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Additional classifications may be made on the basis of other components, such as aluminum or iron content.Volcanic rocks are also broadly divided into subalkaline, alkaline, and peralkaline volcanic rocks. Subalkaline rocks are defined as rocks in which SiO2 < -3.3539 × 10−4 × A6 + 1.2030 × 10−2 × A5 - 1.5188 × 10−1 × ...
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Peralkaline volcanic rocks are defined as rocks having Na2O + K2O > Al2O3, so that some of the alkali oxides must be present as aegirine or sodic amphibole rather than feldspar.The chemistry of volcanic rocks is dependent on two things: the initial composition of the primary magma and the subsequent differentiation. Di...
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Most modern textbooks make use of Ernst Mayr's 1942 definition, known as the Biological Species Concept as a basis for further discussion on the definition of species. It is also called a reproductive or isolation concept. This defines a species as groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations, wh...
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Most modern uses of the term psychological warfare refer to the following military methods: Demoralization: Distributing pamphlets that encourage desertion or supply instructions on how to surrender. Shock and awe military strategy. Projecting repetitive and disturbing noises and music for long periods at high volume t...
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Propaganda radio stations, such as Lord Haw-Haw in World War II on the "Germany calling" station. Renaming cities and other places when captured, such as the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City after Communist victory in the Vietnam War. False flag events.
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Terrorism The threat of chemical weapons. Information warfare.Most of these techniques were developed during World War II or earlier, and have been used to some degree in every conflict since. Daniel Lerner was in the OSS (the predecessor to the American CIA) and in his book, attempts to analyze how effective the vario...
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He concludes that there is little evidence that any of them were dramatically successful, except perhaps surrender instructions over loudspeakers when victory was imminent. Measuring the success or failure of psychological warfare is very hard, as the conditions are very far from being a controlled experiment. Lerner a...
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Grey propaganda (Omissions, Emphasis and Racial/Ethnic/Religious Bias): Largely truthful, containing no information that can be proven wrong; the source is not identified. Black propaganda (Commissions of falsification): Inherently deceitful, information given in the product is attributed to a source that was not respo...
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Before you can make a man do as you say, you must make him believe what you say. ": 28 Consistent with this idea, the Allied strategy in World War II was predominantly one of truth (with certain exceptions). In Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Jacques Ellul discusses psychological warfare as a common peace...
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This type of propaganda drains the public opinion of an opposing regime by stripping away its power on public opinion. This form of aggression is hard to defend against because no international court of justice is capable of protecting against psychological aggression since it cannot be legally adjudicated. "Here the p...
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Most molybdenum is excreted from the human body as molybdate in the urine. Furthermore, urinary excretion of molybdenum increases as dietary molybdenum intake increases. Small amounts of molybdenum are excreted from the body in the feces by way of the bile; small amounts also can be lost in sweat and in hair.
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Most morphisms encountered in scheme theory will be separated. For example, consider the affine scheme X = Spec ⁡ ( C ( f ) ) {\displaystyle X=\operatorname {Spec} \left({\frac {\mathbb {C} }{(f)}}\right)} over Spec ⁡ ( C ) . {\displaystyle \operatorname {Spec} (\mathbb {C} ).} Since the product scheme is X × C X = Sp...
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Most national cycling route networks have long-distance named routes, rather like highways. However, the international numbered-node cycle network has a modular design that enables arbitrary routes using simple signage. Both aim to minimize map use with plentiful signs. Cycle networks of routes can be developed in co-o...
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Most nations restrict foreign transfer of information that they consider related to national security, such as military technology.
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Most nemerteans are marine animals that burrow in sediments, lurk in crevices between shells, stones or the holdfasts of algae or sessile animals. Some live deep in the open oceans, and have gelatinous bodies. Others build semi-permanent burrows lined with mucus or produce cellophane-like tubes. Mainly in the tropics a...
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It can build a cocoon, which allows it to avoid desiccation while being transported, and it may be able to build populations quickly in new areas as it is a protandrous hermaphrodite. Another terrestrial genus, Geonemertes, is mostly found in Australasia but has species in the Seychelles, widely across the Indo-Pacific...
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They sometimes take fish, both living and dead. Insects and myriapods are the only known prey of the two terrestrial species of Argonemertes. A few nemerteans are scavengers, and these generally have good distance chemoreception ("smell") and are not selective about their prey.
