental aspects of navigation in general. It can be defined as "The process of determining and maintaining a course or trajectory to a goal location" (Franz, Mallot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21994 |
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He published 34 novels, over 350 short st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21995 |
Nomenklatura
The nomenklatura (; ) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in the bureaucracy, running all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21999 |
Neural Darwinism
Neural Darwinism, a large scale theory of brain function by Gerald Edelman, was initially published in 1978, in a book called "The Mindful Brain" (MIT Press). It was extended and published in the 1987 book "Neural Darwinism – The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection".
In 1972, Edelman was awarded the N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22000 |
Neil Peart
Neil Ellwood Peart OC (; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian musician, songwriter, and author, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. Peart received numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the "Modern Drummer" Readers Poll Hal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22003 |
North Atlantic Treaty
The North Atlantic Treaty, also referred to as the Washington Treaty, is the treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. on 4 April 1949.
The treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. on 4 April... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22007 |
Nitronium ion
The nitronium ion, , is a cation. It is an onium ion because of its tetravalent nitrogen atom and +1 charge, similar in that regard to ammonium. It is created by the removal of an electron from the paramagnetic nitrogen dioxide molecule, or the protonation of nitric acid (with removal of H2O).
It is sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22009 |
Neo Geo (system)
The , stylised as NEO•GEO, also written as NEOGEO, is a cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation. It was the first system in SNK's Neo Geo family. The Neo Geo was marketed as 24-bit; its CPU i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22011 |
Neo Geo CD
The is the second home video game console of SNK Corporation's Neo Geo family, released in September 9, 1994, four years after its cartridge-based equivalent. This is the same platform, converted to the cheaper CD format retailing at $49 to $79 per title, compared to the $300 cartridges. The system was orig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22012 |
Neopets
Neopets (originally stylized NeoPets," and currently neopets") is a virtual pet website. Users can own virtual pets ("Neopets"), and buy virtual items for them using one of two virtual currencies. One currency, called Neopoints, can be earned within the site, and the other, Neocash, can either be purchased wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22015 |
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The city is the county seat of Davidson County and is located on the Cumberland River. It is the 23rd most-populous city in the United States.
Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the Ameri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22018 |
Novial
Novial is a constructed international auxiliary language (IAL) for universal communication between speakers of different native languages. It was devised by Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist who had been involved in the Ido movement, and later in the development of Interlingua.
Its vocabulary is based largely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22024 |
Musical note
In music, a note is a symbol denoting a musical sound. In English usage a note is also the sound itself.
Notes can represent the pitch and duration of a sound in musical notation. A note can also represent a pitch class.
Notes are the building blocks of much written music: discretizations of musical phe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22026 |
Nephrology
Nephrology (from Greek" nephros" "kidney", combined with the suffix "-logy", "the study of") is a specialty of medicine and pediatric medicine focused on the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function and kidney disease, the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22028 |
Native Esperanto speakers
Native Esperanto speakers (Esperanto: "denaskuloj" or "denaskaj esperantistoj") are people who have acquired Esperanto as one of their native languages. As of 1996, there were 350 or so attested cases of families with native Esperanto speakers. Estimates from associations indicate that there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22031 |
Nicaragua v. United States
The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America (1986) was a case where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Sandinistas and by mining Nicaragua's harbors.
The Court had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22033 |
No-cloning theorem
In physics, the no-cloning theorem states that it is impossible to create an identical copy of an arbitrary unknown quantum state. This no-go theorem of quantum mechanics was articulated by James Park in proving the impossibility of a simple perfect non-disturbing measurement scheme, in 1970 and red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22035 |
Norman Hackerman
Norman Hackerman (March 2, 1912 – June 16, 2007) was an American chemist, professor, and academic administrator who served as the 18th President of the University of Texas at Austin (1967–1970) and later as the 4th President of Rice University (1970–1985). He was an internationally known expert in met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22036 |
N ray
N rays (or N-rays) were a hypothesized form of radiation, described by Prosper-René Blondlot in 1903, and initially confirmed by others, but subsequently found to be illusory.
The N ray affair occurred shortly after a series of major breakthroughs in experimental physics. Victor Schumann discovered vacuum ultra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22037 |
Nikolai Kuznetsov (admiral)
Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov (; 24 July 1904 – 6 December 1974) was a Soviet naval officer who achieved the rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union and served as People's Commissar of the Navy during the Second World War. The N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy and the Russian aircraft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22039 |
Nuon (DVD technology)
Nuon is a technology developed by VM Labs that adds features to a DVD player. In addition to viewing DVDs, one can play 3D video games and use enhanced DVD navigational tools such as zoom and smooth scanning of DVD playback. One could also play CDs while the Nuon graphics processor generates sync... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22042 |
Cuisine of New England
New England cuisine is an American cuisine which originated in the New England region of the United States, and traces its roots to English cuisine. It is characterized by extensive use of seafood and dairy products, which results from its historical reliance on its seaports and fishing industry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22048 |
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony Award nominations than any other writer.
