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Salinity Salt is expensive to remove from water, and salt content is an important factor in water use (such as potability). Increases in salinity have been observed in lakes and rivers in the United States, due to common road salt and other salt de-icers in runoff. The degree of salinity in oceans is a driver of the wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26985 | 97,172 |
Protein quinary structure In contrast, the presence of many hydrophobic residues in the protein surface would slow down protein intracellular tumbling. Protein dipole moment, a measure of charge separation across the protein, was shown to have a significant contribution to protein mobility, where high dipole moments wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61245307 | 162,879 |
Prince Mihailo Monument An official Serbian state delegation visited Russia in May 1867. After meeting with the Emperor Alexander II in Saint Petersburg, the delegates visited the All-Russian Ethnology Exhibition in Moscow. They noticed the watercolor painting "Liberation of Serbia", actually a design for the monumenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30853589 | 352,521 |
Cognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or emotional states. It is sometimes said that animals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input. In humans, for example,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45312411 | 164,609 |
Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel, originally built in 1976 as the Downtown Norfolk Omni International Hotel and later known as Omni Norfolk Waterside Hotel, is a 10-story structure in the business district of Norfolk, Virginia, United States. It became a Sheraton Hotel in 1998. Construc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58266761 | 305,616 |
Transfection Viruses used to date include retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, adeno-associated virus, and herpes simplex virus. However, there are drawbacks to using viruses to deliver genes into cells. Viruses can only deliver very small pieces of DNA into the cells, it is labor-intensive and there are risks of random... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619632 | 142,380 |
Polymer physics is the field of physics that studies polymers, their fluctuations, mechanical properties, as well as the kinetics of reactions involving degradation and polymerisation of polymers and monomers respectively. While it focuses on the perspective of condensed matter physics, polymer physics is originally a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176159 | 434,590 |
Yum! Brands from PepsiCo's fast food division as the parent corporation of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurant companies. Several years before changing its name to "Yum! Brands", Tricon Global was spun off in late 1997. Tricon selected Louisville as its headquarters, near the KFC Restaurant Support Center from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74093 | 466,721 |
Packet switching It may also be labeled with the sequence number of the packet. This information eliminates the need for a pre-established path to help the packet find its way to its destination, but means that more information is needed in the packet header, which is therefore larger. The packets are routed individual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43339 | 379,920 |
Wattpad Santoni (404,000 reads). hopes to publish 18 titles in their 2020 list. Besides Books, announced partnership with Anvil Publishing, Inc., one of Philippines' leading publishers, to create Bliss Books, a YA imprint with Filipino Young Adult and romance fanatics as their target market. Netflix film The Kissing Bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22057388 | 405,456 |
Text Retrieval Conference 31 group of researchers where participated in this. Two types of retrieval were examined. Retrieval using an ‘ad hoc’query and retrieval using a ‘routing query. In TREC-3 a small group experiments worked with Spanish language collection and others dealt with interactive query formulation in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1897206 | 104,721 |
Infrastructure and economics High-speed rail may cause noise and wide swathes of rights-of-way through countrysides and urban communities but have helped China, Spain, France, Germany, Japan, and other nations deal with concurrent issues of economic competitiveness, climate change, energy use, and built environment sus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46186906 | 218,571 |
Copper-silver ionization <ref name= "Commission Decision of 9 February 2012 concerning the non-inclusion of certain substances in Annex I, IA or IB to Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market (notified under document C(2012) 645) Text with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21734496 | 33,699 |
Pinos Altos Historic District The is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It includes 37 contributing buildings on . It is roughly bounded by Gold Ave. and Cherry, Main, Church, and Silver Streets. It was a gold camp in the 1800s. It is located on the Continental Div... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61382000 | 315,785 |
Charles C. Copeland He began addressing energy needs in 1974, designing an early, influential solar collector thermal installation for a homesteading group resurrecting an abandoned building on Manhattan's Lower East Side. A windmill on the roof occasionally created an excess of electric power, which led to a dispute w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59618203 | 306,573 |
Gene therapy , only the patients treated in clinical trials and a patient who paid the full price for treatment have received the drug. In December 2012, it was reported that 10 of 13 patients with multiple myeloma were in remission "or very close to it" three months after being injected with a treatment involving gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12891 | 223,882 |
Decanter centrifuge The two liquid phases are separated using a dual discharge system where the lighter liquid phase such as oil, is separated over a ring dam via gravity, and water, which is commonly the heavier liquid phase, is discharged using a stationary impeller under pressure. Each of the three components, solid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40796886 | 335,373 |
