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wiki_27784_chunk_3 | Seesaw molecular geometry | Disphenoidal molecules, like trigonal bipyramidal ones, are subject to Berry pseudorotation in which the axial ligands move to equatorial positions and vice versa. This exchange of positions results in similar time-averaged environments for the two types of ligands. Thus, the 19F NMR spectrum of SF4 (like that of PF5) ... | wikipedia |
wiki_35670_chunk_0 | Systems modeling | Systems modeling or system modeling is the interdisciplinary study of the use of models to conceptualize and construct systems in business and IT development. A common type of systems modeling is function modeling, with specific techniques such as the Functional Flow Block Diagram and IDEF0. These models can be extende... | wikipedia |
wiki_11050_chunk_33 | RAF Molesworth | Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. .
Rogers, Brian (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications. .
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 ... | wikipedia |
wiki_32925_chunk_6 | Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | External links
Text of the Optional Protocol
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Covenant's monitoring body
List of signatories and ratifications | wikipedia |
wiki_13998_chunk_18 | Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant | In September 2014 Taiwan Power Co. submitted its plan to the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) to mothball Unit 1 and halt construction on Unit 2 of the No. 4 nuclear power plant for three years, beginning in 2015. The plan, written in accordance with the April 2014 government directive to halt construction, underwent severa... | wikipedia |
wiki_32078_chunk_0 | Guia Circuit | The Guia Circuit, or Circuito da Guia, is a street circuit located at the southeast region of the Macau Peninsula in Macau. It is the venue of the Macau Grand Prix and Guia Race of Macau. The circuit consists of long straights and tight corners, and features the characteristics of a typical street circuit - narrow, bu... | wikipedia |
wiki_17632_chunk_5 | Jiyeh Power Station oil spill | In the United Nations Second Committee where the draft resolution was discussed, the United States explained its opposition in terms of its one-sided and inappropriate nature, while Canada felt that "the General Assembly was not the appropriate forum to address questions of legal liability or compensation of the cost o... | wikipedia |
wiki_19227_chunk_8 | Interactive Mathematics Program | See also
The other four NSF funded high school curricula projects:
Core-Plus Mathematics Project
MATH Connections
Mathematics: Modeling Our World
SIMMS Integrated Mathematics Notes External links
Mathematically Correct website Mathematics education in the United States
Mathematics education reform | wikipedia |
wiki_836_chunk_18 | Biomass (ecology) | The most successful animal species, in terms of biomass, may well be Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, with a fresh biomass approaching 500 million tonnes, although domestic cattle may also reach these immense figures. However, as a group, the small aquatic crustaceans called copepods may form the largest animal biom... | wikipedia |
wiki_27244_chunk_2 | Cellulose synthase (UDP-forming) | This family of enzymes is found in bacteria and plants alike. Plant members are usually known as CesA (cellulose synthase) or the tentative CslA (cellulose synthase-like), while bacterial members may additionally be known as BcsA (bacterial cellulose synthase) or CelA (simply "cellulose"). Plants acquired CesA from the... | wikipedia |
wiki_12933_chunk_0 | Functional verification | In electronic design automation, functional verification is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a complex task, and takes the majority of time and effo... | wikipedia |
wiki_11062_chunk_4 | Open Student Television Network | OSTN distribution
OSTN utilizes a non-traditional method of content and signal distribution, the Internet2 high speed academic network. Whereas a traditional television network sends its programming to affiliates via satellite feeds, OSTN uses a high bandwidth connection via the Internet2 network to directly feed affi... | wikipedia |
wiki_10794_chunk_0 | Joint Data Network | The Joint Data Network (JDN) is an interconnected network of JTIDS–based systems, which links air and missile defense command and control and weapons systems across United States armed forces. It provides a set of near-real-time data communications and information systems to facilitate situational awareness and the ex... | wikipedia |
