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National Chemistry Day, first celebrated in 1987 by members of the American Chemical Society (ACS), educators and other individual volunteers, was a vision of the former ACS President Dr. George C. Pimentel. His goal was for ACS to hold a simultaneous event nationwide to impress on the public the importance of chemistr... | Wikipedia - National Chemistry Week | null | null | null |
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has a standard dealing with multiple representations. In part, it reads "Instructional programs should enable all students to do the following: Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas Select, apply, and translate among mathematic... | Wikipedia - Multiple representations (mathematics education) | null | null | null |
National DNA Data Bank, a system established under the DNA Identification Act of 1998 to hold DNA profiles of persons convicted of designated offenses and DNA profiles obtained from crime scenes. Profiles may only be used for law enforcement purposes. At the end of September 2013 the National DNA Data Bank held 277,590... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Government Electronic Directory Services, a directory of Canadian federal public servants throughout the country, including names, titles, telephone and facsimile numbers, departmental names, office locations, and e-mail addresses for some public servants. Homeless Individuals and Families Information System, a free cl... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Personal identifiers are replaced by unique, encrypted identifiers before the data is exported to ensure that client information is and remains anonymous. National Homelessness Information System, a database system designed to collect and analyze baseline data on the use of homeless shelters in Canada. It includes anon... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
National Development Complex (NDC), Islamabad Project Management Organization (PMO), Khanpur Air Weapon Complex (AWC), Hasanabdal National Centre for Physics (NCP), Islamabad Maritime Technologies Complex (MTC), Karachi | Wikipedia - Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction | null | null | null |
National Fingerprint Database: British Police hold 6.5 million fingerprint records in a searchable database called IDENT1. There is increasing use of roadside fingerprinting - using new police powers to check identity. Concerns have been raised over the unregulated use of biometrics in schools, affecting young children... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
On 4 December 2008, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the UK Government's policy of retaining fingerprints of individuals suspected, but then not convicted, of a crime was a breach of the Article 8 Right to respect for private and family life that could not be justified on the grounds of the preventi... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
On 4 December 2008, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the UK Government's policy of retaining DNA samples and profiles of individuals suspected, but then not convicted, of a crime was a breach of the Article 8 Right to respect for private and family life that could not be justified on the grounds of ... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
These have tracked, recorded, and stored the details of all journeys undertaken on major roads and through city centres and the information is stored for five years. In the longer term mandatory onboard vehicle telematics systems are also suggested, to facilitate road charging (see vehicle excise duty). Part 2, Chapter... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Telephone and Internet surveillance: In 2008 plans were being made to collect data on people's phone, e-mail and web-browsing habits and were expected to be included in the Communications Data Bill. The "giant database" would include telephone numbers dialed, the websites visited and addresses to which e-mails are sent... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
National Geological Library of China (CNGL) is a national library specializing in geological and mineral resources information, which is also called the GeoScience Documentation Center of China Geological Survey (CGS). It is a public welfare unit that affiliated to the China Geological Survey. It is managed by the Chin... | Wikipedia - China Geological Survey | null | null | null |
Meanwhile, NGLC can also "carry out related research and information system construction, and provide geoscience literature and information". At present, NGLC has "710,000 books and documents published at home and abroad", have "more than 10,000 documents", and "more than 20 databases, covering a history of nearly 200 ... | Wikipedia - China Geological Survey | null | null | null |
The primary duties and functions include: To collect, organize, and preserve the literature that relative to geoscience which are published in China and all over the world; To "process and disseminate", and "research, develop and transform" the domestic and foreign geoscience literature information in order to provide ... | Wikipedia - China Geological Survey | null | null | null |
National Heritage List for England, Historic England Cof Cymru - National Historic Assets of Wales, Cadw Heritage Portal, Historic Environment Scotland Historic Environment Map Viewer, Department for Communities | Wikipedia - Scheduled Monument Consent | null | null | null |
