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wiki_2852_chunk_14 | Friendly artificial intelligence | Public policy
James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention, suggested that "a public-private partnership has to be created to bring A.I.-makers together to share ideas about security—something like the International Atomic Energy Agency, but in partnership with corporations." He urges AI researchers to convene a meeting... | wikipedia |
wiki_37383_chunk_10 | Russia in the European energy sector | On the eve of the 2006 Riga summit, Senator Richard Lugar, head of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, declared that "the most likely source of armed conflict in the European theatre and the surrounding regions will be energy scarcity and manipulation." Since then, the variety of national policies and stance... | wikipedia |
wiki_34020_chunk_24 | Merit Network | During 1994 an expanded K-12 outreach program at Merit helped lead the formation of six regional K-12 groups known as Hubs. The Hubs and Merit applied for and were awarded funding from the Ratepayer fund, which as part of a settlement of an earlier Ameritech of Michigan ratepayer overcharge, had been established by Mic... | wikipedia |
wiki_13967_chunk_10 | International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation | Another criticism is that GNEP seeks to deploy proliferation-prone reprocessing technology for commercial reasons, and to bypass the continued delays with the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, while erroneously claiming to enhance global nuclear security. See also Nuclear power
Integral Fast Reactor
United State... | wikipedia |
wiki_8704_chunk_33 | Rwandan Civil War | The renewed warfare had two effects in Rwanda. The first was a resurgence of violence against Tutsi still in the country. Hutu activists killed up to 1,000 Tutsi in attacks authorised by local officials, starting of 30–60 Bagogwe Tutsi pastoralists near Kinigi and then moving south and west to Ruhengeri and Gisenyi. T... | wikipedia |
wiki_32947_chunk_0 | BCL Molecular | The BCL Molecular 18 was a range of 18-bit computers designed and manufactured in the UK from 1970 until the late 1980s.The machines were originally manufactured by Systemation Limited and serviced by Business Mechanisation Limited. The two companies merged in 1968 to form Business Computers Limited - a public limited... | wikipedia |
wiki_17304_chunk_6 | Rabin signature algorithm | The Rabin signature scheme was later tweaked by Williams in 1980 to choose and , and replace a square root by a tweaked square root , with and , so that a signature instead satisfies which allows the signer to create a signature in a single trial without sacrificing security.
This variant is known as Rabin–Williams.... | wikipedia |
wiki_30224_chunk_0 | Approximately finite-dimensional C*-algebra | In mathematics, an approximately finite-dimensional (AF) C*-algebra is a C*-algebra that is the inductive limit of a sequence of finite-dimensional C*-algebras. Approximate finite-dimensionality was first defined and described combinatorially by Ola Bratteli. Later, George A. Elliott gave a complete classification of A... | wikipedia |
wiki_8806_chunk_2 | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry | Molecular Structural Biology (Wolfgang Baumeister / Cryo-Electron Tomography, Electron Microscopical Structure Research, Protein and Cell Structure, Protein Degradation)
Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Repair (Christian Biertümpfel / Structural Biology, DNA Repair, DNA Replication, DNA Recombination, Protein-DNA-Interactio... | wikipedia |
wiki_7896_chunk_3 | Energy management system | As proprietary systems became uneconomical, EMS suppliers began to deliver solutions based on industry standard hardware platforms such as those from Digital Equipment (later Compaq (later HP)), IBM and Sun. The common operating system then was either DEC OpenVMS or Unix. By 2004, various EMS suppliers including Alstom... | wikipedia |
wiki_19940_chunk_11 | Neurogenic bladder dysfunction | Ultrasound imaging can give information on the shape of the bladder, post-void residual volume, and evidence of kidney damage such as kidney size, thickness or ureteral dilation. Trabeculated bladder on ultrasound indicates high risk of developing urinary tract abnormalities such as hydronephrosis and stones. A voiding... | wikipedia |
wiki_26944_chunk_12 | Biological neuron model | The Hodgkin–Huxley model may be extended to include additional ionic currents. Typically, these include inward Ca2+ and Na+ input currents, as well as several varieties of K+ outward currents, including a "leak" current. The end result can be at the small end 20 parameters which one must estimate or measure for an accu... | wikipedia |