wiki_38165_chunk_8 | Renewable energy in Morocco | Since December 2015, the prices of fuels obey the free play of supply and demand. Wind power Solar power Forecast
Energy sources are significant. Morocco has additional renewable resources that could be developed, which the countries four perennial rivers and many dams with hydroelectric potential. Forecasts estimate w... | wikipedia |
wiki_18603_chunk_7 | Fortitude (Botticelli) | Notes References
"Allegory." Oxford Art Online: Grove Art Online. (2003). http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ "Fortitude," Le Gallerie degli Uffizi. https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/fortitude. Davidson, Gustav. "The Celestial Virtues." Prairie Schooner 44 (2) (1970): 155 -162. Fry, Roger E. "Tempera Painting." The Burling... | wikipedia |
wiki_7243_chunk_19 | Model engineering | Many other model engineers have contributed numerous designs notable for their enduring popularity. Prior to the appearance of Engineering in Miniature magazine in 1979 and Model Engineers' Workshop in 1990, these authors wrote almost exclusively in Model Engineer. Among these, Edgar T. Westbury produced many internal ... | wikipedia |
wiki_3625_chunk_25 | Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization | On the eve of outbreak of World War I, IMRO paramilitary activity in Serbia aimed to provoke a war with Bulgaria. At that time Serbia implemented in Macedonia a program of forced Serbianization. In an incident during 1914, when Bulgaria was still neutral, ca. 2,000 strong IMRO-cheta attacked a railway bridge over the V... | wikipedia |
wiki_25702_chunk_3 | Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank (1942) | References National Register of Historic Places in Minneapolis
Commercial buildings completed in 1942
Art Deco architecture in Minnesota
Streamline Moderne architecture in Minnesota
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
1942 establishments in Minnesota | wikipedia |
wiki_9764_chunk_1 | Ornithological handbook | List of ornithological handbooks with a geographic scope
The Birds of Africa
The Birds of the Malay Peninsula
Birds of North America
The Birds of South America
Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide
Birds of the Western Palearctic
Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds: Passerines: A Photographic Guide (Christophe... | wikipedia |
wiki_30588_chunk_6 | Cellular confinement | The strength and stiffness of pavement layers determines the performance of highway pavements while aggregate use impacts the cost of duration of installation; therefore alternatives are needed to improve pavement quality using new materials with less aggregate usage (Rajagopal et al 2012). Geocells are recognized as a... | wikipedia |
wiki_365_chunk_10 | List of mathematics competitions | National college competitions
AMATYC Mathematics Contest
Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Regional competitions References Competitions
Mathematics | wikipedia |
wiki_2719_chunk_43 | Modal logic | Similarly, the problem of future contingents considers the semantics of assertions about the future: is either of the propositions 'There will be a sea battle tomorrow', or 'There will not be a sea battle tomorrow' now true? Considering this thesis led Aristotle to reject the principle of bivalence for assertions conc... | wikipedia |
wiki_8067_chunk_12 | PowerBuilder | Due to the information about the database schema (such as primary key information) that are stored in PowerBuilder's data dictionary, the code required to implement data display and browsing is greatly simplified, because the dictionary information allows generation of the appropriate SQL behind the scenes. PowerBuilde... | wikipedia |
wiki_12917_chunk_40 | Criticism of The Da Vinci Code | On April 7, 2006, High Court judge Sir Peter Smith rejected the copyright-infringement claim by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, and Random House won the court case. However, in the published extracts of his judgement the judge criticised the non-appearance of Blythe Brown and the vagueness of Dan Brown's evidence, s... | wikipedia |
wiki_1471_chunk_9 | Cellular differentiation | While evolutionarily conserved molecular processes are involved in the cellular mechanisms underlying these switches, in animal species these are very different from the well-characterized gene regulatory mechanisms of bacteria, and even from those of the animals' closest unicellular relatives. Specifically, cell diffe... | wikipedia |
