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Javan scops owl
Javan scops owl can deliver beetles (Coleoptera), mantids (Mantodea), stick insect (Phasmatodea), grasshoppers (Tettigoniidae, Orthoptera), and crickets (Gryllidae, Orthoptera) to feed the fledged offspring. In terms of foraging, they use their keen vision and acute hearing to track down their prey and snare it from th...
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List of distinct cell types in the adult human body
Germ cells (primordially not) Oogonium/Oocyte Spermatid Spermatocyte Spermatogonium cell (stem cell for spermatocyte) Spermatozoon Nurse cell Granulosa cell (in ovaries) Sertoli cell (in testis) Epithelial reticular cell (in thymus) Interstitial cells Interstitial kidney cells See also List of human cell types derived...
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The Da Vinci Code (film)
The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 novel of the same name. The first in the Robert Langdon film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Sir Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno and Paul B...
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Paul-Henri Mathieu
ATP Tour career finals Singles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runners-up) Doubles: 2 (1–1) ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 14 (4–10) Junior Grand Slam finals Singles: 1 (1 title) Performance timelines Singles Doubles ATP career earnings Wins against top-10 players References External links Bio – File interview ...
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Raw Energy Records
External links Raw Energy: The Story Raw Energy Limited Discography Record labels established in 1989 Canadian independent record labels Punk record labels Defunct record labels of Canada Record label compilation albums 1993 compilation albums Alternative rock compilation albums Compilation albums by Canadian artists
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Powers
Businesses and organizations Powers Irish Whiskey, an Irish whiskey brand Powers Dry Goods, an American department store chain Powers Motion Picture Company, an American film company Powers Motorsports, an American racing team Places in the United States Cities and communities Powers, Indiana Powers, Michigan Po...
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Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc.
Issues In the appeal, CA disputed the district court's finding that the OSCAR 3.5 did not have substantial similarity to CA's ADAPTER. They claimed that the district court did not apply a proper test that took into consideration the copying of non-literal elements of computer software. They claimed that despite the cl...
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Shell Gas & Power
Power plants Coral Energy contracted and built a number of peaker plants and owns the rights to other generation as well. The company's plants included: Brighton Beach Generating Station (541.3 megawatts), natural gas fired, combined cycle unit Wildflower Larkspur (90 megawatts), natural gas peaker plants Indigo ...
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Star Command: Revolution
Triumverites The Triumverites are beings with three disembodied brains floating in a canister where a head would be on a human. Many of their ships deal engine damage to enemies. One special Triumverite ship is the "Cloaker," which cannot be seen by enemies on the mini-map. Their special stations are the "Omni Fighter,...
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Logicism
Russell 1927 abandons the axiom of reducibility: By the 2nd edition of PM of 1927, though, Russell had given up on the axiom of reducibility and concluded he would indeed force any order of function "all the way down" to its elementary propositions, linked together with logical operators: "All propositions, of whatever...
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Cellphone's Dead
The visual effects were completed at Fly Studio. BPitch Control remixes A remix 12-inch single was released by Berlin-based label BPitch Control, featuring remixes by Ellen Allien and Ricardo Villalobos. These remixes also appear on disc 2 of the deluxe version of The Information. References External links Beck songs 2...
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National Mathematics Talent Contest
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Modeling language
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History of optics
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) picked up the investigation of the laws of optics from his lunar essay of 1600. Both lunar and solar eclipses presented unexplained phenomena, such as unexpected shadow sizes, the red color of a total lunar eclipse, and the reportedly unusual light surrounding a total solar eclipse. Related ...
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Renewable energy in Colombia
Geothermal The former Colombian Institute of Electrical Energy, today IPSE, and the Latin American Energy Organization have identified three areas with geothermal power potential: Azufral, in Nariño Department, where the Azufral Volcano is located; Cerro Negro-Tufiño, also in Nariño Department, near the Chiles Volcan...
