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House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic
Eighteen scientists interviewed in the film stated that their answers to Leung's questions were selectively edited to convey a false sense that the scientific community disagrees on basic facts about HIV/AIDS. Two interviewees, Neil Constantine and Robin Weiss, cite examples supporting the allegation that Leung misrepr...
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List of MeSH codes (D02)
– propofol – pyrogallol – resorcinols – hexylresorcinol – zearalenone – zeranol – quinones – anthraquinones – carmine – cascara – emodin – mitoxantrone – benzoquinones – carbazilquinone – chloranil – dibromothymoquinone – plastoquinone – ubiquinone – indolequinones – mitomycins – mitomycin ...
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Boolean matrix
R. Duncan Luce (1952) "A Note on Boolean Matrices", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 3: 382–8, Jstor link Jacques Riguet (1954) "Sur l'extension du calcul des relations binaires au calcul des matrices a Γ©lΓ©ments dans une algΓ¨bre de Boole", Comptes Rendus 238: 2382–2385
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Rayat Institute of Engineering & Information Technology
Academics Bachelor of Engineering courses (four years): Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering Information Technology Mechanical Engineering Master of Engineering courses (two years): Computer Science and Engineering Electronics and Communication Engi...
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2008–09 United States network television schedule
Not returning from 2007–08: Cane Jericho (reruns to broadcast on The CW, from late 2008) Kid Nation Moonlight Power of 10 Secret Talents of the Stars Shark Swingtown Viva Laughlin Welcome to The Captain The CW Returning series: America's Next Top Model Everybody Hates Chris The Game Gossip Girl One Tree Hill Reaper Sma...
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Dee Molenaar
Art Molenaar painted in watercolors and oils. He is known for his impressionism-style art with mountain and desert landscapes the dominant theme in his works. He painted the highest watercolor in history, spending 10 days in a tent painting K2 from memory at 25,000 feet during a severe storm that hit during the 1953 ex...
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Jordan operator algebra
Properties of JB* algebras The definition of JB* algebras was suggested in 1976 by Irving Kaplansky at a lecture in Edinburgh. The real part of a JB* algebra is always a JB algebra. proved that conversely the complexification of every JB algebra is a JB* algebra. JB* algebras have been used extensively as a framework...
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Electrical equipment in hazardous areas
The International Electrotechnical Commission publishes the 60079 series of standards defines a system for classification of locations, as well as categorizing and testing of equipment designed for use in hazardous locations, known as "Ex equipment". IEC 60079-10-1 covers classification of explosive gas atmospheres, a...
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Sub-sampling (chemistry)
A riffle box is a box containing a number (between 3 and 12) of "chutes" - slotted paths through which particles of the sample may slide. The sample is dropped into the top, and the box produces two equally divided subsamples. Riffle boxes are commonly used in mining to reduce the size of crushed rock samples prior t...
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Back on the Streets (Tower of Power album)
Studios Recorded at Record Plant, Los Angeles (California); Record Plant, Sausalito (California); United Western Recorders (Hollywood, California); Universal Recording Studio and P.S. Recording Studios (Chicago, Illinois). Mixed at Record Plant, Los Angeles and Record Plant, Sausalito. Mastered at Kendun Recorders (...
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Featherproof Books
References External links Featherproof Books Featherproof on Myspace Companies based in Chicago Book publishing companies based in Illinois Small press publishing companies Publishing companies established in 2005
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Code page 866
Modified code page 866 An unofficial variant with code points 240–255 identical to code page 437. However, the letter Ёё is usually placed at 240 and 241. This version supports only Russian and Bulgarian. The differing row is shown below. Lithuanian variants
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Energy level
Orbital state energy level: atom/ion with nucleus + one electron Assume there is one electron in a given atomic orbital in a hydrogen-like atom (ion). The energy of its state is mainly determined by the electrostatic interaction of the (negative) electron with the (positive) nucleus. The energy levels of an electron ar...
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Asynchronous circuit
two-phase handshake ( two-phase protocol, Non-Return-to-Zero (NRZ) encoding, or transition signalling): Communications are represented by any wire transition; transitions from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 0 both count as communications. four-phase handshake (a.k.a. four-phase protocol, or Return-to-Zero (RZ) encoding): Communi...