wiki_872_chunk_13 | Epigenetics | Although empirical studies have yielded discrepant results, epigenetic modifications are thought to be a biological mechanism for transgenerational trauma. | wikipedia |
wiki_4927_chunk_0 | Rainforest Action Network | Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, United States. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, and first gained national prominence with a grassroots organizing campaign that in 1987 succeeded in convincing Burger Kin... | wikipedia |
wiki_5817_chunk_6 | Federal Power Commission | Past Commissioners
James G. Watt November 11, 1975 - August 30, 1977
Richard L. Dunham October 20, 1975 - August 9, 1977
John H. Holloman September 3, 1975 - August 4, 1977
Don S. Smith December 13, 1973 - June 30, 1979
William L. Springer June 14, 1973 - December 1, 1975
Rush Moody Jr. November 19, 1971 - March 15, 1... | wikipedia |
wiki_4839_chunk_10 | Bulletproof glass | 2000s advances
In 2005 it was reported that U.S. military researchers were developing a class of transparent armor incorporating aluminum oxynitride (ALON) as the outside "strike plate" layer. Traditional glass/polymer was demonstrated by ALON's manufacturer to require 2.3 times more thickness than ALON's, to guard ag... | wikipedia |
wiki_37860_chunk_41 | List of CPU power dissipation figures | References External links
Official Intel Products
Official AMD Products
Processor electrical specifications Lists of microprocessors | wikipedia |
wiki_883_chunk_26 | Cognitive neuroscience | Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition By Roberto Cabeza, Alan Kingstone
Principles of neural science By Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz, Thomas M. Jessell
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory By Amanda Parker, Edward L. Wilding, Timothy J. Bussey
Neuronal Theories of the Brain By Christof Koch, Joel L. Dav... | wikipedia |
wiki_2649_chunk_25 | Cultural ecology | External links
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Archive of newsletters, officers, award and honor recipients, as well as other resources associated with this community of scholars.
Notes on the development of cultural ecology with an excellent reference list: Ca... | wikipedia |
wiki_2473_chunk_1 | Functional derivative | In the calculus of variations, functionals are usually expressed in terms of an integral of functions, their arguments, and their derivatives. In an integral of a functional, if a function is varied by adding to it another function that is arbitrarily small, and the resulting integrand is expanded in powers of ,... | wikipedia |
wiki_3366_chunk_16 | Dolby Pro Logic | Software encoding and decoding
The liba52 decoder library for AC3 and A52 digital sound optionally exports Lt/Rt stereo sound compatible with Pro Logic decoders.
HandBrake and FFmpeg are capable of downmixing Dolby Digital AC-3 5.1 to Lt/Rt stereo tracks compatible with Dolby Pro Logic I & II decoders.
SurCode for ... | wikipedia |
wiki_13250_chunk_3 | Revolutionary Left Party | Sources
Jerry W. Knudson, The Impact of the Catavi Mine Massacre of 1942 on Bolivian Politics and Public Opinion. In: The Americas, Vol. 26, No. 3 (January 1970), 254-276.
Herbert S. Klein, A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge University Press, 2003). 1940 establishments in Bolivia
1979 disestablishments in Bolivia
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wiki_1326_chunk_33 | Geothermal energy | Fluids drawn from the deep Earth carry a mixture of gases, notably carbon dioxide (), hydrogen sulfide (), methane () and ammonia (). These pollutants contribute to global warming, acid rain, and noxious smells if released. Existing geothermal electric plants emit an average of of per megawatt-hour (MW·h) of electric... | wikipedia |
wiki_21038_chunk_0 | BioCyc database collection | The BioCyc database collection is an assortment of organism specific Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs) that provide reference to genome and metabolic pathway information for thousands of organisms. As of June 2021, there were over 17,800 databases within BioCyc. SRI International, based in Menlo Park, California, mainta... | wikipedia |
