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She served as a member of the Physics Advisory Panel, US National Science Foundation (1973–76), and of the Panel on Nuclear Physics, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Physics and Astronomy (1983–84). She was the director of the nuclear physics laboratory from 1986 to 1989. At Rutgers, Koller served in the admin... | Wikipedia - Noemie Benczer Koller - Career |
In the fall of 1964, the Academy of Aeronautics conferred associate in applied science degrees for the first time. In 1969, the academy was accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In 1996, the college completely revised its curriculum offering, resulting in nine new academic programs, inclu... | Wikipedia - Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology - Expansion |
On May 5, 1998, a state-of-the-art 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) addition to the building complex was completed. It includes a 65-foot (20 m) observation tower providing views of the runways at LaGuardia airport. In 2010 a 126-foot (38 m) mural depicting early aviation that had been painted by Aline Rhonie Hofheimer in... | Wikipedia - Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology - Expansion |
In the fall of 1968, shortly after returning to the US, Brueckner wrote a report for the AEC on the laser systems and the focus fusion concepts also presented at the meeting. He proposed a small research program to further study these concepts, but the AEC proved uninterested. He then approached the Department of Defen... | Wikipedia - KMS Fusion - DOD contract |
As this was classified information, he was not allowed to tell Siegel about his idea.Working with mathematical physics expert John Faulkner, and later Raymond Grandey, they produced a one-dimensional computer simulation that considered the energy input from the laser, the conduction of this energy by electrons in the r... | Wikipedia - KMS Fusion - DOD contract |
In the fall of 1980, students in the Department of Architectural Engineering & Construction Science at Kansas State University formed a group to consider creating an academic honorary society. Professor Charles Bissey served as the group's advisor. As a result, Kappa Sigma Alpha Epsilon (KSAE) was established. In the s... | Wikipedia - Phi Alpha Epsilon - History |
After other architectural engineering programs expressed an interest in joining KSAE, a discussion took place during the 1983–84 academic year. The group became a national academic honorary society in the fall of 1984, with the name change to Phi Alpha Epsilon. The honor society's function was to reward academic achiev... | Wikipedia - Phi Alpha Epsilon - History |
In the fall of 1982, a murderer added 65 milligrams of cyanide to some Tylenol capsules on store shelves, killing seven people, including three in one family. Johnson & Johnson recalled and destroyed 31 million capsules at a cost of $100 million. The affable CEO, James Burke, appeared in television ads and at news conf... | Wikipedia - Crisis management - Tylenol (Johnson and Johnson) |
In the fall of 1983, Porco joined the faculty of the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona; the same year she was made a member of the Voyager Imaging Team. In the latter capacity, she was an active participant in the Voyager 2 encounters with Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989, leading the Ring... | Wikipedia - Carolyn Porco - Voyager |
In the fall of 1994, the FCC announced that, out of 688 applicants, a specially designed computer program (which took two weeks to run) had chosen 79 stations to make the transfer to the expanded band. However, a year later the Commission rescinded these assignments, after it was determined that there had been major fl... | Wikipedia - AM expanded band - Implementation |
Other U. S. stations generally use ten kilowatts during the day and one kilowatt at night, with non-directional antennas. An exception exists for stations that use antennas with higher than normal efficiency or those multiplexed with an existing station on a different frequency. KVNS in Brownsville, Texas, operates at ... | Wikipedia - AM expanded band - Implementation |
Virgin Islands, is licensed for 920 watts both day and night, due to similar treaty restrictions with respect to France's territorial holdings of Martinique and Guadeloupe.On March 22, 1996 the FCC announced a revised allocation table, consisting of 87 stations, but this too was eventually withdrawn due to errors. A th... | Wikipedia - AM expanded band - Implementation |