Dynamic voltage restoration The energy source may vary according to the design and manufacturer of the DVR, but DC capacitors and batteries drawn from the line through a rectifier are frequently used. The energy source is typically connected to the DVR through its DC input terminal. The amplitude and phase angle of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20895994 | 398,336 |
Stonington mansion Stonington (formerly Stonnington) is a private residence and former Australian Government House located in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, at 336 Glenferrie Road. The house was built for John Wagner, a partner in Cobb and Co coaches. Stonington gave its name to the City of Stonnington, a Melbourne m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12908532 | 348,425 |
Zero-point energy The only reason Earth's environment does not decay into an equilibrium state is that it receives a daily dose of sunshine and that, in turn, is due to the sun "polluting" interstellar space with decreasing entropy. The sun's fusion power is only possible due to the gravitational disequilibrium of matt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 268,892 |
Nike Grind These materials are also used in athletic and play surfaces like running tracks, turf fields, playground surfaces, courts, weight room flooring, and carpet underlay. Since its inception, has been used in over 1 billion square feet of sports surfaces in total. The first synthetic turf soccer field installed w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4957612 | 462,920 |
Column Eccentricity of the load, or imperfections such as initial crookedness, decreases column strength. If the axial load on the column is not concentric, that is, its line of action is not precisely coincident with the centroidal axis of the column, the column is characterized as eccentrically loaded. The eccentrici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6920 | 301,006 |
Split-ring resonator Moreover, when gaps are introduced to a double cylinder design similar to the image above, we see that the gaps produce a capacitance. This capacitor and inductor microstructure design introduces a resonance that amplifies the magnetic effect. The new form of the effective permeability resembles a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8849460 | 388,073 |
Pierson College While presiding there, he and five other ministers established the third college in the American colonies, the Collegiate School, in 1701. Pierson was elected its first rector, but unable to leave his position in Killingworth, he taught courses from his parsonage in present-day Clinton. Pierson died in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300592 | 318,458 |
Chassis An armoured fighting vehicle's hull serves as the chassis and comprises the bottom part of the AFV that includes the tracks, engine, driver's seat, and crew compartment. This describes the lower hull, although common usage might include the upper hull to mean the AFV without the turret. The hull serves as a bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183330 | 434,650 |
Rooftop water tower A rooftop water tower is a variant of a water tower, consisting of a water container placed on the roof of a tall building. This structure supplies water pressure to floors at higher elevation than public water towers. As building height increases, the vertical height of its plumbing also increases.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30427940 | 352,292 |
Saltire Prize • The Junior - launched in 2011, this is aimed at primary and secondary school pupils and was designed to help raise awareness of the opportunities that Scotland has to exploit its marine renewables potential. It is sponsored by Skills Development Scotland and awards are presented to teams in three age gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35248456 | 379,121 |
Institute of Directors Members of the IoD can access the support through online, telephone or face-to-face consultations, and are allowed up to 25 different consultations each year. The IoD provides training, with courses to suit business leaders at different stages of their career. There are role-specific training cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2166957 | 482,324 |
Transmission electron cryomicroscopy The thin film method is limited to thin specimens (typically < 500 nm) because the electrons cannot cross thicker samples without multiple scattering events. Thicker specimens can be vitrified by plunge freezing (cryofixation) in ethane (up to tens of μm in thickness) or more common... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2235991 | 168,547 |
Tech in Asia is a Singapore-based technology website and media and events company. It has hosted annual conferences across the continent primarily in Singapore, Tokyo and Jakarta since 2012. It was backed by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in 2015. was founded in 2010 by Willis Wee during his third year of universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58927390 | 255,563 |
Winding machine Modern automated winders are capable of reasonable high speed roll set change and core introduction, Tissue winders making toilet roll can change over at running speed, Paper and board winders need to stop the winding process to cut the sheet and glue the paper on to a new wind up core, Top line winders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18511470 | 289,986 |
Karel Fortyn Karel Fortýn (1930–2001) was a Czech (originally Czechoslovakian) physician who invented a breakthrough surgical method in healing cancer called devitalization. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4435012 | 143,099 |
Kinetic isotope effect In most cases, the substrate possesses a directing group (DG) between the C-H and C-D bonds. Calculation of the kinetic isotope effect from this experiment and its interpretation follow the same considerations as that of Experiment B. However, the results of Experiments B and C will differ if the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106771 | 39,019 |