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R: Racing Evolution
Plot Rena Hayami is introduced as a Japanese ambulance driver. On one afternoon, she responds to an accident at Twin Ring Motegi. Pressed for time, Rena pushes her driving skills to the limit in order to deliver the injured racer to the hospital. Along for the ride with his injured team member, the former racing engine...
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David Bader (computer scientist)
Early life Bader is the son of chemistry professor Morris Bader and his wife Karen. He is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America, receiving this designation in 1985. Bader graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1987. He received a B.S. in computer engineering in 1990 and an M.S. in electr...
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Charles Mathiesen
World records Over the course of his career, Mathiesen skated one world record: Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com Personal records To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Mathiesen skated his personal records. Mathiesen has an Adelskalender score of 189...
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China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation
History From 1970 to 1975, the foreign aid department of the Ministry of Railways, helped build the TAZARA Railway in Tanzania and Zambia. The 1,860Β km railway in Africa was China's single largest foreign aid project. On 1 June 1979 China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation was incorporated, upon the approval by...
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Power metal
European power metal originated from speed metal and the NWOBHM, emerging in late 1980s, particularly in Germany, with Helloween, Running Wild, Rage, Grave Digger, and Blind Guardian. The second and third Helloween albums; Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I (1987) and Part II (1988) are usually considered the first prope...
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Aromatherapy
Most oils can be toxic to humans as well. A report of three cases documented gynecomastia in prepubertal boys who were exposed to topical lavender and tea tree oils. The Aromatherapy Trade Council of the UK issued a rebuttal. The Australian Tea Tree Association, a group that promotes the interests of Australian tea tre...
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Terminator (genetics)
In genetics, a transcription terminator is a section of nucleic acid sequence that marks the end of a gene or operon in genomic DNA during transcription. This sequence mediates transcriptional termination by providing signals in the newly synthesized transcript RNA that trigger processes which release the transcript R...
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Archaeological ethics
Ethics in commercial archaeology In the United States, the bulk of modern archaeological work is done under the auspices of development by cultural resource management archaeologists in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Guidance for compliance with Section 106 is provided by The Adv...
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Power dividers and directional couplers
The concept of the Bethe-hole coupler can be extended by providing multiple holes. The holes are spaced Ξ»/4 apart. The design of such couplers has parallels with the multiple section coupled transmission lines. Using multiple holes allows the bandwidth to be extended by designing the sections as a Butterworth, Cheby...
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Sex-selective abortion
In a widely cited article, Amartya Sen compared the birth sex ratio in Europe (106) and United States (105) with those in Asia (107+) and argued that the high sex ratios in East Asia, West Asia and South Asia may be due to excessive female mortality. Sen pointed to research that had shown that if men and women receive ...
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International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
See also The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science. References External links IJCAI website Artificial intelligence conferences
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Renewable energy
According to a 2018 report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, wind and solar power are expected to generate roughly 50% of the world's energy needs by 2050, while coal powered electricity plants are expected to drop to just 11%. Renewable energy costs continue to drop, and the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) is decl...
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College of Agricultural Engineering and Post Harvest Technology
Library CAEPHT Library has 8,500 volumes, including textbooks, reference books, encyclopaedias and non-book material such as CD-ROMs and audio tapes. It has access to the CAU central library with more than 100,000 books and subscription to more than 100 journals. The college library subscribes to about 100 periodicals....
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Tetrahedral molecular geometry
Bitetrahedral structures Many compounds and complexes adopt bitetrahedral structures. In this motif, the two tetrahedra share a common edge. The inorganic polymer silicon disulfide features an infinite chain of edge-shared tetrahedra. In a completely saturated hydrocarbon system, bitetrahedral molecule C8H6 has been ...