The FCC originally assumed that the expanded band stations would simulcast the programming of the original standard band stations, and be licensed to the same community. However, in most cases the expanded band stations have run separate programming, and a few have moved to other communities. One policy the FCC has gen... | Wikipedia - AM expanded band - Implementation |
In the fall of 1998, the Weather Star XL, the fifth-generation system in the WeatherStar fleet, was introduced. The Star XL, an IRIX-based computer unit manufactured by SGI, had significantly more advanced technical capabilities than the 4000; it incorporated modernized graphics (with Akzidenz-Grotesk as the main typef... | Wikipedia - Weather Star XL - WeatherStar XL |
The Star XL model has a high manufacturing cost (US$6,500) and weighs 55 pounds (25 kg). It was also the first STAR system to utilize Vocal Local, a software function that is technologically different from the narration track used in the WeatherStar 4000, which assembles pre-recorded audio tracks to provide narration o... | Wikipedia - Weather Star XL - WeatherStar XL |
In the fall of 1999, a major cram school company launched a major campaign with advertisements that read "The formula for finding the area of a circle: radius x radius x 3! ", "Calculate the quadrature of a circle with pi as approximately 3 instead of 3.14. "The mass media also picked up on this issue, and it became wi... | Wikipedia - Pi is 3 - Overview |
In the fall of 1999, plum pox strain PPV-D was detected in an Adams County, Pennsylvania orchard. This was the first time that plum pox had been found in North America. The infected areas in Pennsylvania were quarantined to prevent the spread of the disease, and infected trees were destroyed.Since this time, as a resul... | Wikipedia - Plum pox virus - Distribution |
The virus has yet to be found in other areas of Canada which contain susceptible trees despite intense surveying. The Canadian plum pox eradication initiative has involved large numbers of samples tested for the plum pox virus. Samples are tested through a technology known as enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). ... | Wikipedia - Plum pox virus - Distribution |
In the fall of 2000, Jenkins began her Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Virginia. During her studies, Jenkins served as a summer research fellow at the RAND Corporation's national security division focusing on weapons of mass destruction. Additionally, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard Uni... | Wikipedia - Bonnie Jenkins - Academic career |
During her years at Belfer, she served as an advisor at Harvard Law School's Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising. She completed her studies in 2005 with a thesis entitled Why International Instruments to Combat Nuclear Proliferation Succeed or Fail: A Study of Interaction of International and Domestic Lev... | Wikipedia - Bonnie Jenkins - Academic career |
Her grant-making responsibilities sought to strengthen public engagement in U.S. foreign and security policy debate and formulation. She promoted support for multiculturalism, the peaceful resolution of disputes, and the international rule of law. She has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School an... | Wikipedia - Bonnie Jenkins - Academic career |
In the fall of 2000, lawyer Robert Bilott, a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, won a court order forcing DuPont to share all documentation related to PFOA. This included 110,000 files, consisting of confidential studies and reports conducted by DuPont scientists over decades. By 1993, DuPont understood that "PFOA... | Wikipedia - Perfluorooctanoic acid - Robert Bilott investigation |
Bilott learned that both "3M and DuPont had been conducting secret medical studies on PFOA for more than four decades", and by 1961 DuPont was aware of hepatomegaly in mice fed with PFOA. Later research eventually found that PFOA had an outsized effect based on gender on several negative health outcomes in mice that ha... | Wikipedia - Perfluorooctanoic acid - Robert Bilott investigation |
This led to the development of fatty tissue which caused the exposed mice to develop varying rates of hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol). The impact of PFOA on this health outcome varied greatly between mice of different genotypes across relevant parts of the genome. Also, notably, female mice across all genotypes... | Wikipedia - Perfluorooctanoic acid - Robert Bilott investigation |