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Royal School of Military Engineering
History The Peninsular War (1808–14) revealed deficiencies in the training and knowledge of officers and men in the conduct of siege operations and bridging. During this war low ranking Royal Engineers officers carried out large scale operations. They had under their command working parties of two or three battalions o...
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Anatomy of Criticism
The third essay is the culmination of Frye's theory in that it unites the elements of characterization and each of the five symbolic phases presented in the first two essays into an organic whole. This whole is organized around a metaphor of human desire and frustration as manifested in the Great Chain of Being (divine...
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Ironbridge power stations
Specification When fully operational and using 100% coal as a fuel source the power station generated electricity using two 500 MW generating sets. The turbines' blades are long each and when the turbines spun at their usual fixed speed of 3,000 rpm, the outermost tip of the last row of blades travel at approximately ...
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California Education Code 48907
Background Many public high schools provide for a school-funded newspaper, most often the product of a journalism class taken for credit. As a recent Legal News Advisory issued by the California Department of Education noted, these newspapers exist mainly to teach students the elements of journalism and to supplement ...
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Depletion-load NMOS logic
In integrated circuits, depletion-load NMOS is a form of digital logic family that uses only a single power supply voltage, unlike earlier nMOS (n-type metal-oxide semiconductor) logic families that needed more than one different power supply voltage. Although manufacturing these integrated circuits required additional...
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List of Port Vale F.C. records and statistics
European statistics Record by season Record by opposition nationality References General Kent, Jeff: "The Valiants' Years: The Story of Port Vale" (Witan Books, 1990, ). Kent, Jeff: "The Port Vale Record 1879–1993" (Witan Books, 1993, ). Kent, Jeff: "Port Vale Personalities: A Biographical Dictionary of Players, Offi...
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Automatic number announcement circuit
Some lists erroneously mention 1-555-1313 as ANAC (506 New Brunswick). The purpose of +1-areacode-555-1313, a pay-per-use "name that number" reverse lookup information service introduced in the mid-1990s, differs from ANAC. ANAC announces the caller's own number; the reverse lookup gives the directory name for a listed...
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Universal enveloping algebra
The universal enveloping algebra of the Heisenberg algebra is the Weyl algebra (modulo the relation that the center be the unit); here, the product is called the Moyal product. Representation theory The universal enveloping algebra preserves the representation theory: the representations of correspond in a one-to-one...
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List of MeSH codes (B06)
– plant roots – meristem – plant root cap – mycorrhizae – plant tubers – rhizome – plants, edible – cereals – crops, agricultural – vegetables – plants, medicinal – plants, toxic – seedling – trees The list continues at List of MeSH codes (B07). B06
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Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures
Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings EN 1994-1-1 gives a general basis for the design of composite structures together with specific rules for buildings. Contents General Basis of design Materials Durability Structural analysis Ultimate limit states Serviceability limit states Constructional ...
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Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy
SCORE was launched on 11 February 2008 by the 5th Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. SCORE was immediately placed under the jurisdiction of Regional Corridors Development Authority (RECODA) where the latter was created under an ordinance passed in the state assembly back in 2006. RECODA must co...
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Cell cycle
Many periodically expressed genes are driven by transcription factors that are also periodically expressed. One screen of single-gene knockouts identified 48 transcription factors (about 20% of all non-essential transcription factors) that show cell cycle progression defects. Genome-wide studies using high throughput t...
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Icons of Evolution
In 2003, Holt, Rinehart and Winston said it re-evaluated the use of the peppered moth and Haeckel's drawing of embryos from its textbook prior to publication. The publisher said, ". . . in Holt Biology Texas of the Miller–Urey experiment carefully indicates the mistakes made in the assumptions about the early atmospher...
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Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate. The ILLC's central research area is the study of fundamental principles of encoding, transmission and comprehension...
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Computer architecture
For CPUs, the entire implementation process is organized differently and is often referred to as CPU design. Design goals The exact form of a computer system depends on the constraints and goals. Computer architectures usually trade off standards, power versus performance, cost, memory capacity, latency (latency is the...