National ID card: The United States does not have a national ID card, in the sense that there is no federal agency with nationwide jurisdiction that directly issues such cards to all American citizens for mandatory regular use. Passport: The only national photo identity documents are the passport and passport card, whi... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Social security numbers have become a de facto standard for uniquely identifying people in government and private databases. The Numerical Identification System (Numident) is the Social Security Administration's computer database file of an abstract of the information contained in an application for a Social Security n... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
The Numident file contains all Social Security numbers since they first were issued in 1936. Social Security Death Index: a database of death records created from the U.S. Social Security Administration's Death Master File Extract. | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Most persons who have died since 1936 who had a Social Security Number and whose death has been reported to the Social Security Administration are listed in this index. The database includes given name and surname, and since the 1990s, middle initial; date of birth; month and year of death, or full date of death for ac... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Driver's licenses: these are issued by state departments of motor vehicles and registries of motor vehicles, and are the most common form of identification in the United States; the issuing agencies maintain databases of drivers, including photographs and addresses. States also issue voluntary identification cards to n... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed the REAL ID Act, which gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to regulate the design and content of all state driver's licenses, and to require that all of the underlying state databases be linked into a single national database. Mail Isolation Control and Tracking: Under ... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Postal Service photographs the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces in 2012. The Postmaster General stated that the system is primarily used for mail sorting, but the images are available for possible use by law enforcement agencies. There is no central... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
The images are retained for a week to 30 days and then destroyed. The program was created in 2001 following the anthrax attacks that killed five people. Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS): a national automated fingerprint identification and criminal history system maintained by the Federal B... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
The Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System provides automated fingerprint search capabilities, latent searching capability, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints and responses. IAFIS is the largest biometric database in the world, housing the fingerprints and criminal histori... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Fingerprints are voluntarily submitted to the FBI by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. These agencies acquire the fingerprints through criminal arrests or from non-criminal sources, such as employment background checks and the US-VISIT program. The FBI has announced plans to replace IAFIS with a Next ... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS): a tiered set of databases at the local, state, and national levels. The tiered architecture allows crime laboratories to control their own data—each laboratory decides which profiles it will share with the rest of the country. State law governs which specific crimes are eligible for C... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
A record in the CODIS database, known as a CODIS DNA profile, consists of an individual's DNA profile, together with the sample's identifier and an identifier of the laboratory responsible for the profile. CODIS does not contain any personal identity information, such as names, dates of birth, or social security number... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
As of 2006, approximately 180 laboratories in all 50 states participate in CODIS. At the national level, the National DNA Index System, is operated by the FBI. | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
As of August 2013 the National DNA System contained over 10,535,300 offender profiles, 1,613,100 arrestee profiles, and 509,900 forensic profiles and has produced over 219,700 hits, assisting in more than 210,700 investigations. The National Institute of Justice's International Center promotes information sharing with ... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
The Investigative Data Warehouse was created in 2004 to centralize multiple federal and state databases, including criminal records from various law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and public records databases. According to the FBI's website, as... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
The FBI was the subject of a 2006 lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) because of a lack of public notice describing their Investigative Data Warehouse and the criteria for including personal information, as required by the Privacy Act of 1974. Project MINARET watch lists: Between 1967 and 1973, ... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
There was no judicial oversight and the project obtained no warrants for the interceptions. Over 5,925 foreigners and 1,690 organizations and U.S. | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
citizens were included on the watch lists and over 3,900 reports were issued on watch-listed Americans. NSA call database: Code named MAINWAY, the database, maintained by the National Security Agency (NSA), contains call detail information, but not the contents, for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through ... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