In the fall of 2004, a team of scientists accompanied Zoë on a two-month expedition in the Atacama Desert so she wouldn’t “drive off a cliff” Zoë was placed in the Atacama Desert in 2005 for its first field expedition. During its time there, it was able to map out any living organisms. In 2013, Zoë returned to the Dese... | Wikipedia - Zoë (robot) - Expeditions |
In the fall of 2004, the exam became computerized; the MAT is now solely a computer-based test (CBT).Out of the 120 questions, only 100 count in the test-taker's score. The remaining 20 questions are experimental. There is no way for test-takers to identify any of the 20 experimental questions on a given test form, as ... | Wikipedia - Miller Analogies Test - Format and scoring |
Scores using this metric have historically been known as "raw" scores. Tests taken in October 2004 or later have a score range from 200 to 600. The median score is 400, with a standard deviation of 25 points. | Wikipedia - Miller Analogies Test - Format and scoring |
These scores, based on a normal curve, are known as "scaled" scores. Because of their grounding in this model, scaled MAT scores of 500-600 are extremely rare, as they would be more than four standard deviations above the norm of 400. | Wikipedia - Miller Analogies Test - Format and scoring |
Percentile ranks are also provided along with the official score report. Test-takers receive an overall percentile rank as well as a percentile rank within their intended graduate school discipline. The Miller Analogies Test used to be accepted by American Mensa, and still is by Intertel, the Triple Nine Society, the I... | Wikipedia - Miller Analogies Test - Format and scoring |
Intertel requires a raw score of 74 on the "old" MAT, or a score at the 99th percentile on the modern one. The ISPE and the Triple Nine Society require at least a raw score of 85 on the "old" MAT, and at least 472 on the modern one. The Prometheus Society requires at least a raw score of 98 on the "old" MAT, and at lea... | Wikipedia - Miller Analogies Test - Format and scoring |
In the fall of 2006, 26 Bolson tortoises were translocated from the Audubon Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch in Elgin, Arizona to Ted Turner's Armendaris Ranch in south-central New Mexico, a Chihuahuan desert environment within the prehistoric range of this species. These tortoises, known as the Appleton tortoises in c... | Wikipedia - Bolson tortoise - Appleton tortoises |
In the fall of 2006, HDNet became available in Canada on Rogers Cable, Bell Satellite TV and Cogeco Cable; Shaw Cable began carrying the network in April 2007. The network would dropped by Bell and Rogers upon its relaunch as AXS TV.After Anthem purchased AXS TV, the channel became a sister to its domestic channels Fig... | Wikipedia - AXS TV - Canadian carriage |
In the fall of 2006, the collecting society Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) in Spain sued Ricardo Andrés Utrera Fernández, owner of a disco bar located in Badajoz who played CC-licensed music. SGAE argued that Fernández should pay royalties for public performance of the music between November 2002 and Aug... | Wikipedia - Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike - SGAE vs Fernández |
In the fall of 2007, Adtech presented an integrated suite of display, video and mobile ad serving technologies for digital publishers at ad:tech London and ad:tech New York. In collaboration with technology partners Lightningcast and Third Screen Media, Adtech merged the new video and mobile applications directly into ... | Wikipedia - Adtech (company) - Integrated ad management |
In the fall of 2007, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group agreed on a set of standards for all fire engines that are used for wildland firefighting. As structure engines are sometimes used on wildland fires, though primarily for structure protection, they are also included in the NWCG engine typing. Per the standar... | Wikipedia - Mini Pumper - Engine types |
In the fall of 2007, the federal government reopened the military college at Saint-Jean. The military college was slated for closure in 1995, but on 9 July 1994, the federal and provincial governments agreed to maintain it as a non-degree-granting college.The reopened RMC Saint-Jean greatly differs from the original co... | Wikipedia - Royal Military College Saint-Jean - History |
Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, inaugurated the Royal Military College Saint-Jean on 24 May 2008, and she presented the new college coat of arms to the commandant, Colonel François Pion.The Commandant of Royal Military College Saint-Jean reports to the Commander, Canadian Defence Academy (CDA). RMC Saint-Je... | Wikipedia - Royal Military College Saint-Jean - History |