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A few species live commensally inside the mantle cavity of molluscs and feed on micro-organisms filtered out by the host.Near San Francisco the nemertean Carcinonemertes errans has consumed about 55% of the total egg production of its host, the dungeness crab Metacarcinus magister. C. errans is considered a significant...
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Most neptunium coordination complexes known in solution involve the element in the +4, +5, and +6 oxidation states: only a few studies have been done on neptunium(III) and (VII) coordination complexes. For the former, NpX2+ and NpX+2 (X = Cl, Br) were obtained in 1966 in concentrated LiCl and LiBr solutions, respective...
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(The relative order of the middle two neptunium ions depends on the ligands and solvents used.) The stability sequence for Np(IV), Np(V), and Np(VI) complexes with monovalent inorganic ligands is F− > H2PO−4 > SCN− > NO−3 > Cl− > ClO−4; the order for divalent inorganic ligands is CO2−3 > HPO2−4 > SO2−4.
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These follow the strengths of the corresponding acids. The divalent ligands are more strongly complexing than the monovalent ones. NpO+2 can also form the complex ions (M = Al, Ga, Sc, In, Fe, Cr, Rh) in perchloric acid solution: the strength of interaction between the two cations follows the order Fe > In > Sc > Ga >...
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Most nonmetallic elements exist in allotropic forms. Carbon, for example, occurs as graphite, diamond, and other forms. Such allotropes may exhibit physical properties that are more metallic or less nonmetallic.Among the halogen nonmetals, and unclassified nonmetals: Iodine is known in a semiconducting amorphous form. ...
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The diamond allotrope of carbon is clearly nonmetallic, being translucent and an extremely poor electrical conductor. Carbon is known in several other allotropic forms, including semiconducting buckminsterfullerene, and amorphous and paracrystalline (mixed amorphous and crystalline) varieties. Nitrogen can form gaseous...
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Oxygen is a diatomic molecule in its standard state; it also exists as ozone (O3), an unstable nonmetallic allotrope with an "indoors" half-life of around half an hour, compared to about three days in ambient air at 20 °C. Phosphorus, uniquely, exists in several allotropic forms that are more stable than its standard s...
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Phosphorus also exists as diphosphorus (P2), an unstable diatomic allotrope. Sulfur has more allotropes than any other element.
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Amorphous sulfur, a metastable mixture of such allotropes, is noted for its elasticity. Selenium has several nonmetallic allotropes, all of which are much less electrically conducting than its standard state of grey "metallic" selenium.All the elements most commonly recognized as metalloids form allotropes: Boron is kn...
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At a pressure of about 10–11 GPa, germanium transforms to a metallic phase with the same tetragonal structure as tin. Arsenic and antimony form several well-known allotropes (yellow, grey, and black). Tellurium is known in crystalline and amorphous forms.Other allotropic forms of nonmetallic elements are known, either ...
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Most of EDS's clients were very large companies and governments that need services from a company of EDS's scale. EDS's largest clients included Rolls-Royce plc, General Motors, Bank of America, Arcandor, Kraft, United States Navy, the UK Ministry of Defence and Royal Dutch Shell although General Motors announced plans...
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Another large EDS client is the United States Navy. In 2000, they won a contract for the creation of a US$9 billion Intranet linking the Navy and the Marine Corps, which was set to late 2006, but on March 24, 2006, was extended to 2010, adding $3 billion to the accumulated contract worth. This initiative is known as th...
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In 2004, NMCI accounted for about 4% of EDS's revenue. NMCI has been called the largest private network in the world, with approximately 400,000 "seats". EDS provided the network, desktops, laptops, servers, telephones, video-conferencing, satellite transceivers, and overall management of the intranet.Following on to t...
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This agreement will help the Singapore government achieve a standard desktop, network and messaging/collaboration environment across its public sector by the end of fiscal year 2010.In October 2008, the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) signed a US$111 million contract with EDS. Under this contract, EDS wi...
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DOD and EDS have had a 13-year relationship of providing DISA with a wide range of infrastructure services, hardware and software through the DISA I-Assure and Encore contract vehicles.Of historical significance, just prior to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, EDS was the IT company that developed the Iranian social s...
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Most of Earth's methane is biogenic and is produced by methanogenesis, a form of anaerobic respiration only known to be conducted by some members of the domain Archaea. Methanogens occur in landfills and soils, ruminants (for example, cattle), the guts of termites, and the anoxic sediments below the seafloor and the bo...