wiki_6853_chunk_8 | Mata Amritanandamayi Math | Homes & Slum Renovation
In 1997 MAM launched its Amrita Kuteeram housing program, an initiative to build 25,000 homes for the homeless throughout India. In 1998, keys to the first 5,000 homes were distributed. The initial target was reached in 2002. Currently MAM is striving to build another 100,000 homes. As of Januar... | wikipedia |
wiki_12509_chunk_16 | Language, Truth, and Logic | For Ayer, metaphysical statements, such as statements about transcendent reality, have no objective validity, and therefore are meaningless. Examples of this lack of meaning include statements about the existence or nonexistence of God. According to Ayer, such statements can be neither proven nor disproven, and cannot ... | wikipedia |
wiki_28317_chunk_2 | Prince of Smolensk | Monomakhovichi/Sviatoslavichi
1092-1093 Mstislav I
1093–1095 Iziaslav I Vladimirovich
1095–1097 David I Sviatoslavich
1097–1113 Sviatoslav II Vladimirovich and Yaropolk I
1113–1125 Viacheslav II Vladimirovich | wikipedia |
wiki_21147_chunk_13 | Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll | Further reading
Brown, Kevin S. The Akhmin Papyrus 1995 – Egyptian Unit Fractions 1995
Bruckheimer, Maxim and Y. Salomon. “Some Comments on R. J. Gillings’ Analysis of the 2/n Table in the Rhind Papyrus.” Historia Mathematica 4 Berlin (1977): 445–452.
Bruins, Evert M. “Platon et la table égyptienne 2/n”. Janus 46, Ams... | wikipedia |
wiki_38081_chunk_4 | TEM cell | GTEM cell
A GTEM cell is a design variation that allows the cell to operate in the Gigahertz frequency range. The external enclosure forms a long rectangular base pyramid. The GTEM is terminated on a lined surface made of radiation-absorbent material such as carbon loaded foam, and absorbers line the side walls. A sli... | wikipedia |
wiki_8357_chunk_46 | Host–guest chemistry | Sensing
Traditionally, chemical sensing has been approached with a system that contains a covalently bound indicator to a receptor though a linker. Once the analyte binds, the indicator changes color or fluoresces. This technique is called the indicator-spacer-receptor approach (ISR). In contrast to ISR, indicator-disp... | wikipedia |
wiki_24112_chunk_4 | Area codes 587, 825, and 368 | Service area and central office code
Airdrie (587)-236 254 360 600 602 651 775 852
Banff (587)-222 653 720 883 907
Blackfalds (587)-621
Bonnyville (587)-201 398 721 792
Brooks (587)-263 270 613 994
Calgary (587)-215 216 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 274 284 291 293 296 315 316 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 ... | wikipedia |
wiki_30216_chunk_28 | Codex Tischendorfianus III | P. Gächler in 1934 found some textual similarities between the manuscript and Codex Bezae, which represents the Western text. See also List of New Testament uncials
Textual criticism References Further reading
Ernst von Dobschütz, Zwei Bibelhandschriften mit doppelter Schriftart, Theologische Literaturzeitung, 1... | wikipedia |
wiki_35706_chunk_16 | That's What Friends Are For (Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams album) | Charts References Bibliography 1978 albums
Johnny Mathis albums
Deniece Williams albums
Vocal duet albums
Columbia Records albums
Albums arranged by Gene Page
Albums recorded at A&M Studios | wikipedia |
wiki_30171_chunk_3 | Anti-submarine indicator loop | The "Liverpool Cable" used for the loops consisted of four core, single strand 1.23 mm copper wire sheathed in 2-layer rubber insulation of diameter 3.7 mm that was wrapped in jute identification tape. The cores are separated by five strands of 36-thread cotton serving, wrapped in two layers of linen identification t... | wikipedia |
wiki_18787_chunk_3 | Math Rescue | Plot
The world's numbers are stolen by the Gruzzles, which causes problems. The player character spots a Gruzzle removing numbers from the front of a house. Benny the Butterfly comes to the player character's aid and they begin a quest to stop the Gruzzles and retrieve the stolen numbers. It turns out that an alien rac... | wikipedia |
wiki_14626_chunk_0 | Loop theorem | In mathematics, in the topology of 3-manifolds, the loop theorem is a generalization of Dehn's lemma. The loop theorem was first proven by Christos Papakyriakopoulos in 1956, along with Dehn's lemma and the Sphere theorem. A simple and useful version of the loop theorem states that if for some 3-dimensional manifold M... | wikipedia |