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The Logic of Life
See also The Undercover Economist (2006) References External links Tim Harford's page on the Book 2008 non-fiction books Books about philosophy of economics English-language books Paradoxes
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Area codes 613 and 343
Adolphustown (Greater Napanee) – (613): 373 Addington Highlands (township): see Denbigh, Northbrook Alexandria (North Glengarry) – (343): 432 474, (613): 525, 642 For the municipality "Alfred and Plantagenet", see Alfred and Plantagenet Alfred (Alfred and Plantagenet) – (343): 371, 691, 789, (613): 605, 679, 708 Almont...
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Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
2011 related hunger strike On January 3, 2011, LaMar and Sanders began a twelve-day, liquid-only hunger strike at the Ohio State Penitentiary supermax prison in Youngstown, Ohio. On January 4, 2011, Robb joined the hunger strike. The three death-row inmates were living in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. Additi...
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CellarTracker
Awards On January 4, 2010, Eric LeVine, founder of CellarTracker.com, was named the "Wine Person of the Decade" by user voting on popular wine blog, Dr. Vino.com. Notes External links Official CellarTracker! homepage Wine packaging and storage Wine websites
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Redbank Power Station
Hydrogen In 2021, Verdant Technologies announced its acquisition of Monarch Hydrogen, which possessed the experience and technology needed for the creation of renewable hydrogen. The acquisition is planned to facilitate the introduction of a hydrogen production facility on the same site as Redbank Power Station. If su...
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Computer appliance
There are several design patterns adopted by computer appliance vendors, a few of which are shown below. Since the whole concept of an appliance rests on keeping such implementation details away from the end user, it is difficult to match these patterns to specific appliances, particularly since they can and do change...
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Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles
Bibliography Beckett, Ian F.W. (1982) Riflemen Form: A study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, . The History of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles. London : Wyman & Sons Ltd., 1921. Knight, Jill. (2004) The Civil Service Rifles in the Great War: all bloody gentlemen. Bar...
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Organouranium chemistry
Other organouranium compounds are inverted uranocenes with a COT ligand in between two uranium atoms or uranium sandwich compounds with pentalenide ligands instead of COT ligands. See also Organoactinide chemistry A 1982 review of the organouranium and organothorium chemistry The Exceptional Diversity of Homoleptic Ura...
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Public switched telephone network
See also Managed facilities-based voice network Plain old telephone service (POTS) Via Net Loss References Switched telephone networking Telecommunications systems Telephony
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Mutemath
Nominations Grammy Award 2008 Best Short Form Music Video - "Typical". Filmography Flesh and Bones Electric Fun (Teleprompt/WBR, 2007) β€” DVD Release Date: March 20, 2007 Armistice Live'' (Teleprompt/WBR/Goodwin Films, 2010) β€” DVD Release Date: October 12, 2010
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Java Platform, Standard Edition
java.lang.reflect Reflection is a constituent of the Java API that lets Java code examine and "reflect" on Java components at runtime and use the reflected members. Classes in the package, along with java.lang.Class and accommodate applications such as debuggers, interpreters, object inspectors, class browsers, and ...
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Piecewise linear function
The function defined by is piecewise linear with four pieces. The graph of this function is shown to the right. Since the graph of a linear function is a line, the graph of a piecewise linear function consists of line segments and rays. The x values (in the above example βˆ’3, 0, and 3) where the slope changes are typi...
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List of Karaoke Revolution songs
Glee Karaoke Revolution: Volume 2 "A House Is Not a Home" – Dionne Warwick "Bad Romance" – Lady Gaga "Beautiful" – Christina Aguilera "Beth" – KISS "Dream a Little Dream of Me" – The Mamas & the Papas "Dream On" – Aerosmith "Gives You Hell" – The All-American Rejects "Good Vibrations" – Marky Mark and the Funky...
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Function object
bool find(T, F)(T[] haystack, F needle_test) { foreach (straw; haystack) { if (needle_test(straw)) return true; } return false; }
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Spin qubit quantum computer
identification of well-defined qubits; reliable state preparation; low decoherence; accurate quantum gate operations and strong quantum measurements. A candidate for such a quantum computer is a lateral quantum dot system. Earlier work on applications of quantum dots for quantum computing was done by Barenco et al....