ANTIC Motion fluidity is impaired, since the minimum amount of shifting the display is the size of an entire character. Most computers including the Atari 8-bits accomplish coarse scrolling as described above — common examples are viewing a long BASIC program listing or directory of files. Coarse scrolling implemented ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=870044 | 389,332 |
Smoluchowski coagulation equation In statistical physics, the is a population balance equation introduced by Marian Smoluchowski in a seminal 1916 publication, describing the time evolution of the number density of particles as they coagulate (in this context "clumping together") to size "x" at time "t". Simultaneous c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3167913 | 426,886 |
Stasis (fiction) The original game also uses a similar effect when Dark Jedi trap party members to engage the player in a duel. In the "Justice League Unlimited" episode "The Cat and the Canary", Green Arrow uses a stunner to put himself into a form of stasis while fighting Wildcat. It was an attempt to end Wildcat's c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1729618 | 250,346 |
Abu Dhabi International Tennis Centre The International Tennis Centre, also known as Abu Dhabi International Tennis Complex, is a sports arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The complex opened in 2004 as part of the Zayed Sports City. It has a seating capacity of 5,000 on Centre Court and 600 on Court 2. The sport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20936933 | 348,639 |
Separase Separase, also known as separin, is a cysteine protease responsible for triggering anaphase by hydrolysing cohesin, which is the protein responsible for binding sister chromatids during the early stage of anaphase. In humans, separin is encoded by the "ESPL1" gene. In "S. cerevisiae", separase is encoded by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3450551 | 144,777 |
History of business architecture Today‘s Business Architects take a holistic view of the complete business representing all interests and engaging all expertise. They see the business organization as a constantly changing, dynamic organism that balances central planning with individual initiative to achieve its mission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45102736 | 475,432 |
KKOL (AM) On March 29, 1941, KOL, along with all the other stations on 1270 kHz, moved to 1300 kHz. In 1962, the Taft interests sold KOL to television producers and game show moguls Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. KOL briefly adopted a Top 40 format which was dropped within a year due to the strong ratings of Top 40 lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4664243 | 387,357 |
Subspecies Botanists and mycologists have the choice of ranks lower than subspecies, such as variety (varietas) or form (forma), to recognize smaller differences between populations. In biological terms, rather than in relation to nomenclature, a polytypic species has two or more genetically and phenotypically divergen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185901 | 182,086 |
Super fine TFT (SFT) is a NEC display technology that is claimed to provide better viewing angles and pixel response speed than other technologies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40206267 | 412,808 |
Materials and Structures is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of RILEM (the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures). It covers research on fundamental properties of building materials, their characterizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24550755 | 31,214 |
European intellectual property law The origin guarantee deemed to be a significant function of the mark aims at ensuring that the origin of the trademarked goods can be clearly known to the consumer or end user, freeing them from any possibility of distinguishing the goods from the products of another place of origin. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60359379 | 489,735 |
C11H14N2O2 The molecular formula CHNO (molar mass: 206.241 g/mol) may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61540526 | 92,728 |
MDC-2 In cryptography, (Modification Detection Code 2, sometimes called Meyer–Schilling, standardized in ISO 10118-2) is a cryptographic hash function. is a hash function based on a block cipher with a proof of security in the ideal-cipher model. The length of the output hash depends on the underlying block cipher used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2642062 | 102,967 |
Comparative genomic hybridization This makes array CGH a promising tool to reduce the incidence of life altering conditions and improve success rates of IVF attempts. The technique involves whole genome amplification from a single cell which is then used in the array CGH method. It may also be used in couples carrying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983601 | 145,656 |
Active-matrix liquid-crystal display Whereas a passive matrix display uses a simple conductive grid to apply a voltage to the liquid crystals in the target area, an active-matrix display uses a grid of transistors and capacitors with the ability to hold a charge for a limited period of time. Because of the switching ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175865 | 409,130 |
SWAT model SWAT (Soil & Water Assessment Tool) is a river basin scale model developed to quantify the impact of land management practices in large, complex watersheds. SWAT is a public domain software enabled model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Blackland Research & Extension Center... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20395501 | 343,650 |
Fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS) was introduced by Eigen and Rigler in 1994 and experimentally realized by Schwille in 1997. It is essentially an extension of the fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) procedure by utilizing two differentially colored molecules, instead of one. In other words, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12424551 | 184,203 |