wiki_3221_chunk_5 | Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Research
The school conducts original scientific research in several fields of physics and technology. Research areas in theoretical physics concentrate around quantum field theory including the string theory. Experimental research includes active participation in large international projects, such as the CERN's LHC e... | wikipedia |
wiki_23280_chunk_14 | Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School | References External links
Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School homepage
Article from Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 2006
Charter school suit seen, Boston Globe, March 21, 2004
Hostility inflames charter school debate, Boston Globe, February 22, 2004. Marlborough, Massachusetts
Educational institutions est... | wikipedia |
wiki_38235_chunk_1 | Collective Hardware | Hard-to-define, hard-to-leave, multi-faceted Bowery building hell-bent on artistic expression. One-of-a-kind designer, couture goods can be had on one floor, show room for art (sound installations, giant photographs, and other visually engaging material) on another, recording studios, special effects, hair stylist, you... | wikipedia |
wiki_4566_chunk_4 | Econophysics | The term "econophysics" was coined by H. Eugene Stanley, to describe the large number of papers written by physicists in the problems of (stock and other) markets, in a conference on statistical physics in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) in 1995 and first appeared in its proceedings publication in Physica A 1996. The ina... | wikipedia |
wiki_34959_chunk_10 | Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells | Higher efficiencies (around 30%) can be obtained by using optics to concentrate the incident light. The use of gallium increases the optical band gap of the CIGS layer as compared to pure CIS, thus increasing the open-circuit voltage. Gallium's relative abundance, compared to indium, lowers costs. Comparison Convention... | wikipedia |
wiki_7582_chunk_29 | Heat transfer coefficient | The fouling resistances can be calculated for a specific heat exchanger if the average thickness and thermal conductivity of the fouling are known. The product of the average thickness and thermal conductivity will result in the fouling resistance on a specific side of the heat exchanger. = where:
= average thickness ... | wikipedia |
wiki_16154_chunk_17 | Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power | SNAP-8
The SNAP-8 reactors were designed, constructed and operated by Atomics International under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Two SNAP-8 reactors were produced: The SNAP 8 Experimental Reactor and the SNAP 8 Developmental Reactor. Both SNAP 8 reactors used the same highly enriched u... | wikipedia |
wiki_35130_chunk_11 | International Society of Zoological Sciences | Integrative Zoology Integrative Zoology is the official journal of the ISZS and published jointly by John Wiley & Sons and the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is a quarterly, peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary journal publishing original research, reviews, essays and opinion pieces on the zoologi... | wikipedia |
wiki_4110_chunk_4 | International Union of Pure and Applied Physics | An Executive committee was formed which undertook to prepare rules, regulations, and activities of the organization. The committee consisted of ten distinguished physicists:- W.H. Bragg, M. Brillouin, O.M. Corbino, M. Knudsen, M. Leblanc, R.A. Millikan, H. Nagaoka, E. Van Aubel, and H. Abraham. The committee had Bragg ... | wikipedia |
wiki_26732_chunk_98 | Technological and industrial history of China | Despite the rapid growth and success of town and township enterprises, continued expansion faced obstacles in 1987. The government was trying to limit production because of economic and environmental concerns. Moreover, financial mismanagement, poor market analysis, rising energy and raw-material cost, substandard equi... | wikipedia |
wiki_872_chunk_17 | Epigenetics | Foods are known to alter the epigenetics of rats on different diets. Some food components epigenetically increase the levels of DNA repair enzymes such as MGMT and MLH1 and p53. Other food components can reduce DNA damage, such as soy isoflavones. In one study, markers for oxidative stress, such as modified nucleotides... | wikipedia |
wiki_24225_chunk_51 | Efficient energy use | On 3 December 2014, the German federal government released its National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency (NAPE).