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United Kingdom Mathematics Trust
Senior Team Challenge A pilot event for a competition similar to the Team Challenge, aimed at 16- to 18-year-olds, was launched in the Autumn of 2007 and has been running ever since. The format is much the same, with a limit of two year 13 (Upper Sixth-Form) pupils per team. Regional finals take place between October a...
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Civil parishes in Berkshire
External links Office for National Statistics: Geographical Area Listings Bracknell Forest Council: Parish Councils Slough Borough Council: Parish Councils West Berkshire Council: Parish Council Contact Details The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead: Parish and Town Councils in the Royal Borough Wokingham Bo...
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Physical chemistry
Key concepts The key concepts of physical chemistry are the ways in which pure physics is applied to chemical problems.
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Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Subsidiaries Subordinate government agencies: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate Enova Gassnova Statnett Wholly owned limited companies: Gassco Petoro Partially owned public limited companies: Equinor (62% ownership) References External links Official web site Petro...
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Energy subsidy
External links Fossil Fuel Subsidy Tracker- a collaboration between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Global Subsidies Initiative - a project of the International Institute for Sustainable Development OECD-IEA analysis o...
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Quaternion algebra
Structure Quaternion algebra here means something more general than the algebra of Hamilton's quaternions. When the coefficient field F does not have characteristic 2, every quaternion algebra over F can be described as a 4-dimensional F-vector space with basis , with the following multiplication rules: where a and b a...
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Empirical distribution function
See also CΓ dlΓ g functions Count data Distribution fitting Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality Empirical probability Empirical process Estimating quantiles from a sample Frequency (statistics) Kaplan–Meier estimator for censored processes Survival function Q-Q plot References Further reading External links...
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Control–feedback–abort loop
The control–feedback concept consisted of a β€˜Control’ that gave information on the way the component was to perform and then adjustments to the control's present operation based upon the feedback. It used a concept called β€˜Sampling’ to determine how often the β€˜Control’ used the β€˜Feedback’ information so that the β€˜Contr...
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History of electric power transmission
The first demonstrative long-distance (34Β km, 21Β mi) AC line was built for the 1884 International Exhibition of Turin, Italy. It was powered by a 2-kV, 130-Hz Siemens & Halske alternator and featured several Gaulard secondary generators with their primary windings connected in series, which fed incandescent lamps. The ...
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Dodge Power Wagon
Four Wheel Drive light-duty pickup trucks and Town Wagons W100 and W200 (1957 - 1980) The first light-duty styled Power Wagons came out in 1957 with the introduction of the four-wheel-drive versions of the Dodge C Series pickups and Town Wagons, Beginning in 1957, -ton 2WDs were D100s and 4WDs were W100s, -ton 2WD and...
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Tron: Evolution
2010 video games 3D platform games Action-adventure games Games for Windows certified games Multiplayer and single-player video games Multiplayer online games Parkour video games PlayStation 3 games PlayStation Move-compatible games PlayStation Portable games Evolution Unreal Engine games Disney video games Video games...
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Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)
The years 1980–81 saw the MIR return in strength to the Valdivia province where they sought to establish a guerrilla group in Neltume. The MIR had in September 1970 given basic military training to some 2,000 lumber workers in the Panguipulli Lake area and won over the trust of the general population, some 500 miles so...
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High Evolutionary
Fictional character biography Herbert Edgar Wyndham was born in Manchester, England. While a student at Oxford in the 1930s, he took an interest in the work of genetic biologist Nathaniel Essex, and began experimenting with genetic manipulation, building a machine (that he called the genetic accelerator) with which he ...
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Biological thermodynamics
Thermodynamic Theory of Evolution The biological evolution may be explained through a thermodynamic theory. The four laws of thermodynamics are used to frame the biological theory behind evolution. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can not be created or destroyed. No life can create energy but must ob...
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Powerco
Its electricity network currently supplies the following regions: Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty District Thames-Coromandel, Hauraki, Matamata-Piako and South Waikato Districts Taranaki Region Wanganui and Rangitikei Districts Palmerston North City and Manawatu District Southern Tararua District (south o...