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Solar geoengineering
Evidence of effectiveness and impacts Climate models consistently indicate that a moderate magnitude of solar geoengineering would bring important aspects of the climate - for example, average and extreme temperature, water availability, cyclone intensity - closer to their preindustrial values at a subregional resoluti...
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Ringicella
Shells of the genus Ringicella have an additional feature: the angular lamella and upper suprapalatal fold are concrescent, forming a perforation in the lip at its upper end. In addition, the apertural rim incorporates a small tube, which communicates with the interior of the shell. The width of adult shells varies fro...
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Ontario Power Generation
Following a comprehensive Environmental Assessment (EA) process and two rounds of public hearings in front of a federal joint review panel (JRP), on May 6, 2015 the JRP issued the EA Report and recommended the approval of OPG's DGR to the federal government.
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Johnson's algorithm
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Substructure (mathematics)
Definition Given two structures A and B of the same signature σ, A is said to be a weak substructure of B, or a weak subalgebra of B, if the domain of A is a subset of the domain of B, f A = f B|An for every n-ary function symbol f in σ, and R A R B An for every n-ary relation symbol R in σ.
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Speaking in Code
Meanwhile, indie film blog Antagony & Ecstasy called it "magnificently touching" "humanistically resonant" and "terrifically interesting." On June 16, 2010 Music website Foxy Digitalis said: "For anyone interested in alternative lifestyles, this is as insightful a journey as Don Letts' Punk Rock Movie, Penelope Spheeri...
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ATCvet code QP53
QP53AX Other ectoparasiticides for topical use QP53AX02 Fenvalerate QP53AX03 Quassia QP53AX04 Crotamiton QP53AX11 Benzylbenzoate QP53AX13 Nicotine QP53AX14 Bromoprofylat QP53AX15 Fipronil QP53AX16 Malachite green QP53AX17 Imidacloprid QP53AX18 Calcium oxide QP53AX19 Formaldehyde QP53AX22 Thymol QP53AX23 Pyriproxifen QP...
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Biomolecular engineering
Biochemistry Biochemistry is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemical processes govern all living organisms and living processes and the field of biochemistry seeks to understand and manipulate these processes. Biochemical engineering Biocatalysis – ...
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Animal Mechanicals
In 2019, the series was revived through the release of new nonverbal webshorts produced by WildBrain Spark Studios, a subsidiary of WildBrain that produces original content for the WildBrain Spark network. Cast Mouse – Abigail Gordon Unicorn – Leah Ostry Rex – Jim Fowler Sasquatch – Ian MacDougall Komodo – Shanno...
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North American Fetal Therapy Network
Fetal therapy, and advanced fetal therapy in particular, is a relatively new field in medicine. Because of the complexity and the significant risks involved with a surgical or medical intervention on a pregnant woman and her fetus, these procedures are usually performed in specialized centers and involve a multidiscipl...
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Biological interaction
Bdellovibrios are active hunters that are vigorously motile, swimming about looking for susceptible Gram-negative bacterial prey. Upon sensing such a cell, a bdellovibrio cell swims faster until it collides with the prey cell. It then bores a hole through the outer membrane of its prey and enters the periplasmic space....
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Mathangwane
Tropical Cyclone Dineo In February 2017, Tropical Cyclone Dineo triggered destructive floods in and around Mathangwane, badly damaging the A3 highway between the City of Francistown and Sebina Junction and further north from the village of Nata to Gweta, badly disrupting traffic with some parts of the road having to be...
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Marcello Gandini
Gandini has worked in other areas, including home architecture, the design of a nightclub interior, and the body styling of the Heli-Sport CH-7 helicopter. Designs Gandini car designs include:
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Mechanical Engineering Heritage (Japan)
No. 99: Monorail for Steep Slope MONORACK M-1. The simple cable transport system, on steep slope hills and mountains of cultivating mikan orchard in area of Seto Inland Sea, was widely used. In 1966 the newly developed monorail system capable of transporting crops in slope angle up to 40 degree and to curve left and ri...