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Most of Euler's greatest successes were in applying analytic methods to real world problems, describing numerous applications of Bernoulli's numbers, Fourier series, Venn diagrams, Euler numbers, e and π constants, continued fractions and integrals. He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus with Newton's Method of ...
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He also facilitated the use of differential equations, in particular introducing the Euler–Mascheroni constant: γ = lim n → ∞ ( 1 + 1 2 + 1 3 + 1 4 + ⋯ + 1 n − ln ⁡ ( n ) ) . {\displaystyle \gamma =\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }\left(1+{\frac {1}{2}}+{\frac {1}{3}}+{\frac {1}{4}}+\cdots +{\frac {1}{n}}-\ln(n)\right).}
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One of Euler's more unusual interests was the application of mathematical ideas in music. In 1739 he wrote the Tentamen novae theoriae musicae, hoping to eventually integrate music theory as part of mathematics. This part of his work, however did not receive wide attention and was once described as too mathematical for...
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Most of Lewis’ lasting interests originated during his Harvard years. The most important was thermodynamics, a subject in which Richards was very active at that time. Although most of the important thermodynamic relations were known by 1895, they were seen as isolated equations, and had not yet been rationalized as a l...
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These were two outstanding problems of theoretical thermodynamics. In two long and ambitious theoretical papers in 1900 and 1901, Lewis tried to provide a solution. Lewis introduced the thermodynamic concept of activity and coined the term "fugacity".
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His new idea of fugacity, or "escaping tendency", was a function with the dimensions of pressure which expressed the tendency of a substance to pass from one chemical phase to another. Lewis believed that fugacity was the fundamental principle from which a system of real thermodynamic relations could be derived. This h...
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Lewis’ early papers also reveal an unusually advanced awareness of J. W. Gibbs's and P. Duhem's ideas of free energy and thermodynamic potential. These ideas were well known to physicists and mathematicians, but not to most practical chemists, who regarded them as abstruse and inapplicable to chemical systems. Most che...
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Heat of reaction is not, of course, a measure of the tendency of chemical changes to occur, and Lewis realized that only free energy and entropy could provide an exact chemical thermodynamics. He derived free energy from fugacity; he tried, without success, to obtain an exact expression for the entropy function, which ...
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Although Lewis’ fugacity-based system did not last, his early interest in free energy and entropy proved most fruitful, and much of his career was devoted to making these useful concepts accessible to practical chemists. At Harvard, Lewis also wrote a theoretical paper on the thermodynamics of blackbody radiation in wh...
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Most of Mach's initial studies in experimental physics concentrated on the interference, diffraction, polarization and refraction of light in different media under external influences. From there followed explorations in supersonic fluid mechanics. Mach and physicist-photographer Peter Salcher presented their paper on ...
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The ratio of the speed of a fluid to the local speed of sound vp/vs is called the Mach number after him. It is a critical parameter in the description of high-speed fluid movement in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Mach also contributed to cosmology the hypothesis known as Mach's principle.
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Most of Nicholas's mathematical ideas can be found in his essays, De Docta Ignorantia (Of Learned Ignorance), De Visione Dei (On the Vision of God) and On Conjectures. He also wrote on squaring the circle in his mathematical treatises. Mathematics plays a key role for Cusanus in orienting the human mind towards God. Ma...
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From the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913 edition): The astronomical views of the cardinal are scattered through his philosophical treatises. They evince complete independence of traditional doctrines, though they are based on symbolism of numbers, on combinations of letters, and on abstract speculations rather than observa...
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The celestial bodies are not strictly spherical, nor are their orbits circular. The difference between theory and appearance is explained by relative motion.
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Had Copernicus been aware of these assertions he would probably have been encouraged by them to publish his own monumental work. Like Nicole Oresme, Nicholas also wrote about the possibility of the plurality of worlds.Norman Moore tells us in The Fitz-Patrick Lectures of 1905: In medicine he introduced an improvement w...
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Most of constructions and terminology regarding principal bundles in algebraic topology carry over in verbatim to G-bundles. For example, if P → X {\displaystyle P\to X} is a G-bundle and G acts from the left on a scheme F, then one can form the associated bundle P × G F → X {\displaystyle P\times ^{G}F\to X} with fibe...