In the fall of 2008, the UPnP Forum ratified the successor to UPnP 1.0 Device Architecture, UPnP 1.1. The Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) standard was a candidate successor to UPnP, but UPnP 1.1 was selected by the UPnP Forum. Version 2 of IGD is standardized.The UPnP Internet Gateway Device (IGD) standard has ... | Wikipedia - Universal Plug and Play - Further developments |
In the fall of 2009 Dataram's Chief Technologist won the Tech Awards Circle in the Technologist of the Year category. In September 2011, Dataram was listed in the Top 100 Companies by The Star-Ledger. | Wikipedia - Dataram - Awards |
In the fall of 2009, the Pacific was plagued by disasters, and Pacific Disaster Center's resources were severely tested. In the six days from September 27 to October 1, the Center created and delivered products or otherwise provided direct support for the responses to Typhoon Ketsana, especially the storm's devastating... | Wikipedia - Pacific Disaster Center - Week of Pacific Disasters |
In the fall of 2012, D-Shape entered into the NYC Waterfront Construction Competition hosted by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) in which competitors had to create an innovative solution to help strengthen New York City's deteriorating piers and coastline structures. D-Shape's idea, called, "... | Wikipedia - D-Shape - NYC Waterfront Construction Competition |
In the fall of 2014, ISD commenced work on the 2015 Race to Zero Competition. Previous 2013 Solar Decathlon member, Matthew McClone, LEED AP BD+C, who worked on the 2013 SD project, Etho, was selected to lead the 2015 Race to Zero Competition. The architectural aspects of the project were headed by Ryan Christiansen. | Wikipedia - Illinois Solar Decathlon - 2015 Illinois Solar Decathlon Race to Zero Project - Sun Catcher Cottage |
Other notable team members include Priscilla Zhang, LEED GA, Robert Moy, Assoc. AIA, Sean Killarney, LEED GA, and Kasey Colombani. The concept of ISD's 2015 Project was a theoretical deep energy retrofit based on a cottage located in Allerton Park, located in Monticello, Illinois. | Wikipedia - Illinois Solar Decathlon - 2015 Illinois Solar Decathlon Race to Zero Project - Sun Catcher Cottage |
The name of the project is called Sun Catcher Cottage. The project was then presented in Golden, CO on April 18–20, 2015. Illinois Solar Decathlon was awarded the Grand Winner Finalist during the competition. | Wikipedia - Illinois Solar Decathlon - 2015 Illinois Solar Decathlon Race to Zero Project - Sun Catcher Cottage |
In the fall of 2015, Google announced it would be rolling out an open source initiative called "Accelerated Mobile Pages" or AMP. The goal of this project is to improve the speed and performance of content-rich pages which include video, animations, and graphics. Since the majority of the population now consumes the we... | Wikipedia - Mobile-Friendly website - Accelerated Mobile Pages |
In the fall of 2015, ISD returned to enter the 2016 Race to Zero competition. For the 2016 competition, several key members of previous years' 2015 competition team transferred to focus their work on the 2017 Solar Decathlon competition. Amir Amizadeh, Assoc. AIA, LEED GA and Vasco Chan were selected as the Lead Projec... | Wikipedia - Illinois Solar Decathlon - 2016 Illinois Solar Decathlon Race to Zero Project - Linkoln Locale |
Previous 2015 R20 architecture team member Robert Moy, Assoc. AIA was promoted to Competition Lead and one of the Project Managers for the 2016 competition, while previous 2015 R20 member Priscilla Puchun Zhang was promoted to Architecture Team Lead. The team’s 2016 contest entry proposed a deep retrofit of an existing... | Wikipedia - Illinois Solar Decathlon - 2016 Illinois Solar Decathlon Race to Zero Project - Linkoln Locale |
ft. student apartment building located in Urbana, IL near the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The new proposal for the 1920s 3 story building has eight rental units, featuring two, three or four bedrooms each. The team aimed for an overall integrated design, seamlessly unifying certain buildin... | Wikipedia - Illinois Solar Decathlon - 2016 Illinois Solar Decathlon Race to Zero Project - Linkoln Locale |
In the fall of 2016, WhatsApp spread fake news that impacted votes critical to Colombian history. One of the lies spreading rapidly through WhatsApp was that Colombian citizens would receive less pension so former guerrilla fighters would get money. The misinformation initially began in a question to whether WhatsApp u... | Wikipedia - Fake news - Colombia |