The areas covered are the energy efficiency of buildings, energy conservation for companies, consumer energy efficiency, and transport energy efficiency. The policy contains both immediate and forward-lookin... | wikipedia |
wiki_30059_chunk_31 | Topological data analysis | Circular persistence
Normal persistence homology studies real-valued functions. The circle-valued map might be useful, "persistence theory for circle-valued maps promises to play the role for some vector fields as does the standard persistence theory for scalar fields", as commented in Dan Burghelea et al. The main d... | wikipedia |
wiki_4706_chunk_19 | Software verification and validation | By the end of the 1970s IV&V was rapidly becoming popular. The constant increase in complexity, size and importance of the software led to an increasing demand on IV&V applied to software. Meanwhile, IV&V (and ISVV for software systems) consolidated and is now widely used by organizations such as the DoD, FAA, NASA and... | wikipedia |
wiki_14003_chunk_31 | Georges Mathieu | The Gutai group of Japanese artists also created a live work inspired from Mathieu's in a similar spirit to his art during the 1950s. In their 1956 manifesto, its members acknowledged their interest in the techniques of two specific painters: “Concerning contemporary art, we respect Pollock and Mathieu because their w... | wikipedia |
wiki_32678_chunk_38 | Thin-film solar cell | Further advancement into geometric considerations can exploit nanomaterial dimensionality. Large, parallel nanowire arrays enable long absorption lengths along the length of the wire while maintaining short minority carrier diffusion lengths along the radial direction. Adding nanoparticles between the nanowires allows ... | wikipedia |
wiki_9675_chunk_6 | Protographium marcellus | The zebra swallowtail caterpillar feeds on species within the genus Asimina and was found to accept, oviposit and grow on leaves of the tropical soursop- Annona muricata in 1998. Commonly used species include Asimina angustifolia (slimleaf pawpaw), A. incana (woolly pawpaw), A. parviflora (smallflower pawpaw), A. retic... | wikipedia |
wiki_9174_chunk_9 | Liang–Barsky algorithm | xn1 = x1 + p2 * rn1;
yn1 = y1 + p4 * rn1; // computing new points xn2 = x1 + p2 * rn2;
yn2 = y1 + p4 * rn2; setcolor(CYAN); line(xn1, yn1, xn2, yn2); // the drawing the new line setlinestyle(1, 1, 0); | wikipedia |
wiki_29727_chunk_4 | More Maths Grads | The conclusion of More Maths Grads after three years was marked by a Parliamentary Reception 'Where will maths take you?' on 27 January 2010, hosted by Charles Clarke MP, who claimed the project had made "an impact in improving standards of mathematics education and increasing the number continuing to study mathematics... | wikipedia |
wiki_15828_chunk_17 | Civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | The Afghanistan Rights Monitor, a Kabul-based rights watchdog, estimated that in 2008 about 3,917 civilians were killed, over 6,800 were wounded, and around 120,000 were forced out of their homes. ARM estimated that insurgents killed over 2,300 civilians, including 930 in suicide bombings, and that U.S.-led military fo... | wikipedia |
wiki_38555_chunk_5 | Lawrence Power | Discography
Viola music
Gerald Barry: Viola Concerto (2018–2019); Lawrence Power (viola), Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Adès (conductor); Signum Records SIGCD639 (2020)
James MacMillan: Viola Concerto (2013); Lawrence Power (viola), Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Philharmonic; Hyperion Records CDA68317 (2020)
Harold ... | wikipedia |
wiki_19928_chunk_5 | Service science, management and engineering | Service Science
SSME is often referred to as service science for short. The flagship journal Service Science is published by the professional association INFORMS. The journal publishes innovative and original papers on all topics related to service, including work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. It i... | wikipedia |
wiki_28532_chunk_0 | Renewable energy industry | The renewable-energy industry is the part of the energy industry focusing on new and appropriate renewable energy technologies. Investors worldwide have paid greater attention to this emerging industry in recent years. In many cases, this has translated into rapid renewable energy commercialization and considerable ind... | wikipedia |
wiki_13481_chunk_2 | List of ICD-9 codes 680–709: diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | Other inflammatory conditions of skin and subcutaneous tissue (690–698)
Erythematosquamous dermatosis
Seborrheic dermatitis NOS (not otherwise specified)
Cradle cap
Dandruff
Atopic dermatitis and related conditions
Diaper rash
Eczema, atopic dermatitis
Contact dermatitis and other eczema
Contact derma... | wikipedia |
wiki_35941_chunk_8 | Industrial engineering | The husband-and-wife team of Frank Gilbreth (1868 – 1924) and Lillian Gilbreth (1878 – 1972) was the other cornerstone of the Industrial Engineering movement whose work is housed at Purdue University School of Industrial Engineering. They categorized the elements of human motion into 18 basic elements called therblig... | wikipedia |
wiki_13644_chunk_13 | Stem cell controversy | Umbilical cord blood (UCB)