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Most of tax-benefit models heavily depend on the availability and accuracy of the underlying micro-data. As Holly Sutherland, the director of EUROMOD and one of the most influential researchers in this area, points out, "any model would be as good as the data available to it".Tax-benefit models assume that the data fro...
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Most of the 2,850-acre (11.5 km2) Santa Susana Field Laboratory—SSFL was used for the testing and development of rocket engines by Rocketdyne over a fifty-year period, initially for defensive missiles, and then primarily for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration—NASA space vehicles. That took place at locat...
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In the interim, some small site specific cleanups, contaminated surface water flow remediation, and minor habitat restoration efforts have been tried. The cleanup data gathering, and eventual cleanup projects (of chemical &/or radiological toxins), are under the direction of the DTSC—California Department of Toxic Subs...
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They are the DOE—U.S. Department of Energy and The Boeing Company for the ETEC site (~90 acres) within Area IV. For the rest of the SSFL property the R.P.s are Boeing and/or NASA fL, depending on: the Area (I, II, &/or III); contaminant types, and physical toxin location (i.e.: surface soils, aquifers, deep bedrock, et...
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Most of the General Scholium deals with Newton's religious views. However, it is also considered the least understood part of the essay. Newton saw God as an intelligent, powerful, omnipresent Being which governs all. It has been claimed that the text implies that Newton was an anti-Trinitarianist heretic.
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With no comments explicitly addressing the subject of the Holy Trinity, several parts of the text seem to raise anti-Trinitarianist positions indirectly, most notably: This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent being. And if the fixed S...
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Most of the JAR pathway in the South American Gymnotiformes has been worked out using Eigenmannia virescens as a model system.
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Most of the Level 3 BLAS is derived from GEMM, so that is the primary focus of the optimization. O ( n 3 ) {\displaystyle O(n^{3})} operations vs. O ( n 2 ) {\displaystyle O(n^{2})} dataThe intuition that the n 3 {\displaystyle n^{3}} operations will dominate over the n 2 {\displaystyle n^{2}} data accesses only works ...
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Most of the STADAN stations were phased out in the early 1980s, as the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRS), took over most of the work of tracking satellites in low Earth orbit. Another network, the Deep Space Network (DSN), interacted with crewed craft higher than 10,000 miles from Earth, such as the Apoll...
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Most of the SUMaC residential counselors and teaching assistants are Stanford mathematics graduate students and undergraduate math majors. SUMaC usually has a 1-to-4 ratio of staff to students, with most of the teaching assistants serving in the role of live-in counselors. Many of the SUMaC teaching assistants and coun...
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Most of the analytic results are easily understood, in a more general form, using the machinery of differential geometry, of which vector calculus forms a subset. Grad and div generalize immediately to other dimensions, as do the gradient theorem, divergence theorem, and Laplacian (yielding harmonic analysis), while cu...
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In any dimension, assuming a nondegenerate form, grad of a scalar function is a vector field, and div of a vector field is a scalar function, but only in dimension 3 or 7 (and, trivially, in dimension 0 or 1) is the curl of a vector field a vector field, and only in 3 or 7 dimensions can a cross product be defined (gen...
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The first, geometric algebra, uses k-vector fields instead of vector fields (in 3 or fewer dimensions, every k-vector field can be identified with a scalar function or vector field, but this is not true in higher dimensions). This replaces the cross product, which is specific to 3 dimensions, taking in two vector field...
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Geometric algebra is mostly used in generalizations of physics and other applied fields to higher dimensions. The second generalization uses differential forms (k-covector fields) instead of vector fields or k-vector fields, and is widely used in mathematics, particularly in differential geometry, geometric topology, a...
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From the point of view of both of these generalizations, vector calculus implicitly identifies mathematically distinct objects, which makes the presentation simpler but the underlying mathematical structure and generalizations less clear. From the point of view of geometric algebra, vector calculus implicitly identifie...
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Most of the approaches investigated in the past to address this problem rely on scheduling or tuning techniques that aim at overlapping communication with computation. However, this approach can lead to an improvement of at most a factor of two. Ghosting is a different technique for reducing communication, in which a p...
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Most of the chemistry has been observed only for the first three members of the group 12. The chemistry of copernicium is not well established and therefore the rest of the section deals only with zinc, cadmium and mercury.
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Most of the chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria that can oxidize elemental sulfur to sulfate are also able to oxidize thiosulfate to sulfate as a source of reducing power for carbon dioxide assimilation. However, the mechanisms that they utilize may vary, since some of them, such as the photosynthetic purple bacteria, ...