wiki_32673_chunk_1 | Atomic Power (film) | Nearly every person involved in the invention of the atomic bomb performs as an actor in the film, recreating the events and conversations that led up to the Trinity test, which is also reenacted and intercut with government footage of the blast. Jack Glenn directed. Reception
The National Board of Review called Atomic... | wikipedia |
wiki_14745_chunk_0 | Shopping cart software | Shopping cart software is a piece of e-commerce software on a web server that allows visitors to have an Internet site to select items for eventual purchase. The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase. At the point of sale, the software typically calculates a total for the ... | wikipedia |
wiki_14049_chunk_15 | Evolutionary developmental psychology | Ontogenetic adaptations
In contrast to deferred adaptations, which function to prepare individuals for future environments (i.e., adulthood), ontogenetic adaptations adapt individuals to their current environment. These adaptations serve a specific function during a particular period of development, after which they a... | wikipedia |
wiki_17336_chunk_3 | Computer Love (Zapp song) | References External links
Computer Love: How Charlie Wilson & Roger Troutman created the idea and it became a reality 1985 songs
1986 singles
Song recordings produced by Roger Troutman
Songs written by Shirley Murdock
Songs written by Roger Troutman
Warner Records singles
Zapp (band) songs | wikipedia |
wiki_831_chunk_102 | Indus Valley Civilisation | Dasyu
After the discovery of the IVC in the 1920s, it was immediately associated with the indigenous Dasyu inimical to the Rigvedic tribes in numerous hymns of the Rigveda. Mortimer Wheeler interpreted the presence of many unburied corpses found in the top levels of Mohenjo-daro as the victims of a warlike conquest, a... | wikipedia |
wiki_591_chunk_27 | Temporomandibular joint dysfunction | Hormonal factors
Since females are more often affected by TMD than males, the female sex hormone estrogen has been suggested to be involved. The results of one study suggested that the periods of highest pain in TMD can be correlated with rapid periods of change in the circulating estrogen level. Low estrogen was also ... | wikipedia |
wiki_9080_chunk_22 | Face (sociological concept) | Sociology
"Face" is central to sociology and sociolinguistics. Martin C. Yang analyzed eight sociological factors in losing or gaining face: the kinds of equality between the people involved, their ages, personal sensibilities, inequality in social status, social relationship, consciousness of personal prestige, prese... | wikipedia |
wiki_5031_chunk_7 | Ragdoll physics | See also
Cartoon physics
Joint constraints
Stair Dismount
Truck Dismount
Lugaru References Computer physics engines
Video game development | wikipedia |
wiki_115_chunk_0 | Computer vision | Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the human visual system can do. | wikipedia |
wiki_33114_chunk_1 | Arava Power Company | In the Ketura Sun project, photovoltaic (PV) solar panel from Suntech company were used, in collaboration with Siemens Israel. Arava's mission is to supply Israel with 10% of its energy needs through clean, renewable solar energy. | wikipedia |
wiki_3035_chunk_0 | Evolution (Baxter novel) | Evolution is a collection of short stories that work together to form an episodic science fiction novel by author Stephen Baxter. It follows 565 million years of human evolution, from shrewlike mammals 65 million years in the past to the ultimate fate of humanity (and its descendants, both biological and non-biologica... | wikipedia |
wiki_36655_chunk_1 | Dallas Pedestrian Network | Hotels:
Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Fairmont Hotel
Dallas Marriott Downtown
Hotel Indigo
Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown
Westin
Cambria Dallas Downtown (Tower Petroleum Building) Office Buildings:
Comerica Bank Tower
Chase Tower
1700 Pacific
Bank of America Plaza
Renaissance Tower
Fountain Place
Plaza of the Ameri... | wikipedia |
wiki_3255_chunk_4 | Power take-off | Experimental power take-offs were tried as early as 1878, and various homemade versions were constructed over the subsequent decades. International Harvester Company (IHC) was first to market with a PTO on a production tractor, with its model 8-16, introduced in 1918. Edward A. Johnston, an IHC engineer, had been impre... | wikipedia |
wiki_2120_chunk_24 | Coherence (physics) | Holography
Coherent superpositions of optical wave fields include holography. Holographic photographs have been used as art and as difficult to forge security labels. Non-optical wave fields