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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
Hydroelectric sites: Hwacheon Dam in Gandong-myeon, Hwacheon County, Gangwon-do Paldang site in Joan-myeon, Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do Cheongpyong site in Oeseo-myeon, Gapyeong County, Gyeonggi-do Uiam Dam in Sindong-myeon, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do Chuncheon site in Sinbuk-eup, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do Boseonggang site in Deun...
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Reciprocity (electromagnetism)
Apart from quantal effects, classical theory covers near-, middle-, and far-field electric and magnetic phenomena with arbitrary time courses. Optics refers to far-field nearly-sinusoidal oscillatory electromagnetic effects. Instead of paired electric and magnetic variables, optics, including optical reciprocity, can b...
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University of Sydney School of Chemistry
The current KCPC Director is A/Prof. Brian Hawkett. Academics Admission Admission to the School of Chemistry's research programs is competitive. Generally, admission to the School of Chemistry Honours program requires a SCIWAM of at least 65 or equivalent. Each faculty member is limited to 2.5 full-time equivalent (FTE...
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Anthropological Literature
Anthropological Literature (AL) is an online database of citations to journal articles and articles in edited volumes and symposia held by the Tozzer Library (previously the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), the anthropology library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The database offers access...
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Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
In the wake of the breakdown of the Agreed Framework in 2003, KEDO largely lost its function. KEDO ensured that the nuclear power plant project assets at the construction site at Kumho in North Korea and at manufacturers’ facilities around the world ($1.5 billion invested to date) were preserved and maintained. The pro...
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Uniform Commercial Code
Section 2-207: Battle of the forms One of the most confusing and fiercely litigated sections of the UCC is Section 2-207, which Professor Grant Gilmore called "arguably the greatest statutory mess of all time". It governs a "battle of the forms" as to whose boilerplate terms, those of the offeror or the offeree, will s...
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List of MeSH codes (D12.125)
– alanine – beta-alanine – pantothenic acid – lysinoalanine – mimosine – amino acid chloromethyl ketones – tosyllysine chloromethyl ketone – tosylphenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone
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Level of support for evolution
US religious denominations In the United States, many Protestant denominations promote creationism, preach against evolution, and sponsor lectures and debates on the subject. Denominations that explicitly advocate creationism instead of evolution or "Darwinism" include the Assemblies of God, the Free Methodist Church, ...
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Revolutionary Wealth
Revolutionary Wealth is a book written by futurists Alvin Toffler and his wife Heidi Toffler, first published in 2006 by Knopf. It is a continuation of The Third Wave (1980), which itself is a sequel to Future Shock (1970). Revolutionary Wealth significantly expands on the Third Wave. As in the older volume, the book a...
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Roy Mathias
Honoured at St. Helens R.F.C. Roy Mathias is a St Helens R.F.C. Hall of Fame inductee. References External links !Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk (statistics currently missing due to not having appeared for both Great Britain, and England) Profile at saints.org.uk
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Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
The School of Engineering and Applied Science celebrates its ties and affiliations with at least 8 Nobel Laureates. Alumni of Columbia Engineering have gone on to numerous fields of profession. Many have become prominent scientists, astronauts, architects, government officials, pioneers, entrepreneurs, company CEOs, fi...
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Mantle cell lymphoma
Ki-67 is an indicator of how fast cells mature and is expressed in a range from about 10% to 90%. The lower the percentage, the lower the speed of maturity, and the more indolent the disease. Katzenberger et al. Blood 2006;107:3407 graphs survival versus time for subsets of patients with varying Ki-67 indices. He shows...
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Aerospace Defense Command
Interceptor gunnery training B-57E Canberra dedicated Air Defense Command target towing aircraft were used for training of F-86D Sabre, F-94C Starfire, and F-89D Scorpion interceptors firing 2.75-inch Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets. Due to the nature of air-to-air weapon training requiring a large amount of air...
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Glycobiology
Sugars may be linked to other types of biological molecule to form glycoconjugates. The enzymatic process of glycosylation creates sugars/saccharides linked to themselves and to other molecules by the glycosidic bond, thereby producing glycans. Glycoproteins, proteoglycans and glycolipids are the most abundant glycoco...