Memory controller Reading and writing to DRAM is performed by selecting the row and column data addresses of the DRAM as the inputs to the multiplexer circuit, where the demultiplexer on the DRAM uses the converted inputs to select the correct memory location and return the data, which is then passed back through a mul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5288134 | 120,863 |
Joseph Majdalani Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers as well as the 2012 Abe M. Zarem Educator Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). In 2006 Majdalani became a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He also served as the Vice-Chair and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54012691 | 450,304 |
Plant litter Releasing clay and silt particles reduces the capacity for soil to absorb water and increases cross surface flow, accelerating soil erosion. In addition soil litter reduces wind erosion by preventing soil from losing moisture and providing cover preventing soil transportation. Organic matter accumulation a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26137572 | 170,394 |
Programmer Other reasons for employers claiming skill shortages is the result of their own cost saving combining of several disparate skill sets previously held by several specialized programmers into fewer generalized multifaceted positions that are unlikely to have enough "qualified" candidates with the desired exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23716 | 251,735 |
Seersucker At the same time, seersucker pants, skirts, espadrilles, blouses, and even bikinis were worn as casual attire by many fashion conscious young women in America. is made by slack-tension weave. The threads are wound onto the two warp beams in groups of 10 to 16 for a narrow stripe. The stripes are always in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1610163 | 455,194 |
NAT traversal with session border controllers After the establishment of a call using SIP, media packets, namely voice, video or data are exchanged -usually using the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) While NAT traversal of SIP messages may appear complicated after all, the yet more complex task is enabling media to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39158309 | 399,642 |
Amory Lovins Born in Washington, DC, Lovins spent much of his youth in Silver Spring, Maryland, in Amherst, Massachusetts, and in Montclair, New Jersey. In 1964, Lovins entered Harvard College. After two years there, he transferred in 1967 to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied physics and other subjects. In 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213072 | 235,470 |
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism is a non-fiction book by economist Ha-Joon Chang. It was published on 1 September 2011 by Penguin. The book offers a 23-point rebuttal of aspects of neo-liberal capitalism. Chang wrote "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism" in the aftermath of the 2008 financial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54756587 | 505,178 |
Pre-Marxist communism The word ""communism"" was first used in English by Goodwyn Barmby in a conversation with those he described as the "disciples of Babeuf". He has been called "The First Revolutionary Communist." The Shakers of the 18th century under Joseph Meacham developed and practiced their own form of communal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24601516 | 510,477 |
Biotechnology consulting (or biotech consulting) refers to the practice of assisting organizations involved in research and commercialization of biotechnology in improving their methods and efficiency of production, and approaches to R&D. This assistance is usually provided in the form of specialized technological advi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16413876 | 171,663 |
PolyQ (database) PolyQ is a database of polyglutamine repeats in disease and non-disease associated proteins. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352623 | 166,479 |
Pneumatic cylinder Pneumatic cylinder(s) (sometimes known as air cylinders) are mechanical devices which use the power of compressed gas to produce a force in a reciprocating linear motion. Like hydraulic cylinders, something forces a piston to move in the desired direction. The piston is a disc or cylinder, and the pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3546095 | 74,631 |
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association The was an association set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament, and philanthropist and Edward Thomas Wakefield, a barrister, in 1859 to provide free drinking water. Originally called the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915423 | 311,925 |
Batman 1969)) after his parents' death, and appearances of his father and himself as prototypical versions of and Robin, respectively. In 1980, then-editor Paul Levitz commissioned the "Untold Legend of the Batman" miniseries to thoroughly chronicle Batman's origin and history. meets and regularly works with other hero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4335 | 223,297 |
Sustainable engineering The design must consider short and long-term impacts. Those impacts beyond the near-term are the province of sustainable design. The effects may not manifest themselves for decades. In the mid-twentieth century, designers specified the use of what are now known to be hazardous building materials... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18624923 | 290,103 |
Synthetic division In algebra, synthetic division is a method for manually performing Euclidean division of polynomials, with less writing and fewer calculations than occur with polynomial long division. It is mostly taught for division by binomials of the form but the method generalizes to division by any monic polyno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314709 | 111,019 |
William Gibson "Virtual Light" depicts an "end-stage capitalism, in which private enterprise and the profit motive are taken to their logical conclusion", according to one review. This argument on the mass media as the natural evolution of capitalism is the opening line of the major Situationist work "The Society of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33119 | 302,917 |