A powerful influence of votes was the "no" campaign, the "no" campaign was to convince citizens of Colombia to not accept the peace accord because it would be letting the rebel group off "too easily." Uribe, former president of Colombia and of the democratico party, led the "no" campaign. Santos, president in 2016 took... | Wikipedia - Fake news - Colombia |
Santos won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 because of his efforts towards a peace accord with rebel forces. In addition, Uribe naturally had opposing views than of Santos. Furthermore, other news spread through WhatsApp were easily misinterpreted by the public, including that Santo's scheme was to turn Colombia under harsh... | Wikipedia - Fake news - Colombia |
In an interview of Juan Carlos Vélez, the "no" campaign manager, he says their strategy was that "We discovered the viral power of social networks." In addition, the yes campaign also took part in spreading fake news through WhatsApp. | Wikipedia - Fake news - Colombia |
For instance, a photoshopped image of a democratico senator Everth Bustamante spread about of him holding a sign reading "I don't want guirrellas in congress" to show hypocrisy. This would be seen as hypocritical because he was a former left wing M-19 guerrilla. The "no" campaign strongly influenced votes throughout Co... | Wikipedia - Fake news - Colombia |
In result, there were 50.2 percent of no votes compared to 49.8 percent of yes votes. The result of the fake news throughout WhatsApp included changes within WhatsApp by Journalist, Juanita Leon, who invented the WhatsApp "lie detector" in January 2017 to fight fake news within the app. Although the accord was eventual... | Wikipedia - Fake news - Colombia |
In the fall of 2017, a University of Virginia assistant professor and two graduate students used a ground-based autonomous robot to scan and map the tunnel using LiDAR. The result was a three-dimensional map of the tunnel which can be used for restoration or construction projects in the future. | Wikipedia - Blue Ridge Tunnel - Mapping the tunnel |
In the fall of 2017, it was reported broadcaster Alex Jones and his fake news organization InfoWars were promoting the white genocide myth. The Suidlanders (a völkisch group involved in spreading the conspiracy theory in South Africa) accepted invitations to contribute to the platform on multiple occasions. Around the ... | Wikipedia - White genocide conspiracy theory - Trump administration foreign policy on South Africa |
Jones has been described as particularly instrumental in the American spread of conspiracy theories about white genocide in Africa, while his long-time political ally, radio host Michael Savage, has devoted an episode of his show to conspiracy theories about white genocide in the region.In August 2018, US President Don... | Wikipedia - White genocide conspiracy theory - Trump administration foreign policy on South Africa |
The SPLC has accused his website, The Daily Caller, of promoting the theory in relation to South African farm attacks. Carlson asserted he was shocked his statements could be considered an appeal to white nationalists, dismissing questions about his show's high support among them as "stupid" and saying he knew nothing ... | Wikipedia - White genocide conspiracy theory - Trump administration foreign policy on South Africa |
In the fall of 2018, fast.ai released v1.0 of their free open-source library for deep learning called fastai (without a period), sitting atop PyTorch. Google Cloud was the first to announce its support. This open-source framework is hosted on GitHub and is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. | Wikipedia - Fast.ai - Software |
In the fall of 2018, the differential between WCS and WTI—which had averaged at US$17 for the decade from 2008 to 2018—widened to a record of around US$50. By December 2018 the price of WCS had plummeted to US$5.90. In response, the NDP government under Premier Notley, set temporary production limits of 3.56 million ba... | Wikipedia - Western Canadian Select - Curtailment |
Following the December 2 announcement of mandatory oil production cutbacks in Alberta, the price of WCS rose to US$26.65 a barrel. The global price of oil dropped dramatically in December before recovering in January. The price of WCS increased to US$28.60 with WTI at US$48.69. | Wikipedia - Western Canadian Select - Curtailment |
In the fall of 2019, the UCP government under Premier Kenney "extended the curtailment program into 2020 and increased the base exemptions for companies before the quotas kick in, lowering the number of producers affected by curtailment to 16".Curtailment "supported domestic oil prices" but also "limited growth and ove... | Wikipedia - Western Canadian Select - Curtailment |