It is estimated that the database contains over 1.9 trillion call-detail records. TALON: a database created by the United States Air Force following the September 11, 2001 attacks to collect and evaluate information about possible threats to U.S. | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
service members and civilian workers in the U.S. and at overseas military installations. Among other information TALON included lists of anti-war groups and people who had attended anti-war rallies. | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
The database was criticized for gathering information on peace and other political activists who posed no credible threat, but who had been included in the database due to their political views. In August 2007, the US Department of Defense announced that Guardian, a database organized by the FBI, would take over data c... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
Homeless Management Information Systems are typically web-based software applications used by assistance providers to record and store client-level information on the characteristics and service needs of homeless persons, coordinate care, manage operations, and better serve their clients. Case Management / Electronic C... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
National Identity Register: On 21 December 2010 the Identity Documents Act 2010 received Royal Assent. The Act repealed the Identity Cards Act 2006, scrapping the mandatory ID card scheme and associated National Identity Register (including ContactPoint) that had been in use on a limited or voluntary basis since Novemb... | Wikipedia - Government databases | null | null | null |
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee Knoxville Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), Ohio State University School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University Santa Fe Institute NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathemat... | Wikipedia - Theoretical Biology | null | null | null |
National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics Tallinn University of Technology, Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics Electronics Design Telecommunication Systems Institute. == References == | Wikipedia - Hermes Road Measurement System | null | null | null |
National Instruments have developed a hybrid embedded computing system called CompactRIO. It consists of reconfigurable chassis housing the user-programmable FPGA, hot swappable I/O modules, real-time controller for deterministic communication and processing, and graphical LabVIEW software for rapid RT and FPGA program... | Wikipedia - Reconfigurable system | null | null | null |
National Missing Persons DNA Program (NMPDP) is an initiative established by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2018 to support missing persons and unidentified remains investigations. | Wikipedia - National DNA Data Bank of Canada | null | null | null |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) maintains the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-Monthly) data base containing historical temperature, precipitation, and pressure data for thousands of land stations worldwide. Also, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of surface temperature measu... | Wikipedia - Surface temperature record | null | null | null |
National Physical Laboratory, Kaye and Laby Tables of Physical & Chemical Constants (2005). Section 3.1.3, Abundances of the elements, B.E.J. Pagel Abundances in sea water (W2) and in crustal rocks (C2) from: K.K. Turekian (1970) in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 4, 627. | Wikipedia - Abundances of the elements (data page) | null | null | null |
For the sun (S1) and the solar system (Y1) from: N. Grevesse, E. Anders, J. Waddington (ed.) in Cosmic Abundances of Matter, Amer. Inst. | Wikipedia - Abundances of the elements (data page) | null | null | null |
Phys., New York, p. 1. (1988). | Wikipedia - Abundances of the elements (data page) | null | null | null |
Except solar iron abundance from: H. Holweger, A. Bard, A. Kock, M. Kock, Astron. Astrophys., 249, 545. (1991). | Wikipedia - Abundances of the elements (data page) | null | null | null |
Accuracy of the solar abundances varies between ± 10% and a factor of two, values more uncertain than that are marked with "about". The solar system abundances are mainly derived from carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and are assumed generally accurate to ±10% or better. Solar system abundances based on other sources a... | Wikipedia - Abundances of the elements (data page) | null | null | null |
National Physical Laboratory, Kaye and Laby Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants; D. Ambrose, M.B. Ewing, M.L. McGlashan, Critical constants and second virial coefficients of gases (retrieved Dec 2005) | Wikipedia - Critical points of the elements (data page) | null | null | null |
National Physical Laboratory, Kaye and Laby Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants; Section 3.4.4, D. Ambrose, Vapour pressures from 0.2 to 101.325 kPa. Retrieved Jan 2006. | Wikipedia - Vapor pressures of the elements (data page) | null | null | null |
National Science Olympiad (Olimpiade Sains Nasional) — includes mathematics along with various science topics | Wikipedia - Math competition | null | null | null |
National Taiwan University (NTU) National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) National Dong Hwa University (NDHU) National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) National Central University (NCU) National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) National Tsing Hua University ... | Wikipedia - Engineering education in Taiwan | null | null | null |