Similarly, pro-life supporters claim that the use of adult stem cells from sources such as the cord blood has consistently produced more promising results than the use of embryonic stem cells. Research has shown that umbilical cord blood (UCB) is in fact a viable source for stem cells and the... | wikipedia |
wiki_29059_chunk_1 | Ethnological Museum of Berlin | The Ethnological Museum was founded in 1873 and opened its doors in 1886 as the Royal Museum for Ethnology (), but its roots go back to the 17th-century Kunstkammer of the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia. As the museum’s collections expanded in the early 20th century, the museum quickly outgrew its facility in the cente... | wikipedia |
wiki_2284_chunk_3 | Evolutionary computation | Evolutionary programming was introduced by Lawrence J. Fogel in the US, while John Henry Holland called his method a genetic algorithm. In Germany Ingo Rechenberg and Hans-Paul Schwefel introduced evolution strategies. These areas developed separately for about 15 years. From the early nineties on they are unified as d... | wikipedia |
wiki_2353_chunk_16 | Meridian Energy | See also
Electricity sector in New Zealand
New Zealand electricity market
Project Crimson, a conservation programme sponsored by Meridian Energy
KidsCan, a charity sponsored by Meridian Energy
Kākāpō Recovery Programme, a conservation programme sponsored by Meridian Energy References External links Government-owned co... | wikipedia |
wiki_16981_chunk_7 | Engineering Campus (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) | Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building is the new home of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering started August 2014. Plans were in place in 2008 to move the ECE department from Everitt Laboratory to a new building as class sizes grew and bigger dema... | wikipedia |
wiki_23880_chunk_4 | Option naming convention | For example, an Apple Inc AAPL.O call option that would have expired in December 2007 at a $122.50 strike price would be displayed as APVLZ in old convention (AAPL071222C122500 in new convention). Stock option names are written in the following format: SYMBOL+MONTH+STRIKE
SYMBOL = Option Root Symbol, normally the stock... | wikipedia |
wiki_144_chunk_50 | Class (computer programming) | - (id)initWithContentsOfURL:(NSURL *)URL;
//... @end
In user-supplied library, a separate binary from Foundation framework, header file NSData+base64.h:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h> @interface NSData (base64) - (NSString *)base64String;
- (id)initWithBase64String:(NSString *)base64String; | wikipedia |
wiki_7773_chunk_2 | Fade (audio engineering) | Professional turntablists and DJs in hip hop music use faders on a DJ mixer, notably the horizontal crossfader, in a rapid fashion while simultaneously manipulating two or more record players (or other sound sources) to create "scratching" and develop beats. Club DJs in house music and techno use DJ mixers, two or more... | wikipedia |
wiki_2819_chunk_7 | Virasoro algebra | The Gram determinant of a basis of the level is given by the Kac determinant formula,
where the function p(N) is the partition function, and is a positive constant that does not depend on or .
The Kac determinant formula was stated by V. Kac (1978), and its first published proof was given by Feigin and Fuks (198... | wikipedia |
wiki_11275_chunk_4 | National Association of Biology Teachers | Policy positions
The NABT has a number of position papers on areas such as the principles of good science teaching, equity in science education and a number of statements on ethics and safety that pertain to the teaching of Biology.
Such position papers have not been without controversy. For example, in 1995, the posit... | wikipedia |
wiki_31365_chunk_9 | Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University | A joint-degree "MD-M.Eng" 7-year program was introduced since 2020, in cooperation with the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, and students receive an additional Master of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) at the end of the program. Another joint degree "MD-MM" 7-year program was introduced since 2021, in c... | wikipedia |
wiki_24141_chunk_2 | Financial Engineering News | Financial Engineering News was a newspaper devoted to reporting on the news, events, people, significant innovations, debates, and issues in the field of quantitative finance; as it applies to the real-world of investment management, insurance, investment banking, commercial banking, financial regulation, and corporate... | wikipedia |
wiki_18585_chunk_35 | Core-Plus Mathematics Project | For example, this debate led to some schools in Minnesota abandoning Core-Plus Mathematics in the early 2000s and returning to traditional mathematics curricula. In a master's degree research paper at the time, interviews with teachers at four schools that had dropped Core-Plus Mathematics suggested that many teachers ... | wikipedia |
wiki_9601_chunk_2 | U3 (software) | U3 disk mounting: hardware emulation
A U3 flash drive presents itself to the host system as a USB hub with a CD drive and standard USB mass storage device attached.