In the fall of 2020, the Korzo Theatre in The Hague and the Theatre Municipal in Biarritz presented the solo dance production "Gömböc" by French choreographer Antonin Comestaz A 2021 solo exhibition of conceptual artist Ryan Gander evolved around the theme of self-righting and featured seven large gömböc shapes gradual... | Wikipedia - Gömböc - Art |
In the fall of November 1992, Senator David Boren, then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sponsored the National Security Act of 1992, attempting to achieve modest reform in the U.S. Intelligence Community. His counterpart on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was Congressman Da... | Wikipedia - Open Source Enterprise - History |
The House version of the legislation included a separate Open Source Office, at the suggestion of Larry Prior, a Marine Reservist with Marine Corps Intelligence Command experience then serving on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff. The Aspin-Brown Commission stated in 1996 that US access to open... | Wikipedia - Open Source Enterprise - History |
Subsequently, the WMD Commission (also known as the Robb-Silberman Commission) report in March 2005 recommended the creation of an Open Source Directorate at the CIA. Following these recommendations, in November 2005 the Director of National Intelligence announced the creation of the DNI Open Source Center. The Center ... | Wikipedia - Open Source Enterprise - History |
In addition to collecting openly available information, it would train analysts to make better use of this information. Central to the establishment of the new organization was Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source (ADDNI/OS), Eliot A. Jardines. The OSC absorbed the CIA's previously existin... | Wikipedia - Open Source Enterprise - History |
In the falling-head method, the soil sample is first saturated under a specific head condition. The water is then allowed to flow through the soil without adding any water, so the pressure head declines as water passes through the specimen. The advantage to the falling-head method is that it can be used for both fine-g... | Wikipedia - Transmissivity (hydrology) - Falling-head method |
. If the head drops from hi to hf in a time Δt, then the hydraulic conductivity is equal to K = L Δ t ln h f h i {\displaystyle K={\frac {L}{\Delta t}}\ln {\frac {h_{f}}{h_{i}}}} Proof: As above, Darcy's law reads Δ V Δ t = − K A L h {\displaystyle {\frac {\Delta V}{\Delta t}}=-K{\frac {A}{L}}h} The decrease in volum... | Wikipedia - Transmissivity (hydrology) - Falling-head method |
In the false fame experiment, participants are presented with a list of non-famous names. Later, they are presented with the same names as before, with new non-famous and famous people. The participants then have to determine which names are famous, and the typical finding is that the old non-famous names are often mis... | Wikipedia - Faulty source monitoring - False fame |
This is a source-monitoring error because they have attributed the name's actual origin to a source other than the list where they originally read it.There have been studies linking individuals who believe in false, abnormal life events (like memories from past lives) to an increased proneness to source-monitoring erro... | Wikipedia - Faulty source monitoring - False fame |
In the familiar three-dimensional space of daily life, there are three coordinate axes—usually labeled x, y, and z—with each axis orthogonal (i.e. perpendicular) to the other two. The six cardinal directions in this space can be called up, down, east, west, north, and south. Positions along these axes can be called alt... | Wikipedia - 4-dimensional space - Orthogonality and vocabulary |
Comparatively, four-dimensional space has an extra coordinate axis, orthogonal to the other three, which is usually labeled w. To describe the two additional cardinal directions, Charles Howard Hinton coined the terms ana and kata, from the Greek words meaning "up toward" and "down from", respectively. : 160 As mention... | Wikipedia - 4-dimensional space - Orthogonality and vocabulary |
In the family Enterobacteriaceae of the class Gammaproteobacteria, the species in the genus Shigella (S. dysenteriae, S. flexneri, S. boydii, S. sonnei) from an evolutionary point of view are strains of the species Escherichia coli (polyphyletic), but due to genetic differences cause different medical conditions in the... | Wikipedia - Bacterial taxonomy - Escherichia coli: overly large and polyphyletic |