Further applications concern the coherent superposition of non-optical wave fields. In quantum mechanics for example one conside... | wikipedia |
wiki_39692_chunk_19 | Evolution of lemurs | Once safely established on Madagascar, with its limited mammalian population, the lemurs were protected from the increasing competition from evolving arboreal mammalian groups. Monkeys had evolved by the Oligocene, and their intelligence, aggression, and deceptiveness may have given them the advantage in exploiting the... | wikipedia |
wiki_340_chunk_0 | List of algorithms | The following is a list of algorithms along with one-line descriptions for each. Automated planning Combinatorial algorithms | wikipedia |
wiki_1778_chunk_9 | List of mechanical engineers | G
Emile Gagnan (1900–1979) – co-inventor (with Cousteau) of the diving regulator used in SCUBA equipment
Henry Laurence Gantt (1861–1919) – inventor of the Gantt chart
Blasco de Garay (1500–1552) – early steam power pioneer and developer of paddle wheels as a substitute for oars
Herbert William Garratt (1864–1913)... | wikipedia |
wiki_15094_chunk_7 | Boot Camp (software) | 8 GB USB storage device, or external drive formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) for installation of Windows drivers for Mac hardware
20 GB free hard disk space for a first-time installation or 40 GB for an upgrade from a previous version of Windows
A full version of one of the following operating systems:
Windows 7 Home Premiu... | wikipedia |
wiki_28043_chunk_68 | List of 8-bit computer hardware graphics | 8-bit RGB palettes {| style="border-style: none" border="0" cellpadding="0"
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wiki_19014_chunk_5 | Canadian Electrical Code | The Canadian Electrical Code is published in several parts: Part I is the safety standard for electrical installations. Part II is a collection of individual standards for the evaluation of electrical equipment or installations. (Part I requires that electrical products be approved to a Part II standard) Part III is th... | wikipedia |
wiki_2157_chunk_29 | Supercell | Mini-supercell or low-topped supercell
Whereas classic, HP, and LP refer to different precipitation regimes and mesoscale frontal structures, another variation was identified in the early 1990s by Jon Davies. These smaller storms were initially called mini-supercells but are now commonly referred to as low-topped supe... | wikipedia |
wiki_21412_chunk_28 | Scratch (programming language) | Technology
The editor of Scratch 1.4 and below was written in Squeak, while its online project viewer was written in Java, and a player written in Adobe Flash was later added. Scratch 2.0 relied on Adobe Flash for the online version, and Adobe AIR for the offline editor. These have fallen out of favor, and Adobe has d... | wikipedia |
wiki_2235_chunk_25 | Galvanic cell | The voltage (electromotive force Eo) produced by a galvanic cell can be estimated from the standard Gibbs free energy change in the electrochemical reaction according to: | wikipedia |
wiki_12056_chunk_4 | Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples | Participating Institutions
Antarctic Research Facility, Florida State University
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada
Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
National Lacustrine Core Repository, University of Minnesota
Ocean Drilling Program/Deep Sea ... | wikipedia |
wiki_1427_chunk_27 | Comics Code Authority | Leopold, Todd. "The Pictures that Horrified America", May 8, 2008
Vassallo, Michael J. "A Look at the Atlas Pre-Code Crime and Horror Work of Stan Lee". The Buyer's Guide #1258 (December 26, 1997), via Live ForEverett..
FBI, "Comics Magazine Association of America, 1960"
"Seduction of the Innocents and the Attack on... | wikipedia |
wiki_30190_chunk_3 | 2000–01 United States network television schedule (daytime) | Monday-Friday Notes:
NBC allowed owned-and-operated and affiliated stations the preference of airing Passions and Days of Our Lives in reverse order from the network's recommended scheduling, a structure held over from when Another World occupied the 2:00 p.m. ET timeslot prior to its discontinuance in July 1999.
The... | wikipedia |
wiki_1889_chunk_9 | Mechanical puzzle | Pyramid puzzles
A pyramid puzzle consists of two or more component pieces which fit together to create a pyramid. Two-piece pyramid puzzles cannot form a regular pyramid and can only form a 4 faced tetrahedron pyramid.