This configuration causes Windows disk management to show two drives:
A read-only ISO 9660 volume on an emulated CD-ROM drive with an autorun configurat... | wikipedia |
wiki_21364_chunk_6 | Supramolecular polymer | Supramolecular equivalent of step-growth mechanism is commonly known as isodesmic or equal-K model (K represents the total binding interaction between two neighboring monomers). In isodesmic supramolecular polymerization, no critical temperature or concentration of monomers is required for the polymerization to occur ... | wikipedia |
wiki_30186_chunk_7 | Computer security software | Monitor access
The purpose of these types of software systems is to monitor access to computers systems and data while reporting or logging the behavior. Often this is composed of large quantities of low priority data records / logs, coupled with high priority notices for unusual or suspicious behavior. Diagnostic pro... | wikipedia |
wiki_512_chunk_11 | Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia | Communists were active throughout rural and urban Colombia in the period immediately following World War I. The Colombian Communist Party (Partido Comunista Colombiano, PCC) was formally accredited by the Comintern in 1930. The PCC began establishing "peasant leagues" in rural areas and "popular fronts" in urban areas,... | wikipedia |
wiki_27462_chunk_0 | Extracellular matrix protein 1 | Extracellular matrix protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ECM1 gene. This gene encodes an extracellular protein containing motifs with a cysteine pattern characteristic of the cysteine pattern of the ligand-binding "double-loop" domains of the albumin protein family. This gene maps outside the epider... | wikipedia |
wiki_11274_chunk_4 | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Engineering | The Civil Engineering program was ranked by ''U.S. News & World Reports 2021 "America's Best Colleges" report as 2nd overall (of the 19 programs ranked in engineering schools whose highest degree is a Master's). Civil Engineering offers courses specializing in
Geotechnical
Structural
Transportation
Water Resource... | wikipedia |
wiki_10509_chunk_13 | Code of law | Codex Iustinianus Site The Roman Law Library
Code of Laws of the United States of America (US Code) law.cornell.edu
Napoleonic Code napoleon-series.org
contemporary French law codes legifrance.gouv.fr
Louisiana Civil Code legis.state.la.us
Connecticut General Statutes (2013 Ed.) cga.ct.gov Civil law (legal system)
Sour... | wikipedia |
wiki_35439_chunk_1 | The Evolution of God | Evolutionary biology
Among other things, Wright discusses the role of evolutionary biology in the development of religion. Geneticist Dean Hamer hypothesized that some people have a specific gene that makes them prone to religious belief, which he calls the God gene, and that over time natural selection has favored the... | wikipedia |
wiki_3835_chunk_16 | Power loom | See also
Dobby loom
Jacquard loom
Paul Moody
James Henry Northrop
Northrop Loom
Textile Manufacturing - the Industrial Revolution
Cotton - Spinning, Winding, Warping and Weaving References Citations Bibliography External links Textile machinery
Weaving equipment
English inventions
History of the textile industry... | wikipedia |
wiki_1015_chunk_10 | History of logic | Jains made its own unique contribution to this mainstream development of logic by also occupying itself with the basic epistemological issues, namely, with those concerning the nature of knowledge, how knowledge is derived, and in what way knowledge can be said to be reliable.Jain logic The Jains have doctrines of rela... | wikipedia |
wiki_32408_chunk_4 | Revolution Prep | Mock SAT Test controversy
In fall 2008, questions were raised by students at Lowell High School (San Francisco) over the mock tests used by Revolution Prep. Claims were made that the difficulty of the first test was too high, resulting in artificial score increases. In May 2009, the story was covered by the Wall Street... | wikipedia |