In the family Sphaeropsidaceae of the Sphaeropsidales fungi, species of the genus Cicinnobolus are hyperparasites of powdery mildew.Ampelomyces quisqualis is an anamorphic fungus that is a hyperparasite of powdery mildews. This parasitism reduces growth and may eventually kill the mildew. Research on biological control... | Wikipedia - Powdery mildew - Hyperparasites of powdery mildew |
In the family known as Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, which was inspired by the Devanagari script of India, vowels are indicated by changing the orientation of the syllabogram. Each vowel has a consistent orientation; for example, Inuktitut ᐱ pi, ᐳ pu, ᐸ pa; ᑎ ti, ᑐ tu, ᑕ ta. Although there is a vowel inherent in each,... | Wikipedia - Indic Writing Systems - Canadian Aboriginal syllabics |
In the family of all subsets of the set {a,b,c,d}, the subfamily {{a,b,c}, {a,b,d}, {a,c,d}, {b,c,d}} has an empty intersection, but removing any set from this subfamily causes it to have a nonempty intersection. Therefore, it is a minimal subfamily with an empty intersection. It has four sets in it, and is the largest... | Wikipedia - Helly family - Examples |
Let A be the interval whose left endpoint a is as large as possible, and let B be the interval whose right endpoint b is as small as possible. Then, if a were less than or equal to b, all numbers in the range would belong to all intervals of I, violating the assumption that the intersection of I is empty, so it must b... | Wikipedia - Helly family - Examples |
Therefore, all minimal families of intervals with empty intersections have two or fewer intervals in them, showing that the set of all intervals is a Helly family of order 2. The family of infinite arithmetic progressions of integers also has the 2-Helly property. That is, whenever a finite collection of progressions h... | Wikipedia - Helly family - Examples |
In the family of dialkyl phosphinic acid salts, aluminium diethyl phosphinate has been found to be an excellent flame retardant for use in engineering plastics such as polyamides, polyesters, thermosets and elastomers. It was developed by Hoechst AG, later by Clariant Chemicals and Ticona. In 2004 and 2012, Clariant ch... | Wikipedia - Aluminium diethyl phosphinate - Applications |
In parallel it acts in the gas phase by radical reactions removing from the combustion zone the high energy radicals H. and OH., which determine flame propagation and heat release. The phosphinate partly vaporises and partly decomposes to volatile diethyl phosphinic acid and an aluminium phosphate residue, which acts a... | Wikipedia - Aluminium diethyl phosphinate - Applications |
Mobile phones, washing machines, and airplane parts, among others, contain the product. Other applications include thermosetting resins and adhesives as well as cable sheaths and insulation made from thermoplastic elastomers. | Wikipedia - Aluminium diethyl phosphinate - Applications |
Aluminium diethyl phosphinate can give these plastics flame retardant properties that are otherwise only achievable with expensive high-performance plastics, which are less easy to work with. Aluminium diethyl phosphinate is often used in combination with other halogen-free flame retardant additives like melamine polyp... | Wikipedia - Aluminium diethyl phosphinate - Applications |
Here, formulations with aluminium diethyl phosphinate meet the glow wire ignition test (GWIT) at 775 °C and the glow wire flammability test (GWFI) at 960 °C. Another important criterion in E&E applications is the Comparative Tracking Index (CTI), which determines the risk of electrical tracking of insulating material t... | Wikipedia - Aluminium diethyl phosphinate - Applications |
Further benefits of polyamides and polyesters containing aluminium diethyl phosphinate are low smoke density which makes them suitable for rolling stock applications to EN 45545, as well as good light stability which is needed for outdoor applications. The EU’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive forced E&E m... | Wikipedia - Aluminium diethyl phosphinate - Applications |
This triggered the rapid growth of polymer resins based on polyamides with melting points above 300 °C, in particular PPAs and Nylon 46. The application requires the resin to pass GWIT and UL94 ratings mentioned above. Aluminium diethylphosphinate confers this flame retardancy on polyamides whilst meeting the other req... | Wikipedia - Aluminium diethyl phosphinate - Applications |
In the famous 10th edition of Systema Naturae of 1758, Carl Linnaeus cited descriptions by Albertus Seba and by Laurens Theodorus Gronovius to erect the distinct species murina of his new genus Boa, which contained eight other species, including Boa constrictor. The generic name Boa came from an ancient Latin word for ... | Wikipedia - Green anaconda - Scientific and common names |