The solution involves facing the square faces to each other and twisting one upright to complete the ... | wikipedia |
wiki_6537_chunk_173 | List of dialling codes in Germany | 087
0870
08705 Altfraunhofen
0871 Landshut
0872
08722 Gangkofen
0873
08731 Dingolfing
08732 Frontenhausen
0874
08741 Vilsbiburg
08743 Geisenhausen
08745 Bodenkirchen
0875
0876
08761 Moosburg an der Isar
08765 Tondorf
0878
08781 Rottenburg an der Laaber
0879 | wikipedia |
wiki_3941_chunk_23 | Extended Unix Code | Related Japanese encoding methods
Vendor extensions to EUC-JP (from, for example, the Open Software Foundation, IBM or NEC) were often allocated within the individual code sets, as opposed to using invalid EUC sequences (as in popular extensions of EUC-CN and EUC-KR). | wikipedia |
wiki_15078_chunk_10 | Artificial cell | Heavy investing in biology has been done by large companies such as ExxonMobil, who has partnered with Synthetic Genomics Inc; Craig Venter's own biosynthetics company in the development of fuel from algae. | wikipedia |
wiki_37795_chunk_0 | Federal roofing tax credit for energy efficiency | Goals of the tax credit
The 2009 roofing tax credit is part of a twofold plan rolled out by the US federal government. The first and most relevant of goals was intended to stimulate the economy by motivating Americans to replace their roofs with more energy efficient roofs, thereby creating jobs by increasing the dema... | wikipedia |
wiki_21038_chunk_6 | BioCyc database collection | The study by Shimul Chowdhury et al. showed association differed between maternal SNPs and metabolites involved in homocysteine, folate, and transsulfuration pathways in cases with Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) as opposed to controls. The study used HumanCyc to select candidate genes and SNPs. References Genome datab... | wikipedia |
wiki_4221_chunk_13 | Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems | General-purpose operating system resource sharing
General-purpose operating system resource sharing is one of the main objectives of Adeos, to provide an environment which enables multiple general purpose OSes to share the same hardware. | wikipedia |
wiki_39337_chunk_3 | De Hantumermolen, Hantum | Public access
De Hantumermolen is open by appointment or whenever the mill is working. References Windmills in Friesland
Windmills completed in 1880
Smock mills in the Netherlands
Windpumps in the Netherlands
Rijksmonuments in Friesland
Octagonal buildings in the Netherlands | wikipedia |
wiki_20638_chunk_22 | Death Proof | 2007 films
2000s action thriller films
2000s horror thriller films
2007 independent films
2000s serial killer films
American action thriller films
American chase films
American films
American horror thriller films
American independent films
American serial killer films
English-language films
Grindhouse (film)
American ... | wikipedia |
wiki_26797_chunk_30 | Dragonball Evolution | Creator response
Before the film's release, Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama initially felt surprised by Dragonball: Evolution and suggested to his fans to treat it as an alternate universe version of his work. In an interview with the Asahi Shimbun on Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Toriyama revealed that he felt the... | wikipedia |
wiki_5907_chunk_13 | Norm (mathematics) | There are exactly four Euclidean Hurwitz algebras over the real numbers. These are the real numbers the complex numbers the quaternions and lastly the octonions where the dimensions of these spaces over the real numbers are respectively.
The canonical norms on and are their absolute value functions, as discusse... | wikipedia |
wiki_2387_chunk_21 | Educational software | Selected reports and academic articles
Virvou, M., Katsionis, G., & Manos, K. (2005). "Combining Software Games with Education: Evaluation of its Educational Effectiveness." Educational Technology & Society, 8 (2), 54-65.