National accounts show a combined total of retail and wholesale trade, with hotels and restaurants. in 2012 the sector provides over a fifth of GDP in tourist-oriented island economies, as well as in other major countries such as Brazil, Pakistan, Russia, and Spain. In all four of the latter countries, this fraction is... | Wikipedia - Retail market | null | null | null |
In China the sector has grown from 7.3% to 11.5%, and in India even more, from 8.4% to 18.7%. Emarketer predicts China will have the largest retail market in the world in 2016.In 2016, China became the largest retail market in the world.In the Republic of Armenia, retail trade has been increasing recently. In October 2... | Wikipedia - Retail market | null | null | null |
Retail dropped by 1.9% after accumulating 2.1%in the earlier month. For the first 10 months of 2022, retail sales increased by 15.5% by measuring the exact time of 2021. Among its bordering countries, on retail trade percentage of GDP, Armenia ranks more increased than Turkey, but it is still lower than Georgia. | Wikipedia - Retail market | null | null | null |
National and international energy statistics are published regularly by governments and international agencies, such as the IEA. In 2016 the United Nations issued guidelines for energy statistics. While the definitions and sectoral breakdowns are useful when defining models, the information provided is rarely in suffic... | Wikipedia - Open energy system databases | null | null | null |
National archaeology used cultural-historical concepts to instill pride and raise the morale of certain nationalities or racial groups and in many countries it remains the dominant method of archaeology. | Wikipedia - Archaeological theory | null | null | null |
National or regional level of available empirical data are used by administrators and intellectuals, as well as people who are concerned about a region or a society’s welfare, as sources of reference. In particular, administrators utilise aggregate data for assessments in current political, religious, social, or other ... | Wikipedia - Aggregate data | null | null | null |
National population statistics are usually collected by conducting a census. However, because these are usually huge logistical exercises, countries normally conduct censuses only once every five to 10 years. Even when a census is conducted it may miss counting everyone (known as undercount). Also, some people counted ... | Wikipedia - Demographic statistics | null | null | null |
Consequently, raw census numbers are often adjusted to produce census estimates that identify such statistics as resident population, residents, tourists and other visitors, nationals and aliens (non-nationals). For privacy reasons, particularly when there are small counts, some census results may be rounded, often to ... | Wikipedia - Demographic statistics | null | null | null |
National/Regional Rounds (NRRs) are held within one country or a multinational region and are organised by one LBG of that country/region. The teams that won the local rounds compete in the same category, claiming a position in the EBEC Final. Currently, there is a total of 15 National/Regional Rounds with more than 70... | Wikipedia - European BEST Engineering Competition | null | null | null |
Native American tribes located on the outer coast of the state of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, such as the Quinault Indian Nation village of Taholah, and the Shoalwater Bay Tribe, have been increasingly vulnerable to encroaching sea levels, storm surges and intense rain causing landslides and floods. In response, th... | Wikipedia - Climate migrant | null | null | null |
Native Americans in the United States practiced sustainable agriculture through their subsistence farming techniques. Many tribes grew or harvested their own food from plants that thrived in their local ecosystems. Native American farming practices are specific to local environments and work with natural processes. Thi... | Wikipedia - Sustainable farming | null | null | null |
Native American farming techniques also incorporate local biodiversity into many of their practices, which helps the land remain healthy.Many indigenous tribes incorporated Intercropping into their agriculture, which is a practice where multiple crops are planted together in the same area. This strategy allows crops to... | Wikipedia - Sustainable farming | null | null | null |
The crops that are paired in intercropping often do not heavily compete for resources, which helps them to each be successful. For example, many tribes utilized intercropping in ways such as the Three Sisters Garden. This gardening technique consists of corn, beans, and squash. | Wikipedia - Sustainable farming | null | null | null |
These crops grow in unity as the corn stalk supports the beans, the beans produce nitrogen, and the squash retain moisture. Intercropping also provides a natural strategy for pest management and the prevention of weed growth. Intercropping is a natural agricultural practice that often improves the overall health of the... | Wikipedia - Sustainable farming | null | null | null |
The Anishinaabe tribes follow an ideology known as "the Honorable Harvest". The Honorable Harvest is a set of practices that emphasize the idea that people should "take only what you need and use everything you take." Resources are conserved through this practice because several rules are followed when harvesting a pla... | Wikipedia - Sustainable farming | null | null | null |
These rules are to never take the first plant, never take more than half of the plants, and never take the last plant. This encourages future growth of the plant and therefore leads to a sustainable use of the plants in the area. Native Americans practiced agroforestry by managing the forest, animals, and crops togethe... | Wikipedia - Sustainable farming | null | null | null |