Because of the masculine gender of Eunectes, the feminine Latin specific name murina was changed to murinus. Linnaeus almost certainly chose the scientific name Boa murina based on the original Latin description given by Albertus Seba in 1735: "Serpens testudinea americana, murium insidiator" . The Latin adjective muri... | Wikipedia - Green anaconda - Scientific and common names |
Early English-language sources, such as George Shaw, referred to the Boa murina as the "rat boa" and the Penny Cyclopaedia (Vol. 5) entry for boa explained: "The trivial name murina was given to it from being said to lie in wait for mice." Linnaeus described the appearance of the Boa murina in Latin as rufus maculis su... | Wikipedia - Green anaconda - Scientific and common names |
In the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, an Outer Plane is one of a number of general types of planes of existence. They can also be referred to as godly planes, spiritual planes or divine planes. The Outer Planes are home to beings such as deities and their servants such as demons, celestials and devils. E... | Wikipedia - Outer Plane - Summary |
The intangible and esoteric Outer Planes—the realms of ideals, philosophies, and gods—stand in contrast to the Inner Planes, which compose the material building blocks of reality and the realms of energy and matter. All Outer Planes are spatially infinite but are composed of features and locations of finite scope. Many... | Wikipedia - Outer Plane - Summary |
For example, Baator's geography is reminiscent of Hell as depicted in Dante's The Divine Comedy. In addition, each layer may also contain a number of realms. Each realm is the home to an individual deity, or occasionally a collection of deities. | Wikipedia - Outer Plane - Summary |
In the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), orcs are creatures in the game, and somewhat based upon those described by Tolkien. These D&D orcs are implemented in the game rules as a multi-tribed race of hostile and bestial humanoids.The D&D orcs are endowed with muscular frames, large canine tee... | Wikipedia - Orc - Dungeons & Dragons |
In the third version of the game the orc became gray-skinned, even though a complicated color-palleted description of a (non-gray) orc had been implemented in the Monster Manual for the first edition (1977). Newer versions seem to have dropped references to skin-color.Early versions of the game introduced the "half-orc... | Wikipedia - Orc - Dungeons & Dragons |
cit. ), as a fiercely competitive bully, a tribal creature often dwelling and building underground; in newer editions, orcs (though still described as sometimes inhabiting cavern complexes) had been shifted to become more prone to non-subterranean habitation as well, adapting captured villages into communities, for ins... | Wikipedia - Orc - Dungeons & Dragons |
In the far field, propagation paths for wavelets from every point on an aperture to a point of observation are approximately parallel, and a positive lens (focusing lens) focuses parallel rays toward the lens to a point on the focal plane (the focus point position on the focal plane depends on the angle of the parallel... | Wikipedia - Fraunhoffer diffraction - Focal plane of a positive lens as the far field plane |
In the far field, where r is essentially constant, then the equation: is equivalent to doing a Fourier transform on the gaps in the barrier. | Wikipedia - Diffraction formalism - General case for far field |
In the far future (perhaps five to ten million years from now), humans and much of the world's fauna have gone extinct, and new creatures have evolved from the remaining species to take their places. Jmu, intelligent primates evolved from capuchin monkeys, now fill the niche left by humans, giant agoutis that of horses... | Wikipedia - Living Fossil (short story) - Plot summary |
It is a world of depleted resources, much of these having been used up by humans, but the Jmu have developed to a fairly high level their own technology, including aeronautical balloons, rifles, binoculars and cameras. Two Jmu from South America, zoologist Nawputta and his guide Chujee, an amateur naturalist, are explo... | Wikipedia - Living Fossil (short story) - Plot summary |
They encounter Nguchoy tsu Chaw, a timber scout for the local Jmu colony. He is alone; his own partner, Jawga tsu Shrra, was recently killed by a rattlesnake. Nguchoy treats the newcomers with suspicion, but he helpfully steers them towards a huge stand of valuable pine. | Wikipedia - Living Fossil (short story) - Plot summary |
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