wiki_14348_chunk_16 | Salience (neuroscience) | A key limitation in many such approaches is their computational complexity leading to less than real-time performance, even on modern computer hardware. Some recent work attempts to overcome these issues at the expense of saliency detection quality under some conditions. Other work suggests that saliency and associated... | wikipedia |
wiki_3246_chunk_2 | Renal cell carcinoma | The body is remarkably good at hiding the symptoms and as a result people with RCC often have advanced disease by the time it is discovered. The initial symptoms of RCC often include blood in the urine (occurring in 40% of affected persons at the time they first seek medical attention), flank pain (40%), a mass in the ... | wikipedia |
wiki_10311_chunk_9 | Pune Institute of Computer Technology | PICT Art Circle
With a Record of winning Best Organized Team 11 times, PICT Art Circle is an official Cultural group of PICT that represents college at various Cultural Events such as Mood Indigo and participates in Intercollegiate competitions such as Purushottam Karandak, Firodiya Karandak and Dajikaka Gadgil Karand... | wikipedia |
wiki_19831_chunk_10 | Artificial intelligence systems integration | "OpenAIR is a routing and communication protocol based on a publish-subscribe architecture. It is intended to be the "glue" that allows numerous A.I. researchers to share code more effectively — "AIR to share". It is a definition or a blueprint of the "post office and mail delivery system" for distributed multi-module ... | wikipedia |
wiki_15928_chunk_10 | List of MeSH codes (D13) | – pyrimidine nucleosides
– cytidine
– azacitidine
– cytarabine
– ancitabine
– deoxycytidine
– bromodeoxycytidine
– zalcitabine
– lamivudine
– formycins
– coformycin
– pentostatin
– thymidine
– stavudine
– trifluridine
– zidovudine
– tunicamycin
– uridine
– arabinofuranosyluracil
– ... | wikipedia |
wiki_2201_chunk_15 | Binomial options pricing model | References External links
The Binomial Model for Pricing Options, Prof. Thayer Watkins
Binomial Option Pricing (PDF), Prof. Robert M. Conroy
Binomial Option Pricing Model by Fiona Maclachlan, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
On the Irrelevance of Expected Stock Returns in the Pricing of Options in the Binomial Mod... | wikipedia |
wiki_31965_chunk_1 | Mechanics of planar particle motion | Unlike real forces such as electromagnetic forces, fictitious forces do not originate from physical interactions between objects. Analysis using fictitious forces
The appearance of fictitious forces normally is associated with use of a non-inertial frame of reference, and their absence with use of an inertial frame of ... | wikipedia |
wiki_24452_chunk_10 | Renewable energy in Honduras | Examples of solar farms:
144 MW solar park in Nacaome
61.5 MW Aura II PV Solar Plant
35.1 MW Choluteca II
23.3 MW Pacífico
23.3 MW Choluteca I
An additional 250 MW of solar power are expected to come online in 2015 including another 50 MW project in Nacaome. | wikipedia |
wiki_26147_chunk_18 | Quantum biology | Mitochondria
Organelles, such as mitochondria, are thought to utilize quantum tunneling in order to translate intracellular energy. Traditionally, mitochondria are known to generate most of the cell's energy in the form of chemical ATP. Mitochondria conversion of biomass into chemical ATP is 60-70% efficient, which is... | wikipedia |
wiki_22603_chunk_13 | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Early 20th century
1919 – George Washington Pierce (PhD, 1900), Rumford Professor of Physics and director of Harvard's Cruft High-Tension Electrical Laboratory invented an oscillator that enabled a given radio station to stay "fixed" at a proper frequency and allowed multiple telephone calls to occur over a single line... | wikipedia |
wiki_304_chunk_1 | Java (programming language) | Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in May 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were originally released by Sun under proprietary licenses. As of May 2007, ... | wikipedia |
wiki_35475_chunk_16 | Induction plasma | Without the erosion and contamination concern of electrode, due to the different plasma generation mechanism compared with other plasma method, for example, direct current non-transfer arc (dc) plasma.