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Chemical looping combustion
External links http://www.entek.chalmers.se/lyngfelt/co2/co2.htm chemical-looping.at Chemical Looping, Institute for Combustion Science, Western Kentucky University. http://www.icb.csic.es/index.php?id=144&L=1 http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/carboncaptureandstorage http://www.encapco2.org/sp4.htm Carbon capture and ...
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Cat Tales Zoological Park
As of September 2019, one of Cat Tales original founders, Mike Wyche died after a long illness. As of his passing the park is run by his wife and head teacher of the zoological education center, Deborah Wyche, as well as his daughter, Lisa Wyche. Notes External links http://www.zooschool.org/
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Induction forging
Advantages Process controllability – Unlike a traditional gas furnace the induction system requires no pre-heat cycle or controlled shutdown. The heat is available on demand. In addition to the benefits of rapid availability in the event of a downstream interruption to production the power can be switched off thus sa...
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Minoan civilization
On mainland Greece during the shaft-grave era at Mycenae, there is little evidence for major Mycenaean fortifications; the citadels follow the destruction of nearly all neopalatial Cretan sites. Warfare by other contemporaries of the ancient Minoans, such as the Egyptians and the Hittites, is well-documented. Skepticis...
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Power over Ethernet
The setup phases are as follows: PSE (provider) tests PD (consumer) physically using 802.3af phase class 3. PSE powers up PD. PD sends to PSE: I'm a PD, max power = X, max power requested = X. PSE sends to PD: I'm a PSE, max power allowed = X. PD may now use the amount of power as specified by the PSE.
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Uninterruptible power supply
Common power problems The primary role of any UPS is to provide short-term power when the input power source fails. However, most UPS units are also capable in varying degrees of correcting common utility power problems: Voltage spike or sustained overvoltage Momentary or sustained reduction in input voltage Voltage...
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Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network
Paint Voucher Program The Paint Voucher Program allows businesses, community groups and homeowners to request free paint for the purpose of cleaning up graffiti on their own properties. The program is funded from the same $1.125 million anti-graffiti budget. Mural Arts Program
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Climate Action Network
Climate Action Network Tanzania Climate Action Network Tanzania is an environmental non-governmental and non-profit organization founded in 2011, with its headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It operates under the umbrella organisation Climate Action Network International. Since its inception, it has established p...
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Cell Broadcast
In case a national civil defence organisation is adopting one of the Wireless Emergency Alerts standards, WEA - formerly known as CMAS in North America, EU-Alert in Europe, LAT-Alert in South America, Earthquake Tsunami Warning System in Japan, each subscriber in that country either making use of the home network or is...
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Corrosion engineering
Underground soil side corrosion Underground corrosion control engineers collect soil samples to test soil chemistry for corrosive factors such as pH, minimum soil resistivity, chlorides, sulfates, ammonia, nitrates, sulfide, and redox potential. They collect samples from the depth that infrastructure will occupy, ...
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List of MeSH codes (B03)
– actinobacteria – actinomycetales – actinomycetaceae – Actinomyces – Actinomyces viscosus – Mobiluncus – Brevibacterium – Cellulomonas – Corynebacterium – Brevibacterium flavum – Corynebacterium diphtheriae – Corynebacterium glutamicum – Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis – Corynebacterium py...
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2006–07 United States network television schedule
Returning series 20/20 According to Jim America's Funniest Home Videos American Inventor The Bachelor Boston Legal Dancing with the Stars Desperate Housewives Extreme Makeover: Home Edition George Lopez Grey's Anatomy Lost Primetime Supernanny What About Brian Wife Swap The Wonderful World of Disney
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The Next Food Network Star (season 5)
Mini Challenge: The eight remaining finalists meet Tyler Florence at a Stew Leonard's supermarket in Yonkers. He tells them they must shop for a family dinner for 12 with only $60 and 30 minutes to shop. During this half-hour, they must also stop by Tyler and present a money-saving tip to the camera. Winner: Jeffrey Ma...
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Little Barford Power Station
Little Barford B Construction of Little Barford B station started in 1959 by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). It had an installed capacity of 127 MW and comprised 2 Γ— 63.5 MW C.A. Parsons generators. The Foster Wheeler boilers burned pulverised coal and produced steam at a rate of 1,100,000Β lb/hr (138.6...