Simon g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22049 |
North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; , TLCAN; , ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994, and superseded the 1988 Canada–United States Free ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22050 |
National Lampoon (magazine)
National Lampoon was an American humor magazine which ran from 1970 to 1998. The magazine started out as a spinoff from the "Harvard Lampoon". "National Lampoon" magazine reached its height of popularity and critical acclaim during the 1970s, when it had a far-reaching effect on American hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22051 |
Non-disclosure agreement
A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also known as a confidentiality agreement (CA), confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), proprietary information agreement (PIA) or secrecy agreement (SA), is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or info... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22052 |
Network effect
A network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the effect described in economics and business that an additional user of goods or services has on the value of that product to others. When a network effect is present, the value of a product or service increases ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22053 |
Nuclear fission
In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei. The fission process often produces gamma photons, and releases a very large amount of energy even by the energe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22054 |
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series "The Sandman" and novels "Stardust", "American Gods", "Coraline", and "The G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22055 |
Public speaking
Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience. Public speaking is commonly understood as formal, face-to-face, speaking of a single person to a group of listeners. However, due to the evolution of public speaking, it is modernly viewed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25084 |
Philip II of France
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), known as Philip Augustus (), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French monarch to style himself "King of France". The son of King Louis VII and his thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25093 |
Peripheral nervous system
The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is one of two components that make up the nervous system of bilateral animals, with the other part being the central nervous system (CNS). The PNS consists of the nerves and ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord. The main function of the PNS is to conne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25096 |
Phase velocity
The phase velocity of a wave is the rate at which the wave propagates in some medium. This is the velocity at which the phase of any one frequency component of the wave travels. For such a component, any given phase of the wave (for example, the crest) will appear to travel at the phase velocity. The ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25098 |
Pitot tube
A pitot ( ) tube, also known as pitot probe, is a flow measurement device used to measure fluid flow velocity. The pitot tube was invented by the French engineer Henri Pitot in the early 18th century and was modified to its modern form in the mid-19th century by French scientist Henry Darcy. It is widely us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25100 |
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. A population of about 300,286 (2019) residents live within the city limits, making it the 66th-largest city in the U.S. and the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania behind Philadelphi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25101 |
Psychohistory
Psychohistory is an amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences and the humanities. It examines the "why" of history, especially the difference between stated intention and actual behavior. Psychobiography, childhood, group dynamics, mechanisms of psychic defense, dreams, and creativity a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25102 |
Polio
Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. In about 0.5 percent of cases, there is muscle weakness resulting in an inability to move. This can occur over a few hours to a few days. The weakness most often involves the legs, but may less commonly involve the muscles of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25107 |
Public limited company
A public limited company (legally abbreviated to PLC) is a type of public company under United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland. It is a limited liability company whose shares may be freely sold and traded to the public (although a PLC may also be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25109 |
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, officially Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF), is a United States Navy shipyard covering 179 acres (0.7 km²) on Puget Sound at Bremerton, Washington in uninterrupted use since its establishment in 1891; it has also been k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25117 |
Poeciliidae
The Poeciliidae are a family of freshwater fishes of the order Cyprinodontiformes, the tooth-carps, and include well-known live-bearing aquarium fish, such as the guppy, molly, platy, and swordtail. The original distribution of the family was the southeastern United States to north of Río de la Plata, Arge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25119 |
Polar coordinate system
In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction. The reference point (analogous to the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system) is called ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25120 |
Polymath
A polymath (, "", "having learned much"; Latin: "homo universalis", "universal man") is an individual whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. The earliest recorded use of the term in English is from 1624, in the second ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25121 |
PowerBook
The PowerBook (known as Macintosh PowerBook before 1997) is a family of Macintosh laptop computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1991 to 2006. During its lifetime, the PowerBook went through several major revisions and redesigns, often being the first to incorporate features th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25122 |
Phil Ochs
Philip David Ochs (; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and distinctive voice. He wrote hundreds of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25123 |
Prayer wheel
A prayer wheel is a cylindrical wheel () on a spindle made from metal, wood, stone, leather or coarse cotton.
Traditionally, a mantra is written in Newari language of Nepal, on the outside of the wheel. The mantra Om mani padme hum is most commonly used, but other mantras may be used as well.