Seels, B. (1989). The instructional design movement in educational technology. Educational Techn... | wikipedia |
wiki_13871_chunk_2 | River engineering | Beginning in the late 20th century, the river engineering discipline has been more focused on repairing hydromodified degradations and accounting for potential systematic response to planned alterations by considering fluvial geomorphology. Fluvial geomorphology is the study of how rivers change their form over time. F... | wikipedia |
wiki_494_chunk_27 | Quantum information | The first quantum key distribution scheme BB84, developed by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in 1984. It is usually explained as a method of securely communicating a private key from a third party to another for use in one-time pad encryption. E91 E91 was made by Artur Ekert in 1991. His scheme uses entangled pairs... | wikipedia |
wiki_11198_chunk_10 | John Pinkerton (computer designer) | He also made contributions to documenting the history of computing, for example through the
Science Museum's recorded interviews with UK pioneers. Legacy The Institution of Engineering and Technology holds an annual Pinkerton Lecture in their prestigious lecture series. Each year an Engineer of considerable repute is s... | wikipedia |
wiki_20054_chunk_0 | Pylos Regional Archaeological Project | The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (or PRAP) is a diachronic and multi-disciplinary archaeological expedition established in 1990. Its purpose is to study the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in southwestern Greece (modern Messenia). The focus of the expedition entails surveying the Bronze Age admi... | wikipedia |
wiki_4848_chunk_24 | Mathematical coincidence | A density of one ounce per cubic foot is very close to one kilogram per cubic metre: 1 oz/ft3 = 1 oz × 0.028349523125 kg/oz / (1 ft × 0.3048 m/ft)3 ≈ 1.0012 kg/m3. Fine-structure constant
The fine-structure constant is close to, and was once conjectured to be precisely equal to, . | wikipedia |
wiki_3120_chunk_32 | Squamous cell skin cancer | Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin can be found on all areas of the body but is most common on frequently sun-exposed areas, such as the face, legs and arms. Solid organ transplant recipients (heart, lung, liver, pancreas, among others) are also at a heightened risk of developing aggressive, high-risk SCC. There are a... | wikipedia |
wiki_245_chunk_15 | Genetics | Features of inheritance Discrete inheritance and Mendel's laws At its most fundamental level, inheritance in organisms occurs by passing discrete heritable units, called genes, from parents to offspring. This property was first observed by Gregor Mendel, who studied the segregation of heritable traits in pea plants. In... | wikipedia |
wiki_38834_chunk_13 | Evolution Championship Series | Evo 2010, held at Caesars Palace from July 9, 2010 through July 11, 2010 had a massive number of competitors, with Super Street Fighter IV amassing approximately 1,800 players to duel for a $20,000 guaranteed prize pot. Most notable in this EVO was Justin Wong cementing his dominance in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 in its prove... | wikipedia |
wiki_11251_chunk_4 | Transvection (genetics) | The physiological relevance of transvection has been, recently, documented in the context of sex-biased gene expression. In this case in Drosophila, transvection acts on the female X-linked gene, yellow, as it is homozygous in females (XX) versus hemizygous in males (XY). References See also
Complementation (genetics) ... | wikipedia |
wiki_6034_chunk_2 | Small-cell carcinoma | Types of SCLC
Small-cell lung carcinoma has long been divided into two clinicopathological stages, termed limited stage (LS) and extensive stage (ES). The stage is generally determined by the presence or absence of metastases, whether or not the tumor appears limited to the thorax, and whether or not the entire tumor b... | wikipedia |
wiki_39984_chunk_0 | List of places named after casualties of the Smolensk air disaster | This is a list of places named after casualties of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash. This list includes only name changes that were accepted, e.g. by city councils. Streets Georgia
Lech Kaczyński Street ( – Lekh Kachinskis Kucha) in Tbilisi
Lech and Maria Kaczyński Street ( – Lekh da Maria Kachinskebis Kucha) in... | wikipedia |
wiki_10285_chunk_8 | Ethnobiology | Usage
All societies make use of the biological world in which they are situated, but there are wide differences in use, informed by perceived need, available technology, and the culture's sense of morality and sustainability. Ethnobiologists investigate what lifeforms are used for what purposes, the particular techniqu... | wikipedia |