The possibility of the axial feeding of precursors, being solid powders, or suspensions, liquids. This feature overcom... | wikipedia |
wiki_14126_chunk_6 | MGM Networks | retained by MGM
MGM HD
Studio 3 Partners
Epix
This TV
MGM Channels
Canada
UK
Germany
joint ventures
Australia
Telecine (Brazil; Joint venture with Globosat, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures) See also
MGM (TV channel) References External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20090722025931/http:/... | wikipedia |
wiki_23078_chunk_7 | B1 cell | B1 cells characteristically express high levels of surface IgM (sIgM), demonstrable CD11b, and low levels of surface IgD (sIgD), CD21, CD23, and the B cell isoform of CD45R (B220). In adult mice, B1 cells constitute a minor fraction of the spleen and secondary lymphoid tissues but are enriched in the pleural and perito... | wikipedia |
wiki_16358_chunk_7 | Selective sweep | Relevance to disease
Because selective sweeps allow for rapid adaptation, they have been cited as a key factor in the ability of pathogenic bacteria and viruses to attack their hosts and survive the medicines we use to treat them. In such systems, the competition between host and parasite is often characterized as an... | wikipedia |
wiki_14426_chunk_34 | Oxygene (programming language) | External links .NET programming languages
Class-based programming languages
Mono (software)
Object-oriented programming languages
Pascal (programming language) compilers
Pascal programming language family | wikipedia |
wiki_33988_chunk_76 | German Renewable Energy Sources Act | The positive impact on the environment globally is less clear. Hans-Werner Sinn, a German economist and chair of the Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung argues that Germany's renewable energy support reduces world market prices for fossil energy. Thus, countries like China or the US have an incentive to produce more,... | wikipedia |
wiki_8742_chunk_8 | Order One Network Protocol | Public proposals for OON do not include security or authentication. Security and authentication may provided by the Integrator of the protocol. Typical security measures include encryption or signing or the protocol packets and incrementing counters to prevent replay attacks. See also
DSR, AODV and OLSR are public-doma... | wikipedia |
wiki_5055_chunk_4 | 1978–79 United States network television schedule | Returning Series
20/20
The ABC Sunday Night Movie
Barney Miller
Carter Country
Charlie's Angels
Donny & Marie
Eight Is Enough
Family
Fantasy Island
Happy Days
The Hardy Boys Mysteries
How the West Was Won
Laverne & Shirley
The Love Boat
Monday Night Baseball
Monday Night Football
Operation Petticoat
Soap
Starsky & Hutc... | wikipedia |
wiki_940_chunk_2 | Prim's algorithm | Other well-known algorithms for this problem include Kruskal's algorithm and Borůvka's algorithm. These algorithms find the minimum spanning forest in a possibly disconnected graph; in contrast, the most basic form of Prim's algorithm only finds minimum spanning trees in connected graphs. However, running Prim's algori... | wikipedia |
wiki_31644_chunk_1 | Codex Speciálník | External links
A listing of Medieval and Gothic recordings, containing a wealth of historical information on the Speciálník Codex. 15th-century manuscripts
Medieval music manuscript sources
Renaissance music
Renaissance music manuscript sources
Czech Renaissance | wikipedia |
wiki_15115_chunk_1 | Quantum (disambiguation) | Businesses and products
Quantum Corporation, a manufacturer of computer data storage products
Quantum Sports Cars, a British-built low-volume car manufacturer
Volkswagen Quantum
Quantum, a line of Maksutov telescopes that were manufactured by Optical Techniques Incorporated (OTI)
Quantum, line of small engines mad... | wikipedia |
wiki_11208_chunk_4 | Equilibrium thermodynamics | Adkins, C.J. (1983). Equilibrium Thermodynamics, 3rd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cengel, Y. & Boles, M. (2002). Thermodynamics – an Engineering Approach, 4th Ed. (textbook). New York: McGraw Hill.
Kondepudi, D. & Prigogine, I. (2004). Modern Thermodynamics – From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures... | wikipedia |
wiki_6616_chunk_0 | Vexillological symbol | Vexillological symbols are used by vexillologists to indicate certain characteristics of national flags, such as where they are used, who uses them, and what they look like. The set of symbols described in this article are known as international flag identification symbols (IFIS), which were devised by Whitney Smith. N... | wikipedia |
wiki_22034_chunk_18 | Codex Azcatitlan | The depictions of Acamapichtli (13v) and Axayacatl (18v) are the only fully painted portraits in the Imperial segment. The former is painted by the master tlacuilo and the latter by the apprentice. Conquest segment | wikipedia |
wiki_18339_chunk_4 | Brescello | Church of Santa Maria Nascente
The current church was rebuilt between 1829 and 1837 replacing the ancient medieval church that once stood here. Inside it has a nave and two aisles with six side altars, three on each side, with large archways that divide the nave from the aisles, and an impressive wooden crucifix by Bru... | wikipedia |
wiki_1773_chunk_11 | Riemannian geometry | Negative Ricci curvature
The isometry group of a compact Riemannian manifold with negative Ricci curvature is discrete.
Any smooth manifold of dimension n ≥ 3 admits a Riemannian metric with negative Ricci curvature. (This is not true for surfaces.) Positive scalar curvature
The n-dimensional torus does not admit a m... | wikipedia |
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