Formulary apportionment is not used as a method of attributing profit between (rather than within) national tax jurisdictions. The adoption of formulary apportionment has been advocated at various times since the 1970s. The matter has been hotly debated by OECD member states beginning in the 1970s. In 2000 Joann Weiner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30086263 | 479,544 |
HP-75 a very portable computer with powerful real-time scheduling capabilities, you should look closely at the HP-75". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4464106 | 121,772 |
Bellingcat The article included photographs of the remnants of the bomb used, and showed that the piece was identical to that of similar bombs used by the US military. In 2019 and 2020, published multiple reports on the OPCW findings on the Douma chemical attack, which took place in spring 2018. In May 2018, in partner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43876021 | 474,959 |
Conflicts involving Critical Mass On the night of July 25, 1997, in San Francisco, the ride attracted 5,000 participants, which resulted in congested traffic, confrontations with motorists, and arrests. Interest and tension had been growing for several weeks due to increased rhetoric from then-Mayor Willie Brown regard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20216813 | 261,537 |
Wireless security Only when the firewall gets back an ACK, which would happen only in a legitimate connection, would the firewall send the original SYN segment on to the server for which it was originally intended. The firewall doesn't set aside resources for a connection when a SYN segment arrives, so handling a large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2681135 | 281,257 |
Wayfinder was a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone specializing in creating mobile navigation systems for a number of platforms such as Symbian 2nd and 3rd edition, UIQ, Windows Mobile and some other smartphones. An external Bluetooth GPS receiver is required for non GPS enabled phones. On March 12, 2010 it was announ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1450770 | 261,137 |
Orchid mycorrhiza Orchids mycorrhiza (OM) are found in approximately 10% of the botanical diversity of earth and have unique and specialized mycorrhizal nutrient transfer interactions which define the fitness and diversity of the orchid family. Orchid mycorrhizal associations involve a plethora of distinctive nutrient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55484311 | 187,692 |
Gas cluster ion beam Small argon cluster GCIB sources are increasingly used for analytical depth-profiling by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Argon clusters greatly reduce the damage introduced to the specimen during depth-profiling, making it practical to do so for ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7920461 | 52,776 |
Norman Feather This nuclide rapidly emits an electron, decaying into an element with a mass of 239 and an atomic number of 93. This nuclide then emits another electron to become a new element still of mass 239, but with an atomic number 94 and a much greater half-life. Bretscher and Feather showed theoretically feasibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15058577 | 290,621 |
Mutoscope The was an early motion picture device, invented by W.K.L. Dickson and Herman Casler and later patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, it did not project on a screen and provided viewing to only one person at a time. Cheaper and simpler than the Kinetoscope, the syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420584 | 277,740 |
Labour movement Historically labour markets have often been constrained by national borders that have restricted movement of workers. Labour laws are also primarily determined by individual nations or states within those nations. While there have been some efforts to adopt a set of international labour standards throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46399250 | 467,828 |
Time clock The employee either swipes a magnetic stripe card, scans a barcode, brings an RFID (radio-frequency identification) tag into proximity with a reader, enters an employee number or uses a biometric reader to identify the employee to the system. These systems are much more advanced than the mechanical time cloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=956709 | 441,723 |
CSIRO The shadow minister for innovation, industry, science and research, Sophie Mirabella, wrote to the government requesting it establish an inquiry. Mirabella said she is aware of as many as 100 cases of alleged workplace harassment. On 20 July 2012 Comcare issued with an Improvement Notice with regard to handling a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 | 463,226 |
Silage For corn, harvest begins when the whole-plant moisture is at a suitable level, ideally a few days before it is ripe. For pasture-type crops, the grass is mown and allowed to wilt for a day or so until the moisture content drops to a suitable level. Ideally the crop is mowed when in full flower, and deposited in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246507 | 355,870 |
History of Dell 's plan anticipated Alienware continuing to operate independently under its existing management. Alienware expected to benefit from Dell's efficient manufacturing system. On January 31, 2007, Kevin B. Rollins, CEO of the company since 2004, resigned as both CEO and as a director, and Michael Dell resume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27623301 | 133,130 |
Cosmic dust Based on 2012 computer model studies, the complex organic molecules necessary for life (Extraterrestrial organic molecules) may have formed in the protoplanetary disk of dust grains surrounding the Sun before the formation of the Earth. According to the computer studies, this same process may also occur aro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2178570 | 169,965 |
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Azaria had followed the debate over the previous years since Kondabolu's essay and documentary, and had read up on and attended seminars on racism and social consciousness, and spoke to Indian-American colleagues including fellow actor Utkarsh Ambudkar (who had performed as Apu's nephew in "Much ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64893 | 136,680 |