They also helped promote tree growth through controlled burns and silviculture. Often, the remaining ash from these burns would be used to fertilize their crops. By improving the conditions of the forest, the local wildlife populations also increased. Native Americans allowed their livestock to graze in the forest, whi... | Wikipedia - Sustainable farming | null | null | null |
Native XML databases are especially tailored for working with XML data. As managing XML as large strings would be inefficient, and due to the hierarchical nature of XML, custom optimized data structures are used for storage and querying. This usually increases performance both in terms of read-only queries and updates.... | Wikipedia - Comparison of XML databases | null | null | null |
The standard for querying XML data per W3C recommendation is XQuery; the latest version is XQuery 3.1. XQuery includes XPath as a sub-language and XML itself is a valid sub-syntax of XQuery. In addition to XPath, some XML databases support XSLT as a method of transforming documents or query results retrieved from the d... | Wikipedia - Comparison of XML databases | null | null | null |
Native copper was used to make blades by ancient civilizations due to its availability. Copper's comparative softness causes it to deform easily; it does not hold an edge well and is poorly suited for working stone. Bronze is superior in this regard, and was taken up by later civilizations. | Wikipedia - Sword blade | null | null | null |
Both bronze and copper can be work hardened by hitting the metal with a hammer. With technological advancement in smelting, iron came to be used in the manufacturing of blades. Steel, a range of alloys made from iron, has become the metal of choice for the modern age. | Wikipedia - Sword blade | null | null | null |
Various alloys of steel can be made which offer a wide range of physical and chemical properties desirable for blades. For example, surgical scalpels are often made of stainless steel so that they remain free of rust and largely chemically inert; tool steels are hard and impact resistant (and often expensive as retaini... | Wikipedia - Sword blade | null | null | null |
Native heparin is a polymer with a molecular weight ranging from 3 to 30 kDa, although the average molecular weight of most commercial heparin preparations is in the range of 12 to 15 kDa. Heparin is a member of the glycosaminoglycan family of carbohydrates (which includes the closely related molecule heparan sulfate) ... | Wikipedia - Heparin sodium | null | null | null |
For example, this makes up 85% of heparins from beef lung and about 75% of those from porcine intestinal mucosa.Not shown below are the rare disaccharides containing a 3-O-sulfated glucosamine (GlcNS(3S,6S)) or a free amine group (GlcNH3+). Under physiological conditions, the ester and amide sulfate groups are deproton... | Wikipedia - Heparin sodium | null | null | null |
Native libraries have no standardized memory byte alignment flavor. JNA defaults to an OS platform specific setting, that can be overridden by a library specific custom alignment. If the alignment details are not given in the documentation of the native library, the correct alignment must be determined by trial and err... | Wikipedia - Java Native Access | null | null | null |
Native populations are often characterized by substantial genotype diversity and dispersed populations (growth in a mixture with many other plant species). They also have undergone of plant-pathogen coevolution. Hence as long as novel pathogens are not introduced/do not evolve, such populations generally exhibit only a... | Wikipedia - Plant immunity | null | null | null |
Climate change can alter the viable geographic range of pathogen species and cause some diseases to become a problem in areas where the disease was previously less important.These factors make modern agriculture more prone to disease epidemics. Common solutions include constant breeding for disease resistance, use of p... | Wikipedia - Plant immunity | null | null | null |
Native species that forage on resources that don't originate in their same habitat. This may increase their local abundances thereby affecting other species in the ecosystem. For example, Luskin et al. (2017) found that native animals living protected primary rainforest in Malaysia found food subsidies in neighboring o... | Wikipedia - Cross-boundary subsidy | null | null | null |
This subsidy allowed native animal populations to increase, which then triggered powerful secondary ‘cascading’ effects on forest tree community. Specifically, crop-raiding wild boar (Sus scrofa) built thousands of nests from the forest understory vegetation and this caused a 62% decline in forest tree sapling density ... | Wikipedia - Cross-boundary subsidy | null | null | null |
Nativism has a history in philosophy, particularly as a reaction to the straightforward empiricist views of John Locke and David Hume. Hume had given persuasive logical arguments that people cannot infer causality from perceptual input. The most one could hope to infer is that two events happen in succession or simulta... | Wikipedia - Psychological nativism | null | null | null |
The philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) argued in his Critique of Pure Reason that the human mind knows objects in innate, a priori ways. Kant claimed that humans, from birth, must experience all objects as being successive (time) and juxtaposed (space). His list of inborn categories describes predicates that the min... | Wikipedia - Psychological nativism | null | null | null |
Nativism is sometimes perceived as being too vague to be falsifiable, as there is no fixed definition of when an ability is supposed to be judged "innate". (As Jeffrey Elman and colleagues pointed out in Rethinking Innateness, it is unclear exactly how the supposedly innate information might actually be coded for in th... | Wikipedia - Psychological nativism | null | null | null |