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ANSI escape code
Related standards include ITU T.61, the Teletex standard, and the ISO/IEC 8613, the Open Document Architecture standard (mainly ISO/IEC 8613-6 or ITU T.416). The two systems share many escape codes with the ANSI system, with extensions that are not necessarily meaningful to computer terminals. Both systems quickly fell...
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Grant, Lee, Sherman: Civil War Generals 2
Legacy After the completion of Civil War Generals 2, Grammont left Impressions Games and joined designer Charles Moylan at Big Time Software, where the two created the influential wargame Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord. Grammont and Moylan founded Battlefront.com in the late 1990s to publish Combat Mission, its sequel...
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Tsankov Kamak Hydro Power Plant
The design output of Francis turbines is 41,171 kW each, the turbine speed is 428.6 r.p.m., the generator rating is 46 MVA, and generation voltage is 10.5 kV. An outdoor switch yard is provided next to the surface powerhouse with main two step up transformers of 50 MVA rating and voltage ratio is 10.5/240 kV. The powe...
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Power Drift
is a kart racing game released in arcades by Sega in 1988. More technologically advanced than Sega's earlier 2.5D racing games, like Hang-On (1985) and Out Run (1986), in Power Drift the entire world and track consist of sprites. The upgraded hardware of the Sega Y Board allows individual sprites and the background to ...
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Cotton Mather (band)
Hiatus and other projects (2003-2011) The release of The Big Picture was not a success, and numerous personal setbacks and issues with the label caused the band to go on hiatus in 2003. After this, the various members went on to pursue their own projects. George Reiff remained active in the music scene as a performer ...
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Computer-controlled Vehicle System
Basic track layout was completed by the middle of 1972 and construction of the short guideway section for the maintenance yard was completed by that autumn. Testing of frameless chassis started soon after. Construction of the rest of the track was completed by the autumn of 1973. The test track was 2 km long and about ...
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Regulator of cell cycle RGCC
This gene is thought to regulate cell cycle progression. It is induced by p53 in response to DNA damage, or by sublytic levels of complement system proteins that result in activation of the cell cycle. The encoded protein localizes to the cytoplasm during interphase and to centrosomes during mitosis. The protein forms ...
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Super Bowl counterprogramming
List of notable Super Bowl halftime counterprograms In regards to original programming, recurring Super Bowl counters have included Animal Planet's annual Puppy Bowl, a special featuring dogs at play in a model football stadium (which itself spawned imitators—the Kitten Bowl and Fish Bowl, in 2014), and the Lingerie Bo...
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Von Neumann algebra
A factor is a von Neumann algebra with trivial center, i.e. a center consisting only of scalar operators. A finite von Neumann algebra is one which is the direct integral of finite factors (meaning the von Neumann algebra has a faithful normal tracial state τ: M →ℂ, see http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/gaboriau/evenements/IHP-...
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Important ecological areas
Important ecological areas (IEAs) are habitat areas which, either by themselves or in a network, contribute significantly to an ecosystem’s productivity, biodiversity, and resilience. Appropriate management of key ecological features delineates the management boundaries of an IEA. The identification and protection of I...
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Software prototyping
In 1996, Rome Labs contracted Software Productivity Solutions (SPS) to further enhance REE to create "a commercial quality REE that supports requirements specification, simulation, user interface prototyping, mapping of requirements to hardware architectures, and code generation..." This system is named the Advanced Re...
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Affine Lie algebra
Affine Lie algebras from simple Lie algebras Definition If is a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra, the corresponding affine Lie algebra is constructed as a central extension of the infinite-dimensional Lie algebra , with one-dimensional center As a vector space, where is the complex vector space of Laurent pol...
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Matheson (compressed gas & equipment)
Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. is a supplier of industrial and specialty gases, and gas handling equipment in the United States. The company offers semiconductor, medical gases, welding, atmospheric and bulk, and cylinder gases for customers using gas in their labs, fabs, plants, and processes. It also designs and manufactu...