Also some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25125 |
Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the face or address-side of any item of mail—an envelope or other po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25126 |
Ponte Vecchio
The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge", ) is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy. It is noted for the shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers, tanners, and farmers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25130 |
Peenemünde Army Research Center
The Peenemünde Army Research Centre (, HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office ("Heereswaffenamt"). Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket. The works wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25134 |
Padstow
Padstow (; ) is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately northwest of Wadebridge, northwest of Bodmin and northeast of Newquay. The population of Padstow civil parish was 3,162 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25135 |
Dakar Rally
The Dakar Rally (or simply "The Dakar"; formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally") is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were staged from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania, which led to the cance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25136 |
Perception
Perception (from the Latin "perceptio", meaning gathering or receiving) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.
All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25140 |
Pitch of brass instruments
The pitch of a brass instrument corresponds to the lowest playable resonance frequency of the open instrument. The combined resonances resemble a harmonic series. The fundamental frequency of the harmonic series can be varied by adjusting the length of the tubing using the instrument's valve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25141 |
Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae. Pigs include domestic pigs and their ancestor, the common Eurasian wild boar ("Sus scrofa"), along with other species. Pigs, like all suids, are native to the Eurasian and African continents, ranging from Europe to the Pacif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25142 |
Packet radio
Packet radio is a digital radio communications mode used to send packets of data. Packet radio uses packet switching to transmit datagrams. This is very similar to how packets of data are transferred between nodes on the Internet. Packet radio can be used to transmit data long distances.
Packet radio is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25144 |
Pizza cheese
Pizza cheese encompasses several varieties and types of cheeses and dairy products that are designed and manufactured for use specifically on pizza. These include processed and modified cheese such as mozzarella-like processed cheeses and mozzarella variants. The term can also refer to any type of cheese ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25146 |
Peggy Lee
Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee creat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25147 |
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare and often fatal viral disease characterized by progressive damage ("-pathy") or inflammation of the white matter ("leuko-") of the brain ("-encephalo-") at multiple locations ("multifocal"). It is caused by the JC vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25160 |
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), previously known as pseudotumor cerebri and benign intracranial hypertension, is a condition characterized by increased intracranial pressure (pressure around the brain) without a detectable cause. The main symptoms are headache, vision p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25161 |
Plymouth Hoe
Plymouth Hoe, referred to locally as the Hoe, is a large south-facing open public space in the English coastal city of Plymouth. The Hoe is adjacent to and above the low limestone cliffs that form the seafront and it commands views of Plymouth Sound, Drake's Island, and across the Hamoaze to Mount Edgcumb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25162 |
Plymouth Sound
Plymouth Sound, or locally just The Sound, is a bay on the English Channel at Plymouth in England.
Its southwest and southeast corners are Penlee Point in Cornwall and Wembury Point in Devon, a distance of about 3 nautical miles (6 km). Its northern limit is Plymouth Hoe giving a north-south distance o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25163 |
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker and actor. His films are characterized by unconventional nonlinear storylines, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25169 |
Quartile
A quartile is a type of quantile which divides the number of data points into four more or less equal parts, or quarters. The first quartile ("Q"1) is defined as the middle number between the smallest number and the median of the data set. It is also known as the lower quartile or the 25th empirical quartile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25170 |
Quadratic equation
In algebra, a quadratic equation (from the Latin for "square") is any equation that can be rearranged in standard form as
where represents an unknown, and , , and represent known numbers, where . If , then the equation is linear, not quadratic, as there is no formula_2 term. The numbers , , and are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25175 |
Quark
A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. Due to a phenomenon known as "color confinement", quarks are never found in isolation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25179 |
Quantization (physics)
In physics, quantization (quantisation) is the process of transition from a classical understanding of physical phenomena to a newer understanding known as quantum mechanics. (It is a procedure for constructing a quantum field theory starting from a classical field theory.) This is a generalizat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25182 |
Quantile
In statistics and probability, quantiles are cut points dividing the range of a probability distribution into continuous intervals with equal probabilities, or dividing the observations in a sample in the same way. There is one fewer quantile than the number of groups created. Thus quartiles are the three cut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25184 |
Q
Q or q is the 17th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is "cue" (pronounced ), plural "cues".
The Semitic sound value of Qôp was (voiceless uvular stop), and the form of the letter could have been based on the eye of a needle, a knot, or even a monkey with its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25185 |
History of Qatar
The history of Qatar from its first duration of human occupation to its formation as a modern state. Human occupation of Qatar dates back to 50,000 years ago, and Stone Age encampments and tools have been unearthed in the peninsula. Mesopotamia was the first civilization to have a presence in the area... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25187 |
Geography of Qatar
Qatar is a peninsula in the east of Arabia, bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia, in a strategic location near major petroleum deposits. Qatar occupies on a peninsula that extends approximately to north into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian Peninsula.