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Diakoptics
A. Brameller, M.N. John & M.R. Scott (1969) Practical Diakoptics for Electrical Networks, Chapman & Hall. H.H. Happ (1973) "The Development of Diakoptics", pp 83 to 120 in Gabriel Kron and Systems Theory. Kron G. (1963) Diakoptics: The Piecewise Solution of Large Scale Systems, MacDonald Publishing. Problem solving S...
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Science and Civilisation in China
Needham’s grand questions influenced other scholars to document the impact of non-European cultures on the development of modern science. Scholars such as Arun Bala have praised Science and Civilisation in China as the most comprehensive modern survey of the scientific and technological accomplishments of any non-Europ...
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Java
Four major cultural areas exist on the island: the Central part of Java or Yogyakarta is the Javanese people heartland and the north coast of the pasisir region, the Sunda lands (Sundanese: , Tatar Sunda) in the Western part of Java and Parahyangan as the heartland, the eastern salient of java also known as Blambangan....
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Configurable Network Computing
In what has been known traditionally as client–server environments, applications must communicate across a combination of different hardware platforms, operating systems and databases as including. The CNC architecture uses a layer of software, called middleware, which resides between the platform operating system and...
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Amiga software
1985 Amiga software started its history with the 1985 Amiga 1000. Commodore International released the programming specifications and development computers to various software houses, prominently Electronic Arts, a software house that then offered Deluxe Paint, Deluxe Music and others. Electronic Arts also developed th...
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Regulatory T cell
The regulatory T cells (Tregs or Treg cells), formerly known as suppressor T cells, are a subpopulation of T cells that modulate the immune system, maintain tolerance to self-antigens, and prevent autoimmune disease. TregΒ cells are immunosuppressive and generally suppress or downregulate induction and proliferation of...
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Napoleonic Code
In fiction The "Code Napoleon" is mentioned in E. M. Forster's posthumously-published novel Maurice (1971), with reference to France being a safe haven for gay men or, as Maurice puts it, "unspeakable(s) of the Oscar Wilde type." The Napoleonic Code is mentioned by Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire by Ten...
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Psychological pricing
Overview According to a 1997 study published in the Marketing Bulletin, approximately 60% of prices in advertising material ended in the digit 9, 30% ended in the digit 5, 7% ended in the digit 0 and the remaining seven digits combined accounted for only slightly over 3% of prices evaluated. In the UK, before the with...
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Power kite
20th century In the late 1970s, the development of Kevlar then Spectra flying lines and more controllable kites with improved efficiency contributed to practical kite traction. In 1978, Ian Day's "FlexiFoil" kite-powered Tornado catamaran exceeded 40Β km/h.
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Form-based code
Public Space Standards control the physical form of squares, parks, the public right-of-way of streets, and other public spaces. Public spaces are typically under the control of public works, parks, and highway departments. Streets, being the most common public spaces in a community, are the most frequently regulated. ...
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Brucellosis
Wild bison and elk in the greater Yellowstone area are the last remaining reservoir of B. abortus in the US. The recent transmission of brucellosis from elk back to cattle in Idaho and Wyoming illustrates how the area, as the last remaining reservoir in the United States, may adversely affect the livestock industry. El...
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Sustainable energy
The Sun is Earth's primary source of energy, a clean and abundantly available resource in many regions. In 2019, solar power provided around 3% of global electricity, mostly through solar panels based on photovoltaic cells (PV). The panels are mounted on top of buildings or installed in utility-scale solar parks. Costs...
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O' God, the Aftermath
Awards In 2006, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Recorded Music Packaging of the Year at the 37th GMA Dove Awards. In the same year, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. Personnel Norma Jean Cory Brandan Putman – vocals, guitars Scottie H....
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Natural deduction
Motivation Natural deduction grew out of a context of dissatisfaction with the axiomatizations of deductive reasoning common to the systems of Hilbert, Frege, and Russell (see, e.g., Hilbert system). Such axiomatizations were most famously used by Russell and Whitehead in their mathematical treatise Principia Mathemat...