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Mechanical Engineering Heritage (Japan)
Collections No. 65: Japan-made Snow Vehicles (KD604 & KD605) which reached the South Pole in 1968. Three snow vehicles participated round trip 5200km for 5 months, but one vehicle KD503 was engine troubled and thrown away on outward. The prototype KD501 was not used for the trip, and KD502 is preserved in Showa Stati...
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Complexity theory and organizations
Complex adaptive systems Organizations can be treated as complex adaptive systems (CAS) as they exhibit fundamental CAS principles like self-organization, complexity, emergence, interdependence, space of possibilities, co-evolution, chaos, and self-similarity.
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Mario Tennis: Power Tour
Plot The game starts as the main character wakes up in unfamiliar surroundings. Their partner explains that the protagonist has enrolled at the Royal Tennis Academy, and he/she is the character's doubles partner. Having passed out the previous day during the Welcome Workout, they decide to get some breakfast. When they...
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Salvadoran Civil War
Scorched earth offensives of 1981 On 15 March 1981, the Salvadoran Army began a "sweep" operation in Cabañas Department in northern El Salvador near the Honduran border. The sweep was accompanied by the use of scorched earth tactics by the Salvadoran Army and indiscriminate killings of anyone captured by the army. Thos...
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MVGR College of Engineering
Departments and Centres MVGR College of Engineering has the following Departments and Centres: Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering Information Technology Mechanical Engineering M.Tech in VLSI Mach...
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Mathematical logic
The 19th century saw great advances in the theory of real analysis, including theories of convergence of functions and Fourier series. Mathematicians such as Karl Weierstrass began to construct functions that stretched intuition, such as nowhere-differentiable continuous functions. Previous conceptions of a function as...
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Boolean grammar
References Okhotin, Alexander (2010). "Fast parsing for Boolean grammars: a generalization of Valiant's algorithm", International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6224, pp. 340-351. Preprint available online. See also Language equations External links ...
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Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDN and broadcast industry ISDN is used heavily by the broadcast industry as a reliable way of switching low-latency, high-quality, long-distance audio circuits. In conjunction with an appropriate codec using MPEG or various manufacturers' proprietary algorithms, an ISDN BRI can be used to send stereo bi-directional a...
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Identity function
Properties The identity function is a linear operator when applied to vector spaces. In an -dimensional vector space the identity function is represented by the identity matrix , regardless of the basis chosen for the space. The identity function on the positive integers is a completely multiplicative function (essenti...
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Mechanical engineering
The Sakia was developed in the Kingdom of Kush during the 4th century BC. It relied on animal power reducing the tow on the requirement of human energy. Reservoirs in the form of Hafirs were developed in Kush to store water and boost irrigation. Bloomeries and blast furnaces were developed during the seventh century BC...
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Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Official website of the Museum in English Official website of the Museum Museums of Macedonia Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism / in Greek Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki - Ebook by Latsis Foundation Museums established in 1962 Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki Culture of Macedonia (ancient kingdom...
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Shape correction function
The shape correction function is a ratio of the surface area of a growing organism and that of an isomorph as function of the volume. The shape of the isomorph is taken to be equal to that of the organism for a given reference volume, so for that particular volume the surface areas are also equal and the shape correcti...
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Attica Zoological Park
In 2011, PELARGOS, an independent non-profit civil company, was founded by the zoo's owner and the park's co-owner at the time, Rudy Rallis. This organisation fights for the protection and conservation of Greek wildlife. Since its creation, PELARGOS has carried out a number of important projects in collaboration with s...
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Executive functions
Miyake and Friedman's model Miyake and Friedman's theory of executive functions proposes that there are three aspects of executive functions: updating, inhibition, and shifting. A cornerstone of this theoretical framework is the understanding that individual differences in executive functions reflect both unity (i.e.,...