For example, nativism was at least partially motivated by the perception that statistical inferences made from experience were insufficient to account for the complex languages humans develop. In part, this was a reaction to the failure of behaviorism and behaviorist models of the era to easily account for how somethin... | Wikipedia - Psychological nativism | null | null | null |
However, Chomsky's poverty of the stimulus argument is controversial within linguistics.Many empiricists are now also trying to apply modern learning models and techniques to the question of language acquisition, with marked success. Similarity-based generalization marks another avenue of recent research, which suggest... | Wikipedia - Psychological nativism | null | null | null |
Natron is also the mineralogical name for the compound sodium carbonate decahydrate (Na2CO3·10H2O), which is the main component in historical natron.Sodium carbonate decahydrate has a specific gravity of 1.42 to 1.47 and a Mohs hardness of 1. It crystallizes in the monoclinic-domatic crystal system, typically forming e... | Wikipedia - Natron | null | null | null |
Natta first used polymerization catalysts based on titanium chlorides to polymerize propylene and other 1-alkenes. He discovered that these polymers are crystalline materials and ascribed their crystallinity to a special feature of the polymer structure called stereoregularity. The concept of stereoregularity in polyme... | Wikipedia - Ziegler Process | null | null | null |
In the isotactic polymers, all stereogenic centers CHR share the same configuration. The stereogenic centers in syndiotactic polymers alternate their relative configuration. | Wikipedia - Ziegler Process | null | null | null |
A polymer that lacks any regular arrangement in the position of its alkyl substituents (R) is called atactic. Both isotactic and syndiotactic polypropylene are crystalline, whereas atactic polypropylene, which can also be prepared with special Ziegler–Natta catalysts, is amorphous. The stereoregularity of the polymer i... | Wikipedia - Ziegler Process | null | null | null |
Natural Cartesian coordinates for a 4-polytope centered at the origin of 4-space occur in different frames of reference, depending on the long radius (center-to-vertex) chosen. | Wikipedia - Order-3-3 pentagonal honeycomb | null | null | null |
Natural Language Processing, using algorithmic approaches such as Word2Vec, provides a way to quantify the overlap or distinguish between semantic categories between words. This can provide a sense of how often the contexts of words overlap or are dissimilar in general usage. (Natural Language Processing is often abbre... | Wikipedia - Lumpers and splitters | null | null | null |
Natural chalcopyrite has no solid solution series with any other sulfide minerals. There is limited substitution of zinc with copper despite chalcopyrite having the same crystal structure as sphalerite. Minor amounts of elements such as silver, gold, cadmium, cobalt, nickel, lead, tin, and zinc can be measured (at part... | Wikipedia - Copper pyrites | null | null | null |
Natural disasters threaten to destroy communities, displace families, degrade cultural integrity, and diminish an individual's level of functioning. Comparing individualist community reactions to collectivist community responses after natural disasters illustrates their differences and respective strengths as tools of ... | Wikipedia - Stress resilience | null | null | null |
Therefore, countries/regions with heightened exposure to disaster should cultivate collectivism. However, Withey (1962) and Wachtel (1968) conducted interviews and experiments on disaster survivors which indicated that disaster-induced anxiety and stress decrease one's focus on social-contextual information – a key com... | Wikipedia - Stress resilience | null | null | null |
Mauch and Pfister (2004) questioned the association between socio-ecological indicators and cultural-level change in individualism. In their research, for each socio-ecological indicator, frequency of disasters was associated with greater (rather than less) individualism. Supplementary analyses indicated that the frequ... | Wikipedia - Stress resilience | null | null | null |
Baby-naming practices is one interesting indicator of change. According to Mauch and Pfister (2004), urbanization was linked to preference for uniqueness in baby-naming practices at a 1-year lag, secularism was linked to individualist shifts in interpersonal structure at both lags, and disaster prevalence was linked to... | Wikipedia - Stress resilience | null | null | null |
There is a gap in disaster recovery research that focuses on psychology and social systems but does not adequately address interpersonal networking or relationship formation and maintenance. A disaster response theory holds that individuals who use existing communication networks fare better during and after disasters.... | Wikipedia - Stress resilience | null | null | null |
In a collectivist sense, building strong, self-reliant communities, whose members know each other, know each other's needs and are aware of existing communication networks, looks like an optimum defense against disasters. In comparing these cultures, there is really no way to measure resilience, but one can look at the... | Wikipedia - Stress resilience | null | null | null |
Natural enemies must survive long enough and respond quickly enough to plant volatiles in order to benefit the plant through predatory behavior. Certain plant structures, called domatia, can selectively reinforce mutualisms with natural enemies and increase the fitness benefit they receive from that mutualism by ensuri... | Wikipedia - Tritrophic interactions in plant defense | null | null | null |
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