Varying in width between , the land is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25188 |
Demographics of Qatar
Natives of the Arabian Peninsula, many Qataris () are descended from a number of migratory Arab tribes that came to Qatar in the 18th century from mainly the neighboring areas of Nejd and Al-Hasa. Some are descended from Omani tribes. Qatar has about 2.6 million inhabitants as of early 2017, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25189 |
Politics of Qatar
The political system of Qatar is either an absolute monarchy or a constitutional monarchy, with the Emir of Qatar as head of state and head of government. Under the 2003 constitutional referendum it should be a constitutional monarchy. Sharia law is the main source of Qatari legislation.
Sharia law ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25190 |
Economy of Qatar
The economy of Qatar is one of the richest in the world based on GDP per capita, ranking between fifth and seventh on world rankings for 2015 and 2016 data compiled by the World Bank, United Nations, and IMF. The country's economy has grown despite sanctions by neighbors, Saudi Arabia and the United A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25191 |
Telecommunications in Qatar
Telephones - main lines in use:
327,000 (2012)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
2,600,000 (2012)
Telephone system:
modern system centered in Doha
"domestic:"
NA
"international:"
tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and UAE; submarine cable to Bahrain and UAE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25192 |
Transport in Qatar
This article is about transport in Qatar.
In 2002, the Qatari government launched Mowasalat, a company 100% owned by the government, managed and operated by the state authorities to ensure the smooth provision of "integrated ground transport services" for the entire country. Previously, 3,000 priva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25193 |
Qatar Armed Forces
The Qatar Armed Forces are the military forces of Qatar. Since 2015, Qatar has implemented mandatory military conscription with an average of 2000 graduates per year. As of 2010, Qatar's defence expenditures added up to a total of $1.913 billion, about 1.5% of the national GDP, according to the SIPR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25194 |
Foreign relations of Qatar
Qatar achieved full independence from the United Kingdom on 3 September 1971. Arab states were among the first to recognize Qatar, and the country gained admittance to the United Nations and the Arab League in the same year. Qatar established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25195 |
Quotation
A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying. For example: "We ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25199 |
Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model and matrix mechanics), part of quantum field theory, is a fundamental theory in physics. It describes physical properties of nature on an atomic scale.
Classical physics, the description of physics that e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25202 |
Quilting
Quilting is the term given to the process of joining a minimum of three layers of fabric together either through stitching manually by hand using a needle and thread, or mechanically with a sewing machine or specialised longarm quilting system. An array of stitches is passed through all layers of the fabric t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25203 |
Qt (software)
Qt (pronounced "cute") is a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25204 |
QuakeC
QuakeC is a compiled language developed in 1996 by John Carmack of id Software to program parts of the video game "Quake". Using QuakeC, a programmer is able to customize "Quake" to great extents by adding weapons, changing game logic and physics, and programming complex scenarios. It can be used to control man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25207 |
Quad Cities
The Quad Cities is a region of five cities in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline in northwestern Illinois. These cities are the center of the Quad Cities metropolitan area, which as of 2013 had a population estimate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25208 |
Quantum chemistry
Quantum chemistry, also called molecular quantum mechanics, is a branch of chemistry focused on the application of quantum mechanics in physical models and experiments of chemical systems. Understanding electronic structure and molecular dynamics using the Schrödinger equations are central topics in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25211 |
QWERTY
QWERTY () is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard ( ). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to E. Remington and Sons in 1873. It became popular with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25213 |
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software. It is the third game in the "Quake" series; it differs from previous games by excluding a story-based single-player mode and highly focusing on multiplayer gameplay. The single-player mode is played against com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25215 |
Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
The Afghan Civil War was fought from 14 November 1928 to 13 October 1929. Rebelling, and subsequently governing Saqqawist forces under Habibullāh Kalakāni fought against various opposing tribes and rival monarchs in the Kingdom of Afghanistan, among whom Mohammed Nādir Khān eventually achi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26464 |
General recursive function
In mathematical logic and computer science, a general recursive function (often shortened to recursive function) or μ-recursive function, is a partial function from natural numbers to natural numbers that is "computable" in an intuitive sense. In computability theory, it is shown that the μ-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26469 |
Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. Species of rats are found throughout the order Rodentia, but stereotypical rats are found in the genus "Rattus". Other rat genera include "Neotoma" (pack rats), "Bandicota" (bandicoot rats) and "Dipodomys" (kangaroo rats).
Rats are typically distinguished from m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26471 |
Adobe RoboHelp
Adobe RoboHelp is a help authoring tool (HAT) developed and published by Adobe Inc. for Windows. RoboHelp was created by Gen Kiyooka, and Blue Sky Software released version 1.0 in January 1992.
Blue Sky Software was founded in 1990 and changed its name to eHelp Corporation on 4 April 2000. Macromedia a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26472 |
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