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Molesey
Rick Astley, British pop musician, lives in East Molesey. Chemmy Alcott, British Olympic alpine skier Mick Avory, drummer and percussionist for rock band The Kinks, grew up in West Molesey. Keith Barron, actor, lived in the town from the 1970s to 2017. Ed Bishop, actor, lived in West Molesey. Liv Boeree, professional p...
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Questioned document examination
Although the crimes were committed before the discipline of document examination was firmly established, the letters of the Jack the Ripper case have since been examined in great detail. Candidacy A person who desires to enter a career of forensic document examination must possess certain traits and abilities. The ASTM...
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Energy Alberta Corporation
External links Official Energy Alberta Corporation website Canada Public Nuclear Comment website Nuclear power companies of Canada Companies based in Alberta Environment of Alberta Energy companies established in 2005 Non-renewable resource companies established in 2005 2005 establishments in Alberta
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Clarence Ellis (computer scientist)
Clarence "Skip" Ellis (May 11, 1943 – May 17, 2014) was an American computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at the CU-Boulder, he was the director of the Collaboration Technology Research Group and a member of the Institute of ...
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Spherical trigonometry
The origins of spherical trigonometry in Greek and Indian mathematics and the major developments in Indo- islamic mathematics are discussed fully in History of trigonometry and Mathematics in medieval Islam. The subject came to fruition in Early Modern times with important developments by John Napier, Delambre and othe...
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Macromolecular crowding
Importance Macromolecular crowding is an important effect in biochemistry and cell biology. For example, the increase in the strength of interactions between proteins and DNA produced by crowding may be of key importance in processes such as transcription and DNA replication. Crowding has also been suggested to be invo...
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Convolution power
As convolution algebras are special cases of Hopf algebras, the convolution power is a special case of the (ordinary) power in a Hopf algebra. In applications to quantum field theory, the convolution exponential, convolution logarithm, and other analytic functions based on the convolution are constructed as formal pow...
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Energy Resources Conservation Board
In their 2012 report ECRB cautioned that oil sands operators failed to convert their tailings ponds into deposits suitable for reclamation in a timely fashion, as proposed in their project applications. "The volume of fluid tailings, and the area required to hold fluid tailings, continued to grow, and the reclamation o...
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Email encryption
Notable protocols for end-to-end email encryption include: Bitmessage GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) S/MIME OpenPGP is a data encryption standard that allows end-users to encrypt the email contents. There are various software and email-client plugins that allow users to encrypt the message using the ...
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Northwest Theological Seminary
Seminaries and theological colleges in Washington (state) Presbyterian universities and colleges in the United States Reformed church seminaries and theological colleges Educational institutions established in 2000 Universities and colleges in Snohomish County, Washington 2000 establishments in Washington (state)
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Pythagoras Mechanical Workshop Museum
Pythagoras Mechanical Workshop Museum () is located in the premises of the earlier engine factory Pythagoras at the town of Norrtälje in the province of Uppland in Sweden. At the museum, production facilities and working conditions from the first half of the 20th century are on display. The factory produced hot bulb en...
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Centre of Biological Research (Spain)
The Centre of Biological Research (Spanish: Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas) is a leading research centre in Spain, specialising in molecular genetics. It belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Created in 1958, the centre leads Spanish and European research in the fields of biology and biomedicin...
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Simulation theory of empathy
Simulation theory of empathy is a theory that holds that humans anticipate and make sense of the behavior of others by activating mental processes that, if carried into action, would produce similar behavior. This includes intentional behavior as well as the expression of emotions. The theory states that children use t...
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Sabre (computer system)
Other airline systems In 1982, Advertising Age reported that "United Airlines operates a similar system, Apollo, while Eastern operates Mars and Delta operates Datas." Braniff International's Cowboy system was considered by Electronic Data Systems for building an airline-neutral system. Controversy A 1982 study by Amer...
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List of software bugs
Finance The Vancouver Stock Exchange index had large errors due to repeated rounding. In January 1982 the index was initialized at 1000 and subsequently updated and truncated to three decimal places on each trade. This was done about 3000 times a day. The accumulated truncations led to an erroneous loss of around 25 p...
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