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Valpolicella
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Amarone wines of Valpolicella experienced a spike in popularity on the world's wine market. Production of Amarone jumped from 522,320 US gallons (19,772 hectoliters) in 1972 to 1.2 million gallons (46,500 hl) by 1990. By 2000 Amarone production grew to over 3.9 million (148,000 hl). By this ...
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Rob Wainwright (civil servant)
Personal life Wainwright is married and has three children. His interests include literature and history. He has said society accepts that intercepting private phone calls is "a reasonable way to run a democracy". References External links Profile of Rob Wainwright from Europol Wainwright in The Newspaper "The Hague"...
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GEOS (8-bit operating system)
The latest GEOS desktop suite for IBM PC compatibles is Breadbox Ensemble. Revivals were seen in the OmniGo handhelds, Brother GeoBook line of laptop-appliances, and the NewDeal Office package for PCs. Related code found its way to earlier "Zoomer" PDAs, creating an unclear lineage to Palm, Inc.'s later work. Nokia use...
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GE Wind Energy
Through the provision of 179 GE 3.6-137 turbines to Markbygden Wind Farm in Sweden, GE will create the largest single onshore wind installation in Europe. Norsk Hydro will purchase the power via a 19-year fixed volume corporate PPA; understood to be the largest corporate wind energy PPA in the world.
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Electric power quality
The tolerance of data-processing equipment to voltage variations is often characterized by the CBEMA curve, which give the duration and magnitude of voltage variations that can be tolerated. Ideally, AC voltage is supplied by a utility as sinusoidal having an amplitude and frequency given by national standards (in the ...
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External links RewriteCodeFromScratch at C2 Wiki Things You Should Never Do, Part I by Joel Spolsky Computer programming
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2004 Argentine energy crisis
As a response to the 2001 economic crisis, electricity tariffs were converted to the Argentine peso and frozen in January 2002 through the Public Emergency and Exchange Regime Law. Together with high inflation (see Economy of Argentina) and the devaluation of the peso, many companies in the sector had to deal with high...
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Immunohistochemistry
The Human Protein Atlas Overview of Immunohistochemistry--describes all aspects of IHC including sample prep, staining and troubleshooting Immunofluorescent Staining of Paraffin-Embedded Tissue (IF-P) IHC Tip 1: Antigen retrieval - should I do PIER or HIER? Histochemical Staining Methods - University of Rochester...
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Factory (object-oriented programming)
public class Complex { public double real; public double imaginary; public static Complex FromCartesian(double real, double imaginary) { return new Complex(real, imaginary); } public static Complex FromPolar(double modulus, double angle) { return new C...
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Space-based solar power
In 1980, when it became obvious NASA's launch cost estimates for the space shuttle were grossly optimistic, O'Neill et al. published another route to manufacturing using lunar materials with much lower startup costs. This 1980s SPS concept relied less on human presence in space and more on partially self-replicating sy...
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Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
The Lancer Evolution X sedan features a 4B11T 2.0L (1998cc) turbocharged, all-aluminium inline-4 GEMA engine. Power and torque depend on the market but all versions have at least . (JDM version), the American market version has slightly more. The UK models were reworked by Mitsubishi UK, in accordance with previous MR ...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is a work of paleoconservative literature covering various issues in U.S. history by Thomas E. Woods, published in December 2004. This book was the first in the Politically Incorrect Guide series published by Regnery Publishing, who view the series as covering topics ...
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Nokia Research Center - Python for S60 Maemo Garage - Python for S60 SourceForge.net - Python for S60 Nokia Wiki - Python for S60 Python - Developer Discussion Boards Forum Nokia Wiki - Category:Python Maemo - Garage - Python for S60 - Project Filelist Tutorials Python for Series 60 tutorial by Jurgen Scheible ...
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Iraqi Civil War (2006–2008)
Attacks on places of worship On 22 February 2006, a highly provocative explosion took place at the al-Askari Mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, one of the holiest sites in Shi'a Islam, believed to have been caused by a bomb planted by al-Qaeda in Iraq. Although no injuries occurred in the blast, the mosque was sever...
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