Overhead line Many people consider overhead lines to be "visual pollution", due to the many support structures and complicated system of wires and cables that fill the air. Such considerations have driven the move towards replacing overhead power and communications lines with buried cables where possible. The issue cam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176752 | 394,359 |
Leiden Classical was a distributed computing project run by the Theoretical Chemistry Department of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University. is part of the BOINC system, and enables scientists or science students to submit their own test simulations of various molecules and atoms in a classical mechanics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21471659 | 253,922 |
Simon Zadek Zadek's early interests were in alternative, utopian, and Buddhist economics. But he became interested in the corporate social responsibility movement and particularity the development of social auditing techniques, when working at the New Economics Foundation (1992–1999) and then as founder and CEO of Acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16913896 | 512,384 |
Competition law However, according to laissez-faire theorists, when it tries to raise prices to take advantage of its monopoly position it creates profitable opportunities for others to compete. A process of creative destruction begins which erodes the monopoly. Therefore, government should not try to break up monopoly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666256 | 484,879 |
Tap water Water-borne diseases are vastly reduced by proper sewage and fresh water availability. Providing tap water to large urban or suburban populations requires a complex and carefully designed system of collection, storage, treatment and distribution, and is commonly the responsibility of a government agency, ofte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239918 | 25,406 |
Selamectin Symptoms beyond these (such as drooling, rapid breathing, lack of coordination, vomiting, or diarrhea) could be due to shock as a result of selamectin killing heartworms or other vulnerable parasites present at high levels in the bloodstreams of dogs. This would be a reaction due to undetected or underestima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2041052 | 169,576 |
Fluorescence in the life sciences Fluorescence is used in the life sciences generally as a non-destructive way of tracking or analysing biological molecules by means of fluorescence. Some proteins or small molecules in cells are naturally fluorescent, which is called intrinsic fluorescence or autofluorescence (such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23455526 | 171,357 |
CRISPR In effect, the spacers are fragments of DNA gathered from viruses that previously tried to attack the cell. The source of the spacers was a sign that the CRISPR/"cas" system could have a role in adaptive immunity in bacteria. All three studies proposing this idea were initially rejected by high-profile journals,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2146034 | 67,276 |
Radio navigation » This service is a so-called safety-of-life service, must be protected for Interferences, and is essential part of Navigation. This "radiocommunication service" is classified in accordance with "ITU Radio Regulations" (article 1) as follows: Radiodetermination service (article 1.40) The allocation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153095 | 225,575 |
Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis However, it has been shown that for an observable satisfying the ETH, quantum fluctuations in its expectation value will typically be of the same order of magnitude as the thermal fluctuations which would be predicted in a traditional microcanonical ensemble. This lends further cred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39937659 | 435,543 |
Science and technology studies Fishkin offered an example of a reform in their paper "Deliberation Day." The deliberation is to enhance public understanding of popular, complex and controversial issues through devices such as Fishkin's deliberative polling, though implementation of these reforms is unlikely in a large ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411590 | 277,490 |
Frankfurt Germany Temple The is the 43rd constructed and 41st operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Located in the city of Friedrichsdorf, Germany, it was built with the same general architecture as the six-spire design used in the Boise, Chicago, and Dallas temples, but it w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4942188 | 321,731 |
NAS Award in Molecular Biology For his innovative use of molecular and cell biological tools to analyze the genome of an oncogenic virus. For the isolation of proteins required for DNA replication and genetic recombination and the elucidation of how they interact with DNA. For his distinguished leadership in virus rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28306559 | 177,808 |
Invention of the integrated circuit Noyce claimed in 1976 that in January 1959 he did not know about the work of Lehovec. As an example, Noyce described an integrator that he discussed with Keonjian. Transistors, diodes and resistors of that hypothetical device were isolated from each other by p-n junctions, but in a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37259051 | 412,320 |
IQRF is a technology for wireless packet-oriented communication via radio frequency (RF) in sub-GHz ISM bands. It is intended for general use where wireless connectivity is needed, either point-to-point or in complex networks, e.g. for telemetry, industrial control, automation of buildings and cities and Internet of Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37124861 | 242,620 |
Shared services is different from the model of outsourcing, which is where an external third party is paid to provide a service that was previously internal to the buying organization, typically leading to redundancies and re-organization. There is an ongoing debate about the advantages of shared services over outsourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1838287 | 455,836 |
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