wiki_30352_chunk_1 | Safety of high-energy particle collision experiments | To address these concerns in the context of the LHC, CERN mandated a group of independent scientists to review these scenarios. In a report issued in 2003, they concluded that, like current particle experiments such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the LHC particle collisions pose no conceivable threat. A... | wikipedia |
wiki_6324_chunk_4 | Hearing Voices Network | These networks provide support to voice hearers specifically through the establishment of local hearing voices support groups, where people who hear voices are afforded the opportunity in a non-medical setting to share their experiences, coping mechanisms and explanatory frameworks. These groups are run in different wa... | wikipedia |
wiki_31865_chunk_2 | Functional medicine | Proponents of functional medicine oppose established medical knowledge and reject its models, instead adopting a model of disease based on the notion of "antecedents", "triggers", and "mediators". These are meant to correspond to the underlying causes, the immediate causes, and the particular characteristics of a perso... | wikipedia |
wiki_24262_chunk_11 | Freshwater ecology of Maharashtra | The Godavari (गोदावरी नदी) River is a major waterway in central India, originating in the Western Ghats and flowing eastwardly across the Deccan Plateau between the states of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, then crossing the latter state and turning to flow in a southeast direction until it empties into the Bay of Beng... | wikipedia |
wiki_16839_chunk_29 | Canadian Psychological Association | Policy Statements
Conversion/Reparative Therapy for Sexual Orientation
Gender Identity in Adolescents and Adults
Violence against Women
Bullying in Children and Youth
The Presence of Involved Third Party Observer in Neuropsychological Assessments
Public Statements
Physical Punishment of Children and Youth
Ethical Use... | wikipedia |
wiki_31813_chunk_16 | Abstract algebra | Because of its generality, abstract algebra is used in many fields of mathematics and science. For instance, algebraic topology uses algebraic objects to study topologies. The Poincaré conjecture, proved in 2003, asserts that the fundamental group of a manifold, which encodes information about connectedness, can be use... | wikipedia |
wiki_933_chunk_3 | Kingdom (biology) | The classification of living things into animals and plants is an ancient one. Aristotle (384–322 BC) classified animal species in his History of Animals, while his pupil Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BC) wrote a parallel work, the Historia Plantarum, on plants. | wikipedia |
wiki_1534_chunk_21 | Soft power | Asia and more recently China have been working to use the potential soft power assets that are present in the admiration of their ancient cultures, arts, fashion and cuisine. China is presenting itself as a defender of national sovereignty, which became an issue after the NATO air campaign to oust Colonel Muammar Gadda... | wikipedia |
wiki_4777_chunk_28 | 16-cell | T. Gosset: On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions, Messenger of Mathematics, Macmillan, 1900
H.S.M. Coxeter:
Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H.S.M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995,
(Pap... | wikipedia |
wiki_105_chunk_6 | Colossus computer | In August 1941, a blunder by German operators led to the transmission of two versions of the same message with identical machine settings. These were intercepted and worked on at Bletchley Park. First, John Tiltman, a very talented GC&CS cryptanalyst, derived a key stream of almost 4000 characters. Then Bill Tutte, a n... | wikipedia |
wiki_35644_chunk_7 | Coleophora laricella | Where natural controls are not enough to prevent severe defoliation non-native parasites have been introduced. The most important two being Agathis pumila and Chrysocharis laricinellae, which are fly-like European wasps. A. pumila was shown to be effective in eastern North America in the 1930s, but had less success in ... | wikipedia |
wiki_16950_chunk_3 | Confederate Government Civil War units | Indian cavalry
1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles (1st Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles)
1st Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (Watie's Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Volunteers; 2nd Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Arkansas; 1st Regiment, Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
Cherokee Regiment (Special Service)
1st Squadron, Cher... | wikipedia |
wiki_334_chunk_9 | Logical positivism | Gottlob Frege began the program of reducing mathematics to logic, continued it with Bertrand Russell, but lost interest in this logicism, and Russell continued it with Alfred North Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica, inspiring some of the more mathematical logical positivists, such as Hans Hahn and Rudolf Carnap.... | wikipedia |
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