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Most of the circuitry built inside of an FPGA is synchronous circuitry that requires a clock signal. FPGAs contain dedicated global and regional routing networks for clock and reset so they can be delivered with minimal skew. FPGAs generally contain analog phase-locked loop and/or delay-locked loop components to synthe...
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These clock signals can be generated locally by an oscillator or they can be recovered from a high speed serial data stream. Care must be taken when building clock domain crossing circuitry to avoid metastability. FPGAs generally contain block RAMs that are capable of working as dual port RAMs with different clocks, ai...
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Most of the commercially used epoxy monomers are produced by the reaction of a compound with acidic hydroxy groups and epichlorohydrin. First a hydroxy group reacts in a coupling reaction with epichlorohydrin, followed by dehydrohalogenation. Epoxy resins produced from such epoxy monomers are called glycidyl-based epox...
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Phenols can be compounds such as bisphenol A and novolak. Polyols can be compounds such as 1,4-butanediol. Di- and polyols lead to glycidyl ethers.
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Dicarboxylic acids such as hexahydrophthalic acid are used for diglycide ester resins. Instead of a hydroxy group, also the nitrogen atom of an amine or amide can be reacted with epichlorohydrin. The other production route for epoxy resins is the conversion of aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alkenes with peracids: In contr...
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Most of the communication primitives presented in this article share a common template. Initially, each processing element possesses one message that must reach every other processing element during the course of the algorithm. The following pseudo code sketches the communication steps necessary. Hereby, Initialization...
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Input: message m {\displaystyle m} . Output: depends on Initialization, Operation and Output. Initialization s := m {\displaystyle s:=m} for 0 ≤ k < d {\displaystyle 0\leq k
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Most of the computation is taken by the evaluation of ϕ ( P ) {\displaystyle \phi (P)} and ϕ 2 ( P ) {\displaystyle \phi ^{2}(P)} , for each prime l {\displaystyle l} , that is computing x q {\displaystyle x^{q}} , y q {\displaystyle y^{q}} , x q 2 {\displaystyle x^{q^{2}}} , y q 2 {\displaystyle y^{q^{2}}} for each pr...
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Thus each multiplication in the ring R {\displaystyle R} requires O ( log 4 ⁡ q ) {\displaystyle O(\log ^{4}q)} multiplications in F q {\displaystyle \mathbb {F} _{q}} which in turn requires O ( log 2 ⁡ q ) {\displaystyle O(\log ^{2}q)} bit operations. In total, the number of bit operations for each prime l {\displayst...
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Most of the current database search algorithms rank alignment by a score, which is usually a particular scoring system. The solution towards solving this issue is found by making a variety of scoring systems available to suit to the specific problem.
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Most of the data accessible via the EU Open Data Portal was covered by the legal notice of the Europa website. Generally, data could be used for free for commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. Specific conditions for reuse, relating mostly to the protection of data privacy and inte...
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A link to these conditions could be found for each dataset. The terms of use could be found on the site. As of November 2020, most data was covered by the Creative Commons CC‑BY‑4.0 license and the site metadata by the Creative Commons CC0‑1.0 public domain waiver.
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Most of the existing governance of stratospheric sulfate aerosols is from that which is applicable to solar radiation management more broadly. However, some existing legal instruments would be relevant to stratospheric sulfate aerosols specifically. At the international level, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary...
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Notably, both solar radiation management and climate change (as well as greenhouse gases) could satisfy the definition of "air pollution" which the signatories commit to reduce, depending on their actual negative effects. Commitments to specific values of the pollutants, including sulfates, are made through protocols t...
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However, because stratospheric injections would be spread across the globe instead of concentrated in a few nearby countries, and could lead to net reductions in the "air pollution" which the CLRTAP Convention is to reduce. The stratospheric injection of sulfate aerosols would cause the Vienna Convention for the Protec...
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The Montreal Protocol to the Vienna Convention prohibits the production of certain ozone depleting substances, via phase outs. Sulfates are presently not among the prohibited substances. In the United States, the Clean Air Act might give the United States Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate stratosphe...
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Most of the flesh is removed from the carcass during the advanced decay stage, though some flesh may remain in the abdominal cavity. Strong odors of decomposition begin to fade.This stage marks the first mass migration of third instar calliphorid larvae from the carcass Piophilidae larvae may also be collected at this ...
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Most of the implementations of ALP extend the SLD resolution-based computational model of logic programming. ALP can also be implemented by means of its link with Answer Set Programming (ASP), where the ASP systems can be employed. Examples of systems of the former approach are ACLP, A-system, CIFF, SCIFF, ABDUAL and P...
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Most of the initial research documenting the psychological effects of prenatal DES exposure was poorly conducted, often by mail card. Despite that, some more carefully conducted studies show a clear link to depression, and a more recent French study asserts that there was an 83% increase in psychological disorders for ...
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Most of the iron in the body is hoarded and recycled by the reticuloendothelial system, which breaks down aged red blood cells. In contrast to iron uptake and recycling, there is no physiologic regulatory mechanism for excreting iron. People lose a small but steady amount by gastrointestinal blood loss, sweating and by...
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The total amount of loss for healthy people in the developed world amounts to an estimated average of 1 mg a day for men, and 1.5–2 mg a day for women with regular menstrual periods. People with gastrointestinal parasitic infections, more commonly found in developing countries, often lose more. Those who cannot regulat...
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Most of the issues of The Zoological Record, published between 1870 and 1922, are available online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library. More recent issues are not available at open access to the public in a digitised image format.
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Most of the licit morphine produced is used to make codeine by methylation. It is also a precursor for many drugs including heroin (3,6-diacetylmorphine), hydromorphone (dihydromorphinone), and oxymorphone (14-hydroxydihydromorphinone). Most semi-synthetic opioids, both of the morphine and codeine subgroups, are create...
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Codeine analogues of morphine-based drugs often serve as prodrugs of the stronger drug, as in codeine and morphine, hydrocodone and hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxymorphone, nicocodeine and nicomorphine, dihydrocodeine and dihydromorphine, etc. Saturating, opening, or other changes to the bond between positions 7 and 8...
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Replacement of the N-methyl group of morphine with an N-phenylethyl group results in a product that is 18 times more powerful than morphine in its opiate agonist potency. Combining this modification with the replacement of the 6-hydroxyl with a 6-methylene group produces a compound some 1,443 times more potent than mor...
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These drugs range from 25% the analgesic strength of codeine (or slightly more than 2% of the strength of morphine) to several thousand times the strength of morphine, to powerful opioid antagonists, including naloxone (Narcan), naltrexone (Trexan), diprenorphine (M5050, the reversing agent for the Immobilon dart) and ...
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Most of the major findings in the cenote were made under the supervision of Edward Herbert Thompson, who began dredging in 1904. Much of what is known about the dredging process is derived from Thompson’s personal notes. Thompson received money from Stephen Salisbury III to help him buy the Chichén Itzá excavation site...
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Much of the beginning work consisted of clearing debris and fallen trees on the top of the water. Leon Cole, a colleague of Thompson, once recorded in his journal, “they made ten hauls in the morning and six or eight in the afternoon.” People would search through the buckets of water looking for artifacts and categoriz...
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A host of problems, including the Mexican Revolution, and financial issues began to hinder the work effort and damage the morale of the workers. Thompson’s house in Mexico was also burned down, and one of the chests in which he kept his notes and data was destroyed in the fire. By 1923, Thompson was officially done wor...
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Most of the market differentiation between competitors is based on some combination of the following: Delivery frequency - Data can be updated in Real-Time, Delayed, Conflated, or End of Day Delivery latency - vendors offer different amounts of data latency, with lower latency typically being more expensive and more co...
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Each vendor typically has a different way of modelling financial data. Reliability - High availability of data is a primary concern in the financial markets Value Added Services - Data value can be improved by adding on related services such as listing information, share data, fundamental data, time series, historical ...
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Most of the mass of hadrons is actually QCD binding energy, through mass–energy equivalence. This phenomenon is related to chiral symmetry breaking. In the case of nucleons – protons and neutrons – QCD binding energy forms about 99% of the nucleon's mass. That is if assuming that the kinetic energy of the hadron's cons...
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For protons, the sum of the rest masses of the three valence quarks (two up quarks and one down quark) is approximately 9.4 MeV/c2, while the proton's total mass is about 938.3 MeV/c2. For neutrons, the sum of the rest masses of the three valence quarks (two down quarks and one up quark) is approximately 11.9 MeV